Way to ruin an entertaining @Imaginedragons half-time concert with the weird rantings of a tired, has-been like @LilTunechi... One act still rising...The other, not so much...
JANUARY 11, 2019
Tweet from Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin, who apparently is not a fan of rapper Lil Wayne who performed at the college football national championship game.
Source: Vice
Fentanyl is stronger, you need less of it, and it’s cheaper. So why wouldn’t I, as somebody with limited funds, want to spend my money on something that’s a better value and therefore a better product?
JANUARY 10, 2019
Kristen Marshall, who runs a drug testing program for the Harm Reduction Coalition, conveying the thinking of someone who intentionally uses fentanyl, which is responsible for many deadly opioid overdoses.
Source: Stateline
Life in prison isn't a life. This isn't living, man. It's just surviving.
JANUARY 9, 2019
Scott Dozier, a death-row inmate in Nevada, a few months before he was found hanging in his cell over the weekend. His execution requests were repeatedly blocked, most recently by a lawsuit from the drug manufacturer whose products would have been used to kill him.
Source: Tribune News Service
What's out there is darkness. Uncertainty. Decline and recession. So good luck, baby!
JANUARY 8, 2019
Now former California Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown, after releasing his final budget last year. On Monday, Gavin Newsom was sworn in as Brown's successor.
Source: Tribune News Service
He is the embodiment of a bygone era. He is Lyndon Johnson in the age of Beto O’Rourke.
JANUARY 7, 2019
Maryland Comptroller Peter Franchot, a Democrat, criticizing fellow Democrat Mike Miller, the nation's longest-serving state senate leader.
Source: Governing
I want to play poker with Donald Trump. I really do.
JANUARY 4, 2019
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, after being briefed about the latest negotiations to end the federal government shutdown. Inslee, a Democrat, is running for president in 2020.
Source: The Atlantic
Deer and elk accidentally stuck by a vehicle may be salvaged for human consumption only. Intentionally hitting a deer or elk in order to salvage it remains unlawful.
JANUARY 3, 2019
Regulations that took effect this week, granting Oregonians the right to eat roadkill.
The vast majority of the country is going to feel the pain come April.
JANUARY 2, 2019
Rudy Salo, a public finance attorney, in reference to the $10,000 cap on state and local tax deductions, which Congress passed in late 2017.
Source: Governing
I don't know what's happening in Michigan or North Carolina except what happens in the media, which I distrust.
DECEMBER 21, 2018
Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, the architect of the bills to reduce the incoming Democratic governor's power. Similar legislation was introduced by Republicans in Michigan and North Carolina after Democrats were elected governor.
Source: Governing
Kill yourself!
DECEMBER 20, 2018
Tweet from New York Democratic state Sen. Kevin Parker to a Republican Senate staffer, Candice Giove, after she accused Parker of blocking a bike path with his car. Parker has since deleted the tweet and apologized.
Source: Tribune News Service
Lame duck is when the worst things happen.
DECEMBER 19, 2018
Danielle Atkinson, founding director of Mothering Justice, a progressive group that pushed for the November ballot measure to raise Michigan's minimum wage and require paid sick leave. In the lame-duck session, Michigan GOP Gov. Rick Snyder signed a bill to water down that measure.
Source: Governing
This is insanity in print, and it will not stand up on appeal.
DECEMBER 18, 2018
Tweet from University of Michigan Law School professor Nicholas Bagley, an expert in health law, in regards to the ruling that the Affordable Care Act is unconstitutional because Congress repealed the tax penalty for not having insurance.
Source: Kaiser Health News
You didn’t leave the [Republican] party. The party left you.
DECEMBER 17, 2018
California Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye, on what her family and friends said about her leaving the GOP -- a decision she finalized after watching the confirmation hearings for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
Source: CALmatters
This sentence serves as a warning to others in public life. If you engage in public corruption, you will be shown no mercy, and you will go to jail.
DECEMBER 14, 2018
U.S. District Court Judge Valerie E. Caproni, who sentenced Alain Kaloyeros, the former president of the SUNY Polytechnic Institute, on Tuesday to three and a half years in prison.
