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Nassau County Review ' \ Official Paper, Village of Freeport FREEPORT, N. V., FRIDAV, NOVEMBER 14. 1913 Vei. XIX, No. 3 V \^ Freeport 1 . y _ HIGHWATER TIDE TABLE (The«) tiini'H ar -. tor Samlv iiiiniitu^ for Hemp Friday, Nov. Saturday Sunday, Monday, Tueaday. Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20. 21. 22, H. <ti'ii ><>k. Deduc .1 Bayj 7.40 a. 8.18 a. 9.00 a. 9.45 a. 10.33 a. 11.29 a. Ev. 80 a. 1.37 a. 2.46 a. t 3Z m. m. m. m. m. m. m. ; m. j m.j Freeport Trustees I News of the Churches Freeport School Items Local Topics The Tax Question In the Fire Department At the regular meetmg of the V.I- The Woman's Missionary Society _,. _ •^^'^^^^ f ^.'^T , , lage Board of Trustees, Thursday af- "f ^^^ Presbyterian Church is expect-' .^^^ Senior Class of 1914 expects to ternoon Counselor Clinton M. Fhnt K ^^ ^^^^ ^ Christmas box to the f'^« « P'^^ on December twelfth m appeared on behalf of Samuel R p^^^^^^^ ^^^j^,^^ ^^jt^j,,^ ^^^ , he Assembly Hall m conjunction with Smith, of Grove St., complam.ng tha ! ^^^^^j^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^j,^^, y^^^ ^^-^ »,av, c.i.anni ri,n."a a" ..,".".. mprovement of that street had ; ^j,; ^^ acceptable, and may be sent to the Chapel on the afternoon of Novem¬ ber 19. The annual Praise meeting is an¬ nounced for November 16, next Sun¬ day. Its and •xplanaciona not •ntiraly of n^ws nature, on villac* affaira by tha aditor. Single copies of the Review for sale j at Greenblatt's and Braithwaite's, i Railroad Avenue; Kiefer's, Nassau' County Review, DaSilva's and Go- betz's, Main Street; DaSilva's, West i Merrick Road. tf. I L. H. Knapp and family have re tamed to Brooklyn for the winter. the been stopt before reaching Mr. .Smith's i property, and asking for relief. He wss assured the Board had run short of Peekskill gravel The Street Com¬ mittee had an idea Mr. Smith would put a curb in front of his property, I but whether or not, they assured Mr. Flint the work would be done when the I gravel was secured. ! Chief Loonam of the F'ire Depart¬ ment .presented a requisition for 3 chief's coats, the present ones being worn out from 6 years' use, and for repairs to bell on house of Hose Com- I pany No. 3; referred to Supply Com¬ mittee, with power. Applications for sidewalks ladies of the Baptist Church. Orders I given or sent to Mrs. Pitcher, Mrs. I r,r wc""^ I Conway, Mrs. Walling, oranyotherof p air.ir'.ii ",""-! h.. i,aan T,ianaA "" ' K^anted to Robcrt A. Combs, Jr., 79 j the ladies of the Church, will be deliv- ^.^l''.'''L''.^"'^*Lu^'^!."-P°- »..J^ Be^^ Whitney Van Wicklen, ] ered. not a play should be held because it takes up so much time of the students, the matter has not yet been definitely decided upon, but unless the principal objects, the play will be held as sched¬ uled. As the Senior play last year Next Sunday, November 16, there ; y« such a decided success, and &s all will be evangelistic meetings, con- ^hose m any way connected with it ducted by Rev. Sister Edwards, of i ^^'^ successful in passing their sub- Brooklyn, at Bethel A. M. E. Church, j Je<=ts without a serious interference be- at 11 a. m. and 8 p. m. <="".«« °^ the time taken in learning I their parts and holding rehearsals, the A Thanksgiving sale of plum pud- ! students are decidedly in favor of hav- dings and crullers will be held by the '"K the Senior play this year and the Student play also, later in the school term. FOOTBALL SOME HEADING! the High Shcool Chorus. As there is j Freeport High School alumni aban- !°T! ^?!.''!u"...\"/t'l"uJ.° T-f" ." T\^°^. banquet, but plan for sea.son of activities — Heading in Brooklyn Nov. 6. 191: Editor of the Review, Dear Sir: A discussion is now going on in thc County to reform the tax law, and a : word from one who has studied the nt trtsl to and about the dr our local dapartmant by H. E. P. Do you realize that it has been four subject somewhat, may not be out of months since we have had a call? Wf place. " started olT as though one of our l)U.>;iest Times, Nov. 6. We all know that the present svstem >«»" ^^"^ ahead of us, and the ft»-e loss Inasmuch as this banquet is always ^f cg"ggtj^," "f ^^^^ ^"j ^8^5(3,13, for the first part of the year really was held in June, this heading does not ^he system of assessment, is antiquat- the heaviest in the history of the de- need any comment. ^^ ^^j ^.^^ ^^j ^^^^^ ^^ ^^^^, ^^^j^jj. partment, and then started in and made HKALTHFULXESS Of FREEPORT. In looking over tbe lists of deaths for tlie monlh of October, we find that there were five reported, all of whom were 60 years or over, and tlie average was 65 years. REGARDI.VG RE- Bayview Ave., south of Atlantic Ave. Charles Mackey and family have moved to Newark, N. J., where Mr. Mackey has engaged in business. E. S. Hill will open his dancing school at Brooklyn Hall this Friday evening, and will hold dances each Friday evening during the winter. Mr. and Mrs. P. A. Home, Mr. and The Freeport High School football team had an interesting variation in 212 Church St.; Walter J. Moore, 213 ! . their practice when on Wednesday af- Church St. ; Emma L. Landrigan, 213 | The selection by Mrs. Maud Camp- ternoon they went to St. Paul's field Green St. j bell Fuller for her solo in the M. E. at Garden City to practice against the For lighting-Martin J. Horstman, I Church, Sunday morniig, will be team of that school. Because of the Hillside Ave. ; Alvin G. Smith, Olive j "There is a Land," by Herbert John- much superior strength of the St. Paul Boulevard. 1 son. For water—Grace Fowler, Archer | St. ; John McKeon, Madison Ave. ; j The Woman's Baptist Home and James Hanse, Smith St.; Baptist | Foreign Missionary Society met nt the ('hurch, So. Grove St. ; Stephen F. Pet-j home of Mrs. Bedell Cooper, Tuesday , nient was made, pfterpoon, ~ " ~' ' tions such as ours. In order to meet the peculiar condi¬ tions in this County, it is very import¬ ant that any reform in the tax laws should be broujjht about only after a : careful study by competent men. or ; confusion will result. ! A plan has been suggested to make , the Coun..y one tax district. This I would probably be a first class step in thf right direction were it not for the fact that to do so we would have to another record by not having had call since July 7, when peculiarly ef)ough we had two, about three hours apart, one for tbe residence of B. Tru¬ benback on South Glove Street, and one for the residence of John A. Smith, on North Main Street. There have been about eight still alarms in between however, in Ben¬ nington Park, Hose 1 getting the ma¬ jority of these calls. I tit. Miller Ave., and Herbert L. Cum- Mrs. John Campbell and family and ' "''"P^s, Newton Boulevard. Mr. hnd Mrs. John Bailey are among 1 f'"Js for storage house at Municipal our summer residents who have moved , I's'l* were opened as follow.s: Fred | rendered a solo. Mrs. Clinton M into Brookln for the winter. ' ''• ¦^- ^''^ ^'^ ^i'^^^i f^ed H. Smith, | Flint also gave a short talk on Immi- ' i $2017; Fred S. Howell, $2190; Kider | gration. After the business session The will of Edward J. Smith, lateof ! and llnnsen, $2300; E. S. Randall, ; refreshments were served and a social this village, has been filed in the Sur- '. $2390; Wm. G. Miller, Inc., $2690.18; ' time enjoyed. rogate's office. He leaves an estate of Otto Nelson, $2990. The contract was — $1500 real, and $60 personal, which awarded to Fred L. J. Lee Co., they An informal dinner and social will will be allotted to his widow and three I being the lowest bidder. be held by the men of the Methodist gons. The following