Murphy Launches Listening Tour, Might Challenge Rubio for US Senate PUBLISHED 6:09 PM ET Mar. 04, 2021 PUBLISHED 6:09 PM EST Mar. 04, 2021
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WASHINGTON Representative Stephanie Murphy is considering a run for higher office. The three-term congresswoman recently unveiled a new campaign to reach voters and hired a top Democratic operative.
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Rep. Stephanie Murphy (D-FL) is considering a run for U.S. Senate
The congresswoman has announced a listening tour around Florida
Murphy is considered a centrist Democrat
She was the first Vietnamese-American woman elected to Congress
“It’s no secret that Florida Democrats have fallen short over the last few election cycles,” Murphy said in an interview with Spectrum News.
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MILWAUKEE – The two remaining candidates for Wisconsin Superintendent of Public Instruction squared off Thursday ahead of the only statewide race in the April 6 spring election.
Deborah Kerr, a retired superintendent most recently in Brown Deer, advanced from the February 15 primary along with Jill Underly, the current superintendent for the Pecatonica Area School District.
The Greater Milwaukee Committee hosted the virtual candidate forum Thursday via Zoom. Alan Borsuk, a senior fellow in law and public policy at Marquette, moderated the hourlong discussion.
Predictably, both candidates said returning Wisconsin students to the classroom is their top priority.
“As a parent and as an educator, of course I’m worried about this past year,” Underly said. “I’m more concerned with their mental health, their isolation, their anxiety and how we can help them recover from those feelings.”
The New York Times, revealing that top Governor Andrew Cuomo aides altered a COVID-19 report, purposefully withholding the complete number of nursing home resident deaths.
On July 6, State Health Department Commissioner Dr. Howard Zucker sat down in front of cameras and released a detailed report showing that 6,432 nursing home residents died from COVID-19 and blamed the spread of the virus on COVID-positive staffers that unknowingly carried it in with them from the community.
However, according to the WSJ, the initial report that was scrubbed by Cuomo advisors showed the actual number of COVID-related nursing home deaths was nearly 10,000 by July of last year. The Cuomo administration in a response late Thursday evening said the data could not be verified in time for the report s release.