The Tap: Monday, January 16, 2017

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The Tap covered election news, public policy, and other noteworthy events from February 2016 to February 2022.

Review of the day

The excerpts below were compiled from issue #49 of The Tap, which was published on January 21, 2017. READ THE FULL VERSION HERE.

Federal

Sanctions Against Russia

  • In an interview with The Times of London, Donald Trump discussed European sanctions against Russia and U.S.-Russia relations. He said, "Well, I think you know — people have to get together and people have to do what they have to do in terms of being fair. OK? They have sanctions on Russia — let’s see if we can make some good deals with Russia. For one thing, I think nuclear weapons should be way down and reduced very substantially, that’s part of it. But you do have sanctions and Russia’s hurting very badly right now because of sanctions, but I think something can happen that a lot of people are gonna benefit."
    • Trump also described Syria following Russia’s military intervention as, in his words, "a very rough thing." He continued, "Now everything is over — at some point it will come to an end — but Aleppo was nasty. I mean when you see them shooting old ladies walking out of town — they can’t even walk and they’re shooting ’em — it almost looks like they’re shooting ’em for sport — ah no, that’s a terrible — that’s been a terrible situation. Aleppo has been such a terrible humanitarian situation."
    • He described NATO as being "obsolete because it wasn’t taking care of terror.” He added, “With that being said, Nato is very important to me.”
    • The Times of London also reported that Trump ”confirmed that he would appoint Jared Kushner, his son-in-law, to broker a Middle East peace deal.”

State

Signatures Required

  • Ho-Chunk Inc., an organization affiliated with the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska, filed a lawsuit claiming that a polling company was responsible for failing to get enough valid signatures to qualify expanded gambling measures on the 2016 ballot. The company, Northstar Campaign Systems, denied any wrongdoing in the signature gathering process. The dispute stems from the failed campaigns of three related measures: the Nebraska Horse Track Initiative Amendment, the Horse Track Gaming Regulations Initiative, and the Horse Track Gaming Taxation Initiative. Ho-Chunk says that it paid Northstar $1.29 million to run its petition drives, but the certified signatures fell 117,000 short of the number required to make the ballot. After 41,000 were thrown out for being either duplicates or from citizens not registered to vote in the county where the petition was signed, Ho-Chunk called the error rate “ridiculously high.”
    • In 2016, 76 citizen-initiated statewide ballot measures were put on the ballot through successful signature petition drives in 17 different states, costing proponents a total of about $76.8 million. Northstar Campaign Systems did not run any of the successful petition drives in 2016. Read Ballotpedia’s 2016 signature petition costs analysis here.

A New Addition to the State of New York Court of Appeals

  • Rowan Wilson was nominated by Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) to succeed retired Judge Eugene Pigott on the State of New York Court of Appeals, New York’s highest court. Wilson must be confirmed by the New York State Senate before taking the bench. Wilson earned his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1984 and has worked as a partner at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP since 1992. Pigott, whose term was set to expire in 2020, retired after reaching the mandatory retirement age of 70. If appointed, Wilson will serve a 14-year term set to expire in 2031. All six judges currently serving on the seven-person court were also appointed by Cuomo.


Preview of the day

There were no items for this day in issue #48 of The Tap, which was published on January 14, 2017. See the "Review of the day" tab for more information.





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