Monday Morning Reads – February 26, 2018
Happy Monday, everyone! Shout out to Jessica for filling in last week.
New by the Numbers
125 painters – Alright, I admit that I’m late to the game, but I arrived nonetheless. Loving Vincent is incredible if for visually pleasing delivery alone. It took 125 painters nearly four years to create the first fully painted animated movie. Highly recommend.
$50 million – Delta has a knack for shooting itself in the foot. Delta hired a lobbyist with strong ties to Governor Deal, worked the usual legislative channels, and made the right campaign contributions in an effort to renew a lucrative tax exemption to the tune of millions. And now they may undo all of that work after severing ties with the NRA.
10 bills – Guns are a winning issue in Georgia *cough* DELTA TAKE NOTE *cough* so it makes sense for lawmakers to draft bills pushing their 2nd Amendment agendas. In total, there are 10 gun-related bills filed this session.
20 maps – These maps prove, if anything, we should all move to Montana. It also proves that this year’s flu epidemic really sucks for lack of a better word.
$45 payroll deduction – The Supreme Court is hearing arguments today in a case that seeks to strip unions of the ability to bill collective-bargaining costs on employees who don’t want to pay. My bet: 5-4 in favor of the plaintiff.
74 Republicans – Lawmakers in Florida are calling on Governor Scott to suspend Broward County Sheriff Israel. I’m not going to explain it. You should know it. Anyway, it’s an interesting development.
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Will is an active member of the Georgia Republican grassroots. He previously served as Chairman of the Georgia Association of College Republicans, 2nd Vice Chairman of the 7th District Republican Party, and Treasurer of the Forsyth County Republican Party. Promise Land = Forsyth County.
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Well, look at this! It’s Chick Filet redeaux!! LOL! Thanks, Libs!
http://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/florida-gun-show-sees-record-number-of-attendees-despite-gun-control-debate/67-523267641
I’ve got a number for you.
Two.
That’s as high as Doug Collins could count on his recent mailer before making a mistake.
Delta’s Crony Capitalist Tax Breaks are going to be litmus test for the Senate and Lt. Gov. Cagle. It will be interesting to see what happens.
The NRA’s statement is here about Delta and others blaming the 5M NRA members for Parkland.
https://www.nraila.org/articles/20180224/nra-statement-on-corporate-partnerships
The law-abiding members of the NRA had nothing at all to do with the failure of that school’s security preparedness, the failure of America’s mental health system, the failure of the National Instant Check System or the cruel failures of both federal and local law enforcement. …. Despite that, some corporations have decided to punish NRA membership in a shameful display of political and civic cowardice. …
I really like the new FIGHTING NRA!
More like: “in a standard response to customer preferences”. The NRA may not be responsible for the snapshot problems of the moment, but they are responsible for decades of efforts which run counter to the policy preferences of much of the public and their membership. So those corporations weren’t cowards- I am sure they would rather have not done what they did, but they have a responsibility to their customers, and not the NRA’s preferences. So customers and organizational membership will re-align in accordance with preferences.
And that’s why I see NRA as all sorts of defensive on this issue, bc they know it hurts membership, and wakes membership up to the differences between the members’ policy preferences and the organizational advocacy efforts.
Don’t forget hard-working.
That is arguably the predominant mindset of the 30%. (The 30% who approve of the Pres. no matter what, etc.)
The issue of unions is a bit confounding. My understanding is that the unions have to represent employees even if they aren’t union members. So why is that? Because that is what gives rise to the free rider problem. Isn’t it possible for unions to negotiate only for members?
Not for public employees. These are across the board contracts for folks like county workers, sanitation, prison guards, teachers, police and fire, nurses, public utilities, etc. When public money is involved, you need to have fully transparent pay and benefit structures.
That makes sense, not wanting to have different pay grades for the same job, based upon union membership. Although, I wouldn’t say it’s impossible to do that, but it certainly would have its problems. If those problems must be avoided, there seems little to prevent union membership from being an all-or-nothing proposition.
The Supreme court case is essentially about reducing dues = reducing campaign contributions. Statistically, these unions contribute to one ‘team’. The ‘other’ team wants to eliminate some campaign funding from public unions. It’s not about worker rights.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/25/business/economy/labor-court-conservatives.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news
Here’s a link without a paywall:
http://www.scotusblog.com/2018/02/argument-preview-third-time-justices-take-union-fee-issue/
It looks like a major part of the argument is that the spending of union dues can’t be distinguished between what is for employment contracts and what is for more outright political purposes. I find that one hard to believe because so many unions have PACs as a separate arm. But if the justices say there is to no distinction, I suspect unions will begin to push for ways to distinguish the benefits that payers vs. non-payers receive.
The idea of you criticizing anything related to a “free ride” had me busting a gut laughing!!! That’s almost y’alls entire constituency!!! Lol!
Generalizations are the hallmarks of simple minds.
Trump Tweet: “Mitt Romney has announced he is running for the Senate from the wonderful State of Utah. He will make a great Senator and worthy successor to Orrin Hatch, and has my full support and endorsement!” 9:21 PM – Feb 19, 2018
Romney response tweet: “Thank you Mr. President for the support. I hope that over the course of the campaign I also earn the support and endorsement of the people of Utah. “ 9:56 PM Feb 19, 2018
Another demonstration of the absurdity that “the Romney ethos could hardly diverge more from the Trump ethos”, since Romney’s distancing himself from his 2016 talk of Trump being a “phony” and “fraud” define Romney as a phony and fraud. Before that there was Romney’s sycophantic groveling before Trump seeking the SoS appointment, and before that Romney stating “No one’s ever asked to see my birth certificate.”.
20 people were killed by police in the United States last week. In one of the incidents, in Brandywine MD, Corporal Mujahid Ramzziddin was killed. https://chamblee54.wordpress.com/2018/02/25/killed-by-police-february-25/
Interesting article from yesterday.
https://www.axios.com/united-states-of-corporate-america-1519568415-7abd95d5-ab22-43c1-a9f6-a5151c83b4fa.html
So, the Georgia legislature is willing to really stick it to companies over 2nd amendment questions, but on some first amendment questions, they act as if they’re held hostage by companies.
Too late to take away their tax break. LOL
Such altruism! A damn inspiration!! Any of you with a knowledge of geography know if there is a pristine mountain face at Mt. Rushmore that could accommodate a full face carving of The Great Man?
https://www.wsj.com/articles/trumps-company-wont-disclose-size-of-donation-of-foreign-profits-to-u-s-1519671512