MADISON, Wisconsin, April 1 -- The Wisconsin Democratic Party issued the following news: Supreme Court candidate Brian Hagedorn has insisted amidst accusations of extremism and partisanship that he would follow the "rule of law" and be impartial on the Supreme Court. Wispolitics has reported however that Brian Hagedorn cut two separate checks to the Republican Party of Wisconsin since announcing his run for Supreme Court -- one for $50,000 in March and one for $100,000 just last week. While Ha  more

OXFORD, Mississippi, April 4 -- The University of Mississippi issued the following news release: * * * - New American politics program holds class in Oxford and D.C. * * * University of Mississippi students recently got an insider's view of Washington's political scene and mingled with movers and shakers there as part of the first class offered through the Haley Barbour Center for the Study of American Politics, which was created last fall. During winter intersession, seven UM students stu  more

CONCORD, North Carolina, April 3 -- The North Carolina Republican Party issued the following news, dated April 1: Former five-term Congressman Robin Hayes, who was also elected four times to lead the North Carolina Republican Party as its Chairman, will conclude his time as Party leader in his home town of Concord on June 8 at the 2019 North Carolina Republican Party State Convention. Citing the NCGOP's stable bench of "the next generation of Republican Party leaders" and complications from rec  more

AUSTIN, Texas, April 3 -- The Republican Party of Texas issued the following news: The Texas Democratic Party issued a press release falsely claiming "Texas Republicans push death penalty for doctors who perform abortions." Texas House Bill 2350 would create a civil penalty against anyone who performs an abortion should the U.S. Supreme Court overturn Roe v. Wade. Republican Party of Texas Chairman James Dickey commented: "The Democrats have chosen to willfully mislead Texans about the nature  more

RICHMOND, Virginia, April 4 -- The Virginia Republican Party issued the following news: Today, Elaine Luria, Abigail Spanberger, & Jennifer Wexton voted against a clean passage of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), which would provide shelter and assistance to women fleeing domestic abuse. Instead, they opted to vote for a version infringing on religious rights and the Second Amendment that stands no chance of passing the GOP-controlled Senate. But this is nothing new for the socialist De  more

ALBANY, New York, April 5 -- Gov. Andrew Cuomo, D-New York, issued the following news release: * * * - First-in-the-Nation Initiative Has Provided More Than 30,000 Legal Services to Immigrants and Communities Targeted by Devastating Federal Immigration Policies - Expansion Includes New Programs to Provide Services to Immigrant Children and Families and to Provide a Swift Response After Targeted Raids and Arbitrary Arrests by ICE * * * Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, Senate Majority Leader Andrea   more

RALEIGH, North Carolina, April 3 -- The North Carolina Republican Party issued the following news: Chairman Hayes today announced he has relinquished most of his day-to-day duties of managing the NCGOP to other constitutional officers. "In the best interest of the party, I make this announcement today and will let our respected officers lead on a temporary basis until our regularly planned party elections this June," said Hayes. "After a long and distinguished career in public service at the   more

WASHINGTON, April 1 -- The Libertarian Party issued the following news release, dated March 29: Although Republicans have often been thought of as the party of lower taxes, decreased spending, free trade, and smaller government, even at its best the GOP rarely delivered much more than rhetoric. In recent years, it has even abandoned most of the rhetoric. Mimi Robson, chair of the Libertarian Party of California, explains why the Libertarian Party is the alternative that fiscally responsible and  more

ANNAPOLIS, Maryland, April 5 -- The Maryland Republican Party issued the following news release: This year's legislative session is ending on Monday. This week was dominated by more news about Mayor Pugh though, unfortunately. It turns out that Mayor Pugh was also paid almost $200,000 by Kaiser Permanente and Associated Black Charities for "her books." These payments were around the same time as when city contracts were voted on by Pugh and the city's spending board. It's also been revealed tha  more

WASHINGTON, April 4 -- The office of Sen. Christopher Murphy, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release: * * * - Murphy joins all 47 Senate Democrats in resolution to overturn the Department of Justice's decision to not defend the Affordable Care Act * * * After the U.S. Department of Justice announced it would no longer defend the Affordable Care Act in court and argued that the courts should strike down the entire law, U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate  more

