By a wide margin, Sen. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana lost her reelection bid to Rep. Bill Cassidy Saturday, strengthening the GOP’s position in the Senate and confirming the widening racial divide in the South regarding party affiliation and elections.
Reported by Christian Science Monitor 15 hours ago.
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Mary Landrieu defeat widens party, racial divide in the South (+video)
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Landrieu's Loss Flips Lingering Holdout Of Democrats' 'Solid South'
In her runoff against Republican Bill Cassidy, incumbent Sen. Mary Landrieu, D.-La., didn't just lose — she was walloped. The win gave the GOP complete dominance of the Deep South in the Senate.
Reported by NPR 6 hours ago.
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HUFFPOLLSTER: Most Americans Say Race Relations Have Worsened
New surveys explore racial disparity in attitudes toward the police, and a majority sees race relations worsening. Cassidy wins in Louisiana, but by less than polls projected. And if a Benghazi report falls on the Friday before Thanksgiving, does it make a sound? This is HuffPollster for Monday, December 8, 2014.
*DEEP RACIAL DIVIDES ON OPINIONS OF POLICE* - Carrie Dann: "Americans are deeply split along racial lines in their level of confidence that police officers will treat white and black people equally and refrain from using excessive force, a new NBC News/Marist poll shows. In the wake of the deaths of unarmed black men in police confrontations in New York and Ferguson, Missouri, 47 percent of Americans say that law enforcement applies different standards to blacks and whites, while 44 percent disagree. *But 82 percent of African Americans say that police have different standards based on race, while half of whites say the opposite.* And while 72 percent of the public and 79 percent of whites say that they have 'a great deal' or 'a fair amount' of confidence that police in their community will not use excessive force on suspects, just 43 percent of black Americans say the same." [NBC]
*African Americans in urban areas have especially little confidence in police* - Jeffrey M. Jones: " As controversy continues to swirl about police officers' treatment of blacks, an analysis of Gallup data underscores how much less likely U.S. blacks are than whites or Hispanics to express confidence in the police. *The analysis also reveals that blacks living in urban areas are significantly less likely than blacks in non-urban areas to say they are confident in the police*... an average of 57% of Americans have said they have 'a great deal' or 'quite a lot' of confidence in the police, typically placing it near the top of the list of institutions. This includes confidence ratings of 61% among whites and 57% among Hispanics, but just 34% among blacks….Blacks living in highly urban areas are even less likely to have confidence in the police, 26%, than those living in non-urban areas (38%)." [Gallup]
*Most see worsening race relations* - Julie Bykowicz: "President Barack Obama had hoped his historic election would ease race relations, yet *a majority of Americans, 53 percent, say the interactions between the white and black communities have deteriorated* since he took office, according to a new Bloomberg Politics poll. Those divisions are laid bare in the split reactions to the decisions by two grand juries not to indict white police officers who killed unarmed black men in Ferguson, Mo., and Staten Island, N.Y. Both times, protesters responded with outrage and politicians called for federal investigations. Yet Americans don’t think of the cases as a matched set of injustices, the poll found. A majority agreed with the Ferguson decision, while most objected to the conclusion in the Staten Island death, which was captured on video." [Bloomberg]
*CASSIDY WINS LOUISIANA RUNOFF* - As expected, Republican Rep. Bill Cassidy defeated Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu in Louisiana's Senate runoff election on Saturday, *but the margin was closer than most polls had predicted*. Of the six surveys publicly released since the November primary election, five had Republican sponsorship or were conducted by Republican firms and five used automated, recorded voice methodologies. In November, the polling averages generally understated the performance of Republican candidates, but in this case the pattern was reversed. [Louisiana Results, Pollster chart]
*BENGHAZI REPORT GETS LITTLE ATTENTION* - HuffPollster: "When the Republican-led House Intelligence Committee quietly released a report on the Friday before Thanksgiving clearing U.S. officials of multiple accusations leveled after the 2012 Benghazi attacks, it didn't exactly capture the public's attention. Eighty-four percent of Americans said they had heard little or nothing about the report's release, according to a HuffPost/YouGov poll. *Just 28 percent knew the investigation didn't find evidence of intelligence failures before the attacks on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya, or wrongdoing in officials' response to the attacks.* A nearly equal 25 percent thought the report found wrongdoing. The remaining 47 percent weren't sure….Although Republicans were significantly more likely than others to say they had paid at least some attention to the results of the investigation, they were also the most likely to get it wrong, saying by a 10-point margin that it blamed, rather than absolved, U.S. officials. Democrats, by a 20-point margin, said it vindicated the officials, while those independents who offered an opinion were about evenly split." [HuffPost]
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*MONDAY'S 'OUTLIERS'* - Links to the best of news at the intersection of polling, politics and political data:
-David Wasserman quantifies the most over- and underperforming U.S. House campaigns of 2014. [Cook Political]
-David Winson (R) posts his analysis of the 2014 elections. [Winston Group]
-Page Gardner (D) finds silver linings for Democrats in the 2014 results. [The Hill]
-Someone is fielding a lengthy message testing poll about Hillary Clinton in Iowa. [Bleeding Heartland]
-The Koch brothers and their allies are spending tens of millions of dollars on a data company. [Politico]
-Nick Beauchamp's statistical analysis finds "systematic bias" explains variation in Ferguson witness statements. [WashPost]
-Python is displacing R as the programming language for data science. [ReadWrite via @alexlundry]
-Zeynep Tufekci and Brayden King argue for more controls on the use of personal data by corporations like Uber. [NYT] Reported by Huffington Post 3 hours ago.
