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Don
Siegelman - 
Karl
Rove
- 
Leura
Garrett Canary
- 
Alabama
- US
Attorney - 
Politics- 
Investigation
- 2002
Election - La
- 
Federal
- Prison
- "Freed
Ex-Governor of Alabama Talks of Abuse of Power."
... "Former [Democratic Governor] Gov. Don Siegelman of Alabama, released
from prison Friday on bond in a bribery and corruption case, said he was
as convinced as ever that politics had played a leading role in his prosecution."
... "Speaking by telephone in his first post-prison interview, shortly
after he had left the federal penitentiary at Oakdale, La. [Louisiana],
Mr. Siegelman said there had been “abuse of power” in his case, and repeatedly
cited Karl Rove, the former [Republican President Bush] White House political
director." ... "“His fingerprints are smeared all over the case,” Mr. Siegelman
said, a day after a federal appeals court ordered him released on bond
and said there were legitimate questions about his case. He was sentenced
to serve seven years last June after a guilty verdict on bribery and corruption
charges a year earlier." ... "The investigation, trial and conviction of
Mr. Siegelman, a veteran politician, has become a flash point for broader
Democratic contentions that politics has influenced decisions by the Justice
Department under [Republican] President Bush, including the firings of
several United States attorneys, and other federal prosecutions besides
Mr. Siegelman’s." ... "In a sworn statement, a Republican lawyer and political
operative, Jill Simpson, told of hearing one of Mr. Rove’s allies here,
William Canary, discussing Mr. Siegelman during the 2002 governor’s race,
and saying “that he had already gotten it worked out with Karl and Karl
had spoken with the Department of Justice and the Department of Justice
was already pursuing Don Siegelman.” The United States attorney here, Leura
G. Canary, is married to Mr. Canary." -By Adam
Nossiter -NYTimes
John
McCain
- 
John
Hagee - 
Rod
Parsley - 
Rudy
Giuliani - 
Pat
Robertson
- 
Terrorism
- Politics
- 
Military
- Religion
- Race
- 
Obama
- 2008
Election - Hurricane
Katrina - New
Orleans - Louisiana
- 
Oklahoma
- 
US
- 
Israel
- "The
difference between Jeremiah Wright and radical, white evangelical ministers."
... "Ross Douthat and Ezra
Klein are arguing about whether Jeremiah Wright's statements are comparable
to those of Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson and John Hagee's." ... "The statement
of Wright's which seems to be causing the most upset -- and it's one of
two singled out by Douthat -- is his suggestion that there is a causal
link between (a) America's constant bombings of and other interference
with Middle Eastern countries and (b) the willingness of some Middle Eastern
fanatics to attack the U.S. [United States] Ever since the 9/11 attacks,
we've been told that positing any such causal connection is a sign of vicious
anti-Americanism and that all decent people find such questions despicable.
This week we learned that no respectable person would subject his children
to a pastor who espouses such hateful ideas." ... "But the idea that America
deserves terrorist attacks and other horrendous disasters has long been
a frequently expressed view among the faction of white evangelical ministers
to whom the Republican Party is most inextricably linked. Neither Jerry
Falwell nor Pat Robertson ever retracted or denounced their view that America
provoked the 9/11 attacks by doing things to anger God. John Hagee continues
to believe that the City of New Orleans [Louisiana] got what it deserved
when Katrina drowned its residents and devastated the lives of thousands
of Americans. And [Oklahoma Republican Senator] James Inhofe -- who
happens to still be a Republican U.S. Senator -- blamed
America for the 9/11 attacks by arguing in a 2002 Senate floor speech
that "the spiritual door was opened for an attack against the United States
of America" because we pressured Israel to give away parts of the West
Bank." ... "John Hagee privately
visits with the highest level Middle East officials in the [Republican
President Bush] White House and afterwards pronounces that they're in agreement.
