Sunday, October 30, 2016

Every vote counts! It’s not only about your president and congressional reps!


We’ve written numerous posts about the high stakes surrounding your vote for president and congressional reps, but the stakes are also high surrounding your vote for governors,  state legislators, attorney generals, insurance commissioners, other state officials, and -
 
Every vote counts!
  • Republican governors, attorney generals and state legislators reinstated  voter suppression laws immediately following conservative Supreme Court justices' 2013  voter suppression decision. (See Republicans admit voter ID Laws are aimed at Democratic voters link below
  • Republican governors and insurance commissioners have "actively and directly" blocked efforts to make Obamacare work. (See What's Really Obstructing Obamacare? GOP Resisters link below.)
  • Republican governors and state legislators cut job opportunities in favor of extending tax cuts for the wealthy on t he backs of the middle class and the poor.
  • Republican governors and state legislators cut education funding in favor of extending tax cuts for the wealthy on the backs of the middle class and the poor.
  • Republican governors and state legislators voted against increasing the minimum wage in favor of extending tax cuts for the wealthy on the backs of the middle class and the poor. 
  • Republican  governors, state attorney generals and state legislators supported and voted for NRA-sponsored legislation allowing guns in schools, churches, bars, buses, trains, playgrounds, college campuses, elementary and secondary school grounds and buildings as well as for the purchase of guns at gun shows and off the streets!
  • Republican governors refused to extend affordable health care to 5 million Americans.in favor of extending tax cuts for the wealthy on the backs of the middle class and the poor.
  • Republican governors and state legislators cut education funding for Head Start, K-12 and Pell Grant opportunities for college students in favor of tax breaks for big corporations.
  • Republican governors are slashing teachers and public employees’ pensions in favor of tax cuts for the rich and corporations.
  • Republican governors are cutting education spending in favor of tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations.
  • Republican governors are sacrificing funding for schools, universities and local governments in favor of tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations.
 
Every vote counts!
GOTTA’ VOTE IN RECORD NUMBERS!
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SOURCES:
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Robert Draper Book: GOP's Anti-Obama CampaignStarted ...


Washington Monthly | The Consequences of Republican Obstruction

What’s Really Obstructing Obamacare? GOP Resisters _ The Daily Beast
 

Anti-Tax Republican Governors Are Raising Taxes on the Poor and Middle Class

Priorities? GOP Governors Shift Burden to Poor, Middle Class to Pay
For Tax Breaks For Rich, Corporations

Head Start hit with worst cuts in its history - USA Today


"Death Panel" of GOP Governors Refuse Medicaid Expansion

ourfuture.org/.../death-panel-of-...

 
smartgunlaws.org/.../gun-laws.../ne...

www.huffingtonpost.com/.../paul-broun-guns_n_55...

 

www.forbes.com/.../nra-winning-the-influence-battle-over-gun-co...


The Many Scandals of Donald Trump: A Cheat Sheet

 

Exclusive: Trump’s 3,500 lawsuits unprecedented for a presidential…

Trump University & beyond: Debt, 30 years of lawsuits against Trump

Trump bought a 6-6--t-tall portrait of himself with charity moneyhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/...portrait...trump/.../ae65db82-7a...

 
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