Michigan Democrats introduce same sex marriage bills
Michigan #39;s democratic lawmakers want to repeal the state #39;s ban on same-sex marriage saying opinions have changed. NBC25 #39;s Walter Smith-Randolph reports.
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Former Maryland Gov. Martin OMalley will be the choice of New York Democrats for president if Hillary Rodham Clinton is forced out of the race by her State Department e-mail scandal, a prominent Democrat has told The Post.
The well-known New York Democrat also said that Clintons e-mail scandal had knocked her off her pedestal, and compared her attempts to restrict access to her official e-mail correspondence to those taken by disgraced President Richard M. Nixon during the 1970s Watergate scandal.
OMalley, an all-but-announced candidate who was on a campaign swing in Iowa over the weekend, is the one who I think is going to emerge as the front-runner if Hillary is forced out, said the Democrat, a strong Clinton backer whose views carry considerable weight with party members.
OMalleys the one who is best organized. Hes the one who has a team in place. I really think hes the front-runner, the Democrat continued.
OMalley is a guy who has always done the right thing politically. He was a team player who made friends with everybody when he was governor. He would do things for people that I think he thought theyd remember him by, and they did.
[Mass. Sen.] Elizabeth Warren is just too far to the left, sort of in the George McGovern category, and while [Vice President Joe] Bidens own people may be taking him seriously, hes never really been able to catch on, said the Democrat, referring to other potential candidates should Clinton not run.
Clinton, meanwhile, has been knocked off her pedestal by revelations that she used a questionable private e-mail system for official communications during her years as secretary of state, but hasnt yet been sufficiently damaged to be forced out of the race, said the Democrat, who has had frequent contact with the former first lady and New York senator.
Whats so bad about this is that she mixed her personal e-mails with her State Department e-mails and now its to be determined what was personal and what was not, which is a tough position.
Its a position President Nixon got in with his own tapes. He said they were his own tapes, that he recorded them. But, guess what he recorded them in the White House so theyre public.
I dont think what she did is fatal. She can still run if she wants, but it was an unnecessary, self-inflicted wound, the Democrat said.
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IOWA CITY Democrats and older Iowans would have to adjust their early voting habits the most if a bill that cleared the Iowa House requires absentee ballots to be in county auditors hands by the time polls close on Election Day.
Republicans would see an effect, too, legislators said. But they vote in person on Election Day with more frequency than Democrats or those registered for no party as well as Iowans aged 65 and older, according to an IowaWatch analysis of voting data in general elections over the past 20 years.
Regardless of who feels the impact, Republican and Democratic state legislators trying to amend Iowas absentee voter registration law agree that changes are critical because ballots are not being counted when they probably should be.
The reason is U.S. post offices are not putting time-stamped postmarks on many of the absentee ballots.
So we are throwing ballots out, and we dont want to do that, state Sen. Jeff Danielson, D-Cedar Falls, said.
Iowa law says absentee ballots may arrive after an election day if they bear a postmark of up to the day before the scheduled vote.
But a bill that passed the Iowa House 56-41 on March 11 would require that absentee ballots arrive at county auditors offices by the time polls close on the election day to be counted. An exception would be given to military personnel and their families and others working outside the country who apply for ballots and return them by mail in time to be counted.
A Senate bill says ballots clearly postmarked by the day before an election and received by the elections office by noon the following Monday should be counted, as well as any ballot received by 5 p.m. the day after the election.
A decision on whether to vote on the Senate bill or to take up the House bill was pending.
Danielson, chairman of the State Government Committee where the matter now rests said differences in what the House and Senate propose are not deal breakers. State Rep. Quentin Stanerson, R-Center Point, and floor manager of the bill passing the House, was equally optimistic.
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Data: Democrats, older Iowans use absentee ballots most