Walsh on Steward’s Agenda

Minority Leader Gina Walsh tweets about David Steward’s big check… Last year, Republican Senators pushed to change Title IX laws to make things harder on victims of rape and campus assault. Thankfully, they failed. But now, the money behind the Title IX effort is being funneled into a secret PAC to elect more Republican Senators. Coincidence?

Steward Joins Mega-Donor Ranks

David Steward, CEO of World Wide Technology Inc, sent $735,000 to CL PAC yesterday.  This comes on heels of a $100K contribution to the same PAC the day before.

Together with previous contributions of $150K to Bill PAC (associated with Sen. Bill Eigel) and $50K earlier in the summer to CL PAC, it puts Steward’s total giving to over $1 million.  He’s now a mega-donor.

Medicaid Expansion Campaign Launches Today

Today the campaign to expand Medicaid will formally launch.  See the website here.

Progressives have been buoyed by recent success with economic issues at the ballot box.  They won an increase in the minimum wage and also trounced right to work.  Nationally, other states have expanded Medicaid by initiative petition as well.

Merideth on Online Sales Tax

On Facebook, Rep. Peter Merideth makes the case for an online sales tax…

We are now one of only two states in the country that hasn’t yet passed legislation to start collecting sales/use tax from online purchases from out-of-state vendors. That’s millions of dollars we’re losing in state and local revenue for vital services, while giving out-of-state retailers a huge advantage over our local brick and mortars.