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Hagerstown Tea Party members join Hands Off Our Healthcare Rally
caleb.calhoun@herald-mail.comMaggie Silva of Shippensburg, Pa. said her family moved from Cuba to the United States in 1950, and she supports the Tea Party because she does not want the United States to end up like her home country. “My father was born in Spain, and he lost it...Tags: Tea Party Movement, Laws, Health Insurance Cost, Health, Politics
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Md. governor pitches gas tax plan to lawmakers
Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley warned Wednesday that failing to enact his gas-tax proposal could mean added costs to the state and more traffic congestion.
O’Malley, a Democrat, testified before committees in the House of Delegates and Senate,...Tags: National Government, Government, Executive Branch, Thomas V. Mike Miller, Regional Authority
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Pa. political briefs
Senate candidate to make stop in Franklin County CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. — A former state representative has scheduled a Friday event as part of his campaign for U.S. Senate. Sam Rohrer, of Berks County, Pa., will hold a town hall meeting at 7 p.m. in...Tags: U.S. Senate, Pennsylvania General Assembly, Franklin County (Pennsylvania), John H. Eichelberger, Elections
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Rippeon running on conservative ideals
andrews@herald-mail.comEditor's note: This is one in an occasional series of profiles about candidates running for election in the 6th Congressional District. For years, U.S. Rep. Roscoe G. Bartlett, R-Md., has championed the concept of "peak oil," that oil is a finite...Tags: Environmental Issues, Elections, Winter Park, Republican Party, Politics
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Thousands of protesters surround Wisconsin Capitol
Associated PressA state Capitol thrown into political chaos swelled for a fifth day with nearly 70,000 protesters, as supporters of Republican efforts to scrap the union rights of state workers challenged pro-labor protesters face-to-face for the first time and GOP...Tags: Scott Fitzgerald, Executive Branch, Jon Erpenbach, Elections, Democratic Party
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Mack announces his ‘conservative coalition’
Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando SentinelU.S. Rep. Connie Mack IV has announced a seven-member “conservative coalition” that's backing his Republican U.S. Senate candidacy, a group of mostly fundamentalist Christian activists whose function will apparently be to assail rival George... -
Election decision may force disclosure of secret donors
WASHINGTON — Advocacy groups spending millions of dollars to influence the 2012 election now face the prospect of having to reveal their secret donors, after a federal appellate court panel refused to block a lower-court order requiring the...
Tags: Voting, Christopher Van Hollen Jr., Federal Election Commission, Laws, Elections
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Court ruling may force advocacy groups to disclose secret donors
WASHINGTON -- Advocacy groups spending millions of dollars in the 2012 campaign are now faced with the prospect of having to reveal the donors who have been secretly financing their efforts after a federal appellate court panel refused to block a lower...
Tags: Voting, Christopher Van Hollen Jr., Federal Election Commission, Elections, Politics
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McManus: Lies, damned lies and political advertising
The television commercial is designed to spark outrage. "Billions of taxpayer dollars spent on green energy went to jobs in foreign countries," it intones. "The Obama administration admitted the truth — that $2.3 billion of tax credits went...
Tags: Parties and Movements, Tax Credits, Los Angeles Times Columnists, David Koch, Democratic Party
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Obama campaign's $25-million ad buy is biggest to date
The Obama campaign has put an eye-popping figure behind its new television ad blitz: $25 million. That would make it the biggest campaign ad buy thus far in an already-expensive presidential race, and an early show of the Chicago-based campaign's sizable...
Tags: Elections, Republican Party, David Axelrod, Mitt Romney, Politics
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The strange, intimate emails of the Obama campaign
This time of year, email boxes fill up with all sorts of unsolicited appeals from politicians, always in the service of fundraising. Most pitches have straightforward subject lines: “Stand with Me,” urged recall target Scott Walker, the...
Tags: Sarah Palin, Elections, Republican Party, Politics, Scott Walker
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Obama attacks Romney on exported jobs, Swiss bank accounts
Hot on the heels of its idiotic attempt to use the Osama bin Laden killing as fodder for an attack ad on Mitt Romney, the campaign to reelect President Obama started running ads Tuesday criticizing Romney for outsourcing jobs and having a Swiss bank...
Tags: Executive Branch, David Koch, China, Elections, Republican Party
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