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Sunday, March 2nd, 2008

Red, white, and blue was on parade in downtown Brooksville on Thursday morning. Only this was the Puerto Rican flag making a statement.
A small but vocal group of Democratic voters from central Florida, most of them Puerto Rican, protested against Republican Congresswoman Ginny Brown-Waite for recently labeling Puerto Ricans as “foreign citizens,” and saying they […]

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

Sen. Jim Webb thinks legal action against the Bush administration may be needed if the president pursues a long-term military presence in Iraq without Congress’ approval.
“I’m not convinced we don’t need to have a lawsuit ready,” Webb told the Huffington Post. “This is a classic separation of powers issue. I started to talk to people […]

Monday, January 14th, 2008

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Wednesday, July 18th, 2007

Ratcheting up the stakes in the wake of the GOP’s successful blocking of a vote on Iraq withdrawal just moments ago, Harry Reid just announced on the Senate floor that he won’t allow a vote on the entire Defense Authorization bill until the Senate GOP drops its filibustering of votes on Iraq.
The move is significant […]

Tuesday, July 10th, 2007

Vitter Issues Statement
U.S. Sen. David Vitter made the following statement today about his telephone number being on the old phone records of Pamela Martin and Associates prior to his running for the U.S. Senate. He respectfully requests that the statement be used in full without editing or paraphrasing.
“This was a very […]

Tuesday, July 10th, 2007

The magazine Hustler in a Tuesday afternoon press release then claimed responsibility for Vitter’s decision to identify himself as a former DC Madam client.
 
“Within hours of a phone call from the offices of HUSTLER Magazine asking Vitter to comment on an article HUSTLER reporters were working on, Vitter ran to the Associated Press in an […]