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As the Obama administration pushes forward with its suit against Arizona’s new immigration law, Republican senators are trying to shield the Grand Canyon state from the feds.
Jim DeMint of South Carolina and David Vitter of Louisiana introduced an amendment on Wednesday to prohibit federal funding of any lawsuit that aims to invalidate the Arizona law, known as SB 1070.
The legislation is a direct response to the Department of Justice’s suit against the state, which claims that SB 1070 is illegal because it preempts federal authority to police the border.
“States like Arizona shouldn’t be prosecuted for protecting their citizens when the federal government fails to do so,” DeMint said in a statement released to the press. “The federal government is rewarding illegal behavior and encouraging many more to enter our nation illegally when they refuse to enforce our laws. States along the border are facing kidnappings, drug trafficking, human trafficking and gang violence and they have a duty to keep their residents safe. Instead of suing states for doing his job, the president should get serious and stop holding border security hostage to pass amnesty and score points with his liberal base.”
“Poll after poll shows that a significant majority of Americans support increased border enforcement and the Arizona law specifically,” Senator Vitter told The Daily Caller. “Yet the Obama administration has ignored these concerns, and instead of helping Arizona deal with its overwhelming immigration problem, the administration is suing the state. That’s the wrong approach and it shows that stopping illegal immigration is not a priority for this administration.”
The practical result of the DeMint-Vitter amendment would be a prohibition against any action on the part of the Obama administration to participate in lawsuits seeking to prevent Arizona from defending itself against illegal immigration with SB 1070.
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer’s spokesman, Paul Senseman, in an e-mail to The Daily Caller, wrote that while the governor has yet to read the amendment, “Senator DeMint along with several elected Democrats in Arizona strongly disagree with the poor decision of the Obama administration to utilize federal resources for this lawsuit instead of border security.” He continued, “Arizonans have united in a bipartisan fashion against the federal government’s lawsuit and continued inaction on border security.”
The amendment could be voted on next week in conjunction with the small business bill.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2010/07/14/republican-senators-demint-and-vitter-push-for-amendment-to-block-federal-funding-for-obama-suit-against-arizona-immigration-law/print/#ixzz0tsEAsVL0
I think it is great. Why should he use our tax dollars to fight for something that the American people want. obama keeps digging himself a bigger hole and I love it.
On Friday, July 16, 2010, Senator David Vitter (R-LA) appeared on FOX News Channel’s “America Live” program to discuss the effort that he and Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) are undertaking to bar federal funding for any lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of SB 1070, Arizona’s controversial new immigration enforcement law.
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Nearly 300 New Yorkers have ponied up $11,956 online to the fund that this week had raised almost $700,000, according to numbers compiled by the Arizona Governor’s Office.
Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/nyers_go_for_the_border_rCnVH4HSB7pHfrGvsRh5uK#ixzz0tVLRcAW6
because as one of them put it, "it is the right thing to do"
AC0RN was de-funded by govt for all the fraud they were involved in. They took it to court and lost even.
Now they broke Acorn up and have all different names in different cities. Will they now get funded again just because they changed their name? How fraudulent is that?
Doing honest work fighting back against the corporate swindlers is not fraudulent.
buckeye
For not providing the protection of their property…and not providing the funding to compensate for the lost revenue during and a week before the G20 summit…..
referring to damage caused by rioters
I believe they do but most will be compensated by their insurance companies outright for this mess.
…many organizations announced they would file lawsuits. Where do all these organizations get funding from and where do they get money for lawsuits.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clHmPwmF2bw&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwvxK0YY0zI&feature=related
Money is power. No wonder their resistance is so great. If I was raking in that kind of dough, I’d be suing. Hell, I might even kill.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O03FaQzXpwY&feature=channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9YA2jg89iw&feature=related
The ACLU has to be getting tax money someway. That means you’re paying for lawsuits you disagree with.
In research it is typical to publish, and state what the Principal Investigator requests, or perish. But what do you do when your Principal Investigator orders you to omit significant facts, or publish fraudulent information? Then threatens to fire you when you refuse? Faced with pleasing her supervisor, Dr. James Philips, by committing fraud at his request, or losing her job; Yaa Bosumtwi, a Columbia University MPH graduate, stood firm on ethical grounds, and was fired by Columbia University’s Public Health Executives: Dean Linda Fried, Dr. John Santelli and Dr. James Phillips.
