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Washington mourns loss of tea party queen
Say it ain't so. There has never been a sadder day in American politics. Political reporters are still in shock over Michele Bachmann's sudden announcement that she will not seek re-election to Congress. How dare she just up and walk away? What are we...Tags: Bob Dole, Richard Nixon, Religion and Belief, Ames Straw Poll, Political Fundraising
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Mountain out of a molehill
WASHINGTON -- The poet Carl Sandburg supposedly was asked by a young playwright to attend a rehearsal. Sandburg did but fell asleep. The playwright exclaimed, "How could you sleep when you knew I wanted your opinion?" Sandburg replied, "Sleep is an...
Tags: Heritage Foundation, Clarence Thomas, Government, Politics, Polls
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Sheila Krumholz -- she follows the money
It was a California politico, Jesse Unruh, who nailed the relationship between dough and democracy: "Money is the mother's milk of politics." Where does it come from, and where does it go? Sheila Krumholz makes it her business to tell us. As executive...
Tags: General Electric Company, Charity, Political Fundraising, Politics, Finance
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Bachmann, for whom the bell tolls
WASHINGTON — Bob Dole must be some kind of prophet. Not 72 hours after Fox News aired the former Republican leader's suggestion that the GOP put out a "closed for repairs" sign, Michele Bachmann announced that she's going out of business. Just...Tags: Michele Bachmann, John Wayne Gacy, Jihad, Politics, State of the Union Address
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Political group telling your neighbors if you voted
A political group is sending sleazy letters to people in the Lehigh Valley and other states trying to turn neighbor against neighbor in the final days before Tuesday's election. The letters, from Americans for Limited Government, hit local mailboxes last...Tags: Muhlenberg College, Politics, Allentown, Lehigh County, Voting
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Citizens United argument should cut both ways
The bitterly sarcastic drama planned next week in Allentown is understandable. The American political process is being polluted by expensive deluges of propaganda, designed to boost politicians who cater to the insatiable greed of billionaires. That's...
Tags: Hellertown, Elections, Nigeria, Politics, U.S. Supreme Court
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Many Chicago Democrats untapped by pro-Obama super PAC
So far, almost all of Chicago's top Democratic donors have abstained from giving to Priorities USA Action, the leading super PAC supporting President Barack Obama's re-election campaign. According to records released late Thursday, only a half-dozen or...
Tags: Chicago Elections, Charity, Political Fundraising, Politics, Rahm Emanuel
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Don't believe everything you hear during election season
As the presidential election nears, expect your phone to ring or your email to ding with people seeking your money and your opinions. Everyone is entitled to an opinion. It should be the money part that worries you. As always, new scams are popping up to...Tags: Charity, Banking, Politics, Personal Data Collection, Credit and Debt
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McManus: The NRA has won
Politicians haven't always been allergic to gun control, not even Republicans. In 1968, after the assassinations of John and Robert Kennedy and the Rev.Martin Luther King Jr., Congress — on a bipartisan vote — outlawed guns sales to felons...
Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Tom Foley, Lobbying, Republican Party, Democratic Party
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Donovan Scandal Shows Ties Between Taxpayer-Funded Offices And Campaigns
The Hartford CourantThursday's seven new arrests in the ongoing federal probe of Christopher Donovan's congressional campaign highlighted a widespread but oft-overlooked practice: elected officials transferring taxpayer-funded staff employees to campaign committees as they...Tags: Justice System, Police Arrests, Charity, Primaries, Political Fundraising
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Longest-serving GOP senator could go down in tough primary
Dick Lugar, the Senate's longest-serving Republican, could become the latest political casualty in the struggle between the party's conservatives and moderates when he faces Richard Mourdock, Indiana's state treasurer, in a primary Tuesday. Over 36 years...
Tags: Primaries, National Rifle Association of America, Politics, Republican Party, Democratic Party
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Will companies go wild on campaign spending?
When it comes to spending big money on national elections, the rhetoric goes, corporations are about to walk through the swinging saloon doors of a new era in campaign finance with their checkbook holsters packed and ready for a Wild West-like shootout....Tags: Kendrick B. Meek, Harris Corp., Computing and Information Technology Industry, Political Fundraising, Politics
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