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“Hillary Clinton’s next chapter — the paid speaking circuit — begins today,” Politico reports.
“The former first lady, senator and secretary of state has overnight become one of the most in-demand speakers in the world — as a a reported $200,000-a-pop fee attests — even before she takes the stage at the National Multi-Housing Council in Dallas.”
New Hampshire state Rep. Stella Tremblay (R) posted on Glenn Beck’s Facebook page that “the Boston Marathon attack and the subsequent search for suspects was playing out how Beck had suggested. She said the bombings were a plot by the federal government, and included a link to a video from another conservative talk show host Alex Jones, in which Jones also claims the federal government planned the bombing,” the Huffington Post reports.
Secretary of State John Kerry, who left the Senate in February for his current job, donated $100,000 in surplus campaign funds to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee on March 15, Bloomberg reports.
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Iowa Lt. Gov. Kim Reynolds (R) has decided against seeking a U.S. Senate seat, the Des Moines Register reports.
Reynolds “has generally been viewed as the next Republican in line for a bid for the governor’s office and has decided not to change that career trajectory. She and Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad are nearly inseparable, which has led politics watchers to think he’s grooming her to be his eventual replacement.”
“But her decision today leaves the GOP still struggling to find a candidate to enter the hotly competitive race against Democratic U.S. Rep. Bruce Braley, who declared in early February he’d seek Harkin’s seat. Iowa has yet to send a woman to Congress, and Reynolds was the only woman listed in the top tier of possible U.S. Senate candidates.”
“Following more than an hour of riveting and personal floor speeches — during which one state senator publicly announced for the first time he is gay — the Nevada Senate voted 12-9 to begin the process of repealing the gay marriage ban from the state constitution,” the Las Vegas Sun reports.
Sources tell Politico that CNN is in talks with Newt Gingrich and former Obama deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter about hosting a new version of Crossfire.
Failed Nevada U.S. Senate candidate Sharron Angle (R) told supporters “it’s a possibility” she would run for Senate again, the Elko Daily Free Press reports.
Said Angle: “Certainly, we need to replace Harry Reid’s leadership and it would be nice to have a different person representing our state as well. I encourage you all to run for office. I wouldn’t encourage you to do anything I haven’t done myself and wouldn’t do again.”
Mother Jones obtained details of an upcoming Koch brothers retreat where they “will unveil a new plan to recruit and train political candidates who will advance their free-market worldview. Another priority is improving the conservative movement’s outreach to ‘growing demographics’ such as Latinos, young people, and women.”
“Another big item on the Kochs’ agenda is a long-awaited post-mortem on last year’s elections. Charles Koch announced in December that he was pushing back the winter retreat from January to late April so that an internal review of his circle’s election strategies could be completed.”
“The Mississippi man charged with sending poisoned letters to President Barack Obama, a U.S. senator and a state judge was released from jail on Tuesday, federal official said, though the reason for the release wasn’t immediately clear,” the AP reports.
Two sources tell Fox News that the FBI was looking
into the possibility that he might have been framed as part of a grudge
against him from someone in his neighborhood.
“I think we can still preserve the Bill of Rights. I see no reason why our Constitution is not strong enough to convict this young man, with a jury trial, with the Bill of Rights. We do it to horrible people all the time. Rapists and murderers, they get lawyers, they get trials with juries ,and we seem to do a pretty good job of justice, so I think we can do it through our court system.”
— Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), quoted by the Huffington Post, arguing that Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev should not be treated as an enemy combatant.
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“That playbook is now in full effect again. But this time it’s being employed by a Republican, Ken Cuccinelli, against a Democrat Terry McAuliffe, best known as a prolific Democratic fundraiser and Clinton ally.”
“The flight delays, the furloughs among air traffic controllers, the shutting down of air traffic towers is entirely, utterly unnecessary… This is a willful choice being made by this administration in order to inflict as disruptive a process as possible on the American public and on our economy all to further a political agenda. And the political agenda is to try to convince the American people that there are no circumstances under which we can ever cut spending at all.”
— Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA), quoted by the Daily Caller, arguing that the sequester is not to blame for flight delays.
Mitt Romney announced a series of high-profile speakers — including former Obama adviser David Axelrod — who will address a retreat that the former Republican presidential nominee is putting together in June, the Boston Globe reports.
“At various points during the campaign, Axelrod accused Romney of being secretive, dishonest, and ‘living on a different planet.'”
BuzzFeed notes former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford’ (R) campaign banner for his special election bid is the same colors as the Argentine flag, the country of his mistress-turned-girlfriend.
All five Republicans in the 38-member Rhode Island Senate plan to support the same-sex marriage bill backed by supporters of the issue, Rhode Island Public Radio reports.
“The unanimous support among Senate Republicans reflects how GOP lawmakers are not uncommonly more socially liberal than the Democrats who control the General Assembly. It is also reportedly marks the first unanimous backing from a partisan legislative caucus in the US for same-sex marriage.”
James Carville and Stan Greenberg notes that “on each of the biggest issues of the day — from gun reform, to
immigration, to the budget — Republicans are alienating key voters. But if Democrats want to take control of Congress, they must return to
an issue that has disappeared since election night: the ongoing
struggles of the middle class.”
“The French parliament has approved a bill legalising same-sex marriage and adoption, following a divisive public debate,” the BBC reports.
“France becomes the 14th country to pass a law allowing gay marriage, and follows New Zealand last week.”
Taegan Goddard is the founder of Political Wire, one of the earliest and most influential political web sites. He also runs Political Job Hunt, Electoral Vote Map and the Political Dictionary.
Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City. Previously, he was a policy adviser to a U.S. Senator and Governor.
Goddard is also co-author of You Won - Now What? (Scribner, 1998), a political management book hailed by prominent journalists and politicians from both parties. In addition, Goddard's essays on politics and public policy have appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country.
Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.
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