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  • Biden campaign co-chair says emphasis will be on jobs instead of poll numbers

    04/30/2023 11:17:43 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 16 replies
    The Hill ^ | 04/30/2023 | Julia Mueller
    Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.), the national co-chair for President Biden’s 2024 campaign, said on Sunday that Biden’s team will focus on job numbers over polling results as the president’s reelection bid kicks off. “The numbers we’re going to be talking about are the 12 million jobs created in the first two years that Biden’s been president, the lowest unemployment in 50 years. The 850,000 new manufacturing jobs,” Coons said on ABC’s “This Week,” when asked about polling indicating lackluster enthusiasm for the president’s 2024 run.
  • Democracy on Trial (Turkey)

    07/21/2017 6:50:07 AM PDT · by Texas Fossil · 4 replies
    Jacobin Magazine ^ | 07.20.2017 | Melanie Gingell
    An international observer denied access to the trial of HDP co-chair Figen Yüksekdağ in Turkey recounts her experience. Earlier this month the trial of Figen Yüksekdağ, co-chair of the People’s Democratic Party (HDP), began in Turkey’s capital of Ankara. Accused of supporting Kurdish separatists in the country’s southeast, Yüksekdağ has already been stripped of her place in Turkey’s parliament — but now the Erdoğan government is pursuing terrorism-related charges which come with the threat of an eighty-three-year jail term. Yüksekdağ is represented, symbolically, by 1,200 lawyers, whose numbers represent a political stand against the government’s attacks on opposition politicians. Her...
  • Obama campaign co-chair tied to subprime mortgage crisis

    02/24/2012 9:05:26 AM PST · by Nachum · 6 replies
    The Daily Caller ^ | 2/24/12 | Will Rahn and Steven Nelson
    Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, the Democrat who was named a national co-chair of President Obama’s re-election campaign on Wednesday, served on the board of a company that is widely blamed for helping start the subprime mortgage crisis in 2007. Beginning in 2004, Patrick served two years on the five-member board of ACC Capital Holdings, the parent company of Ameriquest Mortgage. He was paid a $360,000 annual salary for his efforts, according to “All The Devils Are Here,” a history of the financial crisis by Bethany McClean and Joe Nocera. Ameriquest had already been the subject of numerous criminal complaints when...
  • McCain's national finance co-chair resigns (Former Texas Rep. Thomas G. Loeffler)

    05/18/2008 11:41:19 AM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 15 replies · 222+ views
    AP on Yahoo ^ | 5/18/08 | AP
    WASHINGTON - John McCain's national finance co-chairman has stepped down, becoming the latest adviser to leave the Republican's presidential campaign because of ties to lobbyists. Former Texas Rep. Thomas G. Loeffler, one of McCain's key fundraisers, resigned after the campaign last week instructed staff to disclose all lobbying ties and to make certain they are no longer registered as lobbyists or foreign agents. McCain's campaign on Sunday confirmed Loeffler's resignation. Loeffler lobbies for the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Co., which with Northrop Grumman Corp. won a lucrative contract to provide air refueling tankers for the Air Force. McCain helped...
  • Willie Gary says sex allegations are extortion (Gary, Clinton National Campaign Co-Chair)

    10/06/2007 9:16:38 AM PDT · by enots · 15 replies · 1,378+ views
    tcpalm.com ^ | Oct. 7, 2007 | Gabriel Margasak
    STUART — Famed Stuart attorney Willie Gary said Friday he is the target of a $20-million extortion scheme by a woman who accused him of sexual battery. Gary said a friend of the woman called repeatedly, offering to “make the problem go away” if he paid. Gary said Stuart police are investigating the woman's claims and a counter report of his own, but he maintained he is absolutely innocent. "I am aware that some people, a group of people, have made a false claim against me involving sexual battery, and it's absolutely, positively false . . ." said the attorney,...