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It's more than just the biggest cities, though they do draw considerable water, naturally. A lot of the “tax payer funded lobbyists” are coming from GOP municipalities with Republican electeds, so the usual tactic of “oh they’re big city liberals” doesn’t work. Here's a somewhat similar example: for years the GOP has been trying to pass a law to make it illegal to automatically deduct union dues from members' paychecks. This is because, it's believed at least, that there are a significant number of union members who would just let their dues lapse out of apathy or lack of understanding of the benefits labor unions provide (helped along by an extensive information campaign from the CoC and other business interests). They've never been able to get it done because of cop and firefighters unions, the good unions as they it, and they’re worried about cop unions running ads against them or endorsing another guy because their base loves cops. They got it this past session though, by exempting PD and FD unions. No supporter was able to give an honest reason why, of course, they'd just mumble something about first responders being special and move on. So, lobbyists representing Republican interests and voters are effective at influencing legislation. Now, the Gov., Lt. Gov, Speaker and various anti-tax hardliners have been trying to cut/slow the growth of local property taxes, and they’re having the same problem. These Republican mayors and county commissioners and council members show up at hearings and offices, on the muni's dime, and lobby against these measures that absolutely gut city and county budgets, and since they’re influential Republicans representing constituencies state reps actually give a poo poo about, they've been successful in blocking it for many sessions. This time state lawmakers rammed it through somehow, still not sure what happened, but the next time they want to gently caress with cities (2021) they don't want to face friendly fire.
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Sab0921 posted:Zoux can expound more on this - but: zoux posted:It's more than just the biggest cities, though they do draw considerable water, naturally. Thank you both for the detailed answers. That’s incredibly lovely.
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Well that’s just my perspective as an interested observer who watched a couple of hearings and floor debates, so there may be more behind the scenes machinations I’m not aware of. But I did see Dennis Bonnen yell at a whole lot of GOP local electeds when he was chair of W&M in 17.
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In even less ideological terms, it seems like they'd prefer to keep power consolidated under centralized authoritarian rule rather than risk being swayed by local interests.
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zoux posted:
Uh yeah that's what straight guys do, have lots of kids with their female wives!!!
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I forgot about briscoe till I saw a giant Briscoe sign up in deer park
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muthafuckas forgot about Cain
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He doesn't even have the decency to be a laughable buffoon like Sticky, he's just the small, condensed Id of every 15 year old high school republican He's the Rees-Mogg to Sticklands Bojo
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https://twitter.com/PatrickSvitek/status/1227637187098877956 Ok so these valley Dinos who are conservatives in every respect except on immigration, they're not being replaced by younger versions of themselves right? Younger Valley Latinos are growing up progressive right
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zoux posted:He's the Rees-Mogg to Sticklands Bojo This is good
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https://twitter.com/PatrickSvitek/status/1227660042364760065 Mind you this is an attack ad from a Democrat
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ayyy Texas Trib with a decent set of questions to the frontrunners for opposing Cornyn https://apps.texastribune.org/features/2020/us-senate-primary-voter-guide/ e: also Royce West is apparently Extremely Online Royce West posted:I support a ban on assault rifles but not mandatory buybacks. I support a voluntary buyback, with an agriculture exemption for feral hogs. He later went on to say, "sometimes you have 30-50 of them running through your yard"
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/PatrickSvitek/status/1227637187098877956 Yes. Youth of basically every demographic are running way to the left of previous generations. Millennials, and to an even more massive degree Gen Z are turning out to be incredibly progressive.
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No Safe Word posted:ayyy Texas Trib with a decent set of questions to the frontrunners for opposing Cornyn What the gently caress is a "voluntary buyback except"? The government will buy your AR, unless you have an Ag/Timber number?
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https://twitter.com/patricksvitek/status/1227856843277586432?s=21 Smfh
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Mayor identity politics
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I thought Pete had that demo on lock. ANyway it's especially disappointing given Bloombergs history of supporting redlining, a major historical and current issue in Houston, as well as stop and frisk. But Sly's never let strong principles get in the way of his ambition. https://twitter.com/SylvesterTurner/status/1227940502470889473 That's just straight up not true
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How far the anime mayor has fallen.
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Goddamn is it dispiriting to see exactly how much headway you can make in an election purely by throwing hundreds of millions at it. Especially when those hundreds of millions are just a fraction of his wealth, and he could do this a hundred times over before running out of money.
