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20081208
 Mitt
Romney -  Money
-  Politics
- 2008
Election - 2012
Election -  Massachusetts
"Romney
paves way for possible '12 run: Bulk of PAC fund
goes for political ambitions." ... "Republican Mitt Romney is laying the
groundwork for a possible White House campaign in 2012, hiring a team of
staff members and consultants with money from a fund-raising committee
he established with the ostensible purpose of supporting other GOP candidates."
... "The former Massachusetts governor has raised $2.1 million for his
Free and Strong America political action committee. But only 12 percent
of the money has been spent distributing checks to Romney's fellow Republicans
around the country." ... "Instead, the largest chunk of the money has gone
to support Romney's political ambitions, paying for salaries and consulting
fees to over a half-dozen of Romney's longtime political aides, according
to a Globe review of expenditures." ... "Romney founded the Free and Strong
America Committee shortly after dropping out of the 2008 presidential primary.
He filled its coffers by telling conservative contributors around the country
that their money would be used to support Republican candidates and causes."
... "According to the Globe analysis, he spent $244,000 on contributions
to congressional and other candidates between April and the November elections.
He has spent more than twice as much on staff salaries and contracts to
hire professional fund-raisers, who are compiling contributor lists that
will serve Romney well in a future presidential campaign." ... "In essence,
Romney is financing a political enterprise that he can use to remain a
national GOP leader and use as a springboard should he decide to launch
another presidential bid for 2012." - By Frank Phillips
-Boston/Globe
20081108
 Sarah
Palin -  John
McCain -  Clothes
- Money
-  Comedian
-  Canada
-  France
-  Mexico
-  US
- 2008
Election - 2012
Election
"Palin
calls critics among McCain aides ‘jerks’." ... "The
[2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate John] McCain campaign
aides complained about the $150,000 that the Republican National Committee
had spent on [2008 Election Republican Vice Presidential Candidate Sarah]
Ms. Palin’s clothes, the way a Canadian comedian was able to embarrass
the campaign by calling her and pretending to be the president of France,
and the political ambitions she seemed to harbor beyond 2008." ... "By
the end of the week, their complaints had escalated considerably, with
Fox News quoting unnamed McCain campaign officials as saying that Ms. Palin
had not known that Africa was a continent, not a country, and claiming
that she did not know which countries were covered by the North American
Free Trade Agreement [the US, Canada, and Mexico]." ... "Ms. Palin told
reporters in Alaska that the anonymous criticism was “cowardly,” and that
she had discussed the campaign’s position on Nafta at her debate prep sessions."
... "“I remember having a discussion with a couple of debate preppers,”
she said. “So if it came from one of those debate preppers, you know, that’s
curious. But having a discussion about Nafta — not, ‘Oh my goodness, I
don’t know who is a part of Nafta.’ ”" ... "“So, no, I think that if there
are allegations based on questions or comments that I made in debate prep
about Nafta, and about the continent versus the country when we talk about
Africa there, then those were taken out of context,” Ms. Palin said. “And
that’s cruel and it’s mean-spirited, it’s immature, it’s unprofessional,
and those guys are jerks, if they came away with it taking things out of
context and then tried to spread something on national news. It is not
fair and not right.”" -By William Yardley and Michael
Cooper with contributions by Julie Bosman and Brian Stelter
-NYTimes -MSNBC
20081029
Sarah
Palin - John
McCain - 2008
Election - 2012
Election - Politics
"Palin's
2012 talk leaves McCain aide speechless." ... "[2008
Election Republican] Vice presidential contender Sarah Palin told ABC in
an interview to air Thursday that she's not going to leave national politics
if she doesn't enter the White House in January, fueling speculation that
she's considering running for President in 2012." ... "CNN's Dana Bash
told cohort Wolf Blitzer that a senior [2008 Election Democratic Presidential
Candidate John] McCain advisor was rendered "speechless" by Palin's comment.
