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...Game and Fish is getting hip!” I thought. But when I got home and looked up articles on Martin, I discovered a glitch—despite her impressive credentials, Martin’s stay on the Commission is likely to be short. Arizona Senate President Ken Bennett has blocked the vote on Martin’s appointment, thereby limiting her to a one-year default term instead of the regular three. In an e-mail to a member of the board of directors of the National Rifle Association, Bennett said he had blocked the vote because...
Former Enron CEO Ken Lay maintained throughout his fraud and conspiracy trial that he was an innocent man - a man who never should have been charged, never should have been indicted, and certainly never should have been convicted. After his death from a heart attack early Wednesday, it's almost as if he wasn't. Legally, his case died with...
...entire tragedy almost takes on Shakespearean dimensions," says David Berg, a Houston attorney who authored The Trial Lawyer: What it Takes to Win. "His fall from power was so great that it just destroyed him. In some ways, you would think that Ken Lay would rather have died than spent a moment in prison." Lay, who was awaiting sentencing in the fall, faced imprisonment for possibly the rest of his life. "On some subconscious level, it's a polite form of suicide. He was not going to let himself be imprisoned...
...moderate Democrat Harold Ford Jr. has embraced the right-wing House Republican immigration plan in his Senate campaign. "I don't think we ran an ad where [Republican beer baron] Pete Coors wasn't seen wearing a tuxedo," says Mandy Grunwald, who advised Colorado's successful Democratic Senate candidate Ken Salazar in 2004. "It's gotten to the point where every campaign is a populist campaign, and the strongest populist argument we have is the Republicans' fiscal irresponsibility back in Washington...
...DeLay, who is facing criminal money laundering charges in a campaign finance probe, has a profound effect not only on Democratic juices, but also impacts the party's "bottom line," Ken Bailey, the Texas Democratic party affairs director testified.? "He's kind of like a lightening rod that we use to drum up support," Bailey said. The party has used DeLay's face on numerous flyers and web campaigns in past elections, and organizers say the mention of his name can inspire volunteers from across the state to converge on DeLay's old 22nd congressional district near Houston...