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Team ChallengeBy Chris Coyle
Team Challenge. Just the words bring to mind barbaric combat between groups of men, where axes fly and women scream. Horses gallop through blood-soaked fields carrying victors to the next battle, the losers to a shallow grave. But this is snowboarding, so there were more shakas flying than axes, and no one died when they lost. As a matter of fact, the teams actually liked each other-hell, they voted for one another to decide who was the sickest shred and so forth. That isn't very savage.
Since everyone looks the same in snowboard clothes, all the teams were instructed to wear something unique. If I had a team they'd have worn full body armor and jousted opponents on the way to jumps. But that's just me. Some went the "too cool" route-you know who you are-while others almost went a little overboard. The guys from Galleon showed up looking like the members of a Scandinavian black-metal band with long black coats and white face paint. The art-soldier CAPiTA crew stormed the hill in hand-painted jackets that looked like pieces from the Derel°cte collection.
Fact is, the only savage things about the contest were the burning rays of the So Cal sun. The first day was practice, allowing riders to acquaint themselves with the park Gunny and the Snow Summit crew created. By noon it was so damn hot, the snow was grabbier than your weird uncle. "This place is like a huge snowboard Disneyland," said competitor Robbie Sell. I hoped the challenge would be broken-glass landings or something, but it was just a perfect park.
The following day was hotter than Turkish prison camp. Don't ask how I know that. The scheduled triple-jump event was canceled due to slow snow. Rider consensus was on the side of safety-coming up short was a very definite danger. But it's not like spitting cobras were waiting to squirt venom into their retinas if they didn't make it-come on!The Option team, however, with red hockey jerseys flying, hit 'em. As a matter of fact, Kevin Sansalone threw himself over the jump-to-jump gap of death. It would have been cooler if there were razor-sharp punji sticks in the gap, but hey-you can't have everything. When the shreds handed in their votes, it was Vic Lowrance's twirling and gyrating over the three jumps that got the most oohs and aahs. He impressed his peers so much that no one dared vote for anyone else.
Most teams spent the day jibbin' the hell out of the five-foot-tall American flag rail. Another disappointment-there wasn't even a hungry alligator pit under the rail, just snow. Zach Leach was delirious-he must think he's a skateboarder, doing these frontside and backside Smith-grind things. If there were an alligator pit, Ryan Lougee would have cleared the whole thing when he spun a frontside 360 over the rail to flat.
As the sun began to set, the snow became faster-finally giving everyone ample speed for the two giant hips at the top of the park-and the carnage began. The first to stare danger in the eye and laugh was Josh Dirksen. Thinking beyond the limitations of his bindings, Josh successfully attempted airwalks (that's right) over the hip numerous times. CAPiTA's Blue Montgomery cranked out huge methods and crails while teamrider Seth Huot used the other hip as a straight jump and lofted backside sevens. The snow speeded up noticeably, yet riders continued to drop from the same spot. This jump was a good 50 feet long and throwing riders high into the air. As snow speed improved, some folks began to overshoot and squat-landing with only a few feet of tranny left. Most would walk away unharmed, but Gabe Taylor was not so lucky.
After taking one of the harder slams of the day, Gabe started feeling all warm inside. Not like the feeling you get from petting a fuzzy puppy-more like the feeling you get when you're bleeding inside. Unaware that he was in serious danger, Gabe tried to shake it off andrive home. He soon realized something wasn't right, and he checked into the hospital where doctors soon discovered he had a ruptured spleen. Thank the sweet lord above they pulled that sucker out of him before it was too late. Next year we should use catapults instead of jumps so riders won't have to worry about getting the correct speed.
Day two of the Team Challenge included a night event. And considering that this jib-jam was going down after-hours, I was hoping that something would be set on fire-like a rail or a car, something to light up the slope so everyone could see. No such luck-Snow Summit lit up the Rail Garden just for us. While D.J. Episode played old-school cuts, teams enjoyed can after can of liquid courage. Janna Meyen even put a couple of cans in her goggle strap for extra courage. "Beers are the new headphones," she claimed.
As the pile of empty cans and the energy from the crowd grew, so did people's balls. A whole lot of nose-pressing went down early in the night-but the ante was upped, and a barrage of tricks were thrown down later. It all came to a screeching, spinning, metallic halt when T.J. Schneider unloaded the switch backside 540 to 50-50 to frontside 360 off. I bet he couldn't do that with flaming arrows being shot at him.
Speaking of shooting things-once the on-hill festivities were done, a big chunk of the crowd headed down to Murray's, a bar in the village. I don't think Murray knew what he was in for when he woke up that morning. Freely serving a crowd of riled-up snowboarders is like sticking your hand in a running lawnmower, chances are, you're going to come up with something missing-especially when the interior of the bar is lined with bras and dollar bills. After pillaging the lingerie and a good chunk of cash, the mob was asked to leave the bar. Then shit got a little out of control.
On the way back to the hotel, someone had the great idea to shoot the lights out of the Northwoods Inn's limousine with a Japanese pellet gun and break off the mirrors. Upon entering the hotel, their ideas didn't get any better. Suspicious hotel staff searched the halls for the culprits-but they didn't turn up. In the room occupied by "one of Whitey's filmers," every light fixture and piece of furniture was destroyed. Rumor has it that the cameras were running the whole time. For those involved, things the following morning were not that rad. But for John Jackson it was even worse. After being woken up by California's finest, a shirtless John was cuffed, stuffed, and brought to a holding cell, where he waited for his team manager to bail him out.
Considering the previous night's activities, it's surprising anyone showed up at the pipe jam the following morning. But sure enough, as the sun disappeared behind clouds and snow began to fall, a ton of people shredded the newly cut pipe. I hoped that the pipe would have had no decks, and that where the lip ended, there would be a moat filled with the molten lava. But once again it was perfect so people could enjoy themselves. At first I was kind of bummed, but then the T-bar next to the pipe caught my eye. If there's one thing all my years as a lift-operator showed me, it's that there's nothing funnier than watching someone get a T-bar straight in the ass. As it turned out, I was the one to get cornholed. Distracted while watching Charlie Morace do a twelve-foot air-to-fakie into a 1080, a large chunk of metal wedged its way into my crack. Irony is so ironic.
Always on his own kick, Jason Brown did a giant backside air to a 25-foot frontside grind on his next wall. I don't know what it was, but it looked sick. But if there were a chance he could have fallen into hot magma, it would've been sicker.
