1) California and New York Could Lose SEVEN Congressional Districts! And They Could All Shift to Florida and Texas
Is there any more damning evidence of the meltdown of progressive rule in Blue State America?
This assessment of the redistricting of congressional seats (and presidential electoral votes) comes straight from an extrapolation of current population trends as measured by the new 2023 population count by the Census Bureau. If these trends continue (and admittedly it will be hard for the Blue States to chase away THAT many people), the next map would look like this according to an analysis by the group American Redistricting Project:
Yesterday, we reported that Canada’s leftist politicians want to ban the sale of all gas and diesel vehicles by 2035 in order to force the adoption of electric vehicles and to stop global warming. (If there is any place on the planet that would benefit from a slight warming of temperatures, it’s surely Canada.)
But the reigning climate fanatics in the Canadian capital, Ottawa, are dead serious. In response, Alberta’s Premier Danielle Smith advises: “If anyone needs a car, they better buy it now,” she said. “You’re going to be sitting on a list waiting your turn... we’re entering into a period of rationing.”
Smith notes the net zero-emissions push by Justin Trudeau’s government will make it impossible for Alberta to generate enough electricity to charge vehicles for five million people – not to mention building enough charging stations throughout the province.
We recently hailed Premier Smith as a rising star when she invoked the Canadian Sovereignty Act in defiance of the zero-emission mandate enacted by Ottawa. The next Canadian election will be held in 2025 and as of now the Conservative Party of Canada has a 13-point lead over Trudeau’s Liberal Party. If Canada wants to save itself, the voters should look to Smith as the next Prime Minister.
3) Teacher Union President Randi Weingarten Is a Walking and Talking Billboard for School Choice
The school choice movement – which we are a big part of – couldn’t pick a better commanding officer for the opposition than Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers.
She makes Kamala Harris look sincere and competent. In February, she made this jaw-dropping statement in sworn testimony before Congress: “We spent every day from February (2020) on trying to get schools open” during COVID.
In September, she compared the rhetoric of school choice supporters to that of segregationists claiming that the language parents use are “the same kind of words” used in the Jim Crow era.
She’s now closed out the year trying to deliver a lump of coal to the Christmas stockings of school choice supporters. She recently told a conference that school choice is "about undermining democracy, civil discourse and pluralism."
So let us get this right Randi: You’re saying that giving mostly minority parents a choice of where they send their kids to school is racist and undermines democracy and pluralism? If that’s the case, then why allow ANYONE to go to a private school? Oops, we better keep our mouths shut.
4) AARP Spent $60 Million Lobbying for the "Inflation Reduction Act"
The teacher unions may be the most destructive lobby in America, but the AARP isn’t far behind.
As we have previously reported, AARP, UnitedHealth, and the Democratic Party have built a juggernaut alliance – UnitedHealth sells about $20 billion per year in AARP branded insurance products, AARP takes in a cool billion from its 5% skim, and one way or another a hefty chunk of it ends up supporting Democratic candidates and policies that benefit UnitedHealth and keep the merry-go-round in motion.
But now the story of AARP’s nefarious activities gets worse. The Daily Caller reports:
AARP spent more than $60 million between 2019 and summer 2022 advocating for a provision that eventually made it into the IRA allowing Medicare to negotiate with pharmaceutical companies over the prices of certain drugs, according to an article posted on the group’s website. The provisions would require the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to negotiate the prices of certain drugs with drug manufacturers starting in 2026.
“We agreed that state directors would drop everything and get on this. Calls started going in to the White House and congressional leaders by 10 a.m. We had never responded to something so quickly,” Nancy LeaMond, AARP executive vice president and chief advocacy and engagement officer, said in the article…
So it was a full-court press for drug price controls. What the AARP failed to divulge to its members is that one of the biggest beneficiaries of the Medicare negotiated price controls was United Health Group – AARP’s funder. These drug price controls have started to reduce private funding for new drug development for Parkinson's, cancer, ALS, and other painful and deadly diseases that afflict AARP’s members.
But it seems clear that senior citizens’ interests come second when it comes to the pay-to-play operations at AARP.
