Bart Stupak supported Obama against Clinton. Like almost all of morally and socially the most conservative Democrats: Bob Casey, Ben Nelson, Jim Webb, Mark Warner, Tim Kaine, et al. General Jim Jones also backed Obama. As did the hardly liberal Republicans Dick Lugar and Chuck Hagel, both more or less open supporters. And Christopher Buckley. And the conservative Catholic constitutional scholar Douglas...
As Washington reels from the news of 10.2 percent unemployment, the Center for Responsive Politics is out with a new report describing the wealth of members of Congress. Among the highlights: Two-hundred-and-thirty-seven members of Congress are millionaires. That's 44 percent of the body - compared to about 1 percent of Americans overall. CRP says California Republican Rep. Darrell Issa is the richest...
Yes, it is true many members of "our" Congress are rich, some of them absolutely filthy rich . There are 237 millionaires residing in the chambers you and I pay for, or 44 percent of the entire body. Here is a snip showing who the richest of these people are: CRP says California Republican Rep. Darrell Issa is the richest lawmaker on Capitol Hill, with a net worth estimated at about $251...
Talk about bad timing. As Washington reels from the news of 10.2 percent unemployment, the Center for Responsive Politics is out with a new report describing the wealth of members of Congress. Among the highlights: Two-hundred-and-thirty-seven members of Congress are millionaires. That’s 44 percent of the body – compared to about 1 percent of Americans overall. CRP says California Republican...
McDonnell Glen Bolger on how it was done: First and foremost, when we did define Deeds, it was on issue-based contrast. Voters generally do not think issue differences - especially on the key issues of jobs, spending and taxes - are negative. Instead they see those contrasts as legitimate areas for battling in a campaign. Secondly, and just as importantly, Deeds never defined himself. On paper, Deeds...
Ah, smell test. Martin served on the campaign staff of Mark Earley, the Republican nominee for Governor of Virginia in 2001. After Mark Warner was elected Governor over Earley with 52 percent of the vote, Martin relocated to Connecticut to work on the successful 2002 Congressional campaign of Connecticut Republican Rob Simmons. After Simmons assumed office, [...]
Pick Up the Phone and Bring Madeleine Home (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
In 2007 the newspapers were filled with the Madeleine McCann case and pictures of the four-year-old girl, now, two years on, press coverage has died down and the story is no longer front page news. Laura Suter asks what happened to the town at the centre of it all when the disappearance happened? Shortly after Madeleine's abduction reports emerged that the former fishing village of Praia de Luz, which...
In the past few weeks, the Washington Post and Rasmussen Reports polls have shown jumps in Bob McDonnell's lead over Creigh Deeds. For Democrats, the race went from toss-up to throw-up when you read it. If the knives weren't out questioning Deeds last week, they sure will be now. Lots of targets to mine. 1. Could McAuliffe or Moran have done better? Especially McAuliffe, the spring-time leader in the...
by David Roberts Here’s how the first line of the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act [PDF] begins: “Mr. KERRY (for himself and Mrs. BOXER) introduced the following bill ...” See whose name is first there? It’s not “Mr. Kerry and Mrs. Boxer introduced” either. He’s introducing it. This is John Kerry’s bill. Boxer has signed on as a co-sponsor. Word...
? NH-Sen : Joe Biden will be on duty to help Paul Hodes (who hasn't set the world on fire with his fundraising so far) at a DC fundraiser on Oct. 5. ? SC-Sen : Democrats appear to have a candidate with some financial heft to take on Sen. Jim DeMint next year. The Indigo Journal writes that Rock Hill attorney Chad McGowan recently told local Democrats that he'll be running full-time for the Senate nomination...
City Council has unanimously agreed to ask the General Assembly to prohibit discrimination against state employees based on sexual orientation, the Progress reports. Right now state law makes it perfectly legal for state agencies to fire somebody for being gay (or, for that matter, straight), although both Gov. Tim Kaine and his predecessor, Mark Warner, have [...]
Virginia has probably seen faster political change in the past couple of decades than any other state. Both senators from the one-time bastion of Solid South conservatism are now Democrats, along with six of its 11 representatives the House. And the Old Dominion is currently in the middle of deciding whether it will elect its third Democratic governor in a row. This must be a difficult adjustment...
Two young adults have been. [ More ] Correspondent Mack H originally sent me the story of the two Virginia Tech students slain in the national forest. I'd like to share some of our email exchanges. MH: Authorities have stepped up patrols. So everyone can 'feel' safer, I guess. One word describe all of this: EVIL. Do not think 'mentally ill' - whoever did this was evil. Period. DC: It was a National...
Pick Up the Phone and Bring Madeleine Home (Free subscription) | 08/13/2009
It was a welcome spring break, a chance to relax at a child-friendly resort in Portugal. Soon Bridget O'Donnell and her partner were making friends with another holidaying family while their three-year-old daughters played together. But then Madeleine McCann went missing and everyone was sucked into a nightmare. We lay by the members-only pool staring at the sky. Round and round, the helicopters clacked...
WASHINGTON—Warner's recent habit of introducing legislation written out on large pieces of brown cardboard only furthers speculation that he has hit hard times.
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