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PAC's spending millions on Clinton
UPI: FEC filings show the conservative RightMarch.com spent nearly $80,000 opposing Clinton while the left-leaning PAC Democratic Courage reportedly spent tens of thousands to oppose her in recent weeks.
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Interest Groups Plan Barrage Of Attack Ads, Mailings in Iowa
Washington Post: Yesterday, a political action committee affiliated with Republican Alan Keyes declared its intention to spend $39,000 on phone banks and mailers opposing Clinton. And a PAC called RightMarch.com, which describes itself on its Web site as a conservative group that targets liberal Republicans and Democrats for defeat, reported yesterday that it will spend $16,465 on mail opposing Clinton.
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With Christmas over, candidates rush back to Iowa
AXcess News: Amongst conservative groups, a political action organization is spending $39,000 on phone and mailer campaigns opposing Clinton, while RightMarch.com, a conservative group that targets liberal Republicans and Democrats alike will spend $16,000 on mail, also opposing Clinton.
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Outside groups target US voters with messages on presidential race
International Herald Tribune: The Club for Growth, which advocates fiscal conservatism, appears to be an exception for now, running television ads against Huckabee. A conservative political action committee called RightMarch.com has spent about $330,000 (Û230,000) in mailings and phone calls against Clinton.
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Independent Groups Target Iowa, New Hampshire
NPR Morning Edition: Independent political-interest groups are working to influence the Iowa and New Hampshire presidential contests with big money and sophisticated strategies... Right now, Hillary Clinton is probably getting the most attention on both sides. This week... RightMarch.com and Life and Liberty Political Action Committee, laid out $72,000 against her.
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O'Reilly and Malkin worried about powerful networks' faux objectivity leading up to 2008 election
News Hounds: As it happens, Romney is widely regarded and documented as a flip-flopper, a derogatory term coined at FOX News during the 2004 presidential election to describe Democrat John Kerry. Romney has been labeled a flip-flopper by the decidedly not liberal Rich Lowry at the National Review On-line, conservative Republican Sam Brownback (who said "Mitt RomneyÕs flip flops are enough to make John Kerry blush"), Outright Libertarians, and RightMarch.com, a conservative political action committee.
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Conservative PAC rips Mitt as abortion flip-flopper
Boston Herald: A national conservative political group has jumped into the brouhaha over Mitt RomneyÕs abortion stance, accusing him of flip-flopping on the hot-button issue while governor of Massachusetts. RightMarch.com, a conservative political action committee, blasted Romney yesterday for ordering Catholic hospitals to make emergency contraceptives available in 2005, over the advice of his top public health adviser.
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A guiding voice
News Journal (DE): In May, several anti-abortion supporters, unhappy with Ting and Mike Protack as the potential Republican Senate candidates, approached her to run in the Republican primary. "Originally I said no," she says. "I never wanted to run for office. I was an outspoken advocate, and if you run you have to water it down. But as someone who prays about every decision I make, I felt like God was leading me in the other direction..." She got the support of the 3-year-old Rightmarch.com, a political action committee which sends out e-mails to a million conservatives nationwide, according to William Greene, executive director. "One of the things we're all about is we're much more on principle than on party," Greene says.
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RightMarch.com PAC billboards appear in Murtha's district
BootMurtha.com (PA): RightMarch PAC -- which is not affiliated nor coordinated with Vets for the Truth / Boot Murtha project -- has added one more billboard against John Murtha in Johnstown, PA. While Vets for the Truth have not yet confirmed the billboard advertisement by RightMarch.com PAC, the following email from that organization shows its billboard message and the need to get rid of the cut-n-run congressman.
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RightMarch.com Endorses Gallagher
St. Petersburg Times: RightMarch.com, the online conservative political action group formed to counterbalance MoveOn.org, announced Thursday it was endorsing Republican Tom Gallagher in the governor's race and pledged to counter any funds Michael Schiavo's TerriPAC puts into the race. TerriPAC has endorsed Democrat Jim Davis, who fought congressional attempts to intervene in the Terri Schiavo case. Gallagher stood with Gov. Jeb Bush in his failed attempt to persuade the Florida Legislature to intervene. "As we promised to do, we're matching 'TerriPAC' dollar for dollar, ad for ad," said RightMarch.com PAC president William Greene, in a news release from the group's Washington, D.C. headquarters. "We cannot simply sit by and allow solid, pro-life politicians to be targeted by the pro-death forces. So we're putting our money where our mouth is."
