GOP participants may resist further bailouts
Wall Street Journal Nov 25, 08 4:00 PM CST
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Barack Obama and Joe Biden will discuss measures to help the ailing economy with America’s governors next Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal reports, with a two-hour, bipartisan working session in Philadelphia. GOP governors are “looking forward” to hearing Obama’s ideas, but will definitely bring plans of their own, the director of the Republican Governor’s Association said.
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Some say Kaufman is holding spot for Joe's son in 2010 race
News Journal (Del.) Nov 24, 08 7:50 PM CST
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A close Joe Biden aide will take the senator's seat until a special election in 2 years, the Delaware News Journal reports today. Gov. Ruth Ann Minner said she sought Biden's advice in naming Ted Kaufman, who is also a member of Barack Obama's transition team. Some say Kaufman is holding the seat for Attorney General Beau Biden to succeed his father as senator.
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Associated Press Nov 12, 08 8:15 PM CST
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Republican governors got their election post-mortem under way today, with leading light Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota warning that the party needs "more than a comb-over." Another rising governor, Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, said voters now trust Democrats to control spending and cut taxes more than Republicans. "When the Republican Party is no longer the party of fiscal conservatism," he said, "then clearly I would argue we've lost our way."
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Longtime Dem operative will take 2 months to explore
Politico Nov 10, 08 4:01 PM CST
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Former DNC chairman Terry McAuliffe, most recently in the headlines as chair of Hillary Clinton's foiled presidential campaign, is considering running for governor of Virginia, Politico reports. "I plan on spending the next two months having a conversation with Virginians," McAuliffe, who has also publicly weighed running for governor of Florida, said on his website.
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Club VIP managers
face sentencing as ex-governor walks
Salon Nov 8, 08 5:43 PM CST
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The prostitution agency that once served Eliot Spitzer is hardly happy that the disgraced former governor is getting off, at their expense, Salon reports. Spitzer evaded federal charges for patronizing a prostitution ring, prompting an attorney for one of the agency’s bookers—who is facing 6-16 months in jail—to call him a “much more egregious actor than my client.”
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Former Batman
mulls run: 'a worthy, serious endeavor'
New York Post Nov 7, 08 10:34 AM CST
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Val Kilmer’s considering a run for governor of New Mexico, he tells Cindy Adams of the New York Post . “There's sort of a rumor around that I'm maybe thinking about running to be governor of New Mexico? Well, it's sort of true,” says the star of Batman Forever and the Doors . “It’s been my home for 25 years. I really love my state,” he said.
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Deputy blames his $300K in unpaid taxes on 'late-filing syndrome'
New York Times Oct 25, 08 2:48 AM CDT
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The chief aide to New York's governor has resigned after it was revealed that he failed to pay taxes for 5 years, the New York Times reports. David Paterson’s top deputy, Charles O'Byrne, built up a $300,000 backlog of taxes from 2001. He was suffering from depression at the time and blames the non-payment on "late-filing" syndrome.
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Says Gibbons, cronies covered up incident
Las Vegas Review-Journal Oct 15, 08 10:00 AM CDT
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Just months after a messy—and overly public—divorce, Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons has been slapped with a lawsuit by the Vegas cocktail waitress who claims he assaulted her two years ago and then covered up the police investigation, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reports. Chrissy Mazzeo says she's been "pretty much blacklisted" by Strip resorts and wants $10,000 in damages.
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He rose to power in
late '90s on strength
of anti-Semitic views
CNN Oct 11, 08 9:34 AM CDT
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A right-wing Austrian politician who sparked controversy with rhetoric viewed as pro-Nazi and anti-Semitic was killed today in a car accident, CNN reports. Joerg Haider, 58, was driving alone when he left the road, hit a concrete post, and flipped several times, said a witness. When Haider's anti-immigration Freedom Party earned enough votes to join a government coalition in 1999, the EU imposed months of sanctions. He broke from the party a few years ago and toned down his comments.
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$103B plan delayed a record 85 days by political wrangling
Sacramento Bee Sep 23, 08 2:36 PM CDT
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Arnold Schwarzenegger signed California’s budget into law today, ending a record 85-day delay, the Sacramento Bee reports. The state has been waiting for the governor’s signature on the $103.4 billion plan to restart payments to nursing homes, community colleges and other service providers. California is expanding the state’s lottery in a gambit to avoid repeating this year’s $15.2 billion budget shortfall.
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Questions from state residents referred to McCain office 4,000 miles away
Los Angeles Times Sep 21, 08 8:30 AM CDT
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Alaskans seeking answers or help from their governor are sick and tired of being referred to John McCain's campaign headquarters 4,300 miles away, reports the Los Angeles Times. "Why did the McCain campaign take over the governor's office?" the Anchorage Daily News demanded in an editorial yesterday. "Is it too much to ask that Alaska's governor speak for herself, directly to Alaskans, about her actions as Alaska's governor?"
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ANALYSIS
Role of 'First Dude' is secretive, powerful ... and outside bounds of normal government
Salon Sep 16, 08 6:07 PM CDT
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Todd Palin isn’t just Alaska’s “First Dude,” Mike Madden reports in Salon—Sarah Palin’s husband plays a nebulous but obviously major role in her administration. Todd is involved in both personnel and legislative decisions, getting copied in on many official e-mails, and working directly with legislators. Some call him a “shadow governor,” and see a secretive inside operator not unlike Dick Cheney.
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Two-account system undercuts public transparency, critics charge
Anchorage Daily News Sep 15, 08 2:03 PM CDT
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Candidate Sarah Palin vowed to be an "open and transparent" governor, but as VP candidate she's drawing unwanted scrutiny with her use of private email to conduct state business, the Anchorage Daily News reports. Although the governor has a state email account, which is archived, she appears to use her private Yahoo account, which is not for state business.
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Official had helped in 2001 US defeat of Taliban
Reuters Sep 13, 08 8:23 AM CDT
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A bomb detonated near Kabul killed an Afghan provincial governor and three others today, Reuters reports; Taliban militants claimed responsibility for the attack. The governor and former cabinet minister, Abdullah Wardak, had helped the US when it toppled the Taliban in 2001. It was unclear whether the roadside attack was a suicide bombing or done via remote control. Wardak’s driver and two bodyguards were also killed.
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