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Postmortem: Issue 3 (Ohio Learn and Earn which has now crashed and burned)
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I can’t believe I fisked the whole thing. The final numbers are here:
FOR: 1,583,961 (43.22%)
AGAINST: 2,080,741 (56.78%)
Sigh.
Honestly? I really wish I didn’t have to use up so much writing time on those 57 reasons to vote no. I just kind of got caught up in it – my head, filled with reason after reason after reason. And no where to go with them all. The scraps of logic piling up by my bed, my desk, my bathroom sink. Scrawlings on the back of my hand, in my kids’ notebooks and on restaurant menus.
On the bright side, however, Issue 3 failed. I am not pleased that there will be no new scholarships or tuition grants for higher education. I am not pleased that some Ohioans feel as though their liberties are being denied, to the extent of deserving constitutional protection.
But I urge you to think of it this way: OLE proponents can print off every one of my 57 reasons and put them together for one helluvah cheap and excellent legal brief when (because there’s no if, I’m sure) they decide to figure out an alternative to Issue 3 that respects the citizens of this state – both those who want to gamble in Ohio and those who want to go to college in Ohio.
And if those groups need to be tended to with different legislation, then for God’s sake don’t skimp and don’t go for the quid pro quo. Talk to those of us who care and cared. It’s called buy-in, for sure, but real buy-in. Not just the businesses and politicians who have something to gain.
Get the damn educators to help you figure it out. Get the Regents, get the college administrators, get the experts from the states that already have such scholarships and tuitions. So many folks who know the economic side, all the economic sides, made themselves available to defeat the initiative. I can’t imagine that that knowledge can’t be used to build a better alternative.
Then show the Ohio citizens that you have done your homework.
Because, as a parent, and a former student who tried it herself a few times, there’s nothing more upsetting than watching your kid pretend that he or she has done all kinds of work and deserves your approval when you know they sloughed off.
OLE: you sloughed off. You had the money. You had the politicians. You had the business interests.
But you did not have the citizens of Ohio. And in the end, we’re the only ones that matter.
Please us – and you please everyone. But find out what we want and like and will support first. Then find out what we need and how we can meet those needs in a way that respects what we like, not in a way that tries to blind us with magic.
Special props to Boring Made Dull, Brewed Fresh Daily, Ed Morrison, Bill Callahan, Jeff Hess, Jason Sonenshein (did I get that right this time?), BizzyBlog, Roldo, Lisa Renee of Liberal Common Sense, Blue Bexley, The Chief Source, Word of Mouth and commenters like Daniel Jack Williamson and others whose names I don’t recall at the moment.
I’d even like to thank Russell of Buckeye State Blog and Todd Hoffman – yes, that Todd Hoffman. I hope we get to meet sometime. Why? Because debate sharpens our skills, our minds and our reasoning. It helps us see our weaknesses as well as those of the other side. It also helps us be compassionate for another’s position, even if we will never agree on that position.
And goodness knows, not even $20 million can buy compassion if you just don’t work hard enough to understand the other side and stay singularly committed only to your vision.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 10:45 pm November 8th, 2006 in Politics | 10 Comments
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Postmortem: Issue 3 (Ohio Learn and Earn which has now crashed and burned)
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I can’t believe I fisked the whole thing. The final numbers are here:
FOR: 1,583,961 (43.22%)
AGAINST: 2,080,741 (56.78%)
Sigh.
Honestly? I really wish I didn’t have to use up so much writing time on those 57 reasons to vote no. I just kind of got caught up in it – my head, filled with reason after reason after reason. And no where to go with them all. The scraps of logic piling up by my bed, my desk, my bathroom sink. Scrawlings on the back of my hand, in my kids’ notebooks and on restaurant menus.
On the bright side, however, Issue 3 failed. I am not pleased that there will be no new scholarships or tuition grants for higher education. I am not pleased that some Ohioans feel as though their liberties are being denied, to the extent of deserving constitutional protection.
But I urge you to think of it this way: OLE proponents can print off every one of my 57 reasons and put them together for one helluvah cheap and excellent legal brief when (because there’s no if, I’m sure) they decide to figure out an alternative to Issue 3 that respects the citizens of this state – both those who want to gamble in Ohio and those who want to go to college in Ohio.