letter was pre.sented:! Episcopal Church on Tuesday evening, Gontlemen: - j Nov. 25. Dinner will be served at The Grand Regent of Royal Arcanum At the last regular meeting of the | 6.30, in the chapel. of the State of New York, Bro. Olficial Hoard of th(! Methodist Epis- Thomas I. Crane, will pay an official copal Church of the Village of Free- visit to Fraternal Council, No. 1962, port, the matter of the Annual Union on Wednesday evening, Nov. 26, 1913, Thanksgiving Day Services being un squad a game was nnt arranged for, but in order to gain experience and practice for the Freeport players and those of St. Paul as well, this arrange- So each team held The pastor, Rev, Elmer ; the ball for a certain period of time E. Loux, gave an interesting talk on ¦ and tried ali its offensive plays, after 'Immigration." Miss Constance l.oux which the other team did the same. BANNERS The training class room and the Com¬ mercial room are now ornamented with I The services on Sunday at the Epis- i copal Church will be an early celebra- many of the school and college ban¬ ners, formerly placed on the Study Hall walls. In the room of the train¬ ing class are the class banners, several college pennants, and the banners of the classes graduated from the high Selected school during the last few years. EXCHANGES The former exchanges of the "Stu dent" are now slowly coming in, ont COMMITTEE PORTS, At the meeting of the Hnard of Vil lage Trustees the question of record Ing committee ar-tions was talked of. President Cox exprest the belief that tnake the County into a city, and many all committee work should be report- j people feel that it has not yet arrived ed to the Board and made a matter at a point in its development where its of record on the minutes. | best interests would be served by city That's a proposition I havo urged government, several times, but it Isnt done, just: What could be done at once would be the .same For Instance. I" chai-; ^n amendment to the tax law, urovid- r^Lrr*" 'l' '"/'.T' °" ".'*' ^"'^f,'^ : ing that the Town Board of Assessors records reports of the street commit- u u i .u e " too of tho streets on whi.h Poeksklll I "''""'f '"^ *^^ assessors for village, gravel has been laid for the jast I'"'hoo'' ^o*"- "unty and state. This I three years. ' would obviate the complaints and I . . 1 trouble arising now from village asses-1 on that day ' Onu SHERIP''F'S .MODFSTV , sors fixing one rate, and town assessors Albin N. I We have no't publisht a foto of' our ! another. Jr., John S. Sumner. James H. Cruik- I new Sheriff before or after election! Another amendment should be a pro- shank and William H. Ryder ;. the 1 because .Mr. I'ettit has not paid any i vision that a'l school, town and county | committee in charge of the affair, mui ! taxes be paid to a deputy receiver of | they expect to make the afTair one that taxes, who should be located in a con- will long stand out in the history of I venient nlace in separate ports of the liose 4. At that time the huuse will 'town, Such oflkial should receive a ! he officially turned over to Chief I.oon- The following letter has been sent by Hose No. 4 to all the members of the Fire Department: "Comrade: You are cordially invited to be pres¬ ent at the opening of the Hdu.se of Hose No 1, on Olive Bouievanl, near Long Beach Avenue, on Saturday eve¬ ning, November Ih, 1913, at 8 p. m. Dress will be informal. House will be open to public between 3 and 6 p. m., Johnson, J. .lav [Randall attention to our reciuest for same. 'LUCK." "Luck is simply another word 'or i salary and the taxpayers be reli«ved I am, as head of the Fire Department, getting up at six o'clock in the morn-! ff^n, the costly percentage system, | by the Village Buard of Trustees, and ing Btil hustling till six at night."— | which they are now laboring under. I by him turned over to the keeping of at eight o'clock, at Mechanics' Hall, der conaideration, attention was called to certain vulgarities in dress and con- Morrell's poultry store on Churchi duct which characterized the Calli- St., north of Merrick Rd., is building , thumpian parading which for some up a good business. Mr. Morrell years has been indulged in by certain keeps the live chickens right in stock, persons on Thanksgiving Uay. And and kills them on orders, and dresses ; on motion the secretary was instructed ! them to suit his customers. This, | to request your honorable body to pre- I with good attention to his work is vent these unseemly doings on the | having a pleaaing result for Mr. coming Thanksgiving Day, and to es tion of the Holv Communion at 8 of the first arrivals being the daily o'clock ; morning prayer and sermon at; newspaper of Syracuse University, the 10 :45 ; evening prayer and sermon, at! Daily Orange. 7:45; Sunday School as usual at 9:30 The preacher at both services will be the Rev. W. Brown-Sermon, of New York. The Rev. Mr. Carrington hav¬ ng accepted an invitation to be the GRADE WORK. Tt-achers in all the grades are now- giving close attention to the teaching of reading, writing and arithmetic, the three fundamental subjects of educa¬ tion. This atteution is especially Morrell. The Annual Chrysanthemum dinner of the Freeport Club will be held at the Club House next Tuesday evening. This is the one Club dinner of the year with the ladies, and in their honor, and is considered the social event of the season at the Club House, at which flowers and music are featured. There will be an entertainment during the dinner, and a dance a'fterwards. The committee of arrangements con¬ sists of;, Mr. and Mrs. C. Dwight Baker, Mr. and Mrs. David Suther land, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Sidney H. Swezey, Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Carman. Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Youatt, Mr. artd Mrs. Elvin N. Edwards, and Mr. and Mrs. Werner Nygren. j Refreshments will also be sold. DaSilva, W. Merrick Road Flower Pots, all sizes Jardiniers, 25c Oil Heaters • * Stone Crocks, 25c up; all sizes 25 lb. Flour Canasters, 59c Coal Sieves, IOc Cooper Bottom Wash Boilers, $1.00 up, walk, $944.20; crosswalk, $1.24; spe pecially petition your honorable body 1 to prohibit noisy demonstrations be-1 tween the hours of 10 a. m. and 12 30 p. m., during which hours services | will be beld. or the people will be on | their way to or from Church. Respectfully yours, Oscar W. Valentine, Nov. 5, 1913. Sec'y Pro Tem. Referred to Police Department.with power. Clinton M. Flint submitted his monthly report as Police Justice, showing that for the month of October j ;h;"G"oiden West." he had cjllected $1 ; this being for a permit to Capt. James Hanse to carry a revolver. The village Treasurer submitted his monthly report for October, showing the following balances in the various funds: General fund, $947.70; street, $1417.40; water, $3818.44; electric light, $2644.46: Boardof Health, $271- .77; interest, $590.26; tax arrears, $636.57; fire department, $325.29; street light, $354.10; light extension, $66.74 ; water extension, $11.40; side special preacher ata special service j praiseworthy because In many schools on Sunday in Grand Rapids, Michigan. : throughout the country these com i mon branches of learning are In a A concert will be given at the | way neglected. However, the curri Bethel A. M. E. Church next Friday rulum as carried out under the direc evening, by the Wynder-Wilson Co., of ; tion of Superintendent Ward C. Moon New Jersey, under the management 1 especially emphasizes this work, so of Madam Dickson, who is designated that w-lien the pupHs graduate frot as "the world-renowned