*DEEP RACIAL DIVIDES ON OPINIONS OF POLICE* - Carrie Dann: "Americans are deeply split along racial lines in their level of confidence that police officers will treat white and black people equally and refrain from using excessive force, a new NBC News/Marist poll shows. In the wake of the deaths of unarmed black men in police confrontations in New York and Ferguson, Missouri, 47 percent of Americans say that law enforcement applies different standards to blacks and whites, while 44 percent disagree. *But 82 percent of African Americans say that police have different standards based on race, while half of whites say the opposite.* And while 72 percent of the public and 79 percent of whites say that they have 'a great deal' or 'a fair amount' of confidence that police in their community will not use excessive force on suspects, just 43 percent of black Americans say the same." [NBC]
*African Americans in urban areas have especially little confidence in police* - Jeffrey M. Jones: " As controversy continues to swirl about police officers' treatment of blacks, an analysis of Gallup data underscores how much less likely U.S. blacks are than whites or Hispanics to express confidence in the police. *The analysis also reveals that blacks living in urban areas are significantly less likely than blacks in non-urban areas to say they are confident in the police*... an average of 57% of Americans have said they have 'a great deal' or 'quite a lot' of confidence in the police, typically placing it near the top of the list of institutions. This includes confidence ratings of 61% among whites and 57% among Hispanics, but just 34% among blacks….Blacks living in highly urban areas are even less likely to have confidence in the police, 26%, than those living in non-urban areas (38%)." [Gallup]
*Most see worsening race relations* - Julie Bykowicz: "President Barack Obama had hoped his historic election would ease race relations, yet *a majority of Americans, 53 percent, say the interactions between the white and black communities have deteriorated* since he took office, according to a new Bloomberg Politics poll. Those divisions are laid bare in the split reactions to the decisions by two grand juries not to indict white police officers who killed unarmed black men in Ferguson, Mo., and Staten Island, N.Y. Both times, protesters responded with outrage and politicians called for federal investigations. Yet Americans don’t think of the cases as a matched set of injustices, the poll found. A majority agreed with the Ferguson decision, while most objected to the conclusion in the Staten Island death, which was captured on video." [Bloomberg]
*CASSIDY WINS LOUISIANA RUNOFF* - As expected, Republican Rep. Bill Cassidy defeated Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu in Louisiana's Senate runoff election on Saturday, *but the margin was closer than most polls had predicted*. Of the six surveys publicly released since the November primary election, five had Republican sponsorship or were conducted by Republican firms and five used automated, recorded voice methodologies. In November, the polling averages generally understated the performance of Republican candidates, but in this case the pattern was reversed. [Louisiana Results, Pollster chart]
*BENGHAZI REPORT GETS LITTLE ATTENTION* - HuffPollster: "When the Republican-led House Intelligence Committee quietly released a report on the Friday before Thanksgiving clearing U.S. officials of multiple accusations leveled after the 2012 Benghazi attacks, it didn't exactly capture the public's attention. Eighty-four percent of Americans said they had heard little or nothing about the report's release, according to a HuffPost/YouGov poll. *Just 28 percent knew the investigation didn't find evidence of intelligence failures before the attacks on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya, or wrongdoing in officials' response to the attacks.* A nearly equal 25 percent thought the report found wrongdoing. The remaining 47 percent weren't sure….Although Republicans were significantly more likely than others to say they had paid at least some attention to the results of the investigation, they were also the most likely to get it wrong, saying by a 10-point margin that it blamed, rather than absolved, U.S. officials. Democrats, by a 20-point margin, said it vindicated the officials, while those independents who offered an opinion were about evenly split." [HuffPost]
*HUFFPOLLSTER VIA EMAIL!* - You can receive this daily update every weekday morning via email! Just click here, enter your email address, and and click "sign up." That's all there is to it (and you can unsubscribe anytime).
*MONDAY'S 'OUTLIERS'* - Links to the best of news at the intersection of polling, politics and political data:
-David Wasserman quantifies the most over- and underperforming U.S. House campaigns of 2014. [Cook Political]
-David Winson (R) posts his analysis of the 2014 elections. [Winston Group]
-Page Gardner (D) finds silver linings for Democrats in the 2014 results. [The Hill]
-Someone is fielding a lengthy message testing poll about Hillary Clinton in Iowa. [Bleeding Heartland]
-The Koch brothers and their allies are spending tens of millions of dollars on a data company. [Politico]
-Nick Beauchamp's statistical analysis finds "systematic bias" explains variation in Ferguson witness statements. [WashPost]
-Python is displacing R as the programming language for data science. [ReadWrite via @alexlundry]
-Zeynep Tufekci and Brayden King argue for more controls on the use of personal data by corporations like Uber. [NYT] Reported by Huffington Post 3 hours ago.
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Obama Democrats aren't just endangered, they're extinct. Last anti-life Obamite ousted from power in Louisiana
Adding insult to injury, Republican Bill Cassidy has defeated the incumbent Senator, Democrat Mary Landrieu, for ...
Reported by Catholic Online 1 day ago.
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Cassidy is in. What's next for Louisiana? Chat with Jarvis DeBerry noon Tuesday.
There are no more Democratic Senators from the South. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana was the last. If our state scheduled its elections with everybody else in the country, Landrieu would have gone out with company - Arkansas and North Carolina...
Reported by nola.com 1 day ago.
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Cassidy: Dems Trying to 'Gruberize' Keystone XL Pipeline Opposition
Senator-Elect Bill Cassidy (R-LA) argued that the Democratic Party was trying to "Gruberize" their opposition to the Keystone XL Pipeline and revealing "their prejudice against these working jobs on Monday's "America's Newsroom" on the Fox News Channel."The American people are incredibly upset with the president's policies and the direction he's taken us in. And you can start with Obamacare, in which if you're not getting a subsidy, you're getting hammered...but it goes beyond that Bill, if there is one party for working family it is the Republican Party. Working families want to see Keystone built, they may not have the job, but they know a family like there's that will, and they look at this and it's a no-brainer, and yet the president and his party find every excuse to kind of, if you will, Gruberize us, deceive us as to 'well, this is the reason we can't do it' when we know it's only their prejudice against these working jobs" he stated.
Cassidy said that the GOP should try to make Obamacare "less onerous or replace it," but that any attempts to do so by Congress will be vetoed, but would try to create a bipartisan consensus on fixing the law so that employees don't have their hours cut.
He concluded that while their will always be some "tension" within GOP Congressional ranks, he believed they would be able to make good on their campaign promises.
Follow Ian Hanchett on Twitter @IanHanchett Reported by Breitbart 1 day ago.
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The meaning of Mary Landrieu’s loss, by the numbers
Louisiana Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu's loss in Saturday's runoff to Rep. Bill Cassidy (R) was decisive -- but the vote totals were far from the only numbers that mattered. Here, a few data points to put into perspective her defeat, which carries implications both for the future in her state and back in the nation's capital.
Reported by Washington Post 22 hours ago.
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GOP 'Southern strategy' comes to fruition
To the editor: Richard Nixon's Southern strategy is now complete. There will be no Democratic senators from the former Confederacy in the new Senate. The House shows a similar picture. ("Bill Cassidy defeats Democrat Mary Landrieu in Louisiana Senate race," Dec. 6)
Reported by L.A. Times 19 hours ago.
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Values Voters Played Big Part in GOP Sweep of La. Senate Race
Rumors of the demise of socially conservative voters in elections are grossly exaggerated, says the operating head of the Faith and Freedom Coalition, pointing to the landslide win Saturday of Republican Rep. Bill Cassidy in the Louisiana Senate runoff race.
Reported by Newsmax 5 hours ago.
