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The midterm elections are less than a week away, and money is pouring into contested states and districts at a furious pace. A new analysis from Public Citizen shows the biggest "dark money" spender is none other than the US Chamber of Commerce, a mega-trade group representing all sorts of corporations—and one that is spending exclusively to defeat Democrats in the general election.
The Chamber is a 501(c)(6) tax-exempt organization, meaning it doesn't have to disclose its donors. We know from looking at its board, available membership lists and tax forms from big corporations that much of the Chamber's money has generally come from titans in the oil, banking and agriculture industries, among others.
The Chamber is leaving a huge footprint in almost every race it enters. The report shows that, through October 25, the Chamber has spent $31.8 million. The second-largest dark-money spender, Crossroads GPS, spent $23.5 million:
Among the report's other findings:
The Chamber is averaging $908,000 per race it enters.
The Chamber is the biggest dark-money spender in twenty-eight of thirty-five races it entered.
Of the twelve contested Senate races, the Chamber is the top non-disclosing outside spender in seven of those races, spending an average of $1.7 million per state.
In the twenty-three House races in which the Chamber has spent over $11.5 million, it is the top spender in all but two of them.
The Chamber has spent mainly to either support Republicans or attack Democrats. The only money it spent against Republicans came early in the year during GOP primaries to support business-friendly Republican candidates.
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Thanks to weak campaign finance laws, however, we will likely never know who exactly is bankrolling this massive presence in the midterm elections. "When large corporations decide they want to get their own candidates into office but they don't want to be seen doing it, they call the US Chamber," said Lisa Gilbert, director of Public Citizen's Congress Watch division. "These politicians then push for anti-environmental, anti-consumer and anti-health policies and priorities that hurt everyday Americans."
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Washington State news outlets are reporting that shots were fired inside a high school outside Seattle late Friday morning. KIRO in Seattle reported that around 10:45 am Pacific time, 911 calls and tweets started rolling in about a shooting at Marysville-Pilchuck High School in Marysville, Washington:
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— ƙąɬıɛ (@___katiie) October 24, 2014
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— Mr. Wolff (@CrocManKyle) October 24, 2014
— Miguel Rocha (@Miguel_Rocha34) October 24, 2014
Aerial footage on KIRO shows emergency vehicles massed outside the school, while students are being led away from the building in an all-too-familiar procession. A caller to KIRO said her son relayed that a male shooter opened fire near the cafeteria.
The Seattle Times is reporting that seven people are injured, and the gunman is dead of a self-inflicted wound. CBS News says that three people are at a local hospital with gunshot wounds, and one more is expected. Police have not confirmed any information about the shooting.
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In less than two weeks, Washington state will vote whether to implement universal background checks on weapons sales. Outside groups have spent millions of dollars to influence voters to either pass or reject a background check system very similar to what failed in the Senate early last year.
UPDATE, 3:27 pm Eastern: KIRO has confirmed four injuries in the shootings. The Seattle Times is further reporting that one person besides the shooter has died.
UPDATE, 4:07 pm Eastern: Local police confirmed that two people have died, and one is the shooter. The spokesman would not say if the other person was a student.
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With less than two weeks to go in the Kentucky Senate race, minority leader Mitch McConnell made the unusual choice to bring up his past support for privatizing Social Security. In a speech before the Louisville Rotary Club, McConnell recalled how hard he worked to get then-President George W. Bush's plan through Congress in 2005. Ace Kentucky reporter Joe Sonka flagged the remarks:
"After Bush was re-elected in 2004 he wanted us to try to fix Social Security," said McConnell. "I spent a year trying to get any Democrat in the Senate—even those most reasonable Democrat of all, Joe Lieberman—to help us."
The Bush plan, unveiled in his 2005 State of the Union speech, would have allowed workers under 55 to divert half of their payroll taxes away from Social Security and into a private retirement account. This would have created an even larger shortfall in the Social Security Trust Fund and further hobbled the insurance program—something many people suspected was a feature, not a bug, for Bush and the conservative think tanks pushing his plan.
There was immense backlash to Bush's proposal, and Republicans never brought it up to a vote. It has since remained taboo even for many Republicans; Representative Paul Ryan dropped the idea from his budgets after the GOP took over the House.
McConnell has been very quiet on the campaign trail about his role in the congressional debate, even though he was no doubt quite active as the majority whip at the time. This appears to be the first time he brought it up since the race began.
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It's a dangerous move for McConnell, who is already being hammered by Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes over bread-and-butter economic issues. She just released an ad featuring McConnell's remarks to a Koch-network donor conference in which he promised not to allow a Senate debate over raising the minimum wage, enacting student-loan relief, nor extending unemployment benefits:
Sonka asked McConnell after the speech if he would once again push for Social Security privatization if he became majority leader of the Senate. McConnell said only, "We're not in the majority yet. We'll have more to say about that later."
It would not be surprising if video if McConnell's remarks Thursday end up in another campaign ad very soon.
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Senator Elizabeth Warren gave an interview to People magazine for this week's issue and was asked for roughly the thousandth time if she planned to run for president. But her answer to this query was different than all the others:
But is the freshman senator from Massachusetts herself on board with a run for the White House? Warren wrinkles her nose.
"I don't think so," she tells PEOPLE in an interview conducted at Warren's Cambridge, Massachusetts, home for this week's issue. "If there's any lesson I've learned in the last five years, it's don't be so sure about what lies ahead. There are amazing doors that could open."
She just doesn't see the door of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue being one of them. Not yet, anyway. "Right now," Warren says, "I'm focused on figuring out what else I can do from this spot" in the U.S. Senate.
As a veteran Warren-watcher, I can say with certainty this is more ambiguous than she's ever been on the subject. "I don't think so," "amazing doors that could open," and "right now" are the traditional vernacular of a someone flirting with a campaign—-and someone who wants you to know it.
In the past, Warren has been much more unequivocal. (Examples: "I'm not running for president, and I plan to serve out my term," and "I am not running for president. Do you want to put an exclamation point at the end of that?")
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It is certainly possible Warren just got sloppy during the umpteenth iteration of this question, and used looser language than normal while speaking with a non-political reporter. But it's also true that she's been increasingly explicit in her criticisms of the Democratic establishment and its relationship with big banks. She told Salon last week that the Obama administration "protected Wall Street. Not families who were losing their homes. Not people who lost their jobs. And it happened over and over and over."
Warren's Senate office did not immediately return a request for comment.
UPDATE, 10/23: Warren's office responded to our query: "Nothing has changed," said her press secretary Lacey Rose.
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Campaign-finance operations are mutating at a frightening pace; each successive election since the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision has birthed new varieties of independent expenditure groups that deliver even more access for wealthy donors and corporations. This year, single-candidate expenditure groups are pervasive and represent perhaps the apex of this evolution.
