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POLITICS / NEWS Wed Mar 3, 2010 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- Incumbent Rick Perry won the GOP primary for governor of Texas on Tuesday over U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, who urged voters to support Perry. Bill White claimed the Democratic win... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Mon Nov 23, 2009 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- After dismal elections in 2006 and 2008, Republicans hope signs of discomfort with President Obama's agenda will turn into gains in governors' mansions in 2010... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Wed Aug 26, 2009 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- Two Republican state lawmakers on Tuesday met with South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, under fire for an extramarital affair and questionable spending, and told him to resign -- but the governor rejected their advice... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Mon Jul 27, 2009 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- Former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin gave her final speech as Alaska's governor Sunday before stepping down from her post before a crowd in Fairbanks. "I feel it is my duty to avoid the unproductive, typical, politics-as-usual, lame-duck session in one's last year in office," Palin said. "What I promised, we accomplished," she told the mostly supportive crowd... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Sun Jul 26, 2009 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was met with a fairly warm reception at a picnic in Anchorage on Saturday, a day before she steps down as the state's governor... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Sun Jul 26, 2009 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- Outgoing Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin made it clear to hundreds gathered at a picnic in Wasilla on Friday night that she loves her hometown... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Sat Jul 4, 2009 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- Sarah Palin said Friday that she will step down as Alaska's governor by the end of the month. She will not seek election to a second gubernatorial term in 2010. As the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee, Palin had been considered one of the front-runners for the GOP nomination in 2012... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Tue Jun 30, 2009 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- Three more Republicans in the South Carolina state legislature spoke out against Gov. Mark Sanford on Monday and said the best thing for him to do in the wake of last week's scandal is resign... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Mon Jun 29, 2009 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- The woman with whom South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford had an affair broke her silence Sunday long enough to say she wouldn't discuss her relationship with the now-embattled governor... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Fri Jun 26, 2009 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- Embattled South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford plans to return to work Friday, despite calls for him to resign because of a sex scandal... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Thu Jun 25, 2009 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford's office is in damage-control mode Thursday, a day after the Republican governor tearfully admitted he's been having an extramarital affair... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Wed Jun 24, 2009 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford did not spend the last five days hiking the Appalachian Trail -- as his staff indicated -- but instead was in Argentina, he told The State newspaper. Spotted returning to the airport in Atlanta, Georgia, Sanford told the paper he had considered hiking the trail after the end of his state's busy legislative season but decided differently. "I wanted to do something exotic," Sanford said... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Wed Mar 12, 2008 @ 8:20am neoform

BBC News -- New York State Governor Eliot Spitzer has been given a deadline to step down or face impeachment proceedings over allegations that he hired a prostitute. His top Republican opponent in the New York Assembly gave him up to 48 hours - until early on Thur.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Tue Mar 11, 2008 @ 8:17am neoform

SF Gate -- Gov. Eliot Spitzer, who took office with the vow "Day One, Everything Changes," started day one of his life after allegations of a prostitution scandal with his outlook so changed that many wondered if he could remain in power. The first-term Democrat.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Tue Dec 4, 2007 @ 8:30am neoform

Boston Globe -- WASHINGTON - To Mike Huckabee, Baptist minister, former governor, and GOP candidate for president, being a good Christian is about redemption and forgiveness and recognizing his own frailties so he can be more understanding of the shortcomings of others... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Mon Nov 12, 2007 @ 5:02pm neoform

Boston Globe -- Even as Governor Deval Patrick seeks to license three resort casinos in Massachusetts, he hopes to clamp down on the explosion in Internet gambling by making it illegal for state residents to place a bet on line. He has proposed jail terms of up to two ye.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Sun Jun 3, 2007 @ 12:12am neoform

Time -- In the rough and tumble of Alabama politics, the scramble for power is often a blood sport. At the moment, the state's former Democratic governor, Don Siegelman, stands convicted of bribery and conspiracy charges and faces a sentence of up to 30 years in.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Mon Apr 2, 2007 @ 8:26am neoform

SF Gate -- Former Wisconsin governor Tommy Thompson announced Sunday that he is running for president and is betting that he will best the Republican field's well-financed front-runners in Iowa, the neighboring state where he has been campaigning nonstop for months... Read More

POLITICS / OPINION Wed Mar 7, 2007 @ 8:28am neoform

Yahoo News -- When Vermont Governor Jim Douglas, a Republican with reasonably close ties to President Bush, asked if there was any additional business to be considered at the town meeting he was running in Middlebury, Ellen McKay popped up and proposed the impeachment.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Thu Jan 4, 2007 @ 9:33am mrmdc

New York Sun -- Leaving one political office with his eyes on another, Governor Romney of Massachusetts took the first formal step yesterday into the race for the Republican presidential nomination on his last full day as governor... Read More