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Heinz Kerry Hiding $45 Million in Income, Paid Just 1.2% in Taxes Teresa Heinz Kerry earns approximately $50 million in annual income, ten times what she revealed on tax forms released late Friday, according to the New York Times. The staggering sum generated a mere 1.2 percent federal income tax liability, unless Heinz Kerry paid additional federal taxes not shown on the forms released Friday. The average middle class American family pays 20 percent of their income in taxes, a rate 16 times higher than the would-be first family. Story Continues Below Noting that the Kerry campaign has not challenged...

Friday, Oct. 15, 2004 10:32 a.m. EDT Time for John Edwards to Step Down? If Lynne Cheney had accused Elizabeth Edwards of being ashamed of her daughter because of her sexual preference, would the press simply report the comment the next day, note that Democrats were unhappy about it, and let it go at that? And would journalists simply ignore the matter in interviews with Mr. Cheney - as they're doing today with Mr. Edwards in regards to his wife's remarkably ugly outburst. Story Continues Below During the 2000 South Carolina primary, when supporters of President Bush cited John McCain's...

To: National Desk, Political Reporter Contact: Martha Lozada of The Latino Coalition, 202-546-0008 WASHINGTON, Oct. 14 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Board of Directors of The Latino Coalition today released the Florida results of their annual National Survey of Hispanic Adults. The survey shows that Florida Hispanic voters prefer President Bush by a 2-1 margin. "This survey shows that President Bush has been able to develop a significant lead among Florida Hispanic registered voters, and could make the difference in who wins Florida in November," said TLC President Robert Deposada. "According to VNS, in 2000 Bush won the Hispanic vote by...

To: State Desk Contact: Chris Granberg of the Fraternal Order of Police, 202-547-8189 WASHINGTON, Oct. 14 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Today Chuck Canterbury, the President of the nation's largest police labor organization, called on John Kerry to stop making misleading statements regarding his support from the law enforcement community. Both on the campaign trail and in Wednesday night's debate in Tempe, AZ, Senator Kerry has alluded that he has the support of the majority of these brave men and women. "As the elected leader of the largest organization representing America's Federal, State and local law enforcement officers, I believe it's important...

I live in Southwestern Ohio and I am registered Republican. Normally all I receive are republican mailers. Today I recieved a postcard for Ann Thompson for State Rep. District 30. Nowhere on this mailer does it state that this candidate is a Democrat. I called the Office number and they said they were not required by law to say this candidate is a democrat. This is deceipt and trickery of the worst kind!! Kerry hates the thought of being labeled a LIBERAL. This lady doesn't even want to be labeled a DEMOCRAT!!! UN-FREAKIN-BELIEVABLE!!! If anyone has the time, please call...

Please freep this poll to Cincinnati Channel 64 Sinclair affilliate to show the Kerry anti-war activism documentary. Right now the poll is 39% to 61% No, so the DUmmies are ahead.

What a game! Lots of excitement and change of possesion. I get excited about this stuff because I'm an American of Irish descent and to me Notre Dame is the Mecca of college football. I go to South Bend every year I can for games and when they are good I love em, when they are not so good I still love em. Anyway, my strongest interest of late is doing what I can to ensure President Bush is re-elected. I've volunteered through the local Bush/Cheney HQ's to drive people to the polls on 11/2 (An absolutely FAN-FREAKIN-TASTIC use of...

Breaking her silence on criticism of John Kerry's war record by the group Swiftboat Veterans for Truth, Teresa Heinz Kerry said this week that such attacks are undermining the morale of troops currently serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. "I believe that discussions or attacks on [my husband's] service undermine the peace of mind not only of Vietnam veterans but of those now fighting for their country," she told the Dayton Daily News. "Let us hope that if they volunteer for service their reviews are not going to be so nefarious in the future," she added. Heinz Kerry reacted to the...

Senator Also May Have Set Up Meetings Between Chinese Firms, U.S. Officials (WASHINGTON, D.C.) Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, today released recently declassified documents showing that Democratic presidential nominee Sen. John Kerry accepted laundered contributions for his 1996 re-election campaign from the Communist Chinese government and that, in exchange, he may have arranged meetings between Chinese aerospace executives and U.S. government officials. Obtained from the FBI through Freedom of Information Act and Privacy Act requests, the documents are related to the FBI’s “Chinagate” investigation into the Clinton campaign’s acceptance of contributions from Communist...

Beyond the Fog - Pay Attention! Geoff Metcalf Monday, Aug. 16, 2004 Hurricane Charley is ravaging the east coast, Iraq remains in turmoil, a presidential campaign roars, and the 2004 Olympics have started in Athens. Meanwhile, off the radar screen, while concurrently sandbagging and obfuscating over the Oil-for-food scandal, the United Nothing is again attempting to grab for riches beyond their grasp. Story Continues Below Most bad government excesses are a product of incrementalism. You don’t eat an elephant in one sitting. The income tax started off in 1913 as a mere 1 percent. Gun control started small and ‘conditioned’...

Democrats screamed for campaign finance "reform" but then immediately torpedoed it by launching multimillion-dollar Bush-hating 527 groups financed by the likes of George Soros. But now they're trying to censor anti-Kerry groups. Three self-appointed watchdog groups filed a complaint today accusing Swift Boat Veterans for Truth of violating the campaign finance law that pro-Democrat groups are allowed to violate. Story Continues Below Democracy 21, Campaign Legal Center and Center for Responsive Politics claim that the veterans' $500,000 ad, running in Wisconsin, Ohio and West Virginia, violates the ban on unlimited "soft money." "We think this is open and shut, that...

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has asked Cincinnati to repay $3.95 million in grants used to renovate Huntington Meadows in Bond Hill. Mayor Charlie Luken is appealing to congressmen to step in. Federal officials said the city violated an agreement that required it to maintain Huntington Meadows as low-income housing for at least five years after renovations. Huntington Meadows went bankrupt in 2002, four years after renovations. More than 200 families were evicted. In February, Cincinnati City Council agreed to spend more than $13 million to help two Bond Hill churches redevelop the site into market-rate housing....

A bumper sticker being circulated in Louisville that reads "Kerry is bin Laden's Man/Bush is Mine" was applauded by a Republican leader Friday but decried by Democrats. Jack Richardson IV, chairman of the Jefferson County GOP, said he didn't know the bumper sticker's origins, but agreed with its message. "If bin Laden could vote based on Kerry's voting record in the Senate - where he has decimated our national security and defense - is there anybody that can honestly say bin Laden wouldn't prefer Kerry over Bush? Of course he would," Richardson said. He said the bumper sticker reinforces an...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- A Democratic group crucial to John Kerry's presidential campaign has paid felons - some convicted of sex offenses, assault and burglary - to conduct door-to-door voter registration drives in at least three election swing states. America Coming Together, contending that convicted criminals deserve a second chance in society, employs felons as voter canvassers in major metropolitan areas in Missouri, Florida, Ohio and perhaps in other states among the 17 it is targeting in its drive. Some of the felons lived in halfway houses, and at least four returned to prison. ACT canvassers ask residents which issues...

U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton warned yesterday that if President Bush were re-elected, the United States would change beyond recognition by the end of his second term. "If by some fluke this administration is elected for four more years, we will not recognize our country," Clinton told delegates at New York's state Democratic convention in Manhattan. Calling President Bush's policies the product of "the most radical right-wing agenda" in recent memory, Clinton said that November's vote "may be the most important election any of us has seen in our entire lifetimes." The former first lady addressed state Democrats who were gathered...