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20080304

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

20080220

Trent Lott - Money - Politics - Mississippi - "Judge: Scruggs indictment stands; Lott's name mentioned." ... "Powerful plaintiffs attorney Richard "Dickie" Scruggs tried to use his brother-in-law, former U.S. [Mississippi Republican Senator] Sen. Trent Lott, to influence the ruling of a sitting Mississippi judge, a government witness testified Wednesday in federal court." ... "The testimony about Lott came during a hearing in a separate federal case in which Scruggs, his son Zach, and law partner Sidney Backstrom are charged with trying to bribe Circuit Judge Henry Lackey to get a favorable ruling in a dispute over $26.5 million in legal fees." ... "Former New Albany [Mississippi] attorney Timothy Balducci, who has pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge and is helping prosecutors in their case against Scruggs, brought up Lott's name during his testimony." ... "When pressed by Scruggs' attorney, John Keker, Balducci testified that Scruggs had tried to use Lott to influence rulings made by Hinds County [Mississippi] Circuit Judge Bobby DeLaughter in another dispute involving legal fees." (1, 2) -By Chris Talbott -AP via -NOLA.com

20071218

Gordon Smith - Trent Lott - Racism - History - South Carolina - Mississippi - Oregon - "Gordon Smith Defends Lott's Segregationist Comments." ... "Speaking on the Senate floor Tuesday morning, [Oregon Republican Senator] Sen. Gordon Smith, R-OR [Republican-Oregon], offered a passionate defense of the pro-segregationist comments made by his colleague and friend, [Mississippi Republican Senator] Sen. Trent Lott, more then three years ago." ... ""I was half way around the world when an event befell Trent Lott that shook me deeply," Smith said, referencing Lott's 2002 remarks in praise of Dixiecrat [South Carolina Republican Senator] Strom Thurmond's 1948 run for the White House. "I was celebrating my re-election and on vacation. I watched over international news as his words were misconstrued, words which we had heard him utter many times in his big warm-heartedness trying to make one of our colleagues, Strom Thurmond, feel good at 100 years old. We knew what he meant. But the wolfpack of the press circled around him, sensed blood in the water, and the exigencies of politics caused a great injustice..."" ... "In 2002, Lott lost his Senate Republican Leader post after he was quoted praising the staunch segregationist Strom Thurmond during Thurmond's 100th birthday party. "I want to say this about my state: when Strom Thurmond ran for President, we voted for him," Lott boasted. "We're proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years, either."" ... "Lott apologized repeatedly for his remarks, calling them "insensitive," "repugnant" and "inexcusable" during an appearance on a black-oriented cable channel." ... "Lott recently found himself back among the leadership ranks. His election as minority whip in November 2006 came by a 25 to 24 vote. Sen. Smith played a key role in the internal party election." -By Sam Stein -HuffingtonPost.com
WATCH Oregon Republican Gordon Smith defend Mississippi Republican Trent Lott's celebration of South Carolina Republican Strom Thurmond's segregationist run for President in 1948.

20071127

Trent Lott - Political - Lawmakers - Mississippi - Pennsylvania - 2008 Election - "'Financial problems' hastened Lott's retirement, Specter says." ... "[Pennsylvania Republican Senator] Sen. Arlen Specter yesterday said it was his understanding that new regulations on lobbying by ex-lawmakers played a significant role in [Mississippi Republican Senator] Sen. Trent Lott's decision to retire, contradicting what the Mississippi senator told reporters in his home state." ... "If he steps down at the end of the year, Mr. Lott, a Republican, will be able to begin lobbying after just a year's wait, rather than two." -By Bill Toland and Jerome L. Sherman -Post-Gazette.com

