November will bring historic turnover to state legislatures

Bondbuyer.com ^ | 9/22/22 | Caitlin Devitt

[cotton1706]

State legislatures could see a record number of new faces elected in November.

More than 25% of the 6,278 state legislative seats up for election will see a newcomer. Heated primary battles ousted a surprising number of Republican incumbents, and the recent redistricting, as always, has led to an increased rate of open seats.

[Jeff Chandler]

Why don’t you tell us what the article says.

[griswold3]

As bad as it is, I just don’t see Republicans being able to counter the built in damage from The Left. I have heard people say they were not going to vote to allow the “Progressives” to wallow in their filth.
It only took 70 years for the Soviet Union to realize their collective mistake.

[olivia3boys]

What will you be working on for this election? As for me, I’m volunteering at six Farmers Markets from now til November, handing out information about our new (MAGA) school board candidate.

Each of us needs to be doing something instead of just complaining. Only 42 days left I think!

[Gene Eric]

>> I just don’t see Republicans being able to counter the built in damage from The Left.

Certainly not the feckless Republicans elected for the last 30 years — hopefully a dying breed.

[napscoordinator]

New breed is no better. The idiot who lied about his military experience has just lost all the support from the money people. I suppose he could still win but it’s not gonna be as easy without any support.

[Amendment10]

Trump's red tsunami of patriot supporters, both Democratic and Republican, need to make sure that incumbent state Democrats and new Trump-endorsed MAGA state Republicans know the following.

The states can put a stop to unconstitutional federal taxes, and likewise unconstitutional federal interference in state affairs, by effectively "seceding" ALL the states from the unconstitutionally big federal government by repealing the 16th (direct taxes) and 17th (popular vote for federal senators) Amendments.

• "10th Amendment: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

• "Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.

• The congressional record shows that Rep. John Bingham, the main author of Section 1 of the 14th Amendment, had clarified that the delegates to the Constitutional Convention had left the care of the people uniquely to the states, not the feds.

  ”Simply this, that the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Constitution, is in the States and not in the federal government [emphases added]. I have sought to effect no change in that respect in the Constitution of the country.” —John Bingham, Congressional. Globe. 1866, page 1292 (see top half of third column)

• "From the accepted doctrine that the Unite d States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added]." —United States v. Butler, 1936.

Relatively little or ideally no debating would be required for a repeal amendment imo.

Once unconstitutional federal taxes are stopped, each state will ultimately find a tsunami of new revenues (imo) that can be used to increase teacher salaries, also salaries of police and fire departments for starters.

Let's also include new state funding for infrastructure maintenance in that list. Undoubtedly many other state social spending programs as well to replace former unconstitutional federal social spending programs.

Additionally, no more forced compliance with Democratic politically correct and unconstitutional federal gender-related civil rights protections in order for school kids to eat likewise unconstitutional federal lunches paid for with stolen state revenues for example.

The next step in putting the country back on its constitutional foundations is for Republican and Democratic Trump supporters to vote Republican in November 2022.

Corrections, insights welcome.

[nwrep]

Because it is another worthless right-wing blog full of misinformation.

[Dr. Sivana]

Corrections, insights welcome.

We are NOWHERE NEAR the political will to get those kinds of votes.

Here's a thought exercise. Think of all of the federal mandates that are indirectly allowed because those states that do not allow them do not get the money tied to the mandates.

For instance, President Reagan threatened highway funding removal for states that did not raise the drinking age to 21. Louisiana held out, but ultimately drank the kool-Aid and raised the age, even if they don't really enforce it.

Numerous strings are tied to education money, which is why we have everything from Obama gardens to sex-craziness. Before Jimmy Carter created the Department of Education, the amount of money going to K-12 schools was trivial. Now it is large enough to make sure that the schools are largely controlled by federal regulators, not school boards or parents.

Show me the state that is willing to walk away from ONE of these piles of money, in exchange for a restoration of freedom, and we can have a conversation about secession or nullification. Until then, I can only say that not enough people are hurting enough.

[Amendment10]

"We are NOWHERE NEAR the political will to get those kinds of votes."

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And Trump can never be elected president either. /sarc

Other than Trump's red tsunami of patriot supporters needing to wake state governments up to their 10th Amendment powers, there's nothing stopping the states from repealing the 16th and 17th Amendments as fast as Pelosi irresponsibly rammed unconstitutional (imo) Obamacare through the House imo.

[Dr. Sivana]

Again, how do you get a majority to legislators vote for a Constitutional Amendment when you can’t even get them to say no to federal education or highway funding?

The election of Trump did not require legislators to get involved.

There were some baby steps years ago when some states (e.g. Wisconsin) turned down Obamacare money and choo-choo train money. That was stopping new projects. We need the will to undo existing projects.