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Cassidy will be helpful in Keystone XL bill passage in 2015, McConnell says
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said last week that Sen.-elect Bill Cassidy, R-La., will be helpful in approvi -More-
Reported by SmartBrief 5 hours ago.
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Daily Beast: Post-Democrat South Lacks 'Tolerance, Compassion, Civic Decency'
Following Mary Landrieu's (D-LA) resounding loss to Senator-elect Bill Cassidy (R-LA) on December 6, the Daily Beast threw in the towel on the South, which it describes as a post-Democrat region lacking "tolerance, compassion, [and] civil decency."In short, the outlet asserts the South has no redeeming quality, and Democrats are better off without it.
According to the Daily Beast, things like "tolerance, compassion, [and] civic decency" were once present in the South, but have succumbed to "euthanasia" imposed by those who rejected Democrats at the ballot box. Now the South is just a "welfare moocher" full of "resentment" and backwardness--except for the northern portion of Virginia and a small section of Florida.
Yet reality stands in stark contrast to these descriptions of the South and of southern people.
For instance, contrast the outlet's caustic statements on the South's alleged lack of compassion with the real-life, charitable habits of southerners. According to a 2012 report in The Chronicle of Philanthropy, seven of the top ten most-charitable states in the union are in the South: Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, South Carolina, Arkansas, Georgia, and North Carolina.
And when you look at the bottom of the list, seven of the ten least-charitable states are in the North: New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, Maine, and New Hampshire.
And what about "civil decency"? If service in the military is any indicator of civic decency, the South is far ahead of the North here, as well.
The Heritage Foundation has previously shown that Northeast and North Central states are "underrepresented" in "military enlisted recruits-to-population ratios," while states in the South and Southwest are "overrepresented." In other words, the South's "military enlisted recruits-to-population ratios" are out of whack not for a lack of "civic decency," but because southerners sign up to fight for their country in larger numbers than their population numbers justify on paper.
As for "tolerance," was it not the Republican Party that defeated the intolerant, slave-owning Democrat Party in the Civil War? Did not the Republican Party rein in the intolerant, Democrat-founded KKK following that war and then fight, via Reconstruction, for educating newly freed slaves and free blacks who were moving to the South?
Contrary to what the Daily Beast claims, southern Democrat practices and policies have long been a hotbed for intolerance. This was explicit in slavery and related practices, and it was no less real--albeit implicit--in LBJ's War on Poverty.
So the South has not let go of "tolerance, compassion, [and] civic decency" in voting Democrats out of office. Rather, it has secured and moved to protect these qualities by driving the remaining Democrats from their strongholds.
Follow AWR Hawkins on Twitter @AWRHawkins. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com. Reported by Breitbart 4 hours ago.
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GOP wants waiver from healthier school lunch mandate and Bill Cassidy seeks delay on floodplain development limits
WASHINGTON -- Republican Senator-elect Bill Cassidy and Rep. Steven Palazzo, R-Miss., are asking congressional leaders to add language to a pending funding bill to block the Obama administration from implementing an executive order instructing federal agencies to minimize adverse impacts on...
Reported by nola.com 35 minutes ago.
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GOP Whip Steve Scalise Comes Under Fire For Supporting Obama's Executive Amnesty Via Omnibus Backing
House Majority Whip Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) is coming under fire in conservative circles for supporting the effort by House Speaker John Boehner, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Appropriations Committee chairman Rep. Hal Rogers (R-KY) to reach a spending deal that would fund President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty.Scalise has represented Louisiana’s first congressional district since 2008. Last week he helped Boehner and McCarthy pass a substantively altered bill from Rep. Ted Yoho (R-FL) that was sold to members as a plan to stop Obama’s executive amnesty. In reality, the measure had a secret exception slipped into it that bolstered Obama's legal argument. As Breitbart News reported over the weekend, according to Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX), Scalise was actually whipping votes with Republican members based on the earlier version of the bill—not based on the version of the bill that was brought up for a vote in the House.
After the dramatically changed bill passed the House, Scalise praised it as if it would prevent Obama's executive amnesty.
"Today’s vote re-establishes the rule of law and stops the president’s lawless, unconstitutional executive action from going into effect," Scalise said, adding:
The American people spoke loud and clear in the November elections. They want a Washington that works together on their behalf, not a go-it-alone president governing by executive fiat. I urge the president to focus on securing the border, enforcing the laws on the books, and working with us in Congress to fix our broken immigration system. I would like to thank Rep. Yoho for introducing this critical legislation and for his leadership in Congress on this issue.
Political insiders agree the measure was merely "symbolic," and so won't accomplish its grand-sounding goals. And Breitbart News has shown over the course of the past week that the bill wouldn't "re-establish," as Scalise claimed, "the rule of law." Nor would it stop what the Whip called "the president's lawless, unconstitutional executive action from going into effect."
Scalise's office hasn't responded to multiple requests for comment over several days on the Yoho bill's ineffectiveness.
Scalise’s office also hasn’t responded to multiple requests for comment over several days on whether he plans to whip votes on Boehner’s and McCarthy’s behalf for the forthcoming more-than-$1 trillion CR-omnibus spending bill package. But if he does whip votes for this, he’ll be pushing a package that supports Obama’s executive amnesty—something Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, who used to hold Scalise’s House seat, noted in a recent interview with nationally syndicated radio host Laura Ingraham.
"All the members from Louisiana-- they have such great respect for you-- do you urge them to use the power of the purse to pull back on executive amnesty?” Ingraham asked Jindal on Friday last week.
"I would absolutely, and I’ve said this publicly and will continue to say it: we need to use every tool we can in Congress to force the president to follow the Constitution, absolutely,” Jindal responded.
George Rasley of Richard Viguerie’s ConservativeHQ told Breitbart News that if anyone—including Scalise—provides any material support for Obama’s executive amnesty by backing Boehner’s omnibus bill, that person is personally responsible for Obama’s executive amnesty.
“Last year during the Obamacare funding fight Sarah Palin said if you fund it you own it,” Rasley said in an email. “The same principle applies in spades to the Omnibus. If you vote for it you own everything in it; Obamacare, Obama's war on coal, amnesty, all of it.”
Numbers USA, an anti-amnesty group, is scoring a vote for the omnibus as vote for amnesty. So that group would consider it supporting amnesty if Scalise whips votes for the omnibus.
It’s worth noting that conservative Col. Rob Maness lives in Scalise’s Louisiana congressional district. Maness could end up deciding to launch a bid against him in the coming months, as Dave Brat did in ousting Eric Cantor of Virginia. In a recent interview with Breitbart News before all the details of this omnibus came up, Maness told Breitbart News he’s getting ready to launch a major hybrid PAC.
