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State Senate campaigns getting more expensive - $2 million now the price of the game, candidates say, and many worry about donor influence.
Post Date: 2007-12-11 14:11:02 by richard9151
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This could easily be titled; What is Really Wrong with America, and it would come very close to the Truth. $2 million -- for a state senate seat. Amazing. And it does not take a very smart individual to understand what is going on; whose Senate salaries are $7,200 a year plus expenses, ... Tuesday, December 11, 2007 In Fort Worth, Wendy Davis says she'll need a war chest of $2 million to successfully challenge state Sen. Kim Brimer, meaning Brimer will need the same. In Laredo, state Sen. Judith Zaffirini, who usually wins re-election by wide margins, faces two challengers. She figures she'll need $2 million to keep her seat. "It's a lot of money, but I have no ...
Tension in Hillaryland Grows as Plan Goes Awry: Albert R. Hunt
Post Date: 2007-12-10 17:51:47 by aristeides
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Tension in Hillaryland Grows as Plan Goes Awry: Albert R. Hunt By Albert R. Hunt Dec. 10 (Bloomberg) -- To appreciate Hillary Clinton's fundamental political problem, consider the 11 Democrats from Philadelphia who gathered last week to discuss the U.S. presidential race, almost all of whom would vote for her in a general election. The focus group was moderated by an expert on such forums, Democratic pollster Peter Hart. The participants were informed and enthusiastic about their party's prospects, had no interest in the Republicans or third-party candidates, and were about equally balanced between front-runners Clinton and Senator Barack Obama of Illinois. When Hart pushed the ...
Ritual Gloating Postmortems - The Corporate Media v. Hugo Chavez
Post Date: 2007-12-10 06:28:43 by Stephen Lendman
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Ritual Gloating Postmortems - The Corporate Media v. Hugo Chavez - by Stephen Lendman Dateline December 3, 2007 - the corporate media is euphoric after Venezuelans narrowly defeated Hugo Chavez's constitutional reform referendum the previous day. The outcome defied pre-election independent poll predictions and was a cliffhanger to the end. Near-final results weren't announced until 1:15AM December 3 with about 100,000 votes separating the two sides and a surprising 44% of eligible voters abstaining. On December 7, Venezuela's National Electoral Council (CNE) released the final outcome based on 94% of ballots counted. A total of 69 amendment reforms were voted on in two blocks: ...
Giuliani Says Some Clients of Law Firm Must Remain Confidential
Post Date: 2007-12-09 22:41:20 by DeaconBenjamin
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Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Republican Rudy Giuliani said he won't release a full list of his law firm's clients while campaigning for the White House because of confidentiality agreements. Giuliani, interviewed on NBC's "Meet the Press," said the Houston-based law firm, Bracewell & Giuliani LLP, with offices in Europe, the Middle East and parts of the former Soviet Union, is prevented by such agreements from disclosing client relations. The former New York mayor said most of the clients that he worked with at the law firm and at a separate consulting firm, Giuliani Partners LLC, have been publicly identified. Giuliani, who leads most national polls of Republican ...
The Constitution, the Media and Kucinich: Piano Wire Puppeteers
Post Date: 2007-12-07 16:37:35 by aristeides
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The Constitution, the Media and Kucinich Piano Wire Puppeteers By SEAN PENN It’s been an odd week. For me, a particularly odd week. But that’s another story. So, wait a minute. Iran DOESN’T have nuclear weapon capability??? So, who are we gonna bomb? I want to bomb somebody! Didn’t Senator Clinton just vote in essence to give President Bush the power to bomb Iran? If he had done it last week, would that have made her right? I mean, if she knew then what she knows now? Or am I getting that backward? Golly, I’m confused. And what about President Bush? This week, Vladimir Putin, the man Mr. Bush said he “Looked into the eyes of and found to be very ...
New Hampshire: Protector of Enshrined History, or State of Bored, Crusty Shut-Ins?
