Monday, December 5, 2016

The Republican Party Takes More Control of State Legislatures after the 2016 Election

What will win out at Morton School District 709, Morton, Illinois? The scientific truth or an emotional sexual delusion?

Four of the seven Morton, Illinois District 709 School Board members voted to support transsexual sexual delusions. TheFour Pretendersare:

Shaun Bill elected term ends in 2017

Clint Heinold elected term ends in 2017

Kelly Scarfe elected term ends in 2017

Michelle Bernier elected term ends in 2019

Note: [ ] = my additions


Petition: Pro-Life Petition

https://lifepetitions.com/petition/trump

To: Donald J. Trump

Congratulations on winning the presidency! After eight years of the most pro-abortion [Murder] presidency in U.S. history, I am thrilled that the highest office of the land will now be used to defend the right to life of all U.S. citizensincluding the innocent unborn. As such, I encourage you to follow through on the pro-life promises that you made during the campaign without delay. I also want you to know that you will have my support for any and all pro-life initiatives that you take as president, particularly when the going gets tough and you face opposition.

In particular, I encourage you to sign the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, to defund Planned Parenthood [Murderhood], andif and when the opportunity arisesto nominate staunchly pro-life Supreme Court justices [All federal court appointments].

I would also strongly encourage you to follow through on your pro-life convictions by: re-enacting the Mexico City Policy, thereby banning U.S. funding from paying for or supporting abortions [Murders] overseas; repealing the oppressive HHS mandate; attending in person the annual March for Life in Washington D.C.; banning government funding of destructive research on human embryos; ensuring that judicial appointments at all levels of the court system are pro-life; and re-evaluating [Change] your personal support for abortion [Murder] in the cases of rape and incest [and when the mothers life is endangered which is a false line of reasoning.].

In addition, I will stand with you as you to take steps to defend religious freedom, which has been under continuous assault these past 8 years, by repealing the Johnson Amendment, and protecting the conscience rights of civil servants, teachers, businesses, and all others.

Finally, I pledge to pray for you, that you may be given the strength, conviction, and courage to fight for the right to life of the unborn and for religious freedom despite the strenuous opposition that you are likely to face in the coming months and years.”



Call to action: Defund Planned Murderhood

https://www.sba-list.org/defund-planned-parenthood

In 2016 the Pro-Life Movement took action, voting to keeping our pro-life majorities in the House and Senate and electing a pro-life president. We did our part. Now its their turn to take action and remove all tax dollars from Americas abortion giant, Planned Parenthood [Murderhood].

We, the undersigned, people of all backgrounds, creeds, and party affiliations, call on our elected officials to Defund Planned Parenthood [Murderhood]. Taxpayers should not be forced to fund America’s largest abortion [Murder] business with their tax dollars. Abortion [Murder] is not healthcare. We call for these funds to instead be directed to life-affirming community health centers.

President-Elect Trump and the Republican Party platform have called for taxpayer dollars to be stripped from the abortion [Murder] giant. We therefore call on The House and Senate to send legislation defunding Planned Parenthood [Murderhood] to the president’s desk at the earliest opportunity.”


Petition: No Physician assisted Suicide

http://www.citizengo.org/en/39184-tell-us-congress-no-physician-assisted-suicide?dr=4611658::7f7bb99f165b41387e6b94ba4e27cb2f&utm_source=email&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTURVNU5tTTVabVk0T0dReSIsInQiOiIwcm9hckpuUHRRTWptdkgzOVgyR3lLSGZuSFJWNE5jSklDcFVGcUU0YldGbUZ2aE1GZDY0akx1RnprN0FHK1ZHRFdWdmFZV3d0MFpyVTlmU05RK01pemhyaWtvNlVuS0k1UGxib1JQRDJZTT0ifQ%3D%3D

“As you know, physician-assisted suicide is unnecessary, unethical, and unsafe. In short, allowing physicians to take part in killing their patients fundamentally changes the role of the doctor. A doctor must preserve life, not end it. [We already allow them to murder unborn babies! This is another extension of the immoral agenda of the Left! All one has to do is observe who is pushing this act of murder!]

Please join us in urging the U.S. Congress to wholeheartedly oppose physician-assisted suicide in our nations capital by voting against making the unnecessary Death with Dignity Act law.”


Update received today from the Our Land, Our Voice campaign which was posted Saturday:

“We have big news to share.

