thehill.com - 11/14/2008
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thehill.com —
Rep. Dan Lungren announced Friday that he will
challenge Rep. John Boehner for House Republican leader. Lungren
(Calif.) is considered a longshot to unseat Boehner (Ohio), who moved quickly after last week's election to shore up support in the GOP ...
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Lungren will challenge Boehner for top GOP spot
blogs.abcnews.com - 11/14/2008
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blogs.abcnews.com —
ABC News' Rick Klein Reports: A conservative California
congressman announced Friday that he's mounting a leadership challenge
to House Minority Leader John Boehner, as the GOP continues to assess the fallout from last week’s election losses. Rep. Dan ...
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Boehner to Face Leadership Challenge
blogs.tnr.com - 11/19/2008
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blogs.tnr.com —
Normal 0 The House Republican leadership elections are
today, and GOPers will almost certainly reselect John Boehner,
their eternally tan, chain-smoking, long-suffering caporegime, as their leader - and not only that, but they'll also probably ...
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John Boehner, Cleverest Republican in Washington
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... The challenge to House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) draws conservatives' attention Saturday, while criticism by Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) of Sen. John McCain's (R-Ariz.) presidential campaign brings scrutiny from others. Meanwhile, protests for gay rights across the country today are a lesson in First Amendment rights, liberals say today. Rep. Dan Lungren's (R-Calif.) challenge to Boehner draws a mixed reaction from Hot Air's Ed Morrissey , who says that while Lungren may not have any more youthful appeal than Boehner, but Republicans may simply act out their ...
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... Internet-based movement that has emerged since California voters banned gay marriage last week.
Over the last 11 days, advocates have used the Web to organize scattered protests at places like the Mormon Temple in Westwood and Sunset Junction in Silver Lake and mount boycotts against businesses that supported Proposition 8. Those efforts snowballed, and marches against the proposition are expected in more than 300 cities across the country.
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Lungren vs Boehner for House Minority Leader
Lungren has had a long career as a ...
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Lungren vs Boehner for House Minority Leader
Lungren has had a long career as a conservative in a state increasingly hostile to the Right. He served in Congress in the Reagan years, and then ...
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... Dan Lungren of California will be challenging John Boehner for Minority Leader, a seat Boehner seemed recently to have wrapped up without opposition. ...
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From NBC's Mike ViqueiraAt a press conference today, Rep. Dan Lungren (R) announced a long-shot bid to unseat GOP Rep. John Boehner as House minority leader. Leadership elections are penciled in for next Wednesday.
Lungren says that the party is too ...