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It appears Nevada governor Brian Sandoval is just like Jim Gibbons, only more photogenic.

He's really way in over his head. At least one of the comments following the article suggests Nevada should revoke its charter and become a territory of the United States. The situation is dire if not completely hopeless there.
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Ohio workers have been given the shaft by the nutjobs in the state senate.

What else did voters expect when they put these extremists in?

Snip:

After the bill passed the senate Wednesday, the president of the AFL-CIO in Ohio issued a statement treating the measure as though it were already law, even though it must still be introduced in the House. AFL-CIO head Tim Burga called the bill’s senate passage “a sad day for Ohio’s middle class.” He made no mention of further demonstrations against the bill, much less strikes in opposition to its passage.

The unions are far more fearful that serious resistance to the bill—including the possibility of a general strike—could emerge, than they are of losing their role in the contract negotiation process. With a large working class that has been hard hit by the decline of heavy industry—auto, steel, and tire production—there is enormous social anger in this state of 11.5 million, whose economy is larger than that of Sweden.