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Towleroad Election '09
Elections test US voters' mood: PHOTO
People in the US states of New Jersey and Virginia have been voting to choose New governors.
Texas Election Propositions Results: PHOTO
HOUSTON - All 11 Texas state constitutional amendments appeared headed for passage in early returns in Tuesday's election. Several of the amendments focused on property rights, including the last one on the ballot. Proposition 11 would limit the power of eminent domain, prohibiting the taking of private property strictly for the benefit of economic development. That amendment was being supported by nearly 80 per cent of the voters after 300,000 votes were counted. Amendments aimed at making...
East Haven mayor wins second term: PHOTO
East Haven (WTNH) - East Haven Mayor April Capone Almon, who had an arrest and an ethics complaint lodged weeks before the election, will hold onto her job for a second term. Republican challenger John Finkle conceded. "People have gone out of their way to support me," Mayor Capone Almon said. Finkle's campaign included an Internet ad which highlighted Mayor Capone Almon's controversial past year; some classified this as a negative campaign. "It's funny because when people say, 'well, your ads...
Coleman wins re-election as St. Paul mayor; instant runoff too close to call
ST. PAUL, MINN. — The mayor of St. Paul, Minn., has breezed to a second term. Chris Coleman's win Tuesday came just weeks after he ruled out a run for Governor, saying he wanted to focus on his duties at City Hall. Coleman, a Democrat, outpolled GOP businesswoman Eva Ng (ING) with 68 percent of the vote in unofficial results with 100 percent of precincts reporting. Ng had 26 percent. Minneapolis voters also were picking a new mayor. Incumbent Democrat R.T. Rybak was up against 10...
An upstate NY election takes on outsize importance: PHOTO
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Boston elects longtime Mayor Thomas Menino to a record 5th consecutive term: PHOTO
BOSTON — Boston Mayor Thomas Menino has won an unprecedented fifth consecutive four-year term. With 95 percent of precincts reporting, Menino had 57 percent of the vote to City Council President Michael Flaherty's 43 percent. Flaherty has conceded the election. Menino has already been in office for 16 1/2 years, longer than any in the city's history. History shows it's tough to unseat a Boston mayor. No incumbent has lost the seat in 60 years. The last one was James Michael Curley, who...
Election Results November 2009: 2009 November Elections Carry Big Implications
Election results November 2009 are important. The election results in November 2009 are 2009’s most important political event.
Hialeah mayor, council incumbents win easy election victories
!!BEGIN TAG!! m4 !!END TAG!! ( Story hiaelex0 ) ( Story #45699 ) The Hialeah City Council will remain the same after the mayor and two council members cruised past challengers in Tuesday's election. With almost all precincts reporting, Mayor Julio Robaina had captured 93 percent of the vote -- far more than enough to secure his position as the leader of Miami-Dade County's second-largest city for another four years. Robaina, who bested Dr. Santiago Cardenas, said now that relatively calm...
'An inspiration to anyone contemplating action in their community! And to every organizer!' -- By: Kathryn Jean Lopez: PHOTO
An NEA website recommends : Saul Alinski wrote the book on American radicalism - two books, in fact: a 1945 best-seller, "Reveille for Radicals" and "Rules for Radicals" in 1971. The "Reveille" title page quotes Thomas Paine... "Let them call me rebel and welcome, I feel no concern from it; but I should suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul." Saul Alinsky, who was a labor and Civil-rights activist from the 1910's until he died in 1972, has written here a guidebook for...
Polls Closed in New Jersey … Let the Counting Begin for Governors Race: Christie & Corzine
The polls have closed in the Garden State … will it be incumbent Jon Corzine or will Republican challenger Chris Christie win New Jersey’s Governorship? The last Rasmussen poll prior to the election had Christie with a 3% point lead over Corzine, 46% – 43% . CNN is stating that 6 in 10 NJ voters said in exit polling that President Barack Obama had no effect on their vote in this off-year gubernatorial election. It’s nice of CNN to provide cover for The One....
"I Feel So Pure In Heart:" Planned Parenthood Director Becomes Anti-Abortion Activist [Roe Vs. World]: PHOTO
Abby Johnson, former director of a Planned Parenthood in Bryan, Texas has left the organization because she claims it was pressuring her to increase revenue through more Abortions. Now she prays outside her former workplace with an anti-Abortion group.
The View : For Some, Abortion Is An Easy Decision [View Askew]: PHOTO
During Hot Topics this morning, the panel got into a heated debate over Abby Johnson, the Planned Parenthood director turned anti-Abortion activist. Elisabeth says that showing women images of Abortions could make reproductive decisions a little "easier".
