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Time for a fresh start let's go.

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New Biden-picked majority sworn in for federal utility

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A new board majority appointed by President Joe Biden to oversee the nation’s largest public utility has officially been sworn into office.

The Tennessee Valley Authority says the six Biden nominees took the oath of office Wednesday from a federal magistrate judge in Knoxville.

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Anyone know how long their board term is for
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Pretty good for democrats 2 of the 6 are actually qualified only 4 there because of politics
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Glennfs wrote: Thu Jan 05, 2023 8:53 am Pretty good for democrats 2 of the 6 are actually qualified only 4 there because of politics
The shape your party's in, you don't have any room to talk.
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South Carolina US House district ruled racial gerrymander
Federal judges ordered South Carolina lawmakers to draw new congressional maps, ruling Friday that the U.S. House district lines of a seat flipped by Democrats four years ago were intentionally redrawn to split Black neighborhoods to dilute their voting power.

The state used the maps in this past November’s midterm elections after the Republican-dominated state Legislature redrew the lines earlier this year following the 2020 U.S. Census.

Friday's ruling said the coastal 1st District running from Charleston to Hilton Head Island was drawn to remove Black voters and make it a safer seat for Republicans.

The judges requested state lawmakers pass new U.S. House maps by the end of March. They said no elections can take place in the 1st District until it is redrawn......
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So gerrymandering is ok if it helps the democratic party
The story didn't name the judges or the court......hmmmm I wonder why
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Glennfs wrote: Fri Jan 06, 2023 6:09 pm So gerrymandering is ok if it helps the democratic party
The story didn't name the judges or the court......hmmmm I wonder why
Funny how you've danced through the years about gerrymandering. I remember when you said it was fictional, wasn't real.

I'd rather gerrymandering be outlawed on both sides. But Tennessee is heavily gerrymandered. My town is split into three too ensure the liberals in my area can't have a Democratic Congressman.
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gounion wrote: Sat Jan 07, 2023 7:25 am Funny how you've danced through the years about gerrymandering. I remember when you said it was fictional, wasn't real.

I'd rather gerrymandering be outlawed on both sides. But Tennessee is heavily gerrymandered. My town is split into three too ensure the liberals in my area can't have a Democratic Congressman.
According to the New York Times currently the gop has 6 more districts that lean gop than the democratic party has which lean democratic.
Your opinion about where you live is simply your opinion.
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Glennfs wrote: Sat Jan 07, 2023 8:18 am According to the New York Times currently the gop has 6 more districts that lean gop than the democratic party has which lean democratic.
Your opinion about where you live is simply your opinion.
Not opinion. Reality. They split the college town so that we couldn’t have a Dem rep.
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gounion wrote: Sat Jan 07, 2023 8:43 am Not opinion. Reality. They split the college town so that we couldn’t have a Dem rep.
Again you know my opinion. College students should vote from the district that is om their tax return.
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Glennfs wrote: Sat Jan 07, 2023 9:50 am Again you know my opinion. College students should vote from the district that is om their tax return.
Yes, for some reason you think that you should make all the rules for other people. You believe in YOUR freedom, but not theirs.
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How many students even file?
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Glennfs wrote: Sat Jan 07, 2023 9:50 am Again you know my opinion. College students should vote from the district that is om their tax return.
Why? If they live in a state where they go to college why shouldn’t they vote in the state where they are residing. If they are also working while going to school then why shouldn’t they vote in that state?
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New Mexico Democrats' homes, offices targeted in shootings under investigation by police
Police in Albuquerque, N.M., are investigating whether a series of shootings targeting Democratic lawmakers' homes and offices over the last month are connected or motivated by political ideology.

“We don’t want to speculate that these are related…The investigation hopefully will determine what’s related and what’s not related,” Albuquerque Police Chief Harold Medina said at a press conference Thursday.

Medina acknowledged that "on the surface," all known victims are members of the Democratic Party, but that further investigation is required to determine the relevance of that connection. .....
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Glennfs wrote: Fri Jan 06, 2023 6:09 pm So gerrymandering is ok if it helps the democratic party
The story didn't name the judges or the court......hmmmm I wonder why
The vast majority of Democrats are against gerrymandering unlike republicans who are in favor of it. South Carolina republicans did it to dilute the votes of Blacks who tend to vote for Democrats. In California, we passed an amendment to our Constitution requiring an independent commission to redraw voting districts and it has eliminated gerrymandering and Democrats have a majority of statewide and federal offices because Democrats outnumber republicans nearly two-one. The percentages are"
Democratic: 46.87%
republican: 23.85%
No Party Preference: 22.53%

While we have top-2 candidates to vote from in the general election Democrats win consistently because many who are No Party Preference voters vote for the Democratic candidates. Democrats don't have to resort to gerrymandering and other voter suppression tactics likes republican do in order to get elected.
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First Special Election Win In 2023 Goes To Team Blue. :D

Democrat appears to flip Virginia state Senate seat in closely watched special election

Democrat Aaron Rouse appeared to clinch the special election for Virginia’s 7th state Senate district on Tuesday in yet another victory for his party, which was already riding high from a better-than-expected midterm election.

