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In This Issue:
COVER Pg 8
- Martin Luther King Jr. Interview
Found in Tennessee Attic
LOCAL Pgs 4 - 5
- Cops: Western NY Couple in
Apparent Murder Suicide
- 15-Year-Old Boy Fatally Shot on
Rochester Street
- Legislature Defeats Bill to Prohibit
Publicly Funded Ads
- F29 New Homes to be Built in
19th Ward
- Community Weighs in on Civilian
Review Board Revisions
STATE Pgs 10, 12
NATIONAL Pg 10
- Walmart Offering Christmas
Layaway Program
COLUMNS: Pg 14-15
- Why Hasnt Jose Cruz Resigned
from the School Board?
By Gloria Winston Al-Sarag
- President Obamas Pro-Growth
Solutions by the Numbers
By Ayesha Kreutz
- Learning the Lesson of
Forgiveness
By Michael Vaughn
- NYPD: Out of Control With a
Blatant Disreguard for Citizens
Constitutional Rights
By Davy Vara
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Craig Heard Deserves Beer
[Original Op/Ed by Davy Vara at: hp://www.minorityreporter.net/full-
story.php?id=1138
Craig heard was out at 3 am but not because no one cared for him but because
he had ran away from home with friends! Thats not his moms fault his mom
and other family members had been out looking for him! When a child runs
away that doesnt mean the parents are bad! And those cops didnt have a car
driven towards them! And even if they did why not shoot out the res instead
of shoong him in his head twice... TWO TIMES... They shot Craig in the head
as if he was a animal! It sickens me to even think how they shot him in that car
a young boy A BABY FOR HEAVENS SAKE gone to soon!! No he wasnt a perfect
child but he didnt deserve to die the way he did!
~ Mindyourbusiness
Lets not drive cars at police o cers, or anybody else. Perhaps then we wont
have to sit around second guessing where police should or shouldnt be shoot-
ing. Instead of running and pu ng everyones lives in jeopardy, why dont our
cizens just pull over when the police aempt to stop them? Why do we get to
second guess the people acng lawfully in these situaons, rather than crimi-
nals that iniate the situaons. What do you suppose Craig would be doing
with his life today, had he not made those choices 10 years ago? I know what
the answer is stascally speaking, but what do honestly think? My educated
guess would be that at this point in his life he would have had negave impacts
on several others by now, and probably fathered numerous children wed all
be paying for. Clearly heading toward a life of incarceraon, Heard would be
cosng taxpayers $35k a year to keep locked up. I will shed no tears for the loss
of this boy, period. I feel bad for the o cers who were forced to take a life that
evening.
~Bigchubb6570
Conservaves and their Evil
Absnence Ploy
[Original Op/Ed by Ayesha Kreutz at: hp://www.minorityreporter.net/
fullstory.php?id=1147
A well wrien arguement for Absnence. Your statement regarding schools
teaching our children not to be ashamed to try, all kinds of sex is quite ac-
curate!
Prior to public schools teaching sexual educaon, the Gay community was
quite small. As sexual educaon became more invasive and graphic, the num-
ber of children coming out of the closet grew. The Gay community grew over
the years and they teamed up with Planned Parenthood to ght against the
teaching of Absnence in schools.
Now the Gay community has become so large and polically powerful that
they ght the teaching of Absnence like it is a deadly cancer. The Gay com-
munity claims, based on a awed study performed decades ago, that their is a
Gay gene, while others (including myself) claim that being or becoming Gay is a
result of Sexual Educaon in Public Schools. The facts are on our side prooving
that the Gay community began a sharp growth in relaonship with Sex-Ed in
public schools.
Start teaching Absnence in Public Schools, and do away with Sex-Ed, and
within a generaon the growth of the Gay community will come to a crawl.
Not to menon Planned Parenthood will fall on their sword as their own lies
and deciept will be exposed. The result will be negligible teen pregnancies, and
nearly non-existent aborons.
~ Steve Smith
This is a well-arculated arcle. The promoon of the healthy lifestyle of
absnence unl marriage is good for our naon, in that crical thinking, moral
compass and the pialls of sexual experimentaon prior to marriage can be
avoided. The money saved by not providing aborons can be used to educate
our children and help people who fall on hard mes through no fault of their
own. Our children Woukd be happier and healthier if they were allowed to ma-
ture according to the season they are in rather than taking on responsibilies
they are ill-prepared for emoonally or nancially.
~ Lorea
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Cops: Western NY Couple in Apparent Murder-Suicide
WHEATLAND, N.Y. Police are
invesgang the apparent murder-
suicide of a western New York couple
in their 80s.
Major Steve Koster of the Monroe
County Sheris department tells
local media the couples daughter
found them dead Tuesday morning
in the town of Wheatland, 15 miles
southwest of Rochester.
He says invesgators believe the
husband shot his wife and then
himself.
Both had health problems, but Koster
says they werent incapacitated and
remained acve. No note was found.
The names of the couple havent been
released.
15-Year-Old Boy Fatally Shot on Rochester Street
Rochester police are invesgang the
fatal shoong of a 15-year-old boy.
O cers responding to a report
of a shoong around 11:30 p.m.
Wednesday found the teen at the
intersecon of N Goodman St and
Short Street on the citys east side.
Police say the boy had been shot
several mes in the torso. He was taken
to Strong Memorial Hospital, where
he was pronounced dead shortly aer
midnight.
According to Rochester Police the
circumstances that precipitated the
shoong were unclear and no suspects
have been taken into custody.
O cers remained at the scene of the
shoong Thursday morning as their
invesgaon connued.
Legislature Defeats Bill to Prohibit Publicly Funded Ads
On Monday, a Democrac sponsored
bill that would have prohibited County
elected o cials from appearing in
publicly funded adversements was
defeated by the Republican controlled
Legislature.
Sponsored by Deputy Democrac
Leader Josh Bauroth, the bill would
have also applied restricons to
publicly funded adversements
sponsored by enes related to the
County such as the Airport Authority.
According to Bauroth, in addion to
ads at the Airport, there are numerous
such adversements featuring elected
county o cials all around at places like
the Zoo and MCC Sports Centre.
