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Club for Growth Flexes Its Muscles in Support of Jeff Flake
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyWithin 24 hours of Rep. Jeff Flake announcing his candidacy for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.), the Club for Growth had raised more than $100,000 for his nascent campaign. Very few groups (if any) come close to matching The Club's ability to swiftly reward friends of liberty and punish enemies of the free market. (I've been saying that for a long time now.) But Flake's ascendancy as the clear front-runner to replace Kyl also reinforces some other theories of mine, too. I've taken some heat for arguing that social-conservative groups lack the kind of organizational ...
Rep. Jeff Flake to Seek Jon Kyl's Senate Seat
By Tom Kavanagh - Politics DailyRep. Jeff Flake will run for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Sen. Jon Kyl. The six-term Republican congressman announced his intentions Monday at a press conference in Phoenix. "The country is facing a fiscal crisis, and the United States Senate is at the center of the debate about how to bring federal spending under control," Flake said in a statement. "Senator Jon Kyl has given all of the eventual candidates in this race an excellent model of how to best serve Arizona and the country. He's set the bar extremely high, and I'll do my best to meet that standard." Kyl, who was elected ...
Gabby Giffords and Debbie Wasserman Schultz: Power of Friendship
By Eleanor Clift - Politics DailyAs everybody pulls for Arizona Rep. Gabby Giffords to fully recover from the bullet wound to her head, it's no accident that Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz was there with Giffords for two milestones. She was in the hospital room in Tucson when Giffords opened her eyes for the first time, and early this week, Wasserman Schultz was in Houston, where Giffords is undergoing rehabilitation, when she spoke for the first time, asking for toast along with her oatmeal. Their friendship is not political, it's personal, and Wasserman Schultz spent Sunday and Monday in Houston with Giffords, ...
Gabrielle Giffords for Jon Kyl's Senate Seat? Don't Count Her Out
By Joanne Bamberger - Politics DailyIn today's political climate, a Democrat must assume the chances of winning a Senate seat in Arizona are about the same as an ice cube lasting more than 30 seconds in the Grand Canyon State's famous 100-degree-plus summer heat. There's no doubt Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) has been well aware of that, but apparently, she's had her eye on Republican Sen. Jon Kyl's seat on the chance he would not run again in 2012. Kyl has chosen not to run for re-election. Shortly after the news broke this week, political observers lamented that Giffords, who was shot in the head in a rampage that left ...
From Jon Kyl to Jim Webb to Chris Lee: A Scorecard to the Congressional Reshuffling
By Mary Phillips-Sandy - AOL NewsWith so many members of Congress announcing their resignation or retirement, it can be difficult to keep track of who's in, who's out and whose political career is likely to continue. Surge Desk has assembled this handy guide to the reshuffling. Rep. Chris Lee (R-N.Y.) Why he's resigning: As everyone with an Internet connection knows by now, Lee resigned late Wednesday night, hours after Gawker posted his flirtatious e-mail exchange with a woman he found on Craigslist. In addition to telling the woman he was divorced (he's not), Lee sent her a shirtless photograph of himself. What he's doing ...
Sen. Jon Kyl to Retire; 5 Facts on the Arizona Republican
By Torie Bosch - AOL NewsJon Kyl, the Senate minority whip, announced today that he would not seek re-election. This makes Kyl, R-Ariz., the fifth current senator to decline to run again in 2012, following similar announcements from Democrats Kent Conrad of North Dakota and Jim Webb of Virginia, Republican Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas and independent Joe Lieberman of Connecticut. Here are five must-know facts about Kyl, who has been in the Senate since 1995 and previously served in the House of Representatives. 1. Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee and Senate Finance Committee Kyl serves on the two ...
Jon Kyl to Retire From Senate, Is Open to Being Vice Presidential Candidate
By Politics Daily Staff - Politics DailySenate Minority Whip Jon Kyl announced Thursday that he will not seek reelection to the Senate for a fourth term in 2012. At a press conference in Phoenix, the stalwart Republican offered no explanation for the decision "other than the fact than I think it's time." He did, however, add: "I wouldn't close my mind to being a vice presidential candidate. Having said that, I expect the chances of that are zero." Politico's Mike Allen was among the first to post the news, saying on Twitter Thursday morning that the three-term Republican "will announce his plans to retire at a press conference in ...
Far From Humble Republicans Prep for the State of the Union
By David Corn - Politics DailyRepublicans seem a tad cocky these days. After repealing President Obama's health care law -- I mean, voting symbolically to repeal it -- they are claiming this week that they have already rescued the economy, and they are highlighting their party's most unpopular positions without concern for popular backlash. Hubris, anyone? On Monday morning, Dow Jones reported that a quarterly survey of 84 companies conducted by the National Association for Business Economics found that 42 percent of these firms expect to hire more workers in the coming six months. Fifty-five percent reported rising ...
Security Tight at Funeral for Slain Arizona Judge
By not in system - AOL NewsTUCSON, Ariz. -- One day after mourning a bubbly 9-year-old slain during the attempted assassination of a congresswoman, residents and fellow jurists gathered Friday at the same Tucson church to remember a federal judge. U.S. District Judge John Roll, whose legal career spanned 40 years, had stopped by a supermarket meet-and-greet for Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords on Saturday when he was shot and killed, along with five others. Authorities say the shooter, 22-year-old Jared Loughner, was targeting Giffords, who was wounded along with 12 others. Giffords' husband, astronaut Mark Kelly, ...
Most Americans Reject Tie Between Political Rhetoric, Arizona Shootings
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyWhile the Arizona shootings have triggered a national debate about whether the vitriol in political rhetoric has gone over the top, 57 percent of Americans do not believe the heated partisan tone of public debate had anything to do with the gun rampage in Tucson, according to a CBS News poll conducted Jan. 9-10. The connection between the state of political discourse and the shootings that critically wounded Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, killed six and injured 13 others had perhaps been put most pointedly by Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik during a press briefing Sunday on the ...
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