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Re:Is education no longer the ‘great equalizer’? by dragonwriter on Thursday June 24, 2021 @05:20AM (#27615441)
> Yet magically, when the state has held a Democratic majority, the first time there's been a budget surplus since the dot-com boom.

To be fair, that's probably as much due to a ballot measure lowering the budget threshold down from a 2/3 supermajority and thereby actually making the state governable.

OTOH, that measure was heavily pushed by the Democratic governor and legislature and opposed by Republicans, so...

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Re:Is education no longer the ‘great equalizer’? by techrat on Thursday June 24, 2021 @06:13AM (#27615735)
In 1962. The repeal had been knocked down multiple times in proposition attempts thereafter.

Yet Republicans would campaign on preventing the repeal of such a measure and it didn't happen until Democrats had full control of the Capital again. Hmmm, curious. It's almost as if Republicans have a history of being unable or unwilling to work with others.

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