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...goes to plan, in a couple of years the trickle will turn into a flood. When it's completed 20 years from now, KAEC will be roughly the size of Washington, D.C., with a population exceeding 1.5 million. It will have a seaport, an industrial district, a financial center, a health-care zone, a full-fledged university and a beach resort. Not since Brasília and Chandigarh in the 1950s and '60s has any country set out to build an entirely new city on such a scale...
...certain point, you have to start feeling bad for the scandal-scarred residents of Florida's 16th Congressional District, who are only two years removed from the abrupt resignation of Republican Representative Mark Foley after claims that he sent inappropriate, sexually suggestive e-mail and text messages to young male pages on Capitol Hill. That scandal helped catapult the Democrat Tim Mahoney, an investment banker, into the House; soon after his swearing in as the Representative of the Republican-leaning district, he told reporters that Foley had not reflected the "values and morals" required to serve in office...
Feeney helped draw the district boundaries to his benefit during the 2002 reapportionment while he was Speaker of the Florida House. But that advantage, which in past elections translated into big, double-digit winning margins, has vaporized. The latest poll, released Sept. 18 by Democratic challenger Suzanne Kosmas, a well-financed, term-limited state legislator and businesswoman from New Smyrna Beach, showed Feeney only one percentage point ahead of Kosmas, a statistical dead heat. For the first time, Feeney lost the endorsement of his hometown newspaper, the Orlando Sentinel, which noted on October 12 that Feeney's power has waned...
...Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call on Oct. 7 put Feeney in 6th place on its top 10 list of most endangered congressional incumbents. The seat, House District 24 in Republican-leaning East Central Florida, includes portions of the Orlando metro area, Daytona Beach and Kennedy Space Center...
Political analyst and University of Central Florida professor Aubrey Jewett, who also resides in Feeney's district, said the ad could backfire as otherwise unengaged voters get clued in. "If they had asked me, I would have suggested not to run it," Jewett said. "It's hard to say exactly how it will pan out. It did bring the scandal to more people's attention." Georgetown linguistics professor Deborah Tannen, author of The Argument Culture: Stopping America's War of Words, says political apologies are rarely perceived as genuine, leaving in question their impact...