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The developer of the proposed mosque near Ground Zero has begun repaying the $270,000 he owes in property taxes. Sharif el-Gamal walked into the Department of Finance payment center at 66 John St. on Wednesday and said he wanted to settle his tax bill, a department spokesman said. He paid $35,449.17 -- 15 percent of what his real-estate firm, Soho Properties, owed -- and said that the remaining $236,327.81 would then be taken care of in eight quarterly payments.

Police want to charge a state legislator with criminally negligent homicide in connection with the January death of Carol Sinisgalli, who died of exposure in a remote area of Rocky Hill. Prosecutors in Superior Court in New Britain are reviewing an arrest warrant application seeking to charge state Rep. James O'Rourke, sources close to the investigation said. The warrant must be signed by a prosecutor and a judge before an arrest may be made. Criminally negligent homicide is a misdemeanor, punishable by up to one year in jail and/or a fine of up to $2,000.

PITTSBURGH -- A local state representative charged in a serious hoax said he is being targeted. Jeff Habay State Rep. Jeff Habay is accused of lying when he told authorities he received an envelope containing a suspicious white powder from a constituent. Habay's attorney believes his client is the victim of a vendetta. Defense Attorney Jim Ecker said, "This is what really bothers me, is he is a politician. There isn't a month that goes by that I don't pick up a newspaper or watch you guys on TV and I see so and so politician, whether it's a U.S....

I live in Southwestern Ohio and I am registered Republican. Normally all I receive are republican mailers. Today I recieved a postcard for Ann Thompson for State Rep. District 30. Nowhere on this mailer does it state that this candidate is a Democrat. I called the Office number and they said they were not required by law to say this candidate is a democrat. This is deceipt and trickery of the worst kind!! Kerry hates the thought of being labeled a LIBERAL. This lady doesn't even want to be labeled a DEMOCRAT!!! UN-FREAKIN-BELIEVABLE!!! If anyone has the time, please call...

and exhort every Republican in the United States Congress, State Representative and even your Governor and express outrage and ask them to denounce CBS's lame excuse "I find we have been misled" and demand a direct apology from than Rather to the President. Nothing else is acceptable.

Michigan's State Representative Districts. Currently GOP - 64 Dem - 45 1 Open District 1 – Harper Woods, Grosse Pointes, Part of Detroit - Wayne County - Safe GOP. Ed Gaffney is an incumbent, and the Cox/Posthumus avg percentage was 52.10% It’s more GOP at the local level though. Gaffney won with 56.4% last time. The Pointes are Republican , Detroit solid dem, and Harper Woods leans dem. Two dems are running, CJ Harrison and one of the Lamar Lemmons.(there are three of them - Granfather, son, and Grandson) Districts 2-12 are safe Democrat and Detroit based districts in Wayne...