State Legislatures Gone Wild

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9 Terrible Proposed State Laws

If you think that irresponsible and outright ridiculous bills only come out of Washington, D.C., think again. Ever since the big GOP wave election in 2010, state legislatures across the country have been racing to pass offensive, unconstitutional, and just outright bizarre laws. Other states long controlled by Republicans are also rushing to pass unconstitutional and ridiculous laws just for good measure, it appears.

Here are 9 terrible proposed state laws:

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NORTH DAKOTA:

The state is getting in on the latest anti-abortion fad sweeping the nation: so-called “heartbeat bills” that ban abortion as soon as a fetal heartbeat can be detected. North Dakota is set to pass a law that bans abortions (at its single remaining abortion clinic) after just six weeks. The law, the most stringent in the nation, is clearly unconstitutional.

 

[Lakhota]

Hopefully the adults will soon be back in charge.

 

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TEXAS:

An “avid proponent of tort reform” in the state legislature has proposed a law that will allow people to be served notice of a lawsuit through social media sites like Facebook and Twitter.

 

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OKLAHOMA:

The Sooner State is still fighting Obamacare and just this week the Oklahoma House passed an unconstitutional Obamacare “nullification” law.

 

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INDIANA:

Newly elected Gov. Mike Pence (R) is pushing for a 10 percent cut in the state’s income tax, something which could gut investments in education and infrastructure. Even Republican legislators are wary, but the Koch Brothers front group, Americans for Prosperity is pushing the proposal.

 

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MISSISSIPPI:

The Magnolia state, which has the highest obesity rate in the nation, passed a so-called “anti-Bloomberg” bill to prevent localities from “enacting rules that require calorie counts to be posted, that cap portion sizes, or that keep toys out of kids’ meals.”

 

[DiamondDave]

And the troll using a winger site as reference again.. yet watch when he will yelll about some righty using Fox news or breitbart...

 

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SOUTH CAROLINA:

The Palmetto State said no to expanding Medicaid under Obamacare, which sadly is hardly a novel feat. The South Carolina GOP’s innovation was to explain its motivation for doing so was because the president is black.

 

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OHIO:

Ohio’s radical anti-union law was overturned by a statewide referendum and its anti-voting law was headed for the same fate until the legislature preemptively repealed it on their own. Now Ohio legislators are trying to make it harder for voters to initiate referenda to overturn the radical laws passed by the GOP-controlled legislature.

 

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NEW HAMPSHIRE:

You might think that the 13th amendment to the Constitution is the one that banned slavery, but some Republican legislators in New Hampshire would like to tell you otherwise. They claim the “original 13th amendment” is one that banned people with titles of nobility from holding office and that it was deleted by some sort of conspiracy. They aren’t taking this lying down and have introduced a bill to restore the “original” version, in order “to end the infiltration of the Bar Association and the judicial branch into the executive and legislative branches of government and the unlawful usurpation of the people’s right.”

 

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IOWA:

An Iowa Republican wanted to ban no-fault divorces for couples with children, out of fears that easier divorces may make teenage girls “more promiscuous.” Fortunately, legislative leaders shut that whole thing down.

 

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While some of these bills are laughable, it’s not very funny when they actually become law. In Arkansas, for instance, the legislature just overrode the governor’s veto (which, bizarrely, only requires a simple majority in Arkansas) of a measure banning abortion after 12 weeks. This was briefly the nation’s strictest abortion ban until it was outdone by the North Dakota law mentioned above.

 

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[Grandma]

And the troll using a winger site as reference again.. yet watch when he will yelll about some righty using Fox news or breitbart...

True, a completely neutral source is preferred for all discussion.

That said, there's a big difference between sites that slant towards a particular political leaning and sites that publish or broadcast outright lies, sites like Breitbart and Faux.

 

[Grandma]

How is it spam? The OP is simply posting excerpts of the article in accordance with house rules. Please read the TOS.

 

[bucs90]

You point out a valid trend, and what is 99% of the reason I left the Republican Party.

The GOP at the state and local level went full whacko. They went on a race to radicalism. Almost like a contest to see who could out-radicalize each other. Much of it was out of anger and emotion in reaction to the election of Obama in 2008. And the scared, paranoid, hateful flocks of right wingers (not all of them) followed suit.

They did some crazy shit. In my state, the TP Queen Nikki Haley slashed compensation packages for cops and teachers. Why? Was it because the state was broke? NOPE. The state had it in the current budget, without raising a single tax. But she did it anyway. WHY? Quote: "To send a message from the taxpayers".

Thats right. Hard working South Carolina residents, who happened to be employed as state troopers, state detectives, and teachers.......had to be "sent a message" from, well, she says the taxpayers, although those folks themselves are taxpayers also. So, a message from those folk's neighbors and the parents of the kids those folks work to educate and protect from harm.

Yes. The state and local GOP has gone full bizzaro batshit radical. Just last week, a S.C. House Rep said "It is good politics to oppose the black guy in the White House".

Seriously. The GOP has no chance, ever, of recovering.

 

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You point out a valid trend, and what is 99% of the reason I left the Republican Party.

The GOP at the state and local level went full whacko. They went on a race to radicalism. Almost like a contest to see who could out-radicalize each other. Much of it was out of anger and emotion in reaction to the election of Obama in 2008. And the scared, paranoid, hateful flocks of right wingers (not all of them) followed suit.

They did some crazy shit. In my state, the TP Queen Nikki Haley slashed compensation packages for cops and teachers. Why? Was it because the state was broke? NOPE. The state had it in the current budget, without raising a single tax. But she did it anyway. WHY? Quote: "To send a message from the taxpayers".

Thats right. Hard working South Carolina residents, who happened to be employed as state troopers, state detectives, and teachers.......had to be "sent a message" from, well, she says the taxpayers, although those folks themselves are taxpayers also. So, a message from those folk's neighbors and the parents of the kids those folks work to educate and protect from harm.

Yes. The state and local GOP has gone full bizzaro batshit radical. Just last week, a S.C. House Rep said "It is good politics to oppose the black guy in the White House".

Seriously. The GOP has no chance, ever, of recovering.

And that's the point of this thread to show others just how whacko they've became, but the full fledge knuckle draggers would be quick to discount this as spam, spam? All it takes is one of them to actual google or bing or whatever search engine they prefer to find out whether it's a lie or not.

Slanted how? Because it's telling the truth and they don't like the truth? I'm guessing 2014 Governor's races in a few States are going to very interesting. But the sad part is that a lot of these States gerrymandered districts big time, which would give Republicans control over State houses.

 

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9 Terrible Proposed State Laws

If you think that irresponsible and outright ridiculous bills only come out of Washington, D.C., think again. Ever since the big GOP wave election in 2010, state legislatures across the country have been racing to pass offensive, unconstitutional, and just outright bizarre laws. Other states long controlled by Republicans are also rushing to pass unconstitutional and ridiculous laws just for good measure, it appears.

Here are 9 terrible proposed state laws:

Progress Reports - ThinkProgress

Why is it stupid to cut taxes? Why is it stupid to stop cities from banning things that are legal? Why is it stupid for Ohio to limit voter referendums, but it isn't stupid When California tries to overturn them?

 

[OKTexas]

OKLAHOMA:

The Sooner State is still fighting Obamacare and just this week the Oklahoma House passed an unconstitutional Obamacare “nullification” law.

Do you know who came up with the concept of State nullification? Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, check out the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions. Jefferson wrote the Kentucky resolution while he was a sitting Vice President.