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Jerry Manderbilt posted:im glad state senator-elect boysko is much more electorally and politically successful than brian boyko of goon lore past Lawrence Lessig and Brian Boyko are back for 2020. https://equalcitizens.us/anotherway/ quote:Can we make 2020 something more than a civil war between Democrats and Republicans?
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Lightning Knight posted:I’m moving into my final destination in San Antonio right now and you can tell the political landscape is very different here. I saw Planned Parenthood protestors for the first time ever today. best of luck! i hope to be back there working again as soon as I can!
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Saint Joe County Indiana Goons (I know a few of you are here) if you want to get involved on the local level with the Democrats and are under 35 years of age, there is a young Dem meeting downtown tomorrow at 6 at the Dem Headquarters. Joining is 25 bucks if you are interested. Also primaries for local elections will be coming soon! Will be posting steps on how to get on the Indiana ballot when I have some time later this week. Edit: it’s 6 not 7 sorry folks Spiffster fucked around with this message at 02:27 on Jan 15, 2019 |
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Lawrence Lessig and Brian Boyko are back for 2020. Lessig seems to have good ideas but all he does is found groups that go nowhere and waste everone's time.
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Well that’s a surprise. VA Senate votes to advance a bill to raise the minimum wage from $7.25 to $15 by 2021. The Republicans know it’s an election year, and they’re gonna try and save their bacon. https://www.richmond.com/news/virgi...ecfc85e447.html
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Your Boy Fancy posted:Well that’s a surprise. VA Senate votes to advance a bill to raise the minimum wage from $7.25 to $15 by 2021. I really don't get the Times-Dispatch's bizarre framing, though: quote:The vote, advancing the bill to the floor, could be an election-year effort to force all 19 Democrats to take a vote on an issue that could alienate members of the business community. All 40 senators and 100 delegates are up for election in November. Like, they don't even consider the idea that Republicans could be afraid of going against public opinion on an issue for which there is broad support, it's gotta be the business community behind this nefarious trap. Yeah Republicans are evil fuckers, but I think what's getting me is the idea that somehow the minimum wage issue coming to the floor hurts Democrats. What a terrible paper we have.
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I mean, it might be a trap, but i don’t think it’s a trap for Democrats. We’re all savoring the opportunity to finish the job. Voting against a minimum wage hike in the more depressed areas of VA sounds like a death sentence to me.
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Your Boy Fancy posted:I mean, it might be a trap, but i don’t think it’s a trap for Democrats. We’re all savoring the opportunity to finish the job. Voting against a minimum wage hike in the more depressed areas of VA sounds like a death sentence to me. That's my thoughts on the matter, too-- there's few issues with broader support than a minwage hike. The T-D is just so stuck in its old-school Reagan business Republican worldview it can't see that. Their politics reporting is awful, and it's gotten even worse since Ned Oliver et al jumped ship to form the Virginia Mercury.
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https://twitter.com/PoliticsWolf/status/1084987104709365760 Mmmmmm yes
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these are all really good, and consolidating the state/federal primaries will also weaken the new york machine politics a bit by boosting turnout in those races
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quote:Furthermore, Democrats passed two state constitutional amendments to enable voters to register on the same day they cast a ballot, including Election Day itself, and also remove the requirement of an excuse to be able to cast an absentee mail ballot. These changes must pass the legislature again after the 2020 elections before they can go to the voters for approval in a referendum to amend the state constitution. great news for upstart candidates in the 2024 primaries
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Quorum posted:That's my thoughts on the matter, too-- there's few issues with broader support than a minwage hike. The T-D is just so stuck in its old-school Reagan business Republican worldview it can't see that. Their politics reporting is awful, and it's gotten even worse since Ned Oliver et al jumped ship to form the Virginia Mercury. Yeah, I honestly don't see how this is a negative for VA. Northern VA has a cost of living that is approaching California and they already have a 15 dollar minimum wage. This will only help people in rural areas that need better wages as well as people in NOVA. I am particularly excited for LEe Carter's teacher strike legislation. Teachers should have the ability to loving strike and anyone who says otherwise can go gently caress themselves. We treat educators like dirt in this country and it needs to stop.
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Did any of those reforms make it easier for AOC to primary Chuck Schumer in 2022?
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Fritz Coldcockin posted:Did any of those reforms make it easier for AOC to primary Chuck Schumer in 2022? The key reform you're looking for there is narrowing the window to register as a Democrat so you can vote in the Democratic primary (iirc you have to register months before the campaigns even start, so by the time you get excited about a primary candidate its too late). I'm trying to find out if that got changed. I believe same-day voter registration should do it, so the amendment would need to pass. edit: nope, that was not changed apparently: quote:Other voting rights priorities left out of Monday’s voting rights package include the ability to change party affiliation close to an election (the deadline is currently October of the previous year), and a bill that would create more user-friendly ballots, Stewart-Cousins' office confirmed. evilweasel fucked around with this message at 18:14 on Jan 15, 2019 |
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Fritz Coldcockin posted:Did any of those reforms make it easier for AOC to primary Chuck Schumer in 2022? I think it would be much funnier if she primaried Cuomo tbh. It also gives her executive experience for 2024 
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https://twitter.com/BenJ_Rosenblatt/status/1084973815514497025 This, too
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Virginia Senate has passed the Equal Rights Amendment. Should the House of Delegates follow suit, I believe that’s the trigger state for the 28th Amendment. It’s a busy state politics Tuesday.
