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House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt (D-Mo.) has told senior Democrats that the party could pick up as many as 40 House seats if the continuously unfolding corporate scandals can be kept on the political radar screen until November, according to sources. The figure far surpasses any that has been suggested previously - even privately - by Gephardt or any other top Democratic campaign official, all of whom have consistently indicated that the House will be won or lost by a slim margin."He said if this thing plays out right, we could pick up 30 to 40 seats," said one Democratic...

DETAILS GEPHARDT AND McAULIFFE DON'T WANT PUBLIC (GEPHARDT PREDICTS 40 SEAT PICK-UP FOR DEMOCRATS IN ROLL CALL) The Democrats' hypocrisy is unbelievable. They're digging up ten year-old stock sales by President Bush that were completely cleared by the SEC, while they're under investigation for their own shady business dealings. When Dick Gephardt ran for President in 1988, he received an unsecured and unusual $125,000 loan from Federal City Bank. Terry McAuliffe, now the chairman of the Democrat party, ran the bank that gave Gephardt his sweetheart loan while working as Gephardt's chief fundraiser in his campaign! This violated Federal election...

House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt (D-Mo.) has told senior Democrats that the party could pick up as many as 40 House seats if the continuously unfolding corporate scandals can be kept on the political radar screen until November, according to sources. The figure far surpasses any that has been suggested previously - even privately - by Gephardt or any other top Democratic campaign official, all of whom have consistently indicated that the House will be won or lost by a slim margin. "He said if this thing plays out right, we could pick up 30 to 40 seats," said one...

Insight Magazine March 11, 1996 Justice Will Examine Charges Against Gephardt By Paul M. Rodriguez House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt not only could face a reprimand by the House ethics committee, if it determines he failed properly to disclose transactions on a million-dollar beachfront home he owns, but the Missouri Democrat also could face stiff civil penalties if the Justice Department files separate charges under the Ethics in Government Act. Such charges carry stiff penalties - up to $5,000 per violation. And Justice officials say the department probably will file charges against Gephardt. "We will have to wait until the...

Insight Magazine 8/28/95 How Dick Gephardt Got His $700,000 Mansion in the Sky By Paul M. Rodriguez Nestled among the dunes at an exclusive beach along the Outer Banks in North Carolina is a palatial summer house called "Northern Star." She is bigger and fancier than most of the vacation houses that increasingly dot the eastern shores. But in the upscale community of Corolla Light, the house shines no brighter than those of wealthy neighbors except for one reason: It belongs to Richard Gephardt, a presidential hopeful in 1988, the speaker-in-waiting until last year and now leader of the minority...

<p>A bank founded by DNC chairman Terry McAuliffe -- which federal regulators determined used unsafe and unsound banking practices -- awarded an 'unusual and unsecured' loan to Gephardt in the late 1980s... MORE... While Running The Federal City Bank, McAuliffe Also Served As Finance Director For Dick Gephardt's Failed Presidential Campaign...</p> <p>My Loan Was Cleaner Than Yours!</p>

5 out of the top ten US House Recipients of contributions (1989- 2001) from Arthur Andersen are democRats. Their names and the amounts are listed below. And, according to dim logic, they are guilty by association and should have their names shining in the bright lights of Reuters, AP, Drudge, The Washington ComPost, and more. After all, this is a hit piece. Here you go, Klayman, chase this ambulance too! Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) $34,687 Martin Frost (D-Texas) $32,000 Peter Deutsch (D-Fla) $24,200 James P. Moran (D-Va) $21,250 Ken Bentsen (D-Texas) $19,225 Other Rats also receiving Andersen dirty money include: Rick...

Sunday, July 7, 2002 DAILY WHISPER Card sharks House conservatives want White House Chief of Staff Andy Card to go. They claim he's too much of a compromiser. The latest tiff: Card told Republicans last week that while Democrats aren't jumping to create the new Department of Homeland Security, Minority Leader Dick Gephardt's "heart is in the right place." Says one critic: "If he doesn't check out at the end of the year, our guys are going to ride him until he does."

Social Security 's Real Secret: The Left Chases Another Imaginary Right-Wing Conspiracy Issue Brief 138by Eric V. SchlechtMay, 2002 Dont look now, but the Democratic leadership has uncovered another vast right-wing conspiracy. According to Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle and House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt, Republicans are once again collaborating to develop a secret plan to steal senior citizens retirement savings, throw them out into the streets, and publicly flog them (OK, liberals haven t yet accused conservatives of the flogging part, but wait until election day grows closer). Not that this is anything new. The left discovers this...

