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Search results for "re-election" ...
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DMN Investigates/Rick Perry
The Dallas Morning News investigated the background of Texas governor,Rick Perry, as he sought re-election for a third term. The reporters showed that the state had given more than $16 million taxpayer dollars to high tech companies with investors or officers who were large campaign donors to Perry.
Tags: corruption; elections; re-election; campaign; campaign contributions
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Angry White Man
"An expose of nearly two decades worth of conspiratorial, racist, anti-Semitic and homophobic newsletters published by Republican Congressman and erstwhile presidential candidate Ron Paul."
Tags: re-election; Worldcat; extremist; libertarian; bigotry;
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Rejecting the Vote
The right to vote may have been illegally taken away from thousands of qualified citizens in Harris County, Texas. A Republican politician was found to prevent potential voters from getting on the voting rolls in an attempt to stop Democratic candidates from winning.
Tags: Paul Bettencourt; Vote Registrar; re-election; drivers license; polling; fixed election; voting;
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Death and Destruction
A collection of statistics-based stories including: state and local coroners offices that disposed of unidentified cadavers without informing authorities, the early death of professional athletes due to dramatically increased weight, the natural disaster declarations by presidents seeking re-election, and the elimination of helmet-use among motorcyclists.
Tags: Statistics; helmet law; cadaver; John Doe; weight gain; professional athlete; natural disaster; re-election; motorcycle; coroner
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Sacrificial Lamb
Carolyn Mason, the black mayor of Sarasota, had a problem. She was up for re-election in less than a month, and her constituents, mostly low income African-Americans, were angry with her. Within a few days, Jody Hudgins, who by all accounts was one of the compassionate, ethical, and honorable men in town, was not reappointed to his position on the Housing Authority. The reporter followed his news sense to find the story of how one man lost his position in order to quell the attacks against the mayor.
Tags: Jody Hudgins; Housing Authority; Carolyn Mason; race
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Big Cypress Buyout
New Times reports on the buyout of mineral rights by the Department of the Interior from the wealthy Collier family. The story finds that although the government proclaimed commitment to conservation and environmental practices, the buyout was only a card played to help the re-election of Gov. Jeb Bush in November 2002. "The preserve's regulations already strictly limit most future drilling, and the buyout does nothing to curtail the Collier's drilling regulations now in place." Another issue reported in the story is whether the price paid for Collier's rights was not unreasonably high.
Tags: politics; George W. Bush; environment; land; drilling; mineral resources
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World Trade Center Clean-up Contractors Contribute to Governor George Pataki's Re-election
Berstein reports that a quarter of the contractors and subcontractors who participated in the clean-up of the World Trade Center site made contributions to New York Governor George Pataki and the New York Republican party, with two thirds of the money coming in after the September 11 attacks.
Tags: September 11; campaign finance; New York; World Trade Center; contractors; Republican Party; RADIO; CD; transcript
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Coe, Cash and Controversy
The WFLA-TV investigative team "discovered Hillsborough County's popular state attorney had borrowed thousands of dollars from employees in his office. During the investigation, we also discovered Harry Lee Coe, who was up for re-election to his third four-year term, was using his county computer to visit Internet gambling Web sites. When we asked to see Coe's computer records we were provided records that showed he had only visited two Web sites of any sort in the past year and a half. Our sources told us Coe had ordered subordinates to destroy public records showing Coe used his computer to visit the gambling Web sites."
Tags: TAPE; TRANSCRIPT; Internet gambling; Harry Lee Coe; public information
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I Got The Sheriff
The New Yorker covers the case of a small-town sheriff accused of setting up a crooked raffle to finance his re-election campaign and the small-town reporter who stumbled on to the case.
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$140,000 for a Judgeship
Civil Court Judge Maxine Archer has accused "a prominent lawyer who claimed he was working on behalf of Brooklyn Congressman Edolphus Towns" of demanding $140,000 to help the unopposed incumbent get re-elected. She refused and produced a letter with his breakdown of her re-election budget, which she says amounts to "extortion."
Tags: political patronage; elections; judges; Coalition for Community Empowerment; Guiliani