Obama ad-maker signs on with Buttigieg

Pete Buttigieg just added major heft to his presidential campaign, picking up the advertising firm that aided Barack Obama’s 2008 rise to the national stage. Larry Grisolano and John Del Cecato of AKPD Message and Media, are joining Buttigieg’s team, Grisolano confirmed to POLITICO on Wednesday. Also joining the South Bend, Ind., mayor’s presidential campaign…

By JohnValbyNation October 24, 2019 0

As Trump seeks reelection, immigrant voters stand in his path

HOUSTON —  This is where a nation changes: a public school auditorium that moonlights as a veritable citizenship factory. At the M.O. Campbell Educational Center, where murals honoring the arts and sciences adorn the walls, U.S. immigration officials routinely hold packed naturalization ceremonies. Immigrants approved for citizenship walk in, take the oath of allegiance, and walk…

By JohnValbyNation October 24, 2019 0

Those career diplomats reviled by Trump are providing the evidence that could be used to impeach him

WASHINGTON —  The parade of witnesses going before the House committees weighing impeachment of President Trump has come overwhelmingly from one government agency: the State Department. That would be the same State Department that Trump has dismissed and disdained; whose budget Trump has repeatedly slashed; whose foreign-service corps Trump has hollowed out, in the opinion of…

By JohnValbyNation October 24, 2019 0

Trump administration sues California over cap-and-trade agreement with Canada

WASHINGTON —  The Trump administration took aim Wednesday at one of California’s premier climate change policies, suing the state for entering into a cap-and-trade agreement with the Canadian province of Quebec to lower fossil fuel emissions. The lawsuit filed by the Department of Justice argues that California overstepped its legal authority by forging an agreement with…

By JohnValbyNation October 24, 2019 0