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Rigid brand of national politics in state capitols is likely to have economic consequences
WaPo via MSN ^ | 10 Jan 2021 | Tim Craig

Posted on 01/11/2021 3:51:41 AM PST by blueplum

...The GOP gains, which were particularly extensive in coal-producing regions, all but assure that Trump’s rigid brand of politics will persist in state capitals, becoming incubators for a new generation of politicians who reject compromise and bipartisanship.

Republicans picked up a net 295 state legislative seats nationwide last year, according to data from the National Conference of State Legislators — giving the GOP complete legislative control in 31 states, including veto-proof majorities in at least 15....

...Those gains were made just as Wyoming and many other states are facing massive budget shortfalls fueled by the coronavirus pandemic and shifting economic fortunes, including the decline of the fossil fuel industry.... Those known for energy production are being hit especially hard, with Wyoming’s revenue expected to drop 31 percent....

...As a result, the state’s budget crisis has been left in the hands of its most conservative legislature in recent history.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections; US: Wyoming
KEYWORDS: fiscalconservatism; oil; politics; repubs; states; taxes; trump
...“People out here really don’t like [House Speaker] Nancy Pelosi, and they don’t like the Green New Deal” to fight climate change, said Stan Blake, a Sweetwater County Democrat who served seven terms in the state House but lost in November to a little-known Libertarian candidate. “People just feel like the Democratic Party has forgotten people in rural states in the West.”
1 posted on 01/11/2021 3:51:41 AM PST by blueplum
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To: blueplum

Small price to pay for total control and absolute power. The dems will sleep like babies, economy be damned.


2 posted on 01/11/2021 3:59:25 AM PST by ArtDodger
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To: blueplum

Captain Obvious just hit these Leftist idiots?


3 posted on 01/11/2021 4:00:26 AM PST by cranked
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To: cranked

Yes - so true.

So the Republicans have picked up 295 State House seats and won over a dozen congressional seats they were supposed to lose but DJT lost the election?


4 posted on 01/11/2021 4:06:22 AM PST by wewereright
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To: blueplum

The dems were too busy stealing the presidency to try to steal the legislatures. This presents the ONLY remaining “non-kinetic”’option to save the country. These state legislatures should begin immediately to join those states who have already approved a convention of the states. The dems in D.C. would have no authority to block it. Things are now so bleak that I don’t know if even that would be enough; it wouldn’t kick the dems out of office, for example, but I don’t know of any other peaceful options left.


5 posted on 01/11/2021 4:07:03 AM PST by noiseman (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.`)
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To: blueplum

Republicans had total legislative control in 5 of the 6 states that Biden won by fraud. The CCP/Democrats still had effective control.


6 posted on 01/11/2021 4:08:07 AM PST by UnwashedPeasant (Trump is the last legally elected U.S. President.)
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To: blueplum

And don’t look now, but congressional redistricting is coming right up. California loses a seat, NY two. Just in time for the midterms.


7 posted on 01/11/2021 4:11:40 AM PST by ameribbean expat (Attention! All persons having the corona virus...please report to the nearest IRS office. Thank you.)
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To: noiseman

They don’t like it pelousy? The they are the citizens who vote. If they don’t like it too f in bad for you and your loons. Article V annoy get here soon enough for me. This ain’t working.


8 posted on 01/11/2021 4:21:19 AM PST by Mouton (The enemy of the people is the media.)
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To: blueplum

Forgotten you? Give it six months, you’ll wish they had.


9 posted on 01/11/2021 4:23:44 AM PST by steve8714
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and President Trump won a second term...in a landslide.


10 posted on 01/11/2021 4:39:58 AM PST by MAGAthon (,)
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To: blueplum
...a new generation of politicians who reject compromise and bipartisanship.

The Washington Pist don't like us but me thinks they project way too much!

Unity is democrats calling for the removal of 150 Congressional Republicans who dared challenge the election results when many cases of fraud were attested to by people who were there?

Yah...nah.

11 posted on 01/11/2021 5:50:26 AM PST by Alas Babylon! ("You, the American people, are my only special interest." --President Donald J. Trump)
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To: blueplum

Do we have control of enough to call a convention of the states?


12 posted on 01/11/2021 7:36:57 AM PST by FlipWilson
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