White House, Elizabeth Warren team up to roll back GOP state dominance

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White House, Elizabeth Warren team up to roll back GOP state dominance

By Kenneth P. Vogel - 3/5/15 5:50 AM EST


The Obama administration and top congressional liberals this week are formally embracing a new big-money effort to turn back the Republican tide in the states ahead of a pivotal series of elections that could determine which party controls redistricting and voting rules in many states.

A delegation of about 20 Democratic state legislators from around the country representing a group called the State Innovation Exchange is planning to huddle on Thursday and Friday with administration officials in the White House, with Sen. Elizabeth Warren on the Hill and with policy experts at the Center for American Progress.

The meetings are billed mostly as discussions of the group’s economic equality agenda, which seeks minimum wage hikes, equal pay measures, family leave benefits, collective bargaining protections and increased access to pre-kindergarten and higher education.

But more broadly, they seem to signal that national Democrats are finally gearing up to counter a well-financed network of conservative groups led by the American Legislative Exchange Council (or ALEC) that for years has dominated state policy battles...


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[misterhighwasted]

1. This is the only way to defeat them.

Unify to take the power out of the ALEC controlled GOP.

One voice chanting is not going to do it.
All need to be on board to end the manipulated control of the Right Wing's move for a US slave state.

Cannot be stressed enough.
Thanks for the post & the heads up.

[abelenkpe]

2. Finally

Some good news

[2naSalit]

3. K&R

[Omaha Steve]

4. K&R!

[pansypoo53219]

5. census redistricting. non partisan districts.

[Wella]

45. THIS is the most important thing ^^^

Nothing will change as long as gerrymandering produces odd districts whose only purpose is to insure one party's dominance.

[Iliyah]

6. K & R

GOP governors and their legislators can not govern neither. Just like the GOP in congress, they don't give a damn about America nor her people.

Sample: Walker is destroying WI just like Brownback(sp) has done to KS.

[Faux pas]

7. Kickin'

[riqster]

8. About time.

Dems have been bringing a rubber chicken to a gunfight for too many years.

[think]

9. Thanks for the laugh. I needed it :) /nt

[riqster]

26. I'll be here all week.

[calimary]

21. My mistake! I thought it was a feather duster they were bringing to the gunfight

for too many years. I stand corrected! Looks like it was actually a rubber chicken.

[riqster]

27. A feather duster looks too upper-crust. The chicken is better optics.

[calimary]

34. Totally!

And it just kinda says something - when you do it with a rubber chicken. MUCH better optics, and rawther metaphoric.

[Revanchist]

10. It really doesn't matter how great a president is

if none of his (or her) ideas can get through Congress. That being said, do you think that this policy might mean the return of the blue dog Democrats? There are districts where a progressive can't win but a moderate might, we have to ask ourselves is a moderate Democratic candidate that might disagree with the president on some issues better than a republican?

[John Poet]

43. Purely for the sake of

who gets control of each house, and the agenda, I'd have to think that having a blue dog is better than having a red one.

[ChiciB1]

11. If I See Democrats WILLING To Fight Back

I willing gladly jump in and fight with them! For way too long I've been screaming and pulling my hair out. Decided I needed to keep the hair I have and a voice if needed again.

I can only WISH because HOPE isn't a word I use these days.

[MannyGoldstein]

12. They should be teaming with Our Next President™, not Warren!

Oh, I see, it's about turning back the Republican tide.

Never mind.

[RiverLover]

23. Boom!

+1 a whole bunch!

[CrispyQ]

41. Love the trademark symbol!

[blkmusclmachine]

13. Way too little, and way too late.

[calimary]

14. It's

[calimary]

15. About

[calimary]

16. Freakin'

[calimary]

17. Damn

[calimary]

18. TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[calimary]

20. Well Gee Whiz - they're finally waking up about this.

Well whaddya know.

There's also "Advantage 2020" which is being headed by Mark Schauer, that's focusing on this.

http://dlcc.org/news/dlcc-launches-advantage-2020-key-success-next-round-redistricting-70-million-plus-effort

I've decided that if I'm going to donate ANYWHERE, to anything, or to anybody in the months ahead, it's gonna be to THIS. Probably ONLY this.

[Hekate]

22. Yes! Yes! YES!!!!11!!

Between President Obama and AG Holder both cleaning off their desks, I think we are going to see the best so-called lame duck presidency in freaking years, if ever!

[LittleBlue]

19. I'm getting weird vibes from Warren and Obama

Like they are in cahoots against Hillary. I seriously wonder if Obama ever forgot that comment Bill was alleged to have made about Obama "carrying our bags"

[Hekate]

24. I'm getting weird vibes from your statement. What ARE you talking about?

[Politicalboi]

29. This I suppose

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2197527/New-report-reveals-insensitive-racial-remark-Bill-Clinton-Barack-Obama-2008.html

If it's true, it's really sad.

[LittleBlue]

30. Link

Clinton, naturally, was rooting for his wife when Hillary went head to head with Obama in the Democratic primaries four years ago. He derided Obama's candidacy at the time as "the biggest fairy tale I've ever seen" and reportedly dismissed Obama by saying, "A few years ago, this guy would have been getting us coffee" (or "carrying our bags," depending on the source.)

http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2012/09/05/160599692/the-odd-couple-what-clinton-adds-for-obama

Somehow I doubt Obama ever forgot that and supporting Warren will be his revenge

[MannyGoldstein]

28. Hillary power-mooned Obama a few months ago

In a magazine interview. Basically said he was a wimp who didn't know how to war on enough people.

[LittleBlue]

32. Yeah I never got the sense that he liked her at all

She was made SOS to appease the PUMAs. I doubt he would have offered otherwise.

[totodeinhere]

25. It's not rocket science. The Democratic voters need to vote in midterm elections because

those are the elections where control of many states is decided.

[AC_Mem]

31. Thank goodness

It is about time! The will of the MAJORITY is a democratic agenda. Speak up and act and maybe we can get people to the polls again.

Shine on,
Annette

[Cha]

33. Encouraging News! mahalo think

[2naSalit]

35. Hey can give me a call

I will be needing a job at the end of summer.

[turbinetree]

36. I will Volunteer

I could and would volunteer

[BlancheSplanchnik]

37. can't support this enough!!!!!

Really smart move towards changing the cogs in the GOPee fascism machine.

[Flatpicker]

39. I think she

Could make more of a difference by not running for Prez.

The state initiative is more important to the future than a sitting executive post will be.
We have to get the Senate and House solidly progressive. Having Warren as president would undermine that effort.
I'd almost rather her run the DNC and place a 50 state strategy into motion.

Let Hillary take 2016 while we work on getting the states fixed. I don't like that, but will take it over the loss.
Then fix the redistricting with the 2020 census.

[mountain grammy]

40. Yes, it's time for this.. we're dying out here in the trenches.

Lost our state senate to the goons and damn near lost the governor's office to the biggest goon of all, big Bob Boo-prey!

Republicans have been funding the shit out in the trenches and that's how the goons are taking power.

[rickford66]

42. Several years too late, but ya never know.

[Stellar]

44. Yes, it can be done!!!