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 Judd
Gregg -  Barack
Obama -  Economy
- New
Hampshire
"Sen. Gregg: Obama on the Right Economic Track." ... "[New Hampshire Republican Senator] Judd Gregg, the Republican senator who suddenly withdrew himself as a nominee for Commerce Secretary, "feels very strongly" that [Democratic] President Obama is on the right economic track." ... ""He's going to be a very strong President, in my opinion," he said in an interview on CNBC Friday." ... "Responding to assertions that he originally sought out the position, Gregg did not "campaign" for the job, he said." -CNBC 
Judd
Gregg -  Jack
Abramoff - Corporate
-  Government
-  Legislative
-  Politics
-  Investigation
- New
Hampshire
"Former Gregg Aide Tied To Abramoff Scandal, Court Documents Report He Took Gifts In Exchange For Favors." ... "Earlier today, the AP reported that Kevin Koonce, who worked as Commerce Secretary-nominee [New Hampshire Republican Senator] Judd Gregg’s legislative director from 2002-04, “has been caught up in a long-running investigation into a Capitol Hill lobbying scandal.” Koonce “was cited in a guilty plea last week by Todd Boulanger, a former deputy to disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff,” as having taken gifts exceeding $10,000 in exchange for favors in spending legislation." ... "According to Boulanger’s plea documents, Koonce “tried to help insert spending measures and add other amendments to legislation for Boulanger’s clients.” At one point, Boulanger sent an e-mail to Abramoff saying that he was confident Koonce’s boss would help them out:" "Later, Boulanger sent an e-mail to Abramoff expressing confidence that the senator [Republican Judd Gregg] for whom the staffer worked would give them a favor. “Easy money,” Boulanger wrote, adding that the aide “practically lives in our various suites. We are shady.”""As Raw Story notes, Gregg’s spokesman Joel Maiola said in 2006 that Gregg had “never had any contact” with Abramoff, despite his acceptance of donations from “two Indian tribes represented by Abramoff’s firm in 2002 and 2004.” Gregg reportedly donated the $12,000 to a New Hampshire-based charity." -By Matt Corley -ThinkProgress.org
Barack
Obama - Judd
Gregg - Corporate
- Government
-  Seniors
- Health
-  People
-  Accounting
-  History
- NH
"Gregg Voted to Kill Commerce Before He Agreed to Lead It." ... "[Democratic] President Obama’s new candidate to run the Commerce Department voted in favor of abolishing the agency as a member of the Budget Committee and on the Senate floor in 1995." ... "[New Hampshire Republican Senator] Sen. Judd Gregg , R-N.H. [Republican-New Hampshire], whose nomination was expected to be announced Tuesday, also worked in the Senate to trim the department’s budget as head of the Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations Subcommittee." ... "The Senate version of the controversial measure envisioned spending cuts of more than $960 billion, almost half of it from Medicare and Medicaid. Democratic efforts to amend it were uniformly rebuked by a united GOP [GOP=Grand Old Party=Republican] majority on the Budget Committee." ... "Gregg also fought [Democratic] President Bill Clinton’s efforts to increase funding for the Commerce Department to administer the 2000 census. Indeed, Gregg’s commitment to basic functions of the department has been questioned at times." ... "“I guess if you can’t destroy it, go be in charge of it,” said a Senate Republican aide." -By Jonathan Allen -CQPolitics.com
Barack
Obama - Judd
Gregg -  Female
-  Employees
- Pay
- Legislation
- Politics
- History
- Race
- New
Hampshire
"Kudos to Congress for equal pay vote." ... "The Lilly Ledbetter case is pretty straightforward. Ledbetter, an employee of Goodyear Tire and Rubber for nearly 20 years, was paid significantly less than her male co-workers for doing the same job." ... "Ledbetter filed a lawsuit against Goodyear after someone left an anonymous note in her mailbox telling her about the disparity." ... "The case wended its way to the United States Supreme Court, which found that employers are protected from lawsuits over race or gender pay discrimination if the claims are based on decisions made by the employer 180 days ago or more." ... "Seeing the inherent injustice in the letter of the law, Congress passed the Lilly Ledbetter Equal Pay Act last week. The act, which represented [Democratic] President Barack Obama's first bill signing, changes the law to begin a new 180-day statute of limitations with every paycheck." ... "New Hampshire [Republican Senator] Sen. Judd Gregg, however, voted against it, saying that while all Americans deserve "equal and fair treatment at the workplace," the bill "is really a boon for trial lawyers which dramatically broadens their ability to file lawsuits, regardless of how frivolous or whether their clients even personally experienced discrimination."" ... "That's disappointing." ... "Anytime politicians want to stand up for corporate America by opposing legislation that protects workers, they play the frivolous lawsuit card." ... "Sure, there are egregious cases where wayward juries give people ridiculous amounts of money for doing something they should have known better not to do (although those cases are often later settled for less or overturned on appeal)." ... "However, this isn't such a case, and Sen. Gregg should be able to come up with a better rationale for voting to deny thousands of Americans the opportunity to pursue equal pay for equal work." -NashuaTelegraph.com
Barack
Obama - Judd
Gregg - Corporate
- Government
- Seniors
-Health
- People
- Accounting
- History
- NH
"Gregg Voted to Kill Commerce Before He Agreed to Lead It." ... "[Democratic] President Obama’s new candidate to run the Commerce Department voted in favor of abolishing the agency as a member of the Budget Committee and on the Senate floor in 1995." ... "[New Hampshire Republican Senator] Sen. Judd Gregg , R-N.H. [Republican-New Hampshire], whose nomination was expected to be announced Tuesday, also worked in the Senate to trim the department’s budget as head of the Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations Subcommittee." ... "The Senate version of the controversial measure envisioned spending cuts of more than $960 billion, almost half of it from Medicare and Medicaid. Democratic efforts to amend it were uniformly rebuked by a united GOP [GOP=Grand Old Party=Republican] majority on the Budget Committee." ... "Gregg also fought [Democratic] President Bill Clinton’s efforts to increase funding for the Commerce Department to administer the 2000 census. Indeed, Gregg’s commitment to basic functions of the department has been questioned at times." ... "“I guess if you can’t destroy it, go be in charge of it,” said a Senate Republican aide." -By Jonathan Allen -CQPolitics.com
Barack
Obama - Judd
Gregg - Female
- Employees
- Pay
- Legislation
- Politics
- History
- Race
- New
Hampshire
"Kudos to Congress for equal pay vote." ... "The Lilly Ledbetter case is pretty straightforward. Ledbetter, an employee of Goodyear Tire and Rubber for nearly 20 years, was paid significantly less than her male co-workers for doing the same job." ... "Ledbetter filed a lawsuit against Goodyear after someone left an anonymous note in her mailbox telling her about the disparity." ... "The case wended its way to the United States Supreme Court, which found that employers are protected from lawsuits over race or gender pay discrimination if the claims are based on decisions made by the employer 180 days ago or more." ... "Seeing the inherent injustice in the letter of the law, Congress passed the Lilly Ledbetter Equal Pay Act last week. The act, which represented [Democratic] President Barack Obama's first bill signing, changes the law to begin a new 180-day statute of limitations with every paycheck." ... "New Hampshire [Republican Senator] Sen. Judd Gregg, however, voted against it, saying that while all Americans deserve "equal and fair treatment at the workplace," the bill "is really a boon for trial lawyers which dramatically broadens their ability to file lawsuits, regardless of how frivolous or whether their clients even personally experienced discrimination."" ... "That's disappointing." ... "Anytime politicians want to stand up for corporate America by opposing legislation that protects workers, they play the frivolous lawsuit card." ... "Sure, there are egregious cases where wayward juries give people ridiculous amounts of money for doing something they should have known better not to do (although those cases are often later settled for less or overturned on appeal)." ... "However, this isn't such a case, and Sen. Gregg should be able to come up with a better rationale for voting to deny thousands of Americans the opportunity to pursue equal pay for equal work." -NashuaTelegraph.com
Judd
Gregg - Corporate
- Accounting
- Politics
- Federal
- History
- New
Hampshire
"Republican Judd Gregg (R-NH) Is a Liar." ... "So Justin Fox says:" "The Curious Capitalist: Judd Gregg’s dubious tax math: Republican New Hampshire Senator Judd Gregg (or one of his staffers) writes:"-By Brad DeLong"The growth in tax revenues from 2002 through 2007 were some of the largest in history. The tax system became much more progressive, with the top 20% of income earners paying 85% of the taxes -- a rate much higher than during the Clinton years -- all while keeping capital-gains rates low.""I'll blame the WSJ [Wall Street Journal] opinion editors for the verb-subject disagreement in the first sentence. But I'm assuming the facts came from Gregg. Except they're not quite facts—and since this sort of tax disinformation is pretty common, I couldn't resist wasting an hour digging up the data to refute them." |
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Barack
Obama - 2008
Election - Federal
- Law
- Politics
- Investigation
- 
Colorado
- 
Indiana
- 
Ohio
- 
Michigan
- 
Nevada
- 
North
Carolina - New
Hampshire - 
Wisconsin
John
McCain - Barack
Obama - 
Illinois
- 
Arizona
- New
Hampshire - 2008
Election
John
McCain - Psychology
- Politician
- History
- 
US
- 
International
- 2008
Election - 
Rick
Renzi - New
Hampshire - 
Virginia
- 
Texas
- Arizona
- "McCain:
A Question of Temperament." ... "Since the beginning
of [2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate John] McCain's public
life, the many witnesses to his temper have had strikingly different reactions
to it. Some depict McCain, now the presumptive Republican nominee for president,
as an erratic hothead incapable of staying cool in the face of what he
views as either disloyalty to him or irrational opposition to his ideas.
Others praise a firebrand who is resolute against the forces of greed and
gutlessness." ... "Former senator Bob Smith, a New Hampshire Republican,
expresses worries about McCain: "His temper would place this country at
risk in international affairs, and the world perhaps in danger. In my mind,
it should disqualify him."" ... "He [McCain] recalls in his writings how,
as a toddler, he sometimes held his breath and fainted during moments of
fury." ... "The nicknames hung on him at Episcopal [private High School
in Alexandria, Virginia] mocked his hair-trigger feistiness: "Punk" and
"McNasty."" ... "In 2007, during a heated closed-door discussion with Senate
colleagues about the contentious immigration issue, he angrily shouted
a profanity at a fellow Republican [Senator], John Cornyn of Texas, an
incident that quickly found its way into headlines." ... "Reports recently
surfaced of [Representative] Rep. Rick Renzi, an Arizona Republican, taking
offense when McCain called him "boy" once too often during a 2006 meeting,
a story that McCain aides confirm while playing down its importance." ...
"[Former New Hampshire Republican Bob Smith] "I've witnessed a lot of his
temper and outbursts," Smith said. "For me, some of this stuff is relevant.
It raises questions about stability. . . . It's more than just temper.
It's this need of his to show you that he's above you -- a sneering, condescending
attitude. It's hurt his relationships in Congress. . . . I've seen it up-close.""
