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...years after the Bush team, which included Mehlman, all but trashed McCain in the ugly 2000 Republican primaries, Mehlman's move was another signal that the party's allergy to McCain is lifting as the senator continues to garner positive looks from the GOP's key base of financial fundraisers. Roughly a dozen top fundraisers attending a closed RNC meeting this week in Naples, Florida, privately promised McCain, who delivered a speech to the group, that they would be with him if and when...
...went to high-profile Appropriations Democrats-such as $1,000 each to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi; House panel members Patrick Kennedy and John Murtha, who would later lambast President Bush over the Iraq war; and Senator Diane Feinstein-along with the many more thousands he showered on GOP members. "This ethically challenged behavior should speak volumes about the need for earmark reform," says Naomi Steiner of Citizens for Responsiblity and Ethics in Washington, a watchdog group...
...Jacquez, according to Taxpayers for Common Sense. As with most successful lobbyists, it no doubt helped that he was tight with committee members and staff. As part of his new career, Shockey and his firm also helped his old boss raise hundreds of thousands of dollars to help the GOP keep its majority, according to the San Diego Union-Tribune, which first reported on some of Shockey's history late last year. And so, when House Republicans rewarded Lewis, 71, with the Appropriations chairmanship 13 months ago, Shockey was among the handful of trusted former aides whom the affable, silver...
...moved the elections to Monday was to add an “additional element of safety” by having the staff at Harvard Computing Services in case of technical emergency. President of the Harvard College Republicans Stephen E. Dewey ’07 sent a message over the GOP-Open e-mail encouraging members to run for office. “If you run, we’ll help you campaign,” he wrote. Love said that it is not unusual for political groups to endorse students running for the UC. “You see that...
...Senate and their respective party's' leaders on ethics and lobbying reform, Barack Obama and John McCain, were engaged earlier this week in a highly personal tiff on the issue. Obama, being pushed by Senate Democratic leaders to use the lobbying reform issue to help attack the GOP as elections loom in November, last week sent a letter to McCain, saying Democrats would pursue their own ethics bill rather than joining a bill created by McCain's bipartisan task force. In a letter this week, the Arizona Senator blasted Obama. "I?m embarrassed to admit that after all these years...