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NY Democrats are moving to lock in one-party rule — maybe forever
The New York Post ^ | August 7, 2020 | Post Editorial Board

Posted on 08/11/2020 7:51:53 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Democratic lawmakers in Albany are never satisfied: Their party already has a firm lock on the key levers of power, yet last week they moved to solidify that power even more — via an amendment to the state Constitution.

And because they control both houses of the Legislature, the measure sailed through easily, with barely any public input.

The amendment deals with the redistricting process — how new maps, based on the Census, must be drawn and approved. And the changes essentially favor Dems and tie Republican hands, so Democrats will be free to draw lines to their advantage.

Under the plan, minority parties would lose their ability to block partisan district lines. The number of Senate districts would be locked at 63 (the current number) to preserve the Dems’ edge and head off any new GOP-leaning districts. It also requires that residents, regardless of immigration status, be counted — a clear bid to create yet more Dem-leaning districts.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: albany; census; cronyism; democrats; democratscandals; despotism; legislature; newyork; oligarchy; ratmachine; redistricting; tyranny; welcometomaryland
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Time for large swaths of NY state to separate themselves from NYC. For that matter, it's time for the nation as a whole to refuse to be dictated to by group thinkers from within large cities.

Non-urban Lives Matter

21 posted on 08/11/2020 8:10:50 AM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: I want the USA back
"The democrat party is a criminal organization disguised as a political party."

Exactly. When are people going to wake up?

22 posted on 08/11/2020 8:13:37 AM PDT by Pajamajan ( Pray for our nation. Thank the Lord for everything you have. Don't wait. Do it] today.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Not substantially different from the rules set in place after the ascendancy of the National Socialists to power in Germany and the establishment of the Third Reich. The Nazis took things one step further by rounding up and imprisoning, later executing, most or all the dissidents.

Keep in mind that Adolf Hitler was a great proponent of “green” environmental policies, until he wasn’t. “Green” is no way to fight a war and invade other countries.


23 posted on 08/11/2020 8:17:57 AM PDT by alloysteel (Freedom is not a matter of life and death. It is much more serious than that..)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

There’s that word again. It was like finger nails on a chalk board during the Obama era, at least to me. It’s a word the left loves to use. It’s a word the left understands. They don’t understand our Constitutional Republic, nor do they want to. They only know that word, therefore they aren’t qualified to be Constitutional leaders in our great Republic.

Only authoritarians, despots seek to rule. Ours is not an authoritarian form of government. The word “Rule” has its place, but not as intent to govern our form of government.

I hate the left. Sorry if that’s “hate speech”.


24 posted on 08/11/2020 8:20:25 AM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists Call 'em what you will, they all have fairies livin' in their trees)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
"China for a day forever."
25 posted on 08/11/2020 8:21:29 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Run as Democrats.


26 posted on 08/11/2020 8:23:26 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (I'd rather be anecdotally alive than scientifically dead... f)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

But maybe with no one in NYC to count for the census, it might no look so good.


27 posted on 08/11/2020 8:25:49 AM PDT by kvanbrunt2 (spooks won on day 76)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

NY just signed its death by suicide certificate.
See ya...


28 posted on 08/11/2020 8:28:20 AM PDT by DeplorableGirl
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The Effing Democrats have done this in Illinois.

I’m buying this T-shirt for friends!

https://podxmas.com/product/don_t-new-york-my-florida-shirt/

29 posted on 08/11/2020 8:28:29 AM PDT by Chgogal (ALL lives matter. If you disagree with me, YOU are the racist.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

The first item - fixing the number of seats - may not be in state constitutions (or it may), but long-standing traditions has fixed the number of seats.

The second thing - counting aliens, legal and illegal, could violate the 14th amendment. It’s not clear from the first sentence of Section 1 that state jurisdiction extends to such persons.


30 posted on 08/11/2020 8:51:21 AM PDT by scrabblehack
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

New York
Lost $120.33 billion in annual AGI*
Wealth Migration 1992-2018

Thinking about moving to New York?
See how much moving will cost you in taxes.

https://www.howmoneywalks.com/irs-tax-migration/


31 posted on 08/11/2020 8:55:57 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Does anyone know of any Democrat, who does the right thing for America or for Americans today?)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
No problem - all of us conservatives will immediately join the Democratic Party and start running conservative candidates under the Democrat label. Just watch them frantically try to deprogram their mindless robot voters after that: "No, not that (D)!!!" :)
32 posted on 08/11/2020 9:00:17 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: 1Old Pro

New York may eventually have 100% Dem elected officials in Albany. But they won’t be able to pay their bills because they are driving out all the taxpayers.

Click the NY State map on the site below to see how much tax $’s are leaving NY State while you watch it leave.

https://www.howmoneywalks.com/irs-tax-migration/


33 posted on 08/11/2020 9:00:34 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Does anyone know of any Democrat, who does the right thing for America or for Americans today?)
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To: PittsburghAfterDark

During Jim Crow days when Republicans moved south, they would be have to resister as Democrats since all Southern states were one party democrat.(the winner of the democrat primary WAS the candidate since Republicans never won)

That switch party thing allowed them to vote against the most offensive democrat... and sometimes run a RepublicanLite as a democrat...

There are ways around democrat thugs.


34 posted on 08/11/2020 9:07:56 AM PDT by GOPJ ( If YOU live in an American hellhole, YOU elected a democrat mayor.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

And yet republicans just sit down watching.


35 posted on 08/11/2020 9:38:42 AM PDT by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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To: Meatspace

Funny you say that. A judge is waiting in the wings to stop that from happening. Oh but not New York of course.


36 posted on 08/11/2020 9:39:52 AM PDT by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

We are just a corrupt Country now. It was inevitable when God was taken out of our lives.


37 posted on 08/11/2020 10:12:56 AM PDT by Hildy (Don't get bitter, get better.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

‘NY Democrats are moving to lock in one-party rule — maybe forever’

Seems to me that is their plan for this Republic if they can cheat their way into the House, Senate and White House in 2020.


38 posted on 08/11/2020 10:17:40 AM PDT by antidemoncrat (Biden's)
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To: Jim Noble
The US has had one party rule since 1988.

39 posted on 08/11/2020 10:22:02 AM PDT by Bratch (If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

If Republicans do that, the Democrats sue and get to redraw the districts themselves.


40 posted on 08/11/2020 10:41:45 AM PDT by Luke21
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