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...facing criminal money laundering charges in a campaign finance probe, has a profound effect not only on Democratic juices, but also impacts the party's "bottom line," Ken Bailey, the Texas Democratic party affairs director testified.? "He's kind of like a lightening rod that we use to drum up support," Bailey said. The party has used DeLay's face on numerous flyers and web campaigns in past elections, and organizers say the mention of his name can inspire volunteers from across the state to converge on DeLay's old 22nd congressional district near Houston...
...Nevertheless, the thinking goes, if San Francisco's local plan for the uninsured takes off, it could be a model for other metropolitan regions nationwide. "This is a city that wants to right the proverbial wrongs," Newsom says. "We tend to march to the beat of our own drum and that, hopefully, is something that can awaken people's imaginations elsewhere...
...anyone to see Hastert and other Republicans fighting on his side. The Democrat, who represents much of New Orleans, is in serious legal trouble by all accounts, and the allegations released last weekend after the raid are lurid. The FBI charges he authorized bribes of Nigerian officials to drum up business for a Kentucky telecom company, iGate, and that on July 30, 2005, he took $100,000 in cash out of the trunk of a collaborator's car in Pentagon City, and then stored the cash in a refrigerator in his home in plastic food containers. The following month...
...shawl, and the crowd—some who had known Meat, others who had simply been moved by the scene—followed and circled around her. As the blanket’s pile of cash grew, the four men continued to chant to the deep beat of their drum...
...This drum is a very, very, very powerful instrument,” Beyl said. “It will be a song that we want to send back home to his family...