corner.nationalreview.com - 1/12/2009
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According to page 10 of CQ Today, convicted former Republican Sen. Ted Stevens's communications director has gone over to work for the Democrats.
PEOPLE ON THE MOVE: New Directors for Landrieu's Office and Committee
...Stephanie Allen has been promoted from press secretary to ...
tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com - 1/7/2009
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Former senator Ted Stevens (yes, now actually former)
is keeping up the fight against his guilty verdict...
-- and now Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid has lent him a hand. Reid told Politico that he believes Stevens shouldn't serve jail time. My ...
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Reid: Free Ted Stevens!
theatlantic.com - 1/6/2009
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Image credit: Ken Cedeno/Corbis B uzzzzzz . The
cell phone rings again and Chuck Schumer flips it...
open. “I figured it out,” he says without preamble. “George Washington. If George Washington got indicted, you wouldn’t pounce on the guy—you’d say he ...
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... What does this from David Freddoso at The Corner say about the state of Republican Party communications? PEOPLE ON THE MOVE: New Directors for Landrieu’s Office and Committee…Stephanie Allen has been promoted from press secretary to communications director for [Sen. Mary] Landrieu [D, La.]…Aaron Saunders has been hired as press secretary, succeeding Allen. Saunders was communications director to then-Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska. So it’s that easy to move from being a communications director for a Republican Senator to press secretary for a Democrat? I’m not sure that ...
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corner.nationalreview.com 1/12/2009 — David, I'm not a conspiracy theorist or anything, but the notion that the "communications directors" for Republican Senators are all secret Democrats would explain a lot about the last few years.
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yglesias.thinkprogress.org 12/23/2008 —
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riehlworldview.com 4/10/2009 — I can understand why Clarice felt the need to preface this with the Libby case. Read it all here . But the Stevens issue is more timely. h/t PW for more.
I am dismayed to learn that so many people are under the impression that the Stevens case ...
LaHood hearing postponed —
CNN Political Ticker 1/14/2009
(CNN) — Former Congressman Ray LaHood's confirmation hearing to be the next secretary of transportation has been postponed because LaHood's "paperwork" isn't done yet, a Senate aide told CNN.
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