I don’t really know what to say about the Wisconsin thing except it seems to originate with this piece by Greg Sargent. I’ll just give you what I’ve read and then my opinion: Top Wisconsin Democrats are furious with the national party — and the Democratic National Committee in particular — for refusing their request …
Sometimes what gets lost is…women
This study didn’t get a lot of play, but I think it’s important for people to know: More than one-third of obstetrician-gynecologists at religiously-affiliated hospitals say they’ve had a conflict with their institution about patient care policies based on religious tenets — including over half of ob-gyns at Catholic hospitals, according to a new survey. …
Collecting coin
Good news for Sherrod Brown: Large campaign contributions from a Northern Ohio businessman and his employees to U.S. Rep. Jim Renacci and U.S. Senate candidate Josh Mandel have prompted a federal investigation, the campaigns confirmed Monday. The probe is centered around more than $200,000 in campaign contributions from employees at the Suarez Corporation, a Canton-based …
Some extremely minor news that you should probably ignore, because it’s a “distraction”
Don’t tread on them: Twenty-two states and the District of Columbia are backing Montana in its fight to prevent the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United decision from being used to strike down state laws restricting corporate campaign spending. The Supreme Court is being asked to reverse a state court’s decision to uphold the Montana …
Time to resign, buddy
This guy is an election official: The man in charge of running Arizona’s elections has gone to the birthers. Secretary of State Ken Bennett now says he’s not convinced Barack Obama was really born in the United States and so he is threatening to keep the president off the ballot in November. Bennett’s comments came …
Consulting
I got interested in election law and process not because I’m a lawyer, but because I was a poll worker. I went from reading the rules that are handed out to poll workers to reading the Ohio statutes that the rules are based on. From there it was sort of a slippery slope to reading …
If it’s Obama’s job to explain Bain, they can’t complain
I’ll start with what the Obama campaign looks like on the ground in Ohio today, on Bain: President Obama’s re-election campaign pressed its attack on Mitt Romney as a cold-hearted capitalist Tuesday by saying that he helped drive into bankruptcy a chain of department stores that used to be located in 26 Ohio cities, including …
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