Tag Archives: 2010 elections

Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-RI) has announced that he will not seek reelection this year. In 2011, for the first time in 64 years, there will not be a Kennedy in Congress. The eight-term Kennedy faces high unfavorable ratings at home and would have faced stiff competition from a state GOP lawmaker who announced plans to run for Kennedy’s seat. Like …

Via Truth And Hope: Sometimes there is not much to say other than to get right to the point. In the next few weeks, the people of California will decide if we will put Marriage Equality back on the ballot in 2010, or if we will allow Prop 8 to stand and ask the LGBT community to wait at least …

The list of Rhode Island gubernatorial candidates who are pledging support for marriage equality is up the three. Both Democrats running for governor and former Sen. Lincoln Chafee, an independent candidate, will publicly pledge to sign a gay marriage bill if elected, gay rights activists said Monday. Attorney General Patrick Lynch and General Treasurer Frank Caprio, the Democrats, and Chafee …

Well, this will certainly spice things up. Prince Frederic Von Anhalt, 67, whose platform is “Return to the Good Life in California” unveilled a billboard on Sunset Boulevard at 11:00 a.m. He released the following statement: “When I came to California 26 years ago we had the ‘Good Life.’ We were prosperous; people had jobs, affordable homes and money to …

Via the Atlantic, here’s what the states might look like were their borders redrawn every ten years to reflect population changes, as is done with congressional districts. The Electoral Reform Map: Rather than replacing a time honored system that, after all, has only broken down three times in over 200 years, the organization of the states should be altered. In …

JMG reader Wilson tips us to this teabagger clip for Scott Brown in which they say that a vote for him is a vote against the “tyrannical government of Obama.” The music is a riot. The comments on YouTube, not so much.

The teabaggers are putting everything they’ve got into the campaign of Scott Brown, hoping to humiliate the president now that he’s so strongly endorsed Martha Coakley.

Teabaggers hero Scott Brown, who is running against MA Attorney General Martha Coakley in Tuesday’s special election to replace Ted Kennedy, said he’s not so sure that the president’s parents were married when Obama was born. This clip is from the 2008 GOP convention.

After charges of flip-flopping and carpetbagging rained down on him yesterday, today former Tennessee Rep. Harold Ford (D) took to the op-ed pages of the New York Post to bolster his cause to unseat Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand. I am pro-choice — have always been since I entered politics almost 15 years ago. My cumulative grade with NARAL during 10 years …

Former Tennessee Rep. Harold Ford, who announced last week that he is considering running for Kirsten Gillibrand’s Senate seat in New York, was one of 34 Democrats who voted for the Federal Marriage Act. But this morning he told Matt Lauer on the Today Show that he’s changed his mind. Host Matt Lauer asked, “So you’re now in favor of …

This fall NYC will become one of the last places in the country to finally update to a non-mechanical voting system. After years of delays and missteps, the city’s Board of Elections is expected to choose new electronic voting machines on Tuesday that will be rolled out in time for the September primary. In so doing, New York City will …

Mere hours after the retirement announcement of Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-ND) comes the news that Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT) will announce that he too is retiring at the end of this term. Unlike Dorgan, Dodd’s retirement is actually seen as a good thing for the Democrats. Embattled Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd (D) has scheduled a press conference at his home …

Lincoln Chafee, the former Rhode Island GOP Senator turned independent Obama supporter, says he will run for governor of Rhode Island in 2010. Chafee has been an outspoken supporter of marriage equality, the only GOP Senator to do so. Mr. Chafee, 56, left the Republican Party after his loss to Sheldon Whitehouse, saying the party’s agenda had become too conservative. …

The coming 2010 Census will bring the usual end-of-decade re-allocation of seats in the U.S. House. According to what is known about the decade’s population trends right now, here’s how the changes are expected to break down. Although a decades-old population shift favoring Sun Belt states slowed this year, the South continues to seize political power once held by the …

Rudy Giuliani has announced that he will not be challenging Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand in 2010. The decision by Mr. Giuliani, 65, leaves Senator Gillibrand — who was appointed to her seat less than a year ago, has never run in a statewide election, and is still unfamiliar to many voters — without a high-profile Republican opponent as she faces election …

Activist/author and former Clinton White House adviser David Mixner has posted five rules on political giving. 1. Do not contribute to Democratic party committees like the DNC, DSCC and DCCC. They will use the funds to not only elect our allies but also Blue Dog Democrats. Even if they set up a ‘special committee’ for us that will enable them …

Queens activist Brandon Brock directs us to this Facebook page urging support for LGBT ally and civil rights attorney Jeremiah Frei-Pearson (at left in photo) who is considering challenging anti-equality incumbent NY Sen. George Onorato in the 2010 primary. Today Jim Luce writes in the Huffington Post about Frei-Pearson: This fall I am adding my voice to the chorus that …

Yesterday the Empire State Pride Agenda announced their endorsement of NY Assemblyman Jose Peralta in his bid to unseat NY Sen. Hiram Monserrate, who stunned activists with his betrayal on marriage last week. But today we learn that Peralta may not be a squeaky-clean choice. Via NY Daily News: Queens Assemblyman Jose Peralta landed more than $500,000 in taxpayer money …