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By not in system - AOL News"Sex and the City" actress and animal rights advocate Kristin Davis was honored over the weekend for her work on behalf of orphaned elephants. Davis was given the Wyler Award at Saturday's Genesis Awards, hosted by the Humane Society of New York City. Other winners included TV shows and a movie, for bringing greater awareness to animal issues. "The Colbert Report" won the Sid Caesar Comedy Award for a piece satirizing bullfighters and zoos, the feature film "How to Train Your Dragon" was honored for its "message about tolerance and respect for all living creatures," and the HBO series "True ...
Mark Dayton Narrowly Leads Minnesota Governor's Race; Recount Likely
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyFormer Sen. Mark Dayton held a razor-thin margin over Republican Tom Emmer early Wednesday in the Minnesota governor's race, virtually assuring a recount. With fewer than 20 percent of the state's precincts uncounted, Dayton held a lead of less than half of 1 percent over Emmer -- about 9,000 votes, according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Independence Party candidate Tom Horner was third. Recounts are nothing new to Minnesotans. Al Franken's 2008 Senate victory over Republican incumbent Norm Coleman was subjected to a rancorous recount that landed in court and left the seat vacant for ...
All 7 Candidates for New York Governor Meet in Debate
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HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. (Oct. 19) -- The long-awaited debate on Monday in New York governor's race showed Democrat Andrew Cuomo, son of the former governor and Democratic icon, as steeped in how New York government works and how he believes it should be fixed. Meanwhile, his top rival, tea party-backed Republican Carl Paladino, sought to display a passion for the work he says career politicians like Cuomo have failed to do. The 90-minute debate was punctuated with some jabs by the five minor party candidates. Anti-Prohibition Party candidate Kirsten Davis, the former "Manhattan madam" who wrote ...
Ex-Madam Kristin Davis Protests Eliot Spitzer's TV Show, Runs for Governor
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyFormer "Manhattan Madam" Kristin Davis, who helped accommodate Eliot Spitzer's appetite for high-priced prostitutes, has launched a protest against the ex-governor's new prime-time CNN show and is simultaneously mounting an independent campaign for the New York statehouse. Davis is behind the website No To Spitzer, which urges readers to sign a petition vowing to boycott CNN for giving him an 8 p.m. talk show this fall. "Eliot Spitzer betrayed the public trust and violated the very laws he was entrusted to enforce," the site says. "CNN should not condone this hypocrisy." Spitzer resigned as ...
Madam Slams Eliot Spitzer's Talk at Harvard Ethics Center
By David Knowles - AOL News(Nov. 11) - An unlikely speaker is set to deliver a talk Thursday at Harvard University's center for ethics: Eliot Spitzer, the disgraced former governor of New York. As attorney general of New York, Spitzer had a reputation for cracking down on white-collar crime. He was elected governor but lasted only 15 months, resigning in March 2008 amid revelations that he had spent tens of thousands of dollars as a client of a prostitution ring. And the madam who ran that business said Wednesday she is outraged that the ex-governor is lecturing a paying audience on ethics. Steven ...
Hookers Who Blog: Oldest Profession Meets Trendiest
By Bonnie Goldstein - Politics DailyThank you, Helena, for pointing out that writing requires great effort and determination. Along with so many other industries hobbled by the recession, books and newspapers have taken a hit, but with universal access to blogging software, the world of writers has grown exponentially. ...
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