Single-candidate expenditure groups are Super PACs or nonprofits that spend unlimited money to support just one candidate (or to attack only that candidate's opponents). They are a descendant of the candidate-specific groups like Priorities USA that formed to support just one candidate for president in 2012—but now most Congressional candidates in tight races have one at their side.
These are extremely attractive options for donors because they offer the ability to evade campaign-finance limits entirely: if you are a coal magnate that wants to give Mitch McConnell money, you can't donate more than $5,200 to his campaign this cycle under FEC rules. But if you turn to the Kentucky Opportunity Coalition, the 501(c)(4) that is exclusively supporting McConnell, you can give as much as you want. You don't have to worry about giving money to a national Republican Super PAC that may or may not spend your money on McConnell's race—you can effectively fund a shadow McConnell campaign in Kentucky.
Moreover, corporations and labor unions that are forbidden from contributing directly to candidates can freely give to these candidate-specific groups. And in the case of the Kentucky Opportunity Coalition and many other similar outfits, the public will never know because those groups are not required to disclose their donors.
"This is the future unfolding before our eyes, and it's as dangerous as anything that's going on in money in politics," said Fred Wertheimer, president of the campaign finance reform group Democracy 21. "It is the end product of a Supreme Court that apparently set out to destroy the nation's anti-corruption campaign-finance laws."
A new report from the Brennan Center for Justice lays out how these groups are spending much more than they have in the past, while also disclosing less. Through the end of September, the ten biggest "buddy groups," as they are sometimes called in the campaign-finance world, have spent $26 million in contested Senate races. Only four of these groups fully disclose their donors; many offer no disclosure at all:
While these groups did exist in 2012, they are far more common for members of Congress in the 2014 midterms. But the truly ominous turn is how many of them now are dark-money outfits that don't disclose donors. Ian Vandewalker, the author of the Brennan Center report, noted that dark-money single-candidate groups weren't significant spenders in past Senate races.
Republicans appear to have a monopoly on the biggest of these groups, though the Brennan Center concludes that the Senate Majority PAC, run by former staffers of Senate majority leader Harry Reid, is probably elbowing out candidate-specific PACs for Democrats by serving as a catch-all for endangered Democrats. It is also almost wholly funding Put Alaska First, listed above, which is the second-biggest candidate-specific spending group in the midterms.
In some races, like Colorado, Iowa and Louisiana, buddy groups aren't very active. In others, like Kentucky and Alaska, they are the biggest non-party spenders in the game, the report shows:
The Brennan Center also says single-candidate spending groups "are a major factor in House races this cycle." Three of the thirteen toss-up House districts have seen "significant" spending by single-candidate groups, and in two of those races single-candidate groups "dominate" the outside spending.
The heart of the problem is the chance for corruption: big donors are using these groups to supercharge their influence over candidates. The Brennan Center looked at the donors to candidate-specific Super PACs, which must disclose donors, and found seventy-six donors who maxed out to a candidate's campaign while also donating to a buddy group. For the dark-money groups, it's reasonable to expect roughly the same pattern.
Looking at buddy groups that accept individual contributions, the Brennan Center found that 99 percent came from double-dipping donors. Only one group had less than 70 percent of donations from such donors.
Federal election law puts donation limits in place to limit potential corruption of candidates by powerful donors, but buddy groups are laying waste to that principle. "It's as obvious as can be that if someone can give a million dollars, in essence, to directly support a candidate, the million dollars creates the opportunity for quid pro quo," Wertheimer said.
Moreover, significant corporate and labor union money is no doubt flowing into these groups, which would otherwise be forbidden. Much of the corporate money is hidden; it's true across the campaign finance world that corporations much prefer 501(c)(4) groups that don't disclose donors, as opposed to Super PACs.
Even if these buddy groups were operating independently of campaigns, there would be the opportunity for serious corruption. But election law allows these groups to be run by former aides to the candidate. The official campaign and the buddy group are also allowed to share vendors, including for strategy and messaging, and the candidates can raise money for the buddy group. Campaign materials can also be used by buddy groups—that's why Mitch McConnell put up wordless b-roll of the senator smiling that later became widely mocked.
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The Kentucky Opportunity Coalition, to extend the example, is run by Steven Law, a former top McConnell aide. In 2012 The Washington Post said Law and McConnell "remain a powerful combined force in Washington."
Sometimes single-candidate groups can be a family affair. The Post reported earlier this year about some unusual arrangements in the primary campaigns: for example, Mike Turner, running for a House seat from Oklahoma, had by his side a buddy group funded mainly by his mother and grandfather. Ben Sasse, a Republican who is likely the next senator from Nebraska, was boosted in the primary by a buddy group where the sole funder was his 87-year-old great uncle.
Priorities for Iowa, which is solely backing Republican Senate candidate Joni Ernst, is run by a consulting firm that also employs a consultant for Ernst's official campaign, the Brennan Center report notes. They claim there's a "firewall" in place, but many analysts find this common defense laughable.
"This is a charade. Everyone who's involved knows what's going on," said Wertheimer about single-candidate groups generally. "The idea that this is independent from the candidate's campaign and therefore you don't have to worry about campaign limits is absurd."
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In his widely read blog of Beltway goings-on, Chris Cillizza made the following fairly obvious point about former defense Ssecretary Leon Panetta's Obama-bashing media tour:
What's fascinating about this gripe with Obama is how much it plays into a) the argument that Hillary Clinton made against him in the 2008 presidential primary and b) the argument Hillary Clinton will likely make when (sorry, if) she runs for president in 2016. That argument, in short: I have been there and done that. I know what it takes to move the levers of power in Washington—and I am willing to do whatever it takes to make them move.
In addition, Panetta's criticisms mainly involve Obama's reluctance to use military force—also a fault line between Clinton and Obama, particularly on the matter of arming the Syrian rebels.
But the Beltway press shouldn't be afraid to explicitly ask if Panetta is serving as an agent of Clinton's official-but-not-yet-official presidential campaign. It's not just that his criticisms dovetail with Clinton's and are no doubt politically convenient for her as she attempts to draw a difference with the Obama administration—there are explicit ties to the shadow Clinton campaign that should make this question fair game.
Panetta has taken up residence at Beacon Global Strategies, where he is a senior counselor. He has deep ties to the group's leaders; Jeremy Bash, Beacon's founder and managing director, was Panetta's chief of staff at both the CIA and the Pentagon. Another founder and managing director is Philippe Reines—one of Hillary's closest allies and someone widely understood to still be managing her public profile.
Reines helped found Beacon after years spent with Hillary. He joined her Senate office in 2002 and later moved to the State Department when she became secretary. He is Clinton's "chief personal defender," in the words of New York magazine, who reported in a profile earlier this year that in addition to running Beacon, Reines's "second full-time job" is working for Hillary. When she decides to run, Reines will be part of the campaign. In many ways, he already is.