In response to the legislaon, Monroe
County Communicaons Director
Jusn Feasel issued a statement
saying, The only abuse of taxpayer
money on display today is the
Legislature Democrac Caucus using
their governmental o ce to launch
baseless polical aacks against the
County Execuve on behalf of Louise
Slaughter. In full compliance with
State law, the County does not use
tax dollars to fund any adversements
featuring the County Execuve. Our
most signicant public service eorts
promong recycling, handicap parking
compliance, and lead paint remediaon
do not contain the likeness of the
County Execuve. When the Airport
has vacant adversing space, it may
display signage promong economic
development, part of its core mission.
The economic development signage
in queson does not take the place of
paid adversing and therefore has no
impact on the revenues of the Airport.
Bauroth said, This legislaon was a
common sense step towards ensuring
that taxpayer dollars were being
appropriately spent. The taxpayers of
this County-with the highest property
taxes in the naon-should not be
subsidizing adversements featuring
local elected o cials.
The bill was submied to Legislature
President Je Adair, who assigned it
to the Legislatures Agenda/Charter
Commiee who voted 3-2 to defeat it.
Josh Bauroth, Deputy Democrac Leader
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Kodak wants to sell its document im-
aging and personalized imaging busi-
nesses to beer focus on prinng and
business services as it tries to emerge
from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protec-
on.
Eastman Kodak Co. said Thursday that
the sale of the units, along with cost-
cu ng measures and the aucon of
its patent porolio, will help it emerge
from bankruptcy someme in 2013.
Kodaks document-imaging division
makes scanners and oers related
soware and services. The personal-
ized imaging business includes photo
paper and sll-camera lm products.
It also oers souvenir photo products
at theme parks and other venues.
Antonio Perez, Kodaks chairman and
CEO, said the planned sale is an im-
portant step in our companys reorga-
nizaon to focus our business on the
commercial markets.
The storied photography pioneer led
for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protecon
in January. It has kept operang while
it tries to sell its digital imaging pat-
ents. So far, it has not found buyers.
Rochester, N.Y. based Kodak was
founded in 1880. Kodak introduced
the iconic Brownie camera in 1900.
Selling for $1 and using lm that cost
just 15 cents a roll, it made hobby pho-
tography aordable for many people.
Its Kodachrome lm, introduced in
1935, became the rst commercially
successful amateur color lm.
Kodaks workforce peaked in 1988 at
nearly 150,000 employees. But the
company couldnt keep up with the
shi from digital photo technology
over the past decade and with compe-
on from Japanese companies such
as Canon.
It said earlier this year that it would
stop making digital cameras, pocket
video cameras and digital picture
frames as it tries to reshape its busi-
ness.
Kodak to sell
imaging units,
focus on prinng
Antonio Perez, Kodak CEO
Several Rochester City O cials cel-
ebrated the groundbreaking of the
Brooks Court project that will feature
29 new single-family homes to be built
in the 19th Ward.
The Brooks Court project will feature
the construcon of a new neighbor-
hood street called Brookcrest Way. On
the street, 29 new single-family homes
will be built with designs reminiscent
of the Crasman and Bungalow city
house styles that were prevalent in
the early- to mid-1900s.
Construcon of the new street at the
former Valley Court Apartment site
in the 19th Ward has begun and the
homes will begin to be constructed in
September. They will be available for
occupancy in the late fall of 2012. The
enre project is expected to be com-
pleted in 3 years.
Rochester is improving because of
the quality of life in our neighbor-
hoods, said Rochester Mayor Thomas
Richards. Strong neighborhoods are
really what will make Rochester the
best mid-sized city in America. Where
else could you own a home near the
waterfront, next to a major univer-
sity, a new, urban commercial center
like Brooks Landing and an Olmsted-
designed park in an historic neigh-
borhood like the 19th ward? We are
thankful to Woodstone Homes for
their investment in our city.
The homes will feature a variety of
ranch, cape, and 2-story plans, rang-
ing from 1,200 square feet to 1,800
square feet in size. Each home will
have a large front porch, 2-1/2 baths
and a 2-car aached garage
The homes -- priced at $150,000 to
$180,000 -- are being built by Wood-
stone Custom Homes. The company
successfully responded to the Citys
June 2010 Valley Court request for
proposals (RFP). The development cost
will be more than $1 million and when
completely built out, the value of the
development, including infrastructure
improvements is expected to be more
than $5.5 million.
O cials aending the groundbreaking
ceremony included Mayor Thomas S.
Richards, Neighborhood and Business
Development Commissioner R. Car-
los Carballada, Rochester City Council
Vice President Dana Miller, along with
Jerey Smith, President and CEO of
Woodstone Custom Homes, Inc. and
Jodi Weinberger of Woodstone Realty.
Brooks Court Groundbreaking
29 New Homes to be Built in 19th Ward
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Last Thursday, City Councilman Adam
McFadden and Rochester Chief of
Police, James Sheppard held a com-
munity meeng to discuss proposed
changes to the Cizen Review Board
(CRB), the group that handles cizens
complaints against the police; but resi-
dents are not ge ng what they want
an independent board with the
power to subpoena police o cers.
The meeng which lasted about 90
minutes included an outline of the
proposed changes to the current ci-
vilian review process by McFadden.
Residents were then given an opportu-
nity to take the podium. Speaker aer
speaker voiced their disappointment
that the police department would be
the organizaon conducng invesga-
ons brought by cizens against police
o cers.
Its the same old, same old, nothing
is changing, said community acvist
Alex White. The invesgaon should
be performed by non-police person-
nel, maybe in conjuncon with some
police personnel; at best it should be
50/50.
McFaddens proposed changes include
appoinng a community advocate and
sending monthly progress reports to
city council for review; but residents
say thats not good enough.
Emily Good, who rose to the naonal
spot right aer she was arrested last
year, expressed this concern. I dont
really believe that the police can in-
vesgate themselves; I think that this
whole issue needs to go back to the
drawing board.
Thats the fundamental aw to this
whole process, said Good. If we
dont have an independent Civilian Re-
view Board we are not going to have
any police accountability.
The current CRB is run by the Center
for Dispute Selement but McFadden
said City Council will be sending out an
RFP to solicit other agencies to bid on
the project.
McFadden said his process for reform-
ing the CRB included bringing together
stakeholders from various segment of
the community including a community
commiee, a government commiee,
a police administraon commiee, a
CDS (Center for Dispute Selement)
commiee, and a police union com-
miee.
