Month: August 2022

ROCHESTER, NY – Tuesday is primary day in New York for a handful of New York state congressional and Senate races. In the Finger Lakes region, there is a three-candidate Republican primary for New York’s new 24th Congressional District. This district now includes all of Wayne and Cayuga counties. This is the second primary this summer after all the delays and back and forth over proper redistricting procedures. The redrawing of political maps in the state means that registered Republican voters in Wayne and Cayuga counties will help decide who the Republican candidate for Congress in the 24th District will…

Biography of Sanna Marin: Sanna Marin is a Finnish politician who has served as the Prime Minister of Finland since 2019. Taking office at the age of 34, Sanna Marin is the youngest person to hold the office in Finland’s history. She is also the third youngest national leader in the world after Dritan Abazovic of Montenegro and Gabriel Boric of Chile. Sanna Marin is a member of the Social Democratic Party of Finland and has been a Member of Parliament since 2015. Sanna Marin was elected Prime Minister of Finland on 8 December 2019, following the resignation of Antti…

HAMBURG, NY – After a legal challenge to the new district maps, New Yorkers are now voting in the primary election runoff. In this round, candidates Nick Langworthy and Carl Paladino face off in the 23rd Congressional District Republican primary. Paladino has been a controversial figure in Western New York politics for years, including making racist remarks directed at former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama. Langworthy has served as the Erie County chairman of the New York Republican State Committee since 2019. Both self-described Trump loyalists have traded blows in several political TV and radio ads….

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A local North Carolina grand jury on Monday advanced its consideration of possible criminal charges against state Attorney General Josh Stein and two aides over an investigation into a political ad targeting Stein’s 2020 election opponent. After hearing from a State Bureau of Investigation agent, the Wake County grand jury requested in writing that the Wake County District Attorney’s Office file an indictment for consideration “against anyone” of three people, including Stein himself. The Democratic attorney general, his 2020 campaign manager Eric Stern, and current state Justice Department chief of staff Seth Dearmin, a former Stein…

Tuesday’s special election in a swing district will be a preview of the two major parties’ midterm policy strategies on abortion in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down the right to end a pregnancy. It’s shaping up to be the last major electoral test before the November midterms of Democrats’ attempts to channel anger over the decision — and subsequent state abortion bans — into votes for their candidates and Republican efforts to keep the focus on different issues. After closer-than-expected special elections for the U.S. House in right-leaning districts in Nebraska and Minnesota, and after…

Gov. Kathy Hochul blasted her Republican opponent Lee Zeldin for not reflecting the values ​​of most New Yorkers when it comes to the majority voter opinion on labor, environmental, LGBTQ+ and abortion rights, and that they belong in Florida. The comments immediately drew the ire of Zeldin and Molinaro, as voters later Tuesday must select candidates for congressional and state Senate races and decide who should fill the lieutenant governor’s House seat Antonio Delgado in the Hudson Valley. At Monday evening’s rally, Hochul said the election was about safeguarding democracy. “We’re here to say the era of Trump and Zeldin…