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AP - Five e-mails sent by the chief justice of the West Virginia Supreme Court to the head of coal company Massey Energy show the justice was concerned with a Democratic Primary challenger. ... Source: news.yahoo.com --- 26 days ago
AP - Keshia Anderson took her 7-year-old son along when she voted in Virginia's Democratic presidential Primary. He got an eyeful, she recalled: scant parking, hundreds standing in line and news that there were no more Democratic ballots. ... Source: www.msnbc.msn.com --- 19 days ago
Five e-mails sent by the chief justice of the West Virginia Supreme Court to the head of coal company Massey Energy show the justice was concerned with a Democratic Primary challenger. ... Source: www.washingtonpost.com --- 23 days ago
DOGUE, Va. -- The Virginia Democratic State Central Committee voted yesterday to hold a Primary next year to choose the party's candidate for governor amid growing indications that there could be a three-way fight for the nomination. ... Source: blog.washingtonpost.com --- 4 days ago
The Washington D.C. Building and Construction Trades Council has given Sen. R. Creigh Deeds (Bath), a Democratic candidate for governor, its "Legislator of the Year" award. The council is affilated with the AFL-CIO as well as the electricians, ironworkers, painters and other construction unions in Northern Virginia. The award, which comes from a key Democratic constituency, comes as Deeds is gearing up to potentially face Del. Brian J. Moran (D-Alexandria) and Terry McAuliffe, a former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, in next year's Primary. McAuliffe, who has not yet made up his mind on whether he plans to run, and Moran are both from Northern Virginia. "The simple fact is Creigh Deeds is a leader in the fight for working families and getting our economy back on track," said Vance Ayres, executive secretary-treasurer of the Washington D.C. Building and Construction Trades Council. "Deeds' plan to make Virginia a leader ... Source: www.moreover.com --- 5 days ago
?? -- Virginia Mason Medical Center, The Everett Clinic, Proliance Surgeons and Qliance Primary Care Specialists first participants to join Carol.com in greater Seattle. ?? -- Carol.com's transparency lets consumers know what .. ...
Source: www.huffingtonpost.com --- 4 days ago
Over the course of many months in 2007, during the highs and lows of the Democratic presidential Primary, I had the opportunity to sit down and talk politics with a good number of Democratic Members of Congress who were (and still are) running for reelection in tough, swing districts. Each one, whether running in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Virginia or Florida gave the same answer when asked which prospective Democratic nominee - Clinton or Obama - would make their congressional race easier. Each one answered Barack, despite the fact that Hillary was then outperforming him among their Democratic Primary voters. At the time, the conventional wisdom was that in swing districts, although Clinton might appeal to the working class white voters that comprised the bulk of their districts' Democratic constituencies, Obama was seen as the less polarizing candidate for the general election. As such, most of these Members believed that Clinton posed them the greatest threat in the general since she was likely to pump up the turn out of the Republican base. Obama, by contrast, was going to pull independents to their side and reduce the enthusiasm of movement conservatives. But an interesting thing has happened in the months since the Primary. For a variety of reasons - the resurgent posture of the Democrats in Congress, a dominant fundraising performance by the DCCC and a stable of far superior congressional candidates than those proffered ... Source: www.chron.com --- 28 days ago
WASHINGTON — Keshia Anderson took her 7-year-old son along when she voted in Virginia's Democratic presidential Primary. He got an eyeful, she recalled: scant parking, hundreds standing in line and news that there were no more Democratic ballots. Then came a vision straight out of the painful past: a separate line of whites flowing past hundreds of blacks to vote, Anderson said. ... Source: travel.latimes.com --- 15 days ago
If apple-picking sounds like an East Coast kind of thing to do, you might be surprised to learn that California is among our country’s top apple-producing states. According to the California Apple Commission, Washington, New York, Michigan, California, Pennsylvania and Virginia — in that order — are our country’s Primary sources of apples. California has more [...] ... Source: www.crooksandliars.com --- 22 days ago
It just goes to show you that political operatives never fade away, they haunt the Democratic Party forever WaPo: The Virginia Democratic State Central Committee voted yesterday to hold a Primary next year to choose the party’s candidate for governor amid growing indications that there could be a three-way fight for the nomination. Terry McAuliffe, a former [...] ... Source: www.nysun.com --- 26 days ago
Voters on Staten Island have chosen candidates to replace Rep. Vito Fossella, who was undone by an extramarital scandal. City Councilman Michael McMahon won the Democratic Primary, while a former state assemblyman, Bob Straniere, prevailed on the Republican side. Mr. Fossella's once-bright political career unraveled when he ran a red light in suburban Virginia, leading to his drunken driving arrest and subsequent revelations he'd fathered a child with a woman who was not his wife. His downfall... ... Source: www.myrtlebeachonline.com --- 36 days ago
After helping U.S. Sen. John McCain win the S.C. Primary and the GOP nomination, Trey Walker now is heading the Republican's fall operations in a must-win swing state. Walker, a 41-year-old Irmo native, is one of a handful of South Carolinians heavily involved in McCain's campaign. In May, McCain tapped Walker to head his Mid-Atlantic campaign - Delaware, the District of Columbia, Kentucky, Maryland, West Virginia and, possibly most important, Virginia. ...
