The enemies of working families have taken their loathsome cause to Arizona. 

Just this week, Gov. Jan Brewer and her GOP cronies in the state legislature unleashed the latest in an ever-lengthening series of extremist attacks on organized labor and working families. 

At issue is a sweeping series of restrictions that would, among other things, ban unions that represent workers in state, county or city governments from engaging in any type of negotiations that affect the terms of their employment. That includes teachers, prison workers and the state’s powerful police and firefighters unions. The move would take away much of the power those unions have and turn them into something more akin to trade groups. 

The bills have one more Senate committee to clear before the full chamber can vote on the measures. Thanks in part to gerrymandering, Democrats are badly outnumbered in the Arizona state Senate, so the bills will almost certainly pass and be taken up by the GOP-controlled House by the end of next week. 

Arizona Democrats are outraged not only by the attacks themselves, but also by the scurrilous smears against public employees conservatives are using as justification for these ugly bills. 

``The Republican majority has established themselves to be very much anti-employee,'' said Sen. David Lujan, D-Phoenix. ``It's just another strike at those who choose to be public service employees. Their voice is not valued.'' 

Representatives of teachers, firefighters, and police in the state are -- understandably --extremely worried about the effects of these bills, should they become law. 

[Head of the Arizona Police Association Brian] Livingston said he thought the senators had been fed “misinformation” by the Goldwater Institute, a conservative think tank in Phoenix that helped write the bills.

But Livingston said the lawmakers needed to be reminded of the facts on the ground, like the dangers of police work and the reality that unions in Arizona aren’t as powerful as many of their critics make them out to be.

Still, Livingston didn’t know what exactly his organization would do if the bills become law.

“It would cause utter chaos,” he said. “You will see a devastating effect to employee moral[e]. You will see, I believe, a hampering of the good services that our services provide to the public as we know it.” 

While it’s tempting to compare the Arizona GOP’s new assault on collective bargaining and working families to the brutal attack by Gov. Scott Walker and Wisconsin Republicans last year, it’s worth noting that the Arizona proposals are even worse. Wisconsin’s law rendered public sector unions effectively irrelevant by limiting the issues over which a government and an employee group could bargain. Arizona’s bills seek to do away with collective bargaining entirely. The Arizona bills also include public safety unions (police, firefighters), which are exempted by the Wisconsin law. 

After last year’s epic battles over workers’ rights in Wisconsin, Ohio, and Indiana, we’d hoped these fights were behind us, and that even GOP-controlled state legislatures would get down to the business of creating jobs and opportunity for their citizens. 

Instead, Indiana just became the 23^rd so-called “right to work” state in the country. New Hampshire Republicans are broadening their assault on collective bargaining to include special attacks on public workers. Minnesota Republicans are trying to avoid the Democratic governor’s inevitable veto by placing a so-called “right to work” law on the ballot in November. 

Voters in Wisconsin and Ohio have already firmly rebuked these extreme attacks on workers’ rights. GOP overreach nationwide has helped fuel a positive trend in special elections around the country. As this trend continues, Republican state legislators across the country should consider themselves on notice: voters are repeatedly and thoroughly rejecting the brand of right-wing extremism the GOP is pushing in statehouses. 

Republicans clearly have no interest in setting their extremism aside to promote policies that actually help those hit hardest by high unemployment and state budget cuts. Working families in Arizona, Indiana, Minnesota, and all across the country deserve better.

Much of the nation’s attention is focused on New Hampshire’s “first in the nation” primary today, but Granite Staters in particular shouldn’t allow themselves to be distracted from goings-on in the state capital. 

Some of the more extreme legislation percolating in the New Hampshire legislature has already garnered national attention—and a healthy dose of ridicule. 

...[S]ome of these citizen legislators are crazier than a Statehouse rat… 

New Hampshire House Bill 1148 would "require evolution to be taught in the public schools of this state as a theory, including the theorists' political and ideological viewpoints and their position on the concept of atheism." [...]

Jerry Bergevin, a Republican who introduced HB 1148, went further, telling the Concord Monitor that atheism was linked to Nazism and the 1999 Columbine school shooting.

"I want the full portrait of evolution and the people who came up with the idea to be presented," Bergevin said. "It's a worldview and it's godless." 

