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"Home prices down 15.8% in past year, S&P says: Seven of 20 cities tally monthly price gains in May, Case-Shiller data show." ... "Prices in 10 cities fell 16.9% in the past year." ... "Prices thus are at the same levels as they were in the summer of 2004, which means four years of appreciation have been effectively wiped out. Prices are down 18.4% from peak levels seen two years ago." ... "Here's a list of the 20 cities in the Case-Shiller index with the annual decline through May: Las Vegas [Nevada], down 28.4%; Miami [Florida], down 28.3%; Phoenix [Arizona], down 26.5%; Los Angeles [California], down 24.5%; San Diego [California], down 23.2%; San Francisco [California], down 22.9%; Tampa [Florida], down 20.2%; Detroit [Michigan], down 17.4%; Washington [DC], down 15.4%; Minneapolis [Minnesota], down 14.8%; Chicago [Illinois], down 9.4%; Cleveland [Ohio], down 8%; Atlanta [Georgia], and New York [City, New York], both down 7.9%; Seattle [Washington], down 6.3%; Boston [Massachusetts], down 6.2%; Portland [Oregon], down 5.2%; Denver [Colorado], down 4.8%; Dallas [Texas], down 3.1%; and Charlotte, N.C. [North Carolina], down 0.2%." -By Rex Nutting -MarketWatch 
 Mitt
Romney -  John
McCain -  Lay-Offs
- Bain
Capital -  Corporation
-  History
- Massachusetts
- 2008
Election
"Romney, McCain's `Logical' Choice, Must Overcome Primary Animus." ... "[2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate John] McCain, 71, said in December that he doesn't understand economics ``as well as I should'' and his lack of comfort is apparent on the stump." ... "[McCain's 2000 Election communications director Dan] Schnur said [Republican Mitt] Romney's apparent advantage on the economy may have a down side. During his unsuccessful 1994 run against incumbent [Massachusetts Democratic Senator] Democrat Ted Kennedy for a Massachusetts Senate seat, Romney was criticized for overseeing layoffs while working at Bain [Capital]." ... "``The Democrats could have a heyday talking about downsizing and lay-offs,'' Schnur said. ``It's the type of thing that in a difficult economic climate could be a real problem.''" -By Heidi Przybyla -Bloomberg
John
McCain -  Karl
Rove - Money
-  Oil
-  Health
Care -  US
-  Iraq
-  Afghanistan
-  Military
-  Terrorism
- 2008
Election - Massachusetts
"Kerry: McCain's Judgment Is Dangerous." ... "[Massachusetts Democratic Senator] Sen. John Kerry believes that the presumptive Republican nominee for president is adhering to the [Republican President] Bush Administration orthodoxy in ways that call into question his carefully-nurtured image as a political maverick." ... ""John McCain has changed in profound and fundamental ways that I find personally really surprising, and frankly upsetting," the Democratic Senator from Massachusetts said on CBS' Face The Nation." ... ""This is a different John McCain. This is not the Senator John McCain; this is want-to-be president John McCain." ... ""And the result is that John McCain has flip-flopped on more issues than I was even ever accused possibly of thinking about! I mean, this is extraordinary what he's done: He's changed on taxes; he's now in favor of the Bush tax cut. If you like the Bush economy, if you like the Bush tax cut and what it's done to our economy, making wealthier people wealthier and the average middle class struggle harder, then John McCain is going to give you a third term of George Bush and Karl Rove." ... ""If you like what has happened to oil prices, John McCain is going to continue that policy. If you like what you see about health care, John McCain has no health care plan." ... ""I would have at least expected the John McCain that I knew back then to realize what almost every person in the Pentagon has admitted. There are very few who walk around and say, 'Going into Iraq was the right thing to do, and we should have done it, or do it again if I have the chance.' John McCain does." ... ""I'm challenging Senator McCain's judgment," Kerry said, "that says, 'There's no violent history between Sunni and Shia.' That's wrong. His judgment that says, 'This is going to increase the stability of the Middle East.' It hasn't, it's made it less stable. The judgment that says, quote, 'This will be the best thing for America and the world in a long time. It's the worst thing that we've done in a long time. And he's turned his [focus] away from Afghanistan and al Qaeda and made America less safe. That's dangerous for our country."" -FaceTheNation -CBSNews  WATCH
Kerry list McCain's Flip-Flops
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 -  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 
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Financial
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Law
- Politics
- Massachusetts
- "Paulson
to Propose New U.S. Financial Regulators (Update1)."
