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The WBAL-TV 11 News I-Team has learned that an Ehrlich aide met with an O'Malley cabinet member concerning rumors being spread about Baltimore Mayor Martin O'Malley. --Snip-- I-Team reporter David Collins said Michelle Lane, another aide to the governor, met with Baltimore City Health Commissioner Dr. Peter Beilenson in March 2003. Beilenson said most of the conversation dealt with her concerns over the state's foster care system. "She implied that (Steffen) was sort of, I guess the best term to be used would be, like a mole" in the Ehrlich administration, Beilenson said. "I'm not sure why she brought him...

Bush Nominates Paul Clement to Be Solicitor GeneralBy Mark Sherman Associated Press Writer Published: Mar 11, 2005 WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush on Friday chose Paul D. Clement as solicitor general, the job Clement has held for the past eight months on an acting basis. The solicitor general supervises government appellate work and is the administration's top Supreme Court lawyer, personally arguing many of the cases. The 38-year-old Clement would have to be confirmed by the Senate. Clement has been in the solicitor general's office since 2001. He served as deputy to Solicitor General Theodore Olson, whom Bush tapped for...

OTTAWA (CP) - Stephen Harper and Tony Clement played the political experience card Sunday, saying this is no time for Conservatives to take a chance on a neophyte leader if they want to turf out Paul Martin's Liberals and take power. Their words were obviously aimed at autoi parts heiress Belinda Stronach, as the three contenders for the Conservative crown squared off in debate before a crowd of party faithful. "It's not just about who will make the best leader of the opposition," said Harper. "It is about who is ready to become the prime minister of this country.," Clement...

Not In Our Name and the World Wide Terrorism WebBy Michael TremoglieFrontPageMagazine.com | March 19, 2003 In the run-up to this war, Not In Our Name became one of the major “peace” organizers and coalitions in the United States. Not In Our Name has spared no cost purchasing ads in newspapers around the world to publish its anti-American Statement of Conscience.  Its signatories include scores of Hate America bigwigs, like Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Michael Parenti, Gloria Steinem and Barbara Kingsolver.  Hollywood icons (and many more has-beens) like Danny Glover, Jessica Lange, Tyne Daly, Martin Sheen and Ed Harris have...

Stakes high on lottery, top offices By Paula Wade wade@gomemphis.com November 5, 2002 Tennesseans will brave steady rain today to make history - electing a new governor, a U.S. senator, filling three open congressional seats, recasting much of the state legislature and deciding on a long-debated state lottery. The contest between Democrat Phil Bredesen and Republican Van Hilleary is the closest governor's race since 1986 but the stakes are much higher than simply deciding who gets to live in the Governor's Mansion. After three brutal years of fiscal crisis in state government and a vicious campaign season, Tennesseans will choose...

<p>MEMPHIS — U.S. Senate candidate Bob Clement courted the African-American community here yesterday with issues such as public education, economic development and affirmative action as he tries to energize voters for Tuesday's election.</p> <p>The eight-term U.S. representative from Nashville is banking on the black Democratic political machine here to help beat his Republican opponent, Lamar Alexander. Roughly 20% of the vote cast in the 2000 election was from Shelby County.</p>

Clement supports tax cut; Alexander touts jobs By Richard Locker locker@gomemphis.com October 29, 2002 NASHVILLE - Democrat Bob Clement announced his support Monday for a one-time $500 energy tax cut or rebate while Republican Lamar Alexander unveiled a new TV ad touting his experience as governor in attracting jobs to Tennessee. The Alexander ad begins airing statewide today. It says that as governor from 1979 to 1987, Alexander "helped bring in the auto industry and thousands of good-paying jobs" to the state. It says that as senator, he will "work twice as hard to protect Tennessee jobs and create an...

Senate race duo exchange salvos of innuendo By Richard Locker, locker@gomemphis.com October 7, 2002 JACKSON, Tenn. - Senate candidates Lamar Alexander and Bob Clement resumed their war of words over each other's service on corporate boards as the sparks flew in their second debate Sunday night. At one point in their 90-minute televised encounter at Lambuth University, Clement approached Alexander with a dollar bill and asked him to "turn it into $620,000 for Tennessee schoolchildren" - an allusion to Alexander's $620,000 return on a $1 investment in The Knoxville Journal newspaper in the early 1980s while governor of Tennessee. Alexander...