So Panetta's very close ties to Clinton's non-campaign campaign should naturally raise the question if he, too, is an explicit part of it.
Note that Panetta first made a splash with his tough criticisms of Obama during a September 21 interview with 60 Minutes, in which he blasted the president for not arming the Syrian opposition sooner. "I think that would've helped," he said. "And I think in part, we pay the price for not doing that in what we see happening with ISIS." The "paying the price" line made headlines around the country the next day.
That very same Sunday, Bill Clinton appeared on CNN—and made the exact same point, and made it clear that Panetta and his wife were on the same page. "I supported two years ago the proposal that Hillary and Secretary Panetta and then–CIA director General Petraeus made to give more robust armed support to the Syrians," he told Fareed Zakaria.
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With Reines managing Hillary's public image, and Panetta and Bill Clinton making the same point on the same day, the question of coordination is unavoidable.
That's not to say Panetta's criticisms shouldn't be considered on their merits, nor that there's anything wrong with this coordination. But it's crucial context in which to understand his position—that perhaps he's not just a reluctant critic trying to call out policy failures, but also a political actor working for someone else's electoral gain.
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It was a busy night on the campaign trail Tuesday, as candidates in several key races faced off in debates. Moderators frequently asked whether candidates thought President Obama should commit US ground troops to the fight against ISIS—and most Republican candidates dodged the question with notable clumsiness.
In North Carolina, which has the third-highest military population among US states, incumbent Democratic Senator Kay Hagan is opposed to troops on the ground. In Tuesday's debate, moderated by ABC's George Stephanopoulos, she noted the United States "has many domestic needs at home" and said Iraqi and Syrian soldiers should wage the fight. Then Stephanopoulos put the question to her opponent, Thom Tillis:
STEPHANOPOLOUS: When I was speaking to House Speaker John Boehner last week, he told me that if other nations don't step forward, the United States would have no choice but to put boots on the ground. Do you agree?
TILLIS: I think one of the reasons that many nations are afraid to step forward is because this president is afraid to lead the world. Normally in crises like these, the president is considered to be the leader of the free world. He rallies nations together to put down terrorist threats like ISIS. But now our allies, our friends across the world, really don't know where this president stands because he telegraphs his plan to our enemies, he gives strength to the terrorists by telling them what we're not going to do. He should have everything on the table and he should build some credibility and Senator Hagan should be right there with him.
There's a small glimmer of an answer in there; Tillis seemed to be suggesting it was best not to say one way or the other whether ground troops should go. Stephanopoulos did not follow up, but Hagan immediately noted that Tillis didn't answer the question.
In Colorado's Senate debate on Tuesday, Republican Representative Cory Gardner was directly asked to "describe the circumstances in which you would support American boots on the ground in Syria and Iraq," and answered with a word salad of attacks on Udall and Obama's foreign policy. (Democratic incumbent Mark Udall opposes troops on the ground.) Gardner's answer in full:
GARDNER: Look, our foreign policy is in the situation it is today because of the failure of leadership at the White House. And the president has said his policies are going to be on the ballot this November. Mark Udall voted with those policies 99 percent of the time. The president said we have no strategy when it comes to dealing with ISIL. The president said they were junior varsity actors. The president said we will lead from behind, and that's Mark Udall's plan, too, because he agrees with him 99 percent of the time. We must make sure that we protect the safety and security of American families. That's why I have supported efforts to make sure that we take out the terrorists. But Senator Udall believes the Islamic State is not an imminent threat to our nation. Senator Udall believes that they are not plotting against our country. We had people arrested at Denver International Airport for conspiring with the Islamic State. In Chicago for conspiring with the Islamic State. And Senator Udall doesn't even show up at the Armed Services hearing when it talks about emerging threats. Senator Udall is absent.
In West Virginia, Democratic challenger Natalie Tennant has plainly said she opposes troops on the ground and, in Tuesday's debate, reiterated her opposition and cited the pain of having sent her husband off to war. She did give a mini-evasion to the moderator's question—he noted she opposed ground troops, but asked what future situation might justify them. That's a tough hypothetical to answer, and Tennant basically said she would need more information.
When the moderator put the same question to the Republican candidate, Representative Shelley Moore Capito, she evaded the question of ground troops entirely:
CAPITO: The visuals of ISIS beheading two Americans and threatening to behead another, and British journalists and aid workers, is just jarring to all of us. I think that because of the president's weak policies in Iraq, we find ourselves in a position where this terrorist group has been fomenting, raising money, raising membership. I find it frightening in terms of what could happen on our homeland. That has to be what you think about. There is nothing more valuable for us as Americans than our servicemen and women, and I appreciate [Tennant's] husband's service to our country. I take these decisions very seriously. I did vote to have the president train the Syrian rebels because I feel like we need a coalition of people that will stop the terrorist group from further growth.
In Georgia's Senate debate on Tuesday night, the moderator repeatedly pressed Republican David Perdue on whether he wants ground troops in Iraq and Syria, and this is the closest Perdue came to an answer: "If we put boots on the ground, that better have a chance to win. Right now we don't have that." (I have no idea what that means.)
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In Virginia's Senate race last night, Republican Ed Gillespie said only that Obama should not have ruled out ground troops, and incumbent Senator Mark Warner agreed.
But in most races, Republican candidates are working off the same script: avoid calling for ground troops at all costs and simply step around the question. The similarly scripted attacks on Obama's alleged incoherence on ISIS seem rather strange given that fairly massive dodge.
Read Next: No, ISIS is not a threat to the US.
The midterm elections are twenty-seven days away, and AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka has been keeping a relentless road schedule campaigning for Democratic candidates. One thing he'd like to see more of: talk about basic economic fairness issues.
"I think more populism, or more focus on the economic issues, would be helpful," he told a small group of reporters at the AFL-CIO headquarters in Washington, DC. "I think it would help drive turnout as well. I think the candidates that focus only on negative things, doing everything negative, have a real danger of having their base go flat."
Trumka said that in talking to workers on the campaign trail, he frequently confronts a problem that has bedeviled Democrats in many past midterms: apathy. Union members wonder why it matters if they vote.
"They say that at the plant gate, at doors, on the telephone," Trumka said. "I try to explain to them that the economy is not like the weather. Those that are in power, and those that want to be in power, want us to believe the economy is like the weather—there's nothing you can do about it, so don't bother. But the economy…it's nothing but a bunch of rules. And those rules decide the winners and losers, and those rules are made by the men and women we elect. That's why this election is important."
The dire situation in the Middle East, the Ebola outbreak and scandals at the Secret Service and the Veterans Affairs department have no doubt clouded the picture and increased apathy, Trumka acknowledged. But the AFL-CIO is trying to break through with an active on-the-ground operation.
Trumka said the AFL-CIO is "about where we were" at this point in the 2010 midterms—which could be taken as an ominous sign, since Democrats got blown out at the polls that year.
