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Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., has been traveling the country, raising funds and support for her upcoming election — or is it elections? The New York Times reports:
“With her New York election just 10 months away, neither she nor her advisers want to do anything that might suggest that she has ambitions beyond the state, where Republicans once pilloried her as a carpetbagger intent on using the state as a stepping stone for national office. . . . In fact, Mrs. Clinton and her advisers appear to have figured out a narrow strategy of how to run for president without actually running for president — though the Clinton camp insists that her sole concern at the moment is winning re-election in New York, and points out that she has been traveling the country helping Democrats for years.”
Posted by Melissa Cooley

Kansas Republican Party chairman Tim Shallenburger, who opposed expanded gambling when he was a lawmaker and when he ran for governor, is now urging lawmakers to allow it in southeast Kansas, the Lawrence Journal-World reported. The reason for the about-face is that there are now nine Indian casinos in Oklahoma just across the state line from his home in Baxter Springs. “Clearly along the border, right now, they’re sucking money out of our economy,” Shallenburger said. Sounds like what is happening now in Sedgwick County — and what would get much worse if lawmakers shut out Wichita from the expanded gaming legislation.
Posted by Phillip Brownlee