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CMRivdogs

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  1. Once a hick always a hick
  2. Something tells me the Vice Grifter has too much time on his hands.
  3. Just to recap the last few months
  4. Is Ms Palin hosting?
  5. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cl7y8zq5xpno
  6. Whelp, this sucks a bit for the local economy on the state's Eastern Shore. It probably doesn't win any votes for the Orange TACO either. Hopefully it will come back to bite the local Congress Critters. https://www.wboc.com/news/nasa-employees-notified-of-intention-to-close-wallops-visitor-center/article_ef09f97b-1ed9-45b2-b928-d6d35bcbd44a.html It's long been a favorite school trip for both Virginia and Maryland
  7. School’s about to start or has already in nearby districts. Might as well get dark earlier😊 Maybe the later mornings will keep the pup in bed longer
  8. Unfortunately it’s one of the feared outcomes when they repealed the Fairness Doctrine
  9. August 8
  10. My money is Ivanka and Jarred. They’ve been quiet lately, but I think she’s the quiet one. Hubby just might surprise
  11. https://www.allsides.com/news-source/phoenix-new-times-media-bias
  12. Stealing from today's Bulwark
  13. August 7
  14. Just imagine the Faux News and Right Wing TalkRadio outrage if Ms Harris had done this
  15. I'm coming around to consider setting up multi member districts. Michigan is allotted 13 Congress Critters. Divide the state into 5 or 6 regions. Each represented by at least 2 Reps (one would get 3 if 6, 3 would reive 3 if 5). Hold elections using ranked choice or Single Transferable Vote (once an electable threshold was reached extra votes would go to next candidate within the party). It's not perfect but still keeps the candidates regional if not local. Otherwise we're it's very likely to have 13 reps from the same (most populous area) of the state
  16. The bottom line in any attempt to redistrict come down to biases and garbage in, garbage out. I'd prefer to keep the politicians and lawyers out of it.
  17. You realize this map was drawn by Republicans in 2021. When was the last time Democrats controlled the legislature in Texas
  18. i had one close experience and that was enough. Early 70s, I was working at a small radio station in Bedford, Va. The transmitter was in the control room. We had a strike, I saw the bolt come down thru the clock and hit the transmitter while I was on the air. Scary, This was still when transmitters had tubes. The owners dog, an older golden, would sometimes wander into the control room when there were storms. He was laying in there then, somehow he beat me out the door (which swung in)
  19. Especially, the ones who think they are the smartest person in the stadium, but are too lazy to put down their beer to run the team
  20. August 6 https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/august-6
  21. https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2025/08/02/utah-senate-pres-stuart-adams/ Just looking for one honest Republican...
  22. Who gets final approval? Is this ranked choice voting? How about a compromise, especially in states with a large number of reps. Divvy the districts up into multi rep districts. Say cut the number of Congressional districts in half, then create multi member districts with proportional representatives. Something similar to what's being used in Cambridge, MA or Minneapolis. I'm coming around, just need to get the rest of the country on your side
  23. The only way your proposal could possibly fair, inmo, is if you proportioned out the number of reps according to the statewide vote. Which brings me to the next question, who is in charge of choosing candidates to represent the whole state. Are you doing primaries, convention, a big gladiator style competition? The style of gerrymandering you're objecting to has been going on since the birth of the Republic. TBH there is no perfect way unless we outlaw parties or find a way to have more than two competitive parties. And force our reps to compromise
  24. That was the way I was taught representative democracy works. We effectively have what you want and how’s that working for you
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