(1, 2,
3,
4,
5)
-By Michael Leahy -WashingtonPost
John
McCain - 
Iraq
- 
War
- US- NH
- "McCain
Told Me 100 Years." ... "I was the questioner at
the January 3 Town Hall Meeting in Derry, NH [New Hampshire], who [2008
Election Republican Presidential Candidate John] McCain called Ernest Hemingway
and who asked him what he hoped to accomplish in Iraq and how long it would
take. When I pressed him for a time frame and cited [Republican President]
George Bush's figure of fifty years, Senator McCain shocked me by saying
"Maybe a hundred"." ... "Now, three months later, McCain partisans are
regretting the candor of their candidate, and in a full-court press, are
claiming that McCain's opponents have mischaracterized his remarks." ...
"McCain's words left little room for interpretation. By saying that he
was fine with staying in Iraq for 100 years, he made clear his commitment
to staying the course and, further, to remaining in Iraq for years after
the country is pacified, assuming that's ever possible." ... "Everyone
who was there that night got it: we weren't getting out anytime soon."
... "Hendrik Hertzberg of The New Yorker summed it up when he wrote,
"what the context shows, I think, is that yanking that sound bite out of
context isn't really all that unfair. McCain wants to stay in Iraq until
no more Americans are getting killed, no matter how long it takes and how
many Americans get killed achieving that goal -- that is, the goal of not
getting any more Americans killed. And once that goal is achieved, we'll
stay."" ... "When offered the opportunity to backtrack later, McCain only
dug himself in deeper, upping the ante to 10,000 years, or a million. He
may as well have said "forever" when he confirmed his 100 years remark
and added that he would support permanent bases in Iraq three days later
on NBC's Meet the Press." ... "Not content to confine the endless war to
Iraq, McCain went on to warn of other wars." -By Dave
Tiffany -HuffingtonPost.com
John
McCain
- Money
- Politics
- 2008
Election - New
Hampshire
- "McCain Loan
Raises FEC Questions." ... "The government's top
campaign finance regulator says [2008 Election Republican Presidential
Candidate] John McCain can't drop out of the primary election's public
financing system until he answers questions about a loan he obtained to
kickstart his once faltering presidential campaign." ... "Federal Election
Commission Chairman David Mason [a Republican appointee], in a letter to
McCain this week, said the all-but-certain Republican nominee needs to
assure the commission that he did not use the promise of public money to
help secure a $4 million line of credit he obtained in November." ... "At
issue is the fine print in the loan agreement between McCain and Fidelity
& Trust Bank. McCain secured the loan using his list of contributors,
his promise to use that list to raise money to pay off the loan and by
taking out a life insurance policy." ... "But the agreement also said that
if McCain were to withdraw from the public financing system before the
end of 2007 and then were to lose the New Hampshire primary by more than
10 percentage points, he would have had to reapply to the FEC [Federal
Election Commission] for public matching funds and provide the bank additional
collateral for the loan." ... "In his letter to McCain, Mason said the
commission would allow a candidate to withdraw from the public finance
system as long as he had not received any public funds and had not pledged
the certification of such funds "as security for private financing."" (1,
2)
-By Jim Kuhnhenn -AP
via -WTOPnews.com
John
McCain - Politics
- 2008
Election
- Texas
- 
Iowa
- 
New
Mexico - New
Hampshire - 
Domenici
- Obama
- 
Clinton
- History
- "McCain's
temper may prove to be a liability in presidential campaign."
... "Temper, temper." ... "Republican [2008 Election Presidential Candidate]
John McCain is known for his." ... "The presumptive Republican presidential
nominee has been dubbed "Senator Hothead" by more than one publication."
... ""F--- you," he shouted at Texas [Republican Senator] Sen. John Cornyn
last year." ... ""Only an a------ would put together a budget like this,"
he told the former Budget Committee chairman, [New Mexico Republican Senator]
Sen. Pete Domenici, in 1999." ... ""I'm calling you a f------ jerk!" he
once retorted to Iowa [Republican Senator] Sen. Chuck Grassley." ... "McCain
has even blown up at volunteers and, on occasion, the average guy." ...
"He often pokes fun at his reputation: "Thanks for the question, you little
jerk," he said last year to a New Hampshire high school student wondering
if McCain, at 71, was too old to be president." ... "Other times, his ire
is all too real. This has prompted questions about whether his temperament
is suited to the office of commander-in-chief or whether it might handicap
him in a presidential campaign against either [2008 Election Democratic
Presidential Candidates] Barack Obama or Hillary Rodham Clinton, who are
not known for such outbursts." ... ""I decided I didn't want this guy anywhere
near a trigger," Domenici told Newsweek in 2000 when McCain unsuccessfully
sought the Republican presidential nomination against [Republican President]
George W. Bush." (1, 2)
-By Libby Quaid -AP
via -IHT.com
John
McCain
- Federal
- Law
- Politics
- 
Maryland
- New
Hampshire - 2008
Election - "McCain
Got Loan by Pledging to Seek Federal Funds." ...
"[2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate] John McCain's cash-strapped
campaign borrowed $1 million from a Bethesda [Maryland] bank two weeks
before the New Hampshire primary by pledging to enter the public financing
system if his bid for the presidency faltered, newly disclosed records
show." ... "McCain had already taken a $3 million bank loan in November
to keep his campaign afloat, and he sought from the same bank $1 million
more shortly before this month's Super Tuesday contests, this time pledging
incoming but unprocessed contributions as collateral." ... "The unorthodox
lending terms also raised fresh questions from McCain's critics about his
ability to repeatedly draw money from the Maryland-based Fidelity &
Trust Bank. Campaign finance lawyers speculated whether McCain may have
inadvertently committed himself to entering the public financing system
for the remainder of the primary season by holding out the prospect of
taking public matching funds in exchange for the $1 million loan in December."
... "Cleta Mitchell, a veteran campaign finance lawyer and a McCain critic,
said she has never encountered a similar agreement." ... ""They've clearly
got a sweetheart deal with this bank," Mitchell said. "This bank is just
a cash register for them."" (1, 2)
-By Matthew Mosk with contributions by Perry Bacon
Jr. -WashingtonPost
John
McCain - 
Rick
Davis - 
Russian
- Crime
- Money
- Politics
- 
Switzerland
- 
Ukraine
- Canada
- 
Britain
- Lawsuits
- 
Ga
- NH
- Virginia
- Arizona
- 2008
Election - US
- International
- "Aide
Helped Controversial Russian Meet McCain: Davis,
Then a Lobbyist, Has Spurred Debate in Reform-Focused Campaign." ... "A
top political adviser in [2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate
and Arizona Senator] Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign helped
arrange an introduction in 2006 between McCain and a Russian billionaire
whose suspected links to anti-democratic and organized-crime figures are
so controversial that the U.S. [United States] government revoked his visa."
... "Rick Davis, who is now McCain's campaign manager, helped set up the
encounter between McCain and Russian aluminum magnate Oleg Deripaska in
[World Economic Summit at Davos] Switzerland during an international economic
conference. At the time, Davis was working for a lobbying firm and seeking
to do business with the billionaire." ... "With a net worth of more than
$13 billion, Deripaska is one of the richest men in Russia and a close
ally of President Vladimir Putin." ... "When Deripaska met McCain, Davis
was part of Davis Manafort, a lobbying firm that was being paid to provide
political advice to pro-Russian and oligarch-funded candidates in Ukraine,
according to interviews and news accounts." ... "Davis, who has been a
political adviser to McCain on and off since 1999, was part of a lobbying
firm that worked not only for Ukrainian politicians but also for telecommunications
firms, a lottery services provider and freight companies." ... "Davis's
firm provided political advice to a pro-Russian party in Ukraine during
the parliamentary elections of 2006." ... "He [Oleg Deripaska] has been
accused of shady business practices in lawsuits in the United States and
Britain, and his multiple-entry U.S. visa was yanked by the State Department
in the summer of 2006." ... "The first gathering that brought McCain and
Deripaska together occurred in January 2006, when McCain was part of a
congressional delegation trip. He and a small group of senators, including
[Georgia Republican Senator] Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.[Republican-Georgia])
and [New Hampshire Republican Senator] John E. Sununu (R-N.H.[Republican-New
Hampshire]), met for a drink near Davos, Switzerland, at an apartment where
they were greeted by Davis and Deripaska. The group then went to a dinner
at the ski chalet of Peter Munk, founder of Barrick Gold, the world's largest
gold-mining company, based in Toronto [Canada]. Participants at the buffet
dinner said Munk complimented his sometime business partner Deripaska during
his brief remarks to the 40 or so guests." ... "Later that month, Deripaska
wrote to Davis and his partner, GOP political consultant Paul J. Manafort,
to thank them for arranging the meeting. "Thank you so much for setting
up everything in Klosters so spectacularly," he wrote. "It was very interesting
to meet Senators McCain, Chambliss and Sununu in such an intimate setting.""
... "The letter was sent to Davis at the Reform Institute, a Virginia-based
nonprofit group that McCain helped start to promote many of his trademark
reform efforts, including increasing the transparency of lobbying and campaign
financing." ... "Davis was the institute's president from January 2003
until December 2005. During that time, he was also a registered lobbyist
at Davis Manafort. The institute was located at the Davis Manafort offices
until January 2006." ... "Seven months later, in August 2006, Davis was
present again at a social gathering that was also attended by McCain and
Deripaska,
this time in Montenegro, another Eastern European country in which Davis's
firm was working." (1,
2,
3)
-By Jeffrey H. Birnbaum and John Solomon with contributions
by Peter Baker -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
John
McCain
- Law
- Investigation
- 
Ralph
Reed
- 
Jack
Abramoff- 
Grover
Norquist
- 
Tom
DeLay
- Secret
- Corporate
- Religion
- History
- Georgia
- New
Hampshire - 2008
Election - 
Television
- Politics
- Opinion
- "Ralph
Reed's New Role." ... "Eighteen months ago, the political
career of Christian right golden boy [Republican] Ralph Reed came crashing
down, a casualty of his role in the [Republican] Jack Abramoff lobbying
scandal. This week, Reed has found a new calling. He appeared on CNN during
its New Hampshire primary coverage and again last night, labeled as a "GOP
[Grand Old Party=Republican] political analyst."" ... "Reed sounded none
too bullish about [2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate] John
McCain's prospects going forward despite his big New Hampshire win. That's
perhaps not surprising, given the long history between the two." ... "McCain,
as chairman of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, launched an investigation
of Abramoff's tribal lobbying that turned up a mountain of e-mails, including
some between Reed and Abramoff." ... "The e-mails revealed Abramoff's corrupt
dealings with politicians, as well as conservative religious and advocacy
groups. Reed often participated in Abramoff's business schemes, telling
him in a 1998 e-mail after stepping down as head of the Christian Coalition:
"I need to start humping in corporate accounts!"" ... "E-mails and testimony
before McCain's panel showed that Reed, who once branded gambling a "cancer"
on society, reaped millions of dollars in tribal casino proceeds that Abramoff
secretly routed to him through various non-profit front groups. Abramoff,
a lobbyist for the tribes, paid Reed to whip up "grassroots" Christian
opposition to prevent rival tribes from opening casinos." ... "Abramoff
sometimes routed his money to Reed through a group called Americans for
Tax Reform, run by conservative anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist. Norquist
lately has been attacking McCain's record on taxes, placing robo calls
to voters in New Hampshire." ... "Reed's much-publicized role in the Abramoff
scandal cost him the 2006 Republican primary for Georgia lieutenant governor--the
first rung on what was widely expected to be a climb into national politics."
