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  <title>Put Friends of DC in the Senate!</title>
  <author>Mike Panetta, Free and Equal DC Fund</author>
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    <email>mike.panetta@gmail.com</email>
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&lt;b&gt;In these final days of the 2008 campaign, please do what you can to ensure we get U.S. Senators into office who will be friends of the District!&lt;/b&gt;
&lt;p&gt;
District residents need to band together and support candidates who will give us what we deserve &amp;ndash; voting representation in Congress! Please donate what you can to support all or some of the Senate candidates below. &lt;i&gt;Any&lt;/i&gt; contribution is welcome, and it will make a difference! &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;i&gt;- Mike Panetta, DC Shadow Representative&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</blurb>
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        <displayname>Bruce Lunsford</displayname>
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      <pageblurb>Bruce Lunsford is running against DC voting rights and statehood public enemy #1 - MItch McConnell. Lunsford is is a successful entrepreneur, business leader and health care executive. While he&amp;rsquo;s not a professional politician, he&amp;rsquo;s a professional problem-solver who has earned a reputation for getting things done everywhere he&amp;rsquo;s been. Help &amp;quot;ditch Mitch&amp;quot; by making a donation to elect Lunsford.</pageblurb>
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        <displayname>Mark Begich</displayname>
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        <location>AK-Sen</location>
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      <pageblurb>Alaska Senator Ted Stevens is not only a convicted felon, but has voted against every bill to give DC voting rights in Congress and expanded home rule. Anchorage governor Mark Begich is running a strong race and will a friend to the people in the District of Columbia. Please support his campaign.</pageblurb>
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        <displayname>Kay Hagan</displayname>
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      <pageblurb>North Carolina Senator Libby Dole - no friend to the people of the District - is in trouble. This race is as close as they get. Please make a donation to five-term State Senator Kay Hagan and let&amp;apos;s make Libby Dole click her heels and go back to Kansas.</pageblurb>
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        <displayname>Jeanne Shaheen</displayname>
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        <location>NH-Sen</location>
        <sortname>jeanne shaheen</sortname>
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      <pageblurb>The former governor of New Hampshire is running against incumbent Senator John Sununu, who has is no friend to DC Congressional voting rights. Sununu voted against the DC Voting Rights Act both in committee and in the Senate&amp;apos;s vote on cloture. As a New Englander, one would think he&amp;apos;d be sympathetic to our taxation without representation plight. It&amp;apos;s time to dump him and send Governor Shaheen to Washington. </pageblurb>
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        <displayname>Scott Kleeb</displayname>
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      <pageblurb>Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel, who voted against the DC Voting Rights Act, is retiring. Let&amp;rsquo;s replace him with Scott Kleeb, a fourth-generation Nebraskan, who grew up listening to his grandfather&amp;rsquo;s homesteading stories &amp;ndash;tales of community, patriotism and public service&amp;ndash; and learned the values that would come to shape his life. He&amp;rsquo;ll be a good friend to the people of the District of Columbia.</pageblurb>
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