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- Lois Frankel launches bid for Allen West’s congressional seat
- Pawlenty Announces Exploratory Committee
- GOP Bill Would Force IRS to Conduct Abortion Audits
- By questioning Afghan war, Barbour could change the GOP debate
- Ron Paul to highlight pet themes with US Mint at hearing
- Rudy Giuliani and New Hampshire: High stakes and long odds in 2012
| Lois Frankel launches bid for Allen West’s congressional seat Posted: 22 Mar 2011 12:20 PM PDT By George Bennett, The Palm Beach Post Term-limited West Palm Beach Mayor Lois Frankel announced today that she's running for the congressional seat of freshman U.S. Rep. Allen West, R-Plantation, setting up what could be yet another expensive, nationally watched race in Palm Beach-Broward District 22. Democrat Frankel said she'll focus on "jobs, jobs, jobs," but declined to outline specific policy stances in an interview today. Frankel was a fiery liberal Democratic state House member before winning the first of two nonpartisan terms as West Palm Beach mayor in 2003. She lost a bitter 1992 Democratic primary runoff for Congress to eventual U.S. Rep. Alcee Hastings, D-Miramar. To read more, visit: http://www.postonpolitics.com/2011/03/frankel-expected-to-announce-congressional-bid-today-for-allen-wests-seat/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter |
| Pawlenty Announces Exploratory Committee Posted: 22 Mar 2011 12:15 PM PDT By Sean Sullivan, National Journal Promising “we the people of the United States will take back our government,” former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R) took the first step toward officially launching a presidential campaign Monday afternoon, announcing the formation of an exploratory committee in a video posted on his Facebook page. “This is our country. Our founding fathers created it, Americans embraced it, Ronald Reagan personified it and Lincoln stood courageously to protect it. And that’s why today, I’m announcing the formation of an exploratory committee to run for President of the United States,” Pawlenty declares in the two-minute video. The former governor of Minnesota draws on his upbringing in the video, saying “at a young age, I saw up close the face of challenge, the face of hardship and the face of job loss. Over the last year, I’ve traveled to nearly every state in the country and I know many Americans are feeling that way today. I know that feeling — I lived it,” he continues. Pawlenty has been steadily moving toward a presidential bid over the last few months, visiting key early states and attracting supporters. His campaign is likely to be based in the Twin Cities, sources said. To read more, visit: http://hotlineoncall.nationaljournal.com/archives/2011/03/pawlenty-will-f.php |
| GOP Bill Would Force IRS to Conduct Abortion Audits Posted: 22 Mar 2011 12:00 PM PDT By GARANCE FRANKE-RUTA, The Atlantic Nick Baumann of Mother Jones reports that H.R. 3, a bill now gathering steam in the GOP-led House of Representatives, would demand reporting of abortions to Internal Revenue Service auditors: Under a GOP-backed bill expected to sail through the House of Representatives, the Internal Revenue Service would be forced to police how Americans have paid for their abortions. To ensure that taxpayers complied with the law, IRS agents would have to investigate whether certain terminated pregnancies were the result of rape or incest. And one tax expert says that the measure could even lead to questions on tax forms: Have you had an abortion? Did you keep your receipt? In testimony to a House taxation subcommittee on Wednesday, Thomas Barthold, the chief of staff of the nonpartisan Joint Tax Committee, confirmed that one consequence of the Republicans’ “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act” would be to turn IRS agents into abortion cops–that is, during an audit, they’d have to detemine, from evidence provided by the taxpayer, whether any tax benefit had been inappropriately used to pay for an abortion…. To read more, visit: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/03/gop-bill-would-force-irs-to-conduct-abortion-audits/72680/ |
| By questioning Afghan war, Barbour could change the GOP debate Posted: 22 Mar 2011 11:56 AM PDT Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (R) may have set the tone for the foreign policy debate in the Republican presidential nominating contest when he questioned the war in Afghanistan and its costs. Barbour's comments were quickly met with derision from the neocon wing of the GOP, but some Tea Party-affiliated lawmakers said the governor was taking a strong conservative stand on spending. The differing reactions illustrate a tough political reality for Republicans in 2012: Even as public opinion increasingly turns against the war in Afghanistan and concern over the deficit intensifies, embracing talk of defense cuts and troop pullouts may still be a bridge too far. To read more, visit: http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/gop-presidential-primary/150865-by-questioning-afghan-war-barbour-could-change-the-gop-debate |
| Ron Paul to highlight pet themes with US Mint at hearing Posted: 22 Mar 2011 11:52 AM PDT Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) continues to hit his favorite ideas as chairman of a subcommittee overseeing domestic monetary policy, devoting his next hearing to the bullion program at the U.S. Mint. The House Financial Services Committee announced its April hearing schedule Friday, which included an April 7 hearing by Paul’s subcommittee devoted to the Mint’s program of creating coins out of precious metals. When Paul won the gavel to lead the House Financial Services Committee’s panel on monetary policy, he said he would use his newfound position to highlight his views. Three months into his term, Paul has lived up to that claim. In the two hearings Paul has hosted thus far, the Tea Party favorite has set his sights on the Federal Reserve, which he has long criticized as destructive to the nation’s economy and as an institution that should be abolished. In a Feb. 9 hearing, Paul questioned whether the Fed’s policies can really help create jobs. The Fed’s dual mandate requires it to pursue policies that would maximize employment while controlling inflation — Paul argued the central bank was failing on both fronts. To read more, visit: http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/domestic-taxes/150923-ron-paul-continues-to-highlight-pet-themes-with-upcoming-bullion-hearing |
| Rudy Giuliani and New Hampshire: High stakes and long odds in 2012 Posted: 22 Mar 2011 11:49 AM PDT MANCHESTER, N.H. — Rudy Giuliani, who’s looking at a presidential do-over after falling from first to last in 2008, faces long odds of becoming the Granite State's next "Comeback Kid." The former New York City mayor, scorched in his presidential campaign in this friendly-to-moderates New England state, remains a draw as a national celebrity and received a standing ovation Friday night when he was introduced to Manchester Republicans as "America's Mayor." But if he went for a repeat in 2012, he would face a crushing load of amends to make with the state's voters. He’d have to do things "the New Hampshire way" — sitting in strangers' living rooms, eating off their dishes, and holding town hall meetings, over and over again. The 2012 election, a cycle featuring a slew of candidates with prior runs and musty careers, would clearly be Giuliani’s last gasp at a national race, since the space he occupies in the national party may be filled next time by another former prosecutor, Chris Christie. Yet so far, even some supporters are puzzled about whether he really wants it. To read more, visit: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0311/51615.html |
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