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Scuba's JournalWisconsin GOP playbook works to perfection
The author is not a politician and is not personally involved in politics; he's a professional historian. The strategies he describes are what allowed the Republicans to dismantle democracy in Wisconsin.
Is this also happening in your state?
http://www.jsonline.com/news/opinion/wisconsin-gop-playbook-works-to-perfection-b99639605z1--363946401.html?ipad=y
2) Keep the other team's fans out of the stadium. Despite the pious Republican rhetoric about the "sanctity of the vote," the fact is that voter fraud in Wisconsin is rare. That hasn't stopped the GOP from enacting "reforms" including mandatory voter IDs and limitations on polling hours that have a disproportionate impact on low-income urban voters, i.e., people who tend to vote Democratic. The effect is even more nefarious than it might seem because the fans in the stands don't just make noise: They choose the players on the field.
3) Slash your opponent's payroll. Act 10, which gutted public employee unions, was sold as another "reform" to protect the state's "hardworking taxpayers" from those maligned public servants who teach our children, but one of the law's side effects produced a touchdown for the Republicans. Dues-paying union members tend to vote Democratic, and crippling unions inevitably crippled their ability to support Democratic campaigns. The Republicans doubled down on the strategy with last year's right-to-work law, an attempt to weaken private-sector unions and shrink their campaign coffers in the process.
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6) Fire the referees. If you don't like their rulings, get rid of the officials. In 2012, the Government Accountability Board, a nonpartisan group of retired judges, began to look into collusion between Republican candidates and outside funders, sparking a John Doe probe that went on for more than two years. The GOP cried foul and took the GAB's whistles away, replacing the board with two partisan bodies.
Print a zillion of these. Stick them up everywhere!!!
The Oligarchy
Morgan Stanley (Stock Quote: MS) only earned $1.7 billion last year, received $10 billion in bailout funds, then paid $4.475 billion in bonuses, nearly three times their net income.
JPMorgan Chase (Stock Quote: JPM) only earned $5.6 billion in 2008 and received $25 billion from the government, but it paid out $8.69 billion in bonus money.
Citigroup (Stock Quote: C) and Merrill Lynch suffered a combined $54 billion in losses in 2008. The banks received a total of $55 billion in bailouts and paid out $9 billion in combined bonuses.
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Martin Luther King weighs in on the 2016 Democratic Party primary
And on some positions, cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?'
Expedience asks the question, 'Is it politic?'
Vanity asks the question, 'Is it popular?'
But conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?'
~ Martin Luther King"
"If folks like Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh make their careers ...
Planning a trip to the Badlands of South Dakota. Looking for advice.
We'll have one full day to hike and explore in mid-January. Any suggestions on parts of the Park to visit, specific areas to hike?
Any advice on where to stay? Eat?
Thanks in advance!
What's with Hillary's persistent dandruff? Shouldn't $600 hair treatments cure that?
And why are so many DU members who allegedly support Hillary highlighting this problem?
Planning a trip to the Badlands of South Dakota. Looking for advice.
We'll have one full day to hike and explore in mid-January. Any suggestions on parts of the Park to visit, specific areas to hike?
Any advice on where to stay? Eat?
Thanks in advance!
The Best-Decorated Christmas Tree, Ever!
Republicans For Bernie Sanders
I don't use Facebook, and my sister (who is no doubt still sleeping as I write this) didn't provide a link. Perhaps someone here on DU who uses Facebook can find this page and add the link.
Anyway, here's what my sister wrote in the email, along with the images she shared ...
Here are some of the memes I saw:
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