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actblue.com - 1/25/2009
ActBlue — Mr. Geoghegan Comes to Washington (DC Fundraising Event)
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Please join us Monday, January 26th at 5:45pm in D.C. to support Tom Geoghegan, running in a special election to replace Rahm Emanuel in the House. A famed labor lawyer, Tom wrote legendary pro-worker books like “Which Side Are You On?” David Sirota calls Tom “one of the greatest living ...

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Open Left - Front Page:  Fill Rahm's House seat with a progressive

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techPresident:  Geoghegan Takes 7th in Race to Replace Emanuel

Bumps in the Road: Obama's HHS Secretary Nominee Faces Tax Questions Over Car and Driver
blogs.abcnews.com - 1/30/2009
Bumps in the Road: Obama's HHS Secretary Nominee Faces Tax Questions Over Car and Driver
— blogs.abcnews.com — ABC News has learned that the nomination of former Senator Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-SD, to be President Obama's Secretary of Health and Human Services has hit a traffic snarl on its way through the Senate Finance Committee. The controversy... (more) Bumps in the Road: Obama's HHS Secretary Nominee Faces ...

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More Daschle Tax Issues
blogs.abcnews.com - 1/31/2009
More Daschle Tax Issues
— blogs.abcnews.com — ABC News has obtained the Senate Finance Committee Report on Tom Daschle's nomination to be Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, which indicates that Daschle's tax problems were even more substantial than earlier reported. The ... (more) More Daschle Tax Issues

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Fill Rahm's House seat with a progressive
Open Left - Front Page — ... If you live in DC, join us this Monday evening at Local 16 for a fundraising event for Tom Geoghegan, and meet the candidate himself. There's a high-dollar fundraiser later in the evening, but tickets to this netroots fundraiser event are only $30. Get them here. Facebook invite ...

Adam Green: Fill Rahm's House seat with a progressive
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... If you live in DC, join us this Monday evening at Local 16 for a fundraising event for Tom Geoghegan, and meet the candidate himself. There's a high-dollar fundraiser later in the evening, but tickets to this netroots fundraiser event are only $30. Get them here. Facebook invite ...

Geoghegan Takes 7th in Race to Replace Emanuel
techPresident — ... and Dan Mihalopoulos report. Out of a field of a dozen candidates, better-known Cook County Commissioner Mike Quigley pulled in 22% of the vote to take the Democratic nomination (which is tantamount to winning the congressional seat in this heavily Democratic district). Geoghegan finished 7th, with 6% of the vote. Geoghegan generated a good deal of online excitement -- he was an ActBlue favorite (with nearly $214,000 in contributions), was feted by online DC progressives, and won the Democracy for America endorsement -- but that ...

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