McFadden outlined CRB Points of
Agreement that the commiees ap-
proved including:
Appoinng a community advocate
Mulple opons for intake and in-
vesgaon
Members of CBR must be city resi-
dents
Timetable for invesgaons
Case update leer sent every 30 days
Monthly progress report to city
council
Addional conict resoluon train-
ing for police
Addional community outreach
Addional youth outreach
Overhaul intake process
Intake opon at city hall
Fast track procedural courtesy com-
plaints
Disciplinary details shared with com-
plainant
CRB issues that remain unresolved
according to McFadden were:
Autonomous CRB with enrely sepa-
rate Professional Standards Secon
and CRB invesgaons
Filing complaint will sasfy noce of
claim requirements to avoid statute of
limitaons that would expire before an
invesgaon was complete
Separate reporng for complainant
injuries
Standardized intake quesons
Procedures for evaluang mulple
separate complaints against an o cer
McFadden says there was a request
for greater access to o cer and in-
vesgator les as well as mandatory
reconciliaon programs; but, because
of collecve bargaining issues both ac-
cess to o cers les and reconciliaon
procedures must remain as they are.
City Council is scheduled to vote on
the proposed changes next month.
Cizens Disappointed over lack of Independence
of Proposed Civilian Review Board
Several dozen Rochester residents aended the CRB meeng at City Council chambers
at City Hall
Rochester Police Chief James Sheppard, Rochester City Councilman Adam McFadden
Saturday, people with disabilies and sup-
porters joined disability groups from all
over the naon in protest in front of Good-
will stores to highlight the naonal boyco
called on by the Naonal Federaon of the
Blind (NFB).
The acon in Rochester will be taking
place, Saturday, August 25th from 11:00
a.m. to 1:00 p.m. in front of Stoneridge
Plaza, 1518 W. Ridge Road.
The protesters, organizing in front of the
Stoneridge Plaza, 1518 W. Ridge Road, say
they wanted to raise awareness of and op-
posion to Goodwill Industries pracce of
paying subminimum wages to many of its
workers with disabilies.
According to the NFB, freedom of informa-
on requests led by the them conrmed
that Goodwill Industries employees with
disabilies have been paid as low as $0.22
an hour.
The NFB and nearly y other organiza-
ons of people with disabilies support
legislaon, the Fair Wages for Workers
with Disabilies Act (H.R. 3086), which
would phase out and then repeal the
nearly seventy-ve-year-old provision of
the Fair Labor Standards Act that permits
special cercate holders to pay submini-
mum wages to workers with disabilies.
The Rochester protest also targeted ABVI-
Goodwill President and CEO, A. Gidget
Hopf. Hopf is the Secretary of the Board
of Directors of Goodwill Internaonal, the
organizaon protesters say is exploing
workers with disabilies and opposing the
eliminaon of the sub-minimum wages
rule for people with disabilies.
As a Board Member of Goodwill Interna-
onal, Ms. Hopf is a policy-maker and in a
posion to strongly advocate for an end to
sub-minimum wage, but she has refused
to even send a leer to Goodwill Indus-
tries, said Bruce Darling, organizer with
Rochester ADAPT. She should tell people
why she thinks they should not be paid
minimum wage.
Disability Rights Groups Protest Goodwill Pay Pracces
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www.hcrhealth.com
ATLANTA (AP) -- An outbreak of in-
fected taoos has led to an unlikely
source: the ink.
With the growing popularity of tat-
toos, health o cials say they are see-
ing more cases of a nasty skin infecon
caused by a common bacteria traced
to the ink. In the largest outbreak, 19
people in Rochester, N.Y., ended up
with bubbly rashes on their new tat-
toos, researchers reported Wednes-
day.
Infecons from taooing are nothing
new. Hepas, staph infecons and
even the superbug known as MRSA
have been ed to taoos. Dirty nee-
dles and unsanitary condions are of-
ten to blame.
But all the New York cases were linked
to an unidened arst who wore
disposable gloves and sterilized his in-
struments. The problem, invesgators
concluded, was in the ink.
Even if you get a taoo from a facil-
ity that does everything right, its not
risk free, said Dr. Byron Kennedy,
deputy director of the health depart-
ment in New Yorks Monroe County.
He is lead author of a report on last
falls Rochester cases was released by
the New England Journal of Medicine
on Wednesday.
In the past year, there have been 22
conrmed cases and more than 30
suspected cases of the skin infecon in
Colorado, Iowa, New York and Wash-
ington state, health o cials said. The
infecons were ed to ink or water
used to dilute the ink. Taoo arsts
and ink makers should use only ster-
ile water to dilute ink, health o cials
advise.
Scaered reports of the illness in tat-
too customers have been reported
over the past 10 years. But they may
be growing more common as more
people get taoos, experts said. An es-
mated 1 in 5 U.S. adults have at least
one taoo, an increase from years
past, according to polls.
The illnesses were caused by a bacte-
rial cousin of tuberculosis named My-
cobacterium chelonae (pronounced
chell-OH-nay). The bacteria can cause
itchy and painful pus-lled blisters that
can take months to clear up, and in-
volve treatment with harsh anbiocs
with unpleasant side eects.
The bacteria are common in tap water,
and have been seen in the past when
taoo arsts used contaminated wa-
ter to lighten dark ink. The ink used
in New York was gray wash, used for
shaded areas of taoos. The ink was
recalled and has not returned to the
market.
Companies that make gray wash
somemes use dislled water to
lighten the ink, thinking its clean of
infecon-causing contaminants. But
the bacteria can live in that too, said
Tara MacCannell, who led a related in-
vesgaon by the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevenon. Her study ap-
pears in CDCs Morbidity and Mortality
Weekly Report released Wednesday.
Some ink manufacturers add witch ha-
zel or an alcohol preservave to lower
risk of certain viruses, but those addi-
ves dont kill o the hardy chelonae
bacteria, she added.
Invesgators found the bacteria in
opened and unopened boles of ink
at the New York taoo parlor. They did
not nd it in water at the shop, Mac-
Cannell said.
Health o cials say taoo customers
should ask what kind of ink is being
used and what measures are in place
to prevent infecons.
