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Cheney -  Opinion
-  Politics
-  History
- 2008
Election - 2004
Election
"In 2008, will media recall 2004 declarations of Bush "mandate"? Summary: [Republican] President Bush was re-elected in 2004 with 286 electoral votes, the smallest popular-vote margin since 1976 (excluding the 2000 election) and the lowest electoral vote count for an incumbent president's re-election since 1916. Nevertheless, many in the media were quick to echo [**] [Republican] Vice President Dick Cheney's assertion that "the nation" gave Bush "a mandate." It remains to be seen whether the media will apply the same standard in assessing the results of the 2008 election." -By S.S.M. -MediaMatters.org 
 John
McCain -  Nathan
Sproul -  Money
- Politics
-  Investigation
-  Law
-  California
-  Nevada
-  Oregon
-  Minnesota
-  Pennsylvania
-  West
Virginia -  Vermont
-  Massachusetts
-  Michigan
-  Libraries
- 2004
Election - 2008
Election
"McCain Employing GOP [Republican] Operative Accused Of Voter Registration Fraud." ... "[2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate] John McCain's campaign has directed $175,000 to the firm of a Republican operative accused of massive voter registration fraud in several states." ... "According to campaign finance records, a joint committee of the McCain-Palin campaign, the RNC [Republican National Committee] and the the California Republican Party, made a $175,000 payment to the group Lincoln Strategy in June for purposes of "registering voters." The managing partner of that firm is Nathan Sproul, a renowned GOP [GOP=Grand Old Party=Republican] operative who has been investigated on multiple occasions for suppressing Democratic voter turnout, throwing away registration forms and even spearheading efforts to get Ralph Nader on ballots to hinder the Democratic ticket." ... "During the 2004 election, Sproul & Associates (the former name of Lincoln Strategy) was accused of attempting to destroy forms collected by Democratic voters in Nevada. That same year in Oregon, Sproul & Associates allegedly instructed canvassers to only accept Republican registration forms in addition to destroying those turned in by Democrats." ... "In Minnesota, meanwhile, Sproul's firm was accused of actually firing workers who brought back Democratic registration forms, while other canvassers were allegedly paid "$13 an hour, with the $3 bonus for every [Republican President] Bush, undecided or Ralph Nader voter registration." Similar problems related to Sproul & Associates popped up in Pennsylvania and West Virginia." ... "All of this was executed, it seems, through an elaborate web of deception. As Salon.com wrote back in 2004:" "Canvassers were told to act as if they were nonpartisan, to hide that they were working for the RNC, especially if approached by the media... In letters the firm sent to the libraries, Sproul misrepresented itself as America Votes -- a left-leaning national voter registration group not affiliated with Sproul -- but said that it was interested in registering "all those who wish to register to vote." Shortly after Sproul canvassers began working the libraries, though, patrons began complaining that the canvassers were being especially inquisitive about their political leanings, and some were pushing people to register as Republicans.""Sens. [Vermont Democratic Senator] Patrick Leahy and [Massachusetts Democratic Senator] Ted Kennedy sent a letter to Attorney General John Ashcroft in 2004 asking that the Justice Department "launch an immediate investigation into the activities of Mr. Sproul and his firm." Three years later, members of Congress still weren't satisfied. Rep. [Michigan Democratic Representative John] Conyers complained in an Oct. 2007 letter that the Justice Department was not closely scrutinizing Sproul's efforts. "The alleged misconduct described by many witnesses," he wrote, "clearly suppress[es] votes and violate[s] the law."" -By Sam Stein -HuffingtonPost.com 
 Sarah
Palin -  US
-  Iraq
-  Foreign
-  Military
-  Terrorism
- Politics
-  Alaska
-Massachusetts
- 2004
Election - 2008
Election
"Palin's Church May Have Shaped Controversial Worldview." ... "A review of recorded sermons by Ed Kalnins, the senior pastor of Wasilla Assembly of God [Wasilla, Alaska] since 1999, offers a provocative and, for some, eyebrow-raising sketch of [2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate Sarah] Palin's longtime spiritual home." ... "In his sermons, Kalnins did not hide his affections for certain national politicians." ... "During the 2004 election season, he praised [Republican] President Bush's performance during a debate with [2004 Election Democratic Presidential Candidate and Massachusetts Senator] Sen. John Kerry, then offered a not-so-subtle message about his personal candidate preferences. "I'm not going tell you who to vote for, but if you vote for this particular person, I question your salvation. I'm sorry." Kalnins added: "If every Christian will vote righteously, it would be a landslide every time."" ... "Months after hinting at possible damnation for Kerry supporters, Kalnins bristled at the treatment President Bush was receiving over the federal government's handling of Hurricane Katrina. "I hate criticisms towards the President," he said, "because it's like criticisms towards the pastor -- it's almost like, it's not going to get you anywhere, you know, except for hell. That's what it'll get you."" ... "Much of his support for the current administration has come in the realm of foreign affairs. Kalnins has preached that the 9/11 attacks and the invasion of Iraq were part of a "world war" over the Christian faith, one in which Jesus Christ had called upon believers to be willing to sacrifice their lives." "What you see in a terrorist -- that's called the invisible enemy. There has always been an invisible enemy. What you see in Iraq, basically, is a manifestation of what's going on in this unseen world called the spirit world. ... We need to think like Jesus thinks. We are in a time and a season of war, and we need to think like that. We need to develop that instinct. We need to develop as believers the instinct that we are at war, and that war is contending for your faith. ... Jesus called us to die. You're worried about getting hurt? He's called us to die. Listen, you know we can't even follow him unless you are willing to give up your life. ... I believe that Jesus himself operated from that position of war mode. Everyone say "war mode." Now you say, wait a minute Ed, he's like the good shepherd, he's loving all the time and he's kind all the time. Oh yes he is -- but I also believe that he had a part of his thoughts that knew that he was in a war."... "In his sermons, Pastor Kalnins has also expressed beliefs that, while not directly political, lie outside of mainstream Christian thought." ... "He preaches repeatedly about the "end times" or "last days," an apocalyptic prophesy held by a small but vocal group of Christian leaders. During his appearance with Palin in June, he declared, "I believe Alaska is one of the refuge states in the last days, and hundreds of thousands of people are going to come to the state to seek refuge and the church has to be ready to minister to them."" ... "He also claims to have received direct "words of knowledge" from God, providing him information about past events in other people's lives." -By Nico Pitney and Sam Stein -HuffingtonPost.com 
