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The poll of 600 likely Republican voters in St. Clair County Michigan’s State Representative District 81 countywide found Alloway leading Pavlov by 12 points, 48 percent to 40 percent in a three-way race with Yale Republican Steve Pray Nader included in the ballot test.

“A Michigan Impossible until we work together ending illegal state house electioneering practices” Joe Alloway-R Michigan House District 81 St. Clair County Michigan PORT HURON – JULY 11, 2004 - Please listen to a recent interview (http://66.92.134.175/~benburch/old/TrupianoShow-(10-5-2004).mp3) exposing Michigan’s #1 area to reform and that’s ending illegal activities in Michigan’s House Republican Caucus Communications Office! Very few citizens asked have no idea of what that word means. Folks, the bottom line is we’ve had some major problems in this antiquated, 50-person staffed office and they’re just coming public. Take recent revelations of state employees assigned to representatives as campaign managers...

I just got back last week from driving across the country, I live in Washington State and drove to PA in see my wifes family and took I-80 and I-90 back home. With my Bush/Cheney sticker from 2000 in my back window along with my W-04 sticker I got a aproviel rating of about 75% judging from the honks and thumbs ups from fellow drivers. Funny how I got the 1 finger salute from the folks with the Kerry stickers. My question to you is do you vent your hate and anger at fellow drivers on the road with a...

Last night, I was told that a report was recently published by some DC think-tank. This report ranked members of congress in order of taxpayer-friendliness, i.e. it examined their votes on tax-related bills and determined where any particular member of congress came in on higher or lower taxes for their constituents. The same person who told me about the report told me that a whopping 75% of house and senate members from my state were in the top 20 LEAST friendly to taxpayers in their voting records. Have any of you heard of this report? Can you point me to...

Without complaining about President Bush can ANYONE out there say with full honesty WHY they're voting for Kerry. (Not agaist Bush) What makes Kerry a great candidate ? Post your answer on the NAU College Republican Disuccion Board too! http://naurepublicans.com

Are you a registered voter?? Do you know anyone who needs to register?? Check this out: http://www.ConservativeAlerts.com/vote.htm Ultra liberal "MoveOn" is attempting to register 100,000 new left wing voters. WE need to register 200,000 new conservative voters!! Just click on the above link, click on your State, fill in the necessary information, print it out, and mail it in!! It's a simple as that!! As you all know, this will be the most important election in our lifetime. Our future depends on it, and the future of our children depends on it. It is an election we MUST win!! DO...

I've seen the senate races heating up, but not nearly as much on the house seats. I'm mostly using information from DC POLITICAL REPORT and POLITICS1. STATES Alabama DISTRICT 3 - The other Mike Rogers (R) won in 02 with 50.3% over Democrat Joe Turnham(48.2%) in an open seat. So far, it looks as he is facing Democrat Bill Fuller, Ex-State Human Resources Commissioner. I haven't heard much about this race, but the first defense is hardest. Alaska SENATE - Lisa Murkowski(R) vs Ex governor Tony Knowles. This will be a tough race as Knowles is an ex-governor and Murkowski...

Journalists, political pundits and other Hysteric Left activists are desperately trying to spin some cosmic significance out of Sunday's Spanish elections. The "conventional wisdom" is that the Spanish Election results are some sort of significant defeat for President Bush and the War on Terror. As usual the "News Media's" thinking is neither conventional nor wise. What all the various activists miss is the reality of American Exceptionalism. As much as the International Political Left hates, and try's to deny, the reality is the USA operates on a completely different political level then the rest of the world. On Sunday, the...

Bush/Cheney 04 is recuiting volunteers NOW! We are making phone calls tonight from 6-8:30 PM at the Republican State Party Headquarters at 3501 N 24th Street, Phoenix, and also on Saturday from 1-4 PM. The location likely will be changing next week to the Bush/Cheney Phoenix campaign office which is just being finished at 4647 N 32nd Street, Suite 125 (it is the back building). Come on down, it's not only important work... it's also a lot of fun, and you'll be in good company! Not a Democrat in sight. The campaign also needs daytime office volunteers. Contact: Meghan C....

