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Huffington Post Canada
March 24, 2017
George Allen's sad tale goes back to 2006, when he was seeking re-election to the Senate as the Republican standard-bearer.
The Aerogram
March 23, 2017
For those who don't know, in the 2006 "macaca controversy" Virginia native S.R. Sidarth, a college student and volunteer for Democratic Senate candidate Jim Webb changed history when he recorded Webb's opponent George Allen singling him out with a ...
Virginian-Pilot
February 17, 2017
He shouldn't have been surprised it was recorded and posted online. Politicians know everything they say publicly nowadays can be uploaded quickly.
Roll Call
February 13, 2017
In 2006, Pearson was campaign director for the Democratic Party of Virginia when Jim Webb knocked off GOP Sen. George Allen. During that cycle, her future husband, Charlie Kelly, managed Phil Kellam's unsuccessful challenge to GOP Rep. Thelma DrakeÃÂ ...
Richmond.com
January 24, 2017
... infamous 2006 video that would end Republican U.S. Sen. George Allen's career: Allen, son of a legendary Redskins coach and brother of the team's general manager, hurling an obscure racial epithet at an Indian-American Democratic campaign worker.
Richmond.com
January 22, 2017
On the heels of Bill Clinton's victory in 1992 presidential campaign, upstart conservative George Allen defied expectations in defeating an establishment Republican in the primary and defeating the Democratic front-runner Mary Sue Terry in the 1993 ...
YourGV.com
January 19, 2017
Gillespie also served candidate George W. Bush as his senior communication advisor and as a spokesman for the Bush campaign during the vote recount in Florida. Gillespie's political foray into ... He also served as a spokesman for defeated Virginia ...
AOL News
January 3, 2017
(Reuters) - The NAACP staged a sit-in on Tuesday to protest the nomination of conservative U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions as the nation's next Attorney General, vowing to occupy his Mobile, Alabama, office until he withdrew as a candidate or demonstrators ...
Chattanooga Pulse
December 7, 2016
The day was quiet with many soldiers on leave. Battleships were lined up in a tight, neat row in the shallow waters awaiting the return of their full crews.
Prince George Citizen
October 21, 2016
His refusal to say, "Absolutely yes I will accept the outcome" marks perhaps the most dangerous moment of his election campaign. I have said before that ..... In 2006, George Allen was beaten by illegal alien vote margins, giving the Senate to the ...
nwitimes.com
October 4, 2016
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, right, listens as Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., speaks at a rally at Northern Virginia Community College in Annandale, Thursday, July 14, 2016.
KEYT
October 3, 2016
New York Rep. Michael Grimm resigned from Congress after pleading guilty to a felony tax evasion charge related to his health food restaurant.
Broadway World
September 28, 2016
Ken Smukler, publisher of The Liberty City Press, launched his political consulting career in 1987 as the Communications Director for Philadelphia Mayor W. Wilson Goode, followed by his role as statewide field director for Herb Kohl's first campaign ...
ESPN
September 27, 2016
... him to announce that he would resign at the end of that season. He finished 5-11 as a head coach, returned to the Lakers as a player for the final four months of the 1995-96 campaign and then hung the sneakers up for good. .... George Allen, NFL ...
Richmond.com
September 27, 2016
John Warner said in 2014 that he was still a Republican and noted that he had backed Republican George Allen's U.S. Senate campaigns in 2006 and 2012 and endorsed the 2013 campaign for attorney general of state Sen. Mark D. ObenshainÃÂ ...
U.S. News & World Report
September 26, 2016
In 2006, then-Virginia Sen. George Allen repeatedly called a Democratic volunteer "tracker" - someone who follows the opposing campaign and records them, hoping they'll say something foolish - a "macaca." Allen apologized for the characterization afterÃÂ ...
Falls Church News Press
September 22, 2016
In August 2006, George Allen was running for the U.S. Senate from Virginia and was considered a virtual shoe-in. But in a rural area of southwest ... Something tells me there will be more to come in the final two months before this fall's U.S ...