... "Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is likely to call for the creation
of new regulatory agencies with broad powers over lending, the securities
industry and business conduct, according to the draft of a study he commissioned."
... "[Massachusetts Democratic Representative and] House Financial Services
Committee Chairman Barney Frank, a Massachusetts Democrat, said in a statement
today the plan goes too far in reducing the role of the states and not
far enough in giving new powers to the Federal Reserve over non-bank lenders."
-By Jesse Westbrook and John Brinsley
-Bloomberg
Hillary
Clinton
- 
Children
- Healthcare
- Legislation
- History
- 2008
Election - Mothers
- 
Iowa
- Massachusetts
- 
Utah
- "Clinton
role in health program disputed." ... "[2008 Election
Democratic Presidential Candidate] Hillary Clinton, who has frequently
described herself on the campaign trail as playing a pivotal role in forging
a children's health insurance plan, had little to do with crafting the
landmark legislation or ushering it through Congress, according to several
lawmakers, staffers, and healthcare advocates involved in the issue." ...
"In campaign speeches, Clinton describes the State Children's Health Insurance
Program, or SCHIP, as an initiative "I helped to start." Addressing Iowa
voters in November, Clinton said, "in 1997, I joined forces with members
of Congress and we passed the State Children's Health Insurance Program."
Clinton regularly cites the number of children in each state who are covered
by the program, and mothers of sick children have appeared at Clinton campaign
rallies to thank her." ... "But the Clinton White House, while supportive
of the idea of expanding children's health, fought the first SCHIP effort,
spearheaded by Senators Edward M. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts, and
Orrin G. Hatch, Republican of Utah, because of fears that it would derail
a bigger budget bill. And several current and former lawmakers and staff
said Hillary Clinton had no role in helping to write the congressional
legislation, which grew out of a similar program approved in Massachusetts
in 1996." ... ""The White House wasn't for it. We really roughed them up"
in trying to get it approved over the Clinton administration's objections,
Hatch said in an interview. "She may have done some advocacy [privately]
over at the White House, but I'm not aware of it."" ... ""I do like her,"
Hatch said of Hillary Clinton. "We all care about children. But does she
deserve credit for SCHIP? No - Teddy does, but she doesn't."" -By
Susan Milligan -BostonGlobe
Dick
Cheney
- Corporate
- Military- 
Government
- KBR-Halliburton
- 
Cayman
Islands - 
United
Arab Emirates (Dubai) - Secret
- Iraq
- Oil
- Infrastructure
- History
- American
- Workers
- Health
- 
Security
- Legislation
- Massachusetts
- "Top
Iraq contractor skirts US taxes offshore: Shell companies
in Cayman Islands allow KBR to avoid Medicare, Social Security deductions."