The reason for my apology was that throughout this primary season we have been hearing about the record turnout of voters participating in Democrat caucuses and primaries. I bought the lie. The truth is that, except for Iowa and New Hampshire, there has not been any sort of record turnout for the Democrats. Even in New Hampshire the vote was far less than what the Republicans had when they last had a contested primary in 2000. The Democrats this year had 219,787 votes in their primary. The GOP in 2000 had 239,523 votes. That 20,000 difference is major in a...

Vote.com has a vote on President Bush's current Ads. Please take a minute to vote here http://www.vote.com/vote/60212434/index.phtml

http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/3/6/121052.shtml Well isn't this intresting. The "objective news media" supposed 9-11 surviors protesting Bush's ads are actually anti-war stooges financed by John Kerry's wife. Please take a moment and vist the New York Times, Washington Post, MSNBC, CBS, NBC and ABC etc to email the Omsbudsman, the Publisher, the News Editor and demand to know why they allowed clearly partisan advocates of Kerry's Presidential Campaign were presented on their "News" programs with no reference to their ties to the Kerry camp. We absolutely must demand the "News Media" be held accountable for their free advertising for the Kerry camp.

http://www.georgewbush.com/tvads/ Here is a link to the 1st three Bush Re-election ads. As expected the DNC directed its "Objective News Media" mouthpieces at CNN, NBC, CBS and ABC to generate phoney hysteria about these ads. Compared to the demogagery and lies spread by the Kerry Campaign, Moveon.org and the DNC about Bush for the last 6 months, this is probably the mildest sets of ads that have run so far this political season. Please email this link to every person on you email contact list. We need to get as many people as possible to see these ads. They are...

Sometimes a breast is just a breast. Howard Dean, a physician and a Democratic presidential candidate, on Monday dismissed as "silly" a government inquiry into whether indecency rules were broken during the broadcast of the Super Bowl halftime show when pop diva Janet Jackson's bodice was ripped to expose her right breast. "I find that to be a bit of a flap about nothing," the former Vermont governor said. "I'm probably affected in some ways by the fact that I'm a doctor, so it's not exactly an unusual phenomenon for me." During the break in the National Football League's championship...

FLAGSTAFF — Coconino County Supervisor Paul Babbitt said he will announce Jan. 24 that he is running for Congress in District 1. U.S. Rep. Rick Renzi, a Republican, currently holds the seat. Babbitt will have to win the Democratic primary in September in order to face Renzi in the November general election. No other Democrats have announced yet that they will enter the primary battle. The congressional district includes the Navajo Nation but not the Hopi Reservation. Babbitt has served on the Coconino County Board of Supervisors for 17 years. He previously served as mayor of Flagstaff and a member...

TARGETED REPUBLICANSThe Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), in its uphill climb to regain control of the House, has targeted four freshman Republicans: Reps. Max Burns of Georgia, Bob Beauprez of Colorado, Mike Rogers of Alabama and Rick Renzi of Arizona. Beauprez, Rogers and Renzi all won narrowly in 2002, with Beauprez squeaking in by only 121 votes in his suburban Denver district. A Colorado Republican redistricting effort to strengthen Beauprez's district was thrown out in court. He now faces a tougher Democrat than he defeated in 2002: Columbine prosecutor Dave Thomas. Burns won by 55 percent in the Augusta, Ga.,...

