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31
Is it 12:01 am yet?
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I really, really, really do expect 2008 to be different. But first, I need to go to sleep. My kids are zooming around on sugar from ice cream, M&Ms and Reeses Peanut Butter Cups while I try to catch-up on news on my oldest child’s laptop – without my glasses (so excuse typos). I had the same but maybe I need about four times as much to give me the same energy?What’s 2008 going to be like? I’m not sure but I feel good about it. I’m thinking that the key word or concept will be integration – an integration of ideas, people, hopes, expectations, output.One of my all time favorite movie scenes is in Apollo 13, when Houston and the astronauts have to find a solution to a problem – they have no choice. Unless they just want to choose death. Which they don’t.I would say that 2008 will be a bit like that. We have to find solutions, we have no choice. Unless we just want to choose nothing.That’s just not one of the above.Happy New Year.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 11:56 pm December 31st, 2007 in Flip | 2 Comments
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Dec
30
Now this is what I’m talking about re: juvenile justice & curbing behavior
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Talk about finding solutions being sought in the most ironic places:
At Georgetown, in the newly formed Center for Juvenile Justice Reform, which is headed by former Clinton cabinet member, Shay Bilchik, who was the head of the OJJDP (part of the US Department of Justice and aka Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquincy Prevention – Chip Stewart was the head of it when I worked at DOJ) and most recently past executive director of the Child Welfare League of America. Here’s an interesting article about Bilchik and the CWLA (I was active with the group when I worked at Bellefaire, which was during the David Liederman era at CWLA – they had great conferences in Washington, DC).
Here’s Professor Bilchik’s bio from when he headed the OJJDP:
SHAY BILCHIK
Shay Bilchik was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as Administrator of OJJDP on October 7, 1994, and sworn in on October 11, 1994. He previously served as Associate Deputy Attorney General in the Office of the Deputy Attorney General. As Administrator, Mr. Bilchik is responsible for the agency congressionally mandated to lead the effort to address the public safety issues of juvenile crime and youth victimization. His OJJDP leadership responsibilities include identifying effective strategies for addressing juvenile crime through research; coordinating, implementing, and supporting effective programs and encouraging innovative approaches to deal with existing and emerging juvenile justice issues; developing priorities and goals and setting policies to guide Federal juvenile justice issues; providing technical assistance and training to essential components of the juvenile justice system; and disseminating information on juvenile justice trends, programs, and new approaches.
Mr. Bilchik began his career in 1977 as an Assistant State’s Attorney for the 11th Judicial Circuit of Florida in Miami. In 1979, he was promoted to Juvenile Division Chief and later to Deputy Chief Assistant for Administration. In 1985, he became Chief Assistant for Administration and was responsible for administering an office of more than 200 attorneys. Mr. Bilchik had supervisory authority over juvenile prosecution programs, including those involving prosecution of juveniles as adults in the Criminal Division. He also established and had oversight responsibility for the Child Advocacy Center, which is a multidisciplinary intake unit for cases involving victims of child abuse. As a Prosecutor, Mr. Bilchik served as the Coordinator of a number of special programs, including the Police-Juvenile Prosecutor Liaison and the School-Juvenile Prosecutor Liaison projects. He has lectured extensively on juvenile justice issues and served on the faculty of the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges. In addition, he was the author of the “Court Handbook for Dade County Lawyers, Juvenile Practice Section,” 1980 and “Prosecuting Juveniles in Criminal Courts — An Empirical Analysis,” 1984. Mr. Bilchik has served on numerous task forces and advisory committees dealing with juvenile delinquency and drug abuse issues. He also was involved in drafting a number of juvenile justice and child abuse legislative proposals in Florida. Mr. Bilchik received his education at the University of Florida, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in 1975 and a jurum doctor in 1977.
Very fortuitous to have found this article, just before New Years.
