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HOUSTON — One evening two winters ago, a man in Staten Island, N.Y., absent-mindedly flipped through his mail. Inside one envelope was a stack of fake documents, including United Nations (news - web sites) and Defense Department identification cards, and a note: "We would hate to have this fall into the wrong hands."
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CHICAGO -- Former Governor George Ryan may face charges of extortion, racketeering, and obstruction of justice as soon as Wednesday.
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Veterans for Bush rally at Illinois State Capitol building, Springfield, IL. Just got back from Kentucky. Spent a week building a house in Appalachia with church / volunteers in mission. Had a couple of phone messages on the trusty answering machine advising me about a Veterans for Bush rally, in Springfield, Illinois, this Sunday, at 1PM. Had about 24 hours notice. The call came from Illinois, Bush, Victory 2000 staff. Called and pledged to go. Adrian Cronauer, of Good Morning Vietnam bio-movie / fame, was to stump for Bush. Arrived 10 minutes late. Very light turnout. 30 seats filled with ...
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Some Harrison Homes residents say stop sends messagePEORIA-Sean Moore and Derrick Johnson took a Tuesday stroll past the hardscrabble Harrison Homes, indifferent to George W. Bush's visit to the Harrison School that morning.The school was just across the street. But to the teen-agers, it might as well have been a million miles away.'It doesn't really matter to me," sais Moore, 14, a sophomore at Manual High School. Why the indifference? "Because."Said Johnson, 15: "In my family, they're all voting for Al Gore."Nonetheless, Bush's visit to Peoria's South Side stirred interest from a neighborhood normally on the margins of Greater Peoria's ...
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GOP presidential nominee pushes his policies on educationPEORIA-Harrison Primary School is breaking all the rules, said George W. Bush.It is taking poor children, who aren't supposed to be able to learn and teaching them to read.Now all schools need to do the same thing, Bush said to a crowd at Harrison on Tuesday morning. They need to teach all children to read, regardless of economic background.Bush was in Peoria promoting his education agenda. He met with students, teachers, administrators and parents for a forum on education issues at Harrison."No child should be left behind," Bush said. "I'm here at this ...
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Start of school features meeting Secret Service agents, presidential candidatePEORIA-Kindergartner Brandon Spencer will always remember his first day of school.That was the day he met "the police and the president."The "police" on Tuesday actually were Secret Service agents, while the "president" was really Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush. But facts like that were lost on Spencer, who was just excited to be part of the event."This was good," Spencer said. "The president is an important man. They talk to people and sometimes they do hard work. I don't know what else he does, but he does stuff. This was ...
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Here is a sampling of comments heard Tuesday during Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush's visit to Peoria:"If (voters) want four more years of Clinton-Gore, I'm not the right person."-Bush"I'm going to make my case and hope that the people of Peoria and central Illinois hear me. And if they don't, I'm still going to be the governor of Texas."-Bush"Free trade means that the market for the Caterpillar (Inc.) product is expanded...and that's good for jobs."-Bush"No child should be left behind. I'm here at this school (Harrison Primary) because that is the motto."-Bush"This nation of ours...must challenge the bigotry of ...
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5,000 Bush backers pack airport building for send-off rallyPEORIA-An overflow crowd of more than 5,000 people packed into Byerly Aviation's main hangar to hear George W. Bush discuss his education policy, which he says will "leave no child behind."After a mid-morning stop at Harrison Primary School on Peoria's far South Side, the GOP presidential nominee arrived at the Greater Peoria Regional Airport to a hero's welcome. Unlike other rallies, no backers of Vice President Al Gore were in sight. Tuesday's affair was strictly Republican.Prior to the Texas governor's arrival, Secret Service agents checked every person as they entered a fenced-off ...
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Rep. Ray LaHood even halts cheers to help heat victimPEORIA-In the middle of a campaign cheer, U.S.Rep.Ray LaHood interrupted to tell paramedics that a person had passed outSomebody held up a single Bush/Cheney sign to mark where the person was in the crowd of more than 5,000 at the Greater Peoria Regional Airport.It was a busy day for paramedics Tuesday when George W. Bush came to town and held a rally at a hangar at Byerly Aviation. Five people were taken to area hospitals, apparently suffering from the heat, said Tom Geraci, an operations manager for Advanced Medical Transport.Spokespersons at ...
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Hard to tell if George W. Bush's visit to Peoria's Harrison Primary School on Tuesday enhanced his chances of becoming the 43rd president of the United States, but it sure boosted Harrison Principal Arthur Mae Perkins' rising star.Indeed, it wasn't long before the Republican presidential nominee was addressing Perkins as "Madame Secretary"-as in Secretary of Education. To Bush's credit, he sensed immediately who was boss within the confines of Harrison School, and he went with the flow. The Texas governor is unlikely to get an argument in Peoria with his embrace of greater local control for America's schools.That wasn't the ...
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Local officials: Stopover shows city's political cloutPEORIA-Though they disgree on what George W. Bush's message meant Tuesday morning, local politicians say the GOP hopeful's visit shows the city's political clout."This put's Peoria on the map politically," said U.S. Rep. Ray LaHood, R-Peoria. "It says a lot when you can get this many people to a rally."While not siding with LaHood's political tendencies, Peoria County Board Chairwoman Lynn Scott Pearson, a Democrat, agreed that Bush's visit showed that the region is politically active."That means the people are taking interest in the presidential race. Unfortunately, some races have gone unnoticed," she said ...
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Schools, taxes and agricultureTexan brings his message to central Illinois
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Bush Appearance / Send Off
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Caught the lovefest on abc news just now between slick willy and the Hollywood elitists. Big-time fundraiser/s in L.A. Solution: Boycott Hollywood products. Movies, tapes, etc. Reported funds of $4 million raised for queen hillary, millions more for the vice perpetrator, and $10 million plus for the known rapist and liar, slick willy, for his "presidential library."
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Lincoln, Illinois Bush-Cheney Victory Train expected to arrive in Freeper's home town of 15,000 people within 5 hours ! I just came home to get a 24' ladder so that we could hang an American flag on the flagpole up at the train depot and wanted to post the good news to the Freepers at Free Republic. This is going to be awesome. Spent several hours last night reading about the many bloody battles that the colonists / patriots fought against the king's army during the Revolutionary War. The comparisons of a nation under seige by enemies foreign and domestic ...
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