Former Governor of Abia State, Orji Uzor Kalu, has said he gave ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo N100m to run his campaign in 1999. He said he gave another N100m to the Peoples Democratic Party prior to the 1999 elections. The former governor said this as ‘Guest of the Week’ on a Kaduna-based Liberty FM radio programme... [Read More...]
Three things about the American political system were made clear with this week’s Gun Measures Senate vote. First, the Democratic Party cannot achieve any significant part of its progressive agenda by relying on, and bowing to the so called ‘moderate ’perpetually ‘on-the-fence’ members of its body.
Editor's Note: Ro Khanna, who has been called by the New York Times “a rising star in the Democratic Party,” says he wants to bring the innovative spirit of Silicon Valley to Washington.FREMONT, Calif. -- Ro Khanna, formerly a high-ranking trade...
Correction appended April 2 Can the Democratic Party – rarely a smoothly coordinated creature for starters — function when two different outfits in two different cities are trying to run the show? The Democratic National Committee is undergoing a recalibration as it learns to live with President Barack Obama’s permanent political presence – the independent issues group Organizing for Action that ...
He's the first Democrat since 1988 to get elected mayor of America's eighth-largest city and currently engaged in an epic legal, political, and editorial war with the town's wealthy and powerful GOP hotel moguls - including UT San Diego publisher Douglas Manchester - but the name of Bob Filner is missing from the program of the local Democratic Party's 33rd Annual Roosevelt Dinner.
In my decades of polling, I recall only one moment when a party had been driven as far from the center as the Republican Party has been today. The outsize influence of hard-line elements in the party base is doing to the GOP what supporters of Gene McCarthy and George McGovern did to the Democratic Party in the late 1960s and early 1970s — radicalizing its image and standing in the way of its ...
