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Contact: Michael Huttner 303-931-4547 cell — DENVER, Colo.-On orders from Senator John McCain's security detail, Denver police escorted a 61-year-old woman away who was waiting in line to attend a so-called town hall meeting with McCain that was billed as open to the public.
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Robert Pear / New York Times:
Skepticism on McCain Plan to Balance Budget by 2013 — WASHINGTON — The package of spending and tax cuts proposed by Senator John McCain is unlikely to achieve his goal of balancing the federal budget by 2013, economists and fiscal experts said Monday. — “It would be very difficult …
Amanda / Think Progress:Librarian with ‘McCain=Bush’ sign charged with trespassing at public campaign event.
Jeralyn / TalkLeft:Librarian Booted From McCain Event in Denver
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Jim Rutenberg / The Caucus:
A Clintonian at Fox — Howard Wolfson, who was a top strategist for the presidential campaign of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, is going where some Democrats were unwilling to go during the early days of the election season: the Fox News Channel. — The network is expected to announce …
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Paul J. Gough / Reuters:
Clinton aide Wolfson joins Fox News pack — NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - Howard Wolfson, one of Hillary Clinton's senior campaign advisers, will join Fox News Channel as a contributor. — The channel is expected to make the announcement Tuesday, and Wolfson is scheduled to make his first appearance on air Wednesday.
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David Carr / New York Times:
When Fox News Is the Story — Like most working journalists, whenever I type seven letters — Fox News — a series of alarms begins to whoop in my head: Danger. … Once the public relations apparatus at Fox News is engaged, there will be the calls to my editors, keening (and sometimes threatening) …
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Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:
Washington Post Signals Shift With a New Editor — Signaling a generational change at one of the nation's most influential newspapers, the new publisher of The Washington Post on Monday selected an outsider as the paper's top editor. — Marcus W. Brauchli, a former top editor of The Wall Street Journal …
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Supplies for Katrina victims went to Mississippi agencies — CNN Special Investigations Unit — BILOXI, Mississippi (CNN) — Prisons in Mississippi got coffee makers, pillowcases and dinnerware — all intended for victims of Hurricane Katrina. — The state's Department of Wildlife …
Lesley Clark / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Poll: 2 GOP incumbents barely holding on in South Florida — A new poll suggests that two Republican members of Congress from Miami are facing a tight race from their Democratic challengers — the first significant challenge to the incumbents in years. — The poll, by Bendixen & Associates …
Marc Ambinder:
Obama's Search Team Begins To Vet — Barack Obama's vice presidential selection team has begun to ask potential candidates for information and documents, a signal that the formal vetting phase of the search process has begun. — Last week, members of the team gave Sen. James Webb of VA …
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Mark Murray / MSNBC:
WEBB DOESN'T WANT TO BE VP — From NBC's Mark Murray — Virginia Sen. Jim Webb just issued a statement from his Senate office saying that — “[u]nder no circumstances” — does he want to be considered as Obama's veep. “Last week I communicated to Sen. Obama and his presidential campaign …
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Hindrocket / Power Line:
FARC YOU, HOSTAGES SAY — The three American hostages who were freed in Colombia last week had a party/press conference today in Texas. They were happy to be home, but also had harsh words for their captors, who held them prisoner in the jungle for more than five years. Marc Gonsalves spoke:
Aaron Blake / The Hill:
In shift, DCCC active in primaries — The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) has in recent weeks injected itself into almost all of the major primaries remaining despite pledging previously to abstain. — DCCC officials have often said that they would try to avoid mixing …
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Washington Wire:
Tough Questions at McCain's First Town Hall Meeting — Elizabeth Holmes reports from Denver on the presidential race. — John McCain's first town hall meeting of his new campaign began seamlessly. Everything the campaign could plan for was in place, complete with a rug boasting McCain's logo for him to stand on.
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BREITBART.COM:
Claim: Kids who say ‘yuck’ may be racist — Toddlers who say “yuck” when given flavorful foreign food may be exhibiting racist behavior, a British government-sponsored organization says. — The London-based National Children's Bureau released a 366-page guide counseling adults …
Qassim Abdul-Zahra / Associated Press:
Iraq's al-Maliki wants short-term US agreement — ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iraq has proposed a short-term memorandum of understanding with the United States rather than trying to hammer through a formal agreement on the presence of U.S. forces, the country's prime minister said Monday.
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Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
Internal Politics Heat Up at McCain Campaign — WASHINGTON — Senator John McCain's campaigns have long been defined by internal squabbling and power plays, zigzagging lines of command and a penchant by the candidate for consulting with former advisers without alerting current ones, always a recipe for disquiet.
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