20071126

Trent Lott - Mississippi - Politics - Money - 2008 Election - "Mississippi Dems threaten battle over special election date." ... "The timing of [Mississippi Republican Senator] Sen. Trent Lott’s (R-Miss.) resignation has opened legal questions about the date of the ensuing special election, and state Democrats might fight for a date earlier than what the Republican governor is proposing." ... "[Mississippi Republican Governor] Gov. Haley Barbour said in a statement Monday that he would schedule the special election for the same day as the November 2008 general election. State law, however, appears intended to require an earlier date if Lott retires this year, as he said he would." ... "The Mississippi secretary of state’s office said early Monday that state law appeared to require a special election within 90 days if Lott retires in 2007. After consulting with lawyers, however, a spokesman said the secretary of state concurred with Barbour based on a technicality in the letter of the law." ... "The Mississippi Democratic Party, however, said it expects Barbour to call an earlier election." ... "The law “makes clear that if Sen. Lott does indeed resign during this calendar year, as stated, then Gov. Barbour must call a special election for within 90 days of making a proclamation — which he must issue within 10 days of the resignation — and not on Nov. 4, 2008, as he has announced he intends to do,” state Democratic Chairman Wayne Dowdy said." ... "By resigning in 2007, Lott sneaks in under the wire for the extended ban on lobbying Congress by former members." -By Aaron Blake -TheHill.com
Trent Lott - Mississippi - South Carolina - Racism - History - 2008 Election - 2012 Election - "Trent Lott announces his resignation." ... "Mississippi [Republican Senator] Sen. Trent Lott, the Senate's No. 2 Republican, announced Monday he will retire from the Senate by end of year." ... "Lott's colleagues elected him as the Senate's Republican whip last year, a redemption for the Mississippian after his ouster five years ago as the party's Senate leader over remarks he made at retiring [Republican Senator] Sen. Strom Thurmond's 100th birthday party. Lott had saluted the South Carolina senator with comments later interpreted as support for southern segregationist policies." ... "Mississippi's [Republican Governor] Gov. Haley Barbour, a Republican, will appoint Lott's temporary replacement, who will serve until the 2008 elections, when voters will elect someone to serve out the balance of Lott's term, which runs through 2012." ... "The smooth-spoken Lott found himself in hot water in December 2002 after Thurmond's party. Lott said Mississippi voters were proud to have supported Thurmond when he ran for president on a segregationist platform in 1948, and added: "If the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years either."" -MSNBC
Trent Lott - Money - Law - Mississippi - "Congress: More on Lott." ... "NBC News has learned that [Mississippi Republican Senator] Trent Lott in the midst of informing close allies that he plans to resign his Senate seat before the end of the year." ... "While the exactly reason Lott is stepping down before he finishes his term is unknown, NBC’s Ken Strickland reports, the general speculation is that a quick departure immunizes Lott against tougher restrictions in a new lobbying law that takes effect at the end of the year. That law would require Senators to wait two years before entering the lucrative world of lobbying Congress." -MSNBC

20071117

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

20070629

David Vitter - Trent Lott - Racism - Politics - Immigration - Legislation - Civil Rights - History - Mass - La - Ky - Miss - SC - Ala - 2008 Election - "Senate immigration bill fails; issue "is going to have to wait." ... "The political battles that helped bring down sweeping immigration legislation in the Senate are sure to rage on, although the bill is all but dead until after the 2008 elections." ... "[Massachusetts Democratic Senator] Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., one of the bill's architects, compared the fight with the Senate's long struggle for civil-rights legislation against segregationist opponents." ... ""You cannot stop the march for progress in the United States," he declared." ... "To that, [Louisiana Republican Senator] Sen. David Vitter, R-La., among the bill's most aggressive foes, snapped: "To suggest this was about racism is the height of ugliness and arrogance."" ... "Republicans on both sides acknowledged the immigration fight had riven the GOP. Republican Senate aides, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Senate Minority Whip [Mississippi Republican Senator] Trent Lott, R-Miss., was furious with Minority Leader [Kentucky Republican Senator] Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., over the leader's refusal to confront the bill's most implacable opponents, who had virtually commandeered the Senate floor, blocking introduction of amendments, refusing to offer amendments of their own, then complaining that an unfair process was preventing them from improving the bill." ... "Lott told McConnell that Sens. Vitter, [South Carolina Republican Senator] Jim DeMint, R-S.C., and [Alabama Republican Senator] Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., were becoming the uncompromising faces of the Republican Party, a prospect that could set them back for years as the Latino vote grows in power." -SeattleTimes.NWsource

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20021210

"Black Caucus denounces Lott: GOP Senate leader assailed for remarks praising Thurmond’s presidential bid." ... "Members of the Congressional Black Caucus rejected Senate Republican leader Trent Lott’s apology for saying that America would have been better off if Strom Thurmond had won the presidency in 1948, when he ran as a segregationist and won four states." ... "The three dozen members of the caucus, all black Democrats in the House of Representatives, may push for a Senate censure of Lott and ask for his resignation as Senate Republican leader." -MSNBC

