(NRO) Aug. 31, 2007 Two months ago, former senator Fred Thompson’s nascent presidential campaign looked great. Conservative and establishment leaders were poised to jump on board his pick-up truck. Fundraising heavyweights were waiting in the wings. And he was positioned to run powerfully into the void of the conservative primary electorate that remained uneasy […]
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(Yahoo News) Aug. 31, 2007NEW YORK - Passengers on a plane leaving New York could see three words in 4-foot block letters painted on an East Village rooftop terrace as they ascended: GOOGLE RON PAUL.
The entreaty to search the Internet for news of the Republican congressman from rural Texas is one of the more visible […]
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(Yahoo News) Aug. 31, 2007 REDWOOD CITY, Calif. - A top Democratic fund raiser whose criminal past has roiled the campaigns of top presidential candidates turned himself in Friday in California, where he had been a fugitive for more than 15 years.
Judge H. James Ellis ordered Norman Hsu handcuffed and jailed on $2 million bail. […]
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(Yahoo! News) Aug. 31, 2007 WASHINGTON - Elizabeth Edwards, wife of Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, says “hatred” of his rival Hillary Rodham Clinton would motivate Republicans to vote against her in the general election.
“I want to be perfectly clear: I do not think the hatred against Hillary Clinton is justified,” Elizabeth Edwards said in […]
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(NYTimes.com) Aug. 30, 2007 The creative team for Mitt Romney is adding to the picture they are assembling for Iowa and New Hampshire voters with a new ad that features him quite literally running hard as a narrator declares “at every step, he’s met extraordinary challenges.”
The 30-second spot highlights his experience running the Olympics and […]
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Hmm… Who could have seen this coming?
(NYTimes.com) Aug. 29, 2007
After new details emerged about the criminal record of one of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s top donors — who has also given generously to many other Democrats over the years –– her campaign announced that it would give the $23,000 contribution from New York businessman Norman […]
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(TampaBay.com) Aug. 30, 2007 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton will give to charity the $23,000 in donations she has received from a fundraiser who is wanted in California for failing to appear for sentencing on a 1991 grand theft charge, a spokesman said Wednesday.
The campaign did not plan to return any money Norman Hsu […]
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Boy oh boy, I’m just piling it on today…
(The Swamp - Chicago Tribune) Aug. 29, 2007 Most Americans don’t want presidential candidates accepting campaign contributions from Washington lobbyists though most don’t seem to mind candidates receiving contributions that collected by wealthy contributors from other wealthy people then bundled into a large donation, according to a […]
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(New York Times) Aug. 29, 2007 Many of the Democratic presidential candidates have been working hard to round up support from the country’s major labor unions, which have long been an important source of fund-raising dollars and campaign volunteers.
The wooing was on display at the presidential debate in Chicago sponsored by the A.F.L.-C.I.O earlier […]
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This is a follow up article to one that I blogged about yesterday. In my opinion, this article seemed to clear up some of the questions previously left unanswered, giving us more of a background as to who this Hsu character is and how he is involved with the Paw family and the Clintons.
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