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WASHINGTON - A year ago, an activist group from the Seattle area gave Howard Dean (news - web sites) a thin, golden statue of a backbone. The Oscar-like award honored the former Democratic presidential candidate and Vermont governor for standing up against the Iraq (news - web sites) war and other Bush administration policies. Now, as Dean settles into his new role as head of the Democratic Party, that golden spine has come to represent, for many liberal Democrats, Dean's potential to develop a tougher, take-no-prisoners attitude among the party faithful. "There's no gut-check required for Dean. Dean just needs...

Obama embraced Sen. Clinton after her remarks, and although it was a funeral service, he was greeted with a rousing ovation from the crowd. “Now that she’s left us, we’ve all got to pick up some slack,” Obama said. “We’ve all got some unfinished business to attend to: The business of shaking things up, and asking hard questions, and insisting on the hard truths. The business of embracing those who struggle and making their struggles our own. The business of refusing to settle for anything less than what’s right and what’s fair and what’s just.” Former congressman and civil-rights leader...

Gov. Strickland orders election to replace Tubbs Jones Wednesday, August 27, 2008 8:50 PM Associated Press Cleveland - Gov. Ted Strickland on Wednesday ordered a Nov. 18 special election to elect a candidate to fill the final weeks of the late U.S. Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones' term. The winner will serve through December. The special election will come two weeks after the general election, during which voters will select a representative to serve the 11th district for two years beginning in January. Tubbs Jones was facing re-election this year in the district that includes Cleveland and several eastern suburbs. If...

While it is not unusual for left wing blog posters to do the happy dance when prominent conservatives like Tony Snow or Jerry Falwell pass away or are suffering with deadly diseases, liberal bloggers still find time to ask for death on President Bush on a “Rest In Peace” web post for the late Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones(D-OH) , who died of an aneurysm today. Liberal web forum, Democrat Underground, allowed poster “Taverner”, who has over 1000 postings to the forum, to write on the Tubbs Jones RIP thread the following: “ If there was a god Cheney would have...

Foxnews Alert Stephanie Tubbs dies

<p>Breaking on Fox News Live: Stephanie Tubbs Jones passed away this morning as a result of an aneurysm.</p>

EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio — U.S. Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, one of Hillary Clinton's biggest supporters during the primaries, remained unconscious Wednesday in a Cleveland area hospital after being transported there Tuesday night. Tubbs Jones' car veered off the side of the road Tuesday night. Police found her unconscious behind the wheel. According to a police report, an officer was driving behind Tubbs Jones' car at about 9 p.m.ET and observed her weaving. After a couple of turns, the officer turned on his lights to stop the congresswoman. When she pulled to the side, her car then started to roll across...

Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones was admitted to Huron Hospital in East Cleveland Tuesday tonight. The family requested that the hospital not release any information about her condition. The Cleveland Heights police department is to put out a news release in the morning about the incident. WOIO Channel 19 is reporting that Tubbs Jones was behind the wheel of a car moving fast in Cleveland Heights. Police tried to pull her over but she was unconscious. Nicole Williams, spokeswoman for the 11th District congresswoman, had no information about the incident.

Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-Ga.) returned home to Georgia on Sunday from a triumphant weekend at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah, where an award-winning documentary about her life premiered. Her mood quickly soured, however, when she found the front yard of her district home littered with VCR tape in an apparent act of vandalism. “Obviously, someone wants to send a message that they know where I live and can have access to my front yard to do unkind things,” she said in a statement released by her office. The incident has been reported to police. According to a release from...

Hillary Clinton makes Ohio stop Senator teams with Cleveland's Tubbs Jones on voting reform act that would make major changes By Martin Cizmar Beacon Journal staff writer WARRENSVILLE HEIGHTS - Before the United States can encourage democracy in other nations, it needs to improve its own process, Sen. Hillary Clinton told an area audience Saturday. ``We cannot be exporting democracy to places like Iraq and Afghanistan when we don't have democracy at home,'' the New York Democrat said at an election reform forum at Warrensville Heights High School gymnasium in suburban Cleveland. Clinton joined U.S. Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, D-Cleveland,...

Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, the Ohio Democrat who sits on the House ethics committee, has provided a sworn statement and canceled checks as proof that a trip she took to Puerto Rico wasn't improperly paid for by a lobbyist, as her official paperwork initially stated. The June 2001 trip was actually paid for by Todo Puerto Rico con Vieques (TPRV), a group formed to protest the U.S. Navy's bombing range in Vieques, according to the sworn statement by group representatives. "We were able to obtain the funds for this and all our other activities through our fundraising efforts," the representatives,...

It’s business as usual in Washington DC, the land where the only thing more confusing than the word “is” is the word “ethics.” Yet another political standoff is playing out, this time in the House Ethics Committee. Democrats refuse to convene a hearing citing their “outrage” over rules changes that could protect Republican Congressman Tom DeLay from investigation. But a few facts suggest they could be refusing to meet in order to protect two of their own while allowing their pet 527s to politically damage DeLay as much as possible. Like the evil flying monkeys from The Wizard of Oz,...

Below is the floor peech of Rep. Ric Keller (R.-Fla.) regarding Electoral Vote count delivered on January 6, 2005. There's a wise saying we've used quite a bit in Florida over the past four years that the other side would do well to learn -- GET OVER IT. Isn't it ironic that the only people who refuse to "move on" are the people from MoveOn.org and their hero Michael Moore? My colleagues across the aisle have two sides to choose from, the John Kerry side that acknowledges the election is over and President Bush has won. Or the Michael Moore...

[Below is the floor peech of Rep. Ric Keller (R.-Fla.) regarding Electoral Vote count delivered on January 6, 2005.] There's a wise saying we've used quite a bit in Florida over the past four years that the other side would do well to learn -- GET OVER IT. Isn't it ironic that the only people who refuse to "move on" are the people from MoveOn.org and their hero Michael Moore? My colleagues across the aisle have two sides to choose from, the John Kerry side that acknowledges the election is over and President Bush has won. Or the Michael Moore...