See: Moulton-Tisei race sets example
Related: Moulton's Momentum
"Rivals for Sixth District seat focus on immigration reform; Racial disparities, job creation also discussed at forum" by Todd Feathers | Globe Correspondent October 27, 2014
LYNN —Two candidates for the Sixth Congressional District seat pledged Sunday night during an election forum to push for immigration reform, create more living-wage jobs on the North Shore, combat racial disparities in the justice system, and promote creative solutions to foreclosures.
The forum at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church was hosted by the interfaith Essex County Community Organization, which advocates for improved economic and social conditions on the North Shore.
Independent candidate Chris Stockwell and Democratic candidate Seth Moulton spoke at separate times, but both answered the same questions. Republican candidate and former state legislator Richard Tisei was also scheduled to attend the event, but withdrew because he was ill.
“He’s just under the weather,” Tisei spokesman Charlie Szoid said. “He won’t be out for long. It’s just a small cold.”
Stockwell, a businessman, began the night by promising to support immigration reform, including amnesty for some in the country illegally.
“I believe in a path to citizenship for long-time, law-abiding, undocumented immigrants,” Stockwell said.
If they are undocumented they are not law-abiding!!
But amnesty, he argued, would have to be paired with measures like tight border security and aid to Latin American countries in order to ensure that the United States is not overwhelmed by immigrants for which the country cannot provide.
Moulton also promised the audience, which included many Spanish speakers, that he would back immigration reform.
Welcoming undocumented workers into the nation’s tax base would help strengthen the country financially and socially, he said.
As it destroys American citizens earning power.
“We’re not going to send them all home,” Moulton said. “They’re a part of our communities, part of our small businesses, and part of our churches.”
The candidates also agreed that vocational job training and English as a second language classes should be the foundations of a local economy on the rebound.
In other words, they CARE MORE ABOUT ILLEGALS than they DO YOU, taxpaying citizen!
Btw, that is not a winning issue when it comes to the Hou$e.
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Moulton described Lynn as a city with vast untapped resources in the form of vacant industrial property.
He pointed to his experience managing a high-speed rail project in Texas, and said he would push for infrastructure projects that would bring business to Lynn, such as expanding the Blue Line to the city.
But in order for businesses to set their roots in the district, he said, the area needs a trained workforce.
“Having good schools, having good training, that’s what businesses are looking for,” Moulton said....
Stockwell said he “abhors” racial profiling, and he told the audience about lessons he learned while participating as a child in a camp that sent affluent suburban children to minority neighborhoods in Hartford and vice versa.
“I will support the reduction of sentencing guidelines for certain nonviolent crimes” like drug possession, he said.
Moulton said reducing racial disparities began with police forces and local governments that represented the diversity of their communities. He invoked the recent racial tensions in Ferguson, Mo., and warned the audience that such internal struggles were not confined to far-away communities.
He tilled division, huh?
“One of the most important things we can do is that throughout our communities we should have representative leadership,” he said....
I agree. It is a shame we never get it.
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Related: Biden campaigns for Seth Moulton, strikes populist tone
Pffft!
Btw, turns out Brown did have a gun when he was shot:
"Brown autopsy offers few answers" by Jim Salter | Associated Press October 23, 2014
ST. LOUIS — Michael Brown’s official autopsy indicates he was shot in the hand at close range, but a medical examiner not involved in the investigation says there’s no way to conclude whether the injury meant the unarmed 18-year-old was trying to grab the gun of the officer who killed him.
The St. Louis County medical examiner’s autopsy report, obtained by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, doesn’t explain why Brown was killed after the apparent scuffle at the officer’s police vehicle spilled onto a Ferguson street or confirm whether he was confronting Officer Darren Wilson or trying to surrender when he was fatally shot — both scenarios offered by various witnesses to the Aug. 9 shooting.
The shooting of Brown, who was black, by Wilson, who is white, spurred unrest and weeks of protests in Ferguson, some of which turned violent. A grand jury is expected to decide by mid-November whether Wilson will face criminal charges, and the Justice Department is investigating.
The autopsy showed Brown suffered six bullet entrance wounds and listed ‘‘gunshot wounds to the head and chest’’ as the cause of death. A toxicology report with the autopsy also showed Brown had marijuana in his system.
Dwain Fuller, a Dallas-area forensic toxicologist, told the Associated Press the report indicated ‘‘recent use’’ that likely meant Brown still was feeling the effects of the drug, but ‘‘as far as that making him violent, one can’t really say.’’
Both the Post-Dispatch, which published a story Wednesday on the county autopsy report, and The New York Times, which ran a story Friday about the officer’s account of the shooting, cited unnamed sources saying Wilson told investigators he and Brown struggled over the officer’s gun.
The autopsy said a microscopic exam showed that foreign matter found on tissue from Brown’s injured thumb was ‘‘consistent with products that are discharged from the barrel of a firearm.’’
St. Louis city medical examiner Michael Graham, who was not involved in the autopsy, said that and other evidence indicates the shot to the hand probably occurred inside Wilson’s SUV. Graham, in an interview, said it’s impossible to conclude whether the close-range injury meant Brown was trying to grab the officer’s gun, as Wilson has alleged.
Judy Melinek, a forensic pathologist from San Francisco, said combined with other evidence, the autopsy indicates there was a struggle for Wilson’s gun inside the officer’s SUV.
