Former Rep. Bob Ney (R-Ohio) was released from a halfway house Friday morning and is now a free man, according to a report by the Columbus Dispatch.
At 7:30 Friday morning Ney left the halfway house in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he had been living since his release from a federal prison in Morgantown, W. Va. in February.
He served 17 of the 30 months he was sentenced to in January 2007 after pleading guilty in 2006 to corruption charges stemming from his relationship with disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
The Hill reported in March that Ney was working at Talk Radio News Service (TRNS), located in Columbus, Ohio, thanks to his longtime friend Ellen Ratner.
Former House Speaker Newt Gingirch (R-Ga.) has put put a light hearted video announcing a YouTube contest for his group American Solutions.
The contest challenges supporters to make a video demonstrating the groups "drill here, drill now, pay nothing" slogan. The winner of the contest will get a year of free gas.
The video starts with Gingrich catching one of his interns watching YouTube at work and later shows the intern doing the same to the former House Speaker.
Barack Obama and John McCain are locked in an on-air back-and-forth over McCain's alleged ties to a DHL downsize that put several thousand Ohioans out of work.
Obama today released a TV ad for Ohio highlighting McCain's role, outlined by the Cleveland Plain Dealer, in helping DHL purchase a U.S.-based shipping company, which could lead to a loss of over 8,000 Ohio jobs. Obama has also hit McCain on the alleged link in a radio ad, pointing to McCain Campaign Manager Rick Davis's employment as a lobbyist for DHL as well.
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Harry and Louise are back. The fictitious couple that starred in TV ads that helped kill President Clinton's healthcare reform plan in 1994 are returning to the airwaves for the 2008 campaign.
This time, though, they aren't speaking for the health insurance industry. On Tuesday, a diverse coalition of interest groups will debut the new Harry and Louise ads at a press conference in Washington.
Last time around, the middle-class couple was warning us that Clinton
Huck's Army, a grassroots group of former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee's (R) supporters, is threatening to withhold support for John McCain unless he selects Huckabee as a running mate or features him prominently at the Republican convention.
"WE WILL NOT VOTE FOR A MCCAIN TICKET UNLESS: 1) Mike Huckabee is the VP or 2) Mike Huckabee is the Keynote speaker at the National GOP Convention," the group wrote in an e-mail to supporters.
Huck's Army asked supporters to contact Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.), seeking to influence McCain's choice through the Michigan lawmaker, who Huck's Army says has close ties to McCain.
"Fred is McCain's trusted friend and advisor.
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Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) and New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson (D) will stump for their former rival Barack Obama Sunday.
Their joint appearance in Espanola, N.M., will mark the first time they've campaigned publicly together since Clinton ally James Carville called Richardson, a Cabinet official in Bill Clinton's administration, "Judas" for endorsing Obama during the Democratic primaries.
After the Obama event, they will attend a fundraiser together.
Rep. Robin Hayes (R-N.C.) has a ten-point advantage over a Democratic challenger who came within an eyelash of unseating him in 2006, according to a new poll
Hayes leads Democrat Larry Kissell 50 percent to 40 percent, with nine percent undecided, according to a poll taken on behalf of Hayes's campaign and the National Republican Congressional Committee last week, the campaign announced today.
Kissell came within 329 votes of unseating Hayes in 2006, getting him noticed by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, which has called on donors to help Kissell retire his 2006 campaign debt.
Democratic House candidate David Robinson has a new basketball-inspired ad for Ohio's 12th congressional district, perhaps a play on his namesake's illustrious NBA career.
Robinson will challenge incumbent Rep. Patrick Tiberi (R) this fall.
A group still supporting Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) for president is trying to make sure that her nomination vote at the Democratic convention is genuine.
The Denver Group has called for months for an open convention. Now that Clinton and Barack Obama's campaigns have announced that her name would be placed in nomination for a roll call vote in Denver, the group's blog suggested that Clinton still has a chance at becoming the party's general election candidate.
"There has to be a legitimate, open convention with an acknowledgement [sic] that by their own rules the Democratic Party does not now have an official nominee," a blog post read. "Senator Clinton's name in nomination has to mean a genuinely democratic opportunity for super delegates to exercise their judgment and to cast their votes for the nominee they are willing to take responsibility for sending out against the Republicans, based on who they think will be the better candidate and the better President."
The blog post stressed that the vote cannot be symbolic.
"If anyone has anything up their sleeve, if they think they can turn this into some kind of 'symbolic' event - as one New York Times reporter called it - so that putting Senator Clinton's name in nomination is no more than a dog and pony show, today's measures will not only fail to unify the party, the end result will leave the party even more divided, angry and rancorous than it was before. We hope it won't come to that. But we will continue to hold the DNC's feet to the fire to make sure it does not."
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) criticized John McCain for his plans to appear at a fundraiser with Ralph Reed, a former business partner of jailed lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
In a conference call organized by the Democratic National Committee, Waxman said that McCain's decision to attend the Monday fundraiser in Georgia "is a very disappointing example of John McCain abandoning his principles on the campaign trail."
Waxman added: "He claimed to be a reformer. Well, reformer no more."
Reed's lobbying firm received $4 million from Abramoff's Native American clients to help organize an effort against the clients' casino competitors. Waxman credited McCain for leading a Senate Indiana Affairs Committee probe into Abramoff's dealings, but the Democrat knocked McCain for failing to call Reed to testify.
"Raising money with Ralph Reed shows that -- that the John McCain who ran in 2000 would have a hard time considering voting for the John McCain we see today," Waxman said. "Sen. McCain has changed. He's taking advice from Karl Rove and Karl Rove's minions, and now he's adopting the Karl Rove and Dick Cheney 'anything goes' style of low road politics."
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