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BBC News
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New York State Governor Eliot Spitzer has been given a deadline to step down or face impeachment proceedings over allegations that he hired a prostitute.
His top Republican opponent in the New York Assembly gave him up to 48 hours - until early on Thur..
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SF Gate
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Gov. Eliot Spitzer, who took office with the vow "Day One, Everything Changes," started day one of his life after allegations of a prostitution scandal with his outlook so changed that many wondered if he could remain in power.
The first-term Democrat..
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Boston Globe
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WASHINGTON - To Mike Huckabee, Baptist minister, former governor, and GOP candidate for president, being a good Christian is about redemption and forgiveness and recognizing his own frailties so he can be more understanding of the shortcomings of others...
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Boston Globe
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Even as Governor Deval Patrick seeks to license three resort casinos in Massachusetts, he hopes to clamp down on the explosion in Internet gambling by making it illegal for state residents to place a bet on line. He has proposed jail terms of up to two ye..
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Time
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In the rough and tumble of Alabama politics, the scramble for power is often a blood sport. At the moment, the state's former Democratic governor, Don Siegelman, stands convicted of bribery and conspiracy charges and faces a sentence of up to 30 years in..
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SF Gate
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Former Wisconsin governor Tommy Thompson announced Sunday that he is running for president and is betting that he will best the Republican field's well-financed front-runners in Iowa, the neighboring state where he has been campaigning nonstop for months...
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Yahoo News
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When Vermont Governor Jim Douglas, a Republican with reasonably close ties to President Bush, asked if there was any additional business to be considered at the town meeting he was running in Middlebury, Ellen McKay popped up and proposed the impeachment..
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New York Sun
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Leaving one political office with his eyes on another, Governor Romney of Massachusetts took the first formal step yesterday into the race for the Republican presidential nomination on his last full day as governor...
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MSNBC
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The shadow of President Bush seemed to loom large over his younger brother Wednesday, as the outgoing Florida governor ruled out any plans to return to elected office...
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SF Gate
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Gov. Sarah Palin worked briefly Monday, just three days after giving birth to her fifth child, a boy who the governor's spokeswoman confirmed has Down syndrome.
Palin spokeswoman Sharon Leighow described the newborn, Trig, as "cute."
Palin didn't sp..
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SF Gate
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Former Gov. Jerry Brown dropped a broad hint Saturday to more than 1,000 Democratic activists that he's looking at a run for governor in 2010.
"I don't do much today but sue people," the attorney general told the delegates at the state Democratic conve..
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MSNBC
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Meanwhile, Albany insiders on Tuesday said the governor was still trying to decide how to proceed. Options included quitting immediately, or waiting to use resignation as a bargaining chip with federal prosecutors to avoid indictment.
Democrats private..
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Washington Post
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Already had enough of the presidential contests? Let the vice presidential speculation begin.
Among Democrats, Gov. Ted Strickland of Ohio is starting to generate some buzz. Hardly a surprise, since Ohio will be a hugely important swing state in 2008...
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Los Angeles Times
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IN MAY 2001, advisors to Arnold Schwarzenegger, who was considering a run for governor, convened a secret focus group of a dozen independent-minded voters in a windowless room in Encino. Three members of the group volunteered that, the previous week, they..
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Washington Post
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Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, who led Republican candidates in money raised during the first three months of the presidential race with $21 million, told top fundraisers yesterday that his campaign will bring in less during the second quarter..
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Alter Net
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Mitt Romney says that he will preach and practice diversity. But his record as governor is anything but reassuring on diversity.
Now that Mitt Romney has been certified on the cover of Time Magazine as a bonafide GOP presidential contender he'll be pep..
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Washington Post
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When Kentucky Republicans banded together in 2003 to make Ernie Fletcher the state's first GOP governor in more than three decades, then-U.S. Rep. Anne M. Northup enthusiastically backed the winning campaign, raising $640,000 for the doctor, preacher and..
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Alter Net
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Mitt Romney says that he will preach and practice diversity. But his record as governor is anything but reassuring on diversity.
Now that Mitt Romney has been certified on the cover of Time Magazine as a bonafide GOP presidential contender he'll be pep..
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Washington Post
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Former Virginia governor James S. Gilmore III, whose chief claim to fame in his one term was a partially completed repeal of the state's car tax, has become the self-appointed pit bull of the 2008 Republican presidential campaign.
Gilmore uses the nick..
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FOX News
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The governor on Monday closed the loophole in state law that allowed the Virginia Tech gunman to buy weapons despite a court ruling that he was a threat and needed psychiatric counseling.
Gov. Timothy M. Kaine issued an executive order requiring that a..
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