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 Barack
Obama -  Homeless
-  People
- Poverty
-  Families
-  Jobs
-  Law
-  Politics
- Los
Angeles -  California
-  Tennessee
-  Wash
-  Fla
"U.S. cities deal with a surge in shanty towns." ... "Like a dozen or so other cities across the nation, Fresno [California] is dealing with an unhappy déjà vu: the arrival of modern-day Hoovervilles, illegal encampments of homeless people that are reminiscent, on a far smaller scale, of Depression-era shantytowns. At his news conference on Tuesday night, [Democratic] President Obama was asked directly about the tent cities and responded by saying that it was "not acceptable for children and families to be without a roof over their heads in a country as wealthy as ours."" ... "While encampments and street living have always been a part of the landscape in big cities like Los Angeles [California] and New York, these new tent cities have taken root — or grown from smaller enclaves of the homeless as more people lose jobs and housing — in such disparate places as Nashville [Tennessee's capital], Olympia, Wash. [Washington's capital], and St. Petersburg, Fla. [Florida.]" ... "The problem in Fresno is different in that it is both chronic and largely outside the national limelight. Homelessness here has long been fed by the ups and downs in seasonal and subsistence jobs in agriculture, but now the recession has cast a wider net and drawn in hundreds of the newly homeless — from hitchhikers to truck drivers to electricians." ... ""These are able-bodied folks that did day labor, at minimum wage or better, who were previously able to house themselves based on their income," said Michael Stoops, the executive director of the National Coalition for the Homeless, an advocacy group based in Washington." (1, 2) -By Jesse Mckinley -IHT.com 
 Transportation
-  Infrastructure
-  Water
-  Government
-  Money
- Wash
- Calif
"Senate GOP blocks extra $25B in stimulus package." ... "Senate Republicans on Tuesday blocked Democrats from adding $25 billion for highways, mass transit, and water projects to [Democratic] President Barack Obama's economic recovery program." ... "Already unhappy over the size of the measure, Republicans insisted additional infrastructure projects be paid for with cuts elsewhere in the bill." ... "But the Democratic amendment garnered 58 votes, just shy of the supermajority needed under Senate budget rules, and many more efforts to increase the measure's size are sure to follow." ... "At issue was a plan by [Washington Democratic Senator] Sens. Patty Murray, D-Wash. [Democratic-Washington], and [California Democratic Senator] Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif. [California-Democratic], to increase the highway funding in the bill to $40 billion, which reflected complaints from lawmakers in both parties that Obama's plan doesn't do enough to relieve a backlog of unfinished projects. The duo also wanted to increase mass transit programs by $5 billion boost and water projects by $7 billion." ... ""Our highways are jammed. People go to work in gridlock," Feinstein said Tuesday." -By Andrew Taylor -AP via -Yahoo 
 John
Boehner
-  Don
Young -  Doc
Hastings -  Jack
Abramoff -  Tom
DeLay -  Jerry
Lewis -  Ken
Calvert -  John
Doolittle -  Ohio
-  AK
- WA
- Texas
- CA
- Florida
- Money
- Politics
- US
Attorney - Law
- Federal
-  Investigation
"House GOP [Republicans] Gives Scandal-Ridden Don Young’s Committee Seat To Scandal-Ridden Doc Hastings." ... " ... [Ohio Republican Representative and House Minority Leader John Boehner told Alaska Republican Representative] Rep. Don Young (R-AK [Republican-Alaska]) that he could no longer support him as ranking Republican on the Natural Resources Committee, leading to Young’s resignation from the post." ... "The AP reports that a panel of top House leaders picked [Washington state Republican Representative] Rep. Doc Hastings (R-WA [Republican-Washington]) today to lead the committee. “The recommendation by the GOP [GOP=Grand Old Party=Republican] Steering Committee is final under a rule change adopted Wednesday.”" ... "Recall, Jack Abramoff once boasted of having an “excellent relationship” with Hastings, who received $14,000 [*] from Abramoff’s firm, Preston Gates — including $1,000 from Abramoff himself. After taking control of the Ethics Committee, Hastings reportedly fired two staff lawyers involved