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Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Boehner gets his moolah
House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-West Chester, has his cash.
A judge ruled earlier this month that Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Wash., should give more than $1 million to Boehner. The case was the final ruling stemming from a lawsuit that originated in 1996, after a Florida couple recorded a call on Boehner’s cell phone that was picked up by a radio scanner. The call, between House Republican leaders, dealt with an ethics case against then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich. The couple sent the tapes to McDermott, who leaked them to two newspapers.
Boehner sued and a federal court found McDermott had no right to release the calls. In December, the U.S. Supreme Court opted not to take up the case.
A U.S. District Court judge for the District of Columbia issued the order on Tuesday, April 1.
Boehner received the money in one transfer last week - $628,000 from McDermott’s campaign and $465,297.50 from his legal expense trust fund. The money went to Boehner’s campaign committee, Friends of John Boehner.
“Every last penny will be used to help elect Republicans,” said Jessica Towhey, a Boehner spokeswoman. “And it is ironic that this money going to help fund defeat of McDermott’s fellow Democrats.”
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Voter registration drive targets Ohio women
A national campaign to register more unmarried women to vote is targeting Ohio and 23 other states.
Women’s Voices Women Vote is mailing more than 3 million voter registration applications in the 24 states, a press release today, April 29, said.
“We’re in the midst of a sea change in our country, as we’re seeing a new America emerge right before our eyes,” Page Gardner (pictured), president of the group said in the release. “For the first time in our country’s history, there are as many unmarried women as there are married, yet women on their own are still registering and voting less than their married sisters, leaving their voice absent from our democracy.”
Although unmarried women are potentially 26 percent of the electorate, they are 9 percentage points less likely to register and 13 percentage points less likely to vote than married women, the release said.
For more information about voter registration applications, visit www.voterparticipationcenter.org
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McCain to discuss health care in Cleveland
While Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton continue to battle it out in neighboring Indiana, Republican presidential candidate John McCain on Thursday, May 1, will make his second campaign visit to Ohio in two weeks.
He is scheduled to hold a town meeting on health care at 8 a.m. at the InterContinental Hotel in Cleveland. The visit coincides with the release of a new McCain TV ad on health care, “Health Care Action”, that is airing in Iowa.
McCain was in Youngstown last Tuesday, April 22, to campaign on the economy.