Post Date: 2007-12-07 00:21:32 by kiki
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New Hampshire recently announced it will hold its primary on January 8, the earliest date ever in presidential politics. The new date shatters New Hampshire's previous record of January 27, and continues the state's streak of holding the first primary in every election since 1920. True, the Iowa caucus comes earlier, but former New Hampshire Governor John Sununu once explained why it doesn't count. "In Iowa they pick corn," he said, "but in New Hampshire we pick presidents." Apart from painting a disturbing picture of New Hampshire voters pulling presidential candidates from tall vegetable stalks, or sucking them into giant combines for storage in vast ...
Huckabee Tries to Shoot the Messenger, But Wounds His Campaign Instead
Post Date: 2007-12-06 21:47:27 by Zipporah
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The way that Mike Huckabee has handled the furor caused by the Huffington Post's coverage of his role in the release of Wayne Dumond, a serial rapist who went on to rape and kill at least one other woman, has been very revealing. And troubling. It has exposed the dissembling reality behind the charming, articulate, more-preacher-than-politician facade - and has called into question both his judgment and his integrity. Huckabee's response has been to fudge the truth, point the finger at everyone in sight, and -- that old standby -- blame the messenger. Appearing on MSNBC's Morning Joe this morning, Huckabee said of our story: "there are factual errors in what they have ...
Huckabee Supports God, Not Raping People
Post Date: 2007-12-06 19:52:58 by Zipporah
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Huckabee Supports God, Not Raping People newVideoPlayer("Huckabee2_Snapper.flv", 475, 376); Mike Huckabee’s cocky ass appeared on MSNBC’s Morning Joe this morning to talk about his and Romney’s religion, as well as the recent HuffPo report on Huckabee’s role (active!) in releasing an Arkansas rapist from prison and then watching as he raped more people. On religion, he blabs for a little bit; On the accusations — as shown above— he calls HuffPo a lying sack of Internet crapola.
Another Mormon Thing Romney Didn't Mention
Post Date: 2007-12-06 19:48:00 by Zipporah
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Another Mormon Thing Romney Didn't Mention While magic underpants was our first preference for Mitt Romney’s “Faith in America” speech topics, our secret second was the Mormon cricket, a species of “bug” out West-ish. The Mormon cricket has swarmed numerous small burgs and hamlets with its polygamous agenda over the years, and it too refuses to acknowledge that waterboarding is torture. After the jump, a brief history of the flip-flopping creature, as well as some disturbing footage of what happens When Mormon Crickets Attack!!!! Wonkette spent months researching the Mormon cricket and has concluded the following. (And by “spent months ...
From War Room to Panic Room: Hillary Clinton and the Politics of Character Assassination
Post Date: 2007-12-06 17:03:47 by aristeides
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From War Room to Panic Room Hillary Clinton and the Politics of Character Assassination Events have conspired to deepen my November 14 argument that a generational fault line is reshaping the Democratic presidential nomination contest (“Don’t Trust Anyone Over 50,” CounterPunch, November 14). To wit: On November 20, Senator Hillary Clinton of New York, the Democratic frontrunner, issued an awkward attack on presidential rival Senator Barack Obama of Illinois, based on his four childhood years as an American abroad in Indonesia. To an audience in Shenandoah, Iowa, via a telephone speaker call, Clinton spoke these words: "Now voters will judge whether living in a ...
Ron Paul's Army Revs Up in New Hampshire
Post Date: 2007-12-06 16:08:42 by ghostdogtxn
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Blame the People Who Elected Them?
Post Date: 2007-12-04 03:13:03 by hammerdown
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Discussions of calamitous government actions—engagements in pointless, costly, and bloody wars; counterproductive actions to avert or shorten economic recessions; botched relief and reconstruction efforts after natural disasters—often arrive at, if they do not begin with, condemnation of government leaders. Thus, in the United States, for example, people have blamed Harry Truman for ordering U.S. military forces into the Korean war, Herbert Hoover for worsening the economic bust of 1929–33, and George W. Bush for presiding over the FEMA fiasco associated with Hurricane Katrina. As soon as such a denunciation has been made, however, a critic invariably intervenes to challenge ...
