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Interview with Herman Schott , conducted by Blackside, Inc. on January 31, 1992, for The Great Depression . Washington University Libraries, Film and Media Archive, Henry Hampton Collection.
These transcripts contain material that did not appear in the final program. Only text appearing in bold italics was used in the final version of The Great Depression.*
OK, what attracted you to the EPIC Plan?
Well I—I'd read a good deal of Upton Sinclair, I grew up in a home where and was available, my father, though a businessman, was conservative in I think the right sense of that word and not a reactionary, with a great sense of fairness. When I heard that Upton Sinclair had this campaign, had this Socialist plan, I was excited about it and interested to see what part I could play in helping it along.
OK, tell me about how you got involved, what was your role in the campaign?
I don't know exactly how I got involved in the campaign—
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OK, so you were telling me what your role in the campaign was.
Yes, I don't know, went to headquarters or somewhere where one volunteers for something like that, and they assigned me a job as a precinct captain, which meant that they had some store-fronts that they had rented or had been donated to them, I don't know, and I had one of those on a moderately busy street, and people, there were signs indicating what it was, and people would come in who volunteered to help and asked what they could do. We told them that this particular street needed working on, they should go house to house and distribute some literature. We also had literature available- I don't know for sure whether, don't remember whether we sold the literature or gave it to them, because I know the campaign was largely financed by the funds from the voters themselves.
That was a lot of responsibility then, that you had.
Oh, perhaps so, I don't know whether, I took it seriously, but I don't know whether I thought I was all that important. I went to many of the meetings, they had campaign meetings, rallies, sort of thing, but different from political rallies that I'd known before, this one charged admission. People were actually pleased, I think, to feel that they were important and that their contributions mattered, and I think it made the, they took what was said much more interesting, interestedly, because they were involved and their money was involved in it.
Well, why do you think they would have charged admission, was there any other, was that the main form of getting contributions to support the campaign?
That was the main way of getting contributions. They also took collections at meetings, and I think there were two reasons for that. One, they didn't really have a, big—money people were generally against it. They felt it was dangerous to the economy—
I'm sorry, could you start again and say, big money people were generally against what?
Against the EPIC movement, the idea.
OK, so start again.
See, the EPIC movement was a movement by the people. The Plan was to open factories that were closed because of the Depression, and to put people to work there who were unemployed because of the impression [sic], to pay these people with coupons of some sort—I think they had a different word for it—and these coupons would be exchanged for material produced by any of the factories. So there was sort of a, be a sort of separate monetary system that would be developed there, of course temporarily for the period of the Depression, I suppose. But it was as near to Socialism as seemed possible in those days.
OK, and you said that big-moneyed interest were against it so they had to get contributions from the people?
That's right.
Can you describe that in your own words?
Of course [laughs], they needed, because they didn't have funds available from the rich, those who usually donated to political causes, in order to get the funds to carry on the campaign, it was necessary to get the poorer people, those who felt their future was at stake, to contribute, so that really it was a grassroots campaign, both with respect to the voters and with respect to the contributors.
And did you ever contribute?
Yes, in fact, one time I got carried away and contributed a hundred dollars, which they seemed to think was a great deal, and gave me a gold card instead of the ordinary white cards. I said that it didn't seem right that they should treat somebody better because he gave more money than somebody else, but they didn't understand that, whoever was in charge at that particular headquarters. But, being involved—
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OK, tell me, when you went to a meeting and you heard Sinclair speak, how did he impress you as a speaker, what did you think about him?
I have a hard time remembering what Sinclair's voice was like—
I want you to tell me, the part you were just explaining to me, about how Sinclair had made it clear in his books that he thought that the only way— [ gap: ;reason: unintelligible ]
That's right— [ gap: ;reason: unintelligible ]
Wait, I was talking when you were talking, now begin.
OK, Upton Sinclair felt, he said, that it was impossible to win with a new party, because of the fact that so many people were riveted to their party. What he called the 'grandfather vote', the people who voted for a candidate, who voted for a party because their grandfathers voted for the party, and it was a family thing to do. So he figured that the thing to do was try and capture one of the major parties. We had a system, a primary system, whereby the people could determine who the candidates would be for the primary, and in the primary decide who was going to run for the party, so he figured the best party, the closest, would be the Democratic Party. [ gap: ;reason: unintelligible ] count on keeping the grandfather vote, enlist people to join the party, give up their membership in the Republican Party or whatever other party they were in, and join the Democratic Party, and vote for him and the other candidates that he had selected as candidates for the legislatures, the Senate.
OK, can you tell me, you said that there's a change after the primary that you felt, that you felt that there was a change in the campaign. What did you feel that change was, and how did it affect you?
Well, I noticed it most specifically because I was, had been appointed to the...State Central Committee. I noticed—
Wait, could you start again, that's a problem.
Yeah, I know.
I felt that after the campaign, after the primary, which the Sinclair people won, the Democratic Party, that a change was taken in the way the Party operated. I noticed this because, in the first place, because I had been appointed to the State Central Committee, and I noticed that we went up to Sacramento, had a big meeting and elected a committee and a president. After that, we never heard from them again, they ran the party, together with, and they enlisted many of the old Democratic politicians. Many of them didn't care about the principles of the Party, but they wanted the Party elected because they were connected with it, so, instead of, they no longer asked people for nickels and dimes and quarters, but they asked the big-shots for hundred and thousands of dollars. So, the people didn't have that strong feeling anymore, that it was their party and it was important for them to vote, so I think that was one factor. To me, it seemed a principal factor why Sinclair wasn't able to win.
OK, but again, if you could explain to me but very briefly, that you felt that Sinclair, that maybe Sinclair couldn't win because they lost, they stopped going after the grassroots support.
Yes, I think that many of Sinclair's supporters lost interest in the campaign, because they found that they weren't concerned, considered anymore, nobody asked them for contributions, and the contributions were coming from the old-line Democratic politicians.
Can you tell me about the, do you remember the poll, when that came out, and what did you feel, did you feel discouraged at all when you heard that, what did you feel—
It came out sometime after—
OK, again—
Oh, excuse me, I'm sorry, the conducted a poll. It was a poll of their readers, it was before the days when there were scientific polls which had some statistical analysis. The polls showed that Sinclair would be badly defeated in the final election, and I think it turned out on later analysis that they very much overestimated the strength of the Sinclair opponents, but I think it did have the effect of discouraging people, and apparently also, it tended to discourage Sinclair.
OK, I want you to repeat the end of that again, and instead of saying 'it', say that the Literary poll [sic] was—
Yeah, the poll, I think, discouraged, the results of that poll discouraged Upton Sinclair, as well as many of his followers, because they took it seriously.
Did you feel discouraged personally?
I'm not sure to what extent I felt the, the results of the poll were important, and how much I was affected, I can't remember that. I was more concerned, I think, that Upton Sinclair was apparently discouraged.
But you felt that this may have felt to you like a low-point in the campaign?