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Conservatives Lobby Against 'Guest Worker' Amnesty
CNSNews.com: A conservative advocacy group says it is launching a multi-state ad campaign targeting U.S. senators who support amnesty for illegal aliens under the guise of "guest worker" programs. William Greene, president of the RightMarch.com political action committee, said senators will have a pile of correspondence waiting for them when they return to their offices next week. "Our members have sent over 300,000 faxes, emails, and hand-delivered letters to the U.S. Senate, to stop the proposed amnesty for illegal aliens," Greene said. He believes a majority of senators are "just waiting for their chance to vote for amnesty" when the Senate reconvenes next week. "They're ready to vote the opposite of how their constituents want them to vote -- so now, we're taking this battle to them," he said.
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DeLay says he'll lead from the outside
Dallas Morning News: Once he leaves Congress, Tom DeLay hopes to put his talents to work pushing the conservative cause Ð without the trappings of power, the duties of high office or, perhaps, the huge political bull's-eye on his back... "The entire left wing has been gunning after Congressman DeLay for years," said William Greene, president of RightMarch .com, a conservative group. "Yes, he won't be in Congress any longer Ð but there's no doubt that now he'll be a leader in other ways, moving the conservative agenda forward at a pace that will make the left wish they had just left him alone."
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Political Action Committee Will Support Lawmakers Who Backed Terri Schiavo
LifeNews.com: Pro-life advocates have created a new political action committee that will support lawmakers who backed Terri Schiavo and her family's efforts to prevent her euthanasia death. The group is also meant to counter a political action committee set up by Terri's former husband, who won a legal battle to take her life. William Greene, president of the RightMarch, a conservative political group, says his organization has founded Terri's List, and that it will counteract the efforts of Michael's TerriPAC.
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New PAC for Lawmakers Who Upheld Terri Schiavo's Right to Life
CNSNews.com: A conservative advocacy group has announced a campaign to support elected officials who backed Terri Schiavo's fight for life. "Terri's List" is a political action campaign formed to counter "TerriPAC," set up by Terri's husband Michael Schiavo. "We'll match 'TerriPAC' dollar for dollar, ad for ad if we have to," said William Greene, president of the RightMarch.com PAC. "We cannot simply sit by and allow solid, pro-life politicians to be targeted by the pro-death forces."
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Decorated Iraq War Veteran Challenges Cindy Sheehan
The Conservative Voice: Hiram Lewis IV, currently a Captain and JAG officer in the West Virginia Army National Guard and a GOP candidate for the U.S. Senate from West Virginia, has announced the new "Meet With Hiram" campaign targeting anti-Bush and anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan. "Together with the conservative activist organization RightMarch.com, I will be traveling to Crawford, Texas, to demand a meeting with Cindy Sheehan," said Lewis. "If she refuses to meet with me there, I will follow her on her bus tour and continue to demand a meeting until she agrees to talk with me face-to-face."
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New woe for DeLay: A real reelection battle
Philadelphia Inquirer: And, for the first time, DeLay will have a seasoned challenger - Nick Lampson, a former Democratic congressman who lost his seat after DeLay's allies in the Texas legislature redrew the boundaries of his nearby district... Moreover, the conservative network is already primed to save DeLay; witness the rightmarch.com Web site: "Lampson is a liberal's liberal, and we intend to expose him for what he really stands for." And DeLay's loyalists are wired to that network.
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4th District: Terror linkage irks McKinney
Atlanta Journal-Constitution: McKinney's donors are divided almost evenly between local and out-of-town supporters. They include former United Nations ambassador and Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young, human rights activist Coretta Scott King, lawyers, doctors, educators, business owners and preachers. She got $2,000 from the Arab American Leadership, $5,000 from the Congressional Black Caucus and nearly $30,000 from unions. Davis said she has received many small contributions from individuals. She also got $1,010 from the Susan B. Anthony List Candidate Fund, an anti-abortion political action committee, and $500 from the conservative RightMarch.Com PAC.
