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sacramento connect NPR.orgHere’s some TGIF entertainment. Our longtime friends Marty and Laura, from San Rafael, and our family have been know to celebrate TGIF with some Pink Floyd. Once I joked that the building show here was supposed to be a rendering of the Idaho-Maryland Mine — but it’s not so, the executives have assured me. Here’s to the weekend!
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“The group launching a $3.6 million ad campaign hitting President Barack Obama on gasoline prices has deep ties to the billionaire libertarian industrialists Charles and David Koch,” according to Politico.
“The American Energy Alliance is the political arm of the Institute for Energy Research, and sources tell POLITICO that both groups are funded partly by the Koch brothers and their donor network.
“The groups are run by Tom Pyle, a former lobbyist for Koch Industries. Pyle regularly attends the mega-donor summits organized by the Koch brothers, including the 2012 winter summit in Indian Wells, Calif., where the Kochs raised more than $150 million to be directed to groups ahead of the general election.
“In all, the brothers’ network is aiming to steer significantly more than $200 million to conservative groups for political advertising and organizing ahead of Election Day.”
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“The way to frame a Supreme Court argument meant to persuade Justice Anthony M. Kennedy is to talk about liberty. It is his touchstone and guiding principle, and his conception of liberty is likely to determine the future of President Obama’s health care law,” according to the New York Times.
“If the administration is to prevail in the case, it must capture at least one vote beyond those of the court’s four more liberal justices, who are thought virtually certain to vote to uphold the law. The administration’s best hope is Justice Kennedy.
“The point was not lost on Solicitor General Donald B. Verrilli Jr., who concluded his defense of the law at the court this week with remarks aimed squarely at Justice Kennedy. Mr. Verrilli said there was “a profound connection” between health care and liberty.
“’There will be millions of people with chronic conditions like diabetes and heart disease,’ he said, ‘and as a result of the health care that they will get, they will be unshackled from the disabilities that those diseases put on them and have the opportunity to enjoy the blessings of liberty.’
“Paul D. Clement, representing 26 states challenging the law, had a comeback. ‘I would respectfully suggest,’ he said, ‘that it’s a very funny conception of liberty that forces somebody to purchase an insurance policy whether they want it or not.’
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Secretary of State Debra Bowen today published the certified list of candidates who will appear on June 5, 2012, primary election ballots. The official list, with ballot designations and contact information for each candidate, is available here (Note: Not all the races appear on the local ballot, but it is a complete list for our state).
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