I see not so invisible omens. Don’t you just know that Bilchik is going to be getting an e-mail from me? I’d also love to know if a very special friend of mine in Miami who has been a prosecutor in juvenile court in southern Florida for at least 15 years knows Bilchik, and vice versa.
Chills.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 11:06 pm December 30th, 2007 in Crime, Mental health, Social Issues | 2 Comments
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Dec
28
Dispatch’s Ann Fisher on Ohio women getting into politics
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Perfect column for the new year. Thank you, Ann:
Too few women are involved [in politics] to this day. The White House Project aims to change that, and it wants to start them young.
Fran Ryan must have understood that in 1992 when, as Franklin County Democratic Party chairwoman, she tapped Jennifer Brunner to run for judge. Brunner, a mother of three children younger than 12, passed that time, “but once the idea was put into my head … it never left,” she said. “And eight years later, I ran for judge and I won.”
Last year, she was elected Ohio’s first female secretary of state, but she would be among the first to say that much, much more is needed.
The numbers tell the story: Ohio ranks 47th in the nation in the number of women representatives; and the U.S. is 69th in the world in that category, pathetic showings by any standard.
Whether you think you’re interested or not, check this out. June 2008 – Ohio (exact dates almost final). Details forthcoming and applications to open after January 1.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 7:43 pm December 28th, 2007 in Campaigning, Elections, Ohio, Politics, Women | Please comment
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Dec
27
Newly elected official? Go get some learnin’
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I received word about the Newly-Elected Officials Certificate Series, put out by the Levin College of Urban Affairs at Cleveland State University, last week. It starts 1/17/08. Here’s the site at the Levin College, you can see the program brochure here and here’s some basic info I received with the e-mail:
Regardless of political party, I’m certain we all agree on one thing – Cuyahoga County needs smart elected officials who understand how to govern. You are a leader in this community and I’m certain you know many people who would benefit from taking one or more of these classes.
This 9-session series is terrific – just what new political officer-holders need. And they don’t even have to sign up for all 9 classes…they can pick and choose. It’s also a great refresher course for elected officials who’ve been in office a while (as well as their staffs, campaign managers, political supporters and just about anyone who cares deeply about public service).
The faculty at CSU for this series is outstanding; everyone on that faculty knows their stuff and they’re excellent teachers, too.
For more information you can call Bruce Hennes at 216-321-7774, or Zoe Tyler or Suzanne Pokorny at 216-687-2206.
I have no official connection to Bruce Hennes or this series of classes, but I do appreciate receiving information from him from time to time (which this was).
By Jill Miller Zimon at 8:11 am December 27th, 2007 in Elections, Government, Ohio, Politics | 7 Comments
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27
Who would be on your Strong Women playlist?
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I’m sure I’ve got some odd ones on there and some predictable ones too, but for Cleveland Carole, here are the lyrics to the Alanis Morrissette song I included:
“Not The Doctor”
I don’t want to be the filler if the void is solely yours
I don’t want to be your glass of single malt whiskey
Hidden in the bottom drawer
I don’t want to be a bandage if the wound is not mine
Lend me some fresh air
I don’t want to be adored for what I merely represent to you
I don’t want to be your babysitter
You’re a very big boy now
I don’t want to be your mother
I didn’t carry you in my womb for nine months
Show me the back door
Visiting hours are 9 to 5 and if I show up at 10 past 6
Well I already know that you’d find some way to sneak me in and oh
Mind the empty bottle with the holes along the bottom
You see it’s too much to ask for and I am not the doctor
I don’t want to be the sweeper of the egg shells that you walk upon
And I don’t want to be your other half, I believe that 1 and 1 make 2
I don’t want to be your food or the light from the fridge on your face
At midnight, hey
What are you hungry for
I don’t want to be the glue that holds your pieces together
I don’t want to be your idol
See this pedestal is high and I’m afraid of heights
I don’t want to be lived through
A vicarious occasion
Please open the window
Visiting hours are 9 to 5 and if I show up at 10 past 6
Well I already know that you’d find some way to sneak me in and oh
Mind the empty bottle with the holes along the bottom
You see it’s too much to ask for and I am not the doctor
I don’t want to live on someday when my motto is last week
I don’t want to be responsible for your fractured heart
And it’s wounded beat
I don’t want to be a substitute for the smoke you’ve been inhaling
What do you thank me
What do you thank me for
Visiting hours are 9 to 5 and if I show up at 10 past 6
Well I already know that you’d find some way to sneak me in and oh
Mind the empty bottle with the holes along the bottom
You see it’s too much to ask for and I am not the doctor
By Jill Miller Zimon at 6:00 am December 27th, 2007 in Culture, Women, Writing | 8 Comments
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Dec
26
Valdis Krebs networks patterns of political book buying
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This network visualization of political book buying is insanely amazing. I’ve asked Valdis for a mind meld, but I’m sure I don’t have enough capacity to absorb even a one-millionth of what I’d need to think the way Valdis does. Thank goodness he thinks the way he does.
