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The Republican governor of South Dakota on Tuesday vetoed a bill that would have restricted bathroom access for transgender students and made the state the first to adopt such a measure.
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Hurray!
A victory for justice and common sense.
SD bathrooms
It took a Republican Governor to do it too. Maybe people will rethink voting for a Democrat automatically.
Karen
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Maybe...
Maybe it took a Republican governor to do it because SD has a Republican governor? No Democratic governor had the opportunity to sign or veto this bill. In any case, Democrats are outnumbered by more than 3 to 1 in both SD houses, so lots of Republicans had to vote to pass this bill since even with an equal number of GOP members voting with them, all the Democrats in the SD legislature together could not pass any bill, at all, ever. I do not follow your logic; you could just as easily invert the statement and it would make equal sense.
The governor vetoed the law based on his reasoning that it would be litigated against in Federal courts, cost the State money to defend it, and they would probably lose based on previous Federal court decisions in civil rights cases. Also, the Feds could hold up paying federal monies for education in the state based on Title IX which has provisions for that sort of thing. This is a governor doing his job, in at least this instance.
But this has nothing to do with whether someone votes for one party or another "automatically" -- a bad plan that always deserves rethinking.
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
Yes a Republican governor.
Yes a Republican governor. But this bill was drafted and passed with large Republican support, so don't bring politics into it. I'd just say the governor is a decent man who also knew the consequences of a bill like this. It has less to do with politics for him as it did common sense. But again, the Republicans pushed this bill through with (as far as I can find) no support at all from Democrats, so don't assume.
Samirah M. Johnstone
Do You Know What They Call a Liberal in SoDak?
I'll let you know just as soon as they find one.
Angela Rasch (Jill M I)
From what I've heard
Even what few Democrats they do have, which they do, but are exceptionally rare, are more "centrists" than "liberals". Personally, I'd hate living there, being an anarchist I doubt I could find anyone to associate with and get along with politically. I'd have to constantly be guarding my words to not ever say anything political, because as soon as I did, EVERYONE would hate my guts.
Abigail Drew.
Just watch - impeachment coming
from the religious nuts in the state.
also in Arizona
Gov. Ducey reversed a DCS department ruling banning same sex couples from fostering or adopting. no law suit, just because it made the best sense for everyone.
http://www.ibtimes.com/arizona-gay-adoption-republican-gover...
Teresa L.