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The States : red states in a race to the bottom
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Jimjamesak
Already insane, UAA making it worse
Update to this: We found out why this lawsuit was filed.
Private schools in Alaska were enrolling their students into public school correspondence programs to qualify for thousands per student in state funding, effectively creating a voucher program to circumvent the state constitution.
Mountain City Church, formally known as Anchorage Baptist Temple, was founded by Jerry Prevo. Jerry Prevo is the current president of Liberty University.
Pretty entertaining situation going on in the Minnesota legislature right now. For those not from Minnesota, a little background.
Following the 2022 election, democrats in Minnesota controlled the Governor's office as well as both houses of the legislature. During last winter's legislative session they used that control to pass a long wish list of policies, and planned to do something similar during this session, which ends in about a month. As with most sessions, actual passage of the bills often gets left until late in the session.
While the democrats control both houses of the legislature, it's by the slimmest of margins.
This past weekend, a woman who is a member of the Senate from the Twin Cities, was arrested attempting to burglarize her stepmother's home in rural Minnesota. Her lawyer now claims she was just doing a welfare check on her stepmother, but given the fact that she was dressed all in black, had entered the home through a small crawlspace window in the basement, and was arrested at about 4:30 a.m., not everyone is buying it.
The problem for the D's, though, is this. Every bill is now stalled at 33-33, unless they allow the cat burglar to vote, probably remotely, and literally cast the deciding vote on every bill that will be passed from now until the end of the session, not much is going to get done.
It will be fun to see how it plays out.
Following the 2022 election, democrats in Minnesota controlled the Governor's office as well as both houses of the legislature. During last winter's legislative session they used that control to pass a long wish list of policies, and planned to do something similar during this session, which ends in about a month. As with most sessions, actual passage of the bills often gets left until late in the session.
While the democrats control both houses of the legislature, it's by the slimmest of margins.
This past weekend, a woman who is a member of the Senate from the Twin Cities, was arrested attempting to burglarize her stepmother's home in rural Minnesota. Her lawyer now claims she was just doing a welfare check on her stepmother, but given the fact that she was dressed all in black, had entered the home through a small crawlspace window in the basement, and was arrested at about 4:30 a.m., not everyone is buying it.
The problem for the D's, though, is this. Every bill is now stalled at 33-33, unless they allow the cat burglar to vote, probably remotely, and literally cast the deciding vote on every bill that will be passed from now until the end of the session, not much is going to get done.
It will be fun to see how it plays out.
Deutsche Gopher Fan
Registered User
I’m sure more is going to come out, but right now, I feel for this woman. I don’t condone felonies but she’s clearly in the throes of grief and it’d so sad she wanted her dad’s flannel shirt and ashes and the step mom apparently refused to talk. Not surprised if old age stuff is part of this, sad all around.
also these things don’t make republicans resign so eh
also these things don’t make republicans resign so eh
I don't think this is a democrat or a republican thing at all. I just find these little sort of ethical problems fascinating.
Obviously, some laws need to be passed. They may be bills necessary to keep the state going, like say bonding bills, or they might be more politicized bills, like gun control or sports gambling.
I just think it's a really fascinating turn when this person just charged with felony burglary literally holds they power to approve or kill every single bill yet to be passed in the session. Obviously, everyone who is a D in the Senate has that same power, but with her not voting or even showing up, everything is tied down at 33-33.
With respect to the underlying family dispute that apparently gave rise to event, I sort of feel sorry for her, but mostly I blame her dead father. Minnesota law clearly provides that you have a right to say what is to be done with things like your ashes. It also pretty clearly says that if you don't express your wishes in writing, then the law is going to say that there is an order of authority that will be followed. If you're good with that order, then by all means, don't let people know what your wishes may be. But understand that the order of priority is going to be spouse, followed by adult children, followed by parents, followed by siblings, etc...
I have mucho respect for my father and his brother for the way they handled something similar. My grandfather passed away in his early 60's, and my grandmother remarried a half dozen years later. My dad and his brother had a good relationship with their stepfather, but they sat down with them and basically instructed them to clearly express their wishes now, in writing, so that there would be no disputes once one or both of them passed. They did that, and it worked out very well.
I have mucho respect for my father and his brother for the way they handled something similar. My grandfather passed away in his early 60's, and my grandmother remarried a half dozen years later. My dad and his brother had a good relationship with their stepfather, but they sat down with them and basically instructed them to clearly express their wishes now, in writing, so that there would be no disputes once one or both of them passed. They did that, and it worked out very well.
