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|By Mary E. O'Leary, New Haven Register, Conn.
|McClatchy-Tribune Information Services
A state senator from
While a known quantity in those circles, McKinney is a good example of how being influential in one world does not necessarily translate to name recognition across the state.
McKinney, 50, is in a low-key battle with
Foley, who ran for governor in 2010, has the name recognition -- thanks in part to the
A Quinnipiac Poll two months ago showed Foley and
When people were asked, however, if they had a favorable or unfavorable opinion of McKinney, three-quarters of them didn't know enough about the minority leader to say one way or the other.
McKinney is not worried. He expects to get his
There is agreement between McKinney and Foley on a number of issues but not in how they would approach the state's finances as they appeal to Republicans to go to the polls and choose between them.
McKinney said he has an edge over Foley in crafting a new state budget document since he has done it before.
"I don't think you can come in and learn that overnight, and given the deficit challenges the next governor faces, you have to be ready to do that. I have worked with the Democrats in the legislature and gotten things done," McKinney said.
The Republican minority leadership offers a budget plan each cycle, but its leaders are not actually at the table with Malloy and the Democratic leadership.
The state senator continues to promote the
"This was a proposed budget that relied on
McKinney, like Foley, would start with flat-funding discretionary spending, but he said you have to find between
Both Foley and McKinney agree that flat-funding discretionary spending would eliminate the projected
"Simply spending exactly what we spent last year may get us out of the deficit, but it gives us no room to lower taxes," he said.
Foley would go after inefficiencies in the budget and he puts a lot of weight on negotiating reductions in charges by hospitals and providers as a way to achieve substantial savings. But he sees no need to try to reopen state worker agreements on healthcare and pensions that are in effect until 2022.
McKinney says that is too big a factor "to push off the table."
"We have unfunded pension and healthcare liabilities that the people of
McKinney would look to get higher contributions to healthcare costs from state workers and he wants to end the ability of some employees to increase their pensions by working large amounts of overtime in their final years on the job. He is also opposed to professors who retire and collect a pension but return to state service on a per-diem basis.
"Those practices are fiscally irresponsible and we need to change them," he said.
McKinney said he would do all this through collective bargaining, but it was unclear how he would get workers to the table on a deal that is set for the next seven years.
He said the state employee health plan, of which he is a beneficiary, is "at least" double the cost of "a better than average" private insurance plan.
"I like to say state workers deserve an honest day's pay for an honest day's work. They deserve healthcare coverage and something for retirement ...Why not give state employees a healthcare plan that is better than the average in the private sector?" he asked.
McKinney would transition to private nonprofits to provide social services, giving as an example programs for the developmentally disabled that are now staffed by state workers. He said this would take several years to accomplish but could mean hundreds of millions a year in savings.
A 2011 Program Review Report out of the legislature found that on average it is about twice as costly to place intellectually disabled clients in public settings, while it found, on average, no better quality at the state facilities.
Labor advocates point to a June study by In The Public Interest that details workers losing wages and benefits when switched to a private employer in what they view as a "race to the bottom." They say this just increases income inequality and doesn't contribute to stable neighborhoods.
He said state employees have been cut back and state social workers, as well as
"Perhaps the senator should visit work sites to see what they do, rather than whipping up a public frenzy against state workers," Dorman said.
McKinney again said the services at the state-owned
The candidate said he would begin cutting the size of state government by taking advantage of the normal attrition rate, which sees between 900 to 1,000 workers retire yearly. He would look to a hard freeze on replacing vacancies. Again referring to the 2011 proposal , he would reduce managerial staff and increase the ratio of managers to workers.
"There are ways to do it without layoffs, but at the end of the day your obligation is to the over 3 million people in the state of
"It never made sense to me," McKinney said.
The state senator continues to make the case for an ethics commission at the legislature, but said besides himself, only Democratic state Sen
Mckinney was elevated to the minority leader position after one of the multiple political scandals that have played out in
Republican state Sen.
After he pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of threatening, a committee of the state
"I have proposed an
State Sen. Majority Leader
On other fiscal matters, don't look for increases in the state's payments in lieu of taxes under a McKinney administration.
The long-term legislator said he is willing to consider new proposals for PILOT, but he said you should not make a promise to municipalities that you are never going to give them less money.
Looney has proposed a new system where there would be tiered payments depending upon on how restricted a city's grand list is because of the tax exemption granted to colleges and hospitals. But they would get a specific percentage of the loss of taxes yearly so municipalities could count on it instead of watching it continue to drop.
The state promised to pay up to 77 percent of the tax value of these properties that are exempt and 45 percent for state-owned property, but it continues to be less than that as the pot shrinks each budget cycle and the need expands to more towns.
Malloy boosted it for fiscal 2015, but a March report showed it was closer to 30 percent for colleges and hospitals and 20 percent for state property in
"I think the system works pretty well. We just need to make sure that the level of funding is adequate. I don't know if the current level of funding is unfair," McKinney said.
