Word: russ
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...campaign finance decision applies only to three TV ads that Wisconsin Right to Life Inc. wanted to run in 2004 opposing filibusters of President George W. Bush's judicial nominees. The ads named Wisconsin's two Senators and urged viewers to contact them about the issue. One Senator, Democrat Russ Feingold, was up for reelection. Since the McCain-Feingold law bans corporations and unions from spending their money (as opposed to money from a separate political action committee) on ads that name candidates 30 days before a primary or 60 days before a general election, Wisconsin Right to Life figured...
...think is his main job: being a TV host, fronting series of weekly movie-review shows since 1976, first with Gene Siskel, then with Richard Roeper. He's also recorded commentaries for DVD releases of classic films, from Citizen Kane to Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, the sleazerrific Russ Meyer movie that Roger co-wrote in his 20s. As the go-to movie savant, he's been on hundreds of TV shows, sometimes alone, sometimes with his review-show partners; who can forget that night in the '80s when David Letterman persuaded Roger and Gene to toss basketballs...
...back with Roger to the early 70s, when he wrote a long, fine piece on Russ Meyer for Film Comment, the magazine I edited. He also did an important analysis of the action-film audience's disconnect from narrative - how they would simply ride from one sensational episode to another, without caring about any continuity of narrative or character. When the magazine needed a smart story, Roger would write one. By now TV had made him a star, but he was never a prima donna...
...selling them credit cards--"the opium of consumerism." When the rest of the banking industry lobbied for a new bankruptcy law in 2005 to make it easier for lenders to go after people struggling to pay their bills, Kuhlmann held a press conference with Senators Ted Kennedy and Russ Feingold to say the law would hurt ordinary people down on their luck. It was classic Kuhlmann: a mixture of genuine outrage and savvy marketing message...
...This term, Senator Obama has spearheaded initiatives to demand governmental accountability. He fought to allow all Americans to see exactly how their money is being spent, and demanded that senators no longer be able to request legislative earmarks anonymously. He worked with Senator Russ Feingold to implement common-sense ethics reforms, preventing members of Congress from accepting gifts from lobbyists and restricting the revolving door between lobbying firms and Capitol Hill. And that commitment has extended to the campaign trail, where he does not accept any campaign contributions from lobbyists or interest groups...