Great article highlighting the GOP and RSLC’s unprecedented efforts and success on the state level.

From Washington Post:

The spectacle of Democratic state legislators from Wisconsin and Indiana washing their underwear in motel sinks across state lines in order to avoid casting their votes back home is extraordinary. These desperation tactics highlight the precarious state in which Democrats find themselves in state capitols across the country. Voters drove so many Democrats out of state office last fall, it seems the only way the remaining Democrats can stop Republicans from enacting conservative reforms is to go on the lam to deny them a quorum.

Republicans made historic gains on the national level in November, securing the largest turnover of seats in the House of Representatives since 1948.

But these gains pale in comparison with those Republicans made at the state level. Backed by an unprecedented $30 million effort by the Republican State Leadership Committee (RSLC), headed by former national GOP chairman Ed Gillespie, the GOP picked up 690 seats in state legislatures in 2010 – outpacing the previous record of 628 seats won by Democrats in 1974 following the Watergate scandal.

Republicans wrested 20 state legislative chambers from Democratic control and now have majorities in both legislative chambers in 25 states (up from 14 before Election Day). There are now more Republican state legislators in office than at any time since 1928.

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