Miller once served with Kim on the Diamond Bar City Council and endorsed his bid for Congress, but he now says he wants to ensure that Kim is not a "poster boy" that Democrats could use against the GOP in fall races.

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Notebaert made three different offers for MCI, each one raising the bar higher above Verizon's initial bid, and worked hard to stir up a revolt among MCI shareholders.

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"The best type of coalitions are where the parties are more than the sum of their parts, where they bid each other up and they raise the bar, " he told the BBC's Sunday Politics.

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