... "Former House majority leader [Republican] Tom DeLay, who left Congress
and is still under investigation by the Justice Department in connection
with the Abramoff probe, predicted to MSNBC's Chris Matthews that McCain
won't fare well with conservatives in the South." -By
Susan Schmidt -WashingtonPost
Hillary
Clinton
- Barack
Obama
- 
John
Edwards
- 
Bill
Richardson
- 
Dennis
Kucinich - New
Hampshire - 2008
Election - "Clinton
Stuns Political World With New Hampshire Win." ...
"Hillary Clinton's 39%-37% win over Barack Obama in New Hampshire caught
almost everyone by surprise last night particularly pollsters, who had
universally forecast a comfortable Obama win. With 96% of precincts reporting,
John Edwards placed a distant 3rd with 17%, followed by Bill Richardson
with 5% and Dennis Kucinich with 1%, according to CNN's
numbers. This morning, media reports are describing the New York senator's
upset win as a startling political event. The Politico reports the primary's
outcome "made fools of the pollsters, pundits, operatives and even some
people in her own campaign who had predicted her imminent demise." The
AP
calls it a "startling upset," one that resurrects Clinton's "bid for the
White House." Exit polls, adds the AP, suggest Clinton's win was cemented
on the support of female voters, who "deserted her last week" in Iowa and
"returned to her column in New Hampshire." Clinton also "was winning handily
among registered Democrats. Obama led her by an even larger margin" than
in Iowa "among independents, but he suffered from a falloff in turnout
among young voters." The New
York Times also reports Clinton "rode a wave of female support" to
victory, adding "several New Hampshire women, some of them undecided until
Tuesday, said that a galvanizing moment for them had been Mrs. Clinton's
unusual display of emotion on Monday as she described the pressures of
the race and her goals for the nation -- a moment Mrs. Clinton herself
acknowledged as a breakthrough."" -USNews.com
John
McCain
- Mitt
Romney
- 
Mike
Huckabee - 
Rudy
Giuliani
- 
Ron
Paul
- 
Fred
Thompson
- New
Hampshire - 2008
Election - "McCain
Stages "Lazarus-Like" Comeback In New Hampshire."
... "While most analysts remain unsure of its effect on the race for the
GOP nomination, John McCain's victory in New Hampshire is being hailed
as an remarkable comeback for a campaign that had been given up for dead
last summer. The Chicago
Tribune reports McCain "won with 37 percent compared to 32 percent
for Romney, who was forced to re-examine his candidacy, which was premised
on winning Iowa and New Hampshire to create a national juggernaut." Mike
Huckabee placed 3rd with 11%, followed by Rudy Giuliani, 9%; Ron Paul,
8%; and Fred Thompson, 1%." ... "USA
Today reports "political analyst Charles Cook called McCain's victory
'the greatest comeback since Lazarus,'" and "attributes it to 'an enormous
vacuum in the Republican Party.'" Using the same metaphor, the New
York Times reports McCain "revived his presidential bid with a Lazarus-like
victory." The Times adds that "to cheers of 'Mac is back,' Mr. McCain told
supporters last night: 'My friends, you know I'm past the age when
I can claim the noun "kid," no matter what adjective precedes it. But tonight,
we sure showed them what a comeback looks like.'""
-USNews.com
John
Edwards
- New
Hampshire - 2008
Election - "Edwards:
'In this race until the convention': 'Two races down,
48 states to go,' he says after third place N.H. [New Hampshire] finish."
... "[2008 Election] Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards took
his third-place New Hampshire finish in stride on Tuesday, pledging to
carry his battle forward despite difficult odds. “I am in this race until
the convention,” he told supporters." ... "“Two races down, 48 states left
to go,” Edwards said." ... "“Up until now, about half of 1 percent of Americans
have voted. Ninety-nine percent plus have not voted. And those 99 percent
deserve to have their voices heard because we have had too much in America
of people’s voices not being heard,” Edwards said."
-AP via -MSNBC
John
McCain
- Mitt
Romney
- New
Hampshire - Arizona
- Massachusetts- 2008
Election - "Schneider:
Bush has clear effect." ... "Roughly half of [New
Hampshire] Republican primary voters had a negative opinion of the [Republican
President] Bush administration, and those voters significantly went for
[2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate and] Arizona Sen. [Senator]
John McCain by nearly a 2-to-1 margin. Of the GOP voters who said they
had a positive opinion of the Bush administration, 37 percent voted for
[2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate and] former Massachusetts
Gov. [Governor] Mitt Romney." -By Bill Schneider
-CNN
John
Edwards
- New
Hampshire - 2008
Election - Healthcare
- Jobs
- Poverty
- US
- Global
- 
Climate
- 
Environment
- "Edwards:
Two down, 48 to go." ... "[2008 Election Democratic
Presidential Candidate and former North Carolina Senator] Former Sen. John
Edwards painted himself as the candidate of the voiceless Tuesday night
after tracking a distant third in the New Hampshire Democratic primary."
... ""We have had too much of voices not being heard," he said to an enthusiastic
crowd of supporters. " … That's what this battle is about. It's not about
me. It's about the cause of giving voice to all those whose voices are
not being heard in this democracy."" ... "Edwards pledged to continue his
fight to expand healthcare coverage, to fight global warming, protect the
environment, end poverty and create new jobs." ... ""We know what needs
to be done," he said. "The only question is whether we have the backbone
and the will and the determination to get there.""
-CNN
John
Edwards
- Hillary
Clinton
- 
Families
- Health-Care
- 
Drug
- Corporations
- Multinationals
- US
- Jobs
- 
California
- New
Hampshire - 2008
Election - "Edwards
focuses on health in final campaign push." ... "[2008
Election Democratic President] John Edwards appealed to the emotions of
New Hampshire voters in his final campaign push last night by bringing
on stage with him three families who had suffered from lack of health care."
... "On a 36-hour non-stop, marathon bus tour round New England, he put
health care at the core of his message." ... "At a rally in Elk Lodge,
Dover [New Hampshire], he lambasted health insurance firms and drug companies,
as well as multinationals who have transferred US jobs overseas. "The powerful
interests in Washington have an iron-clad clasp on your democracy," he
said." ... "The families with him included a mother, Hilda Sarkisyan, whose
17-year-old daughter Natalie died from cancer on December 20 in California
after an insurance company failed to pay up for a liver transplant that
could have saved her." ... "Edwards said: "This should never happen in
the United States of America. Things have to change."" ... "Hillary Clinton's
team accused him of exploiting the families. Edwards, who has been outspoken
in criticism of Clinton, retorted that the Clinton campaign had "no conscience"."
-By Ewen MacAskill -Guardian.co.uk
John
Edwards
- Barack
Obama - Hillary
Clinton
- Health
- Industry
- New
Hampshire - Nevada
- South
Carolina
- Illinois
- 2008
Election - "What
if it's a two-man Democratic race? New Hampshire
may leave Clinton on the ropes, reshaping the contest." ... "Imagine a
whole new race for the Democratic presidential nomination: a two-man contest
between the 2004 vice presidential nominee, [2008 Election Democratic Presidential
Candidate] John Edwards, and the rookie phenomenon of 2008, [2008 Election
Democratic Presidential Candidate and Illinois Senator] Sen. Barack Obama."
... "If [2008 Election Democratic Presidential Candidate] Hillary Clinton
were to suffer a defeat of large proportions on Tuesday night in the New
Hampshire primary, and if her star were to fade in the succeeding contests
in Nevada and South Carolina, she might either quit the race or cease to
be a dominant factor." ... "Elizabeth Edwards, the candidate’s wife and
most outspoken campaign advocate, pressed the critique of Obama on Monday
at a stop in Bedford, N.H. [New Hampshire.]" ... "“Sen. Obama, when he
was in the state Senate in Illinois, took money from the health insurance
industry at the same time that he was suggesting an amendment that was
favorable to the health insurance industry and was unfavorable to the people
of the Illinois,” she told a small crowd." ... "She also slammed Obama
for having a lobbyist as co-chairman of his New Hampshire campaign." ...
"[John Edwards strategist Joe Trippi:] “For a year everybody was told this
contest is between him (Obama) and her (Clinton),” Trippi argued. “And
during that year, the national audience has learned quite a bit about him,
most of it amazingly good: amazing speaker, incredibly inspirational —
and yet where is he nationally? He’s at 25 percent. The Rasmussen Poll,
which is the only national one I’ve seen since Iowa, has him at 25. I’ll
tell you why: They have massive doubts about this guy — on their own.”"
... "In other words, even without advertising from Edwards pointing out
flaws in the Obama image or record, many Democratic voters have doubts
about Obama." ... "“If you were going to fall under his spell, wouldn’t
you have done it by now?” asked Trippi." (1, 2)
-By Tom Curry -MSNBC
John
Edwards
- New
Hampshire - Iowa
- North
Carolina - California
- Teenager
- Health
- Company
- Drug
- 
Christmas
- Working- People
- 2008
Election - "Underdog
Edwards says he won't give up the fight for the White House."
... "The former senator from North Carolina [2008 Election Democratic Presidential
Candidate John Edwards] sought to bring added emotional wallop to his message
before Tuesday's primary by campaigning with the family of a Northridge
[California] teenager who died after her insurance company delayed approval
for a liver transplant." ... "The newest participants in the Edwards campaign
were the Sarkisyans of the San Fernando Valley [California], whose 17-year-old
daughter, Nataline, died just before Christmas of complications from leukemia.