[2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate] John McCain shares a
stage with Hagee and lavishes him with praise, as Rudy Giuliani did with
Pat Robertson. James Inhofe remains a member in good standing in the GOP
[GOP=Grand Old Party=Republican] Senate Caucus. The Republican Party has
tied itself at the hip to a whole slew of "anti-American extremists" --
people who believe that the U.S. provoked the 9/11 attacks because God
wants to punish us for the evil, wicked nation we've become -- and yet
there is virtual silence about these associations." ... "Nor have the views
of televangelist Rod Parsley, one of McCain's self-proclaimed "spiritual
advisers," received a fraction of the attention generated by Wright. As
both David
Corn and Alan
Colmes, among others, have documented, Parsley espouses views at least
as extreme and radical as Wright, including his proclamation that "America
was founded, in part, with the intention of seeing this false religion
[Islam] destroyed." Unlike Wright and Obama -- for whom the former's
controversial views are found nowhere near the latter's public or private
conduct -- both George Bush and John McCain's Middle Eastern militarism
are perfectly consonant with the most maniacal and crazed views of Christian
Rapture enthusiasts such as Hagee, Parsley, Inhofe, and Robertson. Yet
the controversy created over their close ties is virtually non-existent."
... "The Republican Party long ago adopted as a central strategy aligning
itself with, and granting great influence to, the most radical, "America-hating"
white evangelical Christian ministers in the country."
-By Glenn Greenwald -Salon
Barack
Obama
- 
Tim
Russert
- John
McCain
- John
C Hagee - Religious
- Racist
- Political
- 
Journalist
- 2008
Election - Hurricane
Katrina - Homosexual
- New
Orleans - Louisiana
- 
Texas
- "Some
hateful, radical ministers -- white evangelicals -- are acceptable."
... "One of this week's hysterical press scandals was that Minister Louis
Farrakhan praised [2008 Election Democratic Presidential Candidate] Barack
Obama's candidacy even though Obama had previously denounced numerous Farrakhan
remarks and the Obama campaign did nothing to seek out the Farrakhan praise.
Nonetheless, [MSNBC TV political journalist] Tim Russert demanded
that Obama jump through multiple hoops to prove that he has no connection
to -- and, in fact, "rejects" -- the ideas espoused by Farrakhan deemed
to be radical and hateful." ... "Yesterday, though, the equally fringe,
radical and hateful (at least) [Reverend] Rev. John Hagee -- a white evangelical
who is the pastor of a sprawling "mega-church" in Texas -- enthusiastically
endorsed [2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate]] John McCain.
Did McCain have to jump through the same hoops which Russert and others
set up for Obama and "denounce" Hagee's extremism and "reject" his support?
No; quite the opposite. McCain said he was "very honored" to receive
this endorsement and, when asked about some of Hagee's more twisted views,
responded: "all I can tell you is that I am very proud to have Pastor
John Hagee's support."" ... "McCain's sainted supporter, [Connecticut
Independent Democrat Senator] Joe Lieberman, last
year spoke to Hagee's group and lavished him with such obsequious praise
that Lieberman actually compared Hagee, favorably, to Moses. Why is Louis
Farrakhan deemed by our political establishment to be so radioactive as
to not be fit for good company -- black candidates are required to repudiate
his support even when they haven't sought it and denounce his views even
when they've never advocated anything close to those views -- but John
Hagee is a perfectly acceptable figure whom mainstream GOP [GOP=Grand Old
Party=Republican] politicians are free to court without any consequences
or media objections?" ... "From an NPR
interview Hagee gave to Terry Gross in 2006:"
John
McCain
- 
Jack
Abramoff
- 
Bob
Riley
- 
Tom
DeLay
- 
Bob
Ney
- 
Money
- Politics
- Investigation
- 
Law
- 
EMail
- Alabama
- Louisiana
- 
Mississippi
- 
Arizona
- Texas
- 
Ohio
- 
History
- 2002
Election - 2006
Election - 2008
Election - "McCain
Withheld Controversial Abramoff Email." ... "In the
2006 Senate report concerning [Republican Lobbyist Jack] Abramoff's activities,
which [2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate John] McCain spearheaded,
the Arizona Republican conspicuously left out information detailing how
Alabama [Republican Governor] Gov. Bob Riley was targeted by Abramoff's
influence peddling scheme. Riley, a Republican, won election in November
2002, and was reelected in 2006." ... "In a December 2002 email
[PDF] obtained by the Huffington Post -- which McCain and his staff
had access to prior to the issuance of his report -- Abramoff explains
to an aide what he would like to see Riley do in return for the "help"
he received from Abramoff's tribal clients." ... "An official with the
Mississippi Choctaws "definitely wants Riley to shut down the Poarch Creek
operation," Abramoff wrote, "including his announcing that anyone caught
gambling there can't qualify for a state contract or something like that.""
