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Category Archives: Challenger

GOP Candidate for Clinton’s Senate Seat Has Resume Problems

23-Mar-06

Kathleen Troia McFarland, one of the Republican primary candidates for the New YorkSenate seat held by former First Lady Hillary Clinton, is in hot water over claims she inflated her resume and irregularites in her voter registration.

Ms. McFarland’s biography has already emerged as an issue in the Republican primary. Her rival, John Spencer, […]

Millionaire Pederson to Challenge Kyl

16-Jan-06

Shopping mall developer and former Arizona Democratic Party chairman Jim Pederson is challenging US Senator Jon Kyl (Republican) for his seat and intends to use a big chunk of his own money to do it. He’s already committed $800,000 to the primary campaign - where he faces no opposition - and has also raised […]

How the GOP Could Lose Tennessee

16-Dec-05

Lack of opposition in the Democratic primary, a moderate voting record on cultural issues of concern to Tennessee voters and the political excitement of potentially being the first black Southern Senator since 1874 could combine to put Democratic Congressman Harold Ford in Bill Frist’s seat in the Senate. A recent poll conducted by his campaign […]

Two New Jersey Democrats Vie to Replace Corzine on Capitol Hill

10-Nov-05

US Senator John Corzine (Democrat) was elected Governor of New Jersey on Tuesday. One of his first acts after his January 17 inauguration will be to pick his own replacement to fill out the final year of his Senate term. Of course his choice will not guarantee a win in the fall election, […]

SURPRISE THREAT TO PIRRO BID

10-Nov-05

A JEANINE PIRRO challenge to Hillary Rodham Clinton for New York’s US Senate seat may not be the foregone conclusion many had assumed. The New York Post reported Monday that Pirro’s opponent for the GOP nomination, former Yonker’s Mayor and ex-Marine John Spencer, may pick up the endorsement of the Conservative Party. Without […]