Jack Abramoff Indian lobbying scandal. The Jack Abramoff Native American lobbying scandal is a United States political scandal relating to the work performed by political lobbyists Jack Abramoff, Ralph E.
Reed, Jr., Grover Norquist and Michael Scanlon on Native American casino gambling interests for an estimated $85 million in fees. ELECTIONS: Election 1988 (08-11-1988) BBC Four Programmes - Storyville, Dirty Tricks: The Man Who Got the Bushes Elected. BOOGIE MAN: the Lee Atwater Story — ReThink Review. When you talk too much for Twitter. College Republicans bake sale criticized for racial tones at UC Berkeley. BERKELEY, Calif.
(KGO) -- A group of students planning a bake sale doesn't usually stir up much controversy -- unless the bake sale comes with a politically-charged twist. Campus Democrats President Anais LaVoie thinks one Berkeley group has crossed the line. On Upper Sproul Plaza, where free speech reigns supreme, the Berkeley College Republicans have scheduled a bake sale where the price of a cookie or a brownie depends on your gender and the color of your skin. The price of a baked good costs $2 for white people, $1.50 if you're Asian, $1 for Latinos, 75 cents for African-Americans and 25 cents for Native Americans. Women get a discount of 25 cents. Club president Shawn Lewis planned the event. "The pricing structure is there to bring attention, to cause people to get a little upset," said Lewis. The nasty comments began as soon as the event was posted by Lewis on Facebook.
But that's the message Campus Democrats took away. Many other students were equally disgusted. Globalrevolution. Impossible, Ridiculous, Repugnant - Op-Ed. Atwater doc makes conservatives groan - Jeffrey Ressner. The Rise and Fall of Ralph Reed. In considering the collapse of Ralph Reed's political dreams, it's tempting to conjure up biblical parables about Jesus instructing his followers in humility by suggesting they go "sit in the lowest place"--or of pride going before a fall.
Reed was the preternaturally boyish spear carrier for the religious right, the brash Evangelical who transformed the Christian Coalition into a populist power center, then helped usher Republicans into control of Congress and George W. Bush into the presidency. Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story. Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story is a 2008 U.S. documentary on the campaign tactics used by Lee Atwater while working on the George H.W.
Bush 1988 presidential campaign, and how those tactics have transformed presidential campaigns in the United States. In an independent release from InterPositive Media, the film was a Critic's Pick in both the New York Times and Washington Post, screened at the 2008 Democratic and Republican National Conventions, played 40 American cities in the fall of 2008 and was #7 in nationwide per-screen average the weekend of its release. It has been called one of the best political documentaries ever made[citation needed]. Movie name[edit] Willie Horton. William R.
"Willie" Horton (born August 12, 1951) is an American convicted felon who, while serving a life sentence for murder (without the possibility of parole),[1] was the beneficiary of a Massachusetts weekend furlough program. He did not return from his furlough, and ultimately he committed assault, armed robbery and rape. Criminal activity and incarceration[edit] On October 26, 1974, in Lawrence, Massachusetts, Horton and two accomplices robbed Joseph Fournier, a 17-year-old gas station attendant, and then fatally stabbed him 19 times after he had cooperated by handing over all of the money in the cash register.
His body was dumped in a trash can. On June 6, 1986, he was released as part of a weekend furlough program but did not return. College Republicans. The organizational structure of the College Republicans has changed significantly since its founding in 1892.
Originally founded as an organization for the Republican National Committee, the College Republicans now operate as an independent 527 group. History[edit] Founding and early history[edit] "There is no such school for political education as the college and university. Two Santa Clauses or How The Republican Party Has Conned America for Thirty Years. This weekend, House Republican leader John Boehner played out the role of Jude Wanniski on NBC's "Meet The Press.
" Odds are you've never heard of Jude, but without him Reagan never would have become a "successful" president, Republicans never would have taken control of the House or Senate, Bill Clinton never would have been impeached, and neither George Bush would have been president. Reports - Rove’s Science of Dirty Tricks. Posted on Aug 14, 2007 By Amy Goodman Karl Rove’s resignation as deputy White House chief of staff cements the political future of the waning Bush administration.
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