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Your Boy Fancy posted:Virginia Senate has passed the Equal Rights Amendment. Wait... you mean, the one from the '50s-'60s? Like, a national constitutional amendment? Holy gently caress. 
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Oh, NY finally passed GENDA: Gender Expression Non-Discrimination and also a ban on conversion therapy! https://twitter.com/bradhoylman/status/1085230902735790080 https://twitter.com/bradhoylman/status/1085233347339665408
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Lightning Knight posted:Wait... you mean, the one from the '50s-'60s? Like, a national constitutional amendment? Yep! It would in fact be the final required state* ** *subject to whether or not states are allowed to rescind their ratifications, as a few did ** and whether or not ratification deadline provisions are constitutional This is going to be a shitshow, in a mostly good way.
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Quorum posted:Yep! It would in fact be the final required state* ** I'm glad we have a new constitutional crisis besides the president
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Quorum posted:I really don't get the Times-Dispatch's bizarre framing, though: The Times-Dispatch is a pretty conservative paper.
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Quorum posted:Yep! It would in fact be the final required state* ** The second bit shouldn’t be a thing, right? Since the 27th started its ratification process in the days of the founders? We could have a ball with this.
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What's interesting is that a lot of deadline provisions in proposed amendments are actually a part of the amendment, something like "4. This provision shall have no effect unless ratified before a date seven years after its submission to the states." The deadline for the ERA was part of the joint resolution sending it to the states, not the amendment itself, so it's more malleable; even if it's legal, it's arguably alterable by Congress. Not that the Republican Senate would do poo poo to help pass the ERA.
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https://twitter.com/PoliticsWolf/status/1088144677092511744?s=19 This is a winnable map. Let's finish the job and turn VA blue!
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Local politics is loving nuts: Quick background. In 1994, Phoenix wanted to build a stadium. Unfortunately, in 1989, Phoenix voters had passed a referendum requiring public approval to build any sports facility costing more than 3 million. This was out of frustration at sales taxes being levied to pay for sports. So, the State Legislature passed a law transferring the authority to build the stadium to the county instead of the city, and then the county board passed a sales tax. Man who shot former Maricopa County Supervisor Mary Rose Wilcox appears at City Council meeting
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https://twitter.com/pwcdanica/status/1088384404735574017 For any Furloughed VA goons near Gainesville. Also, LOVE YOU DANICA
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https://twitter.com/WRAL/status/1088908137615290368 https://www.wral.com/nc-chief-justice-to-resign-next-month/18148219/ quote:North Carolina Chief Justice Mark Martin is leaving the state's Supreme Court after 20 years to become a Virginia law school dean. it doesn't change a whole lot since democrats picked up their 5th seat last november, but lol at leaving for loving great value liberty university
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State Rep. David Stringer Charged With Child Porn in 1983, Court Records Show This story is bad, but I've heard a rumor it is about to get much much worse.
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Speaking of VA being All Elections All The Time, we've got one on Feb 19th, to put this guy into Jennifer Boysko's seat. So if DMV goons wanna help out in like Herndon or something, hit me up (or hit them up at the website I guess). As a bonus incentive, the Party Old Guard folks seem to hate him more than Lee Carter (though Lee is probably still further to the left than Ibraheem). Quorum posted:I really don't get the Times-Dispatch's bizarre framing, though: They're pissed that the NoVA Chamber of Commerce endorsed Jennifer Boysko in the special election instead of Joe May. Your Boy Fancy posted:Virginia Senate has passed the Equal Rights Amendment. This would pass the House of Delegates if we could get it to the floor, but (a) the Privileges and Elections Committee won't pass it out of committee (on a 12-10 party line vote) and (b) the (Republican) Speaker of the House wouldn't bring it to the floor even if we got it out of P&E. axeil posted:https://twitter.com/PoliticsWolf/status/1088144677092511744?s=19 My favorite part of this is that the aforementioned Republican Speaker, Kirk Cox, is getting drawn into a Lean Dem district. Like we're going to pick up 2-3 other seats as well as a result. Actually, that's a lie. My favorite part is that David Yancey (the guy who won b/c his name got pulled out of a hat)'s district got bluer, and he's got a rematch against Shelley Simonds (who tied him last time). That one will be fun.
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Jackson Taus posted:Speaking of VA being All Elections All The Time, we've got one on Feb 19th, to put this guy into Jennifer Boysko's seat. So if DMV goons wanna help out in like Herndon or something, hit me up (or hit them up at the website I guess). poo poo, another candidate that tells Dominion Power to gently caress off? Its Christmas in February. Put me in the game coach. Point to where you need some boots and I am there.
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