Word: topeka
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Mary Brownback, Topeka, Kans...
...message, thought reprises his attack-dog role from the 2004 campaign. The President tends to avoid singling out particular legislators from the opposition, while Cheney names names, especially when he's talking about the likely committee chairs if Democrats were to retake the House or Senate. In Topeka, where the Vice President warned against "any strategy of resignation and defeatism," the audience responded with scattered boos when he reeled off the names of Democrats who could head committees if the G.O.P. lost control of the House or Senate...
...Republican National Committee says the Vice President has raised an astounding $40 million for the midterm elections at 113 campaign events since his reelection, including $215,000 at a reception in Topeka for Congressman Jim Ryun and $180,000 tonight in New Orleans at a reception for the national party, to be held at a club with a 30th-floor view of the Mississippi River. While in Louisiana, he was also receiving briefings from the Army Corps of Engineers and from Don Powell, the federal coordinator of Gulf Coast reconstruction, and touring a barge company by the Port...
...road for his own ticket in 2004, and he tells applauding audiences these days, "Don't hold back!" In Houston, he joked, "At ease, please." He still jokes that as the lone Congressman from Wyoming, his delegation was small - "but it was quality." For the Topeka crowd today, he noted of his tie-breakers as president of the Senate, "The thing I've noticed is that every time I get to vote, our side wins...
...notice that now, with only weeks to go before Election Day, the leader of the House Democrats, Nancy Pelosi, claims Democrats 'love tax cuts,'" he told the Topeka crowd. "That only invites another look at her party's record on taxes. The last time they had control of Congress, back in 1993, they passed a massive tax increase. They'll do it again if they can." Pelosi's office said in a statement after Bush made a similar remark during his Rose Garden news conference on Wednesday that Democrats' plans for middle-income tax cuts stand "in stark contrast...