“I’ve established a new hybrid PAC called Gator PAC,” Maness, who secured 200,000 votes statewide in the Nov. 4 U.S. Senate election, said then. He adds:
It’s a hybrid, so part of it is a Super PAC. We’re going to focus on Constitutional conservative candidates who have not been active in politics before. We’re going to focus them not just at the local and state level, but also at the federal level. And also focus on folks who just want to be involved in the party and maybe want to be on the state central committee or maybe want to be on the executive committee at the parish level or run for councilman or mayor or those kinds of things. Constitutional conservatism is really what America is all about. It offers solutions that are away from these partisan extremes that people really can’t come to the table over. That’s what I’ve tried to focus on my entire campaign. I want to focus on that moving forward and give constitutional conservatives a voice in the Republican Party at the state and federal level.
Maness’ team wouldn’t comment when asked about whether he’d challenge Scalise in a primary. But polling data shows that Louisiana voters considered stopping Obama's amnesty the most important issue in Cassidy's recent election to the U.S. Senate.
Maness’ support for Cassidy over outgoing Democrat Mary Landrieu was crucial to Cassidy’s win and he’s gotten extraordinarily close with many top Republicans in the state. Sen. David Vitter (R-LA), one of the biggest opponents of Boehner’s omnibus deal that funds Obama’s amnesty and the likely next governor of Louisiana, and Maness have gotten very close lately. Like Jindal, Vitter used to represent Louisiana’s first district in the House before Scalise too.
Boehner has put some of his other top House GOP lieutenants at risk as well. Katrina Pierson, a conservative who ran against House Rules Committee chairman Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX), told Breitbart News that she's considering another run against Sessions after he pledged to push amnesty and helped enable the GOP leadership's deception of members on the Yoho bill. Viguerie's ConservativeHQ has publicly stated that Sessions is a "primary target" for conservatives in 2016 already because of his actions on this front.
House Appropriations Committee chairman Rep. Hal Rogers (R-KY) has drawn the ire of Tea Partiers in Kentucky, who are actively searching for a primary challenger for him at this time. Ingraham said on her radio program, too, that she's planning on targeting Rogers in 2016 and is launching her own search for a suitable primary challenger. Reported by Breitbart 21 hours ago.
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How the White South Became the White South Again
Lyndon B. Johnson made history in two ways with his trouncing of GOP rival Barry Goldwater in the 1964 presidential election. The first is that he won a greater percent of the popular vote than any other presidential winner in more than a century. He scored nearly 500 electoral votes and carried every state except six. But therein lies the second history-making aspect of his victory: It was the states that he didn't carry that reveal much about how the South became the white South again. Five of the six states Johnson lost were Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina. Johnson himself explained why in his now-famous quip that in ramming through the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the Democrats had "lost the South for a generation." Johnson's prescient remark wasn't totally accurate, though: It has been more like two, almost three, generations since white Democrats lost their stranglehold on the South.
The ousting of three-term U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-Louisiana) from her seat in the U.S. Senate by U.S. Rep. Bill Cassidy (R-Louisiana) put the capper on the white Southern flip-flop from Democrat to Republican. Cassidy even found the words to punctuate that fact when he declared that his victory put "the exclamation point" on the GOP's total dominance in the South. The South has no more white Democratic senators or governors, and the GOP controls nearly every Southern -- and nearly every border-state -- legislature.
The stock explanation for the white South's political cartwheel is race. Whites, nearly all of whom were staunch Democrats before 1964, were so angry with Johnson and the Democrats for championing civil rights and voting rights that they were ripe for the GOP pickings. An astute Richard Nixon quickly picked up on this in 1968 with his "Southern strategy," which meant, "Say little, and do less, about civil rights in the South."
An even more astute Ronald Reagan launched his 1980 presidential campaign at the Neshoba County Fair near Philadelphia, Mississippi, which was a stone's throw from where three civil-rights workers were murdered in 1964. Reagan nakedly pandered to whites' not-so-latent racial hostility when he told a virtually lily-white, wildly enthusiastic throng at the fair, "I believe in states' rights." In the 1980s GOP political guru Lee Atwater kicked race baiting into even higher gear, dangling a generous blend of vicious anti-black stereotypes, code words and phrases and outright naked racial pitches that played on white racial fears. The GOP strategy firmly locked down the majority of the popular and electoral vote in the 11 old Confederate states and the border states. Together these states hold more than one third of the electoral votes needed to bag the White House.
But apart from race, there's another explanation for the GOP's lock on Southern whites that's every bit as compelling. Goldwater, Nixon, and Reagan never once uttered the word "race" in their campaign pitches to Southern whites. They took another tack. In his Mississippi speech Reagan punched all the familiar coded attack themes: big government, liberals, welfare, and law and order. The template was set for reshaping the white Southern political dynamic.
Fast-forward three decades. In 2012 GOP presidential contender Mitt Romney and running mate Paul Ryan picked their joint campaign starting point and their audience just as deliberately as Reagan did. This time it was a battleship draped in red, white, and blue, docked in Norfolk, Virginia. The virtually lily-white audience cheered as Romney and Ryan punched the same familiar coded themes: out-of-control spending and bloated government. They punctuated it with the hard vow to take back America.
Romney and Ryan didn't openly champion states' rights as Reagan did. Instead they updated the coded themes by lambasting Democrats, wasteful big government, and runaway deficit spending on entitlement programs, launching a full-blown assault on the Affordable Care Act, Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, and labor unions. The majority of the recipients of these programs have always been white seniors, retirees, women and children, and white workers. But these programs have been artfully sold to many Americans as handouts to lazy, undeserving blacks, Hispanics and other minorities.
The final tallies in the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections gave ample warning of the potency of the GOP's conservative white constituency. Obama made a major breakthrough by winning a significant percentage of votes from white independents and young white voters. Among white male voters in the South and the American heartland, though, Obama made almost no impact.
Among white voters in South Carolina and other Deep South states, the vote was even more lopsided against Obama. The only thing that even made Obama's showing respectable in those states was the record turnout of black voters and the record percentage of the black vote that he got.
Landrieu, like every other white Democrat in the South, lost her Senate reelection bid in part because of race and in part also because Obama, like every other Democratic presidential candidate since Nixon's win in 1968, has been sold to white Southerners as the epitome of evil, big government. This is what made the white South the white South again, and the brutal reality is that it's going to stay that way for a long time.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson is an author and political analyst. He is a weekly co-host of Keepin' It Real With Al Sharpton, Rev. Sharpton's radio show. He is the author of How Obama Governed: The Year of Crisis and Challenge. He is an associate editor of New America Media. He is the host of the Hutchinson Report Newsmaker Hour, heard weekly on the nationally broadcast Hutchinson Newsmaker Network. Reported by Huffington Post 16 hours ago.
