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Mayor

Why Republican Andy Rougeot has a real chance in Denver’s mayor race

Andy Rougeot. Photo: Courtesy of campaign Andre “Andy” Rougeot is the odd duck in the Denver mayor’s race. What’s happening: He’s running as a law-and-order, less-government Republican in the state’s Democratic epicenter, where the conversation is focused on how the city is overhauling police and boosting the social safety net. Yes, but: The 34-year-old former […]

Alaska

Why it takes California so long to count election ballots as House control hangs in the balance | #alaska | #politics

CNN — The $122 million-dollar Los Angeles mayor’s race between US Rep. Karen Bass and real estate magnate Rick Caruso is still too close to call, along with six House races in California that could determine the balance of power in Washington, raising a perennial question: Why does it take California so long to count […]

Mayor

Popular Istanbul mayor on trial, could face political ban

ISTANBUL — A prosecutor on Friday repeated a demand for Istanbul’s mayor to be convicted on charges of insulting members of Turkey’s Supreme Electoral Council, during the third hearing of a trial critics allege is an attempt to remove a key opponent of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan from the political scene. Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, a […]

Alabama

Judge dismisses GOP lawsuit over Milwaukee records | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — An open records lawsuit filed against Milwaukee officials by the Republican Party of Wisconsin has been dismissed after the party said it received what it had requested. Republicans were seeking records from the Milwaukee Election Commission and mayor’s office related to a get-out-the-vote campaign that conservatives labeled an illegal attempt at […]

Alabama

Conspiracies complicate voting machine debate in Louisiana | #elections | #alabama

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The need for Louisiana to replace its voting machines is not in dispute. They are badly outdated — deployed in 2006, the year after Hurricane Katrina struck — and do not produce paper ballots that are critical to ensuring election results are accurate. What to do about them is another […]

Alabama

Alabama runoff features GOP contest for secretary of state | State | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP

The party nominations for five statewide offices including secretary of state on the Republican side and governor on the Democratic ticket are on the ballot in Tuesday’s primary runoff election in Alabama. Polls close at 7 p.m. Central time in most locations, but polls will stay open until 7:45 p.m. in Montgomery County after a […]

Mayor

Mayor of Washington, DC, faces formidable primary challenge

WASHINGTON — Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser faced a formidable fight for a third term, challenged in Tuesday’s Democratic primary by two council members in a race dominated by crime and public safety issues. During Bowser’s tumultuous second term, she clashed with former President Donald Trump and walked a public tightrope between her own police […]

Alabama

Election runoffs: What to watch for Tuesday in Alabama and beyond | State News | #elections | #alabama

By KIMBERLY CHANDLER – Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The two Republican candidates in Alabama’s U.S. Senate primary runoff on Tuesday can each boast that at one point they had Donald Trump’s endorsement in the race. Trump first backed U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks in the spring of 2021. That endorsement stood for nearly a […]

City Council

Op-Ed | Is South Pasadena’s City Council Deliberately Deceiving the Public? | The South Pasadenan | #citycouncil

Full disclosure. I am the author of the Betta Report, a 56-page expose and pedagogy connecting the dots on the South Pasadena City Council’s financial mismanagement. Published in June 2020, the Betta Report devastated a carefully crafted façade of municipal virtue. Only days later, South Pasadena financial experts Sheila and Steve Rossi proved that the […]