He said missing from the discussion is the benefit that
McKinney said the assumption that if
"Why is the private business going to move (to
On education, McKinney agrees with Foley that the state should do away with the Common Core standards and its testing mechanism and replace it with
He said Malloy's education reforms didn't provide the flexibility promised high-performing schools and he said the focus should be kept on the lowest performing districts. McKinney supported Malloy's expansion of pre-school slots for families who need help affording them.
The candidate supports public charter schools but not at the expense of the traditional public school system. "Over 90 percent of our kids will learn in a public school, and we can't lose focus on that," he said.
"I think you need to look at their admission policies and their retention policies so they are having open admissions, so the percentage of ESL (English as a second language) students is the same as you might find in a traditional public school," McKinney said of public charters.
Connecticut Voices for Children found that statewide most school choice programs underserve bilingual students and special-needs students and fail to provide desegregated learning environments.
McKinney has called for the resignation of Education Commissioner
He was also critical of the state
It just lost the contract for the
"That's a failure of our
On reform of the Educational Cost Sharing formula, he said it would need to be coupled with mandate reform "if we are going to have a brutally honest discussion about state spending and municipal aid." He said mandate changes, politically, have been extremely difficult to accomplish.
McKinney said the Republicans didn't cut town aid in their proposed budgets.
Malloy kept his promise not to balance the
McKinney was asked if the state should be able to step in if there are concerns about how a school board is spending its funds.
He said he supports local control over the schools, but given the amount of funds that go to some school systems, "we should have the ability to make sure that money is being used as intended. There needs to be some oversight." But where you draw that line, "I don't have that answer," McKinney said.
On the
"I don't think there is any evidence that simply spending more money gives you a better education. It's much more complicated than that," he said.
McKinney, like Foley, has promised not to use the
Long-term he would prioritize fixing the state's rail line with buy-in from
The candidate said he is not in favor of legalizing marijuana, which he said is a gateway drug to other substances. He did not vote to approve the use of medical marijuana in the state.
"I could not and cannot get past that it is illegal to possess it (marijuana) under federal law," McKinney said.
He supports the use of enterprise zones with special tax incentives, such as
He did favor the use of unused tax credits by
McKinney voted for Malloy's deal with UTC because it has 1,500 small businesses with contracts over
"It would be much better to have rules that work for all," he said, such as the tax credits available to all film and digital companies.
McKinney would eliminate the Earned Income Tax Credit for low-income wage earners, which costs
He said he believes it is more fruitful than a minimum wage boost for the poor, but said a 30 percent EITC is too high and it should be 5 percent or 10 percent when the economy improves. McKinney would also decouple it from the federal income tax credit to eliminate fraud.
"So far, all we've seen is pandering from
On the major gun reforms he voted for last year, McKinney said: "I stand by my vote. I stand by the law. I wouldn't have changed it."
He again explained his remarks to the Quiet Corner Tea Party Patriots in April when he was asked theoretically if he would sign a repeal of the law if Republicans took over the
"If the legislature repeals something, I think the governor owes a great deference to what the legislature does, and I would," McKinney replied at the time.
McKinney, in a recent interview, said the political reality is that both branches of government need to work with each other to get their priorities through.
"If there is an overwhelming majority, especially from my party, who want to do something that is a priority to them, part of the balance of government is understanding that if I'm going to get my priorities through the legislature (on the budget), given that they are a co-equal branch, they are going to want me to work with them on their priorities. That's what I meant by it," McKinney said.
The candidate said it would never get to that point. "If the legislature was going to do something I compleletly disagreed with, I would be working with them to avoid that from happening."
On a related issue, McKinney said he favors some period of amnesty for gun owners who failed to register large capacity magazines and banned weapons at the first of the year.
"We have tax amnesty. We have corporate filing amnesty," he said.
McKinney said he would make it clear that state officials weren't going to gun stores and cross-referencing weapon purchases and registrations. "I think you have to state right up front that is not going to happen," he said.
McKinney said an amnesty on gun registration "would help diffuse the situation and people won't fear that it will lead to confiscation."
State registration for Republicans is 436,550, while the Democrats have 798,478 and 917,535 are unaffiliated voters as of
McKinney, who has three children and is the son of the late U.S. Rep.
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Although the England captain starts training this weekend after four weeks out with a broken bone in his left foot, Ferguson is anxious not to rush his recovery and has so far blocked the plans.
United want to monitor him closely for any adverse reaction to light jogging before making a decision on whether to allow him to join up with his England teammates in the United Arab Emirates next week. Ferguson believes the interests of the player and the England team are best served by Beckham staying behind.
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There were fears Beckham might miss the World Cup completely when he broke a metatarsal bone in his left foot during United's Champions League quarter-final against Deportivo La Coruna last month.
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But United are reluctant to let him leave Manchester too soon. Club sources have indicated that while they are sympathetic to the Football Association's appeals they feel the next few days are absolutely critical. They fear that all the progress of the last four weeks could be undone if he is rushed back and has to endure too many longhaul flights too soon.