As the Team Challenge wrapped up and teams cast their votes, I started to think about how much fun everyone had. Even though there wasn't a single instance of a warrior in a Viking helmet riding through on an armor-clad horse swinging a mace, nor was there a single battle cry, it was a hard-fought event. But at this year's Team Challenge, the old clichà‡ held true-snowboarding is all about having fun with your friends, and that's exactly what went down. Even when it came down to tallying the scores and giving out the awards, everyone seemed happy. Maybe next year we'll make the teams wear spiked leather codpieces to get everyone in the mood for battle.nor was there a single battle cry, it was a hard-fought event. But at this year's Team Challenge, the old clichà‡ held true-snowboarding is all about having fun with your friends, and that's exactly what went down. Even when it came down to tallying the scores and giving out the awards, everyone seemed happy. Maybe next year we'll make the teams wear spiked leather codpieces to get everyone in the mood for battle.


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Online marketing for insurance is one of the best ways to put your lead generation efforts on autopilot. Online marketing offers you the flexibility to set things up once; optimize it once in a while and enjoy the leads that you get over and over again. Unlike other marketing mediums, you don't have to constantly get out there. It's easy to set up, costs less compared to other mediums and is extremely effective.
Online marketing for insurance leads can be cut-throat if you don't know what you are doing. Most insurance agents do not understand how online marketing works. They end up trying a thing or two and fail.
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Develop Your Concept – The first step before you can build a website is to develop a concept or your USP. How does your business or service stand out from your competition? If you create a just-another cookie cutter insurance agent campaign, you're dead before you get started.
You need to offer something unique to your marketplace. What specific problem of your audience is your product or service willing to solve? It takes severe brainstorming to develop your concept. But once you develop it, selling becomes extremely easy.
When your prospective customer visits your website, they are always going to wonder "What's in this website that's not anywhere else?" People ask this question regardless of whether it's online or offline. You can easily come up with your USP by studying your competition. Find out what your competition is saying and simply go against it.
Your Sales Funnel – There are actually different ways to build your online insurance marketing sales funnel. You can have an appointment form to fill out on the landing page directly or you can use a lead magnet to capture their email, follow up with them and then fix up an appointment. Both kinds of sales funnels have their own advantages and disadvantages. The key is to test them out.
Developing a lead magnet (free white paper) that solves a particular problem your target audience is experiencing can help you build trust with your customer audience early on. If you fix an appointment with them after you give away the whitepaper, you can sell much more easily.
Be Willing To Spend – Once you have your concept and sales funnel ready, it's time to test your offer. You need to be willing to spend money and generate at least 500 – 1000 targeted clicks before making any decisions. Once you generate about a minimum of 500 visitors of targeted traffic, you will have some leads. You may or may not have converted some of these leads into sales.
But it will give you an idea of how things are. The mistake most insurance marketers make is that they are not willing to test more than once. But remember, things are not going to work out perfectly when you do it the first time. It takes multiple tries to get anything right. You need to be patient and give it another go. I recommend spending about $1000 before making any decisions based on the ROI you have.
Keep Continuing – So you've spent about a thousand dollars, gotten a bunch of leads and are about to close a couple of them. Now it's time to study your campaign. Is your campaign profitable? If not, don't give up hope yet. With the first test, you are just trying to break even. The results from the first test can help you tweak your concept and sales funnel better to resonate with your audience and sell much more easily.
This is another mistake many insurance marketers make. They tend to become complacent and fail to follow up on the leads they've got. They also stop taking the necessary steps to attract more leads. Never ever become complacent just because you've found things to work well. You need to keep continuing this process until you have more leads, more appointments and more sales than you can HANDLE. That's the only way you can become massively successful.

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World-Renowned Playwright Paula Vogel Honored with Giving Voice Award
On Saturday, February 9, at 7pm, DC-based arts education non-profit Young Playwrights' Theater (YPT) will honor Paula Vogel with the 2013 Giving Voice Award at the Edison Place Art Gallery at 701 9th Street NW. The evening will celebrate Paula Vogel's commitment to giving voice to the voiceless and inspiring others to realize their full potential.
"We are thrilled to honor Paula Vogel for her commitment to developing new artistic voices," says YPT Executive Director Brigitte Moore. "When I first spoke with Paula about coming to DC to accept this award, her first question was, 'Will I get to meet the young playwrights?' We are hosting this big gala in her honor, and all she wants is to have lunch with our students and make them feel special. What an incredible woman."
Established in 2009, the YPT Giving Voice Award recognizes extraordinary individuals from all walks of life who, through their work and generosity, have exemplified YPT's spirit and vision. Vogel has made it her life's mission to develop and nurture new playwrights, and YPT applauds her for inspiring artists across the nation to discover their voices through playwriting.
Paula Vogel first came to national prominence with her AIDS-related serio-comedy The Baltimore Waltz, which won the Obie Award for Best Play in 1992. She won the Pulitzer Prize in 1998 for her play, How I Learned to Drive, which has been produced all over the world. During her two decades leading the graduate playwriting program and new play festival at Brown University, Vogel helped developed a nationally recognized center for educational theatre, culminating in the creation of the Brown/Trinity Repertory Company Consortium in 2002. She left Brown in 2008 to assume her current posts as adjunct professor and the Chair of the playwriting department at Yale School of Drama, and the Playwright-in-Residence at Yale Repertory Theatre.
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In this paper we revise the psychic distance postulate of the Uppsala Model (Johanson and Vahlne, 1977, 1990) by injecting more recent findings (i.e., distinguishing between selection of foreign markets and time needed to achieve sufficient penetration in foreign markets and the role of social capital). The model we propose posits that a higher psychic distance decreases the speed of market penetration. On distant markets, internationalizing technology-based ventures need more time to establish a position in the foreign network and to obtaining positive cash flow. Our model presents social capital as a mean to overcome the psychic distance and to increase the speed of market penetration. We build our model on four case studies on technology-based new ventures internationalizing at very early ages. Copyright Springer Science + Business Media, Inc. 2005
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Five years ago, ACEEE found that energy efficiency could reduce projected 2050 US energy use by 40–60%. As a result, ACEEE established a strategic goal to reduce projected 2050 energy use by 50%. We thought it was time to check on our progress and ask whether our goal still seems reasonable. We find that energy use has been stable in recent years, reversing historical growth, a very positive development that is due in significant part to increasing our energy efficiency.
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Given the importance of small businesses to our national economy, ACEEE has examined successful utility program practices in the small commercial segment. We find there are still significant energy efficiency opportunities. Our new paper describes effective program strategies.
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US Moves Up to #8 Spot Behind Spain and China, Rising From #13 Ranking in 2014; 3rdInternational Scorecard Evaluates 23 Largest Energy-Consuming Countries on 35 Categories.
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Making sense of commercial-sector energy use data
Commercial-sector energy use in the US increased by 63% from 1979 to 2012, rising from total source energy use of 10.6 quads in 1979 to a peak of 18.4 quads in 2008 before declining to 17.4 quads in 2012. This growth can largely be attributed to a corresponding increase in commercial building floor area, which grew by 70% over the same period. But that is only part of the story. As the graph below illustrates, as floor area has trended upward over time, energy use per square foot has gone up and down, peaking in the 1999-2003 period but declining since then.
