Election brings GOP power to State Capitols (More than anytime since 1920s)

Yahoo News ^ | November 6, 2014 | David A. Lieb

[Din Maker]

State capitols across the country will be more Republican than at any point since the Roaring '20s. A day after a big election, newly emboldened Republican state leaders already were making plans Wednesday to pursue deeper tax cuts, relax business regulations, expand private school vouchers and impose new limits on public welfare programs.

In some states, such as Kansas, Republicans will be able to do as they want, because they control both chambers of the legislature and the governor's office. In others, such as neighboring Missouri, the Republicans' legislative super majorities will be so large that they can essentially disregard the objections of a Democratic governor. Elsewhere, like in New York, the Republican takeover of one legislative chamber simply means a stronger say in a state still otherwise led by Democrats. Pennsylvania Republican Tom Corbett was the only Republican chief executive to fall to a Democratic challenger.

For statehouse Republicans, "it's their strongest position in nearly a century." Republicans will have full control of at least 29 state legislatures, the party's largest total since 1928, and at least 32 governorships, including newly won offices in traditionally Democratic Illinois, Maryland and Massachusetts.

Texas Gov.-elect Greg Abbott has promised to make an expansion of school vouchers and charter schools a priority for his new Republican administration that will be paired with an even larger GOP majority in the House and Senate.

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, who won re-election along with an expanded GOP legislative majority, also wants to expand enrollment in a private school voucher program. His agenda includes drug tests for people seeking food stamps or unemployment benefits and more tax cuts on top of the $2 billion enacted during his first term.

[Din Maker]

For Republicans to have so much control so many States, has got to be a boost to the GOP for the 2016 Presidential Election. Legislatures pass Election Laws pertaining to Primaries, General Election, Early Voting, etc.

[Din Maker]

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, with an expanded GOP legislative majority, whose agenda includes drug tests for people seeking food stamps or unemployment benefits....
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Scott Walker is AWESOME!!!

[Din Maker]

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, with an expanded GOP legislative majority, whose agenda includes drug tests for people seeking food stamps or unemployment benefits....
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Scott Walker is AWESOME!!!

[boycott]

It’s time a lot of the federal government’s power go to state capitols too.

[ari-freedom]

Good policies in GOP states act as job magnets that affect neighboring Democrat states. They can’t afford to be as liberal.

[februus]

Exactly - that’s one way to drive out the bloodsucking losers from Milwaukee - take away their free s%^# and cut them off if they want to sit on their asses smoking weed and making babies instead of working.

[Jacquerie]

Those laws are regularly shot down at the whim of courts.

It is way beyond time to re-federalize the national government.

With so many state legislative houses in GOP hands, we have a narrow two year window to get on with a convention of the states to propose structural amendments to the constitution.

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