Study: Taoo infecons traced to tainted ink
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By George Brown
In a dusty old a c in Chaanooga,
Tennessee, Stephon Tull was
rummaging through dilapidated boxes
le there by his father many years
before, when he came across an
interesng nd.
In one of the baered boxes was an
audio reel marked, Dr. King interview,
Dec. 21, 1960.
Im a rummager, a packrat, said Tull.
That piqued my interest.
Tull acquired a reel-to-reel player
and listened to what sounded like his
father interviewing Dr. Marn Luther
King Jr. about nonviolence and the civil
rights movement.
I could not believe what I was
hearing, said Tull.
Tulls father had grown up in Tennessee
during the years of racial tension,
oppression, and the so-called Jim
Crow segregaon laws.
He planned on wring a book on how
bad things were back in that era, said
Tull, but he never nished it, He fell
ill, and is now in Hospice care.
Tulls fathers recorded his conversaon
with King three years before the civil
rights leader delivered his famous I
Have a Dream speech in Washington,
four years before President Lyndon B.
Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act into
law and eight years before King was
assassinated in Memphis, across the
state from where Tulls father lived.
In the interview, King can clearly be
heard discussing his denion of
nonviolence, and its importance in the
civil rights movement.
I would say that it is a method which
seeks to secure a moral end through
moral means, he said, and it grows
out of the whole concept of love,
because if one is truly nonviolent that
person has a loving spirit, he refuses
to inict injury upon the opponent
because he loves the opponent.
King connued, I am convinced that
when the history books are wrien
in future years, historians will have to
record this movement as one of the
greatest epics of our heritage, he said.
It represents struggle on the highest
level of dignity and discipline.
The Rev. Joseph Lowery, one of the
founders of the Southern Chrisan
Leadership Conference with King in
1957, said the tapes are a reminder
of the work King started that is not
nished.
One of the things that occurred back
then, we eecvely communicated
that nonviolence as a tacc, as a
technique, was very eecve for civil
rights protests, said Lowery. What
we failed to do was express its not just
a tacc, but a way of life.
Lowery went on, Were losing the
bale of violence versus nonviolence
as a means of resolving human
conict, he said, I hope Dr. Kings
message, wherever it shows up will
help us in the struggle.
In another part of Tulls recording, King
describes a recent trip to Africa. He
explains to Tulls father the importance
of the civil rights movement both in
the United States and abroad.
There is quite a bit of interest and
concern in Africa for the situaon
in the United States. African leaders
in general, and African people in
parcular are greatly concerned
about the struggle here and familiar
with what has taken place, he said,
We must solve this problem of racial
injusce if expect to maintain our
leadership in the world, and if we
expect to maintain a moral voice in a
world that is two thirds color.
The recording is intriguing to Clayborne
Carson, a professor of history and
founding director of the Marn Luther
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By Beth Fouhy
RALEIGH, N.C. Dierences between
Mi Romney and Paul Ryans posions
this me on hot-buon social issues
were on display Wednesday as the
GOP cket found itself dragged into a
debate over aboron.
The vice presidenal candidate
emphasized anew that Romney is the
nominee, brushing aside dierences in
their records.
Im proud of my pro-life record.
And I stand by my pro-life record in
Congress. Its something Im proud
of. But Mi Romney is the top of
the cket and Mi Romney will be
president and he will set the policy of
the Romney administraon, Ryan told
a Pennsylvania TV staon.
Romney does not oppose aboron
in cases of rape and incest or if it will
save the mothers life, while Ryan does
oppose aboron in cases of rape and
incest.
Since choosing Ryan as his running
mate, Romney has been dogged
by quesons about how his own
views dier from the Wisconsin
congressmans. Ryan is the architect of
a controversial budget blueprint that
would dramacally change Medicare,
and aer his selecon Democrats
immediately began trying to e
Romney to his new No. 2s plan. The
likely Republican nominee has said his
plan is dierent, but largely refused
to outline specics of the dierences.
Instead, hes emphasizing what he
calls shared principles and insisng
that Ryan joined the Romney cket,
and not the other way around.
The focus on aboron comes in the
wake of comments from Missouri
Senate candidate Todd Akin, who is
challenging Democrac Sen. Claire
McCaskill. Asked in an interview aired
Sunday if aboron should be legal
in cases of rape, Akin said: If its a
legimate rape, the female body has
ways to try to shut that whole thing
down.
Ryan on Wednesday defended a
bill he cosponsored in the House to
permanently ban federal funding for
aboron except in cases of incest
and forcible rape. That language,
which was eventually changed, would
have narrowed the excepon for rape
vicms. Akin and 225 other members
of the House, including 11 Democrats,
also cosponsored the bill.
Democrats have seized on the bill and
accused Ryan of trying to redene
rape and remove protecons for rape
vicms.
As a Republican leader in the House,
Paul Ryan worked with Todd Akin to try
to narrow the denion of rape and
outlaw aboron even for rape vicms,
Obama campaign spokeswoman Lis
Smith said in a statement.
Akin has refused to heed calls to step
down including one from Romney
and now would need a court order
to leave the race. He has unl Sept.
25 to do so; aer that point, he would
have no way to remove his name from
the ballot.
Ryan, a colleague of Akins in the House,
called the Missouri congressman to
urge him to bow out of the Senate
race. Ryan said Wednesday he doesnt
have any plans to speak to him about
it now that Akin is staying in.
Hes going to run his campaign and
were going to run ours, Ryan said of
Akin.
The quesons about aboron were
overshadowing the GOP ckets
campaign events in Iowa, Virginia
and North Carolina Wednesday, as
they were seeking to aack President
Barack Obamas stands on Medicare
and again minimize the dierences
between Romney and Ryan on that
subject.
That comes in a new TV adversement
linking Obamas divisive health care
overhaul to cuts in Medicare. The
ad, tled Nothings Free, asserts
that Obama raided $716 billion from
Medicare in order to pay for his health
care law. Its the rst ad Romneys
campaign has run focusing on health
care since the Supreme Court upheld
Obamas federal mandate in June
Romney has promised to roll back the
Medicare spending cuts approved
under Obama, while Ryan kept the cuts
in his budget proposals. The campaign
did not say where the health care ad
would run.
