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Facts: Welfare and Petraeus
Spin CycleOn a slow news day, two interesting fact checks: 1. In a new ad (left) designed to appeal to (white) working class voters, Obama features a reference to having passed welfare-to-work legislation, which slashed the welfare rolls by 80......Tags: Barbara Boxer, Laws, Illinois, Max Cleland, Politics
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McCain: Flip-flop count at 61. (Updated: Obama=17)
Spin CycleA week or so ago, with McCain hyperventilating about Obama reversals on matters such as public financing of his campaign, we linked to a site that was tracking McCain's flip-flops. McCain is still hyperventilating. His current claim is that......Tags: The New York Times, U.S. Elections, Illinois, Advertising, News Media
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Joe: To the end, looking out for Number 1
Spin CycleWith all the affectionate goodbyes to Joe Bruno, here's a reminder of who he really was: He was on the state payroll for 39 years, and his base legislative salary was $79,500. But you will be financing his retirement......Tags: Labor Legislation, Career and Workplace, Wages and Pensions, Politics, Interior Policy
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Foreign Automakers Set Up Shop in the Heartland
KickingTiresBy Patrick Olsen and Eamonn Brennan Cars.com In the past 19 years, foreign automakers with no less a profile than Toyota, Honda and Subaru have set up shop in middle America. Why do foreign automakers find Indiana so appealing? How......Tags: Indiana, Joseph Phillippi, Career and Workplace, Economic Policy, Sales
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Obama speech: The full text
Spin CycleObama released excerpts earlier, and now the full speech. It's after the jump. So the drama is the delivery and the crowd, not the words. Here's the ending, invoking King's "Dream" speech in a passage about the "American promise:" "It......Tags: Kansas, Education, Philosophy, Illinois, Ohio
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AIG: Skelos tries to blame Spitzer
Spin CycleOur own Dean Skelos, the News reports, is trying to blame Eliot Spitzer, who brought a case against AIG and former exec Maurice Greenberg, for the company's near demise: "Those were his headhunting days, and unfortunately his headhunting days are......Tags: New York, Career and Workplace, Wages and Pensions, Politics, Interior Policy
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Jenne ducks spotlight in pension battle
Mayo on the Side: Broward news columnist Michael Mayo | Sun-Sentinel BlogsFelon Ken Jenne still wants his estimated $134,500-a-year state pension, and the former Broward Sheriff and political powerhouse might get it without having to show his face in a courtroom. A two-day hearing set for next week has been cancelled,......Tags: Labor Legislation, Fraud, Trials, Career and Workplace, Prisons
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Video: A false negative on Johnson in 7th (Updated)
Spin CycleBarbara Donno goes up with her second straight negative ad in her challenge to Dem Craig Johnson in the Nassau Senate race. This one tries to tie Johnson to the double dipping school pension scandal through his law firm. The......Tags: Legal Service, Craig Johnson, Labor Legislation, Career and Workplace, Economy, Business and Finance
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Fact check: More on the Donno double-dip ad
Spin CycleBefore we let it go, the "double dipping" ad that Republican Barbara Donno is running in Nassau in her State Senate campaign against Democrat Craig Johnson deserves another mention. In an item yesterday, we noted that the pension scamming......Tags: Craig Johnson, Legal Service, Labor Legislation, Career and Workplace, Economy, Business and Finance
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Video: Joe Plumber ad: Tax cut = welfare = race card?McCain goes with a Joe the Plumber ad
Spin CycleIrresistibly, McCain makes Joe the Plumber the centerpiece of an ad -- and keeps intact its record of distorting every single ad it makes by never mentioning that Obama's tax plan only would raise taxes on those making more than......Tags: John McCain, Politics, Interior Policy, State Budgets
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Pension target leaves firm cited in 7th S.D. attack ad
Spin CycleAttorney Carol Hoffman, who was stripped of nearly 15 years of pension credits last month after it was determined she???d been improperly listed as an employee of four Nassau County school districts, is moving on. Hoffman, 57, was a......Tags: Thomas P. DiNapoli, Craig Johnson, Business Enterprises, Services and Shopping, Wages and Pensions
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Joe the Plumber and 'welfare:' McCain ad
The Swampby Mark Silva "Americans are catching on,'' the narrator of John McCain's TV ad warns. In a campaign that is quickly devolving into those two camps of America that Democrat John Edwards warned about, the haves and the have-nots, Barack......Tags: Federal Reserve, John McCain, Barack Obama, John Edwards, Ohio
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