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CTV News
February 1, 2018
A former political staffer is welcoming a review of harassment policy at Manitoba's legislature but said more needs to be done. Natalie Copps first worked as a ... “It is important that for us to start here; we should be the leaders or the examples” Fontaine said. “But I would hope that everybody across theÃÂ ...
CNN
February 1, 2018
(CNN) Secretary of Defense James Mattis is actively considering banning US military and civilian personnel from bringing their personal cell phones into the ... that helped lead to a similar ban of personal cell phones among White House staffers in the West Wing, a ban that went into effect this month.
New York Magazine
February 1, 2018
Mr. Corallo planned to tell investigators that Ms. Hicks said during the call that emails written by Donald Trump Jr. before the Trump Tower meeting — in which the younger Mr. Trump said he was eager to receive political dirt about Mrs. Clinton from the Russians — “will never get out.” That left Mr. CoralloÃÂ ...
The Atlantic
January 31, 2018
Subscribe to The Atlantic's Politics & Policy Daily, a roundup of ideas and events in American politics. ... last summer—without the knowledge of the U.S. embassy or British government—along with committee staffer Doug Presley in search of Christopher Steele, author of a controversial dossier on Trump.
Washington Examiner
January 30, 2018
Brancaccio: I come from a big Italian family that likes to argue, so naturally in high school I joined the debate team, then volunteered for my first political campaign in 2008, knocking on doors for Barack Obama. I fell in love with getting to know people and learning how policy impacts their lives. I knew whereÃÂ ...
CNN
January 23, 2018
... of Plaskett and an "innocent" video of her husband wearing makeup and playing with their daughter. McCullum, in an interview with the DC newspaper The Hill in 2015, identified himself as a general counsel to Plaskett. In the profile, where he was named one of the "50 most beautiful people" in politics,ÃÂ ...
The Guardian
January 7, 2018
The 25th amendment of the US constitution provides for the removal of a president if a majority of the cabinet and the vice-president agree. In Wolff's book, the then White House strategist Steve Bannon refers to Vice-President Mike Pence as “our fallback guy”. Pence stood to Trump's right at Camp David,ÃÂ ...
The Guardian
January 7, 2018
Booked! Trump, staffers who cried Wolff and a week of fire and fury ... Five US senators with decades of collective experience stood in deference at their chairs. Donald Trump was .... It was an ugly, very public political divorce, the end of a relationship that had transfixed the political world. In August 2015ÃÂ ...
The Detroit News
January 6, 2018
The constituent relations staffers are Judy Schwalbach, Michael Sullivan, Luke Londo and Brandon Sinclair. Sinclair has been a political coordinator with the Kent County Republican Party, while Schwalbach is a former Escanaba mayor and Londo was a staffer for ex-U.S. Rep. Dan Benishek, R-CrystalÃÂ ...
CBC.ca
January 5, 2018
Some key inner-circle Alberta legislature positions filled by United Conservative Party Leader Jason Kenney were political staffers in Ottawa when Kenney was an MP and cabinet minister. Those with past connections to Kenney, or former prime minister Stephen Harper, Kenney's former boss, include hisÃÂ ...
Los Angeles Times
January 5, 2018
There is also an effort underway to change the sexual misconduct reporting process for House staffers. After a wave of sexual harassment allegations hit the political world last fall, reporters began looking into Dababneh's behavior. In December, Dababneh was accused by multiple women of misconduct,ÃÂ ...
U.S. News & World Report
January 4, 2018
Official Accused of Having Staffer Work on Websites. A complaint filed with Nebraska campaign regulators accuses the Lancaster County treasurer of using county employees to manage his political Facebook page. ... The staffer resigned after reporting what he characterized as violations of county policy.
New York Times
December 30, 2017
How the Russia Inquiry Began: A Campaign Aide, Drinks and Talk of Political Dirt ... The information that Mr. Papadopoulos gave to the Australians answers one of the lingering mysteries of the past year: What so alarmed American officials to provoke the F.B.I. to open a counterintelligence investigation intoÃÂ ...
Business Insider
December 27, 2017
Special counsel Robert Mueller has begun to question Republican National Committee staffers about the party's 2016 campaign data operation, which ... that foreign entities would have had the kind of granular knowledge of American politics necessary to target specific demographics and voting precincts.
