A new poll finds Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) trailing two likely opponents in a recall election. However, their narrow leads suggest a long road ahead for Democrats hoping to unseat the embattled governor.
According to PPP, Walker's two potential contenders, Tom Barrett and Kathleen Falk, hold narrow leads over the unpopular governor. The poll shows Barrett with a 49-46 advantage, while Falk has a slight 48-47 edge over Walker.
The runescape gold poll also found that former Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) would have a more commanding lead over Walker than either Barrett or Falk. PPP found that Feingold would hold a 52-45 advantage over the governor. Feingold, however, has said he will not run in the recall election.
Recall organizers gathered over 1 million signatures, nearly double the amount required to force a recall vote. Walker buy runescape gold announced Monday that he would not challenge any of the signatures. "We faced an impossible timeline," Walker spokeswoman Ciara Matthews said.
So far, Barrett and Falk have emerged as the most likely challengers to the governor. Currently the mayor of Milwaukee, Barrett ran against Walker in 2010, losing by about five points.
Falk, a former county executive, has the support of major unions like cheap runescape gold SEIU Healthcare Wisconsin and AFSCME. However, as In These Times reported, a few unions have been hesitant to endorse Falk, who made some controversial budget concessions while serving as executive of Dane County. Among those unions is the Teacher Assistant Association, a leader in last year's labor protests at the Wisconsin State Capitol, who were put off by Falk touting $10 million in cuts she made to public employees' salaries. rs gold
Barrett, too, has his share of union opposition. As the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reported, two public employee unions have openly opposed his potential candidacy, due to decisions he made about the city's public school systems and his cuts to the city's budget.
Despite these challenges, the recall effort is in full swing. The Wisconsin Democratic Party released its first ad in the recall campaign on Monday, comparing Walker to Richard cheap wow gold Nixon. The ad centers on the so-called "Walkergate," the ongoing investigation centering on individuals who served under Walker's time as as Milwaukee County executive. So far, six former Walker aides have been charged with criminal activity.
The pro-recall coalition We Are Wisconsin, who played a big role in collecting the signatures, was pleased with the PPP findings.
"While Scott Walker lies about imaginary out-of-state spending against him, the people of Wisconsin have taken democracy into their own hands, collecting over one million signatures to hold him accountable at the ballot box," executive director Kristen Crowell said in a statement. "After spending millions in dirty corporate cash trying to cover up his extreme agenda and his divisive and corrupt administration, Scott Walker and his out-of-state billionaire backers have absolutely nothing to show for it—in fact, the needle has moved in the opposite direction."
2012年2月23日星期四
New 'Additional Feature' for Health Insurance Finder: Same-Sex C
Don't you wish you could just look up health insurance on Amazon? It'd be easy to see which plans were rated well, then you could read the reviews to see if specific issues you needed were addressed. Of course, when it comes to comparison shopping, health care has long been a black box. Which doctor is best? Which plans cover the most? Can my partner get covered? These questions have all been nearly impossible to answer, until now.
One of the many changes the Affordable Care Act has brought into swtor credits our world is a move toward more transparency in the health care system. To this end, a new website, Healthcare.gov, has built a series of different tools to help the average person find a doctor, compare hospitals, and compare health insurance plans. It's not quite the 1-to-5-star system, and there's no user feedback yet, but it certainly is a great step forward in making health care less of a guessing game for all of us.
One of the major issues buy swtor credits in LGBT health is that we are much more likely to be uninsured than others. In a recent study, researchers found that in California, partnered, male, same-sex couples were less than half as likely to have health insurance as opposite-sex couples. Same-sex female couples had an even smaller chance of being insured, nearer one quarter. Of course, this discrepancy exists because we cannot get married, and to a lesser extent because job discrimination forces some of us swtor gold into lower-paying positions that are less likely to offer health insurance. But for whatever reason, the truth is that this relative lack of access to health insurance is one of the major reason we experience health disparities. We need to be able to get to a doctor before we can get access to checkups, tobacco cessation services, blood pressure medicine, anything. And this is no small potatoes; it affects hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of LGBT people -- perhaps even you?
So wow gold I'm very happy that the federal government has now launched a new tool to help combat this problem. In Healthcare.gov, when you compare insurance plans, one of the "Additional Features" you can now compare is whether they cover same-sex partners (as well as domestic partners).
"Last year, as part of our commitment to work with the LGBT community and be more responsive to the needs of these populations, we promised to improve the Health Plan Finder tool to give LGBT individuals the ability to search for buy wow gold health plans that provide same-sex partner benefits," said HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. "Today we have delivered on that promise."
