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Copyright © 2005 The Hill Newspaper. All rights reserved. For educational and discussion purposes only. In 1992, I was polling for Michael Huffington’s primary challenge to California’s veteran Republican Rep. Bob Lagomarsino. Our opposition research discovered that the incumbent was a promoter of statehood for Puerto Rico. The campaign-consultant team huddled and decided to use this as one point in our critique of Lagomarsino’s congressional record. But, as it turned out, the Puerto Rico attack fizzled. The issue was obscure to the public and press. Even Huffington seemed disinterested. Our polls showed that just 23 percent of the Republican primary...

'Pretty boy' plays fame card on bailJanuary 3, 2005A MAN who said he was "too pretty" to go to jail now claims he is too famous to adhere to the conditions of his bail. Timothy Leigh Hall, 21, was carrying a copy of an article published in The Daily Telegraph last week which detailed his theatrics in court on Boxing Day when trying for bail. When he was picked up for allegedly breaching bail conditions for a malicious damage charge last week, Hall told the court the "hardened criminal element of jail would not be suitable for this blond-haired boy"....