Friday, October 14, 2016
The Power of the Pen: New Bills Signed Into Law
On Friday, October 14, 2016, the President signed into law:
S.
246, the “Alyce Spotted Bear and Walter Soboleff Commission on Native Children Act,” which establishes the Alyce Spotted Bear and Walter
Soboleff
Commission on Native Children.
Today I am pleased to sign into law S. 246, the "Alyce Spotted Bear and Walter Soboleff Commission on Native Children Act," which will create the Alyce Spotted Bear and Walter Soboleff Commission on Native Children. The Commission is tasked with the important work of undertaking a comprehensive study of Federal, State, local, and tribal programs that serve Native children, and making recommendations on how those programs could be improved. Over the past 8 years, my Administration has been committed to working closely with tribes to strengthen our nation-to-nation relationships and to forge a brighter future for all our children. During my own visits to Indian Country, I have been inspired by the talent and enthusiasm of young people who want nothing more than to make a positive difference in their communities. From the Indian Child Welfare Act to working to return control of Indian education to tribal nations, I am proud of the progress we have made over the past 8 years. I applaud the Congress, and in particular Senator Heitkamp, for the efforts that made this new law possible.
The bill provides for a Commission consisting of three individuals appointed by the President and eight individuals appointed by congressional leaders, and would place this Commission in a specific office within the Department of Justice. While I welcome the creation of this Commission, it cannot be located in the executive branch consistent with the separation of powers because it includes legislative branch appointees (who here are empowered to direct other executive branch agencies to provide additional resources to the Commission). I am therefore instructing the Attorney General to treat the Commission as an independent entity, separate from the executive branch.
Upon signing the bill my Administration will begin seeking appointments for the Commission from the Congress so we can implement this legislation as soon as possible. I look forward to seeing the Commission's work in the years to come -- work that will help ensure all our young people can reach their full potential.
Statement by The President
Today I am pleased to sign into law S. 246, the "Alyce Spotted Bear and Walter Soboleff Commission on Native Children Act," which will create the Alyce Spotted Bear and Walter Soboleff Commission on Native Children. The Commission is tasked with the important work of undertaking a comprehensive study of Federal, State, local, and tribal programs that serve Native children, and making recommendations on how those programs could be improved. Over the past 8 years, my Administration has been committed to working closely with tribes to strengthen our nation-to-nation relationships and to forge a brighter future for all our children. During my own visits to Indian Country, I have been inspired by the talent and enthusiasm of young people who want nothing more than to make a positive difference in their communities. From the Indian Child Welfare Act to working to return control of Indian education to tribal nations, I am proud of the progress we have made over the past 8 years. I applaud the Congress, and in particular Senator Heitkamp, for the efforts that made this new law possible.
The bill provides for a Commission consisting of three individuals appointed by the President and eight individuals appointed by congressional leaders, and would place this Commission in a specific office within the Department of Justice. While I welcome the creation of this Commission, it cannot be located in the executive branch consistent with the separation of powers because it includes legislative branch appointees (who here are empowered to direct other executive branch agencies to provide additional resources to the Commission). I am therefore instructing the Attorney General to treat the Commission as an independent entity, separate from the executive branch.
Upon signing the bill my Administration will begin seeking appointments for the Commission from the Congress so we can implement this legislation as soon as possible. I look forward to seeing the Commission's work in the years to come -- work that will help ensure all our young people can reach their full potential.
Source: The White House, Office of the Press Secretary
House Speaker Paul Ryan Lays Out Republican Vision Ahead of Election
House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) speaks to college Republicans in Madison,
Wisconsin about the GOP’s legislative agenda and the 2016 election. He
calls on voters to “raise your gaze now more than ever...stand with us.”
Click here for video.
Source: C-SPAN
Montana Republicans Warmly Embrace a White Nationalist's Legislative Candidacy
By David Neiwert
Despite a long background in far-right radicalism, youthful Taylor
Rose’s campaign enjoys deep and broad support within the state’s GOP.
