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In Reply to: RE: Biden cancels oil and gas lease sale in Gulf and Alaska posted by www.records on May 11, 2022 at 20:16:14
"This will go over great for the Republican Party in the upcoming elections."
Ha! It's only May. Election "season" has just barely started. The Republicans have plenty of time to screw up their strategy - if they even have a strategy.
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"Embrace the mundane"- Dan John
Even with the large school district including as many residents outside the village limits, we have twice as many house districts as high schools.
The town was reliably Republican for over a century; the (not quite true) joke was the last time the town sent anybody other than a Republican to the house, they sent a Whig.
Back for a bit again. Ignore me if you like.
No matter which party does it. The small town my wife and I used to live in was gerrymandered after the 2010 mid-terms. It was heavily Democratic at the time, some of the Democrats were added to a safe Democrat seat in order to waste those votes. The rest were parceled out to safe Republican districts where the votes wouldn't matter.
After 2010, the Republicans redrew the districts in a way that guarantees GOP control of the state legislature pretty much for good. Votes in rural counties count for more than votes in cities.
This is just another way we think we're a free country but really aren't. When politicians get to tailor their own constituencies, our elections are a fraud.
Supreme Court says it's A-OK, is getting ready to strip state courts of the power to redraw maps.
The problem is not that there is evil in the world, the problem is that there is good. Because otherwise, who would care?
I live in a small purple state with just two districts. There has been a recurring debate over whether to define districts such that there are two competitive districts, or one Republican-leaning district and one Democrat-leaning district.
In 2011, the Republican House + Democratic Governor opted to make two competitive districts, but the balance ended up such that one district has continued to elect a Democratic incumbent by small but stable margins, while the other has swung back and forth.
This time, the Republican Governor and Republican House are fighting over plans. The Governor proposed a map that looks similar to the current one, but with adjustments to make two equally competitive districts again. The House proposed a map that would make one Democratic district and one Republican district.
There is now a third proposal on the table from a Republican State Rep that appears to be the least gerrymandered if you look at the map, but has the same effect of turning 2 competitive districts into one D and one R. It also places the largest city, which is a Democratic stronghold, within a solidly Republican district.
So, who is right?
Whoever makes it less likely that traitors to the country and the Constitution get elected.
"Embrace the mundane"- Dan John
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I could not agree more.
What we have nowadays is courses for horses.
SuperPACs, big money donations...yeah, I know, the originalists on the Supreme Court who treat the Constitution like a shopping list somehow managed to find "money equals speech" in the First Amendment.
Right now, AIPAC is running attack ads against a candidate for the Democratic nomination in the Pennsylvania 12th district--my district.
Her opponent for the nomination is a DINO, of course. Former corporate attorney, oil and gas lobbyist, etc.
The attack ads are beyond misleading, claiming the candidate voted against Biden's infrastructure plan even though she isn't in Congress. Wasn't in Congress last year either. And frankly, I would have voted against the infrastructure plan also. Too much money for new roads, not enough for public transit, not enough to fix the old roads.
Should be blatantly illegal. Should be illegal for a billionaire from California to pump enough money into an Ohio primary to decide the race, too.
And of course, I can't vote in the primary since I'm registered Green. Another way our elections are a fraud.
The problem is not that there is evil in the world, the problem is that there is good. Because otherwise, who would care?
Citizens United is absolutely THE worst SCOTUS decision of my lifetime.
Unlimited, dark-money to buy whatever cause suits your fancy is anti-democratic. No two ways about it.
It is interesting that the constitutional fundamentalists on the court found the words campaign funding between the lines, but they can't seem to find abortion or contraception in there.
Originalism is the biggest, stinkiest, most disgusting pile of human shit--worse than bullshit--in jurisprudence.
The founders are all dead. Nobody can ask the what they were thinking when they stuck a superfluous comma or two.
It's just an excuse to rule according to the existing prejudices of a particular judge or justice.
The problem is not that there is evil in the world, the problem is that there is good. Because otherwise, who would care?
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