‘‘You don’t just look at one piece of evidence,’’ Melinek said. ‘‘You have a witness statement, the officer, saying that Michael Brown is reaching for the gun and it goes off and hits (Brown’s) hand. The physical findings (in the autopsy) are consistent with the officer’s statement.’’
That settles that.
Brown family attorney Benjamin Crump said the shots fired outside the police vehicle are what really matter.
‘‘After there was no more threat, and [Brown] was running away, why did Officer Darren Wilson keep shooting?’’ Crump asked in an interview. ‘‘That’s what this is about.’’
The findings were similar to those of an autopsy commissioned by Brown’s family and released Aug. 18, said Michael Baden, the former New York City chief medical examiner who performed the independent exam.
That's very provocative from the guy that is known as the cover-up coroner.
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"Nixon creating group to address Ferguson issues" Associated Press October 22, 2014
FERGUSON, Mo. — An independent commission will be created to study issues that have surfaced since the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Governor Jay Nixon said Tuesday.
Nixon, who has been criticized by some who say he hasn’t done enough to address the unrest in the St. Louis suburb, said the commission will examine the social and economic conditions underscored by weeks of protests.
The shooting of Brown, an unarmed, black 18-year-old, has spurred unrest that has drawn the national spotlight.
It's controlled unrest being pushed for racially divisive purposes.
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Nixon has to make it look like he is doing something so he spins his wheels with a study.
Time to end this post:
"Man’s ashes to be scattered in fireworks display" Associated Press October 23, 2014
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — A Missouri funeral director is sending his father out with a bang.
Greenlawn Funeral Homes will hold its first Firework Memorial program Saturday night, when fireworks packed with James Carver’s cremated remains will be launched skyward as part of his family’s goodbye.
Greenlawn funeral director Jim Carver says his father loved watching fireworks and would appreciate the unusual send off. The family will follow the eight-minute fireworks display with a cookout and memorial celebration.
Some have said, ‘‘This is the coolest thing I’ve ever seen,’’ Carver said, while others think it sounds weird....
Carver thinks the firework displays will be popular in the summer, when families can hold the events and explode ashes over a lake.
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Ended with a bang, didn't I?
NEXT DAY UPDATES:
"Ferguson no-fly zone was aimed at media" by Jack Gllum | Associated Press November 03, 2014
WASHINGTON — The US government agreed to a police request to restrict more than 37 square miles of airspace surrounding Ferguson, Mo., for 12 days in August for safety, but audio recordings show that local authorities privately acknowledged the purpose was to keep away news helicopters during violent street protests.
What more is there to really say about this pos government?
On Aug. 12, the morning after the Federal Aviation Administration imposed the first flight restriction, FAA air traffic managers struggled to redefine the flight ban to let commercial flights operate at nearby Lambert-St. Louis International Airport and police helicopters fly through the area — but ban others.
‘‘They finally admitted it really was to keep the media out,’’ said one FAA manager about the St. Louis County police in a series of recorded telephone conversations obtained by the Associated Press. ‘‘But they were a little concerned of, obviously, anything else that could be going on.”
Yeah, but we are being told the truth by authority.
And this is only an article because it's a self-serving public imagery pos for the ma$$ media. They aren't regurgitating government lies, they are the intrepid reporters being kept out by authority. At a certain point, you don't feel sorry for them and their self-serving whining.
At another point, a manager at the FAA’s Kansas City center said police ‘‘did not care if you ran commercial traffic through this TFR [temporary flight restriction] all day long. They didn’t want media in there.’’
Then they only allowed controlled asset reports to be put into the paper regarding the government-generated crisis in Ferguson. That's what I've been getting all along. That's why the protests appear in the paper.
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The conversations contradict assertions by the St. Louis County Police Department that the restriction was solely for safety and had nothing to do with preventing media from witnessing the violence or the police response to demonstrations following the shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown.
Police said at the time, and again as recently as late Friday, that they requested the flight restriction in response to shots fired at a police helicopter.
But police officials confirmed there was no damage to their helicopter and were unable to provide an incident report on the shooting. On the tapes, an FAA manager described the helicopter shooting as unconfirmed rumors.
Oh, we were LIED TO YET AGAIN by AUTHORITY?
No s**t?!
The recordings were obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. They raise serious questions about whether police were trying to suppress aerial images of the demonstrations and the police response by violating the constitutional rights of journalists with tacit assistance by federal officials.
Oh, NOW the ma$$ media is all worried about the Constitution and rights!
Such images would have offered an unvarnished view of one of the most serious episodes of civil violence in recent memory.
And all I've got is the rotten pri$m called the Bo$ton Globe.
‘‘Any evidence that a no-fly zone was put in place as a pretext to exclude the media from covering events in Ferguson is extraordinarily troubling and a blatant violation of the press’s First Amendment rights,’’ said Lee Rowland, an American Civil Liberties Union staff attorney.
I agree. I'm for no censorship at all, everything is out there, even the propaganda bile of the Amerikan media. It is you, the reader, who must sift through the information and decide for yourself what to believe. I'm only trying to guide you by asking questions and pointing out inanities.
What I don't like is the propaganda pre$$'s arbitrary and self-serving way of using the issue. They are not looking out for me and my rights.
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UPDATE: White House says Ferguson no-fly zone should not have restricted press
A little late to say that now after the damage has been done, especially from the same government that decided to restrict.
What complete assholes this government has become.
Also see: In Sixth District, stereotypes fall
All over the place, yeah, and one is of a fair, just, and objective Amerikan media. That's my taking stock of them, sorry, and you will see why in my first post of the day.
