The GOP Keeps Changing The Rules After It Loses Elections

[UCmeNdc]

Republicans in Utah, Michigan, Wisconsin and elsewhere didn’t like what voters chose last year, so they’re simply undoing it.

Last Election Day, 555,651 Utahns ― 53 percent of voters ― backed a measure to expand Medicaid to low-income adults in the state. Last Monday, 79 Republicans made it clear they don’t care what those voters wanted.

All but four GOP members of the Utah legislature voted to repeal the voter-approved initiative and replace it with a more limited plan. Their plan will cover an estimated 90,000 people instead of the approximately 150,000 who would have received health benefits under the ballot initiative. This action came soon after the Utah legislature also weakened a voter-backed policy allowing the use of medical marijuana in the state.

Republican state legislators voted to pass the final version of the Medicaid bill last Monday, and Gov. Gary Herbert (R) signed it hours later. Though Utah Republicans backed away from an earlier version of the legislation that could have resulted in no expansion at all, they nevertheless decided to overturn the will of their constituents almost immediately after convening for the 2019 legislative session.

Citizen activists who spent countless hours knocking on doors and gathering signatures to get Medicaid expansion on the ballot in Utah are, unsurprisingly, upset, said Chase Thomas, the executive director of Alliance for a Better Utah, a Salt Lake City-based government watchdog group. The organization was among the many in the state that endorsed the Medicaid expansion and participated in the campaign to get it before the voters.


https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-gop-keeps-changing-the-rules-after-it-loses-elections_n_5c6f0cede4b0f40774cd7232

[Kurt V.]

1. my state too.

Missouri Democrats
@MoDemParty
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21h
Overturning the voters on
@CleanMissouri
wasn’t enough for the #MoLeg GOP majority. Now they’re aiming to overturn
@VoteYesOnPropB
to raise the minimum wage, which passed with 62% in Nov.

[Gore1FL]

10. They did it with concealed weapons a number of years ago, too. nt

[rickyhall]

2. Add to list of non-democratic states

N.Carolina is first.

[littlemissmartypants]

5. Keep the faith.

[Duppers]

3. This must be taken to the courts!

What the rethugs are doing seems unreal! They cannot be allowed to get away with this.

[catbyte]

9. republicans overturned the will of the majority so many times in Michigan over the last eight

years. There were anti-wolf hunting, anti-Emergency Manager & other initiatives passed that the the legislature overturned and the gop governor signed. It's a big reason why we now have a Democratic sweep in the Administrative branch, the loss of the gop supermajority in the state Senate & significant reductions in the state House. Once state districts are redrawn, I'm predicting that unless the gop changes, they will become the minority party here.

[Duppers]

11. "they will become the minority party here."

[OnDoutside]

4. Well then, go beyond the GOP to Republican voters and get the message

to them about what the GOP is doing to them. There's no easier answer.

[Harker]

6. Many of them are pretty thick. n/t

[OnDoutside]

14. Then talk to them in words they'd understand. You don't have to get all of them, just enough to

undercut the Republicans.

[catbyte]

7. The gop Michigan legislature can do their worst, but we've got a firewall with a Democratic governor

and there's no longer a supermajority in the legislature which will prevent a veto override. They can waste all the time they want. The anti-gerrymandering law remains in place, so let them cut their own throats.

[Duppers]

12. Love your metaphor

Your last 6 words.

[progressoid]

8. Get Out The Vote!

[Fuzzpope]

13. Here's what I do not understand.

When we hold elections, and a person is voted from office, why on EARTH is that person left in a position to affect legislation, for ousted Republican congressmen to even have the opportunity to counter the will of the people.

If elections are held, and a person is voted from power, the very minute that counting stops and the winner declared, that should be it, pack your shit and hit the fucking road, asshole.

It's fucking nuts that these sons of bitches are left with MONTHS to hammer away and and erode the intentions of election results.