Today is Wednesday, 19th February 2025

MS: State Senator kicks off Lt. Governor Campaign

From SunHerald.com:

State Sen. Billy Hewes officially kicked off his campaign for lieutenant governor Tuesday morning before a crowd of Republicans gathered at the Gulfport-Biloxi International Airport.

Hewes, R-Gulfport, told the Sun Herald more than a year ago he intended to seek the post, and Tuesday morning he began a 10-city tour to make it official. Hewes is hoping to succeed Lt. Gov. Phil Bryant, who is running for governor. Party primaries will be Aug. 2, ahead of the Nov. 8 general elections.

Hewes is president pro tem of the state Senate, the 52-member chamber’s second highest post. He told the crowd gathered at the airport Tuesday he had the right experience to be an effective lieutenant governor. Hewes has been in the Senate since 1992.

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OH: Republicans Pick new House Member

From Cleveland.com:

Ohio House Republicans today picked veteran lawmaker Richard Hollington Jr. to fill the vacancy left when Sen. Tim Grendell decided to remain in the Senate despite running for and winning election to the House of Representatives in November.

Hollington was appointed to represent the 98th House District last year after Matt Dolan left the House in a failed bid for Cuyahoga County executive.

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NY: Democrats Bolt from Senate Democratic Conference

Democrats distancing themselves from themselves.

From syracuse.com:

State Sen. David Valesky, Central New York’s top Senate Democrat, and three other Democratic senators, announced today they are leaving the Senate Democratic Conference and forming a third legislative conference.

The four senators – Valesky, Jeffrey Klein, D-Bronx, Diane Savino, D-Staten Island, and David Carlucci, D-Clarkstown – will caucus together as the Independent Democratic Conference (IDC).

The surprise move this morning lets the four senators flex some independence from the Democratic leadership. But it doesn’t change the balance of power in the Senate, where the Republicans have a 32-30 majority. Democrats lost their 32-30 edge in the November elections.

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NY: New Republican Legislators Enter Legislature

From TimesUnion.com:

Seventeen new members of the Republican Assembly minority sworn in Tuesday include a veterinarian, high school social studies teacher, public health worker and the more-expected lawyers and public officials with local political experience moving up to Albany.

Assembly Republican Leader Brian M. Kolb of Canandaigua says 2010 marks the first time since 1994 that Republican challenger candidates defeated sitting Democrats in the general election. He says the elections marked the largest “flip” in Assembly members since the early 1970s.

Acting Supreme Court Justice Craig J. Doran presided in the ceremony held at the state Legislative Office Building.

“I am proud to welcome the 17 victors of the historic 2010 elections who will be strong new voices for reform and good government to Albany,” Kolb says.

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KY: Republican Banks Cash for AG Run

From The Republic:

Madisonville lawyer Todd P’Pool said Monday he has put up $250,000 of his own money to help finance his run for Kentucky attorney general.

P’Pool said the “personal investment” in the race brings the total banked in the past three weeks to $270,000, flashing financial muscle to other potential GOP contenders and signaling to voters that he is a serious candidate.

“I entered this race with no delusions,” P’Pool said in a statement. “It will not be easy.”

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New Arizona AG Vows to Enforce Immigration Law

From East Valley Tribune:

The state’s new attorney general promised Monday to do what his predecessor would not: enforce Arizona’s new law aimed at illegal immigrants.

In his inaugural speech, Republican Tom Horne said that makes him different than Democrat Terry Goddard, whom he is replacing. Goddard, unable to seek a third term as attorney general, instead waged an unsuccessful bid for governor.

Horne and the state’s other top officers were sworn in Monday during ceremonies at the capitol.

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IA: Republican Sworn in as Secretary of State

From the Iowa Republican:

With his daughter, Kendra, in his arms, Matt Schultz was sworn in as Iowa’s 31st Secretary of State yesterday. Schultz is the first Republican to hold the office since Paul Pate. Pate was Iowa’s Secretary of State from 1995 to 1999.

Schultz’s victory in November continues an incremental approach by Republicans to win control of the state’s five constitutional offices. Schultz’s victory continues the Republican streak that began with Dave Vaudt being elected State Auditor in 2002, followed by Bill Northey being elected Secretary of Agriculture in 2006.

Schultz did something that neither Vaudt nor Northey had to do to win their seats – beat an incumbent. While most will point to the favorable political environment as the reason why Schultz was able to win, the real reason for his victory is the same thing that helped Vaudt and Northey win their first campaigns – a focus on specific issues.

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New FL Republican AG Pam Bondi on Fox News; Ready to Carry on Health Care Fight

Wisconsin Legislators Sworn in as Republicans take control

Republicans take control of the Senate:

Members of the Senate were sworn in on Monday, as Republicans took control of the Senate.

Supreme Court Justice Michael J. Gableman swore in the lawmakers and Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald (R-Juneau.)

With the change in control of the Senate, Sen. Mike Ellis (R-Neenah) was named president of the Senate, replacing Sen. Fred Risser (D-Madison.)

Fitzgerald predicted that many bureaucrats and lobbyists will be disappointed under a Republican majority that is intent on shrinking the size of government and eliminating a two-year $3.3 billion deficit. “There will be very real changes to the status quo,” he told senators.

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Republicans take control of the House:

Members of the state Assembly were sworn in Monday as Republicans take control of that chamber.

Supreme Court Justice David T. Prosser Jr., a former Assembly speaker who is running for re-election this year to the state’s highest court, swore in the lawmakers and Assembly Speaker Jeff Fitzgerald (R-Horicon).

Republicans now control the body 60-38 with one independent following their overwhelming win in November’s election. Nearly one-third of the body was sworn in for the first time.

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Secretaries of State and their Political Role

From Stateline.org:

As Kris Kobach and Scott Gessler prepare to take office as secretary of state for Kansas and Colorado, respectively, their elections are putting to rest any lingering notions that the job of secretary of state is a quiet, low-key, technocratic position.
Kobach is credited with being the intellectual architect of Arizona’s S.B. 1070, the tough-on-illegal-immigrants legislation signed into law in that state last year. The measure sparked impassioned debate nationwide on both sides of the ideological divide. It is now on hold pending resolution of a battle in the courts.

Kobach, who handily defeated incumbent Democrat Chris Biggs, campaigned for Kansas secretary of state on an aggressive agenda of halting voter fraud. “Organizations that promote voter fraud have burrowed into every corner of our country,” Kobach’s campaign website said. “In Kansas, the illegal registration of alien voters has become pervasive.”

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