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2014 United States Senate elections
The 2014 United States Senate elections were held on November 4, 2014. A total of 36 seats in the 100-member U.S. Senate were contested. 33 Class 2 seats were contested for regular 6-year terms to be served from January 3, 2015, to January 3, 2021, and 3 Class 3 seats were contested in special elections due to Senate vacancies. The elections marked 100 years of direct elections of U.S. senators. Going into the elections, 21 of the contested seats were held by the Democratic Party, while 15 were held by the Republican Party.
The Republicans regained the majority of the Senate in the 114th Congress, which started in January 2015; the Republicans had not controlled the Senate since January 2007. They needed a net gain of at least 6 seats to obtain a majority and were projected by polls to do so. On election night, they held all of their seats and gained 9 Democratic-held seats. Republicans defeated 5 Democratic incumbents: Mark Begich of Alaska lost to Dan Sullivan, Mark Pryor of Arkansas lost to Tom Cotton, Mark Udall of Colorado lost to Cory Gardner, Mary Landrieu of Louisiana lost to Bill Cassidy, and Kay Hagan of North Carolina lost to Thom Tillis. Republicans also picked up another 4 open seats in Iowa, Montana, South Dakota, and West Virginia that were previously held by Democrats. Democrats did not pick up any Republican-held seats, but they did hold an open seat in Michigan.
This was the most recent time that any party lost control of the Senate in a midterm election cycle. With a total net gain of 9 seats, the Republicans made the largest Senate gain by any party since 1980. This is also the first election cycle since 1980 in which more than 2 incumbent Democratic senators were defeated by their Republican challengers. Days after the election cycle, the United States Election Project estimated that 36.4% of eligible voters voted, 4% lower than the 2010 elections, and possibly the lowest turnout rate
Arrest Report
5/29/14--5/30/14
Shelby County:
Christopher Bolton, 38, Center, Warrant-Violation of Probation, Original Charge: Forgery
Cedric Colston, 42, Nacogdoches, Warrant-Non Support
Richard Ethridge, 40, Center, Warrant-Burglary of a Building & Warrant-Forgery
David Kirkpatrick, 42, Henderson, Violation of Parole
San Augustine County:
Amanda McNeil, 46, Center, Order Modifying Community Supervision, 10 Days in Jail.
Note: All Subjects are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
During Day 2 of testimony in the Deedra Grubbs’ Capital Murder Trial in Center, the prosecution called several witnesses to the stand to establish that Deedra Grubbs and her husband Bobbie, were involved in a robbery April 25, 2012, at a Montgomery County home, and were on the run from law enforcement, eventually ending up in Shelby County.
Grubbs’ sister, Nancy McCuwen told the jury she had advised her sister via a text message to turn herself in, knowing that she and Bobbie were in trouble for incident in The Woodlands. Ms. McCuwen added she thought her sister was doing drugs.
A former neighbor of Deedra Grubbs also testified that she was contacted by Grubbs asking her to pick up her daughters after school, and take care of them if anything happened to her and Bobbie. Michelle Joplin said after she picked up the girls, police arrived at her home, along with CPS and took possession of the children.
Another friend of the Grubbs, Jimmy Stockton testified he also received a text message from Deedra Grubbs asking him to pick up her two daughters, which he said no to. Stockton said he knew of drug use by both the Grubbs.
A Lufkin gold buyer also took the stand showing documentation, including a copy of a drivers’ license, that Deedra Grubbs had been in his store with j THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW .'The Rachel Maddow Show' for Wednesday, March 5, 2014
March 5, 2014
Guests: Mark Mazzetti, Steve Strunsky
HAYES: That is ALL IN for this evening. The "RACHEL MADDOW SHOW" starts
right now.
Good evening, Rachel.
RACHEL MADDOW, MSNBC HOST: Good evening, Chris. Thanks, man.
HAYES: You bet.
MADDOW: And thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. We have an
exclusive story tonight out of Texas. Something that is happening in Texas
tonight as we speak. We are reporting this here at this point. Nobody
else in the country has this story except us.
I`m going to explain that news in just a moment. But it relates in a way
to the headlines that you may have already seen today out of Texas. The
political news out of Texas today is about the primaries that just happened
there.
The big national headline out of the Texas primaries is George P. Bush, of
course, Jeb Bush`s son and George W. Bush`s nephew. He avoided a runoff
and became the Republican nominee for land commissioner in Texas, which is
a powerful job in that state.
So, hey America, get ready for more Bush family politicians.
Also, the two Republican members of Congress who were facing Tea Party
challengers in their primaries, Senator John Cornyn and Congressman Pete
Sessions. Those veteran Republican legislators both easily fended off
their challengers from the Tea Party, and that, of course, must be a relief
to them. But Tea Party candidates did do pretty well in some other races
against other incumbent Republicans running at the state level in Texas.
So that`s what happened on the Republican side yesterday. On the
Democratic side, what happened yesterday was really, really interesting.
It`s kind of a good news/terrible news kind of day for Democrats in Texas.
The good news for Texas Democrats is that it was smooth sailing for Wendy
Davis and Leticia Van de Putte who are the Democratic Party`s chosen and
solid candidates for governor and li