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Phase II of Joint School Construction

Board Legislation Signed by Gov. CuomoLegislaon beginning the second phaseof the Joint Schools ConstruconBoard (JSCB) and authorizing $300million for a district-wide schoolrenovaon project was signed Fridayby Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo.

The new legislaon will codify theboard composion into state lawand authorizes nancing for up to 20renovaon projects.

“We are excited to have the legislaveprocess nished in Albany so the real

work of rebuilding our schools canbegin,” said Syracuse Mayor StephanieA. Miner. “Since my administraontook oce, we have made complengthe rst phase of school renovaons amajor priority and we have successfullyseen that happen in four of ourhighest-need schools. I look forward toworking with the new board to makethese renovaons a reality.”

The new board will include the mayor,the superintendent, two membersappointed by the mayor, two membersappointed by the superintendent,and one joint appointment. Thisarrangement gives equal control tothe school district and the city of

Syracuse, which echoes the RochesterJoint Schools Construcon Board.

The JSCB legislaon brings several

changes to the new JSCB, includingcodifying the board composion,something that was previously setforth by an inter-municipal agreementbetween the school district and thecity.

The bill, primarily sponsored by Sen.John DeFrancisco and AssemblymanBill Magnarelli, passed both housesof the state legislature during the2013 session. Sen. Dave Valesky andAssemblyman Sam Roberts were bothco-sponsors.

“This is a tremendous day for theSyracuse City School District and ourstudents, teachers, sta and parents,”said Superintendent of Schools SharonContreras. “With the Joint SchoolsConstrucon Board legislaon beingsigned into state law, we are readyto begin the work of rebuilding thisnext round of schools and creang21st-century educaonal learningenvironments. I look forward toworking very closely with our new JSCBboard and beginning the renovaonson our next slate of schools.”

The average building in the SyracuseCity School District is 72-years-

old, according to a report from theConference of Big 5 School Districts in2012. Five of the district’s 35 buildingswere built before 1920.

The funding authorized by the bill hasbeen esmated to cover approximatelyone-third of the district’s idenedbuilding-repair needs. The legislaonalso includes language that requiresthe board to value engineer any

individual projects that go over 10percent ($30 million) of the totalfunding allocaon.

“Our community is plagued by aginginfrastructure and we cannot aordto let that hamper the educaonalopportunies for our students,” addedMayor Miner. “The new JSCB will be acrical investment in the future of thecity of Syracuse.”

Governor Andrew Cuomo




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Arrest in fatal stabbing of teen at Syracuse partySYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) _ Police inSyracuse have made an arrest in thekilling of a teenager stabbed in thechest as a party dispersed.

Local media report that 17-year-old

Charles Pis Jr. was stabbed earlySunday morning as people wereleaving a party in the recreaon roomof an apartment building. The highschool senior was pronounced dead atUpstate University Hospital.

Syracuse police say several ghtsbroke out as people le the party.

Police say that 16-year-old GilbertoRodriguez of Syracuse was arrestedsoon aer the aack and was arraigned

Monday on a second-degree murdercharge.

Police say they don’t know if he has alawyer.

Passengers are very happy with the newTransportaon Security AdministraonPre-Check program which has beenexpanded to select passengers whoare ying out of Syracuse HancockInternaonal Airport (SYR).

TSA Pre-Check is an expeditedscreening program that allows pre-approved travelers to leave on theirshoes, light outerwear and belt, keeptheir laptop in its case and their 3-1-1compliant liquids/gels bag in a carry-on in select screening lanes.

Delta Air Lines, American Airlines,US Airways and United Airlines nowoer passengers who are eligible forTSA Pre-Check the benet of a fasterscreening process at the airport’scentrally-located security checkpoint.Once Jet Blue Airlines is readyoperaonally to join the program,passengers ying out of SYR will enjoythe same courtesy.

Proponents of the program say TSAPre-Check provides more advancedsecurity and addional conveniencefor travelers.

John McCarey, TSA’s Federal SecurityDirector at SYR said, “This risk-basedsecurity screening concept enhancessecurity by enabling TSA to focusour eorts on passengers the agencyknows less about, while providingexpedited screening for travelerswho volunteer informaon about

themselves prior to ying.”

Eligible passengers for TSA Pre-Check include U.S. cizens offrequent traveler programs invitedby parcipang airlines, U.S. cizenswho are members of a U.S. Customsand Border Protecon (CBP) TrustedTraveler program, Canadian cizenswho are members of CBP’s NEXUSprogram and passengers travelingon a parcipang airline who TSAproacvely pre-screens using itsSecure Flight system.