Bonus points for strict adherence to Godwin's law. Plus, the legislation itself is prima facie evidence against evolution. But it gets a few demerits for unoriginality.  You can do better, New Hampshire… 

House Bill 1580…requires legislation to find its origin in an English document crafted in 1215.

"All members of the general court proposing bills and resolutions addressing individual rights or liberties shall include a direct quote from the Magna Carta which sets forth the article from which the individual right or liberty is derived," is the bill's one sentence. 

But some of the other proposals that have surfaced in the New Hampshire statehouse aren’t as hilariously ludicrous. Two in particular are especially troubling, and both are retreads of proposals Democratic Gov. John Lynch vetoed last year. 

One such measure is voter ID legislation. Two separate bills that would require voters to present photo identification before casting ballots are already scheduled for committee hearings. Despite Gov. Lynch’s veto of last year’s attempts at voter suppression, misinformation regarding voting requirements abounds in New Hampshire. In fact, some voting rights groups are concerned about the effect of these ballot-box access falsehoods on today’s elections. 

Though a number of bills were passed in the state legislature last year that would require a photo ID, Gov. John Lynch (D) rejected the bills. There is currently no law in the state that requires a photo ID to get a ballot. But that fact never resonated with folks who for more than a year had heard the constant drumbeat that New Hampshire was soon to join other states that had passed such laws. 

Some major news outlets, including NBC Nightly News, lumped New Hampshire into a list of other states that would be asking for ID at the polls or otherwise implementing new voter laws. Other smaller outlets followed suit. Cities and towns within New Hampshire seemed to be confused about who was eligible to vote and with what, according to voters'-rights groups. 

Another regrettable rehash from last year’s legislative trash heap is Republicans’ so-called “right to work” bill. GOP legislative leaders have promised to re-introduce the measure this month, despite the fact that the Republican-controlled legislature failed to override Gov. Lynch’s veto just a month and a half ago. 

When New Hampshire Republicans regurgitate this “right to work” legislation, they’ll be in the company of at least fifteen other states already slated to consider these middle class-eviscerating bills this year (including Indiana, where Democrats continue to work tirelessly to defeat the so-called “right to work” measure state GOPers are attempting to ram through before the Super Bowl in Indianapolis). 

Republicans just aren’t getting the message. This kind of extreme attack on working families was soundly rejected last year in Ohio, Wisconsin, and special elections all over the country. GOP overreach clearly has consequences at the voting booth—a lesson Republicans may learn the hard way this fall.

The GOP war on middle-class values rages on. 

The latest assault is actually a rehash of previous attacks on unions and working families by Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels and his GOP accomplices in the state legislature. When Indiana Republicans pushed for a so-called “right to work” measure earlier this year, House Democrats walked out of the legislative session. For almost five weeks, Indiana Democrats denied Republicans the quorum they needed to force that and other anti-worker measures through the chamber. Republicans ended up dropping the “right to work” proposal. 

But GOP House Speaker Brian Bosma is making this union-busting measure his top priority for Indiana’s 2012 legislative session. He’s even dipping into his campaign coffers to air a 30-second ad advocating for passage of the law. 

Unfortunately, the ad itself is misleading at best. 

In the ad, Bosma says: "Indiana is the envy of the Midwest at job creation. But economic development experts say we can and we must do more. . . . In the next session of the Indiana legislature, we will vote to make Indiana the 23rd right to work state in America. We have to remove every barrier to job creation to give Hoosiers freedom and economic opportunity." 

Other Midwestern states likely would quibble over whether Indiana is in an enviable job position. After all, while surrounding states -- none of which have adopted the legislation Bosma is seeking -- added jobs from October 2010 to October 2011, Indiana lost more jobs than any state in the nation except Georgia, according to U.S. Department of Labor statistics. 

One paper even charged the Republican Speaker with “playing fast and loose with the facts.” 

But far from being best in the Midwest, data released Tuesday by the U.S. Labor Department shows Indiana is not creating jobs; it's losing jobs. 

From October 2010 to October 2011, Indiana lost 12,400 jobs, a 0.4 percent decline in employment. The only state to do worse was Georgia, a right-to-work state, which lost 27,900 jobs, or 0.9 percent of employment year-to-year. 

Each of Indiana's neighboring states -- Illinois, Michigan, Ohio and Kentucky -- all added jobs during that same period, including 60,500 jobs in Illinois and 48,900 jobs in Michigan. 

