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N.J. governor bailed out lobbyist accused of stalking party chairman

In his first political firestorm since taking office in January, Gov. Jon S. Corzine said Wednesday that he provided $5,000 in bail money to a lobbyist accused of stalking a state assemblyman. "I reacted as a human being responding to someone in need," the multimillionaire Democrat said. "However, in light of my position as governor, I realize this was a mistake." Karen Golding, a government relations manager for insurance giant Prudential Financial, is accused of breaking into the government-issued car of Assemblyman Joseph Cryan, a Democrat, and of writing threatening letters and making threatening calls to Cryan and others. Authorities...

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Emenheiser 95

Article Last Updated: 02/10/2006 11:05:43 AM Second Republican joins race against Stetler City woman cites property taxes as her top concern HEIDI BERNHARD-BUBB The York Dispatch Another challenger has entered the race for the 95th District seat in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. York City resident Karen Emenheiser, a Republican, announced her candidacy Tuesday. Emenheiser will challenge York City businessman Larry Homsher in the May primary. Homsher, 58, is vice-president of Vidmar Distributors and announced his candidacy last week. The winner of the primary will face state Rep. Steve Stetler, D-York, who has held the seat since 1991. Stetler hasn't...

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Stetler won't return raise

Stetler won't return raise He's opting to give to charity CARL LINDQUIST The York Dispatch State Rep. Steve Stetler hasn't returned the pay raise money he received before the raise was repealed in November. Instead, the Democratic legislator -- who is in his eighth term representing York City -- said he is giving the money to charities and nonprofits. Although Stetler said he's not sure exactly how much of a pay boost he got before the raise was repealed in November, state records show he made about $9,190 extra during the four months lawmakers could get the increase. Stetler said...

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Arab Women Shun Bush Confidante (Karen Hughes)

Arab women shun Bush confidante By Francis Harris in Washington (Filed: 30/09/2005) A confidante and former chief image-maker to President George W Bush has discovered the limits of the spin doctor's art on her first tour of the Islamic world. Karen Hughes, the new US under-secretary for public diplomacy, was told by professional women in Saudi Arabia and Turkey that she and America failed to understand them. Her tour had been designed to underline the Bush administration's new commitment to improving its image in Muslim countries. Speaking to women in the Saudi city of Jeddah, the former television reporter who...

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Panel OKs Karen Hughes for State Dept.

WASHINGTON - The Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday unanimously approved the nomination of Karen Hughes, a former political adviser to President Bush, as the State Department's top public relations official. The Senate is expected to complete the confirmation process this week before leaving for its August recess. Hughes' main assignment as Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs is to reverse anti-American sentiment around the world. She said at a committee hearing last week that the challenge was "the urgent need to foster greater understanding, more respect and a sense of common ideals among Americans and people...

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'Hurricane Karen' On Mission To Woo Arab World

'Hurricane Karen' on mission to woo the Arab world By Alec Russell in Washington (Filed: 23/07/2005) Karen Hughes, the Texan who is credited with helping George W. Bush win two elections, set out her stall yesterday for a yet more daunting task - rebranding America to the Arab world. She appeared before a Senate committee, seeking endorsement as under-secretary for public diplomacy, where her task will be to reverse the global tide of anti-Americanism. Karen Hughes: promises "Hurricane Karen" has taken on and triumphed at her fair share of tricky public relations assignments. She softened Mr Bush's conservative image in...

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Bush To Name Karen Hughes To State Post

WASHINGTON — President Bush will nominate one of his closest longtime advisers to a key State Department post in an effort to help repair the United States' image abroad, especially in the Arab world, a senior administration official said Saturday. -snip- The official said that Hughes, 48, will spearhead the administration's campaign to promote democracy in the Middle East (search). Karen Hughes, who for years has had a major voice in crafting Bush's domestic message, is a former counselor to the president who left the White House in 2002 to move her family back to Texas. continued

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Insiders say Bush adviser is heading back to D.C.(Karen Hughes is coming back ! YAY !)

WASHINGTON - Karen Hughes, the longtime adviser to President Bush often described as the most powerful woman ever to work in the White House, plans to return to Washington soon to rejoin the president's team as he sets forth on an ambitious second-term agenda, White House officials and outside Republican advisers said.

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Burma attacks citizens amid 'cease-fire'

Thousands of members of an ethnic group in eastern Burma with a strong Christian population are hiding in the jungle after their villages were attacked by army battalions carrying out a government plan described by human-rights watchers as systematic genocide of minorities. Two recent reports sent to WorldNetDaily by an aide worker in Thailand, near the Burma border, indicate Rangoon's military regime is continuing to drive members of the Karen minority from their homes. While officially the government has agreed to a cease-fire with Karen resistance fighters seeking independence, the Burmese Army has maintained attacks on ethnic villages during the...

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Burmese regime carrying out genocide claims new report

(Dec. 16, 2004)(Boxun Received Burma's News Published by Burma's Chinese) SHAN-EU:London, 15 December, (Asiantribune.com): A joint delegation from Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) and the Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust (HART) has returned from a visit to ethnic groups on the Thai-Burmese border with evidence of a campaign of genocide perpetrated by the ruling State Peace and Development Council (SPDC). The report includes first-hand testimonies of forced labour from new Karen and Karenni refugees, as well as details of the situation facing IDPs. It concludes with a brief analysis of the case for genocide and crimes against humanity, and also covers the...

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