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...thousands of dollars for Obama from her extensive network of donors and has spoken to many of the groups, including key unions, that backed her in the primaries. She is set to hit the campaign trail on his behalf, starting with rallies and voter-registration drives this month in Nevada and Florida. "I'm doing all I know to do," she insists...
Stained Class, heavy-metal album by Judas Priest ... shotgun suicide/maiming in Reno, Nevada...
...federal bench for life,'' he says, ''should be the best the legal profession has to offer. Too many clearly are not.'' While the Senate prepared to consider Manion last week, the House was pondering the arduous prospect of a judicial impeachment. Convicted two years ago of income tax evasion, Nevada Federal District Judge Harry Claiborne began serving a two-year sentence last month at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama. The first sitting federal judge to be imprisoned, Claiborne, a Carter appointee, has refused to resign, continues to draw his $78,700 annual salary and could return to the bench...
...while Republican registration has dropped by nearly 27,000. (Bush won the state by about 10,000 votes in 2004.) In New Hampshire, which Kerry won in 2004 by about 9,000 votes, Democratic registration is up by 35,000 while new Republican voters number less than 2000. In Nevada, which Bush won by 21,000, Democrats have enrolled 16,000 new voters. Republicans have lost more than 43,000. Does it mean Obama will win these states? No. Does it make it easier to capture them? Certainly...
...Mafia analogy may play out in other ways. Following the raid on the YFZ Ranch, the FBI executed a search warrant and removed several boxes of papers and materials. Earlier this month, a summit was held by Utah, Arizona, Nevada and Texas law enforcement officials along with representatives of the U.S. Department of Justice and the IRS. Hamilton of Yeshiva University says she expects federal authorities may develop racketeering charges against the FLDS leadership using federal RICO laws. "There's reason to hope after that summit meeting," she says...