Well, the...I've been asked whether I considered this a low-point in the campaign, and I'm not sure that it was, or that I did, but it was just one of the factors that tended to reduce the enthusiasm for it. Soon after that, Sinclair had some sort of meeting with Haight. Now Haight was an independent running in the campaign for governor. There was a Republican, Merriam, and the Democrat, Sinclair, and then there was Haight, and Independent. Apparently, Upton Sinclair had a meeting with Haight. There were some rumors, and I don't know how well they were substantiated, that Sinclair had offered to join with Haight in order to defeat Merriam, and drop out of the campaign himself. Well, anyhow, voters got wind of that, and it discouraged many of them, they felt if Sinclair wasn't, there wasn't much point in their voting for him.
OK, I'm going to ask you a little bit more about that, and, because you were involved, it's better if you answered, like, 'we' felt something, rather than 'they', if you felt that at all.
I see what you mean.
You were, I mean, EPIC was a movement as well as a political campaign, so could you explain a little bit more that people felt that if Upton Sinclair was thinking of withdrawing, or combining his campaign, that they felt they would be let down, is that right?
Probably, it's probably true that Upton Sinclair, that many people felt that Upton Sinclair's run was a campaign, a movement, it was a movement, it wasn't just a political thing, and to join with even a good politician and abandon the movement was something that we didn't like. We felt that Upton Sinclair's Plan was a serious one, it was a way of introducing a sort of Socialism, and also a way of helping the economy and the people who were stranded because of unemployment. So the idea of giving over the campaign to someone else in order to defeat the Republican and get somebody better, really didn't satisfy all of our desires.
Did you feel like maybe you were being betrayed? In any way?
I think some people, I think some people actually felt betrayed by the fact that Upton Sinclair seemed to be shirking, [camera cuts out, audio continues] getting scared and getting cold feet, and leaving, in a sense leaving the movement, which he didn't actually do, but gave some signs of being ready to do it.
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Right, so tell me about what you-
Many of us in the EPIC movement were there, not just to defeat the Republican or to have a more Democratic governor, but also because we felt the movement, which was really a Socialist movement and many of us believed in Socialism, and also because we thought it was a genuine way to reduce the effects of the Depression for many people, and perhaps to get it over altogether. So that, we were not terribly excited with the idea of having someone else, Haight, or even Sinclair himself become governor without the Plan, which was an important part of our excitement.
OK, but you, it must be something that you remember, you know, that sixty years ago you remember, that you felt discouraged, a little bit betrayed by Sinclair when you heard that, when you heard the rumors that he may make a deal with, with Haight.
Yes, the idea was discouraging to many of us, I think, that Sinclair had already given up, and was ready to make a, to make a deal. We wanted to carry on with the full expectation of winning, and the realization that we might not.
But you still had hope that you were going to win, I mean, you really felt that you were part of something that was really bigger than-
Oh, sure, and we were upset, and of course when the final vote came, we hadn't, we weren't at all sure that we were going to win, but it was quite disappointing to find it. Merriam was a, he gave the impression, and I think his activities indicated, that he was a pretty conservative Republican, and so many of us felt, even my little son, a five-year-old at the time, later on, in January, after the election, I took him down to the Rose Bowl, to the Tournament of Roses Parade. He went up front so that he could see, and afterwards when we found each other again, he said, "You know, Governor Merriam was in the parade, and he came by, and I didn't say a word to him."
Tell me about your son, though, tell me about the fact that you used to take your son leafleting. Was the campaign something that you felt that your family could be part of?
Yes, and he obviously had some of this enthusiasm for it, and it was a movement that I wanted to be part of.
But tell me that you took your son with, that your son, that your five-year-old son helped you leaflet.
I don't know if I mentioned this before, but he did help me—
But who's 'he'?
My son, my five-year-old son, was helpful, I don't know if it was a serious extent but, at any rate, he did go around the neighborhood and distribute leaflets for the EPIC campaign.
OK, I want you to tell me one more time about how I took my son with me, my five-year-old son with me, and helped me leaflet.
Oh, yeah, well, I don't, I took my five-year-old son with me and he helped me leaflet, and I think sometimes he may have gone by himself, I have that impression, but maybe he was too young to do that- although a five-year-old can do that. So, at any rate, he did get involved in the campaign.
OK, can you tell me how old you were when you got involved in the campaign?
I was just, I was thirty years old at the time.
Tell me again, let me ask you the rest of the question, actually, tell me how old you were, were there people younger or older than you, were you kind of in the middle-age?
When I was a precinct captain there, at least some of the people who came in and helped on it were old-time politically activists. Others were young people who had gotten interested and wanted to help.
And where were you?
I was, I suppose, somewhere in the middle. I don't know, probably towards the younger end, I'm not sure about that. I was, I'm sorry, you want me to start it over again?
Yeah, just tell me that you were thirty years old and you were in the middle.
Yeah, I was about thirty years old, and I was about in the middle-age of the people in the campaign, I think.
Great, OK. Did you think that the EPIC Plan was workable, that if Sinclair won that you'd really have, be able to have some changes?
I suppose that every, there was a difference in opinion of different people how seriously they took the EPIC Plan. Some felt, I think, that it was a good try, but weren't sure it would work; others were convinced by Sinclair that it was a good plan and really would work. I think that I was one of those, but I don't remember too clearly there, I know I was very much excited about the campaign and wanted to work in it. But whether it would really, how workable it would be and whether it would really help to lead to Socialism, I had no idea.
OK, great. We're fine.
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So you guys think we can do this on Saturday sometime in the afternoon? Or on Sunday sometime before the Superbowl? Friday afternoon even works for me.
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Saturday most likely for me. Friday, My little brother is having a party here. So I can't really use the 360 =|
If we do it on Saturday some time between 10AM-2PM EST would work for me. I'm usually out of the house after that...
I'm guessing we're gonna have to delay but we'll see I guess.
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The Detroit Lions quarterbacks continued to look good during Tuesday's morning practice. All three of them are making accurate throws and avoiding bad decisions. I only saw one pick, and that was on a tipped ball.
Running the ball seemed to be a struggle. To be fair, this is an area that's tough to judge because, while the players were wearing pads, there wasn't the full-contact hitting you'll see in game situations.
That said, I'd expect perception to favor the runner (because they're not really being tackled). It looked like there weren't a lot of holes to go through, but again, it's hard to tell when the offensive linemen aren't going 100 percent.
Defensively, there was good penetration into the backfield, but there were at least three different instances of the interior linemen jumping offsides as the result of a hard count by the quarterback.
Head coach Jim Schwartz said he's not really concerned about offsides because you have to give those penalties up from time to time in order to generally get the best jump on the quarterback. Still, one of the instances was when it was fourth-and-short – a situation when it's completely unacceptable to jump offsides, Schwartz said later on.
There's a certain balance of work and play during these practices that's great to see. The players are working hard, but they don't show a lot of fatigue. I get the sense that they're enjoying the training camps, and improving their play.
11-on-11, OFFENSE ON OWN 9
Quarterback: Daunte Culpepper
• Culpepper completes a screen, but defensive end DeWayne White came through pretty hard and would've had Culpepper sacked before he got rid of the ball.
• Handoff up the middle to running back Kevin Smith does little.