Kristol: Giuliani nomination 'problematic' in scandal's wake
Post Date: 2007-12-02 21:17:07 by robin
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Conservatives agree: this week's scandal about whether or not Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani misused city funds while Mayor of New York has taken a serious toll on his candidacy. Appearing on the program Fox News Sunday, Bill Kristol and Fred Barnes, both of the conservative Weekly Standard, suggested the Giuliani campaign is in trouble. "Bill, I've come to the conclusion that any story that begins 'presidential candidate' and 'girlfriend are not good," host Chris Wallace said to his panelist. "No, and when the follow-up story in the New York press is that, in fact, New York City police chauffeured around Judith Nathan - she was Rudy ...
Mike Gravel: Power to the People, Give Peace a Chance
Post Date: 2007-12-02 21:06:24 by kiki
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The Plot To Rig The 2008 US Election
Post Date: 2007-12-02 16:58:47 by Mind_Virus
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The Plot To Rig The 2008 US Election by Johann Hari Global Research, November 30, 2007 The Independent - 2007-11-29 In the long, hot autumn of 2000, the world was shocked by the contempt for democracy shown by the Republican Party. They knew their man had lost the popular vote to Al Gore by half a million votes. They knew the majority of voters in Florida itself had pulled a lever for Gore. But they fought - amid the confetti of hanging chads - to stop the state’s votes being counted, and to ensure that the Supreme Court imposed George W Bush. Today, that contempt for democracy is on display again. In California right now, there is a naked, out-in-the-open ploy to rig the 2008 ...
Kennedy for Hillary
Post Date: 2007-12-01 14:15:46 by statusquobuster
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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Disappoints Joel S. Hirschhorn RFK, Jr. has disappointed millions of liberals, progressives and environmentalists by endorsing Hillary Clinton. RFK, Jr. once said: “the Republicans are 95 percent corrupt and the Democrats are 75 percent corrupt.” This has been widely quoted because of its honest assessment of the corrupt two-party system. He has also pointed out: "While communism is the control of business by government, fascism is the control of government by business. …The biggest threat to American democracy is corporate power. …our most visionary political leaders have warned the American public against the domination of ...
Rudy on Sept 11th
Post Date: 2007-11-29 22:54:28 by kiki
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Giuliani Stumbles, Leaving GOP Field Wide Open
Post Date: 2007-11-29 11:16:37 by Brian S
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After several months of delay, eight Republican candidates faced off to debate questions posed by real people in St. Petersburg, Fla. Viewers didn't have to wait long for the action to commence. In stark contrast to the Democratic YouTube debate, the questioning remained relatively tame -- not one question from a snowman. But the candidates cared little about the questions, preferring to throw pre-prepared bombs at their opponents. Rudy Giuliani took the most damage. I'm guessing his reign as the GOP front-runner will come to an end soon. There seems to be an unwritten rule that all Republican debates must include illegal immigration. It leads to the usual discussion of "my ...
GOP will demand 'oath' of February primary voters (LOYALTY OATH FOR THOSE VOTING IN VA GOP PRIMARY)
Post Date: 2007-11-28 17:35:35 by aristeides
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GOP will demand 'oath' of February primary voters RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- If you're planning to vote in Virginia's February Republican presidential primary, be prepared to sign an oath swearing your Republican loyalty. The State Board of Elections on Monday approved a state Republican Party request to require all who apply for a GOP primary ballot first vow in writing that they'll vote for the party's presidential nominee next fall. There's no practical way to enforce the oath. Virginia doesn't require voters to register by party, and for years the state's Republicans have fretted that Democrats might meddle in their open primaries. Virginia Democrats ...
