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Pasco County’s Republican Tax Collector, Mike Fasano, likely provided the margin of victory for liberal Democrat Amanda Murphy yesterday as she narrowly won a special election to replace Fasano in the Florida House of Representatives. Murphy won the election over Republican Bill Gunter by just 300 votes out of nearly 20,000 votes cast. After resigning his seat in the Florida House to accept appointment as Pasco County Tax Collector, Fasano pledged to remain neutral regarding the special election. During the final weeks of the campaign, however, Fasano broke his promise and campaigned hard for Murphy while aggressively attacking Gunter’s integrity...

Something to think about here... seriously... If Fred Thompson would do the RIGHT THING, and withdraw from this race, I believe ALL of his supporters will get behind Duncan Hunter, and with 75% of FReepers united for for Duncan Hunter the Dems would be shaking in their boots.. If Fred really was "Drafted" by conservatives as so many folks claim he was needed because there was no real conservative in the race.. but we have Duncan Hunter, and Fred is just "splitting the vote" IMHO. As folks get to know Duncan Hunter most come to the conslusion that he is...

A Novosibirsk court launched a new trial on the illegal sales of corpses to a German scholar. The case is being tried for the third time. Previously, in November 2003 and July 2004, judges acquitted Vladimir Novosyolov, the chief of the Novosibirsk regional forensic department. However, both times prosecutors filed relevant petitions with higher instance courts and the court verdicts were cancelled, while the case was returned for reexamination. Charges were brought up against Novosyolov in 2001 as part of investigation into the illegal sale of more than 50 dead bodies from Novosibirsk to a German scholar in 2000. The...