Taylor Rose likes to project a fresh-scrubbed, wholesome image to his
fellow Montanans while campaigning for a seat in the state’s House of
Representatives. It’s easy for the blonde-haired, blue-eyed and
clean-shaven 28-year-old from the rural Columbia Falls area to do,
flashing a toothy grin and ranting about the need to get the federal
government out of workers’ hair and open up the state’s timberlands to
lumber operations.
The image, combined with a pleasing message (Rose likes to label himself a “pro-labor Republican”)
and a slick campaign, have all raised the prospects that Rose might be
able to pull off an upset win over incumbent Rep. Zac Perry, a Democrat,
in the race for the House seat in District 3, which historically leans
Republican.
What many voters may not realize, however, is Taylor’s long history of
deep involvement with the white nationalist movement, and the
dangerously bigoted worldview he has promoted since his teenage years ––
a history well documented by the SPLC and the Anti-Defamation League in the years leading up to his campaign.
Click here for the full article.
Source: Southern Poverty Law Center
Settlement Securing Job Training For Women Veterans Reached After SPLC Complaint
A North Carolina ministry has agreed to ensure its federally funded job training and residential program for homeless veterans doesn’t discriminate against women – resolving a sex discrimination complaint the SPLC filed on behalf of female veterans who were not given access to the same job training classes as men.
The agreement
reached with the U.S. Department of Labor requires the Asheville
Buncombe Community Christian Ministry to revise its programs and
policies to ensure equal access. Program staff will also receive
anti-discrimination training. The SPLC and Asheville-based attorney
Meghann K. Burke filed the complaint with the U.S. Department of Labor’s
Civil Rights Center in 2012.
Click here for the full article.
Source: Southern Poverty Law Center
NAN and Rev. Al Sharpton to Launch Month-Long Haitian Relief Drive at Saturday Rally
On October 15, from 9 to 11 a.m., the National Action Network (NAN), Rev. Al Sharpton and Peter Herbert Bernard, Haitian Consul General, will launch a relief drive at NAN headquarters during Sharpton's weekly radio broadcast.
For the next month, until December 1, 2016, NAN will collect and send supplies to
Haiti to support the relief efforts and those affected by tragedies.
Items can be dropped off at the House of Justice auditorium, 106 West 145th Street at Malcolm X Blvd., Monday through Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. on Saturdays.
To see the full list of accepted items, click here.
The event will be broadcast on WLIB 1190 AM and streamed live at www.nationalactionnetwork.net.
Source: Mercury
Presidential Policy Directive on Cuba
Statement by President Obama
Today,
I approved a Presidential Policy Directive that takes another major
step forward in our efforts to normalize relations with Cuba. This
Directive
takes a comprehensive and whole-of-government approach to promote
engagement with the Cuban government and people, and make our opening to
Cuba irreversible.
In
December 2014, following more than 50 years of failed policy, I
announced that the United States would begin a process of normalizing
relations
with Cuba. Since then, we've worked with the people and the government
of Cuba to do exactly that – re-establishing diplomatic relations,
opening embassies, expanding travel and commerce, and launching
initiatives to help our people cooperate and innovate.
This new directive consolidates and builds upon the changes we've
already made, promotes transparency by being clear about our policy and
intentions, and encourages further engagement between our countries and
our people.
Consistent
with this approach, the Departments of Treasury and Commerce issued
further regulatory changes today, building on the progress made over
the last two years, to continue to facilitate more interaction between
the Cuban and American people, including through travel and commercial
opportunities, and more access to information. This follows previous
changes that helped facilitate interconnectivity
between our peoples, and to promote economic reforms on the island by
providing access to the dollar in international transactions. These
changes are representative of the progress I saw firsthand when I
visited Havana to personally extend a hand of friendship
to the Cuban people. The quick flight over 90 miles of blue water
belied the real barriers of the past that were crossed that day, but my
interactions with everyday Cubans told a promising story of neighbors
working to build broader ties of cooperation across
the Americas.
Challenges
remain – and very real differences between our governments persist on
issues of democracy and human rights – but I believe that engagement
is the best way to address those differences and make progress on
behalf of our interests and values. The progress of the last two years,
bolstered by today's action, should remind the world of what's possible
when we look to the future together.
