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...Even if the issues with seating the Florida delegates are resolved, I still don't intend on endorsing a candidate," said Ron Klein, a freshman congressman from Boca Raton who won his seat from Republican Clay Shaw with 51% of the vote. "I have excellent relations with both Senator Clinton and Senator Obama and they both understand my position. Why would I endorse and risk alienating a group of Democratic voters in a reelection race that promises to be incredibly close...
...Spitzer's approval ratings plummeted after his election; it didn't help that not long after becoming governor, Spitzer said to the Republican leader in the state assembly, "I'm a f______ steamroller, and I'll roll over you." Or that when he had a policy dispute with the popular mayor of New York City, Michael Bloomberg, Spitzer grandiosely said, "[Bloomberg] is wrong at every level - dead wrong, factually wrong, legally wrong, morally wrong, ethically wrong...
...owns or operates 65 prisons, housing some 70,000 inmates across the U.S. According to the company's website, it has a greater than 50% share of the booming private prison market. CCA is also a major contributor to Republican candidates and causes, and spends millions of dollars each year lobbying for government contracts. (Puryear enjoys a friendship with Cheney's son-in-law, Philip Perry, who lobbied for CCA in Washington before serving as general counsel for the Department of Homeland Security, which has millions of dollars in contracts with CCA, from 2005 to 2007.) The company has likewise...
Jones knows CCA intimately. Until last summer, the longtime Republican was in charge of "quality assurance" records for CCA prisons across the U.S. He says that in 2005, after CCA found itself embarrassed on several occasions by the public release of internal records to government agencies, Puryear mandated that detailed, raw reports on prison shortcomings carry a blanket assertion of "attorney-client privilege," thus forbidding their release without his written consent. From then on, Jones says, the audits delivered to agencies were filled with increasingly vague performance measures. "If the wrong party found out that a facility's operations scored...
...campaign in Texas, as it has done in most other state caucuses this year, trumped that of Clinton's ground forces. There is the possibility that the stalled count includes areas more favorable to Obama while Clinton's strongholds are yet to be counted. Then there are suggestions that Republicans, hoping to prolong the Clinton-Obama slugfest, voted in the Democratic contest. (Since some 700,000 Democratic primary voters did not bother to vote in other races down ballot, particularly in strong Republican counties, it is likely those voters did not turn up for the more prolonged caucus proceeding either...