Newsday
TRENTON, N.J. -- For a week, Bret Schundler's campaign Web site showed the fiery Republican primary candidate in a suit with a crowd of cheering supporters behind him.
The problem? They actually were rallying behind fiery Democratic candidate Howard Dean.
Schundler's image was used to digitally replace that of a smiling Dean in the picture, and the former Jersey City mayor's name was superimposed over both a "Howard Dean for America" sign and a Dean cap worn by one of his supporters at a Great Falls, Va., rally last year.
One of the Dean supporters, Laura Reznick, 21, of Voorhees, N.J., said she remembers zipping through a dense crowd so she could get in a photo with Dean, The Record of Bergen County reported in Friday's newspapers. Reznick is secretary of American University's College Democrats.
Monday, June 06, 2005
Nixon's Henchmen Lecture Us On Ethics
Newsday
History's latest con happened right before our eyes Tuesday night. We thought we'd settled in to watch the nonstop cable news when suddenly our television screen was transformed into Alice's looking glass.
All reality was backward. But perhaps only the old-timers in our midst knew it. For millions of viewers were not even born when those faces that just popped up in the looking-glass/screen were all the president's men, once in power and then in disgrace, more than three decades ago.
Richard Nixon's ex-convicts - who did jail time for their crimes against democracy and then profited from their crimes by writing books and becoming celebrities - had returned to work one more con. Nixon's former senior White House assistant, Charles Colson, and the Nixon team's burglar-in-chief, G. Gordon Liddy, worked the cable news circuit, expressing moral indignation that the FBI's former deputy director, W. Mark Felt, was Deep Throat.
History's latest con happened right before our eyes Tuesday night. We thought we'd settled in to watch the nonstop cable news when suddenly our television screen was transformed into Alice's looking glass.
All reality was backward. But perhaps only the old-timers in our midst knew it. For millions of viewers were not even born when those faces that just popped up in the looking-glass/screen were all the president's men, once in power and then in disgrace, more than three decades ago.
Richard Nixon's ex-convicts - who did jail time for their crimes against democracy and then profited from their crimes by writing books and becoming celebrities - had returned to work one more con. Nixon's former senior White House assistant, Charles Colson, and the Nixon team's burglar-in-chief, G. Gordon Liddy, worked the cable news circuit, expressing moral indignation that the FBI's former deputy director, W. Mark Felt, was Deep Throat.
Latin Nations Tell Condi Talk to The Hand
NYT
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., June 5 - The major nations of Latin America have told the United States that they cannot support an American plan to establish a permanent committee of the Organization of American States that would monitor the exercise of democracy in the hemisphere, Latin American diplomats said Sunday.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who arrived here on Sunday afternoon to serve as chairwoman of an O.A.S. meeting where the American plan is on the agenda, expressed frustration with their view, saying, "We have to have a discussion of how the organization can be effective if it does not have a mechanism that can help at times of crisis."
If the organization fails to approve the American proposal, it would be a significant diplomatic defeat for the United States - from a region that for decades has generally gone along with Washington's requests. The United States is negotiating with the other countries, though diplomats and officials said they made little progress on Sunday.
Last month, senior administration officials said they intended to push for approval of the proposed resolution during the foreign ministers' meeting here, which runs through Monday. But, perhaps anticipating that approval was far from certain, Ms. Rice said to reporters on her plane, "All of the answers are not going to come out of this meeting."
Several ambassadors of Latin American states said last month that they would be unlikely to support the measure because they saw it as a thinly veiled attack on Venezuela, which has been at odds with the United States for several years
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., June 5 - The major nations of Latin America have told the United States that they cannot support an American plan to establish a permanent committee of the Organization of American States that would monitor the exercise of democracy in the hemisphere, Latin American diplomats said Sunday.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who arrived here on Sunday afternoon to serve as chairwoman of an O.A.S. meeting where the American plan is on the agenda, expressed frustration with their view, saying, "We have to have a discussion of how the organization can be effective if it does not have a mechanism that can help at times of crisis."
