By NEDRA PICKLER
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON  –  Former President Clinton said through a spokesman Tuesday that he is committed to helping Barack Obama become president, his first comments in support of his wife’s former rival since their primary ended three weeks ago.Relations between the last Democratic president and the candidate who wants [...]

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By CHARLES BABINGTON
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON — A presidential candidate who’s named Hussein and wears a turban? A building that’s called the White House but run by a black guy?Those political images and ideas already have found their way onto TV airwaves and campaign buttons, possible harbingers of racially [...]

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By JIM KUHNHENN
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON  –  Hillary Rodham Clinton needs Barack Obama’s donors to help retire her sizable debt. Obama, who’s forgoing public funds for the general election, could use her donors to boost his ample fundraising.The two former Democratic presidential rivals filed their May fundraising reports Friday — hers awash [...]

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Mayor Adrian Fenty has promised to review his policy of paying for campaign trips on behalf of Senator Barak Obama, which have cost city taxpayers more than $50,000.
Fenty said Wednesday his office will review the policy and compare it to what other mayors and governors are doing. He said he would adjust [...]

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By JIM KUHNHENN
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON  –  Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Thursday he’ll bypass the federal public financing system in the general election, abandoning an earlier commitment to take the money if his Republican rival did as well.
Obama, who set records raising money in the primary election, will forgo more than $84 million that [...]

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Democratic lawyer and nonprofit executive Donna Edwards won a special election Tuesday to become Maryland’s first black woman elected to Congress. Check out her interview here on myvoicedc.com.

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LANHAM, Md. (AP) — Democratic lawyer and nonprofit executive Donna Edwards won a special election Tuesday to become Maryland’s first black woman elected to Congress.
Edwards beat Republican Peter James in the race to serve the remainder of former U.S. Rep. Albert Wynn’s term in Maryland’s 4th District. Wynn left office May 31 to take a [...]

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BALTIMORE (AP) — A new chapter in the long-running investigation into Mayor Sheila Dixon’s financial dealings during her tenure as City Council president unfolded Tuesday when investigators searched her home for several hours, leaving with boxes of documents.
A team of state police and investigators with the state prosecutor’s office arrived at 6:30 a.m. when the [...]

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By The Associated Press
WASHINGTON  –  A senior fundraiser for Hillary Rodham Clinton says she and Barack Obama plan to meet with some of her top contributors next week to try to calm donors who remain frustrated with Obama’s campaign.
The meeting is set for June 26 at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington.
The fundraiser, who spoke on [...]

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By NEDRA PICKLER
Associated Press Writer
FLINT, Mich.  –  Al Gore announced his endorsement of Barack Obama (video: MyFoxNY) Monday and promised to help the Democrat achieve what eluded him — the presidency.”I present to you the next president of the United States, Barack Obama!” Gore said in a brief introduction of Obama [...]

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