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RandySF's JournalWNBA Trade Rumors: Kelsey Plum Exiting Las Vegas Aces Imminent Says Insider
Kelsey Plum and Satou Sabally have been the focus of numerous trade talks this WNBA offseason. The latest report by Callie Fin of the Las Vegas Review Journal suggests that Plum could be playing for a new team next season.
On Monday’s episode of NBC Sports show “On her Turf,” Fin joined hosts Natalie Esquire and Terrika Foster-Brasby, suggesting that Plum would want to move on from the Aces. She also revealed that the seven-year pro declined to sign the team’s extension offer.
“It does seem like the most likely scenario that Kesley Plum would move on from the Aces,” Fin said. “She did not sign an extension and former general manager Natalie Williams told me before she and the Aces parted ways that Kelsey was offered an extension and declined.”
Hinting at Plum’s troublesome season last year, Fin said that speaking directly to her about her future plans is out of the question, but everything else points to her wanting to leave Las Vegas. The insider also said that the two-time WNBA champion’s situation was similar to that of Sabally’s.
https://www.hardwoodheroics.com/kelsey-plum-exiting-las-vegas-aces/
Kenneth Crum Officially Makes Bid for Greenville Mayoral Election
Greenville native Kenneth Crum held a campaign town hall Tuesday night to officially announce his intention to become the next Mayor of
Greenville. Citizens were encouraged to ask questions and voice concerns. Crum says his top priorities are the youth of Greenville and ensuring that the voices of each citizen is heard in order to bring about necessary changes.
He tells Action 8 News that he will also focus on ensuring a living wage, work with the school system to increase education and create a public transportation system.
Greenville’s Mayoral election day is August 26, 2025. Crum goes against incumbent Mayor Dexter McClenden.
https://www.waka.com/2025/01/14/kenneth-crum-officially-makes-bid-for-greenville-mayoral-election/
Minnesota House Democrats to file lawsuit to Supreme Court arguing GOP speaker election unlawful
Minnesota House Democrats said Tuesday that they will file a number of lawsuits asking the Minnesota Supreme Court to find that Republicans’ attempt to elect a speaker and conduct business without them was unlawful because they lacked a quorum of members.
Democratic House leader Rep. Melissa Hortman of Brooklyn Park said she expects the Supreme Court justices will find that House Republicans acted unconstitutionally when they ignored Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon’s declaration that there was no quorum in the chamber Tuesday. Republicans continued the session without him and elected their own House speaker.
Republicans say their 67 members are all that’s required for a quorum of the current 133 sworn House members, and that they had the right to overturn the ruling of the chair Tuesday.
“What I expect is that the Minnesota Supreme Court would find that the Minnesota House was not duly organized today, that (those) who participated in the sham session violated Minnesota state law and ignored the constitutional requirement of quorum,” Hortman said at a press conference in Shakopee. She declined to offer more detail about the lawsuit or lawsuits that will be filed Tuesday or Wednesday.
https://minnesotareformer.com/2025/01/14/minnesota-house-democrats-to-file-lawsuit-to-supreme-court-arguing-gop-speaker-election-unlawful/
Needham votes 'no' to more multifamily housing during special election
NEEDHAM, Mass. — During a special election on Tuesday, the Town of Needham voted “No” to a ballot question that allows zoning for 3,350 multifamily units.
Preliminary results posted to the town clerk’s page show 6,866 residents voted “No,” and 4,882 voted “Yes.”
According to the town’s communications director, Needham will have to start over and adopt new zoning plans again. This means the town will continue to be out of compliance with the MBTA Communities Act and could miss out on state funding opportunities.
The MBTA Communities Act requires 177 cities and towns that are served by the public transit system to establish a zoning district for multifamily housing within 0.5 miles of a commuter rail station.
https://www.boston25news.com/news/local/norfolk-county/needham-votes-no-more-multifamily-housing-during-special-election/KPILHXW3IVHK7EIEHKXRYMHCRA/
MN-SD60: Doron Clark (D), Abigail Wolters (R) win their party's primary for Senate District 60 special election
MINNEAPOLIS — The stage is set for the Senate District 60 special election after voters decided who will represent their parties on the ballot.
The election comes after the death of Sen. Kari Dziedzic, the chamber's former DFL majority leader who passed away from ovarian cancer.
Senate District 60 covers parts of Northeast Minneapolis, Cedar-Riverside and the area near the University of Minnesota. Dziedzic's absence leaves the Senate temporarily tied 33-33 in the two-week period between the start of the legislative session on Jan. 14 and the special election which will be held on Jan. 28.
Republican Abigail Wolters won for her party with 72.17% of the vote, having run against one other candidate.
