John Lysak, former Vice-Chair of the Massachusetts Federation of Young Republicans recently won his race to be a Ward Councilor in Springfield. His margin of victory was narrow enough that his opponent had the ability to ask for a recount, and has done so. I just received this [...] This whole post by Devilstower over at Dailykos sums it up just perfectly. A taste:
Until recently, this boom-bust “business cycle” was kept in check by some measure of pragmatism. But a funny thing happened in the 1980s. As unrepentant conservatives took their fantasy of pure capitalism out of textbooks [...]
In my article in this week's Boston Phoenix, I make note that during the 2008 Presidential election cycle, I heard repeatedly -- from Democrats, Republicans and Independents -- about how frustrated and fed-up they were with the US Congress. In their view, Washington had become impotent to address the country's big, serious problems, because the [...]
Raymond Luc Levasseur is a convicted terror bomber and radical leader of United Freedom Front, a violent anti-government group [...]
In the week or so since I posted at length about the meager outlook for women Republicans in elected office, I have some updates that seem to show the problem only worsening.
First of all, as you probably know, DeDe Scozzafava was chased out of the race and, one assumes, out of the party altogether. [...]
Republicans opposed to the bill on the House Ways and Mean Committee said they received confirmation from the congressional Joint Committee on Taxation Friday that the Pelosi/House Democratic bill would penalize Americans [...]
The Senate unanimously passed a comprehensive veterans assistance bill yesterday, less than 24 hours after the House approved a similar version. Among the provisions included in the bill: the creation of a Medal of Liberty for families of service members killed in the line of duty; [...] In yesterday's City Council and Mayoral election, there didn't seem to be any Republicans' [...]
According to Yahoo and Fox News, Republicans have won the odd-year gubernatorial elections in Virginia and New Jersey.
In Virginia, where governors are limited to a single 4-year term, Bob McDonnell has defeated Democrat Creigh Deeds by 59% to 41%. Republicans also won the races for Lieutenant Governor and [...]
Agawam: Bob Magovern is running for City Council
Chicopee: Adam Lamontagne is running for School [...]
It was reported earlier today, here and here, that the machine-picked liberal Republican candidate whose poor polling -– and lack of support from Republicans -- led to her withdrawal from the race threw her support to the Democrat instead of to the Republican who challenged her – Doug [...]
Yesterday, Governor Patrick filed legislation to address Fiscal Year 2010’s budget deficit. Included in the legislation is a measure near and dear to the Senate Republicans’ hearts – the elimination of the Suffolk County holidays of Evacuation Day and Bunker Hill Day.After looking at the chances for Republicans to add elected women governors and Senators in the 2010 election cycle, let's turn to the US House of Representatives.
There are now just 17 Republican women in the House, out of 177 -- down from 25 three years ago.
One of those 17 is [...]
We will be holding a LIVE phone bank from 1pm-5pm this Saturday, October 31 from 1pm - 5pm and then going out afterwards for some Halloween fun. The phone bank will [...]
The Dems are the fast road to Socialism and the Republicans are the slow road to Socialism.
Many people say this, but heard most recently from my son and one of my daughters (the Ron Paul one at Kenyon - not the McCain one in NYC). We observed during our drives [...]
Barack Obama's victory last year left many Republicans bemoaning their party's ineptitude when it came to political exploitation of the Web. Democrats, they admitted, were far ahead in the art of using the Internet to seduce voters.
So Connecticut Republicans decided it was time [...]