Black Patti. ~ A public meeting of the W C. T. U. will be held in the M. E. Church this Friday evening at 8 o'clock. Mrs. til"! graiiiiiKir department they will l)e amply prepared in these impor¬ tant subjects. To carry out this plan the different grades are given daily .spelling les- Jtons, and the records of the different classes are compared to encourage rl- they I disagree with those advocates of j Hose 4 tax reform who wish to make all taxes come due at the same time, because this would in some cases work a hard¬ ship upon the property owners. I think that the new law should provide that a taxpayer cuuld pay his taxes in quart¬ erly payments, which would provide Judge Norton's Trial To the Public: It is expecced that Judge Corodon Norton's trial will take place next week. The Judge, it will be remem¬ bered, resigned his ofTice to relieve his ! the different departments and villages colleagues and the public who ap-jwith an almost continuous incon.e peared before him, from embarassment' throughout the year, pending his vindication, under thej This would necessitate the villages charges made. j and the school districts, as wi;!! as the We ask you to suspend judgment un- county and town, making up their iiud- til the Judge has had his day in court. I gets at the same time of the year, so Julia D. Phelps, of Los Angeles, Cali- ! valry, thus working toward such pro fornia, will speak on "California of j fidency that numerous perfect papers The public is cor- have already been written. Another Theophilus Parsons, Edwards & Levy, Attorneys for Judge Norton. B. P. 0. E. Doings The annual Memorial exercises will be held on Sunday. December 7th. j their obligations. ! that the rate could be fixed by the tax officers and their respective districts Then the taxpayer would know wbat ¦ his tax was for that year and he would j also know that he could pay it in easy ! payments, and that departments of j government would have quarterly nioney coming in with whicli to meet Speakers and place of holding the ser¬ vices to be announced later. important cog in this system Is the attention given to mental arithmetic, from ten to flfteen minutes a day be¬ ing devoted to this work. Under Section 7;J0. Article 28, of Glass Washboards, 35c Kitchen Stoves, No. 7, $18 76 Boat Stoves. $3.76 Large Preserving Kettles, 26c Potts Irons, $1.00 set Dietz Lanterns, 50c Universal Bread Mixers. $1.75 Orders delivered. Phone 885-W. AdvarUaamanL cial road improvement. $2404.17; I water sinking, $6182.07, and light sinking. $8160.37. Vital Statistics for October Middle West held in blizzard's grasp. I During the month of October there Gale sweeps Great Lakes. Prepare ; were 5 deaths and 10 births In the for the approaching cold weather. Men's Fur Coats, $20.00. Plush and Fur Robes. Horse Blankets, Storm Covers. Breast Aprons, Quarter Blankets. Men's, Women's and Children's ¦torm shoes. Rubber Boots, Shoes and Arties. Charles D. Smith. 68 Main St. AdvartlMinent Mrs. S. F. Pearsall and Mrs. James 1 A. Sutphin entertained at cards Thurs-, day afternoon, at the residence of Mrs. ', Pearsall. 166 Pine St. j I Cold wave coming; buy your coal | now and be prepared. Freeport Coal j Co.. 19 So. Main St. Tel. 338. j Adverttveraent. I Winter Underwear That Pleases Infants' Shirts, flne and warm, 26^,^0 50c V Misses' Fleeced Vests or Pants. 26c Children's Warm Fleeced Vests or Pants. 20 to 35c Boys' Heavy Fleeced shirts or drawers. 25 to 35c Children's Wool Vests or Panta. white or natural. 40 to 75c Children's Union Suits, 25 to 75c Ladies' Fleeced Vests or Pants. 25c Ladies' Fine Winter Vests or Pants,60c Ladies' Fine Winter Vests or Pants, 75e to $1.00 Men's 0. B. Fleeced Underwear, SOc Men's Winter Ribbed Underwear. 60c Men's Grey Winter Underwear, 60c Men's Natural Wool Underwear, 86c to $1,75 Seaman'a Reliable Dry Goods Store, Main St., Freeport. Advertisement The pick4ing seaton is here and in order to get good results use good vin- Mur, the be.'it is the cheapest. Heinzi's Piekling Vinegar, 40 cents per gallon. At WahleA'a Delicatessen, 71 village of Freeport, as recorded with the Registrar of vital statistics, as follows: — BIRTHS. Oct. 6—^Paul, Mr and Mrs. Rand W. Sutherland, Dean St. 6—Alice Marie, Mr. and Mrs. Henry T. Hill, Columbus Ave. 10—James Walen, Mr. and Mrs. VVilliam Henry Edwards. 12—Carman Berger, Mr and Mrs. Charles .M. Hart 14—James Godfrey, Mr. and Mrs. Godfrey H. Rapp. 15—Daniel Webster, Mr. and Mrs Daniel Carman. 20—Alice Mary, Mr. and .Mrs. John T. Maguire. 20—Glacomo, Mr. and Mrs. .An¬ tonio PasoUa, 5S .Main St. 30—Elaine Edna, -Mr. and .Mrs Archibald Verity. 31.—Libby Elizabeth, Mr. and Charles Watts. DEATHS. Oct. 2—Elizabeth E. Rumbold', age 7t; 14—William J. Kenny, age 64. 21-^Efltlier Paulson, age 60. 27—John Paylor, age 64. 28—E. Kdward Marks, age 61 Tax Memos Freeport school tax due, to Dec. 10. at 1 percent; F. Ashdown. collector, at office of Roswell Davis, South Grove St.; rate $1.06 per $100. East Rockaway School tax now due; collector, Seymour F. : Frasick, Ocean Ave., East Rockaway; rate .80c per $100. Rockville Centre School tax. W. H. Connell, 76 Village I dially invited. I The members and friends of the W. j C. T. U., and any others interested in work among the needy poor, are re- [ ^,,5 Education Law, flre drills are re quested to send at once outing flnanel quired tb be held at least once each to be made in garments for Christmas j month In all scliools which are main- gifts to Mrs. E. J. Carman, Brooklyn . tained In a building of two or more Ave., Freeport. | stories In height. In the Freeport * I Schools fire drills, during good weath- I Sunday morning at the Presbyterian ier, are held at least twice a month Church the question whether the Gold- ,«"'' '» the primary grades room len Rule is a practical rule for piety, or j''"^''^ for the srnall children are exe- I merely the dream of an Idealist will j'^"•^'* «^^h week, be discussed by Rev. J. Sidney Gould. FREEPORT JUNIORS In the evening the ladies will have: There are now two organizations of charge of the program in the interests an athletic nature among the younger of the missionary cause. An interest- boys of the High School and those in tng opening exercise conducted by the \ the grades, the Ku Klux, and the Free- president, Mrs. J. M. Baxter, has been j port Juniors. The latter put a very provided. This will be followed by | gooj baseball team in the field dur¬ an address on, "Is Christianity Gam-; j^g the past summer and fall, and now ing or Losing in America?" The act-; j,as an excellent football team, ing pastor will be the speaker. i Through the efforts of the manager, " ~ I Alexander Rhodes, games are being The regular business and social meet- scheduled with other teams in the New Year's Eve the lodge will give a ball and tarkey dinner in its new meeting room, which the building con¬ tractor promises to have ready by that time. Seven candidates were initiated at the meeting last Thursday evening. Lecture Course An illustrated lecture by Clarence | Storm, under the auspices of the' Men's Club of the Transfiguration, | on "Fire Ladders of Early New York" ! will be given in Brooklyn Hall, Tues-1 day evening. Nov. 25, at 8:15. This is the first of a series of six | lectures to be given during the winterj by the Men's Club. The other lectures , in the course are as follows: Dec. 2—Sketches From Dickens, an evening of story and sbng, by Mrs. Frederick W. Norris and Mrs. Edmund Lumley, in Brooklyn Hall. Friday, Jan. 23, 1914 —Illustrated A systeni similar to this has worked j out satisfactorily in New York (Mty I recently, the difference being semi-an¬ nual instead of quarterly ijayments. It is always easier under our system jof government to tell what reforms j we need, than to carry them out con¬ sistently and not violate the Constitu¬ tion or the general statutes. Or in other words, the tax law is su bound up in the whole system of government that no reform can be made without affecting the complicated system now in force. In closinir, I want to cite an instance which shows the absurdity of the pres¬ ent (ax law. A lady owned two lots, one of them in the Incorporated Vil lage of Freeport, the other just outside of the line. She wished to get her tax bills for two years, and this is what occurred. For the school tax on one Refreshments will be served. Jr. 0. U. A. M. Notes A DREAM. 