Typically, constitutional amendments require a three-fifths vote in the statehouse — and Republicans have enough votes in the statehouse to block that.
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Whether Democrats can regain the statehouse, redraw Virginia's congressional districts, and fulfill one of Obamacare's promises will depend on dozens of below-the-radar statehouse races.
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Rhode Island's Statehouse is full of drunk legislators doing shots says a newly elected lawmaker Rhode Island's Statehouse is full of drunk legislators doing shots says a newly elected lawmaker The Rhode Island Statehouse is full of drunk legislators doing shots inside the capitol, newly elected Providence Democratic Rep.
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The importance of these statehouse races was underscored this summer, when former President Barack Obama took the unusual step of endorsing dozens of Democratic candidates for statehouse across the country.
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Other panelists will include Anna Eskamani, a candidate for the Florida statehouse; Katie Muth, a candidate for the Pennsylvania state Senate; and Myya Jones, a candidate for the Michigan statehouse.
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The Confederate flag wouldn't elicit such outrage if that flag didn't fly on statehouse lawns and in statehouse buildings and in other public spaces for so many decades, even into the 21st century.
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Take your concerns to the statehouse through phone or email.
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Not only could it move the Statehouse to the left.
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Hurst on Tuesday won a seat in the Virginia statehouse.
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Unfortunately, each unhappy statehouse is unhappy in its own way.
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The president summoned her for more meetings at the statehouse.
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On Friday, she was striking alone outside the Indiana statehouse.
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Daily Kos doesn't expect the statehouse to change hands today.
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Statehouse news conferences were replaced with bridge-free sports radio interviews.
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Dozens of protesters rallied for his resignation Saturday outside the Statehouse.
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Nevertheless, his time in the Indiana statehouse has come under fire.
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Michael Madigan, speaker of the statehouse, has long done something similar.
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Democrats flipped, giving Republicans a super-majority in the statehouse, known
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Clementa Pickney was attending the address in the South Carolina statehouse.
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The complaints have emerged as Springleaf presses its statehouse lobbying campaign.
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A poster on display at the West Virginia statehouse comparing Rep.
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In Idaho, there's a Christmas tree in front of the statehouse.
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Abrams, 44, previously served as the minority leader in Georgia's Statehouse.
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Andrew M. Cuomo, whose Albany statehouse office is in Troy's backyard.
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Virginia's statehouse is only on the ballot in odd-numbered years.
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Democrats have not held the statehouse in New Mexico since 2010.
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There were also tense moments at the Statehouse in Tallahassee, Fla.
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What is your chief priority, once you get to the statehouse?
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She reserved parts of the Statehouse for prayer meetings and rallies.
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I [covered] a Republican primary for one of the statehouse seats.
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But it's again moving through the statehouse, now under Democratic Gov.
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The legislation sailed through the statehouse and into law on February 17th.
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He remains the leader of the Independent Democratic Conference in the statehouse.
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At the Ohio Statehouse, however, Mr. Kasich could be impetuous and unforgiving.
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Then, a slew of local races — everything from Statehouse to school board.
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Virginia Democrats won a statehouse seat on Tuesday by just one vote.
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Kaufman also records some statehouse animosities that make Washington seem downright civil.
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Rodríguez, a Cuban-American lawyer, has served in Florida's statehouse since 2012.
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The balance of power inside the Virginia statehouse stays with the GOP.
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From the nation's capital to the South Carolina Statehouse to the Rev.
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Louis, noting that a few individual statehouse districts might see some effect.
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Eric Holcomb and Statehouse GOP leaders last week called on Hill to resign.
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"That's a record for a first-time statehouse candidate in Ohio," he said.
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Nikki Haley signed a bill removing the flag from the Statehouse grounds permanently.
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Any tie in the statehouse would be broken by the Democratic lieutenant Governor.
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He's a Cuban-American lawyer and has served in Florida's Statehouse since 2012.
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Meanwhile, Trotter organized mass protests at local theatres, city hall, and the statehouse.
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Dennis Ross, who served in the Florida statehouse when Rubio was Speaker there.
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It's very consistent with the way I ran our chamber in the statehouse.
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After the shooting, we went to the statehouse and talked to our legislators.
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Both Hurst and Yost spent more than $1 million on their statehouse campaigns.
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Mr. Rubio began his career in the Florida Statehouse, where he became speaker.
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The Confederate battle flag flew over the Statehouse in Columbia during his term.
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He pointed to four Statehouse seats that Democrats flipped in Iowa in 2018.
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Whether they're on Capitol Hill or at the statehouse, politicians are on notice.
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Now, with his statehouse days dwindling down, he is slouching toward the exit.
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That's in part because voter opinion polls are rarely commissioned for individual statehouse races.
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It's that lesser-known, small-time statehouse candidates simply can't take advantage of them.
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Among the Democratic victors for the statehouse was Danica Roem, America's first transgender legislator.
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Democrats have a supermajority in the statehouse, limiting what any Republican governor can do.
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Despite their statehouse gains, Democrats lost high-profile governor's races in Florida and Ohio.
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Kasich, whose stump speech touts his 18 years in Congress and current statehouse tenure.
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Bruce Rauner against a statehouse controlled by Democrats, each with sharply divergent budget priorities.
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Kate Havard was a reporting intern at the Washington Post covering the Maryland statehouse.
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Both statehouse coverage and video game writing have very few women in prominent roles.
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Few statehouse observers believe that lawmakers will amend the Constitution in the allotted time.
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He also said that he had seen Ms. Jallow at the statehouse at night.
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Another divided statehouse: The Senate is evenly split, 2135-2150, with one vacant seat.
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In keeping with a long tradition of defying common sense, statehouse legislators said no.
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In Texas, where Republicans are fighting to maintain their grip on the statehouse, Gov.
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"[Bucci] should come to the statehouse and listen to the victims' testimony," she said.
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Thousands turned out for victory parades to the Statehouse when the team returned home.
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Nikki Haley (R) to sign legislation to remove the Confederate flag from statehouse grounds.
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Sanford made the surprise announcement at a news conference outside the New Hampshire statehouse.
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Later in the year the Republican-controlled statehouse made it law, with some changes.
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Earlier this session, they left the statehouse rather than vote on a school funding package.
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MarShawn McCarrel, 23, fatally shot himself on the steps of the Ohio statehouse on Monday.
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Cynthia Lummis, who is not running for re-election, and former statehouse Speaker Colin Simpson.
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Monica Acosta speaks at the statehouse in Denver following the announcement that DACA would end.
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The #OhioHandmaids are in the Ohio Statehouse to protest to #StopTheBans on abortion rights. pic.twitter.
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The AP notes that Virginia's statehouse, which is also contending with blackface scandals involving Gov.
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Nikki Haley called for the flag to be removed from the statehouse grounds in Columbia.
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Would she have voted for Haley's legislation to bring down the flag at the Statehouse?
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After the shooting, South Carolina lawmakers voted to remove the Confederate flag from statehouse grounds.
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Unions can exercise a disproportionate influence on candidate selection, particularly in House and statehouse races.
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Ralph Norman, statehouse Speaker Pro Tempore Tommy Pope, and former state GOP chairman Chad Connelly.
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In addition to sitting in the statehouse, Mr Miccarelli is a member of the parish.
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He has also been at the forefront on climate change legislation at the California statehouse.
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But Ms. Lundy is not a lawmaker, a government employee or even a statehouse intern.
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It is not currently known when lawmakers plan to return to the statehouse for votes.
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The Hill has reached out to statehouse officials to confirm whether the building remained closed.
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Chris Dodd spoke from the same stage on the steps of the South Carolina statehouse.
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I fought in the courts and in the statehouse because for me, mobility is freedom.
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Every year, Idaho's state Christmas tree is lit in front of the statehouse in Boise.
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Republicans lost every statewide race in the midterms, but maintained slim majorities in the statehouse.
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The battle flag was removed from the South Carolina statehouse ground shortly after the shooting.
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Critics of the measures say they amount to a continuing power grab by statehouse Republicans.
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You spent a literal fortune on your race, including $7 million bankrolling Democratic Statehouse races.
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One after another, they took the mic on the sun-baked plaza by the Statehouse.
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But the green wave in the Nevada statehouse was not without a couple of losses.
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Mike DeWine speaks at a news conference at the statehouse in Columbus, Ohio, March 22014.
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In Ohio's statehouse they sat, heads bowed, as lawmakers discussed banning a common abortion procedure.
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Perched in his statehouse office last week, Mr. Sununu was more diplomatic in his assessment.
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Mr. Pence signed the bill and slipped out of the statehouse without taking any questions.
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The dome of New Jersey's statehouse in Trenton can be seen on its driver's licenses.
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The firm lobbies at the Statehouse and governor's office on health care and energy issues.
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Unlike Louisiana, there were no partisan overtones; the Republicans control the statehouse and the governor's office.
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The rampage ultimately led to the removal of a Confederate flag from the statehouse in Columbia.
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The protests stayed peaceful as the two groups converged on the statehouse on a hot morning.
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Bill Seitz, who made comments a female employee felt had trivialized another statehouse sex harassment scandal.
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Nardi says they're planning to protest in Richmond, where they'll march to the statehouse in Virginia.
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" Outside the Ohio statehouse in Columbus, protesters chanted "No hate, no fear, refugees are welcome here.
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Nikki Haley removed a Confederate battle flag that had flown for years on the Statehouse lawn.
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In 2012, Oklahoma installed a six-foot tall statue of the Ten Commandments outside the Statehouse.
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The narrowing partisan arithmetic is repeated on the other side of the Thomas Jefferson-designed statehouse.
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John Rogers, D-Birmingham, speaks during the House session at the Alabama Statehouse in Montgomery, Ala.
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There are legislative proposals in the statehouse that could make the market work a little better.
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Nikki Haley at the July 2015 bill signing that removed the Confederate flag from Statehouse grounds.
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Noah Bryant Ballard is a Baton Rouge-based political operative and former Statehouse reporter in Louisiana.
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He covered the Kent State shootings by National Guardsmen and is a fixture around the Statehouse.
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"At the statehouse, the solidarity I felt, the energy was so high and intense," he said.
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The bill came before the Oregon statehouse and was ultimately passed after prodding from student activists.
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"It's not going to be pleasant," said Senator Whitmire, a Democrat in the statehouse since 1973.
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Statehouse politics are never easy, as Lincoln learned firsthand in his service in the Springfield capitol.
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She was then summoned to the statehouse where she claims the president, Yahya Jammeh, raped her.
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Some of those events include a rally outside Alaska's statehouse and a rally in Milwaukee, Wis.
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Protesters have been gathering outside the statehouse in Boston to voice their concern about the ban.
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But some of the statehouse advice has plainly started to grate on Republican members of Congress.
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Pence will then attend a ceremony to unveil the official governor's portrait at the Indiana statehouse.
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Sheriffs boost their budgets by hiring out inmates as cafeteria workers at the statehouse, for instance.
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Ohio's statehouse legislators have a penchant for theatrics, and Thursday's hours-long vote was no exception.
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Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey testifies before a legislative panel hearing at the Massachusetts Statehouse Tuesday, Feb.
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Protesters gathered in the outdoor rotunda near the statehouse, carrying signs and making speeches against the legislation.
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FOX NEWS MIDTERM ELECTIONS HEADQUARTERS Sanford left the statehouse and later won his congressional seat in 2013.
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"Both Stacey and Connie have decades of experience getting things done in the statehouse," the group said.
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There's no one there [at the statehouse] who understands schools, the plight of teachers, the whole situation.
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Bocanegra's resignation came a day before the California statehouse is scheduled to begin hearings on sexual harassment.
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We had nobody above that level, we had nobody in the statehouse, we had no statewide electeds.
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After one term in the Texas Statehouse, Toth lost a bid for the state Senate in 2014.
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Tulsi Gabbard, of Hawaii, speaks to reporters outside the New Hampshire Statehouse, in Concord, N.H., Tuesday, Nov.
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Demonstrators on both sides of the issue protested outside the Ohio statehouse on Thursday, according to WOSU.
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In 1838 he entered a competition and won a prize for his design for the Ohio Statehouse.
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He appeared at the Statehouse in Columbus and at the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton.
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In 2015, he defended the placement of a monument to the Ten Commandments on the statehouse grounds.
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New Mexico's Hunger-Free Students' Bill of Rights Act was ushered through the Statehouse by Democratic Sen.
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Two weeks later, women in the California Statehouse began making public their own experiences with sexual harassment.
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Meanwhile, several bills, some restricting access to guns and some expanding it, are pending in the Statehouse.
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Ms. Jallow said that a driver working for the president drove her to and from the statehouse.
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Democrats this summer won several statehouse special selections in Republican-held districts around Tulsa and Oklahoma City.
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The shooting rampage ultimately led to the removal of a Confederate flag from the statehouse in Columbia.
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Ms. Whitmer, the former state Democratic Senate leader, leaned on her statehouse connections early in the race.
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Democrats have won several statehouse special elections in Republican-held districts mostly around Tulsa and Oklahoma City.
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The top Everytown goal is to flip the Texas statehouse, as it helped to do in Virginia.
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The people on the receiving end of the new SNAP policies rarely have advocates at the statehouse.
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Hundreds of people gathered near the Indiana Statehouse in downtown Indianapolis to protest the detention of immigrant families.
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As of Thursday, when the statehouse held hearings on the plan, New Jersey Democrats were still barreling ahead.
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On August 24th Texas's state legislative lines came under fire when the same court erased several statehouse districts.
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The Christmas tree in the rotunda at the Rhode Island statehouse has died, the Associated Press reported Friday.
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But I'm not going to second-guess what the people in the Statehouse did when I wasn't there.
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The statehouse commemoration was the first that did not have the Confederate battle flag flying on the grounds.
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Crystal Thomas, a statehouse reporter in Missouri, tweeted out a transcript of a large portion of Brattin's speech.
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Richmond and Scalise go back to 2000, when they were serving together in the Statehouse in Baton Rouge.
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Gun lobbyists, say, know just which statehouse might buy their law allowing teachers to pack heat at school.
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There is a gap between landowners and corporations, between voters and the statehouse, between students and university endowments.
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"Lowering the flag from the statehouse grounds was the right decision," he said in the Rolling Stone interview.
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In Mississippi earlier this month, Republicans easily kept control of the statehouse thanks in part to Trump's support.
