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By Ed Epstein
With a testy, weary House clamoring to start its summer recess, leaders of a sharply divided Democratic Caucus met Aug. 3 to decide whether to accept an extension of the government's powers to eavesdrop in terrorism investigations, which the Senate had just passed before leaving town, or fight on for the civil liberties protections that many liberals were demanding. And congressional Republicans and President Bush, anticipating the Democrats would take the latter course, were revving up their attack: The new party in charge of the House, they said, was willing to coddle terrorism suspects -- a charge that stung for the moderate Democrats who held their seats by close margins.
In the end, it was Nancy Pelosi, who had spoken often and sharply about what she saw as an erosion of civil liberties because of the Bush administration, who decided to try to cut her party's potential losses and ward off such criticism. She shut down the intramural debate, overrode her own liberal allies and announced that the caucus would accept the Senate bill for six months and come back to fight anew in the fall.
'As romantic as it would have been to stay on, it wasn't going to lead anywhere,'' recalled Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers Jr. of Michigan, who was at the side of the Speaker of the House when she made the call. 'If she listened to the more passionate members, we could have descended into disunity.''
In the year since the Democrats won control of the House for the first time in a dozen years, Pelosi has made it clear that while she is an activist -- a decisive and partisan Speaker who often gets involved in the nitty-gritty details of legislation -- she also is a pragmatist who is unafraid to disappoint her liberal base in the cause of maintaining or even expanding her party's House majority in 2008 and beyond.
The decision to extend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) allowed her to extract herself and her party from a difficult situation, even though her caucus is still wrestling with Republicans on the issue. She has also tread carefully on questions of taxes, followed a non-activist path on social issues such as gun control and abortion and completely closed down talk of presidential impeachment.
'She has lived down the image of a San Francisco liberal,'' said Florida's Allen Boyd, a leader of the Blue Dog Coalition -- Southern-dominated, fiscally conservative House Democrats who now meet regularly with Pelosi. 'She's a very practical, tough strategist who knows what people can do and what they can't.''
The measure of control she exerts is reflected in almost every question that comes before her caucus, from what to serve at breakfast meetings to how to put together climate change legislation. Her Democratic allies in the House -- and at the moment there are very few in the caucus who don't describe themselves that way -- say they wonder how she maintains this degree of involvement without getting bogged down.
'She's Speaker Houdini,'' said Democrat Emanuel Cleaver II of Missouri, a leader of the Congressional Black Caucus. 'She balances everything, all the balls in the air.''
In her 10 months as Speaker, Pelosi has emphasized building and sustaining consensus in a caucus that has a long and storied history of being riven by ideological divisions. To a large degree, she has been successful, her protracted honeymoon helped along by the president's unpopularity and by a relatively disjointed and dispirited state of affairs in the House Republican caucus, which is struggling to find its voice as the minority opposition.
But the formula for her relative success so far doesn't offer much insight into how Pelosi will fare when her leadership inevitably hits sustained rough waters or when committee chairmen and other powerful House Democrats begin to chafe under her strong hand. Nor does it portend how House Democrats will operate, or how Pelosi's own leadership style may evolve, if a fellow Democrat is elected president next year.
And this month, for the first time, her leadership has shown more signs of strain. In three quick days, the Armenian genocide resolution that she ardently supports lost so much of its backing that she pulled it off the debate agenda; the promised Democratic rewrite of the FISA law ran into trouble on several fronts and was delayed; and her public campaign for an override of Bush's veto of children's health insurance legislation came up short.
It was her roughest period since the outset of her speakership, when the dogged loyalty Pelosi gives to her allies and the longstanding grudges she holds against foes -- qualities many describe as her political Achilles' heel -- led her to stick with her friend John P. Murtha of Pennsylvania as her choice for majority leader long after it became clear he would be soundly trounced by her frequent rival Steny H. Hoyer of Maryland.
Political analysts say challenges from within the Democratic ranks are likely to pose greater problems for the Speaker in the long run than those posed by Republicans, as she risks disappointing liberals who expected the newly empowered Democrats to lean harder to the left in establishing and pushing their party's agenda.
But overall, says David Brady, congressional scholar at the conservative Hoover Institution at
Consensus Driven
Ever since Pelosi was elected Speaker in January, she has put a high priority on the happiness and political success of the 42 House Democratic freshmen. She calls them the 'majority makers'' and invites them to the Speaker's conference room every Wednesday morning. And early on, the 67-year-old Pelosi -- a mother of five, with a seventh grandchild on the way, and a proud chocoholic -- made it clear to the newcomers that she was firmly in charge of every detail of the House's operations: She ordered the menu be changed from crumb cake to chocolate donuts.
'It was a small but striking example of her leadership,'' Paul W. Hodes of New Hampshire, the freshman class president at the time, recalled -- only half in jest. 'She's a strong personality and has very clear ideas.'
On more serious topics, though, Pelosi has made it clear that she is, as Bush once famously described himself, 'the decider.'
Describing her own style, she said in an interview: 'Legislators are more deliberative. When you are the leader, you have to be decisive. It's more intuition than deduction. When you go into such a job you have to have the knowledge you bring with you and that you gain.
'The Speaker has to call the shots at the end of the day. When you have the challenge: Act, so people know you will act,'' Pelosi added.
But before that moment comes -- and to improve the chances that her decisions will be supported by the rank and file -- Pelosi has made a habit of arranging a seemingly non-stop series of meetings with all the party's factions, from the Progressive Caucus, to which she once belonged, on the left to the Blue Dogs on the right.
'We work hard to build consensus in our caucus and then go forward,'' Pelosi said. 'People tell me it's a woman's way, talking and talking until you reach consensus. But I figure you can spend your time trying to get votes or getting consensus first.''
Her approach is evocative of the practices of Pelosi's mentors, two of the other most politically important San Francisco Democrats of the modern era: Willie L. Brown Jr., a former mayor and speaker of the state Assembly, and Phillip Burton, a powerful voice in the House for 19 years until his death in 1983. 'It's all about your caucus. Never, ever, use your power to twist the results so they are favorable only to your district,'' Brown said. 'The Speaker must be empowered at all times to make the call. But you must be sure that your decisions don't cost you and your membership the majority.''
To Xavier Becerra of California, whose political career started as a junior state legislator under Brown and who is now Pelosi's handpicked deputy in the House leadership, the way 'the Speaker has her hands in everything'' is no surprise. 'Brown and Pelosi understand the workings of politics very well -- the passion, steadfastness in values and the understanding of the political psyche in operating a body,' he said. 'They both are also masterful in counting votes.''
But whereas Brown was outspoken and given to braggadocio, Pelosi 'is a softer sell of the fact that, even though she is Speaker, she carries a smaller stick.''
In her Capitol office, Pelosi keeps mementoes of the politicians who have influenced her in addition to her father -- Thomas 'Old Tommy'' D'Alesandro Jr., who spent two decades as a congressman and then mayor of Baltimore -- and her brother, 'Young Tommy,' a Baltimore mayor in the 1960s.
There is a foot-high statue of Burton and a picture of herself as a teenager with Sen. John F. Kennedy, whose presidential inaugural address she can quote from memory. And there is a Waterford crystal gavel that belonged to Thomas P. 'Tip'' O'Neill Jr., which the late Speaker's family gave to Pelosi after her election as minority leader in 2002.
Pelosi describes O'Neill, who she came to know well when she chaired the California Democratic Party in the 1980s, as her 'hero' among her 51 predecessors as Speaker. Like Pelosi, he was also known for bringing freshmen and other junior members into caucus decision-making and deeply involved himself in the finer points of major legislation or in matters that interested him personally.