in unanimous decisions to admonish [Texas Republican] Tom DeLay for improper fundraising. Hastings also contacted fired [United States] U.S. Attorney John McKay and attempted to pressure him in an ongoing investigation." ... "As ThinkProgress has documented, Boehner has a history of playing musical chairs with committee assignments for corrupt members:" "[California Republican Representative] Rep. Jerry Lewis: Boehner ruled that Rep. Jerry Lewis of California could continue as the ranking member on the Appropriations Committee while under federal investigation on ethics charges.""Despite Boehner’s ethics pledge after ethics pledge, the culture of corruption still rules at the end of the day." -By Satyam Khanna -ThinkProgress.org 
Washington
-Political
- Financing
-  Accounting
- Investigation
- Realtors
"Realtor group's account of expenses disputed: [Washington state's Public Disclosure Commission] PDC's complaints include over-the-limit contributions to [Washington state's Republican Governor Candidate Dino] Rossi." ... "State regulators have filed their second campaign-finance complaint of the year against the Washington Association of Realtors, this time alleging that the association improperly reported its spending on Republicans in races for governor and attorney general." ... "The executive director of the Public Disclosure Commission, Vicki Rippie, filed her complaint last week, and the agency is launching a full investigation, spokesmen said this week." ... "The complaint also named the GOP [GOP=Grand Old Party=Republican] campaigns of Attorney General Rob McKenna and gubernatorial hopeful Dino Rossi." ... "The Realtors PAC and [Realtors'] Quality of Life PAC both, in effect, made over-limit contributions to Rossi of $497,806. Rossi allegedly gave fundraising help to R-PAC before it sponsored its ads." ... "The PDC allegations do go so far as to suggest that the Realtors, Rossi or McKenna conspired to get around rules that forbid coordination between campaigns and independent groups. But they do say that actions the Realtors and Mc Kenna campaign took made the PACs ineligible for independent expenditures on behalf of Mc Kenna." ... "Realtors paid $80,000 in fines earlier in the year to settle an earlier complaint over failing to fully report $953,000 in transactions during 2004-07 — including $310,000 in independent expenditures during 2004. Another $50,000 of fines were suspended on condition the group did not have further wrongdoing." (1, 2) -By Brad Shannon -TheOlympian.com
 Electric
-  Cars
- Industry
-  Manufacturing
-  Technology
- Transportation
- Infrastructure
- Jobs
- Consumer
-  Military
-  Historic
- San
Francisco - Sacramento
- California
-  Michigan
-  Oregon
- Washington
-  US
-  Global
-  Planet
-  Climate
-  Emissions
"Recharge America with Electric Cars." ... "Today, our country is facing a set of seemingly insurmountable problems:" "• an economic meltdown of historic proportions""Yesterday, joined by San Jose [California] Mayor Chuck Reed and Oakland [California] Mayor Ron Dellums I [San Francisco, California's mayor Gavin Newsom] announced a nine-step policy plan for transforming the Bay Area into the "Electric Vehicle (EV) Capital of the U.S. [United States]" In support of this initiative Better Place, a global electric transportation company announced that it would enter the U.S. market with California as its first state, beginning in the Bay Area." ... "Commercial availability of electric cars is targeted to begin in 2012, and Better Place estimates its network investment in the Bay Area will total $1 billion when the system is fully deployed. I welcomed Better Place's announcement and anticipate many other EV companies will focus on the Bay Area as a top-priority market." ... "Electric vehicles represent an overarching, game-changing solution that allows us to transform, and recharge the American transportation sector for the 21st century. By accelerating the conversion of the car industry from its oil dependent past, to a new electric century, we can jump start the car industry, eliminate our dependence on oil, reduce our required presence in the middle east, create millions of jobs, and eliminate a significant portion of our CO2 emissions." ... "This plan ties together a triangle of influence that can get our nation back on track: Detroit [Michigan] car makers who know how to scale production, working in