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Blunt Amendment

March 1, 2012 by · Comments Off on Blunt Amendment 

Blunt Amendment, Republicans are trying to add an amendment to a highway bill currently in the Senate that would allow employers to opt out of a new federal health-care mandate for their employees if they have religious objections. The Senate is expected to vote Thursday morning.

A recently announced rule in the health care law would have forced businesses including those affiliated to the Catholic Church to provide health-care options that included access to contraception – something the Catholic Church opposes. Mr. Obama has offered a compromise on the rule, but conservatives say it doesn’t go far enough.

Senate Republicans – with exceptions – are framing the amendment by Sen. Roy Blunt (R) of Missouri as a defense of a fundamental constitutional right.

Senate Democrats – also with exceptions – see the issue as a war on women and a deliberate bid to obstruct passage of a long-delayed bill that would fund major construction and repair projects, affecting millions of jobs.

The issue goes to the heart of the culture wars, also roiling the GOP presidential primary.

“This issue gets right at the heart of who we are as a people,” said Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell (R) of Kentucky, in an opening floor speech on Thursday. “It is not in the power of the federal government to tell anybody what to believe or to punish them for practicing those beliefs,” he added.

But Democrats say the highway bill shouldn’t become a venue for the contraception issue.

New York State Election Results

November 3, 2010 by · Comments Off on New York State Election Results 

New York State Election Results, The 2010 New York are all the results of the elections, but now official. Before the elections this year, if I had to go to the polls, would have thought that Democrats would elect Gillibrand and Schumer in the New York Senate election. As a result, these surveys were very accurate.

New York for U.S. Senate Seat, Head Charles Schumer defeated Republican seems that Jay Townsend with 65% of the vote to 33%. These reports include only 84% of the vote reported, but Schumer is sufficient to project the winner. Schumer won every county except Hamilton, Wyoming, Allegany and Tioga.

On the other Senate race in New York, Kirsten Gillibrand Holder clung to his seat which was originally Hillary Clinton. Gillibrand defeated DioGuardi with 61% of the vote to 37%.

For the race for governor of New York, recent surveys have shown Democrat Andrew Cuomo, the Republican leader Carl Paladino with 58% of the vote to 33%. It turns out that these surveys were quite accurate too. With 86% of the vote reported, Paladino Cuomo is leading with 62% of the vote and 34% Paladino.

It seems as if the Democrats took three important elections in the State of New York.

South Carolina Election Results

November 3, 2010 by · Comments Off on South Carolina Election Results 

South Carolina Election Results, COLUMBIA, SC – South Carolina elected its first woman governor Tuesday, opting for a tea party lawmaker Repubic backed to succeed scandal-stained Gov. Mark Sanford.

Nikki Haley will be the second Indian-American governor nation when replacing Sanford, whose term ends in January limited mandate. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana is also Native American.

She won with nearly 52 percent of the vote, more than 46 state Sen. Vincent Sheehan percent to 85 percent of precincts.

Haley, a married woman 38 years of age, of two, won the support of Sarah Palin and strident campaign as a political outsider seeking to derail the vested interests in the capital of your state. She was also able to assume the unproven accusations of infidelity, questions about your finances and handwringing experience and business groups and fellow Republicans worried she will continue Sanford acrimonious relationship with the state of the leaders of the Legislature Party Republicans.

Shehan, 39 years old, a Democrat of Camden, had won numerous endorsements from newspapers and praise, even reluctantly impressed by Republican operatives to a campaign that made the contest closer than expected.

Haley, whose national profile rose quickly after their victory in four main directions, it becomes an important figure in the national political scene. South Carolina is the first southern state in the presidential primary circuit and possible 2012 Republican candidates for the White House and are beating paths through the landscape, and who donated to his campaign.

However, she inherits a bristling Legislature elbows out after eight years and castigations Sanford vetoes public, both on spending. In particular, the two factions fought after Sanford admitted an affair with a woman Argentina called his soul mate. Sanford, who has since divorced, was formally reprimanded by regulators, but resisted pressure to resign.

The son of Sikh immigrants – now Methodist – Haley grew up in rural Bamberg County and helped lead the family business, clothing, work as a bookkeeper from his adolescence. Haley’s father, who has been the traditional Sikh turban, was a professor of biology at a historically black college and his mother teaches social studies middle school.

