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Specter Moves On — Should It Be Out?

By Richard L. Connor and CQ Guest Columnist
Posted April 30, 2009 at 12:00am

Arlen Specter
Patrick J. Toomey
Al Franken

Pathetic, Not Heroic

Willy Sutton,
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Richard L. Connor is the chief executive officer and ownership partner of the Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Publishing Co., which owns a group of daily and weekly newspapers. A newspaperman for 40 years, he previously was president and publisher of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram in Texas. He has written a column for most of his career, and has served on two Pulitzer Prize for Journalism nominating committees.

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