Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

I’d try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

I didn’t have alien invasion on my 2023 BINGO card.

This really is a full service blog.

He really is that stupid.

They think we are photo bombing their nice little lives.

You don’t get to peddle hatred on saturday and offer condolences on sunday.

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

And we’re all out of bubblegum.

We’ll be taking my thoughts and prayers to the ballot box.

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

Happy indictment week to all who celebrate!

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

This year has been the longest three days of putin’s life.

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

People are complicated. Love is not.

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

Republicans do not pay their debts.

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

Not all heroes wear capes.

T R E 4 5 O N

The GOP couldn’t organize an orgy in a whorehouse with a fist full of 50s.

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

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State Team Updates & Strategy

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Our zoom with all 7 states to talk about strategy was on Monday at 8pm.  If you are working on this project and you missed the zoom and want to catch up, please send email and I will send you the link.

In the meantime, here’s the promised post.   Please use it to add the reports from your states and anything else that is useful: thoughts or ideas that came up in the meeting that we don’t want to lose track of, things you have thought of since, etc.

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  4. 4.

    km

    To add to@sophronia: ‘s info on AZ, today’s “On the Docket” newsletter from Democracy Docket says, re the ballot measure that Republican’s are attempting to get on the 2022 ballot in AZ:

    Republican lawmakers in Arizona are rallying behind a new ballot measure that would impose strict voter ID requirements on early ballots. The measure, which is sponsored by a conservative group called Arizona Free Enterprise Club, takes a failed piece of legislation proposed by Republicans in the state Senate and repackages it as a ballot measure that the group is campaigning to have included on the 2022 Arizona general election ballot. They need over a quarter of a million signatures in favor of the effort by next July in order to place the measure on the ballot. New identification requirements for early ballots would affect most Arizonans. 3 million of the state’s 3.4 million voters cast a ballot early last election. The ballot measure also increases ID requirements for voters casting a ballot in person.

    There’s info on that in @sophronia’s 3rd link – wanted to mention that current actions include the ballot measure as well as the lawsuit.

  5. 5.

    Kathleen

    Last week meetings were held throughout Ohio during which citizens voiced their support for the new fair mapping process and demanded that the Commission’s process for drawing maps be transparent and give citizens the opportunity submit maps and comment on proposed maps. Per Common Cause, here is the result of our efforts:

    Hello Kathleen,

    A HUGE THANK YOU to all of you who attended and testified at the regional hearings of the Ohio Redistricting Commission last week, or submitted written testimony! The hearings were packed across the state, with extra chairs and overflow rooms required. The Toledo hearing was moved to a larger venue — and it was still packed!

    The testimony was powerful! Speaker after speaker made it clear to the mapmakers that we are watching them, and that we expect fair maps that keep communities together. (You can read — and be inspired by — testimony submitted to the Ohio Redistricting Commission HERE.) Ohio media wrote story after story about the hearings. See a list of articles in the PS below.

    We wanted to make sure you got the news: The co-chairs of the Ohio Redistricting Commission have announced their next meeting.
    When: Tuesday, August 31 at 1:00pm
    Where: Room 313 of the Ohio Statehouse, Columbus, Ohio 43215

    The meeting will focus on adopting rules. At the meeting, the Commission will set a schedule for subsequent meetings. You will not have a chance to testify, but you can still attend to show your support for fair maps. FYI, the meeting will be live-streamed on the Ohio Channel and a recording of the meeting will be posted soon after the meeting has concluded.

    The Ohio Redistricting Commission should be presenting proposed maps very soon. Please stay tuned for information about additional hearings where the public will be invited to weigh in on proposed maps.

    Many thanks for all you do,

    Catherine Turcer and the Common Cause Ohio team

     

    PS: Recent Redistricting News

  6. 6.

    km

    Arizona’s group that focuses on state stuff (Civic Engagement Beyond Voting – CEBV) is co-sponsoring an event, Rural Arizona Summit, on tactics to “empower rural voices in state and local government…” on Sept 18. Not sure if that is of interest here.

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