InfoToday.com
September 13, 2016
The number of channels earning six figures per year on YouTube increases 50% annually. YouTube emerged as a significant force in the U.S.
Longview News-Journal
August 11, 2016
Four years later, in 2006, Watson won Austin's state Senate seat and has been easily re-elected since. Virginia limits its governors to a single four-year term.
MyAJC
August 3, 2016
Six days after taking office in January 2006, Kaine proposed an unsuccessful measure to raise $1 billion a year to deal with long-standing transportation woes.
Falls Church News Press
July 28, 2016
Kaine has been a familiar face in Falls Church and environs beginning with statewide races for lieutenant governor (2002), governor (2006) and U.S. Senate (2012) and his two-year stint as chair of the Democratic National Committee (2010-2012), speaking ...
PolitiFact
July 28, 2016
Six days after taking office in January 2006, Kaine proposed an unsuccessful measure to raise $1 billion a year to deal with long-standing transportation woes.
The Atlantic
July 27, 2016
"There's really only one model left for Democrats in Virginia," said the Democratic pollster Geoff Garin, who advised an independent expenditure campaign for Kaine in his 2012 Senate victory, "and it's urban/suburban." ... And he did not support gay ...
Glens Falls Post-Star
July 22, 2016
"Double it is our goal, and possibly more," said George Allen, president of Northern Eagle. Davidson Brothers will continue to own and .... She is expected to campaign with Kaine on Saturday morning at an event in Miami. As Clinton prepared to make her ...
Poughkeepsie Journal
July 21, 2016
Or go back further in time to 2006 and the grainy video of George Allen, the U.S. senator from Virginia whose frustration with a tracker caused him to utter a racial slur.
Newsday
July 22, 2016
Between 2006 and 2010, he was the state's governor after being lieutenant governor and the mayor of Richmond, Va. Fresh out of Harvard Law School, he clerked in the 11th ... Tim Kaine, a former Virginia governor, celebrates his victory over Republican ...
Advocate.com
July 20, 2016
The Republican Party platform may not be as embracing of LGBT equality as many would like - many would say it's embracing of inequality - but gay Republicans see progress in party inclusiveness.
Richmond.com
July 20, 2016
Kaine's latest race - for Senate - was a rout of George Allen, who was attempting a comeback from his "macaca" moment under hostile conditions: the high-turnout 2012 election in which Barack Obama would hold Virginia and Kaine would run ahead of the ...
The Gazette: Eastern Iowa Breaking News and Headlines
July 17, 2016
11, 2006, when George Allen, a Republican senator from Virginia, singled out a tracker by calling him "macaca," which means monkey.
WMNF
July 17, 2016
Much of the report is rightfully geared toward the mechanics of running a party and campaigns. One area that the report recommends stepping up in the game is defining the Democrats, as they feel the D's ... You might remember that in 2006 George Allen ...
Richmond.com
June 11, 2016
He said he is tailoring his campaign's slogan to reflect its effort at outreach: "Make America great again - for everyone!
Mediaite
June 2, 2016
Then, she brought up the time in 2006 when former Virginia senator George Allen randomly picked an Indian man out of a crowd at a campaign event and called him "Macaca" before saying, "Welcome to America and the real world of Virginia." That man, as itÃÂ ...
The New Yorker
May 20, 2016
Video trackers have been mainstays of campaigns since 2006, when a Democratic volunteer upended George Allen, the Republican senatorial* candidate in Virginia, by releasing a video of him uttering a racist slur.
Blue Virginia (blog)
May 5, 2016
And yes, although many of us have had it with Jim Webb at this point, Donald McEachin played a crucial and much-appreciated role in helping Webb's "ragtag army" defeat the supposedly unbeatable George Allen in 2006, taking back Democratic control of ...