None of those states has a right-to-work law.

The GOP’s so-called “right to work” laws clearly are no panacea for high unemployment. Indiana Republicans should be ashamed for misleading Hoosiers with slick campaign ads instead of working to help middle-class families. 

Indiana’s statehouse Republicans just don’t seem to get the message voters delivered in Wisconsin last summer and in Ohio earlier this month: Americans want real solutions to economic woes, not right-wing policies and extreme attacks on unions. 

Republicans clearly have no interest in setting their extremism aside to promote policies that actually help those hit hardest by high unemployment and state budget cuts. Working families in Indiana -- and all across the country -- deserve better.

The GOP war on voting rages on. 

One of last Tuesday’s big Democratic wins against partisan GOP overreach was Mainers’ rebuke of the new Republican law ending same-day voter registration. With voters’ approval of Question 1, Maine citizens may again register and vote on the same day, as they had for nearly 40 years prior to the recent GOP assault on voting rights. 

Less than a week after Maine voters resoundingly rejected Republican efforts to restrict ballot box access, the state GOP is launching its next offensive: voter ID legislation. 

The Maine GOP’s newest attack on voting rights is also a rehash of a fight that played out earlier this year. The voter ID bill (LD 199) passed Maine’s Republican-controlled House but failed in the state Senate. The bill’s sponsor has announced plans to resurrect it in the 2012 legislative session and insists that the measure is necessary to curb “voter fraud” in Maine. 

Maine has reported two cases of such fraud in 38 years. 

Republican lawmakers in Maine seem to be in profound denial of the strong message sent by voters last Tuesday. 

House Speaker Rep. Robert Nutting, R-Oakland, said last week that the discussion over voter ID should be different than the bill that repealed EDR [Election Day Registration]. Nutting, the lead sponsor of the voter-defeated EDR bill, said it was too early to draw any conclusions from last week's referendum. 

Looks like we can expect Maine Republicans to continue to push their extreme, demonstrably out-of-touch agenda into the next year. 

Speaking of next year, it seems as though Ohio’s new restrictive voting law is eligible for an SB5-style “recall.” As we’ve previously noted, this law 

• Cuts the early voting period by more than half: instead of 35 days, voters will only be able to cast ballots on 12 of the 17 days prior to the election
• Eliminates early voting on Sundays
• Permits early voting on Saturdays from only 8 a.m. to noon
• Cuts early voting by mail from 35 days to 21
• Eliminates the weeklong period during which voters could register and cast ballots at the same time (“Golden Week”)
• Prohibits boards of elections from mailing absentee ballot request forms without receiving specific requests (forms are currently mailed to all registered voters)
• Prohibits boards of elections from paying return postage to encourage completion of absentee voter forms
• Eliminates local control, preventing boards of elections from extending poll hours and taking other previously permissible measures to prevent long lines and other issues seen in the 2004 elections  

(Fun walk down memory lane: Just after the bill was passed, reports surfaced that the GOP state Representative who sponsored it had been arrested for a DUI on Easter weekend in the company of a young woman who was not his wife or daughter and had tested positive for alcohol and Viagra. The legislator later resigned.) 

When voting rights supporters began the petition process to overturn the law with a referendum, the law’s provisions were suspended. Ohio Democrats seem to have collected the required number of signatures, and once they’re certified by the Secretary of State, the law will be placed on the ballot in 2012 for possible repeal. The law’s restrictive measures won't be in effect to suppress turnout for that vote… and maybe they never will.

Democrats’ Election Night 2011 just keeps getting better.

You’ve already heard about Democrats’ epic wins tonight in Ohio, Maine, and Iowa.

Victory in a Wisconsin Assembly special keeps Democratic momentum in that state going.

Despite aggressive GOP spending, Democrats expanded our majority in the New Jersey Assembly.

Arizona voters responded to Gov. Brewer’s recent redistricting power-grab by recalling tea party leader and GOP state Sen. Russell Pearce.

Michigan voters recalled a notoriously anti-teacher Republican state Representative.

And despite spending millions and millions of dollars on the effort, the GOP failed to take the majority in the Virginia state Senate.

Democrats even kept the Governor’s mansion in Kentucky.

Well, we’re not done yet.

Today we learned we can add a Washington special election to the Democratic win column.

