Wikio - Julia Carson

7th District candidates differ on spending �earmarks' (Indy Star)

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 21:58:00 GMT

The two leading candidates to replace the late Julia Carson in Congress take drastically different views of the controversial practice of budget earmarks — where members of Congress insert money for special locally-focused projects into the federal budget, often with little scrutiny or competitive review.

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IN-07 Special: Carson On the Air (video) (The Stakeholder)

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 20:22:03 GMT

In Indiana's 7th District, there will be a special election on March 11 to succeed the late Rep. Julia Carson. Andre Carson, an Indianapolis City Councilman and the grandson of Congresswoman Carson, was overwhelmingly selected to be the Democratic nominee....

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Caucus set to choose Carson successor (Skeptical Brotha)

Sun, 30 Dec 2007 06:03:30 GMT

The Marion County Democratic Party has set a January 12th Caucus to choose a nominee in the special election to replace the late Congresswoman Julia Carson in accordance with state law. It became public during the remarks of Congresswomen Stephanie Tubbs Jones and Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick that Mrs. Carson wanted her grandson, Andre Carson, an Indianapolis [...]

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