John
McCain - Carl
H Lindner Jr - BobPerry
- - Money
- Politics
-  Accounting
- Marketing
- 2004
Election - 2008
Election -  Texas
-  Ohio
-  Arizona
-  Illinois
-  Obama
"McCain Allies Find Finance-Law Holes: Governors' Fund Recruits Big Donors; Bid to Catch Obama." ... "Allies of [2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate and Arizona Senator] Sen. John McCain have found new loopholes in the campaign-finance law he helped write -- and they're using them to reel in huge contributions to help him compete with [2008 Election Democratic Presidential Candidate and Illinois Senator] Sen. Barack Obama." ... "In one method, a Republican Party fund aimed at electing governors has started marketing itself as a home for contributions of unlimited size to help Sen. McCain. His 2002 campaign law limits donations to presidential races to try to curtail the influence of wealth." ... "The Republican Governors Association isn't subject to those limits, and has long gathered up large donations from individuals and companies. Now it is telling donors it can use their contributions to benefit Sen. McCain in some key battleground states." ... "Altogether, individuals can give $108,000 to federal campaigns within each two-year election cycle." ... "Donors with deep pockets also can avoid limits completely by contributing to groups called 527 organizations, after a provision in the tax code." ... "The [Republican] governors group counts a number of large corporations among its donors, including WellPoint Inc. [Incorporated] at $200,000, and Pfizer Inc. [Incorporated], Bank of America Corp. [Corporation] and Travelers Cos. [Companies] at $150,000 or more." ... "Texas developer Bob Perry, the largest financial backer of the Swift Boat group [that attacked the military service of 2004 Election Democratic Presidential Candidate John Kerry], also is the largest individual donor to the governors group, at $250,000. Carl Lindner, a retired insurance executive in Ohio and another top Swift Boat financier, has contributed $100,000 to the governors' fund. The campaign-finance lawyer for the Swift Boat group in 2004 now serves the same role for the governors association." ... "In another Republican strategy, the McCain campaign itself last month began soliciting its biggest donations yet -- up to $70,100 per check." -By Brody Mullins and T.W. Farnam -WSJ.com
John
McCain -  Karl
Rove -  Rick
Davis - Arizona
- 2004
Election - 2008
Election -  Media
- 
"McCain camp puts Rove man in charge: New chief Steve Schmidt, right, a veteran of the [Republican President] Bush campaign, will focus on honing McCain's message. Republicans have complained the campaign lacked clear themes." ... "[2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate and Arizona Senator] Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign has gone through its second shake-up in a year. Responding to Republican concern that his candidacy was faltering, McCain put a veteran of President Bush's 2004 campaign in charge of day-to-day operations, and stepped away from a plan to have the campaign run by 11 regional managers, McCain's aides said Wednesday." ... "The elevation of Steve Schmidt -- who worked closely with Karl Rove -- at McCain's headquarters represented a sharp diminishment of the responsibilities of Rick Davis, who has been McCain's campaign manager since the last shake-up nearly a year ago." ... "The move is the latest sign of increasing influence of veterans of Rove's shop in the McCain operation. Nicolle Wallace, who was communications director for Bush in the 2004 campaign (and in his White House) has joined the campaign as a senior adviser, and will travel with McCain every other week. Greg Jenkins, another veteran of Rove's operation who is a former Fox News [TV] producer and director of presidential advance in the Bush White House, was hired by Schmidt last week after a series of what McCain's advisers acknowledged were poorly executed campaign events." (1, 2, 3) -NYTimes -WashingtonPost via -StarTribune
John
McCain -  Bud
Day - 2004
Election - Ads
- Military
- History
-  Vietnam
- US
- Arizona
- Massachusetts
- 2008
Election
"McCain Uses Swift Boat Vet Bud Day To Rebut Wesley Clark." ... "[2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate and Arizona Senator] Sen. John McCain's campaign on Monday launched the McCain "Truth Squad" - a group of political and Vietnam contemporaries who would counter attacks on the Senator's military record." ... "In hopes of nipping any criticism in the bud, the campaign brought on board a man quite familiar with how these types of attacks gain legs: Bud Day, a fellow POW who was part of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth that worked so hard to defame [2004 Election Presidential Candidate and Massachusetts Democratic Senator] Sen. John Kerry's own Vietnam record." ... "On the conference call, Day - in addition to the other participants - decried comments made by [General] Gen. Wesley Clark over the weekend, in which he questioned whether McCain's war experience really qualified him to be commander-in-chief. Defending McCain's service, Day was quick to personalize his remarks, attacking Clark's military record in the process." ... "That Day would politicize Vietnam in his defense of McCain is not surprising. During the 2004 campaign, he said of Kerry: "My view is he basically will go down in history sometime as the Benedict Arnold of 1971." And after appearing in a national advertisement for the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth campaign, Day formed the Vietnam Veterans Legacy Foundation, an extension of the Swift Boat effort." ... "Not willing to let the irony go unnoticed, Kerry lashed out at McCain, on Monday, for using the same smear merchant he once decried." ... ""Colonel Day's comments today only further highlight the McCain campaign's disregard for a new kind of politics," said Kerry. "John McCain condemned these kinds of attacks in 2004 when he called the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth 'dishonest and dishonorable.' Senator McCain should condemn these remarks and cut ties with the Colonel and anyone else connected to SBVT. Day's comments only serve to disparage all those who served on swift boats in Vietnam."" -By Sam Stein -HuffingtonPost.com
John
McCain - Bud
Day - 2004
Election - Ads
- Military
- US
-2008
Election
"McCain Truth Squad defender was Swift Boat Vet member." ... "One of the members of [2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate] John McCain’s new Truth Squad — which his campaign says was launched to respond to unfair attacks on his record of military service –- was a member of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, and appeared in an attack ad for the group in 2004." ... "The group was created to attack 2004 [Election Presidential] Democratic nominee John Kerry’s military service record." -By Rebecca Sinderbrand -CNN 
John
McCain - Bud
Day - Politics
- 2004
Election - Ads
-Military
- History
- Vietnam
-  Belgium
- US
- Massachusetts
- Texas
-  Missouri
- 2008
Election
