Month: October 2021

The Telegraph: “High-profile candidates with national followings. Fierce debates over a new election law. And deep divisions over former President Donald Trump’s future political role. Georgia is right back in the middle of the political spotlight. One year out from the midterm elections, Georgia is poised to be one of the most hotly contested states,…

AR Times: “Anna Beth Gorman, executive director of the Women’s Foundation of Arkansas, has announced her campaign for secretary of state. Nothing in her release mentions that she’s seeking the Democratic nomination, but she’s wearing a blue blouse in her campaign kickoff and the state Democratic Party is tweeting about her, so there you go. She’ll face…

People Magazine: “A Texas man has been arrested after allegedly murdering a woman and shooting her husband because they supported President Joe Biden in last year’s election. On Sept. 8, the El Paso Police Department SWAT team and detectives arrested Joseph Angel Alvarez — nearly a year after Georgette Kauffmann was killed and her husband Daniel Kaufmann’s…

NC Policy Watch: “After Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina dumped more than $1.6 million in stocks in February 2020 a week before the coronavirus market crash, he called his brother-in-law, according to a new Securities and Exchange Commission filing. They talked for 50 seconds. Burr, according to the SEC, had material nonpublic information regarding…

Pro Politics with Zac McCrary: “Who else has a story like Chuck Robb? Marries the President Johnson’s daughter in a White House ceremony, serves in Vietnam, changes the political culture of Virginia in the 70s and 80s, two consequential terms in the Senate, helps found the influential centrist DLC, and casts several courageous, unpopular votes…

Political Wire: ““Former Sen. David Perdue (R-GA) is seriously considering mounting a Republican primary challenge against Gov. Brian Kemp (R), which would set up a divisive showdown between two of Georgia’s biggest political figures in the 2022 election,” the Atlanta Journal Constitution reports.“ In recent weeks, Perdue has called donors and other allies to float the idea……

USA Today: “Two officers — including a U.S. Marshal — were indicted on felony murder charges Tuesday, more than five years after they were involved in the death of a Black college student who was shot 59 times, leaving him with 76 gunshot wounds. Jamarion Rashad Robinson, a 26-year-old who had been diagnosed with schizophrenia months before his death,…

TX Observer: “Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick is heartsick and afraid. He’s scared for his six grandchildren, who may grow up in a country that rejects its greatness in exchange for wokeness and anti-whiteness. Critical race theory and the New York Times’ 1619 Project “not only hurts my heart,” Patrick has said, but also “scares the hell…

NY Times: “A year ago, Daniel Darling was following news reports about the development of the coronavirus vaccines with eager anticipation. His family had all had Covid-19 themselves, and his children had lost their beloved piano teacher, an otherwise healthy 50-year-old woman, to the virus. The pandemic was personal. Eventually, vaccination became personal for Mr….

NY Times: “In Terry McAuliffe’s tough fight for a new term as Virginia’s governor, he has been striving to frame the election as a referendum on a president. Just not the one who is currently sitting in the Oval Office. For weeks, Mr. McAuliffe has made little mention of President Biden, instead using his campaign…