If the organization fails to approve the American proposal, it would be a significant diplomatic defeat for the United States - from a region that for decades has generally gone along with Washington's requests. The United States is negotiating with the other countries, though diplomats and officials said they made little progress on Sunday.
Last month, senior administration officials said they intended to push for approval of the proposed resolution during the foreign ministers' meeting here, which runs through Monday. But, perhaps anticipating that approval was far from certain, Ms. Rice said to reporters on her plane, "All of the answers are not going to come out of this meeting."
Several ambassadors of Latin American states said last month that they would be unlikely to support the measure because they saw it as a thinly veiled attack on Venezuela, which has been at odds with the United States for several years
India, Pakistan Begin Talks on Iran Gas Pipeline
Forbes
Pakistan and neighboring India began talks Sunday on a proposed pipeline - opposed by the United States - that would bring natural gas to both countries from Iran, officials said.
The 1,735-mile pipeline - proposed by Iran in 1996 - has never gotten off the ground because of India's concern for the security of the pipeline in Pakistan, its archrival for the past six decades.
However, tensions between India and Pakistan have eased in the past year and a half, and their governments have agreed to work toward building the pipeline, despite opposition from Washington, an ally of both countries.
Mani Shankar Aiyar, India's petroleum and natural gas minister, and his Pakistani counterpart, Amanullah Khan Jadoon, began the two-day talks in Pakistan's capital Islamabad.
At the meeting, Aiyar said he informed the Pakistani minister that India is not facing any U.S. pressure to abandon the proposed Iran gas pipeline project.
Pakistan and neighboring India began talks Sunday on a proposed pipeline - opposed by the United States - that would bring natural gas to both countries from Iran, officials said.
The 1,735-mile pipeline - proposed by Iran in 1996 - has never gotten off the ground because of India's concern for the security of the pipeline in Pakistan, its archrival for the past six decades.
However, tensions between India and Pakistan have eased in the past year and a half, and their governments have agreed to work toward building the pipeline, despite opposition from Washington, an ally of both countries.
Mani Shankar Aiyar, India's petroleum and natural gas minister, and his Pakistani counterpart, Amanullah Khan Jadoon, began the two-day talks in Pakistan's capital Islamabad.
At the meeting, Aiyar said he informed the Pakistani minister that India is not facing any U.S. pressure to abandon the proposed Iran gas pipeline project.
GOP Lack Of Ethics May Hurt Party in '06
WP
ZANESVILLE, Ohio -- After enlarging their majority two elections in a row, House Republicans have begun to fear that public attention to members' travel and relations with lobbyists will make ethics a potent issue that could cost the party seats in next year's midterm races.
In what Republican strategists call "the DeLay effect," questions plaguing House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) are starting to hurt his fellow party members, who are facing news coverage of their own trips and use of relatives on their campaign payrolls. Liberal interest groups have begun running advertising in districts where Republicans may be in trouble, trying to tie the incumbents to their leaders' troubles.
Among those endangered are at least two committee chairmen and several other senior members. Congressional districts that traditionally have been safe for Republicans could become more competitive, according to party officials.
Nowhere is the impact of the ethics issue clearer than here in the Appalachian hills of eastern Ohio, where a thicket of weekly newspapers now gives regular coverage to revelations about House Administration Committee Chairman Robert W. Ney (R-Ohio) and his ties to DeLay and Jack Abramoff, the lobbyist now under criminal and congressional investigation for the tens of millions of dollars in fees he and a partner collected from casino-owning Indian tribes.
ZANESVILLE, Ohio -- After enlarging their majority two elections in a row, House Republicans have begun to fear that public attention to members' travel and relations with lobbyists will make ethics a potent issue that could cost the party seats in next year's midterm races.
In what Republican strategists call "the DeLay effect," questions plaguing House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) are starting to hurt his fellow party members, who are facing news coverage of their own trips and use of relatives on their campaign payrolls. Liberal interest groups have begun running advertising in districts where Republicans may be in trouble, trying to tie the incumbents to their leaders' troubles.
Among those endangered are at least two committee chairmen and several other senior members. Congressional districts that traditionally have been safe for Republicans could become more competitive, according to party officials.
