In fact, nine current members of Congress have switched parties while serving in office, five in the Senate, four in the House.
Saluting the flag, buying an American car, voting for your candidate or even serving in political office do not necessarily make one a patriot.
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They also painted Granholm as inexperienced on budget matters and highlighted her history serving in public office in Wayne County, a locality with a notorious past reputation for corruption, whose principal city is Detroit.
John Denham was, until March 2003, a middle ranking minister, latterly serving at the Home Office.
Instead, McKinsey suggested a hub-and-spoke system, with 55 back-office centres serving 10-15 branches each.
A.'s office, serving under the legendary Robert Morgenthau, an early mentor of Sonia's who still sings her praises today.
Mr Singh, a 76-year-old economist, is set to be the first Indian prime minister since Nehru to return to the office after serving a five-year term.
And it would impose on those convicted of public-corruption felonies lifetime bans on elected or civil office, serving as a registered lobbyist or doing business with the state.
Sir George has some experience of the government whips office, serving there in 1990 and also acting as an opposition whip under Margaret Thatcher before she became prime minister in 1979.
Garfield was assassinated in September 1881, serving barely six months in office.
The central state of Kogi already has a governor-elect following elections in December, as the sitting governor was serving his last term in office.
Kennedy was assassinated before serving three full years in office.
Rights groups have called on President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who is serving his final year in office, to take a tougher stand against hard-line Muslim groups fomenting religious conflict in several parts of the country.
Peter Ferrara is director of entitlement and budget policy for the Institute for Policy Innovation and general counsel of the American Civil Rights Union, formerly serving in the White House Office of Policy Development under President Reagan.
From 1997 to 2000, Ms. Gottemoeller worked at the U.S. Department of Energy, serving as Director of the Office of Non-Proliferation and National Security from 1997 to 1999, as Assistant Secretary for Non-Proliferation and National Security from 1999 to 2000, and as Deputy Under Secretary for Nuclear Security and Acting Deputy Administrator for Defense Nuclear Non-Proliferation in 2000.
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At least four mayors of this little (pop. 108, 130) Connecticut city have been indicted for crimes committed while in office, the most recent two episodes involving Philip Giordano, in office from 1996 to 2001 and now serving 37 years for sex crimes (among other counts), and Joseph Santopietro, in office from 1986 to 1991, sentenced last year to five years' probation for a price-fixing conspiracy.
Howard leads a conservative coalition and has been in office since 1996, serving a lengthy four terms.
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During the Ramadan fast last year the governor's office in Kars stopped serving tea for a while.
Robert Byrd of West Virginia was the longest-serving senator when he died in office at 92 in 2010.
Mr Basu is the longest-serving chief minister of any Indian state and is currently serving his sixth consecutive term in office.
On the heels of the great turnaround success of the Olympics, he was recruited to run for Governor of Massachusetts, and he won, taking office in 2003 and serving for four years.
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She started at Zynga by serving two lunches a week in an office kitchenette.
The vote, which prevents Mr Zelaya from serving out his last two months in office, was part of an American-sponsored deal in which both leaders agreed to let the legislature decide the deposed president's fate.
We invite them because we want them -- we want to say to them and to boys and girls across America that if, despite all the obstacles these women of courage face, if they are still running for office and running organizations and serving their communities and their countries, then surely you can find a way to follow your dreams.
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He was nabbed after the IRS raided his office in 1993, and is serving five years in a federal prison.
Herbert Hoover is the only business executive to be elected to the oval office, and then only after serving in the cabinet during the 1920s, one of the great boom eras in American history.
We should be able to reasonably expect that those who seek public office with the declared intention of serving as national leaders will always put the national interest above their partisan interests when the two conflict.
The recently-appointed head of the new national police force, Stephen House, has previously suggested as many as 3, 000 support staff could be lost in the merger - sparking opposition concerns that serving officers will be required to undertake back office jobs.
Congressional Republicans are taking secretary-designate Alexis Herman to task for campaign-related work she performed for President Bill Clinton while serving as director of the White House public liaison office.
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