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Waters chooses ethics trial
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0710/40489.html
POLITICO 44 By JONATHAN ALLEN |
7/30/10 8:27 PM EDT
- Maxine Waters has chosen to go through an ethics trial like the one lined up for Charlie Rangel. AP
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) has chosen to go through an ethics trial, like the one lined up for New York Rep. Charles Rangel, rather than accepting charges made by an ethics subcommittee, a source familiar with the process tells POLITICO.
The back-to-back trials of a pair of black lawmakers represent an unprecedented use of an ethics adjudication system that has rarely been used by House members accused of breaking House rules.
Waters' case revolves around allegations that she improperly intervened with federal regulators to help a bank that her husband owned stock in and on whose board he once served.
Waters denies any wrongdoing.
"Congresswoman Waters has chosen to go through an adjudicatory subcommittee hearing, rather than accept any of the counts from the investigative subcommittee," the source told POLITICO.
In layman's terms, that means she's going to trial.
The ethics committee already has its hands full trying Rangel on charges that he broke House rules and federal statutes by improperly using his office to raise money for an education center bearing his name, maintained four rent-stabilized apartments in New York, failed to report income from a Dominican rental property and under-reported hundreds of thousands of dollars on legally required financial disclosure forms.
The Rangel case opened Thursday but won't truly get under way until the House returns from its summer recess in September.
POLITICO first reported earlier this week that the committee was expected to unveil its charges against Waters before leaving town for the recess.
Her decision to go to trial appears to have postponed the release of the committee's formal charging document, called a "Statement of Alleged Violation."
If a panel of ethics committee investigators can prove charges against Waters to a separate subcommittee of lawmaker-jurors, the full ethics committee will recommend a punishment to the full House.
Texas Rep. Gene Green, a member of the panel that investigated Rangel, told reporters Friday thay investigators had passed a recommendation of a reprimand — the lightest possible punishment — to the adjudicatory subcommittee.
The Waters case also presents a test of the Office of Congressional Ethics, an independent body that takes complaints from the public and chooses which ones to forward to the House ethics committee.
Members of the Congressional Black Caucus have complained that the OCE has unfairly and disproportionately targeted them, and many have signed onto a legislative effort to de-fang the office.
Waters' case was referred to the ethics committee by OCE.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0710/40489.html#ixzz0vGgZOWVw
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Say NO and UNIFEM’s efforts in Haiti -- Take action now!!!
The devastating earthquake that shook Haiti on 12 January
2010 deprived women and girls of homes and livelihoods, and left many vulnerable
to violence. UNIFEM was on the ground in Haiti before the crisis, and responded
immediately, providing vital services and supporting recovery efforts that
ensure safety of women and girls. Say NO had appealed to supporters worldwide to
help raise resources for Haiti’s women and girls and many responded, generously.
Recently,
UNIFEM Executive Director Inés Alberdi and Goodwill Ambassador Nicole Kidman
visited Haiti and met with survivors of violence, Haitian and UN
officials and non-governmental organizations working to assist
women affected by the earthquake. We wanted to update you about their findings
and hope that you can share this with your readers.
For the latest news on the visit and UNIFEM's relief efforts, click
here.
To download high-resolution photographs, please visit:
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Please stay tuned on www.saynotoviolence.org for more news
and updates.
Say
NO – UNiTE, UNIFEM’s global advocacy platform continues to gather momentum
for actions on ending violence against women and girls. Visit Say NO - UNiTE to take your action
today!
Please let me know if you have any questions or
need further information about Say NO and UNIFEM’s efforts in
Haiti.
Best,
Urjasi Rudra
Urjasi
Rudra
Coordinator, Say NO - UNiTE to
End Violence against Women
UNIFEM
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Email: urjasi.rudra@unifem.org
AFP-WA’s 3rd Annual Major Gifts Symposium -- Creating the Environment for Major Gifts: Collective Fundraising Leadership.
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Sheriff Joe Arpaio Not Relenting After Court Ruling
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/30/sheriff-joe-arpaio-not-re_n_664715.html?utm_source=DailyBrief&utm_campaign=073010&utm_medium=email&utm_content=NewsEntry
Janis Fullilove, Memphis Councilwoman, Receives Death Threats For Her Support Of Gay Workers' Rights
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/30/janis-fullilove-memphis-c_n_665114.html
First Posted: 07-30-10 12:32 PM | Updated: 07-30-10 12:32 PM
Janis Fullilove, a councilwoman in Memphis, Tenn., received death threats Tuesday over her support of protection for gays working in city government.
Fullilove said that she received four threatening calls that referred to her support over the non-discrimination ordinance and also found a dead cat on her lawn.
Police have said the calls, which Fullilove said had threatened to kill her, were serious enough in nature for them to place officers on patrol by her house for protection.
