All Posts Tagged With: "Republicans"
Berkeley Mayor Unrepentant on Marines:
“We Don’t Want Them Here”
By Michelle Malkin
I am posting the full article by Michelle:
I wrote about Move America Forward’s new ads pressuring the Berkeley City Council on its anti-Marines stance here. Joe Wierzbicki of MAF sends along this local news report from NBC 11 in the Bay Area. Watch it to see Mayor Tom Bates [...]
Republicans Backtracking on Earmark Reform
House Republicans pick pork-loving Rep. Jo Bonner (R-Ala.)
Townhall
By Robert Bluey
Just when it appeared House Republicans had turned the corner on earmark reform, party leaders did the unthinkable. They picked pork-loving Rep. Jo Bonner (R-Ala.) for the vacant seat on the Appropriations Committee, bypassing conservatives such as Reps. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) and Marilyn Musgrave (R-Colo.). In [...]
Teachers In New York Get Big Gift From GOP
Deal Struck in N.Y. Senate
New York Sun
By JACOB GERSHMAN
Two weeks after the state’s largest teachers union gave Senate Republicans a boost by endorsing their candidate in a critical special election race, Republican lawmakers fast-tracked a bill that would allow New York City teachers to retire with full benefits five years sooner than they can now.
The [...]
Dem Leaders Shower Pork On Freshmen
Democratic leaders have sent tens of millions of dollars to freshman lawmakers’ districts
The Hill
By Alexander Bolton
Rep. Phil Hare (D), a freshman from western Illinois. He received $92.2 million worth of earmarks, almost the same amount as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), according to the TCS analysis. The group compiled a database of every earmark passed [...]
Berkeley: No Apology For Marines Stance
Berkeley: No Apology
KPIX tv
BERKELEY (BCN) ― Members of the anti-war group Code Pink applauded the Berkeley City Council early Wednesday when it ended a marathon meeting by refusing to apologize for a vote two weeks ago that said members of a U.S. Marine Corps recruiting office downtown are “uninvited and unwelcome intruders.”
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