• Another screen, this time to Aveion Cason.
• Cliff Avril blows up what was supposed to be a run play.
• Culpepper zips a 12-yard out to Derrick Williams, who makes a strong catch.
Quarterback: Matthew Stafford
• Beautiful pass over the middle to Will Heller; Stafford's throws in this range have some nice touch, yet seem to have some mustard on them, too.
• Cody Spencer blows up a run play.
• Stafford draws Landon Cohen offsides.
• Run off left tackle picks up a yard or two.
• Running back Allen Ervin takes the ball around left end for what would have been a big gain.
Quarterback: Drew Stanton
• Another run up the middle for very little
• Fullback Jerome Felton breaks off a strong run up the middle of the line; he runs hard and seems to want contact.
• Stanton fakes a pitch left, bootlegs and passes to Will Heller; the timing and execution of the play were flawless. Kind of reminded me of Stanton running the Michigan State offense with all the play action shenanigans and tomfoolery.
• Another run stuffed by the defense.
• Stanton sailed a pass a little high, Eric Fowler jumped for it, but it went through his hands into the waiting arms of cornerback Dexter Wynn for a pick to end the drill.
• Let's call a spade a spade: I'm no Frank Gansz, but damn, watching special teams practice is boring!
• Cornerback Eric King seems to really get off the line quickly as gunner. It'll be interesting to see him in the full-speed, full-conatct situation of a game.
• Nick Harris' punts look good, but he was pretty much booming them. Not a lot of work on burying the ball.
• Williams, Wynn and Adam Jennings took turns returning punts. All three looked pretty fluid and sure-handed.
Quarterback: Stafford
• QB rolls out left and puts one right on the money to Heller.
• Handoff goes for a couple; there was a hole, at least.
• Defense caught off-guard when Stafford rolls right, then pitches to Ervin, who's coming back left and picks up a HUGE gain.
Quarterback: Culpepper
• Rolls out right and gets 7 or 8 on a screen.
• The left defensive tackle jumped offsides thanks to Culpepper's hard count, but I couldn't see who it was.
• Chuck Darby penetrated the left side of the backfield almost immediately, but the run play was going to the right side.
Quarterback: Culpepper
• Smith takes the handoff up the middle for six yards.
• Swing pass right to Smith loses one yard.
• 3rd-and-5 screen pass goes nowhere.
(moving to 1-and-10 on 9-yard line)
• Quick pass to Jennings for four.
• Run to Cason over left side for two yards.
• Cason up the middle for TD.
(back to 18 yard line)
Quarterback: Stafford
• Run play nets zilch.
• Stafford with a laser to Heller for a TD.
• Try it again as third down? Another strike to a wide-open Heller for a TD.
(move to 2nd down on 10)
• Draw play picks up eight.
• Aaron Brown cuts takes handoff, sees no hole, cuts back and crosses goal.
(Williams scraped up his knee, but it looked like just a superficial wound that'll turn into a nice beef jerky.)
• Stafford zings a ball over the middle to Eric Fowler, who can't close his hands fast enough.
(back to 18 yard line)
Quarterback: Stanton
• Throws a nice-looking ball to the right side of the end zone; Fowler adjusts to coverage to make a great catch.
• Handoff up middle for little.
• Defense showed corner blitz, so Stanton adjusted blocking and Ervin picked up the blitz nicely.
(move to 10 yard line)
• Defense started to get hype after stopping Ervin for no gain on a handoff.
• Stanton's hard count draws interior defensive line offside.
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It's cold and wet outside now. On Sunday, when the sun checks out shortly after kickoff, it'll be cold and possibly windy.
It's time for November football. And the Giants and Cowboys will likely deliver a game befitting these conditions.
This isn't going to be a replay of Week 1. This is going to be a totally different game. You've got the Giants' running game, with their bruising back and outstanding offensive line, against a Dallas D that is healthier than it was early in the season and has allowed only two teams to rush for more than 100 yards - the Giants and Vikes. And on the other side of the ball, you have Cowboys RBs Julius Jones and Marion Barber against a Giants D that has improved and is looking to make a statement this week.
With Brandon Jacobs and Barber running the ball against these defenders, there will be some snot bubbles. And I can't wait to see who gets the best of those matchups. I really believe whichever team runs the ball better will win this game. As I mentioned here yesterday and in today's paper, the Cowboys will want to stay out of third-and-longs. That means they'll need plenty of runs of five or more yards on first and second down. The Giants' offense, meanwhile, works best when play-action passes are set up by Jacobs' pounding the ball inside. So they'll need some big gains on first and second down as well.
This is a grind-it-out, ground-it-out kind of game. A throwback. I hope all of you enjoy.
SUNDAY'S GAME: vs. Cowboys, 4:15 p.m., Fox
PLAYERS TO WATCH: Cowboys S Roy Williams might have a star on his helmet, but the Giants see a target. They'll be gunning for Williams this week and will try to get him matched up with Plaxico Burress and Jeremy Shockey. If Burress is feeling better, as it appears he was the other day when he participated in practice, getcha Junior Mints ready. (T.O. has copyrighted popcorn, so we have to go for another movie theater staple.) Look for Burress in the slot a few times. That would seem to be the best way to get him running toward Williams.
Speaking of T.O., let's see what this Aaron Ross kid is all about. Sure, he's played well, but Sunday's game will make men of boys (or vice versa). It could be a pivotal moment in his rookie season when he looks across the line and sees one of the best receivers in the game heading his way.
THE LINE: Cowboys by 1. Over-under 49.
THE PICK: I've told you all week I love the Giants in this spot and I'm sticking with them: Giants 17, Cowboys 13. That keeps me well under the total, which I think is very high because they're basing it on Week 1. But like I pointed out above, this game shouldn't be like Week 1.
THE RECORDS: 6-2 straight up, 6-2 against the spread (courtesy of Cleo Lemon-to-Ted Ginn Jr.) this year. 38-20, 35-23 ATS career.
NON-GIANTS PICKS: Dolphins (+3) over Bills, Bears (-3) over Raiders and Colts (-3) over Chargers.
UNCLE PETE SAYS: Nothing! He's waved the white flag. Here's the e-mail I got a few days ago before he dropped off the face of the earth:
I can no longer waste my time (and your readers' time) trying to figure out who is going to show up in the NFL every week. Final record: 11-27-1 (pitiful!)
Peace VN.
Ladies and gentlemen, a moment of silence for the passing of a legend. Venti Nove is dead. (Uncle Pete is still alive, though.)
WR Plaxico Burress (ankle), RB Derrick Ward (ankle/groin) and WR Steve Smith (hamstring) were all on the bikes today. Looks like they all missed practice. Don't expect to see Ward or Smith in uniform on Sunday. I'd expect Ward to try making a comeback next week. We'll see if he can make it.
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Well, didn't the Wii Sell more than the XBox 360 on release date, or something? Hmm, yeah.. I don't know o_o Hard to decide and see.
Do you think that the Wii will outsell the Xbox 360 or PS3 this holiday season? The Xbox 360 does have some good games coming out that are appealing such as the big HALO 3. And on that matter, the Wii of course has many games coming out that will more than likely boost sales of the Nintendo Wii.