"Price of Power: McCain accepts ex-Swift Boaters' donations." ... "Republican [2008 Election Presidential Candidate] John McCain, who four years ago condemned independent ads challenging Democrat[ic Senator from Massachusetts and 2004 Election Presidential Candidate] John Kerry's military record, has accepted nearly $70,000 for his presidential campaign from the top donors of the group behind the attack ads and their relatives, a USA TODAY analysis shows." ... "In 2004, the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth (later called SwiftVets and POWS for Truth) bankrolled ads charging that Kerry had lied about the incidents in Vietnam that led to his military decorations. The group included former members of the Navy who served in the same kind of river patrol boats as Kerry. McCain, a former Vietnam prisoner of war, called the group's advertising "dishonest and dishonorable."" ... "Bob Perry, a Texas builder who gave nearly $4.5 million to Swift Boat Vets, and his wife, Doylene, each have given $4,400 to McCain's presidential campaign, some of which went to an account for legal and accounting expenses, records show." ... "Other donors include Sam Fox, a St. Louis [Missouri] businessman who was named [United States] U.S. ambassador to Belgium last year by President Bush." ... "On Monday, Kerry and national Democratic Party officials sharply criticized McCain for including retired Air Force colonel Bud Day in a conference call with reporters to defend McCain's military service. Day had appeared in Swift Boat ads." -By Fredreka Schouten -USATODAY 
John
McCain - Bud
Day - Politics
- 2008
Election - 2004
Election - Military
- History
"McCain’s new Truth Squad has former member of Swift Boat Veterans." ... "Following the lead of [2008 Election Democratic Presidential Candidate] Barack Obama’s campaign, [2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate] John McCain is establishing his own Truth Squad – an effort to “respond to unfair attacks” on him military record. One of the members of McCain’s new Truth Squad — Bud Day — was a member of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, and appeared in an attack ad for the group in 2004. Day said of [2004 Election Democratic Presidential Candidate] John Kerry’s military service: “My view is he basically will go down in history sometime as the Benedict Arnold of 1971.”" -ThinkProgress.org
McCain
- Bin
Laden -  Chris
Shays -  Charlie
Black - Terrorism
- Politics
- History
- 2004
Election - 2008
Election -  Connecticut
- US
-  Pakistan
"McCain In 2004: "Bin Laden May Have Just Given Us A Little Boost"." ... "Back in 2004['s election], as [2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate John] McCain was stumping in Connecticut on behalf of GOP [GOP=Grand Old Party=Republican Connecticut Representative] Rep. Chris Shays, McCain said flatly that the recent release of an Osama Bin Laden tape had likely given the GOP a "little boost."" ... "This is courtesy of The Hour, a daily paper in Norwalk, Connecticut, in November of that year [2004] (also verified in Nexis)..." "But as McCain greets two breakfast-eating business partners, one from Stamford [Connecticut] and the other from Bridgeport [Connecticut], the topic turns to the presidential race. The two men tell the senator they support [Republican] President George W. Bush, and to that end, McCain says, "(Osama) Bin Laden may have just given us a little boost. Amazing, huh?".... " ... "The two men, who requested anonymity, nod their heads in agreement. Later, while riding with Shays on an RV to a rally at the Stamford Government Center, McCain further explains, "(The video) is helpful to President Bush because it puts the focus on the war on terrorism."""The reference was to a tape of Bin Laden that had emerged a few days earlier. The McCain camp didn't immediately return an email." ... "[McCain's top adviser Charlie] Black also said that the assassination of [Pakistan's Presidential Candidate] Benazir Bhutto had also helped McCain, something the McCain camp also disavowed. But back in December [2007], when the assassination happened, he [McCain] said it could "serve to enhance" his "credentials."" -By Greg Sargent -TPMElectionCentral .TalkingPointsMemo
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Monica
Goodling - 
Tim
Griffin - 
Alberto
Gonzales - 
Paul
McNulty
- Karl
Rove
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Harriet
Miers
- Noteworthy
- US
Attorneys - Military
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Students
- Race
- Politics
- Law
- 2004
Election - 
Arkansas
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Florida
- "Raging
Caging: What the heck is vote caging, and why should
we care?" ... "Last week, in her testimony before the House judiciary committee,
[Republican] Monica Goodling referred several times to "vote caging" possibly
done by Arkansas' soon
to be ex-interim, never-confirmed [Republican] U.S. Attorney Tim Griffin.
Yet Goodling was questioned about this almost not at all, nor did the media
do much more than report the words of the former liaison between the [Republican
President Bush's] White House and [Republican] Alberto Gonzales (why a
"liaison" is required between two institutions with no boundaries between
them is incomprehensible, but perhaps another story). Meanwhile, liberal
talk radio, Robert
F. Kennedy Jr., and the blogosphere went nuts. So, which is it: Is
vote caging the most underreported part of this U.S. attorneys scandal
or the most over-hyped?" ... "One of the reasons the mainstream news reports
(including mine [Dahlia Lithwick])
barely touched the vote-caging story was that nobody had any idea what
Goodling was talking about. "Vote caging, what's that?" we e-mailed each
other at Slate. The confusion seemed to extend to Goodling herself. The
subject came up in her testimony about former Deputy Attorney General Paul
McNulty. In saying he had not been forthright with the House judiciary
committee in his testimony on the firing of the U.S. attorneys, she cited
three areas, one of which was McNulty's failure "to disclose that he had
some knowledge of allegations that Tim Griffin had been involved in 'vote
caging' in the president's 2004 [election] campaign," when he spoke to
Congress." ... "Vote caging is an illegal trick to suppress minority voters
(who tend to vote Democrat) by getting them knocked off the voter rolls
if they fail to answer registered mail sent to homes they aren't living
at (because they are, say, at college or at war). The Republican National
Committee reportedly stopped the practice following a consent
decree in a 1986 case. Google the term and you'll quickly arrive at
the Wizard of Oz of caging, Greg Palast, investigative reporter and author
of the wickedly funny Armed
Madhouse: From Baghdad to New Orleans—Sordid Secrets and Strange Tales
of a White House Gone Wild. Palast started reporting allegations
of Republican vote caging for the BBC's
Newsnight
in 2004. He's been almost alone on the story since then. Palast contends,
both in Armed Madhouse and widely through the liberal
blogosphere, that vote caging, an illegal voter-suppression scheme,
happened in Florida in 2004 this way:"
Scott
J Bloch
- Karl
Rove
- 
Government
- 
Employees
- Investigation
- 2004
Election - Travel
- Politics
- 
E-Mail
- US
Attorney - Hatch
Act - Law
- Mass
- "Rove
Investigator Faces Own Allegations." ... "The senior
government official who says he is investigating [Republican President
Bush's aide] Karl Rove for allegations he influenced government activity
for partisan purposes is himself facing allegations of similar behavior."