But he did claim to see an uptick in volunteers and electioneering on the ground in key states, and he believes voters are beginning to focus on the upcoming races. He also appeared buoyant about Alison Lundergan Grimes' chances of unseating Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell; at one point he declared outright that she would win.
The AFL-CIO is doing things differently from 2010 in some key ways. They launched an independent expenditure committee, the Workers' Voices PAC, that allows the union to communicate directly with voters. (Strict campaign finance laws on unions generally only permits political communication with members). The AFL-CIO is also getting involved in key statehouse races and hoping to avoid the tide of state-level anti-worker legislation that emerged after the 2010 elections.
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and Maine Governor Paul LePage, two leaders in that fight, are on the ballot this year, and the AFL-CIO is very active in both races. Trumka had just come from campaigning in Maine for Democratic candidate Mike Michaud.
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But Trumka said he was equally worried about the Republican candidates running for governor who, like Walker and LePage did in 2010, are staying quiet about their anti-worker ambitions.
He said open talk about dismantling unions "has subsided for the election, and right after the election it will raise its ugly head. If certain governors win, they'll use it as a false mandate to say, 'see, going after workers is what this populace wants me to do.' Even though they don't run on it," Trumka said. "I wish all of them would say their real agenda; then the American public would really get to vote on which agenda you want."
The US Supreme Court decided on Monday not to review any lower-court rulings that allowed same-sex marriage in Indiana, Oklahoma, Utah, Virginia and Wisconsin. It's likely the final word on the matter in those states, and marriages are expected to begin there immediately.
Lower courts have unanimously struck down bans in those states, and since the Supreme Court denied petitions for review, it's the end of the legal road for opponents of gay marriage in those states. Accordingly, marriage licenses to same sex couples can now be issued. County clerks in Indiana are preparing today to sign them, and Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring tweeted that marriages can begin at 1 p.m. there:
The 4th Circuit says their mandate will issue at 1 PM & marriages can then begin. What a momentous & joyous day for thousands of Virginians.
— AG Mark Herring (@AGMarkHerring) October 6, 2014
The appeals courts that decided the cases in those five states also have six other states in their judicial districts: Colorado, Kansas, North Carolina, South Carolina, West Virginia and Wyoming. That means gay marriage is essentially a foregone conclusion there. Once that happens, thirty states will allow same-sex marriage.
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The Court's decisions surprised some analysts who expected the justices to take up the issue. But Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said recently the Court was unlikely to get involved until lower courts were conflicted on gay marriage, and as noted, the lower courts were unanimous in striking down the bans in those six states.
In United States v. Windsor, the Court struck down part of the Defense of Marriage Act and asserted some logic suggesting banning gay marriage was unconstitutional, but as Chief Justice John Roberts noted in his dissent, the Court didn't actually take up the question of whether states could ban it. It may yet—and until it does, gay marriage isn't cemented into the nation's laws—but it's increasingly looking like American jurisprudence is moving in that direction.
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Attorney General Eric Holder will announce Thursday he is stepping down from the post he has held for nearly six years—making him one of the longest-serving attorneys general in American history.
Holder was the first African-American to hold the position and will surely be remembered as a trailblazer for civil rights. From sentencing reform to combating voter suppression to investigating some of the country's most violent police forces, Holder made huge progressive strides. It's no coincidence Holder called the civil rights icon Representative John Lewis on Tuesday before his resignation became public. White House officials are already pushing out narratives about Holder's "historic legacy of civil rights enforcement and restoring fairness to the criminal justice system."
But there is one area where Holder falls woefully short: prosecution of Wall Street firms and executives. He came into office just months after widespread fraud and malfeasance in the financial sector brought the American economy to its knees, and yet no executive has faced criminal prosecution. Beyond the crash, Holder established a disturbing pattern of allowing large financial institutions escape culpability.
"His record is really badly blemished by his nearly overwhelming failure to hold corporate criminals accountable," said Robert Weissman, president of Public Citizen. "Five years later, we can say he did almost nothing to hold the perpetrators of the crisis accountable."
Advocates for financial accountability often point to the Savings and Loan crisis as a counter-example: despite much smaller-scale fraud, 1,000 bankers were convicted in federal prosecutions and many went to prison.
Holder has tried to explain his lack of prosecutions relating to the 2008 collapse by claiming the cases were too hard to prove—but many experts disagree. The Sarbanes Oxley Act, for example, would provide a straightforward template: it makes it a crime for executives to sign inaccurate financial statements, and there is ample evidence that Wall Street CEOs were aware of the toxicity of the sub-prime mortgages sold by their firms.
Late last year, Judge Jed Rakoff of the Federal District Court of Manhattan wrote an essay in The New York Review of Books bluntly titled, "The Financial Crisis: Why Have No High-Level Executives Been Prosecuted?" He suggested a doctrine of "willful blindness" at Holder's Justice Department and said "the department's claim that proving intent in the financial crisis is particularly difficult may strike some as doubtful." A federal judge will generally not proclaim people guilty outside the courtroom, but Rakoff came close with that statement. The fact he wrote the essay at all stunned many observers.
In recent years, the Justice Department has obtained some large-dollar settlements with Wall Street firms like JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America. But the headline-grabbing amounts end up being significantly less after factoring in tax accounting and credits for actions already being undertaken by the bank. There is also a lack of transparency around how these penalties are being paid to aggrieved consumers.
Holder himself suggested in Senate testimony last year that some firms really are too big to jail:
"I am concerned that the size of some of these institutions becomes so large that it does become difficult for us to prosecute them when we are hit with indications that if you do prosecute, if you do bring a criminal charge, it will have a negative impact on the national economy, perhaps even the world economy," Holder said.
He later walked that back in subsequent testimony, saying "Let me be very, very, very clear. Banks are not too big to jail." But the data suggest otherwise.
Under Holder, the Justice Department has greatly expanded the use of deferred prosecution agreements with large corporations, from financial firms to agricultural giants. These are arrangements that take the place of criminal prosecutions—instead, the offending corporation admits wrongdoing, pays a fine (that is usually a small fraction of yearly profits), and agrees to remedy internal problems that lead to the crime. In return, the government agrees not to prosecute.
Public Citizen did an analysis of these agreements at the Department of Justice and found that Holder made them a routine affair:
There isn't much transparency over which bad actors are awarded deferred prosecution, and which are not, and advocates are alarmed by the precedent.
"[Holder] ensconced the de facto 'too-big-to-fail' doctrine by which large financial institutions were effectively immunized form criminal prosecution simply by virtue of being so big," said Weissman.
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This was brought into sharp relief when Justice allowed HSBC to enter deferred prosecution for wide-ranging multibillion-dollar money laundering at the bank on behalf of large illegal drug operations and also terrorist groups.
