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Bill Warner's avatar

Gerrymandering by another name, in another form. Just as nefarious as redistricting.

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JoAnne Campbell's avatar

Footprints of segregation

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Kadie245's avatar

Bobert is my rep and she doesn’t even show up to vote most days and yet she can draft this bill for the elite. She’s not even in that category herself. We will remove her next cycle with democrat Rear Admiral Eileen Laubacher. The movement is underway!

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Kathi Ruel's avatar

🤞🙏🤞🙏🤞🙏🤞

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Jaime Ramirez's avatar

How did she get reelected last time? Didn't she run in a different district?

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Kadie245's avatar

She changed districts because she knew she’d lose in her original district. The new district where she won is very very red (and happens to be my district). I voted against her but she had national republican support and she got in. Im just shaking my head as there had to be other republicans in primary that weren’t so corrupt.

Next time, there is an amazing democrat who just may change our district to blue. Rear Admiral Eileen Laubacher. Check her out!

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TR's avatar

Oh I seriously doubt she writes this or even has any input. She might have suggested the zip code thing, and then had her staff, write it

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TR's avatar

Go Eileen!!! Kik her useless azz

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Janine DeCook's avatar

Please and thank you!

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ROBIN DEGROFF's avatar

Now seriously, we all know she is stupid. She did not write that bill, she may have signed it. Though I'm not so sure about that either.

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Colette B's avatar

I'm wondering who actually authored this bill. Bobo is is incapable of complex thought. I was surprised to find she's passed other legislation. Who's the ghost writer?

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Janine DeCook's avatar

A Stephen Miller type!

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Serena Fossi's avatar

I’m sure he is happy to advise exactly the ways to make malicious exclusionary laws that only the privileged white people slobber about.

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Jaime Ramirez's avatar

Sounds like something that ALEC or the Heritage Foundation would contrive.

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Claire's avatar

I live in a zipcode that is relatively wealthy but “dragged down” by our poorer, more diverse neighbors. I see exactly what Bobo is trying to do and it’s just segregation by another name. Shame! I like my zip and don’t want it changed. Especially since doing so would bring a certain amount of financial harm to my neighbors.

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LmQ's avatar
May 26Edited

She was instructed by the heritage foundation “Russell Vought” and the Silicone valley Bros to push this! All anyone has to do is research- “The Network State” No doubt this is part of it! 💔 these people need stopped!

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Charlene Delaunay's avatar

You’re right to call out the Heritage Foundation, the right hand of the billionaires. They are the puppet masters of the Republican Party. Trump and his cabinet all have their agenda handed to them by this group who tries to remain anonymous.

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Kathi Ruel's avatar

Your comment makes sense. I don’t understand why Vought and company would choose this ding-a-ling as the standard bearer.

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New England Bunny's avatar

Another useful idiot

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Rain Robinson's avatar

Republicans sure want the monied wealthy people separate from people less wealthy. What a blatant attempt not only of segregation, but for voting purposes as well, I bet.

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Angie's avatar

Critical reporting. Thank you. I know the three Indiana cities you referenced and you are spot on.

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Harlena J Dyer's avatar

What an ass Boebert is. Definitely a segregation move.

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laura oshea's avatar

This may be for protection too. What if there are riots against authoritarianism in the future. Those known to support it will be left alone where lesser communities might be burned down.

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Andrew Todd's avatar

It will start off small and grow to be used for all kinds of criminal activities. Cheating at everthing is their thing.

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Cynthia Phillips's avatar

The telltale sign that this bill is not necessary is laws are supposed to first identify a problem and then be structured so as to either solve that problem or mitigate that problem. Furthermore, the problem identified must be one that is within the legitimate purposes of government. This means it cannot use government resources to benefit a wanna-be aristocracy. Legitimate purposes of laws are to enable the health, safety and welfare of the entire population, not just some privileged class.

The Boebert bill does not identify a problem, much less a problem legitimately addressed by the government. When courts analyze the meaning of a law, they use the preamble of a statute in which the legislature lays out the problem. By the way, legislatures will study a problem with hearings and investigations prior to a problem in order to write a better bill. Where is Boebert’s record establishing there is a legitimate problem here best solved with a new law?

Since Boebert’s bill fails to identify a problem, the courts are free to infer what everyone can plainly see - this is systemic racism designed to both discriminate racially and by socio-economic class. It could result in a 5th Am. taking, i.e. those whose property is left in the stigmatized ZIP code will see their property values drop.

Given what I have seen with Republicans here in my back yard trampling rights and telling us we can’t do anything about it, it sure seems they have that same bully logic as Trump. Unless they are physically stopped from using the system in this way they will continue to do so.

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Christopher Schmidt's avatar

Did she think of this on her own? As devious and wrong as this is, it seems like it would've taken someone with more brains than her to come up with this.

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Malcolm J McKinney's avatar

Neosegregation.

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Virma's avatar

Make Boebert read the bill out loud before any vote.

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Christine Rendon's avatar

This bill is past will be another step closer to Curtis Yarvin’s dark enlightenment. It is right on track. I can’t scream this enough. People need to know exactly what dark enlightenment is and exactly what this administration is working towards. And this is not something they just want to do here in our country this is something they want to do worldwide they want a New World order of elite high IQ genetically superior white people. All other others well you can guess what happens to the rest of us.

https://www.populismstudies.org/Vocabulary/dark-enlightenment/

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