Local/State Politics: Engage Now Or Die!

[bune]

The long term answer just cannot be to invest more money in high traffic, but my god do we need to innovate our public transit. We haven’t reasonably evolved our approach to bussing in decades, even as we’ve packed more and more people into the areas they serve and put more and more cars on the road around them.

I like the bus, but we did two carless years in Seattle in 2014-15 and it was a fucking chore.

The Adam Ruins Everything podcast has an episode (the first one, actually) about cars that was pretty interesting. It's nothing like the show, just him sitting with one of the experts he has on the show and talking about their thing.

[E.H. Ruddock]

Really hoping McCready can pull off the win in our special election tonight for the fraudulent district

[B]

He's currently losing. The whole reason this election is happening is because Republicans cheated their asses of, and now they're gonna elect the next one that stumbles in.

They should've handed the win to McCready last year. This just rewards cheating. Don't get caught? You win! Get caught? You win anyhow.

[McParadigm]

It’s also yet another district showing a 10 point leftward swing, so the 2018 trend continues.

[tragabigzanda]

FUCK ICE

[Mickey]

Well I mean, yeah, those things are true.

[tragabigzanda]

FUCK ICE

[McParadigm]

9 things I think I think after the North Carolina redo election

House Republicans weren’t likely to gain the majority before the redo election and aren’t likely after the redo election

Since McCready and Republican Mark Harris finished within 905 votes of each other last November, this redo election was an opportunity to see how much the political environment has shifted in the last 10 months. Now we have an answer: not much. That’s bad news for the Republicans considering they lost a net of 40 House seats last cycle and only gained Senate seats because of a favorable map.

This is not a sustainable path to victory for the GOP

Republicans spent more than $6 million holding an open seat that the president carried by double digits. The party will not have the resources to replicate that across the 25 districts with suburban territory that they currently hold and that Trump carried in 2016 by narrower margins than North Carolina’s 9th (h/t to my colleague Leah Askarinam).

http://www.rollcall.com/news/9-things-t ... o-election

[E.H. Ruddock]

Lol at NC State House Republicans today

[bune]

yeah, I imagine that's going to be a new rule shortly in all of the states where there has to be a certain number of people present to even present a vote.

[tragabigzanda]

FUCK ICE

[Mickey]

Yes but the prospect of those realities getting through to a swingable voting block amidst the daily noise is interesting

Ah, fair point.

[Bammer]

Those of you who have met me: Honestly would you vote for me for a city council position?

[BurtReynolds]

Those of you who have met me: Honestly would you vote for me for a city council position?

are you open to taking bribes?

[Monkey_Driven]

Those of you who have met me: Honestly would you vote for me for a city council position?

Depends on how well you articulate your positions.

[Bammer]

My platform is to privatize everything and require strict background checks for guns.

[Mickey]

A government strong enough to curtail civil liberties but too weak to provide any essential services? Sign me up baby

[Bammer]

Mickey gets it.

[B]

Took me a minute to find it, but here's where the NC thing stands:

The state budget still can’t pass without the Senate also overriding Cooper’s veto. However the Republican majority only needs one Democrat to vote with all of them to obtain the necessary override. The override had not been added to the Senate calendar as of late Wednesday afternoon.

Source

I mean, holy shit! Republicans had to tell the Democrats they weren't going to vote, then they went around and secretly planned to come in and vote when the Democrats through they wouldn't be there. And 55 assholes thought, "oh yeah, this is how government should be run," and they went ahead and voted.

[Bammer]

Name an issue, I’ll tell you what side of the fence I’m on.