... "The note showed not only the reach of Abramoff, but raised questions
about Riley's victory in what was the closest gubernatorial election in
Alabama history." ... "And yet, despite the implications of the information,
McCain and the Senate Indian Affairs Committee sat on the controversial
portion of the email. According to an official familiar with the investigation,
McCain also subsequently refused to make the email public after the report
was released." ... "There was a brief footnote in the report that quoted
William Worfel, former vice chairman of the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana,
saying that Abramoff told the chief of a Mississippi tribe to spend $13
million "to get the governor of Alabama elected to keep gaming out of Alabama
so it wouldn't hurt ... his market in Mississippi."" ... "But Riley's name
and the details of what was being asked of him were not mentioned once
in the 373-page document." ... "Indeed, as the Associated Press noted
in 2006, McCain stayed deliberately agnostic as to Riley's involvement."
... ""Although Sen. McCain has long bragged of his role in the Abramoff
investigation, he let [former Texas Republican Representative] Tom DeLay
and the other members of Congress who were doing Abramoff's bidding completely
off the hook. The sole exception was [former Ohio Republican Representative]
Rep. Bob Ney, who served time in prison," Melanie Sloan, Executive Director
of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics In Washington told the Huffington
Post recently. "Sen. McCain knew what his colleagues were up to, he chose
to take the easier path and give them a free pass.""
-By
Sam
Stein -HuffingtonPost.com
Corporate
- Government
- Politics
- Hurricane
Katrina - 
Flood
- Disaster
- New
Orleans - Louisiana
- 
University
- 
Homes
- "Supreme
Court rejects Katrina victims' flood insurance case."
... "The Supreme Court refused Tuesday to offer help to Hurricane Katrina
victims who want their insurance companies to pay for flood damage to their
homes and businesses." ... "The justices rejected appeals from Xavier University
[in New Orleans, Louisiana] and 68 other individuals and businesses seeking
to allow their lawsuits against the insurers to go forward."
-AssociatedPress
Hospital
Corporations - 
Pharmaceutical
- Corporations
- Federal
- Investigators
- 
New
Jersey - 
New
York
- 
Tennessee
- Ohio
- Louisiana
- 
Pennsylvania
- "Federal
investigators recoup $2.2B in healthcare-fraud prosecutions."
... "The largest recovery came from a settlement with Tenet Healthcare
Corp. [Corporation], one of the largest for-profit hospital chains in the
United States. In a well-publicized case, whistleblowers from inside the
company alerted federal authorities, which uncovered evidence that Tenet
was manipulating Medicare’s payment system to boost revenue and paid kickbacks
to physicians who sent their patients to Tenet facilities. To settle the
charges and avoid a court judgment on the accusations, Tenet agreed to
pay the government $900 million over the course of four years." ... "Other
hospital companies also coughed up millions to the federal government in
fraud and abuse cases in fiscal 2006, including St. Barnabas Health Care
System in New Jersey ($265 million), Beth Israel Medical Center in New
York ($73 million), the Chattanooga-Hamilton County Hospital Authority
in Tennessee ($37 million), University Hospitals Health System in Ohio
($13.8 million), Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical Center in Louisiana
($3.8 million) and the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center in Pennsylvania
($2.9 million)." ... "The pharmaceutical company Serono paid $704 million
to settle charges that it illegally advised doctors to prescribe an AIDS
medicine called Serostim for uses not approved by the Food and Drug Administration
(FDA), paid kickbacks to cooperative physicians, and conspired with the
diagnostic device maker RJL Sciences to market a device not approved by
the FDA. RJL Sciences pleaded guilty to its role." ... "Schering-Plough,
another drug company, is on the hook for $435 million as a result of several
charges, including allegedly giving false information to the FDA, which
was investigating whether the company’s marketing practices violated the
law." -By Jeffrey Young
-TheHill.com
Barack
Obama
- 
Hillary
Clinton
- John
McCain
- 
Mike
Huckabee - 
Washington
- 
Nebraska
- Louisiana
- 
Illinois
- New
York
- 
Kansas
- 2008
Election - "Obama
wins big in Wash., Nebraska, La." ... "[2008 Election
Democratic Presidential Candidate and Illinois Senator] Sen. Barack Obama
swept the Louisiana primary and caucuses in Nebraska and Washington state
Saturday, boosting his slim delegate lead over [2008 Election Democratic
Presidential Candidate and New York Senator] Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton
in their historic race for the Democratic presidential nomination." ...
