**
**IF YOU CAN'T ACCESS THE FULL ARTICLE, CONTACT US AT
rays.list@comcast.net and we'll be happy to send the full article.
=
Boston.com
http://www.boston.com/news/world/articles/2006/12/15/white_house_criticizes_senators_trip_to_syria?mode=PF
White House criticizes senator's trip to Syria
By Lesley Clark, Mcclatchy Newspapers | December 15, 2006
WASHINGTON -- The White House escalated its criticism yesterday of SenatorBill Nelson's defiant diplomacy trip to Syria as a parade of other senatorsprepared to meet with the president of the country.
At a press briefing, White House spokesman Tony Snow repeated his contentionthat the Florida Democrat's trip was "not helpful" and "not appropriate." Hecharged that "lending a further specter of legitimacy to that governmentundermines the cause of democracy in the region."
President Bush has accused Syria of backing the insurgents fighting in Iraq.
Nelson, on what he described as a fact-finding tour of the Middle East, toldreporters on a conference call Wednesday that he met for an hour with BasharAssad. He said the Syrian president "clearly indicated the willingness tocooperate" with the US or Iraqi Army to secure the border between the twocountries.
=
Technology Review
http://www.technologyreview.com/printer_friendly_article.aspx?id=17722
Mnday, November 13, 2006
Part I: Philanthropy's New Prototype
The cofounder of MIT's Media Lab, Nicholas Negroponte, wants to make $100laptops available to poor children throughout the world. The next few monthswill be critical in determining whether the One Laptop per Child projectsucceeds.
By James Surowiecki
In the decades after the Civil War, libraries were scarce in much of theUnited States. Many towns had no library at all, and those libraries thatdid exist were typically small and private, run by clubs or lodges that hadscraped together collections of books to lend to their members or, onoccasion, to outsiders who paid a fee for borrowing privileges. For the mostpart, towns did not have library buildings; book collections were housedinstead in cheap offices or in unused space in public buildings. Even inbigger cities, it was often difficult to borrow books. Until the very end ofthe 19th century, Pittsburgh, for instance, had just one private lendinglibrary, and it struggled to stay afloat. And few people, if any, tookseriously the idea that every town in the country should have a publiclibrary where citizens would have free and equal access to books.
Andrew Carnegie changed all that. Carnegie was an embodiment of the AmericanDream; born poor in Scotland, he had emigrated to the United States andbuilt a fortune in the steel industry, turning himself into one of thecountry's wealthiest and most powerful businessmen.
=
Forwarded from Victoria Lavin
Daily Queer News
dailyqueernews@yahoo.com
http://www.alternet.org/stories/45277/
Jon Tester: A New Kind of Populist
By Joshua Frank, AlterNet
Posted on December 15, 2006, Printed on December 15, 2006
http://www.alternet.org/story/45277/
He's not exactly the type of Democrat you'd be likely to see backslappingNew York City fat cats on their way into an elaborate fund raiser forHillary Clinton. In fact, Jon Tester, the senator-elect from Montana, isn'tyour typical Democrat. He's almost not a Democrat at all, or at least notthe kind we're used to seeing run around Washington these days. In factTester ran his campaign against Senator Conrad Burns (R-Mont.) on just thatplatform. He was tired of the scandals and dishonesty that engulf ournational politics and professed that the polluted Beltway could use a littleMontana house cleanin'. Voters agreed, and Burns, who had ties to the nowincarcerated power broker Jack Abramoff, was defeated in one of the tightestraces in state history.
=
Forwarded from Victoria Lavin
Daily Queer News
dailyqueernews@yahoo.com
http://mensnewsdaily.com/2006/12/14/federal-court-rules-that-establishment-clause-allows-government-to-run-religions/print/
Federal Court Rules that Establishment Clause Allows Government to RunReligions
Source: John Bambenek | Published 14th December 2006 @ 22:16 In Vox Populi,Current Events, Politics, Religion | 1 Comment
The City of San Francisco recently labeled the Catholic Church to be a [1]hateful organization and engaged in a tirade of anti-Catholic rhetoric. It'snot surprising that the City of San Francisco would engage in a childishrant because the Catholic Church reiterated a theological position that hasbeen held for thousands of years, after all, they same council expressedsupport [2] convicted cop-killers. What is surprising is that the attempt ofthe City to intervene in a purely ecclesiastical matter was ruled [3]"constitutional" by a Carter-appointed federal judge.
