Playing Hardball To Win in the States

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Monday June 28, 2021 · 1:15 PM PDT

2021/06/28 · 13:15

The Republicans are stripping elections from the Electorate and giving them to the Legislature. This is completely disgraceful and wrong – don’t get me wrong. But it is also a huge danger to democratic government, and we need to plan. Yes, file lawsuits challenging this, but don’t expect that the courts will step in. Technically what they’re doing isn’t against the law.

I live in Virginia. I do not want the Legislature to draft laws as in Georgia, Texas, and Pennsylvania, to take the election away from localities and move them to the Legislature if they feel like it.

But a law in Virginia and all other Democratic States that required the State to remove one Republican-won election every time another state removed a Democratic-won election just makes sure that what they’re doing hurts.

We can sit and say, oh, we want real voters. But that’s not the game they’re playing. They’re playing to be able to overthrow elections in 2022 and 2024.

So, a call to action: call for your state to write and pass a bill that removes Republican wins from your state every time a Republican state removes Democratic-wins from their states.

And yes, this is stupid. But they think that people in the Capitol on 6 January were tourists. They will believe anything.

Make it hurt.

GOTV: Calling Hispanics

SheryleR

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Sunday September 18, 2016 · 3:15 PM PDT

2016/09/18 · 15:15

I’m reading the papers today and the story coming out today: Trump catching up in several states with large Hispanic populations. Hispanic populations meh on the whole Hillary thing. Not planning to vote.

Could Daily Kos voters come up with some ideas to reach Hispanics? Until 3 weeks ago, Texas was in play, but South Texans don’t vote. Talk about self-defeating.

Here’s my ad for consideration:

(jack-booted thugs haul off a Hispanic woman). Young guy: sorry, Aunt Julia, but I just couldn’t trust that woman.

Aunt Julia (being stuffed into an ICE van): You probably could have trusted her not to deport me.

THANKS FOR NOT VOTING.

Other ideas out there?

What We Could Do

SheryleR

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Saturday July 05, 2014 · 8:27 AM PDT

2014/07/05 · 08:27

Let's face it; our Republican colleagues have looked at terrorism, economic dysfunction, and the political meltdown of the entire Middle East and discovered that the two most dangerous things in the world are: Barrack Obama and... er, us.

The point of being a Republican is not to deal with anything, except trying to stop moderate Democratic rule. That means we're pretending if we expect anything on immigration, global warming, or anything else favored by Obama. (They really hate him). Washington will do nothing, even if good for the country in the next years.

So we can't do anything about Washington. But we don't need Washington for one thing: infrastructure spending. States could work together, form an intrastate infrastructure bank and ignore the shenanigans of the Low Tax/No Government brigade.

Poll

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Should Democratic-controlled states build their own infrastructure bank?

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Should Democratic-controlled states build their own infrastructure bank?

yes

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0 votes

I hate infrastructure

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Proposal for Environmental Jobs Project

SheryleR

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Thursday July 01, 2010 · 12:44 PM PDT

2010/07/01 · 12:44

My first diary.

There will be no second stimulus package -- and we have a huge unemployment problem that looks to go long term.

I was reading Atrios yesterday and he noted a very simple way to put people to work is on environmental projects, like paint black roofs silver or white.

But the government is not going to act to do it. And there are people in need.

Could we act? Could environmental organizations sponsor employment projects?

So, an environmental group establishes an employment project in the cities and suburbs to paint roofs and other fairly low skilled jobs. The organization then solicits donations from individuals and corporations to pay salaries. The government helps by allowing the donations to be tax deductible. Corporations could donate materials or provide lower cost materials.

We could put thousands of people to work with such a plan, encourage people to give, and actually make a dent in global warming...

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