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The Son That Former NFL Player Rae Carruth Tried To Kill Turns 18, Still Suffering From Permanent Brain Damage
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Brian Encinia's account of how things unfolded on July 10, 2015, doesn't seem to add up.
Still, he insisted Tuesday night that he didn't lie under oath to a grand jury that found his statements surrounding the incident to be false.
Meanwhile, protesters outside the courthouse yelled, "Tell the truth."
Encinia was fired from his job as a Texas trooper in January after being indicted on the perjury charge, which carries a maximum penalty of one year in jail and a $4,000 fine, for saying that he removed Bland from her vehicle to further conduct a safer traffic investigation.
Dashcam video released from Encinia's police cruiser showed him drawing his stun gun and yelling, "I will light you up!" at Bland, who he claimed in court was being combative.
Off-camera, Bland's screams could be clearly heard with her saying Encinia was about to break her wrists. She could also be heard complaining about him knocking her head into the ground.
Bland's death was ruled a suicide by hanging when she was found dead in her jail cell three days later. No one has been indicted on criminal charges for her death or arrest.
Encinia's attorney, Larkin Eakin, said the former trooper acted properly during the traffic stop and subsequent arrest of Bland.
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1807 President Jefferson exposed a plot by Aaron Burr to form a new republic in the Southwest.
1877 Sergeant William B. Lewis, Company B, 3d U.S. Cavalry. Place, engaged in an action at Bluff Station, Wyo. for which he won the Congressional Medal of Honor. Sgt. Lewis lived until 1901, and is buried in New Rochelle, New York.
This is another one of these Indian Wars locations that I am unfamiliar with. Given the name, it was likely a station on the Oregon Trail, but I don't know that. The Army named many small posts on the trail "stations".
1879 Dull Knife knife's band, having escaped Ft. Robinson is attacked and sustains severe losses in Nebraska. Dull Knife himself escapes, but the attack crushes the bands attempt to return to the Powder River country.
1885 Crook County organized. The county is named for Gen. Crook, a serving and significant general in the Indian Wars.
1917 President Woodrow Wilson pleaded for an end to the war in Europe, calling for "peace without victory.".
1921 The legislature legalized prize fighting. Attribution: Wyoming State Historical Society.
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The long-awaited Tax Court decision in Estate of George H. Bartell, et al. v. Commissioner (briefs were filed in 2007) was issued recently (147 T.C. No. 5). The court held that property to which an exchange "facilitator" engaged by a taxpayer takes legal title from a third party, but in which the facilitator does not hold burdens and benefits of ownership, is property the taxpayer can acquire to complete an exchange under Internal Revenue Code Section 1031.
Briefly stated, the principal facts of the case are that the taxpayer held appreciated real property (i.e., property having a value in excess of its tax basis) it wanted to transfer in a nonrecognition transaction under Section 1031 (such property, "relinquished property"). The taxpayer located land on which it wanted to construct improvements, and then use in its business (such land and improvements, together, the "project"). The taxpayer wanted to exchange the relinquished property for the project under Section 1031. (The petitioners were the shareholders of an S corporation, Bartell Drug Co. ("Bartell Drug"), which was the subject of the tax examination; for convenience, references below to "taxpayer" are generally to Bartell Drug.)
To plan the exchange, the taxpayer worked with two companies (related to each other) in the business of providing exchange accommodation services. A limited liability company (the "SPE"), all of the membership interests of which were held by one of those companies, acquired title to the land, and held title while the improvements were constructed on it. An institutional lender financed the purchase of the land and cost of the improvements. The loan was guaranteed by the taxpayer. The SPE did not hold assets other than the project or have significant risks, or enjoy significant "upside", with respect to the project. The taxpayer transferred the relinquished property (actually, a relinquished property other than the one it initially expected to transfer in the exchange), employing the typical qualified intermediary safe harbor provided for in the deferred exchange regulations, and subsequently acquired the project to complete the transaction it reported as an exchange.
Section 1031 generally requires, among other things, an exchange of property by a taxpayer for other property which is "like kind". While real property held for use in a trade or business is generally considered like kind to other real property held for such purposes, improvements made to land already owned by a taxpayer are not like kind to other real property, such as real property a taxpayer wants to transfer under Section 1031.
Thus, a taxpayer cannot transfer property in exchange for land and then use, or cause another to use, the remaining proceeds from the transfer of the taxpayer's property to pay for construction of improvements. Instead, in the typical situation, a third party acquires the land and makes sufficient improvements to it so that, given the relative values of the property the taxpayer seeks to transfer and the improved property the taxpayer seeks to acquire, an exchange in which the taxpayer transfers and receives only like kind property can be structured. In such "build to suit" exchanges, the third party must be recognized as the owner of the property for income tax purposes until the property is conveyed by it to the taxpayer to complete the exchange (such holding of tax ownership by a third party is commonly but inaptly referred to as a "reverse exchange"; the property held by the third party is typically transferred to a taxpayer as replacement property to complete what is sometimes referred to as a "forward" exchange, and the holding of the property by the third party is often referred to as a "parking" arrangement).
The issue in Bartell was whether the arrangements among the various parties should be so described for tax purposes; i.e., whether the SPE, as opposed to Bartell Drug, "owned" the project for federal income tax purposes prior to the time at which title to the project was transferred by it to the taxpayer. The taxpayer asserted that the SPE's holding of legal title until that time was sufficient, and that the court need only determine that the SPE (the court referred to it as a "facilitator") was not the taxpayer's agent under applicable federal income tax authority. The IRS asserted that Bartell Drug already "owned" the project at the time the SPE transferred title to it because it then already held the "burdens and benefits" of ownership to the project. (The taxpayer's brief included the alternative argument that if a burdens and benefits test was appropriate, the SPE held those while it was in title.)
Obviously, because the case is subject to potential appellate review, and for the reasons discussed below and others with respect to matters a reviewing court might consider, advisors and taxpayers will not rush to rely on the Bartell opinion in planning "non safe harbor" build to suit exchanges. (See Sikora article "Structuring the Build-to-Suit Like-Kind Real Estate Exchange", 1st Quarter 2011 Real Estate Taxation, for extensive discussion of build to suit exchanges.) And, because the decision was perhaps based in some measure on the lenient approach (regarding exchange matters) of the Ninth Circuit, to which appeal in the case would be taken, the case may not provide significant planning comfort to all even should a reviewing court agree with the Tax Court's decision.