Democratic state Rep. Sharon Wylie won the seat to which she was appointed earlier this year, soundly defeating her well-known GOP opponent.

This big night for Democrats is more than a sign that the GOP wave of 2010 has receded.

Voters are rebuking GOP candidates and policies all over the country. Republicans exploited their opportunities to legislate by forcing extreme policies through their statehouses, and voters aren’t standing for it. Even millions of dollars in GOP spending can’t obscure the truth:

In 2011 and 2012, Republicans just aren’t a sound investment. 

DLCC Applauds Repeal of Ohio SB5

Rejection of Issue 2 a Victory for Working Families

Washington, DC - With 1792 of 9522 precincts reporting, Ohio Issue 2 has been rejected with a “no” vote percentage of 63 percent. Michael Sargeant, Executive Director of the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee, issued the following statement regarding the successful repeal of Ohio SB5. 

“Tonight’s rejection by Ohio voters of Republicans’ senseless attacks on unions and working families is only the latest rejection of extreme statehouse GOP policies this year,” said Sargeant. “The repeal of SB5 is a monumental victory for working families not only in Ohio, but all across the country. 

“Ohio is only the latest in a string of rebukes of the GOP’s out-of-touch, anti-middle class agendas in states this year. In addition to the Senate seat pickups in Wisconsin and a series of significant victories in special elections across the country, these wins should put Republican lawmakers everywhere on notice: there is a price to pay for right-wing extremism and partisan overreach.” 

Since taking over a majority of the country’s state legislatures in January, statehouse Republicans have launched repeated and continuous assaults on voting rights. 

We’ve known for some time that at least 38 states have introduced legislation that would effectively restrict voters’ access to the ballot box. Twelve of those states have already enacted suppressive measures, and more may do so as state legislative sessions continue. 

We’ve also had an idea of the impact these laws will have on the electorate, but much of the available data up to this point has been five or more years old. 

No longer: 

Restrictive voting laws in states across the country could affect up to five million voters from traditionally Democratic demographics in 2012, according to a new report by the Brennan Center [for Justice at New York University School of Law]. That's a number larger than the margin of victory in two of the last three presidential elections. 

This study breaks down the affected voters by type of law, such as voter ID laws, anti-voter registration drive laws, and laws curtailing early voting periods and absentee voting opportunities. 

Speaking of absentee voting, Virginians may want to start practicing their penmanship if they want their absentee votes to be counted by the state’s GOP-appointed elections board. 

The Republican-controlled State Board of Elections withdrew one set of rules governing absentee ballots - they gave election officials more leeway to count the ballots of voters who made mistakes filling them out - and substituted them with less-flexible guidelines…. 

Removed from the current state absentee ballot regulation is language in the previous version that made it clear that illegible voter or witness signatures on a ballot wouldn't invalidate it, and a catch-all paragraph that specified ballots wouldn't be tossed if a voter's identity could be otherwise confirmed by election officials. 

Fun fact: In the 2008 election, 13 percent of Virginia’s voters cast absentee ballots. How many of those would have been disqualified for having “illegible” signatures? 

And thus Virginia joins the ignoble ranks of GOP-governed states taking unprecedented measures to prevent citizens from exercising their right to vote—and to have those votes counted. 

The effects of all of these voting restrictions will be staggering, particularly on the elections of the very state legislators who are working so hard to make voting so difficult. 

Consider that in 2010, more than 90 state legislative races across the country were won or lost by fewer than 100 votes. Two states where newly GOP legislative chambers passed restrictive voting measures (Ohio and Maine) had sixty-four 2010 statehouse races decided by 500 votes or fewer. Two of the Wisconsin recall elections this summer were decided by only about 2000 votes. 

Even a few thousand uncast or uncounted votes have the potential to tip majority control of a legislative chamber from one party to the other… as well as affect races all the way up the ballot. 

Republicans understand that as surely as we do. And sometimes they let the true motivations behind their suppressive voting laws slip. 

Minnesota House Speaker Kurt Zellers flatly claimed voting was “not a right” during debate over a photo ID bill (a statement he later partially walked back). So, too, did Florida state Sen. Mike Bennett in a similar debate. Republican legislators and party leaders in Wisconsin, Maine and New Hampshire said all sorts of disparaging things about the civic qualifications of college students in the process of seeking to keep them from voting on campus. 

