Sen. Nicole Mitchell says she won’t resign, though many others charged with serious crimes eventually have At least one Minnesota lawmaker has resigned as part of a plea bargain in the past, though that case was related to state money. 05/3/2024 - 1:07 pm | View Link
GOP leaders praise UT Austin’s Jay Hartzell as university presidents take heat over protest response “President [Hartzell] is exactly the right man at the right time to lead our state’s flagship university,” said state Rep. Jeff Leach, R-Plano, in a social media post that derided the hundreds of ... 05/3/2024 - 7:11 am | View Link
A D.A. Was Caught Speeding. Her Outburst Earned Her More Than a Ticket. Sandra Doorley, the district attorney of Monroe County, N.Y., refused to pull over and responded angrily to the officer who confronted her, body camera footage showed. Now she faces calls to resign. 04/29/2024 - 7:44 am | View Link
Former Arizona state Dem lawmaker gets a year in prison for sexual misconduct with a minor A former Democratic state senator in Arizona was sentenced to a year in prison after a jury convicted him of sexual misconduct with a minor in February. 04/28/2024 - 2:41 pm | View Link
Senator’s arrest delays votes, but DFL should keep majority despite Republican ethics probe push Republican Minnesota senators on Wednesday unsuccessfully pushed to speed up an ethics investigation and expulsion of a Democratic-Farmer-Labor senator facing a felony burglary charge. But for now, it ... 04/24/2024 - 12:46 pm | View Link
After it emerged recently that Gov. Kristi Noem recounts a graphic, disturbing story in her forthcoming book about killing her puppy with a gun, the Republican from South Dakota defended the violence as a “tough decision” she had to make. The dog, she wrote, had attacked some chickens.
“I talk about it because what I’m tired of in this country is politicians who pretend to be something that they’re not,” Noem said on CBS’s Face the Nation today.
That tough talk aside, Noem apparently is not immune to such posing: It has now also emerged that she falsely claimed in her book to have met North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un.
By STEVE PEOPLES and ZEKE MILLER (Associated Press)
WILMINGTON, N. C. (AP) — This North Carolina voter is nervous.
Will Rikard, a 49-year-old father of two, was among several hundred Democrats who stood and cheered for Joe Biden as the first-term president delivered a fiery speech recently about the billions of dollars he has delivered to protect the state’s drinking water.
But afterward, the Wilmington resident acknowledged he is worried about Biden’s political standing in the looming rematch with former Republican President Donald Trump.
“There’s not enough energy,” Rikard said of Biden’s coalition.
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According to a whistleblower, Pentagon personnel were complicit in ensuring that the January 6 protests were out of control. This is court-martial stuff.