The Oregonian, the state’s largest newspaper, has endorsed the Our Land, Our Voice campaign with a new editorial that opposes a national monument in Eastern Oregon.

Calling on President Obama to honor on-the-ground solutions, the paper's editorial board wrote that ‘Obama should say no to designating national monument status to the 2.5-million acre Owyhee Canyonlands.’

The Oregonian joins a growing list of newspapers that oppose the monument proposal led by the Oregon Natural Desert Association and KEEN Footwear.
The Statesman Journal in the state’s capital city, The Bulletin in Bend and the East Oregonian in Pendleton have opposed the monument.

Visit
OurLandOurVoice.com to help stand up for rural Oregon.

Learn about the issue here: http://ourlandourvoice.com/


Sign the petition: http://ourlandourvoice.com/take-action/#a-petition


Donate: http://ourlandourvoice.com/donate/


Join the #AnywhereButTARGET Movement

Petition: To the CEO of Target ~ Im Christmas shopping #AnywhereButTARGET

http://www.citizengo.org/en/39227-join-anywherebuttarget-movement?dr=4611658::7f7bb99f165b41387e6b94ba4e27cb2f&utm_source=email&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWVdKaVpXSTNaREpqTnpRMyIsInQiOiJPSUdUaVBIM1p1ODdnTlcrZXJWMW9FcHZXekNjXC9pTFVpakcrT1VIemZxVDBCOGhXV3ptN1JsUVwvbXZYWmlaNHkzR2xFNFpLdFk2NGZndTQ5V056ZmVoY1k4K1RpM3pCNGxZRDU0TnJMMlFnPSJ9


Fed up with the liberal [Leftist] assault on common sense and decency in our schools and places of work? Tired of corporations carrying the water for a radical agenda that undermines our values and safety?

This Christmas season, we’re sending a message to one of the top corporate supporters of the liberal [Leftist], LGBT [homosexual] agenda and we need your help.

We’re shopping #AnywhereButTARGET because we don’t think conservatives should fund Target’s dangerous social agenda.

Not only has Target publicly advertised that its stores’ gender [sex] specific facilities—changing rooms and bathrooms—are open to all comers, regardless of biological sex, but Target has also stood by the policy, despite falling revenues.

It’s time to make Target understand that there are consequences for supporting a radical movement that is determined to redefine marriage, gender [sex], and, ultimately, the 1st Amendment.

To the CEO of Target:

I will shop #AnywhereButTARGET this holiday season

I am joining the #AnywhereButTARGET campaign.

I’m Christmas shopping #AnywhereButTARGET to send a clear message to the decision makers at Target that my dollars won’t support their liberal [Leftist] agenda that undermines our safety and our values.

Sincerely,

Don L. Vance”

#AnywhereButTarget

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fswQbP_J4YA







http://conservativeintel.com/2016/12/01/briefing-vol-iv-issue-48/?utm_source=Intel&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=House

Election results for the Republican Party at the State level update:

“GOP triumph at state level

Republicans can now make laws alone in 27 states”

“Among the new prizes Republicans are set to exploit: Still more in an impressive multi-election string of victories in state legislatures. Just as the 2010 and 2014 elections resulted in a mass of new policy initiatives and reforms at the state level, so will the election of 2016, and in new states where Republicans have not recently had full control.

The Obama years came in kindly for Democrats at the state level. They are going out as a complete disaster. Look to the map of state legislative control from 2009, courtesy of the National Conference of State Legislatures:

See the first above map picture

Although NCSL hasn’t come out with its post-2016 election map, we’ve used their graphics to create this one:

See the second above map picture

This is a rather stark shift from blue to red. Democrats have gone from majorities in 62 of the nations 99 legislative chambers [Forty nine States have a House and Senate (bicameral) while Nebraska has a unicameral legislature.] right after Obamas first win, to just 32 after his exit [A loss of thirty over eight years!]. They have been wiped out in the South, a stronghold for local Democratic elected officials right up until about 10 years ago.

A few technical notes on the maps: First, each state in the above maps is colored by the party majorities in each legislative chamber, not necessarily based on functional party control. Alaskas and Washingtons each now have one chamber in which coalitions have given the minority party control. Also note that the unicameral Nebraska legislature, although nominally nonpartisan, is under Republican control and was in 2009.