Below is a list of each state and its "Political Party statistics", meaning that state's current governor, U.S. Senators, U.S. Congressmen, and who they voted for in the 2000 election.  This is useful data in trying to predict future voting trends.   AlabamaGovernor Bob Riley (R)Senator Richard Shelby (R)Senator Jeff Sessions (R)5 Republican Congressmen2 Democrat Congressmen2000 Election: Bush AlaskaGovernor Frank Murkowski (R)Senator Lisa Murkowski (R)Senator Ted Stevens (R)1 Republican Congressman2000 Election: Bush ArizonaGovernor Janet Napolitano (D)Senator John McCain (R)Senator Jon Kyl (R)6 Republican Congressmen2 Democrat Congressmen2000 Election: Bush ArkansasGovernor Mike Huckabee (R)Senator Blanche Lincoln (D)Senator Mark Pryor (D)3 Democrat Congressmen1 Republican Congressman2000 Election:...

ELECTION 2000 (and what needs to be made up for 04) Right now, I’m assuming the dem nominee is Kerry, Graham, Dean, Edwards, or Gephardt. I expect Lieberman to lose badly in the primary since he’s too ‘conservative’. Sharpton, Mosely-Braun, and Dennis the Menace are jokes. One never won a race. One even lost in Illinois. One wrecked Cleveland. Wesley Clark is an interesting candidate, and could make things interesting. I don’t care what any poll says right now, things will tighten up by 04. It ALWAYS does. We also got to play ball like we are trailing. States Bush...

Because of a flooder opperated by a "peace protester" which kept the traitorsoftucson.tripod.com page totally blocked, traitorsoftucson page has moved to: http://hometown.aol.com/traitorsoftucson/index.html

<p>Attorney General Janet Napolitano emerged as the likely winner in the governor's race Wednesday as she continued to pick up votes at a pace that would bring her victory when the remaining 200,000 ballots are counted.</p> <p>Napolitano, who is seeking to become the first Democratic governor in 12 years, stopped short of claiming victory Wednesday evening, even though the Associated Press had declared her the victor. But she remained optimistic.</p>

The ENEMY forged the stolen steel Delighted at the pain we would soon feel A hot branding iron to burn a 9 and 11 In the hearts of all righteous under Heaven The demons smiled and admired their work Then dedicated it with an unholy curse The plans were laid well, the deceptions intact With stooges called "martyrs" they began the attack They boarded the planes with thin, tight-lipped smiles Politely nodding to each small child - In a short time they’d know TERROR too real When their KILLERS captured the pilot’s wheel May the TWIN TOWERS of bright beacon...

The ENEMY forged the stolen steel Delighted at the pain we would soon feel A hot branding iron to burn a 9 and 11 In the hearts of all righteous under Heaven The demons smiled and admired their work Then dedicated it with an unholy curse The plans were laid well, the deceptions intact With stooges called "martyrs" they began the attack They boarded the planes with thin, tight-lipped smiles Politely nodding to each small child - In a short time they’d know TERROR too real When their KILLERS captured the pilot’s wheel May the TWIN TOWERS of bright beacon...

Renzi's Flagstaff Campaign office is expecting mass demonstrations Friday morning so we need as many Freepers who are able to help counter demonstrate to be here at 8:30am. 122 E. Route 66, Suite 2 Flagstaff, AZ 86001 928-556-1470

Closing but still trailing in recent polls, Republican Matt Salmon got aggressive with Democrat Attorney General Janet Napolitano from the opening bell of the final gubernatorial debate Wednesday night. Salmon spent his introductory comments, where other candidates talked about their qualifications, criticizing Napolitano on taxes, abortion and gay issues. "My opponent wants to raise taxes. I oppose that," Salmon said. "My opponent, Janet Napolitano, supports gay adoption. I don't. She supports Vermont-style same-sex marriages. I think that's extreme." Napolitano said later that Salmon was, again, distorting her positions. Napolitano said she opposes gay marriage, wants to close tax loopholes to...

Rick Renzi (R-ARIZONA District 1) needs all available Freepers to help on Election Day to monitor polling stations in and around Flagstaff. We also need counter demonstrators at the campaign HQ on the morning of 10/31. We are anticipating Democrap Hippies so your presence would be highly appreciated. Any questions please call 928-556-1470, ask for Peter.

