The courts are rigged.
zbyte64
Nah, they want your money and making the election a desperate struggle for survival is the best way to do that. They couldn't care less about votes.
To assert dominance?
The governor didn't call for their imprisonment but that they be returned to the state to perform their duties: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Oregon_Senate_Republican_walkout
Also did not call for them to loose their seats or that the FBI be sent after them.
If Newsom is our best hope then we are fucked. The guy thinks if the throws enough minorities under the bus the rest of the country will forget he is a Democrat from California.
Ahh yes, we all remember that time the Democratic president asked a state to gerrymander away some oppositional seats. /s
We also remember when Republicans fled Oregon to deny quorum. (This one is not sarcastic)
I wonder how many Republicans would be unseated with rank choice voting....
The more overworked people are the more willing they are to take intellectual shortcuts and not think independently. One of those shortcuts is to mistake a contrarian opinion as independent thought. Throw in a contrarian leader into an economy where people are overworked and this is the result.
And sometimes even little girls.
If media bubbles didn't dominate the landscape they would see common cause with the farm workers who also don't like breathing pesticides when working in the fields.
As t the very least we are entitled to see the complete Epstein files.
They will just change how the rules work, again.