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Thursday, June 01, 2006
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Next to Tom Tancredo or Roy Moore, Frist is my pick for the GOP’s standard bearer in 2008 simply becuase he gives us a lot of material to work with.
The Federal Election Commission has determined that Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist’s 2000 Senate campaign violated federal campaign finance laws.
The federal agency fined Frist 2000, Inc., $11,000, according to a lawyer representing Frist’s campaign and a watchdog group. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington had filed a complaint last year against Frist’s 2000 campaign committee and received the FEC’s findings Thursday.
The FEC found that Frist 2000, Inc., failed to disclose a $1.44 million loan taken out jointly by the campaign and Frist’s 1994 campaign committee.
Kudos to CREW, who did the legwork on this one.
(Via Oliver Willis - Like Kryptonite To Stupid.)
11:25:13 PM 
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A reader responds to the email from a soldier in Iraq: I would ask your erstwhile military reader that if a car bomb in Detroit today killed five policemen, as happened today in Mosul; if the president was forced to declare a state of emergency in Dallas because 140 people were kidnapped and killed this month, as was the case in Basra; if a priest was gunned down in Washington D.C., as was the case today in Baghdad where a Shiite muazzin was killed; if the major of a Westminster, Md., was killed by a bomb hidden in his air conditioner, as was the case in a city 60 miles north of Baghdad today; if jittery police forces fired upon and killed two women, one of them pregnant, north of the capital - if all of these related events happened in the United States this day, May 31 - a day after another 54 were killed by a car bomb in Washington - do you think the news media would, or should, report that despite the violence, all was well in most of America?
(Via Daily Dish.)
6:52:02 PM
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