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December 30, 2008
59 comments:
- AllenS said...
It's going to be next to impossible not to seat Blagojevich's choice of this black man to fill Obama's shoes.
- Sofa King said...
What I think we all want to know is what were the final terms?
- JohnAnnArbor said...
Yeah, is it a sale, or a lease?
- Expat(ish) said...
Wonder if the D's will caucus with him. Wonder if the CBC will welcome him.
Wonder if the son rose in the east this morning?
- wgh said...
I bet Candidate 5 is pissed.
- Simon said...
How much did he pay for it?
- TMink said...
The Governor is a supreme narcissist, and believes that he will beat the prosecution. I bet that by appointing Burris, he hopes to increase his chances of political survival or at least have one "honest" thing to point to.
Not that he is a moral person, but occasional moral acts serve immoral people. I bet he GAVE it to Burris, but Burris would have paid him for it previously but Blagojevich would not consider the deal because of their previous election.
Trey - 12/30/08, 12:58 PM
- Zachary Paul Sire said...
How much of a supreme moron is this Burris guy if he actually accepts the appointment? Who would want anything to do with this now?
- Henry Buck said...
A bird in the hand ... - 12/30/08, 1:15 PM
- Anonymous Blogger said...
Good thing it wasn't that Madigan woman.
- AJ Lynch said...
More good news for conservatives.
- Jim said...
Is this the never-slept-with-Althouse Burris?
- AlphaLiberal said...
If memory serves, he was not a scuz bucket. Poor guy is now tied to Blago, though.
Hey, Ann, sorry but you didn't get my vote. Had to go with someone embarrassing to conservatism ("Atlas Shrieks"). (No, that's probably not a compliment). - 12/30/08, 1:28 PM
- OSweet said...
Rolando Burris must be Rollando Mota.
- campy said...
Any relation to Plaxico?
- Michael in IL said...
This is a travesty of a press conference...
- al said...
Senate Democrats said Tuesday they would refuse to seat the man Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich has picked to succeed President-elect Barack Obama, saying that the taint of scandal would follow the new senator to Washington.
"Anyone appointed by Gov. Blagojevich cannot be an effective representative of the people of Illinois and, as we have said, will not be seated by the Democratic Caucus," Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada and his deputy, Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, said in a statement.
Here - 12/30/08, 2:24 PM
- Joe said...
It's an empty gesture since the state's Attorney General won't certify the appointment and the US senate won't permit Burris to be seated.
- DaveW said...
Can the senate refuse to seat him professor? I don't see what legal grounds there are for that.
I mean, he will have come to office by the prescribed means under the circumstances. What authority does the senate have to refuse to allow someone to serve that has been properly elected or appointed? - 12/30/08, 2:42 PM
- JohnAnnArbor said...
I believe the Constitution allows the Senate to not seat someone, just as they can expel someone.
- 10ksnooker said...
State law says Blago gets to pick, even if he gets nothing from the One for doing it. What's the Democrats beef with the law now?
First they want to impeach without the defendent having an opportunity for defense witnesses and now this.
Crime families are an interesting study.
Blago seems to be doing a good job of treeing them. - 12/30/08, 2:57 PM
- TitusLastofTheFamousInternationalPlayboys said...
Why on earth would he go ahead and do this? He is dumber than he looks and he looks pretty dumb.
I still can't get over that hair. - 12/30/08, 2:59 PM
- Michael said...
I've heard of cheap seats...but this is ridiculous:
Burris gave $4,500 to Blagojevich's campaign fund in the form of personal donations and donations from -- what appear to be -- him and his wife.
Hell, I'd pay more than that... - 12/30/08, 3:03 PM
- Michael said...
campy said..."Any relation to Plaxico?"
It's his dad. - 12/30/08, 3:04 PM
- Simon said...
JohnAnnArbor said...
"I believe the Constitution allows the Senate to not seat someone, just as they can expel someone."
Each chamber judges the qualifications of someone elected to it, but that prerogative is limited to the qualifications prescribed by the Constitution. That's the holding of Powell v. McCormack, and I can't imagine it could be distinguished away by Burris' arrival by appointment rather than election. (Justice Douglas' concurrence is a terrific exposition of why that ought to be the rule, too.) - 12/30/08, 3:05 PM
- Michael_H said...
Senate Democrats said Tuesday they would refuse to seat the man Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich has picked to succeed President-elect Barack Obama, saying that the taint of scandal would follow the new senator to Washington.
Soooo...the Senate Democrats are going to refuse to seat what would be the only black man in the entire Senate? A qualified man who has been an attorney general?
But they will gladly seat an inexperienced white woman who has a famous name, utterly no political experience and a preening sense of entitlement?
Jeez. - 12/30/08, 3:33 PM
- Richard Dolan said...
Interesting, but mostly for what it says about Burris and the political calculations driving his train.
There is only one way that a successor can be named under current Illinois law (i.e, nomination by the Gov to fill the empty seat). But Reid, Durban & Co. said shortly after the charges against Blago were released that they would oppose seating any Senator named by Blago. Burris must have known as much, and the Senate Dems have reiterated that view again today. So accepting Blago's nomination wasn't likely ever to get Burris into the Senate.
An impeachment proceeding and a proposal for a special election are both kicking around. Dems have opposed the special election route, apparently out of concern that the voters might get the quiz wrong if given the choice. But the Illinois Legislature will be under pressure to accept the special election route if the impeachment proceedings against Blago drag on, as they almost surely will. One of the reasons is that Fitzpatrick will not share all of his incriminating materials, and probably can't share any of his grand jury materials, with the impeachment prosecutors in the Illinois legislature.
Assuming that the players are acting rationally (always a dangerous assumption where a poltician's personal interests and ego are involved), Burris' action in accepting the nod from Blago makes sense only if he thinks it gives him a leg up when the process reaches either the Plan B (the Lt Gov takes over after an impeachment of Blago) or Plan C (special election) stage. And the Dem Senate caucus went out of its way to say nice things about Burris, even as they said they won't seat him based on Blago's nomination.
I don't know Illinois politics, but it seems a stretch to think that his having accepted the nod from Blago could give him that leg up when one of the two follow-on scenarios comes into play. But the only other way to make sense of what Burris is doing is to imagine that he's just in it for the pleasure of being Blago's pick. Hard to think that a successful pol could be that dim. - 12/30/08, 3:40 PM
- DaveW said...
