[EL] ELB News and Commentary 10/8/15
Rick Hasen
rhasen at law.uci.edu
Thu Oct 8 06:12:21 PDT 2015
Giving “Democracy Studies” Lecture Today at Ohio State
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76519>
Posted onOctober 8, 2015 6:10 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76519>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Very much looking forward tothis event,
<http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/democracy-studies-program/events/campaign-finance-balancing-political-inequality-with-free-speech-with-rich-hasen-2/>which
will preview my upcomingPlutocrats United
<http://www.amazon.com/Plutocrats-United-Campaign-Distortion-Elections/dp/0300212453/ref=la_B0089NJCR2_1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1430416698&sr=1-7>book
(out Jan. 12).
Excited that ProfessorChris Walker
<http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/faculty/professor/christopher-j-walker/>of OSU
(who clerked for Justice Kennedy (2008-09)) will offer a response.
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“No, Illegal Immigrants Won’t Elect Hillary”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76517>
Posted onOctober 8, 2015 6:04 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76517>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
David Byler
<http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/10/07/no_illegal_immigrants_wont_elect_hillary_128320.html>for
Real Clear Politics:
On Saturday, Paul Goldman and Mark Rozell authored a piece in
Politico titled “Illegal Immigrants Could Elect Hillary Clinton
<http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/10/illegal-immigrants-could-elect-hillary-clinton-213216>.”
Usually, a headline like that accompanies a story about voter fraud
or back-of-the-envelope math on how immigration reform might create
a huge bloc of new Democratic Hispanic voters (maybe
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2013/04/23/no-democratic-bonanza-guaranteed-by-immigration-reform/>even
<http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/04/24/an_immigration_bonanza_for_democrats.html>a
“bonanza
<http://www.politico.com/story/2013/04/immigration-reform-could-upend-electoral-college-090478>”for
<http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/apr/23/immigration-reform-latino-voter-bonanza-democrats>Democrats
<http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/rubio-s-office-attacks-politico-myth-that-immigration-reform-will-elect-democrats>).
But Goldman and Rozell took a more interesting angle. They assert
that the Electoral College is biased against Republicans because
illegal immigrants (who can’t vote but are counted in the U.S.
Census, thus influencing how many electoral votes each state gets)
live mostly in blue states, and that this fact “significantly
reduces the chances of the GOP winning the presidency.”
Goldman and Rozell do the math on which states would gain and lose
votes and find that if illegal immigrants and non-citizens were not
counted towards electoral vote allocation, the GOP would likely gain
four electoral votes and the Democrats could lose four. They then
play out a plausible 2016 scenario in which the Republican candidate
wins 266 electoral votes – falling exactly four votes short of the
magic 270 needed to win the Oval Office.
The argument is interesting, but it’s ultimately quite speculative.
Even if one accepts their demographic math, their assertion only
works if the 2016 election is extremely close (which is far from a
given), and even then there are good reasons to think that these
four electoral votes won’t be the sole factor that makes the difference.