Source: The White House, Office of the Press Secretary
The Evangelical Vote and Campaign 2016
CBN News Chief Political Correspondent David Brody examines the choice
facing evangelical Christian voters as they consider whether to cast
their ballots for Republican nominee Donald Trump on November 8.
Click here for video.
Source: C-SPAN
Attorney General Loretta Lynch Discusses Community Policing
The Attorney General talked about criminal justice reform,
community policing, and civil rights. She spoke with Michel Martin.
Click here for video.
Source: C-SPAN
Trailblazers in Black History: Grace Jones
Singer and actress Grace Jones was born in Jamaica in 1948 and was
raised there and in Syracuse, New York. At age 17, she left college to
pursue a career in modeling and eventually moved to Paris, France, where
her striking appearance made her a success. In 1977 Jones transitioned
into the music world when she was signed to Island Records. She released
several albums over the next few years, including 1981's Nightclubbing,
before reinventing herself yet again, appearing in several feature
films during the 1980s and '90s, including the James Bond picture A View to a Kill and the comedy Boomerang. Since then, Jones has continued to act, record and perform.
Additional information is available here.
Source: Biography.com
Department of Justice to Collect Data on Police Shootings, In-Custody Deaths
The Department of Justice announced several steps Thursday to start collecting nationwide data on interactions between law enforcement and civilians, including police shootings and in-custody deaths.
The move follows demands born out of protests
surrounding the deaths of unarmed black people in places like Ferguson,
Missouri, and Baltimore, Maryland.
So far, the task of aggregating information on police shootings has
largely fallen to news media — most notably The Washington Post and The
Guardian.
In a statement announcing the new initiatives,
Attorney General Loretta Lynch called them "vital efforts toward
increasing transparency and building trust between law enforcement and
the communities we serve." The pilot data collection program is set to
begin early next year.
Click here for the full article.
Hillary Clinton Extends Her Battleground Map Lead
Clinton expands her battleground-map lead
After one of the craziest weeks we can remember
in the 2016 race -- the Access Hollywood audio of Trump, WikiLeaks, the
nasty debate in St. Louis, the accusers against Bill Clinton, the
accusers against Donald Trump, and plenty of new polls -- here's where
the NBC battleground map stands. Hillary Clinton has expanded her lead
and now has 287 electoral votes in her column, which is more than the
270 needed to win the White House. Trump has 157 electoral votes in his
column, which is down more than 30 for him from last week. And we have
94 electoral votes in Tossup. Last week, our map was Clinton 268, Trump
190, and 80 in Tossup.
Likely Dem: CA, CT, DC, DE, HI, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, OR, RI, VT, WA (182 electoral votes)
Lean Dem: CO, ME (3 EVs), MI, MN, NH, NM, NC, PA, VA, WI (105)
Tossup: AZ, GA, FL, IA, ME (1EV), NE (1 EV), NV, OH, UT (94)
Lean GOP: AK, IN, KS, MO, MT, ND, SC, SD, TX (85)
Likely GOP: AL, AR, ID, KY, LA, MS, NE (4 EVs), OK, TN, WV, WY (72)
Click here for the full article.
Black Female Doctor: Delta Discriminated, Barred Me From Sick Passenger
Dr. Tamika Cross, an OBGYN resident at Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital in Houston, wrote in a Facebook post that she was on a flight from Detroit last week when someone two rows ahead her of starting screaming for help.
"I naturally jumped into Doctor mode as no one
else was getting up," she wrote on Sunday in the account that has been
shared more than 35,000 times.
Click here for the full article.
Nomi Prins: Welcome to the Artisanal Money Era
By Craig Wilson
In her latest interview Nomi Prins
dives deep into what is happening within the International Monetary Fund
(IMF) and central banks within what she defines as the Artisanal Money Era. In the discussion Prins’ gets to the heart of what all of this means for the everyday person just trying to stay afloat.