That case is here: Powell v. McCormack and the Douglas concurrence starts at 110.
And that looks correct to me. They really can't refuse to seat him, although they could seat him and then expel him assuming they could get a two thirds vote.
Which, of course, would simply hand it back to Blago. He could then appoint someone else since he obviously couldn't care less what anyone thinks. Think he's enough of a sociopath to do that? I wouldn't bet against it.
Wow what a great way for Obama to start his term in office with this kind of nonsense going on over his senate seat. - 12/30/08, 3:43 PM
- Joe said...
Blagojevich blew a beautiful opportunity. Knowing that his nomination would be blocked, he should have created a web site with various candidates and have people vote who they want. Yes, it would be completely bogus as an actual election; but he could have claimed that the candidate selected was "of the people."
Or he could have just randomly picked someone from the phone book.
Or he could have picked Rezco, just for fun. - 12/30/08, 3:59 PM
- Zachary Paul Sire said...
Did you know that Roland has a son named "Roland" and a daughter named "Rolanda"?
- Simon said...
One other thing - I mentioned the power to judge qualifications because I had assumed we didn't need to state the obvious. Perhaps we do need to state the obvious, in light of this NYT story that seems to assume the power to judge the elections of members is relevant here. It is not. Burris was appointed pursuant to the 17th Amendment and relevant state law, so there is no election to judge. Amazing - although less than surprising in light of Durbin's record - that a lawyer turned lawmaker - is ignorant of the Constitutional framework applicable to the body in which he serves.
- Simon said...
Zachary Paul Sire said...
"Did you know that Roland has a son named 'Roland' and a daughter named 'Rolanda'?"
I thought it was a gutsy move for Blago to appoint the guitar player from Tears for Fears, but he's getting no respect for it. - 12/30/08, 4:58 PM
- Zachary Paul Sire said...
The whole thing is such a dick move. Roland is an idiot for going on with this (seriously, wtf?!) and now Blago gets to make Harry Reid look like an asshole for rejecting the appointment. DICKS! All of them!
- Richard Fagin said...
I didn't recognize the Powell case as it's been almost 15 years since I had to read it. When I checked the link (thanks, DaveW) and saw the full case style, my reaction was, oh, THAT Powell. If you can read that case, knowing what's currently representing NY-15, you'll stop worrying about corrupt Chicago politics.
Look what I copied from Charlie Rangel's Congressional website:
"Since first sending an African-American to Congress, the 15th district has had just two House Members, both Democrats: Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. who won a landmark election in 1944, and Rangel, who unseated Powell in 1970 and has held the seat since."
Gov. Blagojevich is a small potatoes crook compared to the above two villains. - 12/30/08, 5:25 PM
- AlphaLiberal said...
I'm surprised this has not been a focus of an Althouse post:
When a Woman Isn't In the Mood, by Dennis Prager of Town Hall
That's got to be good fodder for banter.
Whooooooeeeeeeee...... - 12/30/08, 5:33 PM
- DaveW said...
If I was Blago I'd be trying to lay low, weather the storm, see if I could pull it out. He might get by and escape conviction, and they'd obviously prefer not to impeach him. What would they do, impeach him after he gets acquitted? I doubt it.
Yet here he is calling a presser pulling a BS appointment over the very seat he's being indicted for trying sell.
It seems to me to be seriously crazy for him to do this. All he's doing is putting himself on the front pages again.
And why would this Burris character want to get himself associated with Blago this way? If he wants the seat why not just announce his intention to run for it? Start campaigning, see if he can build support - which would put pressure on the Lt Gov if Blago gets booted to appoint him.
I must be missing something. - 12/30/08, 5:36 PM
- # 56 said...
Nobody is blocking a damn thing. Blago's pick will be seated. Harry Reid is getting rolled, much as his predecessor Pat Geary was. Blago is a rock star, a God. Remind me again who is US Senate Majority Leader and who Fitz recently indicted. In Blago we trust...
- garage mahal said...
When a Woman Isn't In the Mood, by Dennis Prager of Town Hall
I'm sure old boy has heard every excuse in the book, so he might be an expert here.
Other funny headline from today was "GOP divided whether "Negro" is a slur. LOL. - 12/30/08, 5:45 PM
- Michael said...
"Other funny headline from today was "GOP divided whether "Negro" is a slur. LOL."
I was with some people last night, discussing the CD being mailed out, and when a few of my more conservative buddies said they didn't see why anyone would see it as being racial in any way.
So I asked them when was the last time any of them had referred to or described a black person as a ..."negro."
Nobody could. - 12/30/08, 5:56 PM
- Michael said...
# 56 said..."In Blago we trust..."
And people get upset when I say many here are morons?
Duh. - 12/30/08, 5:57 PM
- # 56 said...
Balgo is greatness, Mikey. Get on the train before it leaves the station.
- # 56 said...
Re your negro commentary, context matters. Now stop acting like a snotty child.
- Simon said...
# 56 said...
"Balgo [sic.] is greatness, Mikey. Get on the train before it leaves the station."
Such fun when Democrats fight among themselves. - 12/30/08, 6:15 PM
- Joe said...
In more serious vein, I cannot find any provision in the US Constitution or which would allow anyone in the US Federal Government to prevent Roland Burris from taking his seat as Senator.
The only remotely applicable clause is Article 1, Section 5, Clause 2: Each House may determine the Rules of its Proceedings, punish its Members for disorderly Behaviour, and, with the Concurrence of two thirds, expel a Member.
Since Burris is now legally the Senator from Illinois (assuming Blagojevich signed the proper documents), the only way to remove him would be for two thirds of the senate to vote for his expulsion. Without just reason that Burris is ineligible to hold that office, where are those votes coming from? (And if corruption in Congress is the concern, look no further than Senator Dodd and Representative Rangel.) - 12/30/08, 7:46 PM
- Methadras said...
Is that a giant sucking sound I hear? Yup, it's Blago moving the windflap of hair on either side of his head out of the way. Woosh! there is goes.
- Trooper York said...
Wow I lost track of Ray Burris after the Yankees cut him. He was a middle relief guy so he will only two a couple of innings before he names Sparky Lyle.