'There's an idealism tempered by realism,'' Rep. Edward J. Markey of Massachusetts, an O'Neill protégé, says in comparing the two Speakers. 'There is also a forcefulness they bring to their causes.''
But Markey and others note that those role models all came from a time when the congressional culture was less partisan and less media driven. They say those changes, along with a president who has pushed to expand the power of the executive branch, have compelled Pelosi to centralize power in her office in the style of her ideological opposite, Newt Gingrich of Georgia, the Republican Speaker from 1995 through 1998.
'She's more like Newt. She's partisan and not particularly interested in a bipartisan agenda,'' said congressional historian Julian E. Zelizer of Princeton University. 'They have both worked in this era of intense media coverage and partisanship and reflect that and the fact that the parties and voters are polarized.''
But unlike Gingrich, Pelosi was slow to open herself up to the press. Only since the fall has she accepted invitations from the Sunday morning news-talk shows and started holding weekly news conferences. She has even said she's willing to revive a practice, which lasted from O'Neill through Gingrich, of daily meetings with the Capitol press corps when the House is in session.
She says her new willingness to spend time with reporters is not about a loss of reticence, but because she has more time available now that her legislation agenda has started moving and she has her leadership colleagues and her staff operating close to her liking. (Her relationship with Hoyer, for example, has seemed to evolve from frosty to at least businesslike.)
California's Henry A. Waxman, who as chairman of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee has occasionally chafed at the Speaker's top-down approach, says he's come to share her view that such centralized command is what their diverse caucus needs. 'Otherwise, Democrats would be accountable to voters, but I wouldn't be sure we can deliver,'' he said.
Bypassing Committees
Like both O'Neill and Gingrich, Pelosi has decided to sidestep the committee system and set up an ad hoc group to try to shape an important bill to her liking. Pelosi favors a tough and aggressive approach to curbing climate change; the chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee, John D. Dingell of Michigan, favors a slower approach that would go easier on the automobile industry central to the economy of his state.
And so in January, Pelosi picked Markey to chair a Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, which is supposed to recommend, but not actually draft, legislation by the end of the year. Pelosi and Markey led a delegation to Greenland this spring to see evidence of global warming. Since then, the Speaker has repeatedly talked up the select committee's work.
Asked if Pelosi remains 'deeply involved'' in the issue, Markey replied: 'You need several more adjectives to describe how deeply she is involved.'' On other issues, though, she hasn't hesitated to let down the liberal wing of her party.
Gun control and abortion rights have not made it onto the House agenda. A gay-rights bill -- to ban job discrimination based on sexual orientation -- is only now starting to move, and gay-rights advocates oppose it because, at Pelosi's insistence, it has been written more narrowly than they want. And the Speaker quickly and decisively shot down three close allies when they proposed an income tax increase to pay for the Iraq War.
Pelosi aides said she knew in general terms about the surtax proposal before the three -- Murtha, David R. Obey of Wisconsin and Jim McGovern of Massachusetts -- announced it the morning of Oct. 2. Within minutes of the Speaker's return that afternoon from New York, where she appeared at a fundraiser and as a guest on ABC's talk show 'The View,'' her office rejected the idea out of hand.
'It was the shortest-lived trial balloon in congressional history,'' an aide to one of the sponsors of the plan quipped.
Two other proactive moves by Pelosi were clearly designed to help ideologically moderate junior lawmakers, many from districts that tend to vote Republican, survive in 2008 and, as a result, help the party hold the House.
One has been her push for the House to revive 'pay as you go'' rules, which were dropped under Republican control, requiring that tax cuts or increases in mandatory spending be offset by other revenue or spending cuts. The other move was her insistence that House Democrats won't talk about impeaching Bush. She says impeachment would be an all-consuming and ultimately unsuccessful undertaking that would only divert Democrats from their core legislative agenda.
That decision has drawn some of the most vocal annoyance so far from the left -- already put out over the inability of the Democratic Congress to clear veto-proof legislation to end the Iraq War -- and helped prompt a long-shot, independent challenge to Pelosi's re-election in California by the anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan.
For the next year, anyway, such pressure from the left will remain her greatest source of tension, as liberal Democrats around the country will be at times unhappy with the congressional majority's inability to overcome Republican filibusters in the Senate and the possible defections of some Democratic moderates in the House, especially in close districts. And if a Democrat wins the White House in 2008, says political scientist Larry J. Sabato of the University of Virginia, the pressure from the left will grow even more.
But even if Democrats are disappointed with the Congress, Pelosi should have little trouble hanging on to her power. 'What is the base going to do to the first woman Democratic Speaker? Not much. She's an icon, certainly in the Democratic Party and arguably in the entire country.''
Relations With Republicans
In pursuing her legislative agenda, Pelosi has not often actively sought Republican votes. But she touts the fact that some of the Democrats' top goals have attracted a significant numbers of GOP votes. None of the planks of the 'Six for '06'' campaign agenda, which Pelosi pushed through the House at the start of the year, attracted fewer than 24 Republicans.
But House Republicans have taken every opportunity to criticize her style and methods, particularly her centralized leadership. 'She's coalesced a lot of power and ignored some senior members to ramrod legislation,' said Ray LaHood of Illinois. 'In the beginning of a speakership, when you're pushing an agenda, coalescing power in the office will work for a while. But when your members grow disenchanted with you, you don't have the strength to back her.''
His prescription for Pelosi: Adopt the coach-like model of her predecessor as Speaker, Republican J. Dennis Hastert of Illinois. 'Reach out to members and chairmen, and let them work their will,'' advised LaHood, a close friend of Hastert's.
Minority Whip Roy Blunt of Missouri said he views Pelosi's leadership as already running out of steam, with voters upset over the gridlock between the Democratic majority and the president on a host of issues. 'Everything gets harder for them than the day before because they're burning up their capital and not getting results,'' Blunt said.
He also said that Pelosi's efforts to bridge the gap between the factions in her caucus are bound to eventually fail. 'The 'majority makers' have nothing in common with Code Pink and MoveOn.org,'' he said, referring to two of the leaders of the anti-war movement. 'It's just a constant struggle between the two wings of the party.''
Republicans also charge that Pelosi hasn't lived up to her party's promise to operate the House in a more open and democratic manner than the Republicans themselves did. In the 2006 campaign, Democrats pledged that bills 'should generally come to the floor under a procedure that allows open, full and fair debate consisting of a full amendment process that grants the minority the right to offer its alternatives, including a substitute.''
The reality has fallen well short of that ideal. Closed rules, under which no floor amendments may be debated, still proliferate, as do rules severely limiting the minority's right to offer its alternatives or changes. Democrats say that while they have tried to move a heavy legislative agenda, Republicans are trying to use the amendment process to kill bills rather than produce the change Americans voted for last year.
In this atmosphere, partisanship remains the norm on the Rules Committee, which sets the parameters for floor debate and is essentially an arm of the majority leadership.
'I have never said everything was hunky-dory when we were in charge,'' said David Dreier, the California Republican who chaired the committee for the previous eight years. In a report last month, he and the committee's three other current GOP members put the number of closed rules so far this year at 39 percent -- up from 27 percent, by their reckoning, in all of the GOP-run 109th Congress.
'This is the Speaker's Rules Committee,'' Dreier said. 'At the direction of Speaker Pelosi, these actions have taken place.''