Connie Rice: Top 10 Secrets They Don't Want You to Know About the Debates
Post Date: 2007-11-28 13:14:40 by Split
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The Tavis Smiley Show, September 29, 2004 · After weeks of political wrangling, Sen. John Kerry and President Bush will square off for the first of three key presidential debates. Both camps have agreed to an elaborate, 32-page contract that spells out everything from the size of the dressing rooms to permitted camera angles. But the controversy over the debates threatens to overshadow the events themselves. Some citizen groups complain that the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) isn't as non-partisan as it should be, and that Kerry and Bush won't be pressed on urban issues. Commentator Connie Rice says that's just the tip of the iceberg, and she's got another ...
What If The General Election Stage Is As Crowded With Candidates As The Primaries Have Been?
Post Date: 2007-11-28 12:52:03 by Brian S
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November 27, 2007 Let's play a "what if" game. What if Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani parlay their current leads in national polls into the Democratic and Republican presidential nominations? And what if, spurred by the movement that has suddenly sprung full force around him, Ron Paul decides to take the Libertarian Party's nomination for president, as he did in 1988? And what if, as many evangelical Christian leaders have promised, they actually do field a presidential candidate to run on issues such as abortion, gay rights and school prayer. And what if someone, (Tom Tancredo?) decides that the race needs a strong advocate for sending undocumented immigrants back ...
VotersUnite.Org / Malfunctions and Miscounts, Sorted by State
Post Date: 2007-11-27 20:05:38 by Peppa
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Here are brief descriptions of some of the voting equipment malfunctions reported in the news, listed by State. We also have most of these failures included in pdf files that are grouped by vendor. NOTE: Virtually all of the failures described in these links occurred on equipment that was "federally certified," that is, certified by NASED (National Association of State Election Directors). Click a state abbreviation to go directly to the malfunctions listed for that state. Click a question/checkmark to read more about the failure. U.S. AL AZ AR CA CO DE FL GA HI IA IL IN KS LA MA MD MI MO MS NC NE NJ NM NV OH PA SC SD TN TX VA WA WI WY
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And You Can Just Forget About Zoroastrians!
Post Date: 2007-11-27 19:56:33 by kiki
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I know that it's old news at this point, and that there have already been a number of diaries on the story, but I feel that it would be criminal for the front page of Daily Kos not to contain at least a brief condemnation of Mitt Romney's appallingly bigoted, stupid, and hypocritical statement that: ". . . based on the numbers of American Muslims [as a percentage] in our population, I cannot see that a cabinet position would be justified. But of course, I would imagine that Muslims could serve at lower levels of my administration. First, it's just out-and-out bigotry for Romney to say that he would apply a religious test when selecting cabinet appointees, and that he ...
Vote Caging (I had no idea)
Post Date: 2007-11-27 19:30:47 by Peppa
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Bob Woodward, Washington Post Clueless About 'Vote Caging' 'Please Send an E-Mail Explaining What Caging Is,' Requests Watergate Investigative Reporter During Online Chat Echoes Question of Previous WaPo Reporter Who Asked: 'So What Is This Caging Thing?'... Posted By Brad Friedman On 23rd November 2007 @ 08:47 In Washington Post, Mainstream Media Failure, Voter Registration, Vote Caging | 5 Comments Apparently, one of the requirements for working as a reporter at the Washington Post is that you must remain as out of touch as possible with anything that matters. According to ThinkProgress today [1], Watergate's investigative genius, Bob Woodward, smartly ...
Ahmadinejad offers to be an observer at US presidential election
Post Date: 2007-11-27 19:12:05 by Zipporah
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Tuesday November 27, 2007 He denounces it as the "Great Satan" and frequently dismisses its power, but the overtures of the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, to the US seem to grow ever more extravagant. Having failed to win a response with an 18-page letter to President George Bush or to a request to visit the site of the September 11 2001 attack on New York, Ahmadinejad has offered himself as an observer in next year's presidential election. The proposal came in a speech to volunteers with the Basij, a pro-regime militia. He said he was prompted by a belief that Americans would vote against the current administration in a truly free poll. However, the terms of ...
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