Meanwhile Matt Jansen has revealed his bitter disappointment at being left out of England's squad yesterday.
The Blackburn striker was heavily tipped to be included but did not even get a call from Eriksson to explain his omission.
"I was driving home f rom the training ground today when my agent rang to tell me that I hadn't made the World Cup squad," he said.
"As you can imagine, I am bitterly disappointed about this.
"It's no secret that I was being tipped for inclusion so I'm feeling pretty shattered today. I've not heard from anyone in the England coaching set-up. But I have had a lot of calls of commiseration."
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By DAN KARELL
For the first time in 21 years, Everton left Old Trafford with three valuable points.
After failing to win a game at Manchester United for more than two decades, Roberto Martinez's men put in a terrific performance and defeated former Everton boss David Moyes, 1-0, on Wednesday evening in Manchester. Costa Rican international Bryan Oviedo, who was filling in for the injured Leighton Baines, scored the game-winning goal for the Toffees in the 86th minute to lift Everton to fifth in the English Premier League table, while Man United dropped to ninth.
Everton goalkeeper Tim Howard, who was credited with six saves that included vital stops on Man United's Wayne Rooney and Shinji Kagawa, earned his seventh shutout of the season.
The last time that Everton defeated Man United in Old Trafford, back in August 1992, saw former Major League Soccer players and managers Mo Johnston and Robert Warzycha both enter the scoresheet in a 3-0 victory.
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Evian TG weren't at all fazed by the fact that Paris Saint-Germain hadn't lost in 26 Ligue 1 matches.
The small club, who finished 16th in the league last season, ended PSG's tremendous run at home on Wednesday evening with a 2-0 victory, stunning Laurent Blanc and his team of high-paid stars. While PSG was missing the likes of Alex, Thiago Motta, and Ezequiel Lavezzi for the match, they still were able to put out a starting lineup including Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Edinson Cavani, and Thiago Silva.
After no goals were scored in the opening three quarters of an hour on a bitterly cold evening in Annecy, France, Evian substitute Clarck N'Sikulu and starting winger Modou Sougou each scored in the final 15 minutes of the match to take down the giants from the French capital.
Arjen Robben's eventful afternoon was cut short after just 16 minutes.
The Netherlands international put Bayern Munich ahead in the 4th minute from close range, but was stretchered off the field in the 16th minute following a scary collision with Augsburg goalkeeper Marwin Hitz, who was shown a yellow card. According to Bayern Munich's website, the preliminary diagnosis of the injury was a deep laceration in Robben's knee.
Bayern went on to win the match, 2-0, to advance in the DFB Pokal (German Cup), but more worrying is the health of Robben. The German champions are already missing Franck Ribery due to injury and with the FIFA Club World Cup set to commence later this month, Bayern could be without a few key pieces heading into the tournament.
Nottingham Forest midfielder Nathaniel Chalobah has claimed that he was racially abused at half time of his team's match against Millwall. (REPORT)
Brazil is preparing to set up "World Cup courts" to deal with the expected uptick in violence from protesters and demonstrators during next year's World Cup. (REPORT)
Real Madrid is hoping to tie up injured midfielder Sami Khedira to a new contract through 2018. (REPORT)
Brazilian legend Pele has refused an invitation from Brazil President Dilma Rousseff to attend the FIFA World Cup draw on Friday, claiming that he wouldn't be comfortable at the event. (REPORT)
Roma midfielder Miralem Pjanic has admitted that it's been difficult to play without captain Francesco Totti on the field. (REPORT)
What do you think of these reports? Impressed with Everton's win? Surprised that PSG lost at Evian? Think Robben could be out for the Club World Cup?
Share your thoughts below.
Tony in Quakeland
I have said since the start of the season that man U was going to drop out of the top four. By now, they need to worry about the top six.
Robben probably injured himself on that bad goal celebration over the weekend.
he collided with the goalie on an offsides play and it looked pretty bad. if the he would of been onsides by half a foot, then the play would have resulted in a penalty. The goalie did get a yellow card which tell you the magnitude of the collision. get well ajren
As a Millwall fan I can say that Chalobah's claims are absurd. First of all he claimed that the abuse he received wasn't worthy of mentioning to the match officials during the game, but then after the game is claiming that he received racist abuse that broke his concentration at halftime. Well which is it?
This reeks of the claims by Sordell last season, when it was found that the fan yelling abuse at him was a 13 year old Wall fan who didn't even say anything racist.
Players and the media loves to use Millwall's reputation against them, but if one did any investigation they'd find that those who run the club (an American chairman, btw) have done more to snub racism out in the sport than most other clubs in England.
On an interesting note, FIFA conducted a rehearsal for the World Cup draw. In the rehearsal the US was put in group B with Uruguay, Nigeria and Croatia. Not too bad of a group if it was the real thing. This was just a rehearsal though so won't have any bearing on the group we finally end up with.
The problem is, it's group B and Group A was Brazil, France, Nigeria, Italy. So, both qualified teams from Group B would have been in dire straits for the second round.
