#election primary

For those of you in New York, your primaries are today. So get out and vote! Local politics can impact your day to day life a lot.

Polling stations can be looked up here: https://nyc.pollsitelocator.com/search

Candidates can be found here: https://project.wnyc.org/nyc-primary-2017/

Tex Hall Vying for Fourth Term as Three Affiliated Tribes Chairman

In early August, Three Affiliated Tribes of Mandan, Hidatsa & Arikara Nation Chairman Tex “Red Tipped Arrow” Hall filed campaign papers for reelection to a fourth term. Hall, who was first elected in 1998 and held the position until 2006, was re-elected in 2010 and is now seeking to run again.

According to Hall, “You can’t finish what you started in just four years. In order to continue the…

6 candidates on the primary ballot in Three Affiliated Tribes election for chairman

WILLISTON, North Dakota — Six candidates are on the primary ballot for chairman of North Dakota’s Three Affiliated Tribes, according to a list provided on Monday

The candidates officially on the ballot are incumbent chairman Tex Hall, former chairman Marcus Levings, tribal councilman Ken Hall, councilman Randy Phelan, tribal attorney Damon Williams and Mark Fox.

The two top vote getters in the…

  There are 85,000 Sacramento County Democrats, and an additional 5,000 unaffiliated voters who punched ballots during last week’s presidential primary. Barack Obama’s name was the only one on the ballot on the Democratic side. Nonetheless, 8,000 voters left the presidential ballot blank, and another 5,300 wrote in write-ins. In fairness, President Bush had more people leave that ballot blank during his 2004 run. But then again, President Bush was widely controversial among Republicans in 2004 thanks to the war in Iraq, among other agenda items, where President Obama is supposedly less controversial among Democrats.