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In Mississippi earlier this month, Republicans easily kept control of the statehouse, thanks in part to Trump's support.
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As a bishop in North Carolina, he supported the Moral Mondays campaign, which included statehouse protests against inequality.
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And contrary to his elementary school advice, Cummings became one of the most persuasive speakers in the statehouse.
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Cover image: An item is left at a candlelight vigil held at the Ohio Statehouse Sunday evening, Aug.
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Democratic lawmakers praised the vote, which was a major victory for the party in the GOP-controlled statehouse.
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Republicans effectively control 68 of the nation's 99 statehouse chambers, compared with 36 at the start of 19203.
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The only two seats in the Ohio Statehouse that flipped from blue to red were in the region.
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Just 26, she was then summoned to the statehouse, where she claims the president, Yahya Jammeh, raped her.
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As it happens, Tuesday was one of those rare spring days; outside the Statehouse there was a breeze.
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As a senior, Mr. Hanna began his campaign to unseat an incumbent Democrat, Dana Lynch, in the statehouse.
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New statehouse reformers are demanding striking progress on promises long stymied by special interests and Albany deal-making.
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Mr. Cuomo won in 2010, in part, on a promise to restore sanity and stability to the statehouse.
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But, little changed in the Statehouse; bills to limit assault weapons, for example, did not get a hearing.
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That trend was dramatically reversed in November, when Democratic candidates took 15 Republican-held seats in the statehouse.
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She's written postcards to Congress and traveled to the New Hampshire Statehouse to push for gun control legislation.
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Glenn's body will lie in the state at the Ohio Statehouse for a day, according to the Dispatch.
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But Democrats' massive success in flipping statehouse seats in special elections this past year isn't happening by accident.
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He said he and his wife had been at the statehouse all week lobbying against new gun restrictions.
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In November, Democrats won control of the Virginia statehouse for the first time in more than two decades.
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Kemp is running in a hotly contested race with Democratic nominee and former statehouse minority leader Stacey Abrams.
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Such organizations also successfully pushed South Carolina to remove the Confederate flag from the grounds of its statehouse.
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Five days after the massacre, South Carolina removed that flag from in front of the Statehouse in Columbia.
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Only four have won primaries so far, all at the statehouse level, and have a general election ahead.
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"It must be guided by the goals of safeguarding human life," she said during a Statehouse debate in Sacramento.
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The families of those victims came together and melted hearts in the statehouse and the confederate flag came down.
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The investigation said they planned to enter the statehouse once the mission was complete and place Njie in power.
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After serving since 2002 in the statehouse, Van Drew was elected to Congress for the first time in 2018.
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McKinney told The Verge that he covered Blagojevich "from the beginning," as a long-time statehouse reporter in Chicago.
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The bill was fast-tracked by the Republican-controlled Statehouse and passed in the early hours of Wednesday morning.
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According to trial testimony, Kane believed Fina had planted a story that showed she had dropped a statehouse sting.
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Democrats desperately want to take the statehouse, but the only guarantee is that a Stacey will win the primary.
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As Zuckerberg prepares to testify before Congress, Facebook is quietly fighting a crucial privacy measure in the Illinois Statehouse.
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Phil Scott enacted the state&aposs first major gun control measures during a heated signing ceremony at the Statehouse.
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After the 2018 election it became a Democratic trifecta, with the party controlling the governor's office, statehouse and senate.
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Following the 2015 shooting that killed nine people, South Carolina took down the Confederate flag from its statehouse grounds.
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The sculpture joins a nativity scene to commemorate Christmas and a menorah to celebrate Hanukkah in the statehouse rotunda.
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New York's statehouse considered a bill this month that would have extended its statute of limitations by five years.
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"What you're seeing with Carrier is what I call free riders," Donnelly told The Statehouse File website last year.
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As a bishop in North Carolina, he supported the Moral Mondays campaign, which included statehouse protests against perceived inequality.
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In downtown Denver, the large -- and growing -- homeless population often gathers in Civic Center Park, next to the Statehouse.
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Glenn's body will lie in the state at the Ohio Statehouse for a day, according to the Columbus Dispatch.
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Ms. Nelson said she had met with the speaker of the Oregon Statehouse about enacting policy across state lines.
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Then he offered her a job as one of his protocol officers, who performed secretarial work at the statehouse.
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As a result, Mr. Yancey, a Republican, was declared the winner, handing his party narrow control of the statehouse.
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" For Alison Ver Schuer, a staffer for Democrats in the Iowa statehouse, it boils down to this: "Believe women.
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I won eleven statewide elections for the Statehouse, the U.S. House and the U.S. Senate from a red state.
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State budgets have become increasingly politicized in recent years, especially in states where control of the statehouse is divided.
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There have been zero reported problems with non-legislators and non-staff being able to carry on statehouse grounds.
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Democrats essentially pulled even in the Virginia statehouse after Republicans entered Election Day with a two-to-one advantage.
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HARRISBURG, Pa. — When she is 10 minutes from the Pennsylvania Statehouse, Representative Tarah Toohil phones the sergeant-at-arms.
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With Republican majorities in Congress inert on the need for greater gun safety, statehouse politicians are becoming more responsive.
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When Tran appeared before a statehouse subcommittee, the Republican majority leader, Todd Gilbert, presented her with an outré hypothetical.
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The Rhode Island Statehouse is full of drunk legislators doing shots inside the capitol, newly elected Providence Democratic Rep.
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Instead, Rogers finds there's one major factor in deciding who controls the statehouse: the popularity of the American president.
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Robert La Follette, the historic progressive who eloquently railed against the very abuses now being resurrected in the Wisconsin statehouse.
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The Republican is scheduled to make his comments during a news conference Monday morning at his Statehouse office in Indianapolis.
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"No, come on," Clyburn said, standing on the grounds of the South Carolina Statehouse where a Confederate Flag once flew.
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In any of these scenarios, Democrats are poised to turn the tide on the statehouse losses of the Obama years.
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Marissa Messinger, of Lake View, Iowa, center, holds a sign during a rally at the Statehouse in Des Moines, Iowa.
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He had been photographed with the Confederate flag, which the state subsequently removed from the statehouse grounds after the shooting.
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Editorial The conditions on the ground in Flint still do not seem to have sunk in at the Michigan statehouse.
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In 2010, after Republicans took over several statehouses, Hofeller helped redraw several statehouse maps, including the maps in North Carolina.
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Virginia Republicans are clinging to a 51-49 edge in the statehouse; the 2011 map could help them keep it.
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Hoffman also emerged as a key donor in Virginia, where Democrats surprisingly routed their Republican opponents in crucial statehouse races.
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Bob McDonnell delivered the 2010 response from the statehouse in Richmond with an audience in the room listening to him.
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Terry McAuliffe and Virginia Republicans in the statehouse have been locked in battle for years over expanding Medicaid under Obamacare.
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Reed is suspected of driving his 2016 Dodge Dart over the statehouse lawn and crashed into the monument on Wednesday.
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Retired nurse Lynn Hier of the northwestern Detroit suburb of New Baltimore joined the protest outside the statehouse on Tuesday.
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Danny Lee was a reporter for five years, eventually covering politics and the Indiana statehouse for The Columbus Republic newspaper.
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" In honor of the inaugural National Period Day, October 15, 2019, Singh's team rallied "hundreds of people at the statehouse.
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Supporters of Omar have pointed to a poster at the West Virginia Statehouse linking the freshman Democrat to the Sept.
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Iowa Senate Majority Leader Bill Dix (R) resigned Monday after a video surfaced of him kissing a female statehouse lobbyist.
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The survivors, who have blanketed television, social media and the Florida statehouse demanding new legislation, are helping drive the momentum.
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I wouldn't take running for governor off the table or Senate or statehouse, I don't take things off the table.
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Democratic Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, a presidential contender, traveled to Georgia on Thursday to protest at the statehouse.
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Hundreds gathered outside the statehouse Monday night, while some went inside to stage sit-ins outside the offices of lawmakers.
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He vetoed a campus sexual harassment bill that won large majorities in the statehouse, where Democrats dominate in both chambers.
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Notes are big for Mr. Tucker, who said he has used the same blue Sharpie since his first statehouse run.
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And on Monday, Democrats failed to flip a winnable Minnesota statehouse seat, largely because of mediocre turnout from their base.
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In statehouse races, Democrats nearly matched Republicans in total votes statewide, but they saw limited gains because of Republican gerrymandering.
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Female lobbyists from Arizona to Virginia described statehouse cultures that were throwbacks to male-dominated institutions like 1960s Madison Avenue.
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These are statehouse races, not congressional ones, but they're still big wins for the Bernie Sanders wing of the party.
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Republicans kept control of the governorship and the statehouse, he pointed out, enabling them to advance anti-abortion policies locally.
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Beyond the House, Democrats also notched major statehouse gains, capturing six new legislative chambers and securing supermajorities in six others.
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Republicans have criticized Ms. Whitmer for being a lifelong politician and failing to sponsor significant legislation while in the statehouse.
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"I am completely at peace with my decision," says Balkman, a Mormon and former conservative stalwart in the Oklahoma Statehouse.
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"Just assume if you're talking to anyone in the Tallahassee Statehouse that they're wearing a wire," said one Republican consultant.
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Guns are not uncommon in the Idaho Statehouse, especially when gun legislation is being debated, according to the news service.
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Virginia's Democratic governor managed to pass Medicaid expansion, but it has had eligibility limitations because of the state's Republican statehouse.
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" Guadagno was highly critical of Christie's proposed $300 million statehouse renovation, saying the state can't afford a "Palace of Versailles.
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From the comfort of the statehouse, they can pass draconian laws that don't reflect public support for legal abortion. Rep.
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Every campaign interviewed by Vox said they thought Democrats were beginning to focus more on these previously neglected statehouse races.
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In 220, Republican candidates in the statehouse won 27 percent of the vote but 60 of the 99 legislative seats.
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In a working paper analyzing nearly 7300 campaigns' in 2018, researchers including Gregory J. Martin found that 10 times as many statehouse candidates advertised on Facebook versus TV. "For almost every statehouse candidate, the effective price of TV advertising is basically infinite," Martin, an associate professor of political economy at Stanford University, told VICE News.
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Monuments to the region's charged past continue to be contested and removed from statehouse grounds, college campuses, and the region's downtowns.
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After South Carolina lawmakers voted to permanently remove the flag from statehouse grounds, other states began to take up the issue.
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West Virginia's statehouse has been solidly in Republican hands, and it is expected to remain that way, according to Daily Kos.
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The Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee, which focuses on statehouse races nationwide, said more than 50 educators are running in other states.
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Barack Obama went from the Illinois Statehouse to eight years in the White House before passing the baton to Donald Trump.
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He drew me to a window and we looked down at the statehouse building, its round top illuminated in the sun.
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We take photos around the statehouse before hopping into our party van and going to a local bar for more photos.
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With today's sophisticated data techniques, the political party controlling a statehouse when voting-district lines are drawn can entrench its power.
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Indeed, the promise to clean up the mess helped the Republicans sweep the statehouse and brought Mr Hubbard to the Speakership.
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But more than 140 Oklahoma religious and social welfare leaders expressed different priorities in sending a "pastoral letter" to the statehouse.
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The bill said that the state legislature found commemorative statues honoring the women to be "worthy" additions to the statehouse grounds.
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On May 3, North Dakota became the latest to launch a statehouse-directed review and rewrite in response to public pressure.
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The Statehouse, the hotel's main restaurant, was revamped in May and serves modern Midwestern cuisine; a seafood specialty is the walleye.
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But he said addressing gun violence would be a priority for the state's Democrats following gains in the statehouse Tuesday night.
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Activists are planning a Tuesday rally outside Oregon's statehouse in an effort to call GOP state lawmakers back for delayed votes.
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Fox 10 reported that the Confederate Troops Memorial located outside Arizona's statehouse in Phoenix was spray-painted earlier in the week.
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It did create one exception to protect itself — prohibiting anyone but officers, legislators or judges from carrying guns in the statehouse.
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He lost a bid for Colorado's State Senate in 17, and is embarking on a bid for the statehouse in November.
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But the president, Yahya Jammeh, soon began summoning the pageant winner to Gambia's Statehouse, and eventually asked her to marry him.
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The controversial legislation passed through Alabama's Statehouse last month, despite it being unclear whether chemical castration works to reduce sex crimes.
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Yet are climate activists swarming Topeka City Hall, the Colorado statehouse or your local county commission to demand tougher building codes?
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In Texas, Democrats gained at least a dozen seats in the Statehouse and, despite partisan gerrymandering, picked up two congressional seats.
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But speaking from the Statehouse in Topeka, Mr. Colyer said he would not challenge the results or ask for a recount.
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Still, he could rely on his well-liked lieutenant governor-elect, State Representative Jeanette Nuñez of Miami, to navigate the statehouse.
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However, allies of Collins in the statehouse are angling to pass legislation to create a traditional primary in May (The Hill).
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Some protesters hung messages attached to wire hangers on the Ohio statehouse fence, reminders of an earlier era of unsafe abortion.
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The Massachusetts driver's license has the Massachusetts statehouse, located in Boston, as well as the state bird, the black-capped chickadee.
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That means the state is up for grabs this year, giving Democrats a chance to end their exile from the statehouse.
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Muhoozi Kainerugaba and Diana Kamuntu led Kanye and his wife Kim Kardashian West and daughter, North to the statehouse on Monday.
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The statehouse had just approved eliminating a tax that was one of the highest jet fuel tax rates in the country.
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Teachers from all of the state's 21 counties walked out of their classrooms and went to the statehouse carrying protest signs.
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Figure 3 shows expert assessments of each of the stages during the electoral cycle compared with which party controlled the statehouse.
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Terry McAuliffe and Virginia Republicans in the statehouse have been locked in a battle for years over expanding Medicaid under Obamacare.
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ECOWAS troops control the statehouse and have been deployed in different locations in Gambia to prepare the country for the Barrow's return.
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For his part, Downing plans to join other legalization advocates outside the Statehouse on Thursday to celebrate the law formally taking effect.
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Cover image: Rich Paul takes a puff of a marijuana joint in front of the Statehouse in Concord, N.H., April 20, 2010.
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All this will hamper Mr Cooper's efforts to pursue his agenda, while boosting statehouse Republicans' ability to advance theirs without his consent.
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But Republicans would still control the House by a 50-49 margin, despite Democrats' massive gains in Virginia's statehouse elections in November.
