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...evangelical Christian leaders (including Rick Warren, author of The Purpose-Driven Life; the Rev. Floyd Flake of New York City; and the Rev. Jesse Miranda of Costa Mesa, Calif.) who have begun an initiative to fight global warming, declaring, "Millions of people could die in this century because of climate change, most of them our poorest global neighbors...
...usually rules the day, Boehner's second-round win by a margin of 122-109 against front-runner and current Majority Whip Roy Blunt of Missouri for the party's number two spot amounted to storming the Bastille. "Boehner looked as shocked as all of us," said Rep. Jeff Flake of Arizona after the vote. But at the same time, the Ohioan's own longstanding and close ties to K Street lobbyists virtually guarantees that he'll keep the fundraising machine DeLay so skillfully built up running smoothly as his party heads to November's expensive political battles. In essence...
Arizona Congressman Jeff Flake, a conservative and a Shadegg supporter, says, "It's a dynamic situation"--one made more unpredictable by the fact that the election will be by secret ballot. That means all those vote commitments may be meaningless, and anything could happen. "This is high drama," says Illinois Republican Ray LaHood. As if the G.O.P. hasn't already had enough of that...
...from people whose opinions actually matter in the leadership race, Republican members of Congress. Mike Pence, the head of the 110-member Republican Study Committee, a group of the House's most conservative members, has backed Shadegg, a former RSC chair, as has the duo of Arizona conservative Jeff Flake and New Hampshire moderate Charles Bass, who have been leaders in pushing both for DeLay's ouster and the House drastically reforming its rules. "We need more reform than proposed by the first two candidates," says Flake...
...that people who support Shadegg are calling for the same kind of dramatic change as he is. But it's not clear how closely allied Boehner or Shadegg's boosters are, or if the combined vote of Shadegg and Boehner could overtake Blunt. "It's a dynamic situation," says Flake...