madamesilverspurs
madamesilverspurs's JournalHe's one of those guys.
You know the ones, they cluster around Mitch McConnell like obsequious manservants anxiously awaiting his next finger snap. In this case, he's Colorado's missing-in-action senator, Cory Gardner. Back home, he has his staffers arresting constituents in wheelchairs; if you try to call his office, good luck getting anything but a recording. Over the holiday break he disappeared into a remote deep-red sanctuary where he wouldn't be in danger of contamination from contact with Democrats or other evil libruls. In DC he's easy to spot with his gameshow host smile and skunk-striped hair. And if he isn't in his office chances are good that he's jockeying for position to be first in line to kiss McConnell's flabby ass, it's part of his on-the-job training.
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Change surprise
Preparing to run the dryer, I broke the paper wrapper on the roll of quarters I got at the bank. The coin box refused the first quarter (hey, it happens), so I set it aside and inserted others.
When the machine started I picked up the rejected coin and was quite surprised to realize that it’s not a quarter. Silver in color, it lacks the ridges around the edge and is lighter in weight. It has a farm and mountain scene on one side, along with “1 LEU”. On the other side, an official seal, 1966, and “Republica Socialista Romania”.
Coins from Canada and Mexico often show up in my pocket change, but this is a first. It’s kind of curious, though, that the bank didn’t notice.
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Watching the Senate on Cspan
McConnell's customary mumble is more labored than usual.
Something on his mind, maybe?
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Adverse reaction, I haz it.
Teeth grinding, stomach clenching, fist shaking response every damned time the unfortunately resurrected jackass Max Baucus shows up on the teevee machine to talk about health care.
Pass the aspirin. And the Mylanta.
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These Three Lawyers Are Quietly Purging Voter Rolls Across the Country
The Trump administration could soon follow their lead.
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...In June 2014, Miller and her four fellow election commissioners received a letter threatening legal action if they did not purge voters from the rolls. The letter came from the American Civil Rights Union (ACRU), a Virginia-based group that has fashioned itself in recent years as a conservative counterpart to the ACLU. The ACRU requested that the commissioners reduce the number of registered voters by the midterm elections that fall because, it claimed, there were more people registered than there were voting-age citizens in the county. The commissioners wanted to fight back, but lacking the funds to hire an attorney, they decided not to respond and waited to see what would happen next.
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...In order to win broader support from Republicans, lawmakers added a requirement that states make a “reasonable effort” to keep the rolls up to date. It is under these list maintenance provisions that Adams and Coates sue counties to purge their voter rolls, with Popper preparing to join that effort. But the cases’ allegation that the counties have too many people on the rolls is not proof of a violation of the law. The NVRA also sought to protect eligible voters from purges by placing restrictions on when and how names could be removed. Election officials can’t take people off the rolls without specific indications that they are no longer eligible, and as a result, voter rolls often lag behind population shifts, particularly in rural areas where the population is decreasing. “Right now we err on the side of letting people’s names linger on the voter rolls rather than pushing them off prematurely,” says Burden, adding, “Registration rolls do have people on them who are not eligible to vote in those places, but that’s by design.”
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http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/07/these-three-lawyers-are-quietly-purging-voter-rolls-across-the-country/
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