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.....Florida's top court puts medical marijuana initiative on November ballot.
Post Date: 2014-01-28 02:55:23 by Tatarewicz
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TALLAHASSEE, Florida (Reuters) - Florida voters will decide in November whether to legalize medical marijuana after the state Supreme Court on Monday approved an initiative to put the measure on the ballot. Florida's Republican Party leadership had opposed the wording of the ballot measure, saying it was too vague and misleading and that it would allow almost anyone to obtain marijuana for the slightest medical complaint. A bitterly divided state Supreme Court voted 4-3 on Monday to allow the medical marijuana initiative to go on the November ballot, saying it met all legal requirements. If the petition is backed by 60 percent of voters in November, Florida would become the first ...
George P. Bush running multimillion-dollar campaign (Texas)
Post Date: 2014-01-26 14:35:54 by X-15
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FORT WORTH — George P. Bush recently added more than $750,0000 to his already multi-million dollar campaign war chest, in his quest to become the state’s next land commissioner. His fundraising efforts dwarfed those of other candidates in the race, fellow Republican David Watts of Gilmer, who raised another $7,000 for his campaign, and Democrat John Cook, who raised more than $13,000, according to recent campaign finance reports. “He’s got the same name as two former presidents of the United States,” said Jim Riddlesperger, a political science professor at Texas Christian University. “When your name is George Bush, you are going to be able to raise money. ...
As Wendy Davis touts life story in race for governor, key facts blurred
Post Date: 2014-01-20 10:43:38 by Horse
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Wendy Davis has made her personal story of struggle and success a centerpiece of her campaign to become the first Democrat elected governor of Texas in almost a quarter-century. While her state Senate filibuster last year captured national attention, it is her biography — a divorced teenage mother living in a trailer who earned her way to Harvard and political achievement — that her team is using to attract voters and boost fundraising. The basic elements of the narrative are true, but the full story of Davis’ life is more complicated, as often happens when public figures aim to define themselves. In the shorthand version that has developed, some facts have been blurred. ...
3 gay Republicans trying to make election history
Post Date: 2014-01-20 05:57:09 by Tatarewicz
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MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Dan Innis' husband persuaded him to run for the U.S. House. It didn't matter that Innis, a former business school dean, faced an aggressive Democratic incumbent, GOP colleagues who oppose his right to marry, and history — no Republican ever has been openly gay when first elected to Congress. "He said, 'You've got to do this,'" recalls Innis, running in the 1st Congressional District, which covers most of eastern New Hampshire. "He said, 'You need to take this opportunity and see if you can make a difference.'" Innis plays down his sexuality as a campaign issue, but acknowledges the historic undertones. ...
Gallup: Record Number Of Americans Identify As Independents
Post Date: 2014-01-08 23:01:10 by Tatarewicz
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A record-high percentage of Americans identified as political independents last year, according to a Gallup poll released Monday. The survey, based on more than 18,000 interviews conducted throughout the year, found that 42 percent identified as independent, the highest figure since the polling firm began conducting interviews by telephone 25 years ago. In 2013, 31 percent identified as Democrats, while 25 percent identified as Republican. According to Gallup, the percentage of Americans identifying as independents grew as the year progressed — surging in the final three months of the year alongside the federal government shutdown and the troubled debut of the Obamacare website. ...
Liz Cheney Pulls Out of Wyoming Primary
Post Date: 2014-01-07 21:27:28 by BTP Holdings
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Liz Cheney Pulls Out of Wyoming Primary Image: Liz Cheney Pulls Out of Wyoming Primary Monday, 06 Jan 2014 06:48 AM By Elliot Jager Liz Cheney suddenly announced Monday that she is dropping her controversial Republican primary challenge in Wyoming against incumbent Sen. Mike Enzi. Citing health concerns in her family, Cheney said in a statement released to Politico and other news outlets that the unspecified issues were the reason she was departing the race. Urgent: Do You Approve Or Disapprove of President Obama's Job Performance? Vote Now in Urgent Poll "Serious health issues have recently arisen in our family, and under the circumstances, I have decided to discontinue my ...