Other U.S. cizens who want to enrollwill be able to apply for the programthrough TSA later in the year.

The program, launched by TSA inOctober of 2011, has seen more than19 million passengers experience TSAPre-Check in the 97 airports that carrythe program. Three more airports willbe implemenng the program soon.

“We know that the vast majority ofpassengers pose no threat to security,”McCarey said. “As TSA connues tomove away from a one-size-ts-allapproach to transportaon security,we are looking for more opportuniesto provide the most eecve securityin the most ecient way possible.”

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Syacuse, NY — The New York AorneyGeneral’s Oce has reported selinga lawsuit alleging sexual harassmentof female students at the SimmonsInstute of Funeral Services inSyracuse.

Aorney General Eric Schneidermansays the selement with the for-prot school and chief execuveMaurice Wightman includes $30,000in restuon to students andemployees who led complaints aboutdiscriminaon and harassment and

school reforms meant to ensure a safeschool environment.

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school policy unnecessarily barredpregnant teachers and students fromcertain acvies and alleging thatWightman, who was designated toreceive complaints of harassment ordiscriminaon, subjected students tounwanted comments and touching.

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National study shows NY 13th in

spending on health care for each prison inmateALBANY, New York — A new studyon rising prison health care costsshows New York 13th among states inspending for inmate care.

The study by The Pew Charitable Trustsand MacArthur Foundaon, examiningcosts from 2001 to 2008, shows NewYork spending rose 33 percent tonearly $5,900 for a prisoner’s medicalcare in 2008.

That distantly followed California’s$11,800 cost per inmate, up 84

percent, and New Hampshire’s 306percent increase to more than $9,000.

The report says inmates have higherincidence of mental illness and chronicand infecous diseases like AIDS andHepas C than the general populaonthat are costly to treat.

New York was among the few statesgeng Medicaid reimbursements,geng $4.5 million through 2012.

Researchers cited a comptroller’sesmate those savings could bequadrupled annually.

NY appeals judges ponder fate of stop-frisk rulingBy LARRY NEUMEISTERS

NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge’sconclusion that New York City policeocers somemes violate the

constuon when they stop and friskpeople has made ocers “passiveand scared” to use the crime-ghngtacc, lawyers warned a federalappeals panel Tuesday as they asked

that the ruling be suspended while itis appealed.

The three-judge 2nd U.S. Circuit Courtof Appeals asked plenty of quesons

but did not immediately rule in acase that may be aected in a majorway by next week’s mayoral elecon.Democrac candidate Bill de Blasio,who is leading in polls, has sharply

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cricized and promised to reform thepolice department’s stop-and-frisk

technique, saying it unfairly targetsminories.

Aorney Celeste L. Koeleveld, arguingfor the city, said ocers are “hesitant,unfortunately” to use the taccanymore.

Aorney Daniel Connolly, making legalpoints on behalf of former MayorRudolph Giuliani and former U.S.Aorney General Michael Mukasey,told judges that city ocers were“defensive, passive and scared” aboutusing the technique.

“This decision is bad law,” he said. “Noone counts on federal judges to keep

us safe on the streets.”

Aorney Courtney Saleski, arguing onbehalf of the Sergeants BenevolentAssociaon, noted that stop and friskswere down 50 percent in the rst sixmonths of this year compared witha year earlier. She said ocers wereafraid stops violate the constuon.

“That means constuonal stops are

being chilled and that’s not good forthe safety of the community,” she said.

But lead plains’ aorney DariusCharney for the nonprot legaladvocate Center for ConstuonalRights noted that the drop in stopand frisks came even before the judgeruled and said it was accompanied bya drop in murders and other crimes.

And Christopher Dunn, associate legaldirector of the New York Civil LiberesUnion, said it would be premature forthe appeals court to stay the eectof the lower-court ruling because thepolice department thus far has notbeen required to make any changes tothe program.

He said that if police ocers ontheir own are engaging in fewerunconstuonal stops, “that’s a goodthing.”

During legal arguments that lastednearly three hours, two of the three judges seemed concerned aboutthe manner in which Judge ShiraA. Scheindlin reached her Augustndings that the police ocers have

systemacally violated the civil rightsof tens of thousands of people by

wrongly targeng black and Hispanicmen. She appointed an outsidemonitor to oversee major changes,including reforms in policies, trainingand supervision, and she ordereda pilot program to test body-worncameras in some precincts wheremost stops occur.

