Tom Foley, candidate for governor of Connecticut, scheduled a campaign stop/press conference at the gate of a doomed paper mill hoping to spotlight the failed economic policies of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy. However, things quickly became ugly when First Selectwoman Cathy Osten, a Democratic state senator and Malloy supporter, confronted Foley, along with soon-to-be unemployed […]
According to Richard Viguerie, the Tea Party is winning something much more important than elections. It is winning the heart of the Republican Party. Dubbed the “funding father”[1] of modern conservative strategy in the United States by some sources, Viguerie claims that the number one goal of the Tea Party is not winning elections, […]
Michele Bachmann is scheduled to retire from Congress at the end of her current term but has not ruled out running for president in 2016. In a Tuesday interview with RealClearPolitics (RCP), Bachmann was asked whether she expected any Republican women to campaign for the presidency in 2016. “The only thing that the media has […]
The Republican National Committee announced last Tuesday that the 2016 GOP convention will be held in Cleveland sometime in late June or mid July. As Bloomberg reported last week, “the GOP’s site selection committee has recommended June 28 or July 18, and RNC chairman Reince Priebus is said to prefer June.” Strategists and news commentators, […]
A judge in Florida ruled on Thursday that two voting districts must be redrawn to accommodate state law, finding that they were so gerrymandered that they made a mockery of the state’s new law. Florida voters passed a law in 2010 requiring that districts be drawn without any partisan advantage, and as the Tampa Bay […]