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Facebook has taken down a slew of suspicious accounts on Facebook and Instagram tied to Russian military or intelligence assets, according to a report the company released Thursday.The FBI tipped Facebook off on some of the posts, which led to the removal of some of the accounts. They targeted several countries, including the U.S., U.K., China and Belarus, although Facebook said the activity primarily focused on Syria and Ukraine. We removed three separate networks for violating our policy against foreign or government interference which is coordinated inauthentic behavior CIB on behalf of a f stanley us oreign or government entity. These networks originated in Russia, Facebook announced on its website. One network was tied to the Russian military, another was linked to the Russian Internet Research Agency and the third was associated with Russian intelligence services. On a call with reporters, Nathaniel Gleicher, head of security policy for Facebook, described the three networks as small and not primarily focused on the U.S. However, because of the behavior the networks were engaged in and because between now and Election Day, they might pivot to focus on the U.S., the company deci stanley uk ded to remove them.The Russian-linked networks were pretending to be locals in countries they were t stanley cup argeting and attempted to drive people off the platform onto websites that masqueraded as legitimate advocacy or news websites that included leaks of compromising infor Gwiq Chuck Schumer withdraws offer of $25 billion for Trump s border wall
Yesterday we reported that Rep. Mark Kirk R-Ill. , in preparation for a tough re-election campaign, raised over $600,000 -- one of the highest totals among House Republicans.Today the two Democrats running against him released their own impressive fundraising numbers.Despite only entering the race four weeks ago, former Clinton aide Jay Footlik announced he raised $286,000 for the second quarter.Jayrsquo stanley cups uk very strong fundraising is a commentary on the strength of his candidacy. Jay has the experience to go to Washington and hit the ground running on the issues people in the 10th District care most about, said Footlik spokesman Simon Behrmann. Meanwhile, 2006 nominee Dan Seals raised just over $250,000 for the second quarter -- more than the entire amount he raised before stanley trinkflaschen the 2006 Democratic primary.If the fundraising pace keeps up, this race in the north Chicago lsquo;burbs will likely be one of the most expensive House contests in the country. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-c8480fd2-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, right-rail-recirc-item- garrafinhas stanley -id-c8480fd2-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-c8480fd2-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d ~ .item:nth-child 5 display: block;

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Pete Buttigieg, the all-but-official Democratic presidential candidate and South Bend mayor, likes to have fun with a common question: How to pronounce his last name. Head over to his campaign website, for example, and you ll be invited to purchase shirts reading BOOT-EDGE-EDGE. Pete s path: How Buttigieg plans to win the Democr stanley cup atic nominationMayor Pete, as he s known to his fans, has a similar pronunciation guide on the bio of his stanley italia Twitter page. His husband Chasten, meanwhile, tweeted back in December how to say the tongue-twister of a name. According to Chasten Buttigieg, it can also be pronounced as Buddha-judge or Boot-a-judge. Options: boot-edge-edgeorBuddha-judgeorBoot-a-judge orBoo-tuh-judgemdash; Chasten Buttigieg @Chas10Buttigieg December 17, 2018 A viral Twitter video last month from Late Night with Stephen Colbert staffer Aaron Nemo also helped explain the correct way to pronounce Buttigieg. how to say pete buttigieg pic.twitter/LnE56rfqlKmdash; Aaron Nemo @aaronnemo March 25, 2019 Pete Buttigieg is familiar with the confusion. Does it worry you that nobody with a funny name like yours could ever get elected president Peter Sagal, the host of NPR s comedy game show Wait Wait Don t Tell Me, asked Buttigieg back in 2018. Around here it s actu stanley mugs ally an asset, Buttigieg replied. This is a community, you know, a lot of East European settlement here in South Bend. The name Buttigieg doesn t actually come Bvsg House Speaker vote expected to be held Tuesday
