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North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, a Democrat, said he will veto a proposed bill that would ban abortions after 12 weeks. According to House Speaker Tim Moore and Senate leader Phil Berger, House and Senate Republicans came to a consensus on legislation that would enact the legislation. Currently, state law prohibits abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy with the exceptions of circumstances involving rape, incest, fetal abnormality, or when the life of the mother is at risk. Those exceptions remain in the new legislation, which Cooper has called an attack on women’s freedom to choose. “It will effectively ban access...

Five years ago, Andrew Gillum was one of the brightest stars in Florida politics. The then-Tallahassee mayor had a national profile. He won the 2018 Democratic nomination for Florida governor. And he nearly defeated Ron DeSantis, losing by fewer than 34,000 votes, or 0.41 percentage points. Then came the fall. In 2020, he was found by police in a South Beach hotel room in the company of a man who appeared to have overdosed on drugs. And last year, he was indicted by a federal grand jury, accused of lying to FBI agents and defrauding campaign mega donors and organizations...

Former congressman and leading Republican gubernatorial candidate Lou Barletta (R-PA) told Breitbart News Saturday that as governor, he will use all powers available to him to stop illegal immigration, noting that many in the GOP do not have the backbone to stand against the radical left’s illegal immigration policies. Recent polls show the Republican primary race as very much a two-man battle between himself and State Sen. Doug Mastriano. But with Democrat Gov. Tom Wolf (D) leaving office, Republicans have a clear chance to flip the governor’s mansion. Recent polls, Barletta said, are a “reflection on what we’re seeing on...

Concerned Veterans for America Action announced Tuesday its intentions to wade into the Governor’s race, with direct mail on behalf of Republican Ron DeSantis. CVAA is an offshoot of Americans for Prosperity, a Koch Network initiative. Koch support was a flashpoint in the Republican primary between DeSantis and Adam Putnam, with a Putnam spox describing “D.C. DeSantis” as “a puppet of the open-border, anti-Trump Koch brothers.” That messaging won’t be heard again this campaign season. The campaign, per the Koch veterans’ group, is “highlighting his dedicated support for veterans.” Expect a six-figure spend for this purpose. “In a landscape full...

On Tuesday night North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D) called on the state legislature to grant counties, municipalities, and the state the ability to remove Confederate statues lest protesters get hurt pulling them down. NC adopted a law in 2015 that protects historical statues from being removed, and Cooper wants this law reversed. Cooper used a Facebook post to reference the way slaves were once kept in chains in the South. And he criticized the existence of Confederate monuments without mentioning that Southern slave-owners were Democrats and that the Confederacy was a Democrat nation. Rather, he said, “These monuments should...

If you need Rob Astorino signs and you live in Wayne, Ontario and Seneca counties, I have some for you as well as window stickers.

CitizenLink has been interviewing Kevin Smith from New Hampshire during 9:30 - 9:40 hour (est). Smith is reporting that both state houses in New Hampshire are swinging back GOP tonight; but Governor will remain in incumbent Democratic hands.

Paul LePage, Maine's Republican Candidate for governor, is drawing attention again with recent comments he made in a video posted online Tuesday afternoon. He referenced his imagination of future newspaper headlines should he become governor: "you're gonna be seeing a lot of me on the front page saying Governor LePage tells Obama to go to hell."

From the Indypendent, the newspaper of the NYC independent media center: From the podium at the Christian Right’s Values Voter Summit in mid-September, Kate O’Beirne of the National Review Institute pronounced that the “selection of Sarah Palin [as the GOP vice presidential nominee] sounded the death knell of modern American feminism.” “She’s a prick to the liberal establishment, to the feminists and to the men who fear them,” she jeered. But as “Palin Power” surged through the halls of the Hilton Washington that day and through the Republican Party base in later weeks, her vice-presidential candidacy revealed a generational cleavage...

Kevin Rader/Eyewitness News Indianapolis - Governor Mitch Daniels may be picking up more than he bargained for when he accepts an award in Washington D.C. Wednesday. The governor will be presented with the 2008 Public Official of the Year Award from Governing Magazine, as the Republican Party works to rebuild itself. If there was one thing Daniels has been adamant about, other than his campaign theme of change, it was in his determination to make his re-election campaign his last campaign. The biggest surprise one week after his re-election victory is that some Republicans now want Daniels to consider a...