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Cannon Under Gun For Appeals to Hispanics
Fox News: As voters gear up for the Utah Republican primary on Tuesday, four-termÊRep. Chris Cannon is fighting off chargesÊthat he is in violation ofÊcampaign finance laws after making an appeal to illegal immigrants for campaign donations. Cannon, sponsor of theÊAgricultural Job Opportunity, Benefits, and Security Act of 2003, which gives long-time illegal immigrants employed in the U.S. agriculture industry the chance to qualify for work visas, appeared on Salt Lake City Spanish-language radio station KBJA last month with a part-time congressional aide. During theÊ90-minute interview, which was conducted entirely in Spanish, Cannon's aide, Marco Diaz, urged illegal immigrants and those under 18-years-old to send in donations to Cannon's campaign.
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Illegal plea for illegals' cash?
Deseret News (UT): As Rep. Chris Cannon sat by, one of his aides urged any illegal aliens listening to a Spanish-language radio talk show to funnel money into his campaign by giving it to U.S. citizens who could donate it legally. However, federal law not only bans political donations from foreign nationals, it also bans such funneling through citizens, too Ñ and the solicitation or receipt of it. Still, Marco Diaz, an aide to Cannon, R-Utah, told Radio Unica in Spanish on May 22, "If you are undocumented you must find, we welcome this money, but you have to find someone who is legal in order to donate money."
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Complaint filed against Cannon over radio remark
Provo Daily Herald (UT): A Provo resident told the Daily Herald on Monday that he has filed a complaint against Congressman Chris Cannon, R-Utah, with the Federal Election Commission alleging that Cannon violated federal law on a Spanish-language radio show last month by encouraging illegal immigrants to donate to his campaign through their children... On the radio, Rivera said the "good side" for Hispanics is Cannon's side, and the "bad side" is Throckmorton's side.
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Cannon Blasted for Aide's Comments on Spanish-language Radio
KSL News (UT): Opponents of Rep. Chris Cannon claim he sat by while an aide solicited illegal campaign contributions from illegal immigrants... Cannon aide Marco Diaz told Radio Unica in Spanish on May 22, "If you are undocumented you must find, we welcome this money, but you have to find someone who is legal in order to donate money."
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Cannon accused of illegal donation soliciting
Salt Lake Tribune (UT): An anti-immigration group is accusing Utah Rep. Chris Cannon of soliciting illegal campaign donations from undocumented immigrants during an appearance on a Spanish-language radio station. The accusations come just a week before the June 22 primary election, where Cannon is being challenged by former state Rep. Matt Throckmorton for the Republican Party nomination in Utah's 3rd Congressional District.
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Primary fight costly for GOP
Deseret News (UT): ...Meanwhile, in Utah's 3rd District House race, Rep. Chris Cannon, R-Utah, has belatedly shifted his fund-raising and campaigning into full gear - raising and spending four times more than rival Matt Throckmorton in the past two months. Cannon had done relatively little fund-raising until Throckmorton surprisingly forced him into a primary.
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Cannon ahead in new poll, But Throckmorton sees signs that he might be vulnerable
Deseret News (UT): Rep. Chris Cannon, R-Utah, leads fellow Republican Matt Throckmorton in their primary match-up for the 3rd Congressional District seat, according to a new Deseret Morning News/KSL-TV poll... Cannon and Throckmorton both lead Democratic nominee Beau Babka, pollster Dan Jones found in a survey conducted last week... While Throckmorton trails Cannon, he thinks the poll shows Cannon might be a vulnerable four-term incumbent. "The first thing is that Chris should be in the low 60s," Throckmorton said. "These numbers show a bit of concern with what's going on. And I bet that of those 47 out of 100 people, most probably don't know how passionately Chris supported (the) No Child Left Behind (education-reform act). Our campaign will clearly articulate where we stand on No Child Left Behind, immigration and the national debt. The numbers are going to change a little bit."
