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Ongoing US GOP Debacle Thread: Seditious Republicans march toward authoritarianism

While teen pregnancy rates are going down. Bold move.
 
Cut funding for teen pregnancy programs, cut funding for Medicaid, defund Planned Parenthood, what could go wrong?
 
Foxconn could get up to $200 million in cash a year from state residents for up to 15 years

And because Wisconsin already waives almost all taxes on manufacturing profits in the state, these incentives represent not a lost opportunity at collecting revenue but an obligation to pay cash to Foxconn out of the state treasury for up to 15 years. When including a $150 million sales tax break for buying construction material, the incentive package could total up to $3 billion, according to the bill that lawmakers could vote on as soon as Tuesday.

That figure doesn't account for the still undisclosed additional incentives that local governments will have to provide. The bill would increase caps on those local subsidies, ease environmental regulations on Foxconn and provide $252 million in state additional borrowing for rebuilding I-94 south of Milwaukee, a key corridor for the Foxconn plant being slated for Racine or Kenosha counties.
 
This seems like a good time to point out the map of governors running for re-election next year (and this year), which includes Illinois.

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i have no idea what will happen. politics have been a cluster fuck for the last year that just about anything can happen.
 
Still above 80% with Republicans.
 

That looks like a fairly significant negative trend. However, I read somewhere that Nixon's approval fell all the way to the 20s before the Senate Republicans were willing to do anything about him.
 
There's no way Trump gets that low.
 
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This seems like a good time to point out the map of governors running for re-election next year (and this year), which includes Illinois.

2018govraces_600.png

It is a gubernatorial election year next year in Georgia, but the current GOP gov is term limited and not running for re-election. Casey Cagel, GA Lt. Gov., and Brian Kemp, GA Secretary of State, are probably the current GOP front runners and Stacey Abrams, GA house minority leader who spoke at the DNC last year, is probably the current Dem front runner.
 
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