Florida might have four GOP candidates for president. But none might be endorsed by the state’s Republican governor, Rick Scott. When will he endorse, and who will it be? Scott won’t say. But the governor is personally close to two potential contenders who have no personal ties to Florida: former Texas Gov. Rick Perry and […]
The grim forced march to a Hillary Clinton coronation just got a little grimmer. The Hillary email scandal — on top of the revelation of continuing foreign donations to the Clinton Foundation while she was secretary of state — is a nice reminder for Democrats about what they are signing up for. The Clinton Restoration […]
The Associated Press said Wednesday that it was considering legal action over unfulfilled Freedom of Information Act requests for government documents covering Hillary Rodham Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state. In its requests, the AP asked for her full schedules and calendars and for details on the State Department’s decision to grant a special position […]
Former New Hampshire House Speaker Bill O’Brien, R-Mont Vernon, will be a guest speaker at the South Carolina Freedom Summit on May 9. Back by popular demand? O’Brien, who is Republican Majority Caucus leader in the state House of Representatives, spoke to a similar event Citizens United held in Iowa back in January.“ Now, more […]
Steve King will speak at the South Carolina Freedom Summit on May 9, the Palmetto State’s version of a conservative forum he hosted earlier this year in Des Moines, organizers said. The conservative nonprofit Citizens United joined King to organize January’s Iowa Freedom Summit, an event that drew a parade of Republicans eying presidential runs. […]
WASHINGTON – Former Gov. George Pataki is about to join a throng of potential Republican presidential candidates appearing at high-profile speaking events in South Carolina and Iowa – and he’ll be emphasizing his down-on-the-farm roots. “I’m from New York and I probably spent more of my life on a farm than anybody out there,” Pataki […]
WASHINGTON — In 2012, congressional investigators asked the State Department for a wide range of documents related to the attack on the United States diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya. The department eventually responded, furnishing House committees with thousands of documents. But it turns out that that was not everything. The State Department had not searched […]
In two months, 2016 GOP presidential hopefuls will trek to Greenville, South Carolina, for an event hosted by Citizens United and Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-SC). Confirmed speakers for the South Carolina Freedom Summit include Sen. Ted Cruz (R-SC), former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Louisiana Gov. Bobby […]
People who want to be president of the United States will once again take to the Peace Center stage to woo voters in South Carolina and across the nation. Citizens United, the conservative activist group famous for winning a Supreme Court case on political spending, plans its third Freedom Summit at the Peace Center on […]
The conservative advocacy group Citizens United is teaming with another Republican congressman to host a forum in a state with an early presidential primary — this time in South Carolina. Rep. Jeff Duncan, South Carolina Republican, is co-hosting the “South Carolina Freedom Summit” in Greenville on May 9, following up on Rep. Steve King’s “Iowa […]
Fourteen months after he sparked a major controversy for making remarks widely perceived as anti-gay, Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson has been named the recipient of a free-speech award from Citizens United, an organization routinely disparaged by Hollywood liberals. Robertson will receive the “Andrew Breitbart Defender of the First Amendment Award” at this year’s Conservative […]
Potential Presidential candidates and other prominent Republicans descended upon Des Moines on Saturday for the Iowa Freedom Summit. Describing the event on her blog, Amy Davidson writes that the possible candidates in attendance—Ted Cruz, Scott Walker, Chris Christie, Rick Perry, Mike Huckabee, and Rick Santorum—were on “full, exhibitionist display.” The photographer Danny Wilcox Frazier was […]