Following the incident, Fullilove contacted Jonathan Cole of the Tennessee Equality Project, who spoke to reporters.
"If a city councilwoman -- a prominent person in city government -- can experience this kind of threat and intimidation, what about the individual employees who work for the city who may be work for sanitation, or police or fire?" Said Cole.
But the threats have not been enough to sway her stance on the issue.
"Her position is unchanged," said Cole.
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JACQUES BILLEAUD and AMANDA LEE MYERS | 07/30/10 11:37 AM |
PHOENIX — Lost in the hoopla over Arizona's immigration law is the fact that state and local authorities for years have been doing their own aggressive crackdowns in the busiest illegal gateway into the country.
Nowhere in the U.S. is local enforcement more present than in metropolitan Phoenix, where Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio routinely carries out sweeps, some in Hispanic neighborhoods, to arrest illegal immigrants. The tactics have made him the undisputed poster boy for local immigration enforcement and the anger that so many authorities feel about the issue.
"It's my job," said Arpaio, standing beside a sheriff's truck that has a number for an immigration hot line written on its side. "I have two state (immigration) laws that I am enforcing. It's not federal, it's state."
A ruling Wednesday by a federal judge put on hold parts of the new law that would have required officers to dig deeper into the fight against illegal immigration. Arizona says it was forced to act because the federal government isn't doing its job to fight immigration.
The issue led to demonstrations across the country Thursday, including one directed at Arpaio in Phoenix in which protesters beat on the metal door of a jail and chanted, "Sheriff Joe, we are here. We will not live in fear." And in another sign of the divisive atmosphere surrounding the issue, authorities said the judge had received menacing threats and police were investigating whether a bullet hole found in the office of an Arizona congressman was related to the immigration debate.
Meanwhile, Gov. Jan Brewer's lawyers went to court to overturn the judge's ruling so they can fight back against what the Republican calls an "invasion" of illegal immigrants.
Ever since the main flow of illegal immigrants into the country shifted to Arizona a decade ago, state politicians and local police have been feeling pressure to confront the state's border woes.
In addition to Arpaio's crackdowns, other efforts include a steady stream of busts by the state and local police of stash houses where smugglers hide illegal immigrants. The state attorney general has taken a money-wiring company to civil court on allegations that smugglers used their service to move money to Mexico. And a county south of Phoenix has its sheriff's deputies patrol dangerous smuggling corridors.
The Arizona Legislature have enacted a series of tough-on-immigration measures in recent years that culminated with the law signed by Brewer in April, catapulting the Republican to the national political stage.
But the king of local immigration enforcement is still Arpaio.
Arpaio, a 78-year-old ex-federal drug agent who fashions himself as a modern-day John Wayne, launched his latest sweep Thursday afternoon, sending about 200 sheriff's deputies and trained volunteers out across metro Phoenix to look for traffic violators who may be here illegally.
Deputy Bob Dalton and volunteer Heath Kowacz spotted a driver with a cracked windshield in a poor Phoenix neighborhood near a busy freeway. Dalton triggered the red and blue police lights and pulled over 28-year-old Alfredo Salas, who was born in Mexico but has lived in Phoenix with a resident alien card since 1993.
Dalton gave him a warning after Salas produced his license and registration and told him to get the windshield fixed.
Salas, a married father of two who installs granite, told The Associated Press that he was treated well but he wondered whether he was pulled over because his truck is a Ford Lobo.
"It's a Mexican truck so I don't know if they saw that and said, 'I wonder if he has papers or not,'" Salas said. "If that's the case, it kind of gets me upset."
Sixty percent of the nearly 1,000 people arrested in the sweeps since early 2008 have been illegal immigrants. Thursday's dragnet led to four arrests, but it wasn't clear if any of them were illegal immigrants.
Critics say deputies racially profile Hispanics. Arpaio says deputies approach people only when they have probable cause.
"Sheriff Joe Arpaio and some other folks there decided they can make a name for themselves in terms of the intensity of the efforts they're using," said Benjamin Johnson, executive director of the pro-immigrant American Immigration Council. "There's no way to deny that. There are a lot of people getting caught up in these efforts."
The Justice Department launched an investigation of his office nearly 17 months ago over allegations of discrimination and unconstitutional searches and seizures. Although the department has declined to detail its investigation, Arpaio believes it centers on his sweeps.
Arpaio feels no reservations about continuing to push the sweeps, even after the federal government stripped his power to let 100 deputies make federal immigration arrests.
Unable to make arrests under a federal statute, the sheriff instead relied on a nearly 5-year-old state law that prohibits immigrant smuggling. He has also raided 37 businesses in enforcing a state law that prohibits employers from knowingly hiring illegal immigrants.
"I'm not going to brag," Arpaio said. "Just look at the record. I'm doing what I feel is right for the people of Maricopa County."