Before speculating a bit regarding potential review of the decision and possible implications of the opinion, as an aside and though not significant with respect to the principal issue in Bartell, the facts set forth in the opinion may lead a reader to ask whether the requirements of the deferred exchange regulation the taxpayer employed, specifically Reg. 1.1031(k)-1(g)(4), were satisfied, as the opinion is somewhat unclear regarding whether the assignment of the purchase agreement for the project to the taxpayer's qualified intermediary occurred before or after the conveyance of the project to the taxpayer. See Reg. 1.1031(k)-1(g)(4)(iv)(C) and -1(g)(4)(v), and indications in the opinion that was timely done (if the assignment was included in the exchange agreement, which was executed prior to the replacement property deed) or perhaps not timely done (if executed on January 3, 2002, which was after the replacement property deed was recorded).
Leaving aside that matter and moving to the central, important holding in the case, the opinion states that "Alderson and Biggs establish that where a section 1031 exchange is contemplated from the outset and a third-party exchange facilitator, rather than the taxpayer, takes title to the replacement property before the exchange, the exchange facilitator need not assume the benefits and burdens of ownership of the replacement property in order to be treated as the owner for section 1031 purposes before the exchange".
Speculating regarding potential appellate review of the case, one wonders whether, quite aside from whether an exchange facilitator must "assume the burdens and benefits of ownership" in a project, the Ninth Circuit might consider more important and devote greater attention to Bartell Drug's holding of significant burdens and benefits of ownership for an extended period prior to the facilitator's transfer of title to it. In that regard, the court might question whether Alderson, which held that the other party to an exchange transaction need not acquire a "real" interest in the replacement property by "assuming the benefits and burdens of ownership", is strong support for the proposition that a taxpayer's prior holding of significant "real" interests and burdens and benefits of ownership in replacement property for more than a transitory pre-closing period is of no consequence.
Further, the Ninth Circuit might view Biggs differently. For example, it might ask if the court of appeals in Biggs specifically considered whether a burdens and benefits test should be applied to the facts, which involved the use of a parking entity (a title company, Shore, owned by Biggs' lawyer and others) to own the replacement property for a period of time, or whether the facts of the case, including that, according to the opinion, Shore "assumed" certain debt (including obligations to the seller of the property it held) and that the other exchanging party (Powell) did so as well suggest the court did not focus much attention on the matter or perhaps that the matter was not effectively argued (the Biggs opinion suggests the court's principal focus was whether the fact that Powell never acquired legal title to the replacement property mattered).
Advisors may also debate whether a reviewing court will ask if use of a third party title-holding intermediary in structuring a transaction satisfactorily explains the difference between the Bartell decision and the reasoning in DeCleene, a 2000 Tax Court decision in which a taxpayer conveyed title to land to another for the period of time during which improvements were constructed on it, followed by the reconveyance of the improved property to the taxpayer to complete a purported exchange for other property owned by the taxpayer. The Bartell opinion states that the burdens and benefits analysis was proper in DeCleene and that its application showed that DeCleene's "purported exchange of the relinquished and replacement properties was … no more than an exchange with himself". While there are differences between the Bartell situation and the facts in DeCleene, the DeCleene decision would not be binding on the court of appeals in a potential review of Bartell, and considerations of whether an integrated exchange plan and early or initial exchange intent existed have been highlighted in a number of 1031 cases, a reviewing court might still find the reasoning in DeCleene, and the test used there, applicable.
While not relevant to evaluation of the Tax Court's opinion, if its reasoning is affirmed (and, obviously, assuming no future changes to Section 1031) the advice of some exchange practitioners and advisors will change markedly as, if mere title holding by a third party facilitator (for perhaps up to 17 months, as in Bartell) is sufficient under applicable case law, Rev. Proc. 2000-37 and its 180 day time limit will become less significant for taxpayers in jurisdictions in which such a holding would be controlling. Though the Tax Court suggested that the "inapplicability of Rev. Proc. 2000-37 … to the transaction at issue" (because the SPE acquired title to the land prior to the effective date of the revenue procedure) influenced its decision, the revenue procedure only establishes a safe harbor and not law or limitations regarding parking arrangements which do not satisfy its conditions, and, therefore, the distinction between exchange structures within and outside the parking arrangement safe harbor will (if the reasoning in the Bartell opinion ultimately carries the day) be of lesser consequence for such taxpayers and their advisors, and transactions and transaction documents will be structured differently.
Until more is said about Bartell or parking arrangements in general by relevant authorities, however, that distinction will continue to be significant as advisors and clients plan build to suit and other exchanges. In light of advisor speculations about what a reviewing court might do or consider, including those of the kind referred to above and others, Bartell is unlikely to significantly influence planning of build to suit exchanges in the near term.


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LINDA WERTHEIMER, host:
TV Chef Tyler Florence lives way downtown in New York City, a short walk from the heart of Chinatown.
Chef TYLER FLORENCE (Author, "Eat This Book: Cooking With Global Fresh Flavors"): Yeah, see, right now, we're at the corner of Grand and Chrystie Street, which is full--you know, 'cause this is where the hustle, bustle starts. Can you smell the ginger already?
WERTHEIMER: I can...
Chef FLORENCE: Can you smell it?
WERTHEIMER: I'm mostly smelling shrimp.
Chef FLORENCE: Well, yeah, which is kind of cool, too. There's lots of great fish markets here, too.
WERTHEIMER: Neighborhoods are where Tyler Florence finds much of his inspiration for food, neighborhoods around the world. But we're in his own neighborhood today, street stands, open-air markets selling shoes and shirts and shrimp, whatever you need to sustain life. We are gathering ingredients for a lunchtime feast, starting in a tiny restaurant called New York Noodletown.
Chef FLORENCE: Let me see that whole--can I get a whole duck cut up, please?
Unidentified Woman: Yeah. OK.
WERTHEIMER: Now why are we buying takeout duck?
Chef FLORENCE: Because what we're gonna...
WERTHEIMER: ...(Unintelligible) world-famous chef.
Chef FLORENCE: No. Yeah, well, this is, you know, delicious stuff. What we're going to make today...
Unidentified Man: Here's your duck.
Chef FLORENCE: Oh, thank you very much. We're going to make some pork and ginger sui mai, and we're also going to make a shiitake miso soup with steamed bass and udon noodles we're going to pick up. But I thought this was so great. Like, we're just going to, like, buy this, 'cause I want you to try it, and we're just going to snack on it later.
WERTHEIMER: Florence has a show on cable TV's Food Network called "Food 911." He swoops in and saves hapless chefs from destroying dinner, but he also writes cookbooks. His new one is called "Eat This Book: Cooking With Fresh Global Flavors." If you've seen his show, you'll recognize the dishy photo on the cover, the chef, himself, looking a little like a brooding Matt Damon.
Our next stop, a long, cool room with a fog of flour in the air: the Hong Hop Noodle factory, making noodles for 92 years.
