'We can pretty much do whatever we want to right now': Republicans plot their course on rising...

[DonViejo]

‘We can pretty much do whatever we want to right now’: Republicans plot their course on rising ‘sea of red’ in state capitals

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07 JAN 2017 AT 10:08 ET

Shortly after the November election, with the nation’s political attention focused on the Trump transition, an influential advocacy group met outside Washington to discuss how to leverage the extraordinary shift of power to Republicans in the rest of the country.

The American Legislative Exchange Council — a nonprofit better known as ALEC — briefed its members and allied groups on the bright future for its agenda now that Republicans will effectively control 68 of the nation’s 99 state legislative bodies, as well as 33 governor’s mansions. Among other things, group members said they would push bills to reduce corporate taxes, weaken unions, privatize schooling and influence the ideological debate on college campuses.

“We can pretty much do whatever we want to right now,” said Rep. Jim DeCesare, a Republican state legislator in Kentucky, where the party gained the state House for the first time in nearly a century.

DeCesare, who had been minority whip, described plans for “a pretty intense agenda” including a so-called right-to-work law allowing employees who are covered by collective bargaining agreements to opt out of joining labor unions. Another, he said, would be repealing rules that require government contractors to pay employees more than the minimum wage. Neighboring states competing for new businesses, he said, had already gutted such regulations.

“We’ve got some catching up to do, but we plan to make up a lot of ground in a very short time,” DeCesare said. “This is our time to shine.”

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http://www.rawstory.com/2017/01/we-can-pretty-much-do-whatever-we-want-to-right-now-republicans-plot-their-course-on-rising-sea-of-red-in-state-capitals/

[tanyev]

1. Here's an apt Bible verse you don't hear GOPers use very much:

Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall. Proverbs 16:18 KJV

[guillaumeb]

2. "our time to shine"?

Or their time to pay back their contributors?

[TomCADem]

3. And the People Will Accept It And Smile, Or Else...

...if you complain about racism and racial profiling by police, you will be branded a terrorist organization. If you complain about being sexually assaulted, you will be called a liar and threatened with lawsuits. If you you worship another religion, you will be persecuted.