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...Gordon-]Reed has allowed our female ancestors to speak again through her research,” said Virginia C. Cash-Kemp, a Massachusetts resident who attended the discussion...
...small businesses, an idea that was dropped from the first stimulus because it would've been too easy for employers to manipulate by firing and rehiring workers. House Financial Services Committee chairman Barney Frank has proposed a $2 billion fund to help homeowners avoid foreclosure. In the Senate, Virginia's Mark Warner wants to use $50 billion in leftover bank-bailout funds for small-business loans (as of the end of October, the so-called TARP program still had $300 billion left). And Senator Jack Reed, a Rhode Island Democrat, has taken inspiration from Germany's successful weathering...
...currently striving to become one of Bravo’s “Real Housewives of D.C.,” likely pulled the stunt in order to garner media attention and increase her chance of being chosen for the television show. It seems like this pair of Virginia socialites with a (deservedly) unflattering reputation wanted to attract the spotlight without doing anything to truly merit it. Their tactics—including posting photos of the event on Facebook—reveal as much...
...attention-hungry Virginia socialites broke their silence on Tuesday, appearing on NBC's Today show, where they insisted that they had permission to attend the gala dinner. "We were invited, not crashers. There isn't anyone that would have the audacity or the poor behavior to do that," Michaele Salahi said, but the couple did not specify who had issued the invitation. On the same program, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs denied that claim, saying, "You don't show up at the White House as a misunderstanding." The Salahis exchanged e-mails about attending the state dinner with...
...week: the couple who crashed a White House dinner party, posing for photos with political bigwigs like Obama and Biden and posting them to their Facebook. Turns out these were no high-society fundraisers but—surprise!—just a flashily dressed, celebrity-obsessed couple from Virginia, who also happened to be auditioning for “The Real Housewives of D.C.” The subsequent Secret Service foot-shuffling occasioned much media meditation on the shortfalls of government security. More thankfully, the story finally traced in bold the parallels between the equally absurd worlds...