Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, a former San Francisco mayor, has already opened a committee to start raising money for the 2018 governor's race.
Our requests for data from the DEA are met with delay, excuses and, frankly, inadequate response," Walden said as he opened a committee hearing Wednesday.
Or, at least, opening an exploratory committee, which allows him to raise and spend money as he tests a potential candidacy.
(Representative Ron Paul of Texas is set to announce on Tuesday that he is opening a presidential exploratory committee).
Three days after resigning as President Obama's ambassador to China, Jon M. Huntsman Jr. took the first steps on Tuesday toward joining the Republican presidential race by opening a political action committee allowing him to raise and spend money as he considers a candidacy.
Instead of working on jobs legislation this week, the memo said, Republicans are spending their time trying to undo programs intended to help struggling mortgage holders and opening a high-profile committee investigation into what some say is the radicalization of American Muslims.
On the Democratic side, Representative Bruce Braley announced his intention on Thursday to open a campaign committee.
By the time Richard M. Aborn opened a campaign committee last September to run for Manhattan district attorney, Cyrus R. Vance Jr. and Leslie Crocker Snyder already had their story lines set and circulating.
The committee sent its final report to then-president, now-inmate Mohamed Morsi in January last year, but Bahnasy claimed that Morsi did not open a technical committee (which could have determined ammunition used) to push the findings further.
