| Bill Clinton Stops in Siouxland
President Bill Clinton made five stops in Iowa Thursday along with the support of former Governor Tom Vilsack. Their second stop in Spencer, Clinton challenged the county, which pulls in 320-thousand people for the Clay County Fair, to pull in that many to caucus for Hillary Clinton. President Clinton says Hillary has a plan to change health care in the U.S. and that plan stars with changing medicare. Bill Clinton, Former President of the United States, "Instead of having a back door attempt to privatize medicare, Hillary says get rid of that, take the savings back into medicare and provide preventative care for all the seniors so we can reduce the cost of medicare over the long run and keep everybody healthier we can do it for far less money." Bill says Hillary also has a plan to change the country into a "green" country which he says would create millions of dollars and jobs.
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Biggest backers of Unit 5 referendums are district employees
The teachers' union, the first to give, donated $10,000 β the largest to date. Superintendent Gary Niehaus personally donated $2,000.As of Monday, donations totaled about $23,065, according to the committee treasurer David Rutledge of Bloomington. In all 22 individuals, six businesses, four parent-teachers organizations, and the Unit 5 Education Association have given to the cause, said committee co-chairman Carl Teichman.Expenses to date total almost $20,000 and include radio and newspaper advertisements, yards signs, mailings and campaign buttons, he said, adding he expects final donations to total more than $30,000.On Feb. 5, district voters will be asked to approve a $96.7 million building project to build two new elementary schools, add onto another, construct a new middle school, renovate eight existing schools and upgrade security and technology at all schools.
GRIEGO: Politics, race mix
Upon being given the opportunity to cajole Obama supporters into joining the Clinton camp or vice-versa, first-time caucus-goer and Denver Public School Board member Arturo Jimenez, an Obama supporter, said in Spanish: You have a great opportunity to support a candidate who offers hope to many communities. It doesn't matter, your race, age, gender. I wished Sergio Bendixen were there. Bendixen is the Clinton pollster quoted in a recent interview with the New Yorker as saying, βthe Hispanic voter β and I want to say this very carefully β has not shown a lot of willingness or affinity to support black candidates." Let us lay that canard to rest. If that were true, Wellington Webb would never have become Denver's mayor. And he was just one African-American mayor buoyed by Latino support in this nation.
U.S. election coverage
Barack Obama's showing was nearly as impressive. He won Connecticut, Georgia, Alabama, Delaware, Utah and his home state of Illinois. He also prevailed in caucuses in North Dakota, Minnesota, Kansas, Idaho and Colorado. While Clinton and Obama are locked in a protracted battle for delegates that is far from over, the New York senator turned back what many had predicted would be a Super surge for Obama, who had drawn tens of thousands of supporters to a series of rallies across the country in his frenetic sprint to voting day. Because of the way Democrats apportion delegates, based on the proportion of votes in congressional districts, Clinton's headline-grabbing night will not necessarily translate into a huge jump in delegate support and the two already have their sights set on crucial upcoming faceoffs in Maryland, Virginia, Ohio and Texas.
Desperation Strikes
If the fact that it has won six Emmy awards and two Golden Globes isn’t enough to get you to tune in to Desperate Housewives, the American television dramedy that has achieved cult status in only its first season, perhaps the scandals and intrigue will. Last month, Showtime began airing the hit series, which is currently being aired in over forty countries, about a picture-perfect neighborhood somewhere in suburban America where a handful of, yes, desperate housewives, and their families have plenty of skeletons in their closets - and under their swimming pools as well. .
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