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May 04, 2012 06:39 AM UTC
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I couldn’t be at the capitol tonight, but listened to the entire hearing online.
I’ll just link to my own diary. I was, apparently, a little slower typing than you. 😉
http://www.coloradopols.com/di…
The bill will be considered by the Committee of the Whole, as it always should have.
Kudos to Rep. Nikkel – a profile in courage.
It still has to get through Finanace and Appropriations.
I am not holding my breath.
What the prospects are in those two committees?
From my own question that I asked last night in the other thread and then offered some thoughts:
What do those committees look like?
Is there a switch voter on Finance? Chair DelGrosso? Vice Chair Swerdfeger? (He’s qouted in the Chieftain with a luke warm openness to the bill.) Conti – economic conservative but socially flexible? Acree? Any of them effected by new legislative districts?
Appropriations? Is Gerou as socially liberal as Witwer was? I notice that she is a member of a UCC church that seems to be on the conservative edge of that denomination. (You don’t find anything about UCC on the church’s webpage.) And Looper is on that committee. As well as DelGrosso. Does the presence of Ferrandino and Kerr (who has been a strong advocate long before he faced a possible primary this fall) carry any weight with their Republican peers? Or does Appropriations generally pass bills as long as they can be paid for regardless of the social debate going on? (Perhaps same for Finance?)
Does the sheer number of possible Republicans who might switch their previous opposition on either of these committees make these committees less threatening to the bill than Judiciary was?
is they sat down and had an honest look at poll numbers and the future of the GOP. Those who are not socially conservative extremists are concerned about their party attracting younger voters. Even the College Republicans are for Civil Unions.
I waited seven hours yesterday to testify (wish Rep Ferrandino would have given me a heads-up at 1pm that the speaker’s list was predetermined), so I had about seven hours to pace the halls and chit-chat with the Young Republicans testifying in favor of the bill. It was hilarious that they honestly believe the GOP is the party of Civil Rights. They did make some great points about the GOP being the party of small government and libertarianism. I think most Dems I know also think the government has no business in bedrooms and doctor’s offices. The young ones are not as extreme as the older Repubs, at least socially.
The Republican Party was responsible for the 13th Amendment ratified 1865 which abolished slavery.
Also the 14th Amendment ratified 1868, which granted citizenship to former slaves and equal protection under the law
Also the 15th Amendment ratified 1870, right to vote by all citizens regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. (unfortunately did not include sex)
All these Amendments included the clause that Congress shall have the power to enforce the article by appropriate legislation.
That appropriate legislation was belatedly enacted with the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act in which larger percentages of Republicans in Congress than Democrats voted to pass these laws.
Is that you have to read past the first chapter to get the whole picture.
Yes, everything you said is true. And let me add a few things. It was Republicans, particularly from the progressive Teddy Roosevelt wing, who led the conservation movement in the early 20th century as well as the safe food movement and the anti-trust actions at the turn of the century.
BUT, and here’s the part where you have to keep reading the rest of the history book. Those Democrats you demonize as holding up the Civil Rights Act pretty much make up the base of the Southern Republican Party.
There have been two significant realignment elections in the last 100 years (and a few minor ones). But the prototype is the election of 1932 that realigned a lot of those progressive forces behind FDR and the Dems. The next realignment was begun with Nixon in the ’68 election and brought to fruition with Reagan’s elections in the ’80s. These are the elections that realigned the white Democratic south with the modern Republican party.
Since then, the Republican party talks about small government and unintrusive government but it also sold its soul to the previously unorganized religious conservatives in the mid-80s. And that group wants nothing more than to legislate bedroom activity and personal freedom to align with its own definition of personal morality.
So, yes, it is kind of hilarious to hear young Republicans talk about the modern GOP (that they grew up with) as the party of civil liberties and personal freedom. Because the modern GOP’s personal freedom tends to stop at the temple steps of a weather worn Ayn Rand manifesto warped to the service of corporate welfare, personal morality (narrowly defined), and corporate immorality (corporate as in “collective” not necessarily “business” but certainly not exluding it)
for you, Todd.
I find it interested Allyn Cooper laments that the 15th amendment did not address gender. When ERA was passed in both houses of Congress in 1972, it was mostly the religious-right heavy southern states that refused to ratify it. As a result, today’s GOP is responsible for the ongoing War On Women.
for you, Todd.
I find it interested Allyn Cooper laments that the 15th amendment did not address gender. When ERA was passed in both houses of Congress in 1972, it was mostly the religious-right heavy southern states that refused to ratify it. As a result, today’s GOP is responsible for the ongoing War On Women.
Rep. Nikkel voted with courage.
Just the fact that she works with bullies and childish boors like Lundberg, Balmer, even another woman in Szabo, and no doubt runs into jerkoffs like Brophy in the Hall, makes this vote remarkable.
Word is the republicans in the House have turned the Assembly into a high school hall between classes environment, and Rep. Nikkel has to live and work there.
But she did the right thing, history should remember her, and the Bill lives to fight another day.
However, to flip even one R, and the one who interned with Marilyn Musgrave, tells me activists are doing something right.
Congratulations to One Colorado, Interfaith Alliance, ACLU and so many other groups who work for justice everyday.