Thanks to sponsors, GOP threw twice the party the Democrats did

By Sean Peoples

October 24, 2000 — Officially, thousands of delegates, legislators and elephant banner-wavers swarmed Philadelphia from July 31 to Aug. 3 to

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"… 6 p.m.Host: McCain 2000 Committee (This is the fund-raising committee for Arizona Senator John McCain)Location: Sofitel Restaurant56. Reception featuring PB …"

"… 61. Delegates’ welcoming receptions for Alabama, Alaska, American Samoa, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florid …"

"… senbach Museum and Library138. Breakfast, August 1, 8 a.m. – 9 a.m.Host: Arizona Governor Jane HullLocation: Top of the Tower, Bell Atlantic building139. B …"

The Clinton top 100: Where are they now?

By M. Asif Ismail

WASHINGTON, March 31, 2003 — Two years after they left the federal government and one year after a ban that limited their lobbying activitie

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"… icts of interest. Legal scholars such as Ted Schneyer of the University of Arizona maintain that lobbying by ex-officials is within the law and can only beco …"

Commentary: Profiteering from democracy

By Charles Lewis

In his January 1998 State of the Union address, after decrying the campaign-fund-raising "arms race," Preside

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"… ic initiative. In the Senate, Commerce Committee Chairman John McCain, the Arizona Republican, and Conrad Burns, a Republican from Montana and the chairman o …"

"… ollars were at stake for the transforming media industry.Former Republican Arizona Sen. Dennis DeConcini, now a partner at his own lobbying firm, said that d …"

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A gallery of skeptics

By Lisa Chiu

Chris Horner ...

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"… or industry, Greenpeace has found that the group did receive $20,000 from ExxonMobil from 1998-2000.Responding by e-mail, Singer said he does not currently get …"

"… 0.Responding by e-mail, Singer said he does not currently get support from ExxonMobil or any industry group. He wrote: “I personally think that industry shoul …"

Trading in favors

By Alex Knott and Aubrey Bruggeman

WASHINGTON, July 2, 2003 — Legislative favors, increased access to federal lawmakers and instructions on how to use loopholes to evade feder

The party's parties

By Meredith O'Brien

WASHINGTON, July 8, 2004 — At this year's Democratic national convention in Boston, special interests are planning and paying for a reported

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"… delegationsBoston 2004Children’s Museum, downtownInteractive museum25-JulArizona, New Mexico, Utah delegationsBoston 2004Jorge Hernandez Cultural Center, S …"

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Customers close accounts to protest Wall Street, abusive lending practices

Angry at Wall Street over the financial crisis and consumer credit practices seen as predatory, some consumers have opted to close their acc

Excerpts from this story referencing "Arizona":

"… ., his longtime lender, and moving all of his banking assets to a regional Arizona bank with no link — as far as he knows — to the financial crisis. In d …"

"… rymple soon found a job working on an environmental retrofit project at an Arizona university. Others who said that they were pulling their business from maj …"

Pentagon’s contract examiners need to cooperate

By Julie Vorman

Two Pentagon agencies that share responsibility for overseeing how big contracts are carried out should stop their squabbling and work toget

Party machines, lobbyists and special interests: Part one

WASHINGTON, March 2, 2000 — It is no surprise and nothing new in the land of the spin and the home of the sound bite that each and every can

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"… ives of every American,” states McCain’s Web site. The Republican from Arizona has proposed several bills over the years that would ban soft money from t …"

"… ere are some crossovers, most of the candidate’s policy people come from Arizona, South Carolina and academia, while the crucial fund raisers and politicos …"

"… iesce to Duberstein, Weber and company, McCain appeared at a GOP debate in Arizona. There, he thanked conservative candidate Gary Bauer for agreeing with him …"

"… oscost is a senior political adviser to the campaign and is speaker of the Arizona House. He is also co-chair of McCain’s Arizona campaign. Before being el …"

Commentary: So Tim's death will not have been in vain

By Rosental Alves

AUSTIN, Texas, July 26, 2002 — By a sick coincidence, the Brazilian journalist Tim Lopes was assassinated precisely on the 26th anniversary

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"… North American colleague, reporter Don Bolles, on June 2, 1976 in Phoenix, Arizona.The death of the reporter for the Arizona Republic brought immense repercu …"

"… les, on June 2, 1976 in Phoenix, Arizona.The death of the reporter for the Arizona Republic brought immense repercussions in the United States, where reporte …"

"… o achieve two immediate objectives.First, they sent a clear message to the Arizona Mafia: to kill a journalist for doing his or her job will always result in …"

"… bilization.Second, they continued Bolles’ investigative reporting on the Arizona Mafia, showing that it is senseless to kill an investigative journalist, b …"

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