Kudos to Secretary Sebelius and the other staff at HHS for showing us how we won't be overlooked in health care reform.
Of course, I'm struck by the story of one of my champions in HHS, the openly lesbian head of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Ms. Pamela Hyde. Having her as an open lesbian at the helm of that important agency has pushed changes we all appreciate, like a focus on LGBT suicide prevention. But when I heard her speak last, she talked about how she'd come from New Mexico to D.C. to take this post, and one of the things she lost en route was health insurance for her partner. The federal government did not offer domestic partner insurance coverage, whereas the State of New Mexico did offer such coverage. So, I really do applaud today's move, but I'm reminded that employers need to allow this coverage before it'll help us to be able to find an insurer who offers it.
One of the many changes the Affordable Care Act has brought into swtor credits our world is a move toward more transparency in the health care system. To this end, a new website, Healthcare.gov, has built a series of different tools to help the average person find a doctor, compare hospitals, and compare health insurance plans. It's not quite the 1-to-5-star system, and there's no user feedback yet, but it certainly is a great step forward in making health care less of a guessing game for all of us.
One of the major issues buy swtor credits in LGBT health is that we are much more likely to be uninsured than others. In a recent study, researchers found that in California, partnered, male, same-sex couples were less than half as likely to have health insurance as opposite-sex couples. Same-sex female couples had an even smaller chance of being insured, nearer one quarter. Of course, this discrepancy exists because we cannot get married, and to a lesser extent because job discrimination forces some of us swtor gold into lower-paying positions that are less likely to offer health insurance. But for whatever reason, the truth is that this relative lack of access to health insurance is one of the major reason we experience health disparities. We need to be able to get to a doctor before we can get access to checkups, tobacco cessation services, blood pressure medicine, anything. And this is no small potatoes; it affects hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of LGBT people -- perhaps even you?
So wow gold I'm very happy that the federal government has now launched a new tool to help combat this problem. In Healthcare.gov, when you compare insurance plans, one of the "Additional Features" you can now compare is whether they cover same-sex partners (as well as domestic partners).
"Last year, as part of our commitment to work with the LGBT community and be more responsive to the needs of these populations, we promised to improve the Health Plan Finder tool to give LGBT individuals the ability to search for buy wow gold health plans that provide same-sex partner benefits," said HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. "Today we have delivered on that promise."
Kudos to Secretary Sebelius and the other staff at HHS for showing us how we won't be overlooked in health care reform.
Of course, I'm struck by the story of one of my champions in HHS, the openly lesbian head of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Ms. Pamela Hyde. Having her as an open lesbian at the helm of that important agency has pushed changes we all appreciate, like a focus on LGBT suicide prevention. But when I heard her speak last, she talked about how she'd come from New Mexico to D.C. to take this post, and one of the things she lost en route was health insurance for her partner. The federal government did not offer domestic partner insurance coverage, whereas the State of New Mexico did offer such coverage. So, I really do applaud today's move, but I'm reminded that employers need to allow this coverage before it'll help us to be able to find an insurer who offers it.
2012年2月20日星期一
Let Us Honor Slave-Owning Presidents?
Here it is again, the intersection of Presidents Day and Black History Month. Eight of our early presidents, beginning with George Washington, owned slaves during their tenure in the nation's highest office. The two I am most familiar with, given my career at the historic sites of Monticello and Montpelier, and as the author of the recently published A Slave in the White House (Palgrave Macmillan, $28.00) are Thomas Jefferson and James Madison.
Jefferson and Madison owned over a hundred enslaved people at their Virginia plantations and took several slaves with them to swtor credits the White House. Running the domestic side of the executive mansion was a private undertaking then, and the third and fourth president each assembled a household staff, headed by a French steward, of about ten: white and free black workers, slaves hired in the capital, as well as slaves from their plantation.
Slavery was not a debate. It was a crime being perpetrated on real people in real time.
Ten-year-old Paul Jennings was one of the home slaves selected by President James Madison for the White House household staff. As a buy swtor credits footman Jennings set and served meals, assisted the coachman, and ran messages and other errands. Later he became Madison's personal manservant or valet, and in freedom he authored the first White House memoir.
One enslaved man, John Freeman, served as a White House footman during both Jefferson's and Madison's administrations. Jefferson purchased Freeman in 1804 with the understanding, set by his former master, that he was to be freed in sixteen years. In 1809, the year Madison's first term began, the third president sold Freeman to his swtor gold successor for $231.81 (calculated to the penny based on Freeman's remaining time as a slave). This is the only recorded instance of the sale of human property between these two presidents, though Jefferson also sold a woman, Thenia Hemings, and her five young daughters, to another of our slave-owning presidents, James Monroe.