As the election approaches, many politicians are ominously warning that the only way to revive the economy is to raise taxes, insisting that any opponent who dares say they will not raise taxes is being irresponsible in order to get votes, and will eventually see the folly of their ways once elected and raise taxes. There is also talk of the necessity of new spending, in order to “stimulate” the economy. Yet after these declarations, there is a deafening silence – no in-depth analysis is offered explaining precisely how raising taxes and increasing spending will help the economy. Why? Most...

Bush sings Salmon praisesPresident stops in Valley to rally GOP faithful Pat Shannahan/The Arizona Republic President Bush on Sunday makes a second visit to the Valley to barnstorm for gubernatorial candidate Matt Slamon (left). By Chip Scutari and Christina LeonardThe Arizona Republic Oct. 28, 2002 President Bush mixed patriotism with politics Sunday night, saying GOP gubernatorial candidate Matt Salmon will improve Arizona schools by challenging "the soft bigotry of low expectations" while keeping his word on tax cuts. "Go to your houses of worship, your community centers and your coffee shops and talk about Matt Salmon," Bush told a crowd...

Woods may switch from GOP to DemsHe's co-chairman of Salmon's campaign for governor By Chip ScutariThe Arizona Republic Oct. 25, 2002 Grant Woods, one of Arizona's most popular Republicans and co-chairman of Matt Salmon's gubernatorial campaign, is considering jumping to the Democratic Party after the Nov. 5 election. The defection of the former state attorney general would be a coup for Arizona Democrats, who have been courting moderates. Chairman Jim Pederson said he'd be thrilled to have Woods join the party. "He's a thoughtful, articulate person," said Pederson. Republican Party Chairman Bob Fannin didn't want to comment. Woods said he...

Salmon targets female vote Jack Kurtz/The Arizona Republic Matt Salmon (right) and his wife Nancy (center) cheer after the Mesa Mountain View High School football team makes a first down in the first half of its homecoming game on Oct. 4. By Chip ScutariThe Arizona Republic Oct. 25, 2002 Matt Salmon served up a sermon on tax-cutting politics at a recent breakfast with 250 women - soccer mom types - that he desperately needs to vote his way on Nov. 5. The Republican candidate's pledge to cut taxes, even as the state faces a severe budget crisis, has become a...

W's one-man show an Arizona sellout By Richard RuelasRepublic columnist Oct. 25, 2002 He doesn't sing. He doesn't dance. He might get off a few snappy one-liners, but mainly the show is an extended spoken-word performance. Still, it sells. President George W. Bush brings his one-man show to the Dodge Theater on Sunday, where he will use it to rally support for Rick Renzi, who is running for Congress, and Matt Salmon, who is running for governor. Bush is expected to pack the place, even though it has been less than a month since Bush's last trip to Phoenix. The...

Received this in my email box tonight http://www.rnc.org/flash/bushsavestheday.html

<p>President Bush is coming to the Dodge Theatre Sunday to headline a political rally for gubernatorial hopeful Matt Salmon and congressional candidate Rick Renzi - the second time in less than two months he has stumped in Arizona for the two Republicans.</p>

Republican Matt Salmon came out firing in a gubernatorial debate Tuesday night, saying Democrat Janet Napolitano "should come clean" on raising taxes and calling her views on abortion "extreme." Napolitano, who now enjoys a slight lead in several statewide polls, shot back by accusing Salmon of "sucking $500 million" from public schools when he served in the Arizona Legislature during the 1990s. She said Salmon's tax-cutting philosophy as a state senator helped put Arizona in a huge fiscal crisis. After the one-hour debate that was broadcast live on Channel 8 (KAET), the two leading candidates took turns blasting each other...

Negative ads boost Renzi lead BY GARY GHIOTO Sun Staff Reporter 10/22/2002 Barely a month after being endorsed by President Bush and launching an ad campaign describing his opponent as a tax deadbeat, liar and corporate raider, Republican Rick Renzi is surging ahead in the race for the 1st Congressional District seat, says a poll released Monday. The Grand Canyon State Poll shows Renzi leading 48 percent to 36 percent among likely voters, with previously undecided voters lining up behind him. The poll shows that a dual strategy attacking Cordova's business record and personal integrity, combined with ads introducing Renzi's...