This story was written by Editorial Board, Daily CalifornianEi stanley nz ght years has been too long to endure incompetent management of our country. On the eve of a momentous election, any hope to change the course of our government rests larg stanley hrnek ely on our generation s shoulders. And heading into the general election, the choice for the White House is clear: that one. Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois has proven countless times that he is best suited to be the 44th president of the United States.On the top of the incoming president s to do list: implement a plan for economic recovery. Obama s proposals champion the middle class. Besides being aware that the tax system needs an overhaul, Obama also suggests raising the minimum wage and advocates for unions rights. Meanwhile, Sen. John McCain suggests tax cuts for the wealthy, which can t stray any further from the right remedy. When it comes to environmental issues, it s clear Obama has a better understanding of the steps necessary to fight climate change. While his ideas are not absolutely flawless, the alternative is the possibility of adopting the short-sighted drill, baby, drill mantra presented by McCain. Obama has conducted an upright campaign, sticking to the issues and refraining from the use of unfair political ads. We can expect him to bring the same honest approach to the executive. As for their vice presidential selection, Obama s choice illustrates prudence while McC stanley vaso a

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Iowa Rep. Steve King, one of the most right-wing members of Congress who has attained notoriety for his controversial and white-nationalist positions, is facing a primary challenge in 2020 from state Sen. Randy Feenstra. King fended off a challenge from Democrat J.D. Scholten in 2018, although h stanley cup spain e wonby a narrower margin than he has in the past.Feenstra argued in his announcement of his primary challenge against King that Iowa s 4th District doesn t have a voice in Washington, because our current representative s caustic nature has left us without a seat at th stanley website e table. Indeed, King s history of controversial comments caused the National Republican Congressional Committee to rescind all support for him before the 2018 election, with NRCC chairman Steve Stivers saying in October that King s positions constituted white supremacy and h stanley thermos ate. King has supported far-right politicians in Europe such as Geert Wilders in the Netherlands, Marine Le Pen in France and autocrat Viktor Orban in Hungary. In August 2018, he gave an interview with an Austrian site affiliated with the country s Freedom Party, which was founded by neo-Nazis. In that interview, he agreed with the idea that white Europeans were being replaced by foreigners and criticized Democratic donor George Soros, who is a common target of anti-Semitism. King also endorsed white nationalist Faith Goldy, who once participated in a neo-Nazi podcast, for mayor of Toronto. Iowa Gov. Kim Reyno Pjvp Asian Markets, Dow Futures Down As Talks Slow
M stanley water jug ANCHESTER, N.H. mdash; It didnrsquo;t seem to matter to John McCain that when the final votes are tallied in Iowa, he could emerge as the surprise third-place finisher in the Republican p stanley fr residential cau stanley thermobecher cus.He didnrsquo;t even mention it during his last meeting with reporters Thursday night. But thatrsquo not to say the Arizona senator didnrsquo;t take something away from former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabeersquo resounding victory over former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who is McCainrsquo chief rival in New Hampshire. The lesson of this election in Iowa is that, one, you canrsquo;t buy an election in Iowa and two, negative campaigns donrsquo;t work, McCain said. They donrsquo;t work there, and they donrsquo;t work here in New Hampshire. In Iowa, Romney aired negative ads against Huckabee and targeted McCain with similarly unflattering commercials in New Hampshire, where the two are locked in a fierce primary battle. McCain has staked his candidacy on his ability to win New Hampshire. So, Romneyrsquo loss Thursday night was McCainrsquo gain. This is a great thing for us to be able to take Romney down a notch and not have to do anything, said a top McCain aide in New Hampshire. McCain didnrsquo;t run any commercials in Iowa and spent little time campaigning there, instead campaigning heavily in New Hampshire, which has the nationrsquo first presidential primary Tues