Circuit Judge John Walker saidScheindlin responded to the cityand police department’s staunchdefense of the program as if they wereformer Alabama Gov. George Wallacestanding in a schoolhouse door at theUniversity of Alabama in 1963 to blockthe arrival of two black students.

He said reforms she ordered as part ofher ndings were broad and of the kindthat might result when the judiciary isfacing “total hoslity on the part of theauthories.” He likened it to what hadto be “done in the deep South in the1950s.”

Circuit Judge Jose Cabranes severalmes quesoned whether lawyersbelieved a district judge would,

in eect, be running the policedepartment. And he quesoned the

fairness of how Scheindlin ended upwith lawsuits challenging stop-and-frisk taccs.

Aorney Mahew Brinckerho, alawyer represenng a former assistantaorney general acve in JusceDepartment lawsuits that resulted insimilar court oversight of urban policedepartments, told the judges thatScheindlin’s remedies were similarto successful remedies carried out inLos Angeles, Detroit, Pisburgh andCincinna.

The stop and frisk tacc has beencricized by a number of civil rightsadvocates. More than 100 students

and acvists turned out at BrownUniversity on Tuesday for a lectureby NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly on“Proacve Policing in America’s BiggestCity” — and shouted him down,prompng the talk to be canceled.

NY appeals judges ponder fate of stop-frisk ruling...from previous page

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By Lisa Dumas

Democrac candidate Mary AnneDoherty, Mayor Stephanie Miner’stop lawyer in the city law department,and Republican candidate RomanaLavalas, a prosecutor in the OnondagaCounty District Aorney’s Oce, bothpointed to their extensive experienceand backgrounds as reasons why theyshould be the next Syracuse City CourtJudge.

The two will face o in a bale for theseat vacated by rering RepublicanJudge Jerey Merrill in the generalelecon, Nov. 5.Typically, city court judges hear cases

involving trac ckets, low-level drugcrime, landlord-tenant disputes andcode violaons.

And, aer working as a city trial lawyerfor 12 years and now managing anoce of 24 people, Doherty said she’sprepared for the court’s decision-making process.“I know what the cizens areconcerned about,” she said. “I’veprey much heard about it on a dailybasis. I’ve appeared in city court quitefrequently, so I’m very familiar withthat. In being a manager, I’ve had tomake decisions. And I think you haveto be ok with the decisions that youmake. You make the decision, and you

know that one party will not be happy.You have to be ok with that and moveon. I’ve done that.” Doherty also said she’s aware of issuesin the community like violence andcriminal misconduct, which can eectthe quality of life for some Syracuseresidents. She said she would carrythat knowledge over to her role as a judge.

“I think the safety, the crime issues inthe neighborhood; I’ve lived throughthat with people that have come toour oce,” Doherty said. “I just thinkthat I’m familiar with all of that, and Iwill bring that experience with me to

the bench.”

Doherty beat Louis Levine in theSeptember primary, garnering asubstanal 4,725 votes. As for her

opponent, Lavalas said it’s the 14years she’s spent as an assistantdistrict aorney in DA WilliamFitzpatrick’s oce that’s evidence ofher qualicaon. In addion, she saidshe also understands the issues thatare important to the community.

“The fact that I’ve spent 14 yearsin criminal court is huge,” she said.“Insofar as landlord-tenant issues,those neighborhood issues; manyof those issues involve a fair amountof negoaon. If you don’t deal withthings on a smaller level, neighborhoodissues become criminal jusce issues.”

Addionally, Lavalas said becoming

a judge had been her singular careergoal since graduang from collegeand, ulmately, she aimed to upholdthe honor of the court.

“I’ve dealt with people who feel abovethe law,” she said. “But there are alsopeople who feel below the law, andvery disenfranchised. A judge protectsthe integrity of the system. I’ve beenknown as a fair and reasonableprosecutor, and I will bring the sameto the bench.”

Lavalas also stated that Dohertydid not have experience in criminalcourt, however, according to reports;Doherty said she gained experience

in criminal court by represenng thepolice department in cases broughtagainst the city.

Lavalas ran unsuccessfully for CityCourt Judge in 2011 against twoincumbents.

It’s important for a judge to be “fair-minded and reasonable, someone whouses common sense, and someonewho is not going to pre-judge anyone,”Lavalas stated. In addion, Doherty said “being a goodlistener, having a good temperament,and compassion,” were all qualiesshe would exemplify as a judge.