And if those groups need to be tended to with different legislation, then for God’s sake don’t skimp and don’t go for the quid pro quo. Talk to those of us who care and cared. It’s called buy-in, for sure, but real buy-in. Not just the businesses and politicians who have something to gain.
Get the damn educators to help you figure it out. Get the Regents, get the college administrators, get the experts from the states that already have such scholarships and tuitions. So many folks who know the economic side, all the economic sides, made themselves available to defeat the initiative. I can’t imagine that that knowledge can’t be used to build a better alternative.
Then show the Ohio citizens that you have done your homework.
Because, as a parent, and a former student who tried it herself a few times, there’s nothing more upsetting than watching your kid pretend that he or she has done all kinds of work and deserves your approval when you know they sloughed off.
OLE: you sloughed off. You had the money. You had the politicians. You had the business interests.
But you did not have the citizens of Ohio. And in the end, we’re the only ones that matter.
Please us – and you please everyone. But find out what we want and like and will support first. Then find out what we need and how we can meet those needs in a way that respects what we like, not in a way that tries to blind us with magic.
Special props to Boring Made Dull, Brewed Fresh Daily, Ed Morrison, Bill Callahan, Jeff Hess, Jason Sonenshein (did I get that right this time?), BizzyBlog, Roldo, Lisa Renee of Liberal Common Sense, Blue Bexley, The Chief Source, Word of Mouth and commenters like Daniel Jack Williamson and others whose names I don’t recall at the moment.
I’d even like to thank Russell of Buckeye State Blog and Todd Hoffman – yes, that Todd Hoffman. I hope we get to meet sometime. Why? Because debate sharpens our skills, our minds and our reasoning. It helps us see our weaknesses as well as those of the other side. It also helps us be compassionate for another’s position, even if we will never agree on that position.
And goodness knows, not even $20 million can buy compassion if you just don’t work hard enough to understand the other side and stay singularly committed only to your vision.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 6:45 pm November 8th, 2006 in Politics | 10 Comments
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Public radio couldn’t stop themselves. The morning cable news channels ceaselessly broadcast images, speeches and other people’s questions about it. And even the newspapers joined in, as USA Today proclaimed, “Pelosi soon to make history as first female Speaker of the House.”
Every news provider needed to cover that news. But the uniformity of people recognizing U.S Representative Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) ascension offers counterintuitive intelligence that, although her succession is what the news is following, it’s hardly the sum total of the news that that succession represents.
What has really changed is [indicated by] not just Pelosi, but the combined [U.S. Senate] wins of Claire McCaskill in Missouri and Amy Klobuchar in Minnesota and winning around the country – in congressional races and the number of women we’re sending to the state legislatures. This is the kind of underground thing we need,” says Marie Wilson, Founder and President of The White House Project, a nonpartisan, not-for-profit organization that seeks to promote and propel women of all types into leadership positions, including that of the U.S. President. “What were looking at is the building of a new women’s political movement in America.”
The numbers support Wilson’s assertion of this underground movement. According to an emailed press release published by the White House Project today, Pelosi’s new role makes her,
…the closest a woman has ever come to the Oval Office, as her new seat is second in the line of succession to the presidency. Wins from Claire McCaskill in Missouri and Amy Klobuchar in Minnesota helped tip women’s representation in the Senate to an all-time high of 15. Klobuchar also became a first—the first woman senator of her state. Minnesota also gained its first Latina State Senator, Patricia Torres Ray. Incumbent Senator Hillary Clinton, a probable ’08 presidential contender, had a sweeping victory over her opponent John Spencer. Sarah Paulin of Alaska will join the ranks of women governors, pushing that number back up to its high of 9.
Wilson knows a few things about women’s political movements. This Council on Foundations interview with Wilson demonstrates how a spark of interest – ignited by something as simple as a dare between friends – landed Wilson in a job that she would occupy for twenty years, President of the Ms. Foundation. Yes, that Ms.
Likewise, this Ms. Foundation bio of Wilson provides ample evidence of why anyone who believes that the American people want to and need to hear more women’s voices in government should hear her analysis and advice.
