Word: activists
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...Connor's resignation came as a surprise but not a shock. There had been speculation for weeks that she might step down to spend more time with her husband John, who she has told friends is suffering from Alzheimer's disease. Once she announced her decision, activist groups who had been focused on the world-after-Rehnquist regeared for a higher-stakes battle over her crucial seat. Those groups have been readying their cell phones and BlackBerrys for years. In an atmosphere of already heightened political polarization, when the U.S. is divided over an increasingly unpopular...
...activist groups that will carry the nomination fight to the public, the name of the game is hit early and often. Conservatives still remember their bitter and unsuccessful 1987 fight over Reagan's Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork, when they were caught off guard by Senator Edward Kennedy's lightning-fast characterization of Bork--within an hour of Bork's nomination--as a man who would create an America where "women would be forced into back-alley abortions [and] blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters." The label stuck and helped ensure Bork's defeat. For weeks Progress for America...
Meanwhile, liberal activist groups are not exactly sitting idle. At the Alliance for Justice, a Washington-based coalition of more than 70 organizations, staff members have been examining speeches, judicial opinions and background information on about 15 potential nominees. People for the American Way has a 2,500-sq.-ft. "war room" in Washington with 40 computer workstations and 75 phones to help its staff members stay in touch with local activists across the country. An e-mail with an embedded hyperlink flashed from the room to 400,000 people around the U.S. last week. "If Bush gives his base...
...Live 8 concerts—organized by British activist Sir Bob Geldof—are designed to put pressure the leaders of the G8 countries to increase aid, cancel debt, and deliver what Geldof calls “trade justice” to Africa, in advance of this month’s G8 summit in Gleneagles, Scotland, where Africa tops the agenda...
...largesse that Abramoff could afford with his clients' money, exposure is a frightening prospect. House majority leader Tom DeLay, that luxury traveler, has already been burned by his association with Abramoff. The latest disclosures about the lobbyist's methods have dusted up two more Republican notables: antitax activist Grover Norquist and Christian conservative Ralph Reed. Their names came up in the thousands of e-mails released last week by the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, which is investigating Abramoff. The fact that Abramoff-controlled tribal money found its way to the highest levels of conservative power in the country is making...