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Tag Archives: Barbara Boxer
Dems, GOP Fight Over Homeless Vets
Posted on April 8, 2011
In the fog of a historic budget battle, Democrats are exaggerating the impact of proposed GOP cuts on homeless military veterans. A GOP budget bill approved by the House in February would not fund 10,000 new housing vouchers for homeless veterans this fiscal …
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Tagged Barbara Boxer, homelessness, Shaun Donovan, Tom Latham, veterans
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Corporate and Union Ads
Posted on September 3, 2010
In episode 27 of our podcast, we look at misleading ads from a conservative and a liberal group: Crossroads GPS, a group with ties to Karl Rove, and the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees labor union. Plus, we tell listeners about a greatly exaggerated claim from the …
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Tagged AFSCME, Arne Duncan, Barbara Boxer, dropout rate, Joe Heck, Joe Sestak, Karl Rove, podcast, Tim Walberg
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Misdirection from Crossroads GPS
Posted on August 30, 2010
A group with ties to Karl Rove sends viewers astray in a $2 million ad campaign attacking Democratic Senate candidates in Pennsylvania, California and Kentucky. The ads make badly misleading claims about the health care legislation …
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Tagged Barbara Boxer, Crossroads GPS, health care reform, Jack Conway, Joe Sestak, medicare
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Sunday Replay
Posted on June 21, 2010
The Father’s Day political talk shows contained a stretch here, an exaggeration there, misimpressions left everywhere. Here’s what we found. All Studies Don’t Agree On CNN’s "State of the Union," Sen. Joe Lieberman, an Independent, bragged about the supposed benefits of the climate-change bill he has introduced with Democratic Sen. …
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Tagged Barbara Boxer, bill Nelson, climate change, Ed Markey, Joe Lieberman, Mitch McConnell, oil spill, Rahm Emanuel, sunday talk shows
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Carly’s Climate Caper
Posted on June 8, 2010
Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina has been attacking incumbent Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer since well before June 8, when Fiorina hoped to lock up the Republican Senate nomination in California. Her latest ad went up just a few days before the primary and falsely accuses Boxer of neglecting terrorism in …
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