We can’t have Jeffries as speaker

    • Eldritch@piefed.world
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      3 days ago

      I feel you. Missouri as flaming red and irritated as ever. But I think we at least managed to pull off a single seat flip in the house.

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          3 days ago

          Not just that, but also Amendment 6. An amendment for simplifying the language of ballot measures. Which our Republican legislature worded at above grad student level of reading. Not being a grad student, but being an avid reader. I was able to understand it, but I had to help a lot of family members understand it as well.

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        3 days ago

        That also doesn’t mean that you can’t bring it up. Republicans are definitely going to be a little more receptive now.

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      3 days ago

      Yeah, it was close but I’m still pretty miffed about it. Gage and Lancaster were pretty far blue but it wasn’t enough to offset the 30+ rural counties

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        I really thought Kearney, North Platte might go blue lots of jobs were lost in that part of the state with meat packing. Plus trucking is huge anywhere west of York. Diesel has to be killing them but they just keep voting for the pain. We tried