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Blog Posts

GOP Alexandrian announces run for Congress

By Campaign News, on Jan 28, 2010

Patrick Murray is a military man. The Alexandria Republican uses jargon like “ground campaign” rather than “door-to-door” to describe his approach to winning 8th District votes in his Congressional campaign, announced last week.

“I’m not a politician,” Murray said Wednesday in a phone interview. “That’s not my background. I have a lot to offer but I also have a lot to learn and I want to learn from my constituency.”

Read More from David Sachs at the Alexandria Times.

Pre 9/11 Mentality

By Patrick Murray, on Jan 27, 2010
Fifty minutes. This past week-end we learned that's how long the Obama Administration saw fit to interrogate would-be suicide bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab who allegedly tried to blow up a US airliner approaching Detroit on Christmas Day. After just under an hour of questioning, Abdulmutallab was read his Miranda rights and allowed to "lawyer-up." This also means that he clammed up.