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Two Minnesota state lawmakers hit by sexual misconduct allegations announced they would resign, less than two weeks after they were accused of misdeeds that ranged from groping colleagues to persistent unwanted sexual advances and sexting. Democratic Sen. Dan Schoen, who allegedly grabbed a woman's buttocks at a campaign event and made unwanted advances toward other women - including sending Snapchat photos of male genitalia to a female Senate employee - was the first to go Tuesday, with his attorney saying Schoen had decided he could no longer be effective.
You have to hand it to them - on one hand, the Republicans who have run everything in Lansing for the past seven years have been consistent. They've done pretty much everything they can to seriously damage public education in Michigan.
Two Minnesota state lawmakers - a Democrat and a Republican - will resign from office following accusations of sexual misconduct, officials said on Tuesday. Republican state Rep. Tony Cornish announced he intends to resign around Dec. 1. His announcement came shortly after an attorney for Democratic state Sen. Dan Schoen told the Star Tribune that Schoen would announce his resignation and address the allegations during a Wednesday news conference In a statement, Cornish, from Vernon Center, said he has reached an agreement in principle with an unnamed female lobbyist who told Minnesota Public Radio News that Cornish had propositioned her for sex dozens of times and once forced her into a wall in an attempt to kiss her.
Gov. John Bel Edwards intends to sidestep lawmakers to enact $15.4 billion in Medicaid managed-care deals using an emergency contracting process, after House Republicans voted twice to block deals to provide services to 1.5 million people. The Democratic governor started the process Monday evening for entering into 23-month emergency contracts that will keep five managed-care companies overseeing services for 90 percent of Louisiana's Medicaid patients.
Tyson Foods Inc. plans to build a new chicken production complex in Tennessee, a $300 million project that is expected to create more than 1,500 jobs when the facility begins operations in late 2019, the company said Monday. The new plant in Humboldt will produce pre-packaged trays of fresh chicken for retail grocery stores nationwide, the Springdale, Arkansas-based company said in a statement and a news conference.
Governor Jay Inslee is co-chair of the U.S. Climate Alliance. He is critical of planned Canadian pipeline, which would send 34 tankers a month through international waters of the Salish Sea shared by Washington and British Columbia.
The following exchange between former New Jersey governors Brendan T. Byrne and Tom Kean took place via telephone last week. GOV. BYRNE: The first would be not to take advice from guys like me.
That sound you hear is the playing of the world's tiniest violin for Republican Governors who didn't have enough sense to walk away from the party once Donald Trump secured the GOP presidential nomination in 2016, and who now fear the consequences: For nearly a decade, meetings of the Republican Governors Association were buoyant, even giddy, affairs, as the party - lifted by enormous political donations and a backlash against the Obama administration - achieved overwhelming control of state governments.
Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez 's political fate in next year's crucial midterms after the mistrial in his federal bribery case may hinge on whether prosecutors retry him and whether attacks from Republicans based on the indictment convince voters to keep him from a third term. Fresh off a victory lap at the courthouse, where Menendez thanked those who stood by him and promised to remember those who opposed him during his darkest hours, the two-term incumbent wasted no time jumping back into his Senate schedule.
The Latest on a budget bill passed by the Oklahoma Legislature meeting in special session : Oklahoma Republican Gov. Mary Fallin has vetoed a bill that would have raided cash reserves and cut deeper into agency funding to balance the state budget. Fallin vetoed the measure Friday, hours after the state Senate's final approval.
Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin watches from the gallery as the senate considers legislation before adjourning from a special session on Friday, Nov. 17, 2017 in Oklahoma City, Okla. Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin is joined by members of the House of Legislature as she watches from the senate gallery during the close of a special session on Friday, Nov. 17, 2017 in Oklahoma City, Okla.
Vice President Pence speaks in Floresville, Tex., before attending the Republican Governors Association meetings in Austin. With abundant displays of general dysfunction and specific allegations of sexual assault and harassment becoming pervasive in Washington, it is worth remembering that there are good examples of decency and leadership that we can point to.
The Minnesota Supreme Court on Thursday upheld Gov. Mark Dayton 's line-item veto of the Legislature's operating budget, declining to referee a political dispute between two co-equal branches of government that it said could resolve the issue themselves. The 5-1 decision handed Dayton a major legal victory as he seeks to rework costly tax breaks and other measures that he signed into law this spring as part of a new state budget.
With Democrats claiming victory in the 2017 elections and Donald Trump's approval ratings mired in the mid-30s, political chatter has turned predictably to 2020 and who could, or should, be the Democrats' presidential nominee. The chatter has intensified with Joe Biden's book tour; in Massachusetts, the buzz hovers over U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren and U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton.
As Steve Bannon warned at CPAC back in February, "If you think they're going to give your country back to you without a fight you are sadly mistaken." Republican leaders are plotting a "drastic plan," to block Judge Roy Moore from becoming the next Senator of Alabama.
Legislation to open part of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas exploration advanced out of a Senate committee on Wednesday, largely along party lines. West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, a Democrat, joined with GOP lawmakers to pass ANWR legislation in a 13-10 vote.
State Rep. Mindi Messmer of Rye on Tuesday became the sixth Democrat to officially launch a campaign for New Hampshire's First Congressional District. "I bring a proven track record of being able to get legislation passed in the State House that's helped citizens of New Hampshire," Messmer told the Monitor in an interview conducted hours before she formally kicked off her congressional bid at an event in Portsmouth.
Georgia's governor on Monday suspended a sheriff who faces charges including sexual battery after a drug search at a high school earlier this year. In an executive order, Gov. Nathan Deal suspended Worth County Sheriff Jeff Hobby pending the final outcome of his case or the expiration of his term of office, whichever comes first.
Protesters drowned out speeches by White House advisers and business representatives Monday at an event the U.S. government sponsored at the U.N. climate talks in Germany promoting the use of fossil fuels and nuclear energy. About 200 protesters stood up 10 minutes into the event and began singing an anti-coal song to the tune of "God Bless the U.S.A." They were ushered out of the room without further incident.