Chef FLORENCE: We're going to walk in there and grab some udon noodles and some won tons. We're going to make some sui mai, which is small, little steamed dumplings.
WERTHEIMER: What do you put inside them?
Chef FLORENCE: Shrimp, pork, ginger, some shiitake mushrooms. It's really nice.
All right. So what you're looking at right now, it's--we're inside of a noodle factory where--you see those great little packages of won tons. This is where they make them, or one of the many shops here in Chinatown where they actually make these things. And they'll roll it out really paper-thin, these huge machines, and they'll stack it up. And there's probably, you know, 200 layers there. They're all cut by hand. So, yeah, these are the Cadillac of won tons wrappers.
OK, so we got that, and then we're going to grab some big, chunky udon noodles, which will be great, too, so it's going to be the base for our soup, all right.
WERTHEIMER: The streets in Chinatown are cobblestone, narrow and crowded. Brooklyn is just over the bridge. The Empire State Building is in sight. But right here, it feels more like Beijing.
Chef FLORENCE: OK, so we're going to--about to walk into the Deluxe Food Market which is right across the street. And right now, we're on the corner of Hester and Mott. This is--it's ...(unintelligible) really loud in there. It's really busy, right, so just stay tight.
(Soundbite of market activity)
WERTHEIMER: Here we go.
Chef FLORENCE: OK, so this is one of the great markets in Chinatown, and they have everything here, so this is, like, the market really kind of supports the neighborhood. OK, so what we're going to do here is we're gonna grab some ground pork. ...(Unintelligible) grab some ground pork from these guys. And we're also gonna grab--what can we get here? Some ground pork, and we're going to get some ginger, and we're going to get some other produce and stuff here.
WERTHEIMER: The market is packed with people. Refrigerator cases are filled with fresh things you'd like to see at your local supermarket, but they also have other parts of the poultry, and I noticed bricks of pig's blood. Tyler Florence fits right in, shouldering his way through the crowd, shopping fast and talking faster. Florence grabs ground pork and garlic, and we're off to find the next ingredient.
Chef FLORENCE: OK. All right. So what we're going to do now, we're going to walk into this fish market, and we're going to grab some shrimp.
WERTHEIMER: So this is the fish market you like?
Chef FLORENCE: Yeah, this is a fish market I like a lot--it's right on the corner of Chrystie and Grand, on the south side of the street--because I think the fish is the freshest. They usually have a really good selection. So we're going to grab some shrimp. We're also going to grab some black sea bass that we're going to steam, as well.
WERTHEIMER: He is meticulous about his fish, poking his finger in the gills, inspecting, smelling, directing the fishmongers and offering me words of caution.
Chef FLORENCE: Linda, watch out for the crabs, all right. You got to be careful, man, they'll bite you. We got everything, right? So we got the duck, which we're going to snack on. It's really good. And we got everything for the sui mai, which would be pork and ginger, and I got a little bit of jicama in there which is for a little bit of crunch. And we got ginger, and we got some garlic. We got some sesame oil and some cilantro. I think that's going to be really nice. We got that and...
WERTHEIMER: We've got the won tons.
Chef FLORENCE: And we got the won tons.
WERTHEIMER: The little wrappers.
Chef FLORENCE: We got the udon noodles. We got the bass. We got the ginger. So now we're going to walk back to my apartment, and we're going to make some lunch.
WERTHEIMER: Oh, boy.
Chef FLORENCE: Yeah.
(Soundbite of footsteps)
WERTHEIMER: Back up Chrystie Street to Tyler Florence's third-floor walk-up and into a big room with a flat-screen TV at one end and a sleek, open kitchen at the other, a stylish mix of stainless steel and antiques. First, the messy stuff, shelling shrimp for the dumplings, the sui mai.
Chef FLORENCE: OK. So what we're going to do with the shrimp itself--all right. So you got a paring knife?
WERTHEIMER: Right.
Chef FLORENCE: Grab a paring knife. All right. So what you're going to do is you're going to take the blade and kind of hold it in your hand between your thumb and your forefinger. All right. Pull the blade against you. And what we're going to do is we're going to take the tip of the knife and stick it up into the shell, that space right there. OK.
WERTHEIMER: All right.
Chef FLORENCE: All right. And you're going to hold the shrimp, and you're going to crack it open like a tin can, OK, all the way to the last segment. Kind of rock it back and forth like that. OK. And then the shell comes off in one big piece. See that?
WERTHEIMER: Yeah.
What I was impressed with, looking at the book, was that there are some things that are exotic-sounding, but when you start reading the recipe, they don't look like they'd be hard to do.
Chef FLORENCE: You know, cooking is something that's really sort of basic, and it's the one thing that kind of ties it all together as culture. The recipes, you know, when you travel around and, you know, you go to, like, Bologna in Italy, and you watch someone make pasta, and then you go to, you know, south of France, and you watch someone make bouillabaisse, it's the subtle nuances that make a big difference.
And in my book, it's--all the recipes are written as if you and I are having a conversation. So it's subtle nuances about, you know, how long you cook the dinner, how thick the broth should be or, you know, how thin you should roll the pasta are all kind of well-explained, so you really kind of get it as if I'm just kind of standing there right beside you and kind of talking through it.
WERTHEIMER: Well, I like--one of the things you say in the book is you give it--you talk about before you fry something, say, you give oil a one-two count.
Chef FLORENCE: Yeah, a one-two count. Yeah, so instead of measuring one tablespoon. And that was something I really had to talk my editor into, 'cause she couldn't--she didn't understand, like, `What do you mean, a one-two count? I don't think anyone's going to understand that.' But you get what I'm talking about, right? You hold the bottle up, you go, `One, two,' and then it's about two tablespoons. 'Cause, you know, I think people are very intimidated when you start to talk about exact measurements. But recipes--and it should be about, like, intuition. It should be about something that you can just kind of think through and just kind of feel, 'cause, you know, that's the art of good cooking, is just sort of kind of understand and really kind of feel what the food is all about.
WERTHEIMER: Do you imagine that if you cook out of this cookbook for, you know, a few weeks, that you wouldn't necessarily look at the cookbook when you cook?
Chef FLORENCE: Definitely not. And let's just say you make the same recipe twice, you know, or you make the same recipe out of the book two or three times, then all of a sudden, you own it, it's yours. I mean, for the most part, you might want to go back for a reference, but you'll always have it. It will always be yours to...
WERTHEIMER: Maybe might go back and look at the list of ingredients.
Chef FLORENCE: Yeah, but other than that, you understand the method.
OK, so we got about two pounds of shrimp here.
WERTHEIMER: Here's another one.
Chef FLORENCE: Yeah.
WERTHEIMER: You're faster than I am at this...
Chef FLORENCE: That's all right.
WERTHEIMER: ...to say the least.