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“Top Recent Downloads in Election Law on SSRN”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76515>
Posted onOctober 8, 2015 6:00 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76515>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Here
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/topten/topTenResults.cfm?groupingId=991929&netorjrnl=jrnl>:
*RECENT TOP PAPERS*for all papers first announced in the last 60
days<http://papers.ssrn.com/publicRss/rssManagerInc.cfm?journalId=991929>
/9 Aug 2015 through 8 Oct 2015/
Rank Downloads Paper Title
1 154 *Election Law’s Path in the Roberts Court’s First Decade: A
Sharp Right Turn But with Speed Bumps and Surprising Twists*
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.cfm?abstract_id=2639902>
Richard L. Hasen
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=337>
University of California, Irvine School of Law
/Date posted to database: /6 Aug 2015
/Last Revised: /11 Aug 2015
2 105 *Election Law Federalism*
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.cfm?abstract_id=2643207>
Justin Weinstein-Tull
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=717132>
Stanford Law School
/Date posted to database: /14 Aug 2015
/Last Revised: /21 Aug 2015
3 66 *After Citizens United: Extending the Liberal Revolution to
Corporations* <http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.cfm?abstract_id=2647478>
Daniel J.H. Greenwood
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=13269>
Hofstra University College of Law
/Date posted to database: /21 Aug 2015
/Last Revised: /21 Aug 2015
4 52 *What is Abridgment?: A Critique of Two Section Twos*
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.cfm?abstract_id=2644320>
Franita Tolson
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=737594>
Florida State University – College of Law
/Date posted to database: /16 Aug 2015
/Last Revised: /3 Sep 2015
5 52 *Legislative Delegations and the Elections Clause*
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.cfm?abstract_id=2650432>
Derek T. Muller
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=464341>
Pepperdine University – School of Law
/Date posted to database: /26 Aug 2015
/Last Revised: /27 Aug 2015
6 49 *Electoral Democracy and Human Development*
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.cfm?abstract_id=2652180>
John Gerring
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=430457>,Carl
Henrik Knutsen
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1868198>,Svend-Erik
Skaaning
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1512183>,Jan
Teorell
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1194923>,Michael Coppedge
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=855313>,Staffan
I. Lindberg
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=864348>andMatthew
Maguire <http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2099775>
Boston University, University of Oslo – Department of Political Science,
University of Aarhus, Lund University – Department of Political Science,
University of Notre Dame – Kellogg Institute, Varieties of Democracy
Institute – Univ. of Gothenburg and Boston University
/Date posted to database: /27 Aug 2015
/Last Revised: /27 Aug 2015
7 47 *Corporate Speech and the Rights of Others*
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.cfm?abstract_id=2640303>
Thomas Wuil Joo
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=173668>
University of California – Davis Law School
/Date posted to database: /7 Aug 2015
/Last Revised: /18 Aug 2015
8 31 *A Localist Critique of Shelby County v. Holder*
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.cfm?abstract_id=2642108>
Justin Weinstein-Tull
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=717132>
Stanford Law School
/Date posted to database: /11 Aug 2015
/Last Revised: /21 Aug 2015
9 29 *That We Are Underlings: The Real Problems in Disciplining
Political Spending and the First Amendment*
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.cfm?abstract_id=2640286>
Jedediah S. Purdy
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=394695>
Duke University School of Law
/Date posted to database: /7 Aug 2015
/Last Revised: /25 Aug 2015
10 29 *Judicial Review of Elections in Hong Kong: Resolving a
Contradiction* <http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.cfm?abstract_id=2655475>
Simon N. M. Young
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=332480>
The University of Hong Kong – Faculty of Law
/Date posted to database: /3 Sep 2015
/Last Revised: /24 Sep 2015
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“Hoping to Be Invited to the Debate, Lawrence Lessig Waits by the
Phone” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76513>
Posted onOctober 8, 2015 5:53 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76513>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
NYT
<http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/10/08/hoping-to-be-invited-to-the-debate-lawrence-lessig-waits-by-the-phone/>:
In the meantime, Mr. Lessig said he and his family had been scraping
by since kicking off his campaign last month. Harvard cannot pay his
salary while he is on leave to seek office, and campaign finance
rules say that he cannot pay himself with donations until November.
“I can’t even borrow money, except from credit-card companies,” said
Mr. Lessig, who is married and has three young children. “The
assumption was that I would be making the money in the family.”
Hopeful that he will still be asked to join the debate, though he
has not been in contact with its officials, Mr. Lessig said he had
been brushing up on a range of issues with his campaign consultants
and that he was prepared. And he says that he is ready to talk about
more than just campaign finance.
“I’m not going to be the ‘rent is too damn high’ candidate,” Mr.
Lessig said, referring to his crusade to overhaul campaign finance.
