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AZ Jim Crow Legislators Wants To Limit Your Constitutional Right To Citizens Initiatives
March 5, 2021
The National Conference of State Legislatures explains Supermajority Vote Requirements: Most states require a simple majority vote to pass an initiative measure, whether statutory or constitutional in nature. All states except Delaware also require a vote of the people to pass a constitutional amendment. In most states, the initiative constitutional amendment process is not subject
Disappointing and Surprising: All Senate Republicans and Eight Democrats Vote Against Raising the Minimum Wage to $15.00
March 5, 2021
It was not surprising that the Bernie Sanders attempt to put the $15.00 Minimum Wage Increase into the Senate version of the American Rescue Plan failed. All the Republicans were going to vote against it and Democrats Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin were on the record saying they would not support it. What is surprising
Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) Destroys Republican Nonsense About The COVID-19 Relief Bill
March 5, 2021
I couldn’t get the C-Span video crop to work in this blog software, but luckily Senator Chris Murphy put the substance of his speech on his Twitter account.
Florida Scu…Governor Ron DeSantis Plays Highest Bidder with Vaccine Distribution
March 4, 2021
Most people realized Florida Governor Ron DeSantis was a real piece of work before the COVID 19 Pandemic. His actions (or inactions more accurately) of denying the science and promoting individual choice during the height of the virus spread were indicative of an individual who put political gain over public service responsibility. Now, he is
Norm Ornstein: Reform The Filibuster To Its Former Requirements
March 4, 2021
Political Scientist Norm Ornstein says if Democrats can’t kill the filibuster, because of recalcitrant Democrats, they can still gut it with reforms. Democrats can’t kill the filibuster. But they can gut it. (excerpt): Progressives’ anger at Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and his caucus, who use the filibuster to block every initiative they can, is
With Friends Like These: Moderate Democrats Weaken The COVID-19 Relief Bill, To What Gain?
March 4, 2021
This is what Sen. Joe Manchin’s demands for “bipartisanship” with a Republican Party with no intentions to ever negotiate in good faith has produced so far on the COVID-19 Relief bill: Democrats negotiating against themselves in a compulsive desire to signal moderation in a futile attempt to appease bad faith Republicans. First Rule of Negotiation: never
Another Week: More Examples of Republican Stupidity and Hurting the American People
March 4, 2021
There appear to be only two governing strategies Republicans know how to play. Act and do stupid things and support ideas and legislation that hurts the American People. This week has shown several examples of Republicans in action on both fronts. Examples of Stupidity Arizona Governor Doug Let me Jump Ahead in Line Ducey: Mr.
The Cultivation and Maintenance of Horror
March 4, 2021
Albert Woodfox was born six weeks after me. We were both poor. We were both smart. That is where the similarities ended. From then on, you don’t have to be a physicist to know that we lived in parallel universes. The injustice that he lived through is so brutal that many people won’t believe it.
