[Politico] The White House rewrote crucial sections of an Interior Department report to suggest an independent group of scientists and engineers supported a six-month ban on offshore oil drilling, the Interior inspector general says in a new report.
In the wee hours of the morning of May 27, a staff member to White House energy adviser Carol Browner sent two edited versions of the department report's executive summary back to Interior. The language had been changed to insinuate the seven-member panel of outside experts -- who reviewed a draft of various safety recommendations -- endorsed the moratorium, according to the IG report obtained by POLITICO.
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Any room under the bus for yet another Inspector General and his report?
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I don't know much about Chris Christie, but after seeing a couple of videos I'm liking him more and more. I'm almost ready to vote him for President based on the strength of the two videos I saw! This guy is a straight-shooter who doesn't take crap from anyone.
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I heard similar. Chalk it up to NJ and Prosecutor job? I think he's capable of getting the rest of the nation's take. I don't see him running for national office, but, like Palin, he could be a kingmaker. He needs more time to try and fix NJ against every effort by his opponents. I have high hopes for him. He says he doesn't want to be President. Doesn't mean he can't influence it
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[Chicago Tribune] Two Illinois congressmen have paid their wives hundreds of thousands of dollars out of their campaign funds in the last decade, according to records filed with the Federal Election Commission.
The campaign to re-elect Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. has given wife Sandi Jackson's company at least $315,000 for her work. Rep. Bobby Rush's campaign has paid his wife, Carolyn Rush, more than $240,000 to serve as a consultant.
Two other Chicago-area congressmen, Danny Davis and Luis Gutierrez, have given their wives smaller amounts for doing campaign work. The four politicians, all Democrats, were re-elected last week.
The campaign payments to spouses did not involve any taxpayer money, and the practice has been declared legal if certain requirements are met. Nevertheless, some watchdog groups see the potential for abuse when a politician's family receives financial support from his political backers.
"Is there anything patently wrong with having a family member work on a campaign?" said Dave Levinthal, communications director at the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics. "Arguably not. But it gets into sticky territory when the candidate, him or herself, stands to benefit personally in a significant way from political donations that are being made to fuel political efforts."
In addition to the four, at least two other Chicago-area members of the U.S. House -- Republicans Don Manzullo and Mark Kirk, who is now senator-elect -- have put relatives on their campaign payroll.
The Tribune identified those relatives by checking the last names of campaign-fund recipients and confirming family connections. But such a list cannot be considered complete, since any candidates' relatives whose last names were different from theirs would not be included.
Lawmakers are barred from employing relatives in their official offices, but a 2001 opinion issued by the Federal Election Commission -- at Jackson's request -- declared the practice legal for campaign committees, as long as the relative is qualified and is paid no more than the market rate.
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Any payments made from Obama campaign funding to the University of Chicago Medical Center?
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Colorado rumor is that (R Gov candidate) Dan Maes was paying all kinds of family members fomr his campaign funds - one of them so he could pay his mortgage (by paying his wife, etc). He is being investigated or so goes the rumor
[Washington Examiner] Alex Sink, the former Democrat candidate for governor in Florida, is now blaming the White House for her election loss to Rick Scott. Although she makes some good points, ultimately Sink might have been the one who sunk her own campaign. It was getting caught with a cheat sheet during a debate with Scott that might have been instrumental in her loss. More specifically it was the modern version of the cheat sheet in the form of getting debate tips via her cell phone although this was forbidden by the debate rules. Using cheat sheets is an old tradition with school students but the one hazard in using them, as Sink found out, is getting caught. Perhaps Sink needed instruction on the fine art of cheating.
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Dino pee on this already.
Scott won using the backlash and 73 million bucks.
39 peoples saw that debate and only 2 gave a damn.
Scott is a potential disaster, I hope the FL Senate can handle this mess.
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While I don't live in FL (live just across the line); Sink seemed to be a proven disaster; Scott has potential both ways. Scott was, according to a lot of different sources, never part of the Medicaid fraud investigation and was a very, very successful business man. From what I hear, he is letting his Lt. Gov., who does have political experience, deal with the legislature. Should be an interesting time.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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The White House rewrote crucial sections of an Interior Department report to suggest an independent group of scientists and engineers supported a six-month ban on offshore oil drilling, the Interior inspector general says in a new report.
Alex Sink, the former Democrat candidate for governor in Florida, is now blaming the White House for her election loss to Rick Scott. Although she makes some good points, ultimately Sink might have been the one who sunk her own campaign. It was getting caught with a cheat sheet during a debate with Scott that might have been instrumental in her loss. More specifically it was the modern version of the cheat sheet in the form of getting debate tips via her cell phone although this was forbidden by the debate rules. Using cheat sheets is an old tradition with school students but the one hazard in using them, as Sink found out, is getting caught. Perhaps Sink needed instruction on the fine art of cheating.
