Had to get DarkEra 2.0 to make the site usable.
Had to get DarkEra 2.0 to make the site usable.
You know good people.Was gonna have a lecture today by a congressman that got cancelled because of HW dying
HW keeps hurting people after death, sad!
Also when I told my gf about his death she said "94 years is a long time for a racist to live". And my mom said she felt misty eyed until she remembered Iran-Contra and how he pardoned everything relating to that.
Lol
Those fucking air quotes he does bug the hell out of me. "Guts" I just picture him doing the Dr Evil finger quotes every time.
Not the most comforting idiom in this day and age.
Lol he can't concentrate on anything. Shook to the core
So, tomorrow's the big day for the Wisconsin GOP Power Grab. Their legislation would:
- Move the 2020 presidential primary from April to March. That is aimed at ensuring there is lower turnout during the April election for state Supreme Court, which would make it easier for conservatives to maintain their court majority.
- Limit early voting to two weeks. A similar limit was found unconstitutional in 2016 and Democrats have threatened to take legal action again.
- Give Republicans more control of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp., including over its enterprise zone program that gives tax breaks to individual businesses.
- Put lawmakers in charge of litigation, allowing them to keep alive a lawsuit to overturn the Affordable Care Act, widely known as Obamacare.
- Give lawmakers — instead of the attorney general — control over how court settlements are spent.
- Allow the Legislature to substitute the attorney general with taxpayer-funded private attorneys — picked by lawmakers — when state laws are challenged in court.
- Make it easier for lawmakers to hire private attorneys at taxpayer expense when they are accused of violating the open records law or other statutes.
- Eliminate the solicitor general's office, which oversees high-profile litigation.
- Modestly lower the state's income tax rates next year to offset about $60 million in online sales taxes from out-of-state retailers that Wisconsin recently began collecting.
- Require Evers to get permission from lawmakers to ban guns in the state Capitol or make other changes to security provisions there, including increasing the number of police officers who patrol the statehouse.
- Bar judges from giving deference to state agencies' interpretations of laws when they are challenged in court. That could make it easier to win lawsuits challenging how environmental regulations and other laws are being enforced.
- Make it much more difficult, in numerous ways, for the Evers administration to put in place rules that implement current and future state laws. Lawmakers, meanwhile, would gain greater power to block any rules that Evers manages to put in place.
- Require state agencies to file quarterly reports on their spending.
- Require the Evers administration to report if the governor pardons anyone or his aides release anyone from prison early.
- Force Evers to get permission from the Legislature before asking the federal government to make any changes to programs that are run jointly by the state and federal governments. That would limit the governor's flexibility in how he runs public benefits programs. If the Legislature's budget committee determined the administration was not implementing recent changes to those programs, it could reduce funding and staffing for state agencies.
- Require Evers to go along with a plan aimed at reducing premiums for insurance plans offered through the Affordable Care Act's marketplaces for individuals.
- Increase the number of members on the Group Insurance Board, which oversees state health benefits, from 11 to 15. The proposal would allow leaders of the Legislature to appoint the additional members.
- Channel federal money into a smaller number of state road projects, so that other projects could avoid having to comply with federal environmental and wage laws.
This is such fucking garbage.So, tomorrow's the big day for the Wisconsin GOP Power Grab. Their legislation would:
- Move the 2020 presidential primary from April to March. That is aimed at ensuring there is lower turnout during the April election for state Supreme Court, which would make it easier for conservatives to maintain their court majority.
- Limit early voting to two weeks. A similar limit was found unconstitutional in 2016 and Democrats have threatened to take legal action again.
- Give Republicans more control of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp., including over its enterprise zone program that gives tax breaks to individual businesses.
- Put lawmakers in charge of litigation, allowing them to keep alive a lawsuit to overturn the Affordable Care Act, widely known as Obamacare.
- Give lawmakers — instead of the attorney general — control over how court settlements are spent.
- Allow the Legislature to substitute the attorney general with taxpayer-funded private attorneys — picked by lawmakers — when state laws are challenged in court.
- Make it easier for lawmakers to hire private attorneys at taxpayer expense when they are accused of violating the open records law or other statutes.
- Eliminate the solicitor general's office, which oversees high-profile litigation.
- Modestly lower the state's income tax rates next year to offset about $60 million in online sales taxes from out-of-state retailers that Wisconsin recently began collecting.
- Require Evers to get permission from lawmakers to ban guns in the state Capitol or make other changes to security provisions there, including increasing the number of police officers who patrol the statehouse.
- Bar judges from giving deference to state agencies' interpretations of laws when they are challenged in court. That could make it easier to win lawsuits challenging how environmental regulations and other laws are being enforced.
- Make it much more difficult, in numerous ways, for the Evers administration to put in place rules that implement current and future state laws. Lawmakers, meanwhile, would gain greater power to block any rules that Evers manages to put in place.