Two-woman ticket in Texas goes for history in 2014
Post Date: 2014-01-03 03:20:19 by Tatarewicz
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photo, Democratic state senators, from left, Kirk Watson, Wendy Davis, Leticia Van de Putte and Royce West participate in a pro-abortion rights rally at the state Capitol in Austin, Texas. Davis and Van de Putte are going for a new kind of history in the U.S.: Winning as an all-female ticket for governor and lieutenant governor. The two Democrats may carry the best odds yet in their run in Texas: If they prevail in their March primaries as expected, political experts say, it would be only the fifth time in at least 20 years that a party has nominated women for both governor and lieutenant governor. AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Forget whether Hillary Clinton could win the White House in 20 ...
Americans say US Congress is worst ever: poll
Post Date: 2013-12-26 11:09:56 by Tatarewicz
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Washington (United States) (AFP) - Two thirds of Americans say the current Congress is the worst ever, while three quarters slammed the "do-nothing" legislature, a CNN/ORC International poll found Thursday. The negative attitudes were expressed toward leading lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, with 52 percent saying the policies of Democrats would move the country in the wrong direction, compared to 54 percent for Republican policies. And 54 percent of respondents said the same thing about the policies of President Barack Obama, a Democrat. The 113th Congress did pass a budget agreement before its holiday recess, but less than 60 bills have been signed into law during its ...
Bolivarianism Triumphs
Post Date: 2013-12-09 13:50:57 by Stephen Lendman
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Bolivarianism Triumphs by Stephen Lendman On Sunday, Venezuelans voted. They did so for the 19th time since Chavez took office in February 1999. They elected municipal mayors and other local officials. Nearly 2,800 positions were up for grabs. Ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) candidates registered impressive victories. In Caracas' Bolivar Square, President Nicolas Maduro triumphantly told assembled supporters: "Mission accomplished, Comandante Chavez!" "The Venezuelan people have told the world that (his) Bolivarian Revolution continues with even more force." "They underestimate(d) us," he said. "They call(ed) me a donkey. ...
Venezuelan Municipal Elections
Post Date: 2013-12-08 14:13:07 by Stephen Lendman
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Venezuelan Municipal Elections by Stephen Lendman On Sunday, Venezuelans voted. A follow-up article will discuss results. More on what's at stake below. Last week, Venezuela's National Assembly (AN) passed Chavez's Second Socialist Plan 2013 - 2019. It followed his National Project Simon Bolivar 2007 - 2013. It focused on ethics and morals. The new plan goes further. It aims to strengthen and expand existing programs. It calls for greater participatory democracy. It focuses on grassroots control. It discusses serious unresolved problems. It aims to take Bolivarianism to the next level. It's fair, ambitious and realistic. It states in part: "This is a program for ...
Sanders: ‘I’m Prepared’ to Run in 2016
Post Date: 2013-12-03 18:56:05 by Southern Style
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Sanders: ‘I’m Prepared’ to Run in 2016 By Andrew Johnson December 3, 2013 9:34 AM Senator Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) isn’t quite buying the Democrats’ hype over Hillary Clinton, and would be ready to throw his hat into the ring. While he did not directly cite Clinton, he emphasized the importance of a candidate’s policies rather than “simply taking huge campaign contributions from the wealthy and powerful.”“It seems to me it would be a real disgrace where those issues — the needs of working families, the needs of the middle class, the needs of the elderly — were not front and center,” Sanders said on MSNBC on Monday. “What I ...
The Threat From the Military and Secret Police
Post Date: 2013-11-20 09:34:40 by Ada
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Sacred Monarchs have been overthrown by military leaders throughout all 5,000 years of statism. Caesarism is ancient. Bonapartism is the modern version of Caesarism. We see it happening every day in the world’s media. The Egyptian Army and secret police just overthrew the first elected, democratic government in Egypt’s history. (I believe for many reasons the CIA is behind this and supplies the vital war materials and money and intelligence to the Egyptian Army, but the U.S. government is openly against the take-over in the Media.) The vast secret police armies and their immense militias of former agents and contractors, about 5,000,000 of whom have secret clearance in the U.S., ...