Or the Goose. - 12/30/08, 8:11 PM
- Simon said...
Here's a fascinating question raised by The Liberal Voice: the Illinois Secretary of State is apparently refusing to certify the governor's appointment.
I'm not entirely sure that Illinois can, in effect, give the Secretary of State a veto over the appointment. The Seventeenth Amendment is the source of the legislature's authority to empower the governor to make the appointment, and it also limits that power. The state legislature doesn't have to give the Governor that authority, and a state law attempting to go around those limits would run aground on the supremacy clause. So the question in my mind is this: consistent with the limited grant of power in the Seventeenth Amendment, the Illinois legislature couldn't have given itself authority to make a temporary appointment, and we know that it couldn't have given that authority to any executive branch officer other than the Governor. That being the case, is a provision of state law that has the effect of giving an executive branch actor other than the Governor a veto over the Governor's appointment power ultra vires, and if so, is it severable? - 12/30/08, 9:47 PM
- MayBee said...
DICKS! All of them!
Poly-dicks, polidicks, polidics. - 12/30/08, 10:58 PM
- Michael said...
Boy, those Negroes in the bowl games were really good.
- Geoff Matthews said...
So, does this mean that this Senate seat is now a chocolate seat?
>ducks< - 12/30/08, 11:34 PM
- BJM said...
Michael said: So I asked them when was the last time any of them had referred to or described a black person as a ..."negro."
Obviously there were no Spanish speakers in the crowd. Spanish lacks synonyms, negro/a, (black), describes race; thus Barack Obama es el primer Presidente negro de Estados Unidos.
A large percentage of our hemisphere uses the word negro without bigotry or offense. So one may feel a bit foolish making such self-absorbed statement in Mexico City or Madrid.
Yes, I am stretching a point, I am fully aware of the etymology of the word in English. I choose not to use the word as African-Americans find it offensive. Just as I don't use other racial or ethnic terms that have become slurs. However I don't stand around with others and feel superior for being a mench. - 12/31/08, 12:34 AM
- Issob Morocco said...
For all of the non-Illinois liberal readers who are trying to duct tape together a way to not let Blago appoint yet another empty suit to represent the Land Of Corruption in the US Senate, sorry, but Ray Burris is our new Senator.
Simon is right that the only way he can stopped is to seat him and then vote to expel him. Won't happen and if it did it just creates the next appointment Presser and keeps lifting Blago from his hole, looking defiant and exuding leadership against weak appearing but with lots to hide Illinois politicians calling for his ouster.
The Dimmycrats in Illinois and across the US are in the gear box of a conundrum. The only realistic way they could have avoided this soap opera would have been to pass legislation to strip the Governor of the power to appoint replacements for the US Senate. But to do that would have put risk at the throat of their true desire, Power. If the GOP wins the seat, they lose some of their power.
The only crazy person in this soap opera is the Lt. Gov. Pat Quinn, who is powerless in the machine. He has predicted that Blago would be out of office by Feb. 12th of 2009. My guess is he will be there Feb. 12th of 2010.
Happy New Cheers! - 12/31/08, 7:45 AM
- Simon said...
Issob Morocco said...
"The only realistic way they could have avoided this soap opera would have been to pass legislation to strip the Governor of the power to appoint replacements for the US Senate."
Even that wouldn't have helped much. The legislature's power to strip the governor of his veto would presumably be exercised by passing a statute; Governors usually have a veto and a grace period in which to use it, and from a very cursory glance, Illinois is no exception (see Ill. Const. Art 4 § 9(b) (bill becomes law if not returned unsigned by Governor within 60 days)). Blagojevich could simply have pocketed the bill and appointed Burris anyway.
There's a couple of qualifications to add to that. (1) Any veto would certainly be overriden; if the Senate seated then ejected Burris, the change in law would be effective in the end, preventing a successive appointment by Blago. (2) The 17th Amendment, in terms, leaves it to the discretion of the legislature to give the Governor a temporary appointment power. I've argued before that where the Constitution commandeers and empowers a particular branch of the state, we should take that assignment to be particular, see SF: The California proposal and legislative exclusivity under the Federal Constitution (9/28/07), and recently applied that reasoning to the Seventeenth Amendment in concluding that an Alaska ballot initiative could not validly repeal the legislature's grant of temporary appointment power to the Governor, see SF: Taking the initiative (10/28/08). I may well be bound by that reasoning to conclude that the Illinois legislature could have strip the governor by a joint resolution of its General Assembly. (Whether any court would actually follow my reasoning on this point is something that I doubt, to be candid.) - 12/31/08, 8:46 AM
- Big Mike said...
Who knew that a Democrat career politician (Blagojevich) knew what a poison pill is. You'd think he had a Harvard MBA or something (no, that's Bush who has the Harvard MBA).
As I understand it, the law says that the Illinois Secretary of State shall certify the Governor's choice, which means that the only way the Secretary of State can refuse to sign is to resign (don't hold your breath).
So between the Warren court (Powell v. McCormack) and the Illinois constitution the only choice the majority party in the US Senate has is (1) vote to expell Burris, even though by all accounts he is qualified and (by Chicago and Illinois standards at least) not corrupt; or (2) accept him with whatever grace they can muster. If they go with (1), and then later seat a manifestly unqualified person like Caroline Kennedy because she is rich and well-connected, then it's one heck of a slap in the face of the black voters on whom the Democrats depend so heavily.
As I said, a poison pill.
Blagojevich is a Serbian name. Crni Djordje (Black George) would be proud. - 12/31/08, 10:07 AM
- 3D said...
Mr Burris: Mission Impossible!
- Simon said...
I have a post here looking at some 17th amendment questions posed by all this.
- LED said...
The Senate Republicans should offer to seat Burris in their caucus. Be REALLY big tent Rs and tweak poor Harry's nose at the same time.
- AlphaLiberal said...
Not brilliant:
Spanish lacks synonyms, negro/a, (black), describes race; thus Barack Obama es el primer Presidente negro de Estados Unidos.
The word for "black" in Spanish is "negro/a." ("-a" for referring to feminine nouns).
But it's not the Republican Party of Mexico trying to figure out if calling Obama a "Magic Negro" is offensive or not. It's the RP of the USA.