'Twas Labor Day at Freeport, 1914, and 1 was an interested spectator of a parade coming up the main street. The wiry little chap on the mettlesome black Iiorse, looked very much like our old friend, Steve Hunt, of 57, who was bojs marshal of the parade. Pol- lowing him came the city police of Freeport and then a large lirass band in resplendent uniforms, playing lust¬ ily the National airs, and to my sur¬ prise it was a real Junior Order band from Wayne Council, in lirooklyn. Then carne our State Oflicers in open carriages, led by the State C'ouncilor. Following them came cumpany after conipany of dark blue uniformed men, armed with rifles and complete march¬ ing equipment. The tlying banners de¬ noted that each company represented a Council in the State and the number of men passing by were 1,000 a full regiment uf Juniors. What a gluriuus sight! So perfectly had these men been drilled in their company rooms that they marcher! like regulars, in regimental form. The town of Freeport was wildly ex¬ cited over the demoiistration and most of the houses and stores were beauti¬ fully decorated. The regiment lined up in front of the Hall, where the State Council was about to ojien its session and the State Councilor was just passing in review, when I woke up suddenly and found that 1 had only been dreaming -somethimes dreams come true, and sometimes they are an inspiration —wouldn't it be a big idea to make this dream come true fur our lot for the current year she had to hunt next Convention Day. —(The Dream uji the school tax collector in Freeport, and for the other lot, the school tax collector in Roosevelt. In both in¬ stances she found that thc school taxes for the preceeding year had been re¬ turned to the County Treasurer at Min¬ eola, and that she must obtain those bills at Mineola. For the village tax lectures. Views in Scotland, and Scotch 1 ^^ i^j number one the lady went to the Poets, by James Nicol Mulr, Parish Life Dr. ing of the Epworth League will be held ! neighboring towns, and plans are being Hbuse in the tecture room of the M. E. 1 made for a basketball season, provided Tuesday. Feb. 17—Illustrated Church, next Wednesday evening, ¦ a place to play can be secured. The ^"'¦^' Many Places of Interest, by Nov. 19. This will includea short: club already has quite a large number nold Welles Catlin, M. D., Parish musical program and a stereopticon | of members and more will soon be House lecture on. "Our Most Democratic In- added. Those now members in full stitution—The Telephone." Showing | standing are: Herbert Seaman. Ellis by picture and explanation the interior 1 Spence, George Baker, Lester Danley, working of the Telephone System, its ; George Mulcahy, Alexander Rhodes, birth, development and future; show-I Merritt Cutler. William Spence, ing central offices, plajit and manage-j Charles Millbank, D. W. Boland, ment, things the user knows little, if i Thomas O'Brien, Wainwright Wemple. anything about. The lecture will be j Norman Maxon, Willis Johnston, Ir delivered by C. A. Ryder, Commercial j ving Schwab. Earl Maxon, and George Manager at Freeport. The slides are ¦ Fox. A number of the girls of the high school have taken an interest in the association as to make several ban¬ ners and pennants bearing the name of the club. A movement is on foot to combine this organization with the Ku Klux in order to form one association with the G. Wilbur Doughty, ot Inwood. de-¦ "'^'"hers of both, thus helping to put feated Edwin N. Townsend. of Oyster better teams in the field, because of ' the greater number who would go out for the teams. er.)—"The American," the Jr. O. U. A. .M. Olficial Organ, issue of October 20, 1918. It would almost seem as though our friend "Dreamer" was a victini of Welsh Rarebits, but as he says that sometimes dreams come true—some¬ times they are an inspiration, what a big thing it would be if we, of Free- port Council, should get together and Village Tax Collector's office and found ! that she could only get the current year j [j^jp -^^^^ j^is dream come true, par "'^' J bill there and the bill for for the pre- \ tja||y at least. prepared especially for this lecture. Fourteen Years Ago | (Items of interest from the Review flies * fotirt«eu years ago this week I ' Bay, Democrat, for office of Assembly man. (Many of us can now better un derstand the reason Mr. Townsend said BO many nasty 'things about Mr. Doughty in the Repbulican. which by the way is a Democratic paper ) The first service of the Catholic THE STUDENT The plan begun at the beginning of the year to secure material for the Student has worked so well that at the present Jime there ii much more than Friday, April 17—Lecture, Works of Alfred Tennyson, by James G. Riggs, Parish Houae. Tuesday, May 19—Musical, under direction of Mr. James Randall Youatt, at Parish House. Freeport Club Notes The Dancing Classen in the Free port Club, under the direction of .Mrs James Stiles, will be resumed Just as ceeding year must be obtained at the | situated as Freeport is, with easy Village Treasurer s office. As for thel ^^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^f ^^^^ ^^^^^ ] current year bil for lot number two | ^^^^ ^" ^^^y ^^^^^^ j^ ^"",,, ,^,. ^^ ^^^ (which was outside of the yillage)this , ^^^ delegations from every council be- could only be obtanied at the Receiver ,^^ j^ ^^ ^^^^ ^^^^^ ,^"j j,^^^ -^ ""^ joLTaxes office at Hempstead and f"r ! ^,"^ ^ ^^ - .j^ j" jj^j ,"r",j^._ jthe bill for the preceeding year she. Perhaps the question of a demonsira- had to go to the ounty "Treaurer si,i,^j, of this kind is rather large for i office at Mineola. 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Tueaday evening, Nov. 25- Informal dinner and aocial of tbe men of the M. E. Cburch. Superintendent Moon addressed the teachers assembled in conference at Rockville Centre last Friday morning. Mr. Moon had for his topic, "Read¬ ing." (continued on page 8) Friday, Nov 7 day, clear and not cold ; foggy in the evening Saturday—Rain and overcast in the morning, continuing through the day, with little sunshine. Sunday —Same as Saturday, clearing off colder durin ; the night. Monday—Windy and cooler. Heavy snow storm through the West; cleared off cold. Tuesday—Clear and eold As we stated a few weeks ago, how¬ ever, we think this matter should be gone into very thoroughly, or not at all. His suggestion that the Town Board of Assessors for Village, Scho(jl, County. Town and State is a good one, A snlendid Pall '"*'* *^'^ '* practically what is done meetings and give your ideas to '^ now, the only exception being that rest of the council membera. impression on them. 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Mississippi State's Kendra Grant had a shot attempt that rolled all of the way across the back of the rim and off to open the second half of Friday night's women's basketball game.
