Writing about bumper stickers for progressives
Perry has tried to withdraw Texas residents from Social Security and Medicare benefits, threatened to secede Texas from the United States, and slashed support for education, leaving local communities across Texas devastated. Rick Perry is too scary for me to vote for him for President in 2012.
Jesus urged his followers not pray loudly in public, seeking to gain attention for themselves, but to keep it private. Rick Perry’s prayer rally made Christianity into a caricature.
This spring, 11,000 rally of parents, students and teachers protested Rick Perry’s anti-education agenda. Now, Rick Perry wants to become President of the United States – why, so he can wreck education across the United States like has in Texas? No thanks, Governor Perry.
Mac Herrling of Orland, Maine sent this letter to the Bangor Daily News: Our governor continues to amaze us with the vastness of his incompetence as chief executive. He crudely undercut his marine resources commissioner by going behind his back to make deals with the fishing industry and punish perceived enemies in Portland. His handpicked [...]
If Paul LePage was colorful as a Republican candidate for Governor of Maine, his display since taking office has gone into the infrared. Telling the NAACP to “kiss my butt” was just the beginning. After holding hush-hush meetings with industry lobbyists, Governor Paul LePage laughed off the effects of chemicals leaching from plastics by joking [...]
Frustration with Scott Walker has boiled over as tens of thousands of protesters have filled Wisconsin’s streets for over a week. Wisconsin is regretting its decision to elect Walker as Governor.
Every day it seems Carl Paladino comes out with another threat, another smear, another word belittling this person or that group or some other kind of New Yorker he just can’t stand. A couple of weeks ago, Paladino threatened to kill a reporter. Last week, they were screaming for a violent purge when Paladino told [...]
Have you heard that Paul LePage wants to bring offshore oil drilling to the waters of Maine? It’s true, and the Republican candidate for Governor made it unavoidably plain. When he was asked “Would you support offshore drilling in the waters off the Maine Coast?” in a televised gubernatorial debate in May of this year, [...]
In the state of Maine, there’s been a bit of a kerfuffle recently over the controversial views of Paul LePage, the Republican nominee for Governor. John Frary, the Republican Party’s recent candidate for Congress in Maine’s 2nd District, sought to allay concerns about Paul LePage’s creationist views by writing an op-ed piece in the Portland [...]
Hawaii Governor Linda Lingle doesn’t care about the environment: she scuttled legal, responsible environmental review for the environmentally disastrous Superferry. Linda Lingle doesn’t care about kids: she sent them home on Fridays for the school year without an education. Linda Lingle doesn’t care about equality: she just vetoed a bill giving gay and lesbian Hawaiians [...]
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