That old adage may never be truer than in the case of the once-invincible Charlie Rangel, the colorful New York legislator who suddenly finds himself in a situation similar to the legendary congressman he ousted forty years ago. Not surprisingly, the embattled Harlem lawmaker who stepped down as chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee earlier this year…
Lawton “Bud” Chiles, the son of the late governor and senator, announced Thursday he is running for governor of Florida with no party affiliation. Chiles said as an independent, he’ll take no money from political parties, political action committees or “big corporations.”
While much of the attention in next Tuesday’s California primary has been focused on the Republican governor’s race — an absurdly expensive contest in which billionaire Meg Whitman, the former eBay CEO, has opened a seemingly insurmountable double-digit lead against state insurance commissioner and ex-Silicon […]
Voters will head to the polls today in Alabama to vote on party nominees for Governor, U.S. Senate, Congress and a host of other offices. In the crowded GOP primary for Governor, with five main candidates struggling to win votes, it’s expected that a July run-off will be needed…
Thirty years ago this week George H. W. Bush ended his grueling two-year pursuit of the presidency at a news conference in Houston. In a carefully prepared 750-word statement on May 26, 1980, Bush said that he was abandoning his campaign for the Republican presidential […]
Given the immense difficulty in unseating a sitting Speaker of the House, the June 8 primary battle between Republicans John Dennis and Dana Walsh in Nancy Pelosi’s 8th congressional district in San Francisco — a district that voted overwhelmingly for Barack Obama while giving Pelosi 72 percent of the vote in 2008 — wouldn’t warrant much attention were it not for the fact…
This week’s featured “oddball” is former Ohio Congressman James Traficant, who is attempting to mount a political comeback this year after spending much of the last decade in Federal prison…
Speculation that’s he’s considering a Presidential bid continues to surround former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum, who lost in his 2006 re-election bid…
California state Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner is gaining fast in the Republican primary for Governor against “front-runner” and former eBay CEO Meg Whitman.
Republican gubernatorial candidate Paula Dockery ended her quest to occupy the Governor’s Mansion on Monday, saying she hates to give up the fight but doesn’t have the cash to run an effective statewide…
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