{"id":6329,"date":"2011-11-09T00:01:20","date_gmt":"2011-11-09T08:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/09\/a-bad-day-for-republican-tyranny\/"},"modified":"2011-11-09T00:01:20","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T08:01:20","slug":"a-bad-day-for-republican-tyranny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/09\/a-bad-day-for-republican-tyranny\/","title":{"rendered":"A Bad Day for Republican Tyranny"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday\u2019s elections included three measures that received national attention do to Republican attempts to cram their agenda down voters throats.  They hoodwinked their way into office by promising jobs, and far too many Americans believed their lies.  In Ohio, Republicans tried to destroy the power of unions.  In Maine, Republicans tried to limit voter registration.  In Mississippi, Republicans tried to give a fertilized egg all the rights of a person, making it murder for a doctor to end a pregnancy to save the life of a woman.  Thankfully, it was a bad day for Republican Tyranny.<\/font><\/p>\n

In Ohio, the day started with Republican crimes to confuse voters.  Many Democratic voters received Republican robocalls telling them Wednesday, not Tuesday was election day<\/a>.  But Republican crimes did not pay off.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"9noon2\"Unions won a major victory Tuesday night when Ohio voters repealed a Republican-backed law that limited collective bargaining for public sector unions.<\/p>\n

With one third of precincts reporting, the pro-repeal votes were leading anti-repeal votes by 62 percent to 38 percent, a large margin.<\/p>\n

The law had been the biggest achievement of Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R), whose poll numbers have plummeted since he focused in on the issue. Democrats and unions invested heavily to repeal the law, spending millions on the election and pitting police and firefighters against the governor. Shortly after the Associated Press called the race<\/a>, they celebrated the results. <\/p>\n

"One message rang loud and clear tonight in Ohio and across the country: those who spend their time scapegoating workers and pushing a partisan agenda will only strengthen the resolve of working people," said AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka in a release. "From the very beginning, it\u2019s been clear that Gov. Kasich, and indeed many politicians, were pushing an agenda that was about politics, not about solving our nation\u2019s problems or creating jobs."\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Maine has enjoyed same day voter registration for years, until Republicans took it away.  But Maine Democrats fought back and put the measure on the ballot.  Republicans spread the lie that restoring same day registration was a \u201cgay conspiracy\u201d.  But Republican lies did not pay off.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"9Yeson1\"Maine voters have repealed a law requiring voters to enroll at least two days before an election, restoring a four-decade policy of allowing registrations as late as Election Day.<\/p>\n

With 30 percent of Maine’s precincts reporting, the proposal to repeal the newly enacted two-day requirement was passed with 59 percent of the vote.<\/p>\n

The referendum was put on Tuesday’s ballot through a "people’s veto” initiative after the Republican-controlled Legislature passed a law in June requiring voters to register at least two business days before an election is held. Maine’s tradition of allowing "same day” voter registrations began with a law passed  in 1973\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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And in Mississippi the Republican assault on Women\u2019s rights did not pay off!<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"9Noon26\"Mississippi voters Tuesday defeated a ballot initiative that would’ve declared life begins at conception, a proposal that supporters sought in the Bible Belt state as a way to prompt a legal challenge to abortion rights nationwide.<\/p>\n

The so-called "personhood" initiative was rejected by more than 55 percent of voters, falling far short of the threshold needed for it to be enacted. If it had passed, it was virtually assured of drawing legal challenges because it conflicts with the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that established a legal right to abortion. Supporters of the initiative wanted to provoke a lawsuit to challenge the landmark ruling.<\/p>\n

The measure divided the medical and religious communities and caused some of the most ardent abortion opponents, including Republican Gov. Haley Barbour, to waver with their support.<\/p>\n

Opponents said the measure would have made birth control, such as the morning-after pill or the intrauterine device, illegal \u2014 and that it would have deterred physicians from performing in vitro fertilization because they would fear criminal charges if an embryo doesn’t survive.<\/p>\n

Supporters were trying to impose their religious beliefs on others by forcing women to carry unwanted pregnancies…<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Rachel Maddow reports on these and more.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n

We didn\u2019t win everything, but I\u2019ll take want we did!  Kudos to all who voted!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday\u2019s elections included three measures that received national attention do to Republican attempts to cram their agenda down voters throats.  They hoodwinked their way into office by promising jobs, and far too many Americans believed their lies.  In Ohio, Republicans tried to destroy the power of unions.  In Maine, Republicans tried to limit voter registration.  […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}