After much debate, the family's insurance company had approved a liver
transplant, but she died hours later." ... ""When I talk about what insurance
companies and drug companies are doing to America, this is what I mean,"
Edwards said to a crowd of about 500 in Manchester [New Hampshire], where
some were moved to tears by the family's story. "This has real effects
on real people's lives."" ... "Grigor Sarkisyan told the audience how he
had promised to buy his daughter a white car after she got out of the hospital,
but had to buy a white coffin instead. He said he thought he had done everything
he was supposed to as a father: working hard, supporting his family and
buying health insurance he thought would take care of them if they got
sick." ... "His wife, Hilda Sarkisyan, had heard Edwards' speech Thursday
after his second-place finish in the Iowa caucuses and called the candidate's
campaign. The family arrived in New Hampshire on Sunday morning." ... "The
couple urged voters to support Edwards, saying he is the lone candidate
who will fight for Americans against such powerful interests as insurance
companies." ... ""They cannot tell us who's going to live and who's going
to die," Hilda Sarkisyan said." -By Seema Mehta and
James Rainey -LAtimes
John
Edwards
- Hillary
Clinton
- Barack
Obama - Health-Care
- New
Hampshire - Iowa
- North
Carolina - 
New
York
- 2008
Election - "Edwards
rebukes Clinton in Democratic debate." ... "[2008
Election Democratic Presidential Candidate] Democrat Hillary Clinton, attempting
to slow [2008 Election Democratic Presidential Candidate] Barack Obama's
surging campaign, went on the attack on Saturday and drew a sharp rebuke
from [2008 Election Democratic Presidential Candidate] John Edwards for
defending the status quo." ... "In a combative debate three days before
a too-close-to-call New Hampshire primary, Clinton questioned Obama's health-care
plan and cast doubt on his ability to deliver on his calls for change in
Washington." ... "Edwards, a former North Carolina senator, upbraided the
New York senator for criticizing Obama and noted her third-place finish
in Iowa on Thursday, when Obama captured the first big prize of the presidential
campaign and Edwards finished second." ... ""I didn't hear these kinds
of attacks from Senator Clinton when she was ahead," Edwards said. "Every
time he speaks out for change, every time I fight for change, the forces
of status quo are going to attack -- every single time."" ... "Clinton
criticized Obama for shifting in recent years from supporting a single-payer,
government-run health-care plan to one that does not mandate insurance
coverage for all Americans." (1, 2,
3)
-By John Whitesides with contributions by Peter Cooney
-Reuters
John
Edwards
- Barack
Obama
- Politics
- 2008
Election - 2004
Election - Iowa
- New
Hampshire - Working
- People
- Investment
- Civil
Rights - Lawyer
- Drug
- 
Oil
- "Obama
borrows from Edwards." ... "After beating [2008 Election
Democratic Presidential Candidate] John Edwards in Iowa on Thursday, [2008
Election Democratic Presidential Candidate] Barack Obama has decided to
join him -- repeatedly poaching his opponent's themes, language, and even
jokes." ... ""We shouldn't just be respecting wealth in this country --
we should be respecting work," Obama told an overflow crowd in a [New Hampshire]
high-school gym today." ... "Edwards's 2004 presidential campaign was centered
around the idea that the [Republican President] Bush administration had
launched a "war on work" through tax cuts that offer incentives for investment
over labor. "Hard work should be valued in this country, so we're going
to reward work, not just wealth," Edwards said in accepting his party’s
vice-presidential nomination at the Democratic’ convention in Boston. In
this campaign, he has sharpened his populist rhetoric, railing against
greedy corporate CEOs who are waging war on working people and the middle
class." ... "Since arriving in New Hampshire Friday, Obama has borrowed
Edwards's favorite verb by bragging that he had "fought" as a community
organizer and civil rights lawyer, and conceding that "insurance companies
and drug companies will not give up their profits" -- which Edwards asserts
repeatedly to ridicule Obama's talk of conciliation. Obama repeatedly invoked
those interests, as well as "big oil and big insurance," common villains
in Edwards speeches." -By Sasha Issenberg with contributions
by Foon Rhee -Boston/Globe
John
Edwards
- Barack
Obama
- Hillary
Clinton
- Corporate
- 
Media
- Politics
- Iowa
- New
Hampshire - 2008
Election - "Elizabeth
Edwards To Chris Matthews And Rest Of Media: Ahem -- John And I Are Still
Here." ... "One of the things I'd been wondering
was whether [2008 Election Democratic Presidential Candidate] John Edwards'
slim victory over [2008 Election Democratic Presidential Candidate] Hillary
[Clinton] for second-place in Iowa would shift the media dynamic of the
race and get people to cover it as more of a three-way contest. In general
terms, it's already obvious that the answer is No." ... "First, Elizabeth
[Edwards] was asked whether John would be able to survive if [2008 Election
Democratic Presidential Candidate] Barack Obama won both Iowa and New Hampshire.
She observed that John had come in second in Iowa in 2004, that he had
gotten short-shrifted in coverage then, and that this was happening again[.]"
... "Now, I recognize that news orgs have a dilemma on their hands in deciding
whom to cover and how to apportion resources. And I also realize that the
candidacies of Hillary and Obama are both historic in ways that Edwards'
effort isn't. But in a general sense there's no question that the media's
treatment of the Edwards campaign has really been an ugly failure on many
levels." ... "Though Edwards had all along been very competitive with Hillary
and Obama in Iowa -- a state in which victory is supposed to be hugely
important, according to the pundits themselves -- Edwards's campaign was
never treated with anywhere near the same scope or seriousness that the
others were. The coverage has often been tinged with a snide dismissiveness.
This hasn't palpably changed with Edwards' second-place finish in Iowa.
" -By Greg
Sargent -TalkingPointsMemo.com
Ron
Paul
- 
Duncan
Hunter
- Rudolph
W Giuliani
- Corporate
- TV
- Politics
- Censorship
- New
Hampshire - Iowa
- Texas
- California
- 2008
Election - "New
Hampshire G.O.P. Backs Out of Fox Forum." ... "[2008
Election Republican Presidential Candidate] Ron Paul raised nearly $20
million in the last quarter, likely more than any of his rivals. He garnered
10 percent of the Republican vote in the Iowa
Caucuses, surpassing [2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate]
Rudolph W. Giuliani. And he’s in New Hampshire this weekend on the airwaves
and the campaign trail before the Jan. 8 primary." ... "But the Texas congressman
and presidential contender won’t
be getting a seat and the table at Sunday’s Fox News Republican candidate
forum." ... "On Saturday the New Hampshire Republican party expressed its
disappointment with the decision to exclude Mr. Paul and Representative
Duncan Hunter of California by severing its partnership with Fox." ...
"“We believe that it is inconsistent with the first in the nation primary
tradition to be excluding candidates in a pre-primary setting,” said Fergus
Cullen, chair of the state G.O.P. [Grand Old Party=Republican] party. “All
candidates regardless of how well known they are or how much money they’ve
raised should be treated equally here.”" -By Michael
Falcone -NYTimes
John
Edwards
- Hillary
Clinton
- Barack
Obama
- Iowa
- New
York
- New
Hampshire - 2008
Election - "Clinton
out of it, Edwards suggests." ... "[2008 Election
Democratic Presidential Candidate] Democrat John Edwards seemed to suggest
Friday Hillary Clinton's third place finish in Iowa may have rendered the
New York senator effectively out of the presidential race." ... "Speaking
at an early-morning campaign rally in Manchester, New Hampshire, Edwards
pointed to entrance polls indicating Iowa voters overwhelmingly listed
"change" as the most important attribute they are looking for in a candidate.
That means, he added, there are now only "two choices."" ... ""What is
clear is that [voters] are not interested in status quo," Edwards said.
"They're interested in change. They want to see a candidate of change,
and so they now have two choices in making that decision, and this choice
is somebody who will fight for the change that makes America what it's
capable of being.["]" ... "Edwards also continued with his campaign’s standard
populist pitch in the Granite State, telling Manchester voters, "I am not
the candidate of glitz. I am not the candidate of glamor; nor do I claim
to be. But what I am — I am the candidate for president of the United States
that is the peoples' candidate."" ... "The former senator struck a similar
chord at a Nashua event later Friday. And in an interview with CNN's Wolf
Blitzer, Edwards sought to distinguish himself as a fighter for change
while rival [2008 Election Democratic Presidential Candidate] Barack Obama's
approach is more "philosophical" and "academic."" -By
Alexander Mooney -CNN
Mike
Huckabee - Mitt
Romney
- John
McCain
- Iowa
- New
Hampshire - Religion
- Money
- 2008
Election - "Huckabee
sweeps Iowa in big upset GOP victory." ... "Buoyed
by a wave of Christian conservative support, [2008 Election Republican
Presidential Candidate] Mike Huckabee pulled off a major upset victory
here yesterday, forcing one-time Iowa front-runner [2008 Election Republican
Presidential Candidate] Mitt Romney into a do-or-die contest against [2008
Election Republican Presidential Candidate] John McCain in New Hampshire
in just four days." ... "The Huckabee win is also a major setback for Romney,
who far outspent and out-advertised Huckabee in this key first presidential
contest, and a boost for McCain, whose positive finish only helps his chances
of pulling out a win in New Hampshire." ... ""Most of the pundits said
when you are outspent at least 15 to 1 it's impossible to win the election,"
said a jubilant Huckabee. "Tonight we proved that American politics is
still in the hands of ordinary people like you."" ... "Romney, who spent
an estimated $7 million on ads here, the most of any Republican, came under
criticism by Huckabee and McCain for running what they considered negative
ads about them and their pasts." ... ""I think the lesson of this election
in Iowa is, one, you can't buy an election, and two, that negative campaigns
don't work," said McCain in New Hampshire. "They don't work there and they
don't work here in New Hampshire."" (1, 2)
-By Tom Brune and Letta Tayler
-Newsday.com
John
Edwards
- Barack
Obama
- New
Hampshire - Iowa
- North
Carolina - Illinois
- Money
- 2008
Election - Jobs
- "Edwards
Vows to Fight on in NH." ... "[2008 Election Democratic
Presidential Candidate] John Edwards tried to put the best face on a disappointing
loss in the Iowa Democratic caucus, but vowed a vigorous campaign against
winner Barack Obama in New Hampshire." ... "``The status quo lost and change
won,'' Edwards told a crowded ballroom of supporters. He said he would
go to New Hampshire, which votes Tuesday, ``to determine who's best suited
to bring about the change this country so desperately needs.''" ... "The
former North Carolina senator made clear that he will portray himself as
more willing than [2008 Election Democratic Presidential Candidate and
Illinois Senator] Sen. Obama of Illinois to battle the ``corporate greed''
that Edwards has condemned repeatedly." ... "``Corporate greed has got
a stranglehold on America,'' he said. The nation needs a president like
Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt or Harry Truman ``who will stand
up to these people,'' he said." ... "In an interview with The Associated
Press, Edwards said, ``we were grotesquely outspent in Iowa, five-to-one,
and the fact that I'm as strong as I am now under these circumstances indicates
that this message of change and standing up'' and ``fighting for the middle
class and jobs really matters.''" ... "``I'm going to fight for that change,''
he said by telephone from his hotel room. ``I've fought for it my entire
life. I have a long history of fighting powerful interests and winning.''"
-By Charles Babington
-AP via -Guardian.co.uk
John
McCain
- United
States - Iraq
- Military
- Politics
- 2008
Election - New
Hampshire - "McCain
in NH: Would Be "Fine" To Keep Troops in Iraq for "A Hundred Years"."
