Former N.C. Governor Pat McCrory threw his hat in the ring on Wednesday to represent North Carolina in the United States Senate. It’s a coveted seat being vacated by the retirement of Republican Senator Richard Burr. Since 2000, twenty former governors have run for U.S. Senate as first-time candidates, compiling a 13-7 record, for a 65% win percentage. It’s a record any team would take, but could McCrory be on the winning side of those statistics? There is a lot of history working for and against him.
Governors in the Senate: By the numbers
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two notable metrics influenced the failed Senate campaigns. One was the amount of time that had elapsed between the candidate’s departure from the governorship and their Senate bid. The second factor was whether the candidate was running in a state that, at the time of their Senate run, was generally favorable to their party in statewide races.
January 25, 2021 |
On Jan. 21, department chairs and center directors received memos with their FY22 base budget reduction instructions. This follows Chancellor Blank’s October 2020 announcement that the estimated impact of the pandemic on UW-Madison would be $320 million due to lower revenues and increased costs. As a result, UW-Madison leaders distributed base-budget cuts for all 101-funded units that will begin in FY22.
The overall FY22 101 base-cut to CALS will be $2,709,293, based on CALS overall 101 budget of $64 million. These reductions follow one-time reductions of $2.06 million made to the CALS 101 budget during the current fiscal year.
For those units with fund 104 Extension funding, details on FY22 based cuts will be available in the coming weeks. Overall, the Extension base budget reductions to CALS as a whole are anticipated to be at a similar level of approximately 4.25 percent.