“But the objective would be to make it central and make the priority
of resolving it inescapable.”
If he is shut out of the first two debates, however, Mr. Lessig
acknowledged that it would most likely be time to pack it in and
write about the experience.
“I didn’t intend this as a research project, but I’m sure after it’s
over I’ll be reflecting on the craziness of it,” he said.
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“Hillary Clinton says she wishes super PACs were banned”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76511>
Posted onOctober 8, 2015 5:52 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76511>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
The Des Moines Register reports.
<http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/elections/presidential/caucus/2015/10/07/hillary-clinton-says-she-wishes-super-pacs-were-banned/73528924/>
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“Democratic underdog seeks LGBT help in 2016 bid”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76509>
Posted onOctober 8, 2015 5:50 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76509>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Washington Blade:
<http://www.washingtonblade.com/2015/10/07/democratic-underdog-seeks-lgbt-help-in-2016-bid/>
The Citizens Equality Act has three major components that seek
citizen-funded elections, the equal right to vote and equal
representation in Congress. It’s this last component, which would
end political gerrymandering and create multi-member districts, that
Lessig acknowledges may have a direct impact on advancing LGBT rights.
Under the current system, members of the U.S. House are elected on a
winner-take-all system, which means legislators only reflect the
biggest or strongest group that voted for them while leaving others
behind. This system and lack of accountability, Lessig contends,
results in partisan gridlock and a lack of representation for
minority groups.
This kind of gridlock was felt by the LGBT community last year. The
Senate passed the Employment Non-Discrimination Act on a bipartisan
basis, but the Republican-controlled House never took up the
legislation even though supporters of ENDA said it would pass if
votes were present on the House floor. No bill became law even
though a super-majority of Americans support a federal prohibition
on LGBT discrimination.
The Citizens Equality Act seeks to incorporate the Ranked Choice
Voting Act, which would change the system so that instead of voting
for one candidate, voters would rank their choice for multi-member
districts to ensure all voices and elected leaders are more
accountable to the people.
“If you got a substantial portion of the public behind, if you have
five representatives in the district and you’ve got ranked choice
voting, you need 20 percent to be able to get the place that you’re
confident you’re going to be able to win one of those
representatives,” Lessig said. “The impact of communities in
directing policy in that context is obviously much greater and
you’ve got an opportunity for a greater diversity of Republicans and
Democrats.” Lessig also predicted the Citizens Equality Act would
increase LGBT representation in Congress, which is considered
underrepresented. An estimated 3 percent of the population identify
as lesbian, gay or bisexual, but only 6 of the 435 House members
identifies as LGB — slightly more than 1 percent of the U.S. House.
No openly transgender person has ever been elected to Congress. “I
think it would dilute the effect of targeted bigotry here,” Lessig
said. “You have as many districts where targeted bigotry is enough
to guarantee somebody can’t get in. So it dilutes the effect of
bigotry while it’s reinforcing the proportionality.”
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“The coming voting machine crisis” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76507>
Posted onOctober 8, 2015 5:48 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76507>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Rokey Suleman and R. Doug Lewis inThe Hill:
<http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/technology/256102-the-coming-voting-machine-crisis>
Simply put, old voting equipment is expensive to maintain and is
more prone to failures. That can mean machine freezes, shut downs,
and in the worst cases, erroneous vote tallies. And the problem is
national in scope. Forty-three states are using some machines that
are at least 10 years old. In most of these states the majority of
election districts are using machines 10 years old or more,
according to areport by the Brennan Center for Justice
<https://www.brennancenter.org/publication/americas-voting-machines-risk>.
Problems are already beginning to show. As a result of problems in
the 2014 election, Virginia recently decertified a voting system
used in 24 percent of the state’s precincts after finding that an
external party could access the machine’s wireless features to
“record voting data or inject malicious data[.]” What this creates
is not just an exceeding concern about correctly capturing and
recording of voters votes…it also can lead to a crisis of confidence
in the entire democracy process.
