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Jefferson County in Colorado voted to recall three Board of Education members. All three received had the support of AFP who funneled massive amounts of money into the state against the recall. All three basically have spent their whole tenure trying to dismantle the public education system of the second largest county in the state. All three were shady as poo poo and even though I don't live in JeffCo nor plan on moving there, I'm happy as gently caress they're gonna be gone.
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Joementum posted:Oh, it wasn't just "embezzlement". My mistake. Man, this country really does deserve to crash and burn. Voters are the dumbest motherfuckers.
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Nov 4, 2015 04:05
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Aurubin posted:My local town voted to fix our sewers, but not fix our school's roof. Thanks old fucks! See you at the next meeting where you again complain about how no one is moving here. At least they know where the water that leaks from the school's roof will go. So Kentucky voted to gently caress itself up the own rear end for a few years huh? Good going KY.
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Nov 4, 2015 04:06
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Paul MaudDib posted:Never thought about the Amazon a-> thing. Their full-size logo had an arrow going from the A to the Z in Amazon. Because they had all sorts of books from A to Z.
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Nov 4, 2015 04:06
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Mississippi AG Jim Hood, the last Democrat in Dixie, up 54-46 with 37% of the vote counted.
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Nov 4, 2015 04:13
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BigRed0427 posted:Can we get a link? http://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/harp_coasts_to_victory/
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Nov 4, 2015 04:14
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Joementum posted:Mississippi AG Jim Hood, the last Democrat in Dixie, up 54-46 with 37% of the vote counted. If you are really Dave, I want to smack you.
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Nov 4, 2015 04:15
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Sorry, I just have to vent: https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...f839_story.htmlquote:Parrish, the Manassas mayor, opposes Medicaid expansion, has an A-minus rating from the National Rifle Association and cast the tie-breaking vote allowing restrictions on Manassas abortion clinics. McPike, who works for the city of Alexandria, favors Medicaid expansion, gun control and abortion rights. What planet has she been living on? 
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Nov 4, 2015 04:15
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RevKrule posted:Jefferson County in Colorado voted to recall three Board of Education members. All three received had the support of AFP who funneled massive amounts of money into the state against the recall. All three basically have spent their whole tenure trying to dismantle the public education system of the second largest county in the state. I also do not live in their district, and don't have kids, but nevertheless  Notable shittiness:
They just got booted out of office by nearly 2:1 margins. Interestingly, some pro-'reform' incumbents in Douglas County may also be losing their jobs tonight, which is interesting as DougCo, unlike JeffCo, is very much not a swing county and is usually reliably republican; it's mostly southern denver suburbs and rural types.
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Optimus Subprime posted:*Looks at Kansas and Wisconsin, tugs collar* Hope you updated your escape plan.
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 Mississippi Initiative 42 posted:Initiative Measure #42 would protect each child’s fundamental right to educational opportunity through the 12th grade by amending Section 201 of the Mississippi Constitution to require that the State must provide and the legislature must fund an adequate and efficient system of free public schools. This initiative would also authorize the chancery courts of this State to enforce this section with appropriate injunctive relief. Mississippi Initiative 42 A posted:This constitutional amendment is proposed as a legislative alternative measure to Initiative Measure No. 42 and would require the Legislature to provide, by general law, for the establishment, maintenance and support of an effective system of free public schools. Currently 54-46 against both, 58-42 for I42 over I42A.
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Nov 4, 2015 04:18
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FourLeaf posted:Sorry, I just have to vent: https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...f839_story.html The middle-class planet of a government job where you have a constant decent paycheck and health insurance and don't really think too much about politics other than "gee I wish my taxes would go down so I could take another cruise this year."
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Nov 4, 2015 04:18
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BI NOW GAY LATER posted:If you are really Dave, I want to smack you. I follow him on Twitter and looked up the results when he tweeted that they were starting to come in.
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Nov 4, 2015 04:19
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RevKrule posted:Jefferson County in Colorado voted to recall three Board of Education members. All three received had the support of AFP who funneled massive amounts of money into the state against the recall. All three basically have spent their whole tenure trying to dismantle the public education system of the second largest county in the state. Yessssssssssssssssssssssss I went to school in JeffCo, and even though I'm not living there either I have friends who are teachers in the district, and all three board members are universally loathed. I'm really hopeful this is a positive step towards scrubbing Tea Party idiots from positions of political power and portends well for 2016.
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Nov 4, 2015 04:19
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FourLeaf posted:Sorry, I just have to vent: https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...f839_story.html "I think it's important to switch the parties around every so often" is something I heard multiple times last month
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Nov 4, 2015 04:21
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Joementum posted:I follow him on Twitter and looked up the results when he tweeted that they were starting to come in. I normally enjoy him, but he was an intolerably smug rear end in a top hat tonight who's trying to say that ACA was bad idea and Dems shouldn't have done it. Which misses a point entirely about Dems that runaway from themselves lose, while ones that hold to their guns win.
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Nov 4, 2015 04:23
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What a lovely night for LGBT  gently caress Houston, gently caress Abbot and gently caress Kentucky
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Nov 4, 2015 04:25
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Absurd Alhazred posted:I'm not a supporter of off-year elections; heck, I think there's way too many elected positions in the US, it's needlessly confusing and makes it harder for people to take the process seriously. But just wishing it away won't help, and I'm guessing if it was possible to remove them, Democrats would already do it. On the other hand, rolling on an always-active voter engagement policy may have beneficial long-term benefits anyway. Fivethirtyeight had an article this morning about how a lot of Democratic groups like teachers unions and municipal employee organizations prefer off-year elections because the lower turnout allows those organizations to wield greater influence by turning out en masse. Less applicable to a statewide race for governor but still not a bad read.