The posion comes with a 10-yearterm and starng salary of $139,200.The pay will be raised to $145,000 inApril 2014.

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By JESSE WASHINGTON

The usual scenario involves suspiciousglances, inaenve clerks or rudeservice — not handcus.

Yet when a black teen said he waswrongly jailed aer buying a $350belt at a Manhaan luxury store, itstruck a nerve in African-Americansaccustomed to nding that theirmoney is not necessarily as goodas everyone else’s. Shopping whileblack, they say, can be a humiliangexperience.

Much aenon has been paid tothe issue over the years — OprahWinfrey complained that a Swissclerk did not think she could aord a

$38,000 handbag, and even PresidentBarack Obama has said he was oncefollowed in stores. But according toshoppers interviewed Monday, manypeople don’t recognize how prevalentretail discriminaon is, and how theconsistent stream of small insults addsup to a large problem.

“It’s one thing if you don’t understand.

But don’t ever tell me it doesn’thappen to me,” said Natasha Eubanks,

who shops oen at high-end stores inNew York City. “You can’t assume itdoesn’t happen just because it doesn’thappen to you.”

Somemes, Eubanks said, it takesclerks more than ve minutes to simplyacknowledge her presence. Or theybrush her o aer a token greeng. Orthey ask her queson aer queson:“You’re a black girl up in Chanel. Theywant to know what you’re doing here,and what you do for a living.”

She says she has dealt with this typeof treatment at least 20 mes in NewYork City.

“I don’t look like that typical chickwho walks into that type of store,”said Eubanks, owner of the celebritywebsite theYBF.com. “It feelsdierently than when you go into astore and are treated properly.”

Trayon Chrisan’s problem was nothow he was treated when he wentinto Barneys New York — it was what

happened aerward. In a lawsuit ledlast week, the 19-year-old said that

he bought a Ferragamo belt at theManhaan store, and when he le hewas accosted by undercover city policeocers.

According to the lawsuit, police saidChrisan “could not aord to makesuch an expensive purchase.” He wasarrested and detained, though heshowed police the receipt, the debitcard he used and idencaon, thelawsuit said.

Aer Chrisan’s lawsuit was led,another black Barneys shoppersaid she was accused of fraud aerpurchasing a $2,500 handbag, and theblack actor Robert Brown said he was

paraded through Macy’s in handcusand detained for an hour aer beingfalsely accused of credit card fraud.

For Yvonne Chan, the reports were apainful reminder of when she workedin a liquor store in a predominantlywhite Massachuses town. Every fewmonths someone would be caughtstealing, and about half the me it wasa black person.

“You nd yourself watching blackpeople. (The stealing) only happensonce in a while, but it changes yourpercepon,” Chan said.

Chan, a graduate student, always

tried to remind herself not to act onstereotypes, but, “Like it or not, I’mgoing to have a preconceived noon ofraces from my experiences. As muchas I would like to force my brain not tothink like that and put everyone on aneven playing eld, stereotypes play arole in our society ... we skew the viewof people as individuals.”

Those skewed views can aect whogets arrested for retail the, saidJerome Williams, a business professorat Rutgers University who has studiedmarketplace discriminaon.

Many people jusfy racial prolingby saying that black customers are

more likely to steal. But one studyhas shown that white women in their40s engaged in more shopliing thanother demographic groups, Williamssaid.

“The reason they don’t show up incrime stascs is because peoplearen’t watching them,” said Williams.

Stascs showing that black customerssteal more “are not really an indicaonof who’s shopliing,” he said. “It’s areecon of who’s geng caught.That’s a reecon of who’s gengwatched. It becomes a self-fulllingprophecy.”

Dido Kanyandekwe knows he is beingwatched. “But I joke with them; I seethem looking at me and I say, ‘Hello, Isee you!’ And I wave,” said the 18-year-

old college student in New York City,who was in Barneys on Monday buying

a $600-plus pair of Italian designersneakers.

“Most black people don’t have themoney to buy stu at Barneys,” saidKanyandekwe, the son of wealthyparents, before paying for the blackleather shoes with a credit card. “Butthat does not mean all black peopleare not able to buy these things.”

Black people are not the only oneswho can face unequal treatmentin stores. Hispanics have made thesame complaints. And Sher Graham,a white woman who lives in Mobile,Ala., says black servers in the fast-foodrestaurants she visits oen wait on

black customers rst.

