Liz Cheney is reportedly pulling the plug on her increasingly ridiculous Wyoming Senate bid.
It’s not just about Trestin Meacham anymore. A group called the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association today called for an uprising against gay marriage in the state. In an expression mixing a fierce devotion to rights with a deep paranoia about oral sodomy, former Graham Country, AZ Sheriff Richard Mack told the meeting: “The homosexuals are shoving their agenda down our throats.”
Yesterday I told you about Trestin Meacham, an idealistic young Utahan who is putting himself forth as the Gandhi of hating gay people, now two weeks into a hunger strike meant to compel Utah to “nullify” federal court decisions that allow gay marriage in the state. He’s even live-tweeting his fast. Despite Meacham’s putting his cellular respiration on the line for his beliefs, Utah can’t nullify federal laws, judicial decisions or anything else. But a TPM Reader in The Hive (sub req) may be on to the root of Meacham’s misunderstanding and impending health woes.
Trestin Meacham, a young man who combines a deep belief that same sex couples should not be allowed to marry with a weak grasp of constitutional law, has gone on a hunger strike to convince the state of Utah to “nullify” the federal court rulings which have made same sex marriage legal in the state for more than two weeks. “You can start a blog and you can complain on social networks until you’re blue in the face and nothing will happen but actions speak louder than words and I’m taking action,” says Meacham. Unfortunately for Meachem and his body – but good for constitutional government in general and the integrity of the state – states cannot nullify federal laws or judicial rulings. So far Meachem says he’s lost 25 pounds.
Meet Trestin after the jump.
This is definitely a story for the Twitter age. After initial reports that former Minneapolis Mayor Rybak had suffered a heart attack while cross-country skiing and other reports that could only confirm that he was hospitalized with chest pains, Rybak himself appears to have taken to twitter to reassure supporters and friends he’s okay after what he termed a “cardiac surprise.”
[Update: Though the precise nature of the cardiac event remains unclear, Rybak has now taken to Twitter from the hospital to assure friends and supporters that he is okay.]
RT @janashortal: Breaking: mult. Sources confirming former Mpls Mayor RT Rybak had massive heart attack hours ago. Now in ICU. #prayersforRT
— KARE 11 (@kare11) January 4, 2014
Other local news outlets have reports up but with very limited information. The only common thread is that Rybak was apparently cross-country skiing with his wife when the event occurred. Here’s kare11’s report on the web.
Late Update: Tribune Reporter Eric Roper reports on Twitter the City Council President Barb Johnson said Rybak was “talking with his family following the incident” which would be a positive sign. But every report at this point should be taken as subject to revision. Other reports speak only of “chest pains” but the Kare11 tweet-report above seems most specific, detailed.
Late Update #2: The Strib has released their first published report. Gist is that he’s hospitalized after chest pains, reportedly talking to family members, according to city official. No more details on severity of the event.
It’s become something of a cliche: disabled, aged or relatively impoverished whites who literally could not survive without federal government assistance in many case nonetheless raging against Washington, “hand outs” and government dependency. It’s there with a vengeance in this article in National Journal by Beth Reinhard on GOP plans to double down on race-based class warfare as the ticket to success in the 2014 elections.
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Emails emerge from ex-Utah AG scandal with staffers trashing transgender delegate to GOP state convention as “that thing.”
As you’ll remember, in the last couple months of the 2012 presidential election, a growing body of opinion on right decided that if you took the available public polls (which pointed to an Obama victory) and shifted them several points in Romney’s direction, suddenly they started saying Romney was the likely victor. Thus was born the great unskewing movement of 2012. Of course, it didn’t turn out well.