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...soft-spoken mid-Cambridge resident’s bid for a seat on the City Council fell short by just 90 votes. This year the Harvard-trained urban planner is back, waging another issues-based campaign similar to the one that endeared him to progressives throughout the city two years...
...Just weeks after the host of Comedy Central’s “The Colbert Report” announced that he would run in his home state of South Carolina—both as a Democrat and as a Republican—an executive committee has denied his bid to get on the ballot...
...businessman Norman Hsu drew attention to the $850,000 he bundled for Clinton because of some of the donations came from people of modest means. In August, two Michigan lawyers were indicted on charges of soliciting and reimbursing proxy donors who contributed $125,000 to John Edwards' 2004 presidential bid...
...anticorruption court convicted Estrada of plundering more than $15 million while in office and sentenced him to life imprisonment. Yet on Oct. 25, Arroyo granted Estrada a pardon on the grounds that he had already served more than six years under house arrest. Arroyo painted the pardon as a bid for national reconciliation. But her critics impute a more cynical motive: Estrada, who remains wildly popular among the masses, has been a virulent opponent of her administration; pardoning him may mute that criticism...
...country's lower house of Congress was blocked by Arroyo's political allies. Her courting of foreign investment has also drawn fire. In early October, Arroyo canceled a $329 million contract with Chinese company ZTE to build a government broadband network after a businessman who had submitted a rival bid alleged that the deal involved millions of dollars in kickbacks for members of Arroyo's administration. Election Commissioner Benjamin Abalos resigned after the Cabinet Secretary in charge of infrastructure development testified that Abalos had offered him a $4.4 million bribe to approve the project. (Abalos has denied any wrongdoing...