Plus: 9 Examples That Show Why Democrats’ Revised Spending Bill Is Still Awful
November 2 2021
Good morning from Washington, where the latest version of Democrats’ social spending bill remains a mire of bad policy. David Ditch shows how. Why did Terry McAuliffe retain an election lawyer before we know the outcome of today’s Virginia governor’s race? Fred Lucas recalls the hired gun’s credentials. On the podcast, parent activist Ian Prior explains why education became the top issue in that race. Plus: the Supremes hear challenges to Texas’ new abortion law, and we’ve got an excerpt from a new book about reforming elections. Be sure to check out Kevin Mooney’s report on fed-up Pennsylvanians suing their school board, which we headlined in yesterday’s Morning Bell but inadvertently left out.
Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe’s campaign has hired Marc Elias, suggesting it may be ready to fight the results of the election tonight.
The spending bill would massively expand federal power, promote a variety of left-wing causes, kneecap the economic recovery, and waste a tremendous amount of taxpayer money.
Texas says the federal government’s desire to see the heartbeat law declared unconstitutional is not enough to justify its intrusion into the state’s legislative business.
Cases of local elections getting overturned because of fraud have occurred in California, Florida, New Jersey, North Carolina, Indiana, and other states.
“Our lawsuit seeks … to establish that citizens cannot be censored or intimidated by government officials for exercising their First Amendment rights at a school board meeting," one parent says.
