CBS News’ Katie Couric: “He’s attended 28 fund-raisers this is year, raising more than $27 million. But the president is also raising money in a less public, more controversial way.” (CBS’ “Evening News,” 10/28/09)

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Today, Obama’s Flack Misleads Press On White House Visitors, Lobbyist Donations

CBS’S CHIP REID ASKS: “The RNC is calling for the White House to release the names of donors who have gotten special access to White House advisors and special perks like the bowling alley. Will you release those names?“ (Robert Gibbs, Remarks At Daily Press Briefing, White House, 10/28/09)

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This is ridiculous!  We now have a government run media, from inside the White House, no doubt.  A huge leap for Socialism, a major step backwards for freedom.

This past campaign cycle, we saw up close and personal, a rash of last minute ads against several people running for office.  This is nothing new.  Campaigns know that in the last week to 10 days, your opponent will probably throw every bit of ammunition against you that they have-real or imagined or told in part truths.  They do this hoping the other side won’t be able to effectively “set the record straight.”  (more…)

John Maginnis, in his most recent fax update, brings up an unintended consequence (or maybe very intended) in the new ethics laws.  It seems the legislature wants to pull every possible person that serves in anything related to politics, paid or voluntary, into financal disclosure.  While it sounds good…maybe…on the surface, I would venture to say the volunteers or those appointed to small boards are not the ones that have consistently acted unethically.  Regardless, it all sounds like some politicians are just angry because they are losing some “perks”.  As my husband often says, “they don’t get mad, they get even.”

The following was written by John Maginnis (more…)

The title of a song from the musical “Kiss Me, Kate”, certainly seems to fit when it comes to politics in Louisiana.  (more…)