Chef FLORENCE: You guys should see this. I've got a pile. I've got about 50 shrimp shells, and I think Linda's got about five.
WERTHEIMER: That's it. I know. You're right. You know, I think I could do this faster with my fingers, which is how I've always done it.
Chef FLORENCE: Oh, really, huh? That's all right.
WERTHEIMER: Chef Florence rinses the shrimp and starts chopping ginger, Asian greens and fresh shiitake mushrooms. We're sort of helping and snacking on that takeout duck which is delicious.
Chef FLORENCE: And I'm going to actually grind this stuff up in the food processor, just make sure it's really well-combined, but for the most part, this is it. I'll just...
(Soundbite of chopping)
WERTHEIMER: That poor mushroom never had a chance.
In goes the ground pork, the mixture to be stuffed into the delicate squares of pasta, the little silky won ton wrappers.
Chef FLORENCE: All right. OK. Look at that. Isn't that great? And then you have this really beautiful filling. And it's--'cause we incorporated the egg white, it's almost mousselike, you know, really soft. So when you bite into it--when you steam it and you bite into it, it really melts in your mouth.
(Soundbite of grinding)
WERTHEIMER: You have three pepper grinders.
Chef FLORENCE: One's got white pepper, one's got coriander seed, and one's got black pepper.
WERTHEIMER: I see.
Chef FLORENCE: It depends on what kind of mood I'm into.
WERTHEIMER: All of it goes into two levels of bamboo steamers, a tower set on a wok which is already filled with simmering spicy soup.
A man and his sharpening steel.
Chef FLORENCE: Dull knife, dull chef.
WERTHEIMER: Tyler Florence takes a knife to the fresh, black sea bass which will go in the top of the steamer with thin slices of ginger and sprigs of herbs.
Chef FLORENCE: Isn't that flesh beautiful inside, the red?
WERTHEIMER: Beautiful.
Chef FLORENCE: OK, so we're taking the top layer of our bamboo steamer, right, and we're going to add, sort of squeeze all our little fish pieces in like that, and that's it, done. I'm going to let this stuff cook up. And we got our starter, which is a pork and ginger sui mai, it's cooking away. And we've got our main course, which is our black bass, which is steaming with ginger, cilantro, salt and pepper and a little bit of sesame oil. So the whole thing's going to take about maybe 12, 15 minutes to cook. All right. And we have our shiitake miso soup. We have homemade ...(unintelligible). The bottom's sort of simmering away, kind of give everything lots of perfume. And we'll throw our chewy udon noodles in the bottom and make a soup out of fish and the shiitake miso, and that's lunch.
WERTHEIMER: The notion that if you get to know how to cook in another language or in another country, I mean, you've absorbed some of it?
Chef FLORENCE: Yeah, I think if you can figure out a different culture, if you can figure out the food, I think you can figure out who they are. I think you can have a deeper understanding who people are, you know, through the flavors from their country. And that's what I like to do, 'cause, you know, for me, you know, cooking, it's not about reinventing the wheel and trying to concoct the newest flavor. It's about researching the oldest tradition and trying to make that as perfect as possible, about mastering the wheel, mastering the art of brilliant simple cooking, and that's kind of what I do. But it doesn't really necessarily mean that it's going to take an entire day and leave your wallet empty and a sink full of dirty dishes. It's all about making something simple and perfect and beautiful, you know.
WERTHEIMER: The lunch is now steamed and ready to eat, and is, like Chef Tyler Florence just said, simple and perfect and beautiful.
Chef FLORENCE: So we take, you know, chopsticks, dip our sui mai into our little ponds of dipping sauce. Mmm, real good.
WERTHEIMER: Very good.
Chef FLORENCE and WERTHEIMER: (In unison) Mmm.
WERTHEIMER: Well, thank you very much.
Chef FLORENCE: I had a great time. I got my mouth full of sui mai dumplings, but I had a good time.
WERTHEIMER: Mmm.
Tyler Florence talking and cooking, tasting and noshing in his kitchen in Chinatown. His new cookbook is called "Eat This Book: Cooking With Global Fresh Flavors.
The fish is delicious.
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I reach out, running my fingers across the milky creamsicle eye shadow. A stark contrasting glare from the skylight directly above highlights the depth in the color and I spread a thin swatch on my inner wrist. The actual pan is almost pristine, the powder so soft I can run my finger through it and leave it like a virgin, to quote Madonna. The orange is a warm shade, perfect for those with a likewise warm undertone to their skin. But it's also pastel enough to work on those with cool undertones. A perfect shade. I need them.
I turn on a Lily Allen playlist. It's hard to be a bitch… Yes, it is.
Muse, my cosmetics company, is housed in a restored auto repair shop just off Main Street in Santa Monica. Main Street is the hip and trendy commercial drag of this reluctant tourist town. My Muse is Estee Lauder who drove my childhood dreams forward to this very hip locale and into top retail spots in Sephora and Nordstrom.
I'm glad to be alone in my office as I look at the final options for my new and vastly expanded makeup line. Except for Trotsky, of course, our chocolate lab two-month-old puppy and company mascot. She sleeps quietly at my feet, brown eyes closed and dreaming, as I contemplate my future and hope fate will be kind. Saying I bet the farm is understating the risks I've taken in so aggressively adding to my offerings. I did it anyway.
And the evidence is littered before me on the bronzed aluminum oversized table that serves as my desk. For now I need my own impressions of the merchandise, independent of outside influence. Rainbow stacks of brights, blushes and eye shadows. Tubes of mascara and eye liner. Bottle with foundation and piles of powders. Lipstick tubes in rows. It's a fortune in research and manufacturing. A hope that someone likes the new shades and will embrace them on a daily basis.
My gut built this company, from my sophomore year at UCLA to this dubious semi headquarters 12 years later and finally growing fast. I even managed to graduate with a joint degree in literature and economics. Everything around me reeks of Estee but with a twist. She was so elegant, as befit her start in the 1940s, but my settings and offerings are edgier.
The building is a gift from a friend's parents. They transformed what was an auto repair shop into an airy and bright office space. My small offices are separated with a wall from my cosmetics warehouse, products all in steel bins and in rows. The floors are still a cool brisk grey cement but the walls are Robin's egg blue, more true blue than Estee's slightly greenish shade, but still a part of its family. The ceilings are a deep cerulean which is the exact coloring of my packaging. Again, following Estee but not Estee. I used silver not her gold for my text. Besides, blue is my favorite color. I'd considered having clouds painted, but then began to also consider unicorns, and that all became too overwhelmingly silly and I'm not a girly girl. So I kept things stark.
