My, but the pendulum is swinging back to the people but in a mighty way.
In Mississippi, the people shot down the proposal trying to take away a woman's right of choice. There is no word about the referendum to have an acorn defined as an oak.
In Maine,
voter rights were maintained when the elimination of same day registration was flatly rejected.
In Michigan, anti-union and anti-worker State Representative
Paul Scott was ousted in a recall.
In the Great State of Ohio, the union-busting bill, which was brought to referendum by more than one million petition signers,
went down in flames as the voters restored sanity by firmly and loudly voicing that people come before profits.
And here in Wisconsin, with possibly more significance that even the Ohio vote, Jill Billings
overwhelmingly defeated her opponent who had placed himself deeply in Scott Walker's camp.
Overall, it was a pretty sounding rejection of corporatism and the Republican agenda, which has nothing to do with creating jobs or fixing the economy, but only with centralizing their wealth and their power.
Finally, I am still working on confirming the rumor that Walker is having Maalox delivered in tanker trucks.
Republicans in the Ohio House of Representatives have included an amendment in the state budget, now under consideration in the State Senate, that would make students eligible for in-state tuition rates if universities continue to provide them with documents that allow them to register to vote in Ohio. Supporters of the proposal say it seeks to streamline the varied standards for tuition and voting. But critics say the provision is designed to penalize universities that make it easier for students to vote, since students traditionally vote disproportionately for Democratic candidates. A group that opposes the amendment said the proposal would cost the state’s public universities millions of dollars in tuition revenue.
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