Today’s installment of campaign-related news items that wouldn’t generate a post of their own, but may be of interest to political observers:<\/p>\n
* CNN<\/a>: “Trying to reclaim the health care spotlight from campaign rival Hillary Clinton, Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards unveiled his plan to combat HIV\/AIDS during an appearance at the Families USA\/Kaiser Foundation Health Care Forum on Monday in Washington, D.C. The former North Carolina senator argued that, in order to better combat HIV\/AIDS domestically, Medicaid needs to provide more extensive coverage for HIV-related treatment. He also advocated teaching age-appropriate sex education and ending the federal ban on needle exchange programs.”<\/p>\n * Washington Times<\/a>: “The National Rifle Association, which did not endorse President Bush in 2000 and 2004 until just a month before the general election, is considering stepping into the presidential campaign fray early next year during the primary season, the group’s chief lobbyist says…. ‘Historically, we have not gotten involved in primaries. We traditionally wait until after the conventions,’ said Chris Cox, head lobbyist for the NRA. ‘That being said, given the candidates and the process and the front-loading of the primaries, it is a possibility that we could get involved in one of these presidential primaries.'”<\/p>\n * The Politico’s Ben Smith reports<\/a> that Atlantic Monthly staff writer Josh Green was poised to have a piece in GQ about infighting among Hillary Clinton staffers, but the magazine spiked the story. According to Smith, “Clinton’s aides pulled a page from the book of Hollywood publicists and offered GQ a stark choice: Kill the piece, or lose access to planned celebrity coverboy Bill Clinton.”<\/p>\n * Barack Obama hasn’t earned as many union endorsements as Edwards and Clinton, but yesterday he picked up<\/a> the support of the Correction Officers’ Benevolent Association, a New York City union that represents 9,000 jail workers.<\/p>\n * In a piece profiling Sen. Chris Dodd’s (D-Conn.) work in publishing his father’s papers from the 1946 the Nuremberg trials, the NYT noted<\/a> that Dodd had dated Bianca Jagger and Carrie Fisher during a “very public bachelorhood.” Why include this in the article at all? Isn’t this an example of what the NYT complained about<\/a> over the weekend?<\/p>\n * And finally, Mitt Romney’s campaign came up with a “Create Your Own Ad!” contest, promising to buy TV time for the winning spot. It appears that Slate’s Bruce Reed<\/a> came up with the most popular entry — it had more than 19,000 views, a 7,500-view lead over the next contender — but the Romney campaign doesn’t care for it<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today’s installment of campaign-related news items that wouldn’t generate a post of their own, but may be of interest to political observers: * CNN: “Trying to reclaim the health care spotlight from campaign rival Hillary Clinton, Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards unveiled his plan to combat HIV\/AIDS during an appearance at the Families USA\/Kaiser Foundation […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}