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SCOTT OTT: It’s Monday, April 2nd, 2012, and this is news.
GOP presidential hopeful Ron Paul’s campaign spending amounts to more than $30 per vote and nearly a half million dollars per delegate: that according to Major Garrett, writing at NationalJournal.com. Mitt Romney has spent just over $16 per vote, and Newt Gingrich, nearly nine dollars. However, at second place in the delegate race, Rick Santorum spent just $4.56 cents per vote, with a cost per delegate of just $50 thousand dollars, a tenth of what Ron Paul spent.
A spokesman for the Paul campaign said the Texas Congressman will stay in the race, in an effort to bring the Republican party back to its fiscally-conservative roots, and to block big-spenders like Rick Santorum from getting the nomination.
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Congressman Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney’s campaign staff staged an April Fool’s Day prank on the GOP presidential frontrunner, convincing him he was about to speak to a crowd of supporters, but leading him into a virtually empty room.
Romney, confused at first, laughed when he realized they had led him into a room where Newt Gingrich was about to speak.
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The Muslim Brotherhood announced it would nominate a candidate for the Egyptian presidential elections, breaking a previous promise to stay out of the race. The move is an attempt to blunt the increasing popularity of an even more conservative Islamist, Azem Salah Abu Ismail. Compared to Abu Ismail, the Muslim Brotherhood is seen as moderate, relatively modern, and to committed free markets, and stable relations with the U.S. and Israel.
U.S. Secretary of State of Hillary Clinton praised the Muslim Brotherhood’s move in a letter she wrote to them in cuneiform, on a clay tablet with a bronze stylus.
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Taylor Swift won entertainer of the year at last night’s Academy of Country Music Awards. Blake Shelton and his wife Miranda Lambert captured top male and female vocalist honors, and Lambert also won album of the year. Scotty McCreery, the American Idol winner, snagged the best new artist award.
A White House spokesman congratulated the winners on behalf of the president, and marveled that the Country Music artists were able to achieve so much despite a crippling lack of funding from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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And finally today, Sarah Palin will go head to head in a ratings battle with Katie Couric this week as each plays guest host on a network morning show. Palin will take the helm at NBC’s Today show on Tuesday. Katie is guesting all week over at ABC’s Good Morning America. This morning Matt Lauer joked with Palin about whether she’s reading newspapers to prepare, a sly reference to a gotcha question Couric posed to Palin during her Vice Presidential run.
Experts say Palin may have an uphill climb to beat Couric, because Katie’s more experienced, and because most of Sarah Palin’s fans will be working.
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For PJ News Break, I’m Scott Ott. Click on PJTV dot com three times today, for your antidote to the obsolete media
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