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• Latham Joins King In Voting To Take Overtime Pay From Workers

  
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  Found in  BFIA’s  inbox today.  Gabriel De La Cerda has declared his intention to seek the Democratic nomination for Iowa’s 3rd Congressional District. Congressman Latham Votes Against the Working Class of Iowa Des Moines, IA – May 9th, 2013 – Congressman Tom Latham spoke loudly against workers’ ...
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• Congressional Candidate Rod Blum Blasts Common Core

  
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  Rod Blum, candidate for Congress in Iowa’s 1st Congressional district, says the Common Core Standards were poorly designed and testing students at a national, one-size fits all manner can’t produce reliable results. “This is not a left versus right issue or a Democrat versus Republican issue – this is about ...
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• Stutzman: “We can give working parents more flexibility”

  
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  U.S. Congressman Marlin Stutzman spoke on the House floor today in favor of the Working Families Flexibility Act of 2013, legislation to give Hoosiers the same flexibility afforded to government workers.
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• Mark Sanford Returns to Washington

  
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  S.C. Hotline - South Carolina News, Opinion and Politics By Paul Gable Republican Mark Sanford will be returning to Washington to again represent the citizens of the South Carolina 1st Congressional District after a nearly 12 ½ year break.Sanford easily defeated Democratic opponent Elizabeth Colbert Busch in a ...
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• BREAKING: Mark Sanford Wins South Carolina Special Election

  
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  Mark Sanford is going back to Congress. The quirky former governor of South Carolina making a political comeback has won the special election for state’s 1st Congressional District. Sanford, a Republican, easily defeated Elizabeth Colbert Busch, the Democrat who is Stephen Colbert’s sister. He currently has ...
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• Mark Sanford: Comeback Complete

  
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  Former S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford is back …Nearly four years after his promising political career imploded in a tangled web of passion and deceit, the scandal-scarred two-term Palmetto State governor pulled off a remarkable comeback victory against a well-funded Democratic opponent, Elizabeth Colbert-Busch.In fact the ...
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• SOUTH CAROLINA: SANFORD [R] 54.2% COLBERT [D] 45.4%

  
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  Republican Mark Sanford jumped to an early lead over Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch after early returns Tuesday night in South Carolina’s special congressional election. With 42 percent of precincts reporting, Sanford was up 53.7 percent to 45.8 percent. Sanford, waging a bid for political redemption three years ...
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• Staunton Councilman Bruce Elder seeks Democratic nomination to challenge Rep. Bob Goodlatte

  
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  The rumors have been circulating for a while but they are now official: Bruce Elder will run for the Democratic nomination to challenge Republican Congressman Bob Goodlatte in the 6th Congressional District. Elder, who in his second term as a member of Staunton City Council, has set up a Facebook page and a ...
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• Sanford to beat Colbert-Busch by 6 points

  
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  Sanford to beat Colbert-Busch by 6 points in South Carolina’s 1st Congressional District special election Public Policy Polling says the 1st congressional race is “too close to call” between former Governor Mark Sanford and Democrat Elizabeth Colbert-Busch. We think Mark Sanford will win by six percentage ...
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• Ad Compares Colbert-Busch To Axe Murderer

  
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  A bizarre interent ad has compared Democratic congressional candidate Elizabeth Colbert-Busch to suspected nineteenth century axe murderer Lizzie Borden. The ad also claims Colbert-Busch supports “fewer regulations for abortion clinics that enable butchers like Kermit Gosnell to murder women and children.”Wow ...
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• SC-1: WTF Are They Doing Here?

  
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  Federal “monitors” from the U.S. Department of Justice (USDOJ) will be in the South Carolina Lowcountry for this week’s special congressional election, Reuters is reporting.No reason was given for the agency’s decision to oversee the election – which it claims it has authority to do under the Voting Rights ...
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• Mark Sanford Searches For Female Haters?

  
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  We’ve read (and written) plenty of bizarre Mark Sanford stories over the years, but a report filed this week by NBC News hottie Ali Weinberg is a worthy addition to the collection of crazy.Weinberg attended a campaign “meet and greet” scheduled by Sanford’s campaign at some “ha ha funny” named hot dog ...
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• Its neck and neck in the race to represent South Carolinas 1st Congressional District

  
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  47-46   the lead former South Carolina governor Mark Sanford holds over his opponent, Democratic candidate Elizabeth Colbert Busch, one day before the election that will determine which candidate will represent the state’s 1st Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives. Just two weeks ago, Sanford ...
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• David Scott Ignores the Wishes of His Constituents with His Endorsement of Gay Marriage

  
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  " Youve got to represent the wishes of your constituency. My proper position would be to vote the wishes of my constituents ." Those are the words of 13th district Congressman David Scott. Congressman Scott made those comments in 2008, after the voters in his district supported Barack Obama in the 2008 Democratic ...
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• Congressman Hank Johnson Sponsors Resolution Claiming Climate Change May Push Women into Prostitution

  
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  Try hard not to laugh at this one, folks. The Hill reports that Congressman Hank Johnson (D - Georgia) has co-sponsored a resolution that claims, among other things, "women will disproportionately face harmful impacts from climate change" [Kasperowicz, Pete (29 April 2013). Dem resolution warns climate change ...
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• Mark Sanford And Elizabeth Colbert-Busch Face Off In South Carolina Congressional Debate

  
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  Republican Mark Sanford and Democrat Elizabeth Colbert-Busch met  at The Citadel in Charleston last night for their first and only debate before the special election for South Carolina’s first congressional district. The latest polls show Colbert-Busch with a 9 point lead over Sanford.
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• Statement From Larry Grooms

  
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  I learned today that a national conservative tea-party group has expressed their intent to launch a write-in campaign on my behalf. Their decision was done without my knowledge or consent. It is my desire to unite conservatives, not divide them.While I am grateful to have had their past support, my race is over.I am ...
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• Larry Grooms Addresses Write-In Movement

  
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  S.C. Sen. Larry Grooms is distancing himself from a movement urging voters in South Carolina’s first congressional district to write his name in on the ballot in next month’s special election.In a statement posted to his Facebook page, Grooms called on first district voters “to not help elect a Democrat by ...
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• Ron Paul Rides To Mark Sanford’s Rescue?

  
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  From the “we didn’t see this one coming” file, former U.S. Rep. Ron Paul – this website’s choice for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination – has lent his support to the flagging congressional campaign of former S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford.In a letter sent to his supporters, Paul writes that “naysayers ...
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• SC-1: Larry Grooms Write-In Candidacy Promoted

  
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  An independent expenditure group which ran ads on behalf of S.C. Senator Larry Grooms (R-Berkeley) during last month’s GOP primary for the Palmetto State’s first congressional district is preparing to run radio and television promoting the fiscal conservative as a write-in candidate in the general election.You ...
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