WASHINGTON (AP) — A conservative leader in the House warned Republican Party officials on Thursday not to change the rules to allow someone other than Donald Trump or Sen. Ted Cruz to grab the presidential nomination at the GOP convention.
"That would be just a huge mistake," said Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, who heads the House Freedom Caucus of about three dozen conservatives. "It would be completely wrong, any type of rigging, or a perception that the party hierarchy is trying to influence and change things so that the two guys at the top are denied the nomination."
BOSTON – Republican Gov. Charlie Baker has joined forces with Democratic leaders Robert DeLeo, the Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, and Boston Mayor Marty Walsh to oppose a likely ballot question asking voters to make retail marijuana sales legal in the state.
The three officials have previously voiced opposition to legalizing pot, but the new alignment formalizes their roles in working together to defeat the proposal, which polls suggest would win a popular vote.
