Posts by Kathleen Miller

Former Denver Superintendent of Schools, Sen. Michael Bennet, (D-Colo.), survived baptism by fire this week after being associated with Vice President Joe Biden for several days and emerging relatively gaffe-free.
Although Biden was in Denver for a Democratic National Committee fundraiser, he encouraged locals to support Bennet as well — but it appears Bennet is doing [...]

Terry McAuliffe, former Democratic National Committee chairman and current Democratic contender for governor of Virginia, tried to pay off Ralph Nader, to keep the consumer activist from running in swing states during the 2004 presidential election, The Washington Post reports.
“Terry McAuliffe is slipperier than an eel in olive oil,” Nader said in an interview.
He said [...]

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) will traipse through the California heartland today to lend his support to former eBay President and CEO Meg Whitman, a candidate in California’s Republican gubernatorial primary next year.
Whitman is hosting a townhall meeting in Fresno today — and you know McCain can’t resist a good townhall.

Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.) is in, no matter what that Obama guy has to say.
The Plum Line’s Greg Sargent reports that Sestak told him he wants to challenge newly minted Pennsylvania Democratic Sen. Arlen Specter in the 2010 party primary, even if the White House begs him to stay out of the race.
He’ll have his [...]

Sen. David Vitter, (R-LA), is doing everything he can to keep his earmark-loving reputation alive by seeking roughly $1.1 billion earmarks in the federal 2010 budget. This, despite the fact that Vitter’s Website says his “top budget priority is to establish greater fiscal discipline.”

Just two weeks ago, Republican Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, who’s trying to replace retiring Sen. Mel Martinez (R-Fla.), signed a pledge promising not to raise taxes.
Yesterday he signed a budget that did just that.

In the Virginia Democratic gubernatorial primary, whose word would you take — Biz Markie or The Washington Post editorial board? Appomattox Democratic Committee Chair Frank Poynter or the former leader of the free world, Bill Clinton?

The record is skipping at the Grand Old Party.
As David Weigel recently reported, conservative bloggers and activists are stoking a rebellion among Republicans who are fed up with the National Republican Senatorial Committee’s willingness to back so-called “liberal” candidates like Florida Gov. Charlie Crist and Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter — who is now a Democrat, [...]

That’s right folks, Sen. Arlen Specter (D-PA), will step out at his first Democratic National Committee fundraiser this evening at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles.
He’ll be in good company: Jennifer Hudson, Earth, Wind and Fire and President Obama will also be among the luminati at the event. No word yet if Specter — who recently [...]

Attention political junkies — the New Jersey GOP gubernatorial primary is Tuesday. Two reasons you should care, even if you aren’t a Republican and you don’t live in the Garden State:
1) The New Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial campaigns are this year’s only major races. There is nowhere else to get your political fix.
2) This primary [...]