She refused to let that define her night.
Grant rebounded from a six-point first half to lead the Lady Bulldogs with 20 points and helped rally her team to a 57-55 victory at Humphrey Coliseum.
"She's a warrior," MSU women's coach Vic Schaefer said. "We told her that we're going to ride you baby until the horn sounds. We went to her and we wanted her to take the last shot."
Grant said the reason for her poor first half was because she was settling too much on jump shots.
At halftime Schaefer instructed her to drive to the basket and she followed through with those instructions.
"I had more of the mindset to get to the hole," Grant said.
After hitting 3-of-9 shot attempts from the field in the first half, Grant finished the game making 10-of-20 shots from the field.
The Lady Bulldogs rebounded from a bleak situation at halftime, trailing 33-23, and found a way to pick up the win.
MSU shot 27 percent in the first half and were out-rebounded 26-15.
"I'm awfully proud of the fight and heart from our team," Schaefer said. "They refused to lose and I loved that toughness. As bad as it was the other night (against Hampton), it was a complete 360. I was so proud of their toughness and the ability to continue to compete. We made stop after stop after stop down the stretch when before that it was hard. They worked hard for this. They practiced hard and good things are going to happen for these kids."
After Brittany Lewis hit a shot for the Lady Techsters to tie the game at 55-55, Darriel Gaynor's basket with 50 seconds remaining gave the Lady Bulldogs the winning points.
Lewis, a player that had 20 points for Louisiana Tech, heaved the final shot from the free-throw line at the horn, but it fell off the mark.
Schaefer saw the toughness on defense that he'd been looking for and Grant knows that made a difference.
"We have been taught to have a mindset of being tough, hitting boards and getting rebounds," Grant said. "In the second half, we took it to heart. We were being tough and going for loose basketballs."
Gaynor followed Grant in the scoring column with 11 points for MSU.
The Lady Bulldogs, who improved to 2-1 this season, take a trip to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, over the Thanksgiving holidays for Hardwood Tournament of Hope play. MSU opens against Winthrop on Tuesday.
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. We got some much needed rain here yesterday.Cloudy and some cooler but no rain today.You have a great Friday and enjoy the weekend.As always...Take care!
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While Ruth Morgan's visit to Starkville's Church of the Living God was meant for gathering old photographs of the Do-Right Church in the Needmore Community, her search led to a surprising revelation and veritable historical jackpot.
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Enjoy the festive sounds of the season in Alexandria as a break between shopping, on your way to dinner, or just to get into the holiday spirit. Come enjoy local performers with their rich talent as they entertain you during this festive time of year Types of music featured include barbershop, folk, Hanukah favorites, hand bell ringers and good old fashioned caroling.
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Wedged up against the Illinois border on the banks of the Wabash River, Terre Haute, Indiana, has seen better days. Many factories have closed, and downtown has too many vacant storefronts. But there are signs of activity: Indiana State University has grown, the federal prison still provides reliable jobs—and the ten-lawyer litigation machine that occupies the offices of attorney James Bopp Jr. at the corner of 6th and Wabash is going full tilt.
Bopp is best known as the lawyer behind a case involving a 90-minute film made in 2008 attacking then–presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Bopp's suit ultimately resulted in the landmark 2010 Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission decision, in which the Supreme Court held that corporate funding of independent political broadcasts such as the movie and its promotional ads were legitimate expressions of free speech and couldn't be limited by campaign-finance laws. The ruling overturned key restrictions on the use of corporate and union money in politics.
Over the past 30 years, Bopp has been at the forefront of litigation strategies that have reshaped campaign-finance law inexorably. Having helped pave the way for spending in the 2012 elections that's likely to exceed the 2008 level by several billions, Bopp is already well into the next phase of his crusade to topple as many of the state and federal limits on the role of money in politics as can be done in one man's lifetime. His targets include two of the few remaining bedrock principles of money-and-politics law: disclosure mandates and the prohibition against unions and corporations giving directly to candidates and parties. He's also juggling cases that go after dollar limits on contributions, attack elements of public-financing programs, and chisel away at other facets of the regulatory regime.
Though he's socially conservative and highly partisan, Bopp nonetheless is willing, whenever possible, to find common ground with liberals if it furthers his primary, driving goal: to make the words "Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech" an insurmountable barrier to regulating money in politics.
Tall, with blue eyes, ruddy cheeks, and, at 63, a full head of longish silver-white hair, Bopp is a third-generation native of Terre Haute; his wife Christine moved there at the age of two. He returned to town after attending law school at the University of Florida and a few years working in Indianapolis. Eager to be active in the conservative movement (he headed Indiana University's Young Americans for Freedom chapter), he soon became general counsel of the National Right to Life Committee. It was a natural evolution: He says he remembers his father, a physician, calling abortion an "unethical" practice. His dad's medical books lined a top shelf in the younger Bopp's room, and the boy would often pull down the one that intrigued him most, on fetology.
Bopp's early work for National Right to Life included filing an amicus brief that urged the Supreme Court to deny a hearing for a man who claimed that, because he'd offered to pay for an abortion for his girlfriend, he wasn't obligated to pay child support. Bopp was also active in two major cases in the early 1980s—defending Akron, Ohio's stringent abortion regulations, which the Supreme Court struck down, and challenging the right of a couple to reject potentially lifesaving medical treatment for their Down syndrome infant, known as Baby Doe, which led Congress to pass the so-called Baby Doe amendment that defined such conduct as child abuse.
Bopp's attention turned to campaign-finance law when the Federal Election Commission (FEC) began investigating the distribution of voter guides by the right-to-life group and others in the 1980 election. According to the commission's rules, such materials weren't supposed to "suggest or favor any position on the issues covered," because this would be tacit support of or opposition to a candidate. In fact, the voter guides were immensely helpful to Ronald Reagan.
Bopp persuaded a federal appellate court to overrule the FEC regulations on First Amendment grounds. Anti-abortion activists, he successfully argued, had a constitutional right to support whatever and whomever they wanted; he also got subsequent versions of the FEC rules overturned. Afterward, Bopp helped two conservative groups fight a Virginia injunction against their voter guides because they hadn't followed state requirements concerning registration and disclaimers. He got the injunction lifted, but just a day before the election.
