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MI: ACLU Picks Fight With GOP AG Over Illegal’s Driver Licenses
Last Updated on Wednesday, 13 February 2008 03:16 Written by rslcpol Wednesday, 13 February 2008 02:03
Maybe the ACLU should tell their friends in the Michigan House majority to work more with the Republican Senate on this instead of stonewalling to score cheap political points.
LANSING, Mich. (AP) The American Civil Liberties Union is filing a lawsuit on behalf of six legal immigrants living in Michigan who want to be able to get state-issued driver’s licenses.Legal immigrants who are not permanent residents have not been able to get driver’s licenses since late last month. It’s a policy change made by Secretary of State Terri Lynn Land based on an opinion from Attorney General Mike Cox.
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TN: Amendment to Put LG, SOS, and Governor On One Ticket
Last Updated on Friday, 8 February 2008 11:55 Written by rslcpol Friday, 8 February 2008 10:22
This 3-fer is a 100% first in American government. Not really sure where they came up with it, but it sure is interesting.
It would be a three-for-one.One Tennessean’s vote would go toward electing a governor, lieutenant governor and the secretary of state under a newly proposed constitutional amendment.
The move, sponsored by Speaker Pro Tem Rosalind Kurita (D-Clarksville) and Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey (R-Blountville), would help address two needs both have advocated for — having more popularly elected positions in Tennessee and providing a line of succession in case the governor becomes incapacitated.
Under her proposal, Kurita said that anyone who could become governor would have to be popularly elected as opposed to appointed.
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OH: Top Officials Not Running, Just Fund Raising
Last Updated on Friday, 1 February 2008 04:02 Written by rslcpol Friday, 1 February 2008 11:28
Attention Marc Dann donors – he spent $33,500 of the dollars you gave to his campaign to install a security system at his home. Hello? Is anybody home? How is this a legitimate campaign expense? Unless Marc Dann’s slightly abrasive campaign style requires him to have a security system installed – isn’t this just a little bit wrong? Why on earth would anybody give this guy money for his campaign account if all he’s going to do is use it to improve his home. Who knows, maybe that’s what happens when you get flown around on a private plane to raise money in $10,000 chunks – you kind of lose touch with reality.
Ohio’s five statewide nonjudicial officials won’t face voters for almost three years, but they still hit up campaign contributors for nearly $1.3 million last year, a Dispatch analysis of campaign-finance reports shows.More than a quarter of that cash flowed from out-of-state sources, including more than $335,000 to Gov. Ted Strickland and Attorney General Marc Dann.
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WV: Former Democrat News Anchor to run for Secretary of State
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 10:11 Written by rslcpol Tuesday, 12 June 2007 01:39
From wboy.com:
– Natalie Tennant is trying again to become West Virginia’s Secretary of State.
Tennant announced her candidacy to run as a Democrat this week.
In 2004, she was narrowly defeated by Ken Hechler in the Democratic primary.
Hechler then lost to Republican Betty Ireland in the general election.
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