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Mississippi Secretary of State Named Honorary Chair
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 01:33 Written by rslcpol Wednesday, 28 April 2010 01:39
From ClarionLedger.com:
Mississippi Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann has been appointed honorary chairman of the national Republican Secretaries of State Committee.
The committee is a part of the Republican State Leadership Committee, which also includes the Republican Attorneys General Association, the Republican Legislative Campaign Committee and the Republican Lieutenant Governors Association.
The organization’s main mission is to campaign for and elect Republican candidates to those offices. In his new role, Hosemann likely will assist those efforts.
Currently, Republicans hold 19 of the secretaries of state positions across the country.
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CT: Fiery End to Democrat’s AG Trial
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 01:37 Written by rslcpol Friday, 23 April 2010 11:55
From Courant.com:
In a quarrelsome end to an extraordinary trial, the lawyer for the Republican Party said Thursday that a judge should throw out the lawsuit in which Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz seeks a ruling that she is eligible to run for attorney general.
“Waah, waah, waah! I want to be attorney general, and I’m going to get my way in court!” is how the GOP’s lawyer, Eliot Gersten, characterized Bysiewicz’s stance as plaintiff in her lawsuit against her own office and the Democratic Party. She wants the party to nominate her for attorney general at its convention May 22.
Gersten’s comment touched off an animated finale to lawyers’ arguments in the trial at Superior Court in Hartford that began April 14. The judge, Michael Sheldon, said that he would work with “all deliberate speed” toward a decision but that it would not come this week.
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CT: Democrat Secretary of State – Unfit for AG?
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 01:37 Written by rslcpol Friday, 23 April 2010 11:37
From ctpost.com:
Regardless of any court ruling in her case, Susan Bysiewicz has demonstrated her unfitness for the office of Connecticut Attorney General.
It became clear during three full days of testimony and argument that while Bysiewicz, a lawyer, may have managed a coolly efficient office as secretary of the state, she has not been engaged in the “active practice” of law as required by state statute for those who would serve as attorney general.
Though she’s a lawyer and was in active practice for more than five years before becoming secretary of the state 11 years ago, that doesn’t meet the statutory requirement of at least 10 years active practice.
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CT: Democrat Secretary of State’s Legal Battle to be on AG Ballot Closer to an End
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 01:38 Written by rslcpol Thursday, 22 April 2010 11:00
From TheDay.com:
The end is drawing near for Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz’s legal battle to establish her eligibility to serve as Connecticut’s next attorney general.
Attorneys representing Bysiewicz, the state Democratic and Republican parties and Bysiewicz’s office appeared Tuesday in Hartford Superior Court for two long sessions of argument before Judge Michael Sheldon. Sheldon will rule on the meaning of the state’s qualifying standards for attorneys general, and also whether those existing standards are constitutional.
Bysiewicz has sued the state Democratic party and her own office in an effort to prove that she meets the existing standard of legal experience for an attorney general – 10 years of active practice at the Connecticut bar. Bysiewicz argues that the combination of her four years in private practice and her work as Secretary of the State should enable her to meet that standard.
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OH: Democrat Secretary of State Not Following Federal Election Disclosure Rules
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 01:38 Written by rslcpol Thursday, 22 April 2010 10:56
From Cleveland.com:
Jennifer Brunner, the U.S. Senate candidate whose day job is to make sure that Ohio elections run smoothly and lawfully, is not following a requirement of federal election law in her own campaign — or so it appears based on a review of her campaign finance reports as well as Federal Election Commission guidelines.
The Ohio secretary of state, running in the May 4 Democratic primary for Senate against Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher, has consistently failed to list the identities and itemize the salaries of all her campaign staffers, as required by law.
Instead, she files quarterly FEC campaign finance reports that itemize every stipend to each of her interns. She then lumps the salaries of her top staffers into a payment she makes regularly to a paycheck-processing company, PayChex. During the first three months of this year, the Jennifer Brunner Committee paid $37,081.61 to PayChex, according to an itemization from Brunner’s latest FEC report.
