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Military Times
March 31, 2018
President Donald Trump is flanked by Vietnam Veterans at a proclamation signing to honor them in Danang, Vietnam, on Nov. 10, 2017. Former Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin, fired this week, has said that political operatives within Trump's administration are undermining his promised veteransÃÂ ...
St. Augustine Record
March 31, 2018
One of the newcomers was a former Trump campaign worker named Caroline Wiles. Wiles, then 30, is the daughter of Susan Wiles, a prominent lobbyist and political operative in Florida. Caroline Wiles joined the Trump administration as a deputy assistant to the president and director of scheduling in theÃÂ ...
The Nation.
March 31, 2018
Late in January, a small army of right-wing oligarchs and political operatives gathered in Southern California for the Koch Network's annual winter seminar. They were there to learn about the network's plans for the 2018 midterm elections. They learned, for instance, that the sprawling political organizationÃÂ ...
St. Lucia News Online
March 29, 2018
The United Workers Party is also alarmed by a threat made on Facebook over the weekend by a well-known political operative who threatened that it was time to throw grenades and tear gas into the next sitting of the House of Assembly. The UWP is convinced there are concerted efforts by individuals toÃÂ ...
Patriot Post
March 16, 2018
Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson delivered a scathing attack on evangelicals who support President Trump, calling them “slimy political operatives, not moral leaders.” CBS “Face the Nation” moderator Margaret Brennon asked Gerson to weigh in on evangelical leaders who still support theÃÂ ...
The Edge Markets MY
March 8, 2018
PETALING JAYA (March 8): A former Australian civil servant has received a letter of demand for over A$20 million (RM60.98 million) from a “prominent Malaysian political operative” he had “never heard of” over a A$1 billion property deal with the Employee Provident Fund (EPF) that did not materialise,ÃÂ ...
Kansas City Star
February 11, 2018
He played a Baltimore political operative in “The Wire” and a warden in “Oz,” both on HBO. He also had roles in network TV series such as “Law & Order” and “30 Rock,” and in movies including “Fantastic Four,” “Hands of Stone” and “American Psycho.” Mickey Jones was a drummer who toured with BobÃÂ ...
Daily Nation
February 11, 2018
Career diplomats: As diplomatic neophytes prepare to take office, Taabu Tele says that in dire need of some quick basic training on etiquette and rules are these political operatives. However, he is disappointed that the tendency to place the politically connected into key jobs in the Foreign Service onlyÃÂ ...
Buffalo News
February 11, 2018
An effort by political operative G. Steven Pigeon to prevent prosecutors from challenging the suppression of some evidence in his bribery case was rejected by judges in the state Appellate Division. After State Supreme Court Justice Donald F. Cerio Jr. agreed to hear a motion from the state AttorneyÃÂ ...
Allentown Morning Call
February 11, 2018
The witnesses — developers, engineers, political operatives, City Hall staffers and former members of the mayor's Cabinet — have testified about Pawlowski's unsuccessful campaigns for governor and U.S. Senate, his focus on raising money to prove himself a viable candidate and pressure placed on cityÃÂ ...
Business Insider
February 11, 2018
Cody Shearer reportedly spent at least six months in Eastern Europe attempting to purchase compromising information from a Russian on President Donald Trump. He is a political operative and author of a second Trump-Russia dossier. The development comes amid news that American spies also attempted to cut a dealÃÂ ...
TBO.com
February 10, 2018
Cathey assumed a somewhat similar role on The Wire, playing a beloved newspaper editor turned political operative whose honesty and integrity are often sought out by the man he works for, Tommy Carcetti (Aidan Gillen). "That voice," Simon said in a phone interview Saturday, "I think we all know that ifÃÂ ...
Central Florida News 13
February 8, 2018
Roger Stone, the longtime Republican political operative suspected of having advance knowledge of Russian leaks intended to influence the 2016 presidential election, told a Tallahassee forum Wednesday that a recently released House Intelligence Committee memo proves governmental agenciesÃÂ ...
WCAX
February 8, 2018
Political operatives interviewed for this story, and on both sides of the aisle, said the policies developed by the minority will have far more impact on the campaign trail than here on Capitol Hill. The first midterm primaries are just around the corner. Political consultant Ryan Williams worked on Mitt Romney'sÃÂ ...
TheFix.com
February 8, 2018
“She may be a political operative and a good political operative. But look. When you appoint a secretary of Labor, you want someone with a labor background. When you appoint a secretary of Defense, you want someone with a defense background. The opioid epidemic needs leadership that 'speaks' theÃÂ ...
Tallahassee.com
February 8, 2018
Roger Stone gives depth to the word notorious. He is a legendary political trickster from the Nixon era that is banned from Twitter, CNN, and MSNBC. Stone brought his act to Tallahassee Wednesday. And he provoked laughter and anger from more than 200 people before he even stood at the microphoneÃÂ ...