Romney was ying Wednesday
morning from Texas, where he held
campaign fundraisers Tuesday, to Iowa.
During remarks in a key Midwestern
state, he planned to focus on the
increases in the naons debt during
Obamas term.
Ryan, less than two weeks into his
new role as GOP running mate, was
campaigning in Virginia and North
Carolina and focusing Wednesday on a
tax overhaul. The GOP campaign says
Obamas calls for le ng George W.
Bush-era tax cuts on people earning
more than $200,000 a year expire at
the end of the year would hurt small
businesses because many le as
individuals.
Obama, meanwhile, readied for a
second straight day of cricism on the
GOP ckets proposals on educaon,
an issue that resonates with middle-
class voters.
Obama was campaigning Wednesday
in Nevada, one of the states hit hardest
by the naons economic slowdown.
The president planned to meet with
teachers at a Las Vegas high school
and promote his administraons
plans to make higher educaon more
aordable before speaking at a larger
event at the school.
Campaigning in Ohio Tuesday, Obama
accused Romney of being oblivious to
the burdens of paying for college. The
presidents campaign sees educaon
as another avenue for linking Romney
to Ryans budget, which calls for
$115 billion in cuts to the Educaon
Department.
In a new ad released Wednesday, the
Obama campaign suggests Ryans
educaon cuts would lead to larger
class sizes. A couple featured in the
ad bemoans the prospect of increased
class size and says Romney cannot
relate to their desire to have the
best public educaon system for their
children.
The ad is running in Virginia and Ohio.
Associated Press writer Jim Kuhnhenn
in Nevada and Julie Pace in Iowa
contributed to this report
Aboron Debate Shows Dierences of Romney, Ryan
13 :: WWW.MINORITYREPORTER.NET - WEEK OF AUG 27 - SEPT 2, 2012
Why Hasnt Jose Cruz Resigned From the School Board?
A few weeks ago
Jose Cruz resigned
as Chief Operaons
O cer at Ibero-
American Acon
League, Inc (IBERO)
in light of a federal
ethics invesgaon
concerning his
alleged violaon of
the Hatch Act.
This story made
the news for a hot
second and even qualied for a menon
that garnered eight whole comments on
Facebook.
One of the eight comments was from
a staunch supporter of Joses who was
trying to jusfy Cruzs handling federal
dollars as COO of a non-prot, by saying
his alleged acons were just recently
considered a potenal violaon of the
Hatch Act.
The Hatch Act was enacted in 1939.
The Hatch Act aims to enforce polical
neutrality among civil servants. But some
people really do think they are smarter
than others, and are more than ready to
jusfy aempts at skirng and breaking
the law, if that turns out to be the case.
We will never know if he was in violaon
because he is currently running for a NYS
Assembly seat. Is that, or is that not, the
reason he resigned?
Some feigned ignorance and even cited
an incident that occurred during the last
mayoral race. Baloney!
As far as I am concerned ignorance of the
law is not an excuse. I have seen it before.
Some people seem to think the law is
only meant to be enforced on others. The
problem comes when they get caught
with their hand in the cookie jar. It is an
unspoken philosophy for those who want
to run with the big dogs. They seldom
think the rules apply to them. Rochester
is laden with them. They then whine, cry,
and point ngers looking for others to
blame when they get caught.
The concern I have is: Why hasnt Jose
Cruz resigned as a commissioner of the
RCSD School Board? A few months ago
he voted in favor of a tutoring contract
for IBERO. Keep in mind this vote took
place way before the recent resignaon.
I think the New York State School Board
Associaons Code of Conduct policies
clearly outline when school board
members should publicly disclose an
interest they have in any contract.
If Cynthia Ellio, an employee of Baden
Street can abstain when contracts
aecng her employers arise; and if
Melisza Campos can conveniently be
absent when contracts aecng IBERO
(the agency her mother leads), then who
does Jose Cruz think he is? Why was their
no public outcry or outrage about the
fact the he chose to vote on the IBERO
contract?
And just how ckle is this community?
I guess he lives in the right city and state,
because I know folks that have literally
gone to jail for conict of interest. I guess
he needs to thank his God he does not
live in Ohio where conict of interest is
taken very seriously. I know of someone
in Ohio who sat on a high prole board
and his insurance company won a bid
from the Board with no help from him but
he went to jail anyway, once the conict
was determined. Maybe that is what
needs to happen here more oen. Send
folks directly to jail, do not Pass GO and
do not Collect $200.
Some folks truly play this community,
over and over again because they know
there are no consequences to their
acons. The things we sweep under
the rug and dont pay aenon to in this
community is mind-boggling to me. We
ignore the things, that in my opinion,
add to the hints of corrupon already
suspected in the system we call the
Rochester City School District.
This campaign season, as like any other,
we as voters need to know that everyone
knocking on our door seeking our support
for public o ce is not worthy of our vote
or any consideraon.
Always know your audience. It has
been rumored that some candidates,
parcularly in Gates get their peons
signed by not declaring who they were
running against. Some voters felt they
were deceived when folks did not tell
them that David Gan was the person
they were trying to replace. You know
what they say, dont cha?
When you aempt to dig a hole for
someone, make sure you dig two. The
other one will be for you. A candidate
that represents me must have credibility
rst. They must be honest and convince
me they have the community in their best
interest not themselves or their personal
agendas.
Personally, I have several bones to pick
with any Hispanic in this community
who fails to recognize and pay homage
to those whose shoulders they stand on.
Many appear to get fat and then turn
their back on those who fought to give
them viability. I have problems with any
person who bites the very hand that has
fed them for decades.
I also have a slight problem with the
fact that IBERO was not in aendance
in full-force at the Minister Florence
Recognion Dinner. If it was not for a
Minister Florence, and others, who fought
to design and create IBERO, they would
not exist.
The person who opened the doors for
Hispanic involvement in the local polical
arena is named Assemblyman David F.
Gan. Just ask Nancy Padilla, David Perez,
Gladys Sanago, Melisza Campos and
others what David Gan did to help them.
And if I am not mistaken Jose Cruz was in
that number also. And now he wants to
do what? So much for loyalty to those
who help you.
So, am I the only one who wants to
know or who is bold enough to ask the
queson? Why hasnt Jose Cruz resigned
as school board commissioner?