... "Kellogg Brown & Root, the nation's top Iraq war contractor and
until last year a subsidiary of Halliburton Corp. [Corporation], has avoided
paying hundreds of millions of dollars in federal Medicare and Social Security
taxes by hiring workers through shell companies based in this tropical
tax haven [Cayman Islands]." ... "More than 21,000 people working for KBR
in Iraq - including about 10,500 Americans - are listed as employees of
two companies that exist in a computer file on the fourth floor of a building
on a palm-studded boulevard here in the Caribbean. Neither company has
an office or phone number in the Cayman Islands." ... "The Defense Department
has known since at least 2004 that KBR was avoiding taxes by declaring
its American workers as employees of Cayman Islands shell companies, and
officials said the move allowed KBR to perform the work more cheaply, saving
Defense dollars." ... "But the use of the loophole results in a significantly
greater loss of revenue to the government as a whole, particularly to the
Social Security and Medicare trust funds." ... ""Failing to contribute
to Social Security and Medicare thousands of times over isn't shielding
the taxpayers they claim to protect, it's costing our citizens in the name
of short-term corporate greed," said [Massachusetts Democratic] Senator
John F. Kerry, a Massachusetts Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee
who has introduced legislation to close loopholes for companies registering
overseas." ... "With an estimated $16 billion in contracts, KBR is by far
the largest contractor in Iraq, with eight times the work of its nearest
competitor." ... "The [secret] no-bid contract it received in 2002 to rebuild
Iraq's oil infrastructure and a multibillion-dollar contract to provide
support services to troops have long drawn scrutiny because [Republican]
Vice President Dick Cheney was Halliburton's chief executive from 1995
until he joined the Republican ticket with [Republican] President Bush
in 2000." ... "The largest of the Cayman Islands shell companies - called
[SEII] Service Employees International Inc. [Incorporated, which is not
associated with the Service Employees International Union (SEIU)], which
is now listed as having more than 20,000 workers in Iraq, according to
KBR - was created two years before Cheney became Halliburton's chief executive.
But a second Cayman Islands company called Overseas Administrative Services,
which now is listed as the employer of 1,020 mostly managerial workers
in Iraq, was established two months after Cheney's appointment." ... "If
KBR's American workers averaged even as much as $63,000 per year, they
and KBR would have owed more than $100 million per year in Social Security
and Medicare taxes, split evenly between them. Over the course of the five-year
war,
their tax bill would have been more than $500 million." ... "The real managers
of Service Employees International work out of KBR's office in Dubai. KBR
and Halliburton, which also moved to Dubai [an emirate of the United Arab
Emirates], severed ties last year." -By Farah Stockman
with contributions by Stephanie Vallejo and Matt Negrin
-Boston/Globe
US
- 
China
- Bain
Capital - 
Networker
- 
Foreign
- Military
- Government
- Hacking
- 
Communications
- 
Technologies
- Politics
- Mass
- "3Com's
sale to Bain, Huawei stymied: National-security agency
fails to approve $2.2 billion deal." ... "Concerns about national security
could scuttle the $2.2 billion sale of networker 3Com Corp. [Corporation],
shares of which dropped as much as 20% on Wednesday." ... "Marlborough,
Mass.[Massachusetts]-based 3Com (COMS)
and its two partners -- Bain Capital Partners LLC [Limited Liability Company]
and Huawei Technologies Co. [Company] -- said they would withdraw their
application with the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States."
... "The source of the agency's concern is the participation of Huawei,
the largest networker in China and a company with links to the mainland's
communist government. Huawei is run by a former mid-ranking officer in
the Chinese army whose firm has raised the ire of the U.S. [United States]
government and Western rivals such as Cisco Systems Inc. [Incorporated]."
... "It's no longer a top-tier networking company, but 3Com still does
substantial business with the U.S. The vendor's TippingPoint subsidiary,
for example, sells anti-hacking and other network-security services to
the Defense Department." ... "The U.S. has been particularly sensitive
about foreign ownership of networking and communications assets, especially
in light of repeated attempts to hack the nation's defense systems. Chinese-based
hackers are viewed as a major concern. " -By Jeffry
Bartash -MarketWatch
Mike
Huckabee - John
McCain
- 
Ron
Paul
- Mitt
Romney
- Washington_State
- Arizona
- 
Arkansas
- Texas
- Massachusetts
- 2008
Election - "Huckabee
won't concede state; GOP resuming delegate count."
