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GOP Donors Funded Entire PA Green Party Drive By Paul Kiel - August 2, 2006, 4:00 PM OK, we've done it. We've nailed it down: Every single contributor to the Pennsylvania Green Party Senate candidate is actually a conservative -- except for the candidate himself. The Luzerne County Green Party raised $66,000 in the month of June in order to fund a voter signature drive. The Philly Inquirer reported yesterday that $40,000 came from supporters of Rick Santorum's campaign (or their housemates).
confirmed that another $15,000 came from GOP donors and conservatives. Only three contributions, totaling $11,000, remained as possible legit donations. He's a Republican lobbyist who has also given to Santorum this campaign. JD Hayworth (R-AZ), was incorrectly listed by the Greens as "James Howmen." He disclosed that he was an editor at the San Diego Review; A "Franklin Schoeneman" of Pottsville has given $8,000 to Santorum so far this election. That leaves only one contribution, for $30, as a legitimate donation from a Green Party supporter. He made it to his own campaign fund, not the local Green Party.
GONZALEZ PRESENTS HARDLINE SYSTEM FOR TRYING DETAINEES Many Senators, including prominent Republicans, have raised concerns about the Bush Administration's proposal.
GOP CANDIDATE "TECHNICALLY" SERVED IN THE GULF WAR Chris Wakim, a Republican candidate running for the House of Representatives in West Virginia, frequently touts his participation in the Gulf War, though he never traveled to Iraq, Kuwait or Saudi Arabia.
ETHICS COMMITTEE WON'T CLEAR BURNS The Senate Ethics Committee will not investigate the scandal surrounding former lobbyist Jack Abramoff as long as the Department of Justice is still working on its own probe.
NYTIMES PHONE RECORDS WILL BE AVAILABLE TO INVESTIGATORS Turning over the phone records of two reporters, as a federal appeals court ordered the New York Times to do yesterday if the documents are requested by federal investigators, poses "no danger to a free press".
SPECIAL ACCESS FOR CONTINENTAL LOBBYIST The lobbyist wife of former Rep. Christopher Cox (R-CA) used her access as the spouse of a member of Congress to get into restricted areas in order to lobby her husband's former colleagues.
ANOTHER DISASTROUS TENURE ENDS WITH COMMENDATION Maj Gen. Geoffrey D Miller, who ran Abu Gharib and the Guantanamo Bay prison camp, received an award for outstanding service on Monday.
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