So what is your opinion?
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Well, didn't the Wii Sell more than the XBox 360 on release date, or something? Hmm, yeah.. I don't know o_o Hard to decide and see.
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With Halo 3 coming out this fall I predict that Xbox 360 console sales will go up. However with the Wii still selling out we're just going to have to wait and see.
The Wii will probably continue to have the best sales since it has a much wider audience than the other two consoles.
well the wii has already out sold the ps3 by alot and it is closing in on the 360. But i feel by December 25th the wii will have outsold the 360. Even without the big upcoming games i think the wii will out sale the 360 i mean look at the stores you can easily go buy a 360 but you cant easily go buy a wii.
i think it will be close. like halo3 has like the sam rep as ssmb and metriod prime 3 wii equal up to bioshock. both getting guitar hero. i think though super mario galaxy will tip wii into first.
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I don't think it is these "hardcore" titles that are going to get them the sales. They are going to sell well because the Wii appeals to non-gamers and stuff, so there is a much wider array of people that may purchase one. If the sales were based completely on these "hardcore" games then I think we all know that the 360 would sale much better. Halo generates much more hype than SSBB and Metroid.Originally Posted by SUTA
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Halo 3 hype = ssbb, metroid 3 and super mario galaxy together.
Tough call`.. isnt wii fit coming out?
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Well the thing is, if what you say is true, then the non-gamers have already got their share. I mean all those games coming out do not appeal to non-gamers, except for maybe Brawl. So when titles like Galaxy, Metroid and even Brawl come out, those gamers that have been waiting for the Wii to have some good games will come out and start buying some. Also, these gamers will not only look forward to the exclusives, but when the other games like Guitar Hero and Smackdown vs. Raw 2008 come out, people will not look to buy the other systems because the Wii has their games plus those ones.Originally Posted by paintba||er
Halo changing all that seems hard but it is possible, however I would have to say more people already have a 360 because its had some decent games for a while, the Wii is starting to get there.
So I would say though, that if the Wii doesn't have any delay's and manufacturing problems, then it will sell pretty well, demand may leave some gamers in the cold though around the Holiday season.
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true, but remeber halo3 is coming out 2 months sooner. once thats and getting a little old(notice i said "little") allmost the hype will move to brawl(everyone will be wanting to try it, even with there halo 3 to last them a long long while)Originally Posted by paintba||er
but yes, the wii does seem to have that attraction to non gamers.i'm just saying they help
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I'm a 72-year-old married woman. I've been receiving Social Security based on my own work record since I was 62. At that time, my own benefit was just a few dollars less than what I'd have received under my husband's work record. But I'm currently receiving $80 a month less than I'd have received if I had taken half my husband's benefit. I can't understand why his benefit has moved up and mine apparently stood still.
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In your case, you say that when you were 62, your own benefit was a few dollars less than 50 percent of your husband's. But at 62, you weren't eligible for a 50 percent spousal benefit. When you were 62, your spousal benefit was 36 percent of his benefit. That's why you received your own instead: It was the larger of the two amounts for which you were eligible.
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What important areas should I consider when planning the succession of my business?
Here's an important question for busy business owners - what's next for your company? Not just tomorrow or even in the months ahead, but when the time comes that you or one of your key employees retires or leaves the organization unexpectedly?
At a time when many baby boomers are thinking about retirement, those who own a business need to plan not just for their life after work, but for the future of the firm they've committed so much of their lives to. In a small- or mid-sized business, the owner and perhaps other key personnel play such a vital role that special planning is required to prepare for circumstances in which any of these individuals is no longer part of the organization. If your business doesn't have a succession plan in place, it is an issue that needs prompt attention.
There are a number of questions to consider in helping prepare for the period of transition a company inevitably faces. They include:
Question 1 - Who is in line to follow the principals of the firm?
The most fundamental aspect of a succession plan is to have a replacement (or replacements) in line. In many cases, a family business will move from one generation to the next. In other situations, a trusted employee or group of employees may need to be groomed and prepared to assume control of the company in the future.
Question 2 - How will control of the business be transferred?
Once successors are identified, there is a variety of ways that control of the business can be transferred to them. This usually works best when the current business owner and potential successors can establish an agreement in advance for an orderly transfer of ownership. This may occur in a number of ways. Among the options are:
• An outright sale to the new owner, either in a one-time transaction or an installment sale (with payments made by the buyer over a number of years). It may be possible to establish an annuity that will make payments to the owner over a period of years as a way to fund the sale.
• The use of a trust vehicle, such as a grantor retained annuity trust (GRAT) or a grantor retained unitrust (GRUT). GRAT/GRUTs are irrevocable trusts to which you transfer appreciating assets while retaining an income payment for a set period of time. At either the end of the payment period or your death, the assets in the trust pass to the other trust beneficiaries (the remainder beneficiaries). The value of the retained income is subtracted from the value of the property transferred to the trust (i.e., a share of the business), so if you live beyond the specified income period, the business may be ultimately transferred to the next generation at a reduced value for estate tax or gift tax purposes.
There are other options to consider as well. An important consideration in the decision-making process is the potential tax ramifications, particularly for the seller. There are tools available to help reduce the potential impact of capital gains, estate and gift taxes when a sale occurs. Good planning plays a critical role in making sure that both the seller and the buyer achieve the most favorable results.
Question 3 - What forms of protection are in place in case an unexpected event occurs?
The need to implement a succession plan can sometimes strike without notice. It is important to have protection solutions in place in the event of the sudden death or disability of the business owner or a key individual in the organization.
Businesses that involve partners or likely successors, for example, may benefit from having a buy-sell agreement in place. A buy-sell agreement lets you keep control of your interest until the occurrence of an event that the agreement specifies, such as your retirement, disability, or death. Other events like divorce can also be included as triggering events under a buy-sell agreement. When the triggering event occurs, the buyer is obligated to buy your interest from you or your estate at the fair market value. The buyer can be a person, a group (such as co-owners), or the business itself. Price and sale terms are prearranged, which eliminates the need for a fire sale if you become ill or when you die.
Remember, you are bound under a buy-sell agreement: You can't sell or give your business to anyone except the buyer named in the agreement without the buyer's consent. This could restrict your ability to reduce the size of your estate through lifetime gifts of your business interest, unless you carefully coordinate your estate planning goals with the terms of your buy-sell agreement.
Question 4 - If a plan is in place, are you keeping it up to date?
Like anything related to personal finance, no plan is a final plan. Things change in the lives of business owners and in the structure of the business. It is important to review a plan regularly and make appropriate adjustments to it.
Business succession is a complex matter. It involves close work with a financial adviser, tax specialist and an attorney experienced in these types of matters to structure a solution that is most suitable for your business and potential successors. It is a critical matter to address to assure that the rewards for years of hard work in building a successful business are realized long after you are no longer part of the day-to-day operations of the organization.
John Gin is a certified financial planner in the local office of a national financial services firm. Send questions to Money Watch, The Times-Picayune, 3800 Howard Ave., New Orleans, LA 70125.