... "According to the Saturday tally [in Washington State], [2008 Election
Republican Presidential Candidate and Senator from] Arizona Sen. John McCain
won about 26 percent of delegates, [2008 Election Republican Presidential
Candidate and] former Arkansas Gov. [Governer] Huckabee won 24 percent,
[2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate and Representative from]
Texas Rep. Ron Paul finished with 21 percent, and [2008 Election Republican
Presidential Candidate and] former Massachusetts Gov. [Governer] Mitt Romney,
who has dropped out of the race, got 17 percent." ... "Pastor Joseph Fuiten
of Bothell [Washington], who's heading Huckabee's volunteer effort in the
state, said three Huckabee supporters in Pierce County [Washington] reported
voting irregularities on Saturday." ... "Fuiten said one woman reported
that she and a Ron Paul supporter were told that they wouldn't be allowed
to run for alternative delegate positions — and that no actual vote was
taken at the caucus. Instead, Fuiten said the woman reported that the caucus
leaders simply tallied up the sign-in sheets to get the results." ... ""Counting
is not so much the issue, so much as it is a concern about disenfranchisement,"
Fuiten said." ... "Paul's campaign is also not conceding the state." -By
Janet I. Tu -SeattleTimes
Mitt
Romney
- John
McCain
- 
Rudy
Giuliani
- US
- Iraq
- Military
- 2008
Election - Massachusetts
- Florida
- Arizona- New
York
- Florida
- "Romney
Accuses McCain of 'Dirty Tricks': Romney Accuses
McCain of Resorting to 'Dirty Tricks' Over Iraq Timetable Issue in Debate."
... "Republican [2008 Election Presidential Candidate] Mitt Romney accused
[2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate] John McCain of using
dirty tricks by suggesting the former Massachusetts governor wanted a deadline
for withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq, in a spirited debate Wednesday night
that underscored the intensity of their presidential rivalry." ... "Coming
24 hours after McCain defeated him in Florida, Romney vented his frustrations
over the Arizona senator's claims from last weekend." ... ""I have never,
ever supported a specific timetable" for withdrawing troops, Romney said.
McCain's accusation on the eve of Tuesday's primary, he said, "sort of
falls into the dirty tricks that I think [Republican President] Ronald
Reagan would have found reprehensible."" ... "Former New York City [New
York] Mayor Rudy Giuliani left the race earlier Wednesday [after losing
Florida to McCain]] and endorsed McCain." (1, 2,
3)
-By Liz Sidoti -AP
via -ABCNEWS.com
Barack
Obama
- Hillary
Clinton
- Massachusetts
- 
Rhode
Island - US
- Iraq
- Military
- Race
- Gay
- 2008
Election - "Sen.
Kennedy endorses Barack Obama: Democratic elder statesman
plans to campaign for candidate." ... "Two generations of Kennedys - the
Democratic Party's best known political family - endorsed [2008 Election
Democratic Presidential Candidate] Barack Obama for president on Monday,
with [Massachusetts Democratic Senator "Ted" Kennedy] Sen. Edward M. Kennedy
calling him a "man with extraordinary gifts of leadership and character,"
a worthy heir to his assassinated brother [two of Ted Kennedy's brothers
were assassinated, Democratic President John F. Kennedy and Democratic
Presidential Candidate Robert F. Kennedy]." ... "He [Obama] was introduced
by Caroline Kennedy, daughter of the late president [John F. Kennedy],
who said Obama "offers that same sense of hope and inspiration" as did
her father. [Rhode Island Democratic Representative] Rep. Patrick Kennedy
also endorsed Obama from the stage before a boisterous crowd at American
University." ... "In his remarks, Sen. Kennedy sought one by one to rebut
many of the arguments leveled by Obama's critics." ... ""From the beginning,
he opposed the war in Iraq. And let no one deny that truth," he said, an
obvious reference to former President Clinton's statement that Obama's
early anti-war stance was a "fairy tale."" ... ""With Barack Obama, we
will turn the page on the old politics of misrepresentation and distortion."
