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CHICAGO - Longtime Illinois U.S. Rep. Phil Crane - an anti-tax crusader and ardent advocate of limited governm stanley cup spain ent even before those views became a hallmark of the GOP under President Ronald Reagan - has died of lung cancer at age 84.The Chicago-born Crane died Saturday night at his daughter s Jefferson, Maryland, home surrounded by the children he once delighted in sending poems to, said Eric Elk, a congressional aide to Crane through much of the 1990s.The one-time history professor-turned politician represented Chicago s far northwest suburbs for 35 years and was the longest-serving House Republican w stanley kubek hen he was defeated in 2004 by Democrat and then-political newcomer Melissa Bean. Crane also made an unsuccessful run for the Republican presidential nomination in 1980, losing out to the eventual winner, Ronald Reagan, who would go on to become the politician most closely associated with the modern conservative movement.But Crane stanley cup had touted what he saw as the virtue of smaller government going back to the 1960s, spelling out his vision of a stripped down, low-tax federal government in his 1976 book, The Sum of Good Government. Phil was conservative before it was cool to be conservative, said Elk.After a stint in the U.S. Army in the mid-1950s, Crane earned a PhD in history from Indiana University in 1963. He worked as an assistant history professor until 1967 at Bradley University, where also wrote on national politics.Crane was Jjun Yellen says the labor force participation is quite depressed compared to pre-pandemic levels
Sen. Lindsey Graham called Sen. Barack Obama a stanley cup celebrity on Monday, acknowledging the global popularity of the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. A close confidant of Obamarsquo opponent, Sen. John McCain, Graham acknowledged that his candidate was trailing in the polls, but questioned if Obamarsquo celebrity status would actually translate to votes come November. Obama is polishedhellip;and he has become a world personal stanley tumbler ity, a celebrity, said Graham in a brief i stanley thermos nterview Monday afternoon. But Graham said there is a difference between being a leader and a celebrity, saying he thinks voters will reward McCain for his political and military experience in the fall. Obama has opened up an eight point lead over McCain, according to the latest Gallup poll. Over 200,000 people attended a speech Obama delivered in Berlin last week, while the Illinois Democratrsquo trip made headlines around the world. However, the favorable headwinds for Obama did not seem to bother Graham. I like where we are at, said Graham, highlighting a USAToday poll of likely voters in which McCain was actually ahead. We need to keep [Obamarsquo ] bumper right in front of us. Graham even made light of the massive crowds that greeted Obama on his visit to Europe last week. There went Germany and France. We are going to have to get 270 some other way,
CHICAGO - Longtime Illinois U.S. Rep. Phil Crane - an anti-tax crusader and ardent advocate of limited governm stanley cup spain ent even before those views became a hallmark of the GOP under President Ronald Reagan - has died of lung cancer at age 84.The Chicago-born Crane died Saturday night at his daughter s Jefferson, Maryland, home surrounded by the children he once delighted in sending poems to, said Eric Elk, a congressional aide to Crane through much of the 1990s.The one-time history professor-turned politician represented Chicago s far northwest suburbs for 35 years and was the longest-serving House Republican w stanley kubek hen he was defeated in 2004 by Democrat and then-political newcomer Melissa Bean. Crane also made an unsuccessful run for the Republican presidential nomination in 1980, losing out to the eventual winner, Ronald Reagan, who would go on to become the politician most closely associated with the modern conservative movement.But Crane stanley cup had touted what he saw as the virtue of smaller government going back to the 1960s, spelling out his vision of a stripped down, low-tax federal government in his 1976 book, The Sum of Good Government. Phil was conservative before it was cool to be conservative, said Elk.After a stint in the U.S. Army in the mid-1950s, Crane earned a PhD in history from Indiana University in 1963. He worked as an assistant history professor until 1967 at Bradley University, where also wrote on national politics.Crane was Jjun Yellen says the labor force participation is quite depressed compared to pre-pandemic levels
Sen. Lindsey Graham called Sen. Barack Obama a stanley cup celebrity on Monday, acknowledging the global popularity of the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. A close confidant of Obamarsquo opponent, Sen. John McCain, Graham acknowledged that his candidate was trailing in the polls, but questioned if Obamarsquo celebrity status would actually translate to votes come November. Obama is polishedhellip;and he has become a world personal stanley tumbler ity, a celebrity, said Graham in a brief i stanley thermos nterview Monday afternoon. But Graham said there is a difference between being a leader and a celebrity, saying he thinks voters will reward McCain for his political and military experience in the fall. Obama has opened up an eight point lead over McCain, according to the latest Gallup poll. Over 200,000 people attended a speech Obama delivered in Berlin last week, while the Illinois Democratrsquo trip made headlines around the world. However, the favorable headwinds for Obama did not seem to bother Graham. I like where we are at, said Graham, highlighting a USAToday poll of likely voters in which McCain was actually ahead. We need to keep [Obamarsquo ] bumper right in front of us. Graham even made light of the massive crowds that greeted Obama on his visit to Europe last week. There went Germany and France. We are going to have to get 270 some other way,