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Note to Politico: If you base a story on an outdated Daily Kos poll you could end up with egg on your face. This is pretty much what has happened in the past three days. On Saturday your humble correspondent cited a Politico story of the day before by Josh Kraushaar in which he reported on Doug Hoffman continuing to lag behind in third place in the NY 23rd CD race: The latest poll in the New York special election shows a close race, with Democrat Bill Owens leading Republican Dede Scozzafava 35 to 30 percent, with Conservative party candidate...

Got trademark? The dairy industry is criticizing the Democratic candidate in New York's 23rd Congressional District race for using the famous slogan "Got milk?" in a political ad. The Northeast Dairy Foods Association, which represents milk processors and dairy farm producers, says Bill Owens is using the registered trademark without authorization. Dairy farmers pay to use the line in advertising. Owens uses the phrase "got milk money" in an ad ...

ASSOCIATED PRESS ALBANY — President Obama and former President Bill Clinton are lending their political star power to an unlikely Democratic bid to win a special congressional election in an area that’s been a Republican bastion for more than a century. The Nov. 3 contest in upstate New York’s 23rd Congressional District, a sprawling, 11-county area where registered Republicans outnumber Democrats by 45,000 voters, is shaping up as a test of a struggling GOP and a possible gauge of Obama’s coattails. Obama, who carried the district by 5 percentage points in his landslide victory in New York last year, forced...

President Obama is finding a new version of bipartisanship, taking time out of his busy schedule to speak at a fundraiser for a New York congressional candidate who makes no secret of his more conservative leanings. Obama’s appearance tonight is on behalf of Democratic candidate Bill Owens, who polls show is running slightly ahead of a more liberal Republican and an even more conservative opponent. All three are sparring in a special election for the congressional seat vacated when Obama named moderate Republican John M. McHugh to be secretary of the Army.

Former Gov. Bill Owens said in a deposition it's a good thing the University of Colorado ignored him when he urged that professor Ward Churchill be fired over a controversial essay. "I'm glad that the university, its counsel, and others who had a chance over a period of years to look at the law and look at the case didn't follow my advice and, in fact, chose to ignore it," Owens said in the deposition, taken one week ago today. Had CU fired Churchill for the essay - as Owens wanted - the school would have violated Churchill's free-speech rights,...

Former guv, deposed for trial, calls Churchill 'a plagiarist and a fraud'. Former Gov. Bill Owens on Friday compared one-time University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill to a famous moviemaker - and it wasn't a compliment. "In retirement, he's starting to look a lot like Michael Moore," Owens and others, including University of Colorado regents, are being deposed as part of the trial, scheduled to start March 9 in Denver District Court. Owens declined to discuss in detail what kinds of questions he was asked and what answers he gave, but Owens wasn't shy about expressing his opinion of Churchill....

The Cato Institute in Washington, D.C. gave Gov. Bill Owens a D grade for his fiscal performance during his last year in office in a report released this week. The Libertarian-leaning think tank releases a report card every two years for all 50 governors based on 23 criteria gathered from various sources, such as the U.S. census and budget data provided by state governments. According to the report, Owens “engineered one of the biggest falls from grace in this report card’s 16-year history.” The institute blasted Owens for his support of Referendum C, which was passed by voters last November...

<p>Open-borders adversaries sued to kill the initiative, but Colorado's Supreme Court approved it in early May of 2004. Herron, ex-Gov. Dick Lamm, CAIR's co-Chair Fred Elbel and other insiders chose not to seek the required 68,000 voter signatures to place it on the November 2004 ballot, claiming it was too late to guarantee success. By law, this tabled the initiative for two years, during which time a growing cabal of open-borders legislators, mainly Democrats, aligned with globalist Gov. Bill Owens (RINO) to kill similar legislation.</p>

DENVER - Ask any politician to handicap the 2008 presidential campaign and you'll probably get the same answer: It's more than a year away, and a year is a lifetime in politics. A cliche, to be sure. But also true. Consider the case of Gov. Bill Owens of Colorado. A few years back, he seemed destined to join the pack seeking the 2008 Republican presidential nomination. He won a second term in a landslide. National Review magazine put him on the cover and called him "The Best Governor in America." Conservative columnists touted him for 2008. Yet Owens, 55, isn't...

(AP)- Gov. Bill Owens signed a tough package of immigration laws on Monday that could force 1 million people receiving state and federal benefits to prove they are U.S. citizens. To handle an expected avalanche of people seeking waivers so they can keep getting government benefits while they line up the ID documents they need, Owens designated 32 driver’s license bureaus and opened an office at the Capitol to process their requests. A waiver will extend the deadline for producing the required ID until March 1. The key legislation, House Bill 1023, requires government agencies to verify process that adults...

