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Hillary
Clinton - 
Law
- 
Enforcement
- 
Politics
- 
Pennsylvania
- 
Federal
- 2008
Election - "Clinton
urges $4 billion to fight crime; focuses on cities."
... "[2008 Election] Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton
is expected to unveil a $4 billion anti-crime package Friday in which she
vows to reduce city murder rates by 50 percent within five years, put an
additional 100,000 cops on the streets and shrink prison populations."
... ""At its core, my agenda is about responsibility," Clinton will say
Friday, according to advance text of her remarks. "It's about the federal
government living up to its responsibility to help restore order in our
communities, pave the way for economic development and new jobs, and help
our families feel safe in their homes and neighborhoods."" ... "She maintains
that she could cut homicide rates in cities by increasing the number of
police on the street, reducing gang violence and by cracking down on illegal
gun trafficking." ... "To do so, Clinton says she will create what she
dubs COPS 2.0, a revamp of [Democratic] President Clinton's program that
added 100,000 police officers to the nation's law enforcement ranks." ...
"Clinton is expected to criticize [Republican President] Bush's handling
of crime in her Philadelphia [Pennsylvania] speech. Her advance text calls
it "a sad day in America when the president can find hundreds of billions
of dollars to police another country's civil war, but cut funding for police
officers right here at home."" -By William
Douglas -McClatchyDC.com
Noteworthy
- 
Media
- 
John
Yoo - 
Mike
Mukasey
- Torture
- Lawbreaking
- 
Surveillance
- 
Military
- 
Intelligence
- 
Terrorism
- Political
- Enforcement
- 
Barack
Obama - Pennsylvania
- 
US
- 
Iraq
- "The
U.S. establishment media in a nutshell." ... "In
the past two weeks, the following events transpired. A Department of Justice
memo, authored by John Yoo, was released which authorized torture and presidential
lawbreaking. It was revealed that the [Republican President Bush] Bush
administration declared the Fourth Amendment of the Bill of Rights to be
inapplicable to "domestic military operations" within the U.S. [United
States] The U.S. Attorney General [Michael Mukasey] appears to have fabricated
a key event leading to the 9/11 attacks and made patently false statements
about surveillance laws and related lawsuits. Barack Obama went bowling
in Pennsylvania and had a low score." ... "Here are the number of times,
according to NEXIS, that various topics have been mentioned in the media
over the past thirty days:" ... ""Yoo and torture" - 102" ... ""Mukasey
and 9/11" -- 73" ... ""Yoo and Fourth Amendment" -- 16" ...
""Obama and bowling" -- 1,043" ... ""Obama and Wright" --
More than 3,000 (too many to be counted)" ... ""Obama and patriotism"
- 1,607" ... ""Clinton and Lewinsky" -- 1,079" ... "And as Eric
Boehlert documents,
even Iraq -- that little five-year U.S. occupation with no end in sight
-- has been virtually written out of the media narrative in favor of mindless,
stupid, vapid chatter of the type referenced above." ... "Think about it
this way: if you were a high government official and watched as -- all
in a couple of weeks time -- it is revealed, right out in the open, that
you suspended the Fourth Amendment, authorized torture, proclaimed yourself
empowered to break the law, and sent the nation's top law enforcement officer
to lie blatantly about how and why the 9/11 attacks happened so that you
could acquire still more unchecked spying power and get rid of lawsuits
that would expose what you did, and the political press in this country
basically ignored all of that and blathered on about Obama's bowling score
and how he eats chocolate, wouldn't you also conclude that you could do
anything you want, without limits, and know there will be no consequences?