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Blotto_Otter posted:Goddamn is it dispiriting to see exactly how much headway you can make in an election purely by throwing hundreds of millions at it. Especially when those hundreds of millions are just a fraction of his wealth, and he could do this a hundred times over before running out of money. Well, I think that Bloomberg is just code for "undecided" right now, I *hope*, oh god how I do hope, that the fact that he is literally a Republican will be disqualifying. I mean the moderates have no idea what to do right now they're just voting for anyone who's in front of them at any given moment
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zoux posted:I thought Pete had that demo on lock. Pete was mayor of a lovely nowhere town, I am positive all the mayors endorsing Bloomberg think he’s an rear end in a top hat
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Yeah, Bloomberg runs some sort of mayor convention/training camp thing that he pumps millions of dollars into every year, so he got a bunch of mayors to endorse him. San Jose and San Francisco mayors also endorsed him.
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zoux posted:I thought Pete had that demo on lock. I mean, from a certain point of view Bloomberg did embrace minorities. He would then rifle thru their pockets.
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Badger of Basra posted:Pete was mayor of a lovely nowhere town, I am positive all the mayors endorsing Bloomberg think he’s an rear end in a top hat For what it's worth, a Republican hasn't won the South Bend mayoral race since the '60s, so the real race is the Dem primary, which Pete first won in 2011 with... 7,663 votes. The most votes Pete has ever earned in an election that he actually won are the 10,991 votes in the 2011 general election for mayor. Fun bonus facts: Pete's former chief of staff won the 2019 Dem mayor primary with a 37% vote share and won the general with a healthy (but considerably smaller than Pete's) margin, and the tone of the articles I've read about him and the race boil down to "well his platform is essentially just 'more Pete', and he's not exactly as polished as Pete, and he's not exactly a great public speaker, but we really think he will grow into the role", and I'm sure this is all a great idea and will go just swimmingly for South Bend now that the well-oiled Pete political machine has moved on to bigger and better things.
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Holding out hope that every snake that is obviously being bought by Bloomberg gets seen for what they are. I can dream.
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https://twitter.com/alxthomp/status/1227987924593061889?s=21 Well I for one always vote the way the unreadable ad-laden entertainment alt rag tells me too https://twitter.com/madlinbmek/status/1227988782525435904 Would someone please tell me why everyone is freaking out about this more than I've ever seen people freak out about a disease outbreak ever. Even the ebola scare wasn't this bad. zoux fucked around with this message at 17:19 on Feb 13, 2020 |
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The fact that the chronicle endorsed her is making me reconsider my Warren support Although she’ll probably have dropped out by the time I’m voting anyway
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I feel like I'd trust Bloomberg more than Pete because at least I know what he is, but they're a distant 5th and 6th (and only because I don't remember more people I could put between them and the ones I actually like) as centrists who are running because they want to avoid any real change or attempts to disrupt the current state of politics. And then all the way further down the line you have J'Biden literally endorsing republicans.zoux posted:Would someone please tell me why everyone is freaking out about this more than I've ever seen people freak out about a disease outbreak ever. Even the ebola scare wasn't this bad. Potentially dangerous epidemics are scary even before they actually start really affecting your country. There were the scares for ebola, sars, chicken flu, swine flu, but what's spooky about coronavirus is that it had a steeper graph curve of infection cases. There are also a lot of scary stories of things that the Chinese government is doing to fight it which may make it seem worse than it is, since they're trying to both suppress the fear of the disease as well as the disease.
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/alxthomp/status/1227987924593061889?s=21 People freak out more about rare events. Also a touch of racism.
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christ look at this succ poo poo on their TX-21 endorsement:quote:This seat nearly flipped blue in 2018, and it seems likelier to do so in 2020. Jennie Lou Leeder is an honorable, qualified Dem candidate, but Davis' official experience and (frankly) star power should be devastating in a general campaign against Chip "Sourpuss" Roy. Vote for Wendy. Yes, the star power of loving wendy davis.
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duz posted:People freak out more about rare events. Also a touch of racism. I remember when SARS turned America into 28 days later of course. As a young Texan I was a lot more scared of the impending killer bee invasion than I should've been. Y'all remember the killer bee panic.
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SlothfulCobra posted:I feel like I'd trust Bloomberg more than Pete
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zoux posted:I remember when SARS turned America into 28 days later of course. THEY'RE AFRICANIZED
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No Safe Word posted:The (almost) lowest of bars. It's like saying "well, he's better than Tulsi". Tulsi gabbard would be a better president than Bloomberg
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Sardonik posted:christ look at this succ poo poo on their TX-21 endorsement: we're doomed
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i say swears online posted:Tulsi gabbard would be a better president than Bloomberg Not for Muslims!
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I know nothing about Jennie Lou Leeder, is she better than Wendy Davis? Asking for a friend.
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I don't know who that is but almost assuredly https://twitter.com/stjbs/status/1228012486286336000 https://twitter.com/PatrickSvitek/status/1228060293953212423 lol when did we move from all politics are local to all politics are national zoux fucked around with this message at 22:00 on Feb 13, 2020 |
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