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• Calm Before the Month-Long Holiday Storm

  
  Page One — Authority: 548
  Hope everyone enjoys the Thanksgiving holiday. Take it easy! Jodie Haydon has $240,000. Received from 208 individuals and 12 PACs. And the horsey/gamblin set has spent eleventy million on radio and teevee buys. Why, yes, it is a slow news day. [ Bluegrass Politics ] Tom Loftus has further details about Bill ...
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• The cronies, czars & corruptocrats at Obama’s first state dinner

  
  Michelle Malkin — Authority: 823
  If you want breathless, celebrity tabloid treatment of the first Obama White House state dinner — who wore what, who came with whom, what they ate — go somewhere else. This is a closer look at the cronies, czars & corruptocrats whom Obama wined and dined last night.- SEIU president/top White House visitor Andy ...
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• Boehner PAC Spends on Golf

  
  Taegan Goddard's Political Wire — Authority: 765
  House Minority Leader John Boehners (R-OH) political action committee spent $82,998 on golf outings so far this year, Politico reports. "The FEC reports dont list the attendees at these golf events, the cost per person or any other details."
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• Baron Hill Took $5,600 from Indy Financier

  
  The Hoosierpundit — Authority: 480
  Advance Indiana has a number of posts (most recently here and here ) about the situation involving Indianapolis financier and socialite Tim Durham, who has given a not insignificant sum of money to a lot of politicians (mostly Republicans, it must be said) in the past. Of particular note to voters in southern ...
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• Campaign finance disclosure should be fully electronic

  
  TennesseeTicket — Authority: 416
  The Knoxville News-Sentinel editors write today that in order for voters to make the best possible decisions in the 2010 elections, campaign finance disclosure should be paid more attention: What the public should demand is timely and thorough disclosure - where the money is coming from and to whom is it going. ...
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• GOP accuses Conlin of flip-flopping on lobbyist donations

  
  Iowa Independent — Authority: 658
  The National Republican Senatorial Committee is calling foul on Democrat Roxanne Conlin, saying she is trying to have it both ways on the issue of taking donations from lobbyists and political action committees. Conlin has repeatedly said she will not accept donations from lobbyists or PACs, and Tuesday called on ...
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• Crist, weeks later, tosses Rothstein from judicial commish

  
  Naked Politics — Authority: 153
  Well, it took awhile, but Gov. Charlie Crist finally suspended accused Ponzi schemer and major political donor Scott Rothstein from the Fourth DCA Judicial Nominating Commission. Crist just release the executive order, which comes about three weeks after the initial reports of Rothsteins alleged misdeeds. He also ...
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• Conlin calls on Grassley to reject PAC money

  
  Iowa Independent — Authority: 658
  One of three Democrats vying to unseat Republican U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley is calling on the veteran lawmaker to decline all contributions from federal lobbyists and political action committees (PACs). Des Moines attorney Roxanne Conlin said in an e-mail to Grassley that the senior senator has accepted millions ...
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• A Great Name for a Blog

  
  40 Years In The Desert — Authority: 451
  Economists for Firing Larry Summers I have absolutely no clue about the quality of the analysis, it seems to be inside baseball academic economics at first glance, but I love the title.
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• Hampton: To Hide Affair, Ensign Made Me And Cindy Attend Goodbye Party After Firing Us

  
  TPMMuckraker — Authority: 771
  More nuggets are being reported from Doug Hamptons interview with Nightline , set to air tonight, about Sen. John Ensigns affair with Hamptons wife. And they somehow make the Nevada senator look even worse than he already did, if thats possible. Politico , which seems to have gotten a look at the full interview, ...
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• It’s Harry Reid’s Choice: Reconciliation = Majority Rule

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 765
  As the majority leader of the Senate, the power to pass a public option is squarely in Harry Reid’s hands. Will he let three or four corrupt Senators owned by the insurance industry hold the public option hostage? Or will he use the reconciliation process to allow a simple, democratic majority rule? During debate ...
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• Campaign Contributions from Insurance Companies to Senators Blocking the Public Option

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 765
  "Sure, follow the money. . . I do." Here’s how much they have raked in this year : Ben Nelson $63,000 Mary Landrieu $10,500 Blanche Lincoln: $112,500 Joe Lieberman: $5,500 Of course, Lincoln is the only one up for reelection in 2010. Over their careers, Nelson and Lincoln have received in excess of a half ...
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• Jonathan Paton – CD-8?

  
  Sonoran Alliance — Authority: 143
  A few days ago, I mentioned to look out for more political shakeups in two other high profile races. Well, I guess the cat’s out of the bag as the Arizona Republic’s Political Insider broke the story today that State Senator Jonathan Paton is heavily weighing jumping into the CD-8 race against four other ...
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• Is America Ungovernable?

  
  Front Porch Republic — Authority: 135
  Otto von Bismark, the 19th century Iron Chancellor and architect of modern Germany, once remarked that “If you like law and sausages, you shouldn’t watch either being made.” One could observe that this is not quite correct; the process of stuffing offal into sausage skins is far less disgusting than that of ...
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• Dan Lungren Comes Out Strongly Against Fair Election Reforms

  
  DownWithTyranny! — Authority: 641
  If youve been following the Blue America PAC at all, you may already be aware that weve decided that we wont be endorsing any candidates for the House in 2010 unless they are genuinely enthusiastic about passing John Larsons Fair Elections Now Act ( HR 1826 ). Were not asking for some unenforceable pledge; we want ...
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• Has the TEC grown some teeth?

  
  Off the Kuff — Authority: 149
  Well, no. But they do seem to be levying bigger fines , so maybe their gums are a little harder. By every measure, the agency is issuing more — and larger — fines, the records show. “There’s been a shift to focus more on enforcement and compliance,” said the commission’s chairman, San Antonio lawyer ...
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• Panel to Consider Sanford Impeachment

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 908
  Gov. Mark Sanford
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• Audit Finds Acorn Received Some Federal Grant Money Through Its Affiliates

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 908
  The antipoverty group Acorn has not received direct federal grants since 2002, but some federal money has made its way to the organization or its affiliates.
  6 days ago

• Considering unaffiliating myself from NC Democratic Party

  
  BlueNC - The people's think tank — Authority: 573
  Its been more than a week since the Progressive Democrats of North Carolina issued a statement and a letter to NCDP Chairman David Young asking him to champion a very reasonable request to clean up North Carolina fund raising. Heres an audio clip of his response: Read more
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• Slap on Wrist for Senator Burris

  
  Publius Forum — Authority: 559
  -By Warner Todd Huston The Senate ethics committee has “admonished” Senator Roland Burris for all the lies that he’s handed them in his testimony over his involvement in disgraced and impeached Governor Rod Blagojevich’s pay-to-play scandal in Illinois. As Blago was making his last pass around the drain ...
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