Deutsche Gopher Fan
Registered User
Yeah I’m fortunate enough to not have step family experiences but I know they can be very tricky. I also know so many elderly people don’t prepare enough to avoid situations and that’s why I’m wondering if dementia or Alzheimer’s comes in here. Or they all could be assholes.
of it comes out that dad set this all up how he wanted and she couldn’t accept, then my view will change.
of it comes out that dad set this all up how he wanted and she couldn’t accept, then my view will change.
My wife works for a single-lawyer firm that specializes in writing trusts and wills. He does his work on fix-rate fees, so if your will walls into X category, he charges a set rate, let’s say $2k, plus the state’s filing fees for the various docs - no additional personal fee per doc. If you’d fall into category Y, it’s $4k plus state filing fees, and one last tier above that for the people who generally have >$6MM in assets to consider.
One thing he stresses is that the process/docs he writes avoids or minimizes what needs to go through probate, which helps avoid these sorts of, uh, events. I think many families would benefit something like the distinguished lady from Woodbury.
One thing he stresses is that the process/docs he writes avoids or minimizes what needs to go through probate, which helps avoid these sorts of, uh, events. I think many families would benefit something like the distinguished lady from Woodbury.
MissThundercat
Are the cis okay?
Grocery Boy withdraws from MI senate race.
FadeToBlack&Gold
Kettle Medallion
As expected, that leaves the GQP with Mike Rogers. Loonitarian fraud Justin Amash is running too, but he's obviously persona non grata for Dumpies.
Kepler
Cornell Big Red
Is he a threat or should we hold the seat?
FadeToBlack&Gold
Kettle Medallion
The usual suspects on both fringes have been leaning pretty hard into Slotkin being one of (((them))), but I think she's easy for a majority of women to vote for and they will turn out for her. Bear in mind, her House district was legitimately redrawn by the IRC in a manner that made it about R+3 for 2022, and she still defeated her R challenger and kept the seat.
Last month's polls had her and Rogers in a statistical tie, so if that's the best the shoddy MSM polls can do to manufacture a horse race, I'm not too worried. They're probably just oversampling the rurals relative to a population that is 75-80% urban/suburban.
French Rage
NICKERSON HAS [CENSORED]
Does Amash running split the GOP vote in any way?
Bronco
Onondaga United IV.6
The best chance the GOP has to win the seat is to get enough college aged kids to not vote for her because she is Jewish. I expect a lot of discusting ads in the summer/fall trying to tie her to the war in Isreal, all while ignoring that the GOP supports Isreal too. That probably means pro Amash ads trying to split the Democrats/likely Democratic voters.
Kepler
Cornell Big Red
Please. The protesters don't hate Jews, they hate Likud. Just like a lot of Jews.
Bronco
Onondaga United IV.6
The smarter ones, sure. You as confident about the Bernie Bros?
I think Slotkin wins, but it will be uncomfortably close if Amash can coax enough support from dumb college kids who just look at Isreal as a monolith.
Kepler
Cornell Big Red
Well, speaking as a Bernie Bro, we follow the same curve as the rest of the Dem coalition, and the vast majority of the species: 10% smart, 30% functional, 60% morons.
As distinct from the GOP coalition: 10% functional, 30% morons, 60% Russian bots.
Handyman
Hug someone you care about...
So you think people who identify as supporting a Jew hate Jews? That would be a Shamalayn twist...
Some protesters hate Jews...not Bernie Bros though. In fact the ones who hate Jews likely aren't even Americans.
Bronco
Onondaga United IV.6
I mean Bernie Bro as a generic name for left voters who will throw away an election because they only align with 95% of the platform. I am talking about the anti-war left who see Palestinians as the people being oppressed in a two tier state. They don't see Isreal as Likud, they see it simply as Isreal. Amash is of Palestinian decent, and it is easy to paint Slotkin as the oppressor. It goes from being about Abortion to about Abortion and Isreal. Is there enough people of Palestinian decent and anti-war left to strip away enough Slotkin votes so Rodgers wins? I don't think so, but it will be closer than we would expect.
Handyman
Hug someone you care about...
And I am going to continue to say that a lot of the people you are talking about are not "left voters" and are actually not even voters. Some are, but the loudest and most vocal I would highly doubt. Much like when there was riots in Minneapolis during George Floyd, the worst of the rioters were not from Minneapolis and were not aligned with BLM.