But Ron Peters, a congressional scholar at the University of Oklahoma who is studying the Rules Committee process, views things differently. 'To the extent that the Democrats have relied on modified or closed rules, it's well within the range we can expect from a majority party these days,'' Peters said. 'My impression is that the Democrats have, in general, been more permissive than the Republicans were.''
A Break for Vulnerable Freshmen
Beyond such macro-political decisions about her way of operating the House, Pelosi has shown that she will go out of her way to help individual members, freshman Democrats in particular, if she thinks they might be hurt by pending House actions.
Democrat Zack Space, who was elected a year ago in a reliably Republican part of Ohio that had been held by Bob Ney before the Jack Abramoff scandal, recalls importuning Pelosi on the House floor in June soon after the Appropriations Committee voted a deep cut for the Appalachian Regional Commission, an important economic development engine in southeastern Ohio.
Pelosi quickly reached out to the top members of the Energy and Water Appropriations Subcommittee, Democrat Peter J. Visclosky of Indiana and Republican David L. Hobson of Ohio, and in no time Space found himself engaged in a colloquy on the floor with the two appropriators, who promised to try to boost the allocation before their fiscal 2008 bill is finalized.
Space says Pelosi hasn't asked for a thing from him in return. 'She's put absolutely no pressure on me to vote any way,' he said. 'In fact, she encourages me to vote my district.''
But members with more secure holds on their seats tell of being lobbied personally by Pelosi, sometimes repeatedly on a single piece of legislation, as she joins her leadership team in rounding up votes.
Next year's election is a clear focus of Pelosi's. One concern is that public opinion polls show Congress' popularity has sunk considerably since the initial excitement over the Democratic takeover and the election of Pelosi to break what she called 'the marble ceiling'' at the Capitol.
Republicans are already shaping as a campaign theme the notion that the Democrats haven't accomplished all that much. In response, in recent days House Democrats were told by the leadership to circumvent what the Speaker and her team view as an overly critical Washington press corps and instead tout Congress' legislative accomplishments to their local media outlets -- with an emphasis on the times Republicans have thwarted Democratic objectives.
Democrats are also heartened by the polling numbers showing they hold a solid lead when voters are asked which party they'll vote for in next year's congressional elections. And, especially given the spate of recent GOP retirements in competitive districts, at this point almost no one is betting the party will lose control of the House next fall, which would require it to yield 16 seats or more to the GOP.
Pelosi first rose to prominence in California's Democratic Party as a dogged, successful fundraiser. And after two decades in the House, she persists, mixing in several fundraising events weekly for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee or for her own campaign coffers, which she fills mainly so they can be tapped to benefit other Democrats. As she regularly tells her caucus at its closed-door meetings, the members must raise an average of $1 million a week to fund the DCCC's effort.
By far, she is the committee's No. 1 fundraiser, even though there are still a good number of members of her caucus who don't particularly want her to appear in their districts -- mainly because she's clearly so much more liberal than their constituents.
As a result, Pelosi says she's optimistic her party will expand its majority a year from now, which would ensure that the first female Speaker in the House's 218-year history serves more than two years. 'We're miles ahead of where we need to be,'' she said.


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Footsteps of Jesus
According to the New Testament, the life of Jesus of Nazareth was played out in a relatively small geographical area of the world. Most of the major sites associated with Jesus' life are in Israel and the West Bank, with the few exceptions including the childhood journey to Egypt, a healing miracle in Tyre (modern Lebanon) and his possible baptism in modern-day Jordan. But within this small area, Jesus traveled a great deal, especially in the course of his three-year ministry in the region of Galilee.
Below is an illustrated list of Jesus sites, with associated biblical references and links to articles and photos. If you would like to visit these sites on a guided tour, see our Biblical Tours directory.
|Event in the Life of Jesus
|Associated Location
|The Annunciation
Nazareth was the hometown of Mary and Joseph. It was here that Mary was visited by the angel Gabriel and told she would conceive a child by the Holy Spirit. Lk 1:26-38
|Basilica of the Annunciation
The Basilica of the Annunciation in Nazareth stands on the traditional site of Gabriel's announcement to Mary. In Nazareth you can also visit Mary's Well, where she may have fetched water regularly, and St. Gabriel's Orthodox Church.
|Birth of Jesus
Jesus was born in a manger in Bethlehem, the City of David, while Mary and Joseph were there for the Roman census. Angels announced the event to nearby shepherds and Magi arrived to worship him. Lk 2:1-20; Mt 2:1-9
|Church of the Nativity
This church in Bethlehem was originally built by Constantine over a cave associated with the manger. A star that marks the traditional site of the Nativity. The relics of the Three Magi are said to be in Cologne Cathedral.
|Escape to Egypt
Joseph was warned in a dream to flee to Egypt to avoid the wrath of Herod, who heard about the birth of the "King of the Jews" from the Magi and had all young boys in Judea killed. The family stayed in Egypt until Herod died. Mt 2:13-20
|Nile Valley
The Holy Family is traditionally believed to have followed a route along the north of Egypt, then south along the Nile River Valley, not staying in any one place too long (map and description). There are several churches, convents, and sacred springs along the route.
The New Testament says little about Jesus' formative years, but it does indicate that he grew up in Nazareth. He is assumed to have trained as a carpenter under Joseph and to have had a traditional Jewish upbringing. Mt 2:22-23; 21:11; Mk 1:9
In Nazareth, pilgrims can visit Mary's Well, where Mary may have drawn water and would have brought the young Jesus along, and the Church of St. Joseph, built over the site of Joseph's workshop where Jesus probably helped.
|First Miracle
Jesus performed the first of many miracles at Cana, a small village near Nazareth. Invited to a wedding, Jesus helped the frantic host by turning water into wine. Jn 2:1-11
|Wedding Church
Cana (Kafr Kanna)
It is not known for certain where Cana is located, but the most popular tradition identifies it with the modern village of Kefr' Kenna, about 7 km northeast of Nazareth. The Franciscan "Wedding Church" celebrates the miracle of Cana.
Jesus was baptized by his cousin, John the Baptist, on the shores of the Jordan River. Here John identified Jesus as the Lamb of God, and a dove was seen to land on Jesus as he came up out of the water. Mt 3 He later returned to the site to teach. Jn 1:40-42
|Baptism Site
Bethany-beyond-the-Jordan, Jordan
The site traditionally identified with Jesus' baptism is east of Jericho in Jordan. It has been extensively excavated and developed since the 1994 peace treaty and there are now many ancient ruins and modern structures to see here.
|Temptation in the Wilderness
After his baptism, Jesus withdrew into the nearby desert to fast and pray for 40 days. The Devil tried three times to tempt Jesus to break his fast or compromise his mission.Matthew 4:1-11
|Monastery of the Temptation
Mount Quarntal
Mount Quarntal, just north of Jericho, is the traditional site of this event, and it is commemorated by the Greek Orthodox Monastery of the Temptation.
|Calling of the Disciples
Christ's first disciples were fishermen Jesus encountered on the shores of the Sea of Galilee. He challenged them to leave their nets and become "fishers of men."Mt 5:18-22
| Galilee Boat (Jesus Boat)
Kibbutz Ginosar, Galilee
The Sea of Galilee and the region of Galilee is in northern Israel. A 1st-century fishing boat was recently discovered in the mud here, which may be very similar to the one Jesus used. Known as the Galilee Boat or Jesus Boat, it is on display at Kibbutz Ginosar.
