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Ross, the nominee from the Green-Rainbow Party, is the fourth candidate on this fall’s ballot...
...submitted a petition of 14,500 certified signatures on Aug. 29 so that she could appear on the ballot as a third-party candidate...
...close races. On Monday,in a 90-minute closed-door meeting at Orlando International Airport, they anointed state Representative Joe Negron as Foley's replacement. But Negron faces a tougher task than a late-starting candidate would ordinarily; by law, Foley's name must remain on the Nov. 7 ballot, and though a vote for Foley would count as a vote for Negron, the chances of getting enough voters to drop their ill will toward Foley long enough to mark his name look slim at best. Even Florida's Republican Governor Jeb Bush conceded today that Negron "has an extraordinary...
...Foley's resignation will greatly increase the Democrats' chances of winning one of the 15 seats they need to take back the House, since Foley's name will remain on the ballot, even though the G.O.P. has named a new candidate, Joe Negron. But the Foley scandal could have much wider ramifications, raising the question of whether Congress as an institution is the problem. The top GOP congressional leaders had been informed of at least some of Foley's e-mails, but didn't directly ask Foley about them. Republican Rodney Alexander of Louisiana, under whom one of the pages...
...most likely to flip is that of former House majority leader Tom DeLay, who stepped down a year ago amid revelations of his ties to Abramoff. Although DeLay dropped out of his House race after the primary last April, it was too late to get his name off the ballot. Now the Democratic candidate Nick Lampson is the favorite of most oddsmakers to beat the late-starting G.O.P. write-in candidate Shelley Sekula-Gibbs. In southeastern Ohio, former House Administration Committee chairman Bob Ney is retiring after pleading guilty last month to trading favors for campaign contributions from Abramoff...