Thanks, Valdis (and Toddie Downs).
What I see:
People read what reinforces their beliefs – they are looking for affirmation that the way they think is okay and rational and justifiable. They don’t want to read anything that will shake their foundation.
I just bought three books today, none of them particularly political in the traditional sense (someone gave me Obama’s book and I haven’t read it yet; I also have The Holy Vote and I have only started it; I also have We’re All Journalists Now and I’m half way through that – I’m halfway through several books; I pulled out Gift from the Sea the other night when I was having trouble getting through some things):
By Jill Miller Zimon at 8:56 pm December 26th, 2007 in Culture, Government, Politics, Writing | 14 Comments
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26
Dave Barry nails it
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Hindsight is 20/20: more affirmation of why it was that I double majored in government and sociology, from “Dave Barry on College”:
For sheer lack of intelligibility, sociology is far and away the number one subject. I sat through hundreds of hours of sociology courses, and read gobs of sociology writing, and I never once heard or read a coherent statement. This is because sociologists want to be considered scientists, so they spend most of their time translating simple, obvious observations into scientific-sounding code. If you plan to major in sociology, you’ll have to learn to do the same thing. For example, suppose you have observed that children cry when they fall down. You should write: “Methodological observation of the sociometrical behavior tendencies of prematurated isolates indicates that a causal relationship exists between groundward tropism and lachrimatory, or ‘crying,’ behavior forms.” If you can keep this up for fifty or sixty pages, you will get a large government grant.
Hattip to The India Uncut Blog.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 2:00 pm December 26th, 2007 in Culture | 6 Comments
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26
ODP Women’s Organizing Convention 1/12-13/08
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I don’t know a lot about this event – I’m trying to get more details. I’ll be at RootsCamp on Sunday, 1/13 but maybe I’ll try to pop over to the ODP? Anyone going?
By Jill Miller Zimon at 12:00 pm December 26th, 2007 in Announcements, Politics, Women | 2 Comments
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26
Remains of the Year, Politics Edition
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2. Are political moderates tuning out, or something else? I believe intimidation and a dislike of others’ tactics are the culprits.
3. Charlie Wilson on Charlie Wilson and the movie about Charlie Wilson
4. The Rothenberg Political Report’s best and worst of politics, 2007
5. Speaking of women, they’re training up across the country and in June, in Ohio – get your applications ready ladies – but start here by trying to become a pundit
6. National Conference on State Legislatures Top 10 Issues forecast for 2008 – think it applies to Ohio?
7. Gov. Strickland and the GOP-led statehouse play nice? Eh. They’re circling, big time.
8. Play the next-president futures market
9. Project Vote Smart -a fantastic resource
10. “Political campaign spending on advertising media and marketing services is expected to soar 43 percent to an all-time high of $4.5 billion in the 2008 election cycle…” (fourth item down)
11. Lawyers lead the pack in how much they give to political candidates. Lots of charts and data.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 10:00 am December 26th, 2007 in Campaigning, Elections, Politics, Remains of the Day, Statehouse, WH2008 | 1 Comment
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26
Remains of the Year, Citizen Journalism Edition
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2. CNN’s Year-end citizen journalism wrap-up (seems a bit like an oxymoron though, no?)
