Thu
Jan 25 2018
06:33 am
Alabama state house angry over Doug Jones win
By: bizgrrl

The Republican-led Alabama House of Representatives has passed a bill to end special elections for the U.S. Senate, just more than a month after such a vote resulted in the state electing its first Democratic senator in a quarter-century.

House Bill 17 would require the governor to appoint someone to fill a vacancy for a U.S. Senate seat until the next general election. It passed easily in Alabama's House on a mostly party-line vote and headed to the state's Republican-controlled Senate.

Wow, they are on top of things. You don't like voter results, change the way things work. Yeehaw!

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yellowdog's picture

Democracy is the enemy of plutocracy

Submitted by yellowdog on Thu, 2018/01/25 - 12:11pm.

Everyone who cares about any of this should read Nancy MacLean's Democracy in Chains, which details the history of the ideology pushed by the Kochs and most Republicans. They know that if people were really in charge, they wouldn't be.

jbr's picture

Democracy is ok, unless they

Submitted by jbr on Thu, 2018/01/25 - 1:35pm.

Democracy is ok, unless they don't get what they want.

Rachel's picture

Those damn voters just won't

Submitted by Rachel on Thu, 2018/01/25 - 2:22pm.

Those damn voters just won't behave.

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