Still hard to come down from that victory, almost a year ago now!
I worked my tail off to rid us of that weasel Eric Cantor. I purchased sign materiels and made my own signs against Cantor before Dave Brat announced.
I was smiling for a week after taking down weasel Cantor. I only wish voters in a certain didtrict in Ohio had done likewise.
Last month, the Republican-led Arizona House of Representatives passed, on a 36-to-24 party-line vote, a bill sponsored by tea party Rep. Bob Thorpe (R-Flagstaff) that “prohibits this state or any of its political subdivisions from using any personnel or financial resources to enforce, administer or cooperate with an executive order issued by the President of the U.S. that has not been affirmed by a vote of Congress and signed into law as prescribed by the U.S. Constitution.” ......more at washingtonpost.com ...
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AS OF 2014 MIDTERMS:
<><> 2015 Republican grip on state government has not been seen since the 1920s.
<><> Republicans unified control: gov/legislature in 23 states (Ntl Conf of State Legislatures factoid).
<><> Repub governorships: Florida, Tx, Ill, Ohio, Mich, MD, Wisconsin, NC, GA, Mass.
<><> Republicans holds 68 of 98 state legislative chambers.
<><> Republicans hold or share control in nearly every state (7 states Gov/legislature are Dem-held).
<><> Republicans hold the largest House majority in 83 years.