... ""With Barack Obama we will close the book on the old politics of race
against race, gender against gender, ethnic group against ethnic group,
and straight against gay," Kennedy said." ... "Lately, according to several
associates, Kennedy became angered with what he viewed as racially divisive
comments by [husband to 2008 Election Democratic Presidential Candidate
Hillary Clinton, former Democratic President] Bill Clinton."
-AP via -MSNBC
Mitt
Romney
- John
McCain
- Economy
- US
- Iraq
- Military
- 2008
Election - Florida
- Massachusetts
- Arizona
- "Romney
Slams McCain On Economy, Climate Bill." ... "After
predicting a Florida victory in front of a raucous, heavily Latino crowd,
[2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate] Mitt Romney told members
of the media that [2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate] John
McCain’s interpretation of Romney’s past remarks on Iraq timetables were
“obviously false” and “yesterday’s news.” The former Massachusetts governor
then changed the subject by rehashing some of McCain’s past comments, which
seemed to disparage the Arizona senator’s own understanding of economic
policy."
... "“I simply don’t think that the people of Florida are gonna say the
nominee of our party ought to be a person who on more than one occasion
has expressed lack of understanding of our economy at a time when the economy
is the number one issue that people are talking about here in the state
of Florida,” Romney said." -By Scott Conroy
-CBSNews
Mitt
Romney
- John
McCain
- US
- Iraq
- Military
- 2008
Election - Florida
- Arizona
- Massachusetts
- "Republican
Candidates Trade Attacks in Florida." ... "[2008
Election Republican Presidential Candidate and Arizona Senator] Sen. John
McCain of Arizona accused [2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate
and] former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney of having once supported
a U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq, sparking an angry demand for an apology
from Romney, who called the statement "dishonest."" ... "Romney, who said
in April the military should consider a "private timetable" but not public
deadlines, shot back: "That's dishonest, to say that I have a specific
date. That's simply wrong . . . I know he's trying desperately to change
the topic from the economy and trying to get back to Iraq, but to say something
that's not accurate is simply wrong and he knows better."" ... "Later,
Romney added that McCain's comment on Iraq is "simply wrong and it's dishonest,
and he should apologize."" (1, 2)
-By Michael D. Shear and Juliet Eilperin
-WashingtonPost
Mitt
Romney
- Politics
- Massachusetts
- 
New
Hampshire - Nevada
- 
South
Carolina - 2008
Election - "More
than a dozen lobbyists working to raise money for Romney."
... "Former Bay State Gov. [Massachusetts Republican Governor and 2008
Election Republican Presidential Candidate] Mitt Romney, who has cast himself
as a Washington outsider and blasted his opponents’ ties to lobbyists,
has more than a dozen federally registered lobbyists raising money for
him and several others advising his campaign, records show." ... "At a
Nashua event the day before the New Hampshire primary, Romney said, “I
don’t have years and years of favors to repay, lobbyists who have raised
all sorts of money for me.”" ... "But at least 13 lobbyists work as so-called
bundlers - those responsible for prodding deep-pocketed donors and generating
vast sums of money for the candidate - according to records compiled by
nonprofit Washington watchdog Public Citizen." ... "Romney, who faces a
critical doubleheader in South Carolina and Nevada today, got into a tussle
Thursday with an Associated Press reporter over the issue. “I don’t have
lobbyists running my campaign,” Romney remarked. “I don’t have lobbyists
that are tied to my . . .” The reporter interrupted him saying, “That is
not true,” and naming [lobbyist Ronald C.] Kaufman, which provoked a tense
exchange." -By Jessica Van Sack
-BostonHerald.com
Duncan
Hunter
- Mitt
Romney
- 
Fred
Thompson
- California
- Nevada
- 
Wyoming
- Massachusetts
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