Month: October 2022

North State Journal: “Recent opinion polls in North Carolina show voters are more likely to vote for Republican candidates than Democrats for two state Supreme Court seats this year.  A poll of likely voters from Sept. 24-26 was conducted by the national polling group Cygnal on behalf of the Civitas Institute and John Locke Foundation.   Republican Richard…

Slate: “Jon Stewart: Comedian. Political commentator. Liberal conscience of a nation (in the W. Bush era). Resistance™ hero. Occasional transphobic joke-maker. That guy from The Daily Show is back, and he’s got something new for East Coast liberal elites to pat themselves on the back over: On his new season of The Problem With Jon Stewart, the host aims his…

AL Political Reporter: “The general strike and protest among incarcerated workers in state prisons has begun to subside as more incarcerated individuals return to their inside jobs “to ensure that ADOC does not continue to target the most vulnerable in our population,” according to a statement from inside organizers obtained by APR. In the statement from…

Political Wire: “The Daily Beast obtained Herschel Walker’s (R) child support agreement for his youngest son, which shows that he pays $3,500 a month — he claims a net worth between $29 million and $62 million — and has no visitation rights. “We shared the details with five experienced New York family lawyers. Their verdict was unanimous:…

My Fox 8: “Those concerned that national Democrats aren’t doing enough to support Senate candidate Cheri Beasley in North Carolina take note: Her campaign will get another big jolt of dollars from party leaders. In the same week that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s political action committee launched a $4 million television ad campaign to address…

Watauga Watch: “Joe Biden issued his pardon for just some 6,500 people convicted of Federal marijuana possession and suggested that state governors ought to do the same for people convicted on state charges. What would that mean for North Carolina? In North Carolina in 2019, there were 31,287 charges of possession of up to half an ounce…

WUNC: “North Carolina’s two top Democratic state officials are urging the Republican-led legislature to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana in light of President Joe Biden’s pardon Thursday of thousands of Americans convicted of “simple possession” under federal law. Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper and Attorney General Josh Stein, the state’s top lawyer who is considering…

WaPo: “The guidance from the Florida Health Department came in a terse release at 6:12 on Friday evening, ahead of a three-day weekend: Joseph A. Ladapo, the state’s top health official, warned young adult men to stop taking coronavirus vaccines by Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech, citing an “abnormally high risk” of heart-related deaths. But Ladapo’s recommendation — extrapolated…

HuffPo: “At a conference of hundreds of Black church leaders here last week, the message from the pastors and the Georgia political candidates who stopped by to press the flesh sounded awfully similar: Vote in November like your lives depend on it. “We determine who wins this election,” warned Bishop Reginald Thomas Jackson, the head…

AL Political Reporter: “After being questioned about the president’s reaction to another recent scandal involving overtly racist remarks made by the president of the Los Angeles City Council, Jean-Pierre mentioned how Democrats hold their own accountable in instances of racist comments, unlike “MAGA Republicans” who appear to celebrate and endorse that behavior. “Here’s the difference between Democrats…