Less than a week after the public-interest law firm Americans United for Life (AUL) sent U.S. House members a lengthy report alleging 20 years of federal-funding violations committed by Planned Parenthood Federation of America, at least eight representatives — most of them freshmen — have shown interest in potentially launching More…
David Krikorian, the Reagan conservative-turned-Democrat who was vying for the chance to run against Rep. Jean Schmidt (R-Ohio) in November, might be conceding defeat after yesterday’s Democratic primary, but he’s not doing it very gracefully.
Instead, the Cincinnati businessman is claiming that the victor, Indian-American Surya Yalamanchili, won only after More…
Last week, we noted the odd happenings in Ohio’s second district, where Democratic leaders are attacking David Krikorian, a candidate in this week’s Democratic primary, over racist remarks he allegedly made against his primary opponent, an Indian American named Surya Yalamanchili.
But the episode didn’t stop More…
The congressional race in Ohio’s second district is shaping up to be an odd one. And it’s not just because one Democratic candidate is a self-described “Reagan conservative” and another starred recently on “The Apprentice.”
With the Democratic primary just days away, state and local party leaders are ripping into More…
I just talked to Mike Kilburn, a county commissioner in Warren County, Ohio, who’s running against Rep. Jean Schmidt (R-Ohio) in the 2010 GOP primary. He was “surprised,” he said, to find out that the Republican National Committee had–until Politico exposed it–included some coverage for abortion in its employee More…
When is it fair to accuse a member of Congress of being a “birther”? I’m wrestling with this a little today. Jason Linkins calls Rep. Charles Boustany (R-La.) a “birther” because, in a video shot and edited by The Huffington Post, he said that President Obama’s birth records were More…
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