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capital source Jay Gonzalez has hired Healey’s pollster. Healey has repeatedly affirmed she is running for reelection as attorney general.  That fund-raising cements his status as a serious contender for the seat that US Representative Niki Tsongas is vacating.   Capital Source Joseph Gargan, Kennedy’s close cousin, died Dec. 12 at age 87 at his Virginia home.  capital source He’s back, and he is not letting a stretch in a federal penitentiary get in the way of his political activities.   For pols who shunned Donald Trump’s candidacy, 2017 has been an annus horribilis.

Representative Darrell Issa of California said Wednesday that he will not seek reelection, marking the exit of a leading Republican critic of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton and potentially easing the way for a Democrat to succeed him.  Get Smart President Trump? Not so much, according to the poll.  Ann Romney — a confidant for nearly all of Mitt Romney’s adult life and frequent catalyst for his political ambitions — is fully supporting a campaign for Senate.

Representative Darrell Issa of California said Wednesday that he will not seek reelection, marking the exit of a leading Republican critic of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton and potentially easing the way for a Democrat to succeed him.  Get Smart President Trump? Not so much, according to the poll.  Ann Romney — a confidant for nearly all of Mitt Romney’s adult life and frequent catalyst for his political ambitions — is fully supporting a campaign for Senate.

Representative Darrell Issa of California said Wednesday that he will not seek reelection, marking the exit of a leading Republican critic of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton and potentially easing the way for a Democrat to succeed him.  Get Smart President Trump? Not so much, according to the poll.  Ann Romney — a confidant for nearly all of Mitt Romney’s adult life and frequent catalyst for his political ambitions — is fully supporting a campaign for Senate.

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Democrats were less forgiving with their criticism and blasted Republicans for not going further to rebuke the White House. "This is racism, plain and simple, and we need to call it that. My Republican colleagues need to call it that too," Rep. MORE (D-Minn.) tweeted. Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) tweeted that Trump's comments "smack of blatant racism — odious and insidious racism masquerading poorly as immigration policy.

The White House on Thursday did not deny that MORE referred to some immigrants as coming from “shithole countries” during a heated Oval Office meeting on immigration. “Certain Washington politicians choose to fight for foreign countries, but President Trump will always fight for the American people,” White House spokesperson Raj Shah said in a statement.

MORE reportedly referred to immigrants from Haiti and African countries as coming from “shithole countries” on Thursday. Trump made the comment in an Oval Office meeting with lawmakers during a discussion of protections for immigrants from several countries, according to The Washington Post. “Why are we having all these people from shithole countr