- Require state agencies to file quarterly reports on their spending.
- Require the Evers administration to report if the governor pardons anyone or his aides release anyone from prison early.
- Force Evers to get permission from the Legislature before asking the federal government to make any changes to programs that are run jointly by the state and federal governments. That would limit the governor's flexibility in how he runs public benefits programs. If the Legislature's budget committee determined the administration was not implementing recent changes to those programs, it could reduce funding and staffing for state agencies.
- Require Evers to go along with a plan aimed at reducing premiums for insurance plans offered through the Affordable Care Act's marketplaces for individuals.
- Increase the number of members on the Group Insurance Board, which oversees state health benefits, from 11 to 15. The proposal would allow leaders of the Legislature to appoint the additional members.
- Channel federal money into a smaller number of state road projects, so that other projects could avoid having to comply with federal environmental and wage laws.
Presumably just hope the courts toss a lot of it as in NC.This is such fucking garbage.
Is there anything the Democrats can do? Walk out like they did in the collective bargaining fight in 2011?
Just a heads up, but all emoji post are likely going to be seen as a drive bys themselves.Alright. I know there are a few older folks here, so a quick PSA.
This is the ideal response to drive-by problematic posts in OT:
🤨🧐🤔
This is such fucking garbage.
Is there anything the Democrats can do? Walk out like they did in the collective bargaining fight in 2011?
Thank you. I'll take the risk if necessary to do what's right.Just a heads up, but all emoji post are likely going to be seen as a drive bys themselves.
I'll have you know I am old as fuck. (Will do)
Better hope we flip the court then in 2020, or that at least one of the Republican justices is rational enough to recognize this as a power grab.
Careful.
The whole thing is so fucking garbage.So, tomorrow's the big day for the Wisconsin GOP Power Grab. Their legislation would:
- Move the 2020 presidential primary from April to March. That is aimed at ensuring there is lower turnout during the April election for state Supreme Court, which would make it easier for conservatives to maintain their court majority.
- Limit early voting to two weeks. A similar limit was found unconstitutional in 2016 and Democrats have threatened to take legal action again.
- Give Republicans more control of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp., including over its enterprise zone program that gives tax breaks to individual businesses.
- Put lawmakers in charge of litigation, allowing them to keep alive a lawsuit to overturn the Affordable Care Act, widely known as Obamacare.
- Give lawmakers — instead of the attorney general — control over how court settlements are spent.
- Allow the Legislature to substitute the attorney general with taxpayer-funded private attorneys — picked by lawmakers — when state laws are challenged in court.
- Make it easier for lawmakers to hire private attorneys at taxpayer expense when they are accused of violating the open records law or other statutes.
- Eliminate the solicitor general's office, which oversees high-profile litigation.
- Modestly lower the state's income tax rates next year to offset about $60 million in online sales taxes from out-of-state retailers that Wisconsin recently began collecting.
- Require Evers to get permission from lawmakers to ban guns in the state Capitol or make other changes to security provisions there, including increasing the number of police officers who patrol the statehouse.
- Bar judges from giving deference to state agencies' interpretations of laws when they are challenged in court. That could make it easier to win lawsuits challenging how environmental regulations and other laws are being enforced.
- Make it much more difficult, in numerous ways, for the Evers administration to put in place rules that implement current and future state laws. Lawmakers, meanwhile, would gain greater power to block any rules that Evers manages to put in place.
- Require state agencies to file quarterly reports on their spending.
- Require the Evers administration to report if the governor pardons anyone or his aides release anyone from prison early.
- Force Evers to get permission from the Legislature before asking the federal government to make any changes to programs that are run jointly by the state and federal governments. That would limit the governor's flexibility in how he runs public benefits programs. If the Legislature's budget committee determined the administration was not implementing recent changes to those programs, it could reduce funding and staffing for state agencies.
- Require Evers to go along with a plan aimed at reducing premiums for insurance plans offered through the Affordable Care Act's marketplaces for individuals.
- Increase the number of members on the Group Insurance Board, which oversees state health benefits, from 11 to 15. The proposal would allow leaders of the Legislature to appoint the additional members.
- Channel federal money into a smaller number of state road projects, so that other projects could avoid having to comply with federal environmental and wage laws.
@lawcrimenews
https://twitter.com/lawcrimenews/status/1069696549414989829
Jack Burkman, the pro-Trump activist behind discredited Robert Mueller sex assault allegations, has two bullets lodged in his butt after dangerous deal for information "detrimental to the FBI": http://bit.ly/2PgALa9
3:55 PM - Dec 3, 2018
Maybe the WI SC will surprise in the same way that Michigan's has on occasion despite having a GOP majority.
@thehill
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1069706350010208256
Deputy demoted after being pictured wearing QAnon patch with Pence http://hill.cm/bUXMW4w
4:34 PM - Dec 3, 2018