The lesson, for Bopp, was that politically active groups like the National Right to Life Committee and its state affiliates had to be vigilant about state campaign-finance laws. His work gained notice. In the mid-1990s, Ralph Reed, director of the then-mighty Christian Coalition, asked Bopp to represent the group in an FEC investigation into its massive distribution of voter guides. The agency's subsequent lawsuit accused the group of illegally coordinating its activities with Republicans. The sprawling case covered eight campaigns and three election cycles; according to Bopp, FEC lawyers took 81 depositions. In 1999, a federal judge threw out practically the entire case, saying the vast majority of the group's actions were permissible issue advocacy. This was a huge victory; the regulation of coordination between candidates and issue-advocacy groups was a key element of the prevailing regulatory regime, which dated to the post-Watergate reforms of 1974 and the Court's touchstone 1976 ruling, Buckley v. Valeo.
Bopp's first Supreme Court triumph came in a 2002 decision, Republican Party of Minnesota v. White, that knocked down ethics provisions barring candidates for state judicial posts from giving their opinions on legal or political issues in dispute. White is often blamed, in part, for the escalation in money, TV ads, and vitriol in recent judgeship races.
But the case also reflected Bopp's core First Amendment beliefs. His view is that there's a lot judicial candidates can and should say about themselves, short of promising how they'd vote on specific cases. "It's quite legitimate for people to want to know and take into account and vote against judges who they believe are not using the right values," he told me. Bopp has helped write and vet questionnaires that conservative groups have used to query judicial candidates about, among other things, their views on state court decisions dealing with gay adoption and assisted suicide.
But it's as much his follow-up as the original victory, in this case and others, that has drawn admiring comments from other practitioners. Since the 2002 decision, Bopp says, he's filed perhaps two dozen challenges to state restrictions on judicial candidates' speech to make sure White's message has filtered down. "It's why the ACLU [American Civil Liberties Union] is so powerful," says Bradley Smith, a former Republican FEC commissioner. "The ACLU follows up—it keeps track" of whether prayer is creeping into public schools, for instance. Similarly, Bopp, with his trademark persistence, "has been very good at keeping his eye on the ball" and doing the "unglamorous" work in the trenches. This is an attorney, after all, who tried to apply the Supreme Court's rejection of candidate expenditure limits in Buckley v. Valeo to student council elections. In 2001, he won a case for a University of California, Irvine, student who spent $233 at Kinko's reproducing campaign materials, violating the school's $100 limit. (Later, in a separate case, an appellate court ruled that the educational role of universities trumps students' political-speech interests.)
Another hallmark of Bopp's approach is his willingness to fraternize with those who, given Bopp's political beliefs, can only be categorized as the enemy. Larry Gold, an attorney who represents the AFL-CIO, had watched the FEC's investigation of the Christian Coalition carefully, wanting to ensure that the agency's enforcement of its coordination rules didn't disadvantage unions. Gold called Bopp for lunch, which resulted in an amicus brief from the AFL-CIO supporting the Christian Coalition's position. That brief, Bopp says, likely helped the Christian Coalition with the Jimmy Carter–appointed judge.
In turn, Bopp defended the labor federation and the Democratic National Committee after the FEC investigated whether they had illegally coordinated ads and other activities during the 1996 presidential campaign. The agency had decided not to proceed with a case but then dumped reams of the organizations' internal files obtained during the probe into public view, prompting the groups to file suit. Bopp's amicus brief was cited by the D.C. Circuit when it ruled in 2003 that the FEC had violated the groups' First Amendment protections.
"Bopp was trying to advance a principle with a left-right coalition," Gold says. "He has looked for opportunities to file briefs supporting what would ordinarily be his political adversaries" to further his goals.
The corollary is true, too, according to Smith: "He's not to be suckered into doing something good for Republicans in the short term over advancing longer-term core speech values. He has a principled belief that the system will work better if it's deregulated." Unlike some, Bopp's style is to attack the law, not accuse others of violating it for his own party's gain.
Let there be no confusion, though: Despite occasionally joining with Democrats, Bopp is partisan to the core. Part of the cadre of Republican lawyers swarming Florida in late 2000 to help George W. Bush, Bopp sued in Brevard County to stop the vote recount. He betrays no hesitation when he proclaims, as he did in Texas in 2010, that "the Democrats are all about shutting up their opponents because they have no message. They have nothing they are for that is popular with the American people, so their only recourse is lies."
Bopp's political free-market philosophy, no matter how purely motivated, winds up benefiting powerful interests that tend to favor the kind of candidates he supports. It helps unions, too, but they can't match the wealth or numbers of the corporate community.
Even within his party, Bopp is seen as ultraconservative. "He's an activist lawyer who comes from the extreme right wing of the Republican Party," says an influential Republican. Bopp's list of clients, past and present, is a who's who of social conservatism: the Traditional Values Coalition, the Home School Legal Defense Association, Concerned Women for America, and the Federation for American Immigration Reform, to name just some.
As a Republican national committeeman, Bopp fought for a resolution requiring candidates to pledge support for at least eight of ten policy positions—being pro–gun rights, pro–Defense of Marriage Act, against Obama's stimulus package, and so on—in order to get party backing. Its litmus-test feel brought the measure's defeat at the Republican National Committee's January 2010 meeting; a far vaguer version was approved. (Bopp had better luck with a resolution calling on Obama and the Dems to "stop pushing America toward socialism and more government control," which was approved.) Bopp tangled with Michael Steele, then the GOP chair, over this and other matters; Steele called Bopp "an idiot" on television after Bopp criticized his re-election announcement.
Perhaps surprisingly, Bopp was an adviser to Mitt Romney in the last presidential primary race; Bopp says he was convinced of Romney's conversion on abortion. This time around, he's not taking sides because, he says, he needs to remain neutral as head of a GOP committee trying to influence how the many Republican debates are conducted. However, three of the attorneys in his office left in 2011 to work for Herman Cain.
In politics and in the legal arena, Bopp is relentless. His favorite account of his M.O. came years ago from a co-counsel, who likened Bopp to the Israeli army: "When they're surrounded, they attack, attack, attack." Recounting this, Bopp points to a pair of two-foot-high stacks of books on the floor by his desk, volumes on military history and strategy with a few recent political offerings mixed in, all of which he says he intends to read. "It's the same turn of mind, military strategy and litigation and politics."
War, of course, needs financiers. Some of Bopp's funding sources are a matter of public record. In some litigation, when Bopp is the victor, the opposing side pays his fees: The White case brought in a tidy $867,000. In addition, the Republican National Committee has paid him more than $1.65 million for work on its behalf since 2003.
The James Madison Center for Free Speech, which Bopp set up in 1997 to help fund campaign--finance litigation, passes through to his firm almost all of the money it receives: Since 2006, the nonprofit has raised $1.88 million, with $1.86 million paid out to Bopp's law practice, according to its IRS Form 990s, and has received contributions from, among others, the Alliance Defense Fund, a conservative Christian, anti-abortion, anti-gay-rights group; the anti-abortion Susan B. Anthony List Education Fund; and the American Justice Partnership, started by the National Association of Manufacturers to further its interests in state-court elections. The National Rifle Association and Christian Coalition were early donors. Betsy DeVos, daughter-in-law of the billionaire co-founder of Amway who, with her husband, is a huge GOP donor, sits on the board. As befits someone who fights mandatory disclosure on behalf of others, Bopp won't reveal his other sources of cash.
