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Kelly M. Schulz accused a Democratic group of backing a Republican “fringe candidate” endorsed by former president Donald Trump in the tight GOP primary, a move that could improve a Democrat’s chances of winning the general election....... “The math is easy. Spend a million now and save $5 million by not having to face me in the general election,” Schulz said in Annapolis on Thursday, flanked by supporters, including Hogan. She called Cox a “lying, conspiracy theorist … who is a danger to our party and our state.” The allegation yielded a swift response from Trump, who has meddled in...

Republican State Sen. Darren Bailey, who was endorsed by former President Trump, is the projected winner of the Republican gubernatorial primary in Illinois. Bailey defeated two challengers. Trump campaigned for him over the weekend at a rally. He will run against incumbent Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker.

Democratic legal teams kicked into action Thursday in Florida, demanding a recount they insist will ultimately declare Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson the winner and with defeated Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum hedging his concession. Mr. Nelson had already signaled his intention to fight the results, but Mr. Gillum’s surprise announcement further roils the electoral waters in the Sunshine State. Republican former Rep. Ron DeSantis, a strong ally of President Trump, beat Mr. Gillum, the left-wing mayor of Tallahassee, in the unofficial results and Mr. Gillum conceded shortly before midnight last Tuesday. But in a brief statement Thursday, he appeared to...

Video at link. The liberal group American Bridge 21st Century announced Wednesday night that it had fired one of its operatives a day after he was arrested and accused of battery against the female campaign manager for Nevada GOP gubernatorial candidate Adam Laxalt. In a statement, American Bridge said that Mike Stark had been relieved of his duties "effective immediately." American Bridge was founded in November 2010 by David Brock, who also founded liberal watchdog group Media Matters. The group’s largest donor is liberal billionaire George Soros, who contributed more than $2 million between 2015 and 2016. Soros is still...

Stacey Abrams, the Democratic candidate for Georgia governor, continued Sunday to accuse her Republican opponent of voter suppression even though the state recently broke its voter-registration record on his watch. Ms. Abrams alleged that Republican Secretary of State Brian Kemp has stalled 53,000 voter-registration forms as part of a “pattern of behavior” aimed at gaming the election in the GOP’s favor. “It’s part of a pattern of behavior where he tries to tilt the playing field in his favor or in the favor of his party,” the Georgia House Minority Leader told NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “This should not require...

Sometimes it only takes 30 seconds to render a lot of expensive TV production effort totally worthless. This come to us from the New Mexico governor’s race. The Republican frontrunner is Susana Martinez. She‘s facing Bill Richardson’s Lieutenant Governor Diane Denish. Without giving away the punchline here, the NEA launched the original salvo on behalf of Denish. It didn’t work out very well: THE VIDEO AD TITLED "CONVICTED"!Thus far the Denish campaign has not commented on whether or not they had approved of the NEA ad ahead of time. The race is close — but Martinez has a slight lead....

We got a phone call today from Bill White's campaign. They talked to my husband and invited him to a campaign stop in our county specifically because he is on the school board. I thought that was wierd because we don't vote anything but Republican. I guess they are targetting any aspect of education with their propaganda. Probably going to blame Perry for not taking more Obama money for the schools. I know the liberal media here in Texas are trying to whip up the teachers into a fury against Republicans. This is Perry's home county ironically.

California is drowning in a sea of debt. Our children are receiving the worst education out of all 50 states. The battle continues to define the word "marriage." The farmers in the Central Valley are fighting for their very existence. We are no longer living the California Dream. All of us are painfully aware of the problems in the Great State of California, but in order to fix the problems, we must first fix ourselves.

This is the last day of this poll. As of now conservative GOP candidate Paul LePage is neck and neck with RINO Sue Collins' Chief of Staff Steve Abbott. Abbott is the machine's choice. LePage is a "real guy." If the link doesn't work, go to the home page http://www.pinetreepolitics.com and look for Republican Primary Poll #2 in the menu (right side of page).

Paige McKenzie. BERNALILLO, N.M. -- The media aide to gubernatorial candidate John Dendahl is reported in critical condition from a brutal beating suffered in Bernalillo Monday night. Paige McKenzie was attacked in the First Community Bank parking lot after pulling in to change a flat tire while on her way home. Now there are reports she may have recognized her attacker. Her injuries are so severe she is now reported to be on a respirator to assist her breathing at UNM Hospital. Dendahl, the Republican candidate challenging Gov. Bill Richardson, said McKenzie apparently suffered trauma to her head including a...

Political campaigners often lament the sometimes relentless and unfiltered criticisms posted by political bloggers during election season. But Thursday a post on right-leaning political blog HubPolitics.com prompted Christy Mihos campaign staffers to lodge a complaint with the site’s Web host resulting in the bloggers being warned to tone down or be shut down. “They made a claim that they were libeled by our Web site,” said Matt Margolis, who runs the site with his brother Aaron. The post in question pointed out that a Web site used by Mihos’ campaign is registered to Mihos’ convenience store company, Christy’s of Cape...

