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Lt. Gov. Paterson Would Be New York’s First Black Governor
Last Updated on Tuesday, 11 March 2008 11:57 Written by rslcpol Tuesday, 11 March 2008 11:23
If Spitzer goes, would Governor Paterson be the first blind governor in the United States? He would certainly be the first governor who ever filed a bill, repeatedly, that would’ve made it legal for suspects to resist arrest by police officers – sound crazy? Check it out.
Eliot Spitzer’s would-be successor is a street-smart New York City politician who ascended by serving the Democratic Party and the voters in his Harlem-area State Senate district.Lt. Gov. David A. Paterson, who once called himself a “bomb thrower,” would become New York’s first African-American governor and only the eighth in American history if Spitzer resigns. He’s 53, plays pickup basketball and in 1999 completed the New York City Marathon.
“David Paterson is no stranger to Buffalo,” said Mayor Byron W. Brown, who served with Paterson in the State Senate earlier this decade and cast one of the deciding votes that elevated Paterson to Senate minority leader in 2002.
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NE: LG Says State Will Be Second In Ethanol
Last Updated on Monday, 10 March 2008 12:58 Written by rslcpol Monday, 10 March 2008 12:51
Sheehy also gave an update on the state’s ethanol production. He said by the end of 2008, Nebraska’s production will reach two billion gallons and will be second only to Iowa. He said there are several plants in production and several will be expanded.
Last Friday, Governor Heineman signed into law LB 395, the Nebraska Clean Indoor Air Act. The bill bans smoking in public buildings, including bars, restaurants and most workplaces beginning in June of 2009.
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VA: AG Says Using Lottery Funds For General Purposes Unconstitutional
Last Updated on Wednesday, 5 March 2008 11:46 Written by rslcpol Wednesday, 5 March 2008 11:46
WASHINGTON (Map, News) – Virginia Attorney General Robert McDonnell told state lawmakers Tuesday that their long-standing practice of sending lottery revenue into the state’s main funding pot and not directly into local education is unconstitutional.
The legal opinion, while advisory, clears up a budget dispute over the course of the proceeds and could prompt legislators to change the way they route the more than $400 million the lottery raises each year for local school systems.
Republican Lt. Gov. William Bolling last month sought to block the state Senate’s slim Democratic majority from passing its budget by insisting that the inclusion of lottery money into the state’s largest spending fund would require an 80 percent vote, which would have been impossible in the increasingly divisive chamber. Bolling was overruled.
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WA: Senate Leader Sues over I-960
Last Updated on Tuesday, 4 March 2008 03:53 Written by rslcpol Monday, 3 March 2008 11:40
Not the first time today we’re highlighting state and local Democrats trying to undo the will of the voters in the courts. If you can’t beat em, sue em!
OLYMPIA — Senate Majority Leader Lisa Brown said Sunday she will sue in a bid to overturn the tax-limiting provisions of Initiative 960, a Tim Eyman-sponsored measure aimed at curbing the Legislature’s power to raise taxes.The lawsuit, which is technically against Lt. Gov. Brad Owen over a Senate floor ruling upholding I-960, will be filed this morning with the state Supreme Court.
Initiative 960 reaffirmed higher vote thresholds for tax increases and was passed by voters in November. It requires all state tax increases to achieve at least a two-thirds vote in both houses. That was previously mandated by Initiative 601, passed in 1993, which lawmakers have amended and even suspended at times. Under the initiative, taxes passed with only a simple majority have to go to the ballot for ratification.
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HI: Dems Hope Voters Forgot; Try Scheme Again
Last Updated on Wednesday, 20 February 2008 12:39 Written by rslcpol Wednesday, 20 February 2008 10:21
Less than two years after voters soundly rejected a scheme by Democratic legislators to prevent Republican Gov. Linda Lingle from appointing a new chief justice of the state Supreme Court before her term ends, the Democrats are at it again.Lawmakers are taking another stab at passing a constitutional amendment this year to end mandatory retirement at 70 for state judges to spare the current Democrat-appointed Chief Justice Ronald Moon, who turns 70 in 2010, from having to retire before Lingle leaves office late that year.
