Archive - Jul 28, 2008

Anti-Obama Books and Movies to be Released

Historically, presidential election campaigns tend to heat up as a summer to heat up as summer winds down.  This year seems to be no exception.  In August, conservative groups are planning multi year media attacks on Democratic candidate Barack Obama. Judith Siers-Poisson and Diane Farsetta of PRWatch.org report.

"The Return of the Swift Boat Crew"

• Low Income Heating Assistance Blocked in the Senate
• McCain Opposes Affirmative Action
• Wi Floods
• Wilderness Areas Threatened
• South America Regional Economic Initiative

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• Prisoners in Palestinian Prisons Tortured – Detentions Stepped Up on Both Sides
• Afghan Police Chief Fired Over Mismanagement of Gang Rape of 12 Year Old Child
• Sentences Stand for Border Patrol Agents
• Shell Cuts Oil Production in Nigeria
• Top Aides to Former Atty. General Gonzales Politicized Hirings

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The US Senate stayed in Washington to work this weekend. They passed a bill that hopes to calm the ailing housing market, but a measure to provide heating assistance to low income families was defeated. Republicans blocked the measure that is popular among both Republicans and Democrats from cold sections of the country.  With few legislative days left in this election year, lawmakers are scrambling to find a way to fund the program. FSRN's Matt Laslo reports on the politics that go into this expensive, but largely popular program.

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Presumptive Republican nominee John McCain came out against affirmative action and in support of a multi state ballot initiative that would do away with affirmative action for education, employment and government contracts. McCain on ABC's This Week, questioned by Host George Stephanopolous..
"I do not believe in quotas but I have not seen the details of some of these proposals but I have always supported…"
In 1998, McCain called effort to end affirmative action 'divisive.' But Sunday, McCain said he backed an initiative by Ward Connerly, an African American who has led the fight to end gender and race based preferences. Ward Connerly.

More than a month after floods ravaged the Midwest, there is still no official damage estimate, but FEMA has already give almost $40 million in individual assistance. In this special report, FSRN's Zoe Sullivan visits Reedsburg, in Southeast Wisconsin, to explore how city officials and citizens have coped after the floods.

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