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  • GOP Lawmakers Reach Out to Isolated Honduran Government

    10/08/2009 2:42:10 PM PDT · by don-o · 11 replies · 474+ views
    The Washington Post ^ | October 10, 2009 | Mary Beth Sheridan
    In the three months since soldiers expelled Honduras's leftist president, the Obama administration and the rest of the world have shunned the Central American country, cutting off aid and travel visas. But the isolated Honduran leadership has found one lifeline: Republicans on Capitol Hill. Within days of President Manuel Zelaya's ouster June 28, powerful Hondurans launched a lobbying campaign in Washington, arguing that the leftist leader had been a menace to their country. The Honduran government and its allies have spent at least half a million dollars on public-relations experts and lobbyists from both parties -- including Lanny Davis, a...
  • Meeting fails to end standoff - 2 GOP lawmakers unable to sway runaway Dems (Chicken Run Update)

    08/07/2003 6:21:17 PM PDT · by Libloather · 11 replies · 201+ views
    Houston Chronicle .com ^ | 8/06/03 | RACHEL GRAVES, R.G. RATCLIFFE
    Meeting fails to end standoff 2 GOP lawmakers unable to sway runaway Dems By RACHEL GRAVES and R.G. RATCLIFFE Aug. 6, 2003, 11:34PM ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Two Republican state senators flew here Wednesday for a covert two-hour meeting with several of the 11 Democratic state senators who fled Texas to block a GOP congressional redistricting plan. Republican Sens. Todd Staples of Palestine and Robert Duncan of Lubbock told the Houston Chronicle Wednesday evening that they met with Democratic Sens. Leticia Van de Putte of San Antonio, Royce West of Dallas and Juan "Chuy" Hinojosa of Mission. "Our only form of...