The Maryland Republican Party, in a video spoof released before the state's first televised Democratic debate for governor this year.
Activist Sean McElwee, on what his potential future kids might say about him not being a vegan. He wants to see an end to federal meat subsidies and believes meat should be treated like "a pollutant to be destroyed."
Alaska Gov. Bill Walker, on the abrupt stepping down of his lieutenant governor, Byron Mallot. The Walker administration has not specified what the "inappropriate" comments were.
Idaho Fish and Game Commissioner Blake Fischer in an email to colleagues about his hunting trip to Namibia, where he killed and photographed himself with large dead animals, including a giraffe. Republican Gov. Butch Otter said the emails and graphic photos did not "exercise good judgment" and called for his resignation. Fischer obliged.
Minnesota state Rep. Dave Baker, a Republican who sponsored a failed bill this year that would have charged pharmaceutical companies a fee for every opioid painkiller they sell. It would have raised an estimated $20 million in annual funding for opioid abuse prevention and treatment.
Republican nominee for Pennsylvania governor Scott Wagner, threatening his opponent, Gov. Tom Wolf, in a campaign video posted on Facebook.
Ed Rendell, a former Pennsylvania governor, mayor and district attorney, on why he joined the board of a nonprofit seeking to open the nation's first safe injection facility where addicts can use illegal drugs under medical supervision as a way to combat the opioid crisis. Such facilities violate federal law.