He could not possibly think the vote he
cast when he should have abstained
has been forgoen.
GLORIA WINSTON
AL-SARAG
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Communicator, Political Activist. She is a native Roches-
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The views expressed on our opinion pages are those of the author and do not
necessarily represent the position or viewpoint of Minority Reporter.
STRAIGHTNO CHASER
C. MICHAEL
VAUGHN
This past week
I had the
unfortunate task of
eulogizing one of
the latest homicide
vicms here in
Rochester, Alfred
Carter.
Aeconately
known as Ahphiya
he was 32-years-old
when his life was
tragically cut short
by mulple shots to
his torso while in the shadowy yard of an
Electric Avenue home, on August 10.
I met this young man through his wife;
a woman who my wife and I have taken
in as our daughter. She is a wonderful
young lady that loves the Lord and desires
to fulll Gods will for her life.
I was saddened to learn of her loss but
honored to be able to do whatever I could
for her.
When she asked me to do the eulogy,
it was the topic which really caused me
to think. As I meditated on the topic,
I began to see that this woman had
captured the essence of the central
themes found in the word of God - love
and forgiveness!
By requesng these topics, she also
put her hand on two things that are so
needed in our society if we truly want to
stop the violence in our naon.
Before a person violently takes an
innocent persons life there are
underlying problems: one is a lack of
respect for life; another is a lack of
love for themselves; and a third is an
unwillingness to let things go.
When we speak of love I am talking rst
about the love that one has to have for
themselves. One has to be able to look
into the mirror and see that they have
worth and value. They have to know that
they are here for a purpose and have a
divine commission to make an impact in
their generaon.
When they do this, they develop a
sense of purpose, concern, and love
for themselves that helps to movate
them to be concerned for others. Only
someone secure in who they are can truly
love someone else at least to the extent
that they are willing to see the needs of
another person and do what they can to
help them.
To the contrary an insecure person sees
others as objects to be bossed around,
played with, beaten or even killed.
When an individuals life has meaning so
do all of the lives around them and they
are far less likely to do someone harm.
When one begins to love themselves
and therefore love others, they are more
willing to forgive, more apt to let things
go.
When we hang onto the wrongs that are
done to us and refuse to forgive, we are
actually hurng ourselves.
I heard it said that unforgiveness is like
taking poison and expecng the other
person to die.
Unforgiveness will eat away at ones very
being and cause them to miss out on the
reason why they are here, and why God
placed them here in the earths realm.
When people focus on whom did them
wrong, what they did to them, how it
made them feel, it just causes more
bierness, more anger and even can
breed hatred.
That is why we have to forgive.
Forgiveness is one of the highest callings
that a human being is commanded to do.
We have to forgive; we have to let it go.
We have to learn that in order to move
forward in my life, we have to release the
wrong and begin concentrang on the
right!
Ahphiya did not dot every I and cross
every T. He gave cause for his wife to
be angry with him and not forgive him.
However, she decided to do what the
bible has commanded. She decided to
love him and therefore forgive him! She
did that which most people would call
her crazy for doing. However, God would
say that she did right, she represented
Him well. Through her act of love and
forgiveness in the midst of hurt and
tragedy, she has taught us all a lesson
to love when it is hard to and to forgive
when it seems impossible.
This is the lesson that we can learn from
this tragedy and I thank this wonderful
woman of God for moving past her hurt
to teach it!
If you would like to contact me, please
email me at mvaughn.seniorpastor@
newwineskin.org
Learning the Lesson of Forgiveness
SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT...
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necessarily represent the position or viewpoint of Minority Reporter.
Once again, the
NYPD has shown
they are out of
control.
This me, it was
the shoong of
a mentally-ill
man which was
caught on video,
by onlookers
and tourists,
in crowded
Times Square on
Saturday, August 11, 2012.
It all started minutes earlier when NYPD
o cers claim to have spoed 51-year-old
Darius Kennedy smoking a joint in front
of a military recruing staon near 44th
Street and 7th Avenue.
According to the NYPD, when approached
by o cers, Kennedy became angry and
pulled out a knife, at one point tying a
headband around his head.
What followed was a slow foot chase
down seven of the most crowded blocks
in New York City, in which dozens of NYPD
cops, with their guns drawn and pointed
at Kennedy, are seen following him down
7th Ave.
Several videos of the pursuit have been
posted on the internet, and a few on
YouTube, show dierent angles of the
incident.
Then, sounds of NYPD sirens followed by
several quick gunshots can be heard on
the videos, as a crowd of NYPD cops and
onlookers can be seen looking down at the
sidewalk.
Dierent comments can be heard on the
videos.
In one, someone says They killed him.
In another, someone is heard saying That
was not a jused kill. That was not a
jused kill.
However, none of the videos show the
actual moment in which NYPD o cers
claim that Darius Kennedy lunged at
them wielding his knife, and as a result
was shot in the torso by NYPD cops who
shot at least 12 rounds, which could have
seriously injured or even killed innocent
bystanders.
Enter Julian Miller, a 21-year-old Boston
resident who was vising New York City.
In an interview, Miller says that the NYPD
conscated his phone aer he recorded
video of the confrontaon between the
NYPD and Kennedy.
Miller said he followed the pursuit down
7th Avenue, from 44th to 37th Street, all
the while recording.
Aer the NYPD shot Kennedy mulple
mes, Miller says an NYPD detecve
stopped him, pulled him aside and asked
to see his phone, and the video of the
shoong.
His eyes got big when he saw the video,
Miller said, adding that he had captured
the shoong on video. He went to go
show his boss, and then they took my
phone away. He said the o cer told him
not to speak with the news media.
And just like that, what was probably the
only video capturing the exact moment
in which NYPD cops shot and killed a man
with some obvious mental health issues,
who needed help, and who they claimed
lunged at them, is gone.
And the chances of that video ever being
seen by the public are slim to none.
Now, while disturbing, the fact that the
NYPD, without any exigent circumstances,
or legal basis illegally conscated a private
cizens phone, is nothing new.
Not just with the NYPD, but with law
enforcement everywhere.
In fact, aer Miami Beach police o cers
fatally shot motorist Raymond Herisse, in
a hail of gunre on Memorial Day 2011,
o cers tried to conscate Narces Benoits
cell phone, aer Benoit, who was driving
in the area with his girlfriend, recorded the
shoong.