3. Cyberjournalist.net’s top stories of 2007
4. Training a new generation of citizen journalists around the world (hattip to PJNet.org)
5. The Chief Source – showing how it’s done (but guys, can you figure out a tagging system or something so I could have linked to all the NH trip posts? Let me know if there’s some simple way I’m missing – which is VERY possible)
By Jill Miller Zimon at 8:00 am December 26th, 2007 in 'Roots News, Blogging, Media, Remains of the Day, Tech, Writing | Please comment
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26
Remains of the Year, Blog Buzz Edition
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1. Ultimate Blogs: Masterworks from the Wild Web. Most of us can skip it, especially if you listen to the NPR piece. Yeah, I know, why didn’t we think of this? (George – that BFD book – it’s out there, I know it.)
2. Blogging is about giving. I agree 100%.
3. A list of the best newspaper blogs for comments, community and readability.
4. Automakers blog to make their point, connect with customers.
5. FOIA reform: Bloggers are journalists too – finally albeit still limited
6. Stanford profiles its state of the blogosphere and counts 60-70
7. Blogonaut’s top 10 strange but true legal stories of the year
8. ABA Journal’s Top 100 Blawgs (plenty about politics, gossip, lawyers behaving badly, etc.)
By Jill Miller Zimon at 6:00 am December 26th, 2007 in Blogging, Remains of the Day, Tech | Please comment
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25
Remains of the Year, Media and Journalism Edition
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1. When truthiness becomes more important than truth and excludes or slants information because of how the mainstream media uses those editors they have that blogs don’t.
2. Anyone want a master’s degree in media psychology and social change? I was born too soon.
3. The Wire, an HBO show about newspapers, has been around for five seasons and is in its final year? Oops.
4. Deans of eight journalism schools, “are asking the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to require television and radio stations to provide local news reporting.” Hmm – very curious. Juxtapose with the rise of hyperlocal blogs like Word of Mouth, Glass City Jungle, Callahan’s Cleveland Diary, Brewed Fresh Daily or even Eric Mansfield’s Have I Got News For You. Hmmm indeed. Here’s the op-ed they wrote.
5. Women in Media & News appeal for assistance
6. Top 10 Newspaper Industry stories of the year from Editor & Publisher
By Jill Miller Zimon at 10:43 pm December 25th, 2007 in Media, Remains of the Day, Writing | 2 Comments
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25
Mikhail Baryshnikov. Still.
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Photo and quote from the New York Times article, “A Master of Motion Learns Lessons of Inspired Immobility”:
“My body is still in really good shape,” Mr. Baryshnikov said. “It would be wrong not to dance.”
For Christmas, in The Nutcracker, with, of course, Gelsey Kirkland:
By Jill Miller Zimon at 1:30 pm December 25th, 2007 in Culture, Quotes | Please comment
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25
Conservative Liberty Counsel spreads false rumors via Internet, OK AG predicts lumps of coal from Santa
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Posting without further comment:
Dozens of calls poured into [Oklahoma AG Drew] Edmondson’s office Thursday after callers had read an “alert” from the group, Liberty Counsel, that said a Southwestern Oklahoma State University administrator issued the directive to employees after receiving legal advice from Edmondson’s office.
“Some of the callers were quite upset,” Edmondson said later. “The idea that a state official would ban Christmas just days before such a holy day obviously struck a chord with a number of people.”
The Orlando-based group issued two “alerts” on its Web site, saying an order about not using Christmas in written or oral form stemmed from counsel given by Edmondson.
But Edmondson said he never provided any such advise to Southwestern Oklahoma officials and does not advise the school about anything.