WASHINGTON, April 2 -- President Trump and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg issued the following remarks before a bilateral meeting: PRESIDENT TRUMP: Thank you very much. It's a great honor to have Secretary General Stoltenberg of NATO with us. We have developed a very great relationship, and I'm very happy to say the Secretary General will be with us for quite a long time because he was just extended. So congratulations on that. SECRETARY GENERAL STOLTENBERG: Thank you very much. PRES  more

WASHINGTON, April 6 -- Rep. Michael Burgess, R-Texas, issued the following speech, which was published in the Congressional Record on April 4, celebrating the life and legacy of ex-Corinth Mayor Shirley Cunyus Spellerberg: I rise today to celebrate the life and legacy of former Mayor Shirley Cunyus Spellerberg, a dedicated Texan who committed her life to serving others. Shirley Cunyus graduated from Waco High School in 1945 and enrolled at Baylor University to study business administration. In  more

WASHINGTON, April 4 -- Rep. Tomaz Malinowski, D-New Jersey, issued the following statement on the passage of war powers resolution on Yemen and the Republican attempts to politicize the support for Israel: "I strongly supported the resolution the House passed today to end America's direct involvement in Saudi airstrikes in Yemen. The United States should not be complicit in Saudi actions that have claimed thousands of civilian lives, created the world's worst humanitarian crisis, and empowered   more

AUSTIN, Texas, April 2 -- The Republican Party of Texas issued the following news: Last night during the Judiciary and Civil Jurisprudence Committee Hearing on Representative Giovanni Capriglione's HB 2350, a bill that - if Roe v. Wade were overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court - would make it at minimum a civil offense in Texas to perform an abortion. Representative Jeff Leach took the opportunity to challenge the $150+ million annual fiscal note the Legislative Budget Board attached to the bil  more

RICHMOND, Virginia, April 2 -- The Virginia Republican Party issued the following news: Roger Dean, or RD, Huffstetler is back after a failed attempt to secure the Democrat nomination in Virginia's Fifth Congressional District in 2018 and throwing his full support behind the virulent anti-Semite nominated in his stead. The San Franciscan millionaire couldn't win his crowded primary, even though most of his donations came from Massachusetts and California. A multi-millionaire, out-of-touch libe  more

WASHINGTON, April 6 -- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire, issued the following statement, which was published in the Congressional Record on April 4, on the importance of NATO: I come to the floor today following our colleague Senator Tillis to join him in talking about the importance of NATO and expressing our deep appreciation for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Senator Tillis and I are the cochairs of the newly established Senate NATO Observer Group, which builds on the effort th  more

CONCORD, New Hampshire, April 4 -- The New Hampshire Democratic Party issued the following news release, dated April 2: Republican Attorneys General in Ohio and Montana are the latest GOP leaders to stand up to President Trump and his efforts to strike down the Affordable Care Act (ACA), contradicting Governor Sununu's recent statement that "the time to intervene has actually passed." Amid a wave of GOP leaders speaking out against Trump, Governor Chris Sununu's health care hypocrisy continues   more

WASHINGTON, April 4 -- The Ripon Society issued the following news: There's an old saying in Washington that politics stops at the water's edge when it comes to foreign affairs. That same saying could be used in an equally fitting but much more literal way to describe the work being done by U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan and Sheldon Whitehouse to clean up the tons of plastic and other debris that have been dumped in oceans around the world. Sullivan is a Republican from Alaska. Whitehouse is a De  more

RICHMOND, Virginia, April 5 -- The Virginia Republican Party issued the following news: Jennifer Wexton jetted out of Washington yesterday, but she wasn't going to meet with constituents. Instead, she was going to party with socialist Democrats and a dark money liberal group, The Democracy Alliance, at the lavish Four Seasons Hotel in Austin. Wexton appeared at a swanky cocktail and dinner reception with socialist loser Andrew Gillum and will speak alongside Virginia delegate Kathy Tran, who i  more