As governor, Pete Ricketts chaired the 2022 Nebraska Pardons Board vote that forgave John Arias's 1993 knifepoint rape of his estranged wife. The vote was 2-1. The victim was never told the hearing was happening.
On a 2022 podcast that resurfaced last week, Brandon Herrera said COVID 'wasn't bad enough' and that a disease that 'unfairly targeted' fat people was something he was 'here for.' In the same interview he said most people in San Antonio are ugly. He is the Republican nominee in a district that includes part of the city.
Records requests to FEMA, three North Carolina agencies and 12 western counties found no direct contact with Whatley at all. The one exception: six texts and 38 minutes of calls with a single state adviser, who kept asking him for help.
Days after a grand jury declined to charge anyone in 18-year-old Nolan Wells' death, a reporter tried to ask Mississippi's senator about it in a Capitol hallway. She said 'I don't do hallway interviews' and, TheGrio reported, asked a security desk to have him removed.
Rep. Max Miller sent local TV stations a cease-and-desist letter to keep a Summit County sheriff's ad about the allegations in his divorce case off the air. Federal rules don't let stations censor candidate ads, so it's running.
For a year and a half Donalds ran as 'Trump-endorsed Byron Donalds.' This week his campaign rewrote its website, cutting at least eight Trump references from the homepage and dropping 'Enact the Trump Agenda' from the top of his issues list. His record on that agenda hasn't changed.
A complaint filed under penalty of perjury with the House Ethics Committee on Sept. 17 accuses Rep. Lauren Boebert of breaking the House rule against sexual relationships with staff she supervises. Boebert calls it 'utterly false' and a 'politically motivated stunt.' The committee hasn't said what it will do.
Asked about a Republican effort to impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Rep. Derrick Van Orden told a reporter he would 'punch someone in the face' for talking about Hegseth — then mocked a Democratic staffer and former teacher who shared the tape.
One hundred twenty Kansas clergy told Marshall his attacks on the United Methodist Church 'tear at the fabric that is the body of Christ.' His answer: 'I've not read the letter' — and he repeated the beef-sermon claim, which the AP reports was stitched together from two parts of one 2020 sermon.