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      <excerpt>...a Monday night forum, Democratic gubernatorial candidates Artur Davis and Ron Sparks clashed over gambling, health care and contributions that they received. Seven of the nine candidates for governor attended the forum hosted by the Christian Coalition </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Candidates for statewide of&#173; fice have turned in their first financial reports of the 2010 election cycle. Guberna&#173;torial candidates Bradley Byrne, Tim James and Artur Davis reported strong numbers heading toward the party prima&#173;ries in June, according</excerpt>
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      <excerpt> AP Former two-year college chancellor Bradley Byrne has raised more contributions than any other Republican candidate for governor and US Rep. Artur Davis ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> Apparently Black has taken something from Congressman Artur Davis&amp;#39;s play book. Black&amp;#39;s proposed amendment calls for the state to receive 20 percent of gross ... </excerpt>
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      <created-at type="timestamp">Wed Feb 03 21:43:57 -0600 2010</created-at>
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      <excerpt>...well-paying jobs related to the space program.&quot; He predicted a &quot;long, diffi&#173;cult battle over the future&quot; of Constellation. Rep. Artur Davis, D-Bir&#173;mingham, said he would work with a bipartisan group of law&#173;makers to &quot;push the administra&#173;tion to reve</excerpt>
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      <title>Alabama lawmakers blast plan for NASA spending</title>
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      <excerpt>...the administration and some CBC members over the black farmers&#8217; claims bubbled into public view last year.  In September, Rep. Artur Davis (D), who is running for Alabama governor, offered legislation to explicitly reject the Justice Department&#8217;s fi</excerpt>
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      <title>Black farmers look  to Obama to resolve  discrimination suits</title>
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      <excerpt>...idea that we undo the &#8217;01, &#8217;03 tax cuts while we&#8217;re still in a very weak recovery and still very high unemployment,&quot; said Rep. Artur Davis (D-Ala.), who is running for governor of Alabama.&#160;  &#8220;My sense is this is the wrong time to be raising tax</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...reported having raised $2.6 million. State Treasurer Kay Ivey, a Republican, about $1 million. Among Democrats, U.S. Rep. Artur Davis of Birmingham has reported a total of $2.2 million in contributions, including $1 million he transferred into his coffe</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Rep. Artur Davis (D-7). Good or bad? Stay or go? Why? filed under Alabama | post a comment. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. Leave a Reply ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>In September, Rep. Artur Davis (D), who is running for Alabama governor, offered legislation to explicitly reject the Justice Department&amp;#39;s filings and provide more funding for the discrimination claims. Further, five CBC members wrote ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...List waded into the race for Alabama Rep. Artur Davis's soon-to-be-vacant House seat Tuesday, endorsing Birmingham lawyer Terri Sewell to replace the Democratic congressman, who is running for governor.  &quot;As a successful attorney and community leader, T</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>7:19 p.m. Artur Davis walks like a black guy. Ron Sparks does too. Also 7:19 p.m. Thankfully Dr. Dermo McTwitterbanned walks as white as he looks. My stereotyping has now been returned to its proper state. ...</excerpt>
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