To unsubscribe send "leave chuckmuth" in body of message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or hit reply with "remove" in subject or go to http://www.incor.com/l10003/newsletter.htm to remove X-ListMember: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] ***************************** SF Mayor Follows in Jesse Jackson's Footsteps "San Francisco's flamboyant Democratic mayor, Willie Brown, announced that one of his chief political fund-raisers has given birth to his daughter. Mr. Brown, 66, is married and already has three grown children and two grandchildren. The baby, Sidney Minetta Brown, was born Sunday to mayoral fund-raiser Carolyn Carpeneti, 38." - Greg Pierce's "Inside Politics," 4/11/01 *************************** Tales From the Left Side Welcome to the good, the bad and the ugly of American politics. Liberal excesses, conservative successes. Clowns to the left; jokers to the right. Catch 'em all right here in GOP News & Views ... a daily Internet e-newsletter for Republican activists, supporters, political leaders and elected officials. If you know someone who does not receive our FREE GOP News & Views briefings, send their e-mail address to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can also now read GOP News & Views daily on the Republican Liberty Caucus web site at: http://www.RepublicanLibertyCaucus.com . **************************** Toward a More Color-Blind Society "Civil rights provocateur Ward Connerly will announce today his effort to secure a ballot measure that would prevent California public agencies, including colleges and universities, from collecting data on race and ethnicity. ... Mr. Connerly's group, the American Civil Rights Coalition, will begin this month to solicit 700,000 signatures from registered voters in order to put the new measure on a March 2002 ballot. The coalition noted the heavy focus on race in the 2000 census, which many saw as intrusive, as proof that U.S. governments have become too race-conscious." - Washington Times, 4/11/01 *************************** Size Doesn't Matter "A good teacher can capably lead a classroom of 50; a bad teacher can't handle five." - Columnist Ken Ward, 4/11/01 *************************** Why Don't Republicans Speak, Act Like This? "Strange as it sounds, George W. Bush could learn a thing or two about education and government spending from Minnesota's professional-wrestler-turned-Governor, Jesse 'The Governing Body' Ventura. After two years of pulling his punches, Mr. Ventura's second two-year budget calls for a hefty $1 billion tax cut and holds spending to a 5% increase. He has also body-slammed the biggest myth of state spending: that more money equals better education. He calls the education bureaucracy a 'black hole' that consumes 44% of the state's expenditures. 'For them no amount of money would be enough,' he laments. "The Governor has even challenged school districts that have sent groups of students to the state capitol on school days to lobby for more spending. He says it's time for Education Minnesota, the behemoth union, created by a merger of the state's two teachers unions, to stop 'using kids as political pawns.' He also argues that educators should be reclassified as 'essential state employees' and thereby lose their ability to legally strike." - Wall Street Journal editorial, 4/11/01 ************************** GOP Behind the 108-Ball in Battle for Senate Control "Republicans will probably need to win at least a Democratic-held seat or two in order to retain control of the Senate in the 108th Congress, and they think they've found an incumbent they can take out in Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu. But in reality, Landrieu is a good example of the problems Senate Republicans are facing heading into the next election. For if the Louisiana freshman is the weakest Democratic link, then the Republicans could have trouble knocking off even a single Senator in 2002." - Political analyst Stuart Rothenberg, Roll Call, 4/9/01 ****************************** Rosie's Gun Poll Backfires "Talk show host and anti-gun activist Rosie O'Donnell is conducting a poll on gun control at her online magazine 'Rosie.' Given her views, she may wish she hadn't. Among respondents, 82 percent say, 'I think everyone has a right to own a gun with no restrictions.' Only 2 percent say, 'I'm for gun control.' A combined 13 percent support private ownership if licensing or point-of-sale background checks are in place. The site doesn't say how many people have participated in the poll but the percentages are probably giving the Koosh-loving host heartburn." - Peter Roff, "UPI's Capitol Comment," 4/10/01 ************************* Your Union Dues At Work * A federal grand jury handed down a 56-count indictment Mar. 21 against Donald G. Martin, ex-boss of United Steelworkers of Am. Local 8681 in Knoxville, Tenn., for union corruption. Allegedly, he embezzled more than $6,875 in union funds. * Allegedly, members of the N. Ohio Firefighters Union have accused a member of Local 639 of embezzling money from union coffers. The thefts are alleged to have occurred over more than a decade and total as much as $160,000. The FBI is reportedly investigating. * Randy Kamp, ex-president of the Paper, Allied-Indus., Chem. & Energy Workers Int'l Union local in Waterloo, Iowa, pled guilty to a $4,773 union embezzlement. Kamp was accused in Feb. 2001 of stealing union funds between June-Nov. 1999. He faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine. * The Fla. Edu. Ass'n is suing its ex-staffer, claiming Kimberly Richey stole $66,000 from FEA's Port Charlotte office. * The ex-boss of Laborers' Int'l Union of N. Am. Local 66 on Long Island, Michael LaBarbara, Jr., who is serving a nine-year prison sentence for union corruption, has been charged with bribing a prison guard to help him smuggle food, toiletries, tattoo ink and a sperm kit into a federal prison in Allenwood, Pa. * Thomas J. Scotto, the president of the NY.C. police detectives union has been named as an unindicted co-conspirator in what federal prosecutors say was an organized-crime scheme to use kickbacks to union leaders and mob threats and violence to tap pension funds, inflate stock values and defraud thousands of investors. * Thirteen former and current members of the Int'l Longshoremen's Ass'n in the Port of Miami were indicted Mar. 27 for helping to smuggle cocaine through the Port. The indictments are the result of undercover investigations conducted by the U.S. Customs Serv. and Drug Enforcement Admin. from 1992-97. Smugglers transported 44,000 pounds of cocaine into the United States during that time with the help of the 13 members. - "Union Corruption Update," 3/30/01 *************************** You Have to Be Active To Be An Activist Contact your senator or congressman by calling: (202) 224-3121 Contact the White House by calling: (202) 456-1414 *************************** Learn Before You Get Burned Don't play politics blind. Learn what to do, how to do it and when to do it BEFORE throwing your hat into the ring. Visit www.CampaignTraining.org today and sign up for the FREE weekly e-newsletter, "Campaign Hot Tips. Because coming in second place is like not even being there. ********************************** EVENTS & e-CLASSIFIEDS *********************************** * Is it time to renew the CODE OF ETHICS FOR GOVT SERVICE ? 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