SALT LAKE CITY — A Utah county prosecutor said Wednesday he is investigating U.S. Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada in connection with a pay-to-play scheme involving two former Utah attorneys general.Source: Why is Sen. Harry Reid being investigated in Utah?...
The political world is discovering an unsettling truth: Money isn’t everything. The latest evidence comes from the just-expired presidential campaign of Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, a Republican who dropped out on Tuesday, saying, “This is not my time.Source: How to Waste a Billion Dollars...
It’s happy hour at the Fairmont Kea Lani. Just past four on Sunday afternoon, former state Sen. Rod Wright settles in at the lobby bar for the mai tai that he insists should kick off any trip to Maui.Source: Inside California lawmakers’ paid trips to Maui...
Alexandria, VA – The Center for Competitive Politics (CCP), America’s largest nonprofit working to promote and defend First Amendment rights to free political speech, assembly, and petition, announced today that it has filed a lawsuit to declare unconstitutional a recent Utah law requiring nonSource: Lawsuit Says Utah Law Violates the First Amendment...
I left the Republican party a long time ago for a number of reasons, one of which is that I didn’t want to be part of any organization that had Arlen Specter as a member.Source: GOP Is Looking Good : National Review Online...
As is always the case, national polling is drawing the lion’s share of the attention in discussions about the Republican primary race. As is also always the case, this emphasis is misplaced. This is, after all, a race for delegates.Source: The GOP Race for Delegates: An Interactive Tool...
This week the Federal Election Commission will vote on a proposal to revive political parties and make them more effective at mobilizing populist political participation.Source: A time to revive the party...
You will be unsurprised to learn that the second Democratic debate, with its prime 9-p.m.-on-Saturday time slot, attracted fewer viewers than any other primary debate this cycle.Source: The Democratic debate was the least-watched this year — but beat every primary debate in 2012...
Though Hillary Clinton was in control throughout the first hour of Saturday night’s Democratic debate, she took some difficult questions about her campaign funding in the second hour. Surprisingly, the hardest hit came not from her fellow candidates, but from Twitter.Source: We Just Witnessed the First Good Use of Social Media in Debate History...
So far no presidential candidate is making much of a fuss about frontrunner Donald Trump's hosting gig on Saturday Night Live last weekend.Source: Ben Carson and Ted Cruz won't ask NBC for 'equal time' after Trump's Saturday Night Live ratings triumph...
