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CT Democrat Secretary of State Argues her Eligibility (With Video)
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 01:46 Written by rslcpol Wednesday, 14 April 2010 12:33
From New Haven Register:
She said she never filed pleadings, participated in a strategy session nor helped prepare witnesses, and appears to have filed only a handful of collaborative briefs, with the most recent one rejected as untimely.
Bysiewicz will be in Hartford Superior Court today before Judge Michael Sheldon who is being asked to determine if her less than six years of private practice here and her 11 years as secretary of the state count towards the 10 years of “active practice” of the law in Connecticut as required by state statute.
She brought the suit to clarify her status after a legal blogger questioned whether she has the qualifications. The state GOP, acting as an intervenor, questions that as well and put her under oath in a deposition that lasted some 10 hours.
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OH: GOP Secretary of State Candidate Launches Ad Campaign
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 01:48 Written by rslcpol Tuesday, 13 April 2010 12:41
From Cleveland.com:
Secretary of State candidate Jon Husted, who will battle Tea Party activist Sandra O’Brien in the Republican primary May 4, launched a television advertising campaign over the weekend touting his conservative values.
The ad, among the first for a statewide candidate this election season, could be a sign that Husted, a state senator from the Dayton area with a significant fund-raising edge, isn’t taking O’Brien lightly.
O’Brien, viewed by many as the underdog in the race, already has one notable upset on her political resume: She stunned incumbent Jennette Bradley in the Republican primary for state treasurer in 2006 before losing to Attorney General Richard Cordray in the general election.
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OH: Secretary of State Candidates Debate
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 01:51 Written by rslcpol Thursday, 8 April 2010 12:47
From Dayton Daily News:
The two Republican candidates for secretary of state each claimed their experience in government makes them the best candidate for the job, but one took aim at the other for issues that have nothing to do with the job of chief elections officer.
Ashtabula County Auditor Sandra O’Brien called state Sen. Jon Husted, R-Kettering, a “tax raiser” during an editorial board meeting at the Dayton Daily News on Wednesday, April 7.
“I’m the Republican candidate who is proud to be Tea Party endorsed,” O’Brien said.
She contrasted Husted’s support of a state sales tax increase in 2005 with her successful efforts to defeat a sales tax in Ashtabula County the same year.
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CT: Transcript of Democrat Secretary of State’s Testimony
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 01:54 Written by rslcpol Wednesday, 7 April 2010 12:48
From New Haven Register:
Attorney Wesley W. Horton quickly conceded Tuesday that a newspaper request for a copy of a video of his client, Sec. of the State Susan Bysiewicz, answering questions on her qualifications to run for attorney general, can be made public.
Horton withdrew his request for a protective order in the opening minutes of a hearing Monday before Superior Court Judge Michael R. Sheldon.
“After reviewing the law in this area about five minutes ago, I reached the conclusion that The Courant is correct,” Horton said in response to a motion by the Hartford Courant attorney, William S. Fish Jr.
A transcript of an estimated 10 hours of video shot over three days was released late Monday by Attorney General Richard Blumenthal’s office. The video, which is time-consuming to copy, is expected to be ready today.
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Democrat SOS and AG Candidate Doesn’t Want her Testimony Released
Last Updated on Tuesday, 6 April 2010 01:31 Written by rslcpol Tuesday, 6 April 2010 01:31
From Courant.com:
Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz asked a Superior Court judge Monday to block disclosure of the transcript and videotape of her sworn testimony in a deposition, which is part of her lawsuit to get a judge to rule that she is qualified to run for state attorney general.
Bysiewicz’s lawyer, Wesley W. Horton, filed a motion for a “protective order” directing all parties in the case “not to disclose publicly the transcript or videotape of any depositions in this case, except to the extent necessary to prosecute or defend any potential motion, unless and until they are unsealed” by order of the judge in the case.
Horton included no justifications in the brief motion as to why the judge should seal Bysiewicz’s answers to questions about her qualifications for the public office. Presumably, he will offer justifications at a hearing scheduled by Judge Michael Sheldon for today in Superior Court in Hartford.
