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That was quick: Va. Republicans say new governor is off to a bad start (The Washington Post)
House Speaker Kirk Cox (R-Colonial Heights) marched over to Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam’s office Tuesday morning to tell him the week-old bipartisan vibe in the Capitol is hanging by a thread.
Plans to work together on issues such as criminal justice reform and even Medicaid expansion are suddenly in doubt because of what Republicans saw as an overly partisan speech by Northam to the General Assembly on Monday night.
“Frankly, that speech last night truly set us back,” Cox said at a hastily assembled news conference Tuesday morning. [Read More]
Ann Curry ‘not surprised’ by Matt Lauer scandal (ew.com)
Former Today co-anchor Ann Curry discussed the departure of Matt Lauer in her first TV interview since the scandal. Sitting with the CBS This Morning team, Curry — who was ousted from Today in 2012 — was first asked by anchor Norah O’Donnell about the #MeToo movement.
“I think it’s, in general, overdue,” Curry said. “We’re clearly waking up to a reality and injustice that has been occurring for some time and I think it will continue to occur until the glass ceiling is finally broken. This is about power and balance where women are not valued as much as men. I’m not talking about people being attracted to other people — I’m talking about people in the workplace who are powerful, who are abusing that power, and women and men who are suffering. The fact we’re moving against this balance of power is absolutely overdue.” [Read More]
Md. Gov. Hogan releases state budget plan amid fight for minimum wage raises in state (Fox 5 DC)
Maryland Governor Larry Hogan is unveiling his new $17 billion dollar state budget — which says has no new taxes and no gimmicks.
The Republican governor is already facing an increasingly combative Democrat-majority General Assembly. Democrats have proposed to raise the state minimum wage to $15 an hour and could again be a point of contention between lawmakers and the governor.
This minimum wage fight has already played out locally in both Montgomery County and D.C., which just passed laws gradually hiking the minimum hourly wage to $15 in 2020. [Read More]
‘New California’ movement seeks to divide the Golden State in half (Fox News)
Two men have launched a campaign to divide rural California from the coastal cities, motivated by what they referred to as a “tyrannical form of government” that doesn’t follow the U.S. Constitution or the state one, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
Unlike the failed 2016 campaign to split California into six states, the “New California” movement, founded by Robert Paul Preston and Tom Reed, seeks to consolidate rural California into a distinct economy separate from the coast.
“After years of over taxation, regulation, and mono party politics the State of California and many of its 58 Counties have become ungovernable,” the movement declares on its website. [Read More]
Sen. Jeff Flake condemns Trump’s media attacks, compares rhetoric to Stalin (ABC News)
In a searing speech on the Senate floor Wednesday morning, Sen. Jeff Flake denounced President Donald Trump for his sustained attacks against the news media, going so far as to compare his rhetoric to that of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin.
In the remarks from the Senate floor, Flake, R-Ariz., pointed to the Soviet Union’s 30-year dictator as seeming inspiration for Trump’s attacks against the press, singling out a phrase that each used to refer to their interpreted opposition.
“It is a testament to the condition of our democracy that our own president uses words infamously spoken by Joseph Stalin to describe his enemies,” Flake said. “It bears noting that so fraught with malice was the phrase ‘enemy of the people,’ that even Nikita Khrushchev forbade its use, telling the Soviet Communist Party that the phrase had been introduced by Stalin for the purpose of ‘annihilating such individuals’ who disagreed with the supreme leader.” [Read More]
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