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White House Correspondents’ Dinner guest list : #NERDPROM #WHCD

White House Correspondents’ Dinner guest list : #NERDPROM #WHCD

Twitter Hashtag for the White House Correspondents Dinner is #NerdProm #WHCD new TWTR.Widget({ version: 2, type: 'search', search: '#NerdProm #WHCD', interval: 30000, title: 'White House Correspondents Dinner', subject: 'Politisite Team Coverage', width: 'auto', height: 500, theme: { shell: { background: '#082187', color: '#faf5fa' }, tweets: { background: '#ffffff', color: '#444444', links: '#1985b5' } }, features: { scrollbar: false, loop: false, live: true, behavior: 'all' } }).render().start(); ABC Sofia Vergara; Jesse Tyler Ferguson; Julie Bowen and Eric Stonestreet of “Modern Family”; Christa Miller and Bill Lawrence of “Cougar Town”; “Hunger Games” [...]

UPDATE: NY-29: Eric Massa Resigns Congress

UPDATE: NY-29: Eric Massa Resigns Congress

New York Congressman Eric Massa announced Friday that he will resign on Monday, March 8th amid allegations of sexual harassment of a Male staff member.  When questioned, Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi said that lower level staff had received a complaint of sexual harassment regarding Massa, but she related to reporters that she disregarded the complaint as rumor. FDL News Desk has a good handle on this story: Ending one of the shorter political careers in recent memory, Rep. Eric Massa, a freshman Democrat in a swing seat, will not seek re-election, possibly because of a recurrence of the cancer that almost took his life several years ago. As I reported last month, Massa was diagnosed with terminal non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and was given just a few months to live. He survived, [...]