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GOP kingmakers push presidential candidates to reject family-based immigration system

By | 09.07.11 | 1:02 pm

Image by: Matt MahurinCandidates who attended the Labor Day Palmetto Freedom Forum in Columbia, S.C., were asked to endorse unprecedented reforms to the existing U.S. immigration system. Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), who co-hosted the event along with Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) and president of the American Principles Project Robert George, offered questions about More…

NOM awards Bachmann ‘A’ for abortion views in S.C. presidential forum

By | 09.06.11 | 12:49 pm

Monday’s much-anticipated Palmetto Freedom Forum, held in Columbia, S.C., was an opportunity for the country’s leading anti-gay-marriage group, National Organization for Marriage (NOM), to continue forcing candidates to articulate their positions on same-sex marriage at the federal level; however, the issue that really stole the show was abortion, More…

Romney reverses course, will attend DeMint forum

By | 08.31.11 | 11:48 am

The Hill reports that former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has decided to attend the Labor Day presidential forum in Columbia, S.C., hosted by Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) and The American Principles Project.

Republican lawmakers, conservatives use arrest of Obama’s uncle to attack deportation reform

By | 08.30.11 | 5:35 pm

Onyango Obama, half-brother to President Barack Obama’s father, was arrested last week in Massachusetts on suspicion of drunken driving. He is now being held without bail by federal immigration officials because, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), he had a prior deportation order at the time of his More…

Upcoming DeMint presidential forum co-chaired by NOM founder

By | 08.30.11 | 2:24 pm

The GOP presidential forum Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) will host in Columbia, S.C., on Labor Day will be co-hosted by the original founding chair of the National Organization for Marriage (NOM), which since the successful Proposition 8 campaign of 2008 in California, has raised and spent millions of dollars More…

DeMint will prioritize viability and economic issues, not immigration, say S.C. GOP operatives

By | 07.27.11 | 5:05 pm

In the South Carolina GOP presidential primary, no endorsement is considered more important than that of Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.). Slate and former Washington Independent reporter Dave Weigel identifies him as one of the “Three Kingmakers” in the early GOP contests, along with Iowa’s Bob Vander Plaats and More…

DCCC targets Latham in ‘Drive for 25′

By | 05.16.11 | 5:49 pm | More from The Iowa Independent

With an eye on reclaiming a U.S. House majority in 2012, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has lobbed a series of robocalls into Tom Latham‘s District and also launched a set of tools on a new website for political activists.

The campaign, dubbed “Drive for 25? seeks to educate More…

Colorado Senate kills restriction on driving under influence of THC

By | 05.10.11 | 11:57 am | More from The Colorado Independent

The Colorado Senate killed a bill that would have established a legal limit in Colorado to the amount of THC drivers can have in their system. Lawmakers on the right and left who voted against the bill felt they were attempting to make policy without adequate information. House Bill More…

National group targets Steve King for GOP budget vote

By | 04.25.11 | 12:30 pm | More from The Iowa Independent

On April 15 U.S. Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) voted in support of House GOP budget plan authored by U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), chairman of the House Budget Committee. For most of this week he’ll be strongly criticized for that vote by a new television ad campaign More…

New TV ads target Chip Cravaack on Medicare

By | 04.25.11 | 9:52 am | More from The Minnesota Independent

The ad wars in the 8th Congressional District continued this weekend with the announcement that Americans United for Change plans to spend “five figures” on a television ad campaign targeting four members of the House who voted for Rep. Paul Ryan’s budget proposal. The ad buy targets Rep. Chip More…