Posted on 29 June 2010. Tags: assassinated, campaign, candidate, cantu, Ciudad Victoria, Dead, election, governor, gubernational, Institutional Revolutionary Party, Mexican, PRI, Rodolfo, shot, tamaulipas, todos tamaulipas coalition, torre
Rodolfo Torre Cantu, who was running for governor in the north-eastern state of Tamaulipas, was shot along with four of his supporters.
Police say he was on his way to a series of campaign rallies when his convoy was ambushed by hooded gunmen.
He was standing for the Todos Tamaulipas coalition in Sunday’s gubernatorial elections.
Mr Torre Cantu of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, was attacked near Ciudad Victoria, where he was going to catch a flight to Matamoros for an end-of-campaign event.
His rival for the post of Tamaulipas governor, Jose Julian Sacramento of the National Action Party, cancelled his campaign meetings in Matamoros following the killing.
Mr Sacramento said he had known Mr Torre Cantu for years and respected him.
Tamaulipas has been the scene of a fierce turf war between rival drug gangs fighting over access to lucrative drug smuggling routes to the United States.
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Posted on 12 December 2009. Tags: Annise Parker, Attorney, Cambridge, convention center, election, finances, Gay, Gene Locke, History, Houston, Kathy Hubbard, Lesbians, Massachusetts, mayor, Oregon, Portland, Providence, Rhode Island, Rice University, sexual orientation, Texas, United States, voter turnout
Houston Is Largest City to Elect Openly Gay Mayor Read the full story
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Posted on 04 November 2009. Tags: constitutional amendments, election, Katy, November 3rd 2009 elections, results, Texas, Texas Constitution, voting
Statewide Constitutional Amendments (via Chron.com):
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Posted on 03 November 2009. Tags: amendment, city controller, constitutional amendment, council members, election, Election Day, FBC MUD No. 35, fort bend county, Fort Bend Municipal Utility District No. 35, harris county, Houston Community College Board of Trustees, Houston mayor, Katy, MUD, national research universities, polling locations, property tax valuations, public beach access, Texas, Texas Constitution, vote, voter, Waller County, West Memorial Municipal Utility District
Election Day is Tuesday, Nov. 3, and Texas residents will have an opportunity to vote for or against 11 proposed constitutional amendments. Read the full story
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Posted on 20 October 2009. Tags: Afghan, Afghanistan, Barack Obama, election, election commission, fraud, iraq, Kabul, President Hamid Karzai, President Nouri al-Maliki, Robert Gibbs, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Senator John Kerry, U.N., U.S. diplomats, United Nations, United States, vote, voting fraud, White House
White House
20 October 2009
U.S. President Barack Obama has called Afghan President Hamid Karzai to personally congratulate him for agreeing to take part in a run-off election on November 7. Afghanistan’s election commission called for another round of voting after a U.N.-backed commission determined the original August balloting was rife with fraud. Read the full story
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Posted on 21 September 2009. Tags: 08/10/2009, agenda, Americans for the Arts, arts agenda, Barack Obama, Blue Dogs, Buffy Wicks, campaign, conference call, Corporation for National and Community Service, Deputy Director of the White House Office of Public Engagement, election, Hope poster, Michael Skolnik, National Endowment for the Arts, NEA, Rocco Landesman, Rock the Vote, Russell Simmons, Serve.gov, United States of America, Urgent Call to Congress for Healthcare Reform, White House, White House Office of Public Engagement, Yosi Sergant
**NEA conference call full audio and transcript here**
Should the National Endowment for the Arts encourage artists to create art on issues being vehemently debated nationally?
That is the question that I set out to discuss a little over three weeks ago when I wrote an article on Big Hollywood entitled The National Endowment for the Art of Persuasion?” Read the full story
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Posted on 24 August 2009. Tags: Afghanistan, election, fraud, Taliban
It is unfortunate that Afghanistan has seen all the trouble it has from both domestic and foreign problems. The growing claims of election fraud aren’t helping the country’s current situation any more. Here are some clips of articles discussing the election situation…
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/817df932-910e-11de-bc99-00144feabdc0.html
Afghan poll fraud claims grow
Allegations of ballot-stuffing, intimidation and cheating by officials in Afghanistan’s presidential election multiplied yesterday, threatening to sap credibility from a vote crucial to US President Barack Obama’s strategy for fighting the Taliban. Read the full story
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