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Mississippi Speaker’s Race To Be Decided This Afternoon
Last Updated on Tuesday, 8 January 2008 11:45 Written by rslcpol Tuesday, 8 January 2008 11:43
JACKSON – The 2008 Mississippi Legislature convenes on Tuesday and one of the first orders of business will be the election of a new House speaker, a contest closely watched here in the Golden Triangle.Rep. Billy McCoy, D-Rienzi, who has served as speaker for the past four years, is challenged by Rep. Jeff Smith, D-Columbus, a conservative with strong Republican support. Both are claiming to have the votes to be elected.
The winner will preside over the 122-member chamber and exert influence over the fate of legislation for the next four years.
In the Senate, Lt. Gov.-elect Phil Bryant, who served as state auditor before winning election to Mississippi’s second highest post last year, is expected to name committee chairmen this week soon after taking office.
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NV: LG Says Dollar’s Decline May Lift Tourism
Last Updated on Tuesday, 8 January 2008 11:36 Written by rslcpol Tuesday, 8 January 2008 11:36
The devaluation of the U.S. dollar plus international agreements with the European Union and the People’s Republic of China could boost tourism in Las Vegas and the Reno-Tahoe area in 2008, civic and state leaders said Monday.
“This may be the perfect tourism trifecta for Nevada,” said Lt. Gov. Brian Krolicki, the chair of the Nevada Commission on Tourism.
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KS: Officials Say PSA’s Serve Purpose, Not Them
Last Updated on Friday, 4 January 2008 01:39 Written by rslcpol Friday, 4 January 2008 11:47
The debate on public service announcements is long and ongoing. The best way avoid any abuse of taxpayer funded TV time by ANY public official (because lets be honest, anyone who’s ever run for office thinks they should be sitting behind the big desk at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue) is to use actors, or professional staff members of the sponsoring state agency.
Are those phrases from Securities Commissioner Chris Biggs, Treasurer Lynn Jenkins and Secretary of State Ron Thornburgh public service announcements or code words for “vote for me”?The answer, according to Thornburgh, depends on who is talking.
“I am sure there is a line,” he said. “It is almost like ‘beauty is in the eye of the beholder.’
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MS: State Politics In 2008
Last Updated on Wednesday, 2 January 2008 12:16 Written by rslcpol Wednesday, 2 January 2008 12:16
Maybe some saw it coming, but most Mississippians were surprised to hear of Senator Trent Lott’s retirement. He was the second Mississippi political mainstay to announce his intentions to leave office. Representative Chip Pickering had done so just three months before Lott, although Pickering will stay through the end of his term in 2008.
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IN: LG Says Rebates Promote Energy Savings
Last Updated on Friday, 21 December 2007 10:48 Written by rslcpol Friday, 21 December 2007 10:48
During a visit to WaterFurnace International in Fort Wayne on Thursday, Lt. Gov. Becky Skillman said a rebate program for heat pumps is proving popular with Hoosiers.
Already, $186,400 in rebates have been approved and are being processed. The rebate program, started Oct. 1, makes $500,000 available for Hoosiers who upgrade existing heating and cooling systems to more energy-efficient geothermal heat pump systems, according to the lieutenant governor.
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Michigan Considers State Wide Health Plan
Last Updated on Wednesday, 19 December 2007 10:28 Written by rslcpol Wednesday, 19 December 2007 10:28
– Following the example of California whose state assembly approved a $14 billion fund to extend health insurance to all Californians, Michigan wants to have a similar state-wide health coverage. There are plans to launch a petition drive in January to persuade Michigan voters to approve a proposed universal healthcare plan in the state. The campaign is led by labor and religious groups and Lieutenant Governor John Cherry
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Columnist Thinks Virginia Might Be Turning Blue
Last Updated on Monday, 17 December 2007 01:19 Written by rslcpol Monday, 17 December 2007 01:19
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election campaign has people pondering “the bluing of Virginia.” Could a Democrat claim the commonwealth’s 12 electoral votes next November? Even if it’s a woman named Clinton? What a concept. Virginia hasn’t voted for a Democrat for president since Lyndon Johnson in 1964, but it has elected two Democratic governors in a row, and five of the last seven. And these are not your old, Byrd-style, pay-as-you-go, status-quo-loving Virginia Democrats, but progressive Democrats who offered voters just the right touch of Virginia conservatism to get elected.
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DE: LG Helps Launch Campaign On Video Game Ratings
Last Updated on Wednesday, 12 December 2007 12:54 Written by rslcpol Wednesday, 12 December 2007 12:28
Will Democrat Gubernatorial candidate John Carney appear in any of these Public Service Announcements? Will any of these PSAs run in the expensive Philadelphia media market?
Lt. Gov. John Carney and Rep. Helene Keeley, D-Wilmington South were joined Friday, Dec. 7, by Entertainment Software Rating Board President Patricia E. Vance to announce the launch of a new public service announcement campaign to explain video game ratings to parents and encourage that they use them when buying games for their children.
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UT: State Begins Drive To Stop Underage Drinking
Last Updated on Monday, 10 December 2007 11:34 Written by rslcpol Monday, 10 December 2007 11:32
The alcohol campaign is more an advisory that underage drinking is to be taken seriously and that it is going on everywhere, said Lt. Gov. Gary Herbert. The point is not to scare parents, he said. But parents should be aware that alcohol use by teens stunts their memory, learning and impulse controls.
Herbert said it’s also vital that parents realize drinking occurs in every neighborhood in every community across the state.
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ID: GOP LG Ramps Up Campaign For U.S. Senate Seat
Last Updated on Monday, 10 December 2007 11:38 Written by rslcpol Monday, 10 December 2007 11:27
It seems like Republican Lt. Governor Jim Risch and Democrat candidate Larry LaRocco have run against one another before…oh that’s right because they just did back in November of ’06 – and Risch beat LaRocco soundly. Early public polls have Risch pummeling LaRocco 52% to 36%, and another well regarded state and local leader, Attorney General Lawrence Wasden, also pounding LaRocco 46% to 36%. Not a good time to be LaRocco in Idaho.
WASHINGTON – As the race to succeed U.S. Sen. Larry Craig heats up, fundraising appeals for the top two candidates are turning up in mailboxes in Idaho and around the country.Both Lt. Gov. Jim Risch, a Republican, and former congressman Larry LaRocco, a Democrat, have been raising money to run for Craig’s seat.
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