Gary Adrian Condit is an American former politician who represented California's 18th congressional district in the House of Representatives from 1989 to 2003. He gained significant national attention after the May 2001 disappearance of Chandra Levy,an intern with the Federal Bureau of Prisons with whom Condit was having an affair and was subsequently found murdered.
Ben Nighthorse Campbell is an American politician who represented Colorado's 3rd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1987 to 1993 and was a United States Senator from Colorado from 1993 to 2005. He serves as one of 44 members of the Council of Chiefs of the Northern Cheyenne Indian Tribe. During his time in office,he was the only Native American serving in Congress. He was the last Native American elected to the U.S. Senate until the 2022 election of Cherokee Markwayne Mullin.
The California Republican Party (CAGOP) is the affiliate of the United States Republican Party in the U.S. state of California. The party is based in Sacramento and is led by chair Jessica Millan Patterson,the first Latina to lead the party.
The California Democratic Party is the affiliate of the Democratic Party in the U.S. state of California. It is headquartered in Sacramento,the state capital.
David James Shafer is an American politician who is a former chairman of the Georgia Republican Party. From 2002 to 2019,Shafer was a Republican member of the Georgia State Senate from Senate District 48,a suburban district located north of Atlanta that includes portions of Fulton County and Gwinnett County.
Barbara Jean Comstock is an American attorney and politician who served as the U.S. representative for Virginia's 10th congressional district from 2015 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party,she was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates from 2010 to 2014.
Janet Q. Nguyen is an American politician who serves in the California State Senate. A Republican,she represents the 36th district,which includes coastal Orange County,Little Saigon,and parts of Los Angeles County. She previously was a member of the State Senate for the old 34th district from 2014 to 2018,before narrowly losing reelection to Tom Umberg.
The 2017–2018 session was a session of the California State Legislature. The session first convened on December 5,2016,and adjourned sine die on November 30,2018.
David Kunnghee Min is an American lawyer and politician. A member of the Democratic Party he serves as the state senator for California's 37th Senate district,which includes portions of Orange County. He was an assistant law professor at the University of California,Irvine School of Law before he was elected to the California State Senate.
Erica Danette Smith is an American engineer and politician who represented District 3 in the North Carolina Senate from 2015 to 2021. She was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate in 2020. She finished second in the Democratic primaries on March 3,2020. She was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate in 2022,but she switched to the race for North Carolina's 1st congressional district after Rep. G. K. Butterfield announced that he would not run for another term.
The 2017–18 United States political sexual scandals saw a heightened period of allegations of sexual misconduct,harassment and assault,and resulted in the subsequent firings and resignations of American politicians. Some of the allegations are linked to the aftermath of the Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse cases starting in October 2017 amid the wider MeToo movement.
The 2018 Nevada Senate election took place as part of the biennial United States elections. Nevada voters elected state senators in 11 of the state senate's 21 districts. State senators serve four-year terms in the Nevada State Senate.
Mallory Ann McMorrow is an American politician who has served in the Michigan Senate since January 2019. She became senate majority whip on January 1,2023. A member of the Democratic Party,she represents the 8th district;before that,from 2019 to 2023,she represented the 13th district,which included Berkley,Birmingham,Bloomfield Hills,Clawson,Rochester Hills,Royal Oak,and Troy,Michigan. Prior to running for the Michigan Senate,McMorrow worked in industrial design.
The 2024 United States Senate elections were held on November 5,2024,as part of the 2024 United States elections. Regularly scheduled elections were held for 33 out of the 100 seats in the U.S. Senate,plus one seat in a special election. Senators are divided into 3 classes whose 6-year terms are staggered so that a different class is elected every 2 years. Class 1 senators faced election in 2024. Republicans flipped four Democratic-held seats,regaining a Senate majority for the first time since 2021.
Peter J. Lucido is an American politician serving as the prosecutor of Macomb County,Michigan since 2021. A member of the Republican Party,Lucido previously served in the Michigan Senate from 2019 to 2020,and in the Michigan House of Representatives from 2015 to 2019.
The 2022 California State Senate election was held on Tuesday,November 8,with the primary election having been held on Thursday,June 7. Voters in the 20 even-numbered districts of the California State Senate elected their representatives. The elections coincided with elections for other offices,including the state assembly.
The 2022 New York state elections took place on November 8,2022. On this date,the State of New York held elections for the following offices:Governor and Lieutenant Governor,Attorney General,Comptroller,U.S. Senate,U.S. House of Representatives,New York State Senate,New York State Assembly,and various others. Primary elections took place on June 28 and August 23,2022. This election cycle was highlighted by a redistricting process in which there were many election maps that were ultimately ruled to be unconstitutional Democratic gerrymanders.
