Obama Wooing Church-goers in Kentucky
Battered for weeks by his association with his pastor, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., is making an appeal to church-going Democratic primary voters in Kentucky.
You can see a copy of an Obama campaign brochure here.…
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House members give awards to verbose lawmakers
With this year’s legislative session winding down, members in the House of Representatives took time out Wednesday for some joviality.
The annual “Mouth of the House” awards – handed out usually to lawmakers who talk the most or come up with the best verbal phrase – were given to Reps. James Covey, D-Custer City, and Charlie Joyner, R-Midwest City.
Covey, the Democratic floor leader, was given the award for consistently inquiring whether the language in bills and amendments dealt with …
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Obama and the Cherokee Freedmen
The Hill, a newspaper that covers Capitol Hill, reports that Sen. Barack Obama, the Illinois Democrat who has all but wrapped up his party’s presidential nomination, has taken a stance against legislation that would punish the Cherokee Nation for voting to exclude the descendants of freed slaves who don’t have Cherokee blood.
Obama’s stance puts him at odds with the Congressional Black Caucus, which wants to cut off funds to the Cherokees. According to The Hill, Obama wants to let …
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Calf Fries and the U.S. Senate Race
What are the chances?
You’ve just arrived in Oklahoma and you wind up on a ranch where a friendly guy in a cowboy hat hands you a big bag of calf fries.
You could live in the state all your life and never enjoy such a seminal Oklahoma experience. Truly, you could probably live in Oklahoma all your life and not know what calf fries are.
But a staff member of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, in Oklahoma to help …
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