That there would be any confusion at all on this issue is bizarre. - 12/31/08, 12:29 PM
- Stephen Snell said...
Well it certainly is convenient that michael just happened to be hanging around with some of his (imaginary) more conservative friends and they just happened to set him up perfectly to score a rhetorical point, and that his imaginary conservative friends like to pop up like jacks in the box to support his fantasies about conservatives.
His anecdote would strain credulity even coming from someone tethered to reality.
Blago is shameless and tough, I'll give him that. - 12/31/08, 5:58 PM


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Sugar Mountain is a fascinating snapshot of Neil Young at a transitory moment in his long career, for which it also provides an indelible template.
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Live at Canterbury House, the latest in a series of live recordings from his archives, is pretty simple-left track is voice, right track acoustic guitar. Simplicity, as is evident here, serves him quite well.
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Young charges forward here, playing half of the imminent Neil Young in pristine, tremulous-vocal form and reclaiming six of his Buffalo Springfield songs.
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Passion worth seeking out
Last Tuesday, I caught Passion (Bab al-Makam) as part of the Austin Film Society's Essential Cinema series on Middle Eastern films. If you have the means, get your local theater to screen it or find a copy.
Mohamed Malas' haunting 2003 feature is set ten years ago, just before the United States invaded Afghanistan to overthrow the Taliban. It focuses on Imane (Salwa Jamil), a 30-year-old Syrian wife and mother who is transformed by her love for Egyptian singer Umm Kulthum, after her husband, Adnan (Oussama Sayed Youssef), plays a tape for her. Unfortunately, Imane's male relatives grow suspicious of how the singer's music changes her. She becomes more independent and headstrong, most demonstrably through singing. Convinced that a singing woman is flaunting adulterous behavior, they begin to monitor and police her actions, with damning consequences.
As I tend to spoil a movie when I write about it because it's hard to write criticism without parsing out major plot points, I'll reveal now that Imane is ultimately silenced by an honor killing while looking after her children and niece when Adnan is away at a rally protesting U.S. occupation. It's especially cruel that her uncle and cousins stab her to death while she and her charges are singing while cavorting around the house. I have heard that the film received some criticism for the ways in which patriarchy is represented in Arab Muslim society, suggesting the film prescribes to the ugly American racist essentialism that all Muslim men are misogynist pigs. I would hedge these comments by pointing out that these men are depicted as conflicted and deeply troubled by what they perceive their culture to expect of them as men.
Furthermore, Adnan's gentle presence complicates this reading. He's a kindhearted cab driver who cares very deeply for his family. Moreover, he's delighted by how Kulthum's music inspires his wife to sing. In bed one night, he reveals that he wasn't especially fond of Kulthum until he heard her songs reinterpreted by Imane. He then requests that she sing for him, and goes down on her as she offers an incantation. It's a sexy scene, particularly because the camera focuses on her face as she reacts to the pleasure she's receiving from her lover as much as from her own voice.
What I find especially interesting about Passion is Imane's reconciliation of the sacred with the sensual. This territory is well-traveled, whether we're talking about the Song of Solomon or Prince's and Tori Amos' oeuvre. However, I'm not as aware of texts concerned with Muslim women making these connections and using their corporeality to do it. Granted, Kulthum's music may be something of an easy entry point for many Western viewers (like me) who may not be particularly aware of Middle Eastern media culture but learned about her music from fans like Bob Dylan, Jeff Buckley, or NPR.
However, Kulthum's fame (at least in some circles) also makes her a symbol for Muslim female (and possibly feminist) identification. Kulthum's music conceptualized the spiritual realm and the secular flesh coming together in the service of Allah. She also enjoyed tremendous success in Egypt from the 1930s until her death in 1975, ostensibly serving as the voice of the Middle East. The entire nation watched her concerts on their televisions with rapt attention for decades.
There's also something inherently queer about Imane's identification with Kulthum. Perhaps this bond scares her male relatives the most, as there are few things terrifying to some men as an autonomous woman evolving. Imane nearly articulates the Sapphic dimensions of her love for Kulthum at one point, lolling on the floor and dazed by the power of Kulthum's music. Entranced by the singer's powerful voice, Imane proclaims that her music has transformed her from within. At the risk of cheapening the scene, Jamil plays this moment as if the post-coital cigarette is just out of frame. Imane may not desire Kulthum physically, but the homosocial exchange between musician and fan is undeniably charged with sexual electricity. Lest we forget that the most powerful erogenous zone is the brain. The ears and voice work with it, receiving sound and repurposing it. It's congress however you puzzle it out.
Most importantly, Imane passes on the power of her voice to younger members of her family. While she may be left for dead by some members of her family, her niece and children take to the streets to protest her killing. Assuredly Adnan will join in once he hears the news of the tragedy. More importantly, she's taught them Kulthum's music, who will assuredly shape how they understand the value of raising their own voices. The promise to overthrow patriarchy's stranglehold in this region blooms within them.
Why I loved Persepolis
When I saw the film version of Marjane Satrapi's graphic novel Persepolis, it was a pretty rad time to be a feminist moviegoer. In the last month of 2007 and the first month of 2008, this movie came out, along with Juno and 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days. Having just completed a girls' studies course, I was ecstatic that three different movies, each from a different country, were released with complex, resilient protagonists who were girls and young women.
Two of these movies earned Oscar nominations a few months later. Juno won Best Screenplay. Persepolis was nominated for Best Animated Feature, but unfortunately lost to Ratatouille. 4 Months, which documents the harrowing day of one college student trying to procure an illegal abortion for her roommate during the last years of Nicolae Ceauşescu's in Romania, won the Palme D'Or at Cannes earlier in 2007, but failed to receive any nominations. For some reason. Perhaps it escaped nomination as a technicality, but I don't understand why no one, particularly writer-director Cristian Mungiu or lead actress Anamaria Marinca, got any Academy recognition. Perhaps because it lacked the allegorical importance of No Country For Old Men or There Will Be Blood and cut to very real (and tremendously gendered) issues facing real people in the real world, many of whom reside in developing nations.
But it is really no matter. No Country, There Will Be Blood, Julian Schnabel's The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, and Todd Haynes's I'm Not There were but more examples of what a very fine time this particular two-month period was for movies. But 4 Months was easily my favorite movie of that year. The movie whose source material will be the focus of this post was a very close second.
