The geniuses who run the Multnomah County Republican Party in Multnomah County, Oregon are honoring Martin Luther King Jr and Abraham Lincoln by raffling off a rifle in their honor.
Vincent Prieto (D), incoming Speaker of the State Assembly, says State Sen. Richard Codey (D) is wrong when he says that “Democratic Power Brokers” are trying to stymie the BridgeGate investigation.
Want to understand what this is all about? Who’s right and how Prieto fits into the “power brokers” Codey is talking about? Then read this truly epic TPM Reader email from last night about who’s who and how they do politics in the Garden State.
TPM Reader TC on the difficulty of getting young adults to sign up for Obamacare:
Love your reporting and wanted to drop a line tonight to offer my position on the ACA.
I’m a 32 year-old healthy male that wants, but can’t afford, Obamacare. I think the law is a step in the right direction, it just doesn’t go far enough to capture my peers in large numbers.
Let me offer my situation:
Ed Kilgore on the Christie scandal’s effect on the next round of presidential candidates: “So the ‘16 cupboard is suddenly looking a tad bare for the Republican Establishment.”
Gov Christie says he had not had any contact with David Wildstein in a long time. “I have had no contact with David Wildstein in a long time, a long time, well before the election.” But now there are pictures of him and Wildstein and Bill Baroni appearing together and talking at a 9/11 commemoration, on the third day of the traffic debacle.
Robin Marty on the Supreme Court rejecting Arizona’s 20-week abortion ban: “Yet, as nice as it is to celebrate a win – especially in light of the over 200 abortion restrictions passed in just the last three years – we also need to be aware that the Supreme Court’s decision isn’t that they wouldn’t strike down Roe over a 20 week ban. They just said that this isn’t the case that will prompt them to do it.”
North Carolina Senate candidate says food stamps “enslave” recipients.
Just look at the fight over unemployment insurance in the Senate.
US District Judge Terence Kern rules that Oklahoma’s ban on same-sex marriages violates the 14th Amendment.
We have the latest development in the national joke known as “Stand Your Ground” gun laws. The murderous jerk who killed a man in a Tampa theater yesterday because he wouldn’t stop texting may be planning to use a “stand your ground” defense.