By now, I'm sure everyone is familiar with the commercial that appeared following the October 4th accusations. In this rather ridiculous commercial, the sheriff negates all accusations against Janet Napolitano. Yet he does nothing to assure Arizona's people that the accusations are truely false; he does not offer any evidence that negates the accusations. He only requests that Arizonians join him in refusing the accusations.

The Attorney General claims she had no involvement in this financial disaster. However, the documents included here reveal the involvement of the office of the Attorney General as far back as October 1999. Memoranda from the Attorney General's office early in the implementation of the alt-fuels laws show that concerns surfaced about the actual prices of the vehicles.

It's not another red scare, but it's enough to make Yuman Robert Filbey hope voters realize who will represent them in Congressional District 7, which encompasses all of Yuma County. Filbey, who retired from the military after 30 years, claims a Tucson man who circulated a nominating petition form for Tucson Democrat Raul Grijalva earlier this year is registered as a Communist in Pima County. "These are petitions that have already been accepted, so that's not the question," said Filbey, who wrote to the Letters to the Editor section of The Sun. "The question is how you want to define...

Friday, October 11, 2002 Mahoney makes religion an issue Says Salmon might hesitate in sect inquiryBy Howard Fischer PHOENIX - Independent Richard Mahoney is making religion an issue of the gubernatorial campaign, launching a broadside Thursday against the entire Mormon church. Flanked by former members of a fundamentalist sect the church has disavowed, Mahoney said there is a long history of not just polygamy but sexual assaults on minors in Colorado City on the state's northern border. He acknowledged the practitioners are, strictly speaking, not affiliated with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which repudiated polygamy a century...

Poll: Renzi, Cordova tied early in race By GARY GHIOTO Sun Staff Reporter 09/17/2002 Democrat George Cordova of Payson and Republican Rick Renzi of Flagstaff are in a dead heat in the 1st Congressional District race, says a Grand Canyon State Poll released this morning. If the election were held today, both Cordova and Renzi would pull down 37 percent support from likely voters in the new rural congressional district that includes Flagstaff. Libertarian Edwin Porr won support from 3 percent of those responding to the survey. Showing the volatility of the contest, which is one of six races that...

<p>A poll says Attorney General Janet Napolitano has the early lead in November's race for governor, but her opponents ridiculed the survey because it was commissioned by the state Democratic Party.</p> <p>The poll of more than 600 likely voters indicates that Napolitano, a Democrat, has a 10-point lead over Republican nominee Matt Salmon, 41 percent to 31 percent, with independent candidate Richard Mahoney pulling in 7 percent. The survey was taken Sept. 9, just before the primary, for confidential party strategic purposes and was obtained by The Arizona Republic on Monday.</p>

New challenging the old in race for GOP congressional candidateBy Bill HessHerald/ReviewTuesday's Republican congressional primary election pits a veteran lawmaker against a political newcomer.Jim Kolbe has built a strong political base in Southeastern Arizona over the past 20 years. He is now seeking his 10th two-year term in Congress.Jim Behnke, a former Army Ranger lieutenant colonel, is an ordained pastor of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, who stunned many GOP faithful when he decided to challenge Kolbe.The campaign has been low-key with no formal debates. With a large political war chest, Kolbe has been quietly campaigning. Most of his appearances...

<p>Jim Behnke discusses the issues at his home with the Huachuca Mountains as his backdrop. He says U.S. Rep. Jim Kolbe is out of touch with the realities of life on the border and advocates the use of special military forces to control illegal immigration.</p>

Gephardt stresses state's role in House vote By Jon KammanThe Arizona RepublicAug. 29, 2002 Arizona has a pivotal role in Democrats' quest to regain control of the U.S. House, Democratic Leader Dick Gephardt said Wednesday in Phoenix. The party needs six more seats to have a majority in the House, and has its sights set on seven seats in the West. Arizona's two new districts are the "cornerstone," Gephardt said. Two seats each in Colorado and New Mexico, plus one in Nevada, are other targets. In Arizona, Democrats are aiming to win Congressional District 1, which covers a sweeping area...

