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[Teh One Who Knocks]

I have not read any constitutional interpretations of these laws...

I think Colorado will become the 8th or 9th state to pass this BS. The democrats are all telling everyone that now your vote will finally count.



This makes your vote meaningless now because it won't matter how this state votes, it will only matter how places like LA, Chicago, and NYC vote because those three cities alone can swing the election nationally for the liberal democrat.

The republicans in both the house and senate are livid that it passed, but they were powerless to stop it, the democrats control all three things here. They do say that it's unconstitutional (on what grounds I don't know) and I'm pretty sure this will end up in front of SCOTUS as more and more blue states are passing this.

And of course they all swear it has nothing to do with Trump winning the electoral vote

[Hal-9000]

Don't the cities in Illinois have a 'shoveling' regulation? They do here in almost every city/town in Colorado. You have 24 hours after the snow stops to clean your sidewalk or else you would get fined. Hal says they have the same thing where he lives. I would think a place like spend-happy Illinois would love to find more ways to generate 'free' money.

And Wisconsin? That's a bit of a drive.

Recent commercial said 250 for your walks after 24 hours and 175 if you're parked on the street when it's declared a snow route. They have handed out over 1000 snow route fines this year already.

And I saw something that really tweaked me. Our city uses a lot of chemicals, salt and gravel on the roads. Road-Einstein comes on the TV and says - We've been finding it's too cold for the type of chemical we're dropping, it's just not working because the temperatures are lower than -15.



I swear, I'm living in a nightmare where every city worker has a Fijian brain transplanted into their heads.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Recent commercial said 250 for your walks after 24 hours and 175 if you're parked on the street when it's declared a snow route. They have handed out over 1000 snow route fines this year already.

And I saw something that really tweaked me. Our city uses a lot of chemicals, salt and gravel on the roads. Road-Einstein comes on the TV and says - We've been finding it's too cold for the type of chemical we're dropping, it's just not working because the temperatures are lower than -15.



I swear, I'm living in a nightmare where every city worker has a Fijian brain transplanted into their heads.

We have the same thing here with the chemicals they use on the roads here. Because rock salt is "too harmful" for the environment, they use liquid magnesium chloride here, which works great if the temp is already above freezing. Seriously, if it drops lower than about 20° (-7C) all it does is make the roads slipperier than they already are. Not to mention that it coats your vehicle in this brown goo/paste that is disgusting and doesn't come off until you wash your vehicle about 50 times.

[Hal-9000]

We have the same thing here with the chemicals they use on the roads here. Because rock salt is "too harmful" for the environment, they use liquid magnesium chloride here, which works great if the temp is already above freezing. Seriously, if it drops lower than about 20° (-7C) all it does is make the roads slipperier than they already are. Not to mention that it coats your vehicle in this brown goo/paste that is disgusting and doesn't come off until you wash your vehicle about 50 times.

This guy is the head of road maintenance for our city and he says something like that? Here's one that got my left eye twitching...

They determine certain roads are snow routes and it's a temporary thing. The idea is we move our cars and the city removes snow that has built up near the sidewalks for the ensuing couple of days. They give a stat saying over 1000 snow route tickets have been issued since winter started this year. Next scene is our mayor saying we only have 40 million dollars in the snow removal budget, so we don't have the luxury of removing the snow from the side of the streets. Which is it???

If I ever receive one of those snow route tickets you will see me on the news.

[RBP]

I think Colorado will become the 8th or 9th state to pass this BS. The democrats are all telling everyone that now your vote will finally count.



This makes your vote meaningless now because it won't matter how this state votes, it will only matter how places like LA, Chicago, and NYC vote because those three cities alone can swing the election nationally for the liberal democrat.

The republicans in both the house and senate are livid that it passed, but they were powerless to stop it, the democrats control all three things here. They do say that it's unconstitutional (on what grounds I don't know) and I'm pretty sure this will end up in front of SCOTUS as more and more blue states are passing this.

And of course they all swear it has nothing to do with Trump winning the electoral vote

Interesting. But it sounds like states that passed it are states that would go winner take all to a Dem anyway. Part of me wants to hear California stand at the Electoral College and say "California casts 55 ballots for Donald J Trump". That would be glorious.

Careful what you wish for, libs.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Interesting. But it sounds like states that passed it are states that would go winner take all to a Dem anyway. Part of me wants to hear California stand at the Electoral College and say "California casts 55 ballots for Donald J Trump". That would be glorious.

Careful what you wish for, libs.

From a couple of different local news stories on it:

HB19-042 , the National Popular Vote bill, passed the House in a 34-29 vote, with six Democrats voting against the measure. Zero Republicans supported the bill in the Senate or the House as it passed both chambers.

If Gov. Polis signs the bill, Colorado would join 11 other states and Washington, D.C. in the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, which would go into effect if states that have 270 electoral votes all join the compact.

If Polis signs the bill, it would add Colorado’s nine electoral votes to the 172 votes from states that are already members of the compact . The new governor indicated previously he would sign the bill if it reached his desk.

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The interstate compact would go into effect once it has enough states with a collective 270 electoral votes — the number needed to elect a president. Compact members, including giants California (55 electoral votes) and New York (29), currently have 172 electors. Colorado, with nine, would give it 181.

Other compact members include Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington.

[Hal-9000]

It's rarely enforced here either. I think you would need someone to file a complaint with Code Enforcement before you would get a ticket.

On the recent TV commercial they gave out a number you could call to report someone who hasn't done their walks.

Rat out your neighbors, yes that helps

[RBP]

Oh, it's that. That's been around a long time, I'm guessing since Bush beat Gore... 2000. If I remember, the passage by other states is probably 10+ years old.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

On the recent TV commercial they gave out a number you could call to report someone who hasn't done their walks.

Rat out your neighbors, yes that helps

Oh believe me, we have plenty of busy bodies around that love to do nothing more than report neighbors for not following city code to the letter

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Oh, it's that. That's been around a long time, I'm guessing since Bush beat Gore... 2000. If I remember, the passage by other states is probably 10+ years old.

I don't remember hearing anything about it before now.

[Hal-9000]

My sister was sending pictures from a boat in Florida last week. When they got home I told her it was hard not to respond "fuck you" since it was below 0 here. She said, "you should have, everyone else was".

My sister does that from Vancouver Island. Look at our flowers! Look at our grass! Look at how the rain turns everything so green! And I reply with a loving fuck you.

Just recently, right around the time GF took off for Hawaii my sister's community got something like over 40 cms of snow in one day It was during the same time as the Seattle people were panicking over 5-10 inches of snow and buying everything at the supermarkets.

So she sends pics to my brother and I respond - At least it's not -30, don't bitch.

It wasn't -30 and she wasn't impressed

[Teh One Who Knocks]

My sister does that from Vancouver Island. Look at our flowers! Look at our grass! Look at how the rain turns everything so green! And I reply with a loving fuck you.

Just recently, right around the time GF took off for Hawaii my sister's community got something like over 40 cms of snow in one day It was during the same time as the Seattle people were panicking over 5-10 inches of snow and buying everything at the supermarkets.

So she sends pics to my brother and I and I respond - At least it's not -30, don't bitch.

It wasn't -30 and she wasn't impressed

You should brighten her day with some knowledge of Canadian scorpions to be on the watch for now

[Hal-9000]

Sorry, I'm interrupting another conversation

I'll go see how Jussie is doing

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Sorry, I'm interrupting another conversation

I'll go see how Jussie is doing

More than 2 conversations are allowed at the same time

[RBP]

I don't remember hearing anything about it before now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nation...rstate_Compact

https://www.nationalpopularvote.com/