For the Broward County Democratic chairman, Bill Richardson’s presidential campaign has meaning far beyond how well the New Mexico governor fares against better known 2008 rivals. Richardson represents two important growth targets for the party, said Mitch Ceasar: He is Hispanic and from a Western state once considered solidly Republican.

A Kentucky republican party chairman is leaving his office. Chairman Darrell Brock said he is stepping down next month to return to the private sector.

SIC - Republican speakers at the annual GOP Lincoln Day Dinner Friday night talked about the rough election last November and how the party can right itself.

Jere Swarr ran for Lancaster County commissioner eight years ago with the endorsement and blessing of the county’s Republican Party. He’s learned a lot since then. Swarr lost in the primary by less than 2,000 votes to a candidate who ran without the party’s endorsement. This time a…

Former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack, the first Democrat to announce his candidacy for the White House, abruptly dropped out of the 2008 presidential race Friday, a victim of the prodigious fundraising demands of an early-starting campaign and the star appeal of…

The lone Democrat in New Haven city government is not seeking re-election to City Council. Tom Lewandowski represents the 3rd District and has been involved in New Haven government since at least the early 1990s. Two Republicans and one Democrat filed with the county election board to try to get the party nomination to be on the November ballot.

EDITOR’S NOTE: To hear audio from the interview with Connie Weathers, go to www.timesfreepress.com. Connie Weathers, recently picked as the new chairwoman for the Hamilton County Republican Party, said the manner in which she was selected for the position is a first in county GOP politics.

Charles Rust-Tierney admitted to investigators that he had downloaded videos and images from child pornography websites:
Federal agents arrested Charles Rust-Tierney, the former president of the Virginia chapter of the ACLU, Friday in Arlington for allegedly possessing child pornography.
According to a criminal complaint obtained by ABC News, Rust-Tierney allegedly used his e-mail address and credit card to […]

Former Pahrump town board member Paul Willis has been named acting Republican state party chairman following the resignation of Paul Adams Feb. 7.

Hybrids Not So Hot After Fuel-Economy Changes
Vilsack out; scramble for Iowa supporters begins…
Catholic Church lobbies for open borders
ROARING ECONOMY: BILL CLINTON HAS MADE $40M ON THE LECTURE CIRCUIT…
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Democrat Tom Vilsack, the former governor of Iowa, plans to drop his longshot 2008 bid for the White House, campaign and party sources said on Friday.

As a reader of The Moderate Voice, I felt let down by the 2 threads dedicated to medical marijuana.  Yesterday, Shaun posted U.S. Government’s Reefer Madness Challenged citing  this info on a lawsuit and his personal experience  here.  Today he posted Marijuana, Religious Puritanism & Social Hypocrisy and responds to a readers question of why […]

WASHINGTON - At first delicious glance, the nasty little mud bath between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama validates yet again Will Rogers’ famous observation: “I don’t belong to any organized political party - I’m a Democrat.”

Just testing the ‘Asides’ feature on this site.

Nikki Finke reports:
Warning: Sunday night’s Academy Awards telecast will end up the longest on record. That’s the word I’ve been given by one source who helps oversee this 79th Oscars and is therefore in a position to know. Sad but probably true, since this year’s producer is Laura Ziskin (Spider-Man) who was responsible for bringing in the 74th show […]