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NY AG Race Heats Up

Last Updated on Friday, 15 October 2010 03:53 Written by rslcpol Tuesday, 12 October 2010 01:29

From the Daily News:

Republican state attorney general wanna-be Dan Donovan’s camp is accusing rival Eric Schneiderman of being in the tank for trial lawyers. The Democrat has raked in $210,800 from trial lawyers, records show. “Schneiderman has been in the pocket of the trial lawyers his entire career,” Donovan adviser Menashe Shapiro charged.

Schneiderman’s team called the charge “desperate and baffling” given that “trial lawyers spent almost a million dollars trying to defeat Eric in the primary.”

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CT: AG Candidates Debate

Last Updated on Tuesday, 12 October 2010 01:14 Written by rslcpol Tuesday, 12 October 2010 01:14

From nbcconnecticut.com:

The next four years in the Connecticut attorney general’s office will not be like the last 20, the major-party candidates for the position said Monday.

The office’s focus after Democrat Richard Blumenthal leaves were among the topics discussed during the second debate between Democrat George Jepsen and Republican Martha Dean at Quinnipiac University School of Law.

Jepsen and Dean want to replace Blumenthal, who has held the office for 20 years. He’s in a race for the U.S. Senate seat Chris Dodd will vacate by retiring.

Jepsen, an attorney from Ridgefield, defended Blumenthal’s tenure, saying he has built an “extraordinary record” as attorney general. Jepsen even called on his opponent to apologize for accusing Blumenthal of dropping the ball during the debate of same-sex marriages in the state.

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MI: AG Candidates Outline Priorities

Last Updated on Tuesday, 12 October 2010 01:03 Written by rslcpol Tuesday, 12 October 2010 01:03

From Record-Eagle.com:

The Associated Press sought answers to questions from the four candidates running for Michigan attorney general. Their answers were limited to 100 words or less, and have been trimmed where necessary to meet the limit.

The ones who responded are Libertarian candidate and St. Joseph lawyer Daniel Grow, Genesee County prosecutor and Democratic candidate David Leyton, and former state Court of Appeals judge and Republican candidate Bill Schuette.

U.S. Taxpayers Party candidate Gerald T. Van Sickle, of Wellston, didn’t respond by the deadline.

Question: What would your priorities be as attorney general?

Libertarian Daniel Grow: Any matter involving political corruption, the waste of taxpayer funds, violations of property rights, or any other injustice, whether at the state, local, or federal level, must be aggressively pursued. I am free of the political debts career politicians incur to get them where they are. The promises and pledges that the others have made insures that the big-government status quo thrives and expands.

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Ohio Republican Jon Husted a good choice for Secretary of State

Last Updated on Tuesday, 12 October 2010 12:48 Written by rslcpol Tuesday, 12 October 2010 12:48

From TribToday.com:

The biggest difference we see in the two candidates is their past. Based on that, we endorse Husted. Libertarian Charles Earl also is on the ballot.

Husted is in his second year as a state senator from Kettering. He previously served in the House, where he held the position of speaker of the house from 2005 until 2008.

O’Shaughnessy became the Franklin County clerk of court last year. She previously served on the Columbus City Council for 10 years.

Husted’s experience in state government instills more confidence than O’Shaughnessy’s experience at the city and county levels.

But more importantly is Husted’s actual record. The most important item on his record is the effort this year to improve Ohio’s reapportionment process.

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ID: Secretary of State Candidate Debate

Last Updated on Tuesday, 12 October 2010 12:22 Written by rslcpol Tuesday, 12 October 2010 12:22

From KPVI.com:

With just three weeks left before the General Election across the U.S. many organizations are holding debates. This past week the League of Women Voters, the Idaho Press Club, and Idaho Public Television kicked off debates among candidates running for top state elected office.

The Secretary of State is responsible for the administrative duties over elections in Idaho. But that office is also responsible for the oversight of business and trademarks. The office holder is also in charge of the state seal including the administering of notary public, living wills, and power of attorney.

The two candidates vying for the Secretary of State spot is the incumbent, Republican Ben Ysursa who has served in that post since 2003 and newcomer Democrat Mack Sermon.

Sermon who is a speech and debate director at the College of Idaho in Caldwell is relatively new to politics. In addition to his fifteen year career in education – he is also a professional semi-pro wrestler and rock musician. He is running not because he feels Ysursa hasn’t done a great job…but because he feels it’s time for a change.