|Rejection in Nazareth
After his temptation in the desert, Jesus returned to Nazareth where he grew up and began to preach in the synagogues. When he said "No prophet is accepted in his hometown," the people tried to throw him off a cliff. Luke 4:14-30
|Mount Precipice
Mount Kedumim, Nazareth
A clifftop site on Mount Kedumim near Nazareth is traditionally believed to be the site of this event and is known as Mount Precipice. There are few ruins here, but fine views.
|Ministry in Galilee
Most of Jesus' early teachings and miracles occurred around the Sea of Galilee. During this time, he made his home in Capernaum at the family home of St. Peter.
|House of St. Peter
A spaceship-like modern Franciscan church stands on the site of the House of St. Peter in Capernaum, where Jesus lived, healed a paralytic, and healed Peter's mother-in-law.
|Feeding of the 5,000
On the shores of the Sea of Galilee, Jesus multiplied just a few loaves and fishes into enough food to feed 5,000 people. Mt 15:32-39
|Church of the Loaves and Fishes
This famous miracle is commemorated by the Church of the Loaves and Fishes at Tabgha, on the northwestern shore of the Galilee. The church features 5th-century mosaics, including one of a basket of bread with two fish.
|Sermon on the Mount
The most famous of Jesus' many sermons is the Sermon on the Mount, which begins with the Beatitudes ("Blessed are the meek...) Mt 5-7
|Mount of Beatitudes
According to tradition, the Sermon on the Mount occurred on a small rise at Tabgha, where now stands the octagonal Church of the Beatitudes. There are lovely views from here.
"Jesus took with him Peter, James and John the brother of James, and led them up a high mountain by themselves. There he was transfigured before them." Mt 17:1-9
|Mount Tabor
Since the 4th century, this hill rising above the Jezreel Valley has been identified as the Mount of Transfiguration. There are Franciscan and Greek Orthodox churches at the top.
|Triumphal Entry
In what was to be the last week of his life, Jesus entered into Jerusalem on a donkey, while cheering crowds lauded him with palm fronds.
|Palm Sunday Procession
Religious processions take place in Jerusalem on Palm Sunday each year to commemorate this event.
Raising of Lazarus
|Tomb of Lazarus
In Bethany, pilgrims can visit the Tomb of Lazarus, which has been revered from an early date. There is also a Franciscan Church of St. Lazarus that stands on the site of earlier churches.
|Anointed at Bethany
Jesus stayed at the house of Simon the Leper, where his feet were anointed with perfume by Mary. Mk 14:1-10
|House of Simon the Leper
Near a modern Greek Orthodox church in Bethany are substantial ruins that belong to the Orthodox Patriarchate and are traditionally identified as the House of Simon the Leper.
|Last Supper
On the night Jesus was betrayed and arrested, he shared a last meal with his disciples. It was during this meal that he instituted the Christian sacrament of the Eucharist. Mk 14:12-26;
|Last Supper Room
The event is traditionally associated with the Last Supper Room on Mount Zion in Jerusalem. The event was most famously commemorated by Leonardo da Vinci's fresco The Last Supper, which is in a church in Milan.
|Prayer, Betrayal and Arrest
After the Last Supper, Jesus led his disciples to the Garden of Gethsemane and asked them to keep watch while he prayed. They fell asleep, and then fled when Jesus was identified by Judas and arrested. Mt 26:36-56; Mk 14:32-51
|Basilica of the Agony
The Church of All Nations (or Basilica of the Agony) marks the place where Jesus prayed alone and in agony. The Cave of Gethsemane marks the site of the betrayal.
|Trial and Condemnation by Pilate
After being condemned by the Sanhedrin, Jesus is taken before the Roman governor Pontius Pilate for trial. At the instigation of the crowd, Jesus is sentenced to death by crucifixion. Mt 27; Mk 15
|Chapel of the Condemnation or Citadel
On the Via Dolorosa is the Chapel of the Condemnation, built over the site traditionally identified with the trial of Jesus. But a more likely historical candidate for the site is the Citadel, which was the royal palace during the time of Christ and is where Pilate would have likely resided.
Jesus was flogged by Roman soldiers before being led to his execution. Mt 27:27-30
|Monastery of the Flagellation
This event is commemorated in the Franciscan Monastery of the Flagellation on the Via Dolorosa, next to the Chapel of the Condemnation.
|Walk to Calvary
Jesus was made to carry his own cross from the place of his condemnation to Calvary. Jn 17:19
| Via Dolorosa
The Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem is believed to be the path Jesus took to Calvary, where he was crucified. Stations of the Cross mark various events along the way, some of which are not recorded in the New Testament.
Jesus was crucified at "a place called Golgotha (which means The Place of the Skull)" between two thieves. After about three hours of suffering and mocking, Jesus "gave up his spirit." Mt 27:32-55
|Church of the Holy Sepulchre
The site of Jesus' crucifixion is believed to be the area identified as Calvary within the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. A Greek Orthodox altar stands directly over the rocky outcrop on which the cross of Christ is believed to have stood. The rock can be touched through a hole on the floor under the altar.
|Burial and Resurrection
"As evening approached, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who had himself become a disciple of Jesus. Going to Pilate, he asked for Jesus' body, and Pilate ordered that it be given to him. Joseph took the body, wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, and placed it in his own new tomb that he had cut out of the rock. He rolled a big stone in front of the entrance to the tomb and went away." Mt 27:57-60
| Church of the Holy Sepulchre or Garden Tomb
The holiest site in Jerusalem, and indeed all of Christianity, is the Tomb of Christ, located within the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. The church was built around the tomb by Constantine. Pilgrims can see the place where Jesus' body was laid as well as a piece of the stone that was rolled away. An alternative site is the Garden Tomb outside the walls, which has less claims to authenticity but is popular especially with Protestant pilgrims.
|Post-Resurrection Appearance
Jesus appeared to his disciples and others in various places and times after his resurrection. The first time was to two disciples on the road to Emmaus, who did not recognize their Lord at first. Lk 24
|The site of Emmaus Nikopolis, 18 miles from Jerusalem on the road to Jaffa, has been identified as the biblical Emmaus since as early as the 3rd century. However, its authenticity is unlikely. Today there are ruins of a Byzantine-Crusader basilica and a museum on the site.
|Post-Resurrection Appearance
The third time Jesus appeared was on the shores of the Sea of Galilee, where he helped Peter and other disciples catch a netful of fish, then shared breakfast with them.
Jn 21
|Church of the Primacy of Peter
A Franciscan chapel stands on the site of a 4th-century church just offshore near Tabgha. A large rock is revered as the place where Jesus laid out fish and bread for his disciples, and reinstated Peter with the words "Feed my sheep."
"When he had led them out to the vicinity of Bethany, he lifted up his hands and blessed them. He was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight. Then they worshiped him and returned to Jerusalem with great joy." Lk 24:50-51; Acts 1:9-11
|Chapel of the Ascension
Mount of Olives, Jerusalem
The traditional site of Jesus' ascension into heaven after his Resurrection is marked by the Chapel and Mosque of the Ascension on the Mount of Olives. The chapel includes an impression of Christ's footprint.
Below is an illustrated index of the 23 Footsteps of Jesus profiled on Sacred Destinations so far. For photo credits, please see corresponding articles.
Featured All Footsteps of Jesus Sites
Bethany-Beyond-the-JordanJordanThe area known as Wadi Kharrar has long been believed to be the biblical Bethany-beyond-the-Jordan, where John the Baptist lived and Jesus was baptized.
