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Michigan's Rooney Seeks to Join Florida Brother in House
Attorney Brian Rooney is filing the paperwork Friday to join the 2010 race for Michigan's 7th Congressional District seat. And he is seeking to join his brother, freshman Florida Republican Tom Rooney, in the House Brian Rooney, an Iraq War...
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Polling and Political Wrap-Up, 10/30/09
Daily Kos — ... Freshman Democrat Mark Schauer might be getting another legit opponent. A few months after GOP ex-Congressman Tim Walberg said he wanted his old job back, it looks like lawyer Brian Rooney, the brother of GOP Congressman Tom Rooney, is about to take the plunge. ...

SSP Daily Digest: 11/2
Swing State Project — ... ? MI-07: Unseated wingnut Tim Walberg -- who'd like to get his job back from freshman Dem Mark Schauer -- has some company in the GOP primary next year: attorney and Iraq vet Brian Rooney (the brother of Florida Rep. Tom Rooney) is getting in the race. It's not clear whether Rooney is any more moderate than Walberg, though; he's an attorney for the right-wing Thomas More Law Center, the theocons' answer to the ACLU. ...

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