First a little background information:
Elizabeth Ames Jones, a Repub, has filed for Kay Bailey Hutchison’s Senate seat. (more…)
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First a little background information:
Elizabeth Ames Jones, a Repub, has filed for Kay Bailey Hutchison’s Senate seat. (more…)
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If you are old enough you knew her. (more…)
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-UPDATE-
Bush to the rescue?
US Financial Bailout Money May Go to Automakers
By Kent Klein
Washington
12 December 2008
The Bush administration says it will consider using money from the $700 billion Wall Street rescue fund to prevent the U.S. auto industry from collapsing. After carmaker bailout talks broke down in the Senate, news of possible White House intervention seemed to calm financial markets on Friday. U.S. President George Bush has long opposed dipping into the financial bailout package approved earlier this year to keep Detroit’s “Big Three’ car companies afloat.
For more on the subject go to SavagePolitics.
-UPDATE-
Take a look at the roll call vote HERE. 12 senators just couldn’t make it! Tired? Too late at night? Got snowed in?
To see the House vote go HERE.
Politico.com Breaking News:
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The Senate has rejected the auto industry bailout. The vote was 52-35 but 60 votes were required to move forward.
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Humboldt County is one of the lesser-populated counties in California; at around 126,500 people. It doesn’t take many missing votes to realize something is amiss. If you thought the flap about voting irregularities had died down, and you haven’t read the BradBlog yet this week, trundle right on over there:
‘Humboldt Transparency Project’ Reveals Diebold, U.S. Federal E-Voting Scam
State certification of votes is to be final on December 13th, then, we will all know who really won the November 2008 elections, and by how much in California. When does your state certify?
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China, USA,WHO, and Australia. More news about melamine contamination, WHO sets a standard, and chicken strips for pets are recalled.
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Each year the Center for Women’s Global Leadership at Rutgers highlights sixteen women, men and organizations that standout in the fight against gender violence. Representing December 10th, is: (more…)
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Each year the Center for Women’s Global Leadership at Rutgers highlights sixteen women, men and organizations that standout in the fight against gender violence. Representing December 9th, is: (more…)
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I just have to say, this shows that you can in fact, get senators to agree on something!
All 50 Senate Democrats call on Blagojevich to resign
By Lynn Sweet on December 10, 2008 6:37 PM
[SENATE DEMOCRATS CALL ON GOVERNOR BLAGOJEVICH TO RESIGN
[Washington, DC–In a letter sent today, all 50 members of the Senate Democratic Caucus called on Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich to step down and under no circumstance make an appointment to fill the vacant Illinois Senate seat. Below and attached is the full text of the letter:
”December 10, 2008 Dear Governor Blagojevich: We write to insist that you step down as Governor of Illinois and under no circumstance make an appointment to fill the vacant Illinois Senate seat. In light of your arrest yesterday on alleged federal corruption charges related to that Senate seat, any appointment by you would raise serious questions….]
http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2008/12/all_50_senate_democrats_call_o.html
In case you missed it, HERE is the transcript of the Fitzgerald press conference.
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