Archive for the ‘Lieutenant Governor News’ Category
CA: Lt. Governor Confirmation Battle to Spanish Language TV
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 02:58 Written by rslcpol Wednesday, 24 February 2010 02:41
From The Sacramento Bee:
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and his lieutenant governor nominee Abel Maldonado continued their confirmation fight with legislators this past weekend — in the parallel universe of international Spanish-language TV news.
Assembly Speaker-elect John A. Pérez, too, was pressed on Maldonado this weekend on Univision television’s local Los Angeles channel.
Schwarzenegger went national, talking up embattled nominee Maldonado during an interview with the two that aired Sunday on Al Punto, a Univision broadcast with huge reach in the United States and abroad.
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AR: Lawmakers Reject Cuts to Lt. Governor’s Budget
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 03:01 Written by rslcpol Tuesday, 23 February 2010 02:00
From KATV.com:
Arkansas lawmakers have rejected a hefty cut to Lt. Gov. Bill Halter’s budget that would have laid off all but one of his staffers.
The personnel subcommittee of the Joint Budget Committee on Tuesday rejeted the proposal to cut Halter’s budget by more than $230,000. The proposal by Democratic Rep. Keith Ingram would have reduced Halter’s budget from $366,695 a year to $129,580.
Ingram also proposed cutting Halter’s full-time staff from four to one
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WI: Republican Formally Declares Run for Lt. Governor
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 03:02 Written by rslcpol Monday, 22 February 2010 02:56
From Channel3000.com:
Republican Brett Davis has formally declared his candidacy for lieutenant governor.
Davis, of Oregon, Wis., is finishing his third term as a state representative. He said he wants to transform the lieutenant governor position into a taxpayer advocate. He said he’ll propose nearly $40 million in government spending cuts his first year in office.
Incumbent Lt. Gov. Barbara Lawton, a Democrat, has decided not to run for reelection. Three other Republicans besides Davis and four Democrats have filed paperwork to run for the office.
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Oregon Republican Joins Lt. Governor Race
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 03:02 Written by rslcpol Monday, 22 February 2010 02:46
From WKOWTV.com:
Oregon Republican Brett Davis formally declared his candidacy for lieutenant governor this morning.
Davis is in his third term as a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly. Three other Republicans and four Democrats have filed paperwork to run for lieutenant governor.
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San Francisco Mayor Files to run for Lt. Governor
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 03:08 Written by rslcpol Thursday, 18 February 2010 02:34
From The Herald:
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom has filed initial paperwork to run for lieutenant governor.
According to forms filed with the Secretary of State’s office Wednesday, Newsom took the first steps to becoming a statewide candidate again.
Newsom has said he is keeping his options open after dropping out of the gubernatorial race. He faced tough odds against Attorney General Jerry Brown, who is expected to declare his candidacy in the next few weeks.
Newsom would compete against state Sen. Dean Florez and Los Angeles City Councilwoman Janice Hahn for the Democratic nomination.
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TX: Dems Running for Lt. Governor Agree With Eachother
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 03:08 Written by rslcpol Thursday, 18 February 2010 02:17
From Dallas Morning News:
The prospect of challenging the wealthy, well-financed Republican incumbent who has held the state’s No. 2 post since 2003 has not deterred three Democrats from seeking their party’s nomination for lieutenant governor.
The candidates – Linda Chavez-Thompson, Ronnie Earle and Marc Katz – are competing in a quiet campaign in which they agree on most of the issues and on their top priority: beating David Dewhurst.
“If the lieutenant governor had been doing his job, I wouldn’t be running for this position,” said Chavez-Thompson, a former executive vice president of the AFL-CIO and vice chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee. “What I’ve seen in Texas the last few years has really made me angry. We have a lieutenant governor who doesn’t care about everyday working Texans.”
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NY: Republican Announces Lt. Governor Campaign
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 03:08 Written by rslcpol Wednesday, 17 February 2010 01:51
From the Daily News:
A Republican upstart who worked on the presidential campaigns of Mike Huckabee and John McCain has taken the unusual step of announcing his intention to run for lieutenant governor this fall.
M. Myers Mermel, a real estate finance specialist and Virginia native who moved to New York in 1984, has received encouragement from nine upstate GOP county chairs.
In a recent letter, the chairs urged Mermel to “turn what would be a politically-motivated choice into a powerful platform to bring jobs to New York State.”
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RI: Dem Lt. Governor Decides Against Run for Congress
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 03:14 Written by rslcpol Wednesday, 17 February 2010 01:28
From Projo.com:
Lt. Gov. Elizabeth Roberts has decided to run for reelection, rather than take a shot at winning the 1st District Congressional seat held for the last 15 years by Patrick J. Kennedy.
In the wake of Kennedy’s unexpected announcement last week that he was not running for reelection to a ninth term, Roberts, who lives in the state’s 2nd Congressional District, acknowledged that she was seriously thinking about running for Kennedy’s open seat.
But on Tuesday, she issued a statement in which she said she has been “humbled” by the “many Rhode Islanders who have encouraged me to enter the race to succeed Congressman Kennedy,” but feels that “my place, right now, is here in Rhode Island.”
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VA: Romney and McDonnell Call into Lt. Governor’s Radio Show
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 03:12 Written by rslcpol Tuesday, 16 February 2010 02:58
From WashingtonPost.com:
Anita Kumar
Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling played radio host this morning on WRVA in Richmond and welcomed fellow Republicans, possible presidential hopeful Mitt Romney and Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, onto the program.
Romney, former Massachusetts governor and a 2008 presidential candidate, talked about the man currently occupying the White House.
“I don’t think an unbiased observer would give Obama a passing grade in his first year,” Romney said. “It was a lost year unfortunately. The first rule of any kind of a turnaround is to focus your efforts and unfortunately instead of focusing his efforts on the economy and creating jobs the president used his political capital and his energy to go and sell a healthcare plan and the more he sold it the less attractive it was and the American people ultimately rejected that plan and, as a result, we really lost a year.”
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CA: Governor to Nominate Lt. Governor Again
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 03:13 Written by rslcpol Tuesday, 16 February 2010 02:29
From the LA Times:
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger flew back to California on Monday after a long weekend out of state, busy with carrying the Olympic torch and attending other events at the Winter Games in Vancouver, and then w
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