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Stockman blasts Democrat group for Boko Haram support

Congressman Steve Stockman Friday asked Democrat-aligned group MoveOn.org to apologize for hosting an online petition opposing a terrorist designation for Boko Haram.

Boko Haram has murdered thousands and kidnapped hundreds of little girls to sell into sexual slavery. It is beyond despicable for Democrat Party groups to support a terrorist organization, said Stockman. The Democrat Party group MoveOn should apologize for hosting supporters of kidnappers and terrorists.

The petition, Reject Terrorist Designation for Boko Haram was posted in 2012 and began gaining more signatures from Democrat Party activists after the group kidnapped 230 Nigerian girls to sell into sexual slavery.

It demands the Obama administration not to support the formal designation of Boko Haram in Nigeria as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO). The Obama administration, under then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, refused to designate Boko Haram a terrorist group even after it bombed United Nations headquarters in Abuja, Nigeria in 2011. The group was finally designated a FTO in November 2013.

MoveOn is one of the biggest bankrollers of Democrat Party campaigns, spending $21.6 million on its programs in 2012. 100 percent of its PAC contributions went to Democrats.

In 2007 the group ran a full-page ad in the New York Times accusing General David Petraeus, Commander of U.S. Forces in Afghanistan, of being a traitor to the United States for supporting an increase in the number of troops in Iraq.

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Labour set sights on Birmingham MP John Hemming

Ed Miliband targeting Yardley as one of 14 Liberal Democrat seats across UK where Labour claims it can win at next election

Labour leader Ed Miliband is gunning for Birmingham Yardley MP John Hemming.

Yardley is one of 14 Liberal Democrat seats across the country where Labour claims it can win at the next General Election.

And the party is focusing on squeezing the Lib Dem vote with a series of campaign stunts.

They include a controversial party political broadcast showing Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg breaking his promises to the voters because he wants to be friends with posh Tories. Critics have accused Labour of class warfare because the film portrays David Cameron and colleagues as bullying, out-of-touch toffs.

Labour activists have also been supplied with props including signs to hold up in the shape of a coin showing Mr Clegg on one side and Mr Cameron on the other because they are two sides of the same coin.

And a senior Labour politician visited Birmingham Yardley on Saturday, in what Labour was calling a campaign action day.

But the party insists that behind the gimmicks is a serious message, It wants to highlight Government decisions to increase student tuition fees, cut tax on earnings above 100,000 from 50 per cent to 45 per cent and increase VAT from 17.5 per cent to 20 per cent, which were only possible with Lib Dem support, according to Labour.

Mr Hemming said he could win in Yardley again but urged supporters of other parties to back him.

He said: Yardley is a marginal seat. Only the Lib Dems or Labour can win.

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Ontario election: NDP promises one-time, $100M cash injection for child care

Colin Perkel, The Canadian Press Published Sunday, May 11, 2014 1:23PM EDT Last Updated Sunday, May 11, 2014 3:12PM EDT

HAMILTON, Ont. -- A New Democrat government would inject a one-time $100 million into licensed child care in Ontario if elected, party leader Andrea Horwath said Sunday.

The money, to be spent next year, would go toward "stabilizing" a system destabilized by the Liberal government, Horwath said.

"We see over a dozen child-care centres minimum across the province that are poised to close," Horwath said.

"That is not good enough. We can't have families in those communities having their child-care centres close and not having options for their children."

The Mother's Day announcement came at a water-front park, where the NDP leader chatted briefly with parents and kids enjoyed the sunshine.

Licensed child care in Ontario is the responsibility of municipalities, so it would be up to them to spend the money properly. Ontario has about 5,000 licensed child-care centres.

Horwath said an NDP government would not mess with the system as it is.

"We're not going to totally revamp the entire system and do direct funding -- that doesn't make any sense," she said.

Currently, the province gives local governments about $970 million a year to spend on day care.

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Rep. Williams Questions Revenue Estimates in Democrat Budget – Video


Rep. Williams Questions Revenue Estimates in Democrat Budget
To balance their budget, Democrat lawmakers and Gov. Malloy are banking on being able to collect $75 million from delinquent taxpayers, an iffy tactic that d...

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Margie Wakefield, Democrat for U.S. House of Representatives, Kansas 2nd District – Video


Margie Wakefield, Democrat for U.S. House of Representatives, Kansas 2nd District
Margie Wakefield, Democratic candidate for the United States House of Representatives Kansas 2nd District, stopped by the Chanute Tribune. Wakefield is challenging incumbent Lynn Jenkins, R-Kansas.

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