February 25, 2020 - 11:36am
The Wisconsin Assembly passed a resolution calling for a rewrite of the U.S. Constitution on February 18
by a 60-38 vote, almost entirely along party lines. The measure, Assembly Joint Resolution (AJR) 77, now heads to the Senate, where its companion, Senate Joint Resolution (SJR) 57, has yet to move out of committee.
If passed, Wisconsin would become the 16
th state to back right-wing efforts to call for a constitutional convention to propose sweeping amendments to the Constitution to curtail the powers of the federal government. Under Article V of the Constitution, at least two-thirds of the States must submit applications in order to convene a constitutional convention.
January 27, 2021 - 8:13pm
Since the insurrection at the Capitol on Jan. 6, numerous corporations and trade groups have condemned the violence and have taken steps to hold accountable those tied to what will forever be a stain on our democracy.
A large number of corporate PACs are also suspending, pausing, and reviewing contributions to those in Congress who voted against certifying President-elect Joe Biden’s victory. But what about the American Legislative Exchange Council’s(ALEC) funders?
ALEC, an ostensibly nonpartisan pay-to-play operation where legislators and corporate lobbyists meet behind closed doors to adopt model legislation on a broad range of public policy issues, embraced Trump early on, and its leaders and members worked hard to promote his voter fraud lies in order to keep him office.
Senator Bernie Sanders became immortalized as an internet meme after inauguration guests pointed out his eclectic attire. Compared to other guests’ Prada and Chanel, Senator Sanders was seated alone, wearing a muted brown parka and brown, geometric patterned woolen mittens. Given the events of 2020, many Americans identified with Senator Sanders’ vibe. Some even contacted Jen Ellis from Essex Junction, Vermont, the knitter behind the mittens, attempting to secure their own pair. Sadly, Ms. Ellis announced she had no more mittens to sell. As an independent crafter, she found regulation and taxes to be too high of a hurdle to overcome. She closed her knitting shop after deciding it was no longer worth it to stay in business.
COVID-19-liability bill in Florida may be ready for quick adoption in March by John Haughey, The Center Square | January 26, 2021 10:30 AM Print this article
A ready-to-pass COVID-19-liability bill could await Florida lawmakers when they convene in March for the 2021 legislative session.
Companion Senate and House measures seeking to shield Florida businesses from “frivolous” lawsuits related to the pandemic already have advanced through initial hearings and could secure all three required committee nods in pre-session deliberations.
SB 72’s House companion,
House Bill 7, filed by Rep. Lawrence McClure, R-Dover, was reported favorably out of the House Civil Justice & Property Rights Subcommittee on Jan. 13. It next goes before the House Pandemics & Public Emergencies Committee.
By 1961, Charles Koch had stacked up three engineering degrees and was back home in Wichita, Kansas, to join the family business of oil refining, pipelines, and manufacturing. His father, Fred, was at the time attempting to tackle a different sort of engineering challenge: how to get unions, Communists, and big government off his back. The Nazi sympathizer Koch patriarch fought against unions in Kansas, and when the John Birch Society convened its inaugural meeting in 1958 initially composed exclusively of National Association of Manufacturers members he enthusiastically attended as a co-founder. According to a 1961
Washington Post profile of Koch’s white supremacist conspiracy-theory club, “leadership of the Birch Society overlaps heavily with the leadership of the organizations that successfully campaigned in 1958 for a right to work amendment to the State’s Constitution.” Fred died in 1967, but Charles eagerly put his education to work carrying on his family’s 60-year