In writing on the case, the federal judge states:
=
The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/15/opinion/15fri1.html?pagewanted=print
December 15, 2006
Editorial
A Gag on Free Speech
The Bush administration is trampling on the First Amendment andwell-established criminal law by trying to use a subpoena to force theAmerican Civil Liberties Union to hand over a classified document in itspossession. The dispute is shrouded in secrecy, and very little has beenmade public about the document, but we do not need to know what's in it toknow what's at stake: if the government prevails, it will have engaged inprior restraint - almost always a serious infringement on free speech - andit could start using subpoenas to block reporting on matters of vital publicconcern.
Justice Department lawyers have issued a grand jury subpoena to the A.C.L.U.demanding that it hand over "any and all copies" of thethree-and-a-half-page government document, which was recently leaked to thegroup. The A.C.L.U. is asking a Federal District Court judge in Manhattan toquash the subpoena.
=
Forwarded from Victoria Lavin
Daily Queer News
dailyqueernews@yahoo.com
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article2076137.ece
Diplomat's suppressed document lays bare the lies behind Iraq war
By Colin Brown and Andy McSmith
Published: 15 December 2006
The Government's case for going to war in Iraq has been torn apart by thepublication of previously suppressed evidence that Tony Blair lied overSaddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction.
A devastating attack on Mr Blair's justification for military action byCarne Ross, Britain's key negotiator at the UN, has been kept under wrapsuntil now because he was threatened with being charged with breaching theOfficial Secrets Act.
In the testimony revealed today Mr Ross, 40, who helped negotiate several UNsecurity resolutions on Iraq, makes it clear that Mr Blair must have knownSaddam Hussein possessed no weapons of mass destruction. He said that duringhis posting to the UN, "at no time did HMG [Her Majesty's Government] assessthat Iraq's WMD (or any other capability) posed a threat to the UK or itsinterests."
=
The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/15/washington/15senate.html?ei=5094&en=ad6dfb721843ef06&hp=&ex=1166245200&partner=homepage&pagewanted=print
December 15, 2006
Ill Senator Is Called Responsive; Capital Is Riveted
By KATE ZERNIKE
WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 - Senator Tim Johnson, Democrat of South Dakota, wassaid to be in critical condition but "responsive" Thursday after anoperation to stop bleeding in his brain, and Democrats declared that hiscondition would not imperil the narrow majority they will carry into theSenate next month.
The attending physician of the Capitol, Adm. John F. Eisold, who examinedMr. Johnson before he was sent to the hospital Wednesday, said the bleedingwas caused by a rare tangling of the blood vessels in the brain, known as acongenital arteriovenous malformation, that physicians say often goesundetected. The operation successfully drained the blood and stabilized theproblem, Admiral Eisold said in a statement released by Mr. Johnson'soffice.
=
The LA Times
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-brooks15dec15,0,6240143,print.column?coll=la-home-commentary
ROSA BROOKS
Barack's ready
Look beyond Obama's two years in the Senate and you'll see that he's wellprepared to run for president.
Rosa Brooks
December 15, 2006
SO WHY not Barack Obama?
On his swing through New Hampshire last weekend, Obama drew rapturouscrowds. But many pundits continue to assume that he'll be just a flash inthe pan, sharing the fate of Howard Dean, the one-time Democratic hottie whoflamed out before the campaign season ended.
Sure, say his detractors, Obama is a symbol of hope to Americans desperatefor politics that transcend barriers of race, class and ethnicity. Butcharisma isn't everything - it can't make up for lack of experience. Obamahas never been "tested." Can he withstand the rigors of the campaign trail?When the ads go negative (start looking now for sly insinuations that a mannamed Barack Hussein Obama can't be trusted!), will he fall apart? Can hehandle the challenges of leading the world's last limping superpower throughan era fraught with conflict and danger?
