On day before decision, Boehner rounds up votes

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Thursday, February 02, 2006

Washington - Smooth-talking, chain-smoking John Boehner of Ohio spent the last day of his underdog campaign to win the second most powerful job in the U.S. House making phone calls, buttonholing colleagues and pledging to reform an institution tainted by scandal.

"Clearly, the members want a change," Boehner told reporters as he ducked out of a closed meeting of House Republicans late Wednesday morning. "They want a leadership team that can get us back on the offense."

In a three-way race to succeed Tom DeLay as House Majority Leader, Boehner has fewer publicly declared supporters than DeLay protg Roy Blunt of Missouri, who has filled in for DeLay in the month that has passed since the ethically embattled Texan gave up the job.

Arizona reform candidate John Shadegg has the smallest public backing...

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1. I wish I had the link to the story about him buying these votes

Through his PAC. The man who promises to reform the House GOP caucus has to buy his votes.