This is a story that resonates with all in academia. Dr. James Phillips, the Principal Investigator for the Bill and Melinda Gates MoTeCH project in Ghana, ordered Ms. Bosumtwi to omit references of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Columbia University and the Grameen Foundation’s significant ownership and controlling interests in the MoTeCH project. Dr. Phillips wanted Ms. Bosumtwi to make a false, misleading claim that Ghana Health Service (GHS) owned the MoTeCH project. Dr. Phillips was bold and relentless in his verbal and written directives to commit fraud. For example, in a March 25, 2010 email to Yaa Bosumtwi, Dr Phillips wrote, “It is good that you are starting with MoTeCH’s Objectives and Goals [in the research newsletter], but there is a great deal of emphasis on foreigners and foreign money. Koku [Dr. Awoonor-Williams the Regional Health Director] with nurses, etc., would emphasize, in a not too subtle way, that MoTeCH is GHS owned.” That email was one of Dr, Phillips’ numerous requests asking Ms. Bosumtwi to misrepresent, omit or skew the foreign ownership of the project to mislead Ghanaian policymakers and other stakeholders. It was a nightmare.
Yaa Bosumtwi, who was later described as a “skillful and careful employee” by Dean Fried and Dr. Santelli, immediately responded to Dr. Phillips and refused carry out his illegal and unethical requests to mislead and commit fraud. Finally, Dr Phillips directed her to minimize and conceal the foreign ownership details in the back of the research newsletter, and “play up” GHS ownership, because Columbia did not have authority to use the Bill and Melinda Gates name in publications. Ms. Bosumtwi, also the Communications Director of the MoTeCH project, immediately telephoned and emailed the Gates Foundation in Seattle–Washington, from Ghana, and in two days she obtained permission to publish and use the Gates image in text and pictures. Dr. Jemima Frimpong, the project’s junior supervisor and an assistant professor at Columbia, then took over from Phillips and tried unsuccessfully to persuade Yaa Bosumtwi that her ethical code of professional conduct did not supersede Dr Phillips’ position as Principal Investigator or his illegal directives. Bosumtwi continued to stand her ground, and was fired by Columbia University in an email sent on March 29, 2010.
This is the synopsis of Yaa Bosumtwi’s multi-million dollar lawsuit against Columbia University and Dr. Phillips for fraud, blackmail and wrongfully terminating her because she refused to break laws in Ghana and the United States. Ms. Bosumtwi also discovered that Columbia was breaking labor laws in Ghana; basically running “Wal-Mart” research sweatshops by paying employees up to 90% less than American workers.
Since Yaa started the campaign on May 15, 2010 to expose Columbia’s illegal employment practices, she has received numerous calls of support, but more important she received calls from doctors and health professionals who gave her specific evidence of Dr Phillips’ research fraud over the past decade in Ghana.
There are two additional class action lawsuits pending against James Phillips for violating labor laws and administering experimental drugs without obtaining individual consent from poor mothers in Family Planning research—similar to Nigeria vs. Pfizer three years ago. It is unfortunate and sad that a brilliant doctor’s career was built on a foundation of fraud, and he will leave; but how do we overhaul a health system in Ghana with economically deprived communities that need funding for hospital equipment, beds and drugs, while millions in funding has been directed mainly towards longitudinal research studies that keep communities in a controlled, as opposed to improving, state. Priorities must change. This is a crime against humanity.
This video, as a teaching tool, can bring the important debate over ethics and research in Africa to classrooms in the United States and Europe, where most African research funding originates.
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In other news…. EMINEM GAGS ON M&Ms: Singer Eminem was seen choking last night at the posh L.A. cafe Mr. Chow. “He not like pan fried noodle,” waiter Lee Kerosawa confided. “He complain about price, then grab a bowl of candies. He think they free, but they not. When told price, he choke. I save him–no one else would–but he sue me for doing so. We sue him back. Judge Judy decide.” For the record, pan fried noodles are two hundred dollars at Mr. Chow, M&Ms are fifty cents each, and tap water runs six dollars a glass. The lawsuit against the singer claims two gallons of water were used to revive him, and there is also the cost of the two week course learned by Mr. Kerosawa which saved the singer’s very life. . . a life whose value to society cannot be measured. . . although Judge Judy is still deliberating.
