The Spencer Hamilton Blog

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...

For those of you who might be interested, my accompanying video to the blogpost is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mYquGltTPg AR and IN have something in common regarding abortion legislation as a law in each state was challenged. TX, Rick Perry has vetoed a buy American Buy Texas legislation that would make all government agencies buy American goods. Jan Brewer, Kasich and Rick Scott are a handful of Republican Governors taking a deal with the federal government for Medicaid Expansion   Let me get to the exceptions here with Governor Brewer. I think she is evil incarnate but when it comes to tying up all legislation until the budget is passed with Medicaid Expansion, I am on her side with this. She has refused to sign one single bill until the Legislature passes a budget for Medicaid Expansion which will help the poorest citizens with funds from the federal government which will provide most of the money and the state will kick in what is comparatively miniscu...