Nowhere is the impact of the ethics issue clearer than here in the Appalachian hills of eastern Ohio, where a thicket of weekly newspapers now gives regular coverage to revelations about House Administration Committee Chairman Robert W. Ney (R-Ohio) and his ties to DeLay and Jack Abramoff, the lobbyist now under criminal and congressional investigation for the tens of millions of dollars in fees he and a partner collected from casino-owning Indian tribes.
Members of Sept. 11 Panel Press for Information on Terror Risk
NYT
Commissioners say they want the information to prepare for a series of public hearings scheduled to begin here on Monday and to draft a privately financed report that will evaluate the government's counterterrorism policies in the wake of the commission's final report last July.
The moves, which may not be welcome at the White House or among Congressional leaders, represent an unusual effort by members of a high-profile federal commission to retain their political viability and to lobby for their recommendations long after their official investigation came to an end.
"We're going to ask a lot of questions," said Thomas H. Kean, who was chairman of the Sept. 11 commission and is now a board member of the 9/11 Public Discourse Project, a private educational and lobbying group. "There are a lot of our recommendations that have not been implemented."
Mr. Kean said that with terrorist groups threatening new attacks on American soil, "we don't have a lot of time left to act."
Commissioners say they want the information to prepare for a series of public hearings scheduled to begin here on Monday and to draft a privately financed report that will evaluate the government's counterterrorism policies in the wake of the commission's final report last July.
The moves, which may not be welcome at the White House or among Congressional leaders, represent an unusual effort by members of a high-profile federal commission to retain their political viability and to lobby for their recommendations long after their official investigation came to an end.
"We're going to ask a lot of questions," said Thomas H. Kean, who was chairman of the Sept. 11 commission and is now a board member of the 9/11 Public Discourse Project, a private educational and lobbying group. "There are a lot of our recommendations that have not been implemented."
Mr. Kean said that with terrorist groups threatening new attacks on American soil, "we don't have a lot of time left to act."
Final GOP Debate Erupts Into Shoutfest (NJ)
The seven Republican candidates for governor squared off in their final debate yesterday, shouting over each other about property taxes and the negative tone of the primary in a raucous, freewheeling affair televised live on WCBS.
In an effort to break the candidates away from the stock answers they used during five previous televised debates, organizers set a looser format. There were no time limits for responses and the rivals had the opportunity to jump into the fray at will.
But in a race with low voter interest, the final encounter before tomorrow's election illustrated the candidates' desperation to be heard in an exceptionally crowded field. Much of the hour-long broadcast turned into a free-for-all and, at one point, left the moderator pleading for order.
"Our viewers would pray that you would just give us one answer at a time," said Jim Rosenfield, an anchor for WCBS, which sponsored the event along with the New York Times.
In an effort to break the candidates away from the stock answers they used during five previous televised debates, organizers set a looser format. There were no time limits for responses and the rivals had the opportunity to jump into the fray at will.
But in a race with low voter interest, the final encounter before tomorrow's election illustrated the candidates' desperation to be heard in an exceptionally crowded field. Much of the hour-long broadcast turned into a free-for-all and, at one point, left the moderator pleading for order.
"Our viewers would pray that you would just give us one answer at a time," said Jim Rosenfield, an anchor for WCBS, which sponsored the event along with the New York Times.
Harness Racing Picks for 06-06-05
Record since 04-26-05
Win (48)
Place (17)
Show (4)
Out of the Money (12)
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Hazel Park
Race # 9
Horse: YACHI DA
Post Position: # 6
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Plainridge Race Course
Race # 11
Horse: PARAMOUR
Post Position: # 7
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Yonkers Raceway
Race # 4
Horse: MICHAEL Q
Post Position: # 6
Win (48)
Place (17)
Show (4)
Out of the Money (12)
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Hazel Park
Race # 9
Horse: YACHI DA
Post Position: # 6
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Plainridge Race Course
Race # 11
Horse: PARAMOUR
Post Position: # 7
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Yonkers Raceway
Race # 4
Horse: MICHAEL Q
Post Position: # 6
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