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By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyIf there is a voter backlash over the passage of the health care reform bill, it wasn't obvious at the polls in South Florida on Tuesday. Democratic state Sen. Ted Deutch easily captured a vacant U.S. House seat, taking 62 percent of the vote in a contest with Republican Ed Lynch, the AP reported. The district, which includes parts of Palm Beach and Broward counties, is strongly Democratic and heavily populated with senior citizens, but Lynch sought to make the new health care law an issue, calling it a government takeover and a threat to Medicare. Deutch supported it and also had the ...
Rep. Robert Wexler Resigning to Address Middle East Peace
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyRobert Wexler, a seven-term congressman representing Florida's 19th district, announced today that he will resign his seat in the House of Representatives to head a think tank focused on finding Middle East peace. Wexler said today he will step down in January to become the executive director of the Center for Middle East Peace and Economic Cooperation, a Washington-based non-profit that describes itself as advocating for "the peace that Israelis and Arabs seek." "My one regret is that I will be unable to complete my current term in office," he said. "But I truly believe there is no time to ...
Palin Speech on Iran Blocked by Obama Camp
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyIn prepared remarks scheduled to be delivered today at a rally in front of the United Nations, Republican Vice Presidential-nominee Gov. Sarah Palin was to say that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, "must be stopped." The speech was not delivered as planned, but ran instead as an op-ed in the New York Sun. The reason that the speech was not made today: the campaign of Sen. Barack Obama.Palin was slated to appear at the rally, sponsored by a consortium of American Jewish organizations, to protest the presence of Ahmadinejad in the United States and to make clear that the U.S. would stand ...
Wexler Wants McClellan to Testify
By Liza Porteus Viana - Politics DailyRep. Robert Wexler, D-Fla., is calling on former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan to testify under oath before the House Judiciary Committee on the Bush administration's "deliberate efforts to mislead" the public heading into the Iraq war. If you've heard a shred of news today, you know that McClellan is making made tidal waves with his tell-all book, "What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception."McClellan, who said on the morning talk-show circuit today that the White House wanted him to keep quiet about his experiences, maintains that President ...
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