Actor Matthew McConaughey continued to tease he might run for political office to a room full of governors Friday, joshing about drinking his brand of tequila with at least one of them the night before and taking advice from another to be himself if he ever does run. Whether the star known for “Dazed and […]
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Actor Matthew McConaughey tells governors he is still mulling future run for political office
Sununu slams Dem governors: Newsom’s ‘just a prick’
New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu slammed Gavin Newsom and Andrew Cuomo on Thursday saying many of the governors get along with one another but “no one really cared for” the two Democrats. During a fireside chat at the Reagan Institute Summit on Education in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, Sununu was asked by moderator Fred Ryan […]
Republican governors defend IVF after Alabama ruling
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GOP governors rally behind Texas in Supreme Court border dispute
Texas Governor Greg Abbott, backed by 25 GOP governors, maintains razor wire barriers at Eagle Pass, igniting a national debate on border security and state sovereignty. Source Views: 0
GOP Governors Issue Joint Statement Backing Texas In Its Border Fight With Feds
Republican governors from several states are supporting Texas in its constitutional battle with the Biden administration over the right to defend its borders. On Thursday, the Governors of 25 states issued a joint statement via […] The post GOP Governors Issue Joint Statement Backing Texas In Its Border Fight With Feds appeared first on The […]
Governors Of The Mind: “We Must Remake History”
Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via DailyReckoning.com, The assault on enterprise of the last few years — meaning not the biggest politically connected businesses but smaller ones reflecting vibrant commercial life — has taken very strange forms. Ever since The New York Times said the way forward was to “go medieval,” the elites have been attempting just that. […]
25 GOP Governors Say Proposed Biden Admin Rule Would Prevent States from Protecting Women’s and Girls’ Sports
Half of the nation’s governors wrote to Cardona asking he withdraw a proposed Title IX regulation they say would “prevent states from enforcing our duly-enacted statutes protecting fairness in women’s and girls’ sports.” Source Views: 0
Governors, Senators Push Pharmacies to Sell Abortion Pill
Governors and senators including California Gov. Gavin Newsom are pushing pharmacy retailers to continue providing customers with access to the abortion drug, mifepristone. In a March 14 letter to CVS, Rite-Aid, Walmart, Safeway, Kroger, Costco, and Health Mart, 14 Democrat governors questioned how the pharmacy giants plan to distribute the abortion medication and “safeguard access to reproductive health care.” […]
‘Sorry, Ron, you’re No. 2’: Sununu says he’s the top dog among conservative governors
Chris Sununu, the New Hampshire governor and potential 2024 candidate, has developed a profile as a center-right alternative to Donald Trump. On Thursday, he pushed back on that perception while taking a swipe at another prominent likely 2024 hopeful: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. Sununu, known for being outspoken against Trump, tried to shed the moderate […]
Governors to voters: The state of our nation is bleak, except under me
If you’d sat in the Wyoming statehouse as Gov. Mark Gordon issued his State of the State address last week, it may have seemed as if the end times were near. Not only had the “misguided” energy policies of the Biden administration “cost our nation dearly these past two years,” the Republican governor said, but […]
WOW!!! Democrat governors now sending hordes of illegal aliens to largest Democrat-run cities
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Democrats elected a big class of young governors. They might be the future of the party.
NEW ORLEANS — The future of the Democratic Party was formed over the weekend in a New Orleans hotel ballroom. At least that’s what the donors, operatives and state executives who attended the Democratic Governors Association’s annual winter confab here think. The party last month successfully defended all but one of its incumbents and flipped […]
Your cheat sheet on the nation’s 9 governors-in-waiting
Meet America’s new class of governors — a diverse group of political newcomers and seasoned politicians who flipped party control, broke centuries-old barriers and helped deliver a record 12 female state executives nationwide. They’re historic firsts in their states and in the nation. They flipped governor’s offices blue in Arizona, Maryland and Massachusetts. And in […]
Republican Governors tap Reynolds aide as next executive director
The Republican Governors Association has tapped Sara Craig Gongol as the party committee’s next executive director. Craig Gongol previously served as chief of staff to Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds, who recently won reelection and is currently the vice-chair of the RGA. “Sara is a talented operative who’s keenly aware of what’s necessary for an organization […]
Governors That Opposed COVID Lockdowns See Margins of Victory Rise in 2022
In the 2022 midterm elections, governors who opposed prolonged pandemic lockdowns and quickly allowed their states to reopen had an easier time winning reelection than they had in the 2018 elections. In Tuesday’s midterm elections, governors Brian Kemp of Georgia, Ron DeSantis of Florida, Kristi Noem of South Dakota, Kim Reynolds of Iowa, Jared Polis […]
Republican Governors Vow Not To Mandate Covid Vaccines For Children
Several Republican governors have responded to the CDC’s latest attempt to force the covid vaccines on children by vowing not to institute mandates in their states. On Thursday, the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) voted 15-0 to approve adding Pfizer and Moderna covid jabs to the list of recommended childhood vaccines for children […]
GOP Governors Promise Not To Mandate Covid-19 Vaccine For Children
Update: As expected, the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted 15-0 on Thursday to add Covid-19 shots to the children’s recommended vaccine schedule. As the Post Millennial notes, Speaking earlier in the morning, Dr. Patricia Wodi said that the Covid-19 vaccine has been placed as a recommendation from 6 months of age and older. During a question period, one […]
Right Wing Round-Up: Can Governors Declare War?
Ken Meyer @ Mediaite: Michael Flynn Predicts State Governors Will Soon ‘Declare War’ in Shocking Arizona Campaign Speech. Josephine Harvey @ HuffPost: Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Husband Files For Divorce. Jack Jenkins @ Religion News Service: Interfaith group hosts Hill briefing on Christian nationalism. Andrew Buncombe @ The Independent: The January 6 hearings revealed stunning details […]
White House says Republican governors shipping migrants to other states is ‘reckless,’ ‘shameful’
“We have had a process in place, there is a legal way of doing this, and for managing migrants,” Jean-Pierre said during a White House press briefing. “Republican governors interfering in that process and using migrants as political pawns is shameful.” Migrants from Central and South America wait near the residence of Vice President Kamala […]
Meh. White House-curious governors unfazed by D.C. gridlock.
PORTLAND, Maine — Congress is making the presidency a grind and the Supreme Court is kicking policymaking to the states. Being a governor, then, should be one of America’s hottest jobs. Yet so many governors are still angling to be president. Last month’s string of Supreme Court decisions — rolling back five decades of abortion […]