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CA: Republican AG Candidate’s Lead Grows

Last Updated on Wednesday, 10 November 2010 01:16 Written by rslcpol Wednesday, 10 November 2010 01:16

From DailyNews:

Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley holds a 43,212-vote lead over San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris in the race for attorney general entering today’s count of vote by mail, provisional and damaged ballots.

Cooley, a Republican, added 2,254 votes to his lead over Harris, a Democrat, in the updated count released Tuesday by the Secretary of State’s Office. He began the day leading by 40,958 votes.

Cooley has 3,875,037 votes, 46.1 percent, to 3,831,825 for Harris, 45.5 percent.

When polls closed Nov. 2, Cooley declared victory, but by early Nov. 3, Harris led by almost 15,000 votes. However, with thousands of ballots remaining to be counted, the race was too close to call.

Under state law, county registrars of voters must complete the vote counting by Nov. 30 and provide their counts to the Secretary of State’s Office by Dec. 3.

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New Governors and a New Approach to Taking on Obamacare

Last Updated on Wednesday, 10 November 2010 01:12 Written by rslcpol Wednesday, 10 November 2010 01:12

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GA: Two More Lawmakers Leave Democrat Party and Join Republicans

Last Updated on Wednesday, 10 November 2010 01:20 Written by rslcpol Wednesday, 10 November 2010 01:10

From AJC.com:

Two long-time South Georgia Democratic lawmakers on Tuesday made the switch to the Republican side of the General Assembly.

Reps. Bob Hanner of Parrott and Gerald Greene of Cuthbert are now listed on the Georgia General Assembly’s website as being Republicans.

Neither lawmaker could be reached for immediate comment, but the office of Speaker David Ralston, R-Blue Ridge, confirmed the changes Tuesday. But Hanner has served as a Democrat in the House since 1975 and Greene was sworn in in 1983, also as a Democrat.

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GA: Lawmaker leaves Democrat Party, Joins the GOP

Last Updated on Tuesday, 9 November 2010 01:46 Written by rslcpol Tuesday, 9 November 2010 01:46

From the Augusta Chronicle:

One of the last of the breed, state Rep. Alan Powell of Hartwell, switched parties Monday, joining the House Republican Caucus.

Powell, first elected in 1990, was one of the few rural Democrats who survived the GOP takeover of state government in 2002 and 2004. He did not respond to requests for comment, but said in August that he would consider becoming a Republican if Nathan Deal became governor because Democrats would lose all hope of regaining power.

“If Roy Barnes doesn’t win it in November, you can probably stick a fork in the Democratic movement, because we will not be able to come back for a generation or more,” he told the Banner-Herald.

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CO: Leadership Changes at the Legislature

Last Updated on Tuesday, 9 November 2010 01:45 Written by rslcpol Tuesday, 9 November 2010 01:45

From Colorado Statesman:

The caucuses of the Colorado House Thursday elected their new leaders, leaving out some of those who had led the caucuses in the past.

In the new Republican majority, Rep. Frank McNulty, R-Highlands Ranch, was elected Speaker of the House. McNulty, as was the case for all of the Republicans elected Thursday, had no public opposition.

House Republicans were in a jubilant mood Thursday — the leadership elections were marked most by jokes and laughter and celebration of their victory two days prior.

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Iowa House Speaker is a Good Listener

Last Updated on Tuesday, 9 November 2010 02:42 Written by rslcpol Tuesday, 9 November 2010 01:43

From Omaha.com:

It’s probably not the pep talk the 22 new members of the Iowa House’s Republican caucus were expecting.

Still, Kraig Paulsen, the man Republicans picked Monday to be the next speaker of the House, told them that most of what they do in their new jobs will amount to nothing.

“Somewhere in the neighborhood of 80 percent of the work you do as a legislator is a complete and total waste of time,” said Paulsen, House Republican leader. “The problem is you don’t know which is the 20 percent and which is the 80 percent until it’s all over. So you’ve got to do it all.”

That’s the approach he’s taken in his four terms representing northern and western Linn County, Paulsen said last week after a hectic week of shuttling back and forth between his home in Hiawatha, his job as an attorney for trucking firm CRST International Inc. in Cedar Rapids and the State Capitol.

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California AG Race Remains Tight; Republican Cooley Keeps Slight Lead

Last Updated on Tuesday, 9 November 2010 01:03 Written by rslcpol Tuesday, 9 November 2010 01:03

From SFGate:

It’s been seven days since the election, but in a highly unusual situation, the outcome of California’s attorney general race remains up in the air – leaving political observers perplexed and the campaigns of Steve Cooley and Kamala Harris waiting anxiously for counties around the state to complete their ballot counts.

The unusual tightness of the race has thrown the state’s tallying process into the spotlight and left both campaigns readying their lawyers, in case there’s any need for a legal challenge. Harris’ camp is also monitoring vote tabulation in counties around California.

As of late Monday, Republican Cooley led Democrat Harris by a fraction of a percentage point.

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Iowa House Democrats Outspent Republicans, Still Lost

Last Updated on Tuesday, 9 November 2010 12:59 Written by rslcpol Tuesday, 9 November 2010 12:59

From DesMoinesRegister.com:

Iowa House Democrats raised nearly twice as much as Republicans in the most recent two campaign reporting periods, but they still lost the vast majority of competitive races in last week’s elections, a Des Moines Register analysis of fundraising data shows.

Of the 27 most competitive races, Democrats raised almost $1.2 million.

Republican candidates collected just more than $654,000 in cash donations, campaign records show.

The outcome of a few close races might yet change after recounts, but it appears that Iowa House Democrats lost 16 seats, shifting their majority of 56 seats in the 100-member chamber to a minority of 40.

The losses included 13 Democratic incumbents. No Republican incumbents seeking re-election lost.

“It was a bloodletting to say the least,” said Rep. Eric Palmer, D-Oskaloosa, who lost his re-election bid to Republican Guy Vander Linden.

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Republican AGs Talk Obamacare on Fox News

Last Updated on Tuesday, 9 November 2010 12:51 Written by rslcpol Tuesday, 9 November 2010 12:27

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PA: Corbett to name his Replacement

Last Updated on Tuesday, 9 November 2010 12:04 Written by rslcpol Tuesday, 9 November 2010 12:04

From MorningCall.com:

Now that he’s been elected governor, Republican Tom Corbett faces the same task confronting any incoming chief executive: filling Cabinet slots and making political appointments across state government.

One of them will hit particularly close to home.

Corbett, who has two years left in his current term as Pennsylvania attorney general, has to nominate his replacement to serve out the two years remaining in his term, which expires in 2012.
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That person, if confirmed by a vote in the state Senate, will become the state’s top prosecutor and lawyer and will be responsible for continuing the Bonusgate public corruption probe that began on Corbett’s watch.

Corbett himself was an appointed attorney general in the mid-1990s, when he was tapped to finish the unexpired term of Ernie Preate, who was convicted on federal corruption charges and sent to prison.

Corbett held the position for two years and ran for a full term in 2004 against Democrat Jim Eisenhower. He was re-elected in 2008, defeating Northampton County District Attorney John Morganelli.

Corbett’s not naming names for a successor – yet.

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