What would be the incentive to stop doing all of that?" -By
Glenn
Greenwald -Salon
Alphonso
Jackson
- Criminal
- Federal
- 
Housing
- Construction
- 
Money
- Politics
- New
Orleans - 
Louisiana
- Hurricane
Katrina - Pennsylvania
- "HUD
Secretary Alphonso Jackson steps down: The [Republican
President] Bush appointee's decision comes amid an investigation for cronyism
in awarding federal housing contracts. His resignation takes effect April
18." ... "Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson resigned
today amid a criminal investigation into favoritism in awarding HUD [Housing
and Urban Development] contracts that critics said was blunting the agency's
effectiveness in dealing with the subprime mortgage mess." ... "The investigation
into Jackson began in 2006, after he publicly disclosed that he had revoked
a contract because the vendor told him he did not like President Bush.
Amid an inspector general inquiry, Jackson told investigators that he had
misspoken." ... "The FBI [Federal Bureau of Investigation] is looking into
ties between Jackson and a friend who was paid $392,000 by HUD for work
as a construction manager in New Orleans [Louisiana] after Hurricane Katrina.
In addition, Jackson is also being sued for allegedly trying to punish
the Philadelphia [Pennsylvania] Housing Agency for nixing a deal with his
friend, music producer and developer Kenny Gamble." -By
Johanna Neuman -LAtimes
Barack
Obama - 
John
McCain - Hillary
Clinton - Iraq
- US
- Military
- 
Arizona
- 
Illinois
- Pennsylvania
- 
New
York
- Housing
- Economy
- 2008
Election - "Obama
takes aim at McCain on Iraq." ... "[2008 Election
Democratic Presidential Candidate] Democrat Barack Obama took aim on Monday
at potential White House opponent [2008 Election Republican Presidential
Candidate] John McCain on Iraq, saying the Republican senator could not
offer a clear definition of success in the conflict and could leave U.S.
[United States] combat troops there for decades." ... "Obama said the Arizona
senator shared a vision of Iraq with [Republican] President George W. Bush
and had not spelled out how the United States would be able to end its
military involvement there." ... ""The problem that we've had, both with
John McCain and George Bush, is there's no clear definition of success.
There never was. And that's why this has been such a profound strategic
error," Obama, an Illinois senator, told reporters while campaigning in
Pennsylvania." ... "[2008 Election Democratic Presidential Candidate Hillary]
Clinton criticized McCain's recent speech on the economy for failing to
lay out a clear plan to end turmoil in U.S. housing markets." ... ""Senator
McCain recently gave a speech on the economy, and best I could determine
his plan was not to have a plan," Clinton, a New York senator, said during
an economic round-table in Harrisburg [Pennsylvania]." (1, 2,
3)
-By Caren Bohan with contributions by Ellen Wulfhorst,
Steve Holland, John Whitesides and Mohammad Zargham
-Reuters
Barack
Obama
- Hillary
Clinton
- John
McCain
- Financial
- 
History
- American
- 
Working
- 
Folks
- Homes
- 
Overseas
- Ariz
- Pennsylvania
- Ill
- 2008
Election - "Presidential
Candidates Address Economic Woes: [2008 Election
Democratic Presidential Candidates and Senators] Sens. [Barack] Obama,
[Hillary] Clinton Blast [Republican President] Bush for Not Doing Enough
to Avert Economic Meltdown." ... "Both Democratic candidates veered off
their scheduled speeches Monday to address the jittery U.S. economy and
slammed [Republican] President Bush for not doing enough to stop the [home]
mortgage lending crisis from spilling over into the wider economy." ...
"Clinton's communications director contrasted her economic platform with
that of presumed Republican candidate [Arizona Republican Senator] Sen.