... "In interviews yesterday with reporters, Scott J. Bloch disclosed that
his Office of Special Counsel was opening a broad probe of the White House
political office and its interaction with government agencies. The investigation
will cover the use of private e-mail accounts by White House aides, the
firing of at least one U.S. attorney and presentations of political data
by White House aides to other officials in government, Bloch told the Los
Angeles Times and the Washington Post." ... "But government watchdogs have
accused Bloch himself of similar behavior. In April 2005, they and others
complained the White House appointee had allowed his office to "sit on"
a complaint that then-White House National Security Adviser Condoleezza
Rice used government funds to travel in support of President Bush's [2004]
re-election bid." ... "By contrast, they said, Bloch ordered an immediate
on-site investigation of a complaint that Bush's challenger for the White
House, [Massachusetts Democratic Senator and 2004 Presidential Candidate]
Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., improperly campaigned in a government workplace,
which had been filed around the same time." ... "Bloch's obscure but important
office investigates violations of a law banning the use of public resources
for partisan political purposes, known as the Hatch Act. In January, his
office said Kerry did not violate the act." -By Justin
Rood -ABCNEWS.com
BobPerry
- 
Tom
DeLay - Secret
- Money
- Politics
- Advertising
- Television
- 2006
Election - 2004
Election - 2002
Election - 
People
- 
Colorado
- 
Virginia
- Texas
- 
Homebuilder
- Immigration
- Law
- Military
- 
Social
Security
Gonzales
- Kyle
D Sampson
- Rove
- US
Attorneys - Law
- Politics
- 2004
Election - 
New
Mexico - Arkansas
- "For
Gonzales, More Records, and Questions." ... "An accumulating
body of evidence is at odds with the statements of [Republican President
Bush appointed] Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales that he played little
role in the deliberations over the dismissal of eight United States attorneys."
... "Mr. Gonzales has said he did not take part in any discussions of the
dismissal effort, and left the planning and execution of the removals up
to D. Kyle Sampson, his former chief of staff." ... "But e-mail messages
and other documents released by the Justice Department in recent days suggest
that Mr. Gonzales was told of the dismissal plan on at least two occasions,
in 2005 when the plan was devised and again in late 2006 shortly before
the firings were carried out." ... "Justice Department officials first
said the White House approved the ouster plan only after it was initiated
by Justice, but e-mail messages have shown that officials at the White
House initiated the effort, shortly after the 2004 elections." ... "Justice
Department officials at first gave no reasons for the firings, then cited
performance problems with the prosecutors, and, finally, acknowledged that
performance could not be cited in each of the cases as the rationale for
the firings." ... "Officials have said that politics played no role in
the firings. But they later acknowledged that they had received repeated
telephone calls from one Republican senator who sought the ouster of the
New Mexico prosecutor, and that a second United States attorney, in Arkansas,
was dismissed to make room for a former aide to Mr. Rove." ... "Mr. Gonzales
also said, more explicitly: “I never saw documents. We never had a discussion
about where things stood.”" ... "This directly conflicts with documents
released late Friday, which show he headed an hourlong meeting on the ouster
plan with key members of his senior staff 10 days before the firings."
... "Even before Mr. Gonzales left his position as White House counsel
in February 2005 to become attorney general, Mr. Sampson told him that
an effort had been initiated to examine which prosecutors, if any, should
be ousted, e-mail messages released as part of the investigation show."
(1, 2)
-By Eric Lipton and David Johnston with contributions
by Jim Rutenberg -NYTimes
Griffin
- Rove
- 
Schlozman
- US
Attorneys - Poor
- People
- Civil
Righs - Law
- Enforcement
- Politics
- Ark
- Florida
- Colorado
- 
Wisconsin
- Minnesota
- 
Iowa
- Arkansas
- Michigan
- Nevada
- New
Mexico - 
Georgia
- 2004
Election - 2008
Election - "New
U.S. attorneys seem to have partisan records." ...
"Under [Republican] President Bush, the Justice Department has backed laws
that narrow minority voting rights and pressed U.S. attorneys to investigate
voter fraud - policies that critics say have been intended to suppress
Democratic votes." ... "Since 2005, McClatchy Newspapers has found, Bush
has appointed at least three U.S. attorneys who had worked in the Justice
Department's civil rights division when it was rolling back longstanding
voting-rights policies aimed at protecting predominantly poor, minority
voters." ... "Another newly installed U.S. attorney, Tim Griffin in Little
Rock, Ark. [Arkansas], was accused of participating in efforts to suppress
Democratic votes in Florida during the 2004 presidential election while
he was a research director for the Republican National Committee. He's
denied any wrongdoing." ... "Taken together, critics say, the replacement
of the U.S. attorneys, the voter-fraud campaign and the changes in Justice
Department voting rights policies suggest that the Bush administration
may have been using its law enforcement powers for partisan political purposes."
... "Last April, while the Justice Department and the White House were
planning the [US Attorneys] firings, [Republican President Bush's deputy
chief of staff Karl] Rove gave a speech in Washington to the Republican
National Lawyers Association. He ticked off 11 states that he said could
be pivotal in the 2008 elections. Bush has appointed new U.S. attorneys
in nine of them since 2005: Florida, Colorado, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa,
Arkansas, Michigan, Nevada and New Mexico. U.S. attorneys in the latter
four were among those fired." ... "Several former voting rights lawyers,
who asked to remain anonymous for fear of antagonizing the administration,
said the division's political appointees reversed the recommendations of
career lawyers in key cases and transferred or drove out most of the unit's
veteran attorneys." ... "Bradley Schlozman, who was the civil rights division's
deputy chief, agreed in 2005 to reverse the career staff's recommendations
to challenge a Georgia law that would have required voters to pay $20 for
photo IDs and in some cases travel as far as 30 miles to obtain the ID
card." ... "A federal judge threw out the Georgia law, calling it an unconstitutional,
Jim Crow-era poll tax." -By Greg Gordon, Margaret
Talev and Marisa Taylor with contributions by Tish Wells and Ron Hutcheson
-McClatchy via
-RealCities
Hastings
- Ed
Cassidy
- 
Boehner
- Ohio
- California
- 
Washington
- 2004
Election - US
Attorneys - Law
- "Hearing
on U.S. attorney's ouster reveals Hastings' office contacted McKay."