Church of the NativityBethlehem, West BankThis is a major Christian holy site that marks the traditional place of Christ's birth. It is also one of the oldest surviving Christian churches, commissioned by Emperor Constantine.
Church of the Loaves and FishesTabgha, IsraelThis church commemorates the Feeding of the Five Thousand and includes a portion of rock where the miraculous meal was laid. The Byzantine-style church preserves splendid 5th-century mosaics.
All All Footsteps of Jesus Sites (View on Map)
Church of the NativityBethlehem, West Bank
CapernaumGalilee, Israel
Church of the Loaves and FishesTabgha, Israel
Tomb of Lazarus, BethanyJerusalem
Chapel of the AscensionJerusalem
Church of All NationsJerusalem
Church of the Holy SepulchreJerusalem
Church of the Pater NosterJerusalem
Church of Dominus FlevitJerusalem
Garden TombJerusalem
Last Supper RoomJerusalem
Pool of SiloamJerusalem
Church of St. AnneJerusalem
Via DolorosaJerusalem
Jesus Boat MuseumGalilee, Israel
Mount of BeatitudesTabgha, Israel
Mount PrecipiceIsrael
Mount TaborIsrael
Church of the Primacy of PeterTabgha, Israel


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UPDATE: Secretary of State Jon Husted said he will make a decision about what to do with the court's ruling after the weekend. It is possible Husted could decide to keep all polling booths closed on the three days. While the court ruling makes it so boards of election can't allow only military voters to vote on the weekend and Monday before Election Day, it does give boards of election the choice to close down on the three days. Husted could decide to open or close all boards of election on the days with uniform policy like he's done in the past. Such policy could eliminate those three voting days for everyone, including military voters.
The Republican-controlled state government appealed the original ruling after a federal judge ruled in favor of President Barack Obama's campaign and the Democrats and expanded in-person early voting to include the three extra days. The appeals court's ruling upholds the previous decision.
In the past few months, Republicans have insisted early voting should not be expanded further due to racial politics and cost concerns. That prompted Obama and the Democrats to take the state government to court, much to the dismay of local Republicans that voiced concerns about the lawsuit making voting lines too long for military voters.
With this appeal, Republicans are now running out of options for blocking expanded in-person early voting. Previously, Husted sent directives to county boards of election to not listen to the initial ruling, but Husted quickly backed down when the federal judge involved in the ruling called him to court.
A Democrat who was challenging Hamilton County Commissioner Greg Hartmann in this fall's election has left the race due to work commitments.
Greg Harris, a West Sider who is a former Cincinnati city councilman, said Monday night that a contract awarded to his educational consulting firm means he will be spending a large amount of time outside of the region. Harris' firm, New Governance Group, recently was awarded a major contract with a nonprofit group in Delaware that seeks to improve public education in that state.
"When I filed (to run for commissioner), I filed in all sincerity," Harris said. "It was before I got this contract."
He added, "I feel bad. This was a race I really wanted to run in, but with all the traveling, I'm not equipped to give it the time it deserves."
Harris, 40, announced his candidacy in early December, when he filed paperwork to run against Hartmann, a Republican incumbent who is seeking his second term.
The Hamilton County Democratic Party now will be able to select a replacement for Harris on the Nov. 6 ballot.
Harris was appointed in January 2009 to Cincinnati City Council to fill the unexpired term of John Cranley, who was facing term limits. But Harris lost in an election that November, finishing 10th in balloting for the nine-member group, missing the final spot by about 3,400 votes. During his brief term, Harris angered the city's police and firefighter unions by suggesting changes that he said would improve efficiency and reduce costs.
Through his consulting firm, Harris had served as public policy advisor for Cincinnati-based KnowledgeWorks Foundation, a national education philanthropy that seeds educational practices and policy reforms.
An Illinois native, Harris moved to the region in 1993 to attend graduate school at Miami University in Oxford. He stayed here after graduation and served from 2000-05 as executive director of Citizens for Civic Renewal, a nonprofit public advocacy group that promotes good government, volunteerism and civic involvement.
Harris ran unsuccessfully as the Democratic challenger to U.S. Rep. Steve Chabot (R-Westwood) twice, in 2002 and 2004. He also was prepared to challenge Hartmann for the Hamilton County Commission seat in 2008 until Democratic Party leaders cut a deal with the GOP and asked Harris to step aside and let Hartmann run unopposed. A reluctant Harris complied.
"Dealing in this state, for example, you think so much about
the painful days in the deep South — the overt schemes to deny the right to
vote," Jackson said on Tuesday, the last day to register to vote in Ohio.
"We saw Ohio as a kind of beacon of light, the beacon of hope once we ran across the river coming north. This year we've seen Ohio and Pennsylvania take the lead in trying to purge voters and suppress the vote to determine the outcome."
Jackson's comments came on the same day Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court the Six Circuit Court of Appeals' decision to allow early in-person voting on the three days before Election Day.
The three days had previously only applied to military personnel and their families.
Republicans like Husted have cited cost as the reason to not allow in-person voting on the three days before the election. But in an Aug. 19 email to The Columbus Dispatch, Franklin County Republican Party chairman Doug Preisse said "I guess I really actually feel we shouldn't contort the voting process to accommodate the urban — read African-American — voter-turnout machine."
Pennsylvania, meanwhile, tried to require voters take a photo ID with them into the polls. A state judge blocked the law from going into effect for the 2012 election.
Jackson said restrictions as to who can vote when and where undermine the purpose of democracy.
"Open access, free, transparent voting makes democracy real," he said.
Flanked by a tapestry portraying President Barack Obama, Jackson touted the president's accomplishments in his first term and urged those assembled to give him a second.
Jackson was in Toledo Oct. 5 pushing early voting. He said he was in Cincinnati because "Ohio matters" and he saw it as a way to penetrate Appalachia because "poverty is not just a black problem."
Local subscribers to Time Warner and Insight cable woke up today without access to WLWT-TV (Channel 5) after the station and companies failed to reach a new retransmission agreement. Instead, the cable companies offered Channel 2 from NBC affiliate Terre Haute, Ind. The Enquirer is all over the story, reporting that Todd Dykes and Lisa Cooney in the morning were replaced by someone named Dada Winklepleck in Wabash Valley, Ind. Don't worry: 30 Rock will still be on your new local Indiana station. Visit mywabashvalley.com for further details about additional programming. Or you can just hook up an antennae and get WLWT in hi-def for free.
Anyone in the market for a school building? Cincinnati Public Schools is adding four closed buildings to a for-sale list in an attempt to raise the capital necessary to complete an overhaul of its in-use buildings as part of its Facilities Master Plan. The new buildings on the list are Central Fairmount, Kirby Road, North Fairmount and Old Shroder schools.
Ohio brought in $23.5 million during the first seven weeks of legalized gambling in the state.
Mitt Romney says he's not hiding anything in his offshore accounts. The proof: He doesn't even know where they are, so they're technically hidden from him, too.
Barack Obama is in Iowa apparently setting up an issue on which to debate Romney later this fall. Obama is pitching an extension of the Bush-era tax cuts for households earning less than $250,000, while Romney wants to extend them for rich people, too.
The FDA went against the advice of an expert panel, deciding not to require mandatory training for doctors prescribing long-acting narcotic painkillers that can lead to addiction.
Three-hundred-square-foot apartments in New York City? Mayor Michael Bloomberg asked developers yesterday to try to make them work.
