I know I voted Yes, and I am not a Republican. I voted Democrat for 34 years, so there can be no one saying I am a "right wing nut job." Did anyone ever think that the people we put in office just seem to stay there for too damned long? I want every politician and judge of any kind to have limits to how long they sit on their butts any where. They all lose perspective after time and their bank accounts grow. Everyone has their hands out for the poor, but what about the working class who are heading in that direction? Most of the money that is given to states supposedly to help it grow has ended up in all of our politicians pockets. Mayor Barrett from Milwaukee is in a heap of crap because of the choices he has made with the states funding just so Johnson Controls could fill his pockets before he is voted out. Milwaukee spoke (both parties) and he went against us. I follow many issues, and yes, even with Walker. He has not paid close attention to this state since he got the *DC* plague in his head. He spends his time everywhere but here. He may have lowered taxes, but my house has lost a total of 15000 value because of that, even though many expensive upgrades were made. It is also the Mayors fault, because he will not allow the police department to go after the thugs killing every night because he wants to keep those votes. I am just totally sick of every stinking politician.
Couldn't find the case names or April dates at:
https://www.wicourts.gov/sc/orasch/DisplayDocument.html?content=html&seqNo=135050
https://www.wicourts.gov/sc/oraych/DisplayDocument.html?content=html&seqNo=125436
Is there a SC Oral Argument calendar out there that you know that announces both the open and closed cases to be heard?
Debt & Deficit fear campaign worked in Australia with a complicit media. Post election the debt was doubled and the budget cut focus was inequitably directed towards those that can least afford it (but probably voted for it due to other fears about illegal boat people from Muslim countries).
As one of the many community members in Colorado who has fought fracking, thank you for this incredibly relevant and illuminating article. It articulates our daily experience here in Colorado's front range with near perfection. Lafayette, the community I live in, has been sued by the Colorado Oil and Gas Association after we banned fracking here in 2013, no different than communities were sued after banning the use of cyanide in gold mining by the Colorado Supreme Court in 2009. Its clear that these issues are connected, and that if we cannot protect ourselves where we live, well then where can we?
And because we have a common experience of this type of state/corporate collusion against our communities and issues, we have, with the help of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, crafted a state ballot initiative that address the very type of state preemption that you discuss. It is called the Colorado Community Rights Amendment and the campaign for its enactment is being built now.
Community Rights Over Corporate Power
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuEcIPvrN00
CoCommRights (at) gmail.com
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