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By David Corn - Politics DailyOn Saturday, Sen. Bob Bennett's senatorial career came to what seems to be a rather ignominious end, when the conservative Utah Republican placed third at the GOP state convention picking the party's Senate nominee. A businessman named Tim Bridgewater and Tea Party favorite Mike Lee finished, respectively, first and second, and they will subsequently slug it out in a primary on June 22. (Under state law, Bennett, who has been in the Senate for almost 18 years, can run in the November election as a write-in, but not as an independent.) Bennett's ouster is a shocker for the politerati, a punch ...
ACORN: Preliminary Autopsy for Battered Community Organizer
By Ray Abernathy - Politics DailyACORN is losing its state affiliates and is on the brink of bankruptcy. Once a body of more than 400,000 members and 1,200 neighborhood chapters in 75 American cities, ACORN has been pounded for the last six months following a now famous pimp and prostitute "sting." Documented by suspiciously edited videotapes, the political theater starring James O'Keefe III as the trick-turning avenger set off investigations by five federal agencies including the FBI and the Government Accountability Office (GAO), sparked several congressional hearings, led quickly to suspension of government funding, and ...
ACORN Workers Caught Helping Sex-Traffic Posers
By Emily Miller - Politics DailyACORN office workers in Baltimore and Washington, D.C., have been caught on hidden video camera advising a couple posing as a prostitute and pimp on how to hide their crimes. On Friday, the video of the Washington, D.C., sting was released by the creator, an independent filmmaker. ACORN, a national non-profit that helps the poor get housing, fired the two Baltimore office employees on Thursday. ...
Poll Finds Majority Believe Obama is for Big Government
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyA large majority of Americans says that President Barack Obama believes in a bigger federal government, despite his insistence in his address to a joint session of Congress that be does not. An overwhelming 77% of respondents said that Obama is for big government and more government services, including 70% of independents. The result is one of the first indications that the American public is watching the new president's actions as much as paying attention to his rhetoric.Since his inauguration, President Obama has supported the record-large $787 billion economic stimulus bill, an additional ...
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