Orlando Sentinel (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
WASHINGTON -- Bugs in a website meant to track stimulus funding prompted U.S. Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite, R-Brooksville, to file a complaint today with recovery.gov about the website itself. As reported this week, the website lists projects in congressional districts that...
The Buzz Florida Politics (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
U.S. Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite said today that she called a hotline for Recovery.org, the Web site that tracks stimulus spending, and lodged a complaint against the site itself. "I’m startled by the amount of misinformation on the website and how...
The Elephant Bar (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Recovery.gov reported that 30 jobs were saved or created with $761,420 of federal stimulus spending in Arizona's 15th Congressional District. One problem with the claim -- the state has only eight districts Talladega County of Alabama, claimed that it had saved or created 5,000 jobs from only $42,000 in government money -- which would amount to $8.40 in annual income per job if each position received...
Palin - Bachmann 2012 (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Patricia Sullivan, a 40 year old Floridian, is determined to win 8th Congressional District office currently held by Democrat Alan Grayson. Admittedly, she says Sarah Palin may have inspired her but concern for her children's futures motivated her to leave her current position as a self described Domestic Engineer/Home School Teacher/Community Organizer with a PhD in 'Mom," quips Sullivan. "The...
Naked Politics (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
The White House's reporting on stimulus spending is under attack -- with its website -- Recovery.Gov -- citing spending in congressional districts that don't exist. Brooksville Republican Ginny Brown-Waite says she checked the website to see that "Democrats have spent...
Taking Names the Blog (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Today’s column looked at what our congressional reps have been up to – and took a look at some of Ginny Brown-Waite’s more fringey moments. I contend that, while the media (including this paper and me and my column) has...
DownWithTyranny! (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Sessions raises money much of his money from K Street whores but... Everyday we're hearing about the GOP being ripped apart by its own internal fight-to-the-death between naive, hate-driven teabaggers, who have been weaned on entirely too much Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Michael Savage and Lou Dobbs, and practical Republican politicians who just want to do well in their careers. Fox and Hate Talk radio...
The Reaction (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
By (O)CT(O)PUS Notice this poster that equates Holocaust victims with national healthcare reform. Protestors displayed this poster today at a rally near the Capital steps, an event sponsored and organized by House Republicans. More than tasteless hyperbole, it goes far beyond all boundaries of civility and decorum. It is obscene to exploit the Holocaust to score a political point, and it offends me...
The Modern Left (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
I have written previously about how the right is using fear tactics in their attempt to stop health care reform. Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), compared health care reform to the threat of terrorism: I believe we have more to fear from the potential of that bill passing than we do from any terrorist right now in any country. Yesterday, protesters at the GOP anti-health care rally were spotted holding...
The Daily Politics (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
The Democratic National Committee is gleefully capitalizing on the fate suffered by Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava at the hands of the GOP's right wing - a phenomenon that appears is be rapidly repeating itself as the 2010 mid-terms take shape. An e-mail sent to reporters this afternoon bore the subject line: "Another Republican Rep. Gets Scozzafava'ed." Included was a link to a St. Petersburg...
Daily Kos (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
...via Matthew Yglesias , this image of Holocaust victims was on display at today's " House Call " protest organized by Michele Bachmann and the Republican House Leadership: Take a closer look: Keep in mind that this wasn't some Glenn Beck-organized 9/12 stunt. This was an event staged by the House Republican leadership -- actual elected officials, members of the U.S. government. Other Republican...
The Buzz Florida Politics (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
U.S. Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite's support for New York Republican Dede Scozzafava's doomed campaign is emerging as an issue in the Brooksville Republican's re-election. Republican Jason Sager, a political neophyte from Brooksville, filed to run against Brown-Waite in 2010, telling the...
The Buzz Florida Politics (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
The withdraw of Dede Scozzafava from a Republican House race in upstate New York left many conservatives cheering but not Florida Congresswoman Ginny Brown-Waite. The Brooksville Republican -- and Albany native -- was in New York recently to help Scozzafava...
Count Us Out (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
As critics continue to mull over whether President Obama deserved the Nobel Peace Prize, Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite says the U.S. Constitution does not allow him to accept the award without the consent of Congress. In a letter to Obama delivered on Monday, Brown-Waite, R-Fla., [...]
Tampa Bay Online (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
As critics continue to debate over President Barack Obama and his Nobel Peace Prize, U.S. Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite said she wants the president to get Congress' permission.
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