Archive for the 'Senate' Category

Conservatives fire at Fiorina

RedState.com bashes Cary Fiorina saying:
When Carly Fiorina speaks on the campaign trail here in California, running to be the Republican nominee to unseat Barbara Boxer, she tries to prohibit recording of her speeches. However somebody snuck in an audio recorder to an event yesterday, and these clips seem to show why she would do that. [...]

Obama admirers not Coakley fans

Fiorina says Obama agrees with her

Senate candidate Carly Fiorina discusses the ongoing debate over health care reform.

A Romney run for Kennedy’s Senate seat: Smart or disaster?

If he did, Romney would then have a platform to actually introduce legislation modeled on the proposals he put forward as a presidential candidate in 2008 and planned to put forward in 2012. No guesswork. No empty rhetoric. Real ideas, on the Senate floor, that could be evaluated, debated, and perhaps even voted on.
It would [...]

What happened in the Franken/Coleman recount?

Ed Morrisey writes in Town Hall Magazine:
The Franken team had a clear mission. Since they were behind in votes, they needed to either find new Franken votes or discredit Coleman votes in order to close the gap. Learning from the Gregoire campaign, they trained their volunteers to understand the limits of Minnesota law and to [...]

Marco Rubio

Ridge won’t run

Ridge took himself out of the running today, however: Tom Ridge, the first U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security and former Governor of Pennsylvania, issued the following statement today on his decision not to seek the Republican nomination for Senate in his home state of Pennsylvania.
“After careful consideration and many conversations with friends and family and [...]

Ridge to challenge Spector?

Former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge is seriously considering a run for the Senate for the GOP nomination against Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.), according to Roll Call:
Former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge is considering running for the Republican Senate nomination in his home state, according to a senior Republican aide with knowledge of the situation.
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