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Among the many losers last Tuesday not named “Mitt Romney” were Karl Rove, Congressional Republicans seeking to suppress the truth about taxing the rich and its effects on the economy, and the Minnesota branch of ALEC:
Of the 26 members of the current Minnesota state legislature known to be members of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), only 15 will return next year to litter the hopper with legislation from the corporate bill factory.
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In addition to losing members in Tuesday’s election in Minnesota, the group also saw a favorite policy objective–voter restriction–fail when citizens decisively rejected Amendment #2.
ALEC’s lead person in Minnesota, state Representative Mary Kiffmeyer, did manage to win her race for a state Senate seat, but she’s not going to be wielding the power she thought she’d have just a week ago: She’ll be going from a state Rep in the majority caucus to a state Senator in the minority caucus. Poor baby.
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I was born and live in Minnesota. If these TGOPers put half as much effort into truly helping state residents as they do repressing them, the state would be on sound financial footing with abundant meaningful employment. Troglodyte schmucks.
How much credit should Occupy get? I think a lot all the way up and down tickets.
Good news indeed. I am encouraged to see the voting public seeing its way through the lies, in the face of the rotten things that wingnuts are doing to us.
I was born and raised in wisconsin, and have spent my adult life in minnesota. I am happy for both my states after the election. In fact, i am smirking, gloating, and not feeling the least bit repentant about it. woooohooooo!
Thankfully we saw a number of state houses flip back this year. Rachel did a segment on this the other day.
Tony Sutton and his buddies proved that Republicans really are bad with money – their own and other people’s.
Charlie Pierce made that point in his latest Esquire blog post. At a minimum, Romney’s ’47%’ gaffe wouldn’t have had the negative resonance it did without Occupy’s emphasis on the 99%.
There were so many positive things about the election in Minnesota. While defeating the gay marriage hate amendment was awesome, there’s still a law banning it that needs to be repealed.
I was really concerned about the voter ID amendment passing. It’s unbelievable that it didn’t, once having over 80% support. I think seeing Kiffmeyer’s pet project getting destroyed is, for me, the highlight result from Tuesday. She is such an awful human being, working so hard to suppress voting rights.
How amusing that, a couple of weeks ago, the entire media were convinced Minnesota was in play. Every election cycle it’s the same refrain, “Minnesota is a purple state.” And with every result fewer republicans hold office. 2010 was a net loss for the GOP in the state. Sure, they took control of the Senate, but lost the governorship (to bulldog DFLer Mark Dayton) and then went financially bankrupt and imploded in a major sex scandal. Now the DFL controls all elected bodies for the first time in over 20 years. And oh yeah, the Iron Range undid the teabaggery of 2010 and restored MN-8 to DFL representation.
Swing state indeed.
Good news for the people of Minnesota!! Woot!!
ALEC will merely re-organize into another obscure group. Abolishing ALEC won’t stop the money junkies from controlling the agenda in Washington. We have abolished a name to an organization, not their agenda.
unfortunately, the Alecs are fully entrenched west of the Red in ND. Thank goodness for Nolan’s win in cabin country.