The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) lost in its bid for a preliminary injunctions to prevent disclosure of its donors in two New England states on Thursday when an appeals court rejected their requests. NOM argued that Rhode Island’s campaign finance laws that require disclosure of donors in independent expenditure More…
The National Organization for Marriage is fighting off legislative efforts by Rhode Island and New York assemblies to offer rights to same-sex couples. Fact-checkers have rated elements of NOM’s ads in New York false, and NOM’s public statements in Rhode Island were rated so false, Politfact gave them a “Pant More…
The Washington Post reports that Maryland is poised to legalize same-sex marriage, possibly in the next few weeks. A bill on the Senate floor, SB 116 (PDF), would revise Maryland’s marriage code, changing the phrase, “Only a marriage between a man and a woman is valid in this State” More…
A lot of pundits have drawn comparisons between the current midterm election cycle and the GOP wave year of 1994, but the University of Minnesota’s politics blog argues that an equally apt comparison could be made with the year 1934:
While self-identified Republicans may enjoy an enthusiasm gap over
Voters won’t only get the opportunity to elect a new Congress in exactly three weeks — in 36 states, they’ll also get to decide the fate of 155 ballot propositions on a wide-ranging series of topics, from increasing a state’s sales tax to reducing its carbon emissions. And while there’s More…
The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) has been doing a lot of political work on behalf of GOP Senate candidate Carly Fiorina in California. They helped sponsor a bus tour through the state to draw Latino voters to conservative causes in general, and Fiorina’s race against Sen. Barbara More…
U.S. District Judge Mary Lisi held an in-chambers conference on NOM’s lawsuit against the Rhode Island Board of Elections today. (That’s lawyer-speak for a hearing on scheduling a hearing for the case.) The basic issue is this: NOM hopes to run political ads on behalf of Rhode Island gubernatorial More…
The National Organization for Marriage is at it again, this time suing Rhode Island’s Board of Elections for the right to run TV ads in the state’s gubernatorial race without complying with the disclosure requirements or spending limits that are currently state law:
The heads of the Governors’ Wind Energy Coalition — Govs. Chet Culver (D-Iowa) and Don Carcieri (R-R.I.) — today sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) calling for passage this year of a “strong” renewable energy standard.
Good data from Veronique de Rugy at the National Review:
[Nevada] has a 14.3 percent unemployment rate, the highest in the country, and it has so far received $561.55 per person in stimulus funds. That’s a little more than half of the average stimulus per person received by the state
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