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ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Yankees manager Joe Girardi will be watching closely when Andy Pettitte takes the mound against the Angels on Monday, especially later in the left-handers start, looking for signs of the shoulder fatigue that forced him to miss his last start.
Girardi said the best indicator of Pettitte's health will be less about velocity and more about the sharpness of Pettitte's command.
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Corridor H paving behind schedule
The Corridor H repaving project was not finished on schedule this summer but officials say they hope to have it completed before winter weather arrives.
Part of the pavement preservation and concrete restoration project – which spans from Randolph County through Barbour and Upshur counties and into Lewis County – was originally scheduled to be wrapped up by mid-August.
This week, Mike Moran, district engineer for the state Department of Transportation, said the latest possible date for completion of the roadwork is Nov. 1. Moran said at least one lane will be finished by Oct 1.
Part of the reason for the delay is that the condition of the concrete was considerably worse than originally anticipated and was in need of patching, which set work back, he said.
"If weather permits we may be able to see it completed by the middle of October," Moran said. "We are trying to finish it up as efficiently as possible."
Weather is a concern as winter approaches, particularly with exposed metal in some areas of the road and entire blocks of concrete still not filled in others.
Moran says that if the weather proves to be uncooperative early in the season the project will have to be shut down.
"Regardless, we are planning to have them (the roadwork crews) off the road before bad weather hits," Moran said.
The Upshur County roadwork is near completion within the lanes on the highway, but there is still work to be done on the shoulder portion of the road. Long sections of Corridor H in Barbour and Randolph counties are still in a partially completed state.
Regardless of weather or deadlines, state officials advise that safety is the number one priority.
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MONTGOMERY, Alabama - Being sent to prison might have saved Rebecca Peppers's life. When the 31-year-old Andalusia native arrived at the Alabama Department of Corrections Montgomery Women's Facility in 2011, she was immediately diagnosed with Stage 4 cervical cancer.
"I would have never found it out there on the street. I was so wrapped up in my addiction," Peppers said. "It's like God put me here for a reason," she added.
Peppers went through the typical prison entrance exams, which included a pap smear that came back abnormal. She received treatment at the University of Alabama in Birmingham.
When she went back for a follow-up in January of 2013, the lump that had been growing in her throat turned out to be thyroid cancer.
"When I found out about the thyroid, it really broke me down because I thought I was going to the doctor and they were going to tell me I was clear and they would send me back to work and come to find out, it was cancer and I was having to get rushed right back out," Peppers said.
Peppers had surgery in March for the thyroid cancer and will take her final oral radiation treatment on the outside. She won her parole on Wednesday and has about 10 days left in prison.
On Saturday, the Montgomery Women's Facility and the American Cancer Society held an abbreviated Relay for Life ceremony in the yard at the prison so that inmates could have a chance to walk for themselves, each other and to show support for those on the outside.
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The Woman's Club of Warren will host The Holly Home Tour on Sunday, Dec. 9. Five fantastic, historic homes of Warren will be on the tour. The event, which runs from 12:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., will include the Champlin Home, 512 Market St, a 1904 Queen Anne style; the Walker Home, 108 East Street, a circa 1905 Colonial Revival; the Price-Walde Home, 315 Liberty Street, a 1907 English style brick; the Megill Home, 310 West Fifth Avenue, a 1925 Tudor Style; and the Conaway Home, 224 Conewango Avenue, a 1924 home with Georgian architecture. All homes will be dressed in their Christmas garb.
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The Western National Parks trip meeting will be held at 2:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 7, at the Allegheny Community Center in one of the craft rooms. An agenda will be reviewed so reservations can be made, pricing completed, then people who are interested can sign up and pay a deposit. Plan to be there if you are interested.
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Accomplishments: Lacoste capped a stellar high school career by winning the 100-yard backstroke (59.31 seconds) and finishing third in the breaststroke (1:08.11) at last Sunday's Division I state championships. She won the Western Massachusetts title in the breaststroke (1:06.91) and was runner-up in the backstroke (59.28) on Feb. 12, receiving the Senior High Point Award for her career accomplishments.
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Of note: Holds every school record except for one; swims on Holyoke YMCA Vikings national team; counts Wagner University, a Division I school in New Jersey, as her No. 1 choice; aspires to become a physician's assistant; high honors student is on committee to look into raising academic standards for athletic eligibility in Chicopee schools.
On winning the state championship in the backstroke: "I was not expecting a state title. I was seeded second going in, but I knew it was going to be a very close race. It was a great way to end my high school swimming career."
On also swimming the breaststroke, which was the next event: "It was very tough. I probably had like five minutes, so I just ran back to the warm-down pool, then ran back to the pool to try to gather my thoughts for the next race.
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Syracuse, N.Y. — For so long on Saturday night, it was like watching the sun set in the east, like seeing geese flying north for the winter.
The Syracuse University Orange, which would shoot 35 percent from the field, was struggling. No, wait. With its Big Three of C.J. Fair, Tyler Ennis and Trevor Cooney on the way to missing 25 of their 36 shots, SU was losing. No, wait. Trailing by five points with six minutes on the clock, the No. 1 club in the nation, the one with the unbeaten record, was, in fact, going to lose.
The party was over. The dream was done. The perfect season was about to become the imperfect one.
"I think they calculate percentages with certain times to go, percentages to win the game," said Jim Boeheim soon after the final horn. "We didn't have a good percentage to win this game or (the one in) Pittsburgh in the last part of it."
Didn't matter, though. This Syracuse outfit, like a vampire, is so very hard to kill. And North Carolina State, positioned to make the college basketball world bolt upright and gasp, had landed here, in what must have looked to the visitors like a tundra, without its wooden stake.
Stunningly, the Orange did not lose on Saturday night. It missed five free throws after the break, had as many turnovers as assists, splashed just two 3-pointers and scored merely three points in the affair's final 3:16.
And it still managed, thanks largely to a pair of huge defensive traps that produced a pair of takeaways during the mayhem's last 22 seconds, to win 56-55. Still managed to turn that record of 24-0 into 25-0. Still managed to send Central New York into another round of delirium.
Duke (and the splendor of that victory) . . . Pittsburgh (and the miracle of that triumph) . . . and now North Carolina State (and the unlikelihood of that conquest). All of that, plus wins over Notre Dame and Clemson, in a span of 15 Atlantic Coast Conference days.
Remarkable. Actually, it's one of those words that comes on the far side of remarkable.
"This team has reacted well to every tough situation they've been in or put themselves in," declared Boeheim, the coach of this unblemished squad that could probably tight-rope its way over the Falls (and who'd bet against that?). "And that's something they really should be given a lot of credit for."
Fact is, you just can't beat this bunch. At least it doesn't seem so. You might be as talented, you might be as passionate, you might be as willing to reach all the way to the bottom of your heart just as SU does. But you can't beat it.
At least there is no evidence of that. Not yet, anyway.
