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Get you up to speed: National Democrats invest more heavily in Texas governor candidate Gina Hinojosa as Pritzker offers support
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Gina Hinojosa is receiving increased financial backing from national Democratic figures, including Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, who has committed $1.2 million to her campaign in Texas. The Democratic Governors Association has also pledged at least $1 million to support Hinojosa’s efforts as recent polls indicated a narrowing race against incumbent Republican Governor Greg Abbott.
The Democratic Governors Association has committed to investing at least $1 million in Gina Hinojosa’s campaign following pressure from Latino Democratic leaders in Texas. As of the end of last month, Hinojosa’s campaign reported approximately $4 million in cash on hand, significantly trailing behind Greg Abbott, who has reported $17 million available for his campaign.
National Democrats are amplifying financial support for Gina Hinojosa, with Illinois Democratic Governor JB Pritzker contributing $1.2 million and the Democratic Governors Association committing at least $1 million following recent polling showing a competitive race against incumbent Governor Greg Abbott. Abbott’s campaign has labelled Hinojosa’s strategy as seeking support from out-of-state Democrat strongholds, while he continues to maintain a significant cash advantage in the campaign’s financial landscape.
What remains unclear — It is not clear how much additional financial support the Democratic Governors Association may provide to Hinojosa beyond the reported $1 million commitment.
National Democrats increase support for Texas gubernatorial candidate Gina Hinojosa
National Democrats are stepping up their financial support for Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Gina Hinojosa after recent polls showed a dead heat and more Democrats began to see an opportunity to potentially defeat three-term incumbent Republican Gov. Greg Abbott.
Illinois Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker, a possible 2028 presidential contender, and the Democratic Governors Association are each putting at least $1 million behind Hinojosa, according to sources familiar with the investments and a senior DGA official. Pritzker’s contribution is actually larger — $1.2 million, according to sources familiar with the commitment. The New York Times first reported the investment.
The infusion comes at a crucial point for Hinojosa’s campaign. She reported roughly $4 million in cash on hand at the end of last month, according to campaign finance filings, and her campaign said it had been outspent by Abbott by roughly 10-to-1.
In a statement, Hinojosa’s campaign said her campaign has “momentum,” and said “we’re grateful for the support we’ve received in this final stretch from leaders across the country.”
Last week, more than 70 Latino Democratic leaders sent a letter to Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, the chair of the DGA, urging the group to invest $10 million to help Hinojosa’s campaign. A source told WTX US News on Wednesday that the state’s Latino leaders, including Texas congressional lawmakers, met with the DGA to increase pressure to fund Hinojosa’s campaign, which was first reported by NBC News.
A source familiar with the investments tells WTX US News that the DGA took action to support Hinojosa after Pritzker committed his own money to the race.
A DGA official disputed that characterization, saying that Beshear told Hinojosa in a conversation on Tuesday of last week that the DGA would spend at least $1 million on her campaign. A source close to Hinojosa’s campaign confirmed the conversation between Beshear and Hinojosa took place, as well as the Kentucky governor’s $1 million commitment.
Abbott’s campaign said in a statement that she is “taking her campaign to out-of-state Democrat strongholds.”
Abbott has significantly outraised Hinojosa, including from July to September, when his campaign said it brought in $20 million to her campaign’s $13 million. But his campaign reported having $17 million cash on hand, indicating a huge amount of spending given the over $100 million on hand he reported at the beginning of the year.
A Democrat has not been elected to the governor’s mansion in Texas since Ann Richards in 1990, who lost reelection to George W. Bush four years later, and President Trump won the state by more than 13 points in 2024. Abbott had not been considered vulnerable, but recent polls had shown the race tightening.
Mr. Trump is campaigning in San Antonio on Wednesday with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and several other GOP candidates, although Abbott is not joining the rally.
October 12, 2024
6:18 am
‘Cheer up, you caught the bad guy,’ says killer Virginia McCullough as she is arrested for murdering her parents
A woman who murdered her parents “in cold blood” before hiding them in makeshift tombs for four years told officers to “cheer up, you caught the bad guy” as she was arrested in her home.
Virginia McCullough, 36, poisoned her father John McCullough, 70, with prescription medication and fatally stabbed her mother Lois McCullough, 71, shortly afterwards in 2019.
