The Hill: “Florida Democrats tapped former state Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried as their new chair on Saturday, tasking her with revamping a once-formidable state political party that has struggled to stay competitive in recent years. Fried, a lobbyist who unsuccessfully challenged former Rep. Charlie Crist (D-Fla.) for the Democratic gubernatorial nod last year, beat out three other prominent Democrats…
Month: February 2023
“Sarah Huckabee Sanders Has a Funny Idea of What the Republican Party Should Be”
NY Times: “Here, I should say that this critique of Sanders’s response rests on the supposition that Republican politicians want to build a national political majority. And why wouldn’t they? Political parties are supposed to want to win the largest possible majority. “Unless there’s a countervailing force,” the historian Timothy Shenk notes in “Realigners: Partisan…
“Tennessee Moves to Restrict Drag Shows”
Political Wire: ““Tennessee lawmakers will debate on Thursday whether to restrict drag performances in public or in front of children, one of more than a dozen bills limiting drag advanced by Republican politicians in at least 15 states in recent months,” Reuters reports.”
“South Carolina’s Democratic Primary Is 400 Years in the Making”
The Daily Beast: “The Democratic National Committee’s decision to move South Carolina to the front of the presidential primary line—displacing both Iowa and New Hampshire—has created a stir over race and entitlement. Despite the hoopla, the practical benefit for the state Democratic Party is a purely symbolic one—that’s because if Joe Biden runs, as expected, he is unlikely to face a…
“At VMI, two classmates — one Black, one White — war over school’s future”
WaPo: “Months into the new superintendent’s tenure, Daniel, now 60, and other 1985 graduates launched a political action committee called the Spirit of VMI. The group has been pushing back forcefully against Wins, 59, and his diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, which are intended to attract more minorities and women to campus and make them feel…
“A Survivor of the 1968 Orangeburg Massacre Reflects: ‘You Wish You Could Say It Didn’t Happen'”
NBC Connecticut: “College is supposed to be a “safe haven,” Carolyn Snell says: no one expects a tragedy — a massacre — to happen there. But on Feb. 8, 1968, that sense of safety was shattered when police fired into a crowd of students who were peacefully protesting on the campus of South Carolina State College in…
“Jennifer McClellan Elected to Congress in Virginia”
Political Wire: “Jennifer McClellan has made history as the first Black woman elected to represent Virginia in Congress, NBC News reports.”
“‘He’s an inspiration’: tributes pour in after Jimmy Carter enters hospice care”
The Guardian: “Tributes continue to be made to the former US president Jimmy Carter, after the announcement that the 98-year-old has entered hospice care at his home in Plains, Georgia, instead of receiving “additional” medical treatment…. The former peanut farmer, Georgia governor and 39th president from 1977 to 1981 has been in ill health for several years, suffering…
“Arkansas meat processor plants busted for child labor violations amid national push to ease child labor rules”
AR Times: “Two meat packing plants in Arkansas are caught up in a high-profile nationwide sting to suss out child labor law violations. On Friday, the U.S. Department of Labor announced that they discovered 102 children ages 13-17 working overnight shifts in plants in Arkansas and across the country. Those young workers were tasked with cleaning…
“Hundreds protest bill that would ban public drag performances in Tennessee”
NewsChannel5: “Hundreds gathered in front of the Tennessee State Capitol to protest what they call anti-LGBTQ bills. Currently, multiple bills are being debated in the House and Senate that would no longer allow cabaret shows — and drag shows — on public property or for those under 18. “The people leading in the state legislature…