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CT: Democrat Answers Questions about AG Campaign
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 02:00 Written by rslcpol Thursday, 1 April 2010 12:52
From Courant.com:
Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz answered questions under oath Wednesday during an all-day, pretrial deposition in her lawsuit seeking a judge’s declaration that she is eligible to run for state attorney general.
Eliot Gersten, the attorney representing the state Republican Party, questioned Bysiewicz for more than five hours between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m., and will resume Monday when the deposition continues at his Hartford office.
Two video cameras recorded the closed-door “discovery” proceeding. After learning that Republicans intended to videotape the deposition, Bysiewicz asked to have her own videographer present. Bysiewicz’s lawyer, Wesley Horton, had said his client was concerned that if the Republican Party’s video showed only her — and not Gersten, as he questioned her — it might result in “a slanted, one-sided picture of her deposition” that could be made public.
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NM: Secretary of State Playing Fast and Loose with public Records
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 02:13 Written by rslcpol Thursday, 25 March 2010 01:25
From nmpolitics.net:
Now we learn that Secretary of State Mary Herrera’s office thinks it has a right to conceal from the public an e-mail from a county official requesting additional voter registration forms and another from a nonprofit inquiring about a possible endorsement of a piece of legislation.
This appears to be either a flagrant disregard for the New Mexico Inspection of Public Records Act or a sign of incompetence. Such e-mails are, without question, public records.
I’m talking about the more than 400 pages of e-mails the Secretary of State’s Office released last week that were full of redactions. KOB-TV in Albuquerque and The Santa Fe New Mexican reported Tuesday that at least some of the information that was redacted appears to be, in the words of The New Mexican, “innocuous.”
One of the e-mails that was almost entirely redacted before being provided to the news outlets turned out to be an e-mail exchange in which the Santa Fe County elections director requested more Spanish-language voter registration forms from Herrera’s office.
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New Mexico: Concerns over SOS Soliciting Donations
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 02:14 Written by rslcpol Wednesday, 24 March 2010 12:39
From The New Mexico Independent:
KUNM has learned the state Attorney General’s office has concerns over what the Secretary of State may be doing with regard to seeking donations from contractors. In documents obtained this week, the AG’s office seems to back up the claims of one of Herrera’s former employees.
Elections Director A.J. Salazar, in his February 26 resignation letter to Secretary of State Mary Herrera, alleged, among other things, that she ordered all of her exempt employees to each gather 1,000 petition signatures for her re-election campaign. Salazar also said Herrera insisted employees “obtain sponsorships or donations” from contractors with business with the Secretary of State’s office. Shortly after Salazar’s letter became public, Herrera told the Albuquerque Journal that his allegations were unfounded, and based on “twisted information.” In his resignation letter, Salazar says e-mails prove otherwise.
KUNM has obtained some of those e-mails. In one, dated February 10, an assistant attorney general writes to Herrera: “I believe that the office or some employees in the office may be soliciting donations from contractors.” The subject line of the e-mail: “Admonition regarding solicitations.”
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ND: Convention Picks Republican Candidate for Secretary of State
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 02:22 Written by rslcpol Monday, 22 March 2010 12:48
From Inforum:
Al Jaeger was endorsed as the Republican candidate for North Dakota’s secretary of state today by delegates at the state convention here.
Jaeger, secretary of state since 1992, was unopposed in his bid for the party endorsement. He’s seeking a sixth term for the office that will be decided by voters this November.
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CT: Republican Running for Secretary of State
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 02:25 Written by rslcpol Friday, 19 March 2010 10:53
From Courant.com:
Corey Brinson, 30, of Bloomfield, is running for secretary of the state.
The Republican owns and practices law at Corey J. Brinson LLC in Hartford. He served in the Connecticut Air National Guard until he was honorably discharged in 2004.
Brinson has both a bachelor’s degree in political science and a law degree from the University of Connecticut.
This is his first time running for political office, but he has led several organizations. Gov. M. Jodi Rell appointed Brinson as a commissioner of the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission in 2006.
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