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Higdon win means new Pulaski rep.
Frankfort :: KY :: USA | about 18 hours ago
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Five precincts in northern Pulaski County, including the city of Eubank, will have a new state representative in Frankfort. Jimmy Higdon, a Lebanon grocer and currently state representative from the 24th House District, won a special election Tuesday...
Tags: house district, Pulaski County, Jimmy Higdon, 24th house, Senate, House, special election, Commonwealth Journal, Dan Kelly, district seat, Frankfort, Steve Beshear, Prosecutors, Politics
Election raises questions about expanded gambling prospects
Frankfort :: KY :: USA | 2 days ago
Credibility It was supposed to change the political landscape in Kentucky. The special election in the state Senate 14th District did – but not in the exactly direction Gov. Steve Beshear, Senate Democrats and the horse industry hoped. Republican state Rep. Jimmy...
Tags: Senate, Jodie Haydon, Jimmy Higdon, Jody Haydon, horse industry, expanded gambling, Steve Beshear, special election, defeated democrat, Frankfort, Prosecutors, Politics, Mitch McConnell, Kentucky, Republican Party, Brereton Jones, Governor of Kentucky, Wallace G. Wilkinson, Greg Stumbo, Nancy Pelosi, United States Constitution
How to fill a Senate seat
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 4 days ago
Credibility Senate contest fanning partisan and intraparty battling, the Democratic and Republican contenders for the job agree on some of the important issues in the Feb. 2 primary -- including how to fill future vacancies in the Senate. Democrats and Republicans...
Tags: U.S. Senate, Senate Ethics Committee, Chicago Urban League, special election, Tribune, job creation, Afghanistan, Kabul, Earmark, Politics, Rod Blagojevich, Republican Party, Barack Obama, Roland Burris, Mark Kirk, United States Senate, Illinois State Senators
Special interests give Democrat big fundraising lead in Kentucky Senate race
Frankfort :: KY :: USA | 10 days ago
Credibility Contributions from the horse industry and highway contractors have helped Democrat Jodie Haydon build a huge fundraising lead over Republican Jimmy Higdon in next week's special election for the state Senate � a race some see as a referendum on expanded...
Tags: Kentucky Senate, Jodie Haydon, Jody Haydon, Jimmy Higdon, special election, Frankfort, Steve Beshear, Prosecutors, Politics, Governor of Kentucky, Kentucky
Suspended Miami commissioner to run for her vacant seat
Miami :: FL :: USA | 20 days ago
Credibility Professing innocence before a small but adoring crowd in the heart of Liberty City, suspended Miami Commissioner Michelle Spence-Jones said Thursday she will run in a special election to regain her seat. ``For me not to run is an admission of guilt,''...
Tags: Michelle Spence-Jones, special election, Miami, miami commissioner, suspend miami, family business, Miami-Dade County Florida, E. Lee Spence, Encyclopedists, Spence, Law Crime
Ousted Miami Commissioner Michelle Spence-Jones may run for seat
Miami :: FL :: USA | 22 days ago
Credibility Miami Mayor Tomás Regalado on Tuesday announced a special election in January for Overtown's vacant District 5 seat, opening a potential political drama -- a bid by Commissioner Michelle Spence-Jones to return to the dais. Spence-Jones was suspended Friday...
Tags: special election, RABIN Miami, Tomás Regalado, Humberto Hernandez, city charter, Miami, Humberto Hernandez Jr., Government of the City of Miami, Charlie Crist, Lawton Chiles, E. Lee Spence
Plano to set date for special election to fill Mabrie Jackson's council seat
Dallas :: TX :: USA | 23 days ago
Credibility KIM / The Dallas Morning News tkim@dallasnews.com Plano plans to hold a special election to fill the City Council seat of Mabrie Jackson, who resigned Monday to run for the state Legislature. Council members originally were preparing to fill her seat...
Tags: special election, Mabrie Jackson, council member, council seat, Dallas, Phil Dyer, Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, Collin County Texas, Plano Texas
Would-be successors increasingly dubious Hutchison will resign
Perry :: NY :: USA | 24 days ago
Credibility Many of those politicians continue to be frustrated by the saga, and some believe she won't resign her seat after all. Hutchison promised in her speech Saturday to the Texas Federation of Republican Women that she would resign after the March 2 gubernatorial...
Tags: Kay Bailey Hutchison, special election, Senate, Texas, GOP, Perry, United States Senate elections, Karl Rove, Kay Bailey Hutchison, Roger Williams, Rick Perry, Politics
Johnson County residents call for election
Iowa City :: IA :: USA | 27 days ago
Credibility The committee set Jan. 19, 2010, as the date for the special election. The committee originally chose to appoint a supervisor to avoid the estimated $75,000 price tag of a special election following Supervisor Larry Meyers� death Sept. 22. Iowa City...
Tags: Johnson County Auditor, special election, Janelle Rettig, Lori Cardella, Slockett, political parties, Iowa City, Elections, Ballot access, Politics
Horse group launches ad touting Democrat in special election
Frankfort :: KY :: USA | 29 days ago
Credibility An issues group connected to Kentucky�s horse industry began running advertisements Wednesday touting Jodie Haydon, the Democratic candidate in an upcoming special election to fill an open state Senate seat. Keep Our Jobs in Kentucky Inc., which praises...
Tags: Jodie Haydon, Kentucky Inc., special election, Kentucky Equine Education Project
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