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ActBlue — Mr. Geoghegan Comes to Washington (DC Fundraising Event)
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 ...
Bumps in the Road: Obama's HHS Secretary Nominee Faces Tax Questions Over Car and Driver
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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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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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salon.com — (updated below - Update II - Update III) When Barack Obama announced in early December that he had selected Tom Daschle to be his Secretary of Health and Human Services as well as his "health care policy czar," Rolling Stone 's Matt Taibbi -- who had ... (more) The Daschles: feeding at the Beltway trough - Glenn ...
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TONIGHT: Netroots Event in DC
Open Left - Front Page — Dear Friends, This is Tom Geoghegan, running in the March 3 special election to replace Rahm Emanuel in the House. I'm in DC today and our campaign is having an event for the Netroots: TONIGHT – 5:45pm to 7:45pm Local 16 – Upstairs private room 1602 U St NW Washington, DC Please stop by – we can talk about how to get the progressive change our country really needs. You can get a ticket here: http://www.actblue.com/page/tomdcevent09?refcode=geoghegan And don't forget to join the Facebook ...

Tom Geoghegan: TONIGHT: Netroots Event in DC!
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — Dear Friends, This is Tom Geoghegan, running in the March 3 special election to replace Rahm Emanuel in the House. I'm in DC today and our campaign is having an event for the Netroots: TONIGHT – 5:45pm to 7:45pm Local 16 - Upstairs private room 1602 U St NW Washington, DC Please stop by – we can talk about how to get the progressive change our country really needs. You can get a ticket here: http://www.actblue.com/page/tomdcevent09?refcode=geoghegan And don't forget to join the Facebook event ...

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