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Chrissy Gephardt takes a slightly different approach to politicking than her father, U.S. Rep. Dick Gephardt (D-Mo.). Boasting a master’s degree in social work and a close relationship with the gay community, Chrissy Gephardt says she has established a rapport with interest groups that her father — a contender for the presidency in 2004 — has cozied up to from afar. While Gephardt campaigns for issues such as more sustainable energy sources and universal pensions, his daughter tours the nation to draw students to his voter base. Now a fulltime employee of Gephardt for President Inc., she makes frequent visits...

The daughter of Democratic Presidential candidate Dick Gephardt stumped for her father at the Institute of Politics (IOP) yesterday, discussing her dad’s plans to revitalize the economy and how her own homosexuality has shaped the candidate’s views on gay rights. Chrissy Gephardt, the eldest daughter of the Missouri representative, came out to her family and husband in spring 2001 and is now campaigning full-time for her father. In a speech co-sponsored by the Harvard College Democrats and the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters’ Alliance (BGLTSA) Gephardt focused mainly on her father’s plan to rejuvenate the economy, which she said...

His wife of 37 years, Jane Gephardt, did not really want him to make another race for the presidency, and much of the conventional wisdom argued against it. This was not the political year, many of the pundits said, for a consummate insider like Representative Richard A. Gephardt, inextricably linked with every Democratic compromise, victory and defeat on Capitol Hill for the last 20 years. Indeed, to some Democrats Mr. Gephardt's support of President Bush on the war with Iraq seemed an example of all that was wrong with the party establishment. But Mr. Gephardt, a 62-year-old Missourian, decided...

He's got a 7-point lead in Iowa that even the Des Moines Register calls "a little wobbly." The union endorsements Dean picked up this week didn't help matters, either. Still, with John Kerry looking like a man without a plan and Joe Lieberman doing his best imitation of a skydiver without a parachute, Gephardt continues to emerge as the only real anti-Dean option around. And as we all know, aside from Lieberman, Gephardt is the only other candidate in the Dem field who shows that he gets it: CAVUTO: True. You stuck by him [President Bush], you stuck to stay...

ST. LOUIS (Talon News) -- Congressman Richard Gephardt on Saturday accused President Bush of being allied with "homophobic bigotry" during an address he made before a homosexual advocacy group. Gephardt (D-MO), who is one of nine Democrats seeking to win their party's nomination and square off against Bush in the general election next year, is making his pro-homosexual agenda a campaign issue. Speaking before the Human Rights Campaign's (HRC) Annual Gala in St. Louis, Gephardt said, "It is time for President Bush to end his alliance with homophobic bigotry once and for all and speak out against the Republican Party's...

House Republicans consider the idea farfetched but not impossible: They would like to win Dick Gephardt's seat next year. Gephardt is campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination and is retiring from Congress. At least seven candidates are running for his 3rd District seat, and many Republicans are keeping an eye on former state Rep. Zane Yates, who entered the race last Tuesday. Not that the GOP considers the race to be winnable right now - the area is a Democratic stronghold, to say the least, and several credible Democratic candidates are running. But Republicans say that if President Bush and...

<p>However, Gephardt's 7-percentage-point lead over Dean in the Iowa Poll appears a little wobbly. More of Dean's supporters say their minds are made up and they are certain of their participation in the Democratic caucuses, which launch the presidential nominating season for the nation.</p>

Article published Nov 9, 2003 Iowa Poll says Gephardt edges ahead of Dean Rep. Dick Gephardt of Missouri has inched ahead of former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean as leader for the Democratic presidential nomination in Iowa, according to a new poll surveying registered voters who plan to go the caucuses. Gephardt was the favorite of 27 percent and Dean, 20 percent, the Des Moines Sunday Register said in a copyright story. That's a gain of six percentage points for Gephardt and a three-point drop for Dean since July. The poll, conducted by Selzer & Co. Inc., of Des Moines,...

Ciro surprised, disappointed by Cuellar's bid for Congress BY TRICIA CORTEZ Times staff writer If the federal courts and U.S. Department of Justice approve the new Texas redistricting map, half of Laredo will fall under the congressional district represented by Ciro Rodriguez (D-San Antonio). Rodriguez, a six-year member of Congress and chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, spoke with the Laredo Morning Times this past week about his current and future legislative priorities. He also spoke about the current political mood in Washington and what he described as the difficulties of working with the Republican administration and Republican-held Congress on...