"The facts are unbelievable. Epic-level money laundering on behalf of narco-traffickers, un-denied by the corporation," Weissman said. "And no criminal prosecution, and no responsibility for the executives."
It did seem that Justice became more responsive to these criticisms after Obama was re-elected, and Weissman hopes that continues after Holder. "With a clean slate, Obama should apply a litmus test: a new nominee has to clearly show their willingness to hold accountable the institutions and individuals on Wall Street who devastated Main Street," he said. "And they have to be crystal clear that they are abandoning the too-big-to-jail doctrine."
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Amy Ray and Emily Saliers of Indigo Girls came by the Bing Lounge on Friday, August 22, 2011 prior to their show at the Oregon Zoo Amphitheater.
Indigo Girls will release their new CD, Beauty Queen Sister, on October 4, 2011.
It was a packed house and Amy & Emily did not disappoint! Here are videos from their performance.


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Mobile GPS location publisher / trip tracker by SMS, HTTP, email etc.
GPS Mario 1.0 License - Open Software License 3.0 (OSL3.0). Freeware download of GPS Mario 1.0, size 0 b.
We are currently working with professors Bruce Land and Paul Kintner to develop a hardware mobile GPS receiver on an FPGA, capable of receiving L1 civilian GPS signals in real time.
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Measure bandwith- and latency tracks with your mobile GPS device. speedTracker can be used with mobile phone (J2ME application) or usual laptop with GPS mouse and 3G card (JAVA application). See speedTracks.org.
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KML and Google Maps System based on near realtime data provided by Mobile GPS systems. Expected uses include aircraft, yacht, vehicle location, altitude and ground speed tracking for commercial or domestic tracking.
PHP Map Gateway 1.0 License - GNU General Public License (GPL). Freeware download of PHP Map Gateway 1.0, size 0 b.
With MobiumGPS , your Windows Mobile device is turned into an advanced Mobile Navigation System with turn-by-turn voice announcements and detailed driving directions. You can search over 15 million point of interests (POIs) - places like hotels, restaurants, shopping malls and other tourist attractions - then dial the POI's phone number for. Free download of Mobium GPS Navigation System 2.0.232, size 825.47 Kb.
The goal of this project is to realize an open source complete graphical GPS environment(not just a tracker but also a navigator with vocal instructions) compatible with all the device that are j2Me compliant and with all the NMEA GPS receiver even BT.
Open Mobile GPS 1.0 License - GNU General Public License (GPL). Freeware download of Open Mobile GPS 1.0, size 0 b.
Use your GPS equipped Windows Mobile device to create a Google Earth compatible KML file and track log. Also tracks total distance, elevation gain and average speed.. Freeware download of Catfood Tracker 1.30.0025, size 62.46 Kb.
Bored with alarms firing in the wrong place? GPS-Action will fire reminder exactly when you reach the target place, no sooner and no later! Depending on your geographical location GPS-Action will fire alarm, open the application, change profile, launch the website, open a document or a certain application for you. Bluetooth status change included,. Free download of GPS-Action 1 2, size 477.18 Kb.
SmartComGPS is a GPS mapping/tracking/navigation software for Symbian smartphones. It is one of most advanced GPS mapping software on the market. SmartComGPS designed for the all Symbian phones. It is compatible with external BT GPS receivers, and internal aGPS receiver of Motorola A920/925/1000. SmartComGPS can run without GPS receiver, as. Free download of SmartComGPS for UIQ 1.02, size 293.60 Kb.
Use your Windows Pocket PC in combination with www.geopolix.com and you can share your geographical location with friends, family, business colleagues and every other community you can think of. It is completely up to you to share your location whenever, wherever and with whomever you want. If one of your friends gets in range you will be notified. Freeware download of Geopolix Client 0.95, size 791.55 Kb.
GPSLite is an easy, efficient and powerful positioning tool for mobile devices, you can get the Latitude, Longitude, Altitude ,Speed, Local time, Local Date ,Number of satellites being tracked, status of the GPS receiver etc...Key features:Full support for Windows Mobile 5.0 or Windows Mobile 6.0 Very easy to use No Configuration Show latitude Show. Free download of GPSLite for Windows Mobile 5.0 18.104.22.1687, size 87.04 Kb.
A java application that shows speed, direction and position in mobile phones that has a built in gps. Primary for use in boat or car, but hiking is fine too. To install just download the newest gpspal_x_x_x.jar file and send it to your phone.. Freeware download of GPS Pal 1.2.0, size 17.60 Kb.
ZylGPSReceiver Mobile is an event driven Compact Framework.NET component that communicates with a GPS receiver.It is designed for mobile devices such as PDAs, which run on Windows Mobile (CE) operating systems.It returns latitude, longitude, altitude, speed, heading and many other useful parameters of the current position and the parameters of the. Free download of ZylGPSReceiver Mobile 1.50, size 494.59 Kb.
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The Vutog GPS Simulator provides a complete suite for all your GPS simulation needs and more. It is designed to assist in developing, testing and debugging GPS Applications and equipment working with the NMEA-0183 protocol. It can be used for testing navigation applications and equipments indoor when GPS Signal is not available for best. Free download of Vutog GPS Simulator 3.0, size 6.03 Mb.
VSPD Mobile Phone Edition is a brand-new generation of already popular driver for mobile devices released by Eltima more than a year ago. Now we bring a totally new level of serial emulation for SmartPhones based on Windows Mobile platform! VSPD Mobile Phone Edition is capable of creating up to 20 pure virtual serial ports in your mobile system,. Free download of VSPD Mobile Phone Edition 3.1, size 118.78 Kb.
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Serial Splitter Mobile by Eltima is a new generation of professional system utilities for mobile devices. This is the software for splitting real serial ports into virtual ones in your favorite Smartphone, Pocket PC or other mobile embedded device. This is useful if you need several applications to work with the same serial port on your mobile. Free download of Eltima Serial Splitter Mobile 3.0, size 7.95 Mb.
Ideal for business or families. Revolutionary GSM mobile phone tracking technology now allows registered users to locate a mobile and then displays the
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Ideal for business or families. Revolutionary GPS + Cell ID mobile phone tracking technology, allows registered users to locate and watch the route of their mobiles in realtime from everywhere in the world. For Example: Your Children is on the way to school. At same time you could see over internet via Geo Maps wich streets and locations your. Freeware download of Earth Location for Java GPS CellIDPhones 1 40, size 13.31 Kb.
Offers vehicle navigation, tracking, dispatching and management systems.
Design and manufacture commercial two-way communication antennas & accessories for wireless Internet, networks, base stations, cellular, mobile, GPS & personal communication systems.
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Manufacturer of mobile data terminals interfaced to wireless networks including trunked radio, GPRS, Mobitex. Pagers, dispatch, AVL, and GPS solutions.