The ousting of three-term U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-Louisiana) from her seat in the U.S. Senate by U.S. Rep. Bill Cassidy (R-Louisiana) put the capper on the white Southern flip-flop from Democrat to Republican. Cassidy even found the words to punctuate that fact when he declared that his victory put "the exclamation point" on the GOP's total dominance in the South. The South has no more white Democratic senators or governors, and the GOP controls nearly every Southern -- and nearly every border-state -- legislature.
The stock explanation for the white South's political cartwheel is race. Whites, nearly all of whom were staunch Democrats before 1964, were so angry with Johnson and the Democrats for championing civil rights and voting rights that they were ripe for the GOP pickings. An astute Richard Nixon quickly picked up on this in 1968 with his "Southern strategy," which meant, "Say little, and do less, about civil rights in the South."
An even more astute Ronald Reagan launched his 1980 presidential campaign at the Neshoba County Fair near Philadelphia, Mississippi, which was a stone's throw from where three civil-rights workers were murdered in 1964. Reagan nakedly pandered to whites' not-so-latent racial hostility when he told a virtually lily-white, wildly enthusiastic throng at the fair, "I believe in states' rights." In the 1980s GOP political guru Lee Atwater kicked race baiting into even higher gear, dangling a generous blend of vicious anti-black stereotypes, code words and phrases and outright naked racial pitches that played on white racial fears. The GOP strategy firmly locked down the majority of the popular and electoral vote in the 11 old Confederate states and the border states. Together these states hold more than one third of the electoral votes needed to bag the White House.
But apart from race, there's another explanation for the GOP's lock on Southern whites that's every bit as compelling. Goldwater, Nixon, and Reagan never once uttered the word "race" in their campaign pitches to Southern whites. They took another tack. In his Mississippi speech Reagan punched all the familiar coded attack themes: big government, liberals, welfare, and law and order. The template was set for reshaping the white Southern political dynamic.
Fast-forward three decades. In 2012 GOP presidential contender Mitt Romney and running mate Paul Ryan picked their joint campaign starting point and their audience just as deliberately as Reagan did. This time it was a battleship draped in red, white, and blue, docked in Norfolk, Virginia. The virtually lily-white audience cheered as Romney and Ryan punched the same familiar coded themes: out-of-control spending and bloated government. They punctuated it with the hard vow to take back America.
Romney and Ryan didn't openly champion states' rights as Reagan did. Instead they updated the coded themes by lambasting Democrats, wasteful big government, and runaway deficit spending on entitlement programs, launching a full-blown assault on the Affordable Care Act, Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, and labor unions. The majority of the recipients of these programs have always been white seniors, retirees, women and children, and white workers. But these programs have been artfully sold to many Americans as handouts to lazy, undeserving blacks, Hispanics and other minorities.
The final tallies in the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections gave ample warning of the potency of the GOP's conservative white constituency. Obama made a major breakthrough by winning a significant percentage of votes from white independents and young white voters. Among white male voters in the South and the American heartland, though, Obama made almost no impact.
Among white voters in South Carolina and other Deep South states, the vote was even more lopsided against Obama. The only thing that even made Obama's showing respectable in those states was the record turnout of black voters and the record percentage of the black vote that he got.
Landrieu, like every other white Democrat in the South, lost her Senate reelection bid in part because of race and in part also because Obama, like every other Democratic presidential candidate since Nixon's win in 1968, has been sold to white Southerners as the epitome of evil, big government. This is what made the white South the white South again, and the brutal reality is that it's going to stay that way for a long time.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson is an author and political analyst. He is a weekly co-host of Keepin' It Real With Al Sharpton, Rev. Sharpton's radio show. He is the author of How Obama Governed: The Year of Crisis and Challenge. He is an associate editor of New America Media. He is the host of the Hutchinson Report Newsmaker Hour, heard weekly on the nationally broadcast Hutchinson Newsmaker Network. Reported by Huffington Post 16 hours ago.
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Women in Business Q&A: Maia Haag Co-Founder and President, I See Me! Inc.
Maia Haag is an entrepreneur and general manager who has gone from managing multi-million dollar businesses at General Mills to writing and self-publishing personalized children's books that have generated multi-millions in sales. Maia is the Co-Founder and President of I See Me! ), the largest publisher of personalized children's books in the world.
Haag's career began when she graduated with an English degree from Princeton, and was recruited by the marketing department of General Mills. During her six years at General Mills, she served in classic brand management positions. She was responsible for the profit and loss of brands such as Betty Crocker Brownies, for which she achieved record revenues of $75 million and a 40 percent increase in earnings over the previous year. General Mills recognized her performance with the "Outstanding Innovation Award" and twice with the "Outstanding Performance Award". In addition, the company gave her a full scholarship to Harvard Business School, where she earned her MBA.
The entrepreneur bug hit Haag when she was in her teens, and grew to a force that she could not ignore in 1998. While on maternity leave with her son, Haag wrote a personalized children's book called My Very Own Name. In this hardcover book, which is made especially for each child, animals bring letters one by one to create the first and last names of the child. At the end, they celebrate because they created the perfect name. Haag's husband, who is a graphic designer and Co-Founder of I See Me!, found an illustrator while she found a means of binding the book, and they self-published My Very Own Name. Haag developed a website iseeme.com and worked with a local printer to manufacture the book, which soon became a hot selling item for newborns and young children.
Haag put her marketing skills from General Mills to work build a direct-to-consumer business and she recruited a strong leadership team. Haag was recognized as one of the "Top 25 Women to Watch" by the Twin Cities Business Journal, and she was named the "Emerging Business Woman of the Year" by the National Association of Women Business Owners in 2004. In addition, her business was the 2004 Silver Seal Winner in the publishing industry's national Benjamin Franklin awards, in the category of "Innovative and Effective Marketing". Haag was also named a finalist for the national 2004 "Best Entrepreneur" Stevie Award granted in NYC. In 2006, 2007 and 2008, I See Me! Inc. made the Business Journal's Fast 50 List, representing the top 50 fastest growing privately-held companies in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area. In 2006, Haag was featured as a "Mom-preneur" in People magazine, and she received a 2013 Small Business Success award from Twin Cities Business Journal in 2013.
