"I've been asked today to have the honor of giving the closing keynote address at CPAC Saturday. I'm humbled," West tweeted. A call to West's spokeswoman was not immediately returned.
Freshman Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) will be the closing keynote speaker at the Conservative Political Action Conference this year, he said in a Wednesday morning tweet.
"I've been asked today to have the honor of giving the closing keynote address at CPAC Saturday. I'm humbled," West tweeted. A call to West's spokeswoman was not immediately returned.
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Rep. Chris Lee, R-N.Y., resigned from Congress Wednesday evening in the wake of an embarrassing web posting that the married, two-term congressman had replied to a personal ad on Craigslist with a shirtless photo of himself.
Lee issued a statement announcing his resignation immediately, and his letter was read on the House floor shortly after 6 p.m. Rep. Chris Lee, R-N.Y., resigned from Congress Wednesday evening in the wake of an embarrassing web posting that the married, two-term congressman had replied to a personal ad on Craigslist with a shirtless photo of himself.
Lee issued a statement announcing his resignation immediately, and his letter was read on the House floor shortly after 6 p.m. Progressive activist Marcy Winograd inched closer to running in the special election to replace Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.), but her decision to run may hinge on whether California Secretary of State Debra Bowen also throws her hat in the ring.
Republican Ilario Pantano is wasting little time launching a second bid against Rep. Mike McIntyre (D-NC), announcing Tuesday he will be a candidate in 2010.
Pantano said his decision was driven by the Democratic National Committee's announcement last week that the party would hold its 2012 convention in the Tar Heel State. Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.) will announce her resignation from Congress Tuesday to join the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington as its president and CEO, a top Democratic source confirms to The Hotline. The nine-term representative's departure will set up the first special election of 2011.
The news of Harman's departure was first reported by NBC News. Harman's office declined to comment on the report. With Rep. Jane Harman's (D-Calif.) sudden departure from Congress in the coming weeks, the race to replace her is already drawing interest from several top Democrats in what's shaping up to be a competitive and crowded primary.
Crossroads GPS is coming out swinging against ads the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee released against 19 House Republicans earlier this week -- and they're putting more cash behind their effort in new radio ads supporting the targeted freshmen.
The conservative 501(c)(4) group, which played an outsized role in boosting GOP candidates last election cycle, announced their own wave of radio ads in support of the same Republicans -- 17 of whom were freshmen members -- by praising their efforts to cut government spending. Alaska Republican Joe Miller has money to spend - but the question is where, and against whom.
The 2010 Senate nominee, who beat Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R) in the Republican primary but lost to her write-in campaign in the general, ended the year with $825,000 in his campaign account, the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports. During the latest filing period, from Nov. 23 until Dec. 31, he spent about $166,000, although it wasn't clear how much of that was on legal fees related to the lengthy court challenge over the validity of several of Murkowski's write-in ballots. |
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