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POLITICS
The
Barack Obama-Nancy Pelosi event...
By JOHN BRESNAHAN & GLENN THRUSH
Thursday, July 29, 2010
President
Barack Obama’s endless summer of fundraising is heating
up — with the addition of a big-money August house party
to help out House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s imperiled Democrats,
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Obama plans to headline an Aug. 16 fundraiser for the
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in Los Angeles
— the first such appearance by the president on
behalf of Pelosi since White House press secretary Robert
Gibbs rankled House Democrats by suggesting they could
lose their majority.
The commitment to appear with
Pelosi in LA — along with a signoff on an as-yet
unscheduled Obama-DCCC fete — followed a White House
meeting between Pelosi and Obama, according to Democratic
insiders.
Obama’s ever-widening midterm
fundraising offensive comes at a time when his approval
numbers are at low ebb, with many Democratic candidates
across the country more eager for his cash-raising efforts
than his actual presence in their districts.
Mike Kelley, the former executive director
of the Missouri Democratic Party, said Obama is “personally
less toxic” than his abysmal 34 percent approval
rating in the Show-Me State would indicate. Still, he
said that Democratic Senate candidate Robin Carnahan “has
probably seen enough of him this year” after a July
8 presidential visit that was taped by Republicans and
turned into an ad.
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Sheriff
Joe Arpaio: I'll Enforce Arizona's Immigration Law
Newsmax.com
By Jim Meyers
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
5:21 PM
Sheriff
Joe Arpaio, the controversial top cop in Maricopa County,
Ariz., tells Newsmax he will jail any protesters who attempt
to block his jail on Thursday when provisions of his state’s
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Arpaio also says it’s “great” if undocumented
aliens react to the new law and his strict anti-illegal
immigration agenda by moving back to Mexico or to the
“sanctuary state” of California, and challenges
President Barack Obama to invite him to the White House
for a “wine summit” to discuss illegal immigration.
Arpaio, whose county includes most of
the Phoenix metropolitan area, promotes himself as “America’s
toughest sheriff.” He has limited county inmates
to two meals a day, banned “sexually explicit material”
in prison, reinstituted chain gangs, and set up a “tent
city” as an extension of the Maricopa County Jail.
On Wednesday a judge blocked the most controversial sections
of Arizona's new law and put them on hold. The law will
still take effect on Thursday, but without some of the
provisions that angered opponents — including sections
that required officers to check a person's immigration
status while enforcing other laws.
Nevertheless there are reports that opponents
of the new law plan to block Arpaio’s jail on Thursday
in an act of civil disobedience.
“There’s a rumor that
they’re going to block our jails down the street,”
Arpaio says in an exclusive Newsmax interview.
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Jury
of Rangel's House Peers Ready to Meet in Ethics
Case
By Associated Press
Thursday, July 29, 2010
WASHINGTON -- A jury of
Rep. Charles Rangel's congressional peers is ready
to publicly discuss charges of ethical misdeeds.
But the political discussions outside the room
will be far more significant.
Eight House lawmakers who will
determine guilt or innocence of the former committee
chairman will hold their first meeting Thursday.
A number of Democrats considering calls for the
New York Democrat to resign will get their first
look at the allegations.
"I think everyone is looking
forward to getting all the facts out in the open
and people will have to react once we know what
we're dealing with," said Rep. Mike Quigley,
D-Ill.
Rangel is tied for fourth in
House seniority, having served for 40 years. He's
still vigorous at 80 years old. He had substantial
influence as chairman of the House Ways and Means
Committee, which handles taxes, trade, portions
of health care, Medicare and Social Security.
Rangel stepped down from
that post in March after the ethics committee
criticized him in a separate case, saying he should
have known that corporate money paid for two trips
to Caribbean conferences.
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Elena
Kagan news: Sen. Jeff Sessions calls Kagan a 'dangerous'
nominee
By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS The Associated Press
Wednesday,
July 28, 2010 6:27 PM
WASHINGTON -- Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan picked up
more GOP backing Wednesday in her drive toward near-certain
confirmation next week, even as a top Republican lashed
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Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, the senior Republican on
the Judiciary Committee, warned senators in unusually
dire terms against voting for President Barack Obama's
choice, saying, "Be careful about it, because I'm
afraid that we have a dangerous, progressive, political-type
nominee."
Sessions' words of caution - he said
they were primarily directed toward Democrats - came just
hours after Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine became the fourth
Republican to say she would break with her party to vote
for Kagan, who's in line to succeed retired Justice John
Paul Stevens.
Democrats already have more than enough
votes to confirm her.
In a statement, Snowe said Kagan had met her standard
for a justice, "with the strong intellect, respect
for the rule of law, and understanding of the important
but limited role of the Supreme Court that I believe is
required." She said endorsements from leading lawyers,
including prominent conservatives, had persuaded her that
Kagan had the judicial temperament for the job.
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Ruling
Is New Hot-Button Issue in Hot Season
By JONATHAN WEISMAN And STEPHANIE
SIMON
Thursday,
July 29, 2010
Jane Norton, a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate
in Colorado, had a hunch that by dinnertime Wednesday, conservative
voters across the state would have heard about a federal
judge blocking much of Arizona's immigration law. |
She had a hunch they would
be angry.
So Ms. Norton's campaign ordered up a
new round of robocalls, informing voters that Ms. Norton
was proud to have been endorsed by one of the immigration
law's strongest advocates, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer. The
campaign had already called 80,000 Republican voters.
Now, it planned to call 100,000 more, said Josh Penry,
Ms. Norton's campaign manager.
The calls to Colorado voters Wednesday
night were just one sign that the federal ruling in Arizona
is likely to ripple through this heated campaign season.
Republicans quickly denounced both
the ruling and the Obama Justice Department for challenging
the law in the first place. Some said the ruling would
further energize voters who are angry about what they
see as federal overreach on health care and other issues.
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County
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Board of Supervisors Meetings
Agenda for 2010
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