President brings daughters to bookstore to promote small-business holiday shopping
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on November 27th, 2011 5:34 am by HL
President brings daughters to bookstore to promote small-business holiday shopping
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama has pitched in to help small businesses get into the holiday shopping season.
The president took his daughters, Malia and Sasha, along on a shopping run to a bookstore a few blocks from the White House.
He says he made the visit because it’s “small business Saturday” and he wanted to support a small business.
Rep. Charlie Gonzalez to retire
Rep. Charlie Gonzalez (D-Texas), the chairman of the Hispanic Caucus, is retiring in 2012 after 14 years in office.
“I still find the job hugely rewarding, but the demands pull me somewhere else,” Gonzalez told the San-Antonio Express News. “[F]inancially I would like to be productive and have the resources to make a better life.”
Democrats post big fundraising numbers for 2012 House races
Democratic leaders raising money to be spent on the most competitive House races in next year’s elections are doing something remarkable: outraising their Republican counterparts, despite a historic drubbing a year ago that left Democrats in the minority.
House Democrats have raised $52.1 million to the Republicans’ $48.7 million. The difference is small, but it’s significant given that no minority party has been able to get such an edge in fundraising since the 1994 election cycle.
Newt Gingrich Inc.: How the GOP hopeful went from political flameout to fortune
Anyone who doesn’t believe in an afterlife must not live in Washington. Rarely, however, has reincarnation been so lucrative as it has for the man who now tops some polls for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination.
Former House speaker Newt Gingrich transfigured himself from a political flameout into a thriving business conglomerate. The power of the Gingrich brand fueled a for-profit collection of enterprises that generated close to $100 million in revenue over the past decade, said his longtime attorney Randy Evans.