It is easy to see the contradiction--some say hypocrisy--in the author of the Declaration of Independence and the father of the Constitution lording over plantations of more than one hundred slaves and presiding over a government wow gold devoted to upholding individual rights while being served by enslaved footmen in livery.
Yet we tend to make excuses for the failure of our Founding Fathers to end slavery. They were men of their time, they had to put union first, they did not understand that we are all one biological race. We look back and see slavery less as a political issue, more as a moral offense. The truth is that Madison and Jefferson saw it that way, too.
Madison acknowledged that slavery was an evil of great magnitude, a "moral, social and economical" failure. Jefferson called it an "abominable buy wow gold crime" and a "moral depravity" and allowed that should a violent contest between slaves and slave owners transpire, there was no doubt which side God would be on.
Both men supported gradual emancipation if something could be done with the free blacks. It was the concept of colonization, the transport of free blacks to Africa that offered Madison relief from his despair over slavery. Maybe all slaves could be freed, he wrote, if the "double operation"--emancipation followed by colonization--was put in place.
Thus in the end it was not slavery but race--racism--that was the cheap wow gold sticking point. Jefferson and Madison thought that people of color should enjoy the same individual rights as white citizens. But not here. They averred that black and white could never live harmoniously in America together.
Two centuries later (centuries!) we are still working on proving them wrong in their prediction, still working on realizing a truly pluralistic society that all Americans honor.
Paul Jennings's great grandson, Dr. C Herbert Marshall, who, along with his fellow black doctors, could not practice in all-white hospitals or even join the American Medical Association, wrote an "op-ed" in the Negro History Bulletin in February of 1960 that started off, " I have every reason to be proud of being an American." It concluded, "Today, we find ourselves on the threshold of a new era ushering in the type of freedom for all for which my fore-parents sacrificed so much."
If Dr. Marshall could offer that positive a sentiment in February 1960, then certainly we in February 2012 can take a sanguine view of the distance we have come since then. If we are not post-racial yet, we are getting there. No matter the sins of the Fathers, it is on us now. A sprint to the finish, anyone? Everyone?
Jefferson and Madison owned over a hundred enslaved people at their Virginia plantations and took several slaves with them to swtor credits the White House. Running the domestic side of the executive mansion was a private undertaking then, and the third and fourth president each assembled a household staff, headed by a French steward, of about ten: white and free black workers, slaves hired in the capital, as well as slaves from their plantation.
Slavery was not a debate. It was a crime being perpetrated on real people in real time.
Ten-year-old Paul Jennings was one of the home slaves selected by President James Madison for the White House household staff. As a buy swtor credits footman Jennings set and served meals, assisted the coachman, and ran messages and other errands. Later he became Madison's personal manservant or valet, and in freedom he authored the first White House memoir.
One enslaved man, John Freeman, served as a White House footman during both Jefferson's and Madison's administrations. Jefferson purchased Freeman in 1804 with the understanding, set by his former master, that he was to be freed in sixteen years. In 1809, the year Madison's first term began, the third president sold Freeman to his swtor gold successor for $231.81 (calculated to the penny based on Freeman's remaining time as a slave). This is the only recorded instance of the sale of human property between these two presidents, though Jefferson also sold a woman, Thenia Hemings, and her five young daughters, to another of our slave-owning presidents, James Monroe.
It is easy to see the contradiction--some say hypocrisy--in the author of the Declaration of Independence and the father of the Constitution lording over plantations of more than one hundred slaves and presiding over a government wow gold devoted to upholding individual rights while being served by enslaved footmen in livery.
Yet we tend to make excuses for the failure of our Founding Fathers to end slavery. They were men of their time, they had to put union first, they did not understand that we are all one biological race. We look back and see slavery less as a political issue, more as a moral offense. The truth is that Madison and Jefferson saw it that way, too.
Madison acknowledged that slavery was an evil of great magnitude, a "moral, social and economical" failure. Jefferson called it an "abominable buy wow gold crime" and a "moral depravity" and allowed that should a violent contest between slaves and slave owners transpire, there was no doubt which side God would be on.
Both men supported gradual emancipation if something could be done with the free blacks. It was the concept of colonization, the transport of free blacks to Africa that offered Madison relief from his despair over slavery. Maybe all slaves could be freed, he wrote, if the "double operation"--emancipation followed by colonization--was put in place.
