Kelly Ayotte now says New Hampshire should pause data centers. Last year she signed a law letting off-grid power companies that serve them skip state utility rules. She was paid $112,500 on the board of one, Bloom Energy, and held shares that would be worth about $1 million today.
Idaho's Republican governor, senator and both House members have turned down debates and League of Women Voters forums this year. When his challenger asked him to debate, Russ Fulcher said 'I'm not going to help you.'
Roger Marshall, Jon Husted, Susan Collins, Juan Ciscomani, Jeff Crank, Mariannette Miller-Meeks, Jason Smith and Derrick Van Orden are touting rural health grants in the final weeks of the campaign. KFF says the fund covers barely a third of what the same law takes out of rural Medicaid, and it runs out.
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Richard Hudson voted to slash Medicaid by nearly $1 trillion over the next ten years, and the Congressional Budget Office warns the law will leave an estimated 10 million more Americans without health insurance.
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Since 2022, Mike Lawler's campaign has paid Checkmate Strategies, the firm he co-founded, more than $502,000 for consulting and PR fees.
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Brandon Herrera goose-stepped on camera to Nazi songs and was condemned by the Republican Jewish Coalition as a "goose-stepping extremist."
At a Mobile County GOP dinner advertised as open to the public, a Lagniappe reporter asked about Tuberville's 2020 pledge to donate 'every dime' of his Senate salary to veterans. Tuberville had sheriff's deputies escort him out. There is still no record he kept the promise.
Two weeks before Election Day, ColomForSenate.com — the Hyde-Smith campaign site built to look like Scott Colom's — pops up an uncaptioned mugshot from a 2001 misdemeanor arrest when he was a high school senior. Asked about it, her campaign manager repeated a 'sex change surgeries' claim the site's own source doesn't support.
On January 1, the work rules in Trump's budget bill kick in. States are paying contractors with troubled records to build the systems — and in Georgia, the test case, the paperwork cost twice as much as the health care.