We brought in cool steel or aluminum furniture, and scattered it sparingly through the empty space. Adding fake fur white beanbag chairs and a shaggy white couch in the entry-way for guests, in the end the feel of clouds won over my first instincts. Now we hold our small company meetings on the plush couch when the sun begins to set, casting shadows like diamonds through our many slanted glass sky roofs. The glass is blue, the exact color of water in my imagination. Chinese takeout or vegan burritos and sometimes a bottle of champagne spread before us, we debate how to market beauty and the freedom it brings.
Lana Del Rey begins to sing of video games and how everything she does is for "you". I likewise sing to a sleeping Trotsky and wonder if someday I'll do all for someone other than a chocolate lab puppy rescued from a local shelter. Outside is the hum of cars and I hear my neighbor shouting something. We have businesses to the west and a residential neighborhood to the east. My employees are mostly quiet, working, but the phone doesn't stop its constant rings.
For now I drag my oversized remains of a leather armchair to the edge of my table desk. I have more appropriate seating options but I like to kneel on the familiar chair and focus on my samples. The leather is worn to the point of butter softness and the brown has faded unevenly. This chair and this office, like much of my life, is a favor granted. I grew up on charity, my brother and I both smart and lucky enough to be the token poor scholarship students at one of the city's most prestigious and competitive private schools. Here, cheap rent provided by my best friend's parents and Muse's first investors literally has made my success possible. They looked out for me and gave me enough lucky breaks to get my company off the ground and soaring. The chair came from another friend's mother when she redid her library. She'd always seen how I loved it and gifted the monstrosity to me when I was sixteen. I did what all poor kids do when granted such luxuries: I said thank you and continued loving her to this day. When you have little such a precious object takes on great importance.
At first I couldn't believe I owned such a marvelous chair. My mom had looked on in silence as I sat down in its depths upon its arrival, massaging the lush armrests. One of my first eye shadows was the exact brown it was at that moment. It reigned like a queen in our Brentwood apartment until I moved it here, into my office.
Before me is my next challenge. The makeup samples are my own hard work, though many others have touched them in different ways to get them to this almost final stage. The beauty industry is a grind and I fell into it when running away from an ex-boyfriend. I needed a distraction after a breakup and created a line of 10 lipsticks. Next, a "sporty girl" complete set that UCLA decided to carry in their bookstore as an add on purchase. Now it's a real business unless I mess it up.
For me the colors are a passion. I love how a slight change in formula or undertones changes their look completely. And how each shade reacts with every different woman fascinates me. Perfect beauty is an unattainable ideal for most, but all women can glow with the right mix of shades done just so. The planes of every face are like a canvas and should be treated with respect. All women are beautiful in their own way.
I first began mixing colors in high school as an escape, before the boyfriend and breakup it was just beauty. My moods are dependent on outside influences, too much so. Scents, weather, what people say, or even the shifting landscape around me as I rush through my day can leave me reeling or exhilarated. I hate that aspect of my personality and have had to learn how to center and refocus so I don't go insane. Do I possess crazy genes that leave me destabilized too easily?
My office door is closed and it's almost 10:00 in the morning. I need to hole up and visualize what women want over the next year. Sure, they want to be beautiful but what does that mean? I can make them clean, clear their skin and brighten their face. But while I can modify features I can't change them. A woman at her best is confident and that I can do: make a woman feel good about herself. It only takes a few steps and I've prepackaged them.
Now I'm adding to my basic line and the evidence is before me.
More importantly, the scents are before me. I've never done perfume before. I glance down at my baggy faded jeans and a very old James Perse T-shirt worn to its last shreds. Black. I need the comfort to be creative but as I look at my final product choices all I feel is fear. What if I pick the wrong ones and the new lines don't fly? Every year I'm introducing something new and every choice could fall flat.
But I glance down at Trotsky and listen to the ever confident Beyonce begin her song and keep going. She knows that all can be replaced and that no decision is ever permanent. How I wish for her utter confidence.
So I pick up another eye shadow and finger the cerulean package. After the creamsicle I've chosen a subtle purple, full of sparkles in a mix of reds and browns. Gold dances in the mix and ultimately seems to take charge. This shade is so sultry and attention seeking. I grab a mirror and rub some above my upper lash line. I love how it shimmers yet also simmers.
Eventually I'll show my final choices to others but for now I revel in being
able to play and visualize who will wear these shades. Does a young girl wear this Mata Hari purple or a more mature woman, sexy versus seductive? I can imagine both as I smell the local scents of exhaust and salt. Bread from a nearby restaurant warms up the air. And my phone rings.
My assistant only answers if I don't pick up by the third ring. I grab for the phone but something inside me, an instinct, warns me away. I ignore it.
"Hello," I start, trying to juggle my mirror, eye shadow, imagination and trepidation.
"Lise, I won't make it tonight," Brad, my boyfriend begins, as always skipping a courtesy at the start of any call. A master of the universe, he doesn't believe in pleasantries. Does he believe in manners? When having them helps him. Yes, the bloom is off this rose. I love him, I love him not? Lately less so. But I'm dependent on him. And he's helping me get financing to expand my line. In private equity, he buys companies and doesn't fund them. He has friends who fund and they're working on the final paperwork to make my dreams a reality.
Feel free to judge me but I've been with him for almost five years now. Eleven years my senior and much more savvy than I am in business, he, like my office space and chair, has been a gift that I'm not always sure how to manage.
"Okay," I respond, having learned to let him keep speaking before jumping to conclusions. He likes to hear himself talk and I'm always curious to hear what bullshit he'll come up with before I cut him off.
"Work crisis. Fucking CEO has been faking his numbers and the media is about to go public with it. I need to talk to the key reporters and get them to write more sympathetic stories. Too late to shut it down completely."
"Okay," I repeat myself. We were to be having a nice sushi dinner tonight but, honestly, I'm better off finishing my work here. It isn't like I'm not betting my whole company on these new collections and perfumes.
I picture him, slightly tall and very hard from his workouts. His eyes fade to brown and his hair is just a flush of almost black. And while he can look me in the eye when delivering a tough message for the most part his eyes are always shifting around, maximizing his options. His shirts always have collars unless he's exercising.
"Ted is happy with most of the terms of your financing but…," Brad continues and I take a deep in-breath, picturing my yoga teacher as I do so. Brad's buts are legendary. He never speaks about anything directly, preferring a lethal sideswipe to the gut. How did I end up here?
I don't respond, deciding that not showing desperation is always the best course of action. And I need that money. Desperately. The phones are ringing outside my personal office and in the main company. People like and want us. We're in People magazine this week.
"But nothing. I told him just to sign it or I'll fund you personally. Of course, I'd put you on a diet as a term of the deal." He laughs and I'm glad he isn't here or I'd kill him. My jeans have been feeling a little tight but I've been under so much pressure I really haven't been paying attention. He's saying I'm getting fat? I look down. He might be right.
I struggle to find my voice. As if doing so is easy in the best of circumstances and this is hardly that. Is he seriously saying that he'd risk my financing and my company to force me to lose weight?