=
The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/15/nyregion/15legis.html?pagewanted=print
December 15, 2006
New Jersey Lawmakers Approve Borrowing $270 Million for Stem-Cell Research
By DAVID W. CHEN
TRENTON, Dec. 14 - In an end to a two-year journey that was as much aboutpolitics as it was about science, legislators on Thursday approved NewJersey's most sweeping and financially ambitious effort to take a lead rolein stem-cell research.
By comfortable margins, the State Senate and the General Assembly authorizedborrowing $270 million to build the state's first stem-cell research centersin New Brunswick, Newark and Camden. Gov. Jon S. Corzine said on Thursdaythat he would enthusiastically sign it.
"It's, I think, one of the great initiatives that this state has taken on,"Mr. Corzine said. "I think it really does sustain our leadership as therecognized medicine chest of certainly the country, and probably the globe."
Approval of the stem-cell measures came on a madcap final session of theyear in which the calendar was crammed with several pieces of majorlegislation.
=
The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/15/us/15execute.html?pagewanted=print
December 15, 2006
Death Sentences Decline, and Experts Offer Reasons
By NEIL A. LEWIS
WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 - The number of death sentences in the United States hasdropped to its lowest level in decades, according to recent studies,including one released Thursday that predicts the trend will continuebecause of publicity about cases in which people are wrongly accused ofcrimes.
The Death Penalty Information Center, a group based in Washington, reportedthat the number of death sentences, which had remained at about 300 a yearin the 1990s, began to drop steadily in 1999 and has declined almost 60percent since then.
At the Justice Department, the Bureau of Statistics reported last week thatthere were 128 death sentences in 2005, down from 138 the year before. Whilethe department study does not include an estimate for 2006, the DeathPenalty Information Center, which opposes the death penalty and tracks casesclosely, says the number for this year will be about 114.
=
The Chicago Tribune
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0612150327dec15,1,7823782.story?coll=chi-news-hed
Obama on Obama
In a wide-ranging talk, the senator discusses how he stacks up againstClinton and McCain and reveals what's factoring into his decision
By Rick Pearson
Tribune political reporter
December 15, 2006
On the cusp of a historic decision over whether to run for the White House,Sen. Barack Obama said Thursday that he believed he would be a "viablecandidate" for president who could move the nation beyond the generationalpolitics that have defined the last 40 years.
"I wouldn't run if I didn't think I could win," Obama (D-Ill.) said in awide-ranging, hour-long interview with the Tribune editorial board in whichthe senator articulated a rationale for his potential candidacy, confidencein his ability to win and an assessment of potential opponents--bothDemocratic and Republican.
Obama said he would reveal his decision in January, after a two-week familyvacation that returns him to his roots in Hawaii, setting an extraordinaryarc for a politician who a little more than two years ago was a statesenator toiling in Springfield.
=
The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/15/opinion/15fri3.html?pagewanted=print
December 15, 2006
Editorial
Rogues and Fools
This week's conference in Iran of Holocaust deniers and racists was,predictably, a circus of Holocaust denial and racism argued by discreditedscholars and even the former Ku Klux Klan leader, David Duke. But one shouldnever underestimate the political power of these vicious ideas, even amongsupposedly respectable people across the Middle East and beyond.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran apparently believes his claims thatthe murder of six million Jews by the Nazis is a myth ginned up to justifythe creation of the state of Israel. That is frightening enough. Couple thatwith his calls to wipe Israel off the map and his government's - so farunrestrained - drive to develop the technology needed to build a nuclearweapon, and you have even more reasons to keep yourself up at night.
What is also frightening is that Mr. Ahmadinejad believes there is politicalbenefit in these hate-filled lies and may well be right.
=
The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/14/AR2006121401364_pf.html
A War Bush Wouldn't Pay For
By E.J. Dionne Jr.
Friday, December 15, 2006; A35
Believe it or not, winning the war in Iraq was never the Bushadministration's highest priority. Saving its tax cuts was more important.That was once spoken of as a moral problem. Now it's a practical barrier toa successful outcome.
