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...that they’re getting to play baseball everyday on spring break,” Walsh said. “With this great group of kids, it’s something special. Team morale’s going to be high, win or lose...
...adequate campaign funding because of his connections with deep-pocket donors, support from the Democratic Governors' Association and, perhaps, his own personal resources - he gave his first mayoral campaign a $2 million kick-start. (White, a lawyer, worked for an oil company and then ran a Houston energy investment group after leaving the White House.) Plus, White is a disciplined campaigner who will run a focused campaign, Murray says. (See pictures of Tea Party tax protests...
...group called Americans United for Change has been running spots in as many as 17 districts, targeting African-American voters with a pro-reform message. Doctors for America, a pro-Obama group of physicians, is also expected to advertise, while MoveOn.org has gone up with a six-figure national cable-television buy that compares health care reform to the struggle for civil rights. "Now is the time for historic action," the ad proclaims...
...Cross Society had refused an appeal from the Red Shirt leaders to help in gathering the blood, saying it could not take blood for the purpose of a political protest. Thailand's Nurse and Midwife Council considered the blood letting unethical and possibly dangerous, and that the group might take action against nurses who participate. "We will consider punishing them on a case-by-case basis," council president Prof Vijit Sriruphan told The Nation newspaper. "They should know that collecting blood is only done for research or medical purposes...
...even some Red Shirt supporters viewed the blood throwing plan as a desperate measure signaling the movement's goals had failed. "I'm loosing confidence,'' Lalida Phanyang, one Red Shirt supporter wrote on the group's Facebook wall. "It's a joke. This protest will turn into a humiliation,'' wrote Tawatchai Srihathai, another supporter. Red Shirt demonstrators have attempted to humiliate their political opponents in the past by throwing bottles and other objects at them, most notoriously bags of human feces. Two people were arrested in recent weeks for throwing bags of feces at Prime Minister Abhisit's home...