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...unlikely that many Republicans will lose their seats over an issue Americans rank low on their list of concerns. If corruption were driving voters to the polls, Democrats should have won--or at least performed better in--the special election to fill the California House seat vacated by Duke Cunningham, the Republican jailed for taking bribes. But the Republican candidate won by 5 percentage points...
...last major accomplishments of Randy "Duke" Cunningham before the Republican Congressman was jailed for taking $2.4 million in bribes was to sponsor an amendment to the 217-year-old Constitution of the United States. The amendment, which would have given Congress the power to outlaw "desecration" of the flag, cleared the required two-thirds majority in the House last year and Tuesday evening the Senate put the amendment to a vote. Both sides in the battle said during the run up to the vote that supporters were one vote short of the 67 required for Congressional passage - and despite...
That sound you heard on Wednesday morning was a big sigh of relief from Republicans across the country over the results of a special election in a San Diego County congressional district where Republicans usually win without breaking a sweat. After ex-Congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham earlier this year pleaded guilty to bribery and tax evasion, and was given an eight-year prison sentence, the election to name his replacement was watched by both parties as both a crucial test of how badly Republicans are likely to fare in this fall's midterms - and of whether the Democrats' recent "culture...
...greatest scrutiny will be of California's 50th congressional district, which is holding a special election to replace Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham, who pled guilty to bribery charges earlier this year. This is a solidly Republican district that Cunningham carried with more than 60% and President Bush carried by 11% in the last election. The mere fact that the Democratic challenger, Francine Busby, a school board member, has made the race competitive indicates the difficulties that Republicans could face in trying to retain control of the House this fall. The G.O.P. nominee, Brian Bilbray, is a former member of Congress...
...food for his dog.“It was the antithesis of the sense of entitlement that had been pitched very fervently at Harvard,” he adds. “I was shed very quickly of that on my very first job.”Caroline C. Cunningham ’81, a close friend of the Cuse family, says that Cuse put in his time before being able to achieve his success.“The story about Carlton that I think is very interesting is that he worked for and deserves his success in the most...