Until recently President Bush's refusal to scale back any of his tax cutswas discussed as the question of shared sacrifice: How could we ask so muchfrom a courageous group of Americans fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan butnot ask even the wealthiest of their fellow citizens to part with a fewextra dollars to support an endeavor supposedly central to our nation'ssecurity? On the contrary, even after we committed to war in Iraq, theadministration pushed for yet more tax cuts in dividends and capital gains.
Now we know that the decision to put the war on a credit card is not simplya moral question. The administration's failure to acknowledge the real costsof the war -- and to pay them -- has put it in a corner.
=
USA Today
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/census/2006-12-14-americans-media_x.htm
Americans will devote half their lives to forms of media next year
Posted 12/14/2006 8:27 PM ET
By Janet Kornblum, USA TODAY
Americans love their media - so much that next year they'll spend nearlyhalf their lives watching TV, going online, listening to the radio (ormusic) and reading. That's what the U.S. Census Bureau is predicting in its"Statistical Abstract of the United States: 2007," out Friday.The annual report uses data from several sources, including private industryand non-profits. It has statistics on everything from elections totransportation to finances.
In 2000, Americans spent 3,333 hours consuming media - and most of that time(1,467 hours) was spent in front of the TV, according to Veronis SuhlerStevenson, a media-oriented money management company that supplied much ofthe media data used in the report.
=
The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/14/AR2006121401363_pf.html
What Syria Would Say
By David Ignatius
Friday, December 15, 2006; A35
DAMASCUS, Syria -- What positions would Syria take if it entered a dialoguewith the United States about Iraq and other Middle East issues? I put thatquestion Thursday to Walid Moallem, Syria's foreign minister, and he offeredsurprisingly strong support for the recommendations made last week in theBaker-Hamilton report.
"We are not against the U.S.," Moallem said. "To the contrary, we want to bepart of a regional dialogue that, in our opinion, serves American interestsin the region." He described America and the region as being at a"crossroads" and said: "Either we go for stability, or the region will fall,and religious civil wars and the extremists behind them will take over."
Moallem's comments are the most detailed Syrian response to therecommendations of the bipartisan Iraq Study Group, headed by formersecretary of state James A. Baker III and former representative Lee H.Hamilton.
=
The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/15/nyregion/15union.html?_r=1&ei=5094&en=45097b0a49c69563&hp=&ex=1166158800&oref=slogin&partner=homepage&pagewanted=print
December 15, 2006
Legislators Vote for Gay Unions in N.J.
By LAURA MANSNERUS
TRENTON, Dec. 14 - The Legislature voted on Thursday to make New Jersey thethird state in the nation to recognize civil unions for same-sex couples. Indoing so, it moved quickly to fulfill a court mandate to provide equalrights to gay couples but frustrated people on both sides of the emotionalissue.
Gov. Jon S. Corzine, who is expected to sign the measure into law, said, "Ithink we're doing the right thing."
In joining Vermont and Connecticut in establishing the parallel institutionof civil unions, New Jersey shunned the option of opening marriage tosame-sex couples. Massachusetts is the only state that allows gay marriage,and it has a residency requirement; some same-sex couples have married inCanada.
=
The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/15/washington/15medicare.html?ei=5094&en=797e8e88f34c1627&hp=&ex=1166245200&partner=homepage&pagewanted=print
December 15, 2006
Last-Minute Inserts Offer Benefits in Medicare Bill
By ROBERT PEAR
WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 - By slipping four sentences into a big bill passed lastweek, Speaker J. Dennis Hastert secured a major change in Medicare policyavidly sought by a few health insurers, in particular a multinationalcompany with headquarters in his home state, Illinois.
In the final hours of the 109th Congress, the Senate Democratic leader,Harry Reid of Nevada, also got special treatment for a hospice in his state.The bill did not name the hospice, but specified the Medicare providernumber for the intended beneficiary, the Nathan Adelson Hospice in ruralPahrump, Nev.
Representative Bill Thomas, Republican of California, inserted a provisionearmarking $40 million for a valley fever vaccine sought by hisconstituents, while the Senate Republican leader, Bill Frist of Tennessee,obtained tens of millions of dollars for hospitals in his state.