"Why 2016 is ripe for an independent presidential candidate"
Post Date: 2013-11-19 05:51:44 by Tatarewicz
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.Voters are fed up with pretty much everyone and everything in Washington. Congress is literally less popular than dog feces (according to one poll), a majority of Americans think President Obama is not honest, and there is broad bipartisan dismay with the direction the nation is headed in. All of which is to say that the time could be ripe for an insurgent third-party candidate to channel all that populist outrage into electoral success. Or, heck, why not two independent candidates? Sen. Bernie Sanders, the Independent from Vermont, told the Burlington Free Press this past week that while he didn't want to run for president, he might feel compelled to get in the race if there's ...
.....Will Elizabeth Warren challenge Hillary Clinton in 2016?
Post Date: 2013-11-11 23:08:45 by Tatarewicz
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Yahoo News Will Elizabeth Warren challenge Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination in 2016? That's what some observers in Washington are wondering, after a profile of the Massachusetts senator published by the New Republic on Sunday ("Hillary's Nightmare?") takes a hard look at the possibility of a Warren run for the White House. “Yeah, Hillary is running," a former Warren aide told the magazine. “And she’ll probably win. But Elizabeth doesn’t care about winning. She doesn’t care whose turn it is.” Earlier this year, Warren co-signed a letter with other Senate Democratic women urging the former first lady, senator and secretary ...
Soros backs Hillary Clinton for president in 2016
Post Date: 2013-10-24 22:56:16 by Tatarewicz
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PressTV: Liberal billionaire George Soros is lending his name to the “Ready for Hillary” super PAC, donating $25,000 to become a co-chair of the group’s National Finance Committee ahead of a major donor confab in New York. Soros political director Michael Vachon confirmed Soros’s involvement with the group in an emailed statement to POLITICO. “George Soros is delighted to join more than one million Americans in supporting Ready for Hillary,” Vachon said. “His support for Ready for Hillary is an extension of his long held belief in the power of grassroots organizing.” Soros, a longtime Democratic donor to help grass-roots efforts within the party, ...
Poll: potential Republican candidates for 2016?
Post Date: 2013-10-23 14:22:33 by X-15
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Who will throw their hat into the ring?? A candidate who the int'l bankers deem as having the best chance to lose to Hitlery Clinton? How much influence will Karl Rove and Bill Kristol wield over the slate of candidates??
Use your head: Don’t shut down Oct. 11-13
Post Date: 2013-10-08 04:28:59 by Artisan
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Use your head: Don’t shut down Oct. 11-13 Kevin Rutherford | October 07, 2013 It has come to my attention that there is a growing movement online and through Facebook to organize truckers for some sort of a national shutdown and protest the weekend of October 11th-13th. I’ve been asked by listeners of my radio show and members of my websites to address this issue and offer my opinions, so here goes. Let me be very clear about this event — I am completely and totally against this idea for so many reasons, and here is a list of why I think all truck drivers and small business owner-operators need to stay away from this group and their radical ideas. Take just a moment and ...
Obama's cousin set to run for US Senate
Post Date: 2013-10-08 01:21:55 by Tatarewicz
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The 42-year-old practicing radiologist is considering challenging Sen. Pat Roberts, who is seeking a fourth term in 2014. President Barack Obama’s second cousin is set to announce his intention to run for the US Senate during the next year’s Republican primary challenge. "The announcement will be in relation to recent speculation regarding the US Senate race in Kansas," Milton Wolf said in a press release on Monday. Wolf, who is a tea party Republican and physician opposed to Obamacare, will deliver his announcement at the Ritz Charles hotel in Overland Park, Kansas, Tuesday evening, The Hill reported. "If you agree that the Washington career politicians of ...
Old utopian ideal revived on Swiss streets
Post Date: 2013-10-07 00:41:17 by Tatarewicz
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Swiss info: It is arguably one of the most unusual political ideas launched in decades and campaigners for an unconditional basic income for all say they have already collected enough signatures to force a vote on their utopian proposal. “Bloody nonsense,” mutters a middle-aged man as he rushes to the entrance of the Basel railway station at the end of May. A young activist with a clipboard has just invited him to sign an initiative launched by a group of people without the support of a major political organisation. The campaigners say it is time for a broad public debate about the value of work in society and the widening gap between rich and poor – and more specifically ...