Election officials in at least 31 states want to purchase new voting
machines in the next five years, according to the Brennan Center.
The total cost could exceed $1 billion.
Which is where the EAC comes in. The EAC sets testing and
certification guidelines for voting machines. With so many states
and localities looking to purchase new machines, the EAC will play a
pivotal role in providing guidelines for new machines — for how
they should be tested, used, and maintained.
The last 10 years have seen a sea-change in computer technology and
our understanding of what voting machines might be able to do. It’s
hard to believe, but iPads didn’t exist before 2010, and iPhones
only came to market in 2007. Imagine how quickly technology may
change in the next 10 years.
We need a federal agency with a national perspective and expertise
that can help assist local election officials — who often struggle
with almost no budget or staff — through such changes. Many
officials, including one of us, asked Congress to create the EAC to
help continuously improve democracy. We believe it would be foolish
to give it so little money that it can’t do even the basic function
of assuring quality voting equipment for use in elections.
Local and state officials tell us that budget authorities are not
providing the funds to replace machines even though we are at the
crisis stage for some of the equipment. The EAC can make sure local
officials are aware of best practices for extending the life of
voting machines and ensure that jurisdictions are aware of the
biggest potential problems for each system. Most important, the EAC
can act as a clearinghouse for information about machine problems
and possible fixes. As it now stands, one county may be having a
problem with a machine and a county in another state may be having
the identical problem with the same machine, but the second county
might never know it. The EAC can provide critical information to
election officials about how to cure problems.
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“2015 CPA-Zicklin Index Expands to Cover S&P 500; Shows Steady
Growth in Publicly Held Companies Adopting Political Disclosure,
Restricting Spending” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76505>
Posted onOctober 8, 2015 5:45 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76505>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Release
<http://us7.campaign-archive1.com/?u=40bf5e49b86aa2f0454aafef6&id=fa9dedf4ec&e=496938447c>:
More of America’s largest publicly traded companies are bringing
sunlight to their corporate expenditures on politics, the fifth
annual CPA-Zicklin Index of Political Disclosure and Accountability
<http://files.politicalaccountability.net/index/CPA-Zicklin_Index_Final_with_links.pdf>shows
on the eve of a blockbuster election year for political spending.
For the first time, the2015 CPA-Zicklin Index
<http://files.politicalaccountability.net/index/CPA-Zicklin_Index_Final_with_links.pdf>has
been expanded to measure the transparency policies and practices of
the *entire S&P 500*. The 2015 Index reveals that:
* companies studied by previous Indexes have shown *steady
improvement*;
* those companies that reached agreements after *engagement by
shareholders* received *sharply higher scores*;
* 25 percent of companies place *some type of restriction* on
their political spending; and
* almost nine out of 10 companies recognize the *importance of
adopting* political spending policies.
The Index
<http://files.politicalaccountability.net/index/CPA-Zicklin_Index_Final_with_links.pdf>was
released today by the Center for Political Accountability in
conjunction with the Carol and Lawrence Zicklin Center for Business
Ethics Research at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
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George Will Goes Off the Deep End <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76503>
Posted onOctober 8, 2015 5:45 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76503>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
His latest WaPo
column<https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/impeach-the-irs-director/2015/10/07/a3c3b024-6c57-11e5-b31c-d80d62b53e28_story.html>calls
for the IRS director to be impeached.
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“In First TV Ad, Lawrence Lessig Asks Who ‘Owns’ Marco Rubio”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76501>
Posted onOctober 7, 2015 6:31 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76501>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
NYT reports.
<http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/10/07/in-first-tv-ad-lawrence-lessig-asks-who-owns-marco-rubio/?ref=politics>
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“Republicans propose splitting Government Accountability Board into
elections, ethics commissions” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76499>
Posted onOctober 7, 2015 6:24 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76499>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
The Wisconsin State Journal reports.
