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Zorra

(27,670 posts)
Fri Jan 6, 2012, 12:16 PM Jan 2012

Indiana Dems need our help!

If they're going sacrifice and stand up for us, we should stand up with them.

The new law levies a fine of $1,000 per day against each lawmaker who sits out more than three days in a row. Republicans established the new penalties after Democrats left the state last year to block the right-to-work measure.

The House Democratic caucus meanwhile opened an account on the Democratic fundraising website ActBlue and sent out an appeal Wednesday on Facebook seeking donations of between $5 and $250. "The Indiana House Democrats NEED YOUR HELP! Please support our caucus as we fight another battle against the Republicans as they try to push RTW legislation through without listening to working Hoosiers," the Democrats wrote in their appeal.

Indiana Democratic Party spokeswoman Jennifer Wagner said her group did not pay for any of the penalties accrued last year and did not plan to pay any fines this year.

A lawsuit challenging fines from last year's session filed by Rep. Bill Crawford, D-Indianapolis, is still being weighed by a Marion County Superior Court judge.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/fines-pending-ind-house-dems-labor-battle-15303123#.TwcbcXr8mSq

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To the Indiana Dems:
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Indiana Dems need our help! (Original Post) Zorra Jan 2012 OP
R#1 & K n/t UTUSN Jan 2012 #1
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k&r Gemini Cat Jan 2012 #3
You know, I heard a local radio station doing their "morning poll" at 6:20am ... "40,000 of these zbdent Jan 2012 #4

zbdent

(35,392 posts)
4. You know, I heard a local radio station doing their "morning poll" at 6:20am ... "40,000 of these
Fri Jan 6, 2012, 02:42 PM
Jan 2012

are made each year" ... and the answer was "new laws" ...

However, when they say things like this, everybody thinks "Democrats/Liberals" ...

And yet, what is it ... some Indiana lawmaker decides to make a new law fining people for not singing the National Anthem perfectly (with, of course, a loophole which protects tone-deaf people from being fined, probably to protect the lawmaker) ...

along with this "new law" ...

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