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Buffalo, N.Y. (WKBW release) -- The Meals on Wheels Foundation of Western New York received a $14,000 grant Tuesday from the UPS Foundation during a presentation at the UPS Customer Center.
The funds will be used to purchase audio-visual equipment for Meals on Wheels' Community Learning Center, a multipurpose facility that opened in 2009 and is part of the organization's commissary complex. The center is available to local nonprofit organizations to further advance their community-centered missions through trainings, fundraisers and other special events.
"Many nonprofits operate on small budgets, and do not have spaces for employee trainings, outreach seminars and even fundraisers. Through the grant from the UPS, we will be able to fully equip our learning center to provide a better educational experience for community members," said Benjamin A. Gair III, chief executive officer at Meals on Wheels Foundation of Western New York.
The Meals on Wheels Foundation of Western New York, Inc. raises awareness and financial support for Meals on Wheels programs throughout the region to ensure that every person who has a limited ability to prepare or obtain proper nutrition can be served through home-delivered meal programs.
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Anyone who's been thinking about buying a stringing machine will be excited to hear that the USRSA has updated it Stringing Machine Selection Guide for 2009. This is the only source that allows string machine buyers to compare the features from all the different brands in one easy guide.
Seven new machines have been added to the 2009 guide — two each from Gamma and Mutual Power, and one each from Prince, Wilson, and Yonex — and you'll see their chart entries below. To see how they compare to all the other stringing machines available, check out the complete listing. This listing includes machines currently available from 15 brands.
Remember, many machines offer options that can be added at the time of purchase. Our chart lists all the features that come standard with each machine, and we also list all the options available, along with the cost of adding each.
Stringing Machine Manufacturers
AG — gutermanintl.com, 800-343-6096
Alpha — email@example.com, 800-922-9024
ATS — atssports.com, 800-866-7071
Babolat — babolat.com, 877-316-9435
Gamma — gammasports.com, 800-333-0337
Klipper USA — klipperusa.com, 800-522-5547
Pacific North America — firstname.lastname@example.com, 941-795-1789
Mutual Power — mutualpower.net, 832-868-0168
Prince — princetennis.com, 800-283-6647
Silent Partner — sptennis.com, 800-662-1809
Stringway — firstname.lastname@example.com, 800-922-9024
Tecnifibre — tecnifibre.com, 888-838-3664
Wilson — wilson.com, 800-272-6060
Wise USA — tennishead.com, 888-836-7466
Yonex — yonexusa.com, 800-449-6639
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Va Jo Wa Golf Course Event & Tourney Schedule 2014
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Tuesday-Men's Twilight League at 5:30pm
Thursday-Good Time Golf at 5:30pm-varied format each week-open to Men, Women & Juniors
Saturday- Scramble 9 holes at 9am-random draw teams
Upcoming Events at VaJoWa:
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Tuesdays: Men's Twilight League - Join the summer long league that will match your two-person team against another team every week. Play is a best-ball format, with 2 points awarded for a win, and 1 point for a tie. Play is scheduled to begin at 5:30 p.m. every Tuesday evening. Playoffs will finish off the season, and the length of league depends on the number of teams that are entered. The men and ladies will alternate which nine holes they play from week to week.
Thursdays: Good Time Golf Night at 5:30; shotgun start (please arrive or call by 5:15 so we can plan on you). No sign-up necessary; fun, exciting, varied format each week. Open to Men, Women and Juniors.
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Sad news out of Wisconsin: Dennis Flemion, one half of the Milwaukee-based sibling duo the Frogs, disappeared over the weekend during a weekend family boating trip, and is currently presumed drowned. Of the growing population of rock & roll heaven, surely Flemion is one of the few members already eq ... More >>
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Superbowl XXXVIII
I voted for the Superbowl. I cannot believe that they would let 20 years go by, bring up the fact that it was 20 year anniversary, bring up the original ad from the superbowl, play the entire thing, and then ignore it. Would Apple, who just loves marketing tactics, pass up the opportunity to sell something "special"? I'm guessing "Special 20th Anniversary G5 cube-type thing".
Superbowl XXXVIII
I vote for a the iBox and front Projector will be introduce at the superbowl. Just a guess
Superbowl XXXVIII
Well, in a round-about way, Apple is doing something for the Superbowl already. They're teaming up with Pepsi for the iTunes music store song giveaway. Pepsi is going to be running commercials featuring teenagers who were busted by the RIAA for trading MP3 music - but they're all talking about how they download their music from iTunes now. Then they'll tell you how 1 in 3 Pepsi caps is a winner for a free song download.
Superbowl XXXVIII
Seeing what failures both the 10th Anniversary and the Cube were, it seems unlikely that combining the ideas will prove any better.
Superbowl XXXVIII
10th anniversary? I assume that you are talking about the 20th anniversary Mac (TAM) that was made for the 20th anniversary of Apple?
iPod to DV-Cam
I see an iPod that I can hook to my miniDV camera and use instead of tape.-- Hey, I can dream.
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If you noticed, Apple updated the ad with a new t-shirt on the girl and she has an iPod clipped to her waist. I believe that is all we can expect from Apple for the 20th Anniversary - not hardware. Besides, they have already announced: G5 XServes, 3 versions of XServes, iPod Minis (thanks M&Ms!), G5 Powerbooks, etc. About the only hardware that would make sense would be a mobile phone/PDA combo, but couldn't they just update the iPod software to do this? It would be great if Apple had the first OLED flexible screen product on the market (see Scientific American)!
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text: This isn't exactly period but I did use this recipe for my 12th Night Feast and got rave reviews: Venison (modern marinade) Basic Marinade – Ingredients 1 bottle of Burgundy or red wine1 large peeled and finely chopped white onion4 desertspoons of dark brown Muscovado sugar2 tablespoons of 'extra virgin' olive oil2 tablespoons of red wine vinegar2 large finely chopped carrots1 sprig of fresh Rosemary1 sprig of fresh Thyme1 sprig of Parsley6 large bay leaves6-10 whole peppercorns3 large whole cloves of garlic (crushed) Method • Sweat the vegetables in the oil then pour in the Burgundy. Add the rest of the ingredients and bring slowly to the boil. • Simmer for twenty minutes and then leave to cool. • When absolutely cold, place the venison in a pot and baste thoroughly with the marinade. Cover with tinfoil place in the bottom of a fridge and leave to marinate for as long as possible (2 days is good). Remember turn the meat before you go to bed and turn it again when you get up in the morning. • When you are ready to cook remove the venison from the marinade and let it drip dry, saving the marinade to make gravy. Don't forget to strain it to remove surplus solids. • Roast the venison until it matches your requirements. We tend to like it cooked medium rare. • Make your gravy in the roasting pan using the meat juices and strained marinade to provide additional taste. One thing to remember is don't overcook the venison. It is so lean it gets dry easily. Gunthar _________________________________________________________________ Stay organized with simple drag and drop from Windows Live Hotmail. http://windowslive.com/Explore/hotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_hotmail_102008


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U.S. Naval Forces Europe Commander Admiral Harry Ulrich brooded over the state of worldwide maritime awareness. It was 2005, yet despite the post-9/11 securities overhaul, global vessel traffic monitoring systems remained poor—capable of tracking only a handful of commercial vessels at a time. Understanding that efficient, safe, and secure maritime transportation is central to ensuring unimpeded trade and well as to safeguarding the United States from foreign threats, Admiral Ulrich challenged the Volpe Center—a component initiative of the U.S. Department of Transportation's Research and Innovative Technology Administration—to develop the technology to track vessel movement on the seas much more effectively.
