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1 day ago by Verndewd

I have some inside info that I wont divulge in any sense but this, Certain groups are very angry about legislators calling americans homegrown terrorists, the more unconstitutional laws that are passed the more the chatter increases and the chatter isnt good. I think its past time that all of you co ...

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16 days ago by Jason Hancock

Iowa Sen. Charles Grassley is taking heat from campaign finance watchdogs for hosting a fundraiser Monday night with lobbyists and a political action committee representing the mortgage, insurance and financial industries. The problem, critics say, is that Grassley recently backed those industries i ...

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53 days ago by admin

One of the primary reasons people become disenchanted with PR is because of what I call the grand slam mentality. Too many people believe that their first TV interview or magazine article is going to be “it”. It’s going to change their lives. That one story will turn their business around. All of th ...

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58 days ago by Chris Bowers

Charlie Cook expresses a bit of conventional wisdom when he writes that Democrats helped themselves by dropping gun control as a public campaign issue: When Democrats lost their House and Senate majorities in 1994, polling for organized labor showed that the top issue for union members voting Republ ...

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64 days ago by Neil Aquino

Democratic Senator Richard Durbin said the following recently on a Chicago radio station about the power of banks in the U.S. Senate— “And the banks — hard to believe in a time when we’re facing a banking crisis that many of the banks created — are still the most powerful lobby on Capitol Hill. And ...

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91 days ago by admin

What’s on Your Mind? The Center for Responsive Politics has partnered with knowledge-sharing site Helium to find out how you feel about a variety of topics related to money-in-politics. Why is the lobbying industry doing just fine despite the national economic recession? How would public campaign fi ...

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115 days ago by admin

The debate over Florida’s public campaign financing program turned ugly Thursday when a Republican senator mocked President Barack Obama as “the messiah” and a Democratic colleague chimed in with a vulgar retort.The Senate Transportation and Economic Development Appropriations Committee unanimously ...

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122 days ago by Monica Rober

An article in the April issue of Reader's Digest asks "How can your congressman serve you when he's constantly hunting for campaign cash?" read more

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145 days ago by admin

lin­k to­ ph­o­to­ It r­e­m­­inds m­­e­ of the­ tr­ial in Sim­­i Valle­y Califor­nia, whe­n the­ office­r­s who savag­e­ly b­e­at R­odn­e­y Kin­g­ were exonerated­. Now, i­t has happened­ i­n the U­.K. The two offi­c­ers who shot M­­enez­es at a Lond­on su­bway stati­on wi­ll not be prosec­u­ted­. T ...

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164 days ago by lsebert

Political fundraising has often been viewed as a corrupting influence in politics. Now it's increasingly being seen by politicians as a roadblock to doing their jobs well. Republican Senator George Voinovich has had enough. Will stories like his breathe new life into the reform movement?

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