Source: www.kentucky.com --- 2 days ago
Indicted U.S. Rep. William Jefferson had a quarter of voters on his side as he overcame scandal to come in first in Louisiana's Democratic Primary. Now, as he faces a runoff against a former television journalist, Jefferson also has demographics and history on his side. First, the history. Jefferson, Louisiana's first black congressman since Reconstruction, has won the New Orleans-based 2nd Congressional District seat nine times. He proved his political resiliency two years ago, winning easy re-election over state Rep. Karen Carter Peterson, a young, up-and-coming black politician. The victory came even as late-night TV comics made him the butt of their jokes after federal agents said they found $90,000 in alleged bribe money hidden in his freezer. Jefferson has since been stripped of an important committee post by the Democratic leadership in Congress and a Virginia federal grand jury indicted him on corruption charges. He faces a December trial on charges that he took bribes, laundered money and misused his congressional office for business dealings in Africa. ... Source: www.kentucky.com --- 3 days ago
Voters heading to the polls Saturday in Louisiana will decide whether a corruption scandal has done irreparable harm to the reputation of indicted U.S. Rep. William Jefferson. Jefferson faces six challengers in a Democratic Primary in the congressional district that includes parts of New Orleans. Each argues he or she would do a better job in Washington than Jefferson, whose effectiveness in Congress is increasingly at issue after he was stripped of a powerful committee post in December 2006 amid allegations of involvement in an international bribery scheme. Instead of hitting the campaign trail Friday, Jefferson was in Washington to vote on a $750 billion bailout bill for the financial industry, which he opposes. "Right now, he's more focused on doing the people's business," campaign spokesman Terry Richards said. The nine-term congressman was indicted last year in a federal court in Virginia on allegations that he took bribes, laundered money and misused his congressional office for business dealings in Africa. His trial is scheduled to begin in December. ... Source: poligazette.com --- 4 days ago
The McCain campaign has confirmed that they are stopping operations in the state of Michigan, citing polls that they say make the fight too uphill to be worthwhile. TV ads will stop airing and an appearance by McCain has been cancelled and most staff has been moved to states like Maine, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin Michigan was initially thought to be well in play because of it’s high population of the newly famous “white blue-collar workers”, and because of the contentious fight over Michigan in the Democratic Primary. But the economic crisis hits especially hard in Michigan, where economic woes have been a problem for many years, and where doubts as to whether you’re the best for fixing the economy is a deal-breaker. This makes the disadvantage McCain has on the economy all the more painful in Michigan. I expect Obama, who has campaigned very actively in the state, to tone it down a tad, taking advantage of the gift McCain has given him to concentrate resources on other states, notably Florida and Virginia. ©2008 PoliGazette . All Rights Reserved. . ... Source: www.obbec.com --- 6 days ago
Richmond, VA (OBBeC) - A team of researchers from Virginia Commonwealth University Institute of Molecular Medicine and VCU Massey Cancer Center have discovered how a gene, melanoma differentiation associated gene-9/syntenin (mda-9/syntenin), interacts with an important signalling protein to promote metastasis in human melanoma cells, a discovery that they believe could one day lead to the development of the next generation of anti-metastatic drugs for melanoma and other cancers. Metastatic disease is one of the Primary challenges in cancer therapy. When cancer cells are localized in the body, specialists may be able to surgically remove the diseased area. However, when cancer metastasizes or spreads to sites remote from the Primary tumour through the lymph system and blood vessels to new target sites, treatment becomes more difficult and in many instances ineffective. Previous studies have shown that mda-9/syntenin regulates cell motility and can alter certain biochemical and signalling pathways leading to acquisition of metastatic ability. However, the exact mechanisms involved with these processes have not been well understood until now. In the study, published online the week of Sept. 29 in the Early Edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers report on the molecular mechanisms by which mda-9/syntenin is able to mediate invasion, migration, anchorage-independent growth and metastasis by physical ...