*How has your life experience made you the leader you are today?*
My father always assumed that I could anything, to the point that it surprised me as a child. He took me on whitewater canoe trips, encouraged me in middle school to go on a school trip to live with a family in France for three weeks, and encouraged me to try ROTC as a way to help pay for college. As a petit Southern girl, I found that his expectations of me were higher than what was culturally expected, and I wanted to rise to be everything that he thought I could be. I gained self-confidence and a tolerance for risk with each new endeavor. As a leader, I try to follow this same philosophy by encouraging our team to constantly try new things and not to be afraid of the unknown. We will figure it out. If we fail at some endeavors along the way, I work hard not to place blame and in fact I see occasional failures as learning tools and a positive sign that we are stretching ourselves.
*How has your previous employment experience aided your position at I See Me?*
I worked for two internet start-ups in the 1990's that went bankrupt before co-founding I See Me! with my husband. Through those experiences, I learned what not to do. In particular, I learned the downside of investing large sums of money into a concept or program before proving it out first. At I See Me!, we follow the philosophy of testing small to measure the outcome and then investing more once we have early indications of success. This allows us to mitigate our exposure as we try new things.
*What have the highlights and challenges been during your tenure at I See Me?*
The highlights have been hearing testimonials from parents that their children want to read our personalized books every night and take the books to school to show their friends. I've loved working with a top-notch leadership team who challenge me and impress me every day. I also love the creative process of developing new books and products. The challenges have been finding ways to grow a consumer brand without the multi-million marketing budget of a large company and determining when to invest in adding additional people to our team to prevent burn-out and enable additional growth.
*What advice can you offer women who are seeking to start their own business?*
To be most successful, I recommend starting a business in a field that requires skills and knowledge that you have acquired. You may not have worked in that industry, but your skills and knowledge should apply to that industry. Also consider your passions when determining what business will be right for you because you will live and breathe this business every day. If you are starting a product business, invest your time and energy in creating the best product possible because you will need to depend on word of mouth at the beginning to generate sales and your long-term success will come down to how much people want your product.
*How do you maintain a work/life balance?*
This is a constant challenge for me and I don't have all the answers. I like the analogy that we each have a cup that represents our work, our marriage, our children and ourselves. When one cup overflows, it's time to start filling the other cup before it gets dry. What works for me is to plan regular vacations and family events when I can be totally present for my family, to plan dates with my husband and to schedule exercise classes that go on my calendar. Being an entrepreneur can be all-consuming, but on the other hand, I love the flexibility that having our own business gives my husband and me to attend school-related and sports events with our children.
*What do you think is the biggest issue for women in the workplace?*
We have a leadership team that is a balance of strong, successful women and men, so I do not see issues on a regular basis for women in the workplace. When I was at General Mills, the biggest issue that I saw was that the women tended to be more task-oriented and did not always take the time or have the confidence to build relationships with executives at the higher levels. They assumed that if they did a good job, they would be noticed, but this wasn't enough when the men were socializing more. This is why it is important for senior female executives to reach out to other female employees.
*How has mentorship made a difference in your professional and personal life?*
I learned the importance of mentorship when I first started at General Mills when I was struggling in my position as a newly graduated college student, and my manager told me how much he believed in me. Knowing that I had his support motivated me to dig in deep to perform at a higher level. At I See Me!, I created an advisory board of successful business leaders in the community to meet with me and our leadership team quarterly and provide guidance. This advisory board has provided both business advice and networking contacts. I also joined a women presidents group to gain insights and support from like-minded women.
*Which other female leaders do you admire and why?*
I admire Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, the Founder and Chairman of Joyus, a website that is the digital equivalent to QVC. She has also been a consumer internet and media executive at Google, Amazon and other global companies. I have heard her speak about how to scale a company. Her message resonates with me that a CEO's most important job is to constantly bring the best employees possible into the company and to look for employees who can operate at both a high strategic level and down in the trenches.
*What do you want I See Me to accomplish in the next year?*
Our company is continuing to expand. We will be introducing several new personalized book titles and other personalized gifts. I See Me! was recently acquired by the McEvoy Group, which also owns Chronicle Books. Our new relationship with Chronicle Books offers many opportunities that we hope to capitalize on within the next year. We also are continuing to develop the I See Me! brand with moms and grandparents. Reported by Huffington Post 8 hours ago.
Haag's career began when she graduated with an English degree from Princeton, and was recruited by the marketing department of General Mills. During her six years at General Mills, she served in classic brand management positions. She was responsible for the profit and loss of brands such as Betty Crocker Brownies, for which she achieved record revenues of $75 million and a 40 percent increase in earnings over the previous year. General Mills recognized her performance with the "Outstanding Innovation Award" and twice with the "Outstanding Performance Award". In addition, the company gave her a full scholarship to Harvard Business School, where she earned her MBA.
The entrepreneur bug hit Haag when she was in her teens, and grew to a force that she could not ignore in 1998. While on maternity leave with her son, Haag wrote a personalized children's book called My Very Own Name. In this hardcover book, which is made especially for each child, animals bring letters one by one to create the first and last names of the child. At the end, they celebrate because they created the perfect name. Haag's husband, who is a graphic designer and Co-Founder of I See Me!, found an illustrator while she found a means of binding the book, and they self-published My Very Own Name. Haag developed a website iseeme.com and worked with a local printer to manufacture the book, which soon became a hot selling item for newborns and young children.
Haag put her marketing skills from General Mills to work build a direct-to-consumer business and she recruited a strong leadership team. Haag was recognized as one of the "Top 25 Women to Watch" by the Twin Cities Business Journal, and she was named the "Emerging Business Woman of the Year" by the National Association of Women Business Owners in 2004. In addition, her business was the 2004 Silver Seal Winner in the publishing industry's national Benjamin Franklin awards, in the category of "Innovative and Effective Marketing". Haag was also named a finalist for the national 2004 "Best Entrepreneur" Stevie Award granted in NYC. In 2006, 2007 and 2008, I See Me! Inc. made the Business Journal's Fast 50 List, representing the top 50 fastest growing privately-held companies in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area. In 2006, Haag was featured as a "Mom-preneur" in People magazine, and she received a 2013 Small Business Success award from Twin Cities Business Journal in 2013.
*How has your life experience made you the leader you are today?*
My father always assumed that I could anything, to the point that it surprised me as a child. He took me on whitewater canoe trips, encouraged me in middle school to go on a school trip to live with a family in France for three weeks, and encouraged me to try ROTC as a way to help pay for college. As a petit Southern girl, I found that his expectations of me were higher than what was culturally expected, and I wanted to rise to be everything that he thought I could be. I gained self-confidence and a tolerance for risk with each new endeavor. As a leader, I try to follow this same philosophy by encouraging our team to constantly try new things and not to be afraid of the unknown. We will figure it out. If we fail at some endeavors along the way, I work hard not to place blame and in fact I see occasional failures as learning tools and a positive sign that we are stretching ourselves.
