And while we may have to deal with media-supportedabortion shaming and the clinic violencethat is a consequence, and someridiculous gubernatorial shenanigansandblatant sexism in our legislature, at least, unlike North Carolina, we don’t have tosend the forced ultrasoundspatients get to lawmakers. ...
Whataboutism goes by many labels. The classic Latin term is “tu quoque,” meaning “you also,” but English has more colorful ways of expressing the idea: “The pot calling the kettle black.”“People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.”“So’s your old man.” In the...
99 However, the Governor is under no obligation to seek such a recommendation.1007.6. Can a federal felon get a California Governor’s Pardon?If you are a federal felon or have been convicted under the laws of a state other than California, you are ineligible for a gubernatorial pardon.101...
Reaction of Davis to the campaigns of political candidates Cruz Bustamante and Arnold Schwarzenegger; Criticism of a proposal by gubernatorial candidate Arnold Schwarzenegger to improve the economy of Califor...
Opposition from ranchers was such that it is believed to have played a role in the defeat of incumbent Democrat Ann Richards to Republican George W. Bush in the gubernatorial election of 1994 (in spite of a promise by USFWS not to designate any Critical Habitat in a forlorn attempt to ...
wasanAmericanpoliticianandacademicwhoservedasthe28thPresidentoftheUnitedStatesfrom1913to1921.BornandraisedinVirginia,WilsonearnedaPhDinpoliticalscience,workingasaprofessorandscholaratvariousinstitutionsbeforebeingchosenasPresidentofPrincetonUniversity,whereheworkedfrom1902to1910.Intheelectionof1910,hewasthegubernatorial...
This paper argues that biodiversity should be understood as a normative concept constrained by a set of adequacy conditions that reflect scientific explications of diversity. That there is a normative aspect to biodiversity has long been recognized by en
“three people in the room” who ultimately make the big decisions in state politics, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Stewart-Cousins both have supermajorities, a first for Democrats in the state Senate. In theory, two-thirds of each chamber can override a gubernatorial veto. In...
status quo outside of them. (Thankfully, urban voters here in Kansas were essential to defeating a gubernatorial candidate who hadbuilt much of his career around attempting just that.) It may well be that the participatory ideas of democratic activists like Hayden never really truly engaged with...
Republicans in the North Carolinalegislature “approved a campaign finance proposal that changes how funds flow to state parties and the reporting requirements attached to that money,”Liz Crampton writes. The move could be a major boost for controversial Lt. Gov.MARK ROBINSON’Sgubernatorial campaign...