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RSLC Leader to Take Governor’s Post
Last Updated on Monday, 1 December 2008 12:30 Written by rslcpol Monday, 1 December 2008 12:30
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Monday, December 1, 2008
Republican Secretary of State Brewer Will Become Arizona Governor as
Napolitano Named Homeland Security Secretary
ALEXANDRIA, VA – The Republican State Leadership Committee (RSLC), the nation’s largest caucus of Republican state leaders, praised Arizona Secretary of State Jan Brewer as she will likely take the post of Governor in early 2009 with the announcement today that Democrat Governor Janet Napolitano accepted the nomination of Homeland Security Secretary in the Obama Administration. Jan Brewer has a 26-year history in state and local government – having served in both chambers of the Arizona legislature, as chairman of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, and currently as Secretary of State. She is a prime example of the mission of the RSLC: building a farm team for the future.
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AZ: It’s Official – Republican Secretary of State to Move into Governor’s Mansion
Last Updated on Monday, 1 December 2008 04:22 Written by rslcpol Monday, 1 December 2008 11:48
Not the way we usually envision Republicans moving up the leadership ladder, but we’ll take it. This really reinforces precisely why the RSLC’s mission of recruiting, training, and electing America’s future leaders is so important. From the Tucson Citizen:
Napolitano, 51, would be departing after six years as Arizona governor and midway through her second four-year term. She previously served as Arizona attorney general and U.S. attorney for Arizona.
Brewer, 64, is a veteran public officeholder, with more than two decades as a legislator, a Maricopa County supervisor and secretary of state. Arizona does not have a lieutenant general.
Brewer had a reputation as a fiscal hard-liner and conservative on social issues while a legislator in the 1980s and 1990s, so her taking over the governorship would mean a new approach from Napolitano’s direction.
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KY: U.S. Senator Bunning Running in 2010? If Not, GOP Secretary of State Might
Last Updated on Monday, 24 November 2008 02:10 Written by rslcpol Monday, 24 November 2008 01:42
Trey Grayson is one of Kentucky’s finest Republican leaders. Don’t know much about him – check out his official bio from the Kentucky Secretary of State’s website here. From Cincinnati.com:
Should Bunning not run, Secretary of State Trey Grayson, a Boone County Republican, has indicated he will run. But Grayson has said little publicly about the race in deference to Bunning.
Bunning has been energized by his staunch opposition to the bailout of the financial industry that Congress passed; he is also against a similar bailout for the auto industry. Raising his profile is the fact that Bunning has been a critic for years of the Federal Reserve System and the policies of its leaders, former chairman Alan Greenspan and current Chairman Ben Bernanke.
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Arizona Republican Secretary of State Jan Brewer in the Spotlight
Last Updated on Monday, 24 November 2008 02:33 Written by rslcpol Monday, 24 November 2008 11:35
This is a long profile of Arizona’s Republican Secretary of State Jan Brewer. After reading it, you’ll wish it was longer. She’ll just strike you as a commonsense leader that you want to get to know better. Arizona will truly benefit from having her experience and wisdom as Governor. From The Arizona Republic:
Now, with Gov. Janet Napolitano’s likely departure to become Homeland Security secretary in Barack Obama’s administration, this may be Brewer’s time in the spotlight.
She’s not ready to take a bow – yet – declining to comment about the governor’s job until she hears from the current occupant of the Ninth Floor at the Capitol Executive Tower.
If she becomes Arizona’s 22nd governor, she won’t need a map to the office.
“Jan is great organizer, and she’s a real politico,” said Pat Wright, who served with Brewer in the Legislature in the mid-1980s through the early ’90s and remains a friend.
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Arizona Republican Secretary of State Could be Next Governor
Last Updated on Friday, 21 November 2008 02:32 Written by rslcpol Friday, 21 November 2008 12:13
If Napolitano gets the nod, then watch the former Democrat A.G. leave the Governor’s office, and watch the current Republican Secretary of State – Jan Brewer – become the Governor of Arizona (yes it sounds odd, but you see Arizona has no Lieutenant Governor and so it’s the Secretary of State who’s in the line of succession. From AZCentral:
Napolitano’s departure, which could come in weeks, would place Republican Secretary of State Jan Brewer, 64, in control of the Governor’s Office. It would be the first time since 2002 that the GOP has controlled both the executive and legislative branches of state government, giving the party its best opportunity in years to enact a conservative agenda.
It also would mark the first time in two decades that a mid-term gubernatorial transition has shifted power from one party to the other. It last happened in 1988 with Democrat Rose Mofford’s ascendancy following the impeachment of Republican Gov. Evan Mecham.
