Kirk Smith: Electoral PoliticsLocal, state, national, and international electoral news, campaigns, candidates, elections, electoral reform, campaign finance, voting systems.40 Millionaires in US Senate- July 7, 2003 by Jeremy Johnson 07 Jul 03 At least 40 of the 100 US senators are millionaires, some many times over, according to financial disclosure filings submitted last month. Republicans on the list outnumbered Democrats by a narrow margin of 22 to 18. However, Democratic senators hold the top five spots on the list and eight of the top ten, according to an analysis of the forms by CNN. These latest financial disclosures underscore the widening gap between the average American and those who claim to...http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/jul2003/sen-j07.shtml Billionaires for Bush- July 7, 2003 Editorial 02 Jul 03 George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Laura Bush have been darting across the country these past few weeks raising money for Bush-Cheney '04 Inc. Bush, who broke all precedent in his 2000 bid by opting out of the presidential public-financing system and the spending limits it imposes, is once again pushing the envelope - and the corporate execs, lobbyists and wealthy individuals he has enriched are sending envelopes back, stuffed with checks. His operatives say he hopes to raise...http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20030721&s=editors Thanks to the Net, Howard Dean Hits the Big Time- July 7, 2003 by Randolph T. Holhut 06 Jul 03 DUMMERSTON, VERMONT. They aren't laughing anymore. The people who believed that former Vermont governor Howard Dean was nothing more than a hopeless longshot for the Democratic presidential nomination now know otherwise. That's because the political pros and the Washington press corps (or as Media Whores Online likes to call them, the 'Beltway Kool Kidz') not only underestimated Dean, they also underestimated the power of the Internet as an organizational and...http://www.american-reporter.com/2131W/1.html Rwanda Sets Dates for First Polls Since Genocide- July 5, 2003 04 Jul 03 KIGALI. The Rwandan government has set dates for presidential and parliamentary elections in a move that marks an end to a nine-year transition to democracy after a 1994 genocide killed 800,000 people. The central African country's government said late on Thursday the country's first presidential vote since the massacre would be held on August 25, with parliamentary elections following a month later on September 29. Reuters via Financial Timeshttp://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&a... |