=
The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/14/AR2006121401367_pf.html
In Baker's Blunder, A Chance For Bush
By Charles Krauthammer
Friday, December 15, 2006; A35
As a result of the Iraq Study Group, President Bush has been given one lastchance to alter course on Iraq. This did not, however, come about the wayJames Baker intended. It came about because the long-anticipated reportturned out to be, as is widely agreed, a farce. From its wildly hyped,multiple magazine-cover rollout (Annie Leibovitz in Men's Vogue, no less) toits mishmash of 79 (no less) recommendations, the report has fallen so flatthat the field is now clear for the president to recommend to a war-wearycountry something new and bold.
The study group has not just been attacked by left and right, Democrat andRepublican. It has invited ridicule. Seventy-nine recommendations.Interdependent, insists Baker. They should be taken as a whole. "I hope wedon't treat this like a fruit salad and say, 'I like this but I don't likethat.' " On the basis of what grand unifying vision? On the authority ofwhat superior wisdom? A 10-person commission including such Middle Eastexperts as Sandra Day O'Connor, Alan Simpson and Vernon Jordan?
=
The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/14/AR2006121401816_pf.html
Executive Compensation Comes Into The Clear
By Terence O'Hara
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, December 15, 2006; D01
Shareholders can expect a clearer picture of how much top executives arepaid as new rules go into effect today, requiring companies to clearlyexplain their compensation practices.
The new regulations mark the biggest change to corporate pay disclosure in25 years. They will force companies to release more information aboutdifferent kinds of compensation and to more clearly justify those payments.
The Securities and Exchange Commission ordered the changes this year inresponse to a rising backlash against annual double-digit percentageincreases in executive pay. The Corporate Library said this year that payfor chief executives at more than 1,700 public companies grew 16 percent in2005, down from 30 percent in 2004.
=
The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/13/AR2006121301907_pf.html
Farewell to Pax Americana
By Robert J. Samuelson
Thursday, December 14, 2006; A31
With hindsight we may see 2006 as the end of Pax Americana. Ever since WorldWar II, the United States has used its military and economic superiority topromote a stable world order that has, on the whole, kept the peace andspread prosperity. But the United States increasingly lacks both the powerand the will to play this role. It isn't just Iraq, though Iraq has beenprofoundly destabilizing and demoralizing. Many other factors erode U.S.power: China's rise; probable nuclear proliferation; shrinking support foropen trade; higher spending for Social Security and Medicare that squeezesthe military; the weakness of traditional U.S. allies -- Europe and Japan.
By objective measures, Pax Americana's legacy is enormous. Since Hiroshimaand Nagasaki, no nuclear device has been used in anger. In World War II anestimated 60 million people died. Only four subsequent conflicts have hadmore than a million deaths (the Congo civil war, 3 million; Vietnam, 1.9million; Korea, 1.3 million; China's civil war, 1.2 million), reports theCenter for International Development and Conflict Management at theUniversity of Maryland.
=
The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/13/AR2006121300452_pf.html
Antidepressants a Suicide Risk for Young Adults
Study Says Cases Double for Those 18 to 25 Using Medicine to ControlDepression
By Shankar Vedantam
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, December 14, 2006; A16
Widely used antidepressants double the risk of suicidal behavior in youngadults, from around three cases per thousand to seven cases per thousand,according to a huge federal analysis of hundreds of clinical trials. Itmarks the first time regulators have acknowledged that the drugs can triggersuicidal behavior among patients older than 18.
Officials at the Food and Drug Administration said yesterday that the higherrisk was found in patients 18 to 25 and that the risk faded among olderpatients. The finding comes two years after the agency ordered a "black box"warning on the drug labels following the discovery of a heightened risk ofsuicidal behavior among children taking the pills.
=
The New York Times
http://select.nytimes.com/2006/12/12/opinion/13talkingpoints.html
December 12, 2006
Talking Points
Judges for Sale
By DOROTHY SAMUELS
It was bound to happen sooner or later. Special interests have long targetedcandidates for executive offices, like president and governor, andlegislative offices, like Congress and state legislatures. It was just amatter of time before well-heeled business and other interests would expandtheir influence-peddling efforts, and begin pouring large amounts of moneyinto previously sleepy judicial campaigns.
