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Re: Republicans: continued

Post by Scot Dutchy » Sat Oct 02, 2021 8:15 am

Ground level corruption in the US:

Republicans are about to lose Texas – so they’re changing the rules
For years, Fort Bend county was a Republican bastion, but recently it has become more politically competitive as local organizers work against gerrymandering

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A few months ago, on the verge of the once-a-decade redistricting cycle, my editors and I started brainstorming how I could best write about the partisan manipulation of the boundaries for electoral districts – known as gerrymandering.

Over the last few years, there’s been a growing awareness of what gerrymandering is and how it undermines people’s votes. But the process can be complex and confusing. We sought to find stories that would make gerrymandering tangible. What are the kinds of places that are going to get gerrymandered this year? And what are the consequences for communities that get carved up for political gain?

Yesterday we published a story focused on Fort Bend county, Texas, which is just outside of Houston, that gets at both of these questions. I chose Fort Bend because it’s a place that almost perfectly encapsulates the political and demographic changes happening across the country. The county has exploded in population over the last decade, growing almost 40%, and it is extremely diverse, split nearly evenly between white, Black, Asian and Hispanic people. For years, the county was a Republican bastion, but recently it has become more politically competitive. Democrats flipped several seats at the county level in 2018, the same year Beto O’Rourke carried it in his failed US Senate run. Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden also won the county.


Despite all of the change, almost everyone I spoke with recognized that Republicans would probably reconfigure the district lines this year to help them hold on to power. I was taken aback when Dave Wasserman, a senior editor at the Cook Political Report, told me that Republicans could transform the 22nd congressional district in Fort Bend from one that Trump won by about 1 percentage point in 2020 to one that he would have won by more than 20 points. Republicans, he said, could just cut out the most Democratic parts of the county and lump them in with already-Democratic districts in Houston. They would then probably replace those voters with Trump-friendly rural voters elsewhere. “That’s pretty easy to do,” he told me.

On Monday, Republicans unveiled a congressional plan that does exactly that. Their proposed plan excises Democratic-leaning areas near Sugar Land and attaches two counties that voted overwhelmingly for Trump to the 22nd congressional district. If the 2020 election were run under the new boundaries, Trump would have carried the district by 16 points, according to Planscore, a tool that evaluates the partisan fairness of districts.
Democracy? Please America stop using the term. You have never seen it.
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Re: Republicans: continued

Post by JimC » Sat Oct 02, 2021 9:01 am

Civilised democracies have independent, non-partisan commissions to rationally and fairly settle issues such as electoral boundaries and election rules.

American democracy is a joke.
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Re: Republicans: continued

Post by Scot Dutchy » Sat Oct 02, 2021 1:21 pm

JimC wrote:
Sat Oct 02, 2021 9:01 am
Civilised democracies have independent, non-partisan commissions to rationally and fairly settle issues such as electoral boundaries and election rules.

American democracy is a joke.
Simply dont have them. Make the whole country PR.
American Democracy is not even a joke.
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Re: Republicans: continued

Post by Sean Hayden » Sat Oct 02, 2021 1:24 pm

Maybe that's why we consistently fail to spread it, you can't give what you haven't got... :dunno:

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Re: Republicans: continued

Post by Scot Dutchy » Sat Oct 02, 2021 1:26 pm

You lot only spread corruption. You have plenty of that.
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Post by Sean Hayden » Sat Oct 02, 2021 1:33 pm

The best though?

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Re: Republicans: continued

Post by Scot Dutchy » Sat Oct 02, 2021 9:41 pm

Well compared to Somalian corruption you are still in child's play.
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Post by Tero » Sat Oct 02, 2021 10:11 pm

Foxnews scaring its viewers!
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Post by Sean Hayden » Sat Oct 02, 2021 10:13 pm

:lol:

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Post by Tero » Sun Oct 03, 2021 1:56 pm

Tweet:
CHRIS WALLACE: In Wyoming, less than a quarter of children ages 3-4 are enrolled in publicly funded preschool. Wouldn't a lot of families benefit from universal pre-k?

SEN. JOHN BARRASSO: Overall, Joe Biden's policies have been hurting the people of Wyoming

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Those 3,4 & 5 year olds need to work!!
You can’t just be handing them free shit like it’s free cookie day at the cookie factory.
Those crayons don’t grow on trees!!
What are we teaching these kids if they think they just get to go to school for free?
Raising future socialists!

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Post by Sean Hayden » Sun Oct 03, 2021 2:28 pm

I remember being surprised that pre-k wasn't available when my kids were old enough unless you qualified by income.

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Re: Republicans: continued

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Even though Trump is done, Bannon really really is done. How does he get paid?
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Post by Tero » Mon Oct 04, 2021 10:56 am

The shock troops will run the various departments. He needs 4000 people to be in charge of the government NOT DOINFG ANYTHING
Donald Trump’s former White House strategist Steve Bannon on Saturday evoked a dystopian future when he called for “shock troops” to quickly “deconstruct” the state as soon as a Republican takes the Oval Office again.

Bannon made the chilling comments in a phone interview on NBC News after it reported that he had met Wednesday with the party faithful to urge them to be prepared to “reconfigure the government” with a Republican leader.

“If you’re going to take over the administrative state and deconstruct it, then you have to have shock troops prepared to take it over immediately,” Bannon told NBC. “I gave ’em fire and brimstone.”

Bannon, who ran Trump’s 2016 campaign, said the former president’s agenda packing the government with loyalists was delayed because he couldn’t move quickly enough to fill some 4,000 posts.

Bannon told NBC that he wants to see “pre-trained teams ready to jump into federal agencies” when the next Republican president takes office.

“We’re going to have a sweeping victory in 2022, and that’s just the preamble to a sweeping victory in 2024, and this time we’re going to be ready — and have a MAGA perspective, MAGA policies, not the standard Republican policies,” he said, referring to Trump’s “Make America Great Again” slogan.

Bannon admitted last week on his podcast that he told Trump before the insurrection: “You need to kill this [Biden] administration in its crib.” That led Harvard constitutional law expert Laurence Tribe to wonder why the Department of Justice hadn’t convened a grand jury to consider sedition charges against Bannon.
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Post by Tero » Mon Oct 04, 2021 11:49 am

Seven candidates have announced plans to challenge Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor
Greene, R-Rome, Ga., in 2022.

Greene serves Georgia's 14th Congressional District, which includes the Northwest Georgia counties of Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Floyd, Gordon, Haralson, Murray, Paulding, Pickens, Polk, Walker and Whitfield.

Since taking office, she has made national headlines as a voice for conservatives and the right, advocating for gun rights and pro-life legislation. She has also been an outspoken advocate of policies of former President Donald Trump and for veterans' rights.

She also was removed from committee assignments, where much of the work of Congress is done, over revelations about controversial social media postings in which she endorsed violence against Democratic leaders and the idea that school shootings have been staged to generate support for gun control.

House Democrats and 11 Republicans voted to strip Greene of her committee assignments earlier this year.

At home in Georgia, Greene leads the pack in fundraising. She out-raised every other candidate during the first six months of 2021 and, according to recent filings with the Federal Election Commission, raised $3.5 million in small donations alone.

As of June 30, she had raised more than $4.7 million total.

Her challengers have said part of their decision to run came down to wanting better representation in Congress.
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Said Peter...what you're requesting just isn't my bag
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And our hands they are many and we'd be of one voice
We've come all the way from Wigan to get up and state
Our case for survival before it's too late

Turn stone to bread, said Daemon Duncetan
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