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Robert Reich | Kudos to the "Democracy Spring" Protesters
Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Facebook Page
Reich writes: "Kudos to the 'Democracy Spring' campaign, and the protesters who have been rallying against the influence of money in politics, and congressional inaction to reverse it."
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Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Facebook Page
Reich writes: "Kudos to the 'Democracy Spring' campaign, and the protesters who have been rallying against the influence of money in politics, and congressional inaction to reverse it."
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Karen J. Greenberg | Still in the Bush Embrace, What Really Stands in the Way of Closing Guantanamo
Karen J. Greenberg, TomDispatch
Greenberg writes: "Can you believe it? We're in the last year of the presidency of the man who, on his first day in the Oval Office, swore that he would close Guantanamo, and yet it and everything it represents remains part of our all-American world."
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Karen J. Greenberg, TomDispatch
Greenberg writes: "Can you believe it? We're in the last year of the presidency of the man who, on his first day in the Oval Office, swore that he would close Guantanamo, and yet it and everything it represents remains part of our all-American world."
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De Blasio Demands Explanation, as Decline in Registered Brooklyn Democrats Doubles to 126,000
Brigid Bergin, WNYC
Bergin writes: "Mayor Bill de Blasio has ordered the New York City Board of Elections to investigate why more than 63,000 registered Democrats were dropped from the voting rolls since last fall."
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Brigid Bergin, WNYC
Bergin writes: "Mayor Bill de Blasio has ordered the New York City Board of Elections to investigate why more than 63,000 registered Democrats were dropped from the voting rolls since last fall."
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Mayor Bill de Blasio votes in general election, Tuesday, November 04, 2014. (photo: Ed Reed/NYC Mayor's Office)
ayor Bill de Blasio has ordered the New York City Board of Elections to investigate why more than 63,000 registered Democrats were dropped from the voting rolls since last fall.
The request comes the same day a WNYC analysis revealed the largest decline in active registered Democrats statewide was in Brooklyn.
But new data provided by the city Board of Elections on Monday indicates it actually removed 126,000 Brooklyn Democrats from the rolls, according to executive director Michael Ryan.
That includes 12,000 people who moved out of the borough, 44,000 people who were moved from active to inactive voter status and 70,000 voters removed from the inactive voter list.
As a Brooklyn Democrat himself, de Blasio said he's concerned about the sudden slump of Democrats on the voter rolls there.
“This number surprises me,” said de Blasio, “I admit that Brooklyn has had a lot of transient population – that’s obvious. Lot of people moving in, lot of people moving out. That might account for some of it. But I'm confused since so many people have moved in, that the number would move that much in the negative direction.”
Board of Elections Executive Director Michael Ryan confirmed he had been contacted by the mayor's staff and he shared with WNYC the same explanation he said he gave them.
“Brooklyn was a little behind with their list maintenance tasks,” said Ryan, who said the other boroughs update their lists on a rolling basis.
That backlog meant the Brooklyn voter rolls needed a major clean up. The board can only remove people from its lists at certain times of year. There are blackout periods that exist 90 days before federal elections.
Ryan said Brooklyn election officials fell 6 months to a year behind updating their voter rolls.
Asked how the borough could be allowed to lag so far behind the rest of the city and state, Ryan replied, “Because there are other things going on at the same time. For example, when we are doing an election, which we did in November. We're not doing list maintenance tasks.”
“My simple point is, when there is an election event,” said Ryan, “work stops getting done.”
Top Trump Aide Lobbied for Pakistani Spy Front
Michael Isikoff, Yahoo News
Isikoff writes: "For more than five years, Donald Trump's new top campaign aide, Paul Manafort, lobbied for a Washington-based group that Justice Department prosecutors have charged operated as a front for Pakistan's intelligence service, according to court and lobbying records reviewed by Yahoo News."
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Michael Isikoff, Yahoo News
Isikoff writes: "For more than five years, Donald Trump's new top campaign aide, Paul Manafort, lobbied for a Washington-based group that Justice Department prosecutors have charged operated as a front for Pakistan's intelligence service, according to court and lobbying records reviewed by Yahoo News."
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Church Shelters Immigrant Father of Five From 'Injustice' of Deportation
Esther Yu-Hsi Lee, ThinkProgress
Lee writes: "Jose Juan Federico Moreno is desperate to stay with his loved ones. He's the breadwinner of his family, with five children ranging between 2 and 14 years old. Three of his kids have asthma and one has a developmental disability."
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Esther Yu-Hsi Lee, ThinkProgress
Lee writes: "Jose Juan Federico Moreno is desperate to stay with his loved ones. He's the breadwinner of his family, with five children ranging between 2 and 14 years old. Three of his kids have asthma and one has a developmental disability."
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Want to Support Indigenous Land Rights? Keep Talking About the People Fighting for Them.
Eve Andrews, Grist
Andrews writes: "Today, a 47-year-old indigenous farmer from Peru won the Goldman Environmental Prize for repeatedly putting her life on the line to block plans for a gold mine on her property."
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Eve Andrews, Grist
Andrews writes: "Today, a 47-year-old indigenous farmer from Peru won the Goldman Environmental Prize for repeatedly putting her life on the line to block plans for a gold mine on her property."
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Teflon Toxin Contamination Has Spread Throughout the World
Sharon Lerner, The Intercept
Lerner writes: "As in the U.S., PFOA has leached into the water near factories in Dordrecht, Holland, and Shimizu, Japan, both of which were built and operated for many years by DuPont."
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Sharon Lerner, The Intercept
Lerner writes: "As in the U.S., PFOA has leached into the water near factories in Dordrecht, Holland, and Shimizu, Japan, both of which were built and operated for many years by DuPont."
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