After
being asked about Central Banks and what ordinary people need to know
she responded, “The power that some of these central banks have had with
the Federal Reserve, ECB, The IMF… Has really increased tremendously in
terms of not just interest rates that were prevailing (which were
negative to zero) but also the way in which they are moving economic
growth, or stifling economic growth by instead fortifying financial
institutions and private banks.”
“They have taken a multiplied role
beyond what their stated purpose was in terms of politics, economics and
financial systems than they have in the past. They are not stopping. It
is a new era we are in. I call it an artisanal money era. They create
money. They move money. They have always done that but now it has more
power attached to it from a political and economic standpoint.”
Click here for the full article.
Source: The Daily Reckoning
Transgender Journalist Kicked Off Flight For Shirt Depicting U.S. Flag Upside Down
By Ryan Velez
A Black transgender journalist is
making headlines, not for her work, but being kicked off of a United
Airlines flight for wearing an upside-down American flag T-shirt and a
Black Panther superhero hat, according to The Daily Mail.
According to Amanda Stevens, she was
preparing to board her flight from Albany to Chicago to cover the world
championships of online battle game League of Legends. At this point, a
representative of United initially raised some concerns about her shirt.
She was told that the shirt, from the discontinued PacSun clothing line
of rapper A$AP Rocky, made the pilot of the flight “uncomfortable.”
Dear @united this shirt shouldn’t make your pilot uncomfortable enough
to warrant having me spoken to and told to take it off,’ she wrote on
Twitter.
While Stevens was allowed to board
the plane, issues continued when she had a “tense exchange” with a
flight attendant who asked her to put her bag under her seat. Finally,
she was asked to remove her hat, designed with the logo of the Marvel
superhero Black Panther.
Click here for the full article.
Source: Your Black World News
Damian Marley Converts Deserted Californian Prison Into A Prescription Marijuana Farm
By Victor Ochieng
Damian Marley, Bob Marley’s youngest
son, has made known his plans to go into the marijuana business. Reports
reveal that the reggae star is converting an empty prison in California
into a prescription marijuana farm.
The 38-year-old Marley is partnering
with Ocean Grown Extracts to purchase Claremont Custody Center in
Coalinga for a total sum of $4.1 million. The venture will involve
growing marijuana in the 77,000-square foot piece of land and
distributing their produce to state dispensaries.
The legendary reggae singer Bob
Marley, who passed away in 1981, converted to Rastafarianism and even
said he believed cannabis “opened up a spiritual door” for him.
Speaking to Billboard magazine,
Damian said, “Many people sacrificed so much for the herb over the years
who got locked up. If this helps people and it’s used for medicinal
purposes and inspires people, it’s a success.”
The junior Marley firmly said they’ll strictly grow specific types of the plant.
“A lot of things – integrity of the
product, something that I myself would use personally; also, something
that I don’t mind young people being involved in, that is a big thing
for me.”
Click here for the full article.
Source: Your Black World News
Where's the $10 Billion Dollars for Haiti?
WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW
By Senator Rev. Rubén DÃaz
District 32 Bronx County, New York
By Senator Rev. Rubén DÃaz
District 32 Bronx County, New York
You should know that last week,
Haiti was devastated by Hurricane Matthew, leaving a death toll of more
than 900, destroying towns, villages, homes, schools, businesses, and leaving
most of the island in disrepair.
You should also know that in 2010,
Haiti was hit by an earthquake, practically destroying almost the whole
island, leaving 200,000 people dead, and survivors devastated with famine
and disease.
In 2010, after the earthquake, there
was a national effort to help rebuild Haiti. According to reports,
$10 billion dollars was raised to rebuild it.
It is important for you to know
that in 2010, even though $10 billion dollars was raised and the whole
island could have been rebuilt, that was not done.
In a New York Post column titled
“Al Nixed Haiti $$” Richard Johnson wrote:
“The Rev. Al Sharpton doesn’t
want any money going to rebuild Haiti from the devastation of Hurricane
Matthew until we find out what happened to the $10 billion that was meant
to rebuild Haiti after the earthquake in 2010.”
Mr. Johnson continued: “What
happened to the money that was given the last time? We need to look into
it,” Sharpton told me. “I don’t know where the blame lies.”