... "During the recount of the hotly contested 2004 governor's race in
Washington state, the chief of staff to [Washington state Republican Representative]
Rep. Doc Hastings, R-Wash., called former U.S. Attorney John McKay to inquire
about the status of any federal investigations into voter fraud, McKay
told a Senate committee today." ... "McKay told the Senate Judiciary Committee
that Ed Cassidy, who now works for [Ohio Republican Representative] Republican
Minority Leader John Boehner, called him "some weeks" following the 2004
election, and after a third re-count had determined that Democrat Christine
Gregoire had narrowly defeated Republican Dino Rossi." ... ""I was told
the purpose of the call was to inquire on behalf of congressman Hastings"
about the status of ongoing investigations of voter fraud, McKay said in
response to a question from [California Democratic Senator] Sen. Dianne
Feinstein." ... "McKay said that he informed Cassidy that the office of
the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Washington had already asked
the public to contact the Federal Bureau of Investigation with any evidence
of voter fraud, so it could be investigated." ... "Cassidy then began to
ask McKay whether any future action would be taken by the U.S. Attorney's
office with regard to the governor's race." ... ""When Mr. Cassidy called
me on future action I stopped him and I told him I was sure that he wasn't
asking me on behalf" of Congressman Hastings, McKay told the committee,
"because we both knew that would be improper. [Cassidy] agreed it would
be improper and he ended the conversation in a most expeditious manner.""
-By David Bowermaster, Mike Carter and Alicia Mundy
-SeattleTimes.NWsource
Gay
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-2004
Election - "Page
scandal exposes GOP's gay identity crisis." ... "At
a State Department ceremony this week, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
warmly acknowledged the family members of Mark Dybul, whom she was swearing
in as the nation's new global AIDS coordinator." ... "As first lady Laura
Bush looked on, Rice singled out his partner, Jason Claire, and Claire's
mother. Rice referred to her as Dybul's "mother-in-law."" ... "The celebratory
moment for a gay couple was emblematic of the political identity crisis
facing the Republican Party, two years after an election the GOP won in
part by making gay marriage an issue and less than two weeks after revelations
about a Republican House member's advances toward teenage boys." ... "For
Republicans, the most difficult problem posed by the e-mail exchanges that
former [Florida Republican] congressman Mark Foley had with pages is not
necessarily the flagrant misbehavior of one member. Rather it's the fact
that the investigation is exposing a politically awkward fact of life:
some GOP leaders practice a more tolerant brand of politics in their office
hiring than some in the party have preached on the campaign trail." ...
"The revelations have disturbed some conservative activists, who believe
that Republicans owe their victories in the 2004 elections to the thousands
of "values voters" who trooped to the polls to vote for anti-gay-marriage
measures on the ballots of 11 swing states." -By Kathy
Kiely -USATODAY
US
- Iraq
- Military
- Religious
- Election
2006 - 2004
Election - Free
Speech - Law
- Colorado
- 
Maryland
- 
Montana
- 
Tennessee
- Michigan
- Ohio
- Pennsylvania
- 
New
Jersey - Minnesota
- California
- "Conservatives
Put Faith in Church Voter Drives: Evangelicals seek
to sign up a new flock of GOP supporters in states with crucial November
races." ... "As discontent with the Republican Party threatens to dampen
the turnout of conservative voters in November, evangelical leaders are
launching a massive registration drive that could help counter the malaise
and mobilize new religious voters in battleground states." ... "The program,
coordinated by the Colorado-based group Focus on the Family and its influential
founder, James C. Dobson, would use a variety of methods — including information
inserted in church publications and booths placed outside worship services
— to recruit millions of new voters in 2006 and beyond." ... "The effort
builds on the aggressive courtship of evangelical voters in 2004 by President
Bush's reelection campaign, even as the Internal Revenue Service has announced
renewed scrutiny of nonprofit organizations, including churches, that engage
in political activities." ... "The program, announced in an e-mail to activists
last week, is seeking county and church coordinators in the targeted states
of Maryland, Montana, Tennessee, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey
and Minnesota." ... "Registering voters in churches is not a new tactic
for either party, but Republicans have proved far more effective in recent
years at combining religion and politics for electoral gain." ... "Critics
say the practice is potentially illegal, citing tax laws that prohibit
churches from engaging in partisan activities." ... "The IRS has launched
a program to crack down on violators, with investigations pending against
dozens of churches." ... "The IRS probe with the highest profile is that
of All Saints Church in Pasadena, one of Southern California's largest
and most liberal congregations." ... "After a priest delivered a sermon
critical of the Iraq war two days before the 2004 presidential election,
the IRS began reviewing the Episcopal church's tax-exempt status. No decision
has been announced." -By Peter Wallsten
-LAtimes
Christopher
Cox - Corporate
- Government
- Legislative
- Politics
- History
- 2004
Election
Gay
- Religious
- Law
- 2004
Election - 2006
Election - "Bush
to Press for U.S. Ban on Same-Sex Marriage." ...
"President Bush is beginning a major push for a constitutional amendment
banning same-sex marriage, part of a new campaign to appease cultural conservatives
who say he and his party abandoned their issues after the 2004 elections."
... "Democrats accused the White House of trotting out a reliable hot-button
issue to help soothe and re-energize disgruntled conservative voters five
months before the midterm Congressional elections. "Everybody's going to
see through it," said Howard Dean, chairman of the Democratic National
Committee." ... "But, in a new twist this year, some conservative activists
expressed similar cynicism. They said Mr. Bush and the Republicans in Congress
had a long way to go to convince social conservatives that they viewed
the issue as anything but a politically convenient tool that they picked
up only when they needed to motivate their core voters." -By
Jim Rutenberg -NYTimes
US
- Iraq
- Karl
Rove - Secret
- Government
- 
Nuclear
- Military
- 
Intelligence
- 2004
Election - "Insulating
Bush." ... "Karl Rove, President Bush's chief
political adviser, cautioned other White House aides in the summer of 2003
that Bush's 2004 re-election prospects would be severely damaged if it
was publicly disclosed that he had been personally warned that a key rationale
for going to war had been challenged within the administration. Rove expressed
his concerns shortly after an informal review of classified government
records by then-Deputy National Security Adviser Stephen J. Hadley
determined that Bush had been specifically advised that claims he later
made in his 2003 State of the Union address -- that Iraq was procuring
high-strength aluminum tubes to build a nuclear weapon -- might not be
true, according to government records and interviews." ... "Hadley was
particularly concerned that the public might learn of a classified one-page
summary of a National Intelligence Estimate, specifically written for Bush
in October 2002. The summary said that although "most agencies judge" that
the aluminum tubes were "related to a uranium enrichment effort," the State
Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research and the Energy Department's
intelligence branch "believe that the tubes more likely are intended for
conventional weapons."" ... "Three months after receiving that assessment,
the president stated without qualification in his January 28, 2003, State
of the Union address: "The British government has learned that Saddam
Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.