Statehouse Republicans across the country seem to feel that legitimate means of influencing elections are insufficient to maintain a right-wing domination of state governments. Their voter suppression tactics are a reflection of conservatives’ pathetic desperation. The GOP war on voting is simultaneously an assault on democracy and an outrageous power grab. Its effects are far-reaching and potentially long-lasting. And it’s far from over.

When Ohio House Democratic Leader (and DLCC board member) Armond Budish learned that GOP leadership had tapped Gov. John Kasich to respond to President Obama’s weekly address, he was amused. Sort of. 

"It's comical that Speaker Boehner calls Gov. Kasich a success, and claims this is the kind of example that should be set for Washington," Budish, an attorney, said in his opening KO of Kasich's remarks. "Gov. Kasich's policies are failing Ohio. Under Gov. Kasich, Ohio has seen two straight months of rising unemployment rates following adoption of the Kasich budget, which comes after 15 months of job creation under Democratic leadership," Budish noted. As he's done before, Budish, who became the first Democratic House Speaker since 1994, looked Kasich in the eye and punched him in the face. "Gov. Kasich has governed with an air of absolute arrogance. He passed the biggest spending budget in Ohio's history, yet slashed funding to education, police and fire protection, mental health services and long term care for seniors." 

Budish mocked Kasich's budget balancing, saying it gave huge tax cuts to the wealthiest Ohioans and offered lavish benefits on special interests and major Republican friends. "This week the governor has implicitly recognized that one of the largest pieces of his agenda, Senate Bill 5, is flawed," said Budish, referring to an offer by Kasich and GOP legislative leaders to union officials, who rejected it, to compromise on SB 5 in order to avoid voters weighing in on it this November as Issue 2.  

"And let me make very clear that there has been absolutely NO opportunity for meaningful input on any significant legislation from Democrats, working people, or middle class folks who have been irreparably harmed by Kasich's radical agenda," the former Speaker said[.] 

Just last week, Gov. Kasich and GOP statehouse leadership indicated that they heard last Tuesday’s “Wisconsin warning shot” loud and clear as they desperately sought to “compromise” with their opponents on the infamous Senate Bill 5. Leader Budish called out Ohio Republicans’ hypocrisy and lip service then, too. 

Talk is cheap—and it’s no match for the high price middle-class families are paying for the extreme agenda of Gov. Kasich and the Ohio GOP. 

Well, that was fast. 

Half a day after Wisconsinites rejected the anti-working family agenda of Gov. Scott Walker by giving significant recall victories to Democrats, signs surfaced of another state’s GOP leader hearing that “warning shot” to Republicans who push anti-middle class agendas around the country. 

Ohio Governor John Kasich called a press conference yesterday afternoon, where he “pleaded” with union leaders and progressives to cancel this fall’s referendum on the draconian Senate Bill 5. 

SB5, which eviscerates public employee collective bargaining rights, was passed by the GOP-controlled state legislature last March and was signed by Gov. Kasich. A few months later, organizers submitted 1.3 million signatures—more than four times the required threshold—to trigger this November’s referendum to repeal the measure. 

These events occurred within the shade of the Wisconsin recall battle. The results of that fight have undermined Gov. Scott Walker's extreme brand of governance in within a year of his taking office; Gov. Kasich's extreme agenda push would similarly be undermined by the repeal of SB5 this November. 

So it’s not surprising that, as the Wisconsin recalls wound down and delivered two GOP seats to Democrats, Gov. Kasich began making overtures to labor leaders and the forces behind the SB5 repeal effort. Just this morning, he joined state GOP legislative leaders in staging a “meeting” to discuss “compromise,” despite the fact that leaders of the SB5 repeal effort already have made their terms plain: good-faith negotiations cannot occur until SB5 has been repealed. 

Obviously, the time for such overtures and efforts to compromise came and went when the bill was being debated in the Ohio legislature last winter. Gov. Kasich’s desire to deal seems proportional to the growing indications that one of his largest, most extreme agenda items is on its way to being torpedoed this fall. 

Ohio House Minority Leader (and DLCC board member) Armond Budish responded to Gov. Kasich’s desperate attempts to undermine the SB5 fall referendum by calling for a straightforward, reasonable resolution. From his press release: 

Ohio House Democratic Leader Armond Budish (D- Beachwood) called on legislative leaders to convene the General Assembly next week to repeal Senate Bill 5 and take the first serious first step to finding a compromise solution.  Budish also instructed the Legislative Service Commission to begin drafting repeal legislation, which is expected to be ready for consideration early next week. 

