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By a vote of 70-44 along party lines, the GOP-dominated Florida House of Representatives passed HB 1475 which provides for “girls-only” athletic contests in grades K-12 for Florida schoolchildren.The measure must pass the Florida Senate before it would go to Gov. Ron DeSantis for his signature.
This followed news yesterday that the Alabama Legislature had passed similar legislation, as was reported here by my RedState colleague Alex Parker.
Just in the past few weeks, we have seen this issue develop and advance in at least seven different states, by my count off the top of my head as I type South Dakota, Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas, Alabama, West Virginia, and now Florida. GOP-controlled legislatures continue to push forward on this issue, in the face of what is certain to be opposition from the Biden Administration and the NCAA. The NY Times reports that as many as 30 states have some form of legislation in the works addressing the issue of transg
Push for Ocasio-Cortez, Noem to challenge stalwarts
Paul Kane, The Washington Post
Jan. 2, 2021
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President Trump, flanked by Florida Gov.-elect Ron DeSantis and South Dakota Gov.-elect Kristi Noem, speaks during a meeting at the White House on Dec. 13, 2018.Washington Post photo by Jabin Botsford.
WASHINGTON - South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York live more than 1,500 miles apart and inhabit entirely different political orbits, but they share a similar space in the minds of ideological warriors who want to upend a pair of titans in the Senate.
Conservative and liberal activists are pushing the Republican Noem, 49, and the Democratic Ocasio-Cortez, 31, to challenge, respectively, Republican Sens. John Thune and Democrat Chuck Schumer in their state s 2022 primaries.