Source: Buffalo News
Does Nikolas Cruz deserve to die? Choose the best answer.
DECEMBER 13, 2018
Title, and instruction, of a worksheet distributed to students at a high school 10 minutes from Marjory Stoneman Douglas, where Cruz killed 17 people in February. The assignment had questions about the death penalty based on a New York Times articles with the same title.
Source: CNN
The punishments didn’t fit the crimes. ‘Interfering with public transit’ was a Class A misdemeanor, the same as a DUI. And ‘interfering with public transit’ could be anything, including fare evasion.
DECEMBER 12, 2018
Shawn Fleek, a spokesperson for OPAL Environmental Justice Oregon, which helped the state rewrite the law to lower the penalty for fare evasion.
Source: Governing
You're hurting my son!
DECEMBER 11, 2018
What a woman yelled as New York City police officers aggressively pulled and yanked her 1-year-old child out of her arms so they could arrest her on charges of trespassing and resisting arrest for refusing to stand up at a government welfare office where she was renewing her child care benefits. There were no chairs available, so she sat on the floor in the corner.
Source: CNN
There's a lot of interest with what's happening with Trump, but when you look at what's happening in states and particularly Wisconsin, you see how easy it is to have what amounts to minority rule.
DECEMBER 10, 2018
Dan Kaufman, author of The Fall of Wisconsin, on the GOP legislature's lame-duck attempt to strip power from the incoming Democratic governor.
Source: Governing
Knowing that the cruelty of our elections process would ultimately splash back on people whom Diane and I love, but who hadn’t signed up for the journey, was more than I could ask.
DECEMBER 7, 2018
Former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, a Democrat, announcing he will not run for president in 2020.
Source: The Boston Globe
Can we amend this ordinance to say that if you're over 60, no one can throw a snowball at you?
DECEMBER 6, 2018
Dennis Kane, a board trustee for Severance, Colo., which repealed the town's ban on snowball fights at the behest of a 9-year-old boy.
Source: NPR
[Abortion] is gonna be classified as a homicide because, essentially, a fertilized egg is a human life just like a 1-year-old baby is a human life.
DECEMBER 5, 2018
Oklahoma state Sen. Joseph Silk, a Republican who proposed the "Abolition of Abortion in Oklahoma Act," which would order the state to ignore abortion rulings by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Source: The Hill
It's gonna be a lot of fun beating the hell out of these (expletive) once the sun goes down and nobody can tell us apart!!!!
DECEMBER 4, 2018
Text sent from St. Louis police officer Dustin Boone, while on protest duty, to one of his three colleagues who, along with him, were just indicted on federal charges after assaulting a cop who was undercover as a protester.
Source: Tribune News Service
We won women. As a result, in spite of this huge blue wave, I became the second Republican governor reelected in the entire 242-year history of our state.
DECEMBER 3, 2018
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan.
Source: The Washington Post
My mom, God rest her soul, was a Democrat. My dad’s a Republican. They never voted for the same person. Ever. My mom wouldn’t even admit to voting for me.
NOVEMBER 30, 2018
Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker, a Republican
Source: The Washington Post
I would like to make him a broth of Legionella and pump it into the water system of his loved one, so that they can be infected, they can be mistreated, they can sit and suffer by getting aspirin instead of being properly treated and ultimately die.
NOVEMBER 29, 2018
Illinois Democratic state Rep. Stephanie Kifowit, a veteran, talking about her Republican colleague who criticized a bill that would help families of veterans home residents who died of Legionnaires’ disease. The state's handling of the outbreak is under investigation.
Source: Chicago Tribune
There are more people coming here, and the only way to solve the problem is people are going to have to start taking up less space.
NOVEMBER 28, 2018
Jeremiah Adler, founder and chief executive of Up(st)art, which leases property in California, then adds bunk beds or stacked, enclosed "sleeping pods," and rents it out for between $695 and $775 a month in neighborhoods where most studios start at $1,000 a month. "This is the future," he says.
Source: Tribune News Service
The Mississippi Legislature's professed interest in 'women's health' is pure gaslighting. Its leaders are proud to challenge Roe but choose not to lift a finger to address ... our alarming infant and maternal mortality rate.