Several years ago, it started happening - first in just a few states, thenspreading to a lot more. The unwholesome result is the dawn of a new era ofraucous million dollar-plus campaigns for key state judgeships that isforcing more and more would-be jurists to bond with special interestbackers, and invest in cheesy 15- and 30-second TV spots, if they want toget on the bench, and stay there.
As spending by special interests in state judicial elections soars into thestratosphere, something very precious to Americans is being grievouslycompromised. And in certain pockets of the country, it seems well on the wayto being lost altogether. That precious something is the integrity andimpartiality of the nation's courts.
=
Forwarded from Kenneth Sherrill - Ken's List
Kenneth.Sherrill@hunter.cuny.edu
kenslist@groups.queernet.org
Lawrence Spohn: 14th Amendment protection
By Larry Spohn
Thursday, December 14, 2006
http://www.abqtrib.com/news/2006/dec/14/lawrence-spohn-14th-amendment-protection/
No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges orimmunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive anyperson of life, liberty or property without due process of law; nor deny toany person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
That's the essence of the 14th Amendment, appended to the greatest politicaldocument ever written, the Constitution of the United States of America. Itspeaks to our equality under law and guarantees it. No exceptions. Noexcuses. No end runs.
It's the law of the land, down to the state and hamlet level; yet, it is notbeing followed. And so far, politicians, governments and the courts haveallowed that to stand.
=
http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20061214/a_fecfines14.art.htm
3 '527' political groups penalized for roles in 2004 election
By Fredreka Schouten
USA TODAY
WASHINGTON - Three independent political groups paid six-figure settlementsto resolve charges that they broke campaign-finance laws in the 2004presidential election, the Federal Election Commission said Wednesday.
The action is the first clampdown on outside political groups, FEC ChairmanMichael Toner said, and could diminish the role of such organizations.
Swift Boat Veterans and POWs for Truth paid $299,500 in penalties; theMoveOn.org Voter Fund paid $150,000; and the League of Conservation Voters527 and 527 II paid $180,000.
The groups stepped over the line by either raising funds or by paying foractivities that called for the election or defeat of the presidentialcontenders, Toner said.
=
Forwarded from Victoria Lavin
Daily Queer News
dailyqueernews@yahoo.com
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/johnson&printer=1
Sen. Johnson 'recovering' after surgery
By MARY CLARE JALONICK and TOM RAUM, Associated Press Writers 18 minutes ago
Democratic Sen. Tim Johnson (news, bio, voting record) lay in criticalcondition but was described as recovering Thursday after emergency overnightsurgery to repair bleeding inside his brain. His illness raised questionsover whether the Democrats would hold their newly won control of the Senate.
The South Dakota lawmaker, 59, was on "an uncomplicated post-operativecourse," the U.S. Capitol physician said after visiting him Thursdayafternoon. Johnson suffered a hemorrhage in his brain caused by a rare andsometimes fatal condition.
"He has been appropriately responsive to both word and touch. No furthersurgical intervention has been required," said the physician, Adm. JohnEisold. He had said earlier, "The senator is recovering withoutcomplication."
=
Forwarded from Victoria Lavin
Daily Queer News
dailyqueernews@yahoo.com
http://news.yahoo.com/s/cq/20061214/pl_cq_politics/democratsstillweighingwheretohold08convention&printer=1
Democrats Still Weighing Where to Hold '08 Convention
By Rachel KapochunasWed Dec 13, 7:25 PM ET
Democrats with 2008 on their minds will have to wait a bit longer to learnwhether their party will hold its presidential nominating convention inDenver or in New York City. While a site selection announcement was widelyexpected to have been made by now, DNC spokesman Damien LaVera saidWednesday that "a final decision has not been made."
But LaVera added that party officials likely are not going to put thatdecision off much longer, stating that the choice of which city will hostthe convention - to be held Aug. 25-28 in 2008 - is likely to come beforeJan. 1.
The Republican National Convention got the jump in the conventionsweepstakes in September by naming the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolis asthe location for its 2008 convention, to be held Sept. 1-4.
[Send your comments about articles to Rays.List@Comcast.net]
#####
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment