Marc Ambinder is reporting Barack Obama met with New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg for breakfast this morning.
Sen. Barack Obama will set vice presidential speculation on fire with a brief stop to say hello to New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, himself an occasional presidential flirt. The meeting appeared on Bloomberg’s schedule, which was distributed to reporters last night.
An Obama aide said the meeting was scheduled because of “mutual interest” and did not know whether the two had met before.
You hear rumors all the time about possible Clinton Vice Presidential candidates, such as Wesley Clark, Ohio Governor Ted Strickland, Indiana Senator Evan Bayh, and former Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack, but this is the first name mentioned as a possible VP candidate for Obama. I think the perfect VP candidate for Obama would be Richardson. However, Obama could tout his bipartisan approach by appointing someone like Bloomberg or Sen. Jim Webb (D-VA).
Just read this headline from the DM Register web site: Police bust underage drinking party; juveniles arrested. After a five day investigation law enforcement authorities were able to crack the caper, almost as difficult as identifying Jack the Ripper …
TRS had the very distinct privilege to be invited to a reception sponsored by and for the Iowa Republican County Officials Association. IRCOA was founded back in 2003. I don’t know all of the founders but I do know two: Story County Treasurer David J…
First-term Rep. Dan Clute of Clive has decided he won’t be running for re-election in 2008. He says that a new job is what led him to choose the option. I’m sure being a new member of the minority party in the House didn’t help either.
That makes the list of Republicans in the […]
A new study shows that illegal immigrants don’t cause the problems we see in the health care system.
Illegal immigrants from Mexico and other Latin American countries are 50% less likely than U.S.-born Latinos to use hospital emergency rooms in California, according to a study published Monday in the journal Archives of Internal Medicine.
The cost of providing healthcare and other government services to illegal immigrants looms large in the national debate over immigration.
In Los Angeles County, much of the focus of that debate has been on hospital emergency rooms. Ten have closed in the last five years, citing losses from treating the uninsured, and those that remain open are notorious for backlogs.
By federal law, hospitals must treat every emergency, regardless of a person’s insurance — or immigration — status. Illegal immigrants, who often work at jobs that don’t offer health insurance, are commonly seen as driving both the closures and the crowding.
But the study found that while illegal immigrants are indeed less likely to be insured, they are also less likely to visit a doctor, clinic or emergency room.
“The current policy discourse that undocumented immigrants are a burden on the public because they overuse public resources is not borne out with data, for either primary care or emergency department care,” said Alexander N. Ortega, an associate professor at UCLA’s School of Public Health and the study’s lead author. “In fact, they seem to be underutilizing the system, given their health needs.”
After pretty obviously rigging the last Democrat debate format for Hillary Clinton, packing the audience, planting pro-Hillary questions, employing Hillary campaign advisors as its post debate panel, etc…. CNN reminded the world how it earned the nam…
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