Archive for the ‘gop’ Category
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
Sen. Ted Stevens, the longest-serving Republican senator and a figure in Alaska politics since before statehood, was indicted Tuesday on seven counts of failing to disclose thousands of dollars in services he received from a company that helped renovate his home.Read the full story
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Saturday, July 12th, 2008
Despite assurances to the contrary from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Democratic insiders are certain Sen. Joseph Lieberman next year will be kicked out of the party's caucus and lose his Senate chairmanship if he addresses the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn., as planned.Read the full story
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Thursday, May 8th, 2008
And another Republican congressman fathers a daughter out of wedlock with a mistress. Family values.Read the full story
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Friday, October 5th, 2007
The Idaho Republican's decision gives his GOP colleagues two unpleasant choices. They can resume pressuring him to leave, and risk being seen as disloyal politicians who go harder on alleged homosexual misdeeds than on heterosexual wrongdoings. If not for Mark Foley, who would run Congress today?Read the full story
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Monday, September 17th, 2007
Open racism in the GOP: "When you tell every black and brown request that you get throughout the primary process that 'no, there's a scheduling problem.' That's a pattern... Are we really supposed to believe that all four of these guys couldn't make it because of scheduling?"Read the full story
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Monday, September 10th, 2007
Congressmen die in falls all the time: The injuries sustained were consistent with a fall and the death appears to be accidental," said Det. Steve Gomez, a spokesman for the Arlington County Police Department. "We have no evidence of foul play." It was unclear what precipitated the fall. The medical ...
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Wednesday, September 5th, 2007
Ohio Rep. Paul Gillmor was found dead in his apartment Wednesday, a Republican leadership aide said. The aide said the body of the 68-year-old Republican was found by staff members who went to his apartment after he failed to show up for work.Read the full story
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Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
Sounds like another closeted GOP member caught red umm... handed? In the report, the arresting officer alleges that Craig lingered outside a restroom stall where the officer was sitting, then entered the stall next door and blocked the stall door with his luggage. Read the full story
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Monday, July 9th, 2007
Sen. David Vitter, R-La., apologized Monday night for “a very serious sin in my past” after his telephone number appeared among those associated with an escort service operated by the so-called “D.C. Madam.”Read the full story
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