GOP Gaining State Legislature Supermajorities

Nice! I think we might be moving in the right direction.

Republicans Net Three New Supermajorities in One Month, Bringing Total to 25
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/...-supermajorities-one-month-bringing-total-25/

Democrat state representatives switching parties and one special election over the last month gave Republicans three new supermajorities in state legislatures, bringing the total to 25 nationwide.

This week, North Carolina state Rep. Tricia Cotham announced her departure from the Democrat party and effectively changed her party affiliation to the Republican Party, ultimately giving the Republicans in the Tar Heel State a veto-proof supermajority in both the House and Senate.

While Republicans in North Carolina and Louisiana can override vetoes from Democrat governors, Republicans in Wisconsin are now just two seats away in the State Assembly from having the power to override vetoes from Democrat governor Tony Evers.

Michael Joyce, the communications director for Republican State Leadership Committee (RSLC), the largest organization on the state level, dedicated to helping state leaders, told Breitbart News that “Democrats are joining Republican majorities to create supermajorities because they know that their constituents want strong conservative leadership to serve as a check on out-of-control Democrat governors who raise taxes, endanger communities with soft-on-crime policies, and strip parents of their right to have a say in their children’s education.”

 

Yep, our move to a totalitarian govt continues.

 

I hope the use this power wisely.

 

It's a good start to better government.

 

Yes because Democratic functions occurred properly

 

Mostly because of gerrymandering in those states. With state legislatures, even state legislatures that have a bicameral legislative system, each state representative or state senator represents a district. And those districts can be gerrymandered in the state far easier than for federal elections.

 

This is why they are freaking out is Wisconsin. If their gerrymandered maps fall they lose that state.

Seeing that Republicans are already struggling to win the voters for president this is just another nail in their coffin. It’s odd but telling to watch people cheer a system that disenfranchises american voters but that’s about the only way then can win.

 

How is hyper partisan gerrymandering designed to allow politicians to pick their voters rather than the voters picking their politicians democratic?

 

The GOP judge's campaign was against "woke" and abortion primarily as a State Supreme Court, which voters in Wisconsin are rejecting more and more. The GOP is freaking out mostly because abortion will now remain legal in Wisconsin under current statute, as well as access to health clinics that may or may not provide abortion services.

 

Let me guess you're going to tell me the Democrats don't do that too...

 

The fact that they do it too does not negate that republicans do it no matter how much you want it too.

 

I asked a question and didn’t include party affiliation.

Not everything is an attack against your team that you have to head off and make excuses for.

Care to answer the question or shall I rephrase it for you?

 

This is fake news, for the last 3 elections its DEMOCRATS not Republicans who ended up with more seats than their percentage of the vote.

More fake news. 49/50 have a bicameral house.

Why These Democrats Are Defecting to the GOP

'Three state lawmakers have now switched from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party in the last month. It’s part of a decades-long trend that’s helped the GOP consolidate power in certain states, handing them majorities, and even supermajorities.'

FROM TYRANNY TO FREEDOM AND LIBERTY

'On Monday, Louisiana Rep. Jeremy LaCombe became the second Democrat in the state house to defect, just weeks after Rep. Francis Thompson announced his decision to leave the party. Thompson’s decision gave Republicans a supermajority in the state house; North Carolina state Rep. Tricia Cotham also gave Republicans a supermajority in that state’s house when she announced her decision to switch parties earlier this month. Republicans in both states now have the power to override their Democratic governors’ vetos as a result.'

GOOD! NOW PASS TO CONVENTION OF THE STATES RESOLUTION

Since 1994, a net 57 Democrats have joined 'the GOP. Those Republican pickups were mostly in states that were once more purple — such as Mississippi and Louisiana — that have since' become firmly Republican.



WHY SO MANY LATELY?

One reason is that too many Dems bully women. 'Cotham said that she was bullied by her Democratic colleagues and that the Republican Party is a better fit for her values, even though she’s previously sided with Democrats on many of the most divisive issues, including abortion rights and LGBTQ rights. Thompson said that he’s felt pushed out of the Democrat Party because its stance on certain issues is incompatible with his religious views. LaCombe did not offer up his own reasoning.'

BULLYING GIRLS IN SCHOOL SPORTS

'Thompson said that the party embraced positions on certain issues that did not “align with those values and principles that are part of my Christian life.” He had already been caucusing with Republicans, becoming the only Democrat in 2021 to call for overturning Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards’s vetoes of bills that would ban trans girls from school sports.'

