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Reports: Governor McDonnell's security travel costs $160,000
Costs for travel and lodging through October for Gov. Bob McDonnell's State Police security detail totaled slightly more than $105,000. That's according to accounts first reported Monday by the Virginian-Pilot and the Richmond Times-Dispatch from open...
Tags: Government, Regional Authority, Bob McDonnell, Executive Branch, Elections
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Virginia, South Carolina governors make bet on ACC Championship game
Sounds like there'll be some good eating at a Governor's Mansion after Saturday night's Atlantic Coast
Conference championship game.
South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley has bet some of her state's barbecue against a Smithfield ham put up by Virginia Gov. Bob...Tags: Smithfield, Virginia Tech Hokies, Nikki Haley, Executive Branch, Virginia Cavaliers
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Virginia governor's race to test Tea Party Republicans' allure
ReutersRICHMOND, Virginia (Reuters) - The most nail-biting U.S. governor's race this year is centering on whether a Tea Party Republican can win Virginia, the southern state that has twice backed Democratic President Barack Obama. So far, the answer is: maybe....Tags: Parties and Movements, Executive Branch, Republican Party, The Washington Post, Barack Obama
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GOP moves to plug technology gap with Democrats
WASHINGTON (AP) — Embarrassed by how the last presidential election exposed their yesteryear technology, Republicans are turning to a younger generation of tech-savvy social media experts and software designers to improve communications with voters,...
Tags: Parties and Movements, Primaries, Reince Priebus, Republican Party, 2012 U.S. Presidential Election
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GOP governors take a pragmatic turn
WASHINGTON (AP) — Many Republican governors who worked to thwart much of President Barack Obama's first-term agenda are shifting gears and softening their rhetoric now that his run was extended for four more years and they're facing their own re-...
Tags: Parties and Movements, Citizens Initiative and Recall, Personal Income, Executive Branch, Republican Party
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As DGA run ends, O'Malley likely to stay on national stage
President Barack Obama no longer needs Gov. Martin O'Malley as a top campaign surrogate, and the Democratic Governors Association is set to elect someone else as its chairman on Monday when the group meets in Los Angeles. But neither development is...
Tags: Parties and Movements, Ron Paul, Bob Schieffer, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Hurricane Sandy (2012)
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After shootings, states rethink mental health cuts
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Dozens of states have slashed spending on mental health care over the last four years, driven by the recession's toll on revenue and, in some cases, a new zeal to shrink government. But that trend may be heading for a U-...
Tags: Parties and Movements, Sean Murphy, Unemployment Benefits, Health and Safety at Work, Executive Branch
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Wednesday Morning Coffee: State university faculty frustrated on contract talks.
Capitol Ideas with John L. MicekGood Wednesday Morning, Fellow Seekers. We're running a little late this morning, so we'll just dive right into a quick round- up of the day's political headlines. Think of this of the ADHD version of Capitol Ideas, which already has...... -
El futuro habla espanol (The future speaks Spanish)
WASHINGTON -- The new year has begun with an avalanche of Republican retrospectives: What went wrong? What must the GOP do? In attempting to navigate my own thoughts, I keep bumping into advice my father gave me a long time ago: "Learn Spanish. You will...
Tags: Immigration, Parties and Movements, Ted Cruz, Cuba, Executive Branch
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GOP governors walk balance beam on health law
ATLANTA (AP) — Florida Gov. Rick Scott, who made a fortune as a health care executive, long opposed President Barack Obama's remake of the health insurance market. After the Democratic president won re-election, the Republican governor softened...
Tags: Parties and Movements, Insurance, Polls, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Executive Branch
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Romney inadvertently shows why he lost
Defeated presidential nominee Mitt Romney, who helped do himself in with his closed-door characterization of nearly half of all Americans as content to live off federal handouts, wasted no time doubling down on the theory. He did so in a conference call...Tags: The New York Times, Parties and Movements, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Executive Branch, Joe Biden
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Corbett named to RGA leadership team.
Capitol Ideas with John L. MicekThis one comes courtesy of our pals at Early Returns at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Just in time for the Republican Governors Association's meeting in Sin City, Gov. Tom Corbett has been tapped for an eight-member executive committee, the group...
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