concert with San Francisco's culture of innovation, aided by Sacramento [California's capital] and Washington DC [America's capital] policy-making. The goal is to create a sustainable strategic advantage for the US instead of a series of bailouts." ... "As California prepares to launch this electric recharge infrastructure project, it can also serve as a blueprint for a more widely integrated solution." ... "California can generate upwards of $2.5B in new investment in jobs and the economy for the infrastructure effort, with billions more in cars and battery sales to consumers. The nation as a whole can trigger tens of billions in infrastructure, manufacturing and innovation investment. At the same time, this conversion reduces the cost to the consumer and nation per mile we drive. California, followed by the western US states of Oregon and Washington are ready to drive this effort." -By Gavin Newsom -HuffingtonPost.com
 Gordon
Smith - Illegal
- Immigration
- Business
-  Food
- Workers
- Politics
-  Agriculture
- Property
- History
- Oregon
-  Md
-  Hawaii
-  Utah
- Wash
"Señor Smith: Low-wage Latino workers keep [Oregon Republican Senator] Sen. Gordon Smith’s family business humming. Not all of them are legal." ... "Up on a hill overlooking this Eastern Oregon town of 701 people, Smith Frozen Foods turns raw produce from the surrounding fields into ready-to-eat products." ... "Smith’s goods appear in grocery stores under other brand names. But in tiny Weston [Oregon], a water tank emblazoned with the capital letters S-M-I-T-H sits like a sentry greeting travelers on nearby Highway 11." ... "Gordon Smith, a United States senator from Oregon and the only Republican senator representing a West Coast state, has owned the plant his grandfather founded in 1919 for nearly 30 years." ... "“Son,” father Milan Smith once said, according to Gordon Smith’s 2006 memoir, “you can sell ice to Eskimos and coals to Newcastle.”" ... "Today, Smith Frozen Foods generates millions in income for the senator, according to Smith’s 2007 financial disclosure report." ... "And in this town, Smith’s wealth looms large, even though the 56-year-old lawmaker seldom visits and calls nearby Pendleton [Oregon] his home. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, Smith is the 12th-richest member of the U.S. [United States] Senate, with an estimated net worth between $8 million and $39 million—wealth that’s allowed him to buy a $3.5 million mansion in Bethesda, Md. [Maryland], property on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, a Park City, Utah, condominium and—more famously—four antique golf clubs worth $1.25 million." ... "The workers at Smith Frozen Foods, who clean the machinery, monitor production and pack upward of 50 million pounds of produce each year, earn about $80 a day, four or five days a week, 10 months a year—if they’re lucky." ... "One other thing—some of them appear to be illegal immigrants." ... "WW recently spent several days in Weston, and the nearby cities of Milton-Freewater [Oregon] and Walla Walla, Wash. [Washington], where most of Smith’s employees live. WW spoke to dozens of current and former Smith workers, Latino advocates, court personnel, public defenders, educators, police administrators, church officials, social service agents and business owners and determined that some portion of Smith’s workforce comprises undocumented immigrants." ... "It’s a revelation that may not be newsworthy around Weston, where most people this reporter interviewed knew, or assumed, that the agricultural processing plant hired illegal immigrants." ... "Additional interviews and review of public records reveal that Smith’s company appears to have employed illegal immigrants for decades, stretching back as far as the 1980s." -By Beth Slovic -WWeek.com 
Homes
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Angeles - San
Diego - San
Francisco - California
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-  Georgia
-  New
York - Seattle
- Washington-  Massachusetts
- Portland
-Oregon
-  Colorado
- Texas
-  North
Carolina