... "The United States military could stay in Iraq for "maybe a hundred
years" and that "would be fine with me," [2008 Election Republican Presidential
Candidate] John McCain told two hundred or so people at a town hall meeting
in Derry, New Hampshire, on Thursday evening." ... "After the event ended,
I asked McCain about his "hundred years" comment, and he reaffirmed the
remark, excitedly declaring that U.S. troops could be in Iraq for "a thousand
years" or "a million years," as far as he was concerned. The key matter,
he explained, was whether they were being killed or not: "It's not American
presence; it's American casualties."" ... "In other words, McCain does
not equate victory in Iraq--which he passionately urges at campaign events--with
the removal of U.S. troops from that nation." -By
David Corn -TheNation.com
Dennis
Kucinich - 
Joe
Biden
- 
Chris
Dodd
- Ron
Paul
- Duncan
Hunter
- Television
- Politics
- US
- Iraq
- Military
- 2008
Election - New
Hampshire - "FOX,
ABC to reduce debate fields." ... "This weekend’s
[New Hampshire] presidential debates and forum will not include some nationally-known
candidates, and the chairmen of the state Republican and Democratic parties
are not happy." ... "Fergus Cullen and Raymond Buckley say the decisions
by ABC News, WMUR and, in Cullen’s case, FOX News, are inconsistent with
the New Hampshire primary’s tradition of providing a level playing field
for all candidates." ... "ABC News and WMUR-TV (Channel 9) confirmed today
that they have established performance-based criteria for Saturday night's
pair of presidential debates. Those rules could leave several relatively
well-known candidates on the outside looking in, including [2008 Election
Democratic Presidential Candidates] Democrats Dennis Kucinich, Joe Biden
and Chris Dodd." ... "And Cullen confirmed that FOX News has invited only
five presidential candidates to a GOP [GOP=Grand Old Party=Republican]
forum scheduled for Sunday night, leaving out [2008 Election Republican
Presidential Candidates] Ron Paul and Duncan Hunter." ... "GOP candidate
Paul has said that FOX News is “scared of me” and has called the network
“propagandists for this (Iraq) war, and I challenge them on the notion
that they are conservative.”" -By John Distaso
-UnionLeader.com
Mitt
Romney
- Mike
Huckabee - John
McCain
- Iowa
- Television
- Ads
- 2008
Election - New
Hampshire - Arizona
- Illegal
- Immigrants
- "Romney,
Huckabee attack each other in Iowa." ... "[2008 Election
Republican Presidential Candidate] Mitt Romney's blistering ads criticizing
[2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate] Mike Huckabee and [2008
Election Republican Presidential Candidate] John McCain drew sharp rebukes
from their targets and wary responses from voters Saturday, as candidates
barnstormed Iowa five days before the nation's first presidential voting
takes place in caucuses here." ... "Romney launched a new one against McCain
in New Hampshire on Saturday." ... ""McCain championed a bill to let every
illegal immigrant stay in American permanently," the 30-second TV spot
says. "He even voted to allow illegal immigrants to collect Social Security.""
... "The tone was similar to one Romney rolled out Friday in Iowa against
Huckabee." ... ""Soft on government spending," the ad charges. "His foreign
policy? 'Ludicrous,' says Condoleezza Rice." ... "Huckabee fought back
Saturday." ... ""Every time you turn on your television you're going to
see all the terrible things my opponents said I did," he told hundreds
crowded into a restaurant in Indianola [Iowa]. "Mitt Romney's not only
attacking me. He's now attacked John McCain, he's attacked Rudy Giuliani,
he's attacked everybody. He's not telling people why he ought to be president.""
... "McCain, the Arizona senator, dismissed Romney's charges and called
him "a phony."" -By David Lightman with contributions
by Jim Morrill -McClatchyDC.com
Ron
Paul
- Television- Politics
- New
Hampshire - Iowa
- US
- Iraq
- Military
- 2008
Election - "Paul:
Fox News is 'scared of me'." ... "[2008 Election
Republican Presidential Candidate] Ron Paul said the decision to exclude
him from a debate on Fox News Sunday the weekend before the New Hampshire
Primary is proof that the network "is scared" of him." ... ""They are scared
of me and don't want my message to get out, but it will," Paul said in
an interview at a diner here. "They are propagandists for this war and
I challenge them on the notion that they are conservative."" ... "Paul,
the Republican Texas Congressman, was wrapping up his final day of campaigning
in New Hampshire until the Iowa Caucuses on Thursday." -By
James Pindell -BostonGlobe
John
McCain
- Mitt
Romney
- Politics
- Abortion
- Immigration
- New
Hampshire - 2008
Election - "The
Romney backlash: Conservatives are coming home."
... "[New Hampshire] Granite Staters want a candidate who will look them
in the eye and tell them the truth. [2008 Election Republican Presidential
Candidate] John McCain has done that day in and day out, never wavering,
never faltering, never pandering." ... "[2008 Election Republican Presidential
Candidate] Mitt Romney has not. He has spoken his lines well, but the people
can sense that the words are memorized, not heartfelt." ... "Last week
Romney was reduced to debating what the meaning of "saw" is. It was only
the latest in a string of demonstrably false claims -- he'd been a hunter
"pretty much" all his life, he'd had the NRA's endorsement, he marched
with Martin Luther King, Jr. -- that call into question the veracity of
his justifications for switching sides on immigration, abortion, taxes
and his affection for Ronald Reagan." ... "In this primary, the more Mitt
Romney speaks, the less believable he becomes. That is why Granite Staters
who have listened attentively are now returning to John McCain. They might
not agree with McCain on everything, as we don't, but like us, they judge
him to be a man of integrity and conviction, a man who won't sell them
out, who won't break his promises, and who won't lie to get elected."
-UnionLeader.com
Mitt
Romney
- Political
- Corporation
- Marketing
- History
- Gay-Rights
- Pro-Choice
- Stem
Cell - 
Science
- Health
- Law
- Religious
- Salt
Lake City - 
Utah
- Massachusetts
- New
Hampshire - US
- Torture
- Prison
- Guantanamo
Bay - 
Cuba
- 2008
Election - "Romney
should not be the next president." ... "[2008 Election
Republican Presidential Candidate Mitt] Romney's main business experience
is as a management consultant, a field in which smart, fast-moving specialists
often advise corporations on how to reinvent themselves. His memoir is
called Turnaround - the story of his successful rescue of the 2002 Winter
Olympics in Salt Lake City [Utah] - but the most stunning turnaround he
has engineered is his own political career." ... "If you followed only
his tenure as governor of Massachusetts, you might imagine Romney as a
pragmatic moderate with liberal positions on numerous social issues and
an ability to work well with Democrats. If you followed only his campaign
for president, you'd swear he was a red-meat conservative, pandering to
the religious right, whatever the cost. Pay attention to both, and you're
left to wonder if there's anything at all at his core." ... "As a candidate
for the U.S. [United States] Senate in 1994, he boasted that he would be
a stronger advocate of gay rights than his opponent, [Massachusetts Democratic
Senator] Ted Kennedy. These days, he makes a point of his opposition to
gay marriage and adoption." ... "There was a time that he said he wanted
to make contraception more available - and a time that he vetoed a bill
to sell it over-the-counter." ... "The old Romney assured voters he was
pro-choice on abortion. "You will not see me wavering on that," he said
in 1994, and he cited the tragedy of a relative's botched illegal abortion
as the reason to keep abortions safe and legal. These days, he describes
himself as pro-life." ... "There was a time that he supported stem-cell
research and cited his own wife's multiple sclerosis in explaining his
thinking; such research, he reasoned, could help families like his. These
days, he largely opposes it. As a candidate for governor, Romney dismissed
an anti-tax pledge as a gimmick. In this race, he was the first to sign."
... "In the 2008 campaign for president, there are numerous issues on which
Romney has no record, and so voters must take him at his word. On these
issues, those words are often chilling. While other candidates of both
parties speak of restoring America's moral leadership in the world, Romney
has said he'd like to "double" the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay [Cuba],
where inmates have been held for years without formal charge or access
to the courts. He dodges the issue of torture - unable to say, simply,
that waterboarding is torture and America won't do it." ... "When New Hampshire
partisans are asked to defend the state's first-in-the-nation primary,
we talk about our ability to see the candidates up close, ask tough questions
and see through the baloney. If a candidate is a phony, we assure ourselves
and the rest of the world, we'll know it." ... "Mitt Romney is such a candidate.
New Hampshire Republicans and independents must vote no."
-ConcordMonitor.com
Mitt
Romney
- Mike
Huckabee - Crime
- Drug
- Religious
- Television
- Ad
- Iowa
- New
Hampshire - South
Carolina - 2008
Election - "Romney
continues Huckabee attacks." ... "This week, the
[2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate Mitt] Romney campaign
launched a TV ad in Iowa accusing [2008 Election Republican Presidential
Candidate Mike] Huckabee of being soft on crime and reducing punishments
for those caught manufacturing meth." ... ""I think people recognize this
is very critical time in our nation's history and the issues are important,"
he said. "This is not just about feel-good. This is about how we would
deal with important issues."" ... "Romney's "feel-good" comment was a reference
to Huckabee's own television ad currently running in Iowa, New Hampshire
and South Carolina, in which Huckabee dons a red sweater and tells viewers
that "what really matters is the celebration of the birth of Christ.""
... "Romney questioned whether the ad, with its clear Christian overtones,
is politically appropriate. He said he hopes "we don't divide America on
the basis of faith."" -By Peter Hamby
-CNN
John
McCain
- Mitt
Romney
- Immigrants
- Gay-Rights
- Abortion
- Finance
- Law
- New
Hampshire - Arizona
- Mass
- 2008
Election - "McCain
launches direct mail attack." ... "Republican hopeful
[2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate and Arizona Senator] Sen.
John McCain, of Arizona, launched an attack – a direct mail campaign labeling
New Hampshire primary front-runner [2008 Election Republican Presidential
Candidate] Mitt Romney as a serial flip-flopper that "voters can't trust.''"
... "The two-page flier cites a May 2007 article in the Tampa Tribune,
which states Romney had once supported allowing illegal immigrants to "apply
for citizenship and permanent residency''" ... "It then refers to Romney's
decision to re-hire a firm after it had been found to have used illegal
immigrants to work on his Belmont, Mass.[Massachusetts], home." ... ""How
many times has Mitt Romney flip-flopped?'' the mailing asks. "Immigration,
taxes, gay rights, abortion, campaign finance reform.'' -By
Kevin Landrigan -NashuaTelegraph.com
Hillary
Clinton
- Barack
Obama
- Drug
- Criminality
- Race
- Religion
- New
Hampshire - Iowa
- South
Carolina - 2008
Election - "Clinton's
stereotyping of Obama may backfire." ... "[2008 Election
Democratic Presidential Candidate] Barack Obama said Friday that he accepted
the apology of Democratic presidential rival [2008 Election Democratic
Presidential Candidate] Hillary Clinton after Bill Shaheen, Clinton's New
Hampshire cochairman, suggested that Obama's teenage drug use would hurt
him in the general election." ... "It was clear, though, that the apology
did not cover all the recent shots at Obama that raise questions as to
whether the Clinton campaign is getting desperate." ... ""The kindergarten
stuff was not mentioned," Obama said in an interview after a morning town
hall event here in eastern Iowa. The Clinton team was ridiculed in political
circles for dredging up an Obama kindergarten I-want-to-be-president essay."
