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Lawmakers Propose Making Chicago a State

November 23, 2011 at 8:47 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Two Republican Illinois lawmakers “say Chicago-style politics are dominating the state and they have a solution,” the State Journal Register reports.

“They’ve proposed Cook County, which is the second most populous county in the U.S., to become one state and the other 101 counties in Illinois to become another.”

Filed Under: State House

Majority Say Walker Should Be Recalled

November 15, 2011 at 9:16 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

A new Wisconsin Public Radio/St. Norbert College poll in Wisconsin finds 58% think Gov. Scott Walker (R) should be recalled from office.

That compares to just 47% who said in April that he should be recalled.

Key findings: “The growth in support for a recall came, surprisingly, from Republicans. In the spring, only 7% of Republicans supported recalling Walker but that grew to 24% in the fall. Support among Democrats held mainly steady at 88% in the spring and 92% in the fall.”

Filed Under: State House

Kasich Wounded Politically Over Ohio Vote

November 10, 2011 at 4:09 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

A Hart Research survey of Ohio voters who voted in Tuesday’s election finds Democrats nearly unanimous in opposing restrictions on collective bargaining, 94% to 6%, and that independent voters also decisively rejected the measure, 57% to 43%.

There is also significant political fallout for Gov. John Kasich (R). Among those who voted for Kasich last year but voted against the measure, his job approval rating has fallen to just 28%.

Filed Under: State House


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Quote of the Day

November 10, 2011 at 7:35 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“I am the government.”

— New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D), quoted by Capital Tonight,
addressing popular distrust of the New York State government despite
his own strong approval numbers in an “assertion, which if taken out of
context, could be a potentially tough one for the governor to live down
one day.”

Filed Under: State House

Quote of the Day

November 9, 2011 at 8:04 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“It’s time to pause. The people have spoken clearly.”

— Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R), quoted by the New York Times, after voters rejected a law limiting collective bargaining rights.

Filed Under: State House

“Personhood” Amendment Defeated in Mississippi

November 8, 2011 at 10:36 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Mississippi voters overwhelmingly rejected a ballot initiative to legally define “personhood” as beginning at fertilization.

Filed Under: State House

Ohio Voters Reject Collective Bargaining Restrictions

November 8, 2011 at 9:34 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Ohio’s new collective bargaining law was defeated “after an expensive union-backed campaign that pitted firefighters, police officers and teachers against the Republican establishment,” the AP reports.

“In a political blow to GOP Gov. John Kasich, voters handily rejected the law, which would have limited the bargaining abilities of 350,000 unionized public workers.”

National Journal: “The repeal of Issue 2 is also a blow for Kasich, whose approval
numbers have already been lousy this year. Republicans in the state who
supported the measure will also have to carry the baggage of vouching
for something that was overturned. And looking ahead to 2012, that’s
something that could potentially affect races at the federal level, as
Democrats will surely blast Republicans who supported SB 5 and cast its
repeal as a rejection of the GOP agenda.”

Filed Under: State House

Texas Judge Confirms Video of Him Beating Daughter

November 3, 2011 at 7:43 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“A Texas judge faces a police investigation and judicial probe after a video showing him beating his then-16-year-old disabled daughter was posted on the Internet,” CNN reports.

“The graphic video drew international outrage after it was posted by a woman who said she was the victim of the beating seven years ago and that her parents — including her father, Aransas County, Texas, Court-At-Law Judge William Adams (R) — were the ones seen beating and cursing at her in the video.”

Adams confirmed the video’s authenticity to KXTV: “She’s mad because I’ve ordered her to bring the car back, in a nutshell, but yeah that’s me, I lost my temper. Her mother was there, she wasn’t hurt.. it was a long time ago.. I
really don’t want to get into this right now because as you can see my
life’s been made very difficult over this child.”

Adams is up for re-election in three years.

Filed Under: State House

Vote on Ohio Referendum Still Fluid

October 28, 2011 at 2:05 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

A new Bliss Institute poll in Ohio finds that registered voters oppose Issue 2 — the ballot referendum on public employee collective bargaining — by a double-digit margin, 37% to 25%.

However, voter opinion on these issues is fluid and changeable, with 38% of voters still undecided.

Filed Under: State House

Lawmaker Asked Police to Ignore Husband’s Call

September 29, 2011 at 7:10 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

After locking her husband out of their home, Illinois state Sen. Suzi Schmidt (R) “called 911, identified herself as an elected official, asked police to ‘ignore’ her husband if he called and said he feared her because she had ‘connections,’ according to newly released police reports and recordings of the call,” the Chicago Tribune reports.

“Amid a host of allegations — that the Republican senator rammed her car into her husband’s during a subsequent row in August and then, just this week, bit him and struck him with a cellphone — the recordings raise the question of whether Schmidt was seeking to use her political clout to influence Lake County authorities.”

Filed Under: State House

Alabama Lawmaker Sorry for Racial Remark

September 28, 2011 at 10:19 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Alabama state Sen. Scott Beason (R) apologized for referring to blacks as “aborigines” and says his words were “careless and unnecessary,” the Montgomery Advertiser reports.

Beason was heard on FBI recordings made while helping investigate claims of gambling corruption.

Filed Under: State House

Wisconsin Lawmakers May Change Recall Rules

September 28, 2011 at 7:28 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 3 Comments

Wisconsin Republican lawmakers signaled that they will likely give Gov. Scott Walker (R) authority “over how recall petitions can be gathered, just as Democrats gear up to recall him next year,” the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reports.

“The move would allow Walker to halt a policy developed by nonpartisan election officials that, at least in theory, could make it easier for groups to gather signatures to recall the governor, as well as legislators from either party.”

Filed Under: State House

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