The players for Evian TG never seem to get dehydrated.
What a win for Everton! I always like Moyes, but Roberto Martinez really is a better coach. Not just saying that because of this win. I'm saying that because Everton has as good as chance as any to make it to Europe next year.
Is Roberto doing US TV WC coverage again?
Pretty much a coup if so.


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The Annual European Student Competition "Exploring the Ancient Greek Language and Culture" is an international competition held in Europe and in Mexico. It takes place yearly, and is to be considered among the most important high-school student competitions in classical languages held in Europe.
This competition is organised by the Greek Ministry of National Education and Religious Affairs, and more specifically the Directorate of International Relations in Education and the Pedagogical Institute. Co-organisors are the Hellenic Language Heritage, the Society of Greek Philologists,[1] the European Cultural Centre of Delphi,[2] the Organization for the Internationalization of the Greek Language[3] and the Pan-Hellenic Association of Teachers for the Greek Language and Civilization.[4]
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* ELECTRIC SYSTEM - One other major feature in game is electricity which will provide you with different options in the game - repairing your robot, powering up the lights and your defense system (turrets). We are in the process of making various props that will need a source of energy. Generators will be that source and with cables you'll have the option to connect devices yourself. You will have to fill generators with fuel to get them to work.
Hello, Neighbour!
Hello Neighbor is a stealth horror game about sneaking into your neighbor's house to figure out what horrible secrets he's hiding in the basement. You play against an advanced AI that learns from your every move. Really enjoying climbing through that backyard window? Expect a bear trap there. Sneaking through the front door? There'll be cameras there soon. Trying to escape? The Neighbor will find a shortcut and catch you.
Candle is an adventure with challenging puzzles. Play as Teku, a young man on a dangerous journey to rescue his tribe's shaman from the evil Wakcha-Clan. But the way is littered with sinister traps and difficult obstacles. To master these challenges you need to have keen eyes and a good sense for your environment, or your next step may be your last.
But Teku has a special gift: his left hand is a candle. Let it be a bright beacon to drive off your enemies or to shed light on dark places.
Gorgeous hand-painted watercolor visuals give Candle that special flair, as all backgrounds and characters have been carefully drawn and then scanned, picture after picture. The game consistently feels like a living painting.
Outlast II
Outlast 2 is the sequel to the acclaimed survival horror game Outlast. Set in the same universe as the first game, but with different characters and a different setting, Outlast 2 is a twisted new journey into the depths of the human mind and its dark secrets. No conflict is ever black and white.
Earthlock: Festival of Magic
An original turn-based role-playing game set in a world of machines and magic, a world that stopped spinning thousands of years ago.
Rich, non-linear story
Turn-based combat (No Active Time Battle)
Combat pairs (Allows more variations to your battle team)
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how rare is the 05-07 ST?
I think instead of heavily modifying my 2005 2.0 5 speed,I have made up my mind to just start out with a 05-07 ST. The problem is finding one that is even somewhat local to me. In the two years I have owned my 05,I have only seen ONE st,and none for sale. How rare was this car anyhow? I have looked at every focus sitting a parking lot,driving down the road,etc and only saw one in two years? Maybe it is just m area that doesn't have very many of them.
ive seen a few st local being sold in my area, but your right, its rarely seen on dealers or online for that matter. Not sure on the number of builds either...
The used car manager at my dealership traded one six months ago; anb bought it up for himself before anyone there knew it had been traded! An 05 ST... he said he'd sell "one day", but he's having too much fun right now!
Yeah and I have only found one on ebay in the last 6 months or so,and it was in Texas. Might just have to bite the gas mileage bullet and get a fox body or SN95!![woot]
I've only ever seen 2 for sale locally, and one being driven in my town.
My 07 is the only one I've seen with SAP for sale in the area. I've seen one or two non SAP but they were in bad shape.
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Ive never seen one in tx and ive been here over a year. Back home they were in every corner, with their big a$$ wing
I've only seen 2 or 3 since I've owned mine (5 yrs). None with the SAP, except for mine.
Ive seen a few by me but when i first bought it i didnt realize what it actually was since i just starting working at ford :p
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ATLANTA - Spies are infiltrating local businesses to catch employees stealing.
The spies are undercover employees hired by businesses to stop an estimated $40 billion dollars in losses every year. On Thursday, Channel 2's John Bachman got a rare chance to talk to one of those spies about life undercover.
"It's estimated that 40 percent of all business failures are attributed in some way to employee theft," said Greg Norred of Norred & Associates Inc.
Cameras catch offenders in some cases, but undercover employees can determine who's involved to build a stronger case to prosecute.
"Most businesses successful with undercover operations are warehousing, manufacturing and retail," Norred said.
He cited examples of loaders overloading trucks and drivers selling extra on the street.
"Atlanta is a huge market for undercover investigations," he said. "There's a lot of crime here, and we have a lot of business here, and we've got a lot of distribution centers."
There are eight undercover operations currently under way.
"Maintaining your cover is biggest challenge," the undercover employee told Bachman.
