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Massachusetts: Eric Holder

February 22, 2009 - 01:41 am
NEWS FEED: Blue Mass Group

Recipe for Good Race Discussion: What Eric Holder Left Out

By hubspoke

As a facilitator of dialogues on race and ethnicity, I'd like to offer some comments in reaction to Ernie Boch, III's multi-topic post in which several posters expressed frustration and skepticism about trying to engage in "open discussion" or "unabashed candid discussion" with "honest opinions" on race.

Eric Holder did a great job of getting our attention - on that I think we can agree. Race is still a vast American challenge and he's right: we are cowards about discussing it. But we're afraid to talk about race for legitimate reasons. It's similar to how we are cowards about anything we think might be unpleasant because of past experience or what we've read or heard.

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February 3, 2009 - 10:16 am
NEWS FEED: Boston Globe

Holder pledges no politics at Justice

Vice President Joe Biden, swearing in Eric Holder as the nation's first African-American attorney general this morning, gave voice again to criticisms of the Bush administration's Justice Department. Biden and other critics say that Alberto Gonzales, in particular, politicized the...

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February 2, 2009 - 09:54 am
NEWS FEED: Boston Globe

Holder in, Daschle hanging on

It's funny-strange how Washington works sometimes. Going in, it looked like Eric Holder, President Obama's pick for attorney general, could face the toughest fight. But despite questions about his role in controversial pardons during the final days of the Clinton...

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January 30, 2009 - 07:39 am
NEWS FEED: Boston Phoenix

Your Konservatives Update

By David S. Bernstein

--As you can imagine, I am super-duper excited for today's RNC committee vote for chairman. Incidentally, I'm getting some chatter that incumbent Mike Duncan is now Mitt Romney's stalking-horse; meanwhile, former Huckabee campaign manager Chip Saltsman (but actually, in my analysis, a stalking horse for Bill Frist), has dropped out on account of having absolutely no support whatsoever. Ken Blackwell, who I was really rooting for because he is absolutely nuts and would be wonderfully entertaining, appears to have faded to irrelevance. Saul Anuzis doesn't seem to have much of a chance. My analysis: if this turns into a choice between Duncan and Steele, Duncan wins; if it turns into a choice between Duncan and Katon Dawson (who I originally predicted months ago would be the next chair), Dawson wins.

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January 28, 2009 - 11:14 am
NEWS FEED: Boston Globe

Holder gets committee blessing

The Senate Judiciary Committee just recommended the confirmation of Eric Holder as attorney general. The 17-2 vote, sending his nomination to the full Senate, came despite misgivings about his role in controversial pardons while he worked in the Clinton administration's...

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Mon, 12/29/2008 - 12:05

Mid-Morning Read: Wilkerson and black ministers, Menino, Unitil

By Jeremy P. Jacobs, PolitickerMA.com Reporter

Former State Sen. Dianne Wilkerson rails against black ministers .

Boston Mayor Tom Menino dishes it out as well as he rakes it in.

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Tue, 12/02/2008 - 11:18

Kerry fields questions, calls for prosecutions of private sector wrongdoing in economic crisis

By Jeremy P. Jacobs, PolitickerMA.com Reporter

CAMBRIDGE - U.S. Sen. John Kerry fielded questions ranging from mass transit to foreign policy to the current economic crisis here Monday night in a town hall meeting.

The forum took place at Lesley University's Prospect Hall near Port Square. Kerry, a Boston Democrat, attended the event following the special convocation ceremony at Harvard University for U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy.

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Mon, 12/01/2008 - 11:20

Kerry congratulates Clinton and other national security nominees

By Jeremy P. Jacobs, PolitickerMA.com Reporter

U.S. Sen. John Kerry, once widely speculated to be on President-elect Barack Obama's shortlist for secretary of state, congratulated the eventual nominee, U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton, and the other newly nominated members of Obama's national security team on Monday.

Obama named his national security team picks Monday morning at a press conference in Chicago.

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Tue, 11/18/2008 - 15:35

Newsweek: Obama tapping Holder, not Patrick, for AG

By Jeremy P. Jacobs, PolitickerMA.com Reporter

Newsweek's Michael Isikoff is reporting that President-elect Barack Obama is planning to tap Eric Holder to be attorney general.

Holder, who was a deputy attorney general in former President Bill Clinton's administration, has long been rumored to be on Obama's shortlist for the post, along with Gov. Deval Patrick.

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