Napolitano, Salmon lead pollBoth heavily favored for governor by party voters By Chip Scutari and Robbie SherwoodThe Arizona RepublicAug. 29, 2002 12:00:00 Democrat Janet Napolitano and Republican Matt Salmon are running away from a crowded field of gubernatorial candidates, setting up a likely face-off in this fall's general election, The Arizona Republic Poll indicates. The August election poll, which surveyed more than 600 registered voters across Arizona, indicates that the two front-runners have double-digit cushions less than two weeks before the Sept. 10 primary election. Arizona Attorney General Napolitano has a 26-point edge over her nearest foe, Alfredo Gutierrez. Salmon,...

Notes and observations from a campaign trail turning downright surly: • Early in his political career, Terry Goddard had a charmed life. In the early 1980s, he rode a narrow victory in the campaign to establish a district system in Phoenix to the Mayor's Office. During the 1980s, he was a substantial force and an attractive political persona: intelligent, articulate and passionate about his issues, primarily transit and urban form. He was politically bruised by losing the 1990 gubernatorial race to Fife Symington and a lackluster effort attempting a 1994 rematch. But it appears Goddard's luck has returned. He's the uncontested...

Re: Your Favorite Presidential Candidate (GOP)? davidd on Friday, August 02 @ 13:08:08 MDT Tom Tancredo is one of the most patriotic members of Congress. He sincerely cares about the U.S. and he believes in the rule of law. Tom Tancredo is 100% opposed to illegal immigration and he understands the damage that it is doing to the U.S. President Bush is in favor of illegal immigration and he is not carrying out his sworn duty to uphold the Constitution and to protect the U.S. from invasion of huge masses of illegal aliens. The time has come to replace Bush...

New redistricting lines reduce district size Republican J.D. Hayworth has made it official: He is a candidate for a fifth term in the U.S. House of Representatives. Under new boundaries drawn in congressional redistricting, Scottsdale resident Hayworth is running in District 5, a largely urban district only a fraction of the size of the sprawling territory of northern and central Arizona he has represented since 1994. The new district extends northeast from the Ahwatukee Foothills area of Phoenix to take in parts of Chandler and Mesa and all of Tempe, Scottsdale and Fountain Hills. Hayworth, 43, has now been a...

A part-time Glendale resident who has not yet registered to vote in Arizona has filed as a Republican candidate for Congress. Mike Schaefer, who also lives in Las Vegas and is licensed to practice law in California, is running in the newly drawn Congressional District 2, where 25-year Congressman Bob Stump has decided for health reasons not to run. Schaefer, 64, said he has not practiced law in recent years except for a few cases involving constitutional law. In June 2000, he won a decision by the 9th U.S Circuit Court of Appeals that he was entitled to run for...

Just when it appeared nothing worse could happen to the state's new legislative boundaries, an error discovered Thursday could mean they would have to be scrapped and redrawn. The mistake means further chaos for the state's election system. As filing deadlines approach, candidates don't know where to collect the signatures and donations they need to run for office. Authorities said the error is believed to have occurred when Election Data Services, a Washington, D.C., firm hired to help create new district maps, apparently used flawed data by lumping together active and inactive voters. That could affect the question of whether...

<p>Bob Stump served four terms from 1959-1967 in the Arizona House and five terms from 1967-1976 in the state Senate, serving as senate president for the last two years. He was elected to Congress in 1976.</p> <p>WASHINGTON - Thirteen-term Arizona Republican Rep. Bob Stump, the chairman of the Armed Services Committee, is expected to announce Friday that he will retire at the end of the year, according to aides to Republican House leadership.</p>