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Congressman Jeff Flake's Big Deserted Island Adventure

The idea of a politician announcing that he took off to spend a week alone in the wilderness has acquired something of a bad reputation these days -- but, in this case, it's true. Congressman Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) recently spent a week this summer on a survival trip to a deserted island in the Pacific Ocean. "(My travel photos and notes) were originally for family and close friends," Flake told Politics Daily. "They knew I was going on this trip, and I wanted to share it with them. But, after the Mark Sanford piece, I didn't want people to assume I'd been hiking the Appalachian Trail -- so I ...

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