Unions see Ohio victory as springboard for resurgence, boost for 2012 election Associated Press ...Labor unions are celebrating one of their biggest victories in decades after turning back an Ohio law that curbed collective bargaining rights for the state’s public workers...
Author of Arizona Immigration Law Loses Recall Election Associated Press ...Senate President Russell Pearce conceded defeat Tuesday in an unprecedented recall election, a stunning turnabout for the author of Arizona's tough immigration law and one of the most powerful politicians in the state...
Liz Mathis Wins State Senate District 18 KCRG-TV9 ...Linn County voters extended Democratic control of the Iowa Senate by electing Liz Mathis to fill a vacant seat in Iowa Senate 18 ... Mathis ... made jobs, improving the business climate and education the basis of her campaign...
Union message in Scott defeat Detroit Free Press ...State Rep. Paul Scott, R-Grand Blanc, became the first state legislator in a generation to be recalled from office Tuesday, losing a close vote that was called after Scott and his Republican colleagues in Lansing enacted sweeping tax and budget reforms earlier this year...
Mainers vote to continue Election Day registration Bangor Daily News ...By a relatively wide margin, Mainers on Tuesday overturned a recently passed law that would have ended a 38-year-old practice of allowing voters to register on Election Day...
2011 election results: Steve Beshear wins in Kentucky, Phil Bryant elected in Mississippi Politico ...Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear cruised to a second term over Republican David Williams Tuesday in a win that offers Democrats a 2012 template for how to run in a dismal economic environment...