But despite his relentless advocacy and frequent successes, other lawyers in the field can be wary of Bopp. He has a reputation for not playing well with others, and he's viewed as something of an unguided missile. His utter certainty that he's right is grating. He can be disdainful with judges (never helpful to one's cause), and other lawyers say they have seen jurists laugh outright at Bopp's strident arguments. His briefs sometimes read like cut-and-paste jobs, occasionally referencing court decisions from a state other than the one where he's litigating—a hazard, perhaps, of churning out lawsuits in volume. His comments on an e-mail listserv of campaign-finance lawyers are often caustic. And a video posted on the Internet shows Bopp's fuse burning short at a University of San Francisco forum last February, where a Common Cause staffer asked whether he had any ties to the right-wing billionaire Koch brothers. Voice rising, Bopp replied: "To my regret, I have never been invited to one of their meetings, nor have I ever talked to either one of them. Ever. About anything. Anything. So your ridiculous, scurrilous attack on them, and on me … is reprehensible."
Another problem: "Most corporate and trade-association clients are not particularly interested in rocking the boat," says Dave Mason, a former Republican FEC commissioner. "They're not interested in being the next Supreme Court test case. That's exactly what Jim is interested in and what his clients are interested in. At times, that's put him at cross-purposes" with much of the D.C. campaign-finance bar.
Bopp's combative side played a role in his relationship with a team of lawyers challenging the historic 2002 Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act, better known as McCain-Feingold—the high point of many years' toil by groups trying to curtail the role of money in politics. The lead plaintiff was Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, a longtime foe of campaign reformers; he and Bopp saw eye to eye on the issue, and McConnell was the honorary chair of Bopp's Madison Center.
The team plotted its legal strategy carefully, though all its members weren't necessarily on the same page. Bopp's relationships with the Washington--based GOP lawyers were frosty; they were mostly pragmatic business conservatives and very much creatures of the nation's capital, while he was the true-believing Midwestern right-to-lifer.
McConnell v. FEC, a mammoth piece of litigation, was cued up to be heard by a three-judge U.S. District Court panel. Then suddenly, Bopp filed a separate challenge to the law on behalf of another group, Hawaii Right to Life, in connection with a special election to replace a deceased congresswoman. He did it without informing other McConnell lawyers or the senator, according to people familiar with the events. The particular facts of the special election case meant that Bopp's Hawaii suit might be heard before the major one, threatening to upend the team's efforts. Bopp was seen as trying to assert himself because he viewed his part in the larger case as insufficient; certainly he was overshadowed by bigger legal fish there, such as McConnell lawyers Kenneth Starr and Floyd Abrams. Other conservative lawyers even tried to enlist the AFL-CIO's lawyer, Larry Gold, to persuade Bopp to cease going it alone. McConnell himself was "incensed," according to lawyers familiar with the events.
As it happened, the Hawaii lawsuit was decided on other grounds; it didn't interfere with the main case. But Bopp was marginalized, and McConnell ended his association with the Madison Center.
The infighting likely had little impact on the outcome of McConnell v. FEC. While the district court declared part of McCain-Feingold unconstitutional, a splintered Supreme Court upheld most of the law. Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, who, in an important case years earlier, had voted against campaign-finance restraints, this time co-wrote the majority opinion with Justice John Paul Stevens, saying that "money, like water, will always find an outlet" and that the government was justified in restricting speech to prevent corruption or the appearance of it.
After that loss, many on Bopp's side were disheartened. Not him; he was busy preparing a case that would become his second Supreme Court victory. Randall v. Sorrell took aim at a Vermont law that limited contributions to candidates to between $200 and $400, depending on the office. The 1976 Buckley decision had upheld contribution limits because of the government's interest in preventing corruption. But Bopp got the Court to rule in 2006 that Vermont's low limits went too far and could prevent challengers from mounting effective campaigns.
Bopp was also working on a case, Federal Election Commission v. Wisconsin Right to Life, Inc., that went back at the McCain-Feingold law, particularly its prohibition on corporations running ads that mentioned a candidate within 30 days of a primary or 60 days of a general election. The ads in question urged Democratic Senators Russell Feingold (no coincidence there) and Herb Kohl to stop blocking votes on President George W. Bush's judicial nominees.
But before the case got to the Supreme Court, the earth shifted in campaign--finance jurisprudence. Chief Justice William Rehnquist died shortly before the court's 2005 term began and was replaced by John Roberts. Though Rehnquist had voted to overturn part of McCain-Feingold, his opinions in this area generally had given some ground to the government's right to regulate. More important, O'Connor, who had voted to uphold McCain-Feingold in 2003, retired in early 2006. Her replacement, Samuel Alito, was expected to be more anti-regulatory.
Bopp argued the case in Alito's first full term. He won 5-4, blasting a significant hole in the law that had been upheld just a few years earlier. The ruling said corporations and unions had a First Amendment right to run issue ads anytime before an election, so long as the ads weren't explicit appeals to vote for or against a candidate.
Bopp, fully aware that the Court's re-composition most likely made a difference for his case, voices contempt for the departed O'Connor, who has said she regrets her vote with the majority in Republican Party of Minnesota v. White, Bopp's case involving what judicial candidates can say. "I came to believe she had no guiding principles," Bopp said. "It was like she decided based upon her gut or her intuition, or what she thought was a just result by some extralegal criteria, and then came up with the legal rationale to justify her view. I'm thankful she's off the Court."
Bopp filed Citizens United v. FEC in 2007—the same year he won Wisconsin Right to Life—on behalf of a conservative nonprofit that wanted to air its anti–Hillary Clinton "documentary" on pay-per-view TV and to run ads promoting the film on regular stations. Clinton was running for president. The case took aim at what remained of McCain-Feingold's prohibition on corporate-funded ads airing just before an election, as it applied to this group and this set of facts.
In U.S. District Court, Bopp lost. His appeal to the Supreme Court was accepted, however, and he began preparing for the big show. It's not unusual for attorneys to seek input from other, like-minded counsel in advance of a major argument, and Bopp held such a conference in a first-floor meeting room at Washington's L'Enfant Plaza Hotel with perhaps two dozen lawyers. When he presented his plan, which relied on language from Buckley that hadn't figured much in the Court's subsequent campaign-finance decisions, "there was a lot of quiet eye-rolling," says one lawyer who attended the meeting. Bopp's theory struck many as misguided, too much of a gamble. Soon after, Citizens United replaced him with Ted Olson, who had argued 50-plus cases in the Supreme Court, including Bush v. Gore.
Bopp was relegated to filing an amicus brief on behalf of some former Republican FEC commissioners rather than standing at the podium facing the nine justices on March 24, 2009. Olson argued that the case could be decided on narrow grounds. Months went by with no decision. Then, an almost unheard-of event: The justices asked the parties to reargue the case the following term, with a focus on whether a portion of the McConnell decision along with another important one dating from 1990 should be overturned. When the 5-4 Citizens United decision was finally issued in January 2010, upholding the right of corporations to fund even explicit ads for or against candidates right before an election, it was a page-one headline--maker, a much broader decision than anyone involved had originally asked for or expected. The New York Times said the ruling was a "sharp doctrinal shift" that would have "major political and practical consequences."
The upshot for Bopp: While he had lost control of the case, he had the last laugh. The result vindicated his arguments. By virtue of his having brought the lawsuit to begin with, he (not Olson)remains the lawyer most frequently identified with it. In addition, his earlier Wisconsin Right to Life case, in which he twice argued before the Supreme Court, is widely seen among attorneys as having cleared the jurisprudential way for Citizens United.
