We wonder why we're electing Democrats and Republicans who seem to be more extreme than the average Democrat or Republican, and when they get to the statehouse, they don't seem to talk to one another.
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When we go to the Statehouse, it's one or two of us against a whole slew of tobacco lobbyists and their partners. You can see that this is a classic David versus Goliath with us going against big tobacco.
Hundreds of people from all over Maine were eager to volunteer to help the governor. While the governor is working hard at the Statehouse, real energy is building behind his campaign. The support has been overwhelming already.
There will probably be action in the Statehouse on the handler fee this year.
It was brand new the year my opponent first took office in the Indiana Statehouse. I think it is time to trade it in.
But perhaps it was in the South Carolina Statehouse and captured by Sherman's men in 1865. What we do know is that a veteran of a New York regiment from the Civil War presented it to the state of New York in 1889 during a ceremony on the state house grounds in Albany.
Sometimes we'll have people call and want a politician's name, but are unsure if they're in the Congress or Statehouse.
Here we are again. It's very frustrating to keep seeing this legislation come forward. Bills like this, and amendments like this really are discriminatory. And even if proponents and advocates who are trying to push this through in the statehouse are not doing it with hate-- it is going to bring hate out.
You have those rare occasions when an issue gets a lot of publicity and coverage and that's when most legislators would vote in accordance with the mainstream views back home. But those are rare occasions. On most issues and most bills, the level of public concern and understanding is, frankly, very low. And when that goes down, the amount of power and influence lobbyists have in that (Statehouse) goes up. That is true on most issues.
It's time for integrity and reform throughout America and in the state of New Jersey. You've got a candidate that can restore that faith and confidence and integrity in the Statehouse of New Jersey.
How many millions of dollars worth of contracts are going to be bought and sold to the highest campaign contributor at the Statehouse before this Legislature takes action.
Democrats would love to make Mississippi the third state, after South Carolina and Alabama last year, where they've taken the statehouse back from the GOP,