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Veteran Sen. Dick Lugar Gets Challenge From the Right in Indiana
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyIndiana state Treasurer Richard Mourdock announced Tuesday that he will challenge Sen. Dick Lugar in the Republican primary next year in a bid to deny the respected senior lawmaker a seventh term. Mourdock, a conservative, said he has the backing of a majority of Indiana's 92 GOP county chairmen and also an edge in support on the state party executive committee. But he told the Washington Post he is not running as a tea party candidate because he does not want to be defined in such a limited way. "Mr. Lugar will try to paint me that way, because he's speaking very demeaningly about the ...
Indiana Sen. Richard Lugar, 78, to Run Again Despite Tea Party Grumbles
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyLet others take early retirement. Indiana Sen. Richard Lugar, a mainstream conservative, says he will seek a seventh term in 2012 even if he has to fend off a threat from the political right. He will be 80 years old when the election rolls around. Lugar told reporters at a breakfast meeting in Washington Tuesday he intends to take any opposition seriously, the AP and Indianapolis Star reported. He has already raised at least $2.4 million and will head back to Indiana Friday for a major fundraising event in Carmel, just outside of Indianapolis. Lugar, the top ranking Republican on the Senate ...
Will Tea Party Target Veteran Sens. Orrin Hatch and Dick Lugar in 2012?
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyDoes the tea party movement have senior Republican Sens. Orrin Hatch and Dick Lugar in its crosshairs? A conservative-leaning Washington tabloid says Hatch and Lugar -- both veterans of 3½ decades on Capitol Hill -- should be worried heading into the 2012 election cycle. Possible threats to the two senior Republicans are taken seriously enough that the moderate GOP Ripon Society distributed a recent article about their respective situations to reporters. The tea party brought down Utah's junior senator, Bob Bennett, earlier this year, Washington Examiner political columnist Timothy P. Carney ...
Colin Powell Portrait Unveiled to Tears and Cheers
By Emily Miller - Politics DailyGen. Colin Powell returned to the State Department Monday for an emotional unveiling of his official Secretary of State portrait. Powell and current Secretary of State Hillary Clinton presided over the unveiling of the portrait, which will hang with those of the other former secretaries of State in the secretary's suite of offices. When Powell was introduced to speak in the Ben Franklin room on the top floor at the department, the crowd cheered and applauded loudly. Powell was surrounded his immediate family -- wife Alma Powell, daughter Linda Powell, son Michael Powell, daughter-in-law ...
Dick Lugar Wins Esquire's Coveted 'Nobody's Bitch' Award
By Dylan and Ethan Ris - Politics DailyCongratulations to Sen. Dick Lugar (R-IN)! Although he was passed over earlier this year for a role as President Obama's Secretary of State or Defense, he has managed to walk away with a generous consolation prize:Esquire Magazine's "Nobody's Bitch" Award!Reports The Hill...Who would have thought that the always-smiling Sen. Richard Lugar (R-Ind.) would acquire such a fierce reputation? The May issue of Esquire magazine included the 77-year-old lawmaker in its feature "Sixty-Six Guys to Emulate."Next to a head shot of the senator is this simple explanation: "Senator Richard Lugar. Nobody's ...
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