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Minnesota Independence Party Recruits Mayor to be its Nominee for Special State Senate Election
20 hours ago ago from Ballot Access News
Minnesota will hold a special election to fill the vacant State Senate seat, 26th district, on January 26. The Independence Party nominee will be Roy Srp, Mayor of Waseca, a city of about 10,000 people. Five Republicans have also filed so far. There will probably be a Republican primary on January 12. Probably a Democrat will file soon. Filing closes on December 29. The seat is vacant because the incumbent Republican resigned earlier ...
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Every Democrat cast the deciding health-care vote. In the post-dawn hours on Thursday the Senate passed ObamaCare 60 to 39, in the first vote on Christmas Eve since 1895 and after the longest consecutive session in Congress since World War I. We are thus heading toward the first U.S. entitlement program dragged across the finish line on a straight partisan majority, a bill that even its most fervent supporters admit is but better than ...
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Good column by Ezra Klein in the Washington Post : On Dec. 8, 1964, Mike Manatos wrote a letter that explains what's wrong with the Senate in 2009. This wasn't, of course, the subject of his letter. Manatos was no futurist; he was Lyndon Johnson's liaison to the Senate, and he was writing to update his bosses on Medicare's chances in the aftermath of the 1964 election. Surveying the incoming crop of senators, Manatos counted a solid ...
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There has been a lot of talk recently about how the census that's taken in 2010 will have an impact on redistricting. In Virginia, the focus has been on the process that would be used to draw the district lines and the hope that it would be done in a bipartisan or nonpartisan manner. This has been a topic of conversation that for years as people like Creigh Deeds have been trying to get legislation passed in the General Assembly that would ...
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Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chairman Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) said on Sunday he was "very confident" that there would be no more defections by House Democrats to the Republican Party between now and the 2010 elections. The Maryland Democrat, in an appearance on "Fox News Sunday," was referring to the announcement this past week that Alabama Rep. Parker Griffith was joining the GOP. Van Hollen laced into his former colleague, ...
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