INGROWN TOENAIL PLAGUES BEN AFFLECK
Actor Ben Affleck, suffering from an infected ingrown toenail, has gone public to establish the National Hangnail & Ingrown Toenail Association, with a call for more research and funding. “This is a very widespread and debilitating disease, with painful consequences,” Affleck told a Congressional sub-committee in a meeting which aired on CNBC and Showtime. “We need more money now to stamp out this menace to society!” Taking advantage of the press coverage for Affleck’s cause, the winning comic on Last Comic Sitting–Chairman of the Bored proposed The Viagra Vacillation Foundation with the slogan, “It’s fallen and I can’t get it up.”
OPRAH GIVES BUM MONEY?
Oprah allegedly gave a homeless man an undisclosed amount of money, and there were no press cameras in the area to record the event. “In that alley, blocked by moving vans, Ms. Winfrey could not be sure someone from the alternative press was watching from the grassy knoll across the street,” claimed Simon Geldorf, a private investigator hired by the tabloids to protect them from dozens of star lawsuits. “I was on the roof, shooting with a Zeiss Orion telephoto night vision lens, and didn’t see any paparazzi-trained snitches around, either, and there are usually plenty of them following the A List people everywhere. . . although most are luckier with the Z List. Without proper documentation or a receipt from the bum, Ms. Winfrey would be unable to deduct the donation from her taxes. The incident is perplexing, to say the least.” Asked why he filed the story himself with the tabloids, Geldorf replied, “I have kids to feed, don’t I? But if you think Oprah fooled me, and had one of her own goons alert her to my presence, you’re wrong.” During her followup investigation, 60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl found the bum in question in the same alley, with the same tin cup. But, under interrogation, the only actual celebrity the man remembered ever meeting or giving him money was Jack Benny.
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Chipewyan Prairie Dene First Nation filed a lawsuit against the government of Alberta on June 4, 2008. They filed this lawsuit because of the Alberta government’s failure to consult with them regarding an oilsands development project 3km from their reserve, which will impact their fishing rights and overall way of life.
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May 5, 1987
Richard Michael “Mike” DeWine (born January 5, 1947) was a two-term Republican senator from Ohio, serving from 1995 to 2007.
On July 22, 2009, DeWine announced his candidacy for Attorney General of the state of Ohio.
DeWine is known for his pro-life voting record. In the Senate, he wrote the Unborn Victims of Violence Act. The bill prohibits violent acts against unborn babies to be disregarded under federal law.
DeWine sponsored the Federal Marriage Amendment but opposed State Issue 1, Ohio’s Defense of Marriage Amendment, due to the technical wording of the measure, which he felt would restrict the rights of heterosexual partnerships as well.
In 2004 DeWine co-sponsored an amendment to renew the ban on common semi-automatic weapons. He was one of only two Republican senators to vote against the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, which banned lawsuits against gun manufacturers, distributors and dealers for criminal misuse of their products. In the 2006 election cycle, DeWine was the first senatorial candidate to be endorsed by the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence(formerly known as Handgun Control Inc.) and displayed that endorsement on his campaign webpage. Furthermore, DeWine authored Senate Bill 954, to extend lifetime bans on gun ownership on citizens who happened to get a conviction in a foreign country, which carried a jail term of more that a year. That bill only garnered the endorsement of one other Senator, Diane Feinstein of California.
DeWine has also broken with his party on issues such as funding for Head Start programs, the federal minimum wage and drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR).
After President George W. Bush nominated White House Counsel Harriet Miers on October 3, 2005, for a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court, DeWine said “I think the fact she doesn’t have judicial experience will add to the diversity of the Supreme Court… There is no reason everyone has to have that same (judicial) background.” Opposition from conservative groups unhappy with Miers’ resume ultimately sank her nomination.
DeWine sponsored the “Stars on Cars” legislation, which appeared in the 2005 highway bill. The rule requires that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration star safety rating information be displayed on part of the window sticker on new cars beginning with the 2008 model year.
Edgar Lanier “Ed” Jenkins (born January 4, 1933, in Young Harris, Georgia) is an American politician from Georgia. He served in the United States House of Representatives from 1977 to 1993. He is a Democrat. Jenkins served in the Coast Guard from 1952 to 1955 and as administrative assistant to congressman Phillip M. Landrum from 1959 to 1962. He supported protection for the textile industry and capital gains tax cuts. In 1989, he challenged Richard Gephardt for Majority Leader but lost by a margin of 76 to 181 votes. He is a close personal friend of former US Senator and Governor of Georgia Zell Miller, who also grew up in Young Harris.
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