Ms. Wilson co-founded The White House Project/Women’s Leadership Fund in 1998 to change the political climate to get more women elected to office, including the presidency and to change perceptions about and biases against women’s leadership ability. In March 2004, Ms. Wilsons book, Closing The Leadership Gap: Why Women Can and Must Help Run The World (Viking Penguin), was released and immediately became a best seller on the independent bookstores list. Other accomplishments include co-creating the phenomenally successful
national public education campaign, Take Our Daughters To Work® Day, becoming the first woman elected to the Des Moines City Council as a member-at-large in 1983, co-authoring the critically acclaimed Mother Daughter Revolution (1993, Bantam Books), and serving as an official government delegate to the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women held in Beijing, China in 1995.
Excerpt from Ms. Foundation Staff Bios.
Wilson seeks to repeat, in the political world, the success that Take Our Daughters To Work Day had in spreading the belief that active role models educate across the generations. The White House Project therefore focuses on helping women pursue, win and work in new and increasingly more powerful roles.
How does yesterday’s midterm election results stack up for the eight year old project?
“What I like about [the women's wins yesterday] is that now you have two or three more women. And you’re going to see not just Hillary Clinton and Pelosi, but you will see two more women in the senate. That’s a story. Plus you have [Arizona Democrat Janet] Napolitano, and there women see a woman who has won this governor’s race.”
What, exactly, is Wilson’s goal for this accumulation of role models? “A discussion of enough women in power that we talk about agenda, not gender.”
Up next in Part II: Backlashes to women’s achievement, and the US’s low international rank for women in politics
And Part III: What you can do now
By Jill Miller Zimon at 6:10 pm November 8th, 2006 in Politics | 1 Comment
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Again, from the AP via MarketWatch Alerts.
Wow.
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AP reporting Dems have 50 in Senate as Jon Tester wins MT
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Democrat John Tester has won the Montana Senate race, the Associated Press reported Wednesday. Tester’s win gives the Democrats 50 seats in the Senate.
Read the longer version from the AP here.
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Email Me! address corrected
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All fixed now. Sorry about that. I hate missing mail and I thank those of you who’ve let me know that your mail wasn’t getting to me because I, err, umm, can’t keep my .coms and .nets straight.
Please – try again. I love mail. Really.
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Jews elected to the 110th Congress
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From the JTA (Jewish Telegraphic Agency):
The following is a list of Jewish lawmakers who will serve in the 110th Congress.
The number of Jews in the Senate will rise to 13 from 11, with two new members. Both Joseph Lieberman and Bernie Sanders won as Independent candidates, but are expected to caucus with the Democrats.
The number in the House of Representatives will rise to 30 from 26, with 6 new faces.
And for those who prefer a more narrative, less visual of the outcome, here’s more from the JTA’s Breaking News Update (I received it by email but couldn’t find the same brief on their website):
Jews increased their numbers by two in the U.S. Senate and at least four in the U.S. House of Representatives. U.S. Rep. Bernie Sanders, an Independent who was backed by the Democrats, won Vermont´s Senate seat. U.S. Rep. Ben Cardin, also a Democrat, was projected to win Maryland´s seat. Sen. Joseph Lieberman, an Independent in Connecticut who has pledged to vote with the Democratic caucus, also won. Another two Jewish incumbent senators are up for re-election this year and were projected to win: Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.); and Sen. Herb Kohl (D-Wis.) The wins would raise Jewish representation in the Senate to 13, the most Jews that body has had. There were 26 Jews in the House in the last Congress. Six Jewish Democrats — in Florida, Tennessee, Wisconsin, Arizona, Kentucky and New Hampshire — were projected to win freshman bids. That means at least 30 Jews will serve in the House in the next Congress, with Cardin and Sanders ascending to the Senate.!
U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman defeated Ned Lamont, the cable TV magnate who used anti-Iraq war sentiment to best Lieberman in the Democratic primary. Lieberman, who backed the Iraq war, ran as an independent but pledged to vote with the Democratic caucus. Exit polls suggested Lieberman, the first Jew to feature on a viable presidential ticket in 2000, garnered 60 percent of the Jewish vote and Lamont garnered 40 percent. Lieberman had drawn significant pro-Israel funds and Jews from around the region went to Connecticut to help get out the vote.
Jews voted for Democrats in their highest numbers in 14 years, an exit poll showed. Democrats garnered 87 percent of Jewish votes, the CNN exit poll said, and Republicans earned 10 percent. That was opposed to 55 percent of all respondents who voted Democrat and 44 who voted Republican. About 200 of the 10,207 respondents were Jewish. Jews also led all other religions in voting for Democrats.
Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who is close to national Jewish leaders, is set to become speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. Democrats were projected to win the House in Tuesday’s midterm congressional elections, which would make House party leader Pelosi the first woman to assume the speaker’s mantle, second in line to the presidency. Pelosi has strong ties to a number of Jewish groups, including the American Israel Public Affairs Committee; she is a close friend of Amy Friedkin, a past AIPAC president and like Pelosi, a resident of the Bay area in northern California.
U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.), who had strong backing among some pro-Israel activists, lost most of the Jewish vote in Pennsylvania, according to exit polls. Santorum conceded his seat to Bob Casey, who challenged Santorum´s support for the Iraq war and his conservative social policies. Santorum was one of the biggest beneficiaries of pro-Israel money, getting $2 million in support, more than any other candidate except for U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) However, Casey drew even greater Jewish backing, and one exit poll suggested he garnered more than 80 percent of the Jewish vote.
U.S. Sen. Lincoln Chafee (R-R.I.), who drew strong pro-Israel opposition, was projected to lose his bid for re-election to Sheldon Whitehouse. Whitehouse drew funding from the pro-Israel community. Chafee, the chairman of the Senate´s Middle East subcommittee, was strongly critical of Israel´s settlement policy and recently blocked the nomination of John Bolton as U.N. ambassador to protest a planned settlement expansion. Chafee was considered a casualty of profound opposition in Rhode Island to the Iraq war. The senator was not a backer of the war, but voters sought to punish President Bush by targeting the Republican Party.
For the first time, a Muslim is set to become a U.S. congressman. Keith Ellison, a Democrat, easily defeated Alan Fine, a Jewish Republican, in a Minneapolis area district in Tuesday’s 2006 midterm elections. Ellison earned endorsements from leading Jews in the district and expressed regrets about his ties in the mid-1990s with the Nation of Islam, an anti-Semitic offshoot of Islam. He is due to visit Israel for the first time in the coming weeks as a guest of the Minnesota Jewish community.
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Postmortem: Issue 3 (Ohio Learn and Earn which has now crashed and burned)
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I can’t believe I fisked the whole thing. The final numbers are here:
FOR: 1,583,961 (43.22%)
AGAINST: 2,080,741 (56.78%)
Sigh.
Honestly? I really wish I didn’t have to use up so much writing time on those 57 reasons to vote no. I just kind of got caught up in it – my head, filled with reason after reason after reason. And no where to go with them all. The scraps of logic piling up by my bed, my desk, my bathroom sink. Scrawlings on the back of my hand, in my kids’ notebooks and on restaurant menus.
On the bright side, however, Issue 3 failed. I am not pleased that there will be no new scholarships or tuition grants for higher education. I am not pleased that some Ohioans feel as though their liberties are being denied, to the extent of deserving constitutional protection.
But I urge you to think of it this way: OLE proponents can print off every one of my 57 reasons and put them together for one helluvah cheap and excellent legal brief when (because there’s no if, I’m sure) they decide to figure out an alternative to Issue 3 that respects the citizens of this state – both those who want to gamble in Ohio and those who want to go to college in Ohio.
And if those groups need to be tended to with different legislation, then for God’s sake don’t skimp and don’t go for the quid pro quo. Talk to those of us who care and cared. It’s called buy-in, for sure, but real buy-in. Not just the businesses and politicians who have something to gain.
Get the damn educators to help you figure it out. Get the Regents, get the college administrators, get the experts from the states that already have such scholarships and tuitions. So many folks who know the economic side, all the economic sides, made themselves available to defeat the initiative. I can’t imagine that that knowledge can’t be used to build a better alternative.
Then show the Ohio citizens that you have done your homework.
Because, as a parent, and a former student who tried it herself a few times, there’s nothing more upsetting than watching your kid pretend that he or she has done all kinds of work and deserves your approval when you know they sloughed off.
OLE: you sloughed off. You had the money. You had the politicians. You had the business interests.
But you did not have the citizens of Ohio. And in the end, we’re the only ones that matter.
Please us – and you please everyone. But find out what we want and like and will support first. Then find out what we need and how we can meet those needs in a way that respects what we like, not in a way that tries to blind us with magic.
