Category: State

  • Cohen, Chen running for California controller in November

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    Malia Cohen (D) and Lanhee Chen (R) are running for California controller on Nov. 8, 2022. Incumbent Betty Yee (D) was not able to file for re-election due to term limits. Cohen was elected to the California State Board of Equalization in 2018, representing District 2. Her professional experience includes working for Power Forward Consulting…

  • California recall changes signed into law

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    California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed two recall bills into law on September 30, 2022. The first bill, AB 2582, removed the replacement question of recall elections for local offices. Prior to this bill becoming law, all recall elections in California had two questions: (1) the yes/no question asking voters if they wished to recall…

  • 54.10% of state legislatures are Republican, 44.32% Democratic

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    At the end of September 2022, 54.10% of all state legislatures in the United States were Republicans, while 44.32% were Democrats. There are 7,383 state legislative seats in the country. Republicans controlled 62 chambers, while Democrats held 36. The Alaska House of Representatives is the only chamber organized under a multipartisan, power-sharing coalition. Democrats held…

  • Referendum on Arizona Empowerment Scholarship Accounts expansion bill will not make the 2024 ballot

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    On Sept. 30, Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs (D) announced that a referendum on Empowerment Scholarship Accounts (ESA) expansion legislation will not make the ballot. A week earlier, the campaign for the referendum, the Save Our Schools PAC, submitted signatures to place the measure on the ballot. The campaign said it submitted 141,714 signatures.…

  • Nevada Supreme Court Justice Abbi Silver retires

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    Nevada Supreme Court Justice Abbi Silver retired on Sept. 29, 2022. Silver was the only judge in Nevada’s history to be elected to every court in the state’s court system. Silver was elected to the state supreme court in 2018, filling the seat vacated by Justice Michael Douglas. Prior to this election, Silver served on…

  • Texas State Board of Education approves changes to social studies curriculum

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    The Texas State Board of Education (SBOE) on September 26, 2022, voted 8-5 to approve changes to public education curriculum guidelines that aim to align with the requirements set forth in Senate Bill 3 (SB 3) concerning instruction about race in social studies curriculum.  Texas lawmakers passed SB 3 during a 2021 special session following…

  • Campaign finance deadline today in California

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    Candidates and organizations involved in California’s statewide elections must file campaign finance information by September 29, 2022. The general election will take place in California on November 8, 2022. What state-level offices are on the ballot this year in California? Twenty of the 40 seats in the California State Senate All 80 seats in the…

  • All candidates for Ohio House of Representatives District 24 complete Ballotpedia’s Candidate Connection survey

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    Both of the candidates running in the November 8, 2022, general election for Ohio House of Representatives District 24 — Dani Isaacsohn (D) and Adam Koehler (R) — completed Ballotpedia’s Candidate Connection survey. Thesesurvey responses allow voters to hear directly from candidates about what motivates them to run for office. Eighty-eight of the country’s 99 state…

  • All candidates for Missouri State Senate District 26 complete Ballotpedia’s Candidate Connection survey

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    Both of the candidates running in the November 8, 2022, general election for Missouri State Senate District 26 — John Kiehne (D) and Ben Brown (R) — completed Ballotpedia’s Candidate Connection survey. These survey responses allow voters to hear directly from candidates about what motivates them to run for office. Eighty-eight of the country’s 99 state…

  • Virginia education agency proposes policies to clarify approaches to transgender students in public schools

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    The Virginia Department of Education proposed new policies on September 16, 2022, that aim to provide guidance to the state’s public schools on the Youngkin administration’s preferred approaches to transgender students.  The new policies depart from former Democratic Governor Ralph Northam’s administration guidelines, which encouraged schools to let students use names and pronouns aligning with…