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Former Virginia Gov. James S. Gilmore III is dropping his underdog bid for the Republican presidential nomination today, his top strategist, Dick Leggitt, told Politico. Gilmore had offered himself as "the Reagan conservative" in a field that has left many Republican activists dissatisfied. He is the first GOP candidate to leave the race. Other candidates commanded much more cash and attention, keeping Gilmore a distant also-ran. Financial reports due tomorrow showed he had little hope of cracking the top tier. In his successful race for a four-year term for Virginia governor in 1997, he showed the popular appeal of fiscal...

Former Virginia Gov. James S. Gilmore III is dropping his underdog bid for the Republican presidential nomination today, he told The Politico in an interview. Gilmore said he has been approached about running for Virginia governor a second time, and about running for U.S. Senate if Sen. John W. Warner (R) retires. Gilmore said he will consider both options. Reflecting his burgeoning interest in Old Dominion politics, he said he will start a political action committee to support Republicans running for the state senate and House of Delegate. In the interview, Gilmore said the punishing financial requirements of the early-starting...

Richmond, VA – Jim Gilmore, a tax-slashing former Virginia governor, announced he will explore a presidential bid in 2008. Citing what he said was the lack of a true conservative in the field of GOP White House prospects, Gilmore said Tuesday he will charter a federal committee in January that would allow him to assess his chances for the race himself. "There is not a committed conservative in the field who can put together a national campaign. I am and I can. I have people on the ground right now in Iowa and in South Carolina," Gilmore, 57, said in...

Los Angeles, Calif.—The most unanticipated news item to emerge from the California Republican Convention at the Century Plaza Hotel last week is that former Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore is thinking seriously of entering the 2008 Republican presidential sweepstakes. Jim Gilmore? At 56, the conservative one-time chairman of the Republican National Committee has been out of elective office for five years. Before serving as Virginia’s governor for one four-year term, he had served as the state’s attorney general and, before that, as Henrico County attorney. But until last week, his name had not been even vaguely mentioned among the long list...

LOS ANGELES -- The latest, hottest, and most unanticipated rumor to emerge from the State Republican Convention at the Century Plaza Hotel here was that former Virginia Gov. and Republican National Chairman Jim Gilmore would enter the 2008 Republican presidential sweepstakes. Talk of Gilmore-for-President began as the former governor and staunch conservative arrived in Los Angeles to address the state GOP's top officials. In a fighting luncheon speech, Gilmore call for securing the borders and a Republican agenda of "security, safety, and long-term civil values and freedom." Recalling his stint as head of the RNC in the first Bush Administration,...

Former Virginia Gov. James S. Gilmore III yesterday said he will be a candidate for public office again because Republicans are losing elections by giving inconsistent messages on taxes. Mr. Gilmore, the last Republican to hold the state's top job, said Republican gubernatorial nominee Jerry W. Kilgore was not critical enough of the $1.38 billion tax increase championed by Gov. Mark Warner last year. "I'm frankly concerned," Mr. Gilmore told The Washington Times. "My intention is to speak out on these issues and help provide leadership any way I can and speak up on what direction I think the state...

Fred Friendly Seminars Presents IN THE BALANCE, a Provocative Look at the Social, Political, Economic, Legal and Health and Safety Implications of Terrorist Threats - Wednesday August 3, 12:42 pm ET Programs To Air During National Preparedness Month In September Presented on PBS by Thirteen/WNET New York NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 3, 2005-- A videotape claiming that a terrorist attack will happen at a shopping mall in the next few days is sent to a major national news organization. How does the organization respond? On the one hand, this is an exclusive news event; on the other, it's a potential national...

Meanwhile, back on the homefront ... Posted: December 17, 20031:00 a.m. Eastern © 2003 Creators Syndicate, Inc. The world is a better place now that the tyrant from Tikrit has been hoisted out of his fetid little hole. Our president, intelligence officers and brave men and women in uniform deserve the highest praise and prayers for a job well done. But the euphoria over Saddam Hussein's capture abroad must be tempered by the lingering reality of national security deficiencies here at home. Yes, we are safer now that Hussein is in custody. But we could and should be a lot safer...

Bush Gets a 'Can Do Better' From Terror Panel Federal advisory body complains of lack of strategy guiding domestic security efforts By TIMOTHY J. BURGER/WASHINGTON Saturday, Dec. 13, 2003 President Bush's anti-terrorism policies are about to come under fire from a somewhat unlikely source: A federal advisory panel headed by a former Republican Party chairman is set to rap the President's knuckles this week when it issues a report criticizing the administration for failing to develop a comprehensive, pro-active anti-terror strategy more than two years after the 9/11 attacks. Headed by former Virginia governor Jim Gilmore, the Advisory Panel to...

WASHINGTON -- An obscure, ultra-sophisticated form of spying technology is expected to play a large role in ferreting out any suspected chemical and biological weapons in Iraq. Measurement and signatures intelligence, known in spy circles as "MASINT," identifies the production of weapons through computer analysis of infrared and radar sensors. Targets include, among other things, chemical contents of smokestack discharges from weapons factories."When this is all over and done, I think that MASINT will be very important in trying to determine where there are (weapons of mass destruction) caches," said Kenneth Pollack, a former CIA Iraq analyst who is now...