Special props to Boring Made Dull, Brewed Fresh Daily, Ed Morrison, Bill Callahan, Jeff Hess, Jason Sonenshein (did I get that right this time?), BizzyBlog, Roldo, Lisa Renee of Liberal Common Sense, Blue Bexley, The Chief Source, Word of Mouth and commenters like Daniel Jack Williamson and others whose names I don’t recall at the moment.
I’d even like to thank Russell of Buckeye State Blog and Todd Hoffman – yes, that Todd Hoffman. I hope we get to meet sometime. Why? Because debate sharpens our skills, our minds and our reasoning. It helps us see our weaknesses as well as those of the other side. It also helps us be compassionate for another’s position, even if we will never agree on that position.
And goodness knows, not even $20 million can buy compassion if you just don’t work hard enough to understand the other side and stay singularly committed only to your vision.
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Again, from the AP via MarketWatch Alerts.
Wow.
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Democrat John Tester has won the Montana Senate race, the Associated Press reported Wednesday. Tester’s win gives the Democrats 50 seats in the Senate.
Read the longer version from the AP here.
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All fixed now. Sorry about that. I hate missing mail and I thank those of you who’ve let me know that your mail wasn’t getting to me because I, err, umm, can’t keep my .coms and .nets straight.
Please – try again. I love mail. Really.
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Jews elected to the 110th Congress
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From the JTA (Jewish Telegraphic Agency):
The following is a list of Jewish lawmakers who will serve in the 110th Congress.
The number of Jews in the Senate will rise to 13 from 11, with two new members. Both Joseph Lieberman and Bernie Sanders won as Independent candidates, but are expected to caucus with the Democrats.
The number in the House of Representatives will rise to 30 from 26, with 6 new faces.
And for those who prefer a more narrative, less visual of the outcome, here’s more from the JTA’s Breaking News Update (I received it by email but couldn’t find the same brief on their website):
Jews increased their numbers by two in the U.S. Senate and at least four in the U.S. House of Representatives. U.S. Rep. Bernie Sanders, an Independent who was backed by the Democrats, won Vermont´s Senate seat. U.S. Rep. Ben Cardin, also a Democrat, was projected to win Maryland´s seat. Sen. Joseph Lieberman, an Independent in Connecticut who has pledged to vote with the Democratic caucus, also won. Another two Jewish incumbent senators are up for re-election this year and were projected to win: Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.); and Sen. Herb Kohl (D-Wis.) The wins would raise Jewish representation in the Senate to 13, the most Jews that body has had. There were 26 Jews in the House in the last Congress. Six Jewish Democrats — in Florida, Tennessee, Wisconsin, Arizona, Kentucky and New Hampshire — were projected to win freshman bids. That means at least 30 Jews will serve in the House in the next Congress, with Cardin and Sanders ascending to the Senate.!
U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman defeated Ned Lamont, the cable TV magnate who used anti-Iraq war sentiment to best Lieberman in the Democratic primary. Lieberman, who backed the Iraq war, ran as an independent but pledged to vote with the Democratic caucus. Exit polls suggested Lieberman, the first Jew to feature on a viable presidential ticket in 2000, garnered 60 percent of the Jewish vote and Lamont garnered 40 percent. Lieberman had drawn significant pro-Israel funds and Jews from around the region went to Connecticut to help get out the vote.
Jews voted for Democrats in their highest numbers in 14 years, an exit poll showed. Democrats garnered 87 percent of Jewish votes, the CNN exit poll said, and Republicans earned 10 percent. That was opposed to 55 percent of all respondents who voted Democrat and 44 who voted Republican. About 200 of the 10,207 respondents were Jewish. Jews also led all other religions in voting for Democrats.
Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who is close to national Jewish leaders, is set to become speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. Democrats were projected to win the House in Tuesday’s midterm congressional elections, which would make House party leader Pelosi the first woman to assume the speaker’s mantle, second in line to the presidency. Pelosi has strong ties to a number of Jewish groups, including the American Israel Public Affairs Committee; she is a close friend of Amy Friedkin, a past AIPAC president and like Pelosi, a resident of the Bay area in northern California.
