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"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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"Obama vs. McCain: Taxing and Spending." ... "Campaigning in St. Louis [Missouri] on June 10, [2008 Election Democratic Presidential Candidate Barack] Obama called the current [Republican President Bush] Administration "the most fiscally irresponsible in our history" and argued that [2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate John] McCain would be even worse. "I've said John McCain is running to serve out a third term, but when it comes to taxes, that's not being fair to George Bush. Senator McCain wants to add $300 billion more in tax breaks and loopholes for big corporations and the wealthiest Americans," Obama said." ... "First Round to Obama" ... "According to a new analysis by the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center, a joint venture between the Urban Institute and the Brookings Institution, two Washington think tanks, this round goes to Obama. The TPC took a look at the various tax proposals put forth by the two candidates and estimated that Obama's plan would lead to a boost in aftertax income for all but the highest earners, while taking a smaller bite out of government tax revenues than would McCain's plans." ... "Len Burman, a former Treasury tax official who is now a senior fellow at the Urban Institute, says if Obama's proposals—which include plans to rescind the Bush tax cuts on couples making more than $250,000, close corporate tax loopholes, and tax private equity earnings known as "carried interest" as ordinary income—were adopted in 2009, for example, married couples with earnings in the lowest quintile of the population would see their aftertax income rise 5.8%. Those in the next quintile would see an increase of 4%. Those breaks would be paid for by those with high incomes: the top 1% of taxpayers would see aftertax income fall 8.4%." ... "Under McCain's proposals, by contrast—including an extension of the Bush tax cuts for all taxpayers, a corporate tax cut, and a larger reduction in estate taxes than Obama would support—far more of the benefits would go to the top. If his plans went into effect in 2009, married couples in the bottom fifth of the population would see aftertax income go up just 0.2%, while those in the next quintile would see a 0.7% hike. But those in the top quintile would see a bump up in aftertax income of 2.7%." ... ""It's just flat wrong" to say people would do worse under Obama, says Burman. "Most lower- and middle-class people would pay less taxes under Obama than they would under the proposals being put forth by McCain."" ... "[Obama's economic policy director Jason Furman:] "Some 23% of the tax cuts they [McCain and Republican's] are proposing would go to households making more than $2.8 million under the McCain plan," he says. "That's a phenomenally large benefit for the super rich, beyond anything George Bush has proposed." " (1, 2) -By Jane Sasseen -BusinessWeek 
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"Obama Maps a Nationwide Push in G.O.P. Strongholds." ... "[2008 Election Democratic Presidential Candidate and Illinois] Senator Barack Obama’s general election plan calls for broadening the electoral map by challenging [2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate and Arizona] Senator John McCain in typically Republican states — from North Carolina to Missouri to Montana — as Mr. Obama seeks to take advantage of voter turnout operations built in nearly 50 states in the long Democratic nomination battle, aides said." ... "On Monday, Mr. Obama will travel to North Carolina — a state that has not voted for a Democratic presidential candidate in 32 years — to start a two-week tour of speeches, town hall forums and other appearances intended to highlight differences with Mr. McCain on the economy. From there, he heads to Missouri, which last voted for a Democrat in 1996. His first campaign swing after securing the Democratic presidential nomination last week was to Virginia, which last voted Democratic in 1964." ... "With [New York] Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton now having formally bowed out of the race and thrown her backing to him, Mr. Obama wants to define the faltering economy as the paramount issue facing the country, a task probably made easier by ever-rising gasoline prices and the sharp rise in unemployment the government reported on Friday." (1, 2) -By Adam Nagourney and Jeff Zeleny with contributions by Jim Rutenberg -NYTimes
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- "U.S.-Made
Toys Benefit From China’s Troubles." ... "Whittle
Shortline Railroad, a company in Louisiana, Mo. [Missouri], that makes
wooden trains and trucks, posted a banner on its Web site several weeks
ago: “100 percent kid-safe,” it read, “with lead-free paints.” Mike Whitworth,
the company’s owner, said the recent recalls of Chinese-made toys found
to contain lead in their paint has been good for his business. Very good."
... "With about 80 percent of the toys sold in the United States manufactured
in China, the relatively few manufacturers of American-made toys who remain
have relied to some extent on snob appeal and survived mostly by emphasizing
the quality of their products — even if they cost more money." ... "But
some are now pointing to another competitive advantage: you can count on
them to be lead free." ... "“It’s created a lot of buzz,” said Mike Rainville,
owner of Maple Landmark toys in Middlebury, Vt. [Vermont], who said his
company had experienced a “nudge” in sales." ... "Sue Dennison, co-owner
of Roy Toy, which is based in East Machias, Me. [Maine], said orders were
up about 25 percent over the last several weeks." -By
Andrew Martin -NYTimes
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- "Freshmen
Senate Democrats seek panel to probe Iraq contracting."
