The Spencer Hamilton Blog

November 2014 Elections  I remember saying that women in 2014 will help Democrats bounce back in 2014. I mean it as surely as I’m sitting here. Women’s rights has resurfaced after bills in OH, AL, TN—at least 400 bills to regulate women’s health have been introduced in state legislatures around the country. One of the women that came out against a bill in TX is Wendy Davis. I will share 3 videos about Wendy Davis in the description because she has done a lot in her time in the TX State Senate in Austin. She has helped pass a law that would ease the backlog of rape kits in TX, she had pushed a proposal through the Legislature that would help married women vote under their maiden names if they hadn’t changed their names on their IDs—prior to that a well-known TX judge was almost turned away from voting. The Republicans were so afraid of her that they tried to size her district to Republican to get rid of her. She argued successfully in court to keep the district the way it was—...

Every 10 years we take the census which gathers information about population growth or decline and is used for a variety of things from funding to voting patterns to statistical data Political Theatre Erie County Legislators Betty Jean Grant and Barbara Miller-Williams presented competing maps that were to be voted on by the legislature. Betty Jean’s map had 40% of the landmass of Erie County in one district while Barbara Miller-Williams had more even districts but they cracked up communities to help Republicans—something she denies to this day. However, it ended up in court in 2011 and Judge William Skretny ended up drawing the map which I believe County Legislators are running on today. Every 10 years, for astute political observers, we are always looking out for this and how it’ll play out in court. AZ’s Governor wanted to fire a woman who headed the Independent Redistricting Commission because Brewer felt that the maps provided to the Legislature advantaged Democrats ...

Some Elections I’m watching this year Cory Booker is up according to a poll by 35 points among likely voters while Democrat Terry McAuliffe has a 7 point lead last I checked. These two Democrats are running for Senator and Governor. Cory Booker is the mayor of Newark, NJ and people were thinking he’s going to run against Chris Christie. He said “I’m going to have to work with my Governor” and I thought that’s all true and that we would have to as a mayor because all levels of government have to work together to get things done. Cory Booker I thought “he’s a rising star here” and sure enough as I live and breathe here is Booker running for the seat that was vacated with the death of the previous Senator, a Democrat. After winning the Democratic nod, he now is facing off against Lonegan, who has a nod from Christie. Lonegan is not helping himself especially when he pulled a John McHenry when he said that if you get sick, you’re on your own. Personally, I feel that while there is a l...