And he doesn’t care. Like busing migrants to Washington D.C., Texas GOP Gov. Greg Abbott’s “tighter inspections of trucks entering Texas from Mexico” was political theater, not a serious policy or solution to a problem. Migrants illegally jumping the border from Mexico into T[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Bad States’
April 16th, 2022 - 9:27 pm § in Politics
GOP governor’s border stunt will cost you at grocery checkout
Republicans impeach GOP attorney general who killed a man and reported hitting a deer
Might a GOP-controlled legislature actually hold a fellow Republican accountable for gross behavior? Jason Ravensborg is a piece of work. Ravnsborg, South Dakota’s attorney general, killed a man walking along a road with a flashlight on September 12, 2020. Ravnsborg already had a rap sheet of [...]
2 states, 2 voter fraud prosecutions
Charles Franklin Barnes Jr., 64 (left), and Jay Richard Ketcik (right), 63, are white, male, Republican, and live in a notoriously pro-Trump Florida retirement community. Both intentionally voted multiple times in the 2020 election. They got pretrial diversion, which means their records will be wipe[...]
April 11th, 2022 - 11:00 pm § in Politics
Trans families flee Texas
Texas is run by hateful people, and isn’t merely inhospitable, but unsafe for LGBQT people. Republican state elected officials are creating what they call “a climate of terror.” Their vicious campaign against LGBQT people is leaving trans kids, their parents, and LGBTQ exhausted. N[...]
April 5th, 2022 - 12:43 am § in Law and Courts, Politics
Get Madison Cawthorn out of Congress — and off the road, too
Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) has a thing about rules: He disrespects them. Not formal House rules. Nor the Republican caucus’s unspoken rule to not publicly accuse its members of engaging in drug-fueled orgies behind closed doors. Or his home state’s traffic laws. He racked up 3 violatio[...]
April 2nd, 2022 - 12:23 am § in Politics
Life in the big city
I wonder if Sen. Cotton’s dislike of cities is because city dwellers vote for Democrats? Anyway, read the story here. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
Graham flip-flops on Supreme Court nominee he previously voted for
When Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) ran for president in 2016, he was one of my favorites in the GOP field. I especially liked his military background, and thought, “Hmm, here’s a principled Republican I maybe could vote for.” Boy, was I wrong then. Since then, his stature has shrunk t[...]
March 29th, 2022 - 1:42 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
GOP legislators won’t impeach GOP attorney general who killed a man and thought he hit a deer
South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg, a Republican, killed a man walking on a road Saturday night, September 12, 2020, while driving home from a fundraiser, apparently scrolling through his phone instead of watching the road. Ravnsborg left the scene, called police. and reported hitting a �[...]
March 24th, 2022 - 10:01 pm § in Politics, Schools & Colleges
Texas GOP expands its war against LGBQT kids
Texas AG Ken Paxton, a Republican homophobe, has ordered an Austin school district to stop observing Pride Week. Pride Week, he says, is “sex education” and therefore violates Texas law. That’s nonsense. It’s like saying observing the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday is “[...]
March 9th, 2022 - 8:07 pm § in Health, Law and Courts
Idaho’s GOP legislature threatens LGBQT kids with life in prison for getting sex-change surgery
Idaho Republicans passed a bill on Tuesday, March 8, 2022, “to make it a crime punishable by life in prison for a parent to seek out gender-affirming health care for their transgender child,” NBC News reported (here). Homosexuality and transsexuality are natural phenomenon, but Republica[...]