John McCain', R-Ariz [Republican-Arizona]." ... ""In the fall there will
be a major debate over what we do to get this economy back on track, and
John McCain is welcome to defend seven years of the Bush economic policies,
but we believe that we need to go in a different direction and will do
so," Clinton communications director Howard Wolfson said Monday, referring
to McCain's support of making Bush's tax cuts permanent." ... "Campaigning
in Pennsylvania Monday ahead of the April 22 primary, [Illinois Democratic
Senator] Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. [Democratic-Illinois], said that the
economy wasn't working for average Americans, even before the recent crisis
in the financial industry." ... ""Wages, incomes, they haven't gone up
over the last seven years. Corporate profits were great, Wall Street was
doing fine, but ordinary folks were struggling. And so if you're really
ready for change, we can't just tinker around the edges. We've got to bring
around a fundamental change to our economy," Obama said." ... ""We are
going to stop giving tax breaks to companies that ship jobs overseas and
start giving tax breaks to companies that invest right here in Pennsylvania
and all across America. We're gonna roll back tax cuts to the wealthiest
Americans who don't need 'em, and we're [weren't] even asking for them,
and give those tax breaks to hardworking ordinary Americans who deserve
them right now," Obama said." (1,
2,
3)
-By Jennifer Parker with contributions by Kate Snow,
Peyton Craighill, Sunlen Miller, Eloise Harper, Bret Hovell and David Chalian
-ABCNEWS.com
Barack
Obama
- Religion
- 2008
Election - PA
- "Obama
addresses Pa.'s importance, pastor's remarks." ...
"Q [David Brown]: I don't know if you've seen it, but it's all over
the wire today (from an ABC News story), a statement that your pastor (the
Rev. Jeremiah Wright of Trinity United Church of Christ on Chicago's South
Side) made in a sermon in 2003 that instead of singing "God Bless America,"
black people should sing a song essentially saying "God Damn America.""
... "A [2008 Election Democratic Presidential Candidate Barack Obama]:
I haven't seen the line. This is a pastor who is on the brink of retirement
who in the past has made some controversial statements. I profoundly disagree
with some of these statements." ... "Q [David Brown]: What about
this particular statement?" ... "A [Obama]: Obviously, I disagree
with that. Here is what happens when you just cherry-pick statements from
a guy who had a 40-year career as a pastor. There are times when people
say things that are just wrong. But I think it's important to judge me
on what I've said in the past and what I believe." -By
David Brown -PittsburghLive.com
John
McCain
- Corporate
- Government
- Politician
- Arizona
- Pennsylvania
- 
Ohio
- 
Florida
- 
Miss
- 
Trent
Lott - 2008
Election - "Lobbyist
to run McCain's Hill effort." ... "Presumptive [2008
Election] Republican presidential candidate [and Arizona Senator] Sen.
John McCain has engaged a leading GOP [GOP=Grand Old Party=Republican]
lobbyist to coordinate his message and travel schedule with congressional
Republicans —the most concrete sign yet that the biggest battleground in
the 2008 presidential race may not be Pennsylvania or Ohio or Florida’s
I-4 corridor but rather the floor of the United States Senate." ... "John
Green, a founding partner of what is now Ogilvy Government Relations, will
soon take a leave of absence from that firm to work as a full-time liaison
between McCain’s presidential campaign and Republicans in the House and
the Senate, according to GOP aides on Capitol Hill and McCain surrogates
downtown. Green, a Mississippi native, has strong ties in the Senate after
his years of work for [Mississippi Republican Senator and] former Senate
Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss. [Republican-Mississippi]), a vocal
McCain supporter who left Congress late last year to set up his own lobbying
shop." ... "Green is part of a small cadre of lobbyists who have met regularly
to help build support for McCain on Capitol Hill. The group, which includes
fellow Ogilvy partner [lobbyist] Wayne Berman, has been helping the senator
secure congressional endorsements in recent weeks to ensure he solidifies
his status as the GOP front-runner." -By Martin Kady
II and Patrick O'Connor -Politico.com
John
McCain