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Wall Street Journal: Redistricting Battles Spur Wave of Cash

Last Updated on Tuesday, 12 October 2010 12:14 Written by rslcpol Tuesday, 12 October 2010 12:14

From wsj.com:

The Republican State Leadership Committee created the Redistricting Majority Project, whose sole purpose is “dedicated to keeping or winning Republican control of state legislatures that will have the most impact on Congressional redistricting in 2011.” The group is on pace to raise and spend $40 million to help GOP candidates in state races.

The state races can be critical in determining control of Congress.

In 1980, California’s congressional delegation was evenly split, 22 Democrats and 21 Republicans. After the 1980 census, which gave the state two additional congressional districts, Democrats took advantage of redistricting to create a huge majority that still endures. The 1982 election produced 28 Democrats and just 17 Republicans.

Texas leaned Democratic since Reconstruction, until Republicans used a statehouse majority won in 2002 to launch a mid-decade redistricting plan.

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Alabama Republican Leader: Democrats Breed Corruptive Atmosphere

Last Updated on Monday, 11 October 2010 01:41 Written by rslcpol Monday, 11 October 2010 01:41

From oanow.com:

Monday was a sad day in Alabama as teams of federal agents fanned out across the state to arrest four sitting lawmakers, several lobbyists and even a merit-system state employee on corruption charges related to gambling legislation.

The arrests and convictions of numerous public officials is happening much too frequently in our state. If the trend continues, Louisiana, with its long history and reputation for political graft and corruption, may soon look to us and say, “Thank goodness for Alabama!”

Republican officials were quick to praise news of the federal effort to clean up our state government, despite the fact that one of the arrested is a former GOP state senator (who was removed from the party for violating our by-laws) and another a recent party-switcher who decided not to seek re-election.

The Alabama Democratic leadership, in their response, ignored both the alleged corruption and the damning evidence in the indictments and chose, instead, to attack federal prosecutors for the timing and nature of the arrests.

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AZ: Republican AG Candidate up 18

Last Updated on Monday, 11 October 2010 01:14 Written by rslcpol Monday, 11 October 2010 01:14

From Politico Mafioso:

Republican Attorney General nominee Tom Horne has increased his lead from 8 percentage points a month ago to 18 percentage points in a poll conducted October 5 to October 6 and released today by Wilson Research Strategies, a nationally recognized polling firm. A summary of the poll is attached.

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AZ: AG Candidates Duke it Out

Last Updated on Monday, 11 October 2010 12:56 Written by rslcpol Monday, 11 October 2010 12:56

From Sierra Vista Herald:

The candidates for Arizona attorney general have made the race less about the issues facing the state’s next top prosecutor and more a contest of experience — and their assessments of each other are brutal.

Republican Tom Horne said Democrat Felecia Rotellini misrepresented herself as a veteran prosecutor when she didn’t bring one criminal case to trial in her 13 years as an attorney for the attorney general’s office and has scant experience in trying civil cases. “That does not make you a veteran prosecutor,” Horne said.

Rotellini said Horne was trying divert attention from his absence of prosecutorial experience and the revocation of his license to sell securities decades ago. “Mr. Horne is desperate to come up with something that he can attack me on,” Rotellini said.

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Democrats’ desperation tactics on campaign finance

Last Updated on Monday, 11 October 2010 12:51 Written by rslcpol Monday, 11 October 2010 12:51

From the Washington Post:

In their latest attempt to distract voters from their job-killing policies, President Obama, his White House and senior Democrats in Congress have added to their long list of bogeymen the outside groups that seek to help elect Republicans in November. They threaten congressional investigations, leak private tax information and level baseless accusations of criminal activity against those who have been public in seeking to defeat Democratic candidates and their liberal agenda. Without a trace of irony, powerful Democratic officeholders lament that many who support these groups wish to remain anonymous.

None of these Democrats expressed concern about such outside spending in 2008, when more than $400 million was spent to help elect Barack Obama, much of it from undisclosed donors. The liberal groups and Democrats who supported the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act, which established the legal framework for this new campaign spending, were much faster to adapt to its contours than the Republicans and conservative groups that largely opposed it, and liberal outside groups massively outspent Republicans in the past two election cycles.

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