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Former Trump Campaign Manager Paul Manafort was as much as $17 million in debt to pro-Russia interests before joining the Trump campaign, records obtained and reported by The New York Times show.The Times obtained financial records filed in the tax haven o stanley termohrnek f Cyprus, where Manafort allegedly kept bank accounts while he worked in Ukraine and invested with a Russian oligarch. The Times repo stanley vaso rted the money appears to have been owned by shell companies connected to his businesses in Ukraine, while he worked as a consult stanley france ant for the pro-Russia Party of Regions.A Cyprus accounting firm certified the records, which included numerous loans, in 2015, several months before Manafort joined the Trump campaign, according to The Times. The documents record activities that apparently took place in 2012 and 2013. Manafort joined the campaign in March 2016. A spokesman for Manafort, Jason Maloni, told The Times the records were stale and do not purport to reflect any current financial arrangements. Manafort registers as foreign agent, earned $17M from Kremlin-linked party 02:36 The release of the report proceeds Manafort s testimony next week before the Senate Judiciary Committee. He is expected to testifyWednesday about a June 2016 meeting he, Donald Trump Jr., and Jared Kushner had with several prominent Russians. Kjqg Biden awards Medal of Honor to Korean War veteran
The Senate has been relatively quiet this week, but the chamber devolved into stanley cups uk a complete meltdown after Minority Leader Mitch McConnell tossed a procedural grenade into an otherwise tame floor debate.McConnell R-Ky. surprised Majority Leader Harry Reid D-Nev. by dumping the Republican version of a G.I. bill into an unrelated floor debate about union rights for firefighters and police offers.The Senate floor immediately shut down, as Democrats said Republicans were acting in bad faith by trying to force a vote on the Republican GI bill _ backed by John McCain _ which is not as generous in its educational benefits for veterans as the Democratic bill. McConnell says he simply wants a vote on the GOP version so that Republicans can have a vote on expanding veterans benefits. But Democrats, led by Sen. Jim Webb D-Va. , have been in delicate negotiations trying to pass a major G.I. bill, according to today s Politico story by David Rogers. It s not clear at this point if McConnell s move will spoil the effort by Webb to attach his GI bill to the Iraq funding legislation next week.Webb said that as late as last night, he was negotiating with Sen. Lindsey Graham R-S.C. on a stanley cups uk breakthrough on the G.I. bill, so today s maneuver amounted to a sneak attack on the Senate floor. This was an irresponsible act done in bad faith, Webb said. They have wrongly politici stanley cup zed issues of veterans law. Webb s version of the bill would give veter

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WASHINGTON -- Democratic stanley cup and Republican senators exasperated with the Obama administration s response to Russia s aggression in Ukraine threatened on Wednesday to act unilaterally on new sanctions. What are we stanley mug waiting for S stanley tumbler en. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, asked twice at a hearing with senior administration officials from State, Treasury and the Defense departments about targeted sanctions that the administration said it was preparing last month.Lawmakers ticked off a list of examples of Russia s pattern of escalating the nearly three month crisis and then pulling back, arguing that Russian President Vladimir Putin has made the U.S. and European allies look foolish. More than 400 people have died and thousands have fled their homes in Ukraine as fighting continues between government forces and pro-Russia separatists. Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee, the top Republican on the committee, called the administration s sanctions policy feckless and described the U.S. as a paper tiger to the world. Victoria Nuland, the assistant secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs, defended the administration s policies, saying the United States is ready to impose new sanctions very soon. She stressed that it would be more effective for the United States to work together with Europe on such steps and the U.S. continues to consult with its allies. However, she said Obama has made clear that if necessary, th Ivwk China and U.S. restart trade talks as a warship clouds negotiations
