This Election Day, Americans rejected Ohio Gov. Kasich’s anti-middle class agenda, Maine Republicans’ anti-democratic voting law, and Mississippi GOP’s extreme "personhood" proposal, while Arizona Republican state lawmaker Russell Pearce and Michigan Republican Rep. Paul Scott were fired outright.
An important message out of this election is that if we have middle class centric policies and ideals as opposed to attempting to achieve a false middle, middle class America will support you.
Regular Americans are fighting back against politicians who put the 1% ahead of the rest of us — and we’re winning.
Ordinary Americans are working harder and harder for less and less — and they’re beyond frustrated with politicians who don’t listen. This Election Day, regular Americans fought back against politicians who put padding the profits of the 1% ahead of strengthening the middle class. Whether they’re taking away the rights of American workers, protecting millionaire tax giveaways, or making it harder for millions of Americans to vote — Tea Party Republicans like Ohio Gov. Kasich have been put on notice. We all do better when we all do better. That’s why Americans are fighting back and standing side by side with our teachers, firefighters, and police officers — and we’re winning.
Do not believe these lies.
"Big Labor won in Ohio because they spent millions to win."
- This is a victory for regular Americans. We won because Ohio voters stood side by side with the men and women who teach our children, patrol our city streets, and save us from the real fires of our times.
- The people of Ohio showed us the way — we can all fight back against politicians like Kasich who only look out for their corporate campaign backers and the rest of the 1%.
- Kasich’s backers poured millions of corporate dollars and untold more amounts of secret cash into taking away the rights of Ohio workers — we’ll likely never even know how much.
"The new voting restrictions don’t suppress voters, but they will prevent voter fraud."
- The idea of "voter fraud" is a fraud — even supporters of the restrictions admit it’s not a problem in our elections. More people get struck by lightning than impersonate someone else at the polls.
- These new voting restrictions will make it harder for millions of Americans to vote — and it’s Republican politicians and their corporate backers who are pushing the "Jim Crow-like" threats to our fundamental freedom to vote.
- What’s really going on is that Republican politicians are trying to keep regular Americans from voting against them — by changing our laws to keep them from voting at all.
Here are the key facts of the election results.
In Ohio, voters repealed a bill enacted earlier this year by Republican lawmakers and corporate-backed Gov. Kasich to take away the workers’ rights of hundreds of thousands of teachers, nurses, and firefighters.
- In Arizona, voters recalled Russell Pearce, the Republican president of the state senate known for his extreme, anti-immigrant bill and behavior that have been called corrupt and illegal.
- In Maine, voters repealed a new law enacted by state Republicans to end a 40-year state tradition of allowing people to register the same day as voting.
- Across the country, Republican state lawmakers elected in the Tea Party wave are fighting to pass or have already passed laws that will undermine the voting rights of as many as 5 million voters in the 2012 election. And their excuse of "voter fraud" is a fraud.
- In the 2010 election cycle, corporations spent over $275 million getting politicians elected and spent almost $3 billion lobbying them.
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