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...days, we knocked the doors of the people that were once Hillary Clinton’s base. They are the new swing vote, for a reason that all but the most jaded political hands should find troubling: many of them, quite simply, are racists.Rep. John Murtha, a sixteen-term Congressman from Pittsburgh, acknowledged this reality on Wednesday with a bluntness that a less secure incumbent could never have dared. “There is no question that western Pennsylvania is a racist area,” he said. I am afraid that in small towns on the Jersey border, there...
...more fuel for his detractors, yet secretly hope for his acknowledgement. “A lot of us are waiting for him to say that there’s nothing wrong with being a Muslim,” admitted Rep. Keith Ellison, the country’s first Muslim congressman, in July...
...Another Congressman, weeks from an election, is accused of untoward sexual behavior, contradicting his public stance as a moral crusader. He initially says as little as possible, offers opaque denials, vague apologies to his family for whatever he did or did not do, and predicts vindication...
...election. Florida's Republican Party rushed a one-minute television ad mocking a 2006 Mahoney television campaign commercial that described him as someone "who believes in faith, family and personal responsibility"; the image is followed by excerpts of an alleged telephone call from January in which the bullying Congressman tells Allen "You're fired" no fewer than six times in three minutes. A spokesman for the Florida Democratic Party late Wednesday afternoon refused to comment on the allegations against Mahoney. By early Thursday morning, the Palm Beach County Republican Party issued a statement calling on Mahoney to resign...
...north of Palm Beach County, reportedly also had an affair with Mahoney while he was in office. On Wednesday, ABC News reported allegations that Mahoney went out of his way to help the woman secure a $3.2 million hurricane-cleanup reimbursement from FEMA. (Mahoney's representative responded that the Congressman had helped many counties in Florida get reimbursed by Washington for disaster-recovery expenses, and that Martin County had been seeking funding prior to Mahoney's election.) Republicans have also accused leading Democrats of covering up whatever knowledge they had of Mahoney's trysts, the very same charge that...