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- Michael Reagan to challenge Dianne Feinstein for Senate?
- On Constitution Day, tea party and foes duel over our founding document
- California schools turn away unvaccinated students
- House passes jobs protection act
- Tea Party Activist to Challenge Boehner in Next Primary
- Teaparty.com Could Make a Rock Band Rich
| Michael Reagan to challenge Dianne Feinstein for Senate? Posted: 17 Sep 2011 10:54 PM PDT
Two years ago, two major Republican campaigns swarmed the California GOP fall convention, confident that they could drum up the support to beat three-term incumbent Democrat Sen. Barbara Boxer, who was considered vulnerable because of her low voter-approval ratings. This year, as 1,000 GOP activists gather today in Los Angeles for their fall convention, things are different, as even the California Republican Party chairman has no idea who will take on 19-year-incumbent Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein next year – and no major candidates have stepped up. But the landscape may change soon, analysts said, given Feinstein’s recent campaign money problems and a Field Poll released today that gives one of California’s most consistently popular politicians a 41 percent approval rating, the lowest of her Senate career. One person considering a run, The Chronicle has learned, is Michael Reagan, a former conservative talk-radio host and the son of former President Ronald Reagan. To read more, visit: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/09/16/MNJT1L533F.DTL |
| On Constitution Day, tea party and foes duel over our founding document Posted: 17 Sep 2011 10:47 PM PDT By Mark Trumbull, Christian Science Monitor It’s Constitution Day in the US, but that doesn’t mean it’s a day for the nation to unite around its founding document amid peace, love, and flowers. Not in a year when Michele Bachmann is trying to keep within an elbow’s length of Rick Perry in the Republican presidential race, both standing for limited government. Not when the Republicans are attacking President Obama for constitutional over-reach. Not when some experts are asking whether the nation’s fiscal problems are too intractable to resolve without amending the framework of checks and balances that the Constitution’s framers designed. Let’s just say we’re in an era of healthy debate about the meaning of the Constitution, and over its future. Just like James Madison lived through in his own day. The central dispute now is about the limits on government power. Libertarians and the tea party movement have grown their ranks by asserting that the country has strayed far from its constitutional roots. The federal government has taken to itself all kinds of powers not enumerated by the Constitution, they argue, and the public has too often gone along. To read more, visit: http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2011/0917/On-Constitution-Day-tea-party-and-foes-duel-over-our-founding-document |
| California schools turn away unvaccinated students Posted: 17 Sep 2011 10:04 PM PDT
SAN FRANCISCO – California schools are turning away middle and high school students who have not received the whooping cough vaccine as required under a law passed last year after a historic spike in cases of the potentially fatal disease. The law passed in October initially required all students entering grades seven through 12 to get vaccinated by the start of the 2011-2012 school year. Lawmakers passed a 30-day extension this summer as districts worried many students wouldn’t meet the deadline. Under California law, students also can still attend if their parents file a form saying they oppose vaccines. No statewide estimates of the number of students turned away is available because districts are not required to report their final vaccination tally until December, state education officials said. But anecdotal reports from individual districts indicate the percentage of students meeting the requirement varied widely. “We’ve done a tremendous amount of outreach with the schools trying to let them know,” said Linda Davis-Alldritt, the school nurse consultant for the education department. To read more, visit: http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/story/2011-09-16/unvaccinated-students-california/50434408/1 |
| House passes jobs protection act Posted: 17 Sep 2011 12:51 PM PDT WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Diane Black, R-Gallatin, voted Thursday for H.R. 2587, the "Protecting Jobs from Government Interference Act," which prohibits the National Labor Relations Board from ordering any employer to close, relocate or transfer employment under any circumstance, according to a news release from Black's office. H.R. 2587 passed the House by a vote of 238 to 186. On April 20, the NLRB filed suit against Boeing claiming violations of the National Labor Relations Act for opening a facility in South Carolina, a right-to-work state. In its suit, the NLRB claimed that Boeing was illegally retaliating against unions in their Washington state facility, while Boeing has repeatedly stated that jobs in Washington state were not adversely affected because of their decision to build the South Carolina facility. "The NLRB's actions against the Boeing Company in South Carolina sent a chilling message to businesses seeking to locate jobs in right-to-work states like Tennessee," said Black. "It also sets a dangerous precedent for the federal government to be picking winners and losers among states who set their own labor laws. I will not stand for this." Previously, Black joined her colleagues in requesting that President Barack Obama withdraw the nomination of Lafe E. Solomon to serve as general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board and that he be removed from his current position as general counsel to the organization in the wake of the Boeing suit. Thursday, Black spoke on the floor in support of the "Protecting Jobs from Government Interference Act." To read more, visit: http://www.dnj.com/article/20110916/BUSINESS/110916001 |
| Tea Party Activist to Challenge Boehner in Next Primary Posted: 17 Sep 2011 12:44 PM PDT By FOXNews.com Tea Party leaders who have been pushing for a primary opponent against House Speaker John Boehner in 2012 for not keeping a campaign promise to cut more federal spending are getting their wish. Tea Party activist David Lewis, a 26-year-old married father, announced Friday that he will challenge the Ohio Republican. But Lewis is mounting a protest candidacy on a single issue: Boehner's support of a federal budget that provided funding to Planned Parenthood. Lewis plans to unveil graphic anti-abortion ads on his website Monday. "I'm not delusional. I don't know if I have a chance at beating the speaker of the House," Lewis told the Cincinnati Enquirer. "But what I can do is show the Ohio voters that Boehner has a box full of empty rhetoric. He doesn't really vote for his convictions. He's an establishment Republican. He doesn't believe in the Tea Party. He doesn't really believe in the pro-life issues." Lewis doesn't live in Boehner's district now; he lives in Rep. Jean Schmidt’s district. But he told the newspaper that he would move there if he wins the primary. Boehner's office declined to comment to the newspaper on Lewis' candidacy. But Dave Kern, chairman of the local GOP, defended Boehner to the newspaper. To read more, visit: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/09/17/tea-party-activist-to-challenge-boehner-in-next-primary/ |
| Teaparty.com Could Make a Rock Band Rich Posted: 17 Sep 2011 12:36 PM PDT By Joshua Green, BusinessWeek.com There's no hotter name in politics right now than the Tea Party. But anyone seized with a desire for smaller government who visits teaparty.com won't find angry activists in tricorn hats spouting Thomas Jefferson. Instead, they'll land on the website of a Canadian rock band of the same name that pioneered a style of Middle Eastern fusion known as "Moroccan roll" and broke up six years ago. This causes endless confusion for the millions of people who Google "Tea Party" each month. It's no picnic for the band members, either. "So much damage has been done to our name by the political movement that we're considering selling," says Stuart Chatwood, The Tea Party's bassist. He and his band mates may feel a little better about the rise of the right wing if they put the domain name up for auction. With so many Presidential candidates, political operatives, and interest groups vying to capitalize on the Tea Party brand, there could be a bidding war. "Last cycle, Barack Obama raised $500 million online," says Warren Adelman, president of GoDaddy.com, the domain registrar and Web hosting company. "If you look at the money being talked about this time around—campaigns raising $1 billion—it's easy to expect teaparty.com to go for well over $1 million." That would be a handsome reward for a name chosen largely on a whim when the group got together in 1990. "Tea Party was a euphemism the Beat poets used for getting high and writing poetry and vibing with each other," Chatwood says. The band registered the site in 1993 and kept it through eight albums and several world tours. In 2005 the lead singer split ("creative differences"), and the site has mostly been dormant since. To read more, visit: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/teapartycom-could-make-a-rock-band-rich-09152011.html |
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