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  • Originally posted by bronconick View Post
    Looks like Katie Hill resigning handed the GOP a House seat back in an all mail election.

    Democrats sleeping in again.
    I don’t believe results are final until Friday. Though there is a large deficit to make up.
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    • Originally posted by Kepler View Post
      Please elaborate?
      California passed a law aimed at Uber et al to make more people employees rather than independent contractors. Problem is it impacted a lot of others in more traditional roles that are properly independent contractors.

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      • Re: The States: Where We Wish Texas Would Secede Already

        Originally posted by bronconick View Post
        Looks like Katie Hill resigning handed the GOP a House seat back in an all mail election.

        Democrats sleeping in again.
        This was a district that had been GOP forever before Hill won it. Just because it's CA doesn't mean it's a shoe-in for Dems. It's Orange County, not SF.

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        • Re: The States: Where We Wish Texas Would Secede Already

          Originally posted by French Rage View Post
          This was a district that had been GOP forever before Hill won it. Just because it's CA doesn't mean it's a shoe-in for Dems. It's Orange County, not SF.
          Remember, blue swept OC in 2018. Things are changing. They actually have some college educated people there now. It's not Reaganland anymore.
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          • Re: The States: Where We Wish Texas Would Secede Already

            Seems weird that an independent contractor law passed in California a year ago would be the deciding factor in a Congressional election, one way or the other. Aren't the independent contractor rules typically a creature of a state's own unemployment, workers comp and payroll laws? I don't really remember a lot of discussion on them in Congress.
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            • Originally posted by SJHovey View Post
              Seems weird that an independent contractor law passed in California a year ago would be the deciding factor in a Congressional election, one way or the other. Aren't the independent contractor rules typically a creature of a state's own unemployment, workers comp and payroll laws? I don't really remember a lot of discussion on them in Congress.
              The dem candidate was an assembly woman who voted for and supported the legislation.

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              • Re: The States: Where We Wish Texas Would Secede Already

                Originally posted by unofan View Post
                The dem candidate was an assembly woman who voted for and supported the legislation.
                Ok. That makes more sense.
                That community is already in the process of dissolution where each man begins to eye his neighbor as a possible enemy, where non-conformity with the accepted creed, political as well as religious, is a mark of disaffection; where denunciation, without specification or backing, takes the place of evidence; where orthodoxy chokes freedom of dissent; where faith in the eventual supremacy of reason has become so timid that we dare not enter our convictions in the open lists, to win or lose.

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                  Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                  Remember, blue swept OC in 2018. Things are changing. They actually have some college educated people there now. It's not Reaganland anymore.
                  True, I'm not saying they didn't, and I'm not saying that isn't a key place to get and hold going forward. But it's somewhere where there might be a few blips in the meantime. It's not like the Dems lost Berkeley.

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                  Rover Frenchy, Classic! Great post.
                  iwh30 I wish I could be as smart as you. I really do you are the man
                  gregg729 I just saw your sig, you do love having people revel in your "intelligence."
                  Ritt18 you are the perfect representation of your alma mater.
                  Miss Thundercat That's it, you win.
                  TBA#2 I want to kill you and dance in your blood.
                  DisplacedCornellian Hahaha. Thread over. Frenchy wins.

                  Test to see if I can add this.

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                  • Re: The States: Where We Wish Texas Would Secede Already

                    And the Wisconsin vote was in a very red, rural area. No alarm bells on that one for the dems

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                    • Originally posted by SJHovey View Post
                      Seems weird that an independent contractor law passed in California a year ago would be the deciding factor in a Congressional election, one way or the other. Aren't the independent contractor rules typically a creature of a state's own unemployment, workers comp and payroll laws? I don't really remember a lot of discussion on them in Congress.
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                      Which means it’s somewhat easier, paradoxically, for a relatively unimportant issue to become a galvanizing one at the right time. It may only attract a few hundred supporters, sure, but when your margin is a few hundred with 20-25% turnout, those few hundred might end up swinging it.
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                      • Re: The States: Where We Wish Texas Would Secede Already

                        It wouldnt be an issue most of the time, but when unemployment is through the roof and you are (inadvertently) making it harder for people to make money in the Gig Economy that becomes a problem. It is unfortunate timing because they arent wrong the idea is to stop companies from denying benefits to employees by making them ICs. (if I read it right)

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                        • Re: The States: Where We Wish Texas Would Secede Already

                          Sconnie doesn’t disappoint

                          https://thehill.com/homenews/state-w...Ej2gXLxkgH-GTs

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                          • Re: The States: Where We Wish Texas Would Secede Already

                            Emoluments case back on.
                            What kind of cheese are you planning to put on top?

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                            • Re: The States: Where We Wish Texas Would Secede Already

                              Originally posted by Deutsche Gopher Fan View Post
                              Hey, we're just doing our part to thin the herd.

                              There's a softball for one of the Sotans.

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                              • Re: The States: Where We Wish Texas Would Secede Already

                                Speaking of thinning the herd...

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