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March 10, 2009
Partisan politics has ruined racing If I were a civics professor, I could not find a better example of partisan politics for my students than the slots/race track debacle ("Md. tracks on auction block," March 6). In all four years of his one-term tenure, Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., a Republican governor facing a Democratic-controlled legislature, fought to get a slots bill passed to help bail an anemic Maryland thoroughbred industry and to fund the Thornton education law. In each legislative session he hit a Democratic leadership stonewall and slots went nowhere.
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By PAUL WEST | November 23, 2008
Washington - Think of Barack Obama's political organization as a Maserati, a luxury, high-performance vehicle that lapped the competition this year. The president-elect hasn't indicated precisely what he'll do with his baby, which he's called, perhaps accurately, the best ever built. One thing he's unlikely to do is put it away in the garage for the next four years. Modern presidents typically shut their campaigns down, bring their political advisers into the government and run their political operations out of the White House and national party headquarters in Washington.
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October 20, 2008
Electoral fraud isn't just partisan politics The Baltimore Sun's editorial concerning ACORN and the allegations that it has engaged in voter fraud described these allegations as overblown or the product of Republican or right-wing hysteria ("Crying wolf," Oct. 13). That same day, new reports of ACORN's apparent attempts to submit fraudulent registrations were revealed, including multiple registrations of individuals and the registration of fictitious persons ("ACORN defends sign-ups; GOP lawmakers seeks probe," Oct. 15)
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By Kelly Brewington | July 6, 2008
Two months ago, NAACP board member Alice Huffman played a pivotal role in a Democratic National Committee meeting that paved the way for Sen. Barack Obama to clinch the party's presidential nomination. Obama's historic victory - the first for a black candidate - has been celebrated as a civil rights milestone. But when the Illinois senator takes the stage at the NAACP's annual convention in Cincinnati next week, Huffman and other board members of the nation's oldest civil rights organization will not be endorsing him. As a tax-exempt nonprofit, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is forbidden to engage in partisan politics.
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By McClatchy-Tribune | March 11, 2007
WASHINGTON -- Presidential adviser Karl Rove and at least one other member of the White House political team were urged by the New Mexico Republican Party chairman to fire the state's U.S. attorney because of dissatisfaction in part with his failure to indict Democrats in a voter fraud investigation in the battleground election state. In an interview yesterday with McClatchy Newspapers, Allen Weh, the party chairman, said he complained in 2005 about then-U.S. Attorney David Iglesias to a White House liaison who worked for Rove and asked that he be removed.
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By KELLY BREWINGTON | February 10, 2006
Senate Republicans accused a State Board of Elections officer yesterday of providing information to Democrats to bolster their case for overturning the governor's vetoes on voting bills. Democrats called the charge an example of partisan politics. Sen. Alan H. Kittleman, who represents parts of Carroll and Howard counties, blamed the director of candidacy and campaign finance at the elections board for offering "talking points" to a member of Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller's staff.
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By DAVID NITKIN | September 28, 2005
Maryland's two oldest living former governors decried the current high level of partisanship in Annapolis during a panel discussion yesterday hosted by a leading state business group. Marvin Mandel and Comptroller William Donald Schaefer said the state capital is far different from when they served as governors from 1969-1979 and 1987-1995, respectively. "Partisan politics is changing Maryland. There's no doubt about it. It's descending on us from Washington," said Mandel, 85, speaking to business leaders and General Assembly members at a breakfast meeting of Maryland Business for Responsive Government.
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By Ellen Goodman | March 14, 2005
BOSTON - There are few phrases in the book of parenting that raise more suspicions among the young than the pronouncement that "I am doing this for your own good." It comes in a close second only to the declaration, "This is going to hurt me more than it will you." In this spirit of skepticism, I have been stalking President Bush's remarks about Social Security. My list starts with the State of the Union address, when Mr. Bush exhorted us to "do what Americans have always done and build a better world for our children and our grandchildren."
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By Douglas MacKinnon | April 14, 2004
WASHINGTON - With regard to who did what before Sept. 11, 2001, or the wisdom of going to war in Iraq, Americans need to get a grip and deal with reality. Our nation does not need and cannot risk more partisan politics. Instead, we need increased protection and long-term solutions before a more lethal attack is visited upon us. Sideshows, finger-pointing, egos and political hacks are delaying the increased protection and solutions our nation demands. Enough is enough. We need to deal with facts and reality and cast aside destructive partisan politics.
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By John Rivera | November 17, 1998
A watchdog group has filed a complaint with the Internal Revenue Service claiming that West Baltimore's New Psalmist Baptist Church improperly engaged in partisan politics when it welcomed President Clinton and Gov. Parris N. Glendening this month.Officials from Americans United for the Separation of Church and State said the Nov. 1 service at New Psalmist, two days before Glendening was re-elected, was essentially a Democratic Party rally.Edward Smith Jr., an attorney for New Psalmist, said neither he nor the church has been informed by the IRS of any investigation.