“How is this not blackmail?” said Scott Randolph, the Orange County tax collector. “Why would a business want to invest in Florida when the entire rules can change in 72 hours? To me this sends a scary message about the business environment in Florida.” Randy Fine, the Republican legislator who […]
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Trial starts for former Indiana GOP Senator in straw donor scheme
UPDATE: As part of a plea deal, casino executive and former state lawmaker John Keeler pleaded guilty this morning to one count of filing a false tax return in connection with a scheme to secretly funnel casino cash to a Marion County Republican Party PAC. Read the latest here. The trial […]
Is Trump’s hold on the GOP waning? We’re about to find out.
A former president who famously claimed he would win so much that his followers would be “sick and tired of winning” faces the prospect of something new within normally friendly terrain: a losing streak. Starting next month, in states from Georgia and North Carolina to Arizona and Alaska, former President […]
DePerno accuses GOP AG opponent Leonard of legal ethics violation
Republican attorney general candidate Matthew DePerno wants GOP opponent and former House Speaker Tom Leonard fired from his private law job, suggesting Leonard accessed privileged information DePerno provided to the firm as a client and used it for political ammunition. Leonard has denied the accusations, repeatedly calling them baseless and “a little […]
GOP Indiana Governor Vetoes Transgender Girls Sports Ban | Political News
By TOM DAVIES, Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana’s governor on Monday vetoed a bill banning transgender females from participating in girls school sports. Opponents of the transgender sports bill argued it was a bigoted response to a problem that doesn’t exist, with the American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana […]
Georgia primary poses major test for Trump’s drive to remake the GOP
WASHINGTON — If it’s Thursday … A Russian airstrike on a maternity hospital kills at least three Ukrainians. … Vice President Harris faces a diplomatic test in Poland. … President Biden meets at the White House with Colombia’s president, and then addresses the DNC. … The House passes government spending […]
Fringe Scheme to Reverse 2020 Election Splits Wisconsin G.O.P.
MADISON, Wis. — First, Wisconsin Republicans ordered an audit of the 2020 election. Then they passed a raft of new restrictions on voting. And in June, they authorized the nation’s only special counsel investigation into 2020. Now, more than 15 months after former President Donald J. Trump lost the state […]
Judges uphold North Carolina’s new congressional map in win for GOP
A panel of North Carolina judges upheld the state’s new congressional map on Tuesday, rejecting claims from Democratic voters and advocacy groups that the redrawn district lines illegally favor Republicans. The decision, which will be appealed, could have an outsized impact on the 2022 midterm elections in November, when control […]
The Good News for the GOP Is Only Temporary
But the Republican Party has done more to alienate young, college-educated voters in recent years than ever before. A nationwide poll fielded in late September by College Pulse of more than 1,500 students at 285 different colleges and universities shows that nearly three-quarters of college-age voters do not think the […]
‘Potemkin jobs’: GOP has no love for Civilian Climate Corps
Years before Joe Biden’s presidential candidacy was even a topic of watercooler chatter, congressional Democrats were introducing, without much fanfare, various legislative proposals to establish jobs programs to fight the effects of climate change and revitalize public lands. But now, after Biden’s endorsement of one such framework and its inclusion […]