... "That leaves open as to how far the Clinton campaign, whose poll leads
have evaporated in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina, will go to
stereotype Obama as not only naive, but cast him in a sinister light in
a nation where black drug use and criminality is exaggerated in the media
and where Muslims face undue wariness. Earlier this week, the Clinton staff
fired two Iowa volunteer coordinators for circulating a hoax e-mail saying
Obama, a Christian, was a Muslim who might help destroy the United States."
-By Derrick Z. Jackson
-BostonGlobe via -SeattlePI
Mike
Huckabee - Mitt
Romney
- John
Edwards
- New
Hampshire - Iowa
- US
- Foreign
- Corporate
- 2008
Election - "Candidates
Scrambling to Cope With Rise of Huckabee." ... "The
campaign most immediately threatened by [2008 Election Republican Presidential
Candidate Mike] Mr. Huckabee’s rise was that of [2008 Election Republican
Presidential Candidate] Mr. Romney." ... "Mr. Huckabee, in his latest campaign
swing through New Hampshire, sounded almost like [2008 Election Democratic
Presidential Candidate] John Edwards, a Democrat running for president,
when he decried what he called “fat cat” chief executive officers and their
outsize paychecks." ... "In Iowa last week, Mr. Romney regularly tore into
Mr. Huckabee’s record, sometimes bringing it up directly with audiences
in town hall forums and other times waiting to do it with reporters afterward.
And after the Foreign Affairs article [where Mike Huckabee described Republican
President Bush's foreign policy as an "arrogant bunker mentality"], he
questioned Mr. Huckabee’s Republicanism." ... "“That’s an insult to the
president, and Mike Huckabee should apologize to the president,” Mr. Romney
said Sunday on the NBC program “Meet the Press.”" ... "The Romney campaign’s
decision to directly engage Mr. Huckabee carries risk; Iowans are known
to dislike negative campaigning." (1, 2)
-By Michael Cooper -NYTimes
John
Edwards
- United
States - Canada
- 
Mexico
- Working
- Families
- Multinational
- Corporate
- Media
- Government
- 2008
Election - New
Hampshire - "Edwards
Condemns NAFTA." ... "[2008 Election] Democratic
presidential hopeful John Edwards said Saturday he wants to replace the
empty promise that NAFTA [North American Free Trade Agreement] would create
millions of jobs with his own promise to be a tough negotiator on trade
deals." ... "On the 14th anniversary of the North American Free Trade Agreement,
Edwards condemned the deal that lowered trade barriers between the United
States and Canada and Mexico, arguing that it has paved the way for a series
of deals that put the interests of multinational corporations ahead of
working families." ... ""NAFTA was sold to the American people with promises
that it would grow the economy and create millions of new jobs. But today,
we know those promises were empty," he said. "In all three countries, it
has hurt workers and families while helping corporate insiders."" ... "He
also told voters in Derry [New Hamshire] that those corporate powers are
in danger not only of controlling what comes out of government but the
election process itself. Responding to a woman who said she resented media
conglomerates trying to dictate the outcome of the presidential campaign,
Edwards said the concentration of media ownership has become unhealthy
for democracy." ... ""This all goes back to the same problem. Are the big
corporate interests in Washington going to decide what's going to happen
with your democracy and what's going to happen with your government? You
can't let them decide what's going to happen with your elections," he said.
"Then, they're not only controlling your democracy, they're controlling
your elections."" -AP
via -CBSNews
Mitt
Romney
- Rudy
Giuliani
- Immigrant
- Workers
- Company
- 2008
Election - Politics
- 
Florida
- New
York
- Massachusetts
- New
Hampshire - Arizona
- "More
immigrant woes for Romney: GOP candidate fires landscaper
after Globe shows continued use of illegal workers." ... "Standing on stage
at a Republican debate on the Gulf Coast of Florida last week, [2008 Election
Republican Presidential Candidate] Mitt Romney repeatedly lashed out at
rival [2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate] Rudy Giuliani for
providing sanctuary to illegal immigrants in New York City [New York]."
... "Yet, the next morning, on Thursday, at least two illegal immigrants
stepped out of a hulking maroon pickup truck in the driveway of Romney's
[Massachusetts] Belmont house, then proceeded to spend several hours raking
leaves, clearing debris from Romney's tennis court, and loading the refuse
onto the truck." ... "In fact, their work was part of a regular pattern.
Even after a Globe story in December 2006 highlighted Romney's use of a
landscaping company that employs illegal immigrants to tend to his grounds,
Romney continued to employ Community Lawn Service With a Heart - until
yesterday. The company continued to employ illegal immigrants." ... "The
two workers confirmed in separate interviews with Globe reporters last
week that they were in the country without documents. One said he had paid
$7,000 to a smuggler to escort him across the desert into Arizona; the
other said he had come into the country with a student visa that has expired.
Both were seen working on the lawn by either Globe reporters or photographers
over the last two months." ... "Questioned yesterday afternoon during a
campaign swing through New Hampshire about the use of illegal immigrants
on his lawn, Romney declined to answer." -By Maria
Cramer and Maria Sacchetti with contributions by Connie Paige and James
Pindell -Boston/Globe
Hillary
Rodham Clinton
- Virginia
- New
Hampshire - Police
- Mental
- 2008
Election - "Clinton
calm in hostage crisis." ... "When the hostages had
been released and their alleged captor arrested, a regal-looking [2008
Election Democratic Presidential Candidate] Hillary Rodham Clinton strolled
out of her Washington home, the picture of calm in the face of crisis."
... "The image, broadcast just as the network news began, conveyed the
message a thousand town hall meetings and campaign commercials strive for
— namely, that the Democratic presidential contender can face disorder
in a most orderly manner." ... ""I am very grateful that this difficult
day has ended so well," she declared as she stood alone at the microphone."
... "Aides said Clinton was home Friday afternoon, getting ready to deliver
a partisan speech in Virginia to the Democratic National Committee, when
she was told three workers in her Rochester, N.H. [New Hampshire], headquarters
had been taken hostage by a man claiming to have a bomb." ... "Police later
arrested 47-year-old Leeland Eisenberg of Somersworth, N.H., and charged
him with kidnapping and reckless conduct. They said he walked into the
office, demanding to speak to Clinton and complaining about inadequate
access to mental care." -By Glen Johnson
-AP via -Yahoo
Rudolph
W Giuliani
- Crime
- History
- Economy
- 
Housing
- Transit
- Law
- Politics
- New
York
- New
Hampshire - Illinois- 2008
Election - "Citing
Statistics, Giuliani Misses Time and Again." ...
"Discussing his crime-fighting success as mayor, Mr. Giuliani [2008 Election
Republican Presidential Candidate Rudolph W. Giuliani, former Mayor of
New York City, New York] told a television interviewer that New York was
“the only city in America that has reduced crime every single year since
1994.” In New Hampshire this week, he told a public forum that when he
became mayor in 1994, New York “had been averaging like 1,800, 1,900 murders
for almost 30 years.” When a recent Republican debate turned to the question
of fiscal responsibility, he boasted that “under me, spending went down
by 7 percent.”" ... "All of these statements are incomplete, exaggerated
or just plain wrong." ... "For instance, another major American city claims
to have reduced crime every year since 1994: Chicago [Illinois]. New York
[City, New York] averaged 1,514 murders a year during the three decades
before Mr. Giuliani took office; it did not record more than 1,800 homicides
until 1980. And Mr. Giuliani’s own memoir states that spending grew an
average of 3.7 percent for most of his tenure; an aide said Mr. Giuliani
had meant to say that he had proposed a 7 percent reduction in per capita
spending during his time as mayor." ... "Last weekend, speaking about his
belief in supply-side economics, Mr. Giuliani said, “I lowered, argued
for lowering, and got the hotel occupancy tax lowered by 33 percent. And
I was collecting $200 million more from the lower tax than the city had
been collecting from before I was mayor from the higher tax.”" ... "In
fact, the increase in revenues from the hotel occupancy tax was just over
a quarter of what Mr. Giuliani asserted — the city’s hotel tax revenues
grew by roughly $58 million during his term, according to the city’s Independent
Budget Office — and a booming economy, as well as the reduction in crime
Mr. Giuliani helped produce, probably played a part." ... "Factcheck.org
has reported that the Giuliani campaign exaggerated when it boasted on
its Web site that “Mayor Giuliani increased the police force from 28,000
to 40,000,” noting that most of that increase came from his merger of the
Transit and Housing Police Departments with the New York Police Department,
a transfer of more than 7,000 existing officers to the department." (1,
2)
-By Michael Cooper -NYTimes
Fred
Thompson
- TV
- Business
- Politics
- 2008
Election - 
Tennessee
- New
Hampshire - South
Carolina - "Thompson
charges Fox News is biased against his campaign."
... "Former [Tennessee Republican Senator and 2008 Election Republican
Presidential Candidate] Sen. Fred Thompson (R-Tenn.) suggested on Sunday
that Fox News is biased against his campaign, charging that the network
highlights commentators who have been critical of his run for the presidency."
... "In an interview on "Fox News Sunday," host Chris Wallace pressed Thompson
on how some conservatives have lambasted Thompson's campaign and showed
clips of Fox conservative commentators Charles Krauthammer and Fred Barnes
criticizing the former senator." ... "Thompson said, "This has been a constant
mantra of Fox, to tell you the truth." He noted that other conservatives
have praised his bid for the GOP nomination and took issue with a Fox promo
that focused on polling in New Hampshire, where Thompson is registering
in the single digits." ... "He said he is running second in national polls
and has been leading or tied for the lead in South Carolina for "a long,
long time."" ... "Thompson, in a firm, but measured tone, scolded Wallace:
"...for you to highlight nothing but the negatives in terms of the polls
and then put on your own guys who have been predicting for four months,
really, that I couldn't do it, kind of skew things a little bit. There's
a lot of other opinion out there."\" -By Bob Cusack
-TheHill.com
Mike
Huckabee - Fred
Thompson
- Mitt
Romney
- Religion
- Abortion
- Gay
- Iowa
- New
Hampshire - Massachusetts
- 2008
Election - "Huckabee
Makes Crucial Gains Among GOP Base." ... "[2008 Election
Republican Presidential Candidate Mike] Huckabee says he was surprised
by [2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate Fred] Thompson's securing
of the NRLC [National Right to Life Committee] endorsement. "I mean, he's
lobbied for a pro-abortion group in the past," he said. "His right-to-life
score card was 33 percent one year, 76 percent one year, 88 percent, never
was 100 percent. He doesn't support the human life amendment, which is
the linchpin, not just of the right-to-life movement, but it's been part
of the GOP platform since 1980, for 28 years. So it just didn't match up.""
... "But Huckabee's clearly more focused on defeating [2008 Election Republican
Presidential Candidate Mitt] Romney, with whom he's tied in Iowa and who
leads considerably in New Hampshire. Veiled digs at the former Massachusetts
governor are peppered throughout his pitch." ... "Iowans, he told ABC News,
"believe what I'm telling them, to be true, true to my own heart and convictions,
that I'm not just saying something that a focus group gave me or a room
full of consultants handed me in the form of a script and said, 'Hey, if
you want to be president, go out and say this stuff. People will buy it.'""
