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...both campaigned hard on conservative credentials, but lost their respective races. "They didn't present a clear alternative and the national wave didn't catch them," said Yarmuth. "Democrats who might have been inclined to vote for them, figured, 'What's the difference?'" Even supposed conservative Democrats like former sheriff Brad Ellsworth in Indiana's 8th District, who trounced Republican incumbent John Hostettler, ran in support of raising the minimum wage and against some of the Bush tax cuts...
...House, the defeat of GOP Congressman John Hostettler by Democrat Brad Ellsworth, the Vanderburgh County sheriff, was the first confirmation that predictions of a Democratic takeover were coming to pass. The main question now appears to be how big a margin the Democrats will rack...
...confining sows in 2-ft. by 7-ft. metal pens where they cannot turn around for most of their four to five year breeding life is "especially egregious." Arizona's major newspapers have endorsed Prop 204. And the message was reinforced in a television commercial featuring Maricopa County Sheriff Joseph Arpaio cooking a pork chop while declaring that, nonetheless, "I believe that animals raised for food deserve humane treatment...
...weekend before Halloween, 50 people crowded into a community forum in Florence with Colorado's Democratic Senator Ken Salazar, who had just toured ADX to investigate the security situation. A few days later, Republican Senator Wayne Allard made the same trip. Fremont County sheriff Jim Beicker, who is still waiting for a Homeland Security grant to upgrade his department's radio system, expressed his concerns about the flimsy fence surrounding the prison complex and staffing shortages at ADX. "I want to see these issues fixed," he said. "I don't want to have to lay awake at night and worry...
...Republicans, the long shot is Michigan, where the National Republican Senatorial Committee is throwing a $900,000 lifeline to Mike Bouchard, a sheriff challenging Sen. Debbie Stabenow...