[snip]
Employees [at the school] were asked to keep public areas of the campus free of religious decor because not all students celebrate Christmas as a religious holiday, [Director of public relations for the school, Brian] Adler said.
But faculty and staff members also can decorate their offices however they want, he said.
[snip]
Attempts to reach Liberty Counsel officials weren’t successful on Thursday.
Edmondson had a message for the group.
“The folks at Liberty Counsel will find lumps of coal in their stockings on Christmas morning,” he said. “That’s what Santa leaves for bad kids who tell lies.”
Liberty Counsel takes no responsibility for creating the controversy.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 11:39 am December 25th, 2007 in Blogging, Culture, Media, Politics, Religion, Social Issues, Tech | Please comment
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25
Quote of the Day
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“If parents needed vitamins, they’d be coffee flavored!”
My youngest son, as he contemplated the flavor choices included in the gummy vitamin array I’d placed near his breakfast.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 11:24 am December 25th, 2007 in Culture, Parenting, Quotes | Please comment
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25
Dem prez candidates try impossible: spend less on political consultants
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One reason why the show is called, Your Billion Dollar President and not Your Multi-million Dollar President:
Questions about how the Kerry campaign could have become such a bonanza for one small group of advisers — and whether the fees squandered money that could have been used for courting voters — are still reverberating inside Democratic circles as the 2008 campaign moves into high gear. And with more money than ever on the line this time around, resentment has been building, donors and other operatives say, at how, win or lose, presidential elections have become gold mines for the small and often swaggering band of media consultants who dominate modern campaigns.
As a result, the Democratic presidential hopefuls are seeking to impose more controls on the consultants. In doing so, they are moving more into line with their Republican counterparts, who by and large have kept tighter rein on how they handle their media teams, which shape the candidates’ messages, produce their television ads and buy the air time.
The three leading Democrats — Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama and former Senator John Edwards — are all clamping down. They are following what has become an almost standard practice among Republican presidential nominees by paying their media advisers flat fees, or placing a cap on their payments, rather than making payments based on a percentage of the amount they pay television stations to broadcast their commercials.
Even with the changes, media consultants in both parties will continue to be paid handsomely for their work in the 2008 campaign, and their business continues to be one of the largest and most lucrative in politics.
That’s an excerpt from today’s New York Times article, “Democrats Try to Rein in Fees on Consulting.”
Lots of discussion and analysis about who gets how much through which payment arrangements, holding which titles for which campaigns.
In the end, however:
But the bigger change may come as the Web redefines the entire media world. John Brabender, a Republican consultant who is working for Rudolph W. Giuliani’s presidential campaign, said that 5 percent to 10 percent of advertising expenses were already going to the Web. And Mr. [Joe] Trippi, who helped pioneer the use of online fund-raising during Mr. [Howard] Dean’s campaign, said the Edwards campaign had produced attack videos for the Web for as little as $800, a tiny fraction of what it costs to create and broadcast a television commercial.
“A new generation of people who got into politics in 2004 can see the big changes with the Internet,” Mr. Trippi said, “and many of them have now moved up to field director and are a cycle or two away from running campaigns. And the way the Net is going, by the time they get there, the old commission structure will be dead, and everyone will have flat fees.”
Bottom line: it’s costing more and more money to wag us dogs. I wish we could make it impossible.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 10:17 am December 25th, 2007 in Blogging, Campaigning, Elections, Media, Politics, Tech, WH2008 | 1 Comment
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25
Beatblogging.org: uses social media, like blogs, as regular old sources, and then some
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I know I just wrote this post in which I wonder why the mainstream media can’t view blogs as sources like any other person or entity, but instead, has to warn off the public from reading, relying on or otherwise regarding blogs with any respect whatsoever.
But as I was thinking about this point, I remembered – hey! There are journalists in the mainstream media who are actively engaged in using social media-related sources as a source like any other source. They work at Beatblogging.org and include papers such as the Seattle Times, the Cincinnati Enquirer and the San Jose Mercury News. Obviously, a commitment by a traditional newspaper to collaborate with social media folks at the level of Beatblogging.org requires that the paper have respect for social media purveyors, which, as we know, not all papers do.
