October 23, 2008

America's top gay activist blogger, Mike Rogers, went public today with his investigation into Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (KY). Rogers called on the Senator to release his military records -- including documentation of the reason McConnell was discharged from the Army in the midst of the Vietnam War -- one day after the Lexington Herald-Leader reported that Kentucky's former Attorney General Greg Stumbo came forward with questions of his own for McConnell. Full release.

The following is an excerpt from an article on CNN, and is being released today by the Republican National Committee: Clifton Mitchell helped register nearly 2,000 voters for the community group ACORN. But not one of them actually existed. "I regret it. I paid the price for it," he said. Mitchell was convicted last year and spent nearly three months in prison. He's one of the few ACORN workers convicted of voter registration fraud. ... Full release

The Republican National Committee (RNC) today filed a supplement to its complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) against the Obama for America campaign addressing its acceptance of foreign national and excessive contributions, donations from unknown sources, and demonstrated lack of oversight or concern for compliance with the law. The complaint demonstrates that the Obama campaign has failed to comply with federal campaign finance law in its fundraising. RNC Chief Counsel Sean Cairncross released the following statement today concerning the supplement to the complaint. Full release

The following is being issued by the Republican National Committee: Today, Obama Said His Campaign Organization Proves He Is Ready For Any Test: Obama Says The Campaign Organization He Built Has Faced Tests Recently And Proves He Is Prepared To Handle Tests As President. CBS' Harry Smith: "Are you more ready to be president of the United States than John McCain?" Obama: "I tell you, all I can say is this. We've had, over the last couple of months, I think, an interesting series of tests, and I think that I have been steady. I think my advisers and my team and my organization, what we built has performed with the kind of calm, dissolve and liberation that the White House needs right now. Any president is going to be tested by the enormity of the challenges that we face." Full release.

The Catholic Church resettled 17,823 refugees in 2008, through Migration and Refugee Services of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB/MRS) and its network of diocesan entities, representing 30 percent of the total refugees admitted to the nation. Overall, the U.S. government admitted 60,192 refugees during the fiscal year that ended September 30. Full release.

Despite a divided view of America's impact on the world, the vast majority of Americans believe the United States has a moral obligation to be engaged on the international stage, according to a new survey by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research Inc. for RELIGION & ETHICS NEWSWEEKLY and the United Nations Foundation. Full release.

A coalition of Pennsylvania voters and civil rights groups, led by the NAACP State Conference of Pennsylvania, filed a lawsuit today in federal court in Philadelphia seeking to ensure that voters receive emergency paper ballots on Election Day when 50% or more voting machines become inoperable at any polling site in the state. The lawsuit, filed against Pennsylvania Secretary of the Commonwealth Pedro A. Cortes, alleges that voters will be disenfranchised when they face the burden of having to wait hours in line, due to voting machine breakdowns, in order to exercise their constitutional right to vote. Full release.

Pennsylvania Partnerships for Children (PPC) today released a new report that shows that young people who drop out of high school are twice as likely to live in poverty as youth who have received a high school diploma, and three times as likely as youth who have attended some college or earned an associate's degree. Full release.

The following is an excerpt of an article from The Wall Street Journal and is being released today by the Republican National Committee: Politicians and lawyers have plenty in common, not least a tendency to obscure the truth with misleading facts. So count us unsurprised by the nettled response to our recent editorial about how trial lawyers are trying to turn Delaware into a new asbestos lawsuit dumping ground. Full release.

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