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GOP incumbents face challenges on immigration
Washington Times: Immigration is turning into an election battleground among Republicans, with several challengers running primary campaigns against leading congressional supporters of legalizing illegal aliens. Rep. Christopher B. Cannon, Utah Republican and a prominent legalization supporter, failed to win 60 percent of the vote at a Republican nominating convention a little more than a week ago. Now, he faces a primary next month against Matt Throckmorton, a former state legislator who is running hard on the immigration issue.
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GOP revolution on its last legs
Chicago Sun-Times (IL): ...That situation suggests the current realignment cycle in American politics is nearing an end after 36 years, with the Republican Party displaying symptoms of a nervous breakdown. The party's leadership, from President Bush on down, went out of its way to push the undependable Republican Sen. Arlen Specter to victory against a staunch conservative in the Pennsylvania primary because he was considered a stronger general election candidate. In contrast, dependably conservative Coburn gets no establishment support in the contested Oklahoma primary, though he is the best bet in November.
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Specter could be losing support in Pa.
The Hill (DC): After emerging from a tough primary, centrist Republican Sen. Arlen Specter (Pa.) may be losing the conservative base he needs to win in November. Some supporters of Specter's conservative primary challenger, Rep. Pat Toomey, are planning to reach across the political spectrum and vote for Rep. Joe Hoeffel (D-Pa.), Specter's opponent, said Anthony Loeper, who served as Toomey's Philadelphia-area coordinator in the primary race... Specter also will face a challenge from a conservative third-party candidate. Jim Clymer, chairman of the Constitution Party and a Lancaster, Pa., lawyer, said the party will have a candidate on the November ballot - most likely Clymer himself.
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Murkowski targeted by Miller in Alaska
The Hill (DC): Alaska state Sen. Mike Miller (R) will unveil a new television ad this week designed to promote his home-state ties and portray his primary opponent, Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), as an inexperienced candidate... The Miller ad highlights his record as an 18-term state senator and his childhood in Alaska. The spot also ridicules Murkowski for her four-year voting record in the Alaska state Legislature.
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Cannon "shocker:" immigration issue forces primary battle
ProjectUSA: Delegates to Utah's state GOP convention dealt entrenched four-term Congressman Chris Cannon a stunning political blow Saturday when he failed to gather enough support to avoid a primary battle against a young challenger who made Cannon's stand on illegal immigration his major campaign issue... After the vote, Cannon, who outspent Throckmorton more than 18-1 in the campaign, complained to the Deseret News about the influence of money in the contest. "A lot of money has come into this race from out of state," he said, "all over the misinterpreted phrase 'amnesty.'"... According to Federal Election Commission data posted by The Center For Responsive Politics, 94% of the non-PAC contributions to Cannon's reelection campaign have come from out of state -- the vast majority of it from the Washington, DC metro area. PACs, meanwhile, have kicked in $195,188 so far to make sure Cannon goes back to Washington. Ninety-three percent of the PAC money coming from business special interests -- many representing industries that profit by Cannon's creative interpretation of the word "amnesty" or his efforts to raise the import quotas on foreign labor.
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RightMarch Recruits 'Conservative' to Run Against 'Liberal' GOP Congressman
Men's News Daily: Conservative political action committee RightMarch.com successfully recruited former Republican Utah state senator Matt Throckmorton to run against incumbent U.S. Rep. Chris Cannon (R-UT) in the upcoming primary to serve as "a wake-up call" to all liberal Republican legislators who run as Republicans but subsequently abandon their conservative principles once they are elected into office.
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Cannon is forced into primary battle in the 3rd District
Deseret News (UT): Another shocker was four-term Rep. Chris Cannon, forced into a primary with former Utah House member Matt Throckmorton in the 3rd Congressional District... Cannon said he was disappointed to face another primary - his second in four re-elections. "A lot of money has come into this race from out of state - all over the misinterpreted phrase 'amnesty,' " Cannon said after it was announced that he fell just short of 60 percent and would face Throckmorton, who campaigned against Cannon's stands on immigration. Now more will come in the primary, he added. "We'll raise the money we need to get our message out." But this primary will be tougher than the one he faced in 1998, when an unknown and under-funded Republican running from Cannon's right forced the incumbent into a primary.
