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Related, but at my former university their chapter just made a huge deal about now being a “Registered Student Organization” so now they can suck up student government funds (paid for by student fees) like other campus groups. But taxes are just the worst!
And it’s an especially good song because it triggers exactly who he’s singing about
Exactly what I was going to say. To add to that, there have literally been TWO incumbent House Dems who have lost primary challenges so far: Crowley and Capuano. Polling only gets put under the microscope in those high-profile cases where it’s “incorrect.”
Yep, NPA is almost a third of the state, but Dems still out number Republicans in terms of registration...
Err, no. You’re thinking of the Republican primaries, which for certain states is “winner takes all.” Democrats have a proportional delegate system, so Clinton’s pledged lead was essentially reflected by her national popular vote lead too.
I’m sympathetic to this argument...however, there was a similar situation for the Obama campaign in early 2008, and they were still able to keep winning primaries/caucuses and switch enough superdelegates going into the convention to be the presumptive nominee.
Hey now, don’t forget the clusterfuck that happened at Minnesota...granted, in that case the University somehow did more than the local police.
DOMA? John Boehner? Damn, you can really tell he’s been in a super safe district since his issues webpage hasn’t been updated for several election cycles...
Oh you betcha
Just more news that the Mets organization is cursed
Technically a real place, just not a state
Did anyone else catch a comment by James that was something to the effect of “the person with the worst strudel is going home...and that’s Sarah-Jane”? It was an uncharacteristic dig at another baker that I don’t think I’ve seen on this show before...and I think this was after he criticized her dough flicking method…
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That agency fees were somehow used to pay for political donations was never the argument of Janus though. Abood was pretty clear (unanimously btw) that advocacy needed to be separate from bargaining activities. Janus argued that bargaining itself was a political act, and therefore agency fees were “forcing”…
Then in that case the union only gets to bargain for raises and benefits for members. Because currently federal law states they have to do so for EVERY employee in their unit regardless of membership.
Sorry, you are definitely correct that particular restriction does not apply to minor parties. The number is 5% of the approximately $200 million pot available (each major party was reported to be able to accept ~$96 million in 2016). The $12 million figure is based on spending reports compiled by OpenSecrets.com
Ok, but that almost doesn’t matter when you consider Johnson’s 2016 campaign already spent more (~$12 million) than the party would likely get in 2020 by reaching 5% (~$10 million). Not to mention by accepting FEC funds by law you literally cannot accept any private donations at all and have to limit your spending whic…
Actually pretty much all recent GOP/Dem presidential candidates have turned down FEC funding because doing so allows them to spend much more money in the form of private donations. Obama in ‘08 rather shrewdly showed those can exceed the ~$100 million a major party candidate would receive during the general.