"Fuck you," I hear myself say and hang up on him. What have I done?


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It's hard to believe that, in a seven-way Republican primary, social issues like abortion, embryonic stem cell research, and civil rights for homosexuals have all taken the back seat to other issues. Yet, that's basically what has occurred in the 3rd District congressional primary.
There are a number of reasons why social issues seem to be less important in federal races in Iowa this cycle. The financial meltdown, countless government bailouts and takeovers, increased debt spending, and major tax increases on the horizon have given fiscal issues top billing in elections across the country. In poll after poll, jobs and the economy are the most important issues to people right now.
Another reason that social issues don't seem to be as important in this primary is the existence of the Tea Party movement. The Tea Party movement is the ultimate "Big Tent" conglomeration. Tea Party activists all share a desire for less government, less spending, and lower taxes, but they often avoid talking about social issues. At the Des Moines Tea Party debate a few weeks ago, the candidates who attended were asked a wide variety of questions, but no questions about social issues were asked.
The other reason why social issues have taken a backseat to other issues in this primary, oddly enough, is because of the April 3, 2009 Varnum vs. Brien ruling by the Iowa Supreme Court. The Court's decision opened the door for gay marriages in Iowa. The ruling has made the gay marriage issue in Iowa the most talked about social issue in the state, but not how you might expect.
The issue of homosexual marriage has dominated the Republican primary for governor, largely because Bob Vander Plaats has pledged to expand the powers of the executive branch to trump a court ruling. Vander Plaats' position doesn't focus on the morality of homosexual behavior. Instead, Vander Plaats has focused on the checks and balances of the three branches of government.
With Vander Plaats, and his chief surrogate, WHO Radio personality, Steve Deace, almost solely focused on keeping the court in check, the other social issues have been swept to the side, especially when it comes to the 3rd District Congressional primary.
Deace has done an exhaustive interview series with the 3rd District candidates, but the focus was on the courts, not core biblical principles. How else could one explain a candidate getting by with saying, "The greatest gift that God has ever given was the Constitution," as Dave Funk said a few months ago.
There are major differences between the three top contenders for the Republican nomination in the 3rd District, but little has been done to educate voters on where the candidates really stand or how they would use their office if elected to change or protect certain social policies.
The most glaring oversight in the campaign has been Brad Zaun's support of Senate File 61, an anti-bullying bill that he voted for in January of 2007, just months after Democrats had taken control of both branches of government in Iowa.
The anti-bulling bill carved out certain types of people to be protected in its definition of harassment. Among these protected categories were sexual orientation and gender identity. Most Republicans in the legislature argued that there was no need to carve-out certain traits for special protection, instead arguing that students should be protected from be bullied for any reason. Still, Zaun and a few other Republican broke ranks and voted for the bill.
The reason why this was a critical vote is because it is one of the sections in the Iowa Code that the Iowa Supreme Court pointed to when it issued its ruling in Varnum vs. Brien. Voters might want to know if Zaun thought about the future ramifications of the legislation he supported or if he would support similar federal laws.
Dave Funk tried to make this an issue at the Tea Party debate a few weeks ago, but he did a horrible job in raising the issue. Funk muddied up his question to Zaun by also bringing up No Child Left Behind, and adding that Zaun needs to remain in the State Senate. Had Funk done a better job of raising the issue with Zaun, he might have been able to land a blow on one of the frontrunners in the race.
Instead, Zaun responded to Funk by asking him, "Do you support kids being bullied?" Funk began to answer but then looked at the organizer of the debate to see if he could. Another missed opportunity. Funk's inability to make the case against Zaun's vote for the bullying bill should be a red flag to social conservatives. In his handling of the situation, it was clear that Funk lacked understanding on why Zaun's vote for the bullying bill was wrong.
In the debate, Zaun even admitted that the anti-bullying legislation was being pushed by the gay and lesbian community, but said it also included measurers that prevented bullying from people of other religious and ethnic backgrounds. Zaun seemed proud of vote when he said, "I did show some independence. I told the Republican Party, 'I think you're wrong. People shouldn't be bullied.'"
Funk missed another opportunity at the debate when Zaun asked Funk, "Of all the bills that I have done, just give me three that you would have voted on differently and why?" Funk answered, "I wouldn't have voted differently."
Funk's answer to Zaun's question shows his weakness on social issues. Five minutes earlier, Funk was trying to score points on the bullying bill, but then basically said he wouldn't have voted differently than Zaun on anything. This is the classic example of a candidate who will use social conservative issues to score political points, but has yet to show that these issues are a core conviction for him.
Funk has said other things that indicate that he will do little to advance pro-life and pro-family causes if elected to Congress. Funk has repeatedly said, "We can talk about social issues all we want under the golden dome," meaning the State Capitol, but goes on to say that the founders gave Congress very limited powers, indicating that Funk thinks there is very little he could do as a Congressman to fight for pro-life, pro-family issues. Even in one of his press releases, Funk states, "Congress has no right to dictate what I do and don't do with my body." That is not a pro-life statement.
The one candidate in the 3rd District that has consistently shown himself to be a solid social conservative is Jim Gibbons. In listening to Gibbons at events and candidate forums, it's apparent that he doesn't just talk about social issues on the campaign trail, he lives them.
When introducing himself to a crowd, Gibbon notes that two important things happened to him while at Iowa State, he was able to compete at a high level as a wrestler, and he met his wife Anne. Gibbons routinely calls his marriage to Anne, "The most defining relationship of my lifetime." Unlike many of his opponents in the 3rd District race, Gibbons has been married for 21 years and has not been divorced.
Gibbons also uses his family to talk about his commitment to the right to life. At numerous events Gibbons tells people, "Anne and I have three girls, Jenna, 16, Grace 12, and had the surprise of our life last year, when at the age of 50 and 46 we brought a new child into the world, Samantha Rose. So nobody needs to tell me that life begins at conception and should be protected till natural death."
The 2010 primaries are far different than the ones that we have seen before. What's odd is that the issues that have been talked about non-stop in the gubernatorial race don't seem to have impacted the conversation about the congressional races at all.
A lot of that is probably because of how the race has developed this spring. Gibbons has raised a lot of money and has remained positive during the campaign. Zaun is stressing fiscal issues and trying to appeal to the Tea Party crowd, probably because he doesn't want to talk about social issues like the ones mentioned above.
Funk has been the most aggressive candidate in the race in terms of going after his opponents. Yet in the one area in which he had the ability to score points against an opponent, he fumbled the opportunity. I think the reason for this is because he is more of a classic libertarian than a social conservative.
While the general election congressional campaigns will focus on jobs and the economy, Republican primary voters shouldn't overlook where the candidates stand on social issues. There are some major differences between the candidates seeking the nomination.
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