- Corporate
- Politician
- Government
- 
Television
- Media
- 
Communications
- Law
- Pennsylvania
- Arizona
- Florida
- 
Jet
- 
Vicki
Iseman - History
- 2008
Election - "McCain
Disputed On 1999 Meeting: Broadcaster Recalls Urging
FCC [Federal Communications Commission] Contact." ... "Broadcaster Lowell
"Bud" Paxson yesterday contradicted statements from [2008 Election Republican
Presidential Candidate and Arizona Senator] Sen. John McCain's presidential
campaign that the senator did not meet with Paxson or his lobbyist before
sending two controversial letters to the Federal Communications Commission
on Paxson's behalf." ... "Paxson said he talked with McCain in his Washington
office several weeks before the Arizona Republican wrote the letters in
1999 to the FCC urging a rapid decision on Paxson's quest to acquire a
Pittsburgh [Pennsylvania] television station." ... "Paxson also recalled
that his lobbyist, Vicki Iseman, likely attended the meeting in McCain's
office and that Iseman helped arrange the meeting. "Was Vicki there? Probably,"
Paxson said in an interview with The Washington Post yesterday. "The woman
was a professional. She was good. She could get us meetings."" ... "The
recollection of the now-retired Paxson conflicted with the account provided
by the McCain campaign about the two letters at the center of a controversy
about the senator's ties to Iseman, a partner at the lobbying firm of Alcalde
& Fay." ... "The McCain campaign said Thursday that the senator had
not met with Paxson or Iseman on the matter. "No representative of Paxson
or Alcalde and Fay personally asked Senator McCain to send a letter to
the FCC regarding this proceeding," the campaign said in a statement."
... "But Paxson said yesterday, "I remember going there to meet with him."
He recalled that he told McCain: "You're head of the Commerce Committee.
The FCC is not doing its job. I would love for you to write a letter.""
... "The two letters he wrote to the FCC in 1999 while he was chairman
of the Senate Commerce Committee produced a rash of criticism and a written
rebuke from the then-FCC chairman, who called McCain's intervention "highly
unusual."" ... "On [1999 Novemeber] Nov. 17, McCain sent a letter to FCC
Chairman William E. Kennard saying, "I write today to express my concern
about the Commission's continuing failure to act" on the three-station
deal involving Paxson." ... "McCain had flown on Paxson's corporate jet
four times to appear at [2000 Election] campaign events and had received
$28,000 in campaign donations from Paxson and its law firm." ... "The second
letter came on Dec. 10, a day after the company's jet ferried McCain to
a Florida fundraiser aboard a yacht in West Palm Beach, Fla. [Florida.]
The fundraiser was arranged by Hector Alcalde of Alcalde & Fay and
was hosted by a cruise line that Alcalde had represented, Paxson said.
Paxson said he attended the fundraiser." (1, 2,3)
-By James V. Grimaldi and Jeffrey H. Birnbaum with
contributions by Alice Crites -WashingtonPost
John
McCain
- Corporate
- Politics
- Television
- Media
- Communications
- Jet
- Vicki
Iseman - Arizona
- Pennsylvania
- Florida
- 2008
Election - "A
Hole in McCain’s Defense? An apparent contradiction
in his response to lobbyist story." ... "A sworn deposition that [2008
Election Republican Presidential Candidate and Arizona Senator] Sen. John
McCain gave in a lawsuit more than five years ago appears to contradict
one part of a sweeping denial that his campaign issued this week to rebut
a New York Times story about his ties to a Washington lobbyist." ... "On
Wednesday night the Times published a story suggesting that McCain might
have done legislative favors for the clients of the lobbyist, Vicki Iseman,
who worked for the firm of Alcalde & Fay. One example it cited were
two letters McCain wrote in late 1999 demanding that the Federal Communications
Commission act on a long-stalled bid by one of Iseman's clients, Florida-based
Paxson Communications, to purchase a Pittsburgh [Pennsylvania] television
station." ... "Just hours after the Times's story was posted, the McCain
campaign issued a point-by-point response that depicted the letters as
routine correspondence handled by his staff—and insisted that McCain had
never even spoken with anybody from Paxson or Alcalde & Fay about the
matter. "No representative of Paxson or Alcalde & Fay personally
