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JoMa Knows College Football #Texas
FamousDC lives for the intersection of sports and politics. And Jonathan Martin lands those stories on the front page of POLITICO. JoMa: The politics of college football Oil is still gushing into the Gulf of Mexico, the economy is wheezing along at 10 percent unemployment and the longest war in …
Happy Super Tuesday Morning
Politico’s Full 2010 Election Coverage Politics Daily: Tuesday Primary Election Results: Will the Incumbents Survive? Real Clear Politics The Fix: Incumbent Armageddon? Hotline On Call
Famous 5: John Stanton
Meet John Stanton: Congressional reporting, fireworks eating, all-American bad ass. Mr. Stanton took a break between covering the SCOTUS madness for Roll Call and brutal Gaelic football practices to answer a few questions for a FamousDC Famous 5 interview. 1. You’ve been on the hill for several years and we …
Arlington Vendor Wars Get Spicy
Rosslynites had one less food option earlier this week– the much-beloved District Taco food cart was evicted from its long-held ground in front of 1100 Wilson Blvd, and was forced to relocate elsewhere. Word on the street is that the capitanes of the 1100 Wilson Baja Fresh sicced lobbied the building’s owner to oust …
POLITICO Twitter Directory
What’s more exciting than our high school prom? Making POLITICO’s Twitter Directory. We’re honored to have made the list. [PS: We peaked in high school]
Child Care or Redskins Tickets?
POLITICO’s Erika Lovley: Finding Hill day care not child’s play Congressional staffers compare getting child care on Capitol Hill to landing season tickets to the Redskins: nice idea, never going to happen. With two waiting lists a total of 345 families long, admission delays at both the Senate Employees Child …
Shira Toeplitz to Politico
FamousDC fave Shira Toeplitz is packing up her bags at Roll Call (and throwing away her Big Ben poster) to head over to Politico. We’re told her must-read campaign hire update emails will continue at her new gig. We just hope she can still nail headlines like she did at …
Magic Mike Gets the NY Times Magazine Treatment
NY Times Magazine: Mike Allen, the Man the White House Wakes Up To Political insiderdom — or the illusion thereof — has moved from Georgetown salons or cordoned-off security zones to a mass e-mail list administrated by a never-married 45-year-old grind known as Mikey. Congratulations to Mr. Allen and the …
Congrats to Nia-Malika Henderson [WaPo]
Nia-Malika Henderson is leaving POLITICO and heading to the Washington Post [theRoot]
With Friends Like These …
Politico: Barney Frank rips staffer-turned-lobbyist
Joe Pounder Tanning on Miami Beach
POLITICO’s Ben Smith: Pounder to Rubio Joe Pounder, the relentless former McCain aide who spent the winter with Kay Bailey Hutchison’s bid for Governor of Texas, has moved on to the next hot GOP primary: Florida. . A GOP source tells me Pounder will be Marco Rubio’s Deputy Campaign Manager …
The Brett Favre of Political Reporting
Pump fake from Jonathan Allen. Politico’s John Harris: Why POLITICO let Jonathan Allen come back If the past is prologue, this means 2010 will be his best year ever. No word yet on how the conversations between his agent and Dan Snyder broke down. Welcome back Jonathan and please keep …
Paul Revere Would Be So Pissed
What convention is Politico alluding to here? The convention is being held at a fancy resort, features $550 ticket prices, a steak and lobster dinner and a guest speaker with a $100,000 speaking fee. It’s sponsored by a for-profit company with a mysterious wealthy benefactor, and its organizers, who have …