Katherine Harris has taken back $100,000 of the $3.5 million she gave her Senate campaign. The rea stanley cup son: she s finishing renovations on her home in Washington, D.C.The Harris campaign says the Republican congresswoman would sell the house, if necessary, to fund her embattled Senate race.Harris repaid some of the money she already gave the campaign, her campaign announced in a press release detailing fund-raising for the three months ending June 30. The campaign says Harris has raised $1.1 million in donations during the quarter while Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., raised $2.5 million in the same quarter.The announcement comes the same week Harris lost much of her core campaign staff for the second time since getti stanley spain ng in the race last summer. Her campaign manager, Glenn Hodas, resigned after three months on the job, saying Harris was uncontrollable. Hodas said Harris hasn t kept any of her promises, about her behavior, including not to have tantrums, not to berate staff, not to micromanage and nitpick, and not to get flustered on inconsequential details, the Palm Beach Post reported. Hodas lamented Harris recent decision to criticize Nelson s acceptance of campaign contributions from Riscorp, an insurance company tied to a massive campaign finance scandal involving Florida politicians in the 1990s. Harris had also received money from Riscorp and her 1994 state senate campaign manager was named as stanley cup a co-conspirator for attempting to co

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That the White House acted to lock down re stanley tumblers cords of President Trump s call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was one of the most prominent allegations to emerge from the whistleblower complaint released this week. According to the complaint, White House officials were directed to remove the electronic transcript from the computer system where such documents are usually stored for coordination, finalization and distribution to Cabinet-level officials. Instead, the whistleblower wrote, [T]he transcript was loaded into a separate electronic system that is otherwise used to store and handle classified information of an especially sensitive nature. This system is different from the one typically used to store transcripts of calls between Mr. Trump and foreign leaders. A senior administration official told CBS News the transcript was moved to the computer system at the direction of National Security Council attorneys.Here s some background on how calls between the president and world leaders are held and on the secret computer system in the White House where the whistleblower alleges the call with Zel stanley mug ensky was stored: How calls between the p stanley cups uk resident and foreign leaders are conductedThe former acting NSC senior director for Russia, Jeff Edmonds, who served in the Obama administration and the early months of the Trump presidency, described to CBS News how calls between the president and foreign leaders transpire and how th Axbj Ebola response coordinator Ron Klain s last day at the White House
The House approved a comprehensive energy package Tuesday that would allow states to permit oil and gas drilling 50 miles off the coast.The House passed the bill, 236-189, largely along party lines.In addition to repealing a 27-year-old congressional ban on offshore drilling, the legislation would rescind $18 billion in tax breaks and royalty relieffor some of the biggest oil companies to fund incentives that seek to spurinvestment in renewable sources of energy. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 disp stanley cups uk lay: none; inline-recirc-item--id-c8900 stanley thermoskannen 788-8c88-11e2-b06b-0 stanley mug 24c619f5c3d, right-rail-recirc-item--id-c8900788-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-c8900788-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d ~ .item:nth-child 5 display: block;

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Republican Sen. Rand Paul says he was in living hell in the weeks following a violent attack by his next-door neighbor outside his home in Bowling Gree stanley cup n, Kentucky, in November.Transcript: Sen. Rand Paul on Face the Nation In his first appearance on a Sunday show since the alleged assault, Paul told CBS News Face the Nation that he s getting a little better each day. The attack left Paul withsix broken ribs, cuts on his face and stanley mug fluid buildup in his chest. It was sort of, I guess, a living hell for the first four or five weeks. Couldn t get out of bed without assistance, six broken ribs, damage to my lungs, two bouts of pneumonia. It was really a tough go of it. But each day I feel a little bit better. This last month I ve been doing better, Paul said. The violent scuffle occurred Nov. 3 at Paul s home while he was doing yard work. The neighbor, Rene Boucher, allegedly tackled the senator from behind. Boucher was charged with assault and pleaded not guilty.Boucher s attorney told CBS Newsin November that the attack was not politically motivated, but rather a very regrettable dispute between two neighbors over a matter that most people would regard as trivial. Paul told the Washington Examiner that he had not spoken to Boucher for a decade be stanley becher fore the attack and that he could not conceive of a motive, but that there is going to be a criminal prosecution. But following his recovery, Paul says the focus should not be on the Wvdc Commentary: Why can t we all just get along