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GOP Doesn’t Like Secretary of State’s Census Ad
Last Updated on Wednesday, 21 April 2010 10:02 Written by rslcpol Wednesday, 21 April 2010 10:02
From Las Vegas Sun:
Secretary of State Ross Miller is facing questions from political opponents over his appearance alongside UFC fighters in an ad encouraging Nevadans to participate in the U.S. Census.
The ad — which features Ultimate Fighting Championship fighters, an octagon girl, UFC President Dana White, and Miller urging people to send in their census forms — has prompted the Nevada Republican Party to accuse Miller, a Democrat, in an ethics complaint of using taxpayer money to further his political career.
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CT: Final Arguments Heard in Dem’s Credentials Trial
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 01:39 Written by rslcpol Wednesday, 21 April 2010 09:10
Here’s an excerpt from Susan Bysiewicz ‘Rock band’ testimony last week.
From the Courant.com:
The judge in Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz’s Superior Court trial narrowed the legal issues Tuesday during four hours of lawyers’ final arguments about her legal credentials to run for attorney general.
Judge Michael Sheldon signaled that his eventual decision — on whether Bysiewicz has the requisite experience in the “active practice” of law — might be based on whether she has actively participated as a lawyer with her staff attorneys to issue opinions and rulings on elections.
That view could be bad or good for Bysiewicz, who has been registered as a lawyer for 24 years but is fighting to prove that she has sufficient legal experience to become attorney general.
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Mississippi 2011 Politics Begin to take Shape
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 01:41 Written by rslcpol Wednesday, 21 April 2010 08:39
From nems360.com:
The two wild cards in the 2011 statewide elections are Republican Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann and state Supreme Court Chief Justice William Waller Jr.
Their decisions will have a tremendous impact on the 2011 state elections.
The conventional wisdom is that Hosemann, a first-term secretary of state, will seek re-election, and, if he does, most believe he will cruise to victory. And that same conventional wisdom has Waller remaining in the lofty position of chief justice of the Mississippi Supreme Court – a position he assumed by virtue of being the longest-serving member of the high court with the defeat of then-incumbent Chief Justice Jim Smith in November 2008.
That is conventional wisdom, but there have been persistent rumors that both Waller and Hosemann might be eyeing bids for the top of the ticket for governor.
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MI: State Democrats Pick their SOS and AG Candidates
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 01:47 Written by rslcpol Monday, 19 April 2010 12:40
From Freep.com:
Jocelyn Benson and David Leyton were endorsed Saturday as the Michigan Democratic Party’s picks for secretary of state and attorney general.
The secretary of state vote was overwhelming for Benson, a 32-year-old Detroit resident and Wayne State University law professor, who swamped Detroit City Clerk Janice Winfrey by a 95%-5% margin.
But the race for attorney general was far closer. Leyton, 56, a Flint Township resident and Genesee County prosecutor, beat Richard Bernstein, a member of the Wayne State University Board of Governors, by a 52%-47% margin.
“I’m putting the Republicans on notice right now that we’re going to fight for every vote,” Leyton said.
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CT: Dem Secretary of State Tries to Defend Running for AG
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 01:45 Written by rslcpol Thursday, 15 April 2010 01:26
From Courant.com:
In an extraordinary and at times uncomfortable appearance on a Superior Court witness stand, Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz acknowledged Wednesday that in six of the years between 1997 and 2008 she signed state professional or tax documents certifying that she “did not work … as an attorney” or did not “engage in the practice of law.”
The forms were introduced as evidence by an attorney for the state Republican Party, Eliot Gersten, in an effort to undercut Bysiewicz’s claim in a lawsuit that she has enough legal experience to make her eligible to run for state attorney general.
It was just one of several attacks by Gersten on Bysiewicz’s qualifications as a lawyer during the first day of a trial that will continue today. Bysiewicz has sued her own office and the state Democratic Party, whose nomination for attorney general she hopes to win at its convention next month, in an effort to establish her credentials to become the state’s chief legal official.
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