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North Carolina Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson (R) is doubling down on statements that led the state's governor and LGBTQ advocacy groups to call for his resignation.
North Carolina Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson (R) is doubling down on statements that led the state's governor and LGBTQ advocacy groups to call for his resignation.
The Issue Is: Sen. Alex Padilla, Commerce Sec. Gina Raimondo, Michael Knowles
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LOS ANGELES - Another busy week in politics, especially in California, where the gubernatorial recall effort officially qualified for the ballot, new census data led to the loss of a Congressional House seat, and coronavirus case rates continued to plummet.
To discuss these topics, and so much more, Elex Michaelson is joined on The Issue Is by California’s junior Senator Alex Padilla, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, and Conservative host Michael Knowles.
THE ISSUE: PRESIDENT BIDEN S $6T SPENDING PLANS
BACKGROUND: This week, President Joe Biden delivered his first joint address to Congress. On the heels of the $1.9T American Rescue Plan, the President proposed two more massive spending plans, the $2.3T American Jobs Plan and the $1.8T American Families Plan. With a potential $6T in spending on those three packages alone, what does Padilla say to more fiscally Conservative vo
Former North Carolina Supreme Court Chief Justice Cheri Beasley announced on Twitter Tuesday that she’s running for the Senate seat to be vacated in early 2023 by Sen. Richard Burr, the senior Republican senator representing the state since 2005. Burr has long made clear that he won’t seek reelection in 2022.
After losing in 2020 to Chief Justice Paul Newby by a razor-thin margin of 401 votes out of early 5.4 million votes cast, Beasley became a partner at McGuireWoods, an international law firm with offices in Charlotte and Raleigh. She was appointed to the chief justice seat in 2019 by Gov. Roy Cooper. She served on the North Carolina Court of Appeals from 2008 to 2012 before being appointed to the state’s highest court by then-Gov. Beverly Perdue. She then won statewide reelection in 2014.