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Club for Growth Endorses Rubio. Now What?
reason: Pennsylvania. The group, which spent nearly $2 million on behalf of Pat Toomey’s primary challenge against Arlen Specter in 2004, is already expected to at least double that spending on the anticipated Toomey-Specter rematch next year. In
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Club for Growth Spent $1 Million in NY-23. Is This a Bad Omen for the GOP in 2010?
The Atlantic ’s Chris Good has an interesting breakdown on who spent what on New York’s hotly contested 23rd congressional district race. The big news: the Club for Growth spent more than $1 million in support of Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman. That’s slightly less than the $1.1 million the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chipped in behalf of Democrat Bill Owens. Meanwhile, the National Republican Congressional Committee spent roughly $897,000—mostly on ads directly challenging Owens, as opposed to building up Dede Scozzafava, a moderate Republican who dropped out of the race over the weekend.
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Obama Made Arlen Specter Big Promises For Switching Parties. Now, Specter Wants Him To Pay Up
Obama and Ed Rendell were delighted when they convinced Sen. Arlen Specter to switch parties earlier this year. But now that coup fallsgovernor of Pennyslvania have a problem on their hands: Arlen Specter . Here's the problem: Specter is up for re-election
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10/14/2009PoliticsWill Democrats Keep Campaign Promises, or Committee Chairs?
…seniority. Senate Republicans eventually followed suit, making Arlen Specter essentially grovel to retain his Judiciary Committee chairmanship ……Republicans knew better than to let a squishy moderate (such as Arlen Specter ) undermine the agenda voters elected them to implement …
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10/10/2009PoliticsAn Inconvenient Truth Teller
…still a regular in the Senate gym and dining room. "I've seen him so much, it's like he never left," says Sen. Arlen Specter , Democrat of Pennsylvania. Though Biden initially suggested that Obama might not want to try for health-care reform in his first year in …
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09/30/2009BlogsHealth Industry Throws Cash at Senators
…drafting health-reform legislation, and the other two, Majority Leader Harry Reid and public-option-flip-flopper Sen. Arlen Specter , figure prominently in the debate. Both of these senators were already among the biggest recipients of health-industry …
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09/29/2009PoliticsWho Really Runs Washington?
…recruit, and stymie, candidates for 2010 races across the country. The group has emphatically backed party-switching Sen. Arlen Specter over Rep. Joe Sestak in Pennsylvania's Democratic Senate primary, and urged the Massachusetts legislature to quickly …
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09/25/2009PoliticsMajority Report
…in no mood to give moderate Democrats a pass. Indeed, liberals sound a lot like Republicans did when Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter switched parties—good riddance, and don't let the door hit you on the way out. Imagine how much nicer life would …
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