Word: gop
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...room. "We went to (judiciary committee staff) and said we don't want the nomination hearing to be like the Christian thrown to the lions with all the Romans around the outside going thumbs up or thumbs down," says a Senate Republican staffer involved in the planning. The GOP staffers feared a repeat of the Bork and Thomas hearings where the audience was predominantly hostile. So in addition to the skyboxes, there has been a consistent presence of Roberts?s supporters, including apparently ad hoc groups like 'Women for Roberts...
...financial disclosure forms. He could have received up to six months in jail on each count. The ethics violations have even party loyalists for the first time hinting that the embattled governor should step down. "I'm pretty confident that he should resign," said Neil Clark, a top GOP lobbyist. "I don't know how else we can rebuild the confidence of the people...
...Columbus City Prosecutor's Office stem from a widening corruption scandal that since June has forced the resignation of the head of the Bureau of Workers' Compensation and the conviction of Taft's former chief of staff on ethics charges, amidst an ongoing criminal probe of deep-pocketed GOP donor Tom Noe, a rare coin dealer and long time political ally of Taft's. The Ohio Attorney General says Noe stole as much as $4 million from state investment he was managing, and even Noe's lawyers concede that $13 million is missing from the fund...
...have been practically salivating as the scandal has unfolded, seeing a real chance to reclaim the governor's office next year in this Republican-controlled state. A recent bellwether for the 2006 elections was the surprisingly tight Congressional race earlier this month for an open House seat in a GOP-dominated southwestern district that the Republican candidate won by a narrow four-point margin. Ohio House Democratic Leader Chris Redfern told TIME before the sentencing: "If he's convicted and doesn't leave office, there certainly will be a drumbeat for his removal. I'm picking out my drumsticks." - with...
Last week's indictment of former Republican superlobbyist Jack Abramoff by a Fort Lauderdale grand jury could be making at least one member of Congress skittish: Ohio GOP Rep. Bob Ney, who twice put statements in the Congressional Record that favored Abramoff's side of a bitterly disputed deal involving gambling boats that is at the heart of the charges...