Tag: Rat

But it was pretty close. At events across early primary states, voters asked about health care and school shootings and immigration. [Sign up for our politics newsletter and join our conversation about the 2020 presidential race.] “We don’t know what’s in it,” said Alane Sullivan, 63, a retired businesswoman, after attending a town hall meeting with Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota in Rye, N.H. “One thing about people in New Hampshire: They are looking for answers, and they knew she wouldn’t know yet.” The lack of questions at campaign events about the report surprised some of the candidates, who had come prepared with lines about the latest development in the nearly two-year investigation. In South Carolina, the one question Beto O’Rourke, the former Texas congressman, fielded about the Mueller report came from State Senator Marlon Kimpson, a local Democrat and a host of a town hall with Mr. O’Rourke in Charleston. He asked whether Congress should consider impeaching the president “assuming there’s facts and evidence” that President Trump knew about collusion or coordination with Russians who meddled in the 2016 election. 1 focus right now is to get it public,” Ms. Klobuchar, who said she was worried that Mr. Barr would resist releasing details, told reporters after her town hall meeting. He wanted to know as much as possible about the Mueller report’s contents, he said. Yet.” Patricia Shearin, 54, a farmer and a Democrat, said she saw no reason candidates should comment on the report at this stage, and she urged them to refrain from calling for impeachment. I think the report should be made public and hopefully those that are in place to make decisions will be ethical.” Campaigning in South Carolina on Saturday, Pete Buttigieg, the 37-year-old mayor of South Bend, Ind., said Democrats should focus on why Mr. Trump was elected in the first place rather than pin their hopes on impeachment as the way to end his presidency.

Council elections are coming around again for Tasmania's 29 municipalities and candidates (with rat cunning or not) are gearing up for their campaigns. There used to be an elected member at one of the Coast’s councils who would just keep on getting elected. He was a nice enough bloke and seemed to genuinely care about people, but he was no great policy generator and the reasons he had such a loyal following were not always obvious. Then, our man would doorknock those areas and introduce himself to the residents. “I’ll look after it.” In the days or weeks following, along would come the works crew and fix the pothole, lay the footpath and so on. You’d never guess who got those residents’ votes at the next council election. None of this was lost on a rather clever MP many years ago, or so the story goes. Some of those doorknocking areas were even in the electorate where the young candidate was trying to get elected. One of those two kept getting elected. These days, council candidates can be elected as mayor without having previously served on a council.