Republicans: continued

[Tero]

Who knew? DeSantis fans are excited. They will make America Florida. And pronouns limited to chromosomal state.



Christian Ziegler, chairman of the Florida Republican party, said: “You’re seeing people leave other states that have completely opposite ideology and political positions and policy positions. California, New York – everyone’s leaving those states and everyone’s flocking to our state. That validates the claim that Florida is a working model. If it was a cellphone, it would probably be the Apple iPhone. Everyone wants it, everyone’s buying it and everyone’s gravitating towards it.”

[Brian Peacock]

They are out--no longer allowed to represent their constituencies in the Tennessee House of Representatives.

I guess they'll not hold elections to replace them either?

There will likely be special elections but more immediately, Tero is correct; the expelled members will be replaced by local government authorities. Those local officials could in fact simply reinstate the expelled members. More likely to happen for one than the other, according to the article below.

'Local officials to select replacements for expelled TN lawmakers'

Local officials will likely appoint interim lawmakers to replace two young Democrats who were expelled from the Tennessee Legislature in retaliation for staging a demonstration demanding gun control inside the state Capitol last week.

The temporary replacements for ousted Reps. Justin Jones and Justin Pearson will be selected by the county legislative authority, according to state election officials.

A special election could be scheduled before the end of the year. Jones and Pearson will likely be eligible to run again and possibly serve the remainder of their terms, officials said.

"I have no regrets. I will continue to stand up for my constituents," Jones said Thursday before telling his supporters to come back to the Capitol on Monday to protest when the House is back in session.

Meanwhile, the Shelby County Commission and Nashville's Metro Council were expected to choose replacements for Jones and Person.

Jones could even be reappointed to his seat more immediately if the Democratic-controlled council sends him back to the state house as his own replacement.

They should appoint a couple of highschool students.

[L'Emmerdeur]

Not a terrible idea. Though from the interviews I have seen with the two expelled members they seem to be competent, and sincere in regards to the issue.

[L'Emmerdeur]

Don't need no stinkin' libraries ennyways.

'Texas County to Consider Shutting Down Library After Judge Orders Books With LGBTQ and Racial Content Returned to Shelves'

Officials in Llano County, Texas will meet this week to decide if they will close their local public library system and terminate all employees after a federal judge last week ordered 12 books with LGBTQ and race-related content to be returned to library shelves.

Seven residents sued the county after books including “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents” by Isabel Wilkerson, “They Called Themselves the K.K.K.: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group” by Susan Campbell Bartoletti, and “Being Jazz: My Life as a (Transgender) Teen” by Jazz Jennings were taken off library shelves, CNN reports.

In their First and Fourteenth Amendment lawsuit residents says their civil rights were violated. A federal judge agreed, ordering the county to put the books back on the shelves within 24 hours.

...

The Texas Tribune’s Alejandro Serrano Monday evening reported, “Less than two weeks after a federal judge ordered Llano County officials to return to the public library system books they’d removed and allow them to be checked out again, officials this week will consider shutting down the library.”

[JimC]

It's like watching an entire civilisation slowly destroying itself. No need for barbarians beyond the borders...

[Tero]

They should mass produce a small scale statue of David reading a book and put it in all the free libraries in the world.

[Tero]

[Tero]

Guns ok, just weird liberal stuff bad:
Karamo has claimed in the past that Beyoncé was secretly recruiting Black Americans to Paganism through a new album; that “demonic possession is real” and transferred via “intimate relationships”; and that acceptance of gay and transgender Americans will lead to the acceptance of pedophilia.

She has said that the leaders of the Black Lives Matter movement are “Marxist witches”; that the theory of evolution is “one of the biggest scams ran on us in human history”; and that doing drugs is “witchcraft.” She has compared abortion to Pagan child sacrifice.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/11/politics ... index.html

[Svartalf]

OK, can we send that cuckoo to the looney bin?

[macdoc]

She's already resident..

[Svartalf]

well, the bin with the padded cells, not the padded seats.

[macdoc]

same same these days...

[Tero]

The election was stolen!
And so was the US budget resolution:
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-ba ... -bill/amp/

[L'Emmerdeur]

It's like watching an entire civilisation slowly destroying itself. No need for barbarians beyond the borders...

Missouri is on the same track for essentially the same reason. Reminiscent of the closing of public pools in the US from a similar motive. 'If we're prevented from discriminating in the publicly-funded commons, we'll simply eliminate the funding.'

'Missouri House Republicans vote to defund libraries'

Missouri House Republicans voted to defund all of the state’s public libraries, in a proposed $45.6 billion state budget that will soon move to a vote in the GOP-controlled state Senate.

The Missouri House debated for over eight hours last Tuesday on a budget that is roughly $2 billion less than the one Gov. Mike Parson (R) proposed last January, cutting not only the $4.5 million Parson had slated for libraries, but also costs for diversity initiatives, childcare and pre-kindergarten programs.

Missouri House budget committee leader Rep. Cody Smith (R-Carthage) proposed cutting library aid due to a recent lawsuit filed against the state last February.

The lawsuit — filed by the ACLU of Missouri on behalf of the Missouri Association of School Librarians and the Missouri Library Association — seeks to declare Senate Bill 775 unconstitutional, a bill that has resulted in over 300 books getting banned from school libraries, many of which include LGBTQ characters or racial justice themes.

The state legislature passed SB 775 last August in an effort to expand rights for victims of sexual assault. But state Sen. Rick Brattin (R-Harrisonvile) added an amendment banning educators from “providing sexually explicit material” to students, punishable by up to a $2,000 fine or a year in jail.

Smith argued that the state should not “subsidize” the lawsuit with government aid. But the Missouri Library Association, a nonprofit representing Missouri’s librarians, put out a statement stating they are not providing any funding for this lawsuit, as the ACLU is aiding them pro bono.

“Library funding is guaranteed in the MO constitution,” the group wrote on Twitter. “This tactic, meant to bully MLA into submission, instead directly harms public libraries who rely on those funds, especially the smaller, more rural libraries.”

[L'Emmerdeur]

With the impressive shitstain Huckabee as a father and Trump as a mentor, the current governor of Arkansas has all the right ideas.

'Gov. Sanders wants to know how much you like her before you can be on a state board or commission'

Looking to serve your state in some official capacity? First, kiss the ring.

The application form you must fill out to be considered for a post on state boards and commissions includes this question: “What is an accomplishment of the Governor’s that you admire the most?”

If you’ve got 500 words ready to go about how much you love Gov. Sarah Sanders, you could be eligible for a post on the state’s dozens of boards.

A book that defines your life only gets half that word count?