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The dead tree is survived by Rhode Island's new statehouse Christmas tree, which, per the Providence Journal, was installed late Monday afternoon.
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But she chastised Second Amendment supporters in the statehouse who "turned their backs on gun owners," and voted for last year's measure.
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And the proposal itself was far from a slam dunk at the statehouse: A similar bill failed to win passage in 2009.
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After he left the statehouse, he spent several years working for the Financial Services Roundtable in Washington, D.C Also in Minnesota, Rep.
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Jim Jordan got into politics 24 years ago and moved up from the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus to Congress 303 years later.
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Over 200 women who work in California's capital signed a letter about the culture of sexual abuse around the Statehouse in Sacramento.
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The New York bill is still accepting comments on the legislation online, so it may change significantly before it reaches the statehouse.
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South Carolina's Legislature voted to take down the Confederate flag from its Statehouse grounds, and Virginia banned the image from license plates.
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"For some reason, people think I'm equivocal about this," the governor said during a news event at the Statehouse on Nov. 29.
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Mr Obama's election gave it another impetus; the Republicans' statehouse victories in 2010, and then the Supreme Court's ruling, facilitated further spurts.
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School choice remains one of the most hotly debated topics in Washington and in every statehouse and city hall across the country.
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An altercation broke out last week over the display of a poster at the West Virginia Statehouse linking Omar to the Sept.
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In 25, when the Confederate flag was removed from the South Carolina statehouse dome, Bessinger raised Confederate flags over all his restaurants.
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By Wednesday, she was at the Missouri Statehouse to champion a bill that would ban abortions after the eighth week of pregnancy.
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In Oregon, a bill ending single-family zoning across the state passed the Statehouse last week with both Democratic and Republican votes.
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That statue was made to protest a permanent Ten Commandments monument at the Oklahoma statehouse that was later removed by court order.
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"His legacy will be the incredible acrimony you see in the statehouse," said L. Sandy Maisel, a political scientist at Colby College.
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Across the country, Democrats flipped at least 333 statehouse seats, a third of all those lost over the course of Obama's presidency.
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The statehouse was mostly empty on Sunday, and Mr. Christie said he expected the government to remain closed at least through Monday.
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On Monday in Gambia, troops from the West African coalition swarmed the statehouse, without resistance, to secure it for Mr. Barrow's arrival.
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Democrats won a shocking Senate special election in Alabama last month and flipped nearly three-dozen statehouse seats in the last year.
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Hoyer noted that Democrats defeated a supermajority in the Georgia statehouse and won contested mayoral races in Charlotte, N.C., St. Petersburg, Fla.
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But the two parties have everything to gain by enriching their statehouse talent pools and confronting the underrepresentation of women in government.
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Bipartisan or nonpartisan appointees now draw statehouse lines in 13 states and congressional lines in six, including Arizona, California and New Jersey.
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When the South Carolina Legislature passed a bill in 22015 ending the flag's display on the statehouse grounds, that restriction was lifted.
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However, six of those slowest-growing states (Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Kentucky, Maine and New Jersey) have since elected Democrats to the statehouse.
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Delegates charged with fixing a broken government met for first time on this day in 1787 at the Pennsylvania Statehouse in Philadelphia.
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Outside the Colorado statehouse, hundreds of protesters demonstrated against DeVos and what they called a plan to "destroy" America's public education system.
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Climate Hawks Vote endorsed California state Senate Leader Kevin de León on Friday, touting his work in the statehouse on climate issues.
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Haley, a Republican, was instrumental in pushing for the Confederate flag removed from the grounds of the South Carolina statehouse in 2015.
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In Virginia, a wave of blue in the statehouse made it seem as though the tides might be turning in our nation.
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On Tuesday, Minnesota legislators had to walk a gauntlet of about 200 gun-control activists to enter their statehouse in St. Paul.
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It is an annual rite that began in 2000 as a protest of the flag that once flew above the statehouse dome.
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Black legislators walked into the statehouse Wednesday with downcast looks on their faces after Mr. Herring disclosed his past behavior to them.
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At the Texas statehouse in Austin, about 1,000 students, many waving signs and chanting anti-NRA slogans, demanded stricter gun control measures.
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"Look, judges are not supposed to be in the business of obstructing justice," Baker said during a Statehouse press conference on Monday.
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But the move to rescind the law appeared to stall after some statehouse Republicans weren't convinced the Charlotte ordinance had been fully repealed.
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He was also one of the few Republicans in the state to call for keeping the Confederate battle flag flying above the Statehouse.
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She said that Pence will receive notifications of the donations made to PPINK in his honor at his office in the Indiana Statehouse.
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Ghilarducci likens the wave of statehouse proposals to when 30 states created old-age pension programs before the federal government started Social Security.
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Afterward, state police officers fan out across the state to collect the official printouts of final tallies and deliver them to the statehouse.
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When Trump made his DACA announcement, she spoke openly about her predicament at an event inside the gold-domed statehouse in downtown Denver.
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Before Vermont's election, only four transgender candidates had won primaries in 2018, all at the statehouse level, and have a general election ahead.
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The sole man at the venue's front door downstairs: a local Democrat running for the statehouse and not directly affiliated with the campaign.
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After he left the statehouse, he spent several years working for the Financial Services Roundtable in Washington, D.C. DNC CO-CHAIR, MINNESOTA REP.
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By climbing a flagpole outside the South Carolina's statehouse, Bree Newsome practically wrote the modern book on removing Confederate flags from public spaces.
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Collins faces a tough election opponent in Democratic Speaker of the statehouse Sara Gideon and will need strong turnout from the GOP base.
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South Carolina removed the Confederate flag from statehouse grounds in 2015, after a self-described white supremacist killed nine black churchgoers in Charleston.
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A monument from by The Satanic Temple of Chicago has been added to the Illinois Statehouse rotunda as part of its holiday display.
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Since the Texas statehouse passed the law in 2013, the number of abortion clinics in the state has fallen from 41 to 19.
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Greitens' trial for his first felony charge is set to begin May 14, before the start of a special session in the Statehouse.
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If that commission fails to approve the new map, it would be sent back to the statehouse with a lower threshold for approval.
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The Oregon statehouse was shut down Saturday due to a "militia threat" posed by protesters who were against a landmark climate change bill.
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Nikki R. Haley of South Carolina to remove the flag from the grounds of the Statehouse there after the mass shooting in Charleston.
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From Raleigh to Richmond, statehouse denizens see new jobs and billions of dollars from royalty revenues to improve roads, schools and public salaries.
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Rubio has shown off his football skills on the floor of the statehouse in Florida, catching passes from Dan Marino and Tim Tebow.
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But the prospect of a Cupertino-based megacorporation losing business to local repair shops isn't a very sympathetic argument at the Nebraska statehouse.
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Since the release of that report, additional former student-athletes have come forward to publicly testify at the Ohio statehouse about Strauss' abuse.
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"For me, it's about more than just being a woman," the 299-year-old Manoogian told me about her run for the statehouse.
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Moreover, it will require courageous political leadership, not just from the White House, but from every statehouse and city hall in the nation.
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There's no better place to learn about politicians — the good, the bad and the soon-to-be-incarcerated — than in the statehouse there.
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Dean Heller in a pickup for her party, and when all the votes are counted Nevada's could become the first female-majority Statehouse.
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In Maryland, a statue of the former Supreme Court Justice Roger B. Taney, which sits in front of the Statehouse, has drawn ire.
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After a few consultations with friends and family, she decided she was going to run for an open seat in the Michigan statehouse.
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"The K.K.K. came to South Carolina from out of state to protest on our Statehouse grounds," she said at a rally in Georgia.
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Following the charges' sudden dismissal this week, officials from the statehouse to the White House have demanded investigations and additional consequences for Smollett.
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At a March event sponsored by the state GOP at the West Virginia statehouse, someone displayed a poster associating Omar with the Sept.
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Fearing for his safety in Gambia, Mr. Barrow was sworn in on Thursday in Senegal, as Mr. Jammeh refused to vacate the statehouse.
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But he then praised Ms. Haley for leading the fight to take down a Confederate battle flag from the South Carolina statehouse property.
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And by remarkable coincidence, Hillary Clinton won precisely 17 red Virginia statehouse districts in 2016, giving liberals reason to believe they are winnable.
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According to P.P.P., 70 percent of Mr. Trump's voters in South Carolina wish the Confederate battle flag were still flying on their statehouse grounds.
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"Statehouse elections will determine the future of climate change, criminal justice reform, education funding, LGBT equality and even your ability to vote," adds Pitt.
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Barrow has been accused of hiding out with Njie at an unidentified location in the Gambia while the operation against the statehouse took place.
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A second billionaire liberal activist has pledged to support the mayor of Tallahassee as he looks to move from City Hall to the Statehouse.
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"The families of those victims came together and melted hearts in the statehouse and the confederate flag came down," Clinton said in her statement.
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These states all voted for Obama in 2012 but maintained Republican control in statehouse chambers because of partisan gerrymandering that many thought was unassailable.
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Last year, Republican Sailau Timoteo was disqualified from running in a Hawaii statehouse race after it was discovered she was born in American Samoa.
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In many of these red states, teachers are now running for statehouse office, to replace the lawmakers they say failed to sufficiently prioritize education.
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As in many other states, the only political competition most Republican members of Alabama's statehouse face is during primaries and comes from the right.
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Exclusive: Republicans are outspending Democrats 5 to 1 in key statehouse races All the candy that's sold during Halloween week, in one massive pumpkin
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A veteran Kansas legislator has won the Democratic primary for governor after stressing her Statehouse experience and fending off questions about her voting record.
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"They did that to make light of the Moms Demand Action volunteers who were packing the statehouse because we're a political powerhouse," she said.
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Confederate flag The Monday following the Charleston church shooting, Haley called for the Confederate flag to be removed from the statehouse grounds in Columbia.
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Democrats typically have trouble recruiting candidates for Statehouse races, but now they're having trouble keeping up with all the people who want to run.
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Insert foot: John Kasich ticked people off when he said that women "left their kitchens" to support one of his early statehouse races. Seriously?
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South Carolina removed the Confederate flag from its Statehouse grounds in 2015, after a self-described white supremacist killed nine black churchgoers in Charleston.
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Teachers who can't make it to the capital, Charleston, are protesting in their own towns and counties; others fill the statehouse, sometimes to capacity.
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At North Carolina's statehouse, supporters and critics held battling protests over a law blocking protections for gay people and limiting transgender people's bathroom access.
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Martin Luther King Jr., being erected at the Georgia Capitol, arguing that only elected officials should be memorialized at the statehouse, the newspaper reported.
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But after Democrats won the presidential, gubernatorial and senatorial races that year, the national Republican State Leadership Committee coordinated donors to flip the Statehouse.
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A handful of Southern states, including South Carolina, Alabama and Virginia, removed Confederate imagery from their statehouse grounds and banned it from license plates.
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Last year, a bill headed through the New York statehouse was killed in part due to lobbying from Apple and IBM, among other manufacturers.
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Then the president, Yahya Jammeh, summoned her to Gambia's Statehouse — for what she thought was a Ramadan event — where, she said, he raped her.
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David Lewis, who helped draw one of the maps at issue in Rucho, was admirably honest about his motives in a 2016 statehouse speech.
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A graduate of Georgetown Law, Mr. Wardlow was elected to the Statehouse in the Republican wave of 2010, after working in private legal practice.
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During the vote, a crowd of people opposed to the measures filled the Statehouse wearing orange hunting vests, according to the AP. Vermont Gov.
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The hallways of the statehouse were jammed with his supporters, including dozens of firefighters and the president of the International Association of Fire Fighters.
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Five months later, Ms. Iyer was live-tweeting from the statehouse to rouse alarm over a school voucher bill that looked likely to pass.
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At Westlake Statehouse, where the summit was being held, a group of White House staff arriving before Obama was stopped at a security checkpoint.
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Mr. Santoro was scheduled to return to the Statehouse in Trenton on Friday to testify at a legislative committee hearing on the recent disruptions.
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Other Republicans, including Nikki Haley, have also criticized the Confederate flag -- Haley said that it should never have been on South Carolina statehouse grounds.
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Florida House Majority Leader Dane Eagle, a Republican who has represented the region in the statehouse since 2012, said he is mulling a run.
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The biggest prize in controlling the statehouse would be the power, under current law, to draw congressional and legislative districts after the 2020 census.
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In Texas, even a close race between O'Rourke and Cruz could put more than a dozen statehouse and congressional seats at risk for Republicans.
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Statehouse Republicans had offered months ago to repeal the state law if Charlotte rescinded the local ordinance, which the council voted to eliminate earlier Wednesday.
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With the help of Keith Poole, I calculated ideal points for Wisconsin statehouse members from 1895 to 1911 based on their roll call voting patterns.
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David Rivera, a good friend of Rubio's who served with him in the Florida statehouse dodged when asked if he would have trouble supporting Trump.
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In her home state of Montana, the basic political philosophy is local control rather than statehouse mandate, whether the issue is education or anything else.
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The Republican Party will now control every branch of the federal government — and extended its existing statehouse dominance on Election Day — but not U.S. cities.
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"Nikki Haley wanted desperately to be a vice presidential pick so she wanted the attention of removing the flag from the Statehouse grounds," Few said.
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Evers is set to address lawmakers at the statehouse in Madison this evening but released excerpts of his speech to the news outlet before then.
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"We removed a symbol that was being used to divide us," she acknowledged, referencing the state's removal of the Confederate battle flag from its statehouse.
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Six years later, in July 1854, the Republican Party held its first convention and swept the Michigan statehouse and executive branch that very same year.
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As a descendant of slaves, Fairfax told The Washington Post that he didn't believe Lee was someone to honor on the floor of the statehouse.
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Deval Patrick (D) on Thursday files paperwork to run for president in 2020 at the New Hampshire statehouse in Concord alongside his wife, Diane Patrick.
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Jason Rapert (R), who sponsored the original monument, said that crews will reinstall the Ten Commandments on the statehouse grounds in Little Rock next week.
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Cover image: In this June 5, 2012 file photo, a large balloon in support of the Heartbeat Bill flies outside the Statehouse in Columbus, Ohio.
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Talk It's been a little over two years since you removed a Confederate flag from the flagpole on the grounds of the South Carolina statehouse.
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They were on display in South Carolina in 2015, when she made the case for the removal of the Confederate flag from the statehouse grounds.