*How has your previous employment experience aided your position at I See Me?*
I worked for two internet start-ups in the 1990's that went bankrupt before co-founding I See Me! with my husband. Through those experiences, I learned what not to do. In particular, I learned the downside of investing large sums of money into a concept or program before proving it out first. At I See Me!, we follow the philosophy of testing small to measure the outcome and then investing more once we have early indications of success. This allows us to mitigate our exposure as we try new things.
*What have the highlights and challenges been during your tenure at I See Me?*
The highlights have been hearing testimonials from parents that their children want to read our personalized books every night and take the books to school to show their friends. I've loved working with a top-notch leadership team who challenge me and impress me every day. I also love the creative process of developing new books and products. The challenges have been finding ways to grow a consumer brand without the multi-million marketing budget of a large company and determining when to invest in adding additional people to our team to prevent burn-out and enable additional growth.
*What advice can you offer women who are seeking to start their own business?*
To be most successful, I recommend starting a business in a field that requires skills and knowledge that you have acquired. You may not have worked in that industry, but your skills and knowledge should apply to that industry. Also consider your passions when determining what business will be right for you because you will live and breathe this business every day. If you are starting a product business, invest your time and energy in creating the best product possible because you will need to depend on word of mouth at the beginning to generate sales and your long-term success will come down to how much people want your product.
*How do you maintain a work/life balance?*
This is a constant challenge for me and I don't have all the answers. I like the analogy that we each have a cup that represents our work, our marriage, our children and ourselves. When one cup overflows, it's time to start filling the other cup before it gets dry. What works for me is to plan regular vacations and family events when I can be totally present for my family, to plan dates with my husband and to schedule exercise classes that go on my calendar. Being an entrepreneur can be all-consuming, but on the other hand, I love the flexibility that having our own business gives my husband and me to attend school-related and sports events with our children.
*What do you think is the biggest issue for women in the workplace?*
We have a leadership team that is a balance of strong, successful women and men, so I do not see issues on a regular basis for women in the workplace. When I was at General Mills, the biggest issue that I saw was that the women tended to be more task-oriented and did not always take the time or have the confidence to build relationships with executives at the higher levels. They assumed that if they did a good job, they would be noticed, but this wasn't enough when the men were socializing more. This is why it is important for senior female executives to reach out to other female employees.
*How has mentorship made a difference in your professional and personal life?*
I learned the importance of mentorship when I first started at General Mills when I was struggling in my position as a newly graduated college student, and my manager told me how much he believed in me. Knowing that I had his support motivated me to dig in deep to perform at a higher level. At I See Me!, I created an advisory board of successful business leaders in the community to meet with me and our leadership team quarterly and provide guidance. This advisory board has provided both business advice and networking contacts. I also joined a women presidents group to gain insights and support from like-minded women.
*Which other female leaders do you admire and why?*
I admire Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, the Founder and Chairman of Joyus, a website that is the digital equivalent to QVC. She has also been a consumer internet and media executive at Google, Amazon and other global companies. I have heard her speak about how to scale a company. Her message resonates with me that a CEO's most important job is to constantly bring the best employees possible into the company and to look for employees who can operate at both a high strategic level and down in the trenches.
*What do you want I See Me to accomplish in the next year?*
Our company is continuing to expand. We will be introducing several new personalized book titles and other personalized gifts. I See Me! was recently acquired by the McEvoy Group, which also owns Chronicle Books. Our new relationship with Chronicle Books offers many opportunities that we hope to capitalize on within the next year. We also are continuing to develop the I See Me! brand with moms and grandparents. Reported by Huffington Post 8 hours ago.
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GOP leader McConnell welcomes Sen.-elect Cassidy
Cassidy will get a seat on the Energy and Natural Resources Committee.
Reported by USATODAY.com 16 hours ago.
Reported by USATODAY.com 16 hours ago.
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Sarah Palin Throws Down Gauntlet to GOP: Block Obama Amnesty Funds or Face 'America's Wrath'
In a post on her Facebook page late Wednesday evening, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin—the 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee—said that Republicans in Congress must block Obama’s amnesty and his “fundamental transformation of America” or face “America’s wrath” in the next elections.“Grant me this use of America's voice,” Palin asked her audience of millions of followers. “When you cut through all the ‘inside baseball’ stuff in this Omnibus Spending Bill that's in front of Congress, you're left with two cold hard facts: this bill doesn't defund Obama's amnesty (so he gets to reward lawbreakers with your tax dollars) and it adds to our dangerous, unsustainable debt.”
“It also breaks campaign promises made by quite a few of our incumbent politicians on both sides of the aisle,” Palin added.
Hey, if you thought we wanted more of the same as we worked our butts off to get good folks elected in November, then why did we vote to oust liberals who got America into this mess in the first place? Guess what, GOP: our victory party is over and voters are wide awake and trusting you to keep your promises to America. Get a handle on your debt. Stop Obama's amnesty to illegal aliens. Support our military. Bottom line: we elected you to stop Obama's "fundamental transformation of America." Do it – especially you Republicans who promised to do it. Or face America's wrath next go 'round because an elephant never forgets.
Palin linked to two different news stories. The first is a Politico story that details how Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell differ greatly on how to handle this lame duck session of Congress.
The second story is a Breitbart News article on how the new House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, a Louisiana Republican, is in serious political jeopardy back home for his role in backing up Obama’s executive amnesty by providing material support for Speaker John Boehner’s 1,603-page, $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill. Scalise took over in the whip slot this summer after now Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy moved into Eric Cantor's slot, when now Rep. Dave Brat (R-VA) beat Cantor in a primary this year.
The story discusses conservative U.S. Senate candidate Col. Rob Maness—who Palin backed in the lead-up to Louisiana’s Nov. 4 jungle primary election against now GOP senator-elect Bill Cassidy and Democratic incumbent Sen. Mary Landrieu, who just lost to Cassidy in the runoff. Maness lives in the heart of Scalise’s district, and while those close to him wouldn’t comment for the Breitbart News story questioning whether he’d run against Scalise, he’s a wildly popular conservative in the state who got more than 200,000 votes with almost no outside help and little money in the statewide Senate race.
Maness has since been successful in connecting with top GOP leaders in Louisiana, getting particularly close with Sen. David Vitter (R-LA), who used to represent Scalise’s House district years ago. Maness is also close with Gov. Bobby Jindal, a conservative who’s been calling on the Louisiana delegation to buck this omnibus spending bill and back efforts from Vitter and other conservatives to block Obama’s executive amnesty funding. Jindal also used to represent Louisiana’s First Congressional district before Scalise.