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Nov 4, 2015 04:27
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PupsOfWar posted:"I think it's important to switch the parties around every so often" is something I heard multiple times last month "We gave the Democrats 8 years in power with Obama. It's time to give the Republicans a chance. I'm voting Trump."
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FourLeaf posted:Sorry, I just have to vent: https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...f839_story.html Parrish is a piece of poo poo thank god he lost Dick Black is an even bigger piece of poo poo and he got reelected gently caress Virginians and their neverending love of incumbents
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Joementum posted:
I remember when they did this for the Puerto Rico vote.
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Nov 4, 2015 04:28
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Ohio Update: http://www.cleveland.com/election-results/index.ssf/2015/11/statewide_results_for_ohio_iss.html quote:Here are the unofficial results for statewide issues from the Ohio Secretary of State's website. Latest update: 10:17 p.m. Looks like bittersweet defeat for Issue 3. Though Ohio has not legalized marijuana, the state avoided being subject to the whims of the Taft family, who would have had a monopoly on the sale of recreational marijuana. Issue 1 sets up a bipartisan commission to draw legislative boundaries. It isn't ideal, but it is better than the extremely shady and secretive redistricting process that took place in 2011 in which state Republican leaders met in a hotel room and redrew borders according to Boehner's demands. QuoProQuid fucked around with this message at 04:32 on Nov 4, 2015 |
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Nov 4, 2015 04:29
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Youth Decay posted:Parrish is a piece of poo poo thank god he lost any final numbers? staying about 21-19?
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Nov 4, 2015 04:29
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What are the penalties for election volunteers not checking IDs when it's a law in that state?
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Nov 4, 2015 04:31
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AndNowMax posted:Fivethirtyeight had an article this morning about how a lot of Democratic groups like teachers unions and municipal employee organizations prefer off-year elections because the lower turnout allows those organizations to wield greater influence by turning out en masse. They'r'e really dumb and they need to stop doing it.
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Nov 4, 2015 04:31
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Kentucky is going to lose the Medicaid expansion
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Nov 4, 2015 04:33
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potato of destiny posted:I also do not live in their district, and don't have kids, but nevertheless What are their Twitter accounts, I need to dance on their political graves to get out of this Kentucky funk.
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Nov 4, 2015 04:34
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Taerkar posted:Edit: ^^^^ The whole 'State control' is a bit of a distraction though since a lot of the R-controlled states are the same states that they control for national elections. Their terrible policies are mostly limited to Corn and Texans. So unlike VA the GOP actually has to bribe 4 house members to resign this time instead of just 1 senator. Mitt Romney fucked around with this message at 04:48 on Nov 4, 2015 |
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:Kentucky is going to lose the Medicaid expansion And Nero fiddled while Rome burned.
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The Houston LGBT ordinance is dead by a pretty wide margin. Unfortunately, the trans-phobia over goddamn bathrooms is still an effective marketing tactic.
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Our mayor, Pete Buttigieg, won in a landslide victory of 80-20.  From what I heard democrats on the whole didn't do to shabby in Indiana tonight. Bloomington was a sweep for D, and even a few other cities like Anderson picked up New Democratic mayors.
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Spiffster posted:Our mayor, Pete Buttigieg, won in a landslide victory of 80-20. Please tell me his name is pronounced butt gig.
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Nov 4, 2015 04:49
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FAUXTON posted:Please tell me his name is pronounced butt gig. Sadly no but he came out of the closet this year so he is very much into butt gigs. 
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FlamingLiberal posted:The Houston LGBT ordinance is dead by a pretty wide margin. Unfortunately, the trans-phobia over goddamn bathrooms is still an effective marketing tactic. LGBT groups don't have a ton on their plate immediately. There's enough time to get a good ol' fashioned boycott going. Funnily enough, like Arizona, Houston has an upcoming super bowl that can be threatened.
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Nov 4, 2015 04:52
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Joementum posted:
It should be noted that the only reason that we have a need to put this initiative on our balance is because in 1997 we mandated by law that the legislature properly fund our public school systems using a preset formula. They've done that exactly TWO times since then. They have literally broken the law every other year and have faced zero repercussions.
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Issue 1 Passed in ohio. Yay. Issue 3 failed. Meh. Boo I guess but it was a lovely flavor of legalization. Issue 2 passed though. Hurray for vaguely worded laws designed to create a more confusing ballot for future initiatives. This will probably be used to kill at least one good thing by confusing the gently caress out of people. Probably a marijuana amendment, which will be wonderfully ironic since half the people I see touting Issue 2 were somehow thinking this would be a good thing for legalization.
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Nov 4, 2015 04:54
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Through what mechanism can the KY governor unilaterally rollback the Medicaid expansion?
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Teddybear posted:LGBT groups don't have a ton on their plate immediately. There's enough time to get a good ol' fashioned boycott going.
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potato of destiny posted:I also do not live in their district, and don't have kids, but nevertheless I wonder if it's a byproduct of more young liberalish types moving to the Denver area over the last couple years. In the same vein, I was sort of expecting Prop BB because of TABOR the the general FYGM attitude this state has over taxes, but it passed by a pretty wide margin as well. However, I will also say I think it's nice that the state has some of a republican base, it helps keep the Democrats honest, but it would be nice if most of the crazies stayed out in the wilderness where they belong and let civilization move along in peace. Maybe we can get a campaign rolling for the next election to get TABOR scrubbed from the constitution...
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zoux posted:Through what mechanism can the KY governor unilaterally rollback the Medicaid expansion? I think I heard it referred to as an executive-level decision to expand it so I assume the power still resides in the office to rescind that order.
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