U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.), who had strong backing among some pro-Israel activists, lost most of the Jewish vote in Pennsylvania, according to exit polls. Santorum conceded his seat to Bob Casey, who challenged Santorum´s support for the Iraq war and his conservative social policies. Santorum was one of the biggest beneficiaries of pro-Israel money, getting $2 million in support, more than any other candidate except for U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) However, Casey drew even greater Jewish backing, and one exit poll suggested he garnered more than 80 percent of the Jewish vote.
U.S. Sen. Lincoln Chafee (R-R.I.), who drew strong pro-Israel opposition, was projected to lose his bid for re-election to Sheldon Whitehouse. Whitehouse drew funding from the pro-Israel community. Chafee, the chairman of the Senate´s Middle East subcommittee, was strongly critical of Israel´s settlement policy and recently blocked the nomination of John Bolton as U.N. ambassador to protest a planned settlement expansion. Chafee was considered a casualty of profound opposition in Rhode Island to the Iraq war. The senator was not a backer of the war, but voters sought to punish President Bush by targeting the Republican Party.
For the first time, a Muslim is set to become a U.S. congressman. Keith Ellison, a Democrat, easily defeated Alan Fine, a Jewish Republican, in a Minneapolis area district in Tuesday’s 2006 midterm elections. Ellison earned endorsements from leading Jews in the district and expressed regrets about his ties in the mid-1990s with the Nation of Islam, an anti-Semitic offshoot of Islam. He is due to visit Israel for the first time in the coming weeks as a guest of the Minnesota Jewish community.
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Again, from the AP via MarketWatch Alerts.
Wow.
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Democrat John Tester has won the Montana Senate race, the Associated Press reported Wednesday. Tester’s win gives the Democrats 50 seats in the Senate.
Read the longer version from the AP here.
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All fixed now. Sorry about that. I hate missing mail and I thank those of you who’ve let me know that your mail wasn’t getting to me because I, err, umm, can’t keep my .coms and .nets straight.
Please – try again. I love mail. Really.
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Jews elected to the 110th Congress
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From the JTA (Jewish Telegraphic Agency):
The following is a list of Jewish lawmakers who will serve in the 110th Congress.
The number of Jews in the Senate will rise to 13 from 11, with two new members. Both Joseph Lieberman and Bernie Sanders won as Independent candidates, but are expected to caucus with the Democrats.
The number in the House of Representatives will rise to 30 from 26, with 6 new faces.
And for those who prefer a more narrative, less visual of the outcome, here’s more from the JTA’s Breaking News Update (I received it by email but couldn’t find the same brief on their website):
Jews increased their numbers by two in the U.S. Senate and at least four in the U.S. House of Representatives. U.S. Rep. Bernie Sanders, an Independent who was backed by the Democrats, won Vermont´s Senate seat. U.S. Rep. Ben Cardin, also a Democrat, was projected to win Maryland´s seat. Sen. Joseph Lieberman, an Independent in Connecticut who has pledged to vote with the Democratic caucus, also won. Another two Jewish incumbent senators are up for re-election this year and were projected to win: Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.); and Sen. Herb Kohl (D-Wis.) The wins would raise Jewish representation in the Senate to 13, the most Jews that body has had. There were 26 Jews in the House in the last Congress. Six Jewish Democrats — in Florida, Tennessee, Wisconsin, Arizona, Kentucky and New Hampshire — were projected to win freshman bids. That means at least 30 Jews will serve in the House in the next Congress, with Cardin and Sanders ascending to the Senate.!
U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman defeated Ned Lamont, the cable TV magnate who used anti-Iraq war sentiment to best Lieberman in the Democratic primary. Lieberman, who backed the Iraq war, ran as an independent but pledged to vote with the Democratic caucus. Exit polls suggested Lieberman, the first Jew to feature on a viable presidential ticket in 2000, garnered 60 percent of the Jewish vote and Lamont garnered 40 percent. Lieberman had drawn significant pro-Israel funds and Jews from around the region went to Connecticut to help get out the vote.
Jews voted for Democrats in their highest numbers in 14 years, an exit poll showed. Democrats garnered 87 percent of Jewish votes, the CNN exit poll said, and Republicans earned 10 percent. That was opposed to 55 percent of all respondents who voted Democrat and 44 who voted Republican. About 200 of the 10,207 respondents were Jewish. Jews also led all other religions in voting for Democrats.
Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who is close to national Jewish leaders, is set to become speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. Democrats were projected to win the House in Tuesday’s midterm congressional elections, which would make House party leader Pelosi the first woman to assume the speaker’s mantle, second in line to the presidency. Pelosi has strong ties to a number of Jewish groups, including the American Israel Public Affairs Committee; she is a close friend of Amy Friedkin, a past AIPAC president and like Pelosi, a resident of the Bay area in northern California.
U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.), who had strong backing among some pro-Israel activists, lost most of the Jewish vote in Pennsylvania, according to exit polls. Santorum conceded his seat to Bob Casey, who challenged Santorum´s support for the Iraq war and his conservative social policies. Santorum was one of the biggest beneficiaries of pro-Israel money, getting $2 million in support, more than any other candidate except for U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) However, Casey drew even greater Jewish backing, and one exit poll suggested he garnered more than 80 percent of the Jewish vote.
U.S. Sen. Lincoln Chafee (R-R.I.), who drew strong pro-Israel opposition, was projected to lose his bid for re-election to Sheldon Whitehouse. Whitehouse drew funding from the pro-Israel community. Chafee, the chairman of the Senate´s Middle East subcommittee, was strongly critical of Israel´s settlement policy and recently blocked the nomination of John Bolton as U.N. ambassador to protest a planned settlement expansion. Chafee was considered a casualty of profound opposition in Rhode Island to the Iraq war. The senator was not a backer of the war, but voters sought to punish President Bush by targeting the Republican Party.
For the first time, a Muslim is set to become a U.S. congressman. Keith Ellison, a Democrat, easily defeated Alan Fine, a Jewish Republican, in a Minneapolis area district in Tuesday’s 2006 midterm elections. Ellison earned endorsements from leading Jews in the district and expressed regrets about his ties in the mid-1990s with the Nation of Islam, an anti-Semitic offshoot of Islam. He is due to visit Israel for the first time in the coming weeks as a guest of the Minnesota Jewish community.
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WLST is a lush
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Yup. I voted for this issue, thank you.
For those of you who think I don’t like a good time, Issue 119 in only one precinct of Pepper Pike, my precinct in Pepper Pike, asked us to vote on whether Heinens should be allowed to sell alcohol starting at 10am on Sundays, instead of starting at 1pm.
Woohoo – no more nursing that hangover – I can head to the Heinens, 45 seconds from my house, and ease my pain with more liquor as early as 10am.
Thank you, 288 voters of Precinct C. As for you 50 who voted against Heinens, you didn’t know what you were voting on, now did you?
By Jill Miller Zimon at 4:47 am November 8th, 2006 in Politics | 5 Comments
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Issue 3 election returns
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I’m a suspicious kind of gal, almost as much as I’m someone who believes in fate.
As of 11:21pm, Issue 3, with 58% of Ohio’s precincts voting, was down by more than 16%, No at 58, Yes at 41.
There’s still 42% left to be counted. Do I expect it to stay a loser? Well, I can only hope. I remember going to sleep thinking Al Gore had won. We all learned a lesson that night.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 4:28 am November 8th, 2006 in Politics | 3 Comments
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WLST is a lush
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Yup. I voted for this issue, thank you.
For those of you who think I don’t like a good time, Issue 119 in only one precinct of Pepper Pike, my precinct in Pepper Pike, asked us to vote on whether Heinens should be allowed to sell alcohol starting at 10am on Sundays, instead of starting at 1pm.
Woohoo – no more nursing that hangover – I can head to the Heinens, 45 seconds from my house, and ease my pain with more liquor as early as 10am.
Thank you, 288 voters of Precinct C. As for you 50 who voted against Heinens, you didn’t know what you were voting on, now did you?
By Jill Miller Zimon at 12:47 am November 8th, 2006 in Politics | 5 Comments
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Nov
8
Issue 3 election returns
Filed Under Politics | 3 Comments
I’m a suspicious kind of gal, almost as much as I’m someone who believes in fate.
As of 11:21pm, Issue 3, with 58% of Ohio’s precincts voting, was down by more than 16%, No at 58, Yes at 41.
There’s still 42% left to be counted. Do I expect it to stay a loser? Well, I can only hope. I remember going to sleep thinking Al Gore had won. We all learned a lesson that night.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 12:28 am November 8th, 2006 in Politics | 3 Comments
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