Jack Welch: Political Leaders 'Deserve a Spanking' for Shutdown
Post Date: 2013-10-04 21:39:21 by BTP Holdings
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Jack Welch: Political Leaders 'Deserve a Spanking' for Shutdown Friday, 04 Oct 2013 10:39 AM By Michael Kling Washington politicians' failure to meet with each other, or to schmooze, before the shutdown is appalling, says former General Electric CEO Jack Welch. "It's terrible. Both sides deserve a spanking for this," Welch told CNN's Piers Morgan. "The fact that are not talking, that they haven't been talking for the last six months, is terrible. "The only way you solve these problems is to schmooze, if you will, when you're not in crisis. You don't want the negotiations to be your first date. You want to have been dating all along ...
Two U.S. generals ousted over failure to secure Afghan base
Post Date: 2013-10-01 05:50:44 by Ada
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WASHINGTON, Sept 30 (Reuters) - The head of the Marine Corps on Monday effectively fired two U.S. generals over their failure to defend a major base in Afghanistan from a deadly Taliban attack last year, in an extraordinary and rare public censure. Two Marines were killed and eight personnel were wounded when Taliban insurgents breached what a military investigation determined was inadequate security at Camp Bastion, in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province. A four-month investigation concluded that Major General Charles Gurganus, the top Marine commander in the region at the time, and Major General Gregg Sturdevant "did not take adequate force protection measures within the ...
Sen. Cruz says he'll renounce Canadian citizenship
Post Date: 2013-08-20 04:52:18 by Tatarewicz
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz said Monday that he will renounce his Canadian citizenship. The Texas Republican and tea party favorite announced his plans Monday night in a statement. The move comes in the wake of a report by The Dallas Morning News that Cruz holds dual U.S. and Canadian citizenship. Cruz released his birth certificate amid concerns that being born in Canada could derail a possible presidential run by the tea party firebrand. The 42-year-old gave a copy of the document to The Dallas Morning News, which posted a picture of it online Monday. It shows Cruz's birth in Calgary, Alberta, on Dec. 22, 1970, while listing his mother, Eleanor Elizabeth Wilson, ...
Rand Paul: No 'objective evidence’ black voters being disenfranchised
Post Date: 2013-08-15 22:22:03 by Dakmar
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Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said Wednesday that there was no "objective evidence" that black voters were being disenfranchised, as he entered a contentious battle over new voter identification laws in Southern states. "The interesting thing about voting patterns now is in this last election African-Americans voted at a higher percentage than whites in almost every one of the states that were under the special provisions of the federal government," Paul said at a forum in Louisville, according to WFPL-FM. "So really, I don't think there is objective evidence that we're precluding African-Americans from voting any longer," he added. Paul's comments come ...
Hillary Announces Speaking Tour to Restore Faith in Government
Post Date: 2013-08-13 02:12:59 by Big Meanie
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On Monday, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told the American Bar Association annual meeting in San Francisco that she would be launching a series of speeches about American foreign policy in the “next few months.” According to Philip Rucker, White House correspondent for The Washington Post, Hillary planned to emphasize restoring faith in government – an ironic theme, considering that she was a member of the current administration presiding over the rapid decline in faith in government. The speech today was clearly a launching point for a 2016 campaign. She put heavy emphasis on bashing voter ID laws suggesting that they were “often ...
BREAKING: NJ Chris Christie Will Seek Re-election As Democrat
Post Date: 2013-08-08 12:13:17 by farmfriend
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BREAKING: NJ Chris Christie Will Seek Re-election As Democrat By Michael Lotfi On August 7, 2013 In a stunning move, NJ Chris Christie announced to a group of supporters with former President Clinton that he would seek reelection in 2014 as a democrat. The move comes after months of odd behavior from the former NJ republican. Tensions have been mounting between the NJ Governor and the GOP. At this year’s CPAC Convention, which hosts some of the greatest names in the conservative party Christie was denied entrance. Christie struck a sour note with conservatives for palling up with Obama during Hurricane Sandy. The bill to send money to victims was full of pork and republicans wanted ...
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