She ran up large debts on credit cards in her parents’ names and after their deaths, she continued to spend their pensions until she was finally caught in 2023.
In body-worn video footage released by police, a handcuffed – and eerily calm – McCullough told officers: “I did know that this would kind of come eventually.
“It’s proper that I serve my punishment.”
She said she had slipped something into her father’s drink then put his body under a bed on the ground floor, and put her mother’s body in an upstairs wardrobe.
McCullough, having been arrested on suspicion of double murder, told an officer: “Cheer up, at least you’ve caught the bad guy.”
She added: “I know I don’t seem 100% evil.”
At the police station, she told officers where a kitchen knife was, which she described as a “murder weapon”, and a hammer which she said “will still have blood on it”.
McCullough, of Pump Hill, Chelmsford, Essex, was sentenced to life imprisonment on Friday with a minimum term of 36 years at Chelmsford Crown Court, after she admitted to their murders between 17 and 20 June 2019 at an earlier hearing at the same court.
Chelmsford Crown Court heard how she hid their bodies in makeshift tombs at the family home in Great Baddow in Essex, then told persistent lies to cover her tracks.
The court heard she cancelled family arrangements and frequently told doctors and relatives her parents were unwell, on holiday or away on lengthy trips.
But concerns over Mr and Mrs McCullough’s welfare were raised in September 2023 by a GP at their registered practice, and Essex County Council’s safeguarding team referred these to police.
The GP had not seen the couple for some time and said Mr McCullough had failed to collect medication and attend scheduled appointments. It was found McCullough had frequently cancelled appointments, using a range of excuses to explain her father’s absence.
Police said a missing persons investigation was initially launched and McCullough lied to officers, claiming her parents were travelling and would be returning in October.
It became a murder investigation, and when officers forced entry to the house in Pump Hill on September 15 2023, McCullough confessed that her parents’ bodies were in the house and that she had killed them.
Nicola Rice, a specialist prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service, said: “McCullough callously and viciously killed both of her parents before concealing their bodies in makeshift tombs within their home address.
“She spent the next four years manipulating and lying to family members, medical staff, financial institutions, and the police, spending her parents’ money and accruing large debts in their name.”
She added: “This was a truly disturbing case, which has left behind it a trail of devastation, and I can only hope that the sentence passed today will help those who loved and cared for Lois and John begin to heal.”
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To address hardship & the climate crisis, the government must keep the £2 cap & make public transport accessible for all.
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November 23, 2024
8:25 am
Defense alliance NATO chief Mark Rutte has met US President-elect Donald Trump to discuss global security issues, according to a NATO spokesperson.
The meeting took place in Palm Beach, Florida.
During his first term as US president, 2017-2020, Trump pushed for European NATO countries to spend more on defense and described the alliance’s cost-sharing as unfair to the US.
Rutte took over as NATO chief from Norwegian Jens Stoltenberg in November.
Before taking office in January, Trump has nominated Pete Hegseth for the post of defense secretary, which has raised eyebrows among many allies.
Hegseth, 44, has served as an infantry captain in Iraq and Afghanistan, but has no senior military or government officer experience.
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Multiple missiles were fired in an airstrike towards a densely populated part of Lebanon’s capital early on Saturday.
The huge airstrike targeted Beirut’s Basta neighbourhood, and no prior warnings were given by the Israeli military. The largely residential area was struck last month.
At least one violent explosion was heard across the city, Reuters witnesses said, and plumes of smoke could be seen. Scenes of massive destruction at the site were shared online, including a massive crater in the ground.
“Beirut, the capital, woke up to a horrific massacre, as the Israeli enemy’s air force completely destroyed an eight-story residential building with five missiles on Al-Mamoun Street in Basta,” the state-run National News Agency reported.
The health ministry put the initial death toll at four, with 23 wounded. The number is expected to climb in the coming hours as search and rescue efforts continue.
It came after a long day of Israeli airstrikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs, which have been non-stop since last week.
The cross-border fighting between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group escalated into a full-blown war in mid-September.
Israel has bombed southern Lebanon, Beirut’s southern suburbs and the eastern Beqaa region, and has sent ground troops across the border. Hezbollah has continued to fire rockets deeper into Israel.
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