Mississippi legislature takes one step closer to authoritarianism

[Landslide Lyndon]

WTF?

https://twitter.com/ashtonpittman/status/1600964165895852032

[Fuzzy Bear Loves Christian Missionaries]

Ugh!

Say what you will about Florida,  it's broad public records laws keeps its pols honest to a larger degree than in many states.   That's relative,  of course.

[Vice President Christian Man]

As much as I dislike certain things about Massachusetts, the town meeting model should be adopted nationwide. It's effective and leads to less corruption.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

When will the Mississippi Ethics Commission declare that the Mississippi Ethics Commission is not a "public body" under the Open Meetings Act?

[Hammy]

Mississippi's like the right wing version of San Francisco where they just find the worst of the worst policies they can find

[Person Man]

Mississippi's like the right wing version of San Francisco where they just find the worst of the worst policies they can find

That’s actually an open question of who the “Republican version of San Francisco is”. Florida might be in the running to overtake places like Portland and SF for doing whatever they want because they can. There’s nothing you can do about it because the party and government officials in those areas are alphas and the voters are disproportionately betas.

[Associate Justice PiT]

Mississippi's like the right wing version of San Francisco where they just find the worst of the worst policies they can find

That’s actually an open question of who the “Republican version of San Francisco is”. Florida might be in the running to overtake places like Portland and SF for doing whatever they want because they can. There’s nothing you can do about it because the party and government officials in those areas are alphas and the voters are disproportionately betas.

     I like the MS comparison more because FL actually isn't a dumpster fire. One of the defining features of "Republican San Francisco" should be that it regularly makes incomprehensible policy decisions that serve no purpose other than to make it an overall worse place.

[Roll Roons]

Mississippi's like the right wing version of San Francisco where they just find the worst of the worst policies they can find

That’s actually an open question of who the “Republican version of San Francisco is”. Florida might be in the running to overtake places like Portland and SF for doing whatever they want because they can. There’s nothing you can do about it because the party and government officials in those areas are alphas and the voters are disproportionately betas.

     I like the MS comparison more because FL actually isn't a dumpster fire. One of the defining features of "Republican San Francisco" should be that it regularly makes incomprehensible policy decisions that serve no purpose other than to make it an overall worse place.

Mississippi is definitely the better comparison. Apparently Reeves is actually really unpopular even among conservatives, while DeSantis just won with the biggest landslide in 30 years.

[GP270watch]

 Mississippi is the state with highest percentage Black population and the GOP is of course freaking out about that. They need to insure Mississippi stays highly segregated politically and that the existing power structure remains.

[Indy Texas]

It's not even all that necessary.

It used to be that local newspapers all had bureaus in the state capitol and could hold state government accountable.

Now those papers have either gone out of business or been reduced to doing nothing but running reprints of USA Today articles and local weather forecasts.

National media focuses solely on what's happening in DC because there's a big national market for that. (And, to a lesser extent, focuses on NYC politics simply because that's where the journalists at big name outlets live.)

No one is keeping an eye on Jackson. If they were, you'd think people there would be a little more upset about the governor giving Brett Favre millions of dollars of public funds for speeches he never actually gave.

[West_Midlander]

We need a complete and total shutdown of Mississippi until we can figure out what the hell is going on!

[Progressive Pessimist]

Is Brett Favre at least allowed to attend?

[Dani Rose]

I think we never truly left Jim Crow behind, to be entirely blunt.