Falls Church News Press
May 4, 2016
... on display last weekend at the annual Democratic Party banquet in Northern Virginia's million-strong Fairfax County, just across the Potomac from the nation's capital, is any indicator, then the Democrats are primed for an explosive outburst of ...
Economic Times (blog)
April 28, 2016
The Hillary Clinton campaign has sprung to their defence. We had to wait ... In 2006, former Senator George Allen threw a young Indian-American out of his rally calling him 'macaca' and then claimed he'd made up the word when accused of racism. Allen ...
Salon
April 25, 2016
Way back in 2006, he narrowly won his Senate race in Virginia thanks, in part, to the persistent racism in the American political system - Webb's opponent, George Allen, was caught on tape demeaning a Webb campaign staffer with a racial epithet, and heÃÂ ...
Slate Magazine
April 14, 2016
... her performance during the trial. Hill never quite lost her good name, and her shoddy treatment by the Senate turned sexual harassment into a big issue in the 1992 campaign and beyond. .... George Allen at a fundraiser on Oct. 7, 2006, in Maidens ...
InsideClimate News
April 8, 2016
And in 2006, Virginia Sen. George Allen lost to his Democratic opponent Jim Webb after he was taped at a campaign rally calling a volunteer of Indian descent "macaca," a racist slur meaning monkey. The rope-line interactions can be tricky to ...
Slate Magazine
April 8, 2016
While much of the IWF's campaign against feminism was waged in the media, the group also took the fight to Capitol Hill; the IWF testified before Congress against the Violence Against Women Act and affirmative action, and filed amicus briefs opposing ...
Campaigns & Elections
March 31, 2016
They don't need footage of John Gregg's mom in their campaign ads." ... This can result in a worn familiarity, like in the case of George Allen who finally called out his tracker during an event in Virginia in 2006 with famously disastrous consequences ...
Blue Virginia (blog)
March 26, 2016
If Rowe runs a great campaign AND the Republicans completely implode at the top of the ticket, I guess you never know. On the other hand, if it's a three-way race for president between ... Discussion: I've been a strong McEachin supporter since 2006 ...
NUjournal
March 23, 2016
George Allen, a U.S. Senator running for re-election in 2006, decided at a political rally to introduce the young man of Asian Indian descent working for his opponent's campaign by videotaping Allen's comments. "This fellow over here with the yellow ...
Campaigns & Elections
April 1, 2016
They don't need footage of John Gregg's mom in their campaign ads." ... This can result in a worn familiarity, like in the case of George Allen who finally called out his tracker during an event in Virginia in 2006 with famously disastrous consequences ...
Blue Virginia (blog)
March 26, 2016
If Rowe runs a great campaign AND the Republicans completely implode at the top of the ticket, I guess you never know. On the other hand, if it's a three-way race for president between ... Discussion: I've been a strong McEachin supporter since 2006 ...
NUjournal
March 24, 2016
George Allen, a U.S. Senator running for re-election in 2006, decided at a political rally to introduce the young man of Asian Indian descent working for his opponent's campaign by videotaping Allen's comments. "This fellow over here with the yellow ...
NUjournal
March 23, 2016
George Allen, a U.S. Senator running for re-election in 2006, decided at a political rally to introduce the young man of Asian Indian descent working for his opponent's campaign by videotaping Allen's comments. "This fellow over here with the yellow ...
Indianapolis Star
March 16, 2016
If you want a sense of how nasty Indiana's 2016 race for governor could get, consider the intensity with which the campaigns and their supporters are already tracking the opposing candidate. Allies of Republican Gov. Mike Pence and Democratic ...
The Detroit News
March 12, 2016
"I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose voters," Trump boasted at a campaign rally in New York last month. He said Carly Fiorina's face made her unelectable, tagged the diminutive Sen. Maro Rubio as "Little ...
Courthouse News Service
March 8, 2016
... who worked as a developer in Roanoke before getting into politics, is widely credited with playing key roles in Mark Warner's election as governor of Virginia, and in Jim Webb's election to the U.S.
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