Ladies and gentlemen, we all know
how Haiti is one of the poorest islands in the hemisphere, and when natural
disasters strike, suffering gets worse.
Sean Penn, along with other celebrities
created organizations to raise money to help rebuild Haiti.
It is a shame that after six years,
even before Hurricane Matthew hit, the people in Haiti continue to suffer
devastation.
You should know that even though
people are getting together once again to raise money for Haiti, I agree
with Reverend Al Sharpton that money should not be given to Haiti until
we know who is profiting from Haiti’s suffering.
We need to get together and press
the authorities to find out where the $10 billion dollars went and why
that money did not help the people in Haiti.
Can you imagine what we could do
with $10 billion dollars? There are countries whose annual budgets are
less than $10 billion dollars.
Reverend Sharpton, I am with you.
Where's the $10 billion dollars that was given to Haiti?
I am Senator Reverend
Rubén DÃaz, and this is what you should know.
Update - On October 17, Senator Reverend Rubén DÃaz submitted the following statement.
"To everyone who has inquired and responded to me about my article WHERE ARE THE 10 BILLION DOLLARS FOR HAITI?, I'm aware of many investigations being reported by the media about mismanaged money by the Clinton Foundation, the State Department, the Red Cross and other organizations that promised much and did not deliver relief efforts for Haiti."
Update - On October 17, Senator Reverend Rubén DÃaz submitted the following statement.
"To everyone who has inquired and responded to me about my article WHERE ARE THE 10 BILLION DOLLARS FOR HAITI?, I'm aware of many investigations being reported by the media about mismanaged money by the Clinton Foundation, the State Department, the Red Cross and other organizations that promised much and did not deliver relief efforts for Haiti."
NAACP To Vote On Controversial Charter Moratorium
With help from Kimberly Hefling, Mel Leonor, Mike Vasquez and Michael Stratford
NAACP TO VOTE ON CONTROVERSIAL CHARTER MORATORIUM: The NAACP
is set to vote this weekend on a controversial resolution calling for a
halt to charter school expansion. It’s not exactly a new stance for the
NAACP, which has passed numerous resolutions critical of charters since
as far back as the late 1990s. But charter schools have seen rapid
growth in recent years and are under increased scrutiny, so this vote is
attracting a lot more attention — and resistance — than those in the
past. “Now people are really asking harder questions. It’s no longer a
boutique kind of thing,” Julian Vasquez Heilig, a professor of
educational leadership and policy studies at California State
University-Sacramento, told Morning Education.
— The fight over charter schools is a sort of “civil war in the black community,”
said Heilig, who researches charters and is a member of the NAACP, as
well as a charter school critic. The NAACP vote is significant, in part,
because charters are popular among many black parents — more than a
quarter of students attending charter schools are black, whereas black
students make up just 15 percent of the nation’s overall enrollment.
Pro-charter groups have long held up charters as a better option for
low-income and minority students who have been let down by the public
school system, so if the NAACP takes an even stronger stance against the
schools, it could be a blow to the charter movement.
— The battle over the NAACP vote reflects a broader rift in the Democratic Party. To the dismay of the education “reform” community, the Democratic Party platform language adopted this year in Philadelphia was far less friendly toward
charter schools than in previous election cycles. The Clintons are
longtime charter school supporters, but late last year Hillary Clinton
seemingly took a page from critics’ playbook when she stated
that most of these schools “don’t take the hardest-to-teach kids, or,
if they do, they don’t keep them.” The comment was praised by teachers’
unions, who are among the loudest critics of charter schools. (Hillary
Clinton’s remark in July at the NEA convention that traditional public
schools and charter schools should share ideas was met with boos.) The tug-of-war within Democratic circles is also playing out
in the blue state of Massachusetts, where charter supporters and
opponents have spent millions of dollars in a clash over a ballot
initiative that would lift the state’s cap on charter school expansion.
Click here for the full article.
Source: Politico
Addabbo Wants To See De Blasio Out
During a wide-ranging interview with the Chronicle, Addabbo had a simple response when asked if he’d back de Blasio for a second term next year.
