Jackie Kucinich (born 1981, Columbus, OH) Is a politics reporter for USA Today. She is the daughter of former Cleveland mayor and Democratic congressman Dennis Kucinich and his second wife, Sandra Lee McCarthy. She is a frequent guest commentator on MSNBC and has appeared on Fox News and C-SPAN.^[1] Prior to joining USA Today in 2011, Ms. Kucinich was a reporter for Roll Call, beginning in 2008.^[2]

Ms. Kucinich is a graduate of The American University in Washington, DC and is married to Jared Allen.^[3]

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(Croatian: Kučinić) Kucinich, are Croatian family names, and may refer to:

• Dennis John Kucinich (born　1946), American politician
  • Political positions of Dennis Kucinich
  • Mayoralty of Dennis Kucinich
  • Electoral history of Dennis Kucinich
  • Dennis Kucinich presidential campaign, 2004
  • Dennis Kucinich presidential campaign, 2008
  • Kucinich Resolution

• Elizabeth Jane Kucinich, née Harper (born 1977), wife of Dennis

• Jackie Kucinich (born 1981, Columbus), American politics reporter, daughter of Dennis

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Tapper at the White House on July 22, 2009.

Jacob Paul "Jake" Tapper (born March 12, 1969) is an American print and television journalist, currently the senior White House correspondent for ABC News in Washington, D.C. He was named to that position the day after election day 2008, having covered then-senator Barack Obama's presidential campaign.

He last interviewed Obama in July 2009 in Moscow, in an interview where the president expressed confidence that his foreign policy approach was starting to work and said regarding the stimulus package, "there's nothing that we would have done differently."^[1] That January, Tapper had broken the story of the tax troubles of then-Health and Human Services secretary nominee and former Senate majority leader Tom Daschle (D-SD),^[2] troubles that ultimately derailed Daschle's nomination.

From March through July 2010, Tapper was interim anchor of ABC's This Week, hosting the program until Christiane Amanpour became This Week's anchor.

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Tapper was born in New York City and was raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His mother, Anne Tapper, retired as a psychiatric nurse at Philadelphia Veterans Administration Medical Center. His father, Theodore S. "Ted" Tapper, a Dartmouth graduate, was a president of South Philadelphia Pediatrics, a group medical practice, and is an associate clinical professor of pediatrics at Jefferson Medical College, both in Philadelphia.^[3]

He attended Akiba Hebrew Academy and graduated Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude from Dartmouth College in 1991 with a B.A. in history modified by visual studies. He briefly attended graduate school at the University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television.^[4]

In 1992, Tapper was a campaign press secretary for Democratic congressional candidate Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky (PA-13) and later served as her congressional press secretary. ^[5]Tapper worked in public relations for Powell Tate, a Washington, D.C., public affairs firm run by Democrat Jody Powell and Republican Sheila Tate. He also worked briefly for Handgun Control Inc. (now the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence) in 1997. After writing many freelance stories, Tapper began his journalism career full time as a senior writer for the Washington City Paper from 1998 to 1999 and wrote about his experience going on a date with Monica Lewinsky in 1998 for that publication,^[6] in a story that skewered Washington's culture of scandal. He was the Washington correspondent for Salon.com from 1999 to 2002, where he was an early questioner of the Bush administration's claims, building upon prior claims made the Clinton administration, about Iraq having weapons of mass destruction.^[7] He has also contributed to GQ, The Weekly Standard, NPR's All Things Considered, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. In 2001 he hosted a TV show on CNN called Take Five in which young journalists and commentators discussed politics and pop culture. In 2002 he hosted a series of entertainment news specials on VH1 and in 2003 he hosted shows focused on independent film on the Sundance Channel. ABC News hired him in 2003. Tapper has been a frequent guest on the Imus in the Morning radio program.

He is the author of the books Down and Dirty: The Plot to Steal the Presidency on the 2000 Presidential election and Body Slam: The Jesse Ventura Story.

His comic strip Capitol Hell appeared in Roll Call from 1994 to 2003. He has also contributed cartoons to the American Spectator magazine, the Los Angeles Times, and The Philadelphia Inquirer. In 2006, he married Jennifer Marie Brown of St. Joseph, Missouri, who was a regional field manager in Washington, D.C. for Planned Parenthood Federation.

On July 6, 2009, former MSNBC television personality Dan Abrams launched a website service, Mediaite, reporting on media figures. The site ranks all TV-based journalists in America by influence. Tapper ranks, as of December 2010, at number one.^[8]

Tapper was considered one of the leading candidates to replace George Stephanopoulos as anchor of This Week. Stephanopoulos took over for Diane Sawyer, co-host of Good Morning America, when she assumed the role as anchor of World News.^[9] However, CNN's Christiane Amanpour was selected instead. Tapper served as the interim anchor until Amanpour took over the show on August 1, 2010.^[10]

Tapper has also appeared on the Judge John Hodgman podcast as guest bailiff, standing in for regular bailiff Jesse Thorn during the August 31, 2011 episode entitled "De Plane".

Personal Life[link]

Jake lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife, Jennifer and two children. The Tappers were married in 2006 in Jennifer's home state of Missouri.

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External links[link]

• ABC News biography
• Jake Tapper's blog -- Political Punch
• Jake Tapper on Twitter
• Jake Tapper's personal website -- lots of links to past stories from before ABC News
• Jake Tapper's Salon.com archives

Mark Preston (born November 7, 1968) is the former Technical Director of the Super Aguri F1 Formula One racing team.

Personal life[link]

Preston was born in Geelong, Australia. He was raised in Melbourne, Australia and moved to the UK in 1996.

Motorsport career[link]

Prior to being with Super Aguri, Preston was employed with Arrows where he was Head of Research and Development until Arrows folded in 2002. Preston then worked with McLaren from 2002-2004 where he was Principal Designer – Structures and then Head of Vehicle Technology Laboratories. He left McLaren in 2004 to set up Preston Racing. Then he helped to start up Super Aguri F1 in 2005 and remained there until the team withdrew from Formula One partway through the 2008 season.

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• Profile at The Gordon Poole Agency

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David Freddoso is a journalist and author. He has worked at the Washington Examiner since 2009. Before that he worked at the National Review and for columnist Robert Novak. Freddoso wrote the The Case Against Barack Obama and an Obama campaign email described him as a “card-carrying member of the right-wing smear machine”.^[1][2][3] He has been interviewed on Fox News and CNN.^[4][5] His latest work, Gangster Government: Barack Obama and the New Washington Thugocracy, was released in April 2011.^[6] He is the son of Notre Dame Professor of Philosophy Alfred Freddoso.

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