Most Important result in Tuesday's Election?
for those of us frustrated and terrified at the Cruzification of Congress and state legislatures.
Columbus Dispatch:
Voters overwhelmingly backed a plan to reform Ohio’s hyper-partisan process for drawing legislative districts, and supporters are already looking ahead to passing the same reforms for congressional districts next year.
“Today's win was an important first step, but it only got us halfway there," said Carrie Davis, executive director of the League of Women Voters of Ohio. “We need to take these new anti-gerrymandering rules that Issue 1 applied to the General Assembly and extend them to congressional districts, which are even more gerrymandered.”
With 54 percent of precincts reporting, Issue 1, which will change the legislative redistricting process starting in 2021, when the lines are scheduled to be drawn again, was winning with 71 percent of the vote.
“Ohio voters can do amazing things when they work together. Let’s work together to reform the congressional map,” said Sandy Theis, executive director of ProgressOhio.
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/public/2015/election/ohio-state-issue-1-redistricting.html
Now how can we replicate this in every state where it's needed?
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who's never held office to be its governor. But he has the support of libertarian billionaires like the Kochs, for whom bad government is just another step toward destruction of established government.
Mark Bevin has pledged to dismantle (and "replace"
iKentucky's healthcare marketplace, Kynect. 400,000 Kentuckians will lose their Medicare expansion if he keeps his word. He says the state can't afford it, although it is not state-funded. He also intends to cut individual and corporate taxes.
""What's your take on Common Core?" Cincinnati radio host Brian Thomas asked Bevin in March, referring to math and English education standards implemented in Kentucky and more than 40 other states. "Can't stand it! I'll tell you," Bevin said, "when you ask questions of third-graders, 'Which of the following groups of people doesn't care about the poor?', and the correct answer is 'conservatives,' that's the kind of garbage that's being foisted down the throats of our young people. It's not conducive to actually improving their educational ability."
He's promised to end the "death taxes" Kentucky doesn't actually have, but obviously that's just misdirect for other taxes in his sights.
Knee-jerk dishonesty seems to be SOP for this guy. Like so many TP extremists, he probably is incapable of evaluating issues clearly and honestly even if he wanted to.
His 9 kids (4 adopted from Ethiopia) are all home schooled, and he wants people to be able to take their "per pupil" taxpayer funding and use it to pay for private and/or religious school tuition. He is, of course, completely behind poor, persecuted Kim Davis's attempt to establish god's kingdom in her office.
Funny thing is, many of the same people who voted for Mitch McConnell, who's betrayed them for 30 years, also elected this guy, who's been styling himself as an anti-McConnell. I'd feel sorry for these clueless fools if I weren't so angry at them.