Because when a Fair is off, Rakeem Christmas scores 14 points, grabs 12 rebounds, blocks seven shots, goes 6-for-6 at the foul line and makes the evening's most crucial steal as he did against N.C. State. Because when an Ennis is off, Jerami Grant produces a double-double (14 rebounds, 12 points) and even tosses in a tough left-handed flip along the base line as he did against N.C. State. Because when a Cooney is off, Michael Gbinije provides 17 valuable off-the-bench minutes to help fill some gaps as he did against N.C. State.
And that, folks — grit, teamwork, production under duress — was so much of Saturday's story. Not all of it. But most of it.
Indeed, we also were given (1) Jake Flaherty, the former Syracuse linebacker who belted out the national anthem, unaccompanied, out there at the middle of the court; (2) Nina Davuluri, who sat in the front row beneath her crown and allowed Daryl Gross to bask in the knowledge that while the Panthers had trotted out Miss Pennsylvania on Wednesday in the Petersen Events Center, he'd landed Miss America for the Dome; and (3) Beejay Anya, the Wolfpack's 325-pound reserve center who took up some serious space not only under the basket but also in the back of his shorts.
And all of that was something about which to tweet, to text, to howl about into the night. But in the end . . . well, there was that end. There was Fair scoring the winning points on a fast-break/goal-tending layup with some seven seconds to go that allowed his side to steal a contest and sent the crowd of 31,571 over the moon.
There was the sun setting in the west. There were geese heading south. There was perfection being preserved. Again . . . again . . . again.
"I don't look at our record," stated Boeheim, and maybe he can actually be believed. "I feel like we've played really, overall, well enough to be 20-5. I think that's really what we are."
The big man may be right, but he knows something else, too. He knows that few of the dwellers in these parts right now agree with him.
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Recent application of self-calibration techniques to low-frequency (< 150~MHz) radio interferometric data have enabled high-resolution, high sensitivity imaging at long wavelengths for the first time. We illustrate these advances using images obtained from the new 74~MHz system on the NRAO Very Large Array. These images have sub-arcminute resolution and sub-Jansky sensitivity.
We then discuss the proposed Low-Frequency Array (LOFAR), a planned completely electronic array largely inspired by the VLA 74~MHz breakthrough. LOFAR is envisaged to be an interferometer operating in the 10--150~MHz frequency range, and possibly as wide as 3--300~MHz. It will have up to a square kilometer of collecting area, milliJansky sensitivity, and arcsecond resolution. LOFAR will surpass, by 2--3 orders of magnitude, the power of previous imaging instruments in its frequency range, and thus effectively open a new window on the electromagnetic spectrum.
LOFAR's science objectives include (1)~Study of planetary and solar radio emission processes; (2)~Constraining the three-dimensional distribution of the Galactic cosmic ray gas and studying Galactic supernova remnants and pulsars; and (3)~Imaging the high-redshift Universe, including high-redshift radio galaxies and galaxy clusters and possibly the first structures to form near the epoch of reionization. LOFAR may also serve as the receiving instrument for imaging bi-static solar radar experiments. Because of LOFAR will open a new window on the spectrum, the possibility of discovering new classes of sources or physical phenomena is also likely.
Basic research in radio astronomy at the Naval Research Laboratory is supported by the Office of Naval Research.
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Objective: Premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD) is associated with increased pain, but there has been a lack of well-controlled research assessing pain responsivity, sex hormones, and their relationships in this group. This study was designed to address this gap in the literature.
Materials and Methods: Healthy, regularly cycling participants (14 PMDD, 14 non-PMDD) attended pain testing sessions during the mid-follicular, ovulatory, and late-luteal phases of the menstrual cycle (order counterbalanced) and salivary estradiol, progesterone, and testosterone were assessed at each testing session. Pain sensitivity was measured from electrocutaneous threshold/tolerance, ischemic threshold/tolerance, sensory and affective ratings of electrocutaneous and ischemic stimuli, and the nociceptive flexion reflex threshold (NFR, a measure of spinal nociception).
Results: Women with PMDD had higher sensory pain ratings of electrocutaneous stimuli and trends for lower ischemic thresholds and higher affective pain ratings of electrocutaneous stimuli. However, there were no group differences observed in NFR threshold. Testosterone levels were also lower during the mid-follicular and ovulatory phases in PMDD. Correlations between pain outcomes and estradiol and testosterone indicated that these hormones are hypoalgesic, with estradiol having a greater hypoalgesic effect within the PMDD group.
Discussion: Overall, women with PMDD may have a phase-independent hyperalgesia, with pain amplification likely occurring at the supraspinal level rather than the spinal level, given the lack of group differences in NFR threshold. Because testosterone was hypoalgesic and lower in women with PMDD, and there were strong associations between pain and estradiol in PMDD, sex hormones may play a role in PMDD-related hyperalgesia.
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UKIP LGBT group: 'Extremely angry and disappointed' by the 'obnoxious beliefs' of David Nixon and John Sullivan
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Why be a member of any party that is against equal rights?
They are not.
Try reading their manifesto.
On the UKIP website it states they are against Same Sex Marriage. End. Of. Argument!
Agreed, it is the one facet of their manifesto I disagree with, which is why I won't vote for them out of principle.
They are not "against equal rights" per se or homophobic, but they don't do themselves any favours with policies like this.
honestly you're a bit nuts. We're not against equal rights we just dont want queers getting married
Please try looking up the phrase "per se" – it's from a language they call Latin, but I doubt they taught you that in your sink estate comprehensive.
It means "in itself"; I realise that equal rights should be applied to all, but they have made an exception, which I agree is wrong, but it does not mean UKIP do not support equal rights in other areas.
You are a wretched human bieing
Well said, James. He's a sad and lonely little loser who cannot get on with his immigrant neighbours.
They obviously didn't teach you English either by the looks of your spelling.
So some people get more rights than others and this is a commitment to equality?
The grammar schools I attended taught me a different definition of "equality".
"Spanner1960" said on Saturday 27 April 2013:
"Most gay men I know are the most selfish, vain, egotistical bunch of gits on the planet, and the concept of a 'gay community' is a total myth . . . "
"Spanner1960" said exactly the same thing several times on threads in this PinkNews community a number of years ago. Every time "Spanner1960" speaks like this he totally insults us.
Vote him down, make all his comments disappear, and ignore him.
People said "try reading the LibDem manifesto" before the 2010 election……….
Think we need more concrete evidence.
Nothing will come of it. Perhaps a mealy-mouthed distancing from it by Farage. UKIP gays who support a party against equal marriage? Oxymorons, voting for their own oppressors. Disgusting!
From what I can see, there is a strong Christian contingent within the party which is why they won't cross that line.
Who are these idiots in UKIP LGBT, surely no one is that stupid? to support their own oppressors? Bet the named and shamed homophobic candidates are still in the running for election, obviously ukip are more concerned with the racist tag.
Sadly some gay people are also racist and xenophobic. I knew one once who voted BNP. They didn't stay a friend for much longer once I saw that darker side of them. I should imagine it's the same with the ones who've joined UKIP.
