The Columbus Dispatch reports this morning: Three top aides to embattled Rep. Bob Ney are leaving his office, and a federal grand jury has subpoenaed another senior staff member in an investigation of the Heath Republican’s ties to disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Matt Parker, who has served as district director for Ney’s office in Ohio [...]
Senator Bayh Torpedoes Presidential Campaign With Flag Burning Vote
I am beginning to be concerned that Ohio Republican Representative Bob Ney may be suffering from early-onset Alzheimer’s disease. First, Mr. Ney directed his office to bark in public that he “has never, at any point, engaged in any improper, unethical, or illegal activity.” Such belligerent arrogance, the content of which is clearly untrue, is [...]
You can’t find this piece of news on the TV: you’ll have to go to the UK’s Guardian newspaper to read of WBNS, a television station in Columbus, Ohio that has refused to air advertisements critical of Republican Representative Deborah Pryce during her bid for re-election. The advertisements, paid for by Moveon.org, note that Rep. [...]
After two months of waiting, I finally received a letter back from the office of North Carolina Senator Elizabeth Dole regarding George W. Bush’s program at the National Security Agency to engage in wiretapping of Americans’ phones without warrants. In that letter, she excuses Bush’s behavior with a variety of weasel words. Dole starts out [...]
Wyoming Democratic candidate connects public lands with fiscal conservation
All bow before the holy Saint Ney of Ohio! Why wait for him to die before we sanctify the man? I say we contact the Catholic Church and get Republican Representative Bob Ney beatified right now! After all, the southern Ohio member of Congress has sent out a declaration from his office declaring that he: [...]
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