This is some really good news for those of us in OH-8: The Democratic National Committee is launching a new ad targeting West Chester’s John Boehner, who would become House Speaker if the Republicans take the House. It starts airing on cable nationally Tuesday, according to DNC spokesman Alec Gerlach. I think I speak for […]
That would be Charlie Crist: Governor Charlie Crist and former state House Speaker Marco Rubio are now tied in the 2010 race for the Republican Senate nomination in Florida. A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of likely GOP Primary voters finds Crist and Rubio each with 43% of the vote. Five percent (5%) prefer another […]
A couple big stories today involving Republicans and violence. First here is former Rep. Chip Pickering (R-MS): Former Congressman (and C Streeter) Chip Pickering is reportedly under police investigation for his involvement in a brawl with a rival youth league soccer coach. Apparently, police were called to Liberty Park in Madison, Mississippi, after Pickering and […]
This has been a very interesting and sad story that really hasn’t received much attention: Georgia’s powerful House speaker resigned Thursday after a suicide attempt and allegations by his ex-wife that he carried on an affair with a lobbyist. Glenn Richardson, the state’s first GOP speaker since Reconstruction, had won sympathy from even his political […]
But damn this is bad. From our local newspaper: U.S. House Speaker John Boehner, R-West Chester Twp., visited Iraq today, Feb. 6, and praised American progress after the war-torn nation successfully held provincial elections last week. Not only did they get Boehner’s position wrong, but they totally screwed up which party controls Congress. This is […]
Retirement ‘Wave’ Building Among House Republicans? The announcement Friday by former House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., that he will not seek re-election in 2008 capped a week in which three veteran House Republicans in a 24-hour span declared that the current 110th Congress would be their last. Hastert’s announcement — coupled with similar ones […]
The nasty campaign that Ken Blackwell made is not going away anytime soon and we now get more insight into who has helped this flame war: Columbus — With polls showing him so far behind that he could drag the entire Republican ticket down to defeat, Secretary of State Ken Blackwell launched an attack last […]
Last night I reported about the discrepencies in the story between Hastert and Boehner. Hastert said he was never told of Foley and Boehner said he told Hastert. Now it looks like the story has taken another turn (big ht to Josh Marshall) From the Washington Post The resignation rocked the Capitol, and especially Foley’s GOP […]
Via Roll Call (via Hunter): Chairman of the House Page Board, Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL) interviewed Foley last year about some of the contacts with the page. The House clerk who is also a member of the Board was also present. Speaker Hastert’s office was informed of the interview, but according to leadership sources who […]
You know you are one screwed candidate when you can’t even get your own state party to back you: The state Republican Party bluntly told Rep. Katherine Harris that she couldn’t win this fall’s Senate election and that the party wouldn’t support her campaign, a letter obtained Monday by The Associated Press shows. Party Chairman […]