Highway Backer a Steady Ehrlich Donor
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The $4,000 checks started arriving in Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.'s reelection campaign treasury Jan. 2 from such obscure corporations as Freestate Owner LLC, Muirkirk, Chase Limited and President Street Associates.
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In one month, Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney brought in a hefty $1.4 million-plus from donors to his Web site.
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Joe Nemechek is 24th in the Nextel Cup standings, his championship chances long sunk. He realizes there&#39;s only one way to get any recognition for his team and his sponsor, US Army: the old-fashioned way.
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Wanted: Face time with President Bush or top adviser Karl Rove. Suggested donation: &#36;100,000. The middleman: lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Blunt e-mails that connect money and access in Washington show that prominent Republican activist Grover Norquist facilitated some administration contacts for Abramoff&#039;s clients while the lobbyist simultaneously solicited those clients for large donations to Norquist&#039;s tax-exempt group.
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Yet another communications-infrastructure player reports promising results.
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A bill that would give $1.5 million to the Utah Department of Transportation to study east-west transportation in Salt Lake County passed unanimously out of the Senate Transportation Committee on Thursday.  HB108 is sponsored by Rep. Ron Bigelow, R-West Valley City.
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By ERICA WERNER  WASHINGTON - The lawmaker whose bill would block California and other states from regulating tailpipe emissions is standing firm despite opposition from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.  Rep.
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A Wisconsin auto dealer can continue airing car ads even though its founder and namesake is running for the Senate, election officials said Thursday.
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By Charles Ashby, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Mar. 2--DENVER -- The freshman lawmaker who's still trying to put the brakes on a controversial Pueblo-to-Fort Collins toll road has reached a compromise on her bill she knows even her supporters won't like.   Rep.
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Retired Army Gen. Wesley K. Clark endorsed fellow Arkansan Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) in her presidential bid, one of two declarations of support she received yesterday. The other came from Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.)
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New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson said Thursday there was nothing improper in accepting campaign contributions from developers picked for two multimillion-dollar state transportation development projects, which are under investigation by his administration.
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CONCORD, N.H. -- In the early evening of July 2, Sen. Barack Obama arrived at the end of a long gravel driveway belonging to Gary and Meg Hirshberg. In the back yard were 250 people -- potential supporters, potential donors -- waiting to hear from him. First, though, Obama had more important...
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Relatives of the late newspaper magnate Roy Thomson donated $25 million and auto parts billionaire Frank Stronach donated $8 million in two separate announcements Monday.
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Ice Cube's road trip managed to survive some wintry weather.
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By Ed Mendel, The San Diego Union-Tribune  Feb. 20--SACRAMENTO -- A surge of new highway money from a $19.9 billion  transportation bond has renewed political infighting over whether Caltrans  should use government or private engineers, bringing warnings of possible  project delays.
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Congress approved an eight-month  extension of temporary highway funding on Thursday with  lawmakers still wrangling over spending and other proposals and  reluctant to test a White House veto threat.
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Activists backing plans for congestion charging in Edinburgh seek to harness support as the ballot nears.