"Home prices down 15.8% in past year, S&P says: Seven of 20 cities tally monthly price gains in May, Case-Shiller data show." ... "Prices in 10 cities fell 16.9% in the past year." ... "Prices thus are at the same levels as they were in the summer of 2004, which means four years of appreciation have been effectively wiped out. Prices are down 18.4% from peak levels seen two years ago." ... "Here's a list of the 20 cities in the Case-Shiller index with the annual decline through May: Las Vegas [Nevada], down 28.4%; Miami [Florida], down 28.3%; Phoenix [Arizona], down 26.5%; Los Angeles [California], down 24.5%; San Diego [California], down 23.2%; San Francisco [California], down 22.9%; Tampa [Florida], down 20.2%; Detroit [Michigan], down 17.4%; Washington [DC], down 15.4%; Minneapolis [Minnesota], down 14.8%; Chicago [Illinois], down 9.4%; Cleveland [Ohio], down 8%; Atlanta [Georgia], and New York [City, New York], both down 7.9%; Seattle [Washington], down 6.3%; Boston [Massachusetts], down 6.2%; Portland [Oregon], down 5.2%; Denver [Colorado], down 4.8%; Dallas [Texas], down 3.1%; and Charlotte, N.C. [North Carolina], down 0.2%." -By Rex Nutting -MarketWatch |
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Hillary
Clinton - Accounting
- Politics
- Florida
- Michigan
- 
Iowa
- 
Puerto
Rico - Nevada
- Washington
- 
Maine
- Barack
Obama - 2008
Election - "Hillary:
Peddling pop vote canards to the end." ... "The facts,
which must be repeated:" ... "[2008 Election Democratic Presidential Candidate]
Hillary [Clinton] does not lead in the popular vote by any measure other
than her own idiosyncratic belief that Florida should count even though
it didn't and hundreds of thousands of Floridians didn't vote because they
were told it wouldn't; that Puerto Rico should count even though Puerto
Ricans can't vote in the general election ("lead us to victory in November"???);
that Michigan should also count even though it didn't and thousands of
Michiganders didn't vote because they were told it wouldn't and she was
the only person on the ballot; that Obama should get zero votes -- Zero!!!
-- from Michigan ["Uncommited" received 238,168 votes, Clinton received
328,309 votes]; and that Obama also should get no votes from four states
that he won [Iowa, Nevada, Washington, and Maine], because they held caucuses
and didn't count the popular vote." -By John Riley
-Newsday.com
Oceans
- Global
- Climate
- Science
- 
Environmental
- Atmospheric
- Industrial
- Factories
- Cars
- History
- 
Animals
- Seattle
- Washington
- California
- Oregon
- US
- Canada
- 
Mexico
- "Acidified
seawater showing up along coast ahead of schedule."
... "Climate models predicted it wouldn't happen until the end of the century."
... "So a team led by Seattle [Washington] researchers was stunned to discover
that vast swaths of acidified seawater already are showing up along the
Pacific Coast as greenhouse-gas emissions upset the oceans' chemical balance."
... "In surveys from Vancouver Island [British Columbia, Canada] to the
tip of Baja California [Mexico], reported Thursday in the online journal
Science Express, the scientists found the first evidence that large amounts
of corrosive water are reaching the continental shelf — the shallow sea
margin where most marine creatures live." ... "Off Northern California,
the acidified water was only four miles from shore." ... ""What we found
... was truly astonishing," said oceanographer Richard Feely, of the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Pacific Marine Environmental
Laboratory in Seattle. "This means ocean acidification may be seriously
impacting marine life on the continental shelf right now."" ... "All along
the coast, the scientists found regions where the water was acidic enough
to dissolve the shells and skeletons of clams, corals and many of the tiny
creatures at the base of the marine food chain. Acidified water also can
kill fish eggs and a wide range of marine larvae." ... ""Entire marine
ecosystems are likely to be affected," said co-author Debby Ianson, an
oceanographer at Fisheries and Oceans Canada." ... "Though it hasn't received
as much attention as global warming, ocean acidification is a flip side
of the same phenomenon. The increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide from
power plants, factories and cars that is raising temperatures worldwide
also is to blame for the increasing acidity of the world's oceans." ...
"Normally, seawater is slightly alkaline. When carbon dioxide from the
atmosphere dissolves into the water, it forms carbonic acid — the weak
acid that helps give soda pop its tang. The process also robs the water
of carbonate, a key ingredient in the formation of calcium carbonate shells."