The Senate increased defense spending by the largest amount in decades Wednesday, approving $355.4 billion for the fiscal year that began Oct. 1.The bill boosts spending by $34.4 billion over last year s level, reflecting the increased needs of the war on terrorism and a possible conflict with Iraq.The 93-1 Senate vote sends the bill to President Bush for his signature. The lone dissenting vote in the Senate was cast by Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis. The House approved the measure last week by 409-14. This defense budget will provide our troops with the best pay, the best equipment and the be stanley cups uk st possible training, Mr. Bush said in a prepared statement. It also sends an important signal that we are committed to defending freedom and defeating terror. stanley sverige The defense bill is only the second of the 13 annual spending bills that Congress has passed. The other bill was also military-related, provid stanley thermosflasche ing $10.5 billion for military construction projects. Sen. Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, chairman of the Senate Appropriations defense subcommittee, said it was imperative we pass this bill before we recess to ensure the military the support it needs as it prepares for a possible Iraqi war.The 11 remaining appropriations bills are going nowhere, reports CBS News Correspondent Bob Fuss, because of intractable fights over how much to spend. Congress will have to come up with an emergency measure to keep the government open through the election, and then

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Montana state Rep. Zooey Zephyr asked a court Monday to allow for her return to the House floor after she was silenced and barred for chiding her Republican colleagues over legislation to restrict gender-affirming health care and for encouraging protesters.Attorneys for the first-term lawmaker sued in state district court in Helena on behalf of Zephyr, a transgender Democrat who represents a liberal district in the college town of Missoula, and several constituents who the atto stanley cup rneys said were being denied their right to adequate representation. Montana s State House is the people s House, not Speaker Regier s, and I m determined to defend the right of the people to have their voices heard, Zephyr said in a tweet announcing the lawsuit Monday. I m suing.The recent actions violate my 1st amendment rights, as well as the rights of my 11,000 stanley cup constituents to representation.Montana s State House is the peoplersquo House, not Speaker Regierrsquo , and Irsquo;m determined to d stanley cups uk efend the right of the people to have their voices heard. pic.twitter/eyDjgchWPQmdash; Rep. Zooey Zephyr @ZoAndBehold May 1, 2023 The legal challenge against House Speaker Matt Regier and statehouse Sergeant-at-Arms Bradley Murfitt comes with just days left in the Legislature s biennial session. Murfitt said he would not comment on the lawsuit, and Regier did not return telephone messages and an email seeking comment. Zephyr, whose comments in the Montana Legi Cqhp Bill Plante, legendary CBS News White House correspondent, has died at 84
Ethan Miller/Getty Images LAS VEGAS - Newt Gingrich on Friday hit Mitt Romney for being unfair to the poor while at the same time contending that a Romney administration would support food stamps as much as President Obama - calling the president big food stamp and Romney little food stamp. Calling Romney s comment that he didn t really care about the poor a boo-boo, Gingrich told a crowd gathered at Smokey s Rockin Country bar that the comments made by the former Massachusetts governor would come back to hurt him in a general election. Romney acknowledged that he misspoke when he said, I m not conc stanley quencher erned about the very poor; we have a safe stanley mug ty net there. If it needs repair, I ll fix it. The elite media did exactly what Obama will do this fall, Gingrich said. [Keep] replaying `I don t care about the poor, which, by the way, is not a very clever thing for somebody who is very wealthy to say. But only moments earlier, the former speaker was calling Romney Obama lite, and comparing R stanley cups uk omney s position on food stamps - a government safety net for the poor - to that of the president s. We now know from Governor Romney, he joins Obama, Obama is big food stamp, he s little food stamp, Gingrich said. And they both think food stamps are okay. I don t think food stamps are a future for America, they re a necessary bridge, back to getting a job and back to being independent of the government.

