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Here are some topics of actual legislation from the past session:
- dictating *how* the national anthem is to be sung at sporting events
- allowing school corporations (that's what they call districts here) to teach "alternative theories of the origins of life"
- abolishing school size-based divisions for state high school championships (basically, they want to go back to the movie "Hoosiers"
and of course, worst of all, they jammed "right to work" legislation through thanks to the Tea Party takeover, a major issue they never campaigned on
One bagger lunatic also contributed a memorable rant against the greatest threat to the moral fiber of our nation, the Girl Scouts.
And that's not even getting into the staggering corruption and incompetence of those elected to statewide office, including a secretary of state elected despite admitting flagrantly violating election law, and of course Mitch Daniels himself - the supposed financial wizard who balanced the books not by bringing revenues and expenditures into balance but by selling off state assets like the toll road (the Bain Capital model of state government?), whose team managed to "lose track of" hundreds of millions of tax dollars with the (intentional?) effect of triggering massive cuts in employment by units of local government deprived of the money (teachers? road crews? who needs 'em?), and to put the cherry on top of the entire festering shit sundae, who will now take his wrecking ball to Purdue University, where the board of trustees - 8 (out of 10) of whom were Daniels appointees - selected him as their next president thanks to his noted lack of higher education administration experience (known to us peons as "qualifications" . This is the same governor whose thin higher education record includes trying to dictate transfer credit policies and graduation requirements through legislation.
Suffice it to say there's no idiocy in Indiana politics that surprises me anymore...
From national elections to local disasters like Indiana. As the 1% has been planning for, voters are becoming stupider and stupider and elect these assholes. I can't even believe who we have running for president -- can you imagine who Rmoney would do in, e.g., the 1970s? Hell, voters had some legit reasons to vote for Nixon, even if I totally disagreed with those reasons. But Rmoney? Jesus.
My current state, NC, is one election away from looking like Indiana. Like so many states, the Rs took control of the legislature in 2010 (it had been majority Dem.) Our Dem. governor, Bev Purdue, is retiring this year. Really, really unfortunate -- she's been pretty damn good, including vetoing fracking in NC! If the Rs win the governorship in Nov., we're fucked.
for having to live with this crap!