Arizona is the busiest illegal crossing point along the U.S.-Mexico border, and because of that Republican candidates hoping to derail Democratic Gov. Janet Napolitano's re-election bid say they smell blood. "I think this is her Achilles' heel," said businessman Mike Harris, one of five Republicans seeking his party's nomination. Napolitano on Monday vetoed a bill to make illegal immigrants' presence in Arizona a crime under the state's trespassing law. Five weeks earlier, she vetoed a measure to require her to deploy National Guard troops along the border during declared states of emergency _ like the one she's had in effect...

A new poll shows Don Goldwater leading the list of Republican candidates for governor by a substantial margin, including conservative rival Len Munsil. Goldwater is the nephew of the late Barry Goldwater, a longtime U.S. Senator from Arizona and the 1964 Republican candidate for president. A poll of likely GOP voters by SurveyUSA shows Goldwater with 39 percent. That is well ahead of other gubernatorial candidates. Conservative advocate Len Munsil, viewed as a front-runner by many party leaders and business lobbyists, received just 10 percent. Scottsdale businessman Mike Harris received 9 percent and former Santa Cruz County attorney and state...

Blackwell to settle suit, remove data from WebSocial Security numbers will be taken off InternetTuesday, March 14, 2006James Nash THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH Ohio Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell has bowed to legal and political pressure to remove thousands of Social Security numbers from business records posted on his official Web site. Blackwell agreed yesterday to settle a lawsuit by buying software to remove Social Security numbers from 1.2 million documents posted on the secretary of state’s Web site. Newly posted Uniform Commercial Code forms, which contain information about business debts, will omit Social Security information, Blackwell’s office said. Blackwell,...

Democrat Mike Beebe leads Republican Asa Hutchinson 46 percent to 40 percent in the race for governor of Arkansas, according to a new poll by Rasmussen Reports, an electronic publishing firm specializing in the collection, publication and distribution of public opinion polling information. The telephone survey was conducted Jan. 15 of 500 likely Arkansas voters and has a margin of error of plus or minus 4. 5 percentage points, Rasmussen said. Hutchinson was viewed favorably by 53 percent of the likely voters and Beebe by 55 percent. On other matters, the report said : Former President Clinton, a former governor...

Spitzer Retreats From Another Fund Prosecution Criminal Charges Are Dropped Against an Ex-CIBC Executive, A Month After Sihpol's Case Died By TOM LAURICELLA and PAUL DAVIES Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL November 22, 2005; Page C1 New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer dropped another set of criminal charges stemming from the mutual-fund trading scandal, making a retreat in a case that helped build his reputation for fighting financial fraud. Officials in Mr. Spitzer's office defended his two-year-old probe of improper trading in mutual funds, noting that it had triggered sweeping overhauls in the industry and that a...

Hillary, McCain Campaign in New Jersey The candidates for New Jersey governor called in two of the nation's most prominent senators Friday to help rally support as polls showed the race tight with less than three weeks to go. Democratic nominee Jon Corzine appeared alongside New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. Republican contender Doug Forrester brought in Arizona Sen. John McCain. Clinton addressed a crowd of 1,500 women, telling them Corzine has "the best combination for public service: He has a great mind, big heart." Clinton said she got to know Corzine when both were new to the Senate in...

Senator hopes designation will increase tourism By Miguel Liscano AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF Wednesday, March 23, 2005 SAN MARCOS -- Following in the footsteps of American Indians, explorers, settlers and Davy Crockett, U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison passed through Central Texas on Tuesday to draw attention to the oldest trails in Texas. El Camino Real de los Tejas, considered the oldest series of passages in the state, was a network of American Indian trails dating to the 1700s that explorers and colonists later expanded into roads stretching more than 2,500 miles from the Rio Grande to Natchitoches, La. Hutchison, R-Texas, sponsored legislation...

<p>BATON ROUGE — Republican Bobby Jindal has moved to a virtual dead heat with Democrat Kathleen Blanco in a new independent poll in the Nov. 15 Louisiana governor’s race that was released Friday.</p> <p>“It is statistically a tie,” said pollster Verne Kennedy of Marketing Research Insight of Pensacola, Florida. “It is definitely winnable by either side.”</p>

Strayhorn on run for governor: 'Never say never'06:22 PM CDT on Monday, October 13, 2003By BRUCE NICHOLS / The Dallas Morning News HOUSTON – State Comptroller Carole Keeton Strayhorn stopped just short of firing the opening shot in the 2006 Texas governor’s race on Monday – taking dead aim at what she considers to be the shortcomings of Gov. Rick Perry. Asked specifically if she plans to run, Ms. Strayhorn wouldn’t say ‘yes,’ but wouldn’t rule it out. “Never say never,” she said. Ms. Strayhorn, the target of Republican legislative action Sunday to remove a pair of performance review programs...