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Ben Marter revealed: Politico posts tell-all on Betsy Markey press guy

By | 06.28.10 | 4:50 pm

Who is the real Ben Marter? As far as the public knows, Marter is merely U.S. Rep. Betsy Markey’s communications director. That simple description has only gained power, though, because it is true and because it has been repeated time…

Markey as one of Politico’s ‘besieged’ health reform fence-sitters

By | 03.19.10 | 9:42 am

Obama health reform legislation, already the subject of an American political contest for the history books, hinges this weekend on the votes of about 12 conservative fence-sitting Democrats. They are now the target of intense campaigns for and against reform…

RNC to woo low-end donors by stoking fear of socialism, of course

By | 03.03.10 | 8:53 pm

A copy of a secret special Republican National Committee presentation prepared by the party’s finance staff and delivered by RNC Finance Director Rob Bickhart to top donors and fundraisers at a retreat in Boca Grande, Florida, last month was…

When is a czar not a czar?

By | 09.08.09 | 8:43 am

With an assist from Politico, which has completely bought into Glenn Beck’s campaign against “czars” — on Monday, the publication sketched out a “GOP czar revolt” that consisted of work by Michelle Malkin, a joke by Sen. John McCain…

Media watch: GOP and Politico tag-team vulnerable Dems

By | 07.01.09 | 3:45 pm

The National Republican Congressional Committee told Politico yesterday it was targeting swing-district Democratic officials, like Colorado’s freshman Rep. Betsy Markey. The NRCC said it was going to wage an expensive attack campaign featuring TV and radio ads in districts around the country. But it didn’t do that. Instead, it spent not a dollar in simply telling Politico it was going to do that and Politico wrote all about it. Nasty work, and done dirt cheap!