Minnesota
Related: About this forumWe should be very proud of our state this morning!
TRUE BLUE again for Obama!
BOTH amendments REJECTED! (Voter ID and marriage restriction!)
DFL control of the legislature for Gov. Dayton! Stupid Republicans, how'd you enjoy your 2 years of control? You freaking NUKED it with your ridiculous gov't shutdown and wasted time on petty issues like the amendments.
Chip Cravaack - GONE!
OK there is some bad news, looks like she-who-must-not-be-named is going to hang on by her fingernails to her seat. But she's a national embarrassment to the Republican party anyway.
SomeGuyInEagan
(1,515 posts)There is a LOT of work to be done, both in St. Paul and Washington, D.C.
Dayton held strong and firm as the ONE PERSON standing between the will of the Minnesota Republicans and law for two years. Now he gets to work with a DFL leg - let's hold them to task on this from day one.
Obama has a more difficult job with a Republican House, but must find a way to turn up the heat on them to work for what is best for the country rather than the top tier of the wealthy who have been running things for so long (in both parties).
WE need to be the thorns in the side of members of Congress who continue to serve the interests of the few (in both parties).
But today, we celebrate and plan. Nice work, everyone.
SomeGuyInEagan
(1,515 posts)... I just don't want to lose time and energy.
trotsky
(49,533 posts)The country and our state are struggling in no small part because of policies that favor the rich at the expense of everyone else. This needs to change, and Republicans (and especially those who vote for them) need to deal with it.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)in DC.
Randomthought
(837 posts)If those two amendments had passed and the republicans had maintained control of the legislature Minnesota would have ended up looking like Atwood's A Handmaiden's Tale.
That could happen in the future if we are not vigilant but it's not going to happen now.
glinda
(14,807 posts)being gone from my District! WOOT! What a shill for the mining, fracking and plundering Companies.
Lydia Leftcoast
(48,217 posts)and the Strib was saying that the Bachmann-Graves race is close enough that it might trigger a recount. So all is not necessarily lost.
glinda
(14,807 posts)question everything
(47,534 posts)but I hope that her margin is getting smaller and smaller so still hope. Next elections are only 2 year away.
glinda
(14,807 posts)Hong Kong Cavalier
(4,573 posts)What a marvelous day.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)snacker
(3,619 posts)Great job, Minnesota! I so hope some of your fairness and forward-thinking rubs off on Wisconsin someday...
Mister Ed
(5,943 posts)You guys spent a long, grueling year in the trenches, battling the Kochsreich. And now you're sending Tammy Baldwin to the Senate!
MineralMan
(146,329 posts)We even almost dumped Bachmann. All told, it was an outstanding result.
Rambis
(7,774 posts)BainsBane
(53,066 posts)I love my state!!!!!!
glinda
(14,807 posts)question everything
(47,534 posts)Some years ago I visited California, talked to a liberal acquaintance: so you now live in Minnesota, he asked. Yes, and there are many who move from other states, who like the qualify of living and.... he finished my sentence "refuse to pay tax to support them.
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)Can we has money to fix the damn roads now, please???
dflprincess
(28,082 posts)that they should be representing their constiuents not A.L.E.C.
ButterflyBlood
(12,644 posts)Like someone on Facebook said, it's like some movie where a serial killer kills 31 people but the last one fights back and wins. That's what we did. We put an end to the campaign of hate and stopped it dead cold in it's tracks.