The employee asked not to be named.
"Employees are taking out bags of merchandise, literally bags of merchandise. You're looking at how brazen it is," he said. "Someone was brazen enough to take two pieces of earthmoving equipment and you're like, 'wow.'"
Norred said retailers lose more from their own employees than from shoplifters.
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When the police team arrested Ali and was taking him tothe police station the locals gheraoed them and tried toprevent them from taking Ali to the police station.
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Local Trinamool Congress leader Abu Taher alleged thatsix persons were injured in the police lathicharge.
Trinamool Congress MP Suvendu Adhikary alleged that thepolice was framing false cases against TC leaders and workersand arresting them but not taking any action against CPI(M)leaders against whom cases are pending.
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April RabkinMay 24, 2007 3:03 PM
We were hoping the governor of Oklahoma would veto a ban on abortion in state hospitals, with exception for only rape, incest, and when a woman's health is in jeopardy. But Gov. Brad Henry, a Democrat, let it pass yesterday. Here's the fate of other abortion bills this week.
Diane E. DeesMay 24, 2007 2:37 PM
Last November, someone set fire to the central wing of a high school in Jena, Louisiana. Then white students beat up a black student because he went to their party. Soon after that, a white adolescent pulled a shotgun on three black adolescents in a convenience store, and then four black students jumped a white student as he came out of the school gym. Following that incident, in which the student received minor injuries, six black students were expelled and were charged with attempted second-degree murder. They face up to a hundred years in prison.
Conversely, the white boy who beat up the student at the party was charged with simple battery, and the boy who held three others at shotgunpoint was not charged with anything. However, his victims were charged with aggravated battery and theft after they grabbed the shotgun in self-defense.
If this sounds like scenes from a 1950s newsreel, that's because Jena is stuck in time when it comes to the issue of racial equality. Enter Jena mayor Murphy McMillian, who says that "Race is not a major local issue. It's not a factor in the local people's lives."
No kidding--he said that.
The latest incident at the high school involves some black students who attempted to sit on the "white side" of the school yard. There, they saw three nooses hanging from a tree. Enter school superindendent Roy Breithaupt, who says that "Adolescents play pranks. I don't think it was a threat against anybody."
Again, he really said that.
The Jena community isn't alone in dismissing violence and threats against women, people of color, the disabled, and members of the LGBT community as "pranks" and "jokes." But this particular piece of denial is so over the top, it would probably shock most reasonable people. The local ACLU calls Jena a "racial powder keg."
Jonathan SteinMay 24, 2007 10:25 AM
Two days ago I wrote that the guest worker program in the Senate's immigration bill would probably be the first provision to be changed or killed. That's exactly what has happened.
Yesterday the Senate overwhelmingly voted to cut the guest worker program in half. Now instead of 400,000 immigrants receiving visas annually to work temporarily in the United States, only 200,000 will. The votes to reduce the number came from Democrats who see the guest worker program as a repeat of the bracero program intended to provide cheap labor to big business and Republicans who see the whole bill as soft on illegal immigration. Pro-business Republicans voted to keep the number at 400,000.
See how the vote broken down along party lines here. See Mother Jones massive and excellent feature on immigration, "Exodus," here.
Jonathan SteinMay 24, 2007 9:43 AM
The ABC News story about covert operations in Iran just turned into a political football, and Mitt Romney, in seeking to emphasize his tough guy credentials yet again, is making an ass of himself.
Two days ago, ABC's investigative unit revealed that the "CIA has received secret presidential approval to mount a covert "black" operation to destabilize the Iranian government." But the CIA isn't allowed to kill anyone because the presidential finding authorizing the black op is "non-lethal." In fact, the main thrust of the thing is informational and financial -- the CIA is charged with executing a "coordinated campaign of propaganda, disinformation, and manipulation of Iran's currency and international financial transactions." This is according to current and former officials in the intelligence community.
Now, Kevin Drum makes a couple very good points. The whole leak is suspicious. Insiders go to the press when they feel the CIA or any other government agency has clearly crossed the line -- the NSA wiretapping story, for example, was uncovered by the New York Times because government officials were willing to come forward and say, "This is totally not kosher and public outrage is the only way we have of putting a stop to it." As Drum writes, this business about "disinformation" and "manipulation of Iran's currency" is "just about the mildest possible covert operation you can imagine. Why would anyone at the CIA, let alone multiple sources, be so outraged by it that they decided to leak its existence to ABC News?"
It's a good question. Moreover, writes Drum, "the CIA is mostly populated by hardnosed Republicans who hate countries like Iran and love covert operations like this that strike back at them. It's their bread and butter.... they really, really don't make a habit of disclosing active covert operations to major news organizations. That can get people killed, whether the operation itself is lethal or not."
So the CIA has no reason to be up in a tizzy about this new presidential authorization to go after Iran. Then why did multiple members of the intelligence community go to the press? Drum speculates this was a plant coordinated by the government "as a way of sending a message to Iran."