City planners envision a future in which the young, the cash-poor and empty nesters flock to such small dwellings — each not much bigger than a dorm room. In a pricey real estate market where about one-third of renter households spend more than half their income on rent, it could make housing more affordable.
Droughts in 18 states have made the price of corn go up, and the soybeans are hurting a little bit, too.
Sitting less adds two years to U.S. life expectancy.
A new study found that babies are healthier when there are dogs in their homes.
The Major League Baseball All-Star Game will take place tonight in Kansas City. The Reds' Joey Votto is a starter, while Jay Bruce and Aroldis Chapman are also likely to play.
Jobs, jobs, jobs. That is what Republican House Speaker John Boehner said would be priority No. 1 for Republicans after sweeping the House of Representatives and many state legislatures in 2010. This, Republicans said, was why they were elected: People wanted to see changes in the economy fast.
But, apparently, there was one other priority.
Almost immediately after coming into office in 2011, Virginia Republicans set the national stage for vital women's health issues. House Bill 1 — the first bill Virginia Republicans chose to take on — was a personhood bill, a bill that define life beginning at conception. Not only would the bill have banned abortion, it would also have banned the birth control pill, which sometimes prevents birth by stopping the implantation of a fertilized egg.
An impartial observer might wonder why a personhood bill would be a top Republican priority. After all, the same election that put all these Republicans in power also had a personhood bill overwhelmingly rejected in Mississippi — a state so socially conservative that 46 percent of Mississippi Republicans want to make interracial marriage illegal, according to a recent poll from Public Policy Polling.
Nonetheless, this was the issue Virginia Republicans decided to give serious attention. In an economy with a 9 percent unemployment rate at the time, this was the most important issue to Virginia Republicans.
Ohio wasn't much luckier with its crop of Republicans. Five months after inauguration, the Ohio House passed its "heartbeat" bill, or H.B. 125. To this day, it's the most radical anti-abortion bill in the country. Not only would it ban abortion when a fetal heartbeat is detected, but the bill makes no exceptions for rape, incest or life-threatening circumstances.
Ohio and Virginia were not alone. Republicans were pushing anti-abortion, anti-contraception bills all around the nation. Pennsylvania, Kansas, Mississippi and Texas all made national headlines with their own bills. In more than 20 states, bills have been introduced to restrict insurance coverage of abortions, according to ABC News. At the federal level, Republicans have made funding for Planned Parenthood a top issue time and time again, and insurance companies covering contraception recently became such a big issue that the White House had to step in.
So much for keeping the government out of health care. The same political party that clamored for small government now couldn't wait to regulate women's health care. Apparently, the economy is too much for the government to handle, but every woman's uterus is fair game.
There has been some backlash. After Virginia tried to pass a bill that would force doctors to give patients seeking abortion a transvaginal ultrasound, women's health advocates in states across the nation organized protests, leading to governors and state legislatures beginning to back down in their rhetoric. Even Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, a Republican who originally supported the transvaginal ultrasound bill, has been downplaying his involvement in Virginia's anti-abortion, anti-contraception bills.
Now, Mitt Romney, the likely GOP nominee for president, is facing some of the backlash. In a recent Gallup poll, women came out severely against Romney. In the category of women under 50, Obama held 60 percent of voters, while Romney held only 30 percent. That's right, Obama now leads with women under 50 by a two-to-one margin.
But while that may stop some rhetoric, the bills and laws are still coming forward. The Ohio heartbeat bill is still being pushed by some Republicans in the Ohio Senate, and a personhood initiative could show up in Ohio's 2012 ballot after a stamp of approval from Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted. Mississippi also plans to reintroduce its personhood initiative in the 2012 ballot, and other states are beginning to pass around petitions for their own initiatives as well.
In the end, one is left to wonder what could stop social conservatives. Public backlash and poor polling don't seem to be enough to stop the Republican war on women, and in some cases it might have actually emboldened them.
A new study has found high levels of arsenic in fruit juices that millions of kids are drinking because there's pictures of actual food on the label. Too bad government regulation is just a big waste of money that hurts the economy.
A full 10 percent of the juices tested by the magazine had arsenic levels higher than what is allowed in water by the Food and Drug Administration.
"What we're talking about here is not acute affects," Urvashi Rangan, director of safety and sustainability at Consumer Reports, told TODAY. "We're talking about chronic effects. We're talking about cancer risk. And so, the fact that 10 percent of our samples exceeded the drinking water standard underscores the need for a standard to be set in juices."
Consumer Reports tested 88 samples of apple and grape juices sold around the country. Included among those tested were popular juices like Minute Maid, Welch's and Tropicana.
I have to pay more attention to The Enquirer's websites. That's apparently where the fun is.
Former Cincinnatian Peter Heimlich follows our Sole Surviving Daily online and on his blog, The Sidebar, he noted two photos that suggest web posts don't get the same alert editing as those in print.
One photo this week showed a male Rick Santorum critic holding a sign that defined "santorum" as "a frothy mixture of lube and fecal matter sometimes resulting as a bi-product of anal sex" and telling readers to "Google it." That leads to the "definition" by sex advice columnist and gay rights activist Dan Savage.
Heimlich said The Enquirer took down the photo when he asked about it.
Another Enquirer photo faux pas was first caught by The Political Daily Download blog. This one involved another anti-Santorum poster, this one held by a woman. It had the former senator and lobbyist's smiling face and said, "Doesn't support products made for women's reproductive organs" and, in much larger print, "IS A DOUCHEBAG."
A similar photo replaced it online.
The Ohio Democratic Party has filed a lawsuit against Gov. John Kasich — who they claim is improperly using his office to campaign for presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney — to get the governor to release his schedule of public events.
The ODP's lawsuit, filed Tuesday in the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas, contends that Kasich's office either ignored or only partially fulfilled the request.
"It's unfortunate that this Governor is so opposed to transparency and public disclosure that we have to ask the Court to force him to follow the law," ODP Chairman Chris Redfern said in a statement.
"Serious questions remain regarding whether the Governor has improperly used his office for the benefit of Mitt Romney, and it's deeply disappointing Kasich is so secretive he won't even tell the public what he's done or where he's gone."
Kasich press secretary Rob Nichols said the administration doesn't comment on litigation, but dismissed the Ohio Democratic Party's allegations.
"We release public records in accordance with the law, and in fact have already publicly released the governor's schedule six times, including a schedule request to the ODP," Nichols said.
"This is predictable election year politics from the same people who were just rebuked for using public records demands to interfere with the Auditor of State's investigation into possible data manipulation in some school districts."
Ohio Democratic Party spokesman Jerid Kurtz said Kasich's office did respond to one of the seven requests for the schedule, but some of the information in the records was redacted — including an entire week that was blacked out with no explanation.
"Ohio law is very clear, and it states you have to give a specific excuse when you redact something," Kurtz said.
According to the lawsuit and court documents, the ODP requested on July 2 Kasich's public schedule from that date through Aug. 27.
According to a letter to the Ohio Democratic Party from Mehek M. Cook — assistant chief counsel to Kasich — the information about the governor's future plans was blacked out because that information could put him at risk.
"The governor and his office receive threats on any given day and the release of his whereabouts increases security issues surrounding the governor's safety," Cook wrote.
Cook wrote that any information in the records used by the Executive Protection Unit assigned to guard Kasich constitutes a security record and was redacted.
He also wrote that some information that would reveal confidential business meetings and trade secrets that would harm Ohio efforts to court businesses was blacked out. Additionally, information not relevant to the request was redacted.