Scott Roeder: Pro-Life Activist, Murderer, and Cartoon Plagiarist?: PHOTO
Scott Roeder, the man charged with killing Abortion provider George Tiller, is now accused of plagiarizing cartoons behind bars. blog post by Amanda Hess
Friend Bruce Vilanch “wasn't shocked” by Chaz Bono's sex change
The world may have been more than a little surprised when Chaz Bono announced that he was undergoing a sex change last summer, but the big news didn't faze the social activist's longtime pal Bruce Vilanch . “I wasn't shocked. He had been struggling for a long time with this. He was never comfortable as a woman,” comedian Bruce told In Touch at the amfAR and New Generation Films premiere of Oy Vey! My Son is Gay! in New York on October 29. The Hollywood Squares star knows that the...
MAINE, WASHINGTON, KAZOO, HOUSTON + NYC: Live Election Coverage
Post constantly updated with new data … DEVELOPING … MAINE THE ISSUE: Question 1. A No vote upholds same-sex marriage legislation. → Live stream of "No On 1" rally. → Live results updated here and here . → Gov. John Baldacci appearing on Rachel Maddow on 11pm EST hour. • With 18% of precincts reporting, the No effort leads 52-48%. • 45% of registered voters reportedly turned out (that's 426,304 of 942,825). • Polls closed at 8pm EST....
It's Official: Health Care Resistance Is About Abortion, Not Universal Coverage [Health Nuts]: PHOTO
Anti-Abortion activists believe that the sky is falling - and that haranguing lawmakers to spell out what's already established in the Hyde Amendment (which bans federal funding for Abortion) is the only way to prop it back up.
Black Broadcasting Network Presents, 'Raising Boys - Tips for Single Moms'
HOUSTON, Nov. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Black Broadcasting Network (BBN) will premiere its groundbreaking Documentary series "Raising Boys - Tips for Single Moms" at Houston's Angelika Theater, Thursday, November 5th. The four part opus focuses on the plight of inner-city single mothers and stars Houston-based activist, Deric Muhammad, a product of an urban single parent household himself. The premier starts at 7pm CT. "I believe that much of the youth violence that has spiraled out of control in...
Streaming video: ETV governor's debate (8 p.m.)
Ten South Carolina gubernatorial candidates, five Republicans and five Democrats, are scheduled to gather this evening at Orangeburg-Calhoun Technical College for a joint debate exactly one full year before the 2010 election. Below, you can view streaming video of the taped event provided by S.C. Educational Television. The stream is scheduled to be available from 8 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. It also is being streamed online from a page on ETV's Web site . The debate is being hosted by the S.C. Natural...
CBS Paints Pro-Traditional Marriage Petitioners as 'Anti-Gay Rights': PHOTO
"Should Anti-Gay Rights Petition Signers Be Exposed?" asked a teaser headline [screencap shown at right] on CBSNews.com's front page. "Hot Topic: Battle Rages in Washington State over Privacy of Petition Signers" the subheader read.
Obama Is Minimal Factor in NJ, Va., Exit Polls Show
President Obama seems to have been a minimal factor in gubernatorial Elections in New Jersey and Virginia, at least according to early exit polls. In Virginia, where Republican Bob McDonnell won, 55% said Obama wasn’t behind their vote; that figure was 60% in New Jersey, where the race was too close to call an hour after polls closed, CBS News reports.
"Rosie Radio" premieres today: PHOTO
Rosie O'Donnell's resume reads like a variety show
The Associated Press: Stakes are high in Maine's vote on gay marriage
PORTLAND, Maine — Bolstered by out-of-state money and volunteers, both sides jockeyed Monday to boost turnout for a Maine referendum that could give Gay-rights activists in the U.S. their first victory at the ballot box on the deeply divisive issue of same-sex Marriage. The state's voters will decide Tuesday whether to repeal a law that would allow Gay Marriage. The law was passed by the Legislature and signed by Democratic Gov. John Baldacci last May but has never taken effect. The...
Sunrise book review: Celebrity chef's biographies: PHOTO
One was the quirky American who mastered French cuisine, the other one of the original Two Fat Ladies , who delighted British audiences while terrorising vegetarians, Animal Rights activists and Tony Blair. Julia Child and Clarissa Dickson Wright are two of television's most eccentric and beloved chefs. So do their biographies prove as entertaining as their larger-than-life personas? Sunrise bookworm Gail Woodward has read them and shares her opinion. Watch the video....
In Battle For the Republican Party, It's Game On: PHOTO
(CBS) Even before today's Elections got underway, there's been non-stop gabbing about conservative activists gaining ground within the Republican Party. With Rush Limbaugh and Sarah Palin urging on their supporters, some are even suggesting this might be the moment where conservatives finally elbow aside-if not purge- the moderates from the party. Rightly or not, it seems nearly everyone is taking their cue from the New York's 23rd congressional race where pollsters say Doug Hoffman now leads...