Aside from the vast amount of mainly supportive publicity that UKIP get on TV, the party has a well-oiled publicity machine on the social networks. Therefore I'd urge anyone who uses Facebook, Twitter etc to counter their racism, homophobia and other bigotry. Young people need to know the truth about UKIP, and they're not getting the facts on the BBC and mass-media networks.
Vast amount?
They weren't even mentioned until a month or so back.
Really? What's all this about then?
The problem is that the BBC seem obsessed with Farage. No other UKIP spokesman or representative is allowed on TV or radio. He has even been a guest on HIGNFY, a privilege not extended to any other serving Party leader. (Charlie Kennedy had resigned long before his appearance).
UKIP seem nervous about letting their followers take part in uncontrolled, live discussion…..
I have no time or respect for these pick-and-choose bigots.
Which, James, you already are.
Yes, Mark Y, yes! List the undesirables to exclude from our happy gay community. First gay Catholics! Then all gay Christians! Then gay Jews! Then gay Muslims! Then gay Conservatives! Then everyone gay who is black/brown/not white!
No doubt the list can grow and grow!
I second that.
Devillers you got support from spanner. What does that tell you?
I don't know James!
It could be worse!! The support could be from you!!!!!
UKIP has an lgbt group? Good grief.
You forgot to mention gay catholics to that list James!
Christ, I'd like to give these idiots a damn good shake in the hope they wake up a bit. How many more examples of proof do they need before they realise they're only tolerated in UKIP for PR reasons?
Similar to the excuses MPs used to vote against equal marriage. "I'm not homophobic, I have gay friends and I support CPs", bull-shite.
Any gay man who votes for UKIP has serious self hate problems.
have you met spanner?
What a tosser.
There is more to life than gay rights.
I reckon you would vote for Attila the Hun if he was pro-gay.
Again, classic leftie guilt-trip mentality – if you are gay and go against the socialist clique, you must be "self-hating".
Well sorry sunshine, I like myself, it's ignorant, blinkered twats like you that get up my nose.
Your comment would be like a black guy saying there is more to life than racial equality – it's just stupid. I'm sure you're not stupid, I suspect your problem is that you just hate immigrants and would vote for any party if they were anti immigration. And no I wouldn't vote for atillia the hun if he were pro-gay, what a ridiculous thing to say, maybe you are stupid.
I guess you are right. I'm sure even black people wouldn't be too worried about racial equality if there were no schools or hospitals or the crime rate was through the roof.
We are talking about same-sex marriage here – nothing more. Hell, yes, I want to get married, but there are more important things going on right now, such as the economy, employment, crime rates, Europe etc. What's the point of being able to marry your man if you haven't got a job and can't afford to eat?
This isn't all about LGBT people; get some bloody perspective will you.
And UKIP are going to deliver all those things. LOL.
Why should gay people stand behind a political party that actively tries to exclude them from society?
It doesn't matter if UKIP somehow manages to give everyone jobs and makes the economy grow by 10% every year for the next century, if gay people cannot be a part of that, then gay people will not be falling over themselves to get behind UKIP.
The sad fact is that the rights of LGBT people in this country have been better respected by European institutions than they have by this nation's own Parliament. UKIP is trying to have it's cake and eat it by asking us, for the sake of 'patriotism', to stand opposed to that same thing which allowed us to openly serve in our own nation's military.
@Mr Stuie: "actively tries to exclude them from society?"
They are against same-sex marriage, that is all. Stop tarring them with the same brush just because of one caveat.
Whilst I disagree with them on this, they are still fully supportive of CP's.
The bottom line is, they are the only party willing to do anything about immigration and the EU, which I consider far more important, so as a gay man, THAT is the reason I will vote for them.
So they give people a platform BEFORE checking their credibility?? Call me naive but isn't that rather arse about face?
Arse IN face
I have to say, I totally agree here.
How can a party claim these people were allowed to become candidates before checking them out?
That is a seriously crap excuse.
Farage claims they do not have "the resources or infrastructure". When you consider the millions of pounds it costs to put so many candidates up for the various elections, Local, General and European, that is clearly bollocks.
They have been established for many years, and have many millions of pounds in donations, so either they are lying, and this guy was "vetted", or they are incompetent. Or both.
Yes, Mark Y, yes!
List the undesirables to exclude from our happy gay community. First gay Catholics! Then all gay Christians! Then gay Jews! Then gay Muslims! Then gay Conservatives! Then everyone gay who is black/brown/not white!
No doubt the list can grow and grow!
Calm down dear. You're having a moment. Which nerve did I touch tory perhaps?
Yes James! You must be right. I must be having a moment. You have touched the tory nerve.
I should wait a minute and calm down and be clear. And then I might start suggesting that a gay Tory is the same as a gay Nazi! What benefits your clear thought has James!
And what a bitter life you must lead to see hatred round every corner. Truly, you see what you are.
I see it in you
You see it in everything, James! Even where it does not exist.
I feel for you.
I take it you've still not realised that your catholic religion hates you and already has you down on their list of exclusions – been for mass recently? The last I heard gay men were excluded from the happy catholic community.
Is that what you heard Marky baby?
It sounds like that hate is coming all from your direction – given that you said that gay Catholics belong in the same list as gay Nazis.
So every single gay Frenchman, gay Spanish and gay Italian are all Nazis! How well travelled you and James! are.
Marky, you have excelled yourself! Only English white people need join your special LGBT club.
I use the term 'baby' purely in the affectionate sense, Marky. I find you rather sweet, in a type of way.
Rather undermines their attempt to be taken seriously given their excuse that they havent vetted their candidates. Would have thought that would be the first thing you'd do ?
UKIP is a one-trick pony (hatred of and a desire to withdraw from the EU) whose natural appeal is to the disgruntled Tory Right. As such it is also a natural home to all the bigotry characteristic of such people. In these circumstances a party leadership anxious to achieve broad respectability, regardless of its actual views, will spend a lot of time fire-fighting. And an in-party lgbt group will generally find the house completely on fire.
This may be the case, but successive governments have brought this upon themselves by offering hollow offers of a referendum, and then backing out.
People are genuinely sick and tired of the EU entanglements and cannot see a way out, until now, when UKIP offers a slim possibility.
Had Cameron stuck by his manifesto promise (or Blair, or Brown) – it would have never have come to this.
Had we been told the truth about the EU, instead of Westminster taking credit for projects like the regeneration of Birmingham City Centre (£500,000,000 from the EU) while blaming Europe when things go awry, people would be able to make informed judgements, rather than relying on "facts" from the Sun and Daily Fail.
Oh, and voting for parties that support gay rights even if they wreck the country isn't blinkered single-mindedness either?
"The LGBTQ in UKIP committee is extremely angry and disappointed by the comments made by a small number of UKIP local candidates, particularly David Nixon and John Sullivan."
Yes, much better if they had kept their views to themselves until after they were elected. Does any UKIP voter know what they are voting for?
Better UKIP realises what a bunch of bigoted shitehawks they are employing.
It is still baffling that it gets to this point before the realise it though.
These loose cannons cause untold damage.
The anti-gay comments are just the tip of the iceberg, some of their people are coming out with ridiculous ideas.