Scalise’s office hasn’t responded to a series of press requests from Breitbart News over the past couple weeks about why he’s backing the Boehner omnibus and whether he’d be working to whip votes for it, but a Wednesday night post from Politico confirmed that he is in fact supporting the bill that provides material support for Obama's executive amnesty.
“The mood was tense in the Capitol Wednesday when GOP leaders started whipping the bill and Senate Democrats were unsure how many of their House counterparts would vote for the bill,” Politico’s Jake Sherman and John Bresnahan wrote.
But Pelosi and Boehner have been in close contact. On Wednesday morning when they spoke, Boehner demurred when Pelosi asked how many Democratic votes he needed. That responsibility falls to House Majority Whip Steve Scalise of Louisiana, Boehner answered. Boehner warned Pelosi that if the large bill failed, he would have a short-term funding bill ready for immediate consideration. If Republican defections swell, Scalise could catch blame, but if the GOP posts better-than-expected numbers, he’ll start off the 114th Congress with a stronger hand.
Palin also backed Tea Party activist Katrina Pierson against House Rules Committee chairman Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX) in a primary earlier this year. While Pierson—a first-time candidate who took a drubbing from the liberal media—lost, she did manage to get 36 percent of the vote after getting into the race late with little funding or outside help outside of Palin’s support. In the wake of Sessions’ work to help Boehner get this omnibus bill backing Obama’s amnesty to the finish line—and his likely vote for it on Thursday, should it actually come up for the vote if it doesn’t falter beforehand—Pierson has floated the possibility of running against him again in 2016 and has made appearances on major national media like Fox Business Network fueling speculation she’s getting ready for another run. Reported by Breitbart 17 hours ago.
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"Gallows" - cast: Cassidy Gifford, Ryan Shoos, Reese Mishler, Price T. Morgan, Mackie Burt
*Release date :* July 10, 2015*Synopsis :* Likened to 1997's I Know What You Did Last Summer, Superstition is a "found footage" story set at a high ... Reported by AceShowbiz 11 hours ago.
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Vionic Gives Back to Local Women’s Organizations for the Holidays
Vionic Supports Program Donates to Survivors of Domestic Violence
San Rafael, CA (PRWEB) December 11, 2014
Vionic Group’s charitable giving arm, Vionic Supports, is giving back this season to local organizations working to prevent domestic violence and help survivors rebuild their lives free from the threat of abuse.
La Casa de Las Madres in San Francisco and the Center for Domestic Peace in San Rafael will receive gift boxes for residents in permanent housing this holiday season. Vionic is working with local partners Callina apparel and EO products to gift 180 boxes, featuring Vionic slippers, self-care products and more, which will be delivered to both shelters later in the month.
“We are thrilled to have this wonderful present to give to these women,” says Shannon Cassidy, Development Associate at La Casa de Las Madres. “This is an incredible donation, the women we serve will be so grateful.” La Casa serves 160 women and their families in its two permanent residence facilities, the Mary Elizabeth Inn and the Verona Hotel.
“I am overwhelmed with happiness at the exhibition of your organization’s kind acts,” says Jeffrey Holton, Operations Manager at the Center for Domestic Peace, which houses 21 Marin County families.
“It’s important to us as a company to reach out and to connect with our community on this level,” says Chris Gallagher, CEO of Vionic Group. “We fully support these organizations and the work that they do to help women in the Bay Area move forward through traumatic circumstances and get their lives back. Our slippers are a small token that will hopefully provide these women with some measure of physical comfort this holiday season.”
To learn more about Vionic Supports, visit http://www.vionicshoes.com/giving-back.
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Vionic footwear merges unparalleled biomechanical technology with versatile, modern design fit for every occasion. Developed by Phillip Vasyli, renowned Australian podiatrist and founder of Orthaheel Technology, Vionic shoes help restore natural foot function and relieve foot pain due to misalignment, promoting a more active lifestyle. Vionic’s footwear and orthotic inserts are also endorsed by noted integrative medicine expert, Dr. Andrew Weil. With premium materials, artful construction and streamlined silhouettes, Vionic’s men’s and women’s collections provide standout style with exceptional comfort and functionality.
The Vionic footwear collection is available at select quality retailers across North America, including Nordstrom.com, Dillard’s, Belk and Zappos.com, and at VionicShoes.com. Reported by PRWeb 9 hours ago.
San Rafael, CA (PRWEB) December 11, 2014
Vionic Group’s charitable giving arm, Vionic Supports, is giving back this season to local organizations working to prevent domestic violence and help survivors rebuild their lives free from the threat of abuse.
La Casa de Las Madres in San Francisco and the Center for Domestic Peace in San Rafael will receive gift boxes for residents in permanent housing this holiday season. Vionic is working with local partners Callina apparel and EO products to gift 180 boxes, featuring Vionic slippers, self-care products and more, which will be delivered to both shelters later in the month.
“We are thrilled to have this wonderful present to give to these women,” says Shannon Cassidy, Development Associate at La Casa de Las Madres. “This is an incredible donation, the women we serve will be so grateful.” La Casa serves 160 women and their families in its two permanent residence facilities, the Mary Elizabeth Inn and the Verona Hotel.
“I am overwhelmed with happiness at the exhibition of your organization’s kind acts,” says Jeffrey Holton, Operations Manager at the Center for Domestic Peace, which houses 21 Marin County families.
“It’s important to us as a company to reach out and to connect with our community on this level,” says Chris Gallagher, CEO of Vionic Group. “We fully support these organizations and the work that they do to help women in the Bay Area move forward through traumatic circumstances and get their lives back. Our slippers are a small token that will hopefully provide these women with some measure of physical comfort this holiday season.”
To learn more about Vionic Supports, visit http://www.vionicshoes.com/giving-back.
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Vionic footwear merges unparalleled biomechanical technology with versatile, modern design fit for every occasion. Developed by Phillip Vasyli, renowned Australian podiatrist and founder of Orthaheel Technology, Vionic shoes help restore natural foot function and relieve foot pain due to misalignment, promoting a more active lifestyle. Vionic’s footwear and orthotic inserts are also endorsed by noted integrative medicine expert, Dr. Andrew Weil. With premium materials, artful construction and streamlined silhouettes, Vionic’s men’s and women’s collections provide standout style with exceptional comfort and functionality.
The Vionic footwear collection is available at select quality retailers across North America, including Nordstrom.com, Dillard’s, Belk and Zappos.com, and at VionicShoes.com. Reported by PRWeb 9 hours ago.
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