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Dem Candidates To Debate Health Care In Las Vegas ... And Other Campaign Updates

Get your updates on the movements on the Presidential candidates right here, while they're hot:


* Sen. Hillary Clinton, Sen. Barack Obama, Sen. Chris Dodd and New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson will each speak at a rally today in Las Vegas, Nevada kicking off the local Culinary Workers Union's contract negotiations. On Saturday, those candidates, plus former Sen. John Edwards, former Sen. Mike Gravel and Rep. Dennis Kucinich will participate in the New Leadership on Health Care presidential forum hosted by the Service Employees International Union and the Center for American Progress. You can submit questions for the candidates through Think Progress.


* Turns out the man who made the anti-Hillary "1984" spot may have done some work on Barack Obama's website after all. Phillip De Vellis, who made the ad and used to work for one of Obama's internet consultants, Blue State Digital, wrote an email on Feb. 10 saying "I designed the MyBarack Obama toolbox that is on the front page and all the sidebar pages." Ben Smith has the full email.


* The Florida House of Representatives voted this week to move the state's primary up from early March to Jan. 29, leap-frogging the "Super Tuesday" primary set for Feb. 5 that will see more than 20 other states cast their nominating ballots. The State Senate is expected to follow suit according to Gov. Charlie Crist.


* Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani's views on gun control have, um, shifted since he began his run for President. As the Mayor of the largest city in the country, Giuliani was a staunch advocate for a national assault weapons ban, but now his campaign says it is unclear that he would support the same measure. “If there was a federal assault weapons ban up right now that he had to make a decision on, I honestly don’t know where he would stand,” Anthony V. Carbonetti, a senior adviser, told the New York Times


* In other news of Giuliani's socially liberal past, the Log Cabin Republicans, an organization of gay GOPers, sees the former Mayor "as a model for its brand of Republicanism." The group has supported Giuliani in the past, but if they support him this year in the primaries, it could cost him with socially conservative voters. In the past, Republican candidates have avoided the group during the primaries, including in 1996 when Bob Dole returned donations from the organization in order to calm the right-wing. He changed course on the donation after recieving the nomination.


* And yes, Rudy Giuliani's third and current wife, Judith, has also been married three times, though until today it was previously believed that Rudy was only her second husband.


More after the jump.

* The three Democrats on the Federal Election Commission believe that President Bush exceeded legal spending limits while running for reelection in 2004 and that his campaign now owes the government $40 million. Unsurprisingly, their Republican counterparts disagree. At the heart of the dispute is $80 million worth of ads that promoted the President even though he had accepted $74.6 million in public funds, which would have been the max he could legally spend.


* While stumping in Iowa yesterday, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney proposed "offering foreign students attending U.S. colleges and universities the chance to remain legally in the country upon graduation," though he also maintained that he doesn't "think there should be a pathway to citizenship for people who are here illegally,"


* The Nevada GOP is likely to match their Democratic counterparts and hold their Presidential caucuses on Jan. 19.


* Former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson debuted in a New Hampshire poll with 10% of the GOP vote. Thompson's entrance marked a slipping in the polls for Rudy Giuliani, who fell to 19% from 27% in February.


* Former President Bill Clinton "wore a suit and did not spin himself" at the SoulCycle spinning studio in Manhattan where he hosted a fundraiser for his wife, Sen. Hillary Clinton, that netted $70,000.


* Sen. John McCain attended two fundraisers in Newark, New Jersey yesterday.


* Rep. Todd Platts endorsed Sen. John McCain yesterday.


* McCain, Giuliani, Romney and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich have all agreed to speak at the Michigan Republican Party's biennial Mackinac Republican Leadership Conference between Sept. 21 and Sept. 23.


* Mitt Romney is now actively distancing himself from former friend and Democratic Mayor of Salt Lake City, Rocky Anderson. Romney campaigned for Anderson in 2003, but now that Anderson has called for the impeachment of President Bush, Romney is seeking to disassociate himself as much as possible.


* Bill Richardson will be the featured guest in New York City on Monday night at the Democratic Leadership for the 21st Century's "Road to the White House" series.


* Rep. Tom Tancredo said yesterday that he will decide within the next two weeks whether he will actually run for President or not.


* Former Connecticut Senate candidate Ned Lamont urged supporters in an email yesterday to donate money to Sen. Chris Dodd's presidential campaign before the March 31 campaign finance filing deadline.


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