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In North Carolina, Democrats won 51 percent of the popular vote for the lower chamber in the statehouse but just 45 percent of the seats.
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"There's no mechanism in the statehouse that I'm aware of for lobbyists to report harassment or assault, other than going to legislative leadership," she said.
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"They're hearing more about water than Donald Trump," said Daniel Squadron, executive director of Future Now, a group that supports liberal causes in statehouse races.
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So far this year, as I've noted in this newsletter before, Democrats have fared very well in special elections — flipping statehouse seats around the country.
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By contrast, Republicans seized more than 26 statehouse chambers from Democrats in the critical 2069 midterm elections, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
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Democrats in November won control of the Virginia statehouse for the first time in over two decades, while Democrat Andy Beshear narrowly defeated GOP Gov.
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In November, Democrats won control of the Virginia statehouse for the first time in over two decades, while Democrat Andy Beshear narrowly defeated GOP Gov.
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He campaigned for Mr. Scalise as a student at Louisiana State University, Mr. Scalise's alma mater, when he first ran for the statehouse in 1995.
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But Collins allies in the Georgia statehouse are trying to change the election law to create a traditional primary that would be held in May.
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Still, for all the political energy from a record number of women candidates last year, they failed to crack an important barrier in statehouse politics.
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Schwarzenegger made the announcement via speakerphone at the Ohio Statehouse on Tuesday ... saying he hopes to reschedule the expo when the disease is under control.
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Elizabeth Porter raised some hackles on the statehouse floor this week when she delivered an angry speech denouncing the Parkland survivors behind the #NeverAgain movement.
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Fearing for his own safety in Gambia, Mr. Barrow was sworn in on Thursday in neighboring Senegal, as Mr. Jammeh refused to vacate the statehouse.
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On a recent Friday, the second floor of the New Jersey statehouse in Trenton, where most of the press corps was stationed, was eerily still.
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He then gathered at the statehouse his top military security advisers, police officers and intelligence officials and asked for their support to discredit the vote.
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"They went to the statehouse to get a more favorable response" Rebecca Jones, director of work structures at the National Employment Law Project, told Vox.
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Two Democratic state senators were removed from their jobs in recall elections in 2628 after the Democratic-controlled statehouse passed several gun control measures. Sen.
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He skyrocketed to national fame after a series of speeches in the West Virginia statehouse, excoriating Republican lawmakers for denying the state's teachers a raise.
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Every morning I read Joel Ebert's heroic statehouse reporting for The Tennessean, Nashville's daily newspaper, and I wonder what in the world is going on.
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This week, a group of demonstrators conducted a ceremony in which they raised the Confederate flag outside the South Carolina Statehouse on a temporary plastic stand.
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In 46 states, voters this year will choose some 6,066 state legislative seats that are up for regular elections — about 82 percent of all statehouse seats.
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A small group of students staged a die-in on the Ohio Statehouse steps at noon today, marking two years since the Pulse Nightclub shooting. pic.twitter.
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Gilda Cobb-Hunter, the longest-serving member of the statehouse and president of the National Black Caucus of State Legislators, as a senior adviser on Wednesday.
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Taken together, all this would hamper the governor's efforts to pursue his agenda, and enhance the ability of statehouse Republicans to advance theirs without his consent.
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Following the 2015 massacre at Mother Emanuel Church in Charleston, Haley signed a bill to move the Confederate flag off the grounds of South Carolina's statehouse.
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Stutzman, 39, has moved quickly up the ranks -- starting in 2002 when, at age 26, he was elected as the youngest member of the Indiana statehouse.
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Republicans hold a 21-19 edge in the Virginia State Senate but such a slim majority in the statehouse overall could mean a more bipartisan agenda.
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Blum, a software entrepreneur, is facing Democratic challenger Abby Finkenauer, 2000, a member of the Iowa House of Representatives first elected to the statehouse in 1.33.
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Matt Bevin to hold a news conference Saturday, at which he called upon "every individual" in the Statehouse linked to a sexual harassment settlement to resign.
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The unexpectedly large Democratic gains in Virginia's statehouse were among the party's first big election victories since Republican Donald Trump won the White House in 2016.
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In that $4 million race, the second costliest statehouse race in the primary, Rauner personally campaigned with GOP challenger Bryce Benton, who lost to McCann handily.
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Following the massacre of nine black churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina, last June, Confederate battle flags were removed from statehouse grounds in that state and Alabama.
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Since Democrats won control of the state's Senate in the November midterms and ended a divided statehouse, marijuana legalization now looks pretty feasible for New York.
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Nevada could become the first state in U.S. history to elect a female-majority statehouse this year, according to an analysis by the Reno Gazette Journal.
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They also have pointed to a display at the West Virginia Statehouse that showed a picture of Omar alongside the Twin Towers burning after the Sept.
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The "Saturday Night Live" alum met with the Garden State's current GOP governor, Chris Christie, on Thursday at the Statehouse, according to the New York Observer.
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Following their loss in the governor's race in the 2016 election, North Carolina statehouse Republicans pushed through legislative measures to curtail the incoming Democratic governor's power.
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Across the region, young progressives have set their sights on seats in deep-red statehouse and congressional districts that have long offered no resistance to Republicans.
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Before his presidential race and Senate race six years ago, Mr. Rubio began his career in the Florida Statehouse, where he became speaker of the House.
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A National Democratic group is set to reward Virginia statehouse candidates for trying to knock on as many doors as possible, the Washington Post reported Tuesday.
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MarShawn McCarrel, a Black Lives Matter activist and homelessness advocate, died by a self-inflicted gunshot Monday on the steps of the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus.
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Misty K. Snow won the nomination for a U.S. Senate seat in Utah, while Misty Plowright won the nod for a seat in the Colorado Statehouse.
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In Missouri, the statehouse in May passed a constitutional amendment that would require state legislative districts to be drawn using citizens rather than the total population.
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The entire Idaho statehouse is on the ballot this year, as both the state Senate and the state House of Representatives both serve two-year terms.
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During another meeting at Gambia's statehouse, she said, as she and the president reviewed the budget for her project, Mr. Jammeh asked her to marry him.
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In the days that followed, the statehouse became a battleground, with climate activists and timber workers both appearing on the steps of the white stone Capitol.
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In the early 2000s, Democrats who controlled the statehouse tightened the requirements for absentee ballots, potentially starving Republicans of votes they had come to rely upon.
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Late last year, he made up his mind to run against Mr. Edwards, to reclaim the 94th House District in the Ohio Statehouse for the Democrats.
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But following through will be far more expensive than the proposal says, and will require courageous leadership from every statehouse and city hall in the nation.
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A year ago, Kemp stood in his statehouse office fretting that bills to set the primary date in Alabama and Arkansas were not going to pass.
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The impending battle comes as Collins has seen her reelection race against Democratic challenger Sara Gideon, the Speaker of the Maine statehouse, tighten in recent weeks.
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Hogan told reporters Tuesday afternoon his administration was pushing for legislation at the Maryland statehouse to boost funding for school safety, including for school resource officers.
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Thousands of anti-vaccine protesters swarmed the New Jersey statehouse, even though public health officials say the benefits of vaccines are not a matter of opinion.
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Mr. Kander caught voters' attention with daring initiatives like his call for tighter gun safety in a state where the gun lobby owns the Republican statehouse.
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The killings, by an avowed white supremacist, prompted protests that led to the removal of the Confederate battle flag outside the South Carolina Statehouse and elsewhere.
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It made sense for a seasoned Texas journalist to run a news operation that boasts having the largest statehouse bureau of any outlet in the country.
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Speaking of enough ... In case Minnesota's lawmakers don't get it, there's an almost 10-foot high #ENOUGH in white letters on the grounds of the statehouse.
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In Wisconsin's statehouse, a heckler shouted, "We're all going to go to war and die thanks to you," during the formal meeting of the Electoral College.
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It gave Pennsylvania Republicans big wins in congressional races, and control of the Pennsylvania statehouse just as it was time to draw up new congressional maps.
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Supporters of Goodman's campaign expressed their frustration at learning that Perkins knew about allegations regarding Goodman before he went on to later misconduct at the statehouse.
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And even if O'Rourke doesn't win in November, making the race competitive could lead to significant Democratic gains in the Texas statehouse and in congressional races.
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Some are feeling more optimistic about Democrats paying attention to their bench in state races, and are hopeful that some of these statehouse chambers will flip.
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The Democrats have a majority in the statehouse — 18 to 12 — but they need 20 voting members present in order for their votes to count for anything.
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At least one person has been arrested when protesters blocked a downtown Columbus, Ohio, street after about 2,000 people attended a two-hour rally outside the Statehouse.
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More than 30,000 teachers and supporters swarmed the statehouse early in the week, taking over the rotunda inside and setting up tents and chairs on the grounds.
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Bree Newsome, the Black Lives Matter activist who tore down the Confederate flag outside the South Carolina statehouse in June 2015, tweeted in support of the action.
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Elijah became a lawyer to make sure others had rights, and his people had their god-given rights, and from the statehouse to the House of Representatives.
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"Statehouse elections will determine the future of climate change, criminal justice reform, education funding, LGBT equality and even your ability to vote," Pitt says in the video.
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Not long after that state workers finished decorating the very first first lady's office inside the Indiana Statehouse -- just a short walk from Mike Pence's own office.
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We'd like to hang out all day, but we finish our beers (paid for by the brides's mother...again) before heading to the statehouse for the ceremony.
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"Statehouse elections will determine the future of climate change, criminal justice reform, education funding, LGBT equality and even your ability to vote," Pitt said in the video.
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Of this, $96,000 went to pay David Azbell for co-writing Hubbard's book, Storming the Statehouse: The Campaign that Liberated Alabama from 136 Years of Democrat Rule.
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Last year, local organization, Lighthouse for the Blind, asked Paloma to accompany its lobbyist to the statehouse in an effort to get money for a children's program.
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If signed into law, Colorado would become the 15th state to enact similar legislation, also called Extreme Risk Protection Orders, according to a statement from statehouse Democrats.
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Battling over Bush South Carolina was where Bush and Rubio -- the teacher and the student in their Florida statehouse days -- were supposed to go head-to-head.
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At the statehouse, one senator combed through a list of constituents who had written to his office to complain about not being able to fix their iPhones.
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None of those groups caused more panic in the white mainstream than the Black Panthers, who had staged an armed protest at the California Statehouse in 21994.
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In recent days, nationally prominent Democrats campaigned alongside statehouse candidates to raise voters' enthusiasm, including the presidential candidates Joseph R. Biden Jr., Amy Klobuchar and Kamala Harris.
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"Since the start of the campaign, Hillary Clinton has been deeply committed to electing Democrats from the statehouse to the halls of Congress," said Marlon Marshall, Mrs.
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The spot focuses on Democratic front-runner Foster Campbell, accusing him of working alongside Duke on legislation in the Statehouse and agreeing with him on several issues.
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Right now it is a bit of a mismatch: Republicans held 36 of the nation's 99 statehouse chambers in 2010, and that number has climbed to 68.
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Clyde Chambliss speaks as debate on HB314, the near-total ban on abortion bill, is held in the senate chamber in the Alabama Statehouse in Montgomery, Ala.
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Should Mr. Murphy win, New Jersey would become the sixth state in the country to have Democrats in control of both the statehouse and the state Legislature.
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In a column posted online before the 2016 statehouse debate, he called marijuana "a dangerous drug" and said any form of legalization could be a slippery slope.
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In July, a federal appeals court struck down a restrictive voter ID law passed in 2013 by the Republican-controlled statehouse, arguing that it disenfranchised black voters.
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Gerry Cohen, a longtime counsel to the Legislature who is now a private consultant, said the Republicans were very likely to lose their supermajority in the statehouse.
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Sara Gideon, the Democratic Speaker of the Maine statehouse, revealed Wednesday that she voted for Biden after previously declining to take a position in the presidential race.
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They now completely control all three statehouse branches in 13 states and Washington, D.C., compared to the seven statehouses where they held trifecta control before Election Day.
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She then decided to forgo broadcasting and enter Michigan State's law school, igniting a political awakening that coincided with her parents' rise to prominence in statehouse politics.
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Mr. Ayers also was the executive director of the Republican Governors Association for four years, including 2010, a year when the party picked up several statehouse seats.
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To be in a position to do this, the G.O.P. needs to gain control of just one more statehouse, which could happen as soon as next year.
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At Michigan's first legislation day — when Moms Demand volunteers turn up at the statehouse to push for one bill or legislation — in 2015, 40 people turned up.
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On a Sunday in November, 170 students filed into the Vermont Statehouse, using the legislature's chambers to talk about the climate crisis and solutions for their state.
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The group is pushing to erect a similar statue at the Arkansas statehouse in Little Rock after lawmakers there approved the installation of a Ten Commandments monument.
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Rick Trojan, founder of Colorado-based Hemp Road Trip, was at the statehouse in Kansas this week to speak with lawmakers about the benefits of industrial hemp.
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Another Advance paper, The Times of Trenton, slashed its newsroom to 30 from 90 between 2007 and 2009, and closed its statehouse bureau, according to Mr. Lee.
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Editorial Wielding their power to take a cudgel to local laws, Iowa's Republican-controlled Statehouse is moving to make workers in four counties take a pay cut.
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The Republican State Leadership Committee, which helped secure many of those statehouse victories, argues the initial races were run in districts drawn by Democrats in previous decades.
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Now, Democrats building a long-term strategy for retaking power in Congress and the states are counting on winning big in statehouse races over the next two years.
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Because New Jersey is a heavily Democratic state, this standard allows the statehouse to create a number of districts that are majority Democratic and call them Republican-leaning.
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It&aposs tough being a Democrat in Idaho, grappling with a lack of legislative influence inside the Statehouse and consistently losing against far-right statewide and congressional opponents.
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"I promise I will do everything and my administration will do everything in our power to see this matter brought to justice," Dayton told reporters outside the statehouse.
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Liberal activist and statehouse lobbyist Betsy Sweet — who finished third in the Maine gubernatorial primary last year — and lawyer Bre Kidman will also run for Senate as Democrats.
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On one side is Stacey Abrams , the proudly progressive, African American former House minority leader who represented a majority-black Atlanta district in her decade at the statehouse.
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The party plans to recruit hundreds of thousands of volunteers to contact more than 30 million voters - double their outreach in statehouse contests in the 2016 presidential cycle.