Our intelligence sources tell us that he has attempted to purchase high-strength
aluminum tubes suitable for nuclear weapons production."" -By
Murray Waas with contributions by Brian Beutler
-NationalJournal
Terrorism
- Enforcement
- 
Environment
- 
Food
- Civil
Liberties - Free
Speech - 
Privacy
- Law
- Politics
- 2004
Election - Seattle
- WA
- CO
- "FBI
Keeps Watch on Activists." ... "The FBI, while waging
a highly publicized war against terrorism, has spent resources gathering
information on antiwar and environmental protesters and on activists who
feed vegetarian meals to the homeless, the agency's internal memos show."
... "For years, the FBI's definition of terrorism has included violence
against property, such as the window-smashing during the 1999 Seattle [WA]
protests against the World Trade Organization. That definition has led
FBI investigations to online discussion boards, organizing meetings and
demonstrations of a wide range of activist groups. Officials say that international
terrorists pose the greatest threat to the nation but that they cannot
ignore crimes committed by some activists." ... "The FBI's encounters with
activists are described in hundreds of pages of documents obtained by the
American Civil Liberties Union under the Freedom of Information Act after
agents visited several activists before the 2004 political conventions."
... ""They don't know where Osama bin Laden is, but they're spending money
watching people like me," said environmental activist Kirsten Atkins. Her
license plate number showed up in an FBI terrorism file after she attended
a protest against the lumber industry in Colorado Springs [CO] in 2002."
(1, 2)
-By Nicholas Riccardi
-LAtimes
Texas
- Tom
DeLay - Political
- 
Maps
- 2004
Election - "Supreme
Court to rule on Texas poll maps case." ... "The
US Supreme Court said on Monday it would rule on controversial maps for
electoral districts in Texas that were engineered by Tom DeLay, the former
majority leader in the House of Representatives, to increase Republican
strength in Congress." ... "The new maps, drawn in 2003, played a key role
in the 2004 congressional elections, when five incumbent Democrats in Texas
lost their seats in the House, boosting Republicans' majority on Capitol
Hill and enhancing Mr DeLay's image as a powerful political force." ...
"The high court review is also likely to draw fresh attention to recent
disclosures that staff attorneys at the US Department of Justice objected
to the Texas maps, arguing that they would disadvantage minority voters.
Those criticisms were over-ruled by senior political appointees at the
department." -By Holly Yeager
-FT.com
North
Carolina - 2004
Election - 
Computer
- 
Web
- Law
- "North
Carolina defends e-voting certifications." ... "It
has been a turbulent week for electronic voting systems in North Carolina."
... "Watchdog groups say the state "illegally" certified systems built
by two e-voting vendors just days after one admitted it couldn't meet stringent
new laws about disclosing its source code. Meanwhile, a voting-systems
manager defended the decision to award the contracts." ... "The rules were
aligned with actions taken this summer by the state legislature, which
passed changes to election laws that set new standards for e-voting machines
and decertified all the state's existing systems. Those changes came in
response to glitches encountered by one of the state's counties during
the 2004 presidential elections, resulting in the
loss of more than 4,500 votes." -By Anne Broache
-CNET
/News
- 
- "Sandra
Day O'Connor announces retirement: Conservatives
hope to use opportunity to shift Supreme Court further to the right." ...
"The retirement of Sandra Day O'Connor, the nation's first woman Supreme
Court justice, presents President Bush and his social conservative supporters
with the best opportunity in 14 years to significantly shift the court
further to the right." ... "But with recent efforts by White House officials
to float the possible nomination of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales it
remains unclear whether Bush will view the opening on the high court as
an opportunity to reward social conservatives for their votes in 2004 or
to reach out to Hispanic voters in 2006 and 2008 by appointing a Hispanic
to replace her." -By Warren Richey with contributions
by Linda Feldmann -CSMonitor
- North
Carolina
- ELECTION
2004 - "Members
voted out of church weigh steps: Allege pastor told
them to back Bush." ... "Members of the congregation said [North Carolina
pastor Chan] Chandler told them during last year's presidential campaign
that anyone who planned to vote for the Democratic nominee, Senator John
F. Kerry of Massachusetts, needed to leave the church." ... "Longtime member
Selma Morris, who was treasurer at the church, said Chandler's sermons
remained political after Bush won reelection. This past week, his comments
turned to politics again at a church gathering that ended with nine members
voted out." -By Paul Nowell
-AP via -Boston/Globe
- North
Carolina
- ELECTION
2004 - "Democrats
voted out of church because of their politics, members say."
... "Some in Pastor Chan Chandler's flock wish he had a little less zeal
for the GOP." ... "Members of the small East Waynesville [North Carolina]
Baptist Church say Chandler led an effort to kick out congregants who didn't
support President Bush. Nine members were voted out at a Monday church
meeting in this mountain town, about 120 miles west of Charlotte." ...
"During the presidential election last year, Chandler told the congregation
that anyone who planned to vote for Democratic Sen. John Kerry should either
leave the church or repent, said former member Lorene Sutton."
-AP via -USATODAY
- Telecommunications
- ELECTION
2004 - "Any
Kerry Supporters On The Line? The Bush Administration
punishes some Democrat backers." ... "The Inter-American Telecommunication
Commission meets three times a year in various cities across the Americas
to discuss such dry but important issues as telecommunications standards
and spectrum regulations. But for this week's meeting in Guatemala City,
politics has barged onto the agenda. At least four of the two dozen or
so U.S. delegates selected for the meeting, sources tell TIME, have been
bumped by the White House because they supported John Kerry's 2004 campaign."
-By Viveca Novak and John Dickerson ed. 20050502
-TIME.com
ELECTION
2004 - Florida
- Ohio
- "In
Victory's Glow: Despite early exit polls to the contrary,
the President took Florida, Ohio and, in the end, the election. How the
Bush team orchestrated its nail-biting win and woke up to another four
years in charge." ... "Tuesday was the night the ghosts died in the Bush
White House. There was the ghost of his last campaign, which Bush lost
among voters but won in the court. There was the ghost of his father's
last campaign, when even winning a war was not enough to earn a second
term. And then there was the ghost of Tuesday afternoon, when the entire
Bush campaign team was haunted by the possibility that they had got it
all wrong, as the first exit polls came in and nothing, but nothing, was
going their way." ... "When it was finally over, the President who had
become a radical champion of democracy's power to change the world became
the living symbol of how it works. He made his decisions and moved on;
the voters made theirs, in one of the most extraordinary displays of political
passion seen in a generation. About 120 million voted, 15 million more
than in 2000, with Bush beating Senator John Kerry by about 51% to 48.5%."
