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• Polstate Byte on This Headlines 03-30
  Tancredo to official declare for presidency AP / FOX NEWS Tancredo has flirted with a presidential bid for more than a year and began raising money for the effort in January. After taking in more than $1 million in two months, he has decided to make his run official, said the official, who asked not to be [...]
  Sat, 31 Mar 2007 05:09:39 +0000
• Donate small to the candidates you like
  Tomorrow is the end of the first-quarter fundraising filing deadline. It’s disgustingly early, still, but the process is what it is.  So, my suggestion is donate the minimum to the candidates you like, Democrat or Republican regardless of what you think their chances are. Even $5 will involve you in a very real way with the campaign [...]
  Fri, 30 Mar 2007 21:01:16 +0000
• Polstate ChewyBytes - News, Headlines 03-27
  (Submit your own news links. Think of a better name than ChewyBytes) • Political State Report is in the Smithsonian Magazine • Tony Snow's cancer has spread, why not quit? • Military recruiter does military no favors. • Anyone else thinks it's strange to see a mobile bus-sized oven in a New York Jewish neighborhood? • Arizona state legislature tackling 8th-grade graduations.
  Tue, 27 Mar 2007 21:42:22 +0000
• Yo it’s the Breaux Show, YouTube
  Tue, 27 Mar 2007 10:41:34 +0000
• LA: Breaux readies himself for candidacy, shows Web site
  John Breaux has a rockin’ video - and not much else - at his newly launched Web site JohnBreaux07.com to run for Louisiana governor. The 1:47 You Tube video acts as a short biography, and focuses a great deal on his local ties. It then dryly relates his history as a politician, “Served Louisiana interests [...]
  Tue, 27 Mar 2007 10:39:03 +0000
• OP-ED: Anna Nicole Smith, Pat Tillman - whose autopsy is more important?
  Sorry to both families for framing the question that way, but black-and-white contrasts rarely are aligned in this way. The final Department of Defense reports on Pat Tillman’s April 22, 2004 friendly fire death near Manah, Afghanistan, were released today complete with autopsy results. ...
  Tue, 27 Mar 2007 05:52:12 +0000
• PSR: Porsche as Salon’s free pass ad
  Does anyone else think it slightly or beyond slightly odd that the free pass these days for access to the Salon Web site is for Porsche’s Cayenne car, which retails for right around $90,000. Let me just throw this out there, if you can afford the Cayenne pony up the $35 for premium Salon ya cheap [...]
  Sun, 25 Mar 2007 02:29:31 +0000
• PSR: Blogger’s Assc. Robert Cox makes a lot of sense
  Media Bloggers Association, Robert Cox, was on the Research Channel (Channel 9400, DISH Network) on a program called Changing Media. I’m watching it now, and the guy makes a lot more sense than the impression I had of the Media Bloggers Association. I thought the group was a lot more anti-media than it is (and [...]
  Sat, 24 Mar 2007 22:14:28 +0000
• Politico relates too late?
  Politico.com, a new shift in the typeset, offset, no-set continuum is being widely roasted for putting out the "news" that Edwards was dropping out of the race due to his wife's illness. A few of the reporters now there moved from the Washington Post, which means Howard Kurtz, always with a caul of smarm in the best of circumstances, is enjoying their mistake way too much, with the headline Polit
  Sat, 24 Mar 2007 09:25:00 +0000
• Polstate ChewyBytes - News, Headlines 03-23
  Everything you always wanted to know about hair but were afraid to ask. We'll start with the chummy folks at Red Herring who tell us that CBS and Fox News, (separately needless to say) are teaming with Neighborhood America to recruit salary-free workers. ...
  Fri, 23 Mar 2007 08:13:05 +0000
• Edwards wife has cancer recurrence, he stays in race
  Saying the campaign is only getting stronger, Edwards’ hastily called press conference today was professionally less than supporters feared and personally more fearful than supporters would have desired. Rumors that he would quit or suspend his campaign were proved false. “The campaign goes on. ...
  Thu, 22 Mar 2007 20:08:29 +0000
• PSR: StumbleUpon makes today a great day
  The article I put together regarding Fife Symington seeing a UFO was highlighted briefly on the front page of Google News. From there or some other way, StumbleUpon found it and we’ve had close to 700 hits as a result. For a group blog site that was until recently on life support, it’s a welcome shot [...]
  Thu, 22 Mar 2007 03:21:17 +0000
• Transcript: Bush on fired US attorneys
  Transcript of statement and following questions regarding the controversy that has developed over the firing of eight US attorneys (Put your own comment on this below) THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release March 20, 2007 STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT ON THE U.S. ATTORNEYS ISSUE The Diplomatic Reception Room 5:45 P.M. ...
  Thu, 22 Mar 2007 01:11:40 +0000
• PolState ChewyBytes - News, Headlines 03-21
  GOP Candidates Confront Immigration Politics New York Times - Beyond whatever influence it has as the state whose caucuses kick off the presidential nominating contest, Iowa has become something of a laboratory for the politics of immigration. Not only is it a place where industries like meatpacking rely heavily on immigrant workers and where a once relatively [...]
  Thu, 22 Mar 2007 01:07:01 +0000
• AZ: Former Gov. Symington says he saw UFO in 1997
  Fife Symington has a storied, checkered past. He may have check-mated much of what happened with him before with the revelation that he saw a UFO. Hundreds, or thousands, of people in central Arizona remember what is now referred to as the “Phoenix Lights.” On March 13, 1997 these lights moved fast and slow and stalled [...]
  Wed, 21 Mar 2007 23:30:04 +0000
• AZ: AZ Dems call for investigation into Charlton replacement
  Letter sent to Democratic and Republican Senators to ensure that next U.S. Attorney didn’t strike a deal to get nomination The Arizona Democratic Party has written a letter today to Senators Patrick Leahy and Arlen Spector calling on the head of the Judiciary Committee to ensure that nominees for the replacement of Arizona U.S. Attorney Paul [...]
  Wed, 21 Mar 2007 06:44:55 +0000
• OP-ED: Arizona Sen. Kyl - ‘Security on Strike’
  By U.S. Sen. Jon Kyl The U.S. Senate recently approved legislation entitled “Improving America’s Security,” but like many bills in Washington, it fails to live up to its name.The legislation is ostensibly dedicated to improving national security, but it omits key provisions that would help prevent terrorists and criminals from entering the United States, expedite the [...]
  Wed, 21 Mar 2007 05:48:11 +0000
• ADMIN: We’re about to again be a functioning member of the Gov. Relations Blog Network
  I'm in transition this weekend, here and elsewhere. Political State Report, Polstate.com, is and has been a member of the Government Relations Blog Network. ...
  Sun, 18 Mar 2007 00:26:05 +0000
• FL: The way politics is going, discuss
  The headline says: Apathetic Voters Tempted With Free Strip Club EntryThe voters say, “YEAH.” Joe Redner has a deal for Tampa’s registered voters: Cast a ballot in the upcoming runoff election and gain free admission to his Mons Venus strip club. That’s a free afternoon or evening of nude dancers. Hand over your “I voted” sticker at [...]
  Thu, 15 Mar 2007 23:28:26 +0000
• ADMIN: Site on haitus for about two weeks
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  Fri, 16 Feb 2007 20:06:19 +0000