Michigan Citizens for Life, a group not associated with Right to Life of Michigan, is pushing an initiative petition to change the state constitution to define life as beginning at conception. Right to Life is not supporting the initiative.
The effort to give legal standing to embryos and fetuses in Michigan has picked up supporters […]
Football Hall of Famer Lynn Swann announced Wednesday that he’s seeking the Republican nomination for Governor of Pennsylvania. The May primary pits him against three other GOP candidates each hoping to battle incumbent Democrat Ed Rendell in the general election. State GOP Chairwoman Eileen Melvin says that Rendell is vulnerable because of the […]
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (Republican) will kick his 2006 re-election into high gear with a State of the State speech designed to return him to the political center Thursday evening. The speech is expected to include a jobs package, minimum wage hike, prescription drugs program and money for roads and bridges.
Analysts suggested Schwarzenegger […]
Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney (Republican) announced Wednesday that he will not seek reelection in 2006, opening the field to four other likely candidates. Romney is widely expected to make a bid for the GOP Presidential nomination in 2008 and has endorsed the candidacy of Lieutenant Governor Kerry Healey for the post he’s vacating.
The […]
The GOP Governor’s Conference met last week in California, at a golf resort in the congressional district of Randy “Duke” Cunningham who pled guilty earlier this month to bribery and tax evasion charges. The location is symbolic of problems, ranging from public unrest with the war on Iraq to a multitude of GOP politicians […]
South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford (Republican) has hired Senator George Allen’s re-election campaign manager, Jason Miller, to handle his 2006 re-election bid. Miller is an experienced and successful campaign worker. He worked in three tough Senate races in 2004, including working as manager of Jack Ryan’s Illinois Senate bid which ended when it was […]
Conservative commentator Paul Weyrich draws a similar conclusion about the 2006 election to the conventional wisdom, that the Republican Congressional majority is likely to suffer, but for a totally different reason. He expects that the more Congressional Republicans move to the left, as has happened in a stunning way in the last week, the more […]
Felons won’t be voting in the 2006 Florida elections after the Supreme Court refused to hear a challenge to a 137-year old state law revoking the right to vote for life for felony convictions.
The U.S. Supreme Court let stand Monday a Civil War-era law that bars felons from voting in Florida, ending a […]