A few months ago, she said, a blackcashier started talking to black womenstanding in line behind her abouttheir order. “When I brought this toher aenon, she just shrugged hershoulders and completely ignored me.This acon happens more mes thannot here in the Gulf Coast region,”Graham, a consultant and speaker,said in an email interview.

Yet if the number of complaints is anyguide, the experience is most commonfor African-Americans.

Candace Witherspoon, a wardrobe

stylist in Los Angeles, went to a storein Century City last April to buy a purseand shop for one of her celebrityclients. She was wearing a T-shirtand jeans. In a leer to the company,Witherspoon said the sales associatebarely greeted her, then ignored her,in contrast with her treatment ofwhite patrons.

“As the other customers le, she said‘Thanks ladies for shopping. Have agood day.’ When I le she gave me anasty look and didn’t say anything,”Witherspoon’s leer said.

Toni Ducloni, who runs a fashionweb site in Los Angeles, recently went

to a Beverly Hills department storeintending to spend about $4,000on shoes. But she took her businesselsewhere aer being ignored.

“It’s frustrang to be constantlyignored and people pretend it doesn’thappen,” she said.

To her, the soluon is simple.

“They rush to judgment, they jumpinto it assuming something withoutspeaking to a person,” Ducloni said.“They’d be surprised if they just walkedup and said, “Hello, can I help you ndsomething?’ They’d be surprised.”

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Associated Press writer Verena Dobnikin New York contributed to this report.

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Recently, I have receivedfeedback from many adults

and young people in Syracusewho say they have beenfeeling isolated, insignicant,underappreciated, andunderrepresented. Thesestatements have been given byindividuals who are minories,as well as individuals whoare not members of minoritygroups.

From every ward and districtin Syracuse, the race-relaons conversaon seemsto come up every day. And, no maer what theconversaon is about inially, “inequality” and“race” are two words that are likely to be menonedbefore its end.

Whether it is camouaged or stated in policallycorrect terms, this includes menon of religiousscriptures, women’s issues, and/or LGBT drivenconversaons.

Lately, everyone seems to be telling me, “We havebeen forgoen, and we are not geng the sameresources as other groups.”

In my book, the keyword is “other.”

“Others” have been provided for as the favored andaccepted ethnic group here in Syracuse for a verylong me now.

As a result, these are the kinds of conversaons thathappen when I ask, “What is it that I could do for

you to feel safer, included, or more accepted andrespected?”

The answer I usually get is that most people are veryconcerned about the way they have been stereotypedand racially-proled in the media, grocery store,shopping mall, at their place of employment, jails, orcounty oces. The list could go on for days.

But, I think the most egregious place I’ve been toldpeople have been discriminated against is their ownneighborhoods. In the areas where they are living,they say mainstream society has locked them out.

I’ve been told they have not been able to run abusiness, or explore creang venues to socialize atthe same level as “others” in their neighborhoods.This may be due to the fact that local decision-

makers do not think these individuals have theintelligence to run a business, or sustain an elegantsocial space. The same goes for sustaining ne-dining establishments, or cultural facilies for dance,theater and the arts.

Yet, this could not be further from the truth. In fact,Syracuse had many African-American- or black-owned businesses in the 1960s and 1970s.

And, if other ethnic groups were more supported,trusted and given an opportunity to try their hand atentrepreneurship; there would be more aracve,elegant, and appealing black-owned businessestoday.

Why shouldn’t individuals who aren’t in gangs,murdering, stealing, or acvely loitering, have the

opportunity to own an upscale business, when non-blacks are oered the same opportunity? Thesenon-black individuals, whom we then support, areregularly given the go-ahead by the Small BusinessAdministraon.

This is an enormous weight, as well as a substanalpsychologically- and emoonally-crippling issue, forindividuals and families to carry; especially whenthey want to thrive.

As a result, there has been a downtrodden gloominfused into the people of many South, West andNorth Side neighborhoods. These are people whoare otherwise creave, intelligent, community-minded cizens. But, they are people who feel theirneighborhoods have been ignored and counted out.They are working and coming home feeling as if they

are not valuable human beings who are contribungto the economy, and progressing toward their goalsand dreams.

Most residents bring these issues up in the midstof our conversaons about drug dealing, and othercrimes. They say they feel that the young people andadults who are comming these oenses are simplyrefusing to be locked out of the economy; and, ineect, may only be aempng to make money as aresult of mainstream society blocking them out of job opportunies.