... "Since the Industrial Revolution, when humans began pumping massive
amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, Feely estimates the oceans
have absorbed 525 billion tons of the man-made greenhouse gas — about one-third
of the total released during that period." ... "By keeping some of the
carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, the oceans have blunted the temperature
rise due to global warming. But they've suffered for that service, with
a more than 30-percent increase in acidity." ... "The acidified water upwelling
along the coast today was last exposed to the atmosphere about 50 years
ago, when carbon-dioxide levels were much lower than they are now. That
means the water that will rise from the depths over the coming decades
will have absorbed more carbon dioxide and will be even more acidic." -By
Sandi Doughton -SeattleTimes
Women's
- 
Health
- Science
- 
Life-Expectancy
- Washington
- "Life
Expectancy Drops for Some U.S. Women: Historic Reversal,
Found in 1,000 Counties, May Be Result of Smoking and Obesity." ... "For
the first time since the Spanish influenza of 1918, life expectancy is
falling for a significant number of American women." ... "In nearly 1,000
counties that together are home to about 12 percent of the nation's women,
life expectancy is now shorter than it was in the early 1980s, according
to a study published today." ... ""I think this is a harbinger. This is
not going to be isolated to this set of counties, is my guess," said Christopher
J.L. Murray, a physician and epidemiologist at the University of Washington
who led the study. It is being published in PLoS
Medicine [PDF], an open-access journal of the Public Library of Science."
... "The study found a smaller decline, in far fewer places, in the life
expectancy of men in this country. In all, longevity is declining for about
4 percent of males." ... "The phenomenon appears to be not only new but
distinctly American." ... "Life expectancy is not a direct measure of how
long people live. Instead, it is a prediction of how long the average person
would live if the death rates at the time of his or her birth lasted a
lifetime." ... "About 33 percent of women are now obese, compared with
31 percent of men. Extreme obesity is twice as common in women (7 percent)
as in men (3 percent)." (1, 2)
-By David Brown -WashingtonPost
Home-Prices
- History
- Seattle
- Washington
- Portland
- Ore
- Nevada
- Florida
- Phoenix
- Arizona
- San
Diego - California
- Michigan
- NC
- "U.S.
home prices fall 10.7% in January, Seattle's drop 1.3%."
... "U.S. [United States] home prices fell 10.7 percent in January from
the same month last year, according to the Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller
home-price index of 20 cities, which saw the steepest decline in the two-decade
history of the index." ... "Seattle[Washington]-area home prices were among
the decliners, although the annual drop was a slight 1.3 percent. Only
Portland, Ore. [Oregon], posted a smaller annual decline, 0.5 percent."
... "Worst hit were Las Vegas [Nevada] and Miami [Florida], both reporting
19.3 percent drops, as the regions are still paying the price for rampant
speculation and overbuilding during the boom years. Those cities and 14
others — including Phoenix [Arizona], San Diego [California] and Detroit
[Michigan] — posted record lows." ... "Only Charlotte, N.C. [North Carolina],
squeaked by as a gainer in the Case-Shiller index, with a 1.8 percent increase
in January compared with a year earlier." -By Vinnee
Tong with contributions by Dan Caterinicchia
-AP via -SeattleTimes
John
McCain
- 
European
- 
Planes
- Manufacturing
Plant - Jobs
- US
- Military
- Lawmaker
- Politics
- Arizona
- Washington
- 
Kansas
- 2008
Election - "McCain's
Role in Plane Pact Spotlights Ties to Lobbyists."
... "To show that he's a crusader against wasteful spending and congressional
corruption, [2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate and Arizona
Senator] Sen. John McCain repeatedly brags about his leading role in stopping
a scandal-plagued air tanker contract between the Air Force and Boeing
in 2004." ... "Four years later, a $35 billion contract has been awarded
to Europe's Airbus consortium to build the latest generation of tanker
planes. The decision has sparked anger from Boeing's congressional supporters
and critics of outsourcing. It has also focused attention on McCain's reliance
on lobbyists in his campaign for president because his finance chairman
and several other top advisers lobbied for Airbus last year when it was
in fierce competition with Boeing for the Air Force contract." ... "McCain
has spoken out for years against the influence of special interests in
Washington, but his campaign includes a number of prominent Washington
lobbyists, including campaign manager Rick Davis, who founded a lobbying
firm, and top political adviser, Charles R. Black Jr., chief executive
of a well-known Washington firm. Neither of them lobbied for Airbus." ...
"McCain finance chairman Thomas G. Loeffler and Susan E. Nelson, who left
Loeffler's lobbying firm to be McCain's finance director, both began lobbying
for Airbus's parent company in 2007, Senate records show. William L. Ball
III, a former secretary of the Navy and frequent McCain surrogate on the
trail, also lobbied for Airbus, as did John Green, who recently took a
leave from Ogilvy Public Relations to serve as McCain's legislative liaison."