Kurtz said it's important that the public have access those schedules because voters have a right to know what their governor is doing on the public dime.
The schedules include where the governor is and with whom he meets, but they also show scheduled phone calls and media interviews.
The Ohio Democratic Party worries that Kasich is improperly campaigning for Romney while receiving a taxpayer-funded paycheck, or using public money to have his staff do so.
The concerns stem from statements made by Kasich both in public and on his Twitter account either praising the presumed Republican presidential nominee or slamming President Obama.
For instance, The Plain Dealer in Cleveland reported that when Obama visited Ohio on Aug. 1 the governor tweeted "On the occasion of the President's latest visit to Ohio, we have a question for him," with a link to a graphic asking "If the President's policies are behind Ohio's success, why is the rest of the country trailing us?"
Democrats claim that Ohio's success relative to the rest of the country are due to efforts by President Obama, while Republicans say Governor Kasich is behind Ohio's faster-than-average recovery.
While the Ohio Democratic Party is suing to have Kasich release his public schedule (Kurtz says Attorney General Mike DeWine and Auditor Dave Yost complied with similar requests in a timely manner) the state Republican Party has also submitted similar requests to Democrats throughout Ohio.
Kurtz characterized the GOP requests as being sent by Kasich's "hand-picked lieutenants in the Ohio Republican Party," though Nichols told The Plain Dealer that the governor had no involvement.
Ohio GOP executive director Matt Borges told the newspaper that the requests were routine.
Still, Kurtz called Kasich's refusal to release his own schedule "hypocritical."
"He's a bully and the only way you can deal with a bully is fighting back."
A local conservative group is making a lot of use of member and lawyer Chris Finney. The Coalition Opposed to Additional Spending and Taxes (COAST) was involved in two lawsuits filed this week: one regarding the Blue Ash Airport deal and another regarding Cincinnati Public Schools (CPS).
Criticism of the Blue Ash Airport deal is not new for COAST. The group has repeatedly criticized the deal, largely because as much as $26 million from the deal will be used to fund Cincinnati's $110 million streetcar. In the past, COAST has repeatedly characterized the streetcar as a "boondoggle."
The deal between Blue Ash and Cincinnati is not new, but it did get reworked earlier this year. In 2006, the $37.5 million deal had Cincinnati selling Blue Ash some land on the Blue Ash Airport property, which Blue Ash would then use to build a park. Blue Ash voters approved the deal, which contained a 0.25 percent earnings tax hike, in a two-to-one margin.
When Cincinnati couldn't get a $10 million grant from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the city stopped working on the airport as it became too costly. The city then tried to shift the proceeds from the deal to the Cincinnati streetcar, but the FAA said funding must be used for airports since the property is classified as an airport.
Eventually, Cincinnati asked Blue Ash to rework the deal. The plan was Blue Ash would rescind the deal, and then Cincinnati would officially close down the airport and resell the land to Blue Ash while it's no longer classified as an airport.
At first, city officials said $11 million of the opened-up money would go to the streetcar and $26 million would go to municipal projects. Since then, the city has shifted $15 million of that municipal project funding — supposedly temporarily — to help Duke Energy move underground utility lines from the path of the proposed streetcar route, at least until the city and energy company can work out an ongoing feud.
The reworked deal, which was approved by Blue Ash City Council in a 6-1 vote on Aug. 9, seemed like a win-win for both sides. Cincinnati would get more funding for ongoing projects, and Blue Ash netted $2.25 million from the deal — $250,000 to cover fees for Blue Ash's new park and $2 million was subtracted from the deal since Blue Ash would no longer have to match the FAA grant.
But COAST does not approve. The organization doesn't want any funding redirected to the streetcar, and it claims the reworked deal is not allowed. The lawsuit filed by Blue Ash resident Jeffrey Capell and Finney cites a section of the Blue Ash City Charter that disallows some contracts: "No contract shall be made for a term longer than five years, except that franchises for public utility services and contracts with other governmental units for service to be received or given may be made for any period no longer than twenty years."
Mark Vander Laan, Blue Ash's city solicitor, says the city charter section the lawsuit is referencing is irrelevant. He argues the deal is not a contract as the city charter defines it; instead, it's a mortgage and debt instrument. In the Blue Ash City Charter, there's another section that deals with debt instruments, and that's what the rescinded deal falls under, according to Vander Laan. He says the city would not function as it does today if the lawsuit's claim was correct: "If that were the case, all the bonds we've ever issued would have been incorrect."
Vander Laan says the real issue here is disapproval of the streetcar, not any legal technicalities: "They may have a complaint about the streetcar, but that's not the city of Blue Ash's issue at all. We don't think it's even an appropriate basis to challenge this."
He added, "Frankly, if somebody had an issue with (the deal), they should have taken that issue back in 2006 and 2007." That's when Blue Ash voters first approved the airport deal, but back then, the money wasn't going to the streetcar, which didn't even exist at the time.
In another legal battle, COAST filed a lawsuit against CPS over staff allegedly campaigning for Issue 42, a ballot initiative that will renew a CPS levy voters approved in 2008. The case goes back to 2002, when Tom Brinkman, chairman of COAST, sued CPS for "illegal and unconstitutional use of school property for campaign purposes," according to the lawsuit. That case ended in a settlement, which forced CPS to enter into a "COAST Agreement" that says, "CPS will strictly enforce a policy of preventing … Other Political Advertisements on CPS Property."
But COAST now says that agreement has been broken, and the
lawsuit cites emails as evidence. The emails show staff promoting voter
registration drives, which aren't directly linked to Issue 42, and
staff offering to contribute and volunteer to the campaign. In the
emails, there are a few instances of Jens Sutmoller, Issue 42's campaign
coordinator, asking CPS staff to give him personal emails, which shows
he was trying to avoid breaking any rules.
In CityBeat's experience, CPS officials have been pretty strict with following the settlement with COAST. In a Sept. 20 email, Janet Walsh, spokesperson for CPS, told CityBeat she could not provide some levy-related information during work hours: "Yes, but due to constraints about doing levy-related work on work time (we can't), it may have to wait until I can get on my home computer."
COAST has endorsed a "No" vote on Issue 42. In CityBeat's
in-depth look into CPS and Issue 42 ("Battered But Not Broken," issue
of Oct. 3), Brinkman defended COAST's position by saying they're not
necessarily against the school getting funding. COAST is more
interested in holding the school accountable: "It's a five-year levy.
The reason we have five-year levies is so the public can gauge after
four or four and a half years how the entity where the taxes are going
to is doing with the money." In that sense, for COAST, it's important to
bring the levy renewal to voters as late in the game as possible —
November 2013 in this case. CityBeat this week endorsed a "Yes" vote on Issue 42 here.
Criticism of CPS levies is also not new for COAST. The group campaigned against last year's new, permanent $49.5 million levy, which CPS said it needed to meet new technology needs and keep some buildings open.
According to emails and phone calls received by WWVA-AM West
Virginia talk show host David Blomquist, miners said they were told that
attendance at the Romney event would be mandatory and unpaid.
As first reported by The Plain Dealer in Cleveland on Tuesday, mine owner Murray Energy Chief Financial Officer Rob Moore told Blomquist that managers "communicated to our workforce that the attendance at the Romney event was mandatory, but no one was forced to attend." He said that people who did now show up to the event, which organizers say drew 1,500 miners and family members, were not penalized for their absence.
Blomquist said during the radio show that current and former
employees had called and emailed him saying they feel they were forced to go,
had to take off a day without pay and a roll call was taken, which caused some
employees to believe they would lose their jobs if they didn't show up.