Now, if this model could be grafted onto and into the process used when political rumors are involved, we could stop the nonsense about how blogs are the bain of a politician’s existence and just serve the reader by figuring out what’s going on. End of story. Rather than waste time vilifying the messenger (unless that is in fact necessary as part of the story).
By Jill Miller Zimon at 9:50 am December 25th, 2007 in Blogging, Media, Ohio, Politics, Tech, Wide Open, Writing | Please comment
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25
What the Plain Dealer left out when pointing finger at blogs
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You know, some people still haven’t learned. This article, “Blogosphere could spawn a tempest this primary season,” was published in the Plain Dealer a few days ago. It’s by a Newhouse News writer. I wrote about it here on Friday.
Today, it showed up in another Newhouse paper, The Times-Picayune. And look what the PD left out* – the analysis of why the power of rumor has existed long before blogs, and if blogs weren’t in the equation, rumors would only stay quiet longer – they wouldn’t cease to exist or exist as dangers: Read more
By Jill Miller Zimon at 8:57 am December 25th, 2007 in Campaigning, Elections, Media, Ohio, Politics, Wide Open, Writing | Please comment
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Dec
24
Merry Christmas, eh
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And don’t forget the donuts.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 9:35 pm December 24th, 2007 in Announcements | 5 Comments
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24
Is state legislator in military & statehouse okay if pregnant U.S. Rep is not?
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Letter to the editor (third one down) saying that U.S. Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) should not be allowed to be a congressional legislator because of being pregnant:
I have to add serving in the U.S. House and Senate as an occupation that may not be suitable for women. Ms. Gillibrand’s current pregnancy makes a strong case for my opinion. Ms. Gillibrand was elected to serve her constituency, and while she is away from her elected office she cannot perform those duties. The taxpayers who were duped into voting for her will have to pay for her medical benefits. Yes, Mr. and Mrs. Taxpayer, Ms. Gillibrand receives excellent health benefits, courtesy of her constituents. We will be without representation in Congress for a time leading up to and following the child’s birth. There will be times when she and the new baby will visit doctors. You can add those days to the total that she will not be serving her constituents.
The current base salary (2006) for members of the House and Senate is $165,200 per year. I wonder if Ms. Gillibrand will do the right thing and reimburse the U.S. Treasury in the amount of $452.60, her daily salary, for each day that she is unable to perform her elected duties. For some reason, I doubt it.
The author of that letter needs to be asked how he feels about people who get elected to political office and then leave to serve in the military while retaining that legislative position. Anyone want to bet on what the author will say?
Think of it this way, changing only the name and pronouns:
[Mr. Josh Mandel] was elected to serve his constituency, and while he is away from his elected office he cannot perform those duties. The taxpayers who were duped into voting for him will have to pay for his medical benefits. Yes, Mr. and Mrs. Taxpayer, [Mr. Mandel] receives excellent health benefits, courtesy of his constituents. We will be without representation in Congress for a time leading up to and following the [legislator's service in the military]. There will be times when he [will be unable to be in the statehouse for training before going overseas]. You can add those days to the total that he will not be serving his constituents.
The current base salary [2007] for members of the [Ohio General Assembly salary is $58,933] per year. I wonder if [Mr. Mandel] will do the right thing and reimburse the [State of Ohio] in the amount of [$5,893.30, his per session salary for 10 sessions in the six months since he announced his return to the military in July], for each [session] that he is unable to perform his elected duties. For some reason, I doubt it.
I don’t actually know about Josh’s health care benefits – perhaps they’re paid for by the U.S. government via the military? But I think the point is clear re: what would the same letter writer say about such situations.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 4:08 pm December 24th, 2007 in Congress, Culture, Government, Military, Ohio, Politics, Social Issues, Women | 5 Comments
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