Unease with environmental and gun control regulations helped Republicans make inroads in northern Minnesota.
And in much of the country, especially the West, light regulation on business, lax environmental rules, gun rights and the like sell well.
Mr. Lautenberg said that he had spent a great deal of time with his grandchildren since retiring in 2001, but that his family had urged him to help Democrats defend Mr. Torricelli's seat against the threat of a Republican-controlled Senate, which might reverse the environmental and gun control legislation he had fought for throughout his career.
Koch money is behind the Heritage Foundation, the Manhattan Institute, the Federalist Society, Americans for Prosperity, and of course, ALEC, the anti-union, public education, environmental protection, gun control, government regulation, and health care American Legislative Exchange Council.
As a justice, Kavanaugh will almost surely create a significantly more conservative majority on the high court and shift the law to the right on a wide front — possibly affecting such issues as abortion, affirmative action, environmental protection, gun rights, immigration, property rights and religion.
All of the environmental big guns signed: Nancy Sutley, the chairwoman of the White House Council on Environmental Quality; Lisa Jackson, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency; Ken Salazar, the interior secretary; Tom Vilsack, the agriculture secretary; and Terrence Salt, the acting chief of Army Corps of Engineers.
Social studies now embrace aspects of such diverse concerns as energy education, environmental education, gun-control education, future studies, consumer education, free-enterprise education and a host of other courses prompted by contemporary issues.
Her environmental and gun-control policies turned off some of the state's ancestral Democrats, and the views she and her husband held in the 1990s on criminal justice depressed black turnout.
Mother Jones focused on the activity of Mary McFate, also known as Mary Lou Sapone, a woman who has apparently led a double life for over twenty years, performing industrial espionage services for a variety of anti-environmental and gun lobby organizations -- including the National Rifle Association...
While Democrats in conservative states like South Dakota have to appeal to large populations that favor oil and gas drilling, and oppose burdensome environmental regulations, strict gun control, abortion and same-sex marriage, South Dakota liberals say their state is not as conservative as some believe.