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A South Carolina Poltical Heavyweight as V.P. Candidate?
Last Updated on Tuesday, 19 February 2008 02:57 Written by rslcpol Tuesday, 19 February 2008 11:46
What? What about Henry McMaster – we think he’d be awesome in the post! After all, it was the Republican Attorney General who played such a pivotal role down there.
It’s the political gossip that’s too juicy to dry up: South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, or perhaps the state’s Republican Sens. Lindsey Graham or Jim DeMint, could end up as Sen. John McCain’s running mate.Even though McCain hasn’t officially clinched the Republican nomination, national pundits have thrown around these names — particularly Sanford’s — when trying to guess who McCain might tap for the No. 2 slot.
The talk persists even though Sanford, 47, chose not to endorse a presidential candidate this time around.
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NC: Ads Take Aim At State Treasurer
Last Updated on Thursday, 14 February 2008 10:14 Written by rslcpol Thursday, 14 February 2008 10:14
RALEIGH —
Political fights sometimes erupt on the front pages of newspapers, but this week’s scuffle moved back to the ads.The State Employees Association of North Carolina purchased full-page advertisements Wednesday in three of the state’s largest newspapers criticizing State Treasurer Richard Moore.
“Where are our pension fund documents?” said the ad signed by all 12 members of SEANC’s executive committee and published in the Observer, the News & Observer of Raleigh, and the Asheville Citizen-Times.
SEANC represents 55,000 state workers, including 1,200 in Mecklenburg County. Its leadership in recent months has been confrontational toward Moore, who oversees the more than $70 billion state employees’ pension fund. Moore is also running for the Democratic nomination for governor against Lt. Gov. Beverly Perdue.
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MO: Gov. Endorses LG Kinder In Re-election Case
Last Updated on Wednesday, 13 February 2008 03:19 Written by rslcpol Wednesday, 13 February 2008 01:56
Well this will about take care of any question on Republican donors in Missouri on where the Governor stands on this one.
JEFFERSON CITY, MO (2008-02-12) Governor Matt Blunt is supporting Peter Kinder in the Missouri Lt. Governor’s race.Kinder surprised Republicans Friday evening by announcing that in the interest of party unity, he was pulling out of the governor’s race and would instead seek another term as Lt. Governor.
Blunt announced last month that he would not seek a second term as governor.
He also suggested that it would be good if Jack Jackson were to bow out of the Lt. Governor’s race.
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MD: US Reps Lose Their Seats in Primary
Last Updated on Wednesday, 13 February 2008 01:55 Written by rslcpol Wednesday, 13 February 2008 01:55
BALTIMORE (AP) — Two U.S. House members — Republican Wayne Gilchrest and Democrat Albert Wynn — lost their seats Tuesday as primary challengers captured their parties’ nominations.
They became the nation’s first congressional members to lose their seats in this year’s round of primary elections. However, only Maryland and Illinois have held primaries that included congressional races.
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MO: LG Kinder Quits Governor’s Race
Last Updated on Tuesday, 12 February 2008 02:40 Written by rslcpol Tuesday, 12 February 2008 12:19
At this, it looks like incumbent Republican L.G. Pete Kinder is in for a primary battle with Jack Jackson. But, this being Missouri in 2008, expect that to change in the days and weeks ahead. The primary is August 5th, 2008.
Speaking at the annual Lincoln Days gathering of Missouri Republicans, Kinder dropped the political bombshell after a lengthy speech where he recited the beginnings of his political career, from his grade-school support of Barry Goldwater’s 1964 presidential bid through his political work for former U.S. Rep. Bill Emerson, R-Cape Girardeau. “I’m here today to tell you that after visiting with friends and being gratified by their support all across this state – grass-roots volunteers, officeholders, fundraisers, captains of industry – and being humbled by support that I will, nonetheless, stand down from the governor’s race here tonight in the interest of the larger cause that you and I share,” Kinder said.
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