{"id":27573,"date":"2023-05-03T14:18:19","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T18:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=27573"},"modified":"2023-05-03T14:18:19","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T18:18:19","slug":"its-just-refreshing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=27573","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s just refreshing&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;I really do need to thank the people behind the ballot initiative that took plotting of the voting districts out of the hands of politicians so the repubs couldn&#8217;t gerrymander and cheat to keep control of the government here in Michigan&#8230;now, if I&#8217;m honest, the dems did it, too but not anywhere to the extent of the repubs&#8230;and the follow on for that was, with fair districts, the dems took control of all parts of Michigan government for the first time in 40 years&#8230;and the result of that is we have a government that works for the people again&#8230;not for the crazy right wing assholes that were running it before&#8230;you know the ones, who would have made 50+% of the people in Michigan second class citizens by taking away the control of their bodies&#8230;and do you know why there haven&#8217;t been any anti trans legislation here? Because the dems control the government&#8230;in fact, they have expanded discrimination protection to all LGBTQ people in this state&#8230;and have passed sensible gun control legislation that mandates background checks for all gun sales&#8230;it is just refreshing that we now have a government that is not run by a small group of right wing assholes&#8230;.let&#8217;s keep it up, Michigan&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;I really do need to thank the people behind the ballot initiative that took plotting of the voting districts out of the hands of politicians so the repubs couldn&#8217;t gerrymander and cheat to keep control of the government here in Michigan&#8230;now, if I&#8217;m honest, the dems did it, too but not anywhere to the extent &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=27573\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">It&#8217;s just refreshing&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[3526,60],"class_list":["post-27573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-dem-control","tag-michigan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27574,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27573\/revisions\/27574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}