"The Illinois senator also won caucuses in the Virgin Islands, completing
his best night of the campaign." ... "The Democratic race moved into a
new, post-Super Tuesday phase as [2008 Election Republican Presidential
Candidate John] McCain flunked his first ballot test since becoming the
Republican nominee-in-waiting. He lost the Kansas caucuses to [2008 Election
Republican Presidential Candidate] Mike Huckabee, gaining less than 24
percent of the vote." ... "Huckabee also was named by NBC News as the apparent
winner of an extremely close Louisiana primary race." ... "His Kansas defeat
aside, McCain also suffered a symbolic defeat when Romney edged him out
in a straw poll at the Conservative Political Action Conference meeting
across town from the White House." (1, 2)
-AP -MSNBC
John
Edwards
- Hillary
Clinton
- Barack
Obama
- New
Orleans - Louisiana
- Poverty
- Homeless
- 
People
- Health
Care - US
- 
Iraq
- Military
- Money
- 2008
Election - "Democrat
Edwards exits presidential race: Clinton, Obama praise
ex-rival, who refrains from endorsing one or other." ... "[2008 Election
Democratic Presidential Candidate] Democrat John Edwards bowed out of the
race for the White House on Wednesday, saying it was time to step aside
“so that history can blaze its path” in a campaign now left to [2008 Election
Democratic Presidential Candidate] Hillary Rodham Clinton and [2008 Election
Democratic Presidential Candidate] Barack Obama." ... ""It is time for
me to step aside," said Edwards, ending his second campaign in a hurricane-ravaged
section of New Orleans [Louisiana] where he began it more than a year ago.
“With our convictions and a little backbone we will take back the White
House in November.”" ... "Edwards said Clinton and Obama had both pledged
that “they will make ending poverty central to their campaign for the presidency.”"
... "“This is the cause of my life and I now have their commitment to engage
in this cause,” he said before a small group of supporters. He was joined
by his wife Elizabeth and his three children, Cate, Emma Claire and Jack."
... "Edwards said that on his way to make his campaign-ending statement,
he drove by a highway underpass where several homeless people live. He
stopped to talk, he said, and as he was leaving, one of them asked him
never to forget them and their plight." ... "“Well I say to her and I say
to all those who are struggling in this country, we will never forget you.
We will fight for you. We will stand up for you,” he said, pledging to
continue his campaign-long effort to end what he frequently said was “two
Americas,” one for the powerful, the other for the rest." ... "Edwards
burst out of the starting gate with a flurry of progressive policy ideas
— he was the first to offer a plan for universal health care, the first
to call on Congress to pull funding for the [Iraq] war, and he led the
charge that lobbyists have too much power in Washington and need to be
reigned in." (1, 2)
-AP via -MSNBC
Corporate
- Government
- Louisiana
- 2008
Election - "Richard
Baker to leave Congress by Feb. 6." ... "The dean
of Louisiana's congressional delegation, [Republican Representative] Rep.
Richard Baker, has decided to step down from Congress after 22 years to
take a lucrative job in the private sector representing investors he has
spent a career regulating." ... "The announcement by the Baton Rouge [Louisiana]
Republican was not unexpected and makes him the third member of the state's
seven-member House delegation in the past two months to resign or announce
plans to resign." ... "Baker, 59, a senior member of the House Financial
Services Committee will take the helm of the Managed Funds Association,
the industry group that represents the $1.8 trillion hedge fund industry.
As president and CEO, his salary and benefits package is expected to exceed
$1 million a year." -By Bill Walsh
-NOLA.com
Alphonso
Jackson
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