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...immense capacity to do good in the future,” he said. “Even just gaining awareness of these underrepresented issues is important.” This year’s Boston GuluWalk raised $6,692 by the day of the walk, according to Allyson Black-Foley, an organizer of the walk and a staff assistant at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Founded in 2005, the GuluWalk is now held in 100 cities worldwide, according to the organization’s Web site. The funds raised by the walk enable international organizations like the Lui Institute...
...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...
...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 was leveled at Republicans after Foley's behavior surfaced two years...
...district where Republican registrants still lead Democrats by 41% to 37%, Mahoney has done his best to sell himself as a moderate Democrat, picking up an endorsement from the National Rifle Association. But Republicans had already targeted Mahoney as a vulnerable incumbent, especially since he won the Foley seat by only 4,000 votes. Vice President Dick Cheney flew into town last month for a fund raiser for Rooney, who knocked off two Republican rivals in the primary. More than $5 million in contributions have been collected in the campaign; as of early August, Mahoney had raised more than...
...return a phone call Wednesday to confirm if it was still on. Palm Beach County GOP chair Sid Dinerstein is happy he still has a seat to the event, he said. Since 2006, the area has seen four city and county commissioners imprisoned for corruption charges; the Foley scandal; a still unresolved Aug. 26 judicial election in which voting ballots briefly disappeared; and now the Mahoney affair. "The voters, they are waiting for a natural leader," Dinerstein said. Or at least one who can manage to stay out of trouble...