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CNN
December 7, 2017
Thirty-two Democratic senators -- 13 female and 19 male -- called on Franken to resign as allegations of sexual harassment against him continue to ... Murray of Washington, Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire, Kamala Harris of California, Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin, Debbie Stabenow of Michigan, Sen.
Madison.com
December 6, 2017
Phil's father, Robert M. La Follette, was a native of the town of Primrose in southwest Dane County; he was elected to three terms as Wisconsin's governor and then served as a U.S. senator from 1906 to 1925. In addition to repeatedly winning election for top statewide posts, the senior La Follette won the ...
CNN
November 26, 2017
Trump will meet later Tuesday with a bipartisan group of congressional leaders at the White House, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky Republican; House Speaker Paul Ryan, a Wisconsin Republican; Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, a New York Democrat; and House ...
Osceola Sun
November 25, 2017
“Angel and I are both life-long residents of western Wisconsin,” said Zimmerman. “Our children and grandchildren have been educated in our great public schools and state universities and we want to continue making the 10th Senate District a great place to start a business and raise a family just like we ...
The Daily Cardinal
November 16, 2017
Wisconsin politicians decry Franken, Moore ... Al Franken, D-Min., PAC following allegations that he forcibly kissed and groped a woman in 2006. ... Majority Leader Jim Steineke, R-Kaukauna, called in a tweet for Franken to resign and Moore to be expelled from U.S. Senate should he win the election.
U.S. News & World Report
November 16, 2017
15, 2006. Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., apologized Nov. 16, 2017, after Tweeden accused him of forcibly kissing her during the 2006 USO tour. Colleagues, including fellow Democrats, urged a Senate ethics investigation. Tweeden also accused Franken of posing for a photo with his hands on her breasts as ...
U.S. News & World Report
November 14, 2017
(AP) — Another Republican legislator as well as a Democratic medical examiner plan to run for an open state Senate seat representing northwestern Wisconsin. Gov. ... She was featured in a 2006 episode of "Wife Swap," in which she traded places with a woman who runs a Florida modeling agency.
Slate Magazine (blog)
November 8, 2017
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is a strong proponent of the suburban theory of Democratic restoration, a theory that has not always borne out. “For every ... Schumer was chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee during the 2006 cycle when Democrats retook the Senate.
Leader-Telegram
December 31, 1999
Parts of St. Croix, Dunn, Pierce, Polk and Burnett counties make up the 10th Senate District in western Wisconsin. Despite the quick ... It's hard to predict how many people will vote in a primary six days before Christmas and a one-race general election in mid-January. “It's just going to come down to which ...
New York Magazine
December 31, 1999
Thanks to a potential GOP calamity in a special Senate election in Alabama on December 12, Democrats actually have a decent chance of making their ... Baldwin of Wisconsin — will be running in highly polarized states with very competitive gubernatorial elections where the campaign could become a ...
The Atlantic
September 28, 2017
Carson's campaign manager Barry Bennett crowed that, “While the left is huffing and ... to establish himself as the most anti-Muslim candidate in the race. ... In 2006, when Muslim Congressman Keith Ellison swore his oath of office on a ... When CNN asked Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson how he felt aboutÃÂ ...
Rasmussen Reports
September 28, 2017
The reelection rate for non-presidential party Senate incumbents in ... Of the 27 non-presidential party general election midterm incumbent ... nor did any of the last three midterms (2006, 2010, and 2014), all of ... York Senate race by double digits (Schumer beat D'Amato by a little over 10 points in 1998).
CBS Local
September 28, 2017
Tom Ingram, a campaign strategist for both Corker and Haslam, said he expects the ... James Risch (R-ID), Marco Rubio (R-FL), Ron Johnson (R-WI), John ... The only Republican who has declared for the Senate race so far is Andy ... faced before his 2006 election — could help shape a stronger candidate.
Wisconsin Public Radio News
September 28, 2017
Two candidates from western Wisconsin have announced bids to run ... Vinehout has announced she will not seek a fourth term representing the 31st State Senate District. ... While Vinehout won re-election since 2006, it was never by more ... Eau Claire City Council member and former Vinehout campaignÃÂ ...
Wisconsin Public Radio News
September 26, 2017
Vinehout won a tight race for the 31st Senate seat in 2006 and has been there ever since. On Monday, she entered a crowded field ofÃÂ ...
Wisconsin Ag Connection
September 26, 2017
This week, State Senator Kathleen Vinehout, a dairy farmer from ... position in the 31st Senate District in western Wisconsin since 2006. ... A spokesman for her campaign said Vinehout will not run for re-election in her senateÃÂ ...