<p>Democratic presidential hopeful Dick Gephardt, facing a huge cash disadvantage against front-runner Howard Dean, has asked his senior staff to take a pay cut.</p> <p>"We want to make sure we spend the bulk of our resources in the early states on the ground and on the air," said campaign manager Steve Murphy. "This is an effort to make sure we meet those goals."</p>

Just how big is news that Howie Dean has locked up the endorsement not only of the 1.6-million-member Service Employees International Union led by Andrew Stern, but apparently also of the 1.4 million-member American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees led by Gerald McEntee? "Kerry? A goner. Edwards? A goner. Gephardt? I don't know," says an AFL-CIO lobbyist in Washington. "That Dean has managed to get both unions locked up is remarkable given that four months ago, one of them seemed to be in Gephardt's pocket and the other was in Kerry's." Perhaps what is even more remarkable is...

The Democratic presidential candidates' debate Monday night really brought out the best in my generation. The event, sponsored by CNN and "Rock the Vote," was in front of an audience of 18-to-30-year-old Democrats, from which most of the questions for the candidates came. Quickly viewers learned why it is that most question-asking in presidential debates is left to people who act like adults, particularly adult journalists. Parents routinely tell their children that there's no such thing as a stupid question. Parents are liars. The debate last night proved that to be the case. (Perhaps it showed less about the questions...

<p>As the number of deaths and injuries in Iraq continues to escalate, Democratic presidential candidate Dick Gephardt said Wednesday he's "furious" at President Bush for not getting the United Nations to help.</p> <p>"We're getting people hurt every day, killed every day," Gephardt told a group of about 75 Democrats in Boone. "It's costing a billion dollars a week, four billion dollars a month. And he still can't figure out how to get to the U.N., how to get to NATO to get the help that we need."</p>

Seattle, Wash.: Reprentative Gephardt, Could you explain your vote authorizing the President to take action against Iraq? What is you disengagement plan? Rep. Richard A Gephardt : I supported the resolution because I gained information from the CIA and other former Clinton security officials that Iraq either had weapons or components of weapons of mass destruction. I have been severely critical of President Bush's inability or unwillingness to get more international UN help in Iraq. Getting that help is the only way we can succeed.

<p>CAMBRIDGE -- President Bush blundered by failing to bring more countries into the war in Iraq, in part by refusing to listen to a wider circle of advisers, Democratic presidential candidate Richard A. Gephardt said yesterday.</p> <p>Bush relied too heavily on Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and not enough on moderate voices like Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, Gephardt said, adding that Bush also refused to listen to critics outside of the White House, including Gephardt.</p>

Kerry, Gephardt, Edwards Campaigns Work Together Against Potential Dean NodBy Ron Fournier The Associated PressPublished: Nov 3, 2003 WASHINGTON (AP) - In a rare alliance, strategists for John Edwards, Dick Gephardt and John Kerry discussed whether they could stop the Service Employees International Union from endorsing fellow Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean. The union, the largest in the AFL-CIO with 1.6 million members, announced last week that its 63-member board would decide Thursday whether to endorse the former Vermont governor. "It's Dean or one," said SEIU spokeswoman Sara Howard. The announcement prompted top aides to Edwards, Gephardt and Kerry to...

(Washington-AP) -- President Bush's Democratic rivals are seizing on today's shootdown of the Chinook transport helicopter that killed 15 soldiers and injuring 21. They're pressing the administration to justify the mounting American death toll and to explain its strategy for getting out of Iraq. Former NATO commander Wesley Clark told The Associated Press: "We were misled into this conflict without a real strategy for success." Two other candidates, Congressman Dick Gephardt and Senator John Edwards, said the United States needs more international help in making Iraq safe. Dennis Kucinich, the only candidate who voted against the resolution authorizing the war,...

Hillary is running Posted: November 3, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com I'm going to go way out on a limb today and predict with nearly 100 percent certainty that Hillary Clinton will seek and win the Democratic Party nomination for the presidency in 2004. I know others have speculated about this. I'm not speculating. I'm forecasting. I'm prophesying. If I were a betting man, I would be placing the farm on it. Why am I so sure? The latest polls bear out what others before them show – the nomination is hers for the asking. The most recent...