The Daily Beast: “Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) was booed by Republican activists Saturday after he suggested they should consider taking the coronavirus vaccine, making him the latest prominent Republican to face a backlash from the party’s grassroots over the vaccine. Speaking at a county Republican event in Summerville, South Carolina, Graham said he had received the…
“Texas parole board recommends posthumous pardon for George Floyd”
UPI: “The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles recommended Monday that George Floyd receive a posthumous full pardon for the 2004 drug charge he received in Houston. The 7-0 decision comes five months after Houston public defender Allison Mathis sent in an application for clemency for Floyd, whose 2020 death during an arrest in Minneapolis set off national protests…
“Tight Race for Virginia Governor [Polling Data”
Political Wire: “A new Emerson College poll in Virginia finds Terry McAuliffe (D) barely ahead of Glenn Youngkin (R) in the race for governor, 49% to 48%.”
“Texas law sparks hundreds of U.S. protests against abortion restrictions”
Reuters: “Women marched by the thousands on Saturday on the Supreme Court, the Texas Capitol and cities across the United States to protest increasing state restrictions on abortion and advocate for maintaining a constitutional right to the procedure. The 660 demonstrations around the United States were largely sparked by a Texas law that bans abortions…
“Virginia Democrats attempt to claw back Trump’s gains with Latinos”
Politico: “Flanked by six of Virginia’s top Latino leaders, over pupusas and empanadas at a recent campaign-sponsored event, Terry McAuliffe met with a group of voters from countries like El Salvador, Peru and Venezuela to talk about his vision for his state. “We don’t want to look like Texas. We don’t want to look like…
Opioid Crisis Worsened by State Medical Boards Unable to Stop Bad Doctors
TX Observer: “Gerald Nielson’s back pain has plagued him ever since the day in 1986 when he crashed his Trans Am while going 80 miles an hour. The accident broke his back in several places and left him with a constant, searing ache from his neck to his tailbone. The accident didn’t diminish his love…
“Congress has a plan for universal pre-K. Will states opt in?”
NC Policy Watch: “Nearly a fifth of President Joe Biden’s $3.5 trillion sweeping social spending package is dedicated to providing low-cost care for children from birth to kindergarten—investments that would benefit single parents and low-income families. But how the states implement their programs for pre-K for 3-and 4-year-olds—or whether they even decide to accept the…
Nationwide Women’s March Today ahead of new Supreme Court term; here’s where demonstrations will be held across the South
Women’s March: This Saturday women will be marching in every single state across the country ahead of the Supreme Court reconvening on October 4. Women’s March and more than 90 other organizations are organizing a national call to mobilize and defend reproductive rights. Learn more at https://womensmarch.com/
“Searching for Mike Easley”
The Assembly: “Mike Easley lives near the mouth of the Cape Fear River in the small town of Southport, where he can look out his back window and watch giant cargo ships piled with containers ply their way upriver toward Wilmington. I stopped by on a sunny morning this summer. Though waterfront restaurants just a…
“Pat Robertson steps down as host of long-running ‘700 Club'”
Politico: “Pat Robertson, who turned a tiny Virginia television station into a global religious broadcasting network, is stepping down after a half-century running the “700 Club” on daily TV, the Christian Broadcasting Network announced on Friday. Robertson, 91, said in a statement that he hosted the network’s flagship program for the last time on Friday,…