...Zachares is one of 20 people convicted in the gifts-for-favors scandal set off by Abramoff, a prominent Republican lobbyist before he pleaded guilty in the case. Although several elected officials were investigated, only one - former...

The Alaska House District 1 race is a study in contrasts. Jim Elkins, 67, is a longtime Republican lobbyist for Southeast Alaska communities and ran a successful, historic bar and liquor store in Ketchikan. His opponent, Dawn Allen-Herron...

...Illinois by his full name: Barack Hussein Obama. This would be merely juvenile if it weren't so contemptible. Republican lobbyist Ed Rogers, on "Hardball," was one of the early adopters of this sleazy tactic. "Count me down as somebody...