Month: March 2021

The Progressive Pulse: “A new Meredith College poll finds even as vaccination rates increase, most North Carolinians are not ready to abandon all COVID-pandemic restrictions. While some states have dropped mask mandates in recent weeks, the new poll found over twice as many respondents favor keeping the mask mandate in place in our state (64.2%) versus those…

Politico: “Former President Donald Trump on Monday endorsed Rep. Jody Hice in a campaign to unseat Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in next year’s Republican primary, saying that “unlike” the incumbent, “Jody leads out front with integrity.” Trump publicly seethed about Raffensperger after the November election, when the secretary of state refused to support…

AL.com: “Congressman Mo Brooks announced Monday night he will run for Senate next year, a confirmation of his rising Republican profile as a fierce fighter for former President Donald Trump. Brooks made the announcement before more than 300 supporters at a gun club in his hometown of Huntsville. “I envy you,” former Donald Trump adviser…

Democracy Now!: “Georgia Senator Raphael Warnock, whose election in January helped bring the chamber under Democratic control, used his first speech on the floor of the Senate this week to assail Republican efforts to restrict voting rights. He called the raft of voter suppression bills being introduced in states across the country “Jim Crow in…

NC Policy Watch: “When the sun came up on Sunday morning, Outlaw’s body still hung outside the courthouse. Even his friends and family were frightened to cut him down. The mob had pinned a warning message to his corpse. “Beware ye guilty,” it read. “Both Black and white.” Outlaw’s crime? Daring to challenge white supremacy….

CBS News: “For psychiatrist Nerissa Price, helping the homeless on the streets of Raleigh, North Carolina, is a calling. Answering it is more urgent than ever, with the rush to vaccinate those at greatest risk.  “It just became so clear that this was going to be a population that was going to be ignored if…

WRAL: “When it comes to electing the president, North Carolina needs to go back to the future. In 2007 the state Senate passed a bill directing that the state’s electoral college votes for president be cast for the candidate who received the most votes nationwide. Essentially, it rids the nation of the antiquated electoral college without the…

Chicken Fried Politics: “Republican Julia Letlow has won a special election for Louisiana’s 5th District U.S. House seat less than three months after her husband, Luke, died of COVID-19 complications before he could be sworn into the post. In another special election Saturday in the 2nd District, Democratic state senators Troy Carter and Karen Carter-Peterson advanced to an April 24 runoff in a contest to…

AL Political Reporter: “The Supreme Court of Alabama on Friday upheld a lower court’s dismissal of a lawsuit alleging that Governor Kay Ivey’s statewide mask mandate was illegally adopted. Montgomery Circuit Judge Greg Griffin in August dismissed the lawsuit, filed by Debbie Mathis, a real estate agent, and retired sheriff’s deputies Larry Lewis and Barry Munza,…

AP: “On an invitation-only call last week, Sen. Ted Cruz huddled with Republican state lawmakers to call them to battle on the issue of voting rights. Democrats are trying to expand voting rights to “illegal aliens” and “child molesters,” he claimed, and Republicans must do all they can to stop them. If they push through…