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Abby Livingston
| July 29, 2013, 4:05 p.m.
Maine Republicans elected Rick Bennett as their new state party chairman last week. The previous chairman, Richard Cebra, abruptly resigned in early July.
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Abby Livingston
| July 22, 2013, 5:08 p.m.
The California Labor Federation has issued a “Do Not Hire” list that includes six consultants who allegedly took part in creating direct mail that slammed two Democratic state lawmakers for supporting unions in their races against Democratic challengers.
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Abby Livingston
| July 15, 2013, 4:07 p.m.
Georgia Democrats are hunting for a new state party chairman who can put behind them the financial and alleged personal legal problems that plagued their former leader, Michael Berlon.
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Abby Livingston
| July 8, 2013, 5:35 p.m.
Maine Republican Party Chairman Richard Cebra resigned last week after six months on the job, surprising Pine Tree State Republicans.
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Abby Livingston
| June 24, 2013, 5:16 p.m.
Indiana GOP Chairman Eric Holcomb announced last week he will leave the state party to serve as state chief of staff for Sen. Dan Coats, R-Ind.
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Abby Livingston, Emily Cahn
| June 17, 2013, 4:59 p.m.
New Jersey Democrats selected Passaic County Democratic Chairman John Currie as their new state party chairman last week.
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Abby Livingston
| June 5, 2013, 4:05 a.m.
Democratic Sen. Frank R. Lautenberg’s death creates a power vacuum that could exacerbate fractures among New Jersey state party leaders looking to bring back their ailing organization.
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Abby Livingston
| May 20, 2013, 4:31 p.m.
A top GOP ad firm’s split took a litigious turn earlier this month, when Rex Elsass, the CEO and founder of The Strategy Group for Media, filed suit against his company’s former president, Nick Everhart.
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Abby Livingston
| May 13, 2013, 4:08 p.m.
The fallout in the consulting world from two obscure local races continues to reverberate in the Golden State political world. At issue is the involvement of Democratic consultants in two 2012 Democrat-vs.-Democrat California Assembly general-election campaigns.
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Abby Livingston
| May 6, 2013, 5:24 p.m.
South Carolina Democrats elected their first black party chairman, Jaime Harrison, over the weekend. Harrison will succeed outgoing Chairman Dick Harpootlian.
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Abby Livingston
| April 29, 2013, 5:37 p.m.
Massachusetts candidates in the Senate special election scouted local talent for their primary campaigns that will end on Tuesday.
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Abby Livingston
| April 22, 2013, 5:25 p.m.
A top Republican media consultant and two associates were suddenly terminated earlier this month from The Strategy Group for Media, a prominent GOP advertising firm.
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Abby Livingston
| April 15, 2013, 7:21 p.m.
Alaska Republicans have ousted their second party chair this year, stoking tensions in the Last Frontier State GOP that could affect a top Senate race.
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Abby Livingston
| April 8, 2013, 6:54 p.m.
Minnesota Republicans “overwhelmingly” elected former state Rep. Keith Downey, a strategy and technology consultant, to lead one of the most troubled state parties in the country, according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
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Abby Livingston
| April 1, 2013, 5:54 p.m.
Republicans continue to struggle all over New England, but nowhere has the infighting been more prevalent — and public — than it was in Rhode Island last week.
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Abby Livingston
| March 25, 2013, 6:50 p.m.
OnMessage Inc. has brought on Joanna Burgos, a top House Republican campaign operative, according to a forthcoming announcement from the GOP consulting firm shared first with CQ Roll Call.
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Abby Livingston
| March 18, 2013, 7:05 p.m.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton may not be ready to talk about her political future, but a Northern Virginia-based political action committee is ready to talk about her.
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Abby Livingston
| March 11, 2013, 7:03 p.m.
With the primary a week away, the South Carolina special election to fill Republican Sen. Tim Scott’s former seat is luring top GOP talent to the state during an otherwise slow time in the campaign cycle.
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Abby Livingston
| March 4, 2013, 5:37 p.m.
The Republican National Committee made two major hires from the House GOP’s campaign operations last week in preparation for the 2014 midterm cycle.
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Abby Livingston
| Feb. 25, 2013, 6:17 p.m.
The nasty intraparty brawl set to occur on Feb. 23 between longtime Michigan Democratic Party Chairman Mark Brewer and challenger Lon Johnson never materialized.