... "Democratic and Republican lawmakers in Washington state, where Boeing
has long had a significant presence, have lambasted McCain for laying the
groundwork for a decision that will cost their economy thousands of aerospace
jobs. Lawmakers in Kansas, where Boeing has a plant, have also been critical."
(1, 2)
-By Michael D. Shear and Matthew Mosk with contributions
by Jeffrey H. Birnbaum -WashingtonPost
John
McCain
- 
France
- European
Union - US
- Military
- Aircraft
- Manufacturers
- Money
- Jobs
- 2008
Election - Arizona- Los
Angeles - California
- Seattle
- Washington
- Illinois
- "Boeing
backers blame McCain for losing deal." ... "Supporters
of The Boeing Co. blame [2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate
and Arizona Senator] Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential
nominee, for the company's failure to win the lucrative $35 billion contract
to build new Air Force aerial refueling tankers." ... "The Air Force last
week awarded the contract to a team of Airbus parent EADS and Northrop
Grumman Corp., triggering a firestorm from Boeing advocates who said the
victory by the European-led consortium ignored American national security
interests and would cost U.S. jobs." ... "Boeing advocates say McCain was
a major force behind the Air Force decision to ignore the issue of government
subsidies to Airbus when the tanker contract was put up for competitive
bidding last year." ... "The issue of European government subsidies for
Airbus has been raised for years by Boeing supporters who claim that those
financial breaks have allowed the Toulouse, France-based company to undercut
Boeing's prices and thus gain market share in the global competition between
the two aircraft manufacturers. (Both the U.S. and the European Union,
which claims Boeing also receives subsidies, have filed cases with the
World Trade Organization.)" ... "Boeing advocates assert that those same
subsidies helped European Aeronautic Defense and Space Co. and Los-Angeles[California]-based
Northrop Grumman win the Air Force tanker project, with a value that could
eventually top $100 billion." ... ""The only reason that (Airbus) could
even bid a low price is because they receive a subsidy," said [Washington
Democratic Representative] Rep. Norm Dicks, D-Wash., whose Seattle-area
district includes thousands of Boeing workers. "Senator McCain jumped into
this and said that they (the Air Force) could not look at the subsidy issue,
which I think is a big mistake," he told PBS." ... "McCain himself has
received support from the EADS North America executive suite. He has received
more than $12,000 in campaign donations from some of the company's top
U.S. officials, support that continued even as his presidential campaign
was foundering in mid- to late 2007." ... "McCain's donors include EADS
North America Chief Executive Officer Ralph Crosby and Senior Vice President
of Government Relations Samuel Adcock." ... ""The person that stopped (the
tanker) from going to a U.S. company was Senator McCain," said [Illinois
Democratic Represenative Rahm] Emanuel, "and now we are going to send major
high-paying jobs overseas."" -By Eric Rosenberg with
contributions by Daniel Lathrop -SeattlePI
Mike
Huckabee - John
McCain
- 
Luke
Esser
- Washington_State
- Arizona
- 2008
Election - "Huckabee:
Washington State vote like the Soviet Union." ...
"[2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate] Mike Huckabee continued
to cry foul Monday over the results in Saturday’s Washington State GOP
[GOP=Grand Old Party=Republican] caucuses, saying the state party chairman's
decision to call the race there early for [2008 Election Republican Presidential
Candidate and Arizona Senator] John McCain is reminiscent of elections
in communist bloc nations." ... ""That is not what we do in American elections,"
Huckabee said on CNN's American Morning Monday. "Maybe that's how they
used to conduct it in the old Soviet Union, but you don't just throw people's
votes out and say, 'well, we're not going to bother counting them because
we kind of think we know where this was going.'" ... "In a statement released
Sunday, Huckabee's campaign said Washington's GOP Party Chairman Luke Esser
called the race for McCain when Huckabee was only losing to the Arizona
senator by 242 votes and over 1,500 votes remained to be counted." -By
Alexander Mooney -CNN
Mike
Huckabee - John
McCain
- Luke
Esser
- Washington_State
- Arizona
- 2008
Election - Lawyers
- "Huckabee
disputes vote count." ... "The results of the state
Republican caucuses were called into question Sunday after [2008 Election
Republican] presidential candidate Mike Huckabee challenged the party's
declaration that [2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate and Senator
from] Arizona Sen. John McCain had won the delegate count." ... "Huckabee's
campaign took issue with Washington state Republican Party Chairman Luke
Esser's decision to call the race Saturday night with 87 percent of the
precincts counted." ... "At that point, McCain was ahead of Huckabee by
242 delegates out of the 13,000 counted, Esser said. The Huckabee campaign
contends there were another 1,500 or so delegates not counted." ... "In
a news release, Huckabee's campaign said there were "obvious irregularities"
in the state's Republican caucuses and that it is sending lawyers to explore
"all available legal options regarding the dubious final results."" ...