Splinter (blog)
February 7, 2018
As the site reports, the group brought in half a million dollars last year, $130,000 of which was paid to the Bulldog Finance Group—a consulting firm run by political operative Scott Dworkin, who is also a senior adviser at the Democratic Coalition. More than half of the money raised by the DemocraticÃÂ ...
UPROXX
February 6, 2018
She may be a political operative and a good political operative,” he added. “But look. When you appoint a secretary of Labor, you want someone with a labor background. When you appoint a secretary of Defense, you want someone with a defense background. The opioid epidemic needs leadership thatÃÂ ...
The Hill
February 3, 2018
We, the American people, have the right to know whether the application deliberately failed to disclose to the FISA court that the so-called “Steele dossier” was commissioned by political operatives seeking dirt on a political opponent. We are entitled to know how much weight, if any, was given to the dossierÃÂ ...
New York Times
February 3, 2018
Political operatives are weaponizing their disagreement with a particular investigation in a bid to undermine the credibility of the entire institution. “The system is rigged” is their slogan, and they are now politicizing the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act process used to collect critical intelligence about ourÃÂ ...
CNN
February 3, 2018
"We are really moving forward with the presumption this is likely to be decided at convention," John Norris, the longtime Iowa political operative turned candidate for governor, told The Des Moines Register's Jason Noble, who explained here why it all matters going forward. — Also to watch: Sen. BernieÃÂ ...
PennLive.com
February 2, 2018
And they have been drawn by skilled political operatives, and it needs to stop." The new filing also seeks to force Justice Christine Donahue to make disclosure of public statements that she has made on the issue, so the parties can "reasonably consider" whether to file for her disqualification as well.
Salt Lake Tribune
January 24, 2018
“When it comes to the politicalization of agencies like the FBI, the Department of Justice and frankly, in my opinion, worst of all, the CIA, where they've been turned into political operatives. “Obviously, there are dedicated public servants that work there,” he added. “But a few individuals in very seniorÃÂ ...
Toledo Blade
January 24, 2018
Mayor Wade Kapszukiewicz has reached beyond the sometimes stifling boundaries of inside political baseball in Toledo to find a new chief of staff. The mayor introduced Katy Crosby last week, having resisted the temptation to pick a chief of staff from among his own, or the usual, circle of politicalÃÂ ...
Fox Business
January 24, 2018
FOX Business' Charlie Gasparino explains why the 2012 presidential candidate Mitt Romney is likely inching closer to a Senate run. Former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Tuesday held a meeting of the minds with one of his most trusted advisers and a Utah political operative as heÃÂ ...
RealClearPolitics
January 24, 2018
He added: "When you see this kind of bias and corruption in the FBI, you have to ask: Are there these type of individuals --highly biased political operatives-- burrowed into the Dept. of Justice as well. Does Atty. Gen. Sessions really have a department he can trsut?" Related Videos. Rep. Ron DeSantis: IÃÂ ...
The New York Review of Books
January 23, 2018
It is a question with a number of possible answers: for its shareholders, who saw growth level off in the last year and young people turning to other social media platforms; for its users, who saw their personal information appropriated by political operatives and sometimes used against them in insidious waysÃÂ ...
The News Tribune
January 23, 2018
But now, as both parties reach an apparent short-term deal to reopen government, a half-dozen top political operatives on both sides of the aisle told McClatchy that they are deeply skeptical that come November's midterm elections, shutdown politics will matter at all. The next races on the calendar areÃÂ ...
RealClearPolitics
January 19, 2018
And so, these are political operatives. I wish they would come out and deal with real issues like equal pay for equal work. But this is politics. I'm standing here as a United States senator in my official capacity, challenging a cabinet secretary who is lying before the Senate on an issue that affects my state asÃÂ ...
U.S. News & World Report
January 17, 2018
"Today, what is in the best interest of that mission is for significant changes to be made, and that means me stepping aside, allowing for greater opportunity for the campaign," Baham wrote to political operatives, in an email obtained by AP. "I believe y'all know me well enough to understand I'm alwaysÃÂ ...
seattlepi.com (blog)
January 16, 2018
Author and investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson asserts that she can help the reader identify a smear campaign and in turn, filter fake news from the grains of truth that are inside each story told by the news media in her book The Smear. The 600-page plus tome is loaded with insight, opinions, andÃÂ ...
Newsweek
January 9, 2018
A well-connected and longtime political operative, Manafort faces charges of laundering $75 million, among others, all of which he has denied. The president's attorneys have reportedly “debated” whether an interview could be avoided. However, they have also discussed the legal standard for a presidentÃÂ ...
American Banker
January 9, 2018
... to fill the role. English sued the White House for the job, and a federal judge named Mulvaney the rightful director until a formal ruling on the matter is decided. In the meantime, Mulvaney has frozen or rolled back several pending rules and assigned political operatives to oversee the work of career staff.
