MN Progressive Project (Free subscription) | yesterday
Yesterday in the Strib, Katherine Kersten went off on a typical rant . So, I sent her and Scott Gillespie (Editorial Page Editor) the following e-mail: Dear Ms. Kersten, My name is Tommy Johnson; I'm a blogger and host "Minnesota Matters - Friday Edition" on AM-950 KTNF radio. I read your Sunday Op/Ed with interest - you claim, and I quote: "In 2005, a left-wing outfit called Citizens...
GAFCON (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
There’s no secret about the fact that I’ve never liked golf. Certainly those spiky shoes with the strangely arousing tassels are very nice, and I won’t deny I happen to have quite a collection which I very much enjoy wearing (particularly when visiting people with shag-pile carpets), but the game’s fundamental premise of publically placing things in little holes while in the...
DownWithTyranny! (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
At the end of September, 2008, George Bush, a very lame duck president, demanded-- and then pleaded-- with his party to go along with Secretary of the Treasury Paulsen's bankster bailout bill (the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008). Bush and Paulsen failed and the bill was defeated in the House, 205-228 , even though 65 Republicans, most of them heavily indebted to banking interests for...
Space Ref (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Today, Rep. Kosmas and Rep. Ken Calvert sent a bipartisan letter to President Obama signed by 81 members of the U.S. House of Representatives from across the country calling for additional funding for NASA's human spaceflight program.
Obama HQ (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
OFA is keeping the pressure on 32 House Republicans who have failed to support health insurance reform even though their districts voted for President Obama and his agenda for change in 2008. Over the next several days, citizens will be visiting their representatives' district offices to demonstrate their support for reform in person. The effort is gaining wide notice. A few more stories from around...
Red State (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Looking at the Cook Political Report’s latest competitive race chart is in itself informative - the short version is that of the top 108 competitive races, the following ratios apply: Dem GOP Likely D 45 0 Leans D 23 1 Toss-up D 12 0 Toss-up R 0 3 Leans R 1 8 Likely R 0 15 Total 81 27 …but there’s some interesting things that can be seen with a little sorting. Below is a chart of...
Pushing Rope (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Ben Smith reports Organizing For America have sent out emails to voters in Republican districts that voted for Barack Obama. Smith reports the Democratic National Committee launched the attack on Republicans voting against health care reform. However, Mitch Stewart of Organizing For America is responsible for sending out the email. An unnamed Democrat expresses a sentiment I wholeheartedly agree with....
DownWithTyranny! (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
Not a Halloween montage, but no lobbying allowed in these families I'd be more interested in knowing how the Justice Department investigations into the most corrupt members of Congress-- like the 3 Inland Empire crooks, Jerry Lewis, Ken Calvert and Gary Miller-- are progressing, but yesterday the Washington Post published a leak showing that more than 30 House members are being looked at by the largely...
Talking Points Memo (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
The FBI is once again looking into a land deal involving Rep. Ken Calvert (R-CA), an old TPM favorite....
TPMmuckraker (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
An FBI agent has reportedly been poking around in southern California looking at a lawsuit over land bought by a group including Rep. Ken Calvert (R-CA).
DownWithTyranny! (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
WARNING: Do not click on this if you are under 18 Ken Calvert, who represents a suburban Inland Empire district in southern Orange County and western Riverside County (CA-44), has been on DWT's radar for a very long time-- and yesterday's announcement of an FBI investigation of one of California's most incorrigible political crooks registered as more overdue than unexpected. A former real estate speculator,...
Los Angeles Times (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
Rep. Ken Calvert (R-Carona) a partner in a company involved in a land dispute, said the FBI has not contacted him. The Associated Press said its report of the investigation was erroneous. Congressman Ken Calvert said Monday that published reports indicating that he is under investigation by the FBI for his involvement in a disputed land deal were untrue.
The Liberal OC (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
There is more news on the shady land deals of Republican Congressman Ken Calvert. We have received the following press release from the Bill Hedrick campaign. Hedrick: Ken Calvert’s shady land is an ‘embarrassment,’ local residents deserve better Riverside, Calif. – After local investigations, a grand jury finding, the revelation that the Jurupa Park District is having [...]...
2008 Democratic Convention Watch (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
From the Washington Post : On Wednesday, the Democratic-majority Congress short-circuited a floor vote on stripping Rangel of the chairmanship, instead referring the GOP-backed resolution to the ethics committee, which has already been looking into the raft of allegations made against him at Rangel's request. The legendary Rangel, who has been on Capitol Hill since 1971, is a founder of the Congressional...
FxDomains.net (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
GLEN AVON - Sixty days after Jurupa park officials postponed action on a resolution to seize property owned by a partnership that includes Rep. Ken Calvert, R-Corona, the matter is due to come back before them Thursday night. But while no settlement ...
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