... "Voters, he said, "know that what I'm saying is what I truly believe.
It comes out of my heart. I don't have to wonder, 'What did I say last
week?' Because I'm going to say the same thing."" ... "Romney, Huckabee
said, is "going to have to convince voters that he's really had conversions"
on issues ranging from abortion to gay rights." ... "Many evangelicals
have expressed concern about Romney's Mormonism, which some consider a
cult. When asked whether Mormonism is Christianity, Huckabee, a former
Baptist minister, said, "I don't know enough about Mormonism to know. I
really have a hard enough time practicing my faith. I'm not going to try
to practice somebody else's."" (1, 2,
3,
4)
-By Jake Tapper -ABCNEWS.com
Gordon
Smith - 
Trent
Lott - Racism
- History
- 
Miss
- South
Carolina - 
Oregon
- NH
- Tennessee
- "Smith
supported Lott's leadership bid." ... "[Oregon Republican
Senator] Sen. Gordon Smith was a key backer of [Mississippi Republican
Senator] Sen. Trent Lott's return to a leadership post." ... "Lott, R-Miss.
[Republican-Mississippi], this week won his bid to become the minority
whip, the second-highest Republican post in the Senate. He defeated [Tennessee
Republican Senator] Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn. [Republican-Tennessee],
in a 25-24 vote." ... "During the closed-door election, [New Hampshire
Republican Senator] Sen. Judd Gregg, R-N.H. [Republican-New Hampshire],
nominated Lott, and Smith seconded the nomination, Smith spokesman R.C.
Hammond said. Smith then spoke in support of Lott." ... "Lott had been
the Senate's majority leader - Republicans' top post -- until he stepped
down in four years ago after being criticized for remarks praising [South
Carolina Republican Senator] Strom Thurmond, who ran for president in 1948
on a segregationist platform [separating races]." -By
Jeff Kosseff -Oregonian
John
Edwards
- US
- Iraq
- 
Afghanistan
- Military
- Counseling
- Money
- Politics
- New
Hampshire - North
Carolina - 2008
Election - "Edwards
unveils plan for vets with PTSD." ... "[2008 Election
Democratic] Presidential contender John Edwards is introducing a $400 million
plan Monday to help veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder, including
those recently returned from combat in Iraq and Afghanistan." ... "Under
Edwards' plan, veterans could seek counseling for post-traumatic stress
disorder outside the Veterans Health Administration system; the number
of counselors would increase; and family members would be employed to identify
cases of PTSD." ... "Edwards, a North Carolina Democrat, was scheduled
to introduce the five-point plan during a speech at New Hampshire's Plymouth
State University." ... ""I strongly believe we must restore the sacred
contract we have with our veterans and their families, and that we must
begin by reforming our system for treating PTSD. We also must act to remove
the stigma from this disorder," Edwards said in prepared remarks his campaign
provided to The Associated Press. "Warriors should never be ashamed to
deal with the personal consequences of war."" -By
Philip Elliott -AP
via -Yahoo
Rudy
Giuliani
- Mitt
Romney
- 
Pat
Robertson
- Abortion
- Poll
- Gay
- Economy
- New
Hampshire - 2008
Election - "Giuliani
leaves trail of doubt amid Republican applause: Rivals
are focusing on what they see as the pro-choice, pro-gay candidate's soft
lead." ... "At a public meeting in one of New Hampshire's remoter communities
[2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate] Rudy Giuliani went
down a storm. The mainly Republican audience in Shelburne [New Hampshire],
population 379, laughed and cheered, especially at his impersonation of
Hillary Clinton, and queued for autographs. But in the cold, dark car park
afterwards, there were mutterings about the city boy uneasy at questions
on the rural economy, regrets that no one had asked him about guns, abortion
or gay rights, and a desire to wait and hear what other candidates had
to say." ... "It is this paradox that [2008 Election Republican Presidential
Candidate] Mitt Romney, one of Mr Giuliani's main rivals for the Republican
nomination for the 2008 presidential election, homed in on yesterday. Mr
Romney was asked by reporters to respond to the surprise endorsement of
Mr Giuliani by the Christian television evangelist Pat Robertson. He replied:
"I don't think the Republican party will choose a pro-choice, pro-gay civil
union candidate to lead our party."" ... "An hour later, at a public meeting
at Dixville Notch, pop 31, he faced more direct rejection when he was asked
about abortion, the defining issue for 7% of Republicans, according to
a Pew survey. Mr Giuliani said: "Ultimately, that's a choice I have to
leave to the person to make in their own conscience." He lost more than
one vote at that point. The woman who asked him the question, identifying
herself only as Carole, said afterwards: "I would not vote for him. I like
the man, but not his policy."" ... "A more detailed survey of Republican
voting intentions, published by Gallup last month, suggested that many
were still unaware of his views on abortion, gays and guns; 74% of those
polled said they were unsure whether he favoured or opposed civil unions
for same-sex couples (he favours them), while 55% were unsure whether he
was pro- or anti-abortion." -By Ewen MacAskill
-Guardian.co.uk
John
Edwards
- Hillary
Clinton
- 2008
Election - Business
- Law
- New
Hampshire - "Edwards
shifts focus to integrity." ... "[2008 Election Democratic
Presidential Candidate] Democrat John Edwards is trying to turn the Democratic
presidential race into a referendum on honesty and integrity, areas where
polling has shown that voters are divided about [2008 Election Democratic
Presidential Candidate] Hillary Rodham Clinton." ... ""Good people are
caught up in this system, and I've given some examples of the places that
I think she's caught up in it," Edwards said. "And I also, secondly, think
that she continues to defend it. And I don't think you can bring up the
change this country needs if you defend a corrupt system that doesn't work."
... ""The closer we get to the election and the more people move past celebrity
and to the issues such as honesty, integrity and who can actually bring
about change, I think they are going to pay very close attention to those
questions," Edwards said while riding in a minivan between campaign stops."
... "Campaigning in New Hampshire Monday, Edwards repeatedly referred to
the importance of integrity in the presidential race. In a speech at St.
Anselm College [New Hampshire] that was billed as setting the theme for
the next two months of the campaign, Edwards suggested donations from lobbyists
would turn a Clinton presidency into "a Democratic version of the Republican
corruption machine."" ... "Edwards wrapped up a town hall in Exeter by
arguing that New Hampshire voters have a special responsibility to repair
damage done by the [Republican] Bush presidency and elect a leader they
can look in the eye and trust, regardless of their policy positions." ...
""You're in a position to understand and evaluate the honesty, the sincerity
and the integrity of the presidential candidates," he said. "All of this
other stuff becomes unimportant if you don't have a president that you
believe will tell you the truth even when it's hard, and a president who
is honest and sincere and that you can count on. I don't know about you,
but I'm not interested in having the next great politician as president.""
-By Nedra Pickler -AP
via -Yahoo
Fred
Thompson -
- Ad
- New
Hampshire - Tenn
- 2008
Election - "Thompson
joins debate for 30 secs.." ... "Former Sen. Fred
Thompson’s (R-Tenn.) decision to run his first ad during the broadcast
of Wednesday night’s presidential debate in New Hampshire instead of participating
in it could cost him dearly with the state’s voters. Thompson will appear
on air later in the evening, as a guest on NBC’s “The Tonight Show with
Jay Leno.”" ... "Thompson’s rivals, as well as state officials and analysts,
said the senator might be in hot water with primary voters, particularly
if they interpret the campaign’s decision as part of an overall strategy
that overlooks the first-in-the-nation primary state." -By
Sam Youngman -TheHill.com
Rudy
Giuliani
- Money
- Accounting
- New
York
- New
Hampshire - Iowa
- 2008
Election - "Critics
say Rudy didn't make as many cuts as he claims."
... "It is [Republican 2008 election Presidential Canidate] Rudy Giuliani's
favorite boast on the presidential campaign trail: "I cut taxes 23 times"
as mayor of New York, he says, a claim inevitably met by applause." ...
"The impressive-sounding stat stars in radio ads this week in New Hampshire
and Iowa, where the voiceover asserts that Giuliani "cut or eliminated
23 taxes."" ... "Trouble is, it's not really true, say tax-cutting allies
of the former mayor, as well as experts at the Citizens Budget Commission
and elsewhere." ... "A close examination of the tax-slashing claims from
a list provided by his campaign show that in at least four cases, the former
mayor is seizing credit for cuts initiated by others and, in one case,
for a tax reduction he fought." ... ""We don't consider not raising a tax
a tax cut," said Charles Brescher of the Citizens Budget Commission, which
recently produced a summary of Giuliani's fiscal record." -By
David Saltonstall -NYDailyNews.com
Mitt
Romney
- Jay
Garrity
- Police
- Politics
- 2008
Election - Reporter
- 
Car
- 
Surveillance
- New
Hampshire - Massachusetts
- "Fortune
reporter: Garrity pulled me over, too." ... "After
New York Times reporter Mark Leibovitch reported
on June 16 that an aide to [2008 election Republican Presidential candidate]
Mitt Romney -- later identified as Jay Garrity, Romney's director of operations
-- had ordered him to stop following Romney's car on a campaign trip to
New Hampshire, Romney's campaign denied that Leibovitch's car was ever
pulled over." ... "Now another reporter is saying she had an experience
similar to Leibovitch's account. Marcia Vickers, a senior writer with Fortune
magazine, said that while trailing Romney in New Hampshire on Memorial
Day for a forthcoming magazine piece, Garrity instructed her at one point
to stop tailing Romney's car." ... "The incident with Leibovitch, in which
Garrity, by Leibovitch's account, also told him he had run his license
plate number, has prompted an investigation by the New Hampshire attorney
general's office. State law prohibits private citizens from accessing license
plate databases or pulling over fellow citizens. Garrity is now on paid
leave amid an investigation by Massachusetts State Police into whether
he impersonated
a state trooper in a May 13 phone call to a Wilmington [Massachusetts]
company." -By Scott Helman
-Boston/Globe
Mitt
Romney
- Jay
Garrity
- Political
- Police
- Car
- Massachusetts
- Company
- New
Hampshire - Databases
- Reporter
- Privacy
- 2008
Election - "Romney
aide is the focus of probe: Allegedly acted as State
Police trooper." ... "State Police are investigating one of [2008 election
Republican Presidential candidate] Mitt Romney's top campaign aides for
allegedly impersonating a trooper by calling a Wilmington [Massachusetts]
company and threatening to cite the driver of a company van for erratic
driving, according to two law enforcement sources familiar with the probe."
... "Jay Garrity, who is director of operations on Romney's presidential
campaign and a constant presence at his side, became the primary target
of the investigation, according to one of the sources, after authorities
traced the cellphone used to make the call back to him" ... "The New Hampshire
attorney general, according to the Associated Press, has also opened an
investigation into a report that a Romney aide, later identified as Garrity,
pulled over a New York Times reporter in New Hampshire and said he had
run his license plate." ... "New Hampshire law prohibits private citizens
from accessing license plate databases or pulling over fellow citizens."