Having seen the movie upon its U.S. release, some context has changed considerably upon revisiting Satrapi's autobiography about coming of age inside and outside of Iran from the late 70s to the early 90s, a time period where the country witnessed the fall of the Shah (aided by the United States), the swift and crushing oppression of its citizens by Islamic extremists, a devastating eight-year war with Iraq, and the neighboring country's launch of the Persian Gulf War. In late 2007, we were still living under the Bush Administration, so the country's positioning as part of the "axis of evil" was in my mind, but being pretty ignorant about the country's political history and our involvement with it past the Iran-Contra Affair, Bush's branding of the country read more as a promise that the United States were, in fact, going to try and spread democracy by force to all of the Middle East, snatching up its real or imagined WMDs and drain its oil resources in the process. And I knew about President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and was disgusted by his views on the Holocaust and heartened by the student protests around his adminstration, but was not yet aware of just what a dangerous despot he is.
This was, of course, before this year's highly controversial presidential election, which Ahmadinejad "won" by a suspiciously high margain over rival candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi, an Independent reformist. At the time, what seemed more present in our minds in the states was what Twitter was doing to help cover and contextualize the civic protests and how quickly mainstream broadcast news was going to incorporate the still-emergent micro-blogging site's Tweets into their 24-hour cycle, regardless of how accurate they were.
As a result, I was a little jaded by the "Twitter users coverage of the Iran election is going to change news reporting" angle many seemed to be taking and instead wanted to know more about how the election was fraudulent, why certain people (specifically journalists, protesters, students, and politicians) were being arrested, what the stakes were, who was doing a good job covering this news story, and, most importantly, what circumstances led to the current iteration of Iran. Remembering that local branches of Barnes & Noble were donating proceeds to the Paramount upon purchase last weekend, shilling out my money to the big box chain for the sake of preserving a historical movie theater seemed as a good an opportunity to buy the book that may provide answers.
And, I'll be honest. Reading the book left me with more questions than anything else (a similar feeling came over me when reading Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns, two books whose timelines stretch past the 70s-90s, but contain a considerable overlap in terms of time with Persepolis, focusing on what was going on with ordinary people in Afghanistan, another contentious Middle Eastern country that borders Iran). It was hard not to check some ugly American tendencies I have toward Islamic traditions — particularly toward its views on marriage, sexuality, gender politics, and dress. At the same time, I was incredulous of how pro-West rhetoric and ideology, alongside our smuggled trinkets of popular culture, could possibly reform a nation, or at least save a person.
Luckily, Satrapi is skeptical of both and, like me and other feminists from all over the world, has a lot to negotiate. She grapples with these issues head-on. She argues with teachers against the physical restrictions and societal double standards that come with the hijab and the burka (sidenote: I know that Faegheh Shirazi, who teaches Middle Eastern Studies at UT and rejects traditional Islamic dress, has written and taught courses on gender and clothing in the Middle East, but any other suggestions for further reading are welcome). She watches her female peers grow up to only want marriage and children, in large part because these are the only things their nation's leaders believe define their worth. Particularly poignant for this co-habitator, she regrets getting married to a man named Reza because they could not legally live together (or even walk the street) without proof of marriage, dissolving the marriage and leaving for France.
Satrapi is a smart rebel who reads constantly, thinks clearly, and never backs down from an argument. She yells at authority figures who bully her or deny that there are any political prisoners in Iran after learning about the loss of her grandfather, who was son and prime minister to the ousted king (a tie that Satrapi suggests is not uncommon).
Luckily for Satrapi, she gets through all of this with the love and support of her politically aware and resistant parents, their friends, and one rad paternal grandma. Not so luckily, she also knows and meets lots of folks who suffered for speaking up, speaking out, or just living in the wrong house during an aerial bombing. Something tells me that many Iranians could recount similar tales of horror.
Satrapi also learns that the ways of the West are not always ideal, either. While a pre-pubescent in Iran, she hangs Iron Maiden posters on her wall her parents smuggle from a vacation in Turkey when the government lifted border restrictions. She defiantly walks around her neighborhood, blaring Kim Wilde's "Kids in America" from her Walkman while sporting a Michael Jackson pin. But noting that their daughter's rebelliousness is hardly a phase and that escalating conflict with Iraq could mean the imprisonment or death of their mouthy teen, her parents send her to live with a friend of her mother's in Vienna.
Satrapi finishes high school, barely scraping by as she finds odd jobs, dates dumb boys, takes a lot of drugs, and runs into authority figures who want her to tow the line and behave. She also falls in with a group of radical misfits who dabble with nihilism, Marxism, hair dye, and punk. While Satrapi initially finds a home with these punks and new wave kids, she soon discovers their privilege has made them cowardly, pretentious, self-righteous, entitled, and lazy. Her outsider status also makes her cool, her Austrian peers clearly jealous by what she has seen and experienced without really processing the weight of it between drags off their joints and skims through their copies of the Marx-Engels Reader in their well-appointed bedrooms. It's small wonder that, when Satrapi finally returns home to Iran after she finishes high school homeless and afflicted with bronchitis, she washes off a punk stencil from her bedroom wall. And while she's sad that her mother gave away her cassette tapes, she probably wasn't going to listen to them anyway. She would've kept the Kim Wilde tape, however.
So, ultimately, I do feel this revisit of Persepolis helped clarify my feelings about the state of Iran. It also left me with several questions and a need to know more. Ultimately, though, it left me with the sense of universality that exists between people, especially tough, smart women and girls, while at the same time recognizing the particularities that inform their realities. And continues to inform them. Back in June, Satrapi spoke out against the election results with filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalba. Something tells me that her grandmother, who passed away shortly after Satrapi moved to France at the close of the book, would be proud.


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Featured Health Business Daily Story, March 2, 2011
Reprinted from REPORT ON MEDICARE COMPLIANCE, the nation's leading source of news and strategic information on Medicare compliance, Stark and other big-dollar issues of concern to health care compliance officers.
CMS has resolved the first Stark self-disclosure case through its new protocol. Although CMS spokeswoman Ellen Griffith confirmed that a settlement was reached, no additional details were available.
However, according to sources, the hospital that is first out of the gate with CMS's self-referral disclosure protocol is Saints Medical Center in Lowell, Mass. The center's alleged Stark violation reportedly concerned night coverage, stipends and medical directorships, sources say.
Through the self-disclosure, the hospital paid $578,000 to resolve its Stark liability, according to the Lowell Sun. The liability could have gone as high as $14 million, the newspaper says. The violation was identified during preparations for a merger with Covenant Health Systems, which never went through, the newspaper notes.
"It's encouraging to see a protocol participant complete the process and come out on the other side with what appears to be a good result," says Washington, D.C., attorney Lisa Ohrin, former director of the CMS Division of Technical Payment Policy. "No doubt there were growing pains on the part of the government and the hospital."
Ohrin notes that Saints Medical Center executives thanked two members of Congress from Massachusetts, Sen. John Kerry (D) and Rep. Niki Tsongas (D), for their help in resolving the hospital's liability. "It would be interesting to know what impact, if any, congressional intervention had in the outcome of this disclosure and what that could mean for other protocol participants."
The CMS self-referral disclosure protocol was mandated by Sec. 6409 of the health reform law to resolve "actual or potential" violations of the Stark law. CMS is required to consider reducing penalties when providers come forward and follow the CMS guidelines posted on its website. CMS officials recently said that cases resolved through the self-referral disclosure protocol would be made public (RMC 1/24/11, p. 1), the way the HHS Office of Inspector General posts settlements on its website.
The Stark law bans Medicare payment to an entity for "designated health services" (DHS) when they're referred by physicians who have a financial relationship with the entity, unless an exception applies. If, for example, an agreement between a hospital and physician violates Stark, the hospital must return all reimbursement from the DHS referred by the physician and is potentially subject to fines and penalties.
As of early February, CMS had received about 50 applications to its self-referral disclosure protocol. But there's a twist to this self-disclosure business that worries Washington, D.C., attorney Kevin McAnaney, former chief of the OIG's Industry Guidance Branch. It looks like all Stark violations will have to be resolved through CMS, even though the Office of Inspector General has a longstanding self-disclosure protocol. OIG's version used to be for Stark-only violations, but now it's just for providers whose conduct ran afoul of both the Stark and anti-kickback statutes, he says.
According to McAnaney, providers will have to separately resolve Stark violations through the CMS self-referral disclosure protocol and kickback violations through the OIG protocol. That's a sea change from the way things have been done. The catalyst is the health reform law, which requires providers to return Medicare and Medicaid overpayments (within 60 days of identification), and the Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act (FERA), which makes it a False Claims Act violation to retain overpayments.
"Up until those [legislative] changes, you could go to OIG and you would reach an agreement" under the Stark-related civil monetary penalty law, he says. Even though OIG lacks the authority to settle overpayments, "you knew it was run past CMS and people were willing to take the chance that CMS would not come after you. Since there was no clear overpayment obligation, you were fine and besides, you disclosed it." But now we have the health reform law and FERA. With these statutory obligations, McAnaney says, providers cannot rely on the OIG self-disclosure protocol alone. "I hear people say if we have [a Stark issue], maybe we will go to OIG. But I think that is potentially a terrible mistake," he says. "OIG has no authority to settle overpayments." Even if people in government want OIG to resolve Stark and kickback issues in a single disclosure, their hands are tied, he says. Providers will have to go to CMS "because there is now a legal obligation to repay the overpayment," McAnaney says.
The implications are worrisome, McAnaney says. For one thing, it's unclear at the moment what kind of quid pro quo providers will get for confessing their sins. OIG's track record is well-established. It usually settled for some amount that was significantly less than the actual amount of reimbursement stemming from referrals prohibited by Stark under the noncompliant arrangement. For example, if a provider self-disclosed an arrangement that was not fair-market value (FMV), OIG "typically settles on some multiple of the difference between FMV and what was actually paid, and that's substantially less than the amount of claims between the parties," he says.
Also, CMS has made it quite expensive to carry out the self-referral disclosure protocol, McAnaney says. For example, even though in most cases CMS can only base its recoupment on four years of historical claims under a noncompliant agreement, the terms of the self-referral disclosure protocol require providers to calculate the value of the claims for the entire "look back period," which could be 10 years or more. "They want to look at the entire period of noncompliance," he says. By taking a longer view, CMS can make a more informed decision about how much of a break the provider deserves. But for providers, "that's a fairly expensive procedure and can be burdensome."
Ohrin confirms that health care providers and their legal representatives think the documentation demands of the CMS self-referral disclosure protocol are "tedious." But providers should keep in mind that when CMS gives them a break through this process, "the agency is giving up money owed to it and releasing providers from liability, so CMS has to understand the whole arrangement," says Ohrin, who is with Katten Muchin Rosenman in Washington, D.C. "CMS is not requesting documentation — even large amounts of documentation — to be difficult. They want to make sure they have everything relevant to the potential violation. People should be okay with giving them all the details." She says providers want the peace of mind of knowing they are safe from future accusations over a particular set of Stark violations — the so-called "release" — because they told the government the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
But there's nothing wrong with providers testing the limits in their attempt to get CMS to reduce the settlement amount. "I think you need flexibility and to push the bounds of your creativity in determining overpayments," Ohrin says. For example, prepare as many theories of overpayment calculations as possible. And don't expect this to be a quick fix. You will go back and forth with CMS for a while before anything is resolved, as anyone who has ever sought a CMS or OIG advisory opinion knows, she says.
Ohrin says providers are drawn to the CMS self-referral disclosure protocol because they "are getting more and more nervous" about the risk of so-called reverse false claims, which are lawsuits based on the flouting of the overpayment-return mandate. This anxiety is triggering a new level of internal review of Stark compliance, she says. A common Stark problem is expired agreements between DHS entities and their referral sources (e.g., hospitals and physicians).
CMS may not accept every applicant into the program. For example, South Bend, Ind., attorney Bob Wade represents five of the providers who have applied to resolve Stark problems through the CMS self-referral disclosure protocol. In two cases, CMS accepted the submissions but asked for more documentation; in two other cases, CMS asked for additional information, but the jury is still out on their admission. And there has been no word on the fifth, says Wade, who is with Baker and Daniels. If they get through one hurdle — acceptance — another one looms far larger, Wade says. What will the end result be? Will providers get a reasonable settlement? "We have to trust CMS," he says.
Wade advises providers to be very specific about their compliance programs in self-disclosures. Providers should include in their submissions a separate memo explaining why their compliance programs are effective, with detail about each of the seven elements. A CMS official told Wade that the agency wants to know how providers modified their compliance programs after identifying a problem or violation.
Pre-disclosure questions should be directed to CMS's physician self-referral call center at (410) 786-4568.
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I made a rainbow/unicorn cake for my Niece Tessa's birthday! It was a 6 layer rainbow cake, inside and out. I found a tutorial on youtube to make the fondant unicorn. I iced the cake itself in buttercream using the petal effect method. The cake was vanilla cake with cheesecake filling. My Niece loved it! I hope you enjoy the cake!
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'Cinderella and the 4 Knights' Park So-dam, Jeong Il-woo and Ahn Jae-hyeon sing their own praises adorable chemistry
tvN's upcoming Friday Saturday drama, 'Cinderella and the 4 Knights' has unveiled their new still images.
July 28th, tvN's authentic twitter account posted, "Behind-the-scenes symbol of couples! Who are they, fairies of chemistry". The published notwithstandingpicturesblow their own horns the adorable chemistry some of the3 stars, Park So-dam, Jeong Il-woo and Ahn Jae-hyeon.
"Cinderella and the Four Knights" is a heart-pounding romantic drama about three chaebol brothers (Kang Ji-woon, Hyeon Min, Seo Woo) who are out of keep watch over and a woman (Eun Ha-won) who accepts the challenge to cause them to people-like.
"Cinderella and the Four Knights" premieres at 11 PM on August 12th.
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Once they arrive at their destination of the spot in the woods where the deceased made his favorite moonshine, they'll pop "Freebird" into the 8-track player installed on this "used-to-be-a-sedan" and remember the good times.
At that point, they'll bury the ashes. -- The coffin was just used as a giant beer cooler.


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Get more information about Sullivan College of Technology and Design by clicking links below:
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Sullivan University is a private institution that provides a career focused education. The school was founded in 1962 by A.O. Sullivan and his son A.R. and was originally known as the Sullivan Business College. The school originally offered a one year program, but in 1972 expanded to provide and associates degree. Since then addition of new programs and the ability to grant degrees up to the doctoral has resulted in a large expansion for the school. Three locations in Kentucky and the online division of the school comprise Sullivan University.
Students who attend Sullivan University may choose to pursue one of a number of programs that are designed to prepare individuals for a long term career. Instructors are educated and professionals that work to prepare students for entry into the workforce by providing skill development and training alongside traditional courses. Upon completion students will receive a certificate, diploma, undergraduate degree e or graduate degree, followed by the pursuit of employment.
Programs offered include:
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Sullivan College of Technology and Design is located at 3901 Atkinson Square Dr in the city of Louisville. This campus has a graduating class size which is close to 120 students in a given year. This campus offers services for students in the form of flexible scheduling for those with irregular schedules, remedial education classes for licensure preparation or admissions requirements, and post-graduation job placement opportunities. Students may learn more, including the school's consumer disclosures, by visiting sctd.edu.
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After watching Fred Thompson debate his Republican rivals, I have often wondered why he is not in the top tier of candidates. He seems to have John McCain's honesty, without his razor-sharp edges, and Mitt Romney's conservatism, without his jaw-dropping inconsistencies.
This contrast between Thompson's large political talent and his poor political performance has led to persistent questions: Does he lack ambition? Energy?
This week, he added one more to the list: Does he lack moral seriousness?
At a campaign stop attended by a CBS reporter in Lady's Island, S.C., Thompson was asked if he, "as a Christian, as a conservative," supported President Bush's global AIDS initiative. "Christ didn't tell us to go to the government and pass a bill to get some of these social problems dealt with. He told us to do it," Thompson responded. "The government has its role, but we need to keep firmly in mind the role of the government, and the role of us as individuals and as Christians on the other."
Thompson went on: "I'm not going to go around the state and the country with regards to a serious problem and say that I'm going to prioritize that. With people dying of cancer, and heart disease, and children dying of leukemia still, I got to tell you—we've got a lot of problems here..." Indeed, there are a lot of problems here—mainly of Thompson's own making.
While he is not an isolationist, he clearly is playing to isolationist sentiments. His objection, it seems, is not to government spending on public health but to spending on foreigners. But this is badly shortsighted. America is engaged in a high-stakes ideological struggle in Africa, where radicals and terrorists seek to fill the vacuum of failed and hopeless societies. Fighting disease and promoting development are important foreign policy tools in this struggle, which Thompson apparently does not appreciate or even understand.
Thompson's argument reflects an anti-government extremism, which I am sure his defenders would call a belief in limited government. In this case, Thompson is limiting government to a half-full thimble. Its duties apparently do not extend to the treatment of sick people in extreme poverty, which should be "the role of us as individuals and as Christians." One wonders, in his view, if responding to the 2004 tsunami should also have been a private responsibility. Religious groups are essential to fighting AIDS, but they cannot act on a sufficient scale.
Thompson also dives headfirst into the shallow pool of his own theological knowledge. In his interpretation, Jesus seems to be a libertarian activist who taught that compassion is an exclusively private virtue. This ignores centuries of reflection on the words of the Bible that have led to a nearly universal Christian conviction that government has obligations to help the weak and pursue social justice. Religious social reformers fought to end child labor and improve public health. It is hard to imagine they would have used the teachings of Christ to justify cutting off lifesaving drugs for tens of thousands of African children—an argument both novel and obscene.
In the lifeboat dilemma Thompson proposes, we are asked to throw overboard either an American child with leukemia or an African child with AIDS—and, by gum, it had better not be the American. The real issue is different: Should we increase the amount of money devoted to our generous cancer research efforts at the expense of African lives that can be saved for about $90 a year?
What of the more than 1.4 million men, women and children who have received treatment with the help of Bush's AIDS initiative? According to Thompson, they are not a priority. The 800,000 HIV-positive pregnant women who have gotten treatment to prevent transmission to their children? Not a priority. The care of nearly 3 million orphans? Not a priority.