Supporting Drum's theory is the fact, recently revealed by ABC, that the White House had six days to register any objection at all to the story, and they chose not to act.
The story pretty clearly came out with the Bush Administration's consent.
But that isn't stopping Mitt Romney from trying to score cheap political points. The web is flooded with stories blaring the headline "Romney: ABC Story Puts Lives at Risk." Says Romney, "The reporting has the potential of jeopardizing our national security... it has the potential of affecting human life."
The president of ABC News, David Westin, shot back that ABC wouldn't run a story (and hasn't run stories in the past) that put lives at risk, and that American covert ops in Iran have been reported before. "The facts don't bear out the accusations (from Romney)," Westin said. "I even think that any brief look at the facts says that. This is not a complicated one."
Romney isn't dumb. He has to know this is a story the government intended to put in the public sphere, either to send a message to Iran, as Drum wrote, or amidst news that Iran is three to eight years from having a nuclear weapon, to send a message to the American people. "We're doing something about this," they're saying. "Don't worry." Romney knows this. But it's an opportunity to look macho. Chest-puffing, on display during the second GOP debate when the topic of torture came up, is perhaps the most obscene and disgusting part of the GOP primary.
Oh, and PS -- I'd be willing to bet a ton of money that there are other, more "lethal" covert ops going on in Iran right now, but no official in the intelligence community would ever come forward to tell the press, because it would be a PR nightmare for the CIA and could more directly jeopardize national security.
Jonathan SteinMay 23, 2007 5:02 PM
Michael Crowley excerpts a portion of Bob Shrum's memoir on The Plank today. Shrum, for those who have managed to keep their minds unpoisoned by the insanity of Washington's consultant circles, is a man who has consulted for eight Democratic presidential candidates. All eight have lost. You might think after the fourth, fifth, or sixth loss Shrum would be out of work. You obviously don't know anything about politics.
Shrum writes at length about his experience as a consultant for John Kerry's 2004 campaign. Crowley highlights a disturbing passage about Time columnist and world class blowhard Joe Klein:
Klein himself was trying to play many parts. He was not only reporting on the campaign and preparing to write a book about consultants; he was also a constant critic and yet another sometime adviser. After the Kerry appearance at the Iowa Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner, he told [Kerry spokesman] David Wade: "Great speech, but it's too late" -- then turned around and stalked away. With Klein, it was almost always too late for us, in part because we didn't always take his persistent advice. He would chastise Kerry on the phone when he didn't like a speech, counseling both Kerry and me about what the candidate should say and what our strategy should be.
Okay, so it's weird (and probably unethical) that a famous journalist who writes regularly about the presidential campaign is advising one of the candidates. But here's something even more odd:
Rejecting [Klein's] advice was uncomfortable for Kerry, who liked Joe, craved his approval, and worried what his columns would say when we didn't take his recommendations.
Jesus! I'm not even angry that I supported a guy so insecure and unsure of his convictions that he considered how a egomaniacal columnist would evaluate his actions before he took them. I'm angry that I work in a profession where writers and their subjects become so intertwined that it affects the subjects' behavior. How can one reasonably argue that it doesn't affect the writers' also?
I'm not one of the bloggers who criticizes journalists and their sources for running in the same social circles. I've always assumed that these people can separate their personal feelings and professional responsibilities. But if this is how journalism works inside the beltway, good heavens, count me out.
Mother JonesMay 23, 2007 4:17 PM
Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings has an uncanny ability to whisk responsibility away from her turf, the Department of Education. In the first 30 seconds of her Daily Show interview last night, she laughingly deferred Jon Stewart's joke about Lunchables to agriculture officials, and Stewart's food pyramid question to Health and Human Services.
But her "hands are tied" arguments are wearing thin.
With inappropriate dealings in the $85 billion student loan industry widely reported, alleged mishandling of the Reading First early literacy program and the pending reauthorization of No Child Left Behind this year, she's got a lot of stepping up to do.
One education blogger even draws parallels between Spellings and Alberto Gonzalez, saying that if Gonzalez weren't hogging the spotlight so much right now, Spellings would be getting more attention.
That's not the comparison to be shooting for, especially with her qualifications in question. After admitting to during a Labor, Health and Human Services Appropriations Subcommittee hearing in March that the only teaching she had ever done was as an uncertified substitute early in her career, and that her college pursuits were in political science and journalism, one frustrated congressman said there was a "disconnect" in her ability to execute on meaningful public policy.
Still, Spellings stood firm on these issues during a recent oversight committee hearing testimony, and recently told NPR that she feels "very good" about the "aggressive role" she has taken in the "raging fire" that is American higher education policy. Problem is, she also called the student loan scandals a "teaching moment for us," too.
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Diane E. DeesMay 23, 2007 3:19 PM
Former Tennessee senator, stunningly bad actor, and possible presidential candidate Fred Thompson has seen fit to shut down his political action committee. The PAC in question has raised $66,700 for election campaigns and committees in the four years it has been in existence. It has also paid $178,000 in consulting fees to Daniel Thompson Associates. Daniel is Fred Thompson's son, and while it is legal to hire a family member to consult for your PAC, it is quite obviously questionable for that family member to get more than two and a half times the funds raised to support the PAC's reason for being.