Sacramento Bee
September 25, 2017
Kathleen Vinehout, a farmer from western Wisconsin who has spent the last decade in ... Walker's campaign manager Joe Fadness, who rarely weighs in on ... Vinehout, 59, was first elected to the state Senate in 2006 after working ... Vinehout first ran for governor in the 2012 recall election against Walker,ÃÂ ...
Texas Monthly
September 25, 2017
We're slouching toward the 2018 elections, and so far the race for Texas ... When Abbott announced his re-election campaign in July, he already had ... of a Unitarian Universalist Church in Elkhorn, Wisconsin, and who also owned a ... run for the U.S. Senate in 2008, and for governor in 2006 and in 2014.
Chippewa Herald
September 25, 2017
Kathleen Vinehout, a farmer from western Wisconsin who has spent the ... a campaign video and planned to address supporters Monday night in ... There are about 10 other Democrats who have said they are considering getting into the race. ... Vinehout, 59, was first elected to the state Senate in 2006 afterÃÂ ...
Fox11online.com
September 19, 2017
Hintz, who was first elected in 2006, brings some baggage to the job. ... to his election, accusing Hintz of having a "personal war on women.".
Rasmussen Reports
September 7, 2017
Jay Rockefeller (D) in Rockefeller's first Senate bid in 1984 and then to Byrd in 2006 before ... In total, 31 states have had at least one Senate general election ... Gooding and a Progressive Party candidate in a three-way race. ... Ron Johnson (R-WI), who beat Feingold in the 2010 GOP wave, but failed.
Politico
September 7, 2017
Campaign operatives don't want the distraction, just as they head into ... McCain pointed out that he didn't write a book after losing the 2008 presidential race. ... read an email from Sanders die-hard (and Clinton's 2006 Senate primary ... number of Twitter jokes about Clinton visiting Wisconsin on the tourÃÂ ...
The Sheboygan Press (blog)
September 7, 2017
The last time an incumbent in the out party lost a U.S. Senate race in this state ... In Wisconsin, out-party senators are 15-1 (a 94% success rate) in all general ... the identity of her GOP opponent, the conduct of the campaign and more ... last time there was a Republican president (George W. Bush in 2006).
Journal Times
August 29, 2017
MADISON — Cathy Stepp, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources secretary and former state senator representing Racine County, announced ... Stepp was active in Donald Trump's successful campaign for president last year. ... After one term in office, Stepp opted not to seek re-election in 2006.
Rasmussen Reports
August 24, 2017
Ever since Donald Trump won the presidency, 2018's race for the Senate ... looked at all of the Senate midterm elections in the popular election era, which ... popularity (George W. Bush in 2006, and Barack Obama in 2010 and 2014). .... A potentially better Republican target is Wisconsin, given that Sen.
PBS NewsHour
August 20, 2017
Republicans haven't lost a statewide race since 2012 when ... McCaskill is one of 10 Senate Democrats up for re-election next year in ... and Wisconsin's Tammy Baldwin, two other Democratic senators facing tough re-election challenges. ... In her successful 2006 and 2012 campaigns, McCaskill made aÃÂ ...
Madison.com
August 18, 2017
He joined the Cap Times in 2006. ... “A Republican senator revolts,” read The Economist headline, with a cartoon of ... In 1964, Goldwater, who was also a Republican senator from Arizona, led a populist presidential primary campaign ... While Goldwater was ultimately thrashed in the general election byÃÂ ...
Gazettextra
August 18, 2017
In reality, under this bill and a similar version before the state Senate, the counter-protesters in Charlottesville ... Wisconsin leaders have aided and abetted white supremacy. ... Leftist race-baiting has taken its place. .... to prominence in 2006 when the group unsuccessfully opposed the election of AnnetteÃÂ ...
MinnPost
August 4, 2017
2018 will be a monumentally important midterm election for Democrats: It's their first chance to put ... Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin and Sen.
Dallas News
August 3, 2017
During the 2015-2016 election season, Ukrainian-born billionaire Leonid "Len" ... collecting $2.5 million for his GOP Senate Leadership Fund under the names ... were PACS representing Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker at $1.1 million, ... who took Blavatnik's money during the 2016 presidential campaign.
Wisconsin Gazette
August 3, 2017
The senators include Tammy Baldwin, a Democrat from Wisconsin, as well as ... Chris Murphy of Connecticut was elected to the U.S. House in 2006 on an ... MoveOn.org members, in the 2014 election cycle, made over 6.7 million ... Elizabeth Warren's Senate race in Massachusetts in 2012 and more thanÃÂ ...