Does Thompson actually believe this? Perhaps he was merely pandering to anti-government conservatives—though it is difficult to imagine what collection of shriveled souls would be excited by an attack on AIDS treatment. Either way, Thompson's image as a courageous teller of hard truths—the "adult" in the race—is damaged. It cannot be called bravery for a millionaire actor, with a blessed life, to pick on the most vulnerable people on the planet.
Thompson's questioner got it wrong. Support for the fight against AIDS is not a matter of being a "Christian" or a "conservative"—or a liberal or a Buddhist. It is an expression of compassion and empathy, which also reflects a serious conception of America's role in the world.
These attributes are not only admirable in a president; they should be required.
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Long-time Oak Park resident Nancy Rose Ortenberg will share photographs from her travels to Mississippi Delta where she started photographing blues musicians and their environments during the 1980's. Her exhibit, titled The Blues Highway: From Mississippi to Chicago will be in the Oak Park Public Library Art Gallery Feb. 1-27. A reception for Nancy Ortenberg will be held Sunday, Feb. 10, from 3 to 5 p.m. in the Library Gallery, 834 Lake Street. The reception is free and open to the public. The gallery is open seven days a week during regular library hours.
Nancy Ortenberg was working on a photography degree at Columbia College Chicago where she met Sterling Plump, an author and writer of blues poetry. While Nancy took photographs, using black and white film and Nikon cameras, Plump wrote poetry. Together they mounted exhibits of photographs of local blues musicians at which Sterling Plump read poetry.
Returning to Chicago, Nancy continued taking photographs of musicians including Valerie Wellington, Barbara LaShore, Billy Branch, Magic Slim and others in clubs including Blues, Kingston Mines Rosas and Blue Chicago.
Nancy graduated from Columbia College Chicago with a degree in photography. She also earned a two-year degree in early childhood education from Triton. She is currently retired and working on a nature project which she hopes will become a book someday. Nancy has been an active member of the Oak Park Photography Club since its founding in 2004. She has moved on to digital photography a whole new world!


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I starting on the article for Portland, Ore. I've lived my entire life in Portland, so I should be able to have a good time with this :-) - Pingveno 17:10, 3 Jan 2004 (EST) ContentsBoilerplateSo, I stripped out most of the template boilerplate, and added a brief intro on Portland. I'll try to add some of my weak and lame knowledge about Portland to the mix. --Evan 22:33, 4 Jan 2004 (EST) Internet connectivityIt'd be nice to list at least a couple of good places to get wireless connectivity. Checking a Web site to find out how to access the Web is kinda a chicken-and-egg problem. --Evan 11:09, 5 Feb 2004 (EST) Moved from article The Portland Mercury is Portland's local indie newspaper, available every Thursday. Local upcoming events can be found in their calendar. The Willamette Week, another local paper, is bigger than the Mercury but a little less 'street-level'. It serves as a great reference for local restaurants. Call it the Willie Week if you want to sound cool.
North Not NoPoI changed NoPo to North based on the following comments in the article.
In deference to provoking a riot, or worse, in North Portland, I thought it prudent to make the change, so the traveler would not be misinformed and consequently endangered. -- Huttite 06:18, 8 Mar 2005 (EST) NewspapersAdded a big run-down of newspapers with the traveller in mind. Each publication in town has a different set of info to offer a traveller and some are more cross-demographically friendly than others. For example, I would argue someone in the boomer set wouldn't appreciate the Mercury as much as the Tribune. Short-hand nicknames for the papers were excluded because I don't feel they're universal enough but here they are for someone who feels they should be included: The Oregonian (The O', The Big O'), Willamette Week (WW, The Willy, The Willy Week), The Portland Mercury (The Mercury, The Merc), Portland Tribune (The Tribune, The Trib). In what crazy mixed-up alternate universe is the Willamette Week left-leaning? 184.108.40.206 00:45, 27 Nov 2005 (EST)
Northwest/The NorthwestA small thing, but I've only heard portland's major divisions (NE, SW, SE, NW, N) referred to sans article. "I live over in northwest," not "I live over in the northwest." So I changed it. Get OutUnder the get out section I suggest that we discuss some city's near Portland that might appeal to the yuppies and hipsters who frequent Portland. These citys might include Hood River, Corvallis, and Eugene.
There is an Oregon Wikitravel page. That might be a good place for something like Corvallis. Perhaps we could put the Oregon link in the get out section. Making some additions and changesI have started making some additions and changes. I am moving some of the things listed in the Do category to the See category, like the Chinese Gardens, and combining redundant information. So don't freak out. I like some of the suggestions, such as wifi locations and places for yuppies. I will add them when I get the time. I was looking at the Seattle page and like the way it's done. I was thinking of doing like they did, with a very large See category divided into sections, such as sports, parks, etc. Right now the See and Do categories have different types of activities.
It says to avoid secondary links, but it does not say they are outright banned. The link about the Columbia Gorge is very good, and has a lot of photos. Very good for tourists. Even though the link itself could be considered secondary the photos themselves are not secondary.
Why did you delete what I and someone else wrote about the gorge? I read the link. It says to avoid secodary links, but there is no outright ban. There is no rule, "just because..." It is as you say, some room left for judgement. I don't think you can object too much to the image index on the site I posted. It lists so many places of interest to visit and thousands of photos. There is no way that we will ever include all those places in this guide. I don't think it would be too bad to have this one secondary link. I would like to ask wikitravel about it, but haven't been able to find contact information. I noticed that you also removed someone's post of the panoramic cam at Larch Mountain.


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Hoping to prevent incumbent state and federal lawmakers from drawing districts that protect themselves, a coalition of labor unions and other progressive groups has turned in more than enough signatures to place a redistricting measure on the November ballot.
Voters First, which includes We Are Ohio, AFSCME, the League of Women Voters and the NAACP, submitted more than 450,500 signatures of registered voters to the Secretary of State this week. They need at least 385,253 valid signatures from half of Ohio's 88 counties. The group said they met the threshold in more than 50 counties.
Currently, the majority party – currently Republicans in both houses – is able to gerrymander district lines to benefit incumbent lawmakers and hold onto power for years. The constitutional amendment that Voters First seeks to pass in November would try to remove party politics from redistricting by creating an Ohio Citizens Independent Redistricting Commission. It would consist of four Democrats, four Republicans and four independents chosen through a process involving state judges. No elected officials, lobbyists or major political donors could participate.
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