-By Nancy Gibbs
-TIME.com
Nathan
Sproul - Criminal
- Politics
- 2004
Election - Oregon
- Nevada
- Phoenix
- Arizona
Nathan
Sproul - Criminal
- Politics
- 2004
Election - Library
- Portland- Ore
- Nevada
- Arizona
-
-
- "Unleashing
the Cheney factor: Joint 9/11 appearance with Bush
highlights debate about V.P.'s role." ... "When President Bush and Vice
President Cheney sit down together on Thursday for their long-anticipated
meeting with the 9/11 commission, it will cap a week that has, like no
other in Mr. Bush's presidency, been dominated by the White House's No.
2 man." ... "It was Mr. Cheney who used such red-meat language against
Democratic presidential contender John Kerry in a speech Monday that the
president of the host college publicly objected to "the content and tone"
of the vice president's remarks and offered Senator Kerry a similar speaking
engagement." ... "It is Cheney who is at the center of a long-anticipated
Supreme Court case, argued Tuesday, over his energy task force - and the
breadth of the zone of privacy in which the executive branch of government
may operate. Cheney has long advocated restoration of the White House's
powers to pre-Watergate levels." -By Linda Feldmann
-CSMonitor
-
- 
- "Saudi
envoy: Oil policy standard, not a deal: Calls U.S.
politics: 'Your seasonal tribal warfare'." ... "Saudi Arabia's ambassador
to the United States stood firm that his country made no secret deals with
the White House to try to drive down gas prices to help re-elect President
Bush and sought to reassure Democratic contender Sen. John Kerry." ...
""I really don't see what is the big deal," Prince Bandar bin Sultan told
reporters Wednesday after a White House meeting with national security
adviser Condoleezza Rice." ... ""Unless somebody would like to see the
oil prices stay high, then nobody should complain."" -By
John King -CNN
-
-
- "Poll
Shows New Gains for Bush: Lead Over Kerry Widens
On Issues of Security." ... "President Bush holds significant advantages
over John F. Kerry in public perceptions of who is better equipped to deal
with Iraq and the war on terrorism, and he has reduced the advantages his
Democratic challenger held last month on many domestic issues, according
to a Washington Post-ABC News Poll." ... "In a matchup, Bush held a lead
of 48 percent to 43 percent over Kerry among registered voters, with independent
Ralph Nader at 6 percent. In early March, shortly after he effectively
wrapped up the Democratic nomination, Kerry led Bush by 48 percent to 44
percent." (1, 2)
-By Richard Morin and Dan Balz with contributions
by Claudia Deane -WashingtonPost
-
-
- 
- "Kerry
hits alleged Bush-Saudi deal: Seizes on account in
journalist's book." ... "The latest inside account of the Bush administration
has provided fresh fodder for John F. Kerry's campaign, with the presumptive
Democratic nominee yesterday condemning the president for reportedly allowing
the Saudis to maintain high gasoline prices until just before the fall
election, when they would be cut to boost the US economy." ... "Kerry said
the deal, reported in "Plan of Attack," the new book by Washington Post
editor Bob Woodward, and mentioned in his appearance Sunday on the CBS
program "60 Minutes," was "fundamentally wrong" and "outrageous and unacceptable
to the American people." A day earlier, the Massachusetts senator condemned
Bush for withholding details about Iraqi war planning from Secretary of
State Colin L. Powell, again relying on Woodward's account of the administration's
war planning." -By Glen Johnson -Boston/Globe
-
-
- "Political
titles play an unusual role in this campaign." ...
"The influential role that serious, issues-based books are playing is unusual,
historians and political scientists say. "I can't think of anything close
to this happening during a campaign, at least in the 20th century," says
James Campbell, a political science professor at the State University of
New York at Buffalo." ... "The hottest book is Against All Enemies:
Inside America's War on Terror by Richard Clarke. The counterterrorism
expert served in the Reagan, Clinton and both Bush administrations. He
says the current administration paid too little attention to the threat
of terrorism before Sept. 11 and made terrorism more of a threat by going
to war in Iraq." -By Mark Memmott
-USATODAY
Rove
- 
Abramoff
- 
Ralston
- 
DeLay
- 
Norquist
- 
Reed
- Scanlon
- Money
- Religion
- Government- Law
- Politics
- Texas
- 2004
Election - History
- "K
Street Stumble." ... "As [Republican] presidential
adviser Karl Rove set up shop in the West Wing in 2001, he was looking
for an assistant to serve as the trusted gatekeeper of his new fiefdom.
Superlobbyist and Republican fundraiser Jack Abramoff was happy to lend
a hand. Abramoff knew just the right person for the job: his own assistant,
Susan Ralston. She interviewed with Rove and got the position." ... "For
a staunch conservative and smooth GOP operative like Abramoff, losing a
valuable aide was well worth the opportunity to ingratiate himself with
the president's senior political adviser." ... "An active fundraiser for
George W. Bush's 2000 election race, Abramoff has done even better in the
2004 campaign, raising more than $100,000 and becoming an elite "Pioneer"
in the president's re-election drive. For years, Abramoff has been a generous
donor and key fundraiser for powerful GOP members of Congress, notably
House Majority Leader [Republican]
Tom DeLay, R-Texas. In the 2004
election cycle, Abramoff and his wife, Pam, have contributed $83,000 to
Republicans, landing themselves at No. 93 on the nationwide list of individuals
who have donated to either political party, according to the nonpartisan
Center for Responsive Politics. Nine other Washington lobbyists are higher
on that list." ... "For almost a quarter-century, Abramoff has counted
among his friends and allies anti-tax activist Grover Norquist and grassroots
strategist and former Christian Coalition head Ralph Reed. An Orthodox
Jew, Abramoff has moved easily in conservative circles since the early
1980s, when he was chairman of the College Republican National Committee."
... "On March 2, Abramoff abruptly resigned from [lobbying law firm] Greenberg
Traurig, and now he's embroiled in what's shaping up as a legal and political
fight to salvage his reputation." ... "When asked about Abramoff's troubles,
DeLay distanced himself, telling reporters, "If anybody is trading on my
name to get clients or to make money, that is wrong and they should stop
it immediately."" ... "One reason for the touchiness is that the controversy
has also ensnared Michael Scanlon, a former aide to DeLay who worked with
Abramoff at Greenberg Traurig before setting up his own grassroots firm,
Capital Campaign Strategies." -By Peter H. Stone
-NationalJournal
2004
ELECTION - "Bush
camp executes media game plan: Aggressive ad blitz
will define Kerry as indecisive and lacking conviction." ... "President
Bush's re-election campaign is following an aggressive and precise 90-day
media strategy to define Sen. John Kerry as indecisive and lacking conviction,
with a coordinated blitz of advertisements, speeches and sound bites, senior
campaign advisers said this week." ... "The goal, several campaign aides
said, is to first strip Kerry of the positive image that he carried away
from the Democratic primary contests and then to define him issue by issue,
in their own harsh terms before the summer vacation season. The central
thrusts will be national security and taxes, they said." -By
Jim Rutenberg -NYTimes
via -HoustonChronicle.com
-
- "Kerry:
Comment aimed at 'attack dogs': Hastert takes 'great
umbrage' at comment." ... "Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John
Kerry said on Thursday that he was not referring to all Republicans as
"crooked" in an off-the-cuff comment captured on camera -- just his political
opponents' "attack dogs."" ... "After a union rally in Chicago, Illinois,
on Wednesday Kerry
told a worker that "these guys are the most crooked, you know, lying group
of people I've ever seen." His microphone was still on when he made the
comments." -CNN
- "Bush
Attacks Kerry on Bill to Trim Intelligence Budget."
... "President Bush accused Senator John Kerry on Monday of having tried
to "gut" the nation's intelligence services in 1995 when Mr. Kerry introduced
legislation that would have cut intelligence spending by $1.5 billion over
five years." ... "On a day of rock-'em, sock-'em politics unusual for such
an early stage of a presidential campaign, Mr. Bush said the 1995 legislation,
proposed two years after the first attack on the World Trade Center, undermined
Mr. Kerry's claim to have given the nation the intelligence tools it needs."
... "Mr. Kerry's campaign responded that Mr. Bush's attacks were misleading
and that Mr. Kerry had a long record of supporting increased spending on
intelligence agencies." -By Richard W. Stevenson and
Jodi Wilgoren -NYTimes
via -Google-News
- "9/11
election ads have Bush in hot water." ... "George
W. Bush tripped over the wreckage of the World Trade Center and stumbled
into controversy yesterday as he tried to take the high road with an expensive
advertising campaign for re-election but was immediately attacked for playing
politics with tragedy." ... "Relatives of victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist
attacks lashed out at the President's first major TV ad campaign, saying
it was both insensitive and inaccurate." -By Doug
Saunders -GlobeAndMail
-
- "Bush
distances himself from jobs figure in forecast."
... "President Bush distanced himself Wednesday from a forecast made by
his economic advisers predicting that the U.S. economy will add 2.6 million
jobs this year." ... "A Feb. 9 report by the White House Council of Economic
Advisors (CEA) predicted that payrolls would grow to an average of 132.7
million in 2004 from 130.1 million in 2003, an exceptionally rapid employment
gain for an economy that has shed 2.3 million jobs during Bush's tenure.
Facing the prospect that Democrats would make a campaign issue of Bush's
failure to meet his own projections, the president and top administration
officials declined to endorse the 2.6 million jobs forecast." -By
Dana Milbank -WashingtonPost
via -StarTribune.com
- "Howard
Dean Ends His White House Bid." ... "Former Democratic
front-runner Howard Dean on Wednesday pulled the plug on his roller-coaster
White House bid." ... "Dean said while his White House campaign is over,
he will turn his Internet-based operation, which set fund-raising records
and connected with legions of new activists, into a grass-roots force for
change." -By Thomas Ferraro-Reuters
via -ABCNEWS.com
- "Woman denies
Kerry relationship: Rumor wanes as Drudge backs off
earlier Internet report." ... "A rumor that was circulated widely on the
Internet and in the British press, purportedly linking Senator John Kerry
to a much younger woman, crumbled Monday as the wom- an issued a strong
denial and the Inter- net site that launched the report changed its story."
... "The Massachusetts senator, who is married, denied Friday that he had
a re- lationship with the woman, later identi- fied as Alexandra Polier,
27, a former Associated Press intern. ‘‘I just deny it categorically,’’
Kerry said." -By Brian Knowlton-IHT.com
Poverty
- Business
- Politics
- 2004
Election - "Wages
up for the well-off, but not for others: 'Rich-poor
gap' relates to long-term forces, but could hurt Bush as it reaches record
level prior to election." ... "Most US workers saw their earnings fall
or stagnate last year, with those at the bottom of the income scale hit
hardest." ... "The trend, coming alongside a slack job market, explains
why many Americans feel left out of the economic recovery - and why President
Bush faces a tough sell with his campaign-trail message that there is "good
strong growth." Democratic rivals point to "two Americas," one for the
rich, one for the poor." ... "Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina speaks
of "two Americas," while the leading contender, John Kerry, promises "a
prosperity where we will reduce the poverty of millions instead of constantly
reducing taxes for millionaires."" -By David R. Francis
-CSMonitor
-
-
-
-
-
- "White
House releases Bush's Guard records." ... "Moving
to squelch an election year controversy, the White House yesterday made
public records showing that President Bush attended some Air National Guard
training between mid-1972 and mid-1973 and was paid for it, and said the
records refute reports that Bush did not fulfill his military obligation
during the Vietnam War." ... "But the same records also show that Bush
may not have met the minimum-service requirement expected of most Guard
members, according to National Guard officials. And after releasing the
records, the White House press secretary, Scott McClellan, could not explain
why, if Bush appeared for duty on the days listed in the documents, Bush's
superiors wrote on May 2, 1973, that he had not been seen at his Houston
air base for the previous 12 months." -By Walter V.
Robinson and Michael Rezendes -Boston/Globe
- "Kerry's
rivals say race still open, but voters say otherwise."
... "The three major candidates hoping to outlast one another and take
on John Kerry, the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination,
argued Sunday that it's too early to end the race. But in contests across
the country, Democrats are indicating they disagree." ... "Saturday and
Sunday, Kerry won caucuses in Washington state, Michigan and Maine for
a season record of 10 wins, two losses." -By Jill
Lawrence -USATODAY
-
- "Pentagon
scraps 2004 online voting." ... "The Pentagon has
canceled plans to allow military personnel to vote online in the November
2004 presidential elections, a Defense Department spokeswoman said Thursday."
... "A group of four computer scientists criticized
the Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment in a Jan.
20 report. The scientists were invited by the Pentagon to critique the
program, and they alleged that the SERVE system has numerous "security
problems that leave it vulnerable to a variety of well-known cyberattacks.""
-By David McGlinchey -GovExec.com
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