The race was a nail-biter, with Rouse scraping by over Republican opponent Kevin Adams with less than 1 percent of the vote, according to unofficial election results. Still, the flip will be seen as a major win by the party and will expand its majority in the commonwealth’s state Senate. The split in the chamber will now stand at 22-18.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/3 ... -election/
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Michigan Supreme Court Justice Bernstein apologizes to Justice Bolden over hiring flap
Michigan Supreme Court Justice Richard Bernstein apologized to fellow Justice Kyra Harris Bolden on Monday for interfering in how she staffed her court chambers.

Bernstein, in a story first reported by The Detroit News, had strongly criticized Bolden, who was sworn in on Jan. 1 as Michigan's first Black woman on the state Supreme Court, for hiring a clerk who had been convicted of robbery and shooting at a police officer in 1994 but had gone on to become an advocate for improved prison conditions and worked for the State Appellate Defender Office after his 2008 parole.

Bernstein said he believes in rehabilitation but said the clerk, Peter Martel, should not be working for the court, due to his past actions. He also said he was not speaking to Bolden because they did not share the same values.

Martel resigned, but Bernstein, who is legally blind, also received considerable criticism, both for his public comments and for prompting Martel's resignation.

“Today, I apologized to my colleague Justice Kyra Harris Bolden in-person at the Hall of Justice and she has accepted my apology," Bernstein said in a release issued by the court office. "I regret overstepping Justice Bolden’s hiring process and should not have disturbed her ability to lead her Chambers."......
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Rep. Gallego announces bid for Sinema’s Arizona Senate seat

PHOENIX (AP) — Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego, a liberal firebrand and prominent Latino lawmaker, announced Monday he'll challenge independent U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema in 2024, becoming the first candidate to jump into the race and setting up a potential three-way contest.

Gallego said he'd fight for normal people struggling to make ends meet and losing faith in politicians. He said he and Sinema both come from “modest to poor means" but have taken different paths in Congress.

https://azdailysun.com/news/state-and-r ... 21e00.html
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Justin Pearson leading Tennessee House District 86 race

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Community organizer Justin Pearson leads the special election to replace the late Tennessee State Representative Barbara Cooper with 52% of the vote.

Pearson is among ten democrats vying for the Tennessee House District 86 seat.

https://wreg.com/news/your-local-electi ... t-86-race/
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Michigan Senate votes to move presidential primary date

LANSING, Mich. — The Michigan Senate voted to pass a bill Thursday to move the state's primary presidential election to Feb. 27, 2024, according to the state legislature.

The Democratic National Committee set a deadline in place for Feb. 1 for legislative action.

https://upnorthlive.com/news/local/mich ... -committee
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Pro-western Petr Pavel sweeps to landslide win in race for Czech presidency

Petr Pavel, a retired general and former senior Nato commander, has swept to the Czech presidency after a landslide victory over the former prime minister Andrej Babiš in an election overshadowed by rows over the war between Russia and Ukraine.

With nearly all the votes counted, returns showed Pavel prevailing by the emphatic margin of 58.3% to 41.68%, the largest ever recorded in a Czech presidential poll and reflecting an advantage of more than 958,000 votes nationwide.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/ ... -elections
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Let's give her a helping hand & turn Iowa Blue.

New Iowa Democratic Party chair Rita Hart has her work cut out for her

The Iowa Democratic Party’s State Central Committee elected Rita Hart as the next party chair on Jan. 28 by 34 votes to 14 for Brittany Ruland and one for Bob Krause.

Hart promised to focus “squarely on helping our party begin winning elections again,” and had submitted a detailed plan (enclosed in full below) to make that happen. She touted her experience as a former state senator who had won two races in a district Donald Trump carried, raised $5 million as a 2020 congressional candidate, and outperformed Joe Biden by more than Iowa’s other three Democrats running for U.S. House that year.

https://iowacapitaldispatch.com/2023/01 ... t-for-her/
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Iowa, New Hampshire lawmakers lament ‘disappointing’ DNC calendar shift

Iowa and New Hampshire lawmakers are lamenting the Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) move to adjust its primary schedule and remove both states as the first to cast their votes, calling the decision “disappointing.”

DNC members approved by voice vote the schedule that will have South Carolina become the first state to vote in Democratic primaries. Under the new schedule, Nevada and New Hampshire will go next on the same day, followed by Georgia and then Michigan. The vote happened at the DNC’s winter meeting in Philadelphia.

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watc ... dar-shift/
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Democrats win control of Pennsylvania House, end GOP rule

ALLEGHENY COUNTY, Pa. — Democrats won control of the Pennsylvania House in special elections Tuesday, wresting partial power from Republicans for the first time in a dozen years in the closely competitive swing state.

Democrats won all three vacant Pittsburgh-area House seats to claim a slim edge over Republicans, finally securing a majority they first appeared to have won in last November’s General Election. Republicans still hold the Senate, creating a political division that could make it difficult for lawmakers to send priority bills to new Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro.

https://www.wtae.com/article/pa-house-s ... y/42794641#
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