ST. PAUL — Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., characterized the new Republican Party platform as “the people’s platform” and “an American platform” for the 21st century while detailing its provisions on the first day of the GOP convention here.
“It’s half as wordy but twice as bold,” he said.
Categories: California, Producer's Picks, Politics, Kevin McCarthy, Republicans, Republican Convention
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Rep. Wayne Gilchrest is a tax hiker from way back, a lover of pork-barrel projects, a public official determined to line his own pockets with pay raises, and a liberal who votes like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.
Well, at least that is Gilchrest’s biography according to The Club For Growth, which is no fan of the Maryland Republican and wants to see him defeated in the GOP primary Feb. 12. It’s a message that Andy Harris, the conservative rival to Gilchrest, is sending himself. Here are ads by the club and Harris
Categories: Maryland, Politics, Budget, Taxes, AdWatch, Republicans, Wayne Gilchrest, Andy Harris
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The House Republican Conference has released a short video that touts the party’s success at fighting Democrats in 2007. The conference boasts that the video outlines how “House Republicans drove the agenda like no minority in history.”
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If you ask College Democrats of America, the answer to that question is President Bush and congressional Republicans. Never mind that tuition rates are set by state governments and Democrats now control Congress; it’s all the GOP’s fault for cutting student aid, according to the group’s new “Reverse The Raid On Student Aid” campaign.
Categories: Democrats, Education, AdWatch, Republicans
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