“No,” he said. “I really hope someone credible runs against him.”
The senator — who served with de Blasio in the
City Council from 2001 to 2008 — said there were a few reasons he will
not endorse hizzoner.
One of them was de Blasio’s unresponsiveness to
elected officials’ concerns on issues ranging from their constituents’
quality of life to the proposed placement of homeless people at a
Holiday Inn in Maspeth. The same couldn’t be said when Mayor Bloomberg
was in office.
“With Bloomberg, he would at least tell you why
you were wrong,” Addabbo joked. “But at least he responded to you ... he
didn’t make you feel embarrassed.”
Click here for the full article.
Source: The Queens Chronicle (via The Empire Report)
Cut Ties to Donald Trump, Big Donors Urge R.N.C.
WASHINGTON — Several of the Republican Party’s most generous donors called on the Republican National Committee on Thursday to disavow Donald J. Trump, saying that allegations by multiple women
that Mr. Trump had groped or made inappropriate sexual advances toward
them threatened to inflict lasting damage on the party’s image.
To
an elite group of Republican contributors who have donated millions of
dollars to the party’s candidates and committees in recent years, the
cascade of revelations related to Mr. Trump’s sexual conduct is grounds
for the committee to cut ties with the party’s beleaguered
standard-bearer, finally and fully.
“At
some point, you have to look in the mirror and recognize that you
cannot possibly justify support for Trump to your children — especially
your daughters,” said David Humphreys, a Missouri business executive who
contributed more than $2.5 million to Republicans from the 2012
campaign cycle through this spring and opposed Mr. Trump’s bid from the
outset.
Bruce
Kovner, a New York investor and philanthropist who with his wife has
given $2.7 million to Republicans over the same period, was just as
blunt. “He is a dangerous demagogue completely unsuited to the
responsibilities of a United States president,” Mr. Kovner wrote in an
email, referring to Mr. Trump.
Click here for the full article.
Source: The New York Times (via The Empire Report)
City & State: Winners & Losers, 10/14/16
There’s
only a few weeks left in this tumultuous presidential campaign, and
with all the twists and turns nobody can tell how it will end. Of
course, the All-Seeing Trump may have an idea, but should we be careful what we wish for? All we know for sure is who are the latest Winners & Losers.
WINNERS
Sean Basinski – After a two-and-a-half year battle, the director of the Street Vendor Project may soon see the fruits of his labor
on every corner. The New York City Council plans to introduce
legislation to modernize the quagmire of regulations that has spawned a black market for food vending permits.
However, one reform would double the permits, which is sure to face
opposition and has already riled up at least one midtown business
leader.
Bhairavi Desai – The president of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance crashed Uber's
party thanks to a state Department of Labor ruling that two drivers
were in fact employees, and not independent contractors, a status for
its drivers that the ride sharing company has consistently pushed. The
drivers will be able to claim unemployment insurance, meaning the
company will have to pay its part of the bill. While this seems a small
victory, it could have larger implications in future cases.
Click here for the full listing.
Source: City & State (via The Empire Report)
When Preet Bharara Was Asked If He Would Prosecute Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton
By Sujeet Rajan
An evening with the ‘Sheriff of Wall Street.’
NEW YORK: An hour or so before the second presidential debate
commenced between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, at Washington
University in St. Louis, Missouri, on Sunday, where they verbally dueled
on who is the evil incarnate, closer to their respective homes, an
interesting question was posed to Preet Bharara, United States Attorney
for the Southern District of New York, at the New York University: would
he prosecute Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton for their egregious
violations of laws?
Bharara’s answer: “next question”, came after a quick look
around of the audience at the Rosenthal Pavilion atop the Kimmel Center,
in Manhattan, with a smile on his face.
But the following question, this time from the founder of the
Indo-American Arts Council, Aroon Shivdasani, at whose request Bharara
had agreed to do the closing night honors of an annual literary festival
which was attended by among others, Shashi Tharoor and Suketu Mehta,
was on the same lines, asking if Trump would be prosecuted for myriad
instances of breaking the law, including for the now defunct Trump
University, and Clinton for her missing e-mails.