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Throckmorton joins Congress race again
Deseret News (UT): Former state representative Matt Throckmorton announced Saturday that he will challenge fellow Republican Chris Cannon in Utah's 3rd Congressional District... In his announcement, made in front of a group of about 100 family and friends Saturday morning, Throckmorton said he will focus on immigration reform, the economy, education and the No Child Left Behind act. "We need to secure our border," he said. "I support legal immigration but not illegal immigration." And this time around, Throckmorton said he thinks he will have enough backers at the Republican Convention to reach a primary election. Candidates who receive 40 percent of convention delegates or more go on to a primary.
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Santorum Beats Conservatives: Toomey lost to the Republican party, president and all
National Review: Pat Toomey's campaign was a model of hard work and honesty, but he ended it with a lie. In his concession speech before a tearful crowd in the Holiday Inn, Toomey began by speaking of the ideas of freedom, limited government, and traditional values. "These ideas," he said, "are at the heart of the Republican party. These ideas are what the Republican party is about." If the Republican party had these ideas at its core, Pat Toomey would be the nominee for U.S. Senate.
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RightMarch.com PAC Nominated for "Golden Dot" Award
Washington, DC: The Institute for Politics, Democracy & the Internet at The George Washington University's Graduate School of Political Management will present Golden Dot Awards for civic excellence in online campaigning from March 22nd, 2003 through February 7th, 2004 at the 2004 Politics Online Conference. The RightMarch.com PAC has been nominated in the "Best PAC or Political Party Internet Campaign" category.
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Miller may challenge Sen. Murkowski
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner (AK): Former state Sen. Mike Miller said Monday he may ask voters in the August primary to pick him as the Republican U.S. Senate candidate instead of incumbent Sen. Lisa Murkowski. Miller, the state's Commissioner of Administration until April 1, said he will decide by April 15 whether to seek the party's nomination in this fall's primary election. "We're still talking about it," Miller said, referring to himself and his wife, Susan. They own and operate Santa Claus House, a family business in North Pole, a town of 1,700 on the Richardson Highway roughly 15 miles from Fairbanks. Miller said several Republican Party leaders and "stalwarts" asked him to enter the race. "Most of them believe that Lisa cannot beat Tony, and, quite frankly, think I would beat Tony," Miller said. Former Gov. Tony Knowles is the leading Democratic candidate.
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Walrath gears up for Boehlert challenge
The Daily Star (NY): Republican Dr. David Walrath of Auburn announced he is raising funds for another run for the office. In 2002, Walrath came close to defeating Boehlert in a Republican primary that was not decided until absentee ballots were counted. After losing the Republican primary, Walrath stayed in the race for Congress as a Conservative and lost to Boehlert by a wide margin in the general election. On Monday, Walrath's campaign committee sent out a notice that he is gearing up for another attempt to unseat Boehlert. "For too long, we have experienced the loss of our best and brightest people, industry, and good jobs in central New York," Walrath said in a prepared statement. "My candidacy will be about job creation for our region, while preserving the core Republican values of lower taxes and responsible government spending."
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Republicans welcome Coburn to Oklahoma's Senate race
The Journal Record (OK): The entry of former U.S. Tom Coburn in Oklahoma's U.S. Senate race was hailed Monday by several Republican legislators at the state Capitol.
"I think the other candidates, both Republican and Democrat, probably were not overly thrilled with that announcement," said Rep. Larry Ferguson, R-Cleveland. "He's a very independent-thinking person and I think he will appeal to a lot of voters. I think it's been proven in years past that he doesn't bow down to any leadership of any political party. He's basically his own person."
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Miller vs. Knowles: Who can win in November?
Miller Campaign: Lisa Murkowski is not conservative enough to unite the Republican base behind her in the battle to defeat Knowles. A study by the respected National Journal shows that Lisa Murkowski is the sixth most liberal Republican out of 51 in the Senate. She is the second-most liberal Republican west of the Mississippi River and the most liberal member of Alaska’s Congressional delegation. Her composite conservative score of 55 percent is well behind Ted Stevens’ 66 percent and Don Young’s 77 percent conservative scores. Mike Miller is a trusted, conservative leader who is battle-tested after more than two decades of service in elected office, including serving as Republican Senate President. Mike Miller can unite the Republican base and defeat Tony Knowles in the November 2nd general election.
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