As state officials in Michigan review a proposed Tea Party ’s petition to appear on the November ballot, evidence is mounting that the party is a front for Democratic supporters hoping to rescue embattled Democrats this fall. Earlier this week, the party submitted the names of 23 candidates it wants to place on ballots across the state this fall. Though several are for statewide offices, most are running in districts where Republicans are threatening incumbent Democrats. The Detroit Free Press reports today that a local Democratic party official had a role in helping some of…
-By Warner Todd Huston Back in May I posted a report on what seemed to be a fake tea party group circulating petitions in the state of Michigan to get themselves recognized as an official political party. The group circulating the petition, Progressive Campaigns, Inc., had long-time connections to the Michigan Democrat Party and at that time no one in the various Michigan tea party groups had any knowledge of this new so-called Tea Party petition effort. Now the Detroit Free Press is reporting that a…
[Guest post by DRJ] The State of Arizona has appealed Judge Susan Bolton’s order enjoining sections of SB 1070 as immigration protesters surged in Phoenix: “Arizona asked an appeals court Thursday to lift a judge’s order blocking most of the state’s immigration law as the city of Phoenix filled with protesters, including 50 who were arrested for confronting officers in riot gear. Republican Gov. Jan Brewer called U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton’s Wednesday’s decision halting the law &#…
From Unlikely Voter: The big, scary to Republicans headline over at Hotline is Ayotte’s Unfavorable Ratings Rising in UNH Poll . I’m sure it’s true, but that’s what happens in contested primaries such as the one right now for Republicans in the New Hampshire Senate race. Right now, Bill Binnie’s fans don’t like Kelly Ayotte much, her fans don’t like him much. Anyone could have predicted polling shifts like this one in the Granite State Poll …
A federal judge may have yanked the teeth out of Arizona’s new immigration law this week, but that hasn’t stopped all the boycotts of the state that spread nationwide in protest of its passage.
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In nine short paragraphs, Los Angeles Times staffer Nicholas Riccardi offered readers a slanted look at how “Immigration demonstrations kick[ed] off in Arizona” yesterday, when the state’s new anti-illegal immigration law went into effect [except for the portions ruled unconstitutional by a federal judge]. Reporting from Phoenix, Riccardi jumped straight away into loaded language (emphasis mine): Opponents of Arizona’s hard-line stance on illegal immigration launched a small religious procession from the state Capitol before dawn Thursday, the first of a series of demonstrations for the day the nation’s strictest immigration law was due …
President Obama is clearly the biggest star not invited to Chelsea Clinton’s wedding this weekend, but protocol experts say the bride’s mother, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, was under no obligation to invite her boss.?
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President Obama is clearly the biggest star not invited to Chelsea Clinton’s wedding this weekend, but protocol experts say the bride’s mother, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, was under no obligation to invite her boss.?
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Arizona’s controversial court-altered immigration law took effect at midnight as the state preps new court battle to appeal decision to block certain provisions | YOU DECIDE: Should Arizona Fight Ruling? | FULL COVERAGE DR. MANNY: U.S. Losing Health Care War at Border? Ruling Won’t Stop Protests
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A very interesting sentence in the judge’s injunction against the Arizona immigration law caught my eye yesterday. In her ruling, which voided much of the law, Judge Susan Bolton said : “Preserving the status quo through a preliminary injunction is less harmful than allowing state laws that are likely pre-empted by federal law to be enforced,” she said. Of course the real status quo is federal non-enforcement of immigration laws – thereby driving the state of Arizona and other states to take matters into their …