... "Summoning the ghost of Harry Truman, the Senate's freshman Democrats
on Wednesday called for the creation of an independent, bipartisan commission
to investigate wartime profiteering in Iraq." ... "Truman was a freshman
senator from Missouri in 1941 when he led an inquiry into waste and abuse
in government contracting during World War II." ... "Under the 2007 version
of his effort, spearheaded by [Democratic Senators] Sens. Claire McCaskill
of Missouri and Jim Webb of Virginia, the proposed commission would investigate
the mismanagement of private contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan, which
has resulted in $9 billion in taxpayer dollars unaccounted for." ... "McCaskill,
a former state auditor who uses Truman's old Senate desk, said at a press
conference of freshmen lawmakers, "I realized we had the same problem in
this war that Harry Truman found in World War II, except that it's on steroids.
It's out of control."" -By David
Goldstein -McClatchyDC.com
2008
Election - Politics
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Utah
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- "Romney’s
Run Has Mormons Wary of Scrutiny." ... "In this wide
[Utah] valley where the twin spires of the Mormon temple dominate the landscape
and some neighborhoods have a Mormon chapel every few blocks, [2008 election
Presidential candidate] Mitt Romney’s bid for president is both a proud
sign of progress and a cause of trepidation." ... "John Hatch, 30, a history
student at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, said, “What most Mormons
desire is acceptance.”" ... "“We see ourselves as normal,” Mr. Hatch said.
“We struggle with those outsiders who see us as weird — the magic underwear
stuff,” a reference to the ritual garments that Mormons are supposed to
wear under their clothing." ... "Some Mormons have watched with concern
how Mr. Romney has responded to grilling by interviewers about his church’s
distinctive doctrines." ... "Mr. Romney has been questioned about the Mormon
definition of God, polygamy, the location of Jesus’s arrival when he returns
to earth, and even a mysterious saying attributed to Joseph Smith Jr. called
the “White Horse Prophecy,” which some interpret as a prediction that when
the American Constitution is hanging “by a thread,” a Mormon will rescue
the nation." ... "Mr. Romney’s tendency to gloss over Mormonism’s history
and distinctive tenets has upset some fellow Mormons. Some said they cringed
when Mr. Romney said on “60 Minutes,” “I can’t imagine anything more awful
than polygamy.”" ... "Another case arose when George Stephanopoulos of
ABC News asked Mr. Romney about a Mormon teaching that Jesus will come
to the United States when he returns to reign on earth. Mr. Romney responded
that the Messiah will return to the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem, “the
same as the other Christian tradition.”" ... "[Utah radio host Tom] Mr.
Grover said some of his radio listeners were astounded." ... "“They were
just in disbelief, saying that’s not true, Jesus is coming back to Missouri,”
Mr. Grover said. “It’s the L.D.S. [Latter Day Saints] Church’s 10th article
of faith that Zion will be built upon the American continent.”" (1, 2)
-By Laurie Goodstein -NYTimes
Bradley
Schlozman
- Government
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US
Attorney - Politics
- 2006
Election - Missouri
- Civil
Rights - "Justice
official is said to have favored GOP loyalists."
... "In March 2006, [Bradley] Schlozman was given an interim appointment
as the U.S. attorney in Kansas City [Missouri], replacing [then U.S. Attorney
Todd] Graves." ... "Less than a week before the November [2006] election,
Schlozman obtained indictments of four members of the liberal activist
group Assn. of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, for allegedly
submitting fraudulent voter registrations. The Justice Department election
manual says prosecutors should refrain generally from bringing cases just
before elections, out of concern that the charges could affect voting."
... "ACORN itself had brought the case to the attention of authorities
after discovering that some of its employees were making up names of registrants
as part of a voter-registration drive." ... "Schlozman's office, apparently
in a hurry to file the case, got one of the names on the indictments wrong."
... ""It seems to me that the only way that could have happened was if
the subject of the investigation had not been interviewed. It seems to
me they were in such a rush to indict these people that they didn't bother
to interview them first," said Robert Kengle, another former Justice voting
rights official." ... "Missouri Republicans seized on the charges in the
final days of the campaign. Nevertheless, Missouri voters narrowly elected
Democrat Claire McCaskill over Republican incumbent Jim Talent, a victory
that sank GOP hopes of maintaining control of Congress." ... "In April,
the suit was dismissed by a federal judge, who ruled that the government
failed to produce any evidence of fraud or that any Missouri resident had
been denied the right to vote because of the alleged registration deficiencies."
