States’ new GOP majorities, governors have made mark on a wide range of issues

[Valin]

Washington Post:

Lois Romano
April 21

As state legislatures adjourn over the coming weeks, new Republican majorities backed by GOP governors are leaving their mark in a wave of legislation that reaches far beyond the economic issues that dominated the midterm elections last fall.

South Dakota passed the most restrictive abortion bill in the country, Wisconsin and Ohio moved to limit collective bargaining rights of public workers, and Kansas, Texas, South Carolina and Montana are on the brink of passing measures to impose strict photo ID requirements at the polls.

The measures are among the thousands of bills proposed as newly empowered GOP statehouses take advantage of their first opportunity in decades to have such a broad impact on policy. Twenty legislative bodies across the country flipped from Democratic to Republican control, and the party picked up governorships in 10 states.

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Republicans say that the policy issues are a natural result of their victories in November and add to the fiscal themes of the election.

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You will of course take note of the MSM spin in how this piece is worded.

[Argyle58]

You will of course take note of the MSM spin in how this piece is worded.

 

One has to read the entire article to appreciate the full nature of this statement. For instance, the final paragraph, which addresses new voter ID laws in several states:

 

These bills clearly put a burden on the elderly, lower-income [people] and students, says Tova Wang, senior democracy fellow at www.demos.org, who specializes in election reform. So now, voting will include standing in line with documents to get the right ID.

 

Elderly people generally have a plethora of documents that prove their identification....mainly because of the various government requirements involving Social Security, any form of retirement income, and of course the higher need for healthcare, which under HIPPA rules requires full documentation of ID before receiving treatment. College students (there are few highschool students of voting age) are generally required to prove, through documentation, their very eligibility to attend the university that they are attending, and lower income people have to have the very same documents to prove that they are elligible to work in this country that are required to prove elligibility to vote. Add to all of that, the ability to garner all of the necessary documents is available online, therefore negating the necessity of "standing in line" to obtain them is ludicrous.

 

The entire article is an artful form of propaganda. It does not directly attack any of the legislation it reports on, but uses language that subtley irritates the reader. I am impressed, in spite of myself.

[AceRimmer]

“These bills clearly put a burden on the elderly, lower-income [people] and students,” says Tova Wang, senior democracy fellow at www.demos.org, who specializes in election reform. “So now, voting will include standing in line with documents to get the right ID.

 

It never fails that it's the RATS who are always the ones to be against photo ID's at the polls, but then it makes it hard to steal elections when you have this law in states. LA finally made it state law after Mary Landrieu blatantly stole the US Senate election in '96 by barely 5000 dead voters in New Orleans while King Bubba carried the state by 500,000.

 

All you need is a driver's licensce or other valid state photo ID to vote, and since the state upgraded the DMV, the wait is usually about 15-30 minutes between proving who you are and getting a new ID. Hardly a burden on anybody since you'll sit in a doctor's office, the welfare line, or waiting to pay your college tuition a lot longer.