Even Seema Mody, the global markets reporter for CNBC, who earlier
conducted an excellent Q&A with Bharara, jocularly goaded him on,
tried to get an answer from the ‘Sheriff of Wall Street’ to perhaps one
of the most important questions of this year’s race for the White House.
The answer from Bharara was, however, noncommittal and
ambiguous, but gave a little bit more; yet remained anybody’s guess as
to what he really would have said if only his closest confidante was
present: “You expect me to comment on this in front of a hundred
people…” before he trailed off, adding for good measure: “Next
question.”
Click here for the full article.
Source: The American Bazaar (via The Empire Report)
From Wikileaks: ‘I Need Zephyr To Not Be A Pain In The Ass to Hillary’
A pair of Hillary Clinton supporters swapped emails in March worrying
whether Democratic congressional candidate Zephyr Teachout might act
like what one termed “a pain in the ass” by supporting Bernie Sanders
just as the progressive Vermont senator was coming on strong in his
presidential primary bid, according to an email string including in the Wikileaks hack of Clinton campaign chair John Podesta.
The twist ending: Teachout had already endorsed Sanders three months earlier.
The discussion of events in the 19th Congressional District race comes in an exchange between attorney Koethi Zan, a member of the Town of Ghent’s Democratic apparatus and an accomplished thriller author, and Neera Tanden,
president and CEO of the Center for American Progress. (The exchange
begins as a larger conversation about the 20th reunion of their Yale Law
School class.)
“Is terry teachout running in your CD?,” asked Tanden, mistaking the author of “Corruption in America” for the Wall Street Journal drama critic and Duke Ellington biographer.
“Zephyr. Yes. Big problem,” Zan replied before appearing to allude to
Zephyr Teachout’s primary opponent Will Yandik. “But I got mad at our
guy bc he has weak political instincts. I set him up with great
connections (not just donors but real strategists) and he failed to
follow up etc. Zephyr is going to lose big time here. Our guy would have
won but he has no path to win the primary. Ugh. I could go on and on.
See I am learning politics from the ground level up. Haha.”
Click here for the full article.
Source: timesunion.com (via The Empire Report)
Thursday, October 13, 2016
The First Lady Speaks on the Film 'We Will Rise'
The new film tells the story of adolescent girls overcoming incredible
challenges to achieve their educations and change their own lives, with
contributions from Mrs. Obama, Meryl Streep, Freida Pinto, and CNN
journalist Isha Sesay.
White House Conversation on Drones/The Future of Aviation
Chief of Staff Denis McDonough hosts a conversation on the future of aviation and its impact on America's future.
António Guterres Elected as the Next U.N. Secretary-General
Statement from President Obama
On
behalf of the United States of America, I congratulate António Guterres
on his election today as the next Secretary-General of the United
Nations. As a founding member
and host country of the United Nations, and a permanent member of the
U.N. Security Council, the United States pledges to provide our full
support to Mr. Guterres when he assumes leadership of the United Nations
on January 1, 2017.
Since
its inception, the United Nations has played a central role in
resolving armed conflicts, preserving stability, lifting billions out of
poverty, delivering life-saving
humanitarian assistance, and promoting the fullest enjoyment of human
rights worldwide. With tens of millions displaced, U.N. peacekeepers
deployed at record levels, climate change already impacting countries
worldwide, and extremists targeting innocent civilians,
the international community has never relied more on the United Nations
than it does today. We have every confidence that, as a former Prime
Minister of Portugal and U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, Mr.
Guterres has the character, vision, and skills needed
to lead the United Nations at this critical moment and to reform its
organizations and operations to better meet these unprecedented
challenges.
As
the United States welcomes Mr. Guterres to his new role, I also want to
take this opportunity again to pay tribute to Secretary-General Ban
Ki-moon for his decade of service
to the U.N. Secretary-General Ban has galvanized the international
community behind efforts to address climate change, pushed the United
Nations to prevent and resolve deadly conflicts, and advocated for
universal values and human rights. He has been a valued
partner for the United States and we thank him for his leadership.
Source: The White House, Office of the Press Secretary
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