//www.reuters.com/article/2015/02/25/us-usa-politics-chicago-idUSKBN0LS1B420150225">headed for a run-off between Mayor Rahm Emanuel and challenger Cook County Commissioner Chuy Garcia on April 7. Specifically, I wanted to see where in the city the support for each candidate was, and at ...
Since 2004, Republicans have held a 4-2 advantage among Orange County’s directly-elected mayors: Anaheim: Tom Tait (since 2010), Curt Pringle (2002-2010) Garden Grove: Bill Dalton (2004-2012) Orange: Carolyn Cavecche (2006-2012), Mark Murphy (2000-2006) Westminster: Margie Rice (Republi...
with Senator Nicholas Scutari of Union County being sworn in as the Senate President and Senator Teresa Ruiz of Essex County becoming the Senate Majority Leader. Senator Sandra Cunningham of Hudson County remains the Senate President Pro Tempore. Senator Steven Oroho of Sussex County is now the Re...
aroused the mob spirit and the Mormons were driven from Jackson County into Clay County. Smith started from Kirtland with an "Army of Zion" which was soon ignominiously broken up by disease which Smith's promised miraculous power failed to cure. Peace lasted for about three years after this ...
but what is known is that the Mafia claimed to have influenced the vote in Cook County (Chicago) in Kennedy's favor. In Texas, Lyndon Johnson's political machine was known to be as corrupt as the day is long (see Robert Caro's definitive account of how Johnson won elections:Means of ...
The student was younger than Hyde-Smith, and though she knew of her, she said she was too young to have any sort of relationship with the future politician. Lawrence County Academy shut down in the late 1980s due to dwindling attendance—one of the now-defunct early schools that sprang up...
The primary elections were held beginning in March 1928: the Republicans held 15, the Democrats 16. Herbert Hoover, secretary of commerce under both Coolidge and his predecessor,Warren G. Harding, was widely considered the favorite of the Republicancontenders. He was a Protestant who expressed some...