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• 99 Cal. Daily Op. Serv. 1065, 99 Daily Journal D.A.R. 1337 National Committee of the Reform Party of the United States of America; Perot '96, Inc.; Perot Reform Committee, Inc.; Reform Party of California; John Place, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Democratic National Committee; Clinton/Gore '96 General Committee; Clinton/Gore '96 Primary, Inc.; Republican National Committee; Dole for President, Inc.; State Central Committee of the California Democratic Party; State Central Committee of the Republican Party; Federal Election Commission; Dole/Kemp '96, Defendants-Appellees., 168 F.3d 360 (9th Cir. 1999)

Donald E. Godwin and David J. White, Godwin & Carlton, Dallas, Texas; Jamin B. Raskin, American University Washington College of Law, Washington, D.C....

• Federal Circuits

• Federal Election Commission, Plaintiff, v. Central Long Island Tax Reform Immediately Committee, Edward Cozzette and Tax Reform Immediately, Defendants and Defendant-Counterclaimant, and John W. Robbins, Intervenor., 616 F.2d 45 (2nd Cir. 1980)

William C. Oldaker, Gen. Counsel, Federal Election Commission, Washington, D.C. (Charles N. Steele, Associate Gen. Counsel, Kathleen Imig Perkins, Ass...

• Federal Circuits

• Deep Pockets

Big donors this election season include Peter Blackstock, owner of Lexus Monterey Peninsula and Victory Toyota, who gave about $30,000 to various candidates and political action committees, including $4,300 to [John McCain]'s campaign and a related fund, and $4,000 to the Monterey County Republican Central Committee. (Blackstock's wife, Barbara, also contributed $2,300 to McCain and $5,000 to McCain Victory California.) Corral de Tierra resident Bill Schramm is also a McCain donor and campaign chairman for Monterey County. Schramm, a retired Navy captain, graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1958. "I've known [McCain] for 54 years so I know what kind of a person he is," Schramm says. "When you compare the two candidates and look at things like experience and where they come from, I ...

• Monterey County Weekly
• August 28, 2009

• Court Overrules Election Board ; Ban Lifted On 450 Candidates

A Ukrainian court yesterday overturned an official ban blocking hundreds of candidates from the leading pro-Western opposition party from competing in critical parliamentary elections set for next month. The Kiev District Administrative Court gave the Central Election Committee until today to reverse its ruling issued Friday decertifying the entire slate of candidates supporting former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko on technical grounds.

• The Washington Times
• August 15, 2007

• New Blood Invigorates Fatah Leadership

Many believe that under his leadership a united Fatah could make progress in unity talks with Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip; he is one of the few Fatah members respected by the Gaza-based Islamists. The election to the Central Committee of former Gaza Fatah leader Muhammad Dahlan from the younger guard is divisive for Fatah members. Employees of the Fatah election committee count votes during the Fatah congress In the West Bank town of Bethlehem August 12, 2009. The vote count for the parliament of the secular Fatah party of Palestinian President [Mahmoud Abbas] was set to begin on Wednesday after long delays, an election official said. Final results of the complicated election process for the body known as the Revolutionary. Council, could take two days and a recount was possibl...

• Arab American News, The
• October 14, 2009

• Small-Town Boy

We need to resolve to make a difference in the next election," Gov. CL. "Butch" Otter told the Ada county Republican Central Committee earlier this year (BW Beat, April 25, 2007, "Take Back Ada County"). "We need to take Ada County back because it belongs in the Republican portfolio. "It's a watershed event," [Dave Bieter] said. "We've never had consensus around much at all." Bieter says he'd love to have the city take over maintenance of its own streets. "It's not radical at all," he said. "What's radical is what we have."

• Boise Weekly
• August 19, 2009

• Twisted Position

The writer of the Aug. 8 letter "Dems must unite" is unhappy that the Daily Bulletin's San Bernardino County Central Committee election results and November election coverage is focused on "racism, not unity." She then slyly notes that tea party activists give us "enough of that" while admitting the racist agenda of Democrat Gil Navarro. Here's the truth. It is the media she complains about, along with the Democrat Party leadership, who have "created" the racist image for tea party supporters. Democrats choose to demonize Republicans as racist when history proves that it was the Republican Party that championed civil rights and equal protection under the law.

• Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
• August 20, 2010

• Any White Will Do

Now, there are probably many reasons why [Scott Lee Cohen] was thought to be a more viable candidate than [Arthur Turner]. He's younger and not entrenched in Springfield politics. He wasn't backed by House Speaker Michael Madigan (Turner was). He didn't owe anyone in the Democratic Party or the Daley machine. In 2005, Scott Lee Cohen was arrested for slamming his girlfriend's head into a wall and holding a knife to her throat. This was his girlfriend who had been arrested for prostitution a few months earlier. Cohen said he thought she was a massage therapist. Yeah, but if I were pawning that story, he wouldn't give me a nickel for it. Sounds like "." Now, of course, Cohen won't do, because that kind of record will be exploited during the general election and could torp...

... as nominee, and the 38-member Democratic central committee, headed by Madigan, will choose his repl...

• Chicago Defender
• March 03, 2010

• Simon Is Nominee for Ill. Lieutenant Governor

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Illinois Democrats chose the daughter of the late U.S. Sen. Paul Simon as their nominee for lieutenant governor Saturday following a scandal that forced the primary election winner to step down. The Democratic State Central Committee chose Sheila Simon to fill the vacancy, passing over a longtime legislator who was the runner- up in last month's primary.

• Sunday Gazette-Mail
• March 29, 2010

• Simon Picked, Turner Snubbed

SPRINGFIELD - Illinois Democrats chose the daughter of the late U.S. Sen. Paul Simon as their nominee for lieutenant governor Saturday following a scandal that forced the primary election winner to step down. The Democratic State Central Committee chose Sheila Simon to fill the vacancy, passing over a longtime legislator who was the runner- up in last month's primary.

• Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
• March 28, 2010