Napolitano’s much-reported selection as secretary of Homeland Security remains unannounced.
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WA: Republican Secretary of State – GOP Must be the Change it Wants to See
Last Updated on Thursday, 20 November 2008 02:39 Written by rslcpol Thursday, 20 November 2008 11:34
There will be insights and opinions coming from all corners of the GOP about just what exactly the next step should be for the party of Lincoln. We’re not smart enough to know yet, so we’ll just keep reading and sharing, reading and sharing. From a column in SeattlePI written by the Republican Secretary of State of Washington, Sam Reed:
In the aftermath of the Obama Tsunami, Republicans at the state and national level are digging out and correctly spending some quality time analyzing what happened and how to move forward with rethinking, rebranding and repositioning for the days to come.
As one of two statewide Republican elected officials left standing (the estimable Attorney General Rob McKenna is the other), my hope for our Grand Old Party is that party elders, activists and donors resist the ultimately self-defeating instinct to move toward narrow ideological dogma, negativism and unhelpful government-is-bad rhetoric.
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Not All is Rosy for West Virginia Dems
Last Updated on Monday, 17 November 2008 02:50 Written by rslcpol Monday, 17 November 2008 12:53
It’s probably time for Darrell McGraw to pack it up, and pack it in. Let him begin his new journey for life outside of state government. If he’s still AG in 2012 – we suspect that he will face a well funded candidate – maybe even from his own party – who will mark the end of his tumultuous career. From the Herald Dispatch:
CHARLESTON — West Virginia’s Democratic Party was largely successful on Election Day, but the results also show a gray lining.
Barack Obama had been aided by a more extensive ground game and a 2-to-1 voter advantage. But he became the third consecutive Democratic presidential contender to lose the Mountain State to his Republican opponent, and by a slightly greater margin than his 2004 predecessor.
The majority party also proved unable to prevent West Virginia’s only Republican member of Congress, Rep. Shelley Moore Capito, from securing a fifth term.
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TN: Number of Secretary of State Candidates Narrow
Last Updated on Friday, 14 November 2008 03:17 Written by rslcpol Friday, 14 November 2008 12:47
Now this could be interesting to watch. Of course – popularly electing these positions would be even more interesting! From WSMV.com:
“I owed her at least a consideration there,” said the Blountville Republican. “That obviously is not going to happen, and I have no problem with that. Keep in mind, I don’t appoint this position.”
Sen. Bill Ketron, R-Murfreesboro, said other GOP lawmakers and Republican activists in his district were opposed and “it was beginning to escalate.”
In 2007, Kurita’s vote for Ramsey over longtime Democratic Speaker John Wilder infuriated fellow Democrats. After she won an 11-vote victory in the August Democratic primary, Democrats stripped her of her nomination, forcing her to run as an independent. She lost in the Nov. 4 election.
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MN Senate Race Update: Opinion – Vanishing Vote Under the Eyes of Democrat SoS
Last Updated on Wednesday, 12 November 2008 04:54 Written by rslcpol Wednesday, 12 November 2008 03:40
Yes, Mark Ritchie is about to move his state up to the top of most embarrassing state to be from list if this continues. Wonder if Keith Olbermann will list Mr. Ritchie as one of his worst people everrrrrr!!!! Probably not. From the Wall Street Journal:
This entire process is being overseen by Democratic Secretary of State Mark Ritchie, who isn’t exactly a nonpartisan observer. One of Mr. Ritchie’s financial supporters during his 2006 run for office was a 527 group called the Secretary of State Project, which was co-founded by James Rucker, who came from MoveOn.org. The group says it is devoted to putting Democrats in jobs where they can “protect elections.”
Mr. Ritchie is also an ally of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or Acorn, of fraudulent voter-registration fame. That relationship might explain why prior to the election Mr. Ritchie waved off evidence of thousands of irregularities on Minnesota voter rolls, claiming that accusations of fraud were nothing more than “desperateness” from Republicans.
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WI: Elections Board Now May Check Voter Registrations Back to 2006
Last Updated on Tuesday, 11 November 2008 11:50 Written by rslcpol Tuesday, 11 November 2008 11:50
From TMCnet:
“The first thing I did was laugh out loud,” said Reince Priebus, chairman of the state Republican Party, which joined Van Hollen’s lawsuit. “It’s pretty amazing that we’ve been fighting this battle for four years and now they decide a week after the election they want to do retroactive (registration) checks. It’s pretty frustrating, but we’ll take it.”
The checks — in which voter registration information is cross-referenced against state driver’s license, death and felon records — are intended to prevent fraud and are required under the federal Help America Vote Act.
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