Responding equally to the clear need and to Admiral Ulrich's appeal, Volpe Center staff built the Maritime Security and Safety Information System (MSSIS), an electronic repository of global traffic monitoring data amassed through the receipt of signals from: a) Automatic Identification System (AIS) transponders required on board commercial ships above a certain size, and designed to reduce collisions at sea; and, b) shoreside receivers positioned to collect AIS broadcasts. But, MSSIS is significant not only because of its effectiveness as a global traffic monitoring network, but because of the manner in which it was created and how it was applied. MSSIS is an outgrowth of two systems that were already in place—Transview, a real-time tracking and navigation system built for Panama Canal pilots; and, the Automatic Identification System, a vessel communications network operating on the Saint Lawrence Seaway. Building upon existing programs allowed Volpe Center staff to disprove industry experts who predicted that building a vessel traffic monitoring program would take years and would cost hundred of millions of dollars; MSSIS was built at low-cost in just one year. The existence of MSSIS, and the unclassified nature of the technology, also brought about an enhanced level of cooperation and trust among participating nations that work together to provide vessel monitoring data, cumulatively tracking tens of thousands of vessels in real-time. As of late 2007, over 30 nations participate in the MSSIS maritime data network.
Although the program remains in the early stages of development, the MSSIS system is poised to contribute significantly to efforts to combat piracy, terrorism, and smuggling (of humans, drugs, and weapons). In addition, it will help foster global economic stability by ensuring the secure global transfer of goods. The success of the MSSIS program is also increasingly regarding as a catalyst for promoting a greater willingness among nations to share resources and information in multilateral, unclassified exchange, and to participate in joint missions in order to enhance regional and global security.
Learn how the winners of the 2008 Innovations in American Government Awards are improving the lives of citizens through this public television documentary series, Visionaries. From improving the safety of international seaways to better preparing the next generation of high school graduates for the global economy, the 2008 Awards honor the best in government innovation at the federal, state, and city levels. The Innovations in American Government Awards is administered by the Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard Kennedy School.
The United States Department of Transportation's Maritime Safety and Security Information System is a novel, low cost, and rapidly deployed, global vessel traffic monitoring system used to enhance Global Maritime Domain Awareness. The program is a 2008 Innovations in American Government Award winner.
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County Executive Chris Collins attended a 'Meet the Candidate' event on Grand Island put on by Tea NY, where he spoke with supporters about his belief in small government and fiscal responsibility while touting his record over the last four years.
"I hope everyone can remember four years ago; it wasn't that long ago. We were effectively insolvent. We had a hard control board appointed by the state overseeing our finances. We had no cash reserves. We had no rainy day fund. We were deferring our pension costs and kicking that can down the street because we didn't have the money to pay for it," Collins said in an interview after the event.
His opponent, Comptroller Mark Poloncarz attended a candidates event in Alden Tuesday evening, and then stopped by Transit Lanes in Amherst to talk with potential voters and rally support.
"Just talking about the issues that are important to the voters. Job creation and the record of both myself and my opponent. I've found over $30 million in cost saving initiatives. Unfortunately most of them have not been implement. My opponent has raised taxes, cut services, gave raises to his cronies and we have 13,000 less jobs in Erie County than when he was elected," Poloncarz said after shaking hands with many inside the Transit Road bowling alley.
But in a campaign that has seen plenty of mud-slinging and accusations, as voters prepare to head to the polls on November 8, both candidates seem to be focusing on the issues.
"We have an approved 4-year plan with no tax increases, further reducing the county debt by another $100 million. Paying the pension costs today that other counties are deferring. Frankly, other counties are on quicksand, we're on solid footing," said Collins.
"The people of Erie County are my bosses," added Poloncarz.
"I don't think my opponent understands that. He like to dictate...but he doesn't understand that he's a public servant. I do. I'll never forget that my bosses are the hard working people of Erie County."
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Do you want lots of attention or improve your fake faint? Or do you just want to get dizzy for fun? Either way, here's a few methods that make a fake faint seem real and make you dizzy.
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Method 2 of 3: Nose Holding Technique
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It's about $95 off as I do have the remote. if they said it was only $100 I would bite the bullet, but we all know they will be basing this on shipping a refurbished unit if I asked for a replacement box.
Doesn't your home owners policy include theft?If it does file a claim.You MUST pay the listed price, as the terms of your agreement are included in your contract with Verizon. Doesn't matter whether it is a old or refurbished box or not, you agreed to pay when you started service.I would also call the contractor and see if you can get them to pay for the box. Heck send them a bill for it. If they don't respond have a lawyer send them a letter demanding payment or else you will be heading to small claims court.
Instead of trying to justify why you shouldn't pay this, don't fight Verizon - fight your contractor who lost it...
If you've had the box for three years or so you have essentially paid for it. You might want to mention this point politely in your next call to Verizon. I'm not sure it will get you anywhere, but it's worth a try.Otherwise you might want to add the cost of the box to your small claims case against the contractor.
Otherwise you might want to add the cost of the box to your small claims case against the contractor.
Here the cable company charges 150 for that box so verizon is pretty close. The other side of the coin means verizon now has to buy a new box to replace that box. Something they really shouldnt have to do. If i go rent a tool and i lose or break it the tool rental store doesnt charge me for a used tool. I get to buy a brand new one for them and i dont even get to keep it.
I seriously doubt that Verizon is giving out new boxes as a replacement. This would definitely be a refurbished one for a model that old.
Why should the rest of us customers have to absorb the cost of your replacement box as opposed to the one who actually lost it?Saying "Verizon should pay for it" is actually saying "You guys should all pay for it."
Whether they replace it with a new box or a refurbished box, they're still down a box and will have to replenish to either keep their spares at an acceptable level or meet demand for their service.They're down a box. It was in your possession when it went missing. Stop whining and pay up, then take it up with your contractor or get over it.You will suffer if you try to take a stand against Verizon, especially when the terms of your contract with them have you severely disadvantaged.
