to it price hikes. and you can see down there at the bottom of the page who was behind it, the director of raise montana, the private citizen who that year led that hugely successful effort to give people a raise in that state was a man named steve bullock who in 2006 was the director of raise montana. that s what steve bullock did for his state in 2006. two years later in 2008 he ran for attorney general in montana. not easy for a democrat to win statewide in a red state in a presidential election year. again, that was 2008. john mccain was at the top of the ticket. the republican party carried that state in the presidential race over barack obama, but steve bullock won his race for attorney general that year, even as the state went red for the presidency. then four years later in 2012, steve bullock ran for governor. again, not easy for a democrat to win statewide in a red state. again in a presidential election year.
this time the republican nominee was mitt romney, and mitt romney that year carried montana, won montana over barack obama by solid double-digits. unless, that same year, that same night in 2012, democrat steve bullock won the governorship, even as the state went red for the presidency again that same night. then four years later, 2016, he ran for reelection as governor. again, not easy for a democrat to win statewide in a red state, this time again in a presidential election year. this time it was republican donald trump who that same election night trounced hillary clinton by 20 points in montana. but even as the state went that red that night in november 2016, democrat steve bullock was re-elected governor that same night. and it s not like he s just squeaking by. by some measure, steve bullock is the most popular democratic governor in the country, and he s governing as definitely a democrat. i will note for the record that now that he is governor, he now
in that state that year, 2006, they decided they would put a measure on the ballot to raise that state s minimum wage, raise it from $5.15 an hour to $6.15 and then, importantly, they would tie the minimum wage to prices. so when prices went up, the minimum wage would automatically keep pace. it would tick up every year. $6.15 an hour still sucks, but that ballot measure that year would mean a dollar an hour raise right away for the lowest paid people in that state, and it would mean the minimum wage would never fall that far again behind the cost of living. so it was 2006 that measure was on the ballot. it won in that state by a 46-point margin. margin. 73% of the state voted for it. only 27% voted against it. that was a landslide and an avalanche and a tsunami and all the other metaphors for bigness all piled up on top of each other. when a democrat named jon tester
corporate money rule for its elections, steve bullock fought that all the way to the supreme court as attorney general. he then as governor worked with the republican legislature to ultimately enact some of the most progressive new campaign finance protection laws in the country. that said, it is a red state, and it s a really republican legislature that he s got. steve bullock is pro-choice. that means he has vetoed approximately one gazillion efforts at abortion bans and abortion restrictions in the state, including one as recently as this month. he vetoed republican efforts to end same-day voter registration in his state. after trump s fcc repealed net neutrality nationwide, bullock was the first governor in the country to sign an executive order requiring net neutrality in his state. he was the first governor to do that, but then other governors followed. so there is this democrat who keeps finding concrete ways to make progress in what is nevertheless this really, really red state
so don t worry. alabama woman who has just had a miscarriage with all of the attendant grief and terror and upset this has caused you in your life, don t worry if you ve had a miscarriage, you ll be fine, as long as the prosecutor can prove that you had a miscarriage. guess how the prosecutor is going to prove it? yeah, guess. the voodoo in the chromosomes, who knows. that total ban on abortion in alabama passed the senate last night. tonight the state s republican governor signed it into law. this is the strictest abortion ban to pass the legislature. it s not just happening in alabama. it is happening all over the country in all the states where republicans have full control. this is what republicans are doing with their control of state government. including alabama. we ve got radical restrictive abortion bans passing at least one chamber of the state legislature. so far in already half, already 11 of the 22 states under republican control, plus one more in montana where republicans