... "In 2004, the Globe reported, Garrity was cited and fined for driving
a Crown Victoria with red and blue lights mounted in the grill, a siren,
a PA system, and strobe lights; and for having a nightstick and identification
showing a State Police patch that read "Official Business."" -By
Stephanie Ebbert and Scott Helman with contributions by Suzanne Smalley,
Andrea Estes, and Jonathan Saltzman -Boston/Globe
US
- Iraq
- Military
- Law
- New
Hampshire - "Battling
on 2 fronts, mother charged as AWOL." ... "In a rare
legal clash pitting a mother against the US military, Specialist Lisa Hayes
of the New Hampshire National Guard surrendered yesterday to Army authorities
after being charged as a deserter for refusing to fight in Iraq until a
custody case involving her 7-year-old daughter was resolved." ... "The
dispute, among the first of its kind in New England, underscores the tremendous
strain the Iraq war has placed on the Guard and the nation's all-volunteer
military, whose members often leave behind needy families and tumultuous
personal lives as their combat tours are repeatedly extended." ... "In
February, Hayes received emergency leave from her second deployment to
Iraq after an alleged domestic violence incident at her former husband's
house, where her daughter, Brystal Knight, was staying. As the resulting
custody case moved slowly through the courts, the military ordered her
back to Iraq." ... "Joyce Raezer of the National Military Family Association
said cases like Hayes's have become more common as the Iraq war has dragged
into its fifth year." -By Claire Cummings and Raja
Mishra -Boston/Globe
US
- Mexico
- 
US
Immigration - 2006
Election - Politics
- California
- New
York - Texas
- Florida
- 
New-Jersey
- Illinois
- Georgia
- North
Carolina - Indiana
- 
South
Dakota - 
Delaware
- 
Missouri
- Colorado- New
Hampshire - Ohio
- "Census
Shows Growth of Immigrants." ... "The number of immigrants
living in American households rose 16 percent over the last five years,
fueled largely by recent arrivals from Mexico, according to fresh data
released by the Census Bureau." ... "Coming in the heart of an election
season in which illegal immigration has emerged as an issue, the new data
from the bureau’s 2005 American Community Survey is certain to generate
more debate." ... "By far the largest numbers of immigrants continue to
live in the six states that have traditionally attracted them: California,
New York, Texas, Florida, New Jersey and Illinois." ... "Immigrants also
continue to flow into a handful of states in the Southeast, like Georgia
and North Carolina, a trend that was discerned in the 2000 census." ...
"But it is in the less-expected immigrant destinations that demographers
find the most of interest in the new data." ... "Indiana saw a 34 percent
increase in the number of immigrants; South Dakota saw a 44 percent rise;
Delaware 32 percent; Missouri 31 percent; Colorado 28 percent; and New
Hampshire 26 percent." ... "“It’s the continuation of a pattern that we
first began to see 10 or 15 years ago,” said Jeff Passel, senior research
associate at the Pew Hispanic Center, who has examined the new census data.
“But instead of being confined to areas like the Southeast, it’s beginning
to spill over into some Midwestern states, like Indiana and Ohio. It’s
even moving up into New England.”" ... "Over all, immigrants now make up
12.4 percent of the nation’s population, up from 11.2 percent in 2000.
That amounts to an estimated 4.9 million additional immigrants for a total
of 35.7 million, a number larger than the population of California." (1,
2)
-By Rick Lyman -NYTimes
2002
Election - New
Hampshire - Phone
- Law
- "Fallen
star blames self, GOP tactics: Jail term served in
N.H. phone plot." ... "For nearly a decade, Allen Raymond stood at the
top ranks of Republican Party power." ... "He served as chief of staff
to a cochairman of the Republican National Committee, supervised Republican
contests in mid-Atlantic states for the RNC, and was a top official in
publisher Steve Forbes's presidential campaign. He went on to earn $350,000
a year running a Republican policy group as well as a GOP phone-bank business."
... "But most recently, Raymond has been in prison. And for that, he blames
himself, but also says he was part of a Republican political culture that
emphasizes hardball tactics and polarizing voters." ... "Raymond, 39, has
just finished serving a three-month sentence for jamming Democratic phone
lines in New Hampshire during the 2002 US Senate race. The incident led
to one of the biggest political scandals in the state's history, the convictions
of Raymond and two top Republican officials, and a Democratic lawsuit that
seeks to determine whether the White House played any role. The race was
won by Senator John E. Sununu , the Republican." -By
Michael Kranish -Boston/Globe
New
Hampshire - 2002
Election - 
Firefighters
- Union
- Phone
- Corporate
- Marketing
- Prison
- "Convicted
phone-jammer helping host GOP candidate workshop."
... "The Republican operative who came up with the idea of jamming Democratic
Party and union get-out-the-vote phone lines on Election Day 2002 is back
in the political swim." ... "Charles McGee, vice president of political
and corporate communications at Spectrum Monthly & Printing Inc., sent
out an e-mail recently inviting Republican candidates to a free "GOP Campaign
School" hosted by the company, which publishes Republican mailers and fliers,
the New Hampshire Union Leader reported." ... "A flier about the class
calls it a "nuts and bolts boot camp" to give participants "all the tools
you need to win."" ... "Hundreds of hang-up calls placed by a telemarketing
firm tied up phone lines set up by the [New Hampshire] state Democratic
Party and the Manchester firefighters union for more than an hour the morning
of Election Day 2002, when then-U.S. [Republican] Rep. John Sununu defeated
Democratic Gov. Jeanne Shaheen in a tight U.S. Senate race." ... "McGee,
the former executive director of the state Republican Party, pleaded guilty
to conspiracy in the phone-jamming scheme and served seven months in prison."
-AP via -BostonGlobe
2002
Election -Phone
- Politics
- New
Hampshire - "Phone-Jamming
Records Point to White House: Phone Records in Court
Show People in Election Phone Jamming Called White House." ... "Republican
officials describe the two-dozen calls to the White House around Election
Day 2002 as normal conversations about a close Senate race in New Hampshire."
... "Democrats have suggested in a court filing that another subject was
discussed: a GOP scheme that jammed phone lines to keep state Democrats
from being encouraged to vote." ... "The phone-jamming operation has led
to three federal convictions and a pending indictment. Prosecutors have
not raised questions in court about the White House conversations but records
of the calls were available to them as criminal court exhibits." (1, 2,
3)
-ABCNEWS.com
John
Roberts
- New
Hampshire - Parent
-Abortion
- Woman
- Health
- "Roberts
signals support for abortion curbs: In high court
argument, chief justice hints at upholding New Hampshire law." ... "The
news in Wednesday's Supreme Court argument over New Hampshire's parental
notification abortion law was that the John Roberts era may be one in which
the right to get an abortion is further curtailed." ... "At least at first
blush, Roberts - hearing his first case as chief justice on abortion restrictions
- seemed to be trying hard to save the New Hampshire law from being declared
unconstitutional, as it was by two lower courts." ... "The U.S. Court of
Appeals for the First Circuit had ruled the entire New Hampshire law invalid,
partly because it did not provide an exemption for cases in which the doctor
decided that abortion was needed to prevent damage to the girl's health."
-By Tom Curry -MSNBC
Idaho
- New_Hampshire
- 
Alaska
- Illinois
- Wisconsin
- Colorado
- Secret
- GOV
- Police- 
Intelligence
- Civil
Liberties - 
Library
- Business
- Health
- Privacy
- Politics
- "Senators
Vow To Block Patriot Act." ... "Half a dozen senators
worried about civil liberties –three Democrats and three Republicans –
said Thursday they will try to block the measure to renew the Patriot Act,
CBS News correspondent Bob Fuss reports." ... "The most controversial parts
of the law that vastly expanded FBI powers after 9/11 expire at the end
of the year unless renewed. An agreement on a measure to do that between
the House and Senate doesn't include some minimal new protections these
senators want, including having a judge review broad secret warrants when
the FBI seeks information from libraries, hospitals and banks." ... ""If
further changes are not made, we will work to stop this bill from becoming
law," GOP Sens. Larry Craig [Idaho], John Sununu [New Hampshire] and Lisa
Murkowski [Alaska] and Democratic Sens. Dick Durbin [Illinois], Russ Feingold
[Wisconsin] and Ken Salazar [Colorado] said in a letter to the Senate Judiciary
and Intelligence committees." -AP
-CBSNews
Alaska
- New_Hampshire
- Oil
- Politics
- "Bass
led effort to drop Alaskan wildlife refuge oil drilling plan."
... "[New Hampshire] Rep. Charles Bass led the way in persuading House
leaders to drop a hotly contested plan to open an Alaskan wildlife refuge
to oil drilling." ... "Led by Bass, R-N.H., 25 Republicans signed a letter
asking GOP leaders strip the language from the bill." ... "The letter said,
"Rather then reversing decades of protection for this publicly held land,
focusing greater attention on renewable energy sources, alternate fuels,
and more efficient systems and appliances would yield more net energy savings
than could come from ANWR and would have a higher benefit on the nation's
long-term economic leadership and security.""
-AP via -BostonGlobe
Harriet
Miers - Texas
- New_Hampshire
- Woman
- Parents
- Abortion
- Health
- Politics
- "Bush
expected to nominate Harriet Miers to Supreme Court:
Miers currently works as White House counsel." ... "If confirmed by the
Senate, Miers, 60, would join Ruth Bader Ginsburg as the second sitting
female justice on the bench. O'Connor became the court's first ever female
justice in 1981." ... "Miers, who has never been a judge, was the first
woman to serve as president of the Texas State Bar and the Dallas Bar Association.
She also served on the Dallas City Council." ... "Abortion tops the court's
current docket. The most-watched case deals with a New Hampshire law requiring
minors to get parental permission before undergoing the procedure unless
a woman's life is in danger." ... "A federal appeals court ruled that exception
was not broad enough, since it did not include a woman's health." -By
Bill Mears -CNN
2008
Election - Iowa
- New_Hampshire
- "Democrats
want expanded primary." ... "Democrats trying to
change their presidential primaries for 2008 agreed yesterday to recommend
that at least two other states join Iowa and New Hampshire in voting during
the opening days of the nominating campaign." ... "The added states, to
be named later, will probably include one from the South and one from the
Southwest or West." -AP
via -SeattleTimes.NWsource
South
Carolina - Parents
- Genetics
- New
Hampshire - "Does
Big Brother Have Your Baby's DNA?" ... "Genetic Dossier."
... "South Carolina has defused a recent controversy over its practice
of freezing and storing infants' blood samples in perpetuity, samples that
critics feared could be used someday for DNA testing without the subjects'
permission or anonymity." ... "South Carolina residents are especially
sensitive to privacy issues lately. Four years ago, state officials came
under fire for selling information from 3.5 million drivers licenses to
a New Hampshire company without drivers' consent or notification."
-By Peter Barnes -TechTV/Tech
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