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Her likely opponent in the general election, Maine statehouse Speaker Sara Gideon, waited until after Collins' announcement to say she would have voted to remove Trump from office.
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But Bush, who once worked closely with Rubio when the two were leaders in the Florida Statehouse, said Rubio's debate performance reiterated standing concerns with his former colleague.
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Facebook co-founder says its rise reveals the fault lines destroying the "American Dream" The tech revolution is no longer confined to Silicon Valley or the California statehouse.
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Greg Minchak, a Wisniewski spokesman, acknowledged that his boss hadn't introduced single-payer legislation at the statehouse, but said Wisniewski was in the process of drafting a bill.
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Sigler, 48, said he also patrolled Virginia's statehouse in July alongside several other militia members when a special legislative session was held to discuss changes to gun laws.
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There, the twin powers of big money and statehouse gerrymandering have made incumbents of both parties unbeatable 90 percent of the time, compounding the gridlock voters complain about.
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But naturally, her gender identity and the possibility she could become the first transgender person to be elected to serve in a statehouse also caught the nation's attention.
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Protesters chanted "Count every vote," and held signs bearing the slogan in the statehouse rotunda, according to video posted to Twitter by Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporter Greg Bluestein.
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Redistricting software enables whichever party controls a statehouse to capture every bit of partisan advantage, she wrote, helping entrench the party in power, irrespective of voters' true preferences.
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When an economic boycott of South Carolina, led by the state's N.A.A.C.P. chapter, resulted in the removal of the Confederate flag from the statehouse dome, Maurice acted quickly.
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Democrat Danica Roem was elected to represent District 13 in the Virginia House of Delegates, making her the nation's first trans woman elected and seated in a statehouse.
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Cover image: Janet Folger Porter, president and founder of Faith 2 Action, posts signs during a press conference at the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus, Ohio on Tuesday, Feb.
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In a rare interview on Sunday, in the basement of a Catholic school-turned-community center, she reflected on her experience in the statehouse and described the harassment.
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He co-founded the United States Climate Alliance, a bipartisan coalition of governors dedicated to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and has passed clean energy legislation through his statehouse.
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That stereotype updates a very old idea in American politics, one pervading Wisconsin's bitter Statehouse fights today and increasingly those in other states: Urban voters are an exception.
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Even so, a balanced-budget amendment is not completely out of the question, owing to the fact that it is high on the agenda of many statehouse Republicans.
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It was an act of mass murder that sparked the removal of the Confederate battle flag from its place of honor in front of the South Carolina Statehouse.
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The former governor had previously been a supporter of the flag -- which was placed at the statehouse in 2000 -- as a symbol of Southern heritage honoring residents' ancestors.
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Closson is not a veteran operative — she graduated from college at Drake in Des Moines in the spring of 2017, and had run only one statehouse campaign previously.
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"They realized now it wasn't the schoolhouse door they could knock on to file their complaint, or even the district level or even the statehouse door," she said.
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Reclaim Idaho, an advocacy organization that pushed for expansion, held a rally at the statehouse last week to press lawmakers to implement the ballot measure with no changes.
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Mohamed Jalloh, who sells fabric at the entrance to the statehouse, said he had spent the past two decades praying a bullet would not come flying toward him.
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Bureau agents were seen carrying bankers' boxes and grocery bags, with at least one marked as "evidence," out of the Illinois Statehouse in Springfield, The Associated Press reported.
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The frustrations millions of people experienced during November's midterm election have made voting rights a polarizing issue, thrusting it to the top of statehouse agendas across the country.
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Richard Ojeda's passionate speeches on the floor of the West Virginia statehouse helped push the state's teachers to strike for the first time in more than 290 years.
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Fearing espionage, U.S. weighs tighter rules on Chinese students, via Reuters How WeChat helped a Chinese American immigrant win a seat in the Maryland statehouse, via The Washington Post
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"The fact is that the primary audience for most of the GOP statehouse members are pretty right of center," said Andrew Reynolds, political science professor at UNC Chapel Hill.
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The historical church, located a block from the statehouse in Monument Circle in Indianapolis, also encouraged its congregants to join a protest against the administration's immigration policies in June.
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The Alaska governor whipped the crowds into a frenzy with her fiery attacks on the media and the establishment politicians that she had gleefully upended in the Alaska statehouse.
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David Axelrod, a former Democratic strategist who is now at the University of Chicago, called Mr Walker's manoeuvres "one last outrageous, partisan power grab as he exits the statehouse".
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On Monday, protesters clashed with a pro-Confederacy activist group in South Carolina after its members raised the stars and bars at the statehouse, the Post and Courier reports.
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"I think some people find our friendship a little bit strange," says Moore as Harrison chuckles in agreement when the two sat down recently in the South Carolina Statehouse.
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Moreover, the marquee race in Kentucky this year will be whether Republicans can take power in the statehouse, a long-held goal of McConnell's, not necessarily the Senate race.
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But the decision by state lawmakers to consider impeaching the governor adds a new layer to Greitens' woes given that the Statehouse is firmly controlled by his own party.
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Atheists, agnostics and those who do not believe in a god or gods can be barred from delivering invocations in the Pennsylvania statehouse, a federal appeals court ruled Friday.
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"My family has all been factory workers, including my grandmother, who came home with burn marks from welding," she said over breakfast across the street from the Indiana Statehouse.
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Following Sharpe's use of the term in visual contexts, we can say that Bree Newsome redacted the Confederate flag from the South Carolina statehouse in July 2015, for example.
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Can you speak to why it's so important that women who care about this issue know who is representing them in the statehouse, and follow politics at that level?
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In gunning for the statehouse this election, Polis is pushing for Colorado to have universal health care, free kindergarten and preschool, and progress to a 100% renewable energy state.
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Cory Booker's team has been in talks with Michael Frosolone, who oversaw Iowa Democrats' statehouse campaign operations in 2018, and Joe O'Hern, formerly Martin O'Malley's state director in 2016.
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Despite a tenure that has been defined by a budget battle with Pennsylvania's GOP-led statehouse, Wolf's approval rating sits at 45 percent and his disapproval at 39 percent.
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To the Editor: Re "Oregon's Climate Bill and the Case of the Disappearing Republicans" (news article, June 25): The standoff over a climate bill in Oregon's statehouse is distressing.
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Election officials and judges have spent weeks scrutinizing ballots in the statehouse race, with the lead shifting between the Republican incumbent, David Yancey, and the Democratic challenger, Shelly Simonds.
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"There's no incentive for bipartisan cooperation at this juncture," said Senator Tammy Baldwin, Democrat of Wisconsin, noting that statehouse Republicans can ram bills through on a party-line basis.
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Maine has split control at the statehouse level — Democrats control the House of Representatives and Republicans control the Senate — but the entire state legislature is on the ballot today.
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The flag would remain on the Statehouse grounds until 2015, when it was removed in the aftermath of the racist killing of black parishioners at Charleston's Mother Emanuel church.
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The majority leader in the statehouse has said their first order of business is going to be to bring up a bill that will basically contain these four recommendations.
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Voting in a dizzying array of congressional and statehouse races will still be underway when you get tomorrow's briefing, and the tide could break red, blue or who knows.
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"It is a real challenge to labor leaders to recognize that our strength is in working people — in withholding our labor — and not in the statehouse," Ms. Madeloni said.
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He's guided some to statehouse races instead, but brought many of them into the DCCC process and started getting them flown to Washington for meetings with leaders and staff.
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Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates Eileen Filler-Corn (D) arrives before the start of opening ceremonies of the 2020 Virginia General Assembly at the statehouse on Wednesday.
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But Wasserman Schultz has a near stranglehold on the area she's represented in Congress for more than a decade and in the Florida statehouse for many years before that.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Republican seeking the Connecticut governorship conceded the race to his Democratic rival on Wednesday, handing the Democratic party another statehouse win following Tuesday's midterm U.S. election.
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And I'm proud of the work that I have done in Washington, DC, and the work I've done in the state Senate and the statehouse before going to Congress.
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"Certainly nobody under 21 should have an AR-15," the Kansas Republican said when speaking to reporters at the Kansas Statehouse, Roberts press aide Sarah Little confirmed to CNN.
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They had arrived at the statehouse to search it and make sure all was safe for Mr. Barrow's return, but their presence on the streets was unsettling to many.
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Haley's comments stand in contrast to what she said regarding the Confederate flag in the aftermath of the shooting, when she supported its removal from the South Carolina Statehouse.
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It's a time to reflect on a unique and remarkable moment in history, when 56 men from 13 colonies gathered in a simple statehouse in Philadelphia and changed the world .
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Braun even garnered the respect of environmentalists — not a natural fit for a Republican in the Statehouse — because he saw conservation of the forests as part of being a conservative.
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The first Indian-American female governor of South Carolina, Haley cemented her legacy in her home state by calling for and ultimately removing the Confederate flag from the statehouse grounds.
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And, although the Confederate flag—with which Mr Roof liked to pose—was removed from the statehouse grounds, it still flies from porches and is emblazoned on pick-up trucks.
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Until Americans stand up (at the ballot box, statehouse, and Congress), they will continue to be injured and killed by guns at theaters, schools, their own homes, and virtually anywhere.
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For example, during her time as governor she opposed a South Carolina "bathroom bill" and took down the Confederate flag from statehouse grounds after the Charleston church shooting in 2015.
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He is assisted by two other recent scandals: the conviction for corruption of the Republican Speaker of Alabama's statehouse, and a sex scandal that did for the former Republican governor.
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Now, for the second year in a row, the South Carolina Secessionist Party (SCSP) returned to the statehouse on the anniversary of the flag's removal to raise one in protest.
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The Mashpee Wampanoag hosted a Thanksgiving event at the Massachusetts Statehouse on November 13, with the purpose of promoting "peace and unity among all Americans," according to the Associated Press.
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Okoumou's display of political protest won the attention of Bree Newsome, the activist known for climbing the flagpole in front of the South Carolina statehouse to remove the Confederate flag.
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The figure is a far cry from the $1.5 billion response Kildee and the Democrats have proposed –– a tab that would be split between Michigan's statehouse and the federal government.
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Just last week, those voters helped flip the Virginia statehouse, ousted the last Republicans in a Philadelphia-area County Council and appear to have unseated the Republican governor of Kentucky.
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Furious statehouse Republicans have denied any scheme to suppress Democratic voters, and Ohio's secretary of state, Jon Husted, arguing that the decisions will produce "chaos," said the state will appeal.
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Nor did she mention the highly publicized act of civil disobedience by Bree Newsome, who was arrested after climbing the flagpole outside of the statehouse and cutting down the flag.
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She said the party raised and spent $35 million in the 2018 election cycle on statehouse races -- more than double its $16 million raised and spent in the 2016 cycle.
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A total of about 40 Free Staters have been elected to New Hampshire's statehouse at various points, among them the McGuires, husband-and-wife Republican legislators who represent overlapping districts.
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In Vermont, Mari Cordes, a registered nurse and union organizer who stars in a Sanders campaign ad, said in an interview that she was preparing to run for the statehouse.
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The California statehouse in Sacramento is one of the most influential state bodies in the country, often responsible for setting the tone nationally on everything from environmental policy to immigration.
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Sanford blamed his decision on the House impeachment probe into Trump which has captivated Washington, he said outside the New Hampshire statehouse, where he announced the end of his run.
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The words on the sign alluded to the recent suicide of MarShawn McCarrel, the Black Lives Matter protester who shot and killed himself on the steps of the Ohio Statehouse.
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But after Northam's decisive victory in November with a campaign founded on Medicaid expansion, which also swept many new Democrats into the statehouse, that fight could finally end, Northam said.
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Samantha Spawn, a lobbyist for NARAL Pro-Choice South Dakota, said she was sexually assaulted earlier this year by a statehouse staff member whom she had considered a friendly acquaintance.
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"He put the Confederate flag on the Statehouse that we had to fight to take down," said Melissa Watson, a Charleston-area teacher and local Democratic official who is black.
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Democrats have been locked out of the governor's mansion for two decades, but the party is hoping the state's leftward shift might give them a better chance at the statehouse.
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His advisers' warnings — that that the losses could be brutal in House and statehouse races, but that the Senate should be a bright spot — appear to have been on target.
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DiSabato had testified about the phone call during an Ohio statehouse hearing Tuesday for legislation that would allow a victim to sue a university if a university doctor abused them.
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In Nashville on Monday, protesters at the state Capitol demanded the removal of a bust of Nathan Bedford Forrest that sits between the Statehouse and Senate chambers, The Tennessean reported.
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Her district in Denver contains many immigrant communities, and she recoils when she hears President Trump use the term in speeches or catches conservative colleagues uttering it in Statehouse hallways.
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Since states must contribute a portion of total Medicaid funding to the federal allocation, the amount of money available for school district spending is in part determined by statehouse politics.
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The pleas to keep the status quo were powerful, both inside and outside of the statehouse, but so were the cries for Georgia to realize Robert E. Lee was dead.
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Protesters, reporters and members of the State Assembly were greeted at the Statehouse by hundreds of signs plastered on doors and walls with a picture of a smiling Mr. Prieto.
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"Certainly nobody under 21 should have an AR-15," the Kansas Republican said when speaking to reporters at the Kansas Statehouse, Roberts press aide Sarah Little confirmed to CNN Thursday.
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The conversation on guns in America took a back seat to calls for South Carolina legislators to take down the rebel flag, which flew high above the statehouse since 1961.
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The flag was removed from grounds of the Statehouse in July 2015 following the terror attack by self-proclaimed white nationalist Dylan Roof against 9 members of a predominantly black church.
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The lower court had ordered two congressional districts and statehouse districts in four counties be redrawn in time for the 2018 elections, but the high court blocked that mandate last year.
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Yet when asked post-primary about how she would convince a Republican-dominant Statehouse to approve recreational marijuana, Jordan put the onus on lawmakers and not herself to make it happen.
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Together with their statehouse majorities, the GOP controls both legislative chambers and the governorship in 25 states; Democrats have all three in eight states; and 16 states have split party control.
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Two years ago this week, a young woman did something nearly unthinkable: Brittany "Bree" Newsome approached the South Carolina statehouse, scaled a 30-foot flagpole, and took down the Confederate flag.
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That means transgender Texans don't get a summer break from defending their rights; they get Saturday detention at the statehouse instead — and I want to hang out with the cool kids.
