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General politics thread (was: General U.S. politics thread)
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A list of all New York state legislators who've had legal or ethical problems since 2000. Many involve corruption, though a few involve other things such as driving drunk.
Some of them are particularly fun, in strange ways, such as Malcolm Smith, a former Democratic Senate majority leader who "was charged in April 2013 with conspiracy, extortion and wire fraud as
part of a bribery scheme to petition his way on the Republican ballot
for the New York City mayoral race." (my emphasis)
At 39 in 15 years, that's more than two a year. Impressive.
troll the local Muslim communityput on an exhibition and art contest of parodies of the prophet Muhammad. In response, said local Muslim community decided to no-sell the trolling and ignore the bait. An imam interviewed on NPR said that he was playing football with his children in the park and totally forgot about the event until someone texted him about it.http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/05/04/why-a-woman-named-pamela-geller-organized-a-prophet-muhammad-cartoon-contest/
Yeah, looks like the police don't know who they were yet, but she already attributes them to the ideological war she wants to wage so badly.
Good to know that they were being stupid fucks, and were also attempting to mess with other people being stupid fucks and failed to do so.
Anti-Hillary (whose name I haven't bothered to learn) will surely be the most hilarious token female Republican candidate so far. Balancing that we have an actually bad person (Ben Carson) you should never let lead anything (Aside from the usual stuff about climate change and the fact that he is literally crazy there's what he said about gay people, also he let Cuba Gooding Jr. play him in a movie once).
...and then her son goes on Facebook, and adds more flowery language to the fire.
well
fuck
what
what
what is this bullshit
not one, not two, but THREE locations where there's essentially touch-point contiguity -- where what contiguity there is is dependent on the fact that a road or a river has width and is not an arealess curve
(source: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/06/15/1392715/-Daily-Kos-Elections-Live-Digest-6-15 )
I think I hear this guy mentioned in this video. Do you?
Though I also tuned in to see if there were other SCOTUS rulings, actually.
Like the other day when there were two rulings, one on the Affordable Care Act and the other (I think?) on low-income housing or something.
There's another ruling that election junkies are on the edges of their seats waiting for and that's because it's on a case regarding redistricting.
WOOHOO
FYI, Arizona has an independent redistricting commission that was created by ballot proposition in 2000:
Thus, at issue at the Supreme Court was the following clause of the U.S. Constitution:
Specifically, whether "Legislature" means solely the body of elected officials who happen to be in power at the time, or the broader electorate as a whole that has direct lawmaking authority. In the case of a state that lets citizens do things like ballot initiatives, the term "Legislature" could refer to the entire population of the state's citizens, and it seems that that was upheld here.
Looking through the decision briefly, I noticed an amusing bit of flaming.
(Take that!)
Yes. What I wasn't, was on IJBM this past week.
About time, etc.
sauce: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/07/16/1402969/-New-Jersey-congressman-to-NRCC-You-fund-gay-Republicans-so-I-won-t-fund-you
FYI, as the blurb observes, Scott Garrett is a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives, representing the 5th district of New Jersey, the state's northernmost district and one basically located next to New York City. It seems to be "mostly rural" geographically but have its population core close to the city, making it weakly Republican on the presidential level. As the article also notes, the New York City media market is a major city media market with quite expensive TV advertising rates.
Soiurce: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/07/20/1403188/-Daily-Kos-Elections-Live-Digest-7-20
http://www.jacksonfreepress.com/news/2015/aug/05/robert-gray-truck-drivers-seat-challenge-gov-phil-/
This will be interesting.
Well, he seems like a nice person. Also at least coherent and conscious of the fact that he's running a campaign. That's a start, I guess.
My emphases.