""This was an error in judgment by Mr. Esser," a Huckabee campaign release
said. "Washington Republicans know, from bitter experience in the 2004
gubernatorial election, the terrible results that can come from bad ballot
counting."" ... ""This clearly requires a full excavation as to what happened,"
[Huckabee campaign spokesman James P.] Pinkerton said. "The political impact
of calling an election before all the votes are counted is pretty seismic.
Chairman Esser should fully explain what happened and why to the satisfaction
of all Washington state Republicans and all Republicans nationwide."" -By
Janet I. Tu -SeattleTimes
Mike
Huckabee - John
McCain
- Luke
Esser
- Washington_State
- 2008
Election - Lawyers
- "Huckabee
camp may fight caucus results: Supporters of the
Republican candidate allege irregularities during the Washington state
GOP [GOP=Grand Old Party=Republican] caucuses Saturday." ... "[2008 Election
Republican Presidential Candidate] Republican Mike Huckabee prepared Sunday
for legal and political challenges to [2008 Election Republican Presidential
Candidate] John McCain's apparent victory in Washington's presidential
caucuses." ... ""The Huckabee campaign is deeply disturbed by the obvious
irregularities in the Washington State Republican precinct caucuses," Huckabee
campaign chairman Ed Rollins said in a statement posted Sunday on the campaign's
Web site." ... "Rollins did not specify what the irregularities were and
said it was "an outrage" that GOP Chairman Luke Esser declared McCain the
winner with just 87 percent of results in Saturday night." ... "At that
time, McCain led Huckabee by 2 percent." ... "Rollins said Huckabee's lawyers
"are prepared to go to court, and we are also prepared to take our case
all the way to the Republican National Convention in September."" ... "[Huckabee's
Washington State campaign leader Joe] Fuiten said some of the candidate's
supporters complained they had not been allowed to express themselves and
have their votes properly counted." ... "Kim Davis of Lakewood in Pierce
County [Washington] outlined her experience in an e-mail that Fuiten sent
to Esser and Huckabee's national campaign." ... "In an interview, Davis
said she "absolutely" thought McCain supporters rigged voting in her precinct
because she and a [2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate] Ron
Paul supporter were denied a chance to run to be delegates." ... ""They
didn't follow the process. No one got to talk. No one got to vote," she
said." ... ""I felt like what they did was wrong," she said. "If they could
do that to us, I wondered how many other places could that have happened.""
-By Jerry Cornfield -HeraldNet.com
Luke
Esser
- Washington_State
- Politician
- History
- 2008
Election - "Luke
Esser’s tradition: “voter fraud, dirty tricks, and voting a straight Republican
ticket”." ... "On this soggy [2008] Election Day
let’s harken back to the sage advice of [former Washington State Republican
Senator] state Sen. Luke Esser (R-Nervous), who wrote
a column on this very same subject in the UW [University of Washington]
Daily, way back on Nov. 3, 1986, the day before that year’s midterm election."Google Search: Washington state http://www.State.wa.us = http://access.wa.gov = http://www.WA.gov Leg.WA.gov - "The Washington State Legislature." Washington Secretary of State - http://www.secstate.wa.gov Washington QuickFacts from the US Census Bureau - http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/53000.html
Washington State Library - http://www.statelib.wa.gov/
Seattle Union Record -- Final Edition - UnionRecord.com
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