UKIP suspended Anna-Maria Crampton, a candidate in East Sussex, over alleged comments blaming Jewish people for the Holocaust, and Sue Bowen in Cornwall after it emerged she was a former member of the BNP.
Just tried the BBC News search engine –
entered UKIP and homophobia, which resulted in "Sorry, there are no results for ukip homophobia"
Then tried UKIP and homophobic and got a RESULT "UKIP candidate sparks gay anger" – only thing is that the result dates back exactly NINE YEARS to 29th April 2004. This is the link:-
The BBC have lost all credibility as a source of accurate and unbiased news since their deafening silence on the privatisation of the NHS, which I'm sure is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with the fact that they have an Arch-Tory as head of the BBC Trust, despite the fact that Chris Patten is as untrustworthy a tory scumbag as exists this side of the Third Reich!
Goodwin alert.
Fly a kite, Span.
Godwin's Law. Sorry to be a pedant, but since Liam was not referring to UKIP (in subject of the thread), technically Godwin's Law does not apply!
Far-right parties seem to have no access to computers and their candidates lie about their unseemly past (and present). Here's a local story from yesterday!
"The B.C. Conservative Party [far right] has fired another candidate prior to next month's provincial election, the fourth such firing since last week." and [Party leader] "Cummins has also announced that a senior volunteer responsible for vetting candidates has been let go, after a series of embarrassing revelations about candidates." http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2013/04/28/bc-votes-conservative-herbert-fired.html
BTW, the election is May 14th!
A good point, but it doesn't relate to this particular scenario.
I think UKIP got a bit caught on the hop and needed to fill a lot of seats quickly for the forthcoming local elections, so they ended up grabbing whoever they could without doing the proper checks, and the entire thing is beginning to come back on them and bite them in the arse.
By pandering to the old school Tories and pledging to be against equality matters UKIP have indeed increased their voter base. However you only need to see the opinions of some of these voters to realize they are also attracting those who would ordinarily associate themselves with the BNP and EDL. UKIP are fast being seen by these cretins as a credible way of getting their homophobic and racist opinions into mainstream politics.
I don't care how disenfranchised a person is with the mainstream parties and the coalition, a vote for UKIP is not a protest vote or a vote for British values, it is insanity.
Seriously look up UKIP on twitter and see the bile that spills onto that social medium from some of their supporters.
One is always going to get nutters trying to cash in and jump on the bandwagon.
It's pretty obvious no sensible person is going to touch the EDL or BNP with a bargepole, and many of their followers know they are never going to have much of an effect, so the UKIP ranks are swelling from both sides, the disenfranchised that are totally pissed off with LibLabCon, and the right wing nut-jobs that think they can hang on for the ride.
Just remember it was the disenfranchised that voted Hitler in. In the case of UKIP though the issue is not Farage, but the ilk he is attracting that will wheedle their way into the ranks if they get any real power.
To believe that UKIP will be able to run the country, resolve the economy,doing anything beyond pandering to fundamentalists amongst religious ranks and please the daily mail readership is ludicrous.
UKIP was set up with the help of the BNP. Long before he became leader, Farage was despatched to apologise for, and publicly renounce, UKIP links with the BNP. A fact never referred to by the press, oddly.
Years ago, Private Eye uncovered "ex-" BNP members high in the UKIP hierarchy. Last week the Mirror belatedly revealed the same situation still exists.
How many UKIP candidates have stood in seats fought for by the BNP?
Rather than mock these people, applaud them they are standing up to the bigots in the UK's new third party. They need support because whether you like it or not UKIP are surging in th polls and will make mass gains, not all members of UKIP are bigots but yes I accept some are but show me a party that does not have bigots in its ranks!
There is a big difference between 'show me a party that does to have bigots in its ranks' and a Party that actively encourages it…
UKIP is the BNP at prayer…
UKIP's LGBTQ group is seriously misguided in believing that "hundreds of outstanding UKIP candidates" have been let down!
HUNDREDS of OUTSTANDING candidates in UKIP?
And then at the end, I note the unsure and feeble "It is our BELIEF that these candidates should have the UKIP whip drawn from them"!
UKIP's LGBTQ group seems so in fear of the simple-minded Daily Mail readers who run UKIP that they are afraid to DEMAND that heads roll over the matter.
Well four or five out of 1,700 isn't that bad. Even the Tories get more than that.
Remember that "Spanner1960" said of us on Saturday 27 April 2013:
"Most gay men I know are the most selfish, vain, egotistical bunch of gits on the planet, and the concept of a 'gay community' is a total myth . . . "
"Spanner1960" said exactly the same thing several times on threads in this PinkNews community a number of years ago. Every time "Spanner1960" speaks like this he totally insults us.
Vote him down, make all his comments disappear, and ignore him.
Keep trying Eddy.
…sounds about right…
Oddest thing is how the UKIP LGBT Group could be surprised by any of this…
Has UKIP an official policy on LGBT rights?
I would be interested to read any policy, as thusfar it seems it is just a case of do what will grab the votes of those opposed to the coalition and Labour, which includes anyone against marriage equality. I don't believe for one moment Farage actually gives too hoots beyond grabbing the votes.
He seems like many ignorant to the fact that pre-election the Tory equality manifesto did state they would look to end the inequality between CP's and marriage, and as such this would look at opening up civil marriage to same sex couples. A manifesto many seem to ignore even existed.
No mention in the Tory manifesto about selling off the NHS, but they've done it and UKIP are VERY quiet about that, DESPITE their claim to be FOR the UK and AGAINST the EU! Did you know the NHS MUST open up for competition from European and American companies? Where are UKIP on that? Too busy slagging off Bisexuals, obviously!
Yeah you cant have any
Spot on James Like many people who shout the odds in support of UKIP they would be in for an unpleasant surprise if UKIP ever got real power.
I can't understand why they would feel surprised or "disappointed"?
Someone should tell them that they aren't really in a libertarian organisation
So, how does this John Sullivan explain this: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/magazine/news/20130429/jason-collins-gay-nba-player/ I suspect that Jason Collins has gotten plenty of exercise over the years.
UKIP or its other name Golden Dawn. The idiot that runs this party is a well known homophobe, no matter what that prat says, do not believe him. UKIP is a back door for the far right. And for those gays supporting the party need to wake up and fight them,no bed them. DUH
As someone who has known Dave Nixon for many years, I can tell you that the picture this absurd article paints of him is entirely wrong and deeply unfair.
I've seen those leaflets. NEVER has he said nor implied that gay people are 'abnormal' in the way that you suggest.
But given that the public were persuaded were support civil partnerships a decade ago as a compromise,and given that the militant gay lobby are now pushing to break that compromise, you cannot blame people for wondering "where will it all end".
Perhaps it is you who need to think again and grow up over this. What makes you think that nobody is entitled to have genuine religious or moral objections to your gay marriage proposals?
And why do good, hard-working, decent ordinary people have to be ruthlessly smeared in the process?
I hope Dave wins this week because he is and will continue to be an excellent councillor. One who never discriminates against ANYONE who has a problem-whatever their background.
People don't realise how extreme UKIP are. Not just nutters, but dangerous nutters.
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