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LymphocyteLover

(5,657 posts)
Sat Nov 13, 2021, 10:47 AM Nov 2021

Utah Republicans override the public to gerrymander their way to more power

Sickening
https://www.democracydocket.com/alerts/utah-legislature-approves-new-congressional-map/


2018: Utah voters approve ballot measure to end partisan gerrymandering
2020: Utah Republicans repeal most of the ballot measure
2021: Utah Republicans pass a gerrymandered congressional map to guarantee all Republican seats

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Utah Republicans override the public to gerrymander their way to more power (Original Post) LymphocyteLover Nov 2021 OP
Missouri Republicans are also very good at Sherman A1 Nov 2021 #1
I'm glad to see our states getting rid of republicans jimfields33 Nov 2021 #2
It is indeed far past time to play nice with these Sherman A1 Nov 2021 #4
I wish they could as well. jimfields33 Nov 2021 #5
Utah is a Mormon theocracy...nt Wounded Bear Nov 2021 #3
What Bertolt Bercht said about East Germany applies to today's Republicans DBoon Nov 2021 #6

Sherman A1

(38,958 posts)
1. Missouri Republicans are also very good at
Sat Nov 13, 2021, 10:53 AM
Nov 2021

overriding the will of the voters expressed through ballot initiatives.

Must be a Republican thing.........They just can't stand to have anything but their own way about things.

jimfields33

(16,004 posts)
2. I'm glad to see our states getting rid of republicans
Sat Nov 13, 2021, 10:57 AM
Nov 2021

Illinois, California and New York are doing this and they should. It’s about time we stop being nice.

Sherman A1

(38,958 posts)
4. It is indeed far past time to play nice with these
Sat Nov 13, 2021, 11:04 AM
Nov 2021

clowns. I wish that it could be done here in Missouri.

DBoon

(22,401 posts)
6. What Bertolt Bercht said about East Germany applies to today's Republicans
Sat Nov 13, 2021, 12:21 PM
Nov 2021

“Some party hack decreed that the people
had lost the government's confidence
and could only regain it with redoubled effort.
If that is the case, would it not be be simpler,
If the government simply dissolved the people
And elected another?”

― Bertolt Brecht

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/962098-some-party-hack-decreed-that-the-people-had-lost-the

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