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20060418

Mississippi - Trent Lott - Government - Emergency - Military - Transportation - Hurricane Katrina - Money - "Mississippi Senators' Rail Plan Challenged: War Bill Includes Millions to Move Just-Rebuilt Line." ... "Mississippi's two U.S. senators included $700 million in an emergency war spending bill to relocate a Gulf Coast rail line that has already been rebuilt after Hurricane Katrina at a cost of at least $250 million." ... "Republican Sens. Trent Lott and Thad Cochran, who have the backing of their state's economic development agencies and tourism industry, say the CSX freight line must be moved to save it from the next hurricane and to protect Mississippi's growing coastal population from rail accidents. But critics of the measure call it a gift to coastal developers and the casino industry that would be paid for with money carved out of tight Katrina relief funds and piggybacked onto funding for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan." ... "Budget watchdogs are already tagging the Lott-Cochran provision the "railroad to nowhere."" -By Jonathan Weisman -WashingtonPost

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"Bush bypasses Senate to install new deputy defense secretary." ... "[Republican] President Bush on Wednesday bypassed the Senate to install former Navy Secretary Gordon R. England as deputy secretary of defense, and used a similar maneuver to name a new Pentagon spokesman, campaign finance regulators and Amtrak directors." ... "Bush also used this maneuver Wednesday to name Dorrance Smith, a former ABC News producer, as assistant secretary of defense for public affairs. That job has gone unfilled since Victoria Clarke quit the post in June 2003. Lawrence Di Rita, an aide close to Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, was the interim spokesman." ... "Bush had nominated England to be Rumsfeld's top deputy last April. [Republican Senators] Sens. Olympia Snowe, R[Republican]-Maine, and Trent Lott, R-Miss. [Republican-Mississippi], had placed holds on the appointment, preventing the Senate from considering it. At issue were shipbuilding concerns and conflict-of-interest questions surrounding pensions England holds from defense companies." ... "[Michigan Democratic Senator] Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich. [Democratic-Michigan], had held up Smith's nomination in a dispute over a newspaper opinion article in which he accused [United States] U.S. television networks of helping terrorists through their partnerships with Arab broadcaster Al-Jazeera." ... "Before joining the Bush administration in 2001, England was an executive at General Dynamics Corp." ... "At the Federal Election Commission, Bush appointed Hans von Spakovsky, a Justice Department lawyer who formerly was Republican Party chairman in Fulton County, Ga. [Georgia.]"

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20021221

"Frist steps up to lead GOP as Lott leaves Senate." ... "Sen. Trent Lott, R-Miss., abandoned his job as Senate majority leader Friday, and Republicans said they intend to elect Sen. Bill Frist, R-Tenn., on Monday to succeed him in the 108th Congress." ... "Lott's decision drew a huge sigh of relief from many Republican officials and strategists. They feared that his continued presence as a GOP leader would damage the party, especially with minority members and suburban women. His departure, and the fast-developing support for Frist, reduces the threat of a bloody intra-party battle when Congress convenes Jan. 7. The GOP will control both houses and hopes to give swift approval to key elements of Bush's agenda." -WashingtonPost via -StarTribune.com
"Politicos stunned by Bush's 'skilled' removal of Trent Lott: President 'extracted' the senator without leaving fingerprints." ... "As President Bush was cheerily shaking the hands of thousands of guests at glittering White House Christmas parties this week, his advisers and influential Republicans were working overtime to jettison Trent Lott as the Senate Republican leader." ... "By the end of the week, as the White House watched its favorite, Sen. Bill Frist of Tennessee, step up to replace Lott, R-Miss., Washington's political professionals were left stunned and awed. They said that Bush and his powerful political adviser, Karl Rove, had stumbled at times, but still had managed to depose in eight days the unanimously elected Senate leader of their own party." -By Elisabeth Bumiller -NYTimes via -SeattlePI.NWsource