<http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/govt-and-politics/republicans-propose-splitting-government-accountability-board-into-elections-ethics-commissions/article_1ea97d8f-d880-50d3-8457-65fb1171b130.html>
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Quote of the Day <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76497>
Posted onOctober 7, 2015 6:21 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76497>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
“Only a lunatic or a glutton for gridlock would want to copy the FEC….I
think what they want is a commission that will routinely gridlock and
get nothing done.”
–Dan Tokaji, quoted in GOP bills would hike contribution limits, split
GAB into two agencies
<http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/assembly-republicans-want-to-split-gab-into-two-agencies-b99592139z1-331067811.html> (“Daniel
Tokaji, a professor at the Moritz College of Law at Ohio State
University who specializes in election law, called the accountability
board amodel for the nation
<http://www.law.uci.edu/lawreview/vol3/no3/tokaji.pdf>and said it was
ridiculous to turn elections over to partisans. He noted the Federal
Election Commission routinely deadlocks because it is evenly split
between Democrats and Republicans.”)
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“These political scientists may have just discovered why U.S.
politics are a disaster” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76495>
Posted onOctober 7, 2015 12:28 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76495>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
WaPo
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2015/10/07/these-political-scientists-may-have-discovered-the-real-reason-u-s-politics-are-a-disaster/?tid=sm_tw>:
There’s a lot of disgust in America with politicians’ inability to
get things done. In the race to win the Republican presidential
nomination, that disgust has so far benefited outsider
candidates. Non-career politicians Donald Trump, Carly Fiorina and
Ben Carson have all promised to ride in and fix Washington.
But new research by Nolan McCarty, a professor at Princeton
University, and other political scientists suggests this disgust —
and America’s political dysfunction — won’t be that easy to
fix. Working with political scientist Boris Shor and economist John
Voorheis,McCarty has released a new study
<http://poseidon01.ssrn.com/delivery.php?ID=644113004017115122116001088105081097029078004022011049090080087098124120027001103126119126029119053124101020112090122098001075122047012042084075079118067091119028002019077020090091086092088098009024112088112085071026004114076010074001101108111096083&EXT=pdf>that shows that
the growing ideological gap between the Republican and Democratic
parties — a common obstacle to getting anything done in Washington —
is not just due to politicians’ incompetence or their unwillingness
to work together. It’s due, at least in part, to a deeper,
structural problem: the widening gap between the rich and poor.
Can’t wait to read this paper!
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“Experts: John Kasich political ads chart new territory”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76493>
Posted onOctober 7, 2015 11:43 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76493>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Fredreka Schouten
<http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2015/10/07/john-kasich-presidential-campaign-ads-super-pac/73505108/>for
USA Today:
Most election lawyers say Federal Election Commission rules
banning coordination between candidates and outside groups apply
narrowly to paid advertising. Coordinating with outside groups on
ads before a candidate formally announces is the latest example of
the ways the 2016 contest breaks new ground, they say.
“This doesn’t pass the smell test,” said Paul Ryan, a lawyer at
the Campaign Legal Center watchdog group said of the pro-Kasich ad.
“He was a candidate at the time he filmed this, even if he denied he
was a candidate.”
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“Clinton ‘SNL’ Cameo Could Entitle Challengers to Free Air Time”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76491>
Posted onOctober 7, 2015 11:41 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76491>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
The WSJ law blog reports
<http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2015/10/07/clinton-snl-cameo-could-entitle-challengers-to-free-air-time/>.
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Posted incampaigns <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>
“Assembly Republicans want to split GAB into two agencies”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76489>
Posted onOctober 7, 2015 10:21 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76489>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
An intentional recipe for deadlock
<http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/assembly-republicans-want-to-split-gab-into-two-agencies-b99592139z1-331067811.html>in
one of our most bitterly partisan state governments.
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