Thompson, who is known for how little he accomplished in the U.S. Senate, is getting a closer look from the Center for Responsive Politics.
Mother JonesMay 23, 2007 2:22 PM
What's the penalty for the alleged gangrape of a drunk, 17-year-old girl at a party with 10 of your buddies? Bupkus, said the Santa Clara, California District Attorney's office yesterday.
The alleged rape occurred March 3 at a wild, off-campus party hosted by a member of the DeAnza College men's baseball team in San Jose, California. Three partygoers, members of the school's women's soccer team, said they saw a young girl on a mattress on the floor, clothes around her ankles and vomit on her face, with one man on top of her and approximately 10 more looking on in a dark bedroom. Feeling "something wasn't right," the girls pushed their way into the room and rushed the victim the the hospital.
In the months since the contested rape, a grand jury has taken testimony in the case, DNA samples from some partygoers have been obtained, but an assistant district attorney cited "insufficient evidence" as the reason the DA would not prosecute. The men will not be charged with a crime, not even statutory rape. The only consequences so far have been that eight baseball players were suspended, resulting in the cancellation of three games. At least one of the players brought in by the grand jury thinks justice has been served: "From the beginning, I kind of felt like it was a witch hunt and the De Anza players were victims, and not really this girl," pitcher Chris Knopf told the San Jose Mercury News.
One of the infamous Duke lacrosse players made a similar statement just last month when prosecutors dropped all charges in that case, saying that "this entire experience has opened my eyes up to a tragic world of injustice." He was talking about himself, not the African American stripper hired for the players' party.
Undoubtedly, the Duke case and its rush to judgment is in the minds of those at the Santa Clara DA's office when they say they don't have confidence the case could be proved without a doubt. The District Attorney in the Duke case, Michael Nifong, was removed from the case and now faces ethics complaints from the North Carolina state bar related to the year-long investigation. The Santa Clara DA office may be looking to avoid a similar debacle. But there are essential differences in the two situations: this girl was underage, and three eyewitnesses have come forward.
Granted, eyewitness accounts are not always what they seem, something the media often glosses over, but the Santa Clara sheriff's office says it's not yet done investigating the case. Two of the witnesses have gone to the media to draw attention to the case. "What we saw was rape. It was a crime," one told told a local television station. The other said the lack of charges "makes us think that no girl is ever going to want to come forward and say they were violated as this girl was, because they're going to think it doesn't even matter...But it does."
Jen Phillips
Jonathan SteinMay 23, 2007 1:51 PM
From time to time, members of the liberal blogosphere will ask their brethren to slow the '08 optimism. Yes, the Republican frontrunners are all comically out of step with the GOP base, but one of them has to win the primary, and at that point the winner's moderate stances will make him appealing to independents. It may be a tougher road for the Dems than anyone thinks.
My response is this. Yes, some independents may find Romney's previous embrace of gay rights appealing, and some may find Giuliani's pro-choice position attractive, and yet others may find McCain's history of bucking the Republican party line honest and refreshing. I'll concede that: let's say the Republicans manage as much support from independents at the Democrats do.
The Republicans are still more likely to lose. Why? Because the Republican base is so depressed by their options and so sick of the mismanagement of the people they sent to the White House last time that they won't vote. And now my theory has evidence to back it up:
In Kentucky's gubernatorial primary, held yesterday, 348,759 Dems cast votes in the Democratic primary. Only 202,131 Republicans cast votes in the GOP one, despite the GOP race being higher profile. That's less than two-thirds, and in a reliably red state! It's irrefutable: Republican voters are disillusioned, and disillusioned voters don't make contributions, don't walk precincts, and don't head to the polling booth on election day.
Now consider this: if just five percent of the voters who voted for Bush in 2004 choose to stay home in 2008, and the Democratic nominee gets the same number of votes as Kerry, the Democrat wins the popular vote. You can find 2004 results here, do the math yourself.
And the Democrats' X-factor? No Karl Rove pulling get-out-the-vote magic tricks out of his hat.
Jonathan SteinMay 23, 2007 1:13 PM
With frontrunner status comes increased scrutiny. Is that bad news for Mitt Romney?
According to new polls, the former one-term governor of Massachusetts is leading the Republican field in Iowa and New Hampshire. And leading in a big way: the Des Moines Register puts Romney at 30 percent in Iowa, compared to 18 for McCain and 17 for Giuliani. A Zogby poll in New Hampshire shows Romney at 35 percent, with both McCain and Giuliani stuck at 19. Those are leads big enough to withstand the vagaries of public opinion.
A quick aside: Giuliani lost his lofty lead as Republican voters began to hear more and more about his positions on social issues, the conventional wisdom goes. Then how to explain Romney's rise? He previously held all of the same positions as Giuliani -- he's just trying to lie about them while Giuliani is standing for what he believes in. Says a political scientist at Northeastern University in Boston, "After studying presidential nominations for 30 years, I've never seen somebody who has so completely renounced his past record when he decided to run for president." That's what the GOP wants? That's the best they can get?
