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...term Indiana Democratic Senator Evan Bayh announced on Feb. 15 that he would not run for re-election this November. The popular centrist and former Hoosier State governor blamed increased partisanship, saying plainly, "I do not love Congress." Bayh's retirement, which caught his party's leaders by surprise, brings the number of open seats in the upper chamber to 11--five Democratic and six Republican...
...Mitt Romney, today considered the front-runner for the party's presidential nomination, is a former governor. But he's not the only Republican with a gubernatorial record champing at the bit to embrace the campaign theme that Obama is a failure as President because he went into the job without sufficient executive and private-sector experience and because he is a liberal at heart. And, while Romney so far has made many of the right moves in setting himself up for 2012, there remains among Republican wise men and women the nagging feeling that neither Romney...
...1880s to the 1920s) bestowed the secret ballot and direct elections for the U.S. Senate and the city manager, as well as the initiative, the referendum and the recall. The latter, of course, transformed Arnold Schwarzenegger the movie star into Arnold the Gubernator when the actor became California governor after voters chose to recall Democrat Gray Davis. (Read "How California's Fiscal Woes Began: A Crisis 30 Years in the Making...
...internship program offers Harvard undergraduates a $4,000 stipend for eight- to ten-week internships at domestic or international political or public service organizations. It includes placements at The Colbert Report, the offices of Mass. Governor Deval L. Patrick ’78, and Parliamentary offices in Great Britain...
...Interior J. Steven Griles for obstructing his investigation. But IGs are not immune to accusations of partisan influence. Janet Rehnquist, the daughter of the late Supreme Court Justice William Rehnquist, was accused of partisan motivation when she delayed a Florida pension-fund audit at the request of Governor Jeb Bush's chief of staff...