Sheehan kept the race close. Haley raised and $ 3.9 million for the campaign and past and 3.7 million, Shehan and 3,900,000 raised and spent to 3.8 million.

CT Governor Race

November 3, 2010 by · Comments Off on CT Governor Race 

CT Governor Race, Lieutenant Governor Is Boughton, or is still Mayor Boughton?

With the election results in the city of Bridgeport still in play on Tuesday night, Danbury Mayor Mark Boughton and his Republican running mate, Tom Foley, were reluctant to declare victory over Democrat Dan Malloy and Nancy Wyman.

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“It’s very, very close, and we are waiting for the big cities that report,” said Boughton The News-Times, shortly before midnight.

Boughton spent the night with Foley at the Hyatt Regency in Old Greenwich with his wife, Phyllis, other relatives and many followers.

In the past, the position of lieutenant governor was largely ceremonial role, but 46 years of age, Boughton said it will be a visible public official and close ties with the legislature and the municipalities.

Boughton said Foley would link the governor’s office and legislature, and between the state administration and cities and towns.

Born and raised in Danbury, Boughton teaches social studies at Danbury High School for 14 years before entering politics.

He served three years representing the 138th General Assembly District in Hartford before being elected to his first term as mayor of the heavily Democratic city in 2001, a position once held by his father, Donald Boughton.

Last year, won his fifth term of two years with 65 percent of the vote. He is the senior Republican mayor in city history.

Boughton sparked controversy and drew attention to state and national level in 2005 to ask the Connecticut State Police deputize enforce federal immigration laws.

Also lobbied the U.S. Congress to act on immigration reform and appeared on national television programs on the subject.

In the past five years, the debate over immigration has led to massive demonstrations at City Hall, the unit marches down the main street, and a controversial partnership between local police and federal immigration agents.

While the issue further Boughton name recognition across the state, talks about illegal immigration was largely absent from the rhetoric that led to Tuesday’s election.

Most Republicans, including Boughton himself, said voters are more concerned about other issues, especially jobs and the economy.

Boughton started dropping hints about a possible candidacy for governor less than a week after winning reelection in November.

But in May, after raising and less than 50,000 for his campaign, he abandoned his own candidacy for governor and accepted the second slot in the main season ticket headed by Lt. Gov. Michael Fedele today, seeking the Republican nomination for governor.

While Castro lost his bid for the top spot at the convention in May, Boughton won overwhelming support from delegates for the No. 2 job, although he had to survive a primary challenge of Lisa Wilson-Foley of Simsbury in August .

When Foley defeated in the primary Fedele, Boughton had a new mate.

Harry Reid Election Results

November 3, 2010 by · Comments Off on Harry Reid Election Results 

Harry Reid Election Results, A few years ago, people said that the Republican Party was the party leader and was still on the brink of extinction. Things have changed, no?

First was the unexpected victory by Republican Scott Brown in Massachusetts and New Jersey Chris Christie outspoken, charismatic Everyman “who want to reign in out-of-control government spending.

And last night’s results continued the trend with the elected candidates of all backgrounds. For example, in addition to the choice of Nikki Haley as the new governor of South Carolina, Marco Rubio, the son of Cuban exiles-earned high-profile Florida’s open U.S. Senate seat, given the amount of press coverage and is a political superstar.

In New Mexico, Susana Martinez becomes the first Latina to be elected governor in U.S. He was also responsible for perhaps the best trade policy throughout the campaign season.

One of the most absurd things that Senator Harry Reid, said during the campaign was that he could not understand how Latinos would vote for the Republican Party. Well, the governor-elect of Reid’s home state of Nevada, Republican Brian Sandoval, is of Hispanic descent. In a further irony, Sandoval defeated Rory Reid son in the election for governor.

Although it fell a bit short in the Senate, the Republican Party made historic gains, unprecedented in capturing the majority in the House of Representatives. This includes the choice of black Republicans, Tim Scott and South Carolina Lt. Col. Allen West (R) in Florida.

We should also mention that Mark Kirk, a Republican, captured former Obama Senate seat in Illinois, and will take office immediately instead of waiting until January.

Read the full article: Election Results: New Generation of diverse Republican leaders – Indyposted

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