Benoit said that aer Miami Beach Police
o cers saw him recording the shoong,
they confronted him.
When he noced me recording, one of
the o cers jumped in the truck, put a
pistol to my head, he said. My phone was
smashed. He stepped on it, handcued
me.
They handled us like we were criminals,
Benoits girlfriend, Ericka Davis said. The
o cer came over to the drivers side, on
my le, and just put the gun to my head.
They took everyones phones and
smashed them, she said.
Benoit was able to remove the phones
ny memory card, hiding it from o cers,
aer they told him to hand over the video.
I took the chip out and put it in my
mouth, Benoit said. Narces Benoit kept
the memory card in his mouth, even while
being interviewed by Miami Beach Police
at a nearby mobile command post.
The video shows a Miami Beach Police
o cer on a bike approaching his truck and
poinng a gun directly into the camera;
giving an indecipherable command; and
then backing away.
Then, another o cer is seen ordering
them to stop lming and get out of the
truck, and then the video ends.
Throughout the country, police
conscang cizens cameras and cell
phones and, as a result violang cizens
rst and fourth amendment rights.
It has become a serious problem.
Which brings me back to the NYPD,
a department which despite its long
standing history of dishonor, corrupon
and murder, is sll heralded by many as
the best police department in the country.
In fact, quite the opposite is true.
In 1999, Amadou Diallo, an unarmed
23-year-old Guinean immigrant was shot
at 41 mes by NYPD cops for simply having
his wallet in his hand.
In 1997, Abner Louima, a 30-year-old
Haian immigrant, who suered severe
internal injuries when NYPD o cer Jusn
Volpe sodomized him with a broomsck
in Brooklyns 70th Precinct, aerwards
according to a story in the New York Daily
News, proudly displaying the excrement
and blood stained broomsck to fellow
o cers as he bragged that he broke a
man down.
And, in 2006, Sean Bell, was essenally
executed by NYPD undercover cops on the
morning of his wedding day, in Queens,
aer leaving a club with friends. NYPD
cops red a total of 50 rounds at Bells
vehicle, killing Bell and severely injuring
his friends.
Yep, the NYPD has no shortage of
deplorable, disgusng acts of abusing,
torturing and killing innocent cizens.
And, when it comes to abusing, falsely
arresng and violang the rights of
photographers, whether with the media,
or independent private cizens, the NYPD
has proven that they are truly out of
control.
We saw this during the Occupy movement
in New York City where it seemed as if
every day a new video was surfacing on
social media sites like YouTube, showing
NYPD o cers mistreang, beang and
falsely arresng photographers.
Earlier this month, Robert Stolarik, a
veteran freelance photographer who has
worked for the New York Times, and has
covered conicts on three connents, as
well as the D.C. Sniper and Virginia Tech
shoongs in the United States, was beaten
by NYPD cops for taking photos of the
NYPD arresng a 14-year-old girl.
According to Stolarik, as he was taking
photos, an NYPD o cer instructed him not
to take pictures. Stolarik idened himself
as a journalist for The New York Times.
At that point, a second o cer appeared,
grabbed his camera and slammed it into
his face.
Stolarik said aer he asked for the o cers
badge numbers, the o cers took his
camera, dragged him to the ground and
proceeded to kick him. As a result he
received scrapes and bruises to his arms,
legs and face.
In an August 9, 2012 New York Times
editorial piece regarding Robert Stolariks
beang by NYPD, Mickey Osterreicher,
General Counsel for the Naonal Press
Photographers Associaon (NPPA), wrote:
The arrest of Robert Stolarik, a freelance
photographer for The New York Times,
by New York City police o cers is a giant
step backward in police-press relaons.
Despite police asserons to the contrary,
it appears that Stolarik was only doing his
job when he was tackled and handcued
by o cers in the Bronx. Adding insult to
injury, the police also seized his cameras
and their contents and conscated his
press credenals. Commissioner Raymond
W. Kellys citywide direcve last November
instrucng o cers to cooperate with the
press was a good start. It is unfortunate
that the rights of the press and the
public to record and photograph maers
of public concern on city streets are
frequently disregarded by both patrol
and supervisory o cers. To improve the
situaon, we urge the New York Police
Department to work with us to improve
training and supervision for its members
starng from the top down.
I contacted Mickey Osterreicher, asking him
what advice he could give to cizens who
may nd themselves in a similar situaon
as Julian Miller, whose phone, with which
he recorded the NYPDs shoong of Darius
Kennedy in Times Square, was conscated
by the NYPD.
Every situaon is dierent. My only
advice is that consent must be voluntary
in other words only display your recordings
or provide them to law enforcement if you
want to. If o cers ask for or try to seize
your device oer to supply them with a
copy of the le (if you want to). You might
even be able to share or email the le right
at the scene. Once again only consent to
this is you want to. If your device is seized
make sure you obtain a property receipt
for it, said Osterreicher.
Given the NYPDs connuous paern
of abusing, beang, falsely-arresng
innocent cizens and violang their rst
and fourth amendment rights, I asked
Osterreicher what he felt it was going to
take to get the NYPD under control.
I believe the department already has
adequate guidelines in place but without
more, those are just pieces of paper. It
will take proper and connuing training
of o cers and supervisory sta as well
as appropriate discipline of o cers who
violate those wrien policies. It is very
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Disregard for Cizens Constuonal Rights
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di cult to bring about cultural change
in any police department unless those
direcves are constantly enforced,
Osterreicher said.
Carlos Miller, a mulmedia journalist, and
founder of Photography Is Not A Crime
(PINAC), who himself has been arrested
for photographing law enforcement
o cers, had this to say from his home in
Miami, Florida. Cops are prey much out
of control when it comes to violang our
Constuonal rights to record them. The
law is very clear but cops know they can
violate cizens rights and get away with it,
so they connue doing so.
In todays tech world there are
applicaons where one can download
video one has just recorded, therefore
saving it, for example to your computer, in
case a police o cer conscates or breaks
your camera or phone.
Miller added, One app I just wrote about
in my blog is TapIn.Tv but there are several
others out there. The problem with this is
that when you record with your phone, you
risk ge ng your phone conscated, which
contains a lot more personal informaon
than just video footage.
