Bad things generally happen when corporate fascist take over government and eliminate democracy, and it is a fact of life many Michigan citizens have learned the hard way; by being poisoned.
Nebraska’s legislature voted to repeal the death penalty on a 30-19 vote on Wednesday, overriding Governor Ricketts’ veto.
Despite the state’s economic woes, Governor Jindal has made no plans to cut millions of dollars in subsidies to the Duck Dynasty TV show.
With Governor Pence’s support cratering, Democrat John Gregg is seeking a rematch to unseat the embattled Indiana Governor.
Although the Florida Republican Party has one-party control of the state government, they are simply unable and unwilling to govern.
Over the weekend, Illinois Republican Governor Bruce Rauner assailed state legislators who accept campaign contributions from public employee unions for being guilty of a “conflict of interest.” As is usually the case with any Republican, Rauner is guilty of psychological projection as well as gross hypocrisy.
Louisiana Republican Governor Bobby Jindal penned a defiant op-ed in The New York Times, defending his opposition to gay marriage.
Golly, gee whiz, do tell…South Carolina, among many Southern and right-wing states, simply doesn’t have the money. In short, any social program favored by progressives comes a cropper because of shortage of the green stuff.
Pence’s words came against a backdrop where Republican lawmakers are continuing to cast legislative votes for,anti-gay discrimination.
A Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research poll finds Governor Pence’s popularity has dipped to a dismal 43 percent.
Louisiana GOP Governor Bobby Jindal announced that he intends to sign the “Louisiana Marriage and Conscience Act” into law.
The ND legislature has made a habit of rejecting LGBT equality, soundly rejecting legal protections every time they come to a vote.
Because Republicans depend on “the widespread ignorance of objective reality,” their fascist threat to democracy is only succeeding due to the abundance of ignorance and gross stupidity of America’s uneducated citizenry. Subsequently, Republicans are building on their success and slashing education funding at a record pace to produce an entire population of stupid conservative voters.
In comments made to the Jackson Clarion-Ledger, Mississippi State Representative Gene Alday said he opposed additional school funding because he feels blacks in the state already get too much help from the government and “they don’t work.”
Nebraska tabled a bill that would have extended conceal and carry to military spouses, because the law could apply to same-sex couples.
A Rutgers University-Eagleton Poll shows New Jersey Republican Governor Chris Christie sinking to new depths of unpopularity
Republicans ran on, and won big with, their claim that the GOP is “the party of solutions” founded on conservative pro-growth economic policies, deregulation, and tax cuts for the rich they claimed were more successful than anything “hapless” Democrats or Obama could ever hope to achieve. This is despite the President’s nearly five-year job growth record, world-leading GDP growth, and increased revenue paying down the nation’s debt at a record pace.
Rick Perry is another in a growing collection of GOP banditti. In the old days, the Texas Rangers would have been hunting him down. In today’s Texas, he was their boss
Nine hour voting lines in my hometown city of Chicago wasn’t the only unfortunate news coming out of the Land of Lincoln this morning. For the first time since 1998, with 99 percent of the state’s precincts reporting, Illinois has a Republican Governor.
If the person who you elected to represent you only listens to you when you are saying what he wants to hear, then perhaps it’s time to choose someone else to represent you.
Chris Christie refused to let Fox News save him from himself as he doubled down on his misinformed opinion that the country doesn’t need a debate about the minimum wage.
Christie may not have the anti-voter credentials of some of his Republican brethren, but he does not support the right to vote for all Americans.
During a debate with his Democratic gubernatorial opponent last week, Koch loyalist Scott Walker took the time to insult Wisconsin workers he claimed are responsible for being stuck earning poverty wages.
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie likes to pretend that he’s a moderate, bipartisan straight-talker, but when it comes down to it, he’s a just as beholden to the Tea Party/Koch Brother agenda as any Republican.
The pattern is unmistakable; Republicans are ill-prepared to manage finances or an economy whether it is at the state or federal level and the reason is always the same; they oppose any measure to bring in any sources of revenue.
Court documents were unsealed today in Wisconsin that reveal prosecutors alleging that Scott Walker, the state’s Republican Governor, was at the center of a “criminal scheme” to illegally coordinate fundraising among conservative groups – including Karl Rove – during 2011 and 2012.
Republicans will continue to deny climate change even though glaring examples are more and more common each day. Case in point: This week’s wildfires in San Diego.
Under Republican Governor Rick Snyder, Michigan shows how starving the beast and corporate giveaways plays out on a micro level, in case anyone missed it during the Bush years.
A new PPP poll finds that voters disapprove of Sam Brownback’s job performance. He trails Democrat Paul Davis in his bid for re-election.
By blocking the workforce’s efforts at creating a works council at the Chattanooga plant, Republicans also blocked VW expansion for Tennessee and the entire southern United States.
President Obama declared an emergency in the State of Georgia after birther Gov. Nathan Deal failed to respond appropriately to the severe winter storm.
There is a concerted effort to raid public sector employee pensions to give corporations and the wealthy tax breaks that was the purview of Republicans but is gaining support among some state-level Democrats.
Fresh on the heels of the last John Doe investigation into Gov. Scott Walker’s administration, which resulted in convictions for three former Walker aides, comes the revelation of yet another probe surrounding the Wisconsin Republican Governor.
On Thursday morning, the day after Christmas, Republican Governor Nikki Haley of South Carolina tweeted out a picture of one of her Christmas presents.
On Wednesday, the Michigan State Senate passed a bill that requires a woman to purchase separate health insurance prior to getting an abortion.
Congressman Mike Michaud (D-ME) put rumors about his sexual orientation to rest today in an op-ed piece for the Bangor Daily News.
The House Democrats plan is founded on creating jobs and a thriving middle class that will never see the light of day because creating anything positive is anathema to destructive Republicans.
After the scarlet letter license debacle, Republican Gov. McCrory eliminates the Office of Hispanic/Latino affairs, which was created in 1998.
Republican Gov. Phil Bryant of Mississippi is calling for an unconstitutional remedy for what he sees as Obama’s unconstitutional use of executive orders regarding gun safety.
The all white justices and Gov Bobby Jindal are fighting a federal court’s ruling that Justice Johnson is next in line to be the head justice.