Following the blueprint of a campaign to get companies to end their support of the American Legislative Exchange Council, advocacy groups with ties to Moveon.org are pressuring corporations such as Cigna, Hertz Global Holdings and Wyndham Worldwide to sever their connections...
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A staff member picks up a picture of a gun during a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill on Jan. 30, 2013 in Washington.
Gun-Rule Advocates Take Aim at NRA-Associated Companies
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Retiring Rep. Barney Frank on Capitol Hill on Jan. 3, 2013, prior to the start of the 113th Congress.
Barney Frank’s Senate Bid Backed by Petition Drive: MoveOn Member
Barney Frank broke somewhat with traditional political decorum — such as that is — with his public pitch to fill the Massachusetts Senate seat that will come open upon Democrat John Kerry’s expected confirmation by his colleagues as secretary of state. “Coach, put me in,”...
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Romney: `Helpful to Be Latino’ — Spanish Ads: `We’re Not Laughing’
There was something else that Mitt Romney said in the now-famous May 17 fundraising dinner talking about that 47 percent of Americans whom he cannot reach with his campaign, a videotape of it published online this week, that he could...
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Mitt Romney with senior advisor Beth Myers aboard his campaign plane.
Romney: `Paid Taxes Every Year’
“I have paid taxes every year, and a lot of taxes,” Republican Mitt Romney said today. His unequivocal statement is a response to suggestions from Harry Reid, the Democratic Senate majority leader, that Romney has averted paying taxes for many...
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Protestors from MoveOn.org, the Occupy Movement and the Long Island Progressive march to the beachfront home of industrial billionaire David H. Koch to demonstrate against a fundraiser for Mitt Romney in Southampton, N.Y.
Koch Industries Finds Irony in Protest
Funny how there was little outrage from MoveOn.org and other Democratic supporters over President Barack Obama’s high-dollar fundraisers, Koch Industries noted on its “Koch Facts” Web-site. Mitt Romney’s July 8 fundraiser at the Southampton, New York, beach home of energy...
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