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By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyDemocrats have won almost every big Virginia election since 2001 – installing two governors and two senators, and breaking a 40-year presidential losing streak by going for Barack Obama last year. The pressure is on to choose another winner Tuesday in a three-way gubernatorial primary, or risk setting back their party and their president. ...
Democratic Congressman Volunteers District for Guantanamo Detainees
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyVirginia Congressman Jim Moran (D) said in a Washington Post op-ed that his home district of Alexandria would be willing to host some of the terrorist detainees currently held at the military detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Moran, after acknowledging the logistical and financial burdens hosting the prisoners would place on the community, nevertheless said that Alexandria would do its "civic duty" if asked by the Obama Administration. Alexandria has hosted terrorists before, serving as the site of convicted 20th hijacker Zacharais Moussaoui's federal trial. Not phased by the ...
Gout Epidemic Sweeping Capitol Hill
By Dylan and Ethan Ris - Politics DailyStart building the quarantine camps. Members of Congress have gout... At least two members of Congress have gout, a condition in which high levels of acid accumulate in the bloodstream, causing attacks of acute arthritis. They include Rep. Jim Moran (D-Va.), who has it in his feet, and Del. Eni Faleomavaega (D-American Samoa). Gout is caused by the buildup of uric acid in joints, usually in the toes, and causes redness and swelling. (If that's the case, we can think of a number of lawmakers with facial gout.)Although we feel bad for Moran and Faleomavaega, we take comfort that they'll be ...
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