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Republicans Still Holding Up Unemployment
The Senate voted to reauthorize emergency unemployment benefits for 5 months, but of course it will now be held up by the Republicans in the House... This clip from the Majority Report, live...
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Sen. Graham: Republicans overplayed our hand
Sen. Lindsey Graham admits dismal approval ratings prompted Republican senators to back a plan to end the shutdown.
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As Republicans seek to improve their standing among Latinos and women, fresh controversies in California could further damage the party with both groups.
On Monday, a GOP gubernatorial candidate's inflammatory rhetoric likening illegal immigration to war came to light. The previous day, a conservative website on California politics was launched, featuring a raunchy photo-shopped image of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi a depiction that prompted the most powerful Republican congressman from California to remove his column from the site.
The trouble came as the state Republican Party has been trying to claw its way back to relevance, with GOP voter registration in California at a historic low and every statewide office held by Democrats.
At the California Republican Party's recent convention, attention was showered on a new class of candidate that included many women and minorities. The grooming of a diverse bench, party leaders said, was key to the rebound effort.
The party has long argued that its problems with Latinos and women were caused by tone, not policy. And on Tuesday, some Republicans warned that the fallout from the latest uproar notably from remarks by GOP Assemblyman and gubernatorial candidate Tim Donnelly could be devastating.
"I am just appalled," said Rosario Marin, a Latina from Huntington Park who served as U.S. Treasurer under President George W. Bush. She has endorsed Donnelly's main GOP rival, former U.S. Treasury official Neel Kashkari.
"It's an embarrassment not only to himself but to the party and the efforts I am involved in at the national level to elect Latino Republicans," she said. "This makes my job that much more difficult."
Republicans have struggled with Latinos and women both nationally and statewide.
In the aftermath of the party's 2012 presidential loss, a scathing self-autopsy found that broadening the GOP's appeal was critical to its future, and national leaders invested $10 million in outreach efforts, including in California.
Latino voters in this state increasingly joined the Democratic Party after voters passed Proposition 187. That 1994 ballot measure, championed by then-Gov. Pete Wilson, denied taxpayer-funded services to illegal immigrants (it was later gutted in court).
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Members of the All Progressives Congress party in Edo South senatorial district of Edo State, on Wednesday differed over the conduct of Tuesdays ward congress in the state.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that while some of the aggrieved members of the party have called for the cancellation of ward congress, the leadership of APC has, however, described the call as blackmail.
Reading a prepared statement at a news conference in Benin on Wednesday their leader, Chief Amos Osunbor, said the call for the cancellation became necessary because the conduct did not follow due process.
The aggrieved members, who faulted the process of the conduct of the congress, noted that the exercise was characterised by violence and thuggery.
They alleged that members of the committee mandated to conduct the congress were not on ground to perform their duties while materials for the exercise were not available for the congress.
As if the whole exercise was designed to fail, sponsored violence was observed across the venues in the senatorial district.
Armed thugs in government vehicles were seen unleashing mayhem on defenceless party faithful.
Furthermore, some local government chairmen were seen sponsoring violence in their respective council areas, Osunbor alleged.
The aggrieved members, therefore, demanded that the national leadership of the party should immediately cancel ward congresses.
They also demanded for the immediate dissolution of the state congress committee and the constitution of credible members to form a new committee.
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The Opposition Liberals have won a hotly contested by-election for the St. Johns-area seat vacated by former Newfoundland and Labrador premier Kathy Dunderdale.
Results from Elections Newfoundland and Labrador for Wednesdays race had businesswoman Cathy Bennett winning the riding of Virginia Waters by a narrow margin over the second-place Tories, with the NDP finishing a distant third.
The Progressive Conservatives had held the riding since 2003.
Bennett defeated St. Johns city councillor Danny Breen of the Progressive Conservatives and NDP hopeful Sheilagh OLeary, a former municipal councillor in the city.
The riding became vacant after former premier Kathy Dunderdale quit politics and resigned her seat on Feb. 28.
Elections Newfoundland and Labradors unofficial vote tally had the Liberals with 1,932 votes, just 40 more than the Tory total of 1,892.
The NDP took 1,021 votes.
Elections Newfoundland and Labrador issued a news release saying just over 49 per cent of the 9,853 eligible voters cast a ballot in the by-election.
Don Mills, the president of Corporate Research Associates, said in an interview the Liberals will be pleased to take a long-time Tory seat, but the Conservatives are showing they remain competitive.
Its a positive for the Liberals for sure and an indication they are legitimately a party in waiting to take over the government, said Mills.
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Liberals win Newfoundland by-election to fill ex-premiers vacant seat