... the 2006 election, defeating incumbent Gov. Frank Murkowski in the Republican primary and a former two-term Democratic governor, Tony Knowles, in the general election. She enjoyed an extended honeymoon with lawmakers and voters alike ...

... that has left his career in tatters and disrupted President-elect Barack Obama's White House transition. The Democratic governor had a four-hour meeting with Ed Genson in the lawyer's downtown office Saturday. Genson has defended newspaper ...

... contacts with Rahm Emanuel, Obama's incoming chief of staff who Blagojevich aides have said spoke regularly to the Democratic governor. An official familiar with the internal review said the Obama team did not have access to transcripts of the FBI ...

... requests and tried not to appear to be campaigning for the job because she knew that the choice rested solely with the Democratic governor. "I was trying to respect the process. It is not a campaign," she said. "It was misinterpreted. If I were ...

... judge Rita Gruber. Meanwhile, Huckabee's successor continued to enjoy a long honeymoon as the state's first Democratic governor in a decade began his second year in office. Gov. Mike Beebe started the year facing questions over whether the ...

... toward a trial to determine whether the governor is ousted from office for corruption and abuse of power. The Democratic governor presided over the first meeting of a Senate whose most urgent task is putting him on trial. He was greeted by ...

... process, they're hanging the 12 million people of Illinois who twice have elected a governor," he said. The Democratic governor told The Associated Press on Thursday night that he's willing to sacrifice himself for principle by standing ...

... included a $1,048 flight to Cincinnati for a Democratic Governors Association retreat and policy conference. The ... 567 for his three-night hotel stay there. The Democratic Governors Association also paid Beebe's $920 airfare and ...

... care services and a statewide trauma system. Tuesday, four GOP House members announced their support for the Democratic governor's tax proposal, increasing the likelihood that the measure would pass in that chamber. Still, Arkansas GOP ...

... employers, both governors have said. Some Democrats took a harder line at a press conference arranged by the Democratic Governors Association to praise Obama for his leadership on the stimulus. DGA Chairman Brian Schweitzer of Montana and Maryland ...