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Garance Franke-Ruta - Garance Franke-Ruta is a senior editor at The Atlantic, where she oversees the Politics Channel.
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She was previously national web politics editor at The Washington Post, and has also worked at The American Prospect, The Washington City Paper, The New Republic and National Journal magazines. At The Prospect she won the 2007 Blog Hillman Prize awarded to its group blog, "Tapped."

In 2006, she was fellow at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School in Cambridge, Mass., and in 2007, a summer fellow with The Iowa Independent, based in Des Moines, Iowa.

She has lectured at the Kennedy School, the Harvard Art Museums, Williams College, Wellesley College, and Brandeis and Georgetown Universities. She also has made numerous appearances on national and regional television and radio programs.

Born in the South of France, Garance grew up in San Cristobal de las Casas in Chiapas, Mexico; New York City, New York; and Santa Fe, New Mexico. She has resided in Washington, D.C., since graduating from Harvard in 1997.
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Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Sharron Angle, Joe the Plumber, Joe Miller Unite for Anti-Obama Event

By Garance Franke-Ruta

Mar 24 2011, 12:51 PM ET Comment

ewj.jpgUpdated 2:10 p.m. -- Call it the ultimate in 16th minute events -- an anti-Obama fundraiser headlined by a group of GOP candidates who lost last cycle and men known for their political antics.

The Campaign to Defeat Barack Obama is hosting a fundraiser in Montara, Calif., Thursday evening featuring appearances by Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio, failed Nevada senate candidate Sharron Angle, Obama critic Joe the Plumber, failed Alaska senate candidate Joe Miller and others.

Billed as an "Evening With the Joes," the goal of the event is to raise $35,000, with donors being asked to contribute from $212 to $2,012 (get it?) to attend the event.

The Campaign to Defeat Barack Obama is a Sacramento-based project of the Our Country Deserves Better PAC, the same group that runs the better-known Tea Party Express.

"The Tea Party Express lives on and we'll work in parallel," said Campaign to Defeat Barack Obama vice president Ryan Gill, explaining the connection between the groups. The Express will continue its work -- tours, hosting a debate the CNN and so on -- while the newer group represents "a team of us dedicated to defeat Obama work" and the 2012 election.

The new project's vice chairman, Lloyd Marcus, is author of "The American Tea Party Anthem" and other conservative songs, and the newer group shares with the Express a tea party politics.

Can YouTubes of tonight's event be far behind?

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