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Editorial: Mapping a fair election: The new congressional and state Senate districts enhance democracy
We thought that the draft maps published last Monday for New York’s congressional and state Senate districts drawn by Carnegie Mellon’s Jonathan Cervas for Acting Steuben County state Supreme Court Justice Patrick McAllister were excellent, but late Friday night the final maps became even better. Cervas was paid $90,000. His services were well worth it. Hyperbolic cries of Jim Crow and disenfranchisement were met with logic and the state Constitution. The 3,000 or so submissions commenting or complaining about the maps were all reviewed and changes were made. In Brooklyn, Crown Heights, Bedfor...
New York Daily News
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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot swept into office as an avowed reformer. Three years later, critics see ‘missed opportunities’ and a mixed record
CHICAGO — As a candidate for mayor, Lori Lightfoot promised to transform Chicago’s often corrupt political culture, in part by taking away the near-total power aldermen have over matters in their own wards and by leading a transparent government. “For years, they said Chicago ain’t ready for reform. Well, get ready, because reform is here,” Lightfoot declared in her inaugural address. Three years after that speech, however, activists and aldermen say the city’s political culture largely remains intact. And as she gears up for an expected reelection bid next year — this time as an insider — the...
Chicago Tribune
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Mike Sielski: The City Council resolution honoring Joel Embiid was silly, but not for the reasons you think
PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia City Council did a silly thing Thursday, passing a resolution honoring Joel Embiid as the “Most Valuable Philadelphian,” and calling the resolution silly is the best thing you can say about it. Embiid had finished second in the voting for the NBA’s Most Valuable Player award to the Denver Nuggets’ Nikola Jokic, and the council apparently decided both to thumb its nose at those who voted for Jokic and to pander to Embiid, the 76ers, and the team’s fans. Don’t worry, Joel. We stand with you and all loyal Philadelphians in denouncing the injustice of this result. Predi...
The Philadelphia Inquirer
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Rubio gets backing from top police union in race with Demings for law and order label
MIAMI — With about 10 police officers standing behind him, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio was endorsed Saturday by the state’s main police union, the Florida Police Benevolent Association, a group that represents about 30,000 cops statewide. It is the latest law enforcement group to back him in his reelection campaign — including endorsements from a group of 55 Florida sheriffs and the Florida Police Chiefs Association — against U.S. Rep. Val Demings. Demings, a Democrat and the former Orlando police chief, has made efforts to emphasize her law enforcement background, rebuking the movement to defund th...
Miami Herald
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Despite ‘questionable’ status, Warriors coach Steve Kerr says he expects Andrew Wiggins to play in Game 3
DALLAS — Andrew Wiggins is listed as questionable for Game 3 of the Western Conference finals with ankle soreness, but Warriors coach Steve Kerr is certain the 27-year-old forward will play on Sunday night. How can Kerr be so sure? Following a team workout in Dallas Saturday, Kerr said Warriors vice president of communications Raymond Ridder had to inform him of Wiggins’ official injury designation before the coach met with reporters. “To be honest, I didn’t know he was hurt until Raymond just told me he was questionable,” Kerr admitted. Wiggins has enjoyed a breakout postseason and has been t...
The Mercury News
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New House map sets stage for Brooklyn slugfest headlined by Bill de Blasio, Mondaire Jones
NEW YORK — The ink has barely dried on New York’s much-revised House map, but a radically transformed 10th Congressional District has set the stage for an unruly political scramble in lower Manhattan and brownstone Brooklyn ahead of the August Democratic primary. On Friday, former Mayor Bill de Blasio declared his candidacy for the district’s seat, reentering the political arena four months after leaving City Hall. Insiders viewed de Blasio as the early favorite, even after his popularity plummeted in two terms running New York City. He is a fierce fundraiser and a familiar face in his home ne...
New York Daily News
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The Oz and McCormick campaigns are already fighting over undated Pa. mail ballots as Senate primary recount looms
PHILADELPHIA — The legal fight for every single vote in Pennsylvania’s Republican Senate primary has begun. Armies of attorneys representing David McCormick and Mehmet Oz, separated by a razor-thin margin in the ongoing vote count, had been descending on the state, when a federal appeals court jolted the process Friday. Shortly after 4 p.m., the court ruled that undated mail ballots from Lehigh County in last fall’s election should be counted. That sent counties and campaigns scrambling because state courts had previously held that Pennsylvania law required voters to date their ballots or have...
The Philadelphia Inquirer
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How the Pa. Republican establishment broke itself trying to stop Doug Mastriano
On a rainy Friday earlier this month, several leading Republican candidates for governor drove to Westmoreland County in western Pennsylvania for former President Donald Trump’s rally that evening. With less than two weeks before the primary election, State Sen. Doug Mastriano was leading in the polls, and some of the candidates and their aides were holding out hope Trump would use the rally to endorse a rival who could topple the front-runner. But behind the scenes, some of the most influential players in Pennsylvania Republican politics were hatching a plan of their own to stop Mastriano, wh...
The Philadelphia Inquirer
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Kevon Looney steps in for foul-plagued Draymond Green, sparks comeback in Warriors’ Game 2 win vs. Mavs
SAN FRANCISCO — The gold-clad crowd at Chase Center started to chant “M-V-P” in the third quarter of Game 2 of the Western Conference finals Friday night. But it wasn’t Stephen Curry stepping up to the free-throw line. The cheers were for Kevon Looney, who played harder than arguably any player on the court in the Warriors’ 126-117 comeback win over the Mavericks that gave them a 2-0 series lead. Looney once again came up big for the Warriors against the undersized Mavericks. He scored 11 of his career-high 21 points in the third quarter to help the Warriors come back from a 14-point deficit a...
The Mercury News
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Michigan elections chief Jocelyn Benson says Trump suggested she be tried for treason
DETROIT — Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson told NBC News that former President Donald Trump allegedly said she should be tried for treason and "potentially executed" following the November 2020 election based on a source she wouldn't reveal. The first-term Democratic secretary of state made the unproven claim to the network and said Trump made the statement during a White House meeting and that someone familiar with the meeting had told her about the comments. "It was surreal and I felt sad," Benson said during the interview, adding that learning of the remarks amplified her feelings...
The Detroit News
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