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In Florida, Crist Begins Dogging Rubio

By | 09.21.10 | 10:45 am

The ad wars continue to run hot down in Florida’s three-way Senate race, but the lines of attack keep shifting. Florida’s Republican governor Charlie Christ, running as an independent, seems to have exhausted his ability to steal Democrats away from Rep. Kendrick Meek (D-Fla.), and has now wheeled around on More…

McCain Brought Home the Bacon With 1989 Earmark

By | 10.10.08 | 6:31 pm

Sen. John McCain, as everyone knows, loves to say that he has never once, in his whole career, requested nor received a single earmark or pork-barrel project for his home state of Arizona.

Politifact has already released a report taking issue with the claim. But the McCain campaign disputes that More…

As a First-Term Senator, McCain Railed Against His Own Pork

By | 09.16.08 | 8:58 am

On the campaign trail, Sen. John McCain frequently decries earmarks and pork-barrel legislation, proudly bragging that he has never requested a single earmark for his home state of Arizona. However, a news article and a scathing editorial from The Arizona Republic during his first-term as the state’s More…