PICKING SIDES
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 18 January 2020
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Today - what is the real difference between Republicans and Democrats? What do they actually have a record of doing when they get power?- Who are the Republicans and the Democrats when it comes down to it?- and what are the current crop of candidates pledging to do?
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman Program. |
| 0:15.0 | Welcome back, Tom Hartman here with you on the Number One Progressive Radio Program in the United States. |
| 0:20.0 | What do Republicans and Democrats do when they gain complete power over a state? |
| 0:27.0 | This is like a really interesting question. |
| 0:30.0 | It's absolutely fascinating. |
| 0:32.0 | In other words, don't listen to what they say. |
| 0:33.8 | What do they do? |
| 0:36.7 | Perry Bacon Jr wrote a great piece for 538.com. Just documenting this. There are 14 states that are totally controlled by |
| 0:45.6 | Democrats. The Democrats control the governor's office, they control the |
| 0:49.7 | senior administrative offices, they control the House of Representatives or the |
| 0:54.7 | Assembly as it may be called or the you know whatever the lower chamber is called |
| 0:58.1 | and they control the Senate which is typically what the upper chamber is called and |
| 1:01.8 | I think we've got one, maybe two states that have a |
| 1:04.0 | unicameral legislature. So anyhow, 14 states that are completely |
| 1:08.4 | controlled by Democrats, 22 states that are completely controlled by Republicans. |
| 1:15.8 | So what do they do differently? |
| 1:19.7 | In the democratically controlled states, and this is just looking since 2010, this |
| 1:24.8 | would be the last decade basically, in the Democratic controlled states every |
| 1:29.2 | single one of them has passed a law to hike the minimum wage, |
| 1:33.0 | significantly above 725 an hour, |
| 1:35.2 | some of them quite substantially. |
| 1:37.8 | Every single one of those 14 states |
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