Even before the Citizens United decision came down, Bopp had been working on challenges to two other core precepts of campaign-finance law. One is that, though torrents of money may be flooding the system, there must be disclosure of who's behind it, a principle reaffirmed by the Court in Citizens United. Bopp opposes disclosure even when it's not precisely about money. In a case arising out of Washington state, Bopp argued that the state should ignore its own law and not make public the names of signatories to a petition for a ballot referendum repealing rights of same-sex couples. They faced the threat of harassment, he claimed. On that one, he was flattened by the Supreme Court (Doe v. Reed, 2010) and then by a lower court to which the case had been remanded. He lost a similar argument in California, where he tried to block disclosure of donors to the anti-gay-marriage Proposition 8 campaign and several other cases involving the National Organization for Marriage.
He is not deterred, to the dismay of transparency advocates. By his own estimate, he has perhaps 20 lawsuits going that challenge disclosure requirements. "He's the lord of darkness, really," says Laura MacCleery, a lawyer with the Center for Reproductive Rights. "His whole campaign has been about defeating efforts to make the role of money in politics transparent."
His other line of attack has been on the bar to direct contributions by corporations to candidates and parties, a statute that's been on the books since 1907. Bopp lost a 2003 Supreme Court case in which he tried to get the justices to reverse the ban. But that was before Citizens United. In 2011, a federal judge in Virginia ruled that the more recent case's logic would allow such contributions. The issue was raised by two defendants in a criminal case accused of making illegal donations to Hillary Clinton. Bopp wasn't their attorney, but Judge James Cacheris's words were music to his ears: "For better or worse, Citizens United held that there is no distinction between an individual and a corporation with respect to political speech. Thus, if an individual can make direct contributions … a corporation cannot be banned from doing the same thing."
Perhaps, but a majority of the justices hasn't quite said that, at least not yet. The government has appealed the decision. Bopp, through his Madison Center, is filing an amicus brief supporting the defendants. Separately, Bopp has hopes for a case he argued before the full Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals against Minnesota's prohibition on direct corporate donations as well as its disclosure requirements for independent expenditures. A conflict in the circuits would get the issue to the Supreme Court again.
While the legal terrain going forward is uncertain, the practical effect of Citizens United—followed by an important appellate decision, SpeechNow.org v. FEC—has been momentous: the birth of the super PAC, a political action committee that can take unlimited, but disclosed, money from corporations, unions, and individuals to be spent independently on candidates. Bopp told The New York Times just after the Citizens United decision that "we had a 10-year plan to take this all down"—meaning campaign-finance regulation. He told me that because of super PACs, "we are actually ahead of schedule." (Even so, he now dismisses his remark to the Times as a "quip" and denies ever having a formal plan.) Bopp predicts that total spending for presidential and congressional races in 2012—the first full cycle since super PACs, which are proliferating like an invasive species with no known predators, came into being—will be 50 percent higher than the $5.3 billion spent in the 2008 election because of these new creatures. Bopp has even started his own version, called the Republican Super PAC.
For now, the winds are blowing Bopp's way, in no small part because of the makeup of the current Supreme Court but also because he is so good at seeing and optimizing potentially favorable developments around the country. While polls indicate that the public overwhelmingly disapproves of the Citizens United decision and wants Congress to reinstate limits on corporate and union spending, the current Court seems locked into the Bopp position that such limits violate the First Amendment. The best that reformers have come up with is a complicated bill that would, among other steps, expand disclosure and require more-detailed disclaimers on ads. It passed the House in 2010, before the Republicans took the majority, and has stalled in the Senate, with the ACLU, the AFL-CIO, the Chamber of Commerce, and others opposing it. Democratic senators have also proposed a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United, an approach that seems even less likely to succeed.
In the area of campaign finance, it always seems to be one step forward and two steps back—or the other way round, depending on one's perspective and who's sitting on the Court. "My sense of why this issue is so irresolvable is that the tension between constitutional equality and individual liberty is irresolvable," says GOP campaign--finance lawyer Jan Baran. "Should we regulate to equalize resources and make things fair, or should the government not regulate because it interferes with freedom of speech and associational rights?" Layer on concerns about transparency and corruption, and the picture becomes even more complex.
Whether the law swings back or keeps moving on its current path, Bopp will keep at it. So far, he has notched four wins out of six Supreme Court cases argued and many, many victories in lower federal and state courts. "He's indefatigable—he has an enormous docket," Gold says. What does Bopp say to those who worry that if money isn't regulated in politics, only those who have it will be heard? Simply this: "There are all sorts of ways for people to become involved in politics. They can volunteer, talk to their neighbors, lead an organization."
That's not a credible assessment of how loudly money speaks in the political process, say Bopp's many foes. If Bopp succeeds in his deregulatory quest, says Paul Ryan, an attorney at the pro-reform Campaign Legal Center, "you'll see the rich people sitting in the front row of the political arena with their bullhorns, and the rest of us sitting in the back with duct tape over our mouths."
Mon, 2012-01-02 10:09
«"you'll see the rich people sitting in the front row of the political arena with their bullhorns, and the rest of us sitting in the back with duct tape over our mouths."»
But the terror of the elites is for the vast mass of "consumers" to donate to the politicians and causes they support, because even if each donation is small, sheer numbers of donors would matter.
That's why the elites worked hard to destroy the unions: because they aggregated a lot of small sums into massive political campaign funds, and bought a block of politicians to counter those bought by the elites.
Mr. Bopp is both right and misleading when he says:
«What does Bopp say to those who worry that if money isn't regulated in politics, only those who have it will be heard? Simply this: "There are all sorts of ways for people to become involved in politics. They can volunteer, talk to their neighbors, lead an organization."»
He is right literally, but also misleading, because small political donations are affordable to nearly anybody, what matters is how many do them. A $100 million can elect a few dozen congressmen, and it only takes 10 million people to donate each $10 to get there.
But the problem is that USA electors largely don't bother to vote for their candidates, and almost never bother to support their candidates and parties with even small amounts of cash.
USA politics is inevitably pay-for-play, and is not a free spectator sport. Those who don't buy the policies and candidates they want don't get them for free.
Wed, 2012-02-15 22:50
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The earliest contra-alto clarinets were developed in the first half of the nineteenth century; these were usually pitched in F and were called contrabasset horns, being an octave lower than the basset horn. Albert (probably E. J. Albert, son of Eugène Albert) built an instrument in F around 1890. In the late 19th and early 20th century contra-alto clarinets in EEb finally attained some degree of popularity.
The contra-alto clarinet is used mostly in concert bands and clarinet choirs, where it usually (though not always) plays the bass line of a piece of music. While there are few parts written specifically for it, the contra-alto can play the baritone saxophone part and sounds the same pitch; it is also possible to read parts written in the bass clef for instruments pitched in C (such as bassoon or tuba) as if the part were in the treble clef, while adjusting the key signature and any accidentals as necessary. It is occasionally used in jazz, and a few solo pieces have been written for it. The contra-alto clarinet is also a popular instrument in Broadway pit orchestras, with its parts being written in reed books as a doubler instrument e.g. with soprano clarinet and bass clarinet. The contra-alto clarinet can also be used in marching bands where it shares the parts of the sousaphone or baritone saxophone. However, because of its size and weight, many bands choose not to march them in parades.


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