Word: alabamas
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...only neighbor it is poking. Last year Lake Lanier, Atlanta's primary water source, hit record lows and Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue took on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, demanding that the flow of water from the reservoir and the Chattahoochee River downstream to Florida and Alabama be restricted. The Corps politely disagreed and more recently a federal court ruled Georgia's access to Lake Lanier be curtailed...
...been more assertive in giving tactical advice - coaching Hillary's strategists on how to talk about trade in Ohio, for example, and scrutinizing the map for targets of opportunity that the campaign may have missed. It was Bill Clinton, aides say, who suggested deploying himself to campaign in Alabama, even though Hillary was certain to lose the popular vote. Sure enough, Obama won by a comfortable 14 points - but Hillary came out of the contest with 25 delegates to Obama...
DIED When a rumor spread that lynching was likely for civil rights activist James Orange--confined in an Alabama jail after his 1965 arrest during a voter-registration drive--it set in motion the protests and marches that led to the Voting Rights Act of 1965. An aide and friend to Martin Luther King Jr., Orange was with him the day that King was assassinated. Orange worked for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the AFL-CIO and, most recently, the Martin Luther King Jr. Committee...
...legislature also did not respond to requests for comment. McGee, who had worked on several pieces of legislation with Patrick, according to The Boston Globe, is scheduled to be arraigned next week on charges of sexual battery. A 1992 magna cum laude graduate of the University of Alabama, McGee was once named by USA Today as one of the top twenty undergraduates in the nation. McGee was married in November 2005 to John H. Finley, IV ’92 in a ceremony officiated by Cambridge’s former Democratic state senator, Jarrett T. Barrios...
...Mike Huckabee [AL, AR, GA, TN, WV] did far better than expected, which is mostly because he was not expected to do much of anything. West Virginia landed in his corner after McCain supporters, coming in third in the caucus, decided to gang up against Romney. But victories in Alabama, Tennessee and Georgia, as well as a strong showing in Missouri, proved that his southern appeal is enough to keep him in the race - for the moment. The challenge, and it is significant, will be for Huckabee to turn himself into something more than a regional favorite...