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• Crist talks abortion in Broward County, DeSantis woos Monroe County with money With midterm elections drawing closer, Democratic candidate for Florida’s Governor Charlie Crist spoke at the African American Research Library in Fort Lauderdale on Friday to discuss abortion rights while hammering his opponent Gov. Ron DeSantis’ views. “If he’s re-elected, DeSantis will stop at nothing, nothing to completely strip a woman’s right to choose across the sunshine state,” said Crist. Aside from the popular topic of abortion, Local 10 News’ Hatzel Vela asked Crist about another pressing issue, the economy. “Utility…
• Right-wing operatives, including California man, plead guilty to robocall hoax By MARK GILLISPIE | The Associated Pess CLEVELAND — Two right-wing operatives pleaded guilty on Monday in Cleveland to single felony counts of telecommunications fraud for having placed thousands of false robocalls in Ohio that told people they could be arrested or be forced to receive vaccinations based on information they submitted in votes by mail. Jacob Wohl, 24, of Irvine, California, and Jack Burkman, 56, of Arlington, Virginia, could each receive a year in prison when they are sentenced…
• East Bay Rep. Eric Swalwell airs viral abortion ad to support vulnerable Democrats By Gregory Korte | Bloomberg US Representative Eric Swalwell will soon be running a provocative abortion rights ad in areas where he isn’t even on the ballot, an attempt to keep the issue in front of voters and help Democrats besieged by Republican attacks on inflation. The ad, first released in a longer format online, shows a dramatic depiction of a woman being arrested in front of her children for having had an abortion. Kurt Bardella, a Democratic political consultant…
• LA City Council seeks input on whether suspending Mark Ridley-Thomas’ pay is legal The Los Angeles City Council sought a report on Friday, Oct. 28, from the city attorney on whether City Controller Ron Galperin had the legal authority to cut Councilman Mark Ridley-Thomas’ pay and benefits after Ridley-Thomas was suspended from the council last year. Ridley-Thomas was suspended in October 2021 after his indictment in a federal corruption case. Galperin then suspended Ridley-Thomas’ pay, claiming that he “could not use city money to pay the salary of an elected official facing federal…
• Former President Obama endorses Karen Bass for LA mayor Former President Barack Obama endorsed Karen Bass for mayor of Los Angeles on Saturday, Oct. 29. “I am asking Los Angeles to vote for Karen Bass for mayor,” Obama said in a video released by the Bass campaign. “I know Karen, she was with me in supporting my campaign from the beginning, and Karen Bass will deliver results. … Karen has always been on the right side of the issues we care so deeply about. She has devoted her life…
• Nebraska struggling to OK ban despite anti-abortion history Nebraska Republicans are expected to dominate as usual at the polls in November and retain control of the officially nonpartisan Legislature. They face a far tougher challenge flipping enough seats to push through a statewide abortion ban. The Supreme Court decision overturning the constitutional right to abortion has injected a degree of uncertainty into elections, even in some of the nation's most reliably red states. Abortion opponents in Nebraska are hoping to avoid a repeat of what happened this summer…
• Balint likely to be elected Vermont's 1st woman in Congress In the race for Vermont’s single seat in the U.S. House, Democrat Becca Balint could be on the verge of being elected as the first woman and first openly gay person to represent the state in Congress. Balint, 54, president of the Vermont Senate and a former teacher, faces Republican Liam Madden, a 38-year-old Marine Corps veteran and anti-war activist, who describes himself as an independent, and who does not have the backing of the state GOP party. Three independents…
• Withdrawal of study highlights tension in US intel community As U.S. spy agencies ramped up their work to catch foreign meddling in this year’s election, a team of CIA experts studied lessons learned from the contentious 2020 vote. Unexpectedly, their report sparked a controversy within parts of the intelligence community. In a rare move, their study was withdrawn shortly after it was issued in the spring after rank-and-file officers protested that it failed to address the allegations of politics seeping into intelligence that arose in the 2020 election and…
• Georgia candidates head to party bastions amid early voting Georgia's top candidates fanned out Thursday to parts of the state that already embrace them, trying to dig up every bit of support they can amid a big turnout in early voting. For Republican Gov. Brian Kemp, that meant a trip to parts of rural southeastern Georgia that have become among the most GOP-dominated areas of the state. His Democratic challenger Stacey Abrams, meanwhile, headed to Milledgeville and Augusta, showing how she visits both cities and small towns, but almost…
• Barack Obama gets a midterm do-over to help boost Democrats Barack Obama is trying to do something he couldn’t during two terms as president: help Democrats succeed in national midterm elections when they already hold the White House. Of course, he’s more popular than he was back then, and now it’s President Joe Biden, Obama’s former vice president, who faces the prospects of a November rebuke. Obama begins a hopscotch across battleground states Friday in Georgia, and he will travel Saturday to Michigan and Wisconsin, followed by stops next week…