<p>Congressman Bob Clement yesterday ''conceded'' that he was on an ''advisory'' committee of one of the failed Butcher banks in the early 1970s, but he continued to maintain that he was not on its board of directors.</p> <p>Saying he wanted to move along to the real issues, Clement held a conference call with reporters to describe his service with C & C Bank of Knox County and to again challenge senatorial opponent Lamar Alexander to step down from the board of directors of Education Networks of America.</p>

<p>Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Bob Clement outlined his economic plan yesterday, including education, transportation and job training as priorities, but his news release gave few details for the short-term recovery of an economy he has said is unraveling.</p> <p>Clement's plan calls for more spending on education, more funding for college scholarships and cracking down on professionals who haven't paid student loans. It also called for more character and civics education in college.</p>

<p>A notorious bank fraud case provided more ammunition yesterday for shots fired between Lamar Alexander and Bob Clement in the U.S. Senate race.</p> <p>In the latest round, the Clement campaign accused Alexander of taking $50,000 in campaign contributions raised by the late C.H. Butcher Jr. and later lobbying federal regulators to preserve the banking empire Butcher and his brother, Jake, had built. The Butchers went to prison for bank fraud after federal and state regulators padlocked their failing banks in 1983.</p>

<p>CHATTANOOGA — Tennessee's U.S. Senate candidates Lamar Alexander and Bob Clement came out swinging last night in their first debate, with Alexander claiming that his opponent is a Hillary Rodham Clinton-Ted Kennedy liberal and Clement accusing the former governor of getting rich off ''sweetheart'' corporate insider deals.</p>

Clement, Ford meet with Bush about his Iraq plans By James W. Brosnan, The Commercial Appeal September 28, 2002 WASHINGTON - Reps. Harold Ford Jr. and Bob Clement of Tennessee met with President Bush at the White House on Thursday about potential war plans with Iraq and left with reservations, they said. Ford, a Memphis Democrat, said later he was concerned that Bush is politicizing the war to help Republicans in the November election because many of Bush's and Vice President Dick Cheney's public statements about Iraq are at fund-raisers for Republican candidates. "It's not wise politics," said Ford. Ford...

<p>WASHINGTON - U.S. Rep. Bob Clement, the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate, said he advised President Bush during a White House briefing yesterday to concentrate as much on stabilizing the nation's economy as he has on pushing for action on Iraq.</p>

<p>An 11-point lead Lamar Alexander had over Bob Clement in early July in the race for the U.S. Senate has widened even more, according to a new Tennessean poll.</p> <p>Alexander, the Republican candidate, now has a 19-point margin with only 8% undecided.</p>

<p>Candidate profile schedule: yesterday and today — Bob Clement; last Sunday and Monday — Lamar Alexander. Governor's candidates to follow.</p> <p>Bob Clement sat at the bottom of his still-young political career in 1982.</p> <p>Not yet 40, this son of a three-time governor had launched his own political life with stunning success, becoming in 1972 the youngest Tennessean ever elected to statewide office. Then he had assumed a federal post of uncommon prominence in Tennessee — as a director of the Tennessee Valley Authority.</p>

Alexander grabs 18-point advantage over Clement By Tom Humphrey The Knoxville News-Sentinel September 16, 2002 Republican Lamar Alexander has a commanding lead in the U.S. Senate race over Democrat Bob Clement, according to a new Tennessee Poll. "Alexander has all but got this thing wrapped up - unless something really strange happens," said Dr. Michael Gant, a University of Tennessee, Knoxville, political science professor and director of the UT Social Science Research Institute. Forty-five percent of the 605 registered voters who took part in the statewide telephone survey said they intended to vote for Alexander, a former governor, in November....

Clement Camp Says Alexander Lead Is 7 Points posted September 12, 2002 Democratic pundit Tommy Burnett today cited recent a new poll placing Bob Clement "only 7 points behind Lamar Alexander despite the fact that Alexander has spent millions on television advertising and Clement has yet to spend one dime," the Clement campaign said. A tracking poll taken this week puts Alexander under 50% at 49, with Clement landing on 42%, it was stated. Burnett made these remarks this morning on Teddy Bart's Roundtable: "The polls that were run, particularly a tracking poll that was run September the 9th, statewide,...

<p>The issue of personal finances has come to the fore in the U.S. Senate race, with candidate Bob Clement accusing Lamar Alexander of being too close to the corporate world and Alexander's campaign charging that Clement became a millionaire since going to Congress 14 years ago.</p>

Gore, Clement to speak at Tennessee fund-raiser August 26, 2002 CLARKSVILLE, Tenn.- Former Vice President Al Gore and U.S. Rep. Bob Clement, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate, will headline the Middle Tennessee Labor Day Celebration. The annual Democratic rally and fund-raiser will be Sept. 7, the Saturday after Labor Day, at the Charles Hand Farm. Tickets cost $15. About 2,000 people from across the state are expected to attend, organizers say. The celebration also will host a straw poll on a proposed state lottery, which voters will decide in the Nov. 5 general election. After refreshments and live music...