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Mr Donnelly's Republican challenger, Mike Braun, the boss of a car-parts firm and a former member of the statehouse, naturally claims that the senator is an enemy of this progress.
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In 20103, Haley ran a long-shot campaign for the South Carolina House of Representatives in Lexington County, near Columbia, against the longest-serving member of the statehouse, a fellow Republican.
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"If Republicans decide to do this, they will have effectively negated the power of every single vote for every single Supreme Court justice," said Graig Meyer, a Democrat in the statehouse.
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In the background of historic photos of Governor Nikki Haley signing a bill to remove the Confederate flag from the statehouse grounds, the chairmen stand shoulder-to-shoulder, looking down approvingly.
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On Twitter, protesters used the hashtag #daywithoutlatinos to share images and information from the marches and their gathering inside the statehouse, while others dialed it up to tag expressions of solidarity.
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Though she modestly omitted her own role, Mrs Haley's subsequent leadership led to the lowering of the Confederate flag in the statehouse grounds, a gesture that was emulated across the South.
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John Kasich apologized Monday for telling a Virginia crowd Monday that women "left their kitchens" for him in an early statehouse race, quickly prompting a retort from one woman voter there.
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Others opposed to the measure were represented by their signatures -- 83,000 of them -- in a petition delivered to the statehouse by Heather Smith, executive director of the ACLU in South Dakota.
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The governor was also critical of South Carolina's high rate of domestic abuse, an issue that Democrats and the Republicans in the statehouse have united in fighting in the last year.
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Republican lawmakers must decide whether they still believe in the good sense of those they aspire to govern, or whether they lost that faith somewhere on the way to the statehouse.
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Belin has covered the state legislature since 2007 and told the AP she suspects the move is related to her at times critical coverage of the Republican leaders in the statehouse.
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In the Statehouse, Matias has been championing the Safe Communities Act, a bill that would, among other things, prevent local and state police officers from asking people about their legal status.
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But the idea of returning to a place like the statehouse, combined with the insufficient help she felt she from received from her employer in dealing with it, made her queasy.
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Democrats got more positive news on Wednesday night, when veterinarian Phil Miller won an Iowa statehouse race by 10 points in a district Trump had won by 21 points this fall.
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It was a position that a few years ago seemed to offer a clear path to the Statehouse for Ms. Guadagno, but that now has devolved into a seemingly insurmountable obstacle.
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In West Virginia, a public radio reporter was arrested this month in the statehouse as he tried to ask a question of Tom Price, the secretary of health and human services.
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The Crime Prevention Research Center has tracked only two instances in the nation where a handgun misfired in a statehouse and a handful of instances where lawmakers temporarily misplaced their weapons.
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He is a man who understands hard work, which is evident by his success in business, with the Olympics, and also as a politician from the Massachusetts statehouse to the governorship.
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When Mr. Trump announced his candidacy in 2015, he said that he supported Ms. Haley's call for the Confederate flag to be removed from the grounds of the South Carolina Statehouse.
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But what becomes clear is that there is a strong statistical case that electing a Republican governor — even without a matching GOP statehouse — plays a significant role in states' economic success.
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The cherry-red telephone on his desk as governor was a direct line to Karen, who maintained an office across the statehouse atrium but preferred phone conversations to avoid prying eyes.
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In 2000, when McCain was campaigning for the Republican presidential primary in South Carolina, he was asked what he thought of the Confederate flag flying from the South Carolina Statehouse dome.
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Wednesday's observance was to open with a private ceremony inside the Rotunda of the Arizona statehouse, after which members of the public were invited to pay their respects from 2 p.m.
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What's more, the Ohio statehouse is dominated by a Republican legislature, the largest majorities either party has had since the state went to a 22019-seat Senate and 99-seat House.
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But nowadays his competitors are just as likely to beat a path to the nearest statehouse, with lobbyists in tow, seeking legislation to banish the innovator's superior product from the marketplace.
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Powerful West Virginia lawmakers are behind the measure, which marks a sad retreat from the statehouse safety concerns voiced in 2010 when the Upper Big Branch disaster took 29 miners' lives.
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Haley ordered the Confederate flag be removed from statehouse grounds in the wake of the shooting, when photos of Roof posing with the flag and a white supremacist screed were discovered.
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"I have never been in blackface, unequivocal," Kirk Cox, the Republican speaker of the House of Delegates, said not long before Mr. Norment's yearbook became the latest subject of statehouse controversy.
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This month the Republican-controlled statehouse passed two pieces of legislation that stripped duties from the governor so that the power of his successor, Democratic Attorney General Roy Cooper, would be curtailed.
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One of Haley's most noticed acts as governor was removing the Confederate flag from the statehouse grounds in the wake of a deadly shooting at a Charleston church by a white supremacist.
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One representative, Republican Kevin McDugle, received criticism for lashing out at the teachers' choice of tactics in a viral video Tuesday, and for threatening to close the public galleries to statehouse chambers.
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Patty Pansing Brooks, a Democratic state senator from Nebraska, is the author of the bill creating the Whiteclay public health emergency task-force, which unanimously passed the unicameral statehouse on April 24th.
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A video clip from official statehouse footage showed Dayton pausing to take a sip of water, then slurring his words as he tried to resume his address before slumping at the lectern.
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Glenn will lie in state in Ohio's capitol building before a public viewing at the Ohio Statehouse and a memorial service at Ohio State University's Mershon Auditorium planned for later next week.
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"We are entirely on the offense this cycle, and Republicans are defending some tough terrain," said Jessica Post, executive director of the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee, which leads the party's statehouse efforts.
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Despite the high stakes and bright lights, the nation's statehouse impeachment bar is made of up just a few battle-tested lawyers who have improvised legal strategies largely on history and hunches.
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In fact, if anything, the media's role in keeping politicians and business honest has fallen back because there aren't enough reporters at the statehouse in Columbus or at the Capitol in Washington.
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Last month, Sanders, along with former presidential candidate Martin O'Malley and African-American leaders in South Carolina, participated in a mile-long march to the statehouse on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
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Former Vice President Joe Biden, a Democratic presidential front-runner, visited Virginia over the weekend to campaign with several statehouse candidates, and Republican Vice President Mike Pence held a rally on Saturday.
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The gun control group he backs, Everytown for Gun Safety, spent $373 million in Virginia this year, helping the Democratic Party take control of the statehouse for the first time since 1994.
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" Here's the key exchange between Johnson and Alisyn Camerota: CAMEROTA: "You know he said lots of controversial things, that President Obama is a Muslim, 10 Commandments need to be in the statehouse.
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An inflammatory segregationist, Wallace flew the Confederate flag over his statehouse and promised to defy federal law by personally turning away any black student who tried to integrate the University of Alabama.
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Along with the raising of the flag, the statehouse opened an "Equality Will Never Be Silent" exhibit in honor of Pride Month, which will stay open for the summer, CNN reported Thursday.
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An anti-vaccine activist was arrested when she allegedly threw a feminine hygiene device that appeared to contain blood from a second-floor balcony during a legislative session in the California statehouse.
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The Democratic coalition is a losing coalition in most states, most House districts, most Senate races; the party's national bench is thin, its statehouse power shattered, its congressional leadership aged and inert.
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In Ohio, an emboldened Republican statehouse passed two abortion bills — including one that could ban the procedure as early as six weeks, which is before many women even know they are pregnant.
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In New Class of Young Lawmakers, a Former Girl Scout Goes to the Statehouse Cassandra Levesque, 173, had once urged New Hampshire lawmakers to raise the age of marriage in the state.
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"She goes out of her way to connect with people who may not traditionally vote for Democrats," said Charles R. Weaver Jr., a Republican business lobbyist who served in the Minnesota statehouse.
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He noted that it was the 2015 murder of nine African-American churchgoers in Charleston, S.C., by a white supremacist that led to the removal of the Confederate flag from statehouse grounds.
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But no statehouse seems to have witnessed the spectacle now unfolding in Pennsylvania, where despite Ms. Toohil's court-issued protective order, Mr. Miccarelli continues to work, apparently shielded by the party leadership.
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Sutton and experts not associated with the campaigns pointed to Oregon's history of reform at the ballot and the statehouse as an indication it could be ready to embrace more radical change.
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Everytown for Gun Safety spent $2.5 million to flip the Virginia statehouse, and Moms Demand Action volunteers in the commonwealth knocked tens of thousands of doors and made more than 100,000 calls.
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Ilhan Omar with the September 11 attacks appeared Friday at a Republican-sponsored public gathering at the West Virginia statehouse, creating a firestorm of controversy that apparently led one official to resign.
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With Republicans now wielding total statehouse control in 25 states, Iowa may be providing an early look at a national wave of politics to pre-empt local government action they don't like.
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She's been in politics for 40 years; she was first elected to office at age 24 and has served in the Michigan statehouse, state Senate, and two terms in the U.S. House.
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Aides to Pence, both in the White House and from his days as governor of Indiana, maintain that he prefers to be out of the White House or statehouse, traveling the country.
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Within 24 hours, various groups devoted to voting rights had put on their thinking caps — they don't give them out at the Statehouse — and were noting a few problems with the list.
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But given we lost a lot of statehouse seats, governorships, secretary of states, his true legacy is in danger, and I think he can't say that he wasn't part of those losses.
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The decriminalization bill was the latest in a flurry of progressive-minded legislation pushed through the statehouse as the closing days of the legislative session dragged beyond its scheduled end on Wednesday.
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Iowa Democrats — facing a volatile primary season, a slew of recent election losses and two years of total Republican control in the Statehouse — say they can't afford another four years under Republican Gov.
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Brian Kemp signed into law a ban on abortions once a "fetal heartbeat" is detected, she showed up on the steps of the Georgia statehouse with local elected officials to advocate for patients.
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" Erin Cox, the Statehouse bureau chief and politics reporter for the Baltimore Sun, shared her experiences working with Hiaasen and described him a "friend, a mentor, and editor and a delightful human being.
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It found that the single most important factor in state legislature races is what the voters think of the sitting president — even if the president has essentially no hand in setting statehouse policy.
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But this case arose out of Texas over these statehouse maps and congressional maps that were allegedly drawn with a racial intent, specifically to suppress the vote of Latino and African-American voters.
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Right now, the Democratic Party is at one of its low-points in the past century, having lost control of both branches of Congress, the White House, and a majority of statehouse seats.
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It was the first to grant full marriage rights to same-sex couples in civil unions and first to legalize same-sex marriage in the statehouse as opposed to through a court ruling.
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A bill was introduced in California's statehouse on Monday that would require internet service providers to get consumer's consent before using their personal information — including web browsing history — for targeted advertising, per MediaPost.
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A woman holds her daughter with other mothers in a hallway, Thursday, May 2, 2019, at the Statehouse in Augusta, Maine, where the Senate was considering a bill ending non-medical vaccine exemptions.
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Days after the Alabama ban was signed, 1,000 people showed up for a rally in Huntsville and protesters wearing red "Handmaid" costumes have become a staple of statehouse protests in Montgomery (and elsewhere).
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But Northam saw new hope on Wednesday for his gun measures after voters flipped control of both chambers of the statehouse to his fellow Democrats for the first time in a quarter century.
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Outside the Statehouse restaurant, an interactive gallery wall with LCD screens acts like a curated exhibit of Madison's history and features stories on local pioneers like the American Girl Dolls founder, Pleasant Rowland.
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An anti-vaccine activist was arrested for interrupting a legislative session in the California statehouse when she allegedly threw a feminine hygiene device that appeared to contain blood from a second-floor balcony.
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According to The Denver Post, demonstrators gathered at the statehouse to protest DeVos one day before she is slated to speak at a conference for the conservative group American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).
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Democratic legislatures have also been guilty of overreach, such as this past summer when California's overwhelmingly blue statehouse passed a bill preempting soda taxes in an effort to appease the American Beverage Association.
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Stephen Moss, a Republican state representative from the small town of Blacksburg, S.C., was one of a number of lawmakers who voted against removing the flag from the Statehouse grounds in July 2015.
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This is an intolerable abuse of the public interest and a direct result of the cage fights over taxation and budget cutting that have made statehouse politics such an embarrassment across the nation.
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She is a Sanders supporter, a single mother of two and a first-time candidate for the Maine statehouse who frequently talks about struggling to support her family while working low-wage jobs.
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And in Virginia, voters elected Democrat Ralph Northam, a staunch Obamacare supporter, as governor and sent more Democratic lawmakers to the statehouse, which is sure to restart the debate over expanding Medicaid there.
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"We are demonstrating that if we decide to run for Senate, we have the organization and statewide support to match our record of conservative results at the Statehouse and in Congress," he added.
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Two Republican members of the Alabama statehouse have since publicly alleged that Strange tried to stop Bentley's impeachment because he had his eye on the governor's mansion, though the charge hasn't been proven.
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A large influx of new, pro-internet politicians in city council seats, mayorships, and statehouse seats would go a long way toward ensuring the playing field is leveled and net neutrality is preserved.
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Some may win despite being outspent by male opponents, but the financial disparity points to the lingering institutional barriers confronting female candidates who try to crack the glass ceiling of the statehouse dome.
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"It's about making sure we're going to hold people accountable," said Jessica Gavre, 34, a former statehouse aide in Washington who said Mr. Sawyer sent her sexually suggestive text messages at all hours.
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Mr Bishop, overcoming a reflexive Republican aversion to handouts, sponsored a bill signed into law in July in North Carolina's statehouse to funnel money for health care and poverty alleviation to the Lumbee.
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The 42-year-old lawmaker's metamorphosis began when, after a failed bid for the state legislature as a Green Party-aligned independent candidate, she won a statehouse seat as a Democrat in 2004.
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Cleveland, which is not a part of the pilot project, has been fighting for its own local hiring ordinance in the courts, Washington or the Statehouse since it was first adopted in 2003.
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"This is going to cause down-ballot damage in swing districts and states if she's the nominee," Bri Buentello, a Colorado statehouse representative running for reelection in a district Trump won, told Politico.
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Washington (CNN)The Supreme Court was sharply divided on Tuesday as the justices considered a lower court opinion that invalidated congressional and statehouse maps in Texas, holding that they discriminated against minority voters.
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The bill in New Jersey was strongly opposed by thousands of anti-vaccine families from a wide variety of religious backgrounds, who have flooded the statehouse in recent days to express their objections.
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The Michigan People's Campaign focused on a statehouse district called Downriver Detroit, dispatching campaigners door to door to talk across party lines about issues like caring for the elderly, disabled relatives and children.