New York Times
December 31, 1999
Mr. Strider, who was Mrs. Clinton's faith adviser, was a founder of the American Values Network and sent the candidate scripture readings every morning for months during the campaign, was hired five years later to lead an independent group that supported Mrs. Clinton's 2016 candidacy, Correct theÃÂ ...
Chattanooga Times Free Press
December 31, 1999
Democratic U.S. Senate hopeful Phil Bredesen has announced members of his initial campaign team, relying on a number of Tennesseans who worked for him when the millionaire businessman ran and served as Tennessee governor. He's also added some new faces. "I'm confident that, together, we canÃÂ ...
The Atlantic
December 31, 1999
Subscribe to The Atlantic's Politics & Policy Daily, a roundup of ideas and events in American politics. ... Once elected, a new president hires as top aides the people he has had around him—that is, his top campaign staffers. .... On the other hand, there are many more Trump staffers who might leave soon.
Newsweek
December 23, 2017
Speculation is mounting about changes to the White House team as President Trump's administration prepares itself for a surge of departures and arrivals over the holiday season. As the end of Trump's first year in office approaches, White House officials are wondering about which staffers will remain,ÃÂ ...
U.S. News & World Report
December 23, 2017
In a brief order Friday, U.S. District Judge Amy B. Jackson summoned Gates and his lawyers to court on Dec. ... defendant makes reference to 'the cause' and the goal of 'ensuring that our supporters from across the United States hear our message and stand with us,' would not violate this Court's order.".
Dayton Daily News
December 23, 2017
Farenthold announced last week he would not seek re-election after news organizations exposed that he used $84,000 in taxpayer money to settle a sexual harassment claim and former staffers stepped forward with allegations of an abusive work environment. They have told Congressional investigatorsÃÂ ...
New York Magazine
December 22, 2017
This week, Paul Ryan achieved his life's dream of passing a gigantic tax cut, Donald Trump got to emblazon his weird-looking signature on a significant piece of legislation, and the entire GOP was able to fulfilled their long-standing principle that whenever you've got the chance to fork over an enormousÃÂ ...
Politico
December 22, 2017
But Trump, who began shedding senior officials just a month into his presidency, continues to take comfort in the outside political hands who ushered him into the White House .... “For almost all of us, if not all of us, it's a question of when next year,” one White House staffer told POLITICO of the exit strategy.
ABC News
December 14, 2017
The 13-page document, which ABC had obtained from sources, resembles a legal complaint filed by a former Schumer staffer in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. It appears to detail alleged incidents of sexual harassment directed at one of his female staffers on Capitol Hill. During a phoneÃÂ ...
Toledo Blade
December 14, 2017
By Tom Troy | BLADE POLITICS WRITER ... U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D., Toledo) took some fellow lawmakers, Capitol Hill staffers, and journalists to task for dressing in a way that she said was “inviting,” in comments to a closed-door meeting with the Democratic caucus Wednesday, Miss Kaptur confirmedÃÂ ...
NEWS.com.au
December 14, 2017
Democratic US senate candidate Doug Jones and his wife Louise after his historic win. Picture: AP ... “Essentially the centre of American politics has been gutted. The GOP is being more ... “Because a GOP win could be taken for granted, these extreme political views were being given credibility.” AlabamaÃÂ ...
CNN
December 14, 2017
By MJ Lee, CNN National Politics Reporter ..... Rekola was about to leave town to get married in July 2015, when, he said, Farenthold, standing within earshot of other staffers in his Capitol Hill office, .... "Like any staffer who's been bullied, I knew that the dirty secret is: There's no remedy for staffers like us.
NBCNews.com
December 13, 2017
Page also warned Strzok about discussing politics on their phones. "So look, you ... the criticism. "Strzok's behavior and involvement in these two politically sensitive cases raises new concerns of inappropriate political influence in the work of the FBI," he wrote in a letter to the Justice Department last week.
New York Times
December 12, 2017
In her complaint, Ms. Greene said Mr. Farenthold “regularly drank to excess, and because of his tendency to flirt, the staffers who accompanied him to Capitol Hill ... But they said he denied the rest of that allegation, including “the implication that this was a source for, or cause of, concern for any staffer.”.
American Banker
December 5, 2017
At the OCC, the only political appointee is Comptroller Joseph Otting, a spokesman said Tuesday. Members of the FDIC's board are political appointees, but the agency has just one additional political staffer, according to a spokeswoman. And the Federal Reserve Board has no political staff appointees,ÃÂ ...