I asked Carlos Miller what advice he had
for anyone interested in documenng
law enforcement and their interacons
with cizens. Never leave home without
a camera and always ensure you have
enough hard drive space and baeries to
video record, because you never know
when youre going to need it. Also, it is
essenal to learn the laws because police
will lie to you about laws, Miller said.
Yes. Police will lie to you about laws.
As we have seen, and connue to see, from
conscang peoples personal property, to
smashing their phones aer holding guns
to their heads, police will do just about
anything to prevent you from recording
them.
Perhaps MSNBCs Lawrence ODonnell,
host of The Last Word, says it best in the
shows Rewrite segment, where he breaks
down the NYPDs brutality against cizen-
journalists during the Occupy Wall Street
protests.
ODonnell begins by saying This week
a few troublemakers turned a peaceful
protest against Wall Street greed into a
violent burst of chaos. The troublemakers
carried pepper spray and guns and were
wearing badges.
ODonnell then plays a video showing
several NYPD o cers, including an NYPD
Commander grabbing a man who is
holding a video camera and slamming his
head into a parked car.
As the video plays, Lawrence ODonnell is
heard saying The reason this man is being
assaulted by the police is because of what
he is holding in his hands. Hes holding a
professional grade video camera. Since
the Rodney King beang was caught on an
amateur camera, American police o cers
have known video cameras are their worst
enemies. They will do anything they can to
stop you from legally videotaping how they
handle their responsibility to serve and
protect you. So, this police commander
has decided that the correct response to
this man shoong video is to grab him and
slam his head into a parked Volvo.
And with that, Lawrence ODonnell hit the
nail right on the head. The NYPD and law
enforcement everywhere will do anything
they can to stop cizens from legally
recording them.
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President Obamas Pro-Growth Soluons by the Numbers
When running for
president Barack
Obama assured us
that he had pro-
growth policies
and soluons
that would
make America
compeve and
would bring the
whole naon
together.
He promised us
that his policies would provide shovel
ready jobs.
In 2009, Obama also said: I will be held
accountable. Ive got four years. A year
from now I think people are gonna see
were starng to make some progress.
But, theres sll gonna be some pain out
there. If I do not have this done in three
years then there is gonna be a one-term
proposion.
Obamas, so-called pro-growth strategies,
are in lock-step with dubious socialist
ideals of how to x the economy. He
believes in government-based soluons
and that the public sector is the key
to saving the economy by growing
government-based programs, building
infrastructure, expanding state-sponsored
welfare and unemployment.
In short, hed rather keep the government
in control of things instead of individuals,
even though government can never be
held accountable like individuals can be.
The people arent allowed to re the
whole government without some sort of
bloody revoluon.
So, I wanted to explore the results of
Obamas so-called soluons, put forth
as he has exhausted almost every
government-based soluon to x the
economy.
Where have his pro-growth policies
goen us? Lets see look at the numbers
and see if they stand up to the denion
of success.
Unemployment is presently at 8.3
percent, meaning 12.8 million people
are out of work (which means they are
technically looking for a job because
they are on unemployment, which hasnt
run out for them yet. They can be on
unemployment for almost 2 years).
Black unemployment is 14 percent, youth
unemployment is 23 percent, and the
number of long-term unemployed (those
jobless for 27 weeks and more) is lile
changed at 5.2 million.
These individuals accounted for 40.7
percent of the unemployed.
In the last three years, Obama has claims
to have created 2.6 million new jobs a
number that does not even keep up with
the average populaon growth or with
the number of (legal) immigrants.
Furthermore, there are sll 4.3 million
fewer people actually working than
in January of 2009 when he was
inaugurated. As well, in that same three-
year period, 3.1 million people signed
up for Social Security Disability. This is
another history making moment for
Obama.
He is the rst president in history to
create more disabled people than
workers. Should we call him the disabler-
in-chief?
To be honest, when I started researching
for this arcle, I thought that since
Obama will meet privately with actors,
homosexuals, Hispanic- and white-
business owners before he meets with
black-business owners and that seeing
as how he has no minority businessmen
in his inner circle, this would be a great
angle to go on.
But, aer looking at the numbers, I
discovered it doesnt maer how we look
at it. It is all bad.
There are many reasons for such a poor
showing in the numbers, but I think two
sck out. Small businesses create 65
percent of all new jobs (not the Fortune
500 companies).
So, the rst is the lack of predictability
Obama provides. Obama is constantly
shaming the successful, talking about
raising taxes on the job creators and
hanging the costs of Obamacare on the
backs of businesses. All that has been
created is more uncertainty.
That alone is the biggest business and job
killer there is. Predictability and certainty
are what gives business owners the
condence to risk more, spend more, try
harder, expand and ulmately hire more
people.

The second reason that stands out is that
most non-Marxist economists steer away
from the socialist model. Why?
The government is reliant upon taxpayer
money, and, in order to have a windfall of
taxes, you need economic and business
growth. To fuel big government you
need a big private sector economy,
but socialism seeks to take over the
private sector, so the economy becomes
unstable.
The government is not a protable enty.
It is funded by the taxes paid by protable
enes.
If the government takes over a part of the
private sector, that newly naonalized
private sector is no longer protable.
Its just another part of the government.
I know: but what about the fact that
government workers pay taxes on the
incomes they receive? Well, if they work
for the government, their pay comes
from the government, and it is ulmately
paid with tax dollars that came from tax
revenues from those that do not work for
the government.
So, when socialism takes workers out
of the private sector, thus making them
government workers, we have fewer
actual taxpayers and more employed
people being paid with tax dollars.
This increases the budget and requires
more private-sector money from a
shrinking private sector. For example:
doctors pay a lot in taxes because being
a doctor is quite protable. Under
Obamacare, once the private insurers go
out of business due to their inability to
compete with the tax-free government
insurance plans, all doctors will inevitably
work for the government.
Their pay will mostly come from
government-issued checks, and so will
the taxes that they pay. Where will the
government make up for the loss of
revenue? More taxes? Keep this in mind:
if you took 100 percent of every wealthy
persons income, you couldnt even fund
the government for four months. Thats
part of Obamas success record.
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Ayesha Kreutz is president of The Frederick Douglass
Foundaon of New York.
AYESHA
KREUTZ
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