Gephardt called the GOP bill a "sham", "full of trickery" and "deceit". He is pissed! That should tell you about what a blow he's feeling from the GOP's passage of this bill!

SOUNDING THE ALARMIf they had them, alarm bells would be going off right now in the offices of the Congressional Black Caucus. This, after the stunning defeat on Tuesday of five-term Rep. Earl Hilliard, who after his 7th District in Alabama was redrawn found himself challenged in the Democratic primary by moderate Artur Davis. The Alabama 7th was a heated race. Both men are African-American and had bases in the black community. But Davis was able to raise money in the white community, as well, particularly among Jewish voters. It was this Jewish support for Davis that made some of...

<p>St. Louis city officials praised a federal grant Sunday that will let them hire nearly 50 new police officers.</p> <p>While they held their news conference touting the good news, the federal government's newest batch of statistics to be released today will show that the number of major crimes overall increased nationwide last year for the first time in about a decade.</p>

CONGRESS After Gephardt By Richard E. Cohen, National Journal © National Journal Group Inc. Friday, June 7, 2002 To House Democrats, Rep. Richard A. Gephardt, D-Mo., has been a consummate leader, premier legislative strategist, chief spokesman, and tireless campaign fundraiser and candidate booster, for the past 13 years. And during that period, in both good times and bad, he has also been their speaker-in-waiting -- as majority leader, from June 1989 until the Democrats' disastrous 52-seat loss in the November 1994 elections, and as minority leader since then. As House Democrats battle to win back control of their chamber,...

<p>WASHINGTON - House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt will outline a broad foreign policy vision today, touching on issues from military transformation to attacking Iraq. His speech is designed to make his mark in a crucial presidential arena as the jockeying begins for 2004.</p>

<p>Although Democrats won't admit it, the move-up may be aimed at helping a possible presidential bid by Rep. Richard Gephardt, D-St. Louis County.</p> <p>In 2004, Missouri voters will see a few changes that got little public attention or press coverage in the election-reform bill that Gov. Bob Holden expects to sign.</p>

<p>William Federer, who lost a contest for Congress in 2000, sued Rep. Richard Gephardt and two others Tuesday, claiming they violated his civil rights by directing break-ins at Federer's campaign offices and provoking a conflict during a parade.</p> <p>A spokeswoman for Gephardt dismissed the accusations as frivolous. She noted that an assault charge in the county is pending against Federer for his scuffle with a Gephardt aide during that same parade.</p>

PROVING THAT HE IS, if nothing else, politically flexible, House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt staged an impressive about-face last week on the question of politics and Sept. 11. Make Comments View Comments Printable Article Email Article Last Wednesday, Gephardt joined the Maureen Dowd–led chorus of Democrats who were outraged that Republicans would sell a Sept. 11 photograph of the President to GOP supporters. "We cannot break into partisan fighting about the war on terrorism," Gephardt admonished Republicans. "We’ve got to stay together to win this war." Then on Thursday, Gephardt led Democrats into the very partisan skirmish he had just...

Ok I admit it, I looked forward to the release of the movie. I watched the previews on line ahead of time. And yes this weekend - I went to see it twice. As someone who was but a mere kid when the original Star Wars film came out in the seventies, this is a storyline that has me captivated. Even though the Phantom Menace lagged considerably behind the others, the newest Star Wars film has definitely re-energized the entire LucasFilms Franchise. One of the things I have loved about each of the movies is the way they articulate right...

DURING THE COLD WAR years, the clear number-one priority of U.S. intelligence was the Soviet Union and its satellites, but there were other priorities as well, including the People's Republic of China, North Korea, the Middle East and the countries the Soviet Union and/or China were trying to take over. Make Comments View Comments Printable Article Email Article The end of the Cold War and the shredding of the Iron Curtain reduced the major threat to the U.S. but did not eliminate the threat altogether. Indeed, the number of threats from that direction actually increased: Many of the cold warriors...

"[A]n attack that must have required extensive preparations and a substantial support network appears to have gone entirely undetected by the FBI and intelligence community. These are large failings, the causes of which will have to be meticulously identified and remedied. "The challenge ahead will require strengthening U.S. defenses and intelligence . . ." (Editorial, "September 11, 2001," The Washington Post, Sept. 12, 2001). Make Comments View Comments Printable Article Email Article THE SEPTEMBER 11 hijack-bombings of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon bared a multiplicity of holes in America's intelligence fabric. As author Tom Clancy has pointed out,...