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That shit should trigger an immediate by-election.
Hell yah.
Also, feck you to the WI GOP, whose voter suppression shit means these amazing young adults have to stand in line for hours and likely miss class time.
Also, feck you to the WI GOP, whose voter suppression shit means these amazing young adults have to stand in line for hours and likely miss class time.
The tweet is bad enough but then you read the story and see that they are going to approve spending $24 million to offset private school tuition costs. What a bunch of complete and total assholes.
Yep. That’s the kicker.
That's the law in india, after a lot of switches by obvious bribery in the 80s/90s.
But a lot of elections are decided by the influence of the individual candidate rather than the party, alternatively, since modi became pm, based on modi's popularity rather than any other factor.
So, there were a bunch of defections recently in state houses, which gave modi's party control of 2 states. This meant by-elections, where the defectors stood from their new party, and won...handily. Happened twice:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Madhya_Pradesh_Legislative_Assembly_by-elections
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Karnataka_Legislative_Assembly_by-elections
e - if it is really this, you guys need to learn from indian politics again. we have father v son, mother v daughter, brother v brother, cousin v cousin, uncle v nephew - family doesn't mean they're together politically
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Looks like dems won this one, good thing she wasn't black, cause then she would probably have lost.
If true this is a ray of hope in a really bleak 24 hours (NC and multiple TN things).
They do not have a supermajority. Close, but not enough. If the SC somehow enforces fair maps in WI the. You will see a seismic shift in state politics.
There is a state house election also going on, if republicans wins that i believe they have supermajority.
In the Senate yes, but still 2 votes short in the house. Both needed for impeachment.
That Protasiewizc is going to win by 7-10 points, and that all but one (RoJo) statewide official is a Dem, but the GOP almost has a supermajority in both state legislatures is the biggest example of GOP gerrymandering in the country. Insane and corrupt.
Christ, this is even more salty than RAWK on its best day…
Oh…
Hearing that abortion is playing a large role in her defection.
Why's there no thread on trumps being indicted?
Ah thanks
Sky has me on ignore
The Dem’s need to note everything Ben Wickler and the WisDems have done the last 4 years and replicate it in every state. It’s been a really amazing grassroot rebuild of an entire state party. Can we clone them and bring them to NC? This state party is a joke.
harsh on @Pexbo ?Sky has me on ignore
Thats a relief to hear, and hopefully dems move quickly and get a more fair map for 24 election now, here's hoping.
Wisconsin gerrymandering is probably the worst in the country, the fact that a state that is close to 50/50, in statewide elections have their legislatures dominated by republicans is disgusting.
NC is very similar. Biden lost by 1.2%, and Gov is a Dem, and yet after yesterday's debacle the GOP has a supermajority in both chambers.
That sucks, as dems were making a bit of progress in that state in recent years, hopefully the supermajority in NC will be gone in about in about a year if turnout is strong.
Considering the "Dem" who flipped yesterday won her seat by 20% I think it is safe to say we are going to be fecked for a long while. She will likely vote against everything she campaigned on 5 months ago. The maps here are just as gerrymandered as WI and we lost control of the State SC, so I expect them to get even worse. 100% they are going to redraw the traitors district in the next two years to make sure she is rewarded for her treachery.
Dan Kelly whined and moaned in his "concession" speech, but i shouldn't be surprised i suppose, for some reason this kind of behaviour is actually what MAGA-people views as alpha behaviour.
Nothing more manly and alpha than take the ball and go home.
Nothing more manly and alpha than take the ball and go home.
cnut never called her to concede either.
She really sounds quite the fecking cnut…
Not all puppies & kittens in WI unfortunately…