NOVEMBER 27, 2018
District Judge Carlton W. Reeves, in a ruling that permanently blocks one of the strictest abortion laws in the country -- Mississippi's 15-week ban.
Source: NPR
I teach middle school because when I was in eighth grade on 9/11/2001, that was the day I received my first death threat. It was in my locker. It was shoved in there. My teachers did nothing.
NOVEMBER 26, 2018
Shifa Bhatti, a Pakistani-American teacher in Texas
Source: NPR
I don’t want you to think I’m picking on you because we’re part of the master race.
NOVEMBER 21, 2018
Leavenworth County Commissioner Louis Klemp, who is white, talking to a black woman at a public hearing. The comment led Kansas GOP Gov. Jeff Colyer to call for Klemp's resignation.
Source: The Hill
Folks can go to the San Diego Zoo to see the endangered pandas and then visit San Diego City Hall to see one of the last California Republicans.
NOVEMBER 20, 2018
San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer, a Republican, joking about the state of his political party. In the midterm election, the GOP lost every statewide office in California, and Democrats regained their supermajority in the legislature.
Source: the Los Angeles Times
I don’t agree, obviously, with her politics. I just think she qualifies as significant.
NOVEMBER 19, 2018
Texas school board member Marty Rowley, a Republican, who supports adding Hillary Clinton back into the state's U.S. history curriculum after she was removed earlier this year.
Source: Tribune News Service
When a culture is surrounded by, inundated by, rewards things that celebrate death, whether it is zombies in television shows, the number of abortions ... there’s a thousand justifications for [mass shootings].
NOVEMBER 16, 2018
Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin, a Republican, on why more gun regulation will not prevent gun violence.
Source: The Louisville Courier-Journal
I haven't slept since the 26th of December 2014. And combined with my nerve damage and the cold cell with which I'm forced to be in 24 hours a day it's as if I were dead already.
NOVEMBER 15, 2018
Suicide note from Alfredo Lopez, a New York state prisoner who was found hanging in his cell on Jan. 13, 2015. Despite testing drug-free 10 times while in prison, he was repeatedly locked in solitary confinement for occasions when he was unable to pee for a drug test -- a symptom he blamed on a medical condition. While in solitary, he was not given his pain medication. His death is one of 50 in the last few years that a state review board concluded could have been prevented with medical care.
Source: Tribune News Service
Be grouchy and supercheap, quote obscure philosophers, avoid social media and never make a public presentation without a doomsday-predicting graph.
NOVEMBER 14, 2018
Thad Kousser, political scientist at the University of California, San Diego, describing outgoing Gov. Jerry Brown’s persona.
Source: Governing
There is no reason for these massive, deadly and costly forest fires in California. ... Billions of dollars are given each year, with so many lives lost, all because of gross mismanagement of the forests. Remedy now, or no more Fed payments!
NOVEMBER 13, 2018
Tweet from President Donald Trump on Saturday as more than 300,000 people were evacuated from their homes. The death toll had risen to 31 as of Monday afternoon.
Source: Twitter; CNN
I recognize that District Attorney Singas' decision not to prosecute does not mean I have done nothing wrong. I accept full responsibility for my conduct in my relationships with my accusers, and for the impact it had on them.
NOVEMBER 12, 2018
Former New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman, on the news that he will not face criminal charges for allegations of physically abusing several women he dated.
Source: Tribune News Service
I knocked on thousands of doors. I did it with swollen ankles and two lives inside of me.
NOVEMBER 9, 2018
Jennifer Carroll Foy, who was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates last fall and was pregnant with twins while campaigning.
Source: Governing
For the next two years, Washington, D.C., may be the 'Broadway' of political theater, but states will likely be the main stages for numerous political productions.
NOVEMBER 8, 2018
Aubrey Jewett, a political scientist at the University of Central Florida.
Source: Governing
Across our state, folks are opening up the dreams of voters in absentee ballots.
NOVEMBER 7, 2018
Stacey Abrams, the Democratic candidate for Georgia governor, announcing on early Wednesday morning that she refuses to concede in her race against Republican Ron DeSantis.
Source: CNN
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