This is a part of the intricacy of the issue, and, inorder to stop the crime, drugs, and killings in the city;Syracuse should not disproporonately serve onegroup over another. However, there are criminals inevery race, and this is by no means an endeavor to

excuse any criminal behavior.

It is merely a statement of fact, that, certain areasare able to employ modernizaon eorts to keepthose neighborhoods intact and upscale. And,underrepresented community members have livedwithout much modernizaon, or revitalizaonfrom city planners, which in no way matches theprior years of planning other neighborhoods havereceived over and over for many years.

People are very intelligent and educated about re-gentricaon eorts, and moving undesirablesout, but they likely do not support moving out theworking-class people who love their neighborhoodsas well.

So, ulmately, the underrepresented people of

Syracuse would like to know: What are the answersto these problems, and when will they be gengrevitalizaon eorts in their neighborhoods?

Maybe if society could get past racial imagery, whichis central to the organizaon of the modern world;the percentage of disadvantages and inequalies inthe lives of Syracuse residents would start to shi,and the marginalizaon of others would shi as well.

-----------------------------Daphne Ramsey has been a Syracuse resident

for 42 years. She has worked with underservedcommunies championing human and civil rights

issues. She is a graduate of Syracuse University andthe mother of two children.

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(TriceEdneyWire.com) – On March23, 2010, I wasin the Capitolwatching everymove, listeningto every speech(pro and con),trying to gureout what couldpossibly beobjec t ionab leabout aordablehealth care forall who needed

it. It was clear that Members ofCongress were provided health careby us--the long suering taxpayers.

What would be the benet of denyingmillions of taxpaying cizens access toaordable health care when we payfor theirs? Are we any less worthy ofthe emoonal security that accruesto those capable of weathering thenancial storms of catastrophic illnessopposed to falling over the “nancialcli” into bankruptcy?

I’ve nally gured it out. As PaulRyan opined, “Some people are just takers.” During his campaignfor vice-president, he elaborated

on “takers” and we thought thathe was talking about poor people.Now, the truth rings clear. Ryan wasaempng to disguise the real intentof his colleagues who want things forthemselves at the expense of thosewho really need help. The problem isnot the government. It’s the distoronof principles of governance by thoseso misguided that their selshnessoverwhelms their failed commitmentto public service.

A good example is Michele Bachmannwho always seems to get things wrong.Remember when she took great pridein proclaiming that John Wayne, theactor, was a nave of her home and

that she wanted to run her campaignin the same spirit as John Wayne fromWaterloo, Iowa —only to discover thather “homeboy” was really the serialkiller, John Wayne Gacy! Likewise,Bachmann rushed over to the WWIIMemorial and joined in blaming thePresident, Park Police and anyoneelse she could think of for shungdown the government. Factually,this shutdown was made possible byher vote, and the votes of policiansmovated more by racial animus than“the general welfare.”

Recently, we saw Utah’s Mike Lee,and other deniers of aordable healthcare, shi focus from the so-calleddamaging human impact of the ACA tonger-poinng at the technologicallyawed launch of the program. Thefact hasn’t been lost that thesemiscreants created false equivalenceson both sides of a single issue. Theyoer nothing to the public discourseexcept their destrucve obsession toerase the historical ngerprint of therst Black President. More tragic is thereality that their shrill racist rants havefound kindred spirits in a small, butvocal segment of the polical right.

The infamous Ted Cruz returned toTexas last week to a hero’s welcomebecause he played such a big part inshung down the government toprevent those in need from havingaordable health care—causing oureconomy to lose 24 billion dollars inthe process! Yet, he leads the folkwho want to save the taxpayers fromgovernment! Upon examinaon, histaccs are like those of the homeownerwho burns his home down because hethinks the kitchen needs remodeling!His self-serving, grand-standing is

a prime example of our need to bemore careful in examining the movesof those who present themselves togovern.

Speaker John Boehner was elected tolead the U.S. House of Representaves,but we saw everything exceptleadership from him during the recentshutdown crisis. He could only lead87 members of his caucus to vote withhim to end the awful economic crisis;on the other hand, Democrac LeaderNancy Pelosi did not lose a single votein her caucus. Hers sounds like realleadership to me. Speaker Boehnerseems to need a bit more pracce.

2014 gives us a chance to bring backsensible governance because theAmerican people do need government.We just need to change some of thosedoing the governing.

--------------------Dr. E. Faye Williams is Chair ofthe Naonal Congress of BlackWomen, Inc. 202/678-6788. www.naonalcongressbw.org

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