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Lobbyist parties for lawmakers bend rules

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

San Francisco Chronicle - By Zachary Coile - Aug. 20 (News Report) - the House ethics committee opened a huge loophole in the rule by issuing guidelines in December saying it was fine for lobbyists or their employers to throw parties for a group of House members - just not for a single lawmaker.

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Cindy McCain's half sister emerges to put down 'only child' claim

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

The Independent - By Leonard Doyle - Aug. 20 (News Report) - Now a half-sister has emerged from the shadows to challenge that family history, claiming she and her offspring have been carefully airbrushed out of the would-be First Lady's family picture. "I'm upset," Kathleen Hensley Portalski said. "I'm angry. It makes me feel like a non-person." Documents show that she was born to Jim and Mary Jeanne Hensley on 23 February 1943. The still-married Mr Hensley was sent to West Virginia to recuperate from war wounds...

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Summer Love, Fall Freak

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

Huffington Post - By Rebecca Curtis - Aug. 20 (Blog Post) - In fact, Obama's already experienced the Bradley Effect. He was expected to win New Hampshire--a bellwether state--by 13 points. He lost by 3. Several polls had him winning liberal California by 13 points; he lost it by 10. Obama suffered upsets in Rhode Island, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and more.

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Poker Lobby Wants New Deal From GOP

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

Congressional Quarterly - By Bart Jansen - Aug. 20 (News Report) - The Poker Players Alliance, which spent $1.2 million lobbying during the first half of 2008, aims to legalize virtual versions of the game now played under the table. Dozens of people listing poker as their profession have contributed $353,802 to federal candidates this election cycle. And the group will sponsor events at both conventions.

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Race for the presidency: The colour of money

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

The Independent - By Stephen Foley - Aug. 20 (News Report) - Given this uninspiring state of affairs, it is little wonder that the two candidates are scrambling to win endorsements from those with genuine economic credentials: big business chief executives. So who is putting campaign posters up in the corner office - and for which candidate?

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Does Bush Believe McCain Was Tortured?

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

Atlantic Monthly - By Andrew Sullivan - Aug. 20 (Blog Post) - In all the discussion of John McCain's recently recovered memory of a religious epiphany in Vietnam, one thing has been missing. The torture that was deployed against McCain emerges in all the various accounts. It involved sleep deprivation, the withholding of medical treatment, stress positions, long-time standing, and beating. Sound familiar? According to the Bush administration's definition of torture, McCain was therefore not tortured.

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Gun Control Lobby Claims McCain Insider Had Ties to NRA Spy Op

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

ABC News - By Anna Schecter - Aug. 20 (News Report) - A Republican political operative considered part of the McCain campaign's "kitchen cabinet" oversaw a National Rifle Association lobbying campaign that allegedly hired a spy to infiltrate gun control groups, according to Paul Helmke, president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.

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Reconcilable Differences

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

Atlantic Monthly - By Ronald Brownstein - Aug. 19 (Special Report) - In November, whether most voters pull the lever for John McCain or for Barack Obama, they're likely to get a president who's more competent than Bush. What's less certain--but equally important--is whether they'll get one who can be the uniter that Bush promised to be, rather than the divider he has been.

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Who Do You Want Running the West Wing?

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

Huffington Post - By Janet Ritz - Aug. 19 (Blog Post) - A recent NYT article has detailed the dysfunction of the McCain campaign, in what the authors referred to as a "loose style" of "infighting" and "colliding centers of power," providing a picture of a McCain campaign divided by competing interests and unclear leadership.

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Alaskan Bribing CEO Enjoys Window of Freedom

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

ProPublica - By Eric Umansky - Aug. 19 (News Report) - Alaskan politicians are facing a lot of heat these days. The state's senior senator, Ted Stevens (R), has of course been indicted for not disclosing booty he received from an Alaskan oil company, VECO. Five other state politicians have also been indicted for allegedly taking bribes from VECO. So what happened to the VECO folks who offered the bribes?

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