Vice President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, will host House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) and his wife, Diana, for dinner this evening.
Seems odd, doesn’t it?
Not really, according to USA Today White House Correspondent David Jackson. Jackson reported this morning that the two men share a good, personal relationship and “have in fact said nice things about each other.”
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New Hampshire Republican Party Secretary of State Bill Gardner made it official today, announcing that his state’s primary will take place on January 10.
The news had been assumed for days by those in the know. After Iowa’s GOP set its caucuses for January 3 and GOP officials in Nevada agreed last week to move their primary back to February 4, the door was opened for New Hampshire to settle on the 10th.
Talking Points Memo’s Eric Kleefield has more on the story…
By Lisa Kellman
The National Restraunt Association paid one woman a year’s salary of $35,000 in severance pay after alleging that she was sexually harassed by Herman Cain, according to the New York Times.
Earlier this week, Politico reported that that during the 90s two female employees of the Association accused Cain, then the Director, of sexual harrasment. Cain initially claimed that he was unaware of a settlement but then said during an interview that a significantly smaller figure than initially requested by the accuser was agreed to.
Cain maintains that he was falsely accused and called the reports a “smear campaign” aimed at derailing his rising poll numbers. In a Fox News appearance Monday, he also stated that the charge may be racially motivated, but acknowledged that he had no evidence to support it.
Herman Cain, payment, salary, sexual harassment, suit in Quick News A coalition of progressive groups are floating a running mate for GOP frontrunner Mitt Romney: Gordon Gekko.
Gekko, the notoriously greedy fictional character from the 1987 Oliver Stone film Wall Street, is being used to highlight Romney’s past as the CEO Bain Capital, a firm known for reselling businesses after they laid off workers.
Activists from MoveOn.Org, Americans United for Change and Concerned New Yorkers plan on holding a mock “Romney-Gekko 2012” campaign rally outside of a New York fundraiser for the Presidential hopeful Wednesday.
By Mike Hothi
During a telephone conference Tuesday, Texas State Rep. Trey Fischer (D) charged that Governor Rick Perry’s redistricting plan hurt minorities and undid years of progress in the state.
“[It] took us back a couple decades,” Fischer said.
District maps redrawn and passed by the legislature in Texas have come under scrutiny from federal officials, who are set to hold a hearing on the redistricting plan on Wednesday. The Justice Department concluded that the plans violated the Voting Rights Act by not recognizing the growth of minority communities.
“You have a 5.1 (million) growth in the state of Texas where 89 percent of all that growth was minority, 65 percent alone was latino,” Fischer said.”(The redistricting plan) produced a map that preserved a political majority at the expense of the demographic majority that changed the state.”
Fischer added, “Not one of those seats that were drawn would bring an additional minority Democrat or Republican… to the Texas House of Representatives.”
