As the Abramoff scandal continues to unfold, more and more lawmakers are under scrutiny for their dealings with the ex-superlobbyist . Today, Utah State Congressman Chris Cannon has announced that he will return $2,000 in contributions from Abramoff.
Up until Abramoff’s plea agreement, Cannon had refused to return the money.
There is a catch to Cannon’s recent move, however:
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David Baldwin, a New York-based freelance writer, peace activist and Green Party member, has written an article published in ZNet called The Green Moment.
Baldwin provides a brief analysis of the history and current state of the Republican and Democrat Parties and outlines how the Green Party, the only “Peace Party”, can fill the void of instability of the two aforementioned parties.
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Yesterday, 125 cities across the nation held candlelight vigils to honor those who have died while homeless. In Utah there were 42 homeless people who died in 2005. Most suffered from chronic illnesses, according to the artilce, such as AIDS, diabetes, alcholosim, etc. Most causes of death were from complications of those illnesses and not exposure.
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It seems that’s what’s happened with our Utah senators.
Last week I wrote about Utah’s Represenatives voting for a $230 million tax cut.
Today’s Salt Lake Tribune has reported that our state senators are carefully examining the proposed tax cut, stating that they are listening to their consituents who are angry over such a cut.
It’s about time.
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At a time when infrastructure is jeopardized, citizens are facing a 30% increase in heating costs, Many Utahns are without health care, and educational systems are floundering, Utah Rebpublican legislators have proposed a $230 milliontax cut. This amount is four times more than Governor Huntsmans recommended cut (already an impractical measure, in my opinion).
The people who will see the “benefits” of this cut, if it passes, are not the working people. Further, if this cut passes and the following year sees a big tax increase, it will not be the wealthy that feels that increase. It will be the people who were never benefited from the tax cut of the year before.
It’s a lose-lose situation. Our budget should be taking surplus funds and funds that would be given back in the form of tax cuts and allocating them to much needed services that would benefit everyone.
It’s funny how clearly we remember some things while other memories remain distant and vague.
I remember exactly where I was and who told me that John Lennon had been killed on December 8, 1980.
Ever since the Tulsa Convention there has been much to-do about the seat left vacant on the nationsl GPUS Steering Committee as a result of the elections leavning such a vacancy. There recently came about a proposal from California regarding this, with two people up for being placed in the vacant seat, each sharing the votes by half.
Today, Tom Sevigny, one of the two, and the person who won the election via the voting method that was used in Tulsa (one of the points of contention is the actual voting method), resigned from the party all together. A veteran Green, he’s had it.
This has made me very sad.
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Robert Redford, creator of the annual Sundance Institute in Utah (which was created to support independent film), will receiving an award tonight at the 28th annual Kennedy Center Honors, an award given to people who have amassed a life of achievement in the arts.
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Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, 67, was elected Africa’s first head of state in a historic election in Liberia.
This is being seen as a turning point in war-torn Liberia, turning the page on decades of lawlessness and corruption after back-to-back civil wars since 1989.
People were dancing in the streets at the news. “We want stability, free education and also reconciliation, and I believe that Mrs Sirleaf has the best interests of the Liberian people in mind.”
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