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WHO IS THIS MAN? What kind of president will he be?

Right now, no one knows.

BY CATHLEEN DECKER LOS ANGELES TIMES / TNS

WASHINGTON – One week after Donald Trump won the presidency, the country he will take over in approximately two months lacks a precise idea of what he will do as the nation’s chief executive.

President Obama has tried to push Trump in the direction of pragmatism.

The president-elect’s colleagues on Capitol Hill are trying to pull him in a more ideologically conservative

direction. Some members were in fact few of those, of his own team are advo- and mostly without details. cating a more provocative In the absence of a preline. dictable path, Trump stands in contrast to previNo details ous Republican presidents.

George W. Bush came in Uncertainty reigns because Trump came in- as a “compassionate conto office riding the anger servative” bent on expandof an electorate whose re- ing the GOP’s reach. His sentments he correctly as- father, George H.W. Bush, sessed, rather than because ran on a desire to soften Americans fully embraced the edges of his more ideohis policy positions. There logical predecessor, Ronald

ORLANDO – Republican governors have a surprising message for President Barack Obama: We’ll miss you.

Their “Demonize Obama” strategy has worked spectacularly well politically, said Republicans.

Obama has “presided over one of the most remarkable resurrections of the Republican Party,” Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin told the Republican Governors Association, meeting this week at Orlando’s Waldorf Astoria resort.

He and others proudly reeled off the numbers: In Obama’s first year in office in 2009, there were 22 Republican governors. Now there will be at least 33, the party’s strongest state House showing since 1922.

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WHY DEMOCRATS LOST – 13 REASONS

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Gov. Rick Scott, right, and Charlie Crist faced off in the second of three Florida gubernatorial debates in October.

Largest in decades

1. State Democratic leadership believes that Black political support is an entitlement and refused to invest serious money in longterm registration and turnout activities. The numbers tell the story. Democrat Charlie Crist lost by a little more than 1 percent (66,000 votes of 5.7 million cast). The Florida Democratic Party, its candidates and associated entities spent approximately $137 million during the 2014 cam-

paign cycle. They still lost the races for the governor’s mansion, the Florida Cabinet and a supermajority of the seats in the state House.

It’s a law of political physics that to win Florida statewide, every Democrat MUST run up the vote count in South Florida: Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach. Those three counties are three of Florida’s largest by population, have the largest number of Democratic voters in the state and have high-density Black populations.

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Democrats controlled both chambers of Congress when Obama first won the White House. Republicans this year have their biggest House of Representatives majority since 1931, and will return next year with almost as strong a majority.

And though 24 of the 34 Senate seats up for election this year were held by Republicans, the party emerged with a majority.

Now, they need to score another way – by governing.

‘The last full measure of devotion’

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This is the wall of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., on Monday, the eve of Veterans Day 2014.

More than 58,000 names of U.S. military members who died in the Vietnam War are engraved on the wall.

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Winslow apologizes to Rattler community SPECIAL TO THE FLORIDA COURIER

How hurricane crippled Haiti’s tourism industry FAMU Athletic Director Kellen Winslow.

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Democratic ‘bed-wetters’ criticized House Dems wage leadership fight

BY BRANDON LARRABEE THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA

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A preliminary Florida Courier review of 2014 Democratic gubernatorial expenditures indicates that less than onehalf of one percent of the total Democrats spent went to long-term Black voter registration, Black-focused advertising, Black “get out the vote” (GOTV) drives in South Florida’s tri-county area. Almost no money was spent with Blackowned businesses – caterers, printers, etc.

Instead, Crist, the state party, Black politicians and sym-

A rebellion against leadership by some Florida House Democrats burst into the open Friday, three days after the party lost six seats in the midterm elections and gave Republicans a supermajority in the chamber.

Rep. Dwayne Taylor, D-Daytona Beach, confirmed that he would challenge incoming House Minority Leader Mark Pafford, DWest Palm Beach, at a caucus meeting scheduled for Nov. 17, one day before of the Legislature’s organizational session.

Pafford was slated to be formally elected to the po- Mark sition during that Pafford meeting.

Taylor said he and others tried to raise concerns with Pafford before the end of the spring legislative session, but saw little change in the caucus’ approach to the elections.

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Republicans demonize Obama, make historic political gains

Reagan. Reagan presented a sense of ideological certainty that is so far lacking in Trump, despite his many efforts to cast Reagan as his model.

Former House Speaker John A. Boehner, a veteran reader of Washington’s ways, said Tuesday that even he was unsure what type of president Trump would be.

OLIVIER DOULIERY/ABACA PRESS/TNS “Nobody really knows,” Boehner said in an inter- President-elect Donald Trump looks on in the Oval view on CNBC. “Donald Office of the White House during a meeting last Trump is not an ideologue. week with President Obama in their first public step

TALLAHASSEE, – Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU) Athletic Director Kellen Winslow issued a statement Wednesday promising to be more measured and collaborative when making decisions and communicating with students, the Board of Trustees, faculty, alumni, and supporters.

Two weeks ago, Winslow unexpectedly fired Head Football Earl Holmes, igniting calls for Winslow himself to be fired just as Homecoming events were kicking off at Florida’s largest historically Black college or university.

“This change was necessary at this time to provide new leadership and direction for our students and to ensure that we can have a new coach in place in time to build a staff and begin recruiting” Winslow, Sr. said in a press statement at the time.

Holmes’s termination brought harsh criticism students from FAMU trustees, faculty, prominent alumni, and supporters.

Measured apology “When I was asked to assume the role of athletic director at FAMU, I came knowing it is an institution with a long and proud history of winning, a university

with legendary athletic figures like Jake Gaither, Willie Galimore, Althea Gibson, and Bob Hayes,” said Winslow.

“Upon my arrival, it was evident that we had numerous issues that required immediate attention and I focused my energies on addressing those issues.

Acting with the best of intentions and my zeal for positive changes, some of my actions were conveyed in a manner that were inconsistent with my goals and objectives and offended some members of the Rattler community. To those I have offended, I offer my sincerest apologies,” See WINSLOW, Page A2

The Democratic wipeout on Tuesday leaves the party with little to no leverage in dealing with Republicans, whose 81-38 advantage gives them a free hand to run the House without fear of interference.

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Two years ago, the Florida Courier reported on results of the 2014 statewide general elections, and why Democrats continue to lose. The newspaper also paid tribute to its founder, Charles W. Cherry, Sr., on the tenth anniversary of his death on Nov. 16, 2004.

Scott gets his chance New justice will move court rightward

BY DARA KAM THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA

TALLAHASSEE – The Florida Supreme Court Judicial Nominating Commission will interview all 11 applicants vying to replace Justice James E.C. Perry, whose forced retirement is giving Gov. Rick Scott the opportunity to make an imprint on the state’s high court midway through the governor’s second term.

Perry, 72, is forced to leave the court because the state Constitution requires justices to retire when they turn 70 years old. The law allows justices like Perry to fulfill the remainder of their terms, depending on when their birthdays fall.

The nine-member nominating commission unanimously decided Monday to interview all the applicants for the post on Nov. 28. The panel plans to provide Scott a short list of six names that night or the following day, giving the governor plenty of time to make a decision before Perry’s resignation goes into effect Dec. 30, according to commission chairman Jason Unger.

‘No vacancy time’ “We wanted to do it a little expeditiously to give him enough time to do his full vetting,” Unger told The News Service of Florida in an interview Monday. “In an ideal situation, there’ll be no vacancy time. The governor will have his appointee ready to go, and actually start meeting with the court and the court processes, before the vacancy actually hits.”

Perry is among five jurists who make up a liberal-leaning majority of the seven-member court, which has drawn the wrath of the Republican governor and the GOP-dominated Legislature.

Scott’s anticipated appointment of a third conservative to the bench, joining justices Charles Canady and Ricky Polston, “may very well change the way the court has been ruling on cases,” former Justice Gerald Kogan told the News Service after Perry announced his resignation in September.

Legacy pick The selection of a Supreme Court justice can help define a governor’s legacy.

“It is one of those appointments and one of those decisions that a governor makes that has a lasting effect, often times far outlasting their service in the governor’s mansion,” Unger said Monday.

Based on their resumes, several of the candidates seeking to replace Perry would bring a decidedly more conservative approach to the bench.

For example, Fifth Judicial Circuit State Attorney Brad King has been an outspoken proponent of a new law dealing with the death penalty. In a 5-2 decision last month, the state Supreme Court ruled that the law was

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‘Oh, Mary, don’t you weep’ “Tell Martha not to mourn.”

There’s no need for America’s Black communities to boo-hoo about the stunning victory by President-elect Donald Trump in the 2016 United States presidential election.

What changes?

If you were poor during the years of the Barack Obama presidency, you will be poor during Trump’s turn. If you didn’t get any government contracts then, don’t look to participate in federal purchasing transactions now.

If, over the past eight years, you, your family members or your neighbors were stopped, frisked, profiled, pulled over, over-charged, over-prosecuted, beaten, shot and/or killed, there will no need to dream about different treatment.

If you’re “Tony Romo” and you get replaced by “Dak Prescott,” the Dallas Cowboy NFL team is the same; the plays are the same; the owner is the same; the league is the same.

It’s like that in politics. The job

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unconstitutional because it did not require unanimous jury recommendations for the death penalty to be imposed.

Another candidate, state Rep. Larry Metz, R-Yalaha, was just named to a leadership post by incoming House Speaker Richard Corcoran. Metz, a lawyer, was elected to the state House in 2010 and also served on the Lake County School Board.

Appeals judges apply Two Fifth District Court of Appeal jurists have also applied for the post. One of them – Judge Wendy Berger – once worked as an assistant general counsel for former Gov. Jeb Bush. According to her application, Berger was responsible for advising Bush on death penalty cases, as well as on criminal and civil justice issues.

Scott appointed Berger to the appeals court in 2012.

The appellate court’s chief judge, C. Alan Lawson, has also

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is the same. Personalities will differ, styles differ, temperaments differ, there is a difference in racial makeup – but the political game plan remains the same.