Thus in the end it was not slavery but race--racism--that was the cheap wow gold sticking point. Jefferson and Madison thought that people of color should enjoy the same individual rights as white citizens. But not here. They averred that black and white could never live harmoniously in America together.
Two centuries later (centuries!) we are still working on proving them wrong in their prediction, still working on realizing a truly pluralistic society that all Americans honor.
Paul Jennings's great grandson, Dr. C Herbert Marshall, who, along with his fellow black doctors, could not practice in all-white hospitals or even join the American Medical Association, wrote an "op-ed" in the Negro History Bulletin in February of 1960 that started off, " I have every reason to be proud of being an American." It concluded, "Today, we find ourselves on the threshold of a new era ushering in the type of freedom for all for which my fore-parents sacrificed so much."
If Dr. Marshall could offer that positive a sentiment in February 1960, then certainly we in February 2012 can take a sanguine view of the distance we have come since then. If we are not post-racial yet, we are getting there. No matter the sins of the Fathers, it is on us now. A sprint to the finish, anyone? Everyone?
2012年2月16日星期四
Ten Deep Thoughts on the All-Male Panel on My Vagina
House Oversight Committee Chairman, master car thief and general criminal, Darrell Issa held a hearing today on the Obama administration's new regulation requiring employers and insurers to provide contraception coverage to their employees. Claiming that it was "not about reproductive rights and contraception swtor credits but instead about the administration's actions as they relate to freedom of religion and conscience," Issa barred a progressive woman from testifying, as that would have ruined the all male conservative religious anti-Obama motif he was going buy swtor credits for. This led three Democrats to walk out of the House (which must have been extra hard, because their panties were all up in a bunch). But I watched the hearing. And here are some thoughts.
1. I guess I should give the GOP props for voting against the Violence Against swtor gold Women Act, since it would be hypocritical to condemn violence against women, while at the same time advocating ultrasound rape.
2. This is a really beautiful image of small government and big family values.
3. I'm really glad women aren't allowed to testify at this hearing, which runescape gold is about their bodies. It's a dangerously slippery slope and I think we all know what comes next: box turtles are allowed to testify. It's also really hard to be objective and have a vagina at the same time.
4. Rep James Lankford should recuse himself from abortion discussions, as he, himself, buy runescape gold is a fetus.
5. Given what men of the cloth are known to do in this position, I'm kind of relieved when a clergy member testifies that he gets on his knees every morning and "prays for the president."
6. Joe Walsh shouldn't be speaking or even here. He has way overdue child support to pay.
7. Darrell rs gold Issa throws the panel a real hard ball and asks them "Do you think this hearing was a sham."
8. That hearing was good, but having Fred Phelps there would have made it even better.
9. That hearing was good, but having it in Salem in the 17th century would have made it even better.
10. I'm holding a hearing in which an all female panel will testify for weekly colonoscopies performed on the male clergy and GOP members who participated in today's hearing. We will also discuss Virginia State Sen. Janet Howell's amendment requiring men to have a rectal exam and a cardiac stress test before obtaining a prescription for erectile dysfunction medication.
1. I guess I should give the GOP props for voting against the Violence Against swtor gold Women Act, since it would be hypocritical to condemn violence against women, while at the same time advocating ultrasound rape.
2. This is a really beautiful image of small government and big family values.
3. I'm really glad women aren't allowed to testify at this hearing, which runescape gold is about their bodies. It's a dangerously slippery slope and I think we all know what comes next: box turtles are allowed to testify. It's also really hard to be objective and have a vagina at the same time.
4. Rep James Lankford should recuse himself from abortion discussions, as he, himself, buy runescape gold is a fetus.
5. Given what men of the cloth are known to do in this position, I'm kind of relieved when a clergy member testifies that he gets on his knees every morning and "prays for the president."
6. Joe Walsh shouldn't be speaking or even here. He has way overdue child support to pay.
7. Darrell rs gold Issa throws the panel a real hard ball and asks them "Do you think this hearing was a sham."
8. That hearing was good, but having Fred Phelps there would have made it even better.
9. That hearing was good, but having it in Salem in the 17th century would have made it even better.
10. I'm holding a hearing in which an all female panel will testify for weekly colonoscopies performed on the male clergy and GOP members who participated in today's hearing. We will also discuss Virginia State Sen. Janet Howell's amendment requiring men to have a rectal exam and a cardiac stress test before obtaining a prescription for erectile dysfunction medication.
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