DFLer Doron Clark received 38.13% of his party's vote, running against six other candidates.
https://www.kare11.com/article/news/local/doron-clark-abigail-wolters-win-parties-primary-senate-district-60-special-election/89-0ffc8d7e-ce53-4faa-bd8e-028f218ef621
Attorney General demands ousted Orosi board members vacate seats after election dispute
TULARE COUNTY, Calif. — We now have an update to a story we brought you last month, where several board members of the Orosi Public Utilities District refused to vacate their seats following the November election results.
They called for a special election after they claimed there was a district map error.
But they received quite the pushback from community members in a meeting.
In that meeting, they we're heard saying they were waiting hear from Tulare County on what went wrong.
https://kmph.com/news/local/attorney-general-demands-ousted-orosi-board-members-vacate-seats-after-election-dispute
GOP Judge Jefferson Griffin's election case targets people who voted early
When and how North Carolina voters cast their ballots last year is a key to distinguishing which votes in the race for a state Supreme Court seat are in danger of being thrown out.
Republican Appeals Court Judge Jefferson Griffin is seeking to toss out more than 60,000 votes in the race. He trails Democratic incumbent Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs by 734 votes.
Most of the votes Griffin wants tossed were cast by people he argues were not legally registered because, he claims, they did not provide required ID numbers on their registration applications. Both the state Supreme Court and the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals are hearing the case at this point.
All the voters Griffin is challenging cast ballots during the early voting period or voted absentee. Those ballots can be traced to individual voters. A Griffin court brief says he believes he can win if the votes he is contesting are erased.
https://ncnewsline.com/2025/01/15/gop-judge-jefferson-griffins-election-case-targets-people-who-voted-early/
Board Supervisors Formally Call District One Special Election
The Board of Supervisors made it official Tuesday and called an April 8 special primary election for the First Supervisorial District. Voters in District 1 will fill a supervisorial seat that became vacant when the former supervisor ended her tenure on Jan.6.
Over 376,000 voters living in District 1 will receive a ballot in the mail the week of March 10 for the election. The official ballot packet will also include an “I Voted” sticker, voting instructions and other important election information.
The person elected will fill District 1’s vacant seat for the remainder of the current term ending in January 2029. If no candidate receives a majority vote at the April 8 election, the top two vote-getters will move on to the special general election held on July 1, 2025. Only those who live in the district can vote in the election.
District 1 spans from the Pacific Ocean on the west to the Otay and San Miguel mountains in the east, and from Barrio Logan in the north to the U.S./Mexico international border on the south. The First Supervisorial District includes the cities of Chula Vista, Imperial Beach, National City and some communities within the City of San Diego, such as Barrio Logan, Chollas View, East Village, Golden Hill and more. Additionally, District 1 includes the unincorporated areas of Bonita, East Otay Mesa, Lincoln Acres, Sunnyside and Spring Valley/La Presa.
https://www.countynewscenter.com/board-supervisors-formally-call-district-one-special-election/
Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate (R) comes to the defense of Jan. 6 insurrectionists
As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to pardon the Jan. 6 rioters imprisoned for their role in the violent attack on the U.S. Capitol in 2021, one of the candidates running for a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court joined the campaign to rewrite the history of what happened that day, glossing over the offenses of the Jan. 6 defendants.
Speaking with right-wing radio host Vicki McKenna on her iHeart Radio podcast on Thursday, former Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel, who is running in the April election for a seat on the state’s highest court, complained that the Jan. 6 defendants never got “a fair shot” in court and accused Democrats of “abusing the court system” for “political gain.”
McKenna and Schimel agreed that Democrats are guilty of “lawfare” — political warfare via the courts. But it was Schimel who specifically brought up Jan. 6.
“Another piece of the lawfare manipulation is that they utilize jurisdictions that are overwhelmingly to the left in terms of the voters — which means the jurors that you’re going to draw to hear these cases,” Schimel said. In Trump’s New York hush money trial, for example, he said, “there was no way any jury was going to rule anything other than he’s guilty of whatever you can give him, whatever charge you give them.”
https://wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/01/06/wisconsin-supreme-court-candidate-comes-to-the-defense-of-jan-6-insurrectionists/
Voters to decide whether to enshrine voter ID law into Wisconsin Constitution
Assembly Republicans voted Tuesday to advance a proposal that would enshrine Wisconsin’s existing voter identification law into the state constitution.
That all but ensures the question will move to voters to consider on their April 1 ballots.
The resolution to set up the statewide referendum was approved in both houses of the Legislature along party lines, reflective of an ongoing partisan battle over whether voters should be required to show photographic ID to cast ballots. Republicans say it makes voting more secure, while Democrats say it creates a hurdle to voting.
Both sides point to studies of the decade-old state law to back up their arguments. Republicans cite data showing voting rates have only increased in Wisconsin since the law was passed in 2011, while Democrats cite research showing voter fraud — even prior to the passage of voter ID laws — is vanishingly rare.
https://www.wpr.org/news/voter-identification-constitutional-amendment-wisconsin
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