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Flake on earmarks, politics: Pork barrel foe says some peers hope he'll succeed.

Article from: Tribune (Mesa, AZ) Article date: September 9, 2007

Byline: Paul Giblin

Sep. 9--U.S. Rep. Jeff Flake has a secret.

A fair number of the Arizona Republican's colleagues in the U.S. House of Representatives actually like him -- or at least they tell him that.

At times, that would appear hard to believe. Republicans and Democrats alike frequently rebuke him on the House floor as C-SPAN records their bursts of seemingly righteous outrage.

Since May 2006, Flake has had a tradition of verbal confrontations. The fourth-term congressman regularly ...

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