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Have you gotten your absentee ballot for the ’09 elections yet? Or, to take a step back—have you even heard of the ’09 elections? On Tuesday, Virginia and New Jersey residents will elect a governor, and residents of New York City, Houston, Los Angeles, Boston, and 70 other major cities will elect a mayor. Maine residents will vote on whether to preserve gay marriage, and Ohioans will vote on whether to allow casinos in its major cities and whether to establish a board to set livestock care standards. And Texans will...
...then, four years later, his father, an auto-plant worker, committed suicide. After being primarily raised by a grandmother, Pugh got a ticket out of Detroit with a scholarship to the University of Missouri's journalism school. He then built a successful television-reporting career in Indiana and Virginia before joining the local Detroit Fox News affiliate...
...smarts that earned the Brooklyn-born son of an exterminator a 1600 on his college SATs and the political wiles that, as head of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, helped him recruit pro-life, pro-gun Democratic candidates such as Pennsylvania's Bob Casey and Jim Webb of Virginia. For the past month, Schumer has been directing a full-court press on the public option, cajoling Reid both in private and in public. "I believe Leader Reid is leaning strongly to putting a level-playing-field, state-opt-out public option in the bill," Schumer said on Meet the Press...
...other hand, very little of the Contract with America ever made it into law. And Cantor's four issues are hardly the sweeping small-government manifesto that the Contract with America embodied. The Virginia Representative is starting small, searching out building blocks on which all Republicans - moderate and conservative - can agree. For example, Cantor notes that state unemployment burdens are expected to double from $30 billion in 2009 to more than $60 billion in 2012, resulting in what he says will be a doubling of business taxes from $250 to $500 per worker per year by 2012. "Eric's correct...
...started going to tuxedo galas and $200-a-plate dinners--I'd go get three half-smokes with mustard and raw onions, thank you very much. One day, my driver returned with the same amount of money I had given him. He told me Ben and his wife Virginia (below) had refused to let him pay. They told him, "Bill Cosby eats for free." I tried again the next time I was in town, but Virginia recognized my order and again refused to take my money. After Barack Obama visited earlier this year, a sign went up: BILL COSBY...