WTVA
January 9, 2018
"There would be no sharing with candidates, with political operatives or anybody of that category." Bannon declined to comment. Bannon, Schweizer and the Mercers went on to curry favor with Trump when he became the GOP nominee and, later, the President. Trump brought on Bannon as CEO of hisÃÂ ...
vtdigger.org
January 9, 2018
Peterson, 28, maintains her husband, Gonzalez, has more than one job and she believes he “is employed as a clandestine political operative for the political party of the current Mexican President and works for the President through other clandestine operatives,” according to court papers filed on her behalfÃÂ ...
Mashable
January 9, 2018
It may have brought tears to many eyes and tweets to many timelines, but political operatives and experts that have intimate knowledge of what it takes to mount a campaign still have many questions. "What the heck does Oprah believe in?" Kenneth Pennington, the former digital director for Bernie Sanders'ÃÂ ...
New Republic
January 6, 2018
Many of Bannon's erstwhile allies, forced to choose between the political operative and the president, are starting to abandon Bannon. As The Washington Post reports, “Candidates who once embraced Bannon distanced themselves from his efforts, groups aligned with his views sought separation, and hisÃÂ ...
Akron Beacon Journal
January 6, 2018
It was the prospect of student loan debt and meeting Josh Mandel that made Dexter Vaughan ditch a plan to pursue a law degree at Penn State. The Middlefield native met Mandel through a family friend. Cut from the same conservative cloth, the Ohio State University graduate quickly went to work onÃÂ ...
The Denver Post
December 29, 2017
For political-watchers, news media, political operatives, candidates and officials, 2017 was — let's be honest — exhausting. The constant churn of news, the unending assaults on our sense of decency and expectations for government officials, the carousel of White House advisers (“according to KathrynÃÂ ...
OSU
December 31, 1999
Get excited Ohio State: all of you will be pestered on The Oval, Twitter will stop being fun, and you might get catfished by political operatives on Tinder. Last election, a conservative political action committee called Turning Point USA tried to pour money into the race in order to influence us into electingÃÂ ...
Saskatoon StarPhoenix
December 31, 1999
A local businessman and longtime political operative has confirmed his intention to challenge veteran MP Brad Trost for the Conservative Party of Canada's nomination in a constituency on Saskatoon's east side. Brad Redekopp, who owns Warman-based Cherry Creek Homes Ltd. and spent a decadeÃÂ ...
The Cannabist
December 12, 2017
John McCain, R-Ariz., in blasting Klain as a partisan political operative. I suggested that Obama should give the assignment to Gen. David Petraeus instead of Klain; six months later, Petraeus pleaded guilty to mishandling classified information after he misled federal agents investigating his release ofÃÂ ...
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
December 11, 2017
John McCain, R-Ariz., in blasting Klain as a partisan political operative. I suggested that Obama should give the assignment to Gen. David Petraeus instead of Klain; six months later, Petraeus pleaded guilty to mishandling classified information after he misled federal agents investigating his release ofÃÂ ...
WGRZ-TV
December 2, 2017
WNY political operatives indicted on felony charges. Steve Pigeon, the former chairman of the Erie County Democratic Party, and two of his associates have been indicted by a grand jury for allegedly violating Election Law. Author: WGRZ. Published: 11:04 PM EST December 1, 2017. BUFFALO, NY — Long-time politicalÃÂ ...
Springfield News-Leader
November 20, 2017
A $350,000 fine has been imposed by the Federal Election Commission after an investigation involving the treasurer for several active Missouri political action committees. The FEC levied the fine as part of a settlement agreement involving James C. Thomas III, a prominent Kansas City attorney whoÃÂ ...
Spectrum News
December 31, 1999
Two Western New York political operatives charged with felony election law violations, including former Erie County Democratic Chairman Steven Pigeon, pleaded not guilty Thursday afternoon in State Supreme Court. A third person will be arraigned at a later date. Steve Pigeon, David Pfaff and KristyÃÂ ...
Florida Times-Union
December 31, 1999
Hughes, who has been a Tallahassee-based political operative since Curry's election, was already operating as a kind of unofficial chief of staff: A common sight in City Hall, oft-advising Curry on a range of policy and political issues and sometimes meeting with City Council members. Curry has beenÃÂ ...
ABC News
December 31, 1999
“What I don't see, and this is not pejorative to anybody in the building, I don't see the Karl Rove, the David Axelrod, that top political operative who is helping craft the political decisions going into what will be a very competitive 2018 cycle for members of the House and Senate,” Lewandowski said, “I thinkÃÂ ...
New York Times
March 21, 2017
E. O'Brien Murray, a Republican political operative who managed the campaign of former Representative Bob Turner of Queens, offered his own assessment.
Kansas City Star
March 21, 2017
The Missouri Republican Party has hired a Louisiana political operative to serve as its new executive director. The party announced Monday the hiring of Austin Stukins, a retired Marine and Iraq War veteran who currently serves as a policy adviser toÃÂ ...
