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<p>A Missouri House panel has cut out the money for the state's presidential primary next year - a move that would knock Missouri out of the nation's lineup of early primary states.</p> <p>State House Speaker Catherine Hanaway, R-Warson Woods, said Friday that she is "a reluctant supporter" of the cut, saying the money-strapped state could better use the $3.7 million allocated for next year's scheduled Feb. 3 presidential primary.</p>

Question of the day: At this point, who would you like to be the Democratic presidential candidate next year? Howard Dean Dick Gephardt John Kerry Joe Lieberman Carol Moseley-Braun Al Sharpton View Results

Look who is jumping through Sharpton's hoops?

A look at Iowa since Democrat Dick Gephardt won the state's precinct caucuses in 1988: VOTERS In 1988, Iowa had 597,122 registered Democrats and 510,833 registered Republicans, according to state election officials. Another 530,404 voters registered without declaring a preference. Today, Republicans outnumber Democrats, 589,387 to 537,881. The number of voters who did not list a party preference has grown to 679,627. Independent voters have little history of participating in caucuses sponsored by the parties. POLITICS The state had five members of the U.S. House in 1988, three Republicans and two Democrats. The census has not changed the overall number...

HIGGINSVILLE, Mo. (AP) -- Supporters of a state memorial site that includes the graves of hundreds of Southern soldiers launched a petition drive Monday urging state officials to once again allow the Confederate battle flag to fly over the cemetery. They also criticized Steve Mahfood, director of the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, who ordered the flags removed at Higginsville and another state historic site on Jan. 14 after Democratic presidential hopeful Dick Gephardt of St. Louis said they shouldn't be flown anywhere.Gephardt and Gov. Bob Holden -- Mahfood's boss who once worked for Gephardt -- also were lambasted by...

Along with political chameleon Sen. Joe Lieberman, Democrats considering running for president in 2004 are Rep. Dick Gephardt, Sen. John Kerry, Sen. John Edwards, and Vermont Gov. Howard Dean. All of them, collectively, wouldn't make a good executive. Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle was also thinking about running but dropped out. Reason? Daschle's overpaid wife lobbies the house, yet it is just amazing how many of her proposed bills he has quietly inserted into Senate bills over the years. That's sort of illegal, of course. Anyway, none of them have anything resembling a personality and would never stand out above...

Who Is Dick Gephardt? An Ineffective Leader And Traditional Liberal Democrat Who Is The “Keeper Of The Liberal Flame For Organized Labor And Party Activists.” But, Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack Warned That Gephardt’s Union Support Is Not A Sure Thing: “The Conventional Wisdom Assumes That Labor Is With Gephardt, And I Don’t Know That That’s True.” (Lorraine Woellert, “Tom Daschle Hits The Ground Winning,” Business Week, July 16, 2001; Dan Balz, “Presidential Hopefuls Court Iowa,” The Washington Post, January 20, 2003) THE FACTS ABOUT REPRESENTATIVE GEPHARDT (MO-3) GEPHARDT HAS BEEN TRIED, TESTED AND REJECTED “‘I Think The Party’s Ready For...

<p>WASHINGTON - Rep. Richard Gephardt told abortion-rights activists Tuesday night that he would fight to make Roe v. Wade "the law of this great country" and gave his fullest account to date of his own "personal journey" on this politically dicey issue.</p>

ABC News will have a new poll at 6:30 PM EST tonight testing the tax cut, the war, and a horse race of the current 2004 Presdiential field.On the Presidential level, still picking apart the results of the past weekends results in Iowa, all six Dem Cadidates will speak tonight at the Pro-Choice America's Dinner at the Omni Shoreham hotel. Receptions start at 6PM, events begin at 7.Division of pro choice activists is key right up there with labor and African Americans. The echo-chamber effect for anyone who does well tonight or poorly will be huge. Watch on C-SPAN how...

Democratic Presidential hopefuls toured Iowa over the weekend looking for support. In a poll of 480 likely Democratic voters conducted by Zogby International January 17-19, Congressman Richard Gephardt of Missouri leads the pack at 19%, followed by Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman (17%) and Massachusetts Senator John Kerry (11%). No other candidate earned more than 5% support. Six in ten of the likely Democratic voters surveyed said it is likely that President Bush will be re-elected, 40% somewhat likely and 20% very likely. More than a third (37%) are unsure which candidate they’ll support in the January 2004 caucus in Iowa....

<p>Should Missouri have taken the Confederate flag down from two Civil War memorials?</p> <p>What do you think of Richard Gephardts grandstanding of this issue?</p>

DEMO GEPHARDT BRACES FOR RACE J. Grant Swank, Jr., POB 1984, Windham ME 04062 Pastor, New Hope Church, Windham ME Sending out invitations to friends and cronies, Richard A. Gephardt has set his sites on winning Pennsylvania Avenue's Oval Office. Who will rally 'round the flag, boys? Who will pay the bills? Whatever, The Man filed forms with the Federal Election Commission to put in place his exploratory committee. Making his first stab at the presidency in 1988, he lost in the primaries to then-Massachusetts governor Michael Dukakis. But, brothers and sisters, it's time for another go. Born on January...

<p>JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Missouri Democrat Dick Gephardt, who declared after a visit to South Carolina that the Confederate flag shouldn't fly ``anytime, anywhere,'' wants the flag pulled from a publicly funded Confederate memorial in his home state, his spokesman said.</p>

COLUMBIA, S.C. - The Confederate flag should not be flown in the United States, U.S. Rep. Dick Gephardt, D-Mo., says. In a statement released Saturday, Gephardt said the flag that flies at a Confederate Soldier Monument on South Carolina's Statehouse grounds "is a hurtful, divisive symbol and in my view has no place flying anywhere, in any state in this country." Gephardt, who is seeking the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004, said he was releasing the statement to clarify comments in an article published Saturday in The (Columbia) State newspaper. "I want to be crystal clear to the people of...

<p>Dick Gephardt had a bittersweet political day yesterday in Washington. He formally relinquished the title of House minority leader after eight years of his fruitless efforts to reclaim a majority. But he also got the good news that his erstwhile Senate counterpart and fellow Midwesterner, Tom Daschle, wouldn't run for president. Mr. Gephardt now becomes a slight favorite for the Democratic presidential nomination--something he has coveted since he made an unsuccessful run in 1988.</p>

Whether he wins or loses his bid for the presidency, Rep. Richard A. Gephardt has decided against running for re-election next year to the U.S. House seat that he's held for 26 years. Although his Washington office declined comment, campaign sources close to Gephardt, D-St. Louis County, confirmed Monday that his next term as the 3rd District's congressman will be his last. On Tuesday, he'll be sworn in to his 14th term, which he won on Nov. 5.

So the Democratic pundits are all out combing the archives for ALL speeches and voting records of the leading Republicans.......I SAY - let all us freepers start compiling a database with all the leading Democratic challengers and post them here for easy access. John Kerry Joe Lieberman John Edwards Howard Dean Tom Daschle Dick Gephardt Al Sharpton (although this one should be easy)

It ain’t easy being a Democrat these days. After the butt-kicking endured by the party of the Jackass, them Dems are starting to feel like a Christian Scientist with appendicitis. Al Gore is in full meltdown, blaming anybody and everybody for the fact he ain’t President (everybody, that is, except Al Gore). Former Senate Majority Leader (and now minority leader) Tom Daschle pulled his head out of his ass just long enough to say the humiliations his party suffered in the November mid-term elections weren’t his fault and then returned to the nether region where the smell is as nasty...