The Sun
July 29, 2017
He ran for election to the Wisconsin State Senate in 2004 but lost the Democratic incumbent Robert Wirch. Preibus was elected chairman of theÃÂ ...
ThinkProgress
July 24, 2017
According to Federal Election Commission records, Trump himself has ... $4,400 to the former Secretary of State between 2006 and 2007. Kushner donated $6,000 to support Clinton's Senate campaign ... saying on a Wisconsin-based radio show that Mueller was “anything but” a Democratic partisan.
Business Insider
July 15, 2017
Of the 11 Senate seats the party controls in states President Donald ... a number of top contenders deciding against entering the race, and ... Jeb Bush's 2016 presidential campaign, told Business Insider. ... "There's always the talk of primaries hurting the candidates in the general election," Sullivan said.
WKOW
July 12, 2017
AP Exclusive: Senator's family business uses Mexican labor ..... nation's most vulnerable Democratic senators up for re-election next year, ... its general counsel before he was first elected to Congress in 2006. ... Stewart Superior," Peter Hanscom, Donnelly's campaign manager, said in an email to the AP.
News8000.com
December 31, 1999
Vinehout enters race for Wisconsin governor ... Vinehout was first elected to the state Senate in 2006 and previously ran for governor in theÃÂ ...
The New Yorker
December 31, 1999
After the election, Sanders seemed to adopt the illusion as an ethos. .... likely to vote for him in the Senate race but for Republicans in others.
Mother Jones
December 31, 1999
Tis' the season for viral introductory campaign ads. Last month it was Wisconsin ironworker Randy Bryce. ... a trend that recalls the boomlet of Iraq and Afghanistan vets who powered Democratic gains in 2006 and 2008. ... It's notable then that McGrath isn't the only serious Democrat in this race: State Sen.
Politico
March 12, 2017
"Trump's revised travel ban dealt first court setback," by Reuters' Steve Gorman: "A federal judge in Wisconsin dealt the first legal blow to President Donald Trump's revised travel ban on Friday, barring enforcement of the policy to deny U.S. entry to ...
KESQ
March 10, 2017
1993: Janet Reno is confirmed as U.S. attorney general by the United States Senate. She would be sworn in the next day, becoming the first female attorney general in American history.
Watchdog.org
March 10, 2017
... said in a statement. The legislation, co-authored by Hutton and state Sen. ... Schooff managed Doyle's 2006 re-election campaign. The Doyle administration previously extended the lease five years - through June 30, 2016 - on Sept. 14, 2005 ...
thejewishchronicle.net
March 9, 2017
Before stepping down as the U.S. ambassador to the country in January, he said he would stay long enough for his daughters to finish the school year.
Janesville Gazette
March 9, 2017
Lawyers for the city of Los Angeles in papers filed in federal court, Tuesday, June 6, 2006, accused the family of the slain rapper of going to "odious" and "absurd" lengths -- including lying -- to "satisfy their ambition to extract hundreds of ...
KITV Honolulu
March 9, 2017
1992 - Legislative aide to Senator Robert Kasten of Wisconsin. 1993-1995 - Staff assistant and speechwriter for the Empower ... to the US House of Representatives for the 1st District of Wisconsin. Ryan is re-elected in 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008 ...
TIME
March 8, 2017
Tammy Baldwin, a junior Senator from Wisconsin, is the first openly gay person elected a U.S. Senator and the first woman in the senate from Wisconsin. The progressive Democratic congressperson had previously served in the House of RepresentativesÃÂ ...
Watchdog.org
March 8, 2017
The Wisconsin Senate voted 18-15 Tuesday to amend the state constitution to get rid of the state treasurer position. For an amendment to ... He narrowly lost re-election in 2006 to Dawn Marie Sass, a Boston Store clerk and AFSCME union activist. "Oh ...
ch-aviation
March 7, 2017
Flights to New York JFK ceased in 2006, after incurring losses of BDT5 million (USD62,500) on each flight. Of its European routes, Rome Fiumicino, Frankfurt Int'l and Brussels National were suspended in 2007.
Forward
March 7, 2017
Shapiro returned to Israel in 1987 for a gap year before college and again in 1989 for a year abroad at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem with his then-girlfriend Julie Fisher, whom he had met at a Reform Jewish summer camp in Wisconsin and started ...
Richmond-News
March 7, 2017
In Wisconsin climate change has unfortunately become a partisan issue, with the DNR withholding important information from the public on orders from the Republican governor and Legislature.
Longmont Times-Call
March 7, 2017
How the Republican Party turned around what seemed like a dire situation after disastrous losses in both the 2006 and 2008 elections, as well as a looming demographic disaster, into legislative majorities so unbreakable, so impregnable, that none of ...
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