-By Richard B. Schmitt
-LAtimes
Bradley
Schlozman
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Goodling
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Gonzales
- Government
- US
Attorney - Civil
Rights - Politics
- Missouri
- "DOJ
Probes Turn to Civil Rights Division: Judiciary Committee
to question ex-official [Bradley] Schlozman while internal investigation
looks at hiring practices." ... "Schlozman will testify Tuesday about his
activities not only in the Civil Rights Division but also in his brief
stint as interim U.S. Attorney in the Western District of Missouri, where
he replaced Todd Graves -- one of nine U.S. Attorneys to have been fired
by the Justice Department last year." ... "In particular, Democrats plan
to press Schlozman about his role in the hiring of career attorneys into
the voting and appellate sections of the Civil Rights Division, and whether
Schlozman inappropriately considered the political loyalties of candidates
-- a potential violation of the Hatch Act and civil service laws governing
federal hiring." ... "The allegations are similar to the admission last
month by Monica Goodling, the former senior adviser to Attorney General
Alberto Gonzales, that she had inappropriately taken politics into account
in making hiring decisions for career federal prosecutors and immigration
judges." ... "Congress, of course, isn't the only body reviewing Schlozman's
tenure at the Civil Rights Division. Last week the Justice Department's
Office of Professional Responsibility and Office of the Inspector General,
which are conducting a joint investigation into the U.S. Attorney firings,
announced that they had broadened their probe to include allegations of
politicization in hiring at the Civil Rights Division." -By
Jason McLure -LegalTimes.com
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US
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- "Antiwar
to the Corps: Marine Reservist-Protesters Face Discipline."
... "Going on a mock patrol can get you in real trouble with the United
States Marine Corps." ... "In a case that raises questions about free speech,
the Marines have launched investigations of three inactive reservists for
wearing their uniforms during antiwar protests and allegedly making statements
characterized as "disrespectful" or "disloyal."" ... "Two of them were
part of the guerrilla theater squad of 13 Iraq Veterans Against the War
who roamed Capitol Hill and downtown Washington in March, clad in camouflage
and carrying imaginary weapons, to mark the fourth anniversary of the Iraq
war. A Washington
Post story about that protest is part of the evidence gathered by Marine
lawyers." ... "Adam Kokesh, 25, a graduate student at George Washington
University, faces a hearing Monday in Kansas City [Missouri], where the
Marines will recommend an "other than honorable" discharge from the Individual
Ready Reserve. He was previously honorably discharged from active duty
after fighting in Fallujah [Iraq] and receiving the Combat Action Ribbon
and the Navy Commendation Medal." ... "The case also raises a fundamental
question of interest to the roughly 158,000 men and women in the Marines'
and Army's Individual Ready Reserve: Are they civilians -- free to speak
their minds -- or not?" ... ""This case is about the Marine Corps seeking
to stifle critics of the Iraq policy by officially labeling civilian acts
of peaceful protest and political speech as misconduct and serious offenses,"
says Michael Lebowitz, Kokesh's attorney, who fought in Iraq as an Army
paratrooper ." (1, 2)
-By David Montgomery -WashingtonPost
Karl
Rove
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- "White
House sought investigations of voter fraud allegations before elections."
... "Only weeks before last year's pivotal [2006] midterm elections, the
White House urged the Justice Department to pursue voter-fraud allegations
against Democrats in three battleground states, a high-ranking Justice
official has told congressional investigators." ... "In two instances in
October 2006, [Republican] President Bush's political adviser, Karl Rove,
or his deputies passed the allegations on to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales'
then-chief of staff, Kyle Sampson." ... "Sampson tapped Gonzales aide Matthew
Friedrich, who'd just left his post as chief of staff of the criminal division.
In the first case, Friedrich agreed to find out whether Justice officials
knew of "rampant" voter fraud or "lax" enforcement in parts of New Mexico,
Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, and report back." ... "But Friedrich declined
to pursue a related matter from Wisconsin, he told congressional investigators,
because an inquiry so close to an election could inappropriately sway voting
results. Friedrich decided not to pass the matter on to the criminal division
for investigation, even though Sampson gave him a 30-page report prepared
by Republican activists that made claims of voting fraud." ... "While it
was known that Rove and the White House had complained about prosecutors
not aggressively investigating voter fraud, Friedrich's testimony suggests
that the Justice Department itself was under pressure to open voter fraud
cases despite a department policy that discourages such action so close
to an election." ... "Another former U.S. attorney, Todd Graves of Kansas
City, Mo. [Missouri], revealed this week that he was asked to step aside
for another candidate. He also said he had refused to sign off on a voting-rights
lawsuit, which another Justice Department official later approved in Washington.
The official, Brad Schlozman, later became Graves' temporary replacement."