"Just for the record, if we did not go, we knew what would happen," Blomquist read from an email he had received. "It is wrong what we were made to do because of the outcome if we don't."
The Columbus Dispatch reported that Murray Energy Corp.
founder Robert Murray attended the Tuesday breakfast hosted by the Ohio delegation to the Republican National Convention. Murray told the newspaper that the decision to
close the mine was made at the request of the Secret Service.
Murray disputed the report that miners weren't paid for the day, saying they were compensated for the hours they spend underground, from 6 a.m. to 11 a.m. The mine was re-opened for a second shift at 4 p.m.
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Senator Rob Portman and Ohio Treasurer and Senate candidate Josh Mandel.
"You don't pay people to go voluntarily to a political event. If I would've paid them you would be saying you want it the other way. This is all a bunch of nonsense," Murray told The Dispatch. Federal law prohibits the paying of private employees to attend a political event.
Murray blames layoffs at some of his mines on Obama's
policies. His companies have had a history of environmental and safety violations,
and its Political Action Committee has held fundraisers for and donated to
Republican causes.
Romney's Ohio campaign spokesman disputed that the Secret Service had the mine shut down, telling The Dispatch in an email that "It was Murray Energy's decision to close the Century Mine, not the campaign's or the Secret Services." His comment echoes what Murray CFO Moore said on the radio show, that management wanted to attend the event and they couldn't have miners underground without management present.
For his part, radio host Blomquist took issue with the fact that
the miners lost out on a full eight hours of pay because of a political event.
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The <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />United States and the European Union may be on the brink of the largest transatlantic trade war ever. At issue are government subsidies for the makers of passenger jets—Boeing in the United States and Airbus in Europe.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
Each side claims the moral high ground, but in fact governments on both sides of the Atlantic heavily subsidize their jet-makers. Washington launched the dispute, even though Boeing may be the largest U.S. beneficiary of corporate welfare. Meanwhile, Airbus resembles more a government agency than a private business.
On May 31, a year of negotiations between U.S. and EU trade officials escalated into the first stages of a trade war when U.S. trade representative Rob Portman asked the World Trade Organization to establish a dispute settlement panel.
The Bush administration made this decision after the EU's announcement that France, Germany and Britain would provide well over US$1-billion in aid for Airbus's next big project—the A350. This news came only four months after Airbus unveiled its "super-jumbo" A380, the first jet ever built to directly compete with Boeing's 747 jumbo jet.
At that time, Boeing was preparing to unveil its 787—a mid-sized jet capable of long journeys. Airbus did not want the 787 to go unanswered, so the EU turned its efforts to building the mid-sized A350. When European governments said this year they would subsidize the A350, the United States decided to take the EU to court. In response, the EU filed a counter-complaint at the WTO against U.S. subsidies to Boeing.
The WTO will soon find itself sorting through the subsidies that flow to the two jet-maker giants -- and there will be no shortage of material on either side. The truth is, there's plenty more corporate welfare than either complaint suggests.
Europeans complain primarily about the boost that Boeing's research and development receives indirectly from military and civil government contracts, but many other subsidies are more direct, and far more market-distorting.
Boeing is one of the largest Pentagon contractors, second only to Lockheed Martin. From fiscal year 1998 through 2003, Boeing received US$82-billion in contracts from the Department of Defense. About half of that money was for aircraft components; slightly less than one-fourth was for R&D.
EU officials claim Boeing's research and development numbers amount to a subsidy, because R&D done on the Pentagon's dime can reap benefits for Boeing's commercial undertakings. With higher defence spending in the United States, Boeing has more chances for defence contracts, Airbus says.
But to the degree some Boeing contracts appear illegitimate, "subsidy" just might be the correct word. The Pentagon characterizes 60% of Boeing's military contracts between 1998 and 2003 as "not full and open," suggesting Boeing may have received favouritism in awarding contracts.
Boeing also benefits from civil government contracts, including research programs from NASA and the Federal Aviation Administration. On these contracts, the definition of "subsidy" is nuanced. But one aspect of the federal government 's support for Boeing is unquestionably a subsidy: Export-Import Bank financing.
The Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im) is a government agency that loans money or guarantees private loans to foreign buyers of U.S. goods. Ex-Im is known as "Boeing's Bank," and for good reason. Between 1998 and 2004, it issued loans and long-term guarantees for US$53-billion of U.S. exports. Just under US$28-billion of those deals were Boeing sales. Ex-Im exists not just primarily, but mostly, to subsidize Boeing's overseas aircraft sales.
Boeing also receives generous corporate welfare from local and state governments. In Washington State, the current senior Senator, Patty Murray (D), is known as the "Senator from Boeing."
Europe, meanwhile, sees the success of Airbus as an intense matter of European pride. To most Americans, Boeing is just another business. But Europeans seem willing to lose money in helping Airbus, as part of the cost of beating the U.S.
Airbus is significantly a government-owned company. Since 2001, the European Aeronautic Defence and Space company (EADS) has owned 80% of the company and British Aerospace (BAE) the other 20%. EADS is 20.5% government-owned, making Airbus 16.4% state-owned.
The U.S. WTO complaint against Airbus centres around the R&D money Airbus receives that has no real U.S. counterpart: "launch aid." European nations issue low-interest loans to Airbus for a portion of the cost of developing new planes. Airbus pays back the loans depending on its ability to sell the planes. If the research doesn't pan out or the plane doesn't sell, the governments forgive all or part of the loan.
For the Airbus A380, launch aid totalled US$4-billion—one-third of the total R&D cost—from the governments of France, Germany, Great Britain, Spain, Holland, Finland, Belgium, Italy and Sweden. European leaders have made it clear they also will support the A350.
On top of launch aid comes support from the European Investment Bank, a government-capitalized lender. EIB has helped fund the development of Airbus planes, including about US$840-million for the A380.
While the U.S. is not objecting to Airbus's government contracts, the parent companies of Airbus, like Boeing, are also top military contractors. The combined military sales of EADS and BAE just about equalled those of Boeing in recent years.
Individual European nations also provide R&D money to Airbus, and cities in Europe are eager to accommodate it. Between the A380 factory in Toulouse, France, a massive landfill on the Elbe River in Hamburg, Germany, and other new construction in Germany, Spain, France, and the U.K., the U.S. Department of Commerce finds more than US$1-billion in infrastructure aid.
Airbus's main government patrons—France, Germany, the U.K. and Spain—also subsidize Airbus Ex-Im style. Each has its own counterpart to the U.S export finance agency. As well, European governments use their clout to pressure foreign airlines to buy Airbus. European governments have even suggested favouritism to Airbus was a condition for accession to the EU.
And Germany, in 1998, forgave nearly US$4-billion in debt. According to the USTR, such debt forgiveness is not unique.
As it sifts through the benefits Airbus and Boeing each receive, the WTO may find it difficult to judge which is the worse offender.
Considering how heavily subsidized Boeing is, though, one must wonder whether the U.S. complaint is throwing stones from the front porch of a glass house. One could read a boldly clever agenda into the White House's actions: A WTO rebuke to Boeing's subsidies would give the administration political cover for rolling back corporate welfare.
Even if the President's complaint is not a shrewd anti-subsidy tactic, this threat of a trade war could have the effect of tearing down subsidies on both sides of the Atlantic. If all Boeing and Airbus subsidies are put on the table, at least the world will have the chance to see just how dependent on taxpayers these corporate welfare titans really are.
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