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Chris Christie returned home last month to the comfort of his power base in Trenton, only to find old statehouse allies brandishing pitchforks and torches, not the legislative favors he had hoped for.
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In his story, Yglesias ran down some of the ways Republicans' grip on the statehouse has enabled them to enact key parts of their policy agenda: Republicans have unified control of 25 states.
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A woman holds a sign in front of the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC. August Mulvihill, of Norwalk, Iowa, center, holds a sign during a rally at the Statehouse in Des Moines, Iowa.
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Cuomo has drawn the ire of some voters, angered that he for years allowed several Democratic members of the state's senate to caucus with Republicans to give that party the advantage in the statehouse.
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I get an alert from the local Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense chapter asking me to email legislators to vote "no" for a batshit-crazy handgun bill moving through the statehouse this week.
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At New Jersey's statehouse in Trenton, there was little evidence of progress in resolving a fight over a health insurance bill that Republican Governor Chris Christie said must be passed alongside the state's budget.
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The live stream showed headlights illuminating the grass and then the large stone slab -- which was put in place Tuesday afternoon -- with the statehouse lit in the background as music plays inside the car.
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Nikki Haley signed a bill in July 2015 to bring down the Confederate flag on the statehouse grounds, less than a day after lawmakers in the state House of Representatives voted to remove it.
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While Republicans easily held onto Mississippi's statehouse with Trump's support earlier this month, a loss in the Louisiana race could call into question Republican candidates' decisions to run on close ties to the president.
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It was there that my colleagues and I had the pleasure of working under McCarthy's leadership when he was Republican Leader of the California Statehouse, a relentless warrior who never let up on Democrats.
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The South Carolina governor won bipartisan praise for her handling of the June 2015 massacre at a black church in Charleston and the subsequent debate over removing the Confederate flag from the statehouse grounds.
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After Georgia passed a bill banning abortions once a fetal heartbeat is detected, which usually happens six weeks into a pregnancy, the New Yorker sat down with abortion rights advocates at the Georgia Statehouse.
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That spring, a wave of tornadoes injured thousands across the Midwest; members of the Black Panther Party, carrying shotguns and rifles, marched into the California statehouse to protest a racially motivated gun-control law.
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The crisis has left many of the 4,500 students from black, low-income families shaken and angry that they could be the first casualties of the statehouse standoff, Julie Bosman of The Times reports.
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Iowa State Senator and Majority Leader Bill Dix has resigned after a video that appears to show Dix kissing a statehouse lobbyist in a Des Moines bar, was posted to the Iowa Starting Line.
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Always taking place the year after the White House contest, the statehouse races here and in New Jersey are often looked to for insights about the mood of the electorate toward the new administration.
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In addition, there are special elections to fill statehouse vacancies left by lawmakers accused of sexual harassment or misconduct in six states, including Florida, Kentucky, Mississippi, Oklahoma, and two each in California and Minnesota.
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"He's handling it like a gentleman," Mr. Keel said of the Statehouse situation, noting that there had been no brushes with Ms. Toohil and her plainclothes guard since the order of protection was imposed.
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A week before the Indiana committee hearing, a group of utility lobbyists descended on the statehouse, handing out talking points that said credits for rooftop solar panels lead to higher rates for everyone else.
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All of this is happening as members of the Virginia Senate and House of Delegates are dodging cameras and reporters as they work inside the statehouse during the busiest time of the legislative calendar.
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The paranoia was evident even this week, with Mr. Jammeh hundreds of miles away, when a Gambian newspaper reported that he had left toxins in the vents in the statehouse to poison his successor.
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"To be honest with you, we haven't had any money problems of our own," said Chris Hurst, a former TV news anchor running as a Democrat for the Virginia statehouse in the 12th District.
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On a sunny day in October, Trump supporter Kimmy Kolkovich, 46, joined a friend on the sidewalk at a busy intersection near the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus to urge people to register and vote.
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White, a moderate businessman, is the candidate who could appeal to suburban Texans who dislike President Donald Trump and the current strain of right-wing politics dominating the statehouse under Abbott and Lt. Gov.
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On most issues — including both extension of insurance coverage and funding of public higher education — the proximate barrier to more progressive policy is in the statehouse or the House of Representatives, not the White House.
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This definition, together with other procedural shenanigans explained by Slate's Mark Joseph Stern, would allow New Jersey Democrats to draw a map where they would be practically guaranteed to win a supermajority in statehouse elections.
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"I just wanted to call and let the governor know my flow was particularly heavy today," she said in her first call to the statehouse in March of this year, according to the Indianapolis Star.
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The U.S. House and Senate races are getting all the money and media coverage, but the most important contests this fall could be between the relatively unknown candidates vying for seats in your local statehouse.
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This could also backfire and provide fodder for rival campaigns, as when Kasich was talking about an early statehouse race in the 1970s and said women "who left their kitchens" came out to support him.
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Fiery confrontations erupted in the West Virginia statehouse on Friday after the state Republican Party reportedly assembled an "anti-Muslim" display as part of the inaugural WVGOP Day, featuring a photo of freshman Democratic Rep.
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The move raises questions about whether Perfect wants to use his Statehouse authority to peel back rules that would directly benefit his business, which employs as many as 400 minors, according to the Indianapolis Star.
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When his job ended, early in 1863, with the Democrats' capture of New York's statehouse, Arthur succumbed to the allure of the revolving door, operational in politics a few decades before its appearance in architecture.
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Emilia Sykes (D) told ABC News she was trying to get to the Riffe Center on Wednesday, which is connected to the Statehouse and is home to lawmaker offices, when a security guard stopped her.
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In the Kansas Statehouse, at least 11 Brownback loyalists, including the Senate majority leader, were defeated by candidates who drew support from voters appalled at deepening budget cuts in education, infrastructure and other basic services.
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It was those forces that unseated GOP Congressman Dave Brat from a deep-red House seat near Richmond, Va., and kept Republican Secretary of State Kris Kobach from claiming the statehouse in perennially red Kansas.
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Apple is planning to fight proposed electronics "Right to Repair" legislation being considered by the Nebraska state legislature, according to a source within the legislature who is familiar with the bill's path through the statehouse.
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The statehouse said we couldn't restrict what kind of guns or ammunition can be carried, displayed, worn, concealed or transported, with a few very limited exceptions like courtrooms and intentional displays at official public meetings.
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Flint is an overwhelmingly Democratic city, and turning out such urban communities may be the key factor in whether Democrats can wrest statehouse control from Republicans in a state President Trump narrowly won in 2016.
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It's clear Ives tapped into a frustrated conservative Republican voter base, railing on Rauner for having liberal views on abortion and LGBTQ rights and failing to stand up to the Democratic establishment in Illinois's statehouse.
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Ms. Jallow, now 23, said that after she turned down the president's marriage proposal, she was summoned to the statehouse for what she was told was a Ramadan event with all the beauty pageant participants.
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Mr. Hare, 26, of Harrisburg, Pa., was filmed in early October punching leftist protesters at a "Resist Marxism" rally outside the statehouse in Providence, R.I., and traveled to another far-right rally in Portland, Ore.
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Democrats picked up statehouse seats in suburban areas where such a switch would have been nearly impossible four or perhaps even two years ago, and they look set to gain other seats in state government.
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But Mr. Squadron was more hopeful about the lessons of the last few weeks — and what it could portend for Democrats if they are able to compete in statehouse races in the years to come.
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Unexpectedly massive Democratic gains in Virginia's statehouse surprised even the most optimistic party loyalists in a state that has trended Democratic in recent years but remains a top target for both parties in national elections.
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It was a night of victories for at least seven Democratic women running for the House in a state that has an all-male congressional delegation of 20 and a Statehouse dominated by male politicians.
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Haley, 44 and South Carolina's first female governor, drew bipartisan praise in 2015 for signing a law to remove the Confederate flag from statehouse grounds following a mass shooting at a black church in Charleston.
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A surprise loss in a special statehouse election Tuesday night in Wisconsin has set off a new round of alarm among Republicans worried that they could face a Democratic wave in this year's midterm elections.
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Rokita announced his bid at the Indiana statehouse Wednesday, when he focused primarily on Donnelly and emphasized his support for President Trump as well as Vice President Pence, who previously served as governor of Indiana.
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The Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee (DLCC), which focuses on statehouse races, will make the legislatures of Arizona, Texas, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Minnesota and Iowa its main targets for 2020, The Washington Post reported Friday.
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House GOP candidate Sheri Few garnered attention when she appeared in a video attacking her Republican primary opponents Tommy Pope and Ralph Norman for supporting Haley in taking down the Confederate flag from statehouse grounds.
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Making the money slog harder for Democrats is the fact that statehouse Republicans have formidable fundraising prowess, particularly since so many of them are incumbents who have been building up their war chests for years.
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The day after the program was announced, an email shared with Motherboard shows an lobbyist touting the news to Oregon representative Rob Nosse, who recently sponsored a statehouse right-to-repair bill, on behalf of Apple.
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Trump and the presidency may not be on the ballot, but congressional seats, statehouse races, and governorships are, and Democrats have a lot of ground to gain if they want to reshape the country's power dynamics.
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In South Carolina, the scene of the crime, Nikki Haley, the governor, led a successful and swift push to remove the Confederate flag from the grounds of the statehouse, where it had flown for 15 years.
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Indeed, Blumenthal is probably at his best in acquainting us with the textures and dynamics of local politics, of the courthouse and statehouse, and the intricate and often explosive alliances and rivalries that took shape there.
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One person in the mix for a senior Iowa role, multiple sources tell CNN, is Michael Frosolone -- a well-regarded Democratic operative who in 2018 oversaw the party's statehouse campaign operations, helping to flip seven seats.
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"The injured are receiving medication which is not sufficient given the remote state of the area in which the incident has taken place," Ateny Wek Ateny said in a statement at the statehouse on Monday evening.
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It turns history into a fairy tale in which the innocent (the families of the victims) melt the hearts of the powerful (the legislators in the statehouse) and solutions to old problems magically come to fruition.
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"The K.K.K. came to South Carolina from out of state to protest on our statehouse grounds," she told a ballroom full of more than 1,500 Rubio supporters on Monday, eliciting boos as she mentioned the Klan.
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Liberals have instead sought to draw attention to the controversy featuring Islamophobia at the West Virginia statehouse, where an altercation broke out over a poster on display that compared Omar to the terrorists in the Sept.
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The runoff win by Bourdeaux comes after Georgia Democrats elected former statehouse Democratic leader Stacey Abrams as their gubernatorial candidate in the fall, making her the first black woman nominated for governor by a major party.
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"The path to a majority has to run through seats that Secretary Clinton did not win, that is the reality," said Jessica Post, executive director of the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee, the party's national statehouse coordinator.
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And it's a reminder that, even after years of exhausting political fights, health care is still a salient issue: Medicaid expansion was a key part of Northam's campaign and helped propel Democrats' gains in the statehouse.
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In addition to winning the top races, for governor of New Jersey and Virginia, Democrats also captured the mayoral post in Manchester, N.H., the State Senate in Washington, along with other important victories in statehouse elections.
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Even Ronald Reagan, who, like Trump, campaigned as a Washington outsider, relied on both his inner circle from the California Statehouse and a kitchen cabinet of mostly self-made millionaires who helped finance his political rise.
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Next year's statehouse races will reorder the country's political map for a decade, because many of the 36 governors elected will have a strong hand in redrawing state legislative and congressional boundaries after the 2020 census.
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The single-file procession through the Arizona Capitol rotunda, where McCain's flag-draped coffin was lying in state, stretched across the statehouse plaza and widened to two or three abreast as it extended down adjacent streets.
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The unprecedented lobbying effort by groups of teenagers and parents at the White House and at the Florida statehouse in Tallahassee played out as fellow students staged classroom walkouts and rallies in cities across the country.
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It has erected a "snaketivity" monument in the past, on the lawn of the Michigan statehouse, but is perhaps best known for its nine-foot-tall statue of two children gazing lovingly at Baphomet's goat head.
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At home, Mr. Greitens gleefully clashed with legislators and the statehouse press corps, making a show of his willingness to take on the establishment and boasting about his approach in interviews with conservative news media outlets.
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But I did disagree with him loudly on his priorities when I thought they were different than the priorities we set in 0003 — the gas tax being one of them, the statehouse renovation being another one.
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Democrats in 2018 flipped six seats in the statehouse from red to blue, including three in the Columbus suburbs, reflecting a national pendulum swing away from Mr. Trump by white college-educated independents and Republican women.
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Biden is expected to travel to South Carolina on Monday for a Martin Luther King Jr. Day rally at the statehouse in Columbia, an annual event that has become a key stop for Democratic presidential candidates.
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Power is distributed away from the statehouse and to other institutional actors, from governors — who are also term-limited but use state bureaucracies and party machinery to work their will — to large interest groups and lobbyists.
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It is not simply a cut-and-dry partisan matter, with many state lawmakers of Greitens' own party nursing frustrations over his aggressive governing style — which has often involved the statehouse as his political punching bag.
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Barack Obama was in the White House, and gay leaders were celebrating a series of court and statehouse victories, which would soon include the Supreme Court's recognizing a constitutional right to marry by same-sex couples.
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Brian Kemp signed into law a ban on abortions once a "fetal heartbeat" is detected, she showed up on the steps of the Georgia statehouse to advocate for patients and released a comprehensive reproductive rights agenda.
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King said he doesn't believe in the notion that white candidates are viewed as more electable — because Booker wouldn't be a senator and King wouldn't be a member of the statehouse if that were the case.
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In North Carolina, dozens have been arrested at statehouse rallies organized by a diverse coalition led by the state NAACP conference to protest a new law barring transgender people from using the bathrooms of their choice.
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Kansans have become alarmed at years of deep deficits, shrinking state support for education, two downgrades in the state's credit rating and enough regret among legislators to prompt an extraordinary uprising last week by Statehouse Republicans.
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Hours later, the Statehouse drama widened further with the revelation that Thomas K. Norment Jr., the Republican majority leader in the State Senate, helped edit a college yearbook that featured slurs and racist photographs, including blackface.
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When the Republican statehouse presented him with its budget in April, he called a press conference at which he lifted a silver lid to reveal a large pile of bull manure sitting on top of the budget.