"There was a long pause, and then I just heard a 'Huh.' on the other end
of the phone. I mean, this is certainly not a surprise to anybody who has
watched Sarah Palin that she is interested in potentially...a future national
run. Certainly she is being urged to by a lot of people inside the Republican
Party if they do lose."" ... "[Alaska Republican Governor] Gov. Palin has
already been called a "diva" and "rogue" by people within the McCain campaign
who see her straying
from prescribed narrative in her speeches, having "lost confidence in most
of the people on the plane."" -By Nick Cargo and David
Edwards -RawStory.com
20071126
-
 Trent
Lott -  Mississippi
-  South
Carolina - Racism
-  History
- 2008
Election - 2012
Election - "Trent
Lott announces his resignation." ... "Mississippi
[Republican Senator] Sen. Trent Lott, the Senate's No. 2 Republican, announced
Monday he will retire from the Senate by end of year." ... "Lott's colleagues
elected him as the Senate's Republican whip last year, a redemption for
the Mississippian after his ouster five years ago as the party's Senate
leader over remarks he made at retiring [Republican Senator] Sen. Strom
Thurmond's 100th birthday party. Lott had saluted the South Carolina senator
with comments later interpreted as support for southern segregationist
policies." ... "Mississippi's [Republican Governor] Gov. Haley Barbour,
a Republican, will appoint Lott's temporary replacement, who will serve
until the 2008 elections, when voters will elect someone to serve out the
balance of Lott's term, which runs through 2012." ... "The smooth-spoken
Lott found himself in hot water in December 2002 after Thurmond's party.
Lott said Mississippi voters were proud to have supported Thurmond when
he ran for president on a segregationist platform in 1948, and added: "If
the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all
these problems over all these years either.""
-MSNBC
20071016
-
 Texas
- 2012
Election - "Texas
Senator Doesn’t Plan to Seek Re-election." ... "[Texas
Republican] Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison does not intend to seek re-election
when her term expires in 2012 and may step down as early as 2009, possibly
to run for [Texas] governor, she says in an interview with Texas Monthly."
-By Maureen Balleza -NYTimes
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SENATORS up for Re-Election in 2012
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Senators 2012 Election by State:
US
States
D - Democratic Senator
R - Republican Senator |
 Hawaii
Akaka, Daniel K.- (D - HI) |
 Wyoming
Barrasso, John- (R - WY) |
 New
Mexico
Bingaman, Jeff- (D - NM) |
 Ohio
Brown, Sherrod- (D - OH) |
 West
Virginia
Byrd, Robert C.- (D - WV) |
 Washington
Cantwell, Maria- (D - WA) |
 Maryland
Cardin, Benjamin L.- (D - MD) |
 Delaware
Carper, Thomas R.- (D - DE) |
 Pennsylvania
Casey, Robert P., Jr.- (D - PA) |
 New
York
Clinton, Hillary Rodham- (D - NY) |
 North
Dakota
Conrad, Kent- (D - ND) |
 Tennessee
Corker, Bob- (R - TN) |
 Nevada
Ensign, John- (R - NV) |
 California
Feinstein, Dianne- (D - CA) |
 Utah
Hatch, Orrin G.- (R - UT) |
Texas
*RETIRING:
Hutchison, Kay Bailey- (R - TX) |
Massachusetts
Kennedy, Edward M.- (D - MA) |
 Minnesota
Klobuchar, Amy- (D - MN) |
 Wisconsin
Kohl, Herb- (D - WI) |
 Arizona
Kyl,
Jon- (R - AZ) |
 Connecticut
Lieberman, Joseph I.- (ID - CT) |
Mississippi
*RETIRING:
Lott,
Trent- (R - MS) |
 Indiana
Lugar, Richard G.- (R - IN) |
 Missouri
McCaskill, Claire- (D - MO) |
 New
Jersey
Menendez, Robert- (D - NJ) |
 Florida
Nelson, Bill- (D - FL) |
 Nebraska
Nelson, E. Benjamin- (D - NE) |
 Vermont
Sanders, Bernard- (I - VT) |
 Maine
Snowe, Olympia J.- (R - ME) |
 Michigan
Stabenow, Debbie- (D - MI) |
 Montana
Tester, Jon- (D - MT) |
 Virginia
Webb, Jim- (D - VA) |
 Rhode
Island
Whitehouse, Sheldon- (D - RI) |
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SENATORS up for Re-Election in 2012 ("Class I")
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