WIRED
November 23, 2017
The US anti-propaganda effort extends beyond just the GEC; other ... former State Department staffers say that the government agency ... “The headline is: There's nothing that's being done,” said one former State Department staffer. ... and inconsistent views over how, exactly, the United States ought to ...
Chron.com
November 23, 2017
The field of Democrats hoping to replace U.S. Rep. Gene Green, D-Houston, in Congress will include one less name. State Rep. Armando ...
Us Weekly
November 22, 2017
Al Franken discusses politics at a SiriusXM Town Hall with host Julie ... Night Live (SNL),” the former staffers said in a statement on Tuesday, November 21, via NBC News. ... and mention our sincere appreciation that he treated each of us with the ... Part of the American Media Inc. Celebrity News Network.
U.S. News & World Report
November 22, 2017
The Latest: Conyers Acknowledges Settling Staffer Complaint ... Conyers touching female staffers inappropriately or requesting sexual favors.
Christian Science Monitor
November 21, 2017
As President Trump fills out the remaining gaps in his administration, a theme is emerging: experienced members of former President George ...
CNN
November 20, 2017
Al Franken has no intention of stepping down, a Franken staffer told the ... and long-term political future and has continued to fuel the ongoing ...
CNN
November 14, 2017
"Amongst ourselves, we know," a former Senate staffer said of the lawmakers ... what one political veteran bluntly referred to as a "sex trade on Capitol Hill." ... female staffers; another half dozen pointed to a Texas congressman for ... "Congress designed us to be a non-partisan, independent process, which ...
U.S. News & World Report
November 5, 2017
Kentucky House Speaker Resigns Post After Texts With Staffer ... he settled sexual harassment claims from one of his staffers last month. .... those who have used this as an opportunity for personal selfish political gain." ... A collection of moments subtle and grand of the 44th president of the United States.
Politico
October 27, 2017
The study was published Thursday in the journal Political Communication. ... As Trump emerged as the likely Republican nominee, staffers from ... One unnamed tech company staffer is quoted in the study as saying, “Clinton viewed us as ... political spectrum, whether by Facebook's politics and government ...
U.S. News & World Report
October 27, 2017
Fired Elections Staffer Alleges Improper Voter Data Access ... purchasing it from the State Board of Elections or getting it from political parties.
The Guardian
October 26, 2017
First, they think establishment-wing leaders follow what the political ... watch West Wing fantasies about party staffers and follow the path of rising stars. .... Tribes trick us into thinking that political participation is about being ...
The Guardian
October 26, 2017
... ahead of us tomorrow, so I am going to call it a day with the politics live ... she said she still needed to ask her staffer, David De Garis, about?
The Republic
October 26, 2017
NEWARK, N.J. — The Latest on the bribery trial of U.S. Sen. ... Bob Menendez is focused on the details of a $300,000 political contribution by a ...
U.S. News & World Report
October 26, 2017
A New Ranking From U.S. News & World Report ... Ex-Staffer: Sexual Harassment Rampant at Kansas Statehouse ... By JOHN HANNA, AP Political Writer ... describing harassment and intimidation of women in state politics ...
The Australian
October 26, 2017
When it comes to throwing political staffers under a bus to protect themselves, ... The latest example is Senator Cash letting a staffer go who ...
Los Angeles Times
October 17, 2017
A state legislator who was groped by a male lobbyist weeks after she was sworn into office. A legislative staffer-turned-lobbyist who for years ...
Splinter (blog)
October 13, 2017
The first is the historically absurd state of American politics. ... I'd also wager that White House aides have raised Times staffers' tweets to political reporters, like ... to avoid trouble, perhaps diluting their work for the rest of us.
HuffPost
October 13, 2017
Current and former members of Pennsylvania Rep. Tim Murphy's staff described a congressional office with a toxic atmosphere, one where ...
CNN
October 12, 2017
Metin Topuz, a Turkish national who works for the US consulate in Istanbul, is the ... She also called on Turkey to give the staffers access to their attorneys. ... Erdogan also touched on the sensitive issue of an American pastor, ...
Roll Call
October 12, 2017
A congressional staffer has been charged with falsifying a security clearance form, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia ...
Roll Call
October 12, 2017
A Capitol Hill staffer convicted of failing to file income tax returns, who faces ... The U.S. Attorney's office for the District of Columbia announced ...