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...part, Stevens couldn’t look more defiant: He insisted after his conviciton he will continue his uphill battle for the Senate seat he has held since 1970, after he helped lead Alaska to statehood. This history, combined with his legendary ability to steer federal money his state’s way, makes it no wonder why Stevens, like Kilpatrick, was so revered at home, at least by certain voting blocs. (Governor Sarah Palin, an on-and-off political ally of Sen. Stevens’s, took her time to call outright for his resignation; at first she asked...
...civil lawsuit claiming they were fired for investigating reports of misconduct by two of Kilpatrick's former bodyguards. During the court proceedings, one of the officers revealed Kilpatrick's affair with his chief of staff, Christine Beatty, a childhood friend who had assisted his successful 1996 run for a seat in Michigan's House of Representatives. (His mother, Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, vacated the seat to run for national office; she is now a U.S. representative and chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus...
...Kwame Kilpatrick sitting in that seat - if it was John Six-Pack sitting in the seat - what would I do? And the answer is simple." - Judge Ronald Giles, on his decision to sentence Kilpatrick to a night in jail after Kilpatrick violated his bond by crossing state lines to make a trip to Windsor, Ontario (New York Times...
...DeLay's machinations, the political ironies in the district rise as high as Ike's storm surge. In the former majority leader's redrawing of the Texas map, he pulled the Johnson Space Center and NASA, a pork-rich environment, into District 22. And after winning DeLay's old seat, the Democratic leadership restored Lampson seniority based on his four terms representing his old adjacent district, which had been dismantled by DeLay. That led to Lampson serving on three committees vital to the district-agriculture, science and technology, and transportation- which helped him win the endorsement of the influential Farm...
...what it used to be," said University of Houston political scientists Richard Murray. Since 2006, when DeLay abandoned his seat, a large number of middle class African Americans, Latinos, and Asian Americans have moved into the 22nd's growing suburban areas southwest of Houston, around DeLay's old home base, Sugarland. Murray said. Asians, many of them professional and small businessowners with roots in India and Vietnam, are becoming an important force in local elections, particularly in Fort Bend County, the heart of the district where the sugar fields are giving way to suburban growth. Asian political participation has grown...