BATON ROUGE -- If Bobby Jindal is searching for a way to define his inauguration today as Louisiana governor, he might choose "Great Expectations." He's said as much himself. On the campaign trail and since, he's promised to make Louisiana, a state known nationally for its colorful and corrupt political icons, "the gold standard for ethics." Embracing victory in the Oct. 20 primary, he declared a "fresh start" for a state often derided -- sometimes by candidate Jindal -- as an underachiever and even an embarrassment in many national comparisons. Although he concentrated his campaign efforts in northern Louisiana, he...

Spitzer Grants Pardon To Illegal Alien Posted on Sunday, 23 of December , 2007 at 7:36 pm ALBANY—Gov. Eliot Spitzer ignored requests for executive clemency from scores of New York residents, some receiving unjust sentences under the Rockefeller Drug laws while others were convicted under extreme mitigating circumstances. Instead, he granted a full and unconditional pardon to an illegal alien to prevent his deportation. Spitzer seems to have a thing for illegal aliens, proposing this fall to give them driver’s licenses. One day after a Siena College poll indicated that 70 percent of New Yorkers opposed his license plan and...

"He pledged he was going to be a governor for all the people and so far, from everything I've seen, that's what he's been doing," said state Sen. Tony Hill, D-Jacksonville, who is black. Seven years ago, Hill and another black Democratic legislator, Kendrick Meek, of Miami, who now is a U.S. representative, staged a sit-in to get an audience with former Republican Gov. Jeb Bush, who had refused to meet with them before ending affirmative action in state hiring and university admissions. But Hill met with Crist on back-to-back days this month to talk about anti-gang programs, appointments, health...

Arizona Govenor signs into law tough new bill that will cause those that hire illegals to have there business license suspended on first offense and second offense permanent revocation.

Napolitano: Immigration approach won't change despite voter opinion By Howard Fischer/Capitol Media Services PHOENIX - Gov. Janet Napolitano said she won't change the way she approaches the issue of illegal immigration despite voters effectively overriding two of her vetoes on the issue. More than 70 percent of Arizonans who cast ballots decided that Arizona law should deny adult education classes and subsidized child care to those not in this country legally. The margin of victory on that is larger than Napolitano's win over Republican Len Munsil. Proposition 300 also says students who are not citizens or legal U.S. residents have...

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SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine --Former President Bill Clinton joined prominent state Democrats in praising Gov. John Baldacci's record of achievement at a fundraiser that netted more than $100,000 for Baldacci's re-election campaign on Monday. Clinton praised Baldacci for eliminating a $1 billion budget shortfall that confronted him in his first year in office, for stimulating the economy and for bringing health insurance to more Mainers, as well as reversing a trend of outward migration from the state.

Gov. John Baldacci's re-election campaign on Monday tapped Jesse Connolly of Portland to manage the governor's bid to reclaim the Blaine House in 2006. Connolly most recently helped engineer the defeat of Question 1, the high-profile effort to overturn the state's new gay rights law last November. Baldacci was a driving force behind the law during its trip through the Legislature. "He has done of lot of good things in his four years, and I believe he deserves a second term. We will communicate that to the people of Maine," said Connolly, who will begin his new position on Jan....

I expect most New Jersey Republicans will never again allow themselves and the party to be abused by Mr. Forrester. Forrester lost not because of George Bush, but because he was not George Bush (who by the way was not even on the ballot). Forrester used his money and the party establishment to get the nomination against a number of primary opponents who, though less well funded, were powered-up by a base of conservative activism that had voted for Bush in 2004. As a result, a good many local activists, among those who voted for Bush in 2004, set aside...

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. — Gov. Mitch Daniels visited Vigo County, where the production of methamphetamine has been prolific, to sign legislation Tuesday that will restrict the sale of cold medicines containing ingredients used to make the drug. The law is similar to a Vigo County ordinance that has been in effect since January. State police reported that authorities found 166 meth labs in the county last year, the most among Indiana's 92 counties. The county also topped the state list in 2002 and 2003. The new law, enacted unanimously by the General Assembly last month, places restrictions on the sale...