20021218

- Mississippi - "[Minnesota Republican Governor elect Tim] Pawlenty calls on Lott to leave leadership post." ... "Minnesota Gov.-elect Tim Pawlenty became one of the first prominent Republicans in the nation to call on Trent Lott to step down as Senate Republican leader." ... ""I don't think you can be an effective spokesperson and leader for the party if you are perceived as embracing segregationist politics," Pawlenty said Tuesday, on the eve of a White House conference for freshman governors." ... ""He's not just a rank-and-file member of Congress," Pawlenty said of the Mississippi senator. "He's a leader of the Republican majority in the Senate and one of the leading national spokespeople for the party. I don't believe he can continue to be an effective spokesperson."" -By Kevin Diaz -StarTribune.com
"Lott Vows Fight to Retain His Post as Senate Leader." ... "Mr. Lott, at a 100th-birthday party for Senator Strom Thurmond, referred with praise to Mr. Thurmond's presidential bid in 1948. The campaign was based on maintaining racial segregation. Mr. Lott had made similar comments two decades ago, and tonight MSNBC reported a third instance — at a bill signing ceremony in October 2000 — in which Mr. Lott said Mr. Thurmond "should have been president."" ... "As White House officials sought to gauge support for Mr. Lott or for possible rivals, Mr. Lott also spent his day making phone calls, trying to assess whether he could survive a Senate vote on his leadership called for Jan. 6." -By Elisabeth Bumiller and Carl Hulse -NYTimes via -Google-News

20021217

"Majority Say Lott Should Not Lead: GOP Strategists Worry Over Backlash Among Voters." ... "Slightly more than half of all Americans believe incoming Senate majority leader Trent Lott should step down from his leadership post for making racially insensitive remarks two weeks ago at a birthday party for retiring Sen. Strom Thurmond, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll." ... "Fifty-one percent of those interviewed--including two out of three minorities--said Lott should not lead Senate Republicans when the new Congress convenes next month. Forty-one percent said he should continue to lead Senate Republicans." -By Richard Morin -WashingtonPost

20021213

"Trent Lott's Segregationist College Days: At Ole Miss, the Senator helped lead a fight to keep blacks out of his national fraternity." ... "Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott helped lead a successful battle to prevent his college fraternity from admitting blacks to any of its chapters, in a little-known incident now four decades old." ... "When the issue came to a head at Sigma Nu's national convention —known as a "Grand Chapter" — in the early 1960s, "Trent was one of the strongest leaders in resisting the integration of the national fraternity in any of the chapters," recalls former CNN President Tom Johnson, then a Sigma Nu member at the University of Georgia." -By Karen Tumulty -TIME.com

20021211

Mississippi - "Lott expresses regret for remarks; court filing from 1981 surfaces." ... "Senate Republican leader Trent Lott tried to help Bob Jones University keep its federal tax-exempt status despite the school's policy prohibiting interracial dating two decades before his recent comments stirred a race controversy." ... ""Racial discrimination does not always violate public policy," Lott, then a congressman from Mississippi, wrote in a 1981 friend of the court brief that cited prior court rulings upholding affirmative action programs at colleges." ... "Lott's filing unsuccessfully urged the U.S. Supreme Court to stop the Internal Revenue Service from stripping the university's tax exemption." -By John Solomon -AP via -SFGate.com
Mississippi - "Lott Remarks on Thurmond Echoed 1980 Words: Criticism Unabated Despite Apology for Comment on Former Dixiecrat's Presidential Bid." ... "Twenty-two years ago, Trent Lott, then a House member from Mississippi, told a home state political gathering that if the country had elected segregationist candidate Strom Thurmond to the presidency "30 years ago, we wouldn't be in the mess we are today." The phrasing is very similar to incoming Senate Majority Leader Lott's controversial remarks at a 100th birthday party for Thurmond last week." ... "Last week, Lott provoked controversy when he declared at the Thurmond birthday celebration: "I want to say this about my state: When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We're proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years."" -By Thomas B. Edsall and Brian Faler -WashingtonPost

20021210

"Black Caucus denounces Lott: GOP Senate leader assailed for remarks praising Thurmond’s presidential bid." ... "Members of the Congressional Black Caucus rejected Senate Republican leader Trent Lott’s apology for saying that America would have been better off if Strom Thurmond had won the presidency in 1948, when he ran as a segregationist and won four states." ... "The three dozen members of the caucus, all black Democrats in the House of Representatives, may push for a Senate censure of Lott and ask for his resignation as Senate Republican leader." -MSNBC

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