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Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Jim Slattery’s campaign on Wednesday suspended a staffer who called Slattery’s opponent a profane name in an e-mail mistakenly sent to supporters.

Ian Staples, Slattery’s deputy communications director, has been suspended indefinitely without pay, said Abbie Hodgson, a campaign spokeswoman.

This is the “Pretzel City,” thanks to German bakers who settled here in the 1850s. It’s appropriate, given the way a lightweight named Abraham Lincoln twisted up a political colossus here and began cementing his place in American myth.

Lincoln, a longshot candidate for U.S. Senate, debated Stephen A. Douglas on the edge of the rolling northwestern Illinois hills 150 years ago this month, halting the Little Giant’s march to the White House and opening its door for the Railsplitter from Springfield.

U.S. Reps. Dennis Moore and Nancy Boyda, both D-Kan., and Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Jim Slattery will help kick off the opening of the Douglas County Democratic headquarters Saturday.

In his bid to upset U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Democrat Jim Slattery is promising Kansans the kind of competitive Senate race they haven’t seen in more than three decades.

Two father-and-son teams of Democrats are running for public office this year. Former U.S. Rep. Jim Slattery planned to file today for the Democratic nomination for the U.S.

Senate. He kicked off his campaign more than a month ago. He is scheduled to be at the secretary of state’s office at 9:30 a.m.

— and he’s bringing his son, Mike.

The U.S. Senate will soon be the stage for dueling legislations, which both propose changes to the GI Bill.

Former congressman Jim Slattery, a Democrat, announces his campaign to face U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts, a Republican.

And that means another superdelegate for Obama.

From NY Times:

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Barack Obama officially pulled ahead today in the scramble for endorsements from colleagues in the U.S. Senate, thanks to Sen.

Jeff Bingaman of New Mexico.

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