-By Margaret Talev and Marisa Taylor
-McClatchy via
-RealCities
Alberto Gonzales - D
Kyle Sampson
- Missouri
- US
Attorney - Law
- "Number
of Fired Prosecutors Grows: Dismissals Began Earlier
Than Justice Dept. Has Said." ... "The former U.S. attorney in Kansas City,
Mo. [Missouri], Todd P. Graves, said yesterday that he was asked to step
down from his job by a senior Justice Department official in January 2006,
months before eight other federal prosecutors would be fired by the Bush
administration." ... "Graves said he was told simply that he should resign
to "give another person a chance." He said he did not oppose the department's
request, because he had already been planning to return to private practice.
He did appeal to Missouri's senior senator to try to persuade the White
House to allow him to remain long enough to prosecute a final, important
case -- involving the slaying of a pregnant woman and kidnapping of her
8-month fetus. Justice officials rejected the request." ... "The former
prosecutor's disclosure, in an interview on the eve of a second appearance
today by [Republican] Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales before lawmakers
investigating the firings, means that the administration began moving to
replace U.S. attorneys five months earlier than was previously known. It
also means that at least nine prosecutors were asked to resign last year,
a deviation from repeated suggestions by Gonzales and other senior Justice
officials in congressional testimony and other public statements that the
firings did not extend beyond the eight prosecutors already known to have
been forced out." ... "The same month he was asked to step down, Graves's
name was included in a Jan. 9, 2006, list assembled by Gonzales's then-chief
of staff, D. Kyle Sampson, of seven U.S. attorneys the administration was
considering forcing from their jobs. That April, Sampson sent another e-mail
noting that two of the prosecutors on that list had already left. Three
names, including Graves's, were redacted when Justice officials released
the January list." (1, 2)
-By Amy Goldstein and Dan Eggen with contributions
by Paul Kane -WashingtonPost
Missouri
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Weather
- Disaster
- History
- "Failing
Levees Spur Major Missouri Floods: Water Tops At
Least 20 Levees In Worst Flooding Since 1993." ... "At least 20 levees
have been overtopped as flood waters make their way down Missouri streams
and rivers, authorities said." ... ""It's a major flood," Suzanne Fortin,
a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Pleasant Hill, said
Wednesday. "It won't be a record breaker, but it will be in the top three.""
... "The floodwaters would rank among the top three on the 102, Platte,
Grand and parts of the Missouri River near the cities of Sibley and Glasgow,
Fortin said." ... "And historic river levels have been reached on the Tarkio
River at Fairfax." ... "The Missouri River is at its highest level since
the 1993 floods, threatening small towns and even parts of Kansas City
and St. Louis, reports CBS
News correspondent Peter King (audio) [MP3]." (1, 2)
-AP via -CBSNews
Bradley
Schlozman - Political
- Civil
Righs - US
Attorneys - Law
- Enforcement
- Texas
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Georgia
- Missouri
- 2006
Election - "Missouri
attorney a focus in firings: Senate bypassed in appointment
of [Republican lawyer Bradley] Schlozman." ... "Todd Graves brought just
four misdemeanor voter fraud indictments during his five years as the US
attorney for western Missouri -- even though some of his fellow Republicans
in the closely divided state wanted stricter oversight of Democratic efforts
to sign up new voters." ... "Then, in March 2006, Graves was replaced by
a new US attorney -- one who had no prosecutorial experience and bypassed
Senate confirmation. Bradley Schlozman moved aggressively where Graves
had not, announcing felony indictments of four workers for a liberal activist
group on voter registration fraud charges less than a week before the 2006
election." ... "Republicans, who had been pushing for restrictive new voting
laws, applauded. But critics said Schlozman violated a department policy
to wait until after an election to bring voter fraud indictments if the
case could affect the outcome, either by becoming a campaign issue or by
scaring legitimate voters into staying home." ... "Schlozman is emerging
as a focal point of the investigation into the firing of eight US attorneys
last year -- and as a symbol of broader complaints that the Bush administration
has misused its stewardship of law enforcement to give Republicans an electoral
edge." ... "No stranger to election law controversy, Schlozman previously
spent three years as a political appointee in the Justice Department's
Civil Rights Division, where he supervised the voting rights section."
... "There, he came into conflict with veteran staff over his decisions
to approve a Texas redistricting plan and a Georgia photo-ID voting law,
both of which benefited Republicans. He also hired many new career lawyers
with strong conservative credentials, in what critics say was an attempt
to reduce enforcement of laws designed to eliminate obstacles to voting
by minorities." ... ""Schlozman was reshaping the Civil Rights Division,"
said Joe Rich , who was chief of the voting rights section until taking
a buyout in 2005, in an interview. "Schlozman didn't know anything about
voting law. . . . All he knew is he wanted to be sure that the Republicans
were going to win."" -By Charlie Savage
-Boston/Globe
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