Posts Tagged Campaigns

Transgender candidate could become a first in NYC

City council candidate Mel Wymore, center, talks with Leah Gunn Barrett, right, New Yorkers Against Gun Violence (NYAGV) executive director, following a gun law rally on Friday, June 14, 2013 on the steps of New York City Hall.  If Wymore wins a council seat it would mark the first transgender officeholder for the city. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

NEW YORK (AP) — Mel Wymore is a typical city council candidate in many ways, campaigning as a community board appointee, ex-PTA chair and founder of a roster of local organizations. But Wymore’s community-leader resume has an unusual feature: He built much of it while he was a woman.

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Not guilty plea for Martinez ex-campaign staffer

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A former campaign manager for New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez pleaded not guilty Monday to federal charges that he hacked into her campaign’s email system and hijacked correspondence by the governor, her staff and supporters.

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AP IMPACT: Snowden’s life surrounded by spycraft

This Sunday, June 9, 2013 photo provided by The Guardian newspaper in London shows Edward Snowden, who worked as a contract employee at the U.S. National Security Agency, in Hong Kong. Posts to online blogs and forums, public records and interviews with Snowden’s neighbors, teachers and acquaintances reveal someone who prized the American ideal of personal freedom but became disenchanted with the way government secretly operates in the name of national security. (AP Photo/The Guardian)

FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) — In the suburbs edged by woods midway between Baltimore and the nation’s capital, residents long joked that the government spy shop next door was so ultra-secretive its initials stood for “No Such Agency.” But when Edward Snowden grew up here, the National Security Agency’s looming presence was both a very visible and accepted part of everyday life.

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Newtown marks 6 months since school massacre

Carlee Soto, front, and Jillian Soto, sisters of slain teacher Victoria Soto, embrace during a ceremony on the six-month anniversary honoring the 20 children and six adults gunned down at Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec. 14, 2012 in Newtown, Conn., Friday, June 14, 2013. Newtown held a moment of silence Friday for the victims of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School at a remembrance event that doubled as a call to action on gun control, with the reading of names of thousands of victims of gun violence. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)

NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — The town where 20 children and six educators were massacred in December went silent for a moment Friday, six months later, at a remembrance event that doubled as a call to action on weapons control, with the reading of names of thousands of victims of gun violence.

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