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South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford was cheap, terrible at giving presents, attention-hungry, unsettled and ultimately not true to his ideals. Oh - and he cheated on his wife. The last part we know from his overwrought confession on national TV. The rest we know because the wife he cheated on tells us about it in her new memoir, Staying True...
Viktor Yanukovych Profile: A former mechanic, became a regional governor and then was twice named Prime Minister Quote: "I'm told it's useless and wrong to argue with a woman ... And if she is a woman, she should go to the kitchen" - Yanukovych on refusing to debate with his opponent...
...Early polls put Dilma in second place, behind Jose Serra, the São Paulo governor who has yet to formally declare his candidacy. A December Datafolha poll gives her 23%, against Serra's 37%. Still, that's a 7-point gain over her numbers from last August, which suggests she is on the right track. Still, she clearly has her work cut out to make herself known to voters, especially in poorer and more remote parts of the country. "She doesn't do well at rallies," Castro Neves said. "She is trying to change that, but with Lula alongside...
Theoretically, Florida's 1995 legislation should have pre-empted more-severe local ordinances. Yet most state politicians didn't want to be seen as coming to the rescue of sex offenders. Governor Charlie Crist, now a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate who is facing a more conservative opponent for the GOP nomination, has largely ignored the municipal laws as well as the Julia Tuttle eyesore, even as it has become a cautionary symbol of how restrictions can backfire. (See pictures of crime in Middle America...
Still, the Tea Party folk are fervent. The group's event coordinator, Judy Hoelscher, is relatively new at all this and has the enthusiasm of a convert. When she was living in California, she voted for Gray Davis, a Democrat, for governor. Now she paints signs and has a website, angryrightwinghousewife.com. Hoelscher, a mother of three, says, "Obama and the Democrats have not addressed the economy at all." She believes the stimulus bill was nothing but a "slush fund." But she is also offended by Republicans and says she will work for Republican challenger J.D. Hayworth against incumbent Senator John...