Verizon doesn't want those boxes in circulation. A high "replacement cost" ensures they get returned. Pay the bill or return the box. The concept is simple.--Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote. -Benjamin Franklin
The idea that he should pay whatever Verizon says it is worth is just absurd. How about if they wanted $500? $1,000? $10,000? The fact is the box has an actual value, and it may or may not be what Verizon asks. He should have to pay a fair price, not whatever number the incompetent people at Verizon's business office say it is worth. (And if anyone doesn't think they are incompetent, they should go back and read some of the horror stories on this site.)
Read the TOS and contract. This is not absurd...
The idea that he should pay whatever Verizon says it is worth is just absurd. How about if they wanted $500? $1,000? $10,000? The fact is the box has an actual value, and it may or may not be what Verizon asks. He should have to pay a fair price, not whatever number the incompetent people at Verizon's business office say it is worth. (And if anyone doesn't think they are incompetent, they should go back and read some of the horror stories on this site.)
Thank you, that is exactly my point. 3-4 years ago they might have been giving their customers new DCT 700 boxes. We all know that isn't the case today as if they sent you one it would be refurbished.To all of you that simply say pay the $199, I say to you in turn would you pay the same price for a used car vs. a new one? I would not be arguing with them if they asked for a more reasonable fee but to pay them $199 for this lost box is absurd!
I guess I agree. Bite the bullet and pay VZ what they want, then fight the contractor on the back end.------------------Had a similar deal in college - I was required to subscribe to the Wall St. Journal, and was to be delivered to the college. Never saw a single paper, so I didn't pay the bill. The distributor sent me notes saying the payment was overdue & I wrote back & said I never saw any papers. The last letter they sent me was along the lines of "we're going to sell your acct to a collection agency" -- they even went on to say how it was "people like me who make costs higher for the good customers....". They wanted $30. I wrote them a check, and was done with them. the 'principle of the thing' wasn't worth the damage I'd incur by fighting. A college-age person with a bad credit rating isn't a good thing. --Cant' remember what I told the prof about the absence of WSJ....
Your arguments on this board will not hold up in court. You can't argue contractual language for something you signed up for. It's the same thing as a car lease or car loan - you agreed to terms before receiving goods. Now you want to renegotiate the terms after you've used the goods. It doesn't work that way...I don't like how much I pay each month for my car lease - am I going to stop payment and tell my leasing company I want a lower monthly rate? They would laugh at me, and I wouldn't have my car.You or your contractor lost a leased cable box. That's what homeowners or business insurance is for. File an insurance claim after you pay Verizon, and stop arguing your point here.Refuse to pay Verizon, and welcome to a long 'argument' with a collections agency....
Also you can't prove it was refurbished. Pay it and move on, unless you don't care about your credit rating.
Also it does not matter if the STB was a refurb or Brand new. You were supplied with with a STB that provided the services you were subscribed to. You or your contractor were irresponsible and lost the STB. Quit your whining.-- My horse fights with me and fasts with me because if he is to carry me into battle, he must know my heart and I must know his or we shall never become brothers.-Plenty Coups, Chief of the Crow
$200 is not that bad. It sounds like you should have paid more attention to what they were doing.
I don't like how much I pay each month for my car lease - am I going to stop payment and tell my leasing company I want a lower monthly rate? They would laugh at me, and I wouldn't have my car.
Uh, no. It's not a rent-to-own program.
With a car, you have the choice of buying it or leasing it. You do not have that choice with an STB from Verizon.
sory to read of ur experience. i had same problem when i used craigslist to find floor workers. stupid me. good luck.
Let's also remember even though VZ paid probably somewhere around $200 for that equipment back when now... And have collected a lot of rental fees associated with it during the period the subscriber had utilized it...There are other lifecycle costs associated with VZ's aggregate STB "inventory" in the hands of those subscribers.E.g, customer support, software development, repairs, etc.Is VZ making a profit here? Yes. Is it extreme? It doesn't seem so when you look at the lifecycle costs of their STB inventory.
They probably paid a couple hundred more for it. Even with bulk discounts the boxes are very expensive. Just look at TiVo. The only way they can get the prices down so low is to subsidize the cost of the box.But ultimately, in the end, it makes no difference what a box costs. The customer signed an agreement to pay a certain amount if a box goes missing. I see no problem with it. If the user doesn't like the cost they will have to pay then they either should not have lost the box, or they should not have signed up for service. It's certainly not worth complaining continuously about it on a forum. Sure it sucks to have to pay it, but that's life. We don't get everything we want.
We have gotten off topic here with the new and used car analogy I made. The bottom line is that you as a customer have the right to ask for an accommodation from VZ or any other large company. Airlines charge large fees that are written into their contracts and frequently you can get them waived or reduced if you speak to the right person and have a VALID request. What has happened here is no different so please spare me the speech that I agreed to their charges when I signed a contract. Any customer is entitled to request some help from a service provider.
Then I suggest you ask Verizon and stop complaining here. Really, I feel bad that you got screwed by the contractor, but that box was your responsibility. You lost it. If you think it's worth dragging out by trying to find someone at Verizon to waive the fee, have at it.My advice, try Twitter or Facebook where they try to put on a happy face for everyone.


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5. Take Photos of Children
One of my favorite photos by Henri Cartier-Bresson is of this little boy carrying two bottles of wine under his arms, with the triumphant grin of a champion. When I first saw the image, it struck me in the heart as it reminded me of my own childhood. Henri Cartier-Bresson was a master at taking photos of children in their natural playful state, creating images that convey beautiful nostalgia to his viewers.
Nowadays it is incredibly difficult to shoot children (all of this hysteria in the news about pedophilia and kidnappings). However children are great subjects to shoot when it comes to street photography. In my experience I have noticed that they don't mind being in front of the camera, and often ignore it. Therefore you are able to capture their true essence: playful, curious, and often mischievous.
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On 31 Aug 2005, at 1:54 AM, Michael Scheidell wrote:
hi all,
a few classic question that i would appriciate any answers for.
1- i would like to briefly know how to quantify information
assets. In other words, i hear a pentester say: if a hacker
breaks in ur network, u will loose up to 40000$ for example.
how can he come up with such figures?
1. Construct a couple of scenarios of what might happen
3. The difference is what you are looking for
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text: Patricia Routledge and Prunella Scales star in Ladies of Letters and Ladies of More Letters, the two popular BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour series. Patricia Routledge is Vera Small and Prunella Scales is her friend (or maybe enemy), Irene Spencer. The two pass their time in regular correspondence and not an event goes by that is left unrecorded by the ladies of letters. Firstly there are the usual family problems to discuss - Vera's daughter is a single mother and always the cause of much frustration especially when she runs off to Australia where Irene is visiting her daughter. Vera's gay son Howey is more settled, sharing his sheep farm with partner Anthony. Always polite but not always nice, the two ladies' letters are often acerbic, one might even say bitchy, yet their subtle put downs create wonderful letters full of humour and insight into the ups and downs of family life.