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Shooter, who is married and had served in the statehouse since 2011, tried to use the ouster to his advantage by campaigning with the slogan "MAKE A LIBERALS [sic] HEAD EXPLODE," but two opponents easily defeated him.
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He said Democrats would find themselves in a "permanent minority" because the GOP needs just seven more Senate seats for a filibuster-proof majority there, and just one more statehouse to call and control a constitutional convention.
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Last week he held an outdoor press conference a few blocks from the state capitol in Madison, where he was guaranteed at least an audience of statehouse reporters who could swing by during their afternoon Starbucks run.
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Aerial footage from local media showed educators clogging the streets surrounding the statehouse, wearing red in solidarity and holding signs reading #RedForEd and "15,000 strong can't ALL be wrong," referencing the number of teachers predicted to march.
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The party's entry into the legislature in 2014 led to a more aggressive, raw tone in the overall debate, said Ulrich Sondermann-Becker, who has covered the statehouse for the public broadcaster MDR for nearly two decades.
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Just this week, Iowa's statehouse held a hearing on one such bill, HSB 92, that would lower wages for thousands of Iowa workers by eliminating existing and scheduled minimum wage increases in four of the state's counties.
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Ken Dunkin, a Chicago Democrat, used his props to dramatize his willingness to stay at the Capitol and even "shower" in the speaker's private statehouse bathroom for as long as it takes to strike a budget deal.
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He struggled to raise money even from allies who had supported him at the Statehouse, in part because of the reverence for Feinstein and because many Democrats did not want to lose her seniority in the Senate.
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The short film will be followed by a series of speakers on stage, including Park Cannon, a young, gay African-American state legislator from Georgia, who will share her experience of going from homelessness to the statehouse.
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Minutes before the scheduled House votes on a contentious budget plan, the statehouse was shut down after a woman threw a powdery substance in the offices of the governor and lieutenant governor and in the House gallery.
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Throughout our interview, McCrory took pains to contrast himself with the social conservatives in the Statehouse down the street and highlighted his opposition to other conservative legislation including a "religious freedom" bill that more closely resembled Indiana's.
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Lawmakers walked away after hours of debate in public and behind closed doors with flocks of protesters crowding the statehouse, most of them seeking the law, known as House Bill 2 or HB2, to be killed off.
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The fight for suffrage was won one day in the Tennessee statehouse, but it started nearly a century earlier, and that's where "Votes for Women" opts to begin, pulling back the curtain on 100 years of struggle.
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The 2017 elections went pretty well for Democrats, who won governor's races in Virginia and New Jersey, picked up 15 seats in Virginia's Statehouse, and won a special election that gave them control of Washington's state Senate.
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Voting gets underway today in a dizzying array of congressional and statehouse races in the U.S. Our polling expert explains why even modest late shifts among undecided voters or slightly unexpected turnout numbers could significantly affect results.
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With census data on citizenship, the Republican operative, Thomas Hofeller, wrote, conservative states with large immigrant populations could vote to exclude non-citizens from the count they use to draw state legislative districts, consolidating Republican statehouse control.
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Mostly, though, politics as discussed by these figures is almost completely divorced from consequences because what happens in Washington or at the statehouse has a much smaller impact on their lives than what happens on Wall Street.
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Senator Mitch McConnell, the majority leader, told reporters at the Kentucky statehouse on Monday that the Pittsburgh and Louisville shootings both fit the definition of a hate crime, and said the attackers should get the death penalty.
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" "I'm the one with the track record, as Dean Philips knows ... that brings people with me, that wins in the reddest of red rural areas, as well as suburban areas, that flips the statehouse every single time.
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The document identifies 12 statehouse districts the Texas GOP plans to target in 2020 as well as plans to center candidates who can push back on a "narrative driven by Democrats" about the GOP's lack of diversity.
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Senator John Whitmire, a Democrat who has been in the statehouse since 1973, recalled enthusiastically voting in 1993 for the plan that sent the pension fund on its ill-fated quest for investment returns of 9 percent.
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At a candlelight vigil, one of them introduced herself to the Florida congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who connected her to a state senator, who helped the kids figure out how to get floor time at the statehouse.
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The South belongs as much to Bree Newsome, the black woman who climbed up the pole on the South Carolina Statehouse grounds and took down the Confederate flag, as it does to the Sons of Confederate Veterans.
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Thus, for several weeks that summer, in and around Nashville's statehouse, a frenetic pageant of political organizing, lobbying, demonstrating and double-crossing unfolded among the "Antis," who opposed the amendment, and the "Suffs," or suffragists, who supported it.
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One was a Republican representative, firefighter and Iraq war veteran who told his colleagues at the statehouse in Concord that unions had been instrumental in helping his fellow soldiers find well-paying work after returning home from war.
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For a sense of proportion, consider that a pro-refugee rally at the statehouse in Boise, Idaho—a city with a population of about 200,000 that is nearly 1703 percent white—drew almost 1,000 people in November 2015.
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These bans have been immediately met with widespread protests all week at the Statehouse, sit-ins at the Governor's office, and with women all over Ohio sending letters, making tens of thousands of phone calls to Kasich's office.
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In the wake of the attack at Mother Emanuel, activist Bree Newsome scaled a flagpole at the South Carolina Statehouse to take down the Confederate flag in protest to the whitewashing of the flag's legacy after the shooting.
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Democratic leaders also say a wave is possible given the party's recent special election wins in Trump territory and unexpectedly big gains last fall in Virginia, which unlike most places holds its statehouse elections in odd-numbered years.
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But hours after Donald Trump's inauguration, as the 1003-year-old marched alongside 2100,2000 other activists on Arizona's statehouse, a woman, apparently emboldened by the victory of her candidate, spat that term right in the anti-fascist's face.
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"Brian Kemp will bring the kind of leadership to the Statehouse that President Donald Trump has brought to the White House," Mr. Pence told the crowd of at least 1,000 people inside the Edgar H. Wilson Convention Center.
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Down in the polls, with little money to pose a serious threat to anyone, Flynn said Rasky joined the campaign anyway, holding up Flynn's work on homelessness and with special needs children while he served in the statehouse.
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Democrats have been racking up surprise statehouse victories in red territory since Trump's election, and while Democrats have lost all four special elections since the inauguration, they've also dramatically outperformed their results from last year in every one.
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PHOENIX — After a record turnout in November swept Democrats into several key federal and state offices in Arizona, the Republicans who have dominated the Statehouse for a decade did two things: They raised the specter of election fraud.
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Democrats hold the largest minority share of our statehouse since 1997; they picked up two congressional seats in 2018; and they flipped two more counties in the hotly contested Interstate 4 corridor that runs between Tampa and Orlando.
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Student and parent activists from the high school in Parkland, Florida, near Fort Lauderdale were expected to stage a rally on Wednesday at the statehouse on Wednesday, about 218 miles (93 km) to the north of the school.
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The reality is that many of the decisions that happen in your statehouse or city council have immediate relevance to your daily life and community, and those leadership positions are often voted on outside of presidential election years.
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NEWARK — They were two of the most notable corruption convictions in recent political history, two entrenched New York power brokers seemingly brought to justice, their cases reverberating well beyond the wood-paneled walls of the Statehouse in Albany.
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In Ohio on June 13, women in "Handmaid's Tale" costumes attended a hearing at the Statehouse in Columbus to protest a bill that would ban the dilation and evacuation procedure, the most common abortion method in the state.
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The Senate Leadership Fund has aired three ads in Missouri hitting Kander for his record in the statehouse, targeting his votes in support of the Affordable Care Act, a national energy tax and government services for illegal immigrants.
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Republican leaders in the Pennsylvania Statehouse said on Thursday that they would strip Representative Nick Miccarelli of his committee assignments, after finding that he had continued to retaliate against a woman who has accused him of sexual assault.
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To take control of the statehouse, Democrats need to retain all of their current seats and win nine now held by Republicans, a daunting challenge that most political observers say is unlikely but do not entirely rule out.
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In addition to winning the three statewide races on the ballot in Virginia, Democrats crushed down-ballot Republicans, picking up more than a dozen seats and cutting deep into the GOP's 2-to-1 advantage in the Statehouse.
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The referendum called for the creation of an independent ethics commission to investigate abuses by statehouse politicians and lobbyists, a public financing option to reduce election spending and a $100 annual limit on lobbyists' gifts to elected officials.
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The district is a top target for Democrats in next year's midterm elections, and Rodríguez is considered one of Democrats' top recruits for the seat, given his tenure in Florida's statehouse and record of winning highly contested elections.
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Unlike in past years, however, when the divided Statehouse made big chunks of the State of the State address a pipe dream, the newly elected Democratic-controlled State Legislature puts the governor's agenda much closer to becoming reality.
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Lower Democratic turnout in midterm years has enabled Republicans to win governors' races and statehouse races that consolidate power in state capitals and Washington by being the ones to draw the maps that everyone needs to run on.
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The Nevada legislature passed a bill this spring that would have allowed all state residents to enroll in the public program — the first such bill to move through a statehouse — but it was ultimately vetoed by Republican Gov.
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The South Carolina statehouse is Republican-controlled, and Daily Kos rates it as likely to stay that way, as the entire state House of Representatives is on the ballot (the state Senate will be up for reelection in 2020).
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The statehouse beef has drawn international attention since North Carolina enacted House Bill 2 — better known as the "bathroom bill" — a law that prohibits people from using restrooms that do not correspond with the sex on their birth certificates.
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Last year, reproductive rights activists dressed up in Handmaid's costumes showed up the Ohio Statehouse to protest a ban on an abortion procedure; their blood-red gowns served as a harsh reminder that women die when abortions are banned.
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In an immigrant-rich neighborhood not far from the statehouse, a laptop computer at the public library offers residents a direct link to an online census form, a major change from past counts that have been conducted by mail.
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"My books were old when I was in high school more than 15 years ago and chances are a lot of them are still being used today," Oklahoma City resident Ashley Morris said by telephone from a statehouse rally.
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After an obscure Republican had ridden Richard Nixon's presidential coattails to a surprisingly strong showing in the 1960 governor's race, the then-dominant state Democrats maneuvered to protect their grip on the statehouse by decoupling presidential and gubernatorial races.
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"As a woman and a pro-choice woman and as an elected official, I am sick and tired of men -- mostly white men -- legislating personal, private medical decisions," Marzian, a retired nurse and 22-year statehouse veteran, told CNN.
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College quads and statehouse lawns are also known for drawing 43/20 celebrants, with the University of Colorado's Boulder campus historically among the largest gatherings — though not so much since administrators started closing off the campus several years ago.
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A group of 16 women arrived at the Ohio Statehouse today dressed as handmaids to protest Senate Bill 145, an anti-abortion law that would ban dilation and evacuation, which is commonly used for abortions during the second trimester.
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When considering candidates for any election and not just for president--from City Council to the Board of Supervisors to the statehouse to Congress and the White House-- familiarize yourselves with the major issues and learn where candidates stand.
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While there undoubtedly are plenty of well-paid statehouse lawyers to debate that point, Mr. Barrett has succeeded in alerting the public to a critical problem that Mr. Nixon has failed to address during his seven years in office.
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Beyond that, the grand rhetorical leadership one might have expected from someone intent on growing his national profile as a progressive — a rousing speech in the Statehouse performed if only out of symbolic imperative and self-interest — never materialized.
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New York (CNN)Nearly a dozen Republicans in Oregon's Democratically-controlled state Senate walked out during a floor vote on an environmental bill on Monday, the latest skirmish in a long-running inter-party fight that's roiled the statehouse.
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S/O to my fellow table shakers & #justice seekers who are mobilizing today in the Massachusetts statehouse to affirm the full promise of Roe v Wade by fighting to enact the #ROEAct and ensure equitable access to abortion pic.twitter.
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Ms. Davidson, the first African-American to represent her statehouse district, noted that despite Ms. Harris's attack on Mr. Biden in the first round of debates, black support for President Barack Obama's former vice president seems to be steady.
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If Saccone wins — and the election is too close to call at this point — Republicans will allay jitters that have increased with the losses of statehouse elections in areas Trump carried in Florida, Kentucky, Missouri, New Hampshire and Wisconsin.
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For instance, after taking control of the statehouse, Wisconsin Republicans passed one of the strictest new voter ID laws in the country knowing that they would disproportionately affect black voters and college students – groups that tend to vote Democratic.
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Swift action in the Republican-controlled statehouse, where the powerful NRA gun lobbying organization has long held sway, was propelled in large part by an extraordinary counter-lobbying campaign waged by young survivors from the massacre and parents of the victims.
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A video clip from official statehouse footage posted on YouTube showed the 69-year-old, silver-haired governor pausing to take a sip of water, then slurring his words as he tried to resume his address before slumping at the lectern.
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In her second term as governor, Haley got copious national attention for calling for the Confederate flag to be removed from the South Carolina Statehouse, in the aftermath of a white nationalist killing nine African Americans at a Charleston church.
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As the group grew, and tensions between public employees and the Republican-dominated West Virginia statehouse heightened, it became an organizational hub, meme factory, and the political engine that eventually led to tens of thousands of employees walking off the job.
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He also wants you to know he listens to Justin Bieber, dropping the pop star's name too often (a statehouse press conference, a New York Magazine interview, a ride-along with the Weekly Standard) for it to be a coincidence.
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It often reveals itself in moments of triumph, as in Ivey's celebration -- or protest, as when a woman stood outside the Alabama statehouse dressed like a character from "The Handmaid's Tale," a work of fiction about the dangers of dystopian theocracy.
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Several audience members at a forum in conservative Pickens County grilled Catherine Templeton — a former member of Haley's cabinet whose consulting firm was among those who cheered the flag's removal at the Statehouse — about her stance on removing Confederate symbols.
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Sheheen, the Democratic state senator who lost to Haley in the 2010 and 2014 gubernatorial races, included the flag removal in his platform during both of his elections and it was his bill introduced in the statehouse that ultimately passed.
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We gather fusion coalitions around an agenda that lifts up the issues of all people impacted by injustice, and we commit to stand together in the statehouse, in the courts, and in the streets until we see justice for all.
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The last prominent African-American group to support open carry, the Black Panthers, inspired a 1967 California gun control law after politicians were horrified to see them exercising their legal right to open carry on the steps of the California statehouse.
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The FBI interest in the Missouri statehouse comes as the governor and his allies have stepped up their lobbying efforts in a bid to save his political career, with aggressive outreach to state lawmakers who might vote on his impeachment.
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