'Cotham said that her Democratic colleagues had attempted to control her and that the party had become “unrecognizable to me and to so many others throughout this state and this country.” “Has the party left them or have they left the party?”

THE PARTY HAS LEFT IT'S SENSES.

 

Your example only showed red.

 

But remember he's not a Democrat....lol

 

There will be a lot more switching to the GOP. That plus the emigration from blue states to red states is going to present a huge problem for the donkey party.

 

I looked up worse examples, the source listed districts only and didn’t mention affiliation

If the 6 worst examples are all Republicans then that seem to be an issue with your party. Democrats do it also



We are not children and should be able to do a more thoughtful analysis of data besides look at its color. It’s fascinating that’s all you and @FatBack see — well, you at least. The other is expected.

I can throw it through photoshop and recolor everything blue if it would make you feel better?

 

You do realize that the recent election was for State Supreme Court, not the state legislature. And the GOP not having a majority on the State Supreme Court means that whatever laws are passed in the state are not likely going to be overturned, especially abortion, for instance, or with any "woke" policies that may be brought up in the state courts in Wiscounsin.

Again I didn't say all, did I. That was an assumption on your part.

The better question is why are you deflecting why the Wiscounsin GOP is freaking out from a state Supreme Court loss?

it is really about state gerrymandering. In state legislatures, even those with bicameral legistatures, it is far easier to gerrymander the state districts for house and senate in the state than for federal. But when it comes to federal elections for President or statewide elections for Governor or State Supreme Court judge, the GOP is going to lose more and more in those elections if the GOP continues its culture war and has a philosophy more about "what we are against" than what we are for by offering reasonable solutions to the tabletop issues.

 

That has nothing to do with this topic.

The GOP just secured a 2/3rds majority in the Senate - and laws passed have to pass the Senate. A 2/3rds majority is enough to remove any lawless Justice from the State Supreme Court

Fake news. I asked the best questions.

You're off topic again. Ask someone in the Wisconsin GOP that is freaking out if you are curious as to why. I'm not in the WI GOP and I'm satisfied with the Senate Super-Majority.

All but one State has bicameral legislatures.

The Left is the aggressor in the culture war. I don't think the Left's onslaught in the culture war is going as well for you as you wish.



AS A DEMOCRAT FAMOUSLY POINTED OUT 'IT'S THE ECONOMY STUPID'. Poll: Americans Most Worried About Inflation, the Economy -

The GOP is picking up more State Legislatures and even super-majorities because too many Dems are getting progressively more insane and violent in their bullying.

Insane violent movements tend to shrink, expect Dems to have more shrinkage.

 

Dem's House Representation OVER REPRESENTS their percentage of the vote.

 

How so?
First off — the house is not set up as was intended to be a direct representation of the people but was capped by the Permanent Apportionment Act which slowly saw rural areas gain a larger share of representation per citizen than populace areas.

This was never intended.

 

So what? Leftists have been claiming that because of gerrymandering that they have been getting fewer seats in the House than their percentage of the popular vote. Did anyone think to actually double check that? I did, and as one finds with much of the disinformation that widely circulate on the left, the claim is crap.

 

They won't. They are too busy chasing drag queens through the shadows to do something productive.

 

What an odd thing to say given the established track record of the opposite being so.

A liberal just won the Wisconsin Supreme Court race. Republicans are already talking about impeaching her.

Janet Protasiewicz may have just won a seat on the Wisconsin state Supreme Court, flipping the ideological balance of the court to the bench’s liberal bloc for the first time in 15 years.

But if a newly elected Republican state senator gets his way, that could all come crashing down.

A GOP win in another Wisconsin race this week — the state Senate's 8th District — gave Republicans a supermajority in the chamber. With that power, Republicans there will have the ability to pursue removal proceedings of certain elected officials if the Assembly votes to impeach them.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/wi...liberal-state-supreme-court-justice-rcna78318

At this point you might be asking yourself how did a liberal get elected to the state's SC if there is a Repub super majority in the legislature? The answer is pretty simple.

Report: Wisconsin Legislature maps have the worst partisan-bias of any court-drawn map in the nation
https://www.wuwm.com/2022-05-09/rep...san-bias-of-any-court-drawn-map-in-the-nation

 

What other kinds of undemocratic things are Repub super majorities up to? Well, there's the expulsion of two black reps in TN. A racist act immediately reversed by the constituents of those reps.

Repubs in WI have promised to vote for a statewide abortion ban if they get a super majority. Do the majority of people in WI support one? No.