Posted in Gone but Not Forgotten, Politics on Aug 21st, 2008
U.S. Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, the first black woman to represent Ohio in Congress, died Wednesday after suffering an aneurysm while driving her car. She was 58.
The congresswoman died at 6:12 p.m. after suffering a brain hemorrhage that caused an aneurysm that burst and left her with limited brain function, spokeswoman Eileen Sheil said.
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Presumptive Democratic Presidential nominee Barack Obama is poised to name his running mate, according to The New York Times.
While the paper reports that Obama has yet to inform his prospective vice-president of the nod, the candidate’s focus is primarily on three men: Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine, Sen. Evan Bayh of Indiana and foreign policy expert [...]
Posted in Law and Order, Politics on Aug 18th, 2008
The City Council’s effort to remove Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick at a trial-like hearing was blocked shortly before it would have begun Monday by a judge who ruled that the city charter does not give the council such power.
The ruling by Wayne County Circuit Judge Robert Ziolkowski is a rare legal win for Kilpatrick, who has [...]
Fred Baron has been by far the largest donor to a group called the Texas Democratic Trust, and Republicans are now taking aim at candidates who take money connected to him.
Baron, who is Edwards’ longtime chief fundraiser, has helped Democrats rebound from near-obscurity in the Texas House to within striking distance of winning a majority [...]
Sen. Barack Obama is coming off his Hawaii vacation to face a busy few weeks ahead: he is likely to announce his vice presidential running mate in the eight days left until the Democratic convention, then get in some more campaigning before flying to Denver and giving his acceptance speech on Aug. 28.
But first, at [...]
For nearly a decade, Andrew Young was John Edwards’ loyal foot soldier as Edwards rocketed from millionaire trial lawyer to U.S. senator to two-time White House hopeful.
When Edwards needed someone to scout locations for a Senate campaign office, he sent Young. When TV trucks converged on Edwards’ house in 2003 and damaged the neighbors’ lawns, [...]
Posted in Law and Order, Politics on Aug 15th, 2008
A judge ruled Friday that there’s enough evidence for Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick to stand trial on two felony assault charges stemming from a confrontation with two investigators.
The investigators testified that an angry Kilpatrick shoved one of them into the other and made racial remarks while they were trying to deliver a subpoena in the mayor’s [...]
Posted in Politics on Aug 14th, 2008
Police and neighbors are struggling to explain why a man described as a loner drove more than 30 miles tobill gwat Arkansas’ Democratic Party headquarters and fatally shot its chairman hours after getting fired from his job.
Police said Timothy Dale Johnson, 50, of Searcy, barged into Bill Gwatney’s office on Wednesday and shot him multiple [...]
Last week, John Edwards made the shocking admission that he had cheated on his wife Elizabeth.
Now, it seems, the politician might not have completely come clean about his affair with 44-year-old aspiring filmmaker Rielle Hunter, who filmed a behind-the-scenes video for his campaign in 2006.
According to The National Enquirer, Hunter was whisked away on a [...]
Posted in Celebrity News, Obama, Politics on Aug 13th, 2008
The first night of the Democratic National Convention in Denver will be highlighted by the wife of the party’s presumptive nominee, Sen. Barack Obama.
It was announced this week that Michelle Obama will speak on Aug. 25, paving the way for the convention’s other headline speakers - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton on Tuesday, Obama’s vice [...]
The ex-mistress of former presidential candidate John Edwards said Saturday she will not participate in DNA testing to establish the paternity of her daughter.
Rielle Hunter’s lawyer, Robert Gordon, says his client is a private individual who wishes to maintain the privacy of herself and her daughter.
In a statement, Gordon says that Hunter is ruling out [...]
Posted in Celebrity News, Politics on Aug 8th, 2008
John Edwards is admitting he had an affair with 44-year-old Rielle Hunter, after repeatedly shooting down reports of an extramarital relationship.
The National Enquirer first reported the affair in October 2007. Edwards blasted the story, saying: “The story is false, it’s completely untrue, it’s ridiculous.â€
When a photo of Edwards with his reported love child appeared in [...]
They’re not exactly rooting for Barack Obama, but prominent white supremacists anticipate a boost to their cause if he becomes the first black president. His election, they say, would trigger a backlash _ whites rising up, a revolution of sorts _ that they think is long overdue.
He’d be a “visual aid,” says former Ku Klux [...]
Posted in Politics on Aug 8th, 2008
Moments after a judge ruled that Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick could be released from jail if he pays a $50,000 bond, Michigan’s attorney general announced he was charging the mayor with two felony assault charges stemming from a confrontation between Kilpatrick and a sheriff’s detective.
The detective accused the mayor of pushing another investigator while recently trying [...]
The Associated Press reports that 22-year-old Raymond Hunter Geisel was taken into custody in Miami and was ordered held at Miami’s downtown detention center without bail Thursday by a federal magistrate.
An affidavit charges that Geisel made the threat during a training class for bail bondsmen in Miami in late July. According to one [...]
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