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...back door and stood in the doorway in this red suit, and she said in her Southern accent, "Well, is this anything?" And I literally said to myself, "Oh my God." I knew that was it. I had an Indian blanket from Mexico that served as the seat cover for my beat-up 1937 Chevy pickup with colors that, it just popped into my head, would match the suit. I'd like to make it sound like it was all planned. But it was a spontaneous, happy intersection of coincidence. I didn't do anything. I just...
...House seat in 1994 with no political experience. Financed his campaign with $100,000 of his own money. Served three terms in Congress, where he repeatedly fought spending increases and pork-barrel spending...
...elections sparked by the expenses scandal. Michael Martin, a Labour MP serving in the party-neutral role of Speaker, or chair, of the Commons, steps down later this month. He was forced out after MPs' protests that he was an obstacle to parliamentary reform. Ian Gibson resigned his marginal seat after a Labour committee examining the expenses revelations ruled he could not stand for the party at the next election. (See pictures of polarizing politicians at LIFE.com...
...public relations perspective, though, Warren has been a success. She has taken to the spotlight like a seal to water and has smoothly made the cable-TV rounds to chide the close-knit club that determined financial policy in the past. She argues that now, finally, taxpayers "have a seat at the table." If this sounds like advocacy, that might be exactly what Democratic Party bosses had in mind when they selected her. Since a special inspector general was also appointed to investigate Treasury's actions, Warren's oversight panel was left with little actual power. But it performs...
Despite lack of parrots and eye patches, SWEDEN'S PIRATE PARTY wins an E.U. Parliament seat...