DENVER, July 11 -- Ending a bitterly divisive special session of the legislature, Colorado Gov. Bill Owens (R) cut a deal with Democratic leaders on a package of bills to deny some state services to illegal immigrants and to punish employers who hire them. But the compromise late Monday brought angry criticism of the governor from some of his GOP allies because it did not include a key Republican goal: a tough referendum on illegal immigration on the November ballot. Owens had called the special session specifically to reverse a ruling last month by the state Supreme Court that removed...

DENVER (NNS) -- Flanked by Sailors of Navy Recruiting District (NRD) Denver, Colorado Gov. Bill Owens kicked off Denver's second annual Navy Week May 2, with a signed proclamation declaring May 5-13 as Colorado’s Navy Week. A strong supporter of the Navy, Owens took time out of his busy schedule to thank the Sailors in attendance for their sacrifice and dedication to their country. “I have always been a great admirer of our men and women in the Navy and the job they do in keeping our nation and the world's sea lanes secure for all of us,” Owens said....

Coming up next, Colorado has the fastest growing population of illegal aliens in the country. I will be talking with Colorado's governor, Bill Owens about border security, illegal immigration. Stay with us. -snip- DOBBS: Well, when you say they're changing the character and the culture of your state, what do you mean? OWENS: You know, we have school districts in Colorado, which now have a majority of illegal youngsters or kids out of illegal parents. We have two out of every three new people moving to Colorado in the last five years are coming from other countries. There is a...

April 10, 2006 Press Release No. 06-18 Contact: Oliver Wolf, (412) 760-5482 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Maine College Republicans Prepare to Play Historic Grassroots Role and Elect Strong State Leadership at Annual State Convention U.S. Senator Olympia Snowe, Colorado Governor Bill Owens Praise Maine College Republicans for Their Unprecedented Activism AUGUSTA - U.S. Senator Olympia Snowe and Colorado Governor Bill Owens joined the Maine College Republicans for the organization’s annual State Convention in Portland on Saturday. The theme of the convention was “Securing Our Future: Fulfilling History’s Challenge,” and state and national Republican leaders joined over 150 College Republicans as they...

State workers told not to post remarks from state computers Rocky Mountain News December 9, 2005 Gov. Bill Owens on Thursday warned state employees that they would be subject to disciplinary action if they use state computers to post comments on political Web sites. The directive came after the Rocky Mountain News informed the governor that anonymous and sometimes caustic postings from someone using the nickname "Real Deal" had been traced to a computer in the governor's office, which has more than 100 computers. "Real Deal" has taken potshots at Republican "flunkies" and Democratic U.S. Sen. Ken Salazar. The user...

Gov. Bill Owens on Monday offered his road-heavy budget proposal to state lawmakers while acknowledging that he probably won't get the entire $296 million he's seeking for transportation projects this year. "Now, I'm aware that there are other requests being made for this revenue, specifically for higher education, and I'm certainly open to having that discussion with you," Owens said of the extra money the state will collect under Referendum C. "I'm stating my preference, and obviously I understand that, during this process, while some of my preferences may make it into law, not all of my preferences will." After...

Lawmaker Wants Fence On 2,000-Mile U.S.-Mexico Border Fence Would Cost Billions Of Dollars POSTED: 6:34 am EST November 3, 2005 WASHINGTON -- A House Republican wants to build a fence along the entire 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border, a plan that could cost billions of dollars and one that critics say would do little to stop illegal immigration. California Rep. Duncan Hunter, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, plans to introduce legislation that would create a two-layer reinforced fence with lighting and sensors from the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico, a 100-yard border zone to the north of the...

Opponents of Referendum C counted on voters rejecting a bigger tax bite, $3,100 for the average family in the next five years, under the pressure of high prices for gasoline, home heating, health care and housing. We appealed to people's skepticism that the Democrat-led legislature would use the new money responsibly. Polling even last weekend suggested proponents hadn't made the sale. But they surged to victory with the help of respected Republicans like Gov. Bill Owens, former party chairman Bruce Benson and University of Colorado president Hank Brown. Those heavy hitters outweighed the more numerous antitax Republican voices, including the...

"I'll take a split decision," said Jon Caldara, leader of the opponents to Referendums C and D. "I'd rather take the whole match, but more importantly our kids and grandkids are not going to be straddled with billions in debt." ... Caldara said Referendum C passed because of the proponents' superior resources. "I walked into this with my eyes open. They had the money, they had the politicians, they had the media," he said. Opponents have threatened to challenge the ballot measures in court.

Gov. Bill Owens said he supports a high-tech fence along the 2,000- mile U.S.-Mexico border similar to what Israel is building on the West Bank. Owens, whose remarks were made on Peter Boyles' morning radio show Thursday, called for putting up a "nonfatal fence that had monitors on it." Advertisement Talking about immigration reform, Owens said, "the system needs to be changed. There's actually a way to do it that, I think, is humane and would solve the problem. That is, first of all, close the border." He said he checked on the cost of the Israeli fence, which amounts...