As for total control of government, including both houses and the governor, Republicans will now have that in 25 states (including Nebraska), and can enact new laws over a Democratic governors veto in two others (North Carolina [The incumbent Republican Governor conceded defeat today.] and West Virginia). Democrats will fully control the legislative process in only eight states, including Maryland and Massachusetts, where they can override a Republican governor’s veto.

2016 Balance Sheet: Let’s look at the changes from the last election, with Republican losses first. Amid a very strong early-vote performance by Harry Reid’s political machine, they lost control of both houses of Nevadas legislature. Republican Governor Brian Sandoval, however, remains in power through the next election.

They lost control of the New Mexico House, meaning Democrats will control both chambers of that legislature. But Republican Governor Susana Martinez remains in office through the next election.

Republicans lost their party majority in the Washington State Senate, but will nonetheless maintain functional control of the chamber in a coalition with one Democrat.

Finally, Republicans did maintain their party majority in the Alaska House, but Democrats will control the chambers business in a coalition with a few Republican members.

As losses go, these were not too bad. Republicans lost total functional control of the elected branches only in one state, Nevada. In North Carolina, although they appear to have lost the governorship (pending recount [The incumbent Republican Governor conceded defeat today.]), they now enjoy a veto-proof majority in the legislature and can still pass new laws without Democratsinput. Moreover, they retain the ability to do this in West Virginia, despite the election of another Democratic governor. Democrats gained total functional control nowhere.

On the other side, Republicans managed to make important gains at the state level. This includes, on Trump’s coattails in rural regions, a surprise takeover [of] the Minnesota state Senate. They now control both houses there, but Democratic Governor Mark Dayton remains in power through the next election. They also gained the governorship of Vermont.

Republicans gained full functional control of four key states, two of which will be critical to future presidential runs: Missouri, New Hampshire, Iowa and Kentucky. There could be momentous policy consequences in all four, depending on how ambitious Republicans choose to be.

The Kentucky House had failed to flip to the GOP in 2014, in time to change the law to help Rand Paul run for Senate re-election and president simultaneously. But it flipped very hard this time, with Trump coattails and a number of party-switches from D to R. Republicans will occupy 64 out of its 100 seats.

With GOP control of the state House for the first time since 1920, the Bluegrass State, traditionally Democratic, has now completed the process of party realignment in its elections. The only step left is for voter registration to catch up. Republicans already outvoted Democrats in their respective gubernatorial primaries for the first time in 2015. They are on pace to overtake Democrats in registration within the next decade. Even if it is merely a formality, it will be a milestone for the state party.

In both Kentucky and Missouri, where Republicans took over the governorship, right-to-work laws are highly likely to be considered. This might also become a priority in New Hampshire, where Republicans tried unsuccessfully to pass such a law with a veto-proof majority over a Democrat’s veto.

In Iowa, of all the states that saw big changes, Trump Republicanism seems like a clear winner from the 2016 election, just as unambiguously as it was in Ohio. Although the state’s Republicans had rejected Trump in their caucuses, he outperformed every Republican in recent memory with his resounding 10-point general election victory (yet another reminder of how different primary and general elections really are). No Republican had carried the state by such a wide margin since 1980.

The flipping of Iowa has received less notice than that of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, because it seemed superfluous to Trump’s 306-vote Electoral College victory. But if Iowa follows the path of neighboring Missouri in a more Republican direction it really will change the electoral map.

As a result, Republicans finally control the state Senate with at least 29 of 50 seats, and all three elected branches for the first time since 1998. The local press suggests that the legislature is likely to tighten abortion laws and liberalize gun laws. There is also talk of reforms to public employee pensions and collective bargaining, defunding of Planned Parenthood, and a clear shot at their own solution to longstanding state water issues.

The bigger picture, though, shows Republicans at heights in state governments that they hadnt reached since the 1920s. It means the party will have a healthy bench of election-tested candidates who can run for higher offices in the future [Are they conservative Republicans?]”

Overall, it was a pretty good election year with, in my opinion, a very poor Presidential candidate. Fortunately, the Democrats had an even worse Democratic Presidential candidate with a candidate who should be considered for prosecution for possible (probable) violations of federal law.

I am a Christian, Constitutionalist, conservative.


Restore the Constitution
Take Back the Nation

For Life, for liberty

Don L. Vance

“With a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.”

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