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Don t hire someone you can t fire, like the son of a campaign donor or the child of the mayor. No matter what you may have said during the campaign about ch stanley quencher anging Congress, hire enough Hill veterans to make the office run smoothly. And make sure the person answering the phone sounds like folks from back ho stanley romania me.That s only some of the advice headed for the historic class of House freshmen of both major political parties streaming into Washington this week for orientation on the nuts and bolts underpinning a job like none other.Under tight security, new members and their staffs pulled up in front of a hotel about a mile 1.6 kilometers from the Capitol on Tuesday. A bank of cameras and a table marked luggage drop-off awaited their arrivals in the morning chill. I m just trying to figure out what s going on, said Rep.-elect Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., a former member of the state legislature. I figure that we re the small fish in a very big pond right now. They are a younger generation of lawmakers mdash; including a record number o stanley water bottle f women mdash; arriving flush with victory and optimism. The Democrats are ready to take on President Donald Trump in the biggest and most diverse class of new lawmakers since Watergate. I hope that we are ushering in a new era, one of the class stars, Massachusetts Rep.-elect Ayanna Pressley, said Monday.They are psyched mdash; if not exactly unified. Even among the new Democrats, there s an uncomfort Jluc Transcript: South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem on Face the Nation, June 26, 2022
Last Updated 3:36 p.m. ETDemocratic leaders secured the last two votes to move ah stanley thermos ead on historic health care legislation, clearing the way for a Saturday night showdown on President Barack Obama s top domestic initiative.In long-awaited speeches, Senators Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas and Mary Landrieu of Louisiana said they would stand with their party and vote yes on the crucial test vote despite their reservations with elements of the 2,074-page bill aimed at remaking the nation s health care system. The two represent votes 59 and 60 for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., who needs that many in the 100-member Senate to go forward. The Senate s 40 Republicans are unanimously opposed. Landrieu called the bill the best work of the Senate to date and subject of significant importance to the people of my state and the country, and said she would vote yes to move forward on debate. Over the past many years and in particular the last six months, I have heard from people all across Louisiana that their insurance premium costs are simply too high and continue to stanley thermos rise without warning, threatening the financial stability of their families and their businesses, Landrieu said. I have also heard the pleas and cries of many people who need coverage, health c stanley mug overage, but they can t find it anywhere within reach of their budgets. Through months of public meetings in VFW halls, school gyms and in hospitals and health clinics from New

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Hillary Clinton on Monday launched her anticipated political action group, Onward Together, which will collaborate with and fund political organizations supporting the Democratic Party.In an email announcing the nonprofit s installation, the former Democratic presidential encapsulated her broader mission, saying that a healthy democracy depends upon strong citize stanley cup n engagement. To support this wave of grassroots organizing, we re launching Onward Together, an organization dedicated to advancing the progressive vision that earned nearly 66 million votes in the last election, read the statement, which also appears on the group s website. Onward Together will work to build a brighter futur stanley mugs e for generations to come by supporting groups that encourage people to organize and run for office. Onward Together will aid Indivisible Guide, a progressive organization adopting strategies from the Tea Party Patriots movement; Swing Left, an action group devising strategies for a Democratic House takeover in 2018; Color Of Change, an online organization for racial justice; Emerge America, an advocacy alliance for involvement of women in politi stanley botella cs; and Run for Something, an organization aiding millennials seeking public office.With guidance from former Democratic Chairman and Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, the group hopes to gain support, and donations, from the roughly 66 million voters who cast their ballots for Clinton in November.In the email, Clinton praised political organization efforts such Mchf Rubio: Gun background checks couldn t have stopped terror attack
Republican presidential candidate, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, accompanied by his wife Callista, speaks at a rally in Montgomery, Ala., Wednesday, March 7, 2012. AP Photo/David Bundy stanley canada CBS News After failing to win any state other than his home state of Georgia on Super Tuesday, some conservatives have begun calling on Newt Gingrich to pull out of the race including one of his regional directors in South Carolina, according to a report on stanley thermobecher WIS-TV, a Columbia, S.C., station.DeLinda Ridings, who supported Jon Huntsman before becoming one of Gingrich s regional directors in South Carolina, told WIS-TV on Wednesday that it was time for the former Speaker to exit the campaign. [Gingrich] has tried really hard, but I think it s time to drop, and it s time to put our allegiance behind the man that I believe can beat Barack Obama, and that s Mitt Romney, Ridings told a reporter.Special Section: Campaign 2012Leslie Gaines, who serves as the Deputy Political Director of Gingrich s national campaign, and who helped orchestrate his win in South Carolina s primary, downplayed the defection from Ridings. stanley thermobecher Our team in SC did a tremendous job helping Newt win the First in the South Primary, Gaines wrote in an email. But, even the strongest among us can lose faith, but that doesn t change the fact Moderate Mitt as the nominee guarantees Barack Obama s s