Morning Fix: Jetting to the Left Coast
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- Morning Fix: Jetting to the Left Coast
- In Virginia Primary State Democrats Race for the Center
- regon Republican Party files complaint against Democratic leaders
Morning Fix: Jetting to the Left Coast
Washington Post
Expect Ryan to play a lead role in the fight against bama’s health care plan this fall as he is one of the young articulate faces currently active in the Republican Party. Kerry Collects Cash For Franken: Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry (D) has sent an e-mail appeal asking for cash to help Minnesota Democrat Al Franken “fight back against the money of the Republican party and win his legal fight. ” Kerry added that “Republicans need to accept the fact that we will have 60 Democratic Senators. ” Franken leads former Sen. Norm Coleman by 312 votes but Coleman has pursued a series of legal challenges that has brought the election before the Minnesota Supreme Court. There’s no timetable for a ruling by that court on Coleman’s challenge but the cementing conventional wisdom is that the former Republican will not take the case to the federal level if he loses in the state’s court.
In Virginia Primary State Democrats Race for the Center
FXNews
But it could be the start of a trend. Pennsylvania Democrats embraced a “moderate” when they invited Sen. Arlen Specter into their party — Specter left the Republican Party out of concern that the more conservative Republican challenging him in the Senate primary would win. And President bama tapped another moderate Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand to fill Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s seat in New York. n the other side of the aisle the Republican Party has struggled over the idea of moving to the center. While some Republicans in Congress and figures like Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele and former Secretary of State Colin Powell have called on the GP to look beyond the traditional conservative base others flat-out reject that strategy. Talk show host Rush Limbaugh and former Vice President Dick Cheney two of the most prominent voices in the party following John McCain’s presidential loss last year have ridiculed suggestions that the party is not moderate enough.
regon Republican Party files complaint against Democratic leaders
Legal News Line
(Legal Newsline)-The regon Republican Party filed an ethics complaint Thursday against two senior members of the Legislature’s Democratic leadership for allegedly trading political favors for votes. regon Republican Party Chairman Bob Tiernan and RP Executive Director Andrew ver filed the complaint with the regon Government Ethics Commission against House Speaker Dave Hunt of Gladstone and Ways and Means Co-Chairman Peter Buckley of Ashland. He said the two Democrats traded “millions of taxpayer dollars for votes to pass a huge tax increase on regon families and small businesses. “Specifically Tierman charges that Hunt and Buckley should be investigated over a June 9 letter to Rep. Greg Smith R-Heppner promising state funding of local projects in exchange for support of legislation to increase corporate and personal income taxes.
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