“If Gov. Kasich and Republican legislative leaders are serious about compromising on Senate Bill 5, they will take the first necessary step and reconvene the legislature to completely repeal this bill,” said Budish. “Upon the complete legislative repeal of SB 5, we can then begin to do what should have been done 8 months ago, and have an open and honest discussion with those affected by these proposed law changes.” 

Despite the Ohio GOP’s apparently growing trepidation about SB5’s fate, we’re not holding our breath waiting for them to truly come to the bargaining table. 

Indiana Republican state Rep. Phillip Hinkle is the latest GOP lawmaker to fall under the shadow of scandal. 

A married Indiana Republican state legislator who voted for a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage sought to pay an 18-year-old man “for a really good time” in a hotel room, according to an email exchange published Friday by the Indianapolis Star.

The allegations are truly shocking, particularly given Rep. Hinkle’s stance on gay rights and the fact that he has a wife and children. 

Emails shared with The Indianapolis Star suggest that state Rep. Phillip Hinkle -- responding to a local posting on Craigslist -- offered a young man $80 plus tip to spend time with him Saturday night at the JW Marriott hotel. 

The emails, sent from Hinkle's publicly listed personal address, ask the young man for "a couple hours of your time tonight" and offer him cash up front, with a tip of up to $50 or $60 "for a really good time." 

The email exchange is in response to the Craigslist posting in which the young man -- who lists his age as 20 in the ad but says he is 18 years old -- says, "I need a sugga daddy." 

The young man told The Star that they met, but that he tried to leave after the man told him he was a state lawmaker. He said the lawmaker at first told him he could not leave, grabbed him in the rear, exposed himself to the young man and then later gave him an iPad, BlackBerry cellphone and $100 cash to keep quiet. 

The barely-legal youth’s sister picked him up from Rep. Hinkle’s hotel room. Shortly thereafter, she reports receiving multiple phone calls from the Representative’s family members.

Megan Gibson said that on the drive back, she began receiving a series of calls on the BlackBerry, including one from a woman who said she was Hinkle's wife.

"I was like, 'Your husband is gay,' " Megan said. "And then she was like, 'You have the wrong person.' "

Megan read her the email address: phinkle46 @comcast.net.

The line went silent.

"Just for a couple seconds," Megan Gibson said, "and the first thing she said was, 'Please don't call the police.' "

Phone messages left with Hinkle's wife late Thursday were not returned.

Megan Gibson said she then began receiving a series of calls from various family members -- including from Hinkle's son-in-law, demanding that his wife see proof of the emails.

Megan Gibson dropped off her brother then returned to the JW Marriott, where she showed Hinkle's daughter the emails.

Megan Gibson said on her way back, she received another call from Hinkle's wife.

"The first thing she said, she was like, 'OK, we will give you $10,000 not to say anything,' " said Megan Gibson, who said she was now becoming scared. "I was like, 'OK,' and I hung up the phone."

Responding to his Caucus member’s situation, Republican Speaker of the Indiana House Brian Bosma said he will “try to discuss this matter with Representative Hinkle and chart a course from there.” 

The sordid story, described by Rep. Hinkle as part of a “shakedown” when asked to explain himself, is only the latest GOP impropriety to come to light this week. 

In Wisconsin, Republican recall candidate Jonathan Steitz is facing allegations that he rented an out-of-state sex offender an apartment in a restricted area-- less than 2500 feet away from a school. 

In Arizona, GOP state Sen. Scott Bundgaard inexplicably received a “Friend of the Family” award from the Arizona Family Project, despite the fact that he’s facing reckless assault and endangerment charges resulting from a domestic dispute. 

In Ohio, Republican state Rep. Jarrod Martin entered a not guilty plea to a drunk driving charge at his Thursday morning hearing. After his arrest for allegedly Operating a Vehicle while Intoxicated last month, reports of past episodes surfaced, including a rowdy night at a local hotel and passing out drunk on a fellow lawmaker’s car. 

Each week seems to bring new tales of GOP hypocrisy and misdeeds. Stay tuned for the next installment!