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Ralph Reed Said to Be Weighing Run for Congress in Georgia
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyRalph Reed, the former executive director of the Christian Coalition, is reportedly considering a campaign for the Republican nomination to succeed retiring Rep. John Linder of Georgia. Reed, who heads the Faith and Freedom Coalition, a conservative activist group, has not made a firm decision yet, but has spoken with elected officials and political leaders in Linder's suburban Atlanta congressional district, CBN's David Brody reports. The district is strongly Republican. Reed lost a bid for the GOP nomination for lieutenant governor of the Peach State in 2006. If he announces for Congress, ...
Bob Ney's Redemption after Jack Abramoff Scandal
By Emily Miller - Politics DailyThose of us who were sucked into the wreckage left behind by Jack Abramoff share a form of PTSD -- Post Traumatic Scandal Disorder. When you go through a D.C. scandal together, you're like war buddies: You share an experience that no one else can understand, but you also remind each other of painful emotions. When we Abramoff scandal survivors see each other, we never discuss the topic – it's an open Department of Justice investigation after all – but we communicate with our eyes the shared understanding of shock and pain in our lives. So after not speaking to former Rep. Bob Ney ...
Emily's Post: From Gossip Fodder to Gossip Columnist
By Emily Miller - Politics DailyHaving been fodder for every gossip column in town, starting today I'm turning the tables -- and becoming one D.C. gossip columnist who fully gets what it's like to be on the receiving end. Everybody knows Washington politics is not for the meek or thin-skinned. And I've lived, worked and loved D.C. politics and media since I was 18 years old. In the years since, I've toiled on the Hill, at the State Department, in the Bush 43 administration, and for the Washington bureaus of two TV network news divisions. I've also counted chads in the Florida recount, run for my life from the Capitol on ...
Breaking: Media Reports Roland Burris Is Eating Lunch
By Dylan and Ethan Ris - Politics DailyAs the cries grow louder for disgraced Sen. Roland Burris (D-IL) to resign, the media is doing its part-- vowing to track Burris to the ends of the earth in the name of political justice... and getting as far as a chain Italian restaurant. As embattled U.S. Sen. Roland Burris faced a media scrum outside a River North restaurant on his way inside for a much-anticipated speech, a couple more calls for his resignation came in today. Burris, who faces a perjury probe in Illinois and an ethics investigation in Washington over the circumstances surrounding his appointment, did not answer questions ...
Jack Abramoff Gets Four Years
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyThe crooked lobbyist could have gotten 11 years behind bars but the judge looked kindly on Abramoff's role as a key witness in the FBI's influence-peddling probe.With Abramoff's help, the Justice Department has won corruption convictions against a parade of lawmakers, Bush administration figures and Capitol Hill aides. Abramoff admitted trading luxury golf junkets, expensive meals, skybox tickets and other gifts for political favors. The scandal shook Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House to Capitol Hill and contributed to the Republicans' loss of Congress in 2006. His lawyers were hoping ...
Doolittle Announces Retirement
By Jay Allbritton - Politics DailyIn 2008, the word 'change' has become the mother of all political buzzwords. Today, scandal-plagued, nine-term Republican Representative John Doolittle of California invoked the word in his announcement that he will retire from Congress at the end of his current term. It was not my initial intent to retire and I fully expected and planned to run again right up until very recently. But it distilled upon us that we were ready for a change after spending almost our entire married lives with me in public service.The impetus of that change is likely the growing political pressure from other ...
WH Uses Novel Defense in Abramoff Case
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyThe Justice Department, in a court filing Friday night, made a previously unheard of claim of privilege in a lawsuit seeking documents related to White House visits by disgraced Republican fundraiser Jack Abramoff. The claim was made in response to a lawsuit brought by Judicial Watch. Another lawsuit seeking Abramoff related documents was filed by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW). The Department was seeking to have the two lawsuits consolidated.In its filing, the Justice Department claimed that the Secret Service had identified a new category of White House records ...
Waxman Wants Abramoff Documents
By Jay Allbritton - Politics DailyLike clandestine agents Mulder and Scully in Fox's The X-Files, Democratic Rep. Henry Waxman believes that "the truth is out there." He endlessly chases down leads in pursuit of wrong doing by the Bush administration and often subpoenas witnesses before the House Committee on Government Oversight that he chairs. Of course, the White House has a lawyer--Fred F. Fielding. Fielding--a human stonewall--was one of President Nixon's lawyers, as a matter of fact. So, what is Waxman trying to get from Fielding now? ...
Without Abramoff, Islands Face Reform
By Jay Allbritton - Politics DailyWith disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff in prison for the foreseeable future, it's now possible that Congress may change the way the Northern Marianas Islands handles immigration. Currently the islands control their own immigration, which federal officials say fuels human trafficking and smuggling.The Bush Administration are now arguing that control of immigration should be taken from the islands because the lax regulations pose a homeland security threat to the naval base on the nearby island of Guam. ...
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