Stories tagged with Jack Kemp
Attack ads prompt Democrats to quit think tank
By Laurie Bennett | March 1, 2008 at 4:15pm | 0 
The politics surrounding President Bush’s surveillance bill have split the membership of a traditionally neutral think tank, the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies.
The head of the foundation, Clifford May, confirmed for Newsweek that several prominent Democrats had resigned after an affiliated group began running political ads targeting 15 Democratic members of Congress. Those quitting the foundation include Sen. Chuck Schumer, Rep. Eliot Engel and Democratic strategist Donna Brazile.
May, former communications director for the Republican National Committee, also heads the new organization, which has a similar name - Defense of Democracies - but a sharper political focus.
Out of the park and into politics
By A. James Memmott | October 13, 2007 at 7:33am | 0
When Curt Schilling takes to the mound in the American League
Championship series, he’ll be pitching for the Boston Red Sox against
the Cleveland Indians.
Off the field, Schilling is one of a relatively small group of baseball players who are willing to pitch for political candidates.
He campaigned for President Bush in 2004, and earlier this year, he
said he was backing Sen. John McCain of Arizona for the 2008
Republican presidential nomination. However, he added that if Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois were the Democratic candidate he would have a hard time choosing between the two men.