Anyway. McCain, for one, isn't taking the Romney Rise quite so well. Quotes from the McCain camp include:
"The question for voters is, does a one-term governor from Massachusetts have the foreign policy experience necessary to deal with the challenges of today's world?"
"Mitt Romney has been consistent in one regard: that nearly every position he holds now is opposite of what it was when he was governor of Massachusetts."
So now all the pot shots are directed at Romney, and they will continue to be until someone else takes the lead. I'm sure Romney, Giuliani, and McCain are all loading up attacks on Fred Thompson, should he step into the ring jump out to a strong start. The media scrutiny gets tougher too. AlterNet is slamming Romney for having a poor record on diversity and minorities, and Time recently published "Tongue Tied - Mitt Romney's Top Ten Gaffes." The question for presidential contenders is not who can earn the spotlight, but who can survive it.
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Rajon Rondo has always been known to carry a chip on his shoulder on the court,but it seems he's also that way off the court as well. ESPNBoston recounted Rondo's reaction to the 'chummy' nature of today's NBA. When asked if Rondo would be hanging out with Wade and Melo Rondo replied; Why would I? He then continued No, I don't do much socializing…If I make it, I hope one of my homeboys makes it, Josh Smith. If he makes it, KG makes it, we'll all hang out…I don't try to be friends with anyone outside my team. You have to respect Rondo's 'old school' mentality. From the way he plays–classic point guard, to the way he conducts himself off the court by not giving into the overly fraternal nature of today's sports. Whether you love Rondo's honesty, or find him smug, there still much to be said about someone who takes the same chip on his shoulder he has in the game and into real life. Passion?
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Indore, Oct 13: Unbeaten in the tour they might be, but Indian batsman Rohit Sharma's form is giving South Africa sleepless nights and the Proteas are planning to get the marauding right-hander out of their way in the first 10 balls itself in the 2nd ODI here tomorrow.
Aware of Rohit's destructive abilities, South Africa's bowling coach Charl Langeveldt is busy working out a plan to dismiss the Indian batsman early.
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"At the moment he (Rohit) is really batting well. He bats well in Indian conditions. He is a great player. The first 10 balls to him are important. You need to try and get him out in the first 10 balls. We will probably look to bowl the glory ball. He is one of those players who kicks on if he gets past 20," Langeveldt told reporters in the pre-match press conference at the Holkar Stadium here today.
Happy with South Africa's performance so far in the tour, Langeveldt said adaptability is key to success for any team in Indian conditions. ('Rahul Dravid Dressing Room' in Indore)
"So far it has been great. We had three wins. In the last 10 overs (in Kanpur) we were looking down the barrel but we did very well to come over the line and win the game," the former Protea fast bowler said. (If we want to be No. 1, can't commit small mistakes: Rohit Sharma)
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"If we assess the conditions quick enough, we try to change things. We just don't bowl yorkers in the death overs. The guy that adapts quickly will get success quickly. In training as well our focus is on bowling everything." (5 strategies for 2nd ODI)
"We have been really working hard. In the past there were instances when we lost big moments. We are not trying to change a lot and probably we will go with the same seam attack. In India you are going to go for runs. So if you can control the last 5 and first 10 overs, then you can win games," he added.
Langeveldt also said that there are doubts over middle-order mainstay Faf du Plessis' availability tomorrow as he is down with a knee problem from which he recovered just before the India tour.
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Bahrain has stripped a leading Shia spiritual leader of his Bahraini nationality following a request from the interior ministry.
The Bahrain News Agency quoted the interior ministry on Monday as saying that Sheikh Isa Qassim had played a key role in creating an "extremist" sectarian atmosphere and working to divide the society.
After the decision was announced, several hundred Qassim supporters gathered outside of his house in the mostly Shia village of Diraz, carrying posters and chanting religious slogans.
Sayed al-Wadaei, director of advocacy at the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy, said in a statement that the decision will escalate tensions and may lead to violence.
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Bahrain's interior ministry quickly issued a warning against attempts to create what it called "security disturbances".
An interior ministry statement said Qassim had endorsed "the theory of theocracy" and had used his sermons to serve foreign interests, an apparent reference to Iran.
It said Qassim had harmed the supreme interests of the country in doing so.
A broadly worded article of the law in Bahrain allows the government to strip citizens of their nationality if "the person causes harm to the security of the state".
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Qassim is the latest Bahraini Shia to lose his nationality in Bahrain. Rights groups say at least five were deported in recent months after having their citizenship stripped.
Recently the country's largest Shia opposition group, Al-Wefaq, was suspended and Sheikh Ali Salman, its secretary general, sentenced to nine years prison.
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Bahrain has been in turmoil since a 2011 uprising backed by majority Shia Muslims demanding greater rights from the Sunni-led monarchy.
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