EDWARDS WINS SEIU STRAW POLL. Leave it up to a blogger to spill the beans. As SEIU members predicted on Monday evening, John Edwards won the non-binding SEIU membership straw poll, according to a blog item posted by Robert Haaland, a political organizer for SEIU Local 790, on the group blog Left in SF. The […]
Garance Franke-Ruta
Garance Franke-Ruta is a former senior editor at the Prospect. Her work has also appeared in The Washington Post, The Washington Monthly, The New Republic, and The Wall Street Journal, among other publications. She was a 2006 recipient of a fellowship at the Joan Shorenstein Center on Press, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard University.
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THE JERUSALEM QUESTION….
THE JERUSALEM QUESTION. As Tapped’s resident Clintonologist, I’ll just add to Ezra‘s item from yesterday that yes, Clinton‘s stated position on Jerusalem is to the right of longstanding U.S. policy and no, it’s not new. She took the same position in her 2000 Senate contest. This New York Times piece from the summer of 1999 […]
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POOR PEOPLE ARE…
POOR PEOPLE ARE SHARKS! Via economist John Schmitt‘s blog I find this hilarious piece by the inimitable Michael Lewis, who is now a Bloomberg columnist, written from the perspective of a Wall Street trader about the sub-prime crisis. As John says, “The…piece is so dry that some overworked and underpaid anti-poverty advocates in Washington initially […]
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RAISING THE STAKES….
RAISING THE STAKES. In the escalating war betwern MoveOn.org and Rudy Giuliani, MoveOn just saw Giuliani’s latest attack — a radio ad attacking the group that went up on the air in Iowa — and raised it some national exposure, announcing that it would expand its buy for its tough-on-Giuliani “Betrayal of Trust” ad. MoveOn […]
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THE FURTHER TRAVAILS…
THE FURTHER TRAVAILS OF THE MCCAIN CAMPAIGN. Hold that talk of a comeback, says The Washington Times: Sen. John McCain’s troubled presidential campaign organization is imploding in Michigan, senior Republicans in the state say. Attorney General Mike Cox has told state party officials that he is resigning, possibly today, as Michigan chairman of McCain campaign, […]
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CITIZEN LOBBYISTS. John…
CITIZEN LOBBYISTS. John Edwards has made it very clear that he thinks lobbyists are the bane of the American political system, and will prevent needed healthcare reform. He said so again at the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Political Action Conference yesterday, warning that if you give industry lobbyists a seat at the table, “they’ll […]
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SEIU MEMBERS PREDICT…
SEIU MEMBERS PREDICT EDWARDS ENDORSEMENT. (Photos: SEIU members in John Edwards T-shirts provided by their SEIU locals. Washington, D.C., Sept. 17, 2007.) It’s hard sometimes in the heat of the moment to distinguish enthusiasm for a politician’s rousing speech from enthusiasm for the politician himself. So in the cool of the evening I headed out […]
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A LESS EXPANSIVE…
A LESS EXPANSIVE PLAN? There was a fair bit of chatter this morning about John Edwards‘ proposal to revoke the health insurance of “all political appointees,” as Mike Allen reported this morning. A statement by the Edwards campaign later in the day described the plan as applying to “all senior political appointees in both branches […]
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ROMNEY’S HOSPITAL TURF…
ROMNEY’S HOSPITAL TURF WAR. First, Mitt Romney‘s chooses to give his critique of Hillary Clinton‘s healthcare proposal today in front of a hospital that is tight with his chief rival for the G.O.P. nod, reports Michael Luo: Mitt Romney chose the sidewalk in front of St. Vincent’s Hospital in Manhattan, home of the Rudolph W. […]
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THE AFGHAN MP3…
THE AFGHAN MP3 CONTROVERSY. What, you hadn’t heard about it, either? A friend who does regional work forwards on this YouTube ad about a former Mitch McConnell staffer who became a lobbyist and had McConnell help his client get a fat contract to send MP3 players to Afghanistan: Paid for by the Public Campaign Action […]