Source: www.marshallparthenon.com --- 14 days ago
Race and politics became an issue in West Virginia after May's Democratic Primary vote, and universities throughout the state decided to address the image the state received because of it. Statewide media personalities, scholars and community leaders led discussions on race, politics and stereotypes in West Virginia at a conference Saturday sponsored by Marshall University, West Virginia State University and West Virginia Wesleyan College. ... Find more results for Virginia Primary on RSSMicro.com |
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Perhaps worried how the African-American community might respond to his bending the rules to seek a third term, Mayor Bloomberg called the Rev. Al Sharpton in advance of his big announcement yesterday , Sharpton told the DN's Kate Lucadamo. “The mayor did call me (Wednesday) to tell me he was going to make an announcement
He just told me he wanted to let me know
.I told him I appreciated that he reached out. I wasn't totally surprised,” Sharpton said. Sharpton said he's “noncommittal” on the topic of extending term limits and is waiting to talk to Gov. David Paterson, who supports Bloomberg's move , and all the would-be Democratic mayoral candidates at this weekend’s National Action Network fall conference . He said he'll make a decision by the end of the weekend. Rep. Anthony Weiner, Council Speaker Christine Quinn and Comptroller Bill Thompson are scheduled to speak at NAN on Saturday. Both Weiner and Thompson have so far insisted they intend to remain in the 2009 race regardless of whether Bloomberg succeeds in extending term limits to join them there, while Quinn has said she'll seek re-election to her Council seat and the speaker's post. Thompson is seeking to become the city's second black mayor, but the fact that he would be the only black mayoral candidate next fall doesn't make Sharpton's support a foregone conclusion as he backed Freddy Ferrer against Virginia Fields in the 2005 Democratic Primary. Sharpton also backed ...
Politico on the electoral map after McCain's dramatic decision to abandon Michigan: The count is so tight that Maine could be the new Ohio. To explain: McCain is moving staff into Maine because it’s not a winner-take-all state (the only other one that splits its electoral vote is Nebraska). The McCain aides, perhaps optimistically, are suggesting he can win one electoral vote by picking up one of the Pine Tree State’s two congressional districts. The Maine congressional district McCain is eying is the northern one, District 2, the larger of the two districts, which covers most of the state and is held by Rep. Michael H. Michaud (D). Recent polls have showed Obama running strong in some states Bush won in 2004. But the McCain official said the campaign is confident: “We feel strongly that we’re going to win in Florida, Missouri and the traditional Republican states of Virginia and North Carolina.” One McCain official acknowledged that the campaign is feeling the pressure from the better-funded Obama. "He has an extraordinary amount of resources," the official said. Here's a scenario where Maine really counts: Say McCain holds the Bush 2004 states--including, critically, Virginia and Florida. But he loses Iowa (that looks likely) as well as Obama-leaning Colorado and New Mexico. Yet he steals away New Hampshire, where the polls are close, where he's won two primaries, and where Obama suffered a mysteriously unforseen Primary defe ...
Not so long ago, in the days when the country’s financial system was not falling down a cliff, Barack Obama was said to have a problem with white Appalachians. He couldn’t connect with them; he didn’t speak their language; he had denigrated them. Why? Some writers had speculated about the reasons. Yet Peter Boyer of The New Yorker must be one of the few reporters who has done in-depth reporting on the issue. And his latest story deserves a wide audience, not least for its emphasis on the importance of religion to Appalachians, especially those who live in the swing state of Virginia. Perhaps the story’s chief virtue are the quotes that Boyer got from his interview subjects. Here is David (“Mudcat”) Saunders, a Democratic strategist, about the hurdles that Obama faces this November: If Obama loses Virginia, Saunders says, it will be because he didn’t succeed in breaking down cultural barriers. Obama’s famous remark, made at a fund-raiser in San Francisco, that rural voters are bitter, which causes them to cling to religion and guns, lingers in the heartland. “I don’t pray because of resentment—I pray because it makes my life better,” Saunders says. “I don’t have a gun because of resentment—I’ve got a gun because I’ve always had one. I don’t ever remember not having a gun of some kind.” Although Saunders worked for John Edwards in the Primary, his on-the-record quote was candid for a Democratic strategist, especially a few months be ...