Governor John Kasich, who is being dubbed by some statehouse insiders these days as “John Who?” still has two years left in his term, but with the clout Majority Caucus Republicans will yield next year in the House and Senate, his last biennial budget could be dead on arrival, and any bills sent to him that he chooses to veto can be easily over ridden if Republican will is strong enough.
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HB2’s biggest backer claims an 1,100 percent jump in donations for 2016
North Carolina’s House Bill 2 may have cost Charlotte millions of dollars due to lost conventions, concerts and business expansions, but it was good for the N.C. Values Coalition. The conservative group, which was among the chief advocates of HB2, reported this week that donations were up 1,100 percent this year over 2015.
HB2’s biggest backer claims an 1,100 percent jump in donations for 2016
North Carolina’s House Bill 2 may have cost Charlotte millions of dollars due to lost conventions, concerts and business expansions, but it was good for the N.C. Values Coalition. The conservative group, which was among the chief advocates of HB2, reported this week that donations were up 1,100 percent this year over 2015.
What counties that flipped from Romney to Clinton have in common
A campaign sign for Donald Trump and Mike Pence stands outside a home in Princeton, Ill. on Oct. 26. Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg Hillary Clinton’s and Donald Trump’s supporters have been living in two economies.
Carl Paladino w/Bauerle and Bellavia PART 1
They’re Bauerle irrelevant and thanks for calling out. You. Well I was it Karl I love you and I like you I was trying to be light you know.
Georgia fireworks stores expect brisk sales after ban lifted
Georgia fireworks retailers say they’re gearing up for brisk sales after Gov. Nathan Deal recently lifted a temporary ban on shooting them.
Colorado governor dissolves presidential caucuses for new primary system
Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper signed into law two ballot measures on Tuesday that will give residents who are not affiliated with either political party the ability to vote in future primaries. The second-term Democratic governor approved Propositions 107 and 108.
Gov. Jerry Brown: California Will Work With Foreign Gov’t On Climate Policies
California Gov. Jerry Brown said Monday his state will bypass Washington, D.C., and work instead with foreign governments on ways to reduce climate change. Brown, a Democrat, said that he and other Golden State lawmakers would work directly with other countries to strengthen some of the most stringent environmental policies in the world.
Virginia’s governor race could be a referendum on Donald Trump’s politics
VIRGINIA, the one state in the old confederacy carried by Hillary Clinton in 2016, chooses a new governor next year. Ditto New Jersey, another blue state, where the departing Republican governor, Chris Christie, is an on-again, off-again-but these days, mostly off-again-adviser to Donald Trump, the president-elect.
Republican attorneys general eager to dism…
As soon as President-elect Donald Trump assumes office Jan. 20, Republican attorneys general who have spent the past eight years battling the Obama administration’s climate change agenda will have a new role: supporting the Republican president’s complex legal effort to roll back that agenda. By contrast, states with Democratic leadership – such as California, where Gov. Jerry Brown has promised all-out war against Mr. Trump on global warming – will go from being environmental partners with the federal government to legal aggressors on their own.
Not All CIA Agents Think Alike: ‘BradCast’ 12/26/2106
It’s a very white Christmas for many on the right, as ‘PDiddie’ finds in this year’s collection of Holiday toons… Guest: Daniel Nichanian on proactive, state-by-state measures Dems can and must take to expand voting rights; And much more!… Freakishly hot Arctic; New Obama drilling bans; Climate change juiced extreme events: NOAA; Trump voters support carbon regulation; PLUS : Solar now world’s cheapest energy… Also: NC’s brazen GOP coup a model for nation, and Obama’s last ditch efforts to save the planet from Trump… High lead levels in 1000s of towns; Water safe again in Corpus Christi; Int.
Not All CIA Agents Think Alike: ‘BradCast’ 12/26/2106
It’s a very white Christmas for many on the right, as ‘PDiddie’ finds in this year’s collection of Holiday toons… Guest: Daniel Nichanian on proactive, state-by-state measures Dems can and must take to expand voting rights; And much more!… Freakishly hot Arctic; New Obama drilling bans; Climate change juiced extreme events: NOAA; Trump voters support carbon regulation; PLUS : Solar now world’s cheapest energy… Also: NC’s brazen GOP coup a model for nation, and Obama’s last ditch efforts to save the planet from Trump… High lead levels in 1000s of towns; Water safe again in Corpus Christi; Int.
Lesson One for Rick Perry: The Energy Department Doesn’t Produce Much Energy
The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration supervises the removal of 68 kilograms of highly enriched uranium from the Czech Republic in 2013. A former governor of Texas the state that produces more crude oil, natural gas, lignite coal, wind power and refined petroleum products than any other would seem to be a natural choice for secretary of energy.
Lesson One for Rick Perry: The Energy Department Doesn’t Produce Much Energy
The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration supervises the removal of 68 kilograms of highly enriched uranium from the Czech Republic in 2013. A former governor of Texas the state that produces more crude oil, natural gas, lignite coal, wind power and refined petroleum products than any other would seem to be a natural choice for secretary of energy.
How next year can be better — and even worse — than 2016 :0
The incoming year couldn’t face a less-demanding mandate: Don’t be as messed-up as 2016, which seemed to set a new low almost weekly. Prominent among them, of course, is the refugee crisis that never seems to end.
Imprisoned Blagojevich awaits Obama decision on commutation
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Imprisoned Blagojevich awaits Obama decision on commutation
In this July 15, 2011 file photo, former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich arrives at the federal courthouse in Chicago. Blagojevich is asking a U.S. appeals court to nullify his 14-year prison term and order a third sentencing hearing.
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FILE – In this Thursday, Oct. 20, 2016, file photo, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Attorney General Roy Cooper speaks with supporters at the Guilford County Democratic Party headquarters in Greensboro, N.C. Cooper, No… RALEIGH, N.C. – North Carolina’s next Democratic governor has seen a deal he helped broker to repeal the state’s law limiting LGBT protections fall apart and had several of his powers stripped away by the state’s Republican-dominated legislature. And he hasn’t even been sworn in yet.
NJ hasn’t been using phone bill money to update 911 systems; will you force it to?
If a proposed ballot measure is approved in the Legislature and then by voters, all of the money raised from a 90-cent fee on New Jersey phone lines would be dedicated for upgrades to 911 and emergency services. The measure is in response to an NJ.com analysis that found that only 15 percent of the $1.37 billion raised since 2004 had gone to those upgrades.
Failed deal to undo LGBT law marks rocky start for governor
North Carolina’s next Democratic governor has seen a deal he helped broker to repeal the state’s law limiting LGBT protections fall apart and had several of his powers stripped away by the state’s Republican-dominated legislature. And he hasn’t even been sworn in yet.
Failed deal to undo LGBT law marks rocky start for governor
North Carolina’s Democratic Governor-elect fights an uphill battle against GOP majority after efforts to repeal the state’s ‘bathroom bill’ fall through The deeply divided state voted Republican in the presidential and senate races, but elected a Democratic governor, making Cooper’s job very difficult House Bill 2, commonly known as the ‘bathroom bill’ has been blamed for job losses, canceled events, and staining North Carolina’s reputation He hasn’t even been sworn in yet, but several of his powers have already been stripped away by the state’s Republican-dominated legislature North Carolina’s next Democratic governor faces a tough uphill battle in a state that voted Republican in the presidential and senate races.
Failed deal to undo LGBT law marks rocky start for governor
North Carolina’s Democratic Governor-elect fights an uphill battle against GOP majority after efforts to repeal the state’s ‘bathroom bill’ fall through The deeply divided state voted Republican in the presidential and senate races, but elected a Democratic governor, making Cooper’s job very difficult House Bill 2, commonly known as the ‘bathroom bill’ has been blamed for job losses, canceled events, and staining North Carolina’s reputation He hasn’t even been sworn in yet, but several of his powers have already been stripped away by the state’s Republican-dominated legislature North Carolina’s next Democratic governor faces a tough uphill battle in a state that voted Republican in the presidential and senate races.
Smerconish: Rights, wrongs, and a few surprises in ’16
A Philadelphia lawyer turned political commentator, Michael Smerconish is a nationally syndicated radio host, best-selling author and weekly contributing columnist to The Philadelphia Inquirer’s Sunday Currents section. The Michael Smerconish Program is heard exclusively on SiriusXM – POTUS Channel 124 from 9a12p ET – reairing again 6-9p ET.
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In his upcoming budget proposal, Gov. Scott Walker is proposing to establish a series of sunrise and sunset review commissions that would analyze proposed and existing occupational licenses to see if they are needed, or if they are too restrictive, and we think it is a good proposal that is long overdue. Friday, February 3, 2017 Some might consider our reporting of an affair between two Oneida County sheriff’s department officers to be a bit tawdry, but what’s tawdry is not the reporting but the behavior.
HB2 and the repeal that didn’t happen
North Carolina lawmakers ended the year in a frustrating fizzle last week after a one-day specially convened legislative session to repeal the state’s most contentious issue failed. All day Wednesday they spent in and out of closed-door meetings, attempting complex legislative maneuvers and berating each other about repealing the House Bill 2 “bathroom bill” which requires transgender people in public buildings to use the bathroom that corresponds with the gender on their birth certificate.
Curtis, Saine discuss HB2
The North Carolina General Assembly is making headlines for the second consecutive week following a special session called to vote on the repeal of House Bill 2, a law that requires transgender people to use the bathroom based on the gender specified on their birth certificate. Earlier this week, it appeared state legislators and the city of Charlotte had reached a compromise that would do away with the controversial law.
Froma Harrop: Trump’s favorite targets are Republicans
Donald Trump has inspired so much fear among his Republican comrades that he no longer has to issue harsh tweets when they misbehave. They do it themselves.
Klobuchar will run again for Senate, rules herself out for governor’s race
Duty-Bound: U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar turned down calls urging her to run for governor, saying instead that her experience is need at a pivotal time in Washington. U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar will run for re-election in 2018, ruling herself out for Minnesota’s next race for governor as she prepares to challenge the new Trump administration and look for ways to work with Republicans leading Congress.
This Christmas my prayers are for the people of Aleppo
It is a Christmas accompanied by the horrors of mass executions of women and children, airstrikes and barrel bombing of civilians – and mostly world silence in response. Americans witnessed neatly edited clips of human suffering in Aleppo as its residents made heartbreaking pleas for the world to save them.
As Obama accomplished policy goals, his party floundered
In boasting about his tenure in the White House, President Barack Obama often cites numbers like these: 15 million new jobs, a 4.9 per cent unemployment rate and 74 months of consecutive job growth. That’s the number of spots in state legislatures, governor’s mansions and Congress lost by Democrats during Obama’s presidency.
Trump confidant says Michelle Obama belongs with African gorillas, wishes death upon the president
Carl Paladino, a former co-chair of Donald Trump’s campaign and the man New York Republicans elected as their gubernatorial nominee in 2010, told a local newspaper in Buffalo that he hopes President Obama catches mad cow disease and dies, and that Michelle Obama is a man and should be “let loose in the outback of Zimbabwe where she lives comfortably in a cave with Maxie, the gorilla.” The remarks came as answers to a questionnaire by Buffalo alt-weekly ArtVoice , which sent a harmless 4-question survey to local officials and city residents .
Republicans to target unions, expand school choice in states
Republicans are poised to use their newly attained capitol dominance to make Missouri the 27th right-to-work state prohibiting mandatory union fees. That is unless Kentucky’s recently crowned GOP majorities can beat them to it.
Republicans to target unions, expand school choice in states
In this Dec. 1, 2016, file photo, Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin speaks before the arrival of President-elect Donald Trump during the first stop of Trump’s post-election tour in Cincinnati. With Republicans strengthening their grip on power in the November elections, Bevin said Republicans will pursue numerous “things that have been bottled up for years and need to at least have votes on them,” citing school choice measures and “reform” proposals for pension, tax and litigation laws, among others.
Politics | Top RI Progressives Blast Raimondo for Choice of DNC Chair and Corporate Subsidies
The battle over the future of the national Democratic party is playing out over who will be the next Chair of the Democratic National Committee. The power struggle has spilled into a blistering dialogue in Rhode Island over the direction of the Democratic Party in the state — and Governor Gina Raimondo’s leadership.
Blagojevich asks for presidential commutation
Former Gov. Rod Blagojevich is seeking a presidential commutation, according to a spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of Justice. The long-shot request comes more than four months after U.S. District Judge James Zagel reinstated the 14-year prison sentence.
Old, yes, but Biden and Brown ideas relevant for Democrats
To continue reading up to 10 premium articles, you must register , or sign up and take advantage of this exclusive offer: Four years before the next presidential election, Democrats have two formidable would-be challengers to Donald Trump. One is a successful governor and the other a popular politician.
Wisconsin panel OKs investigation into John Doe leaks
The Wisconsin Assembly has authorized Attorney General Brad Schimel to investigate how evidence collected during a secret investigation into Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s campaign was leaked to a newspaper. The Guardian US in September published hundreds of sealed documents from the so-called John Doe investigation, which was shut down by conservative state Supreme Court justices in 2015.
Ap Fact Check: Pence didn’t call Michelle Obama ‘vulgar’
A widely shared story that claims Vice President-elect Mike Pence called Michelle Obama “the most vulgar first lady we’ve ever had” is untrue. The story was posted by a Newslo site in October and versions of it have received tens of thousands of reactions, comments and shares on Facebook.
Repeal of N.C.’s – bathroom bill’ stumbles
A sign protesting a recent North Carolina law restricting transgender bathroom access is seen in the bathroom stalls at the 21C Museum Hotel in Durham, N.C., on May 3, 2016. Photo courtesy of REUTERS/Jonathan Drake/File photo A deal has fallen apart to undo the North Carolina law known as the “bathroom bill” in a sign of the state’s bitter political divide.
McCrory Blames Left-Wing Groups For No Repeal Of North Carolina…
Outgoing North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory blamed left-wing groups for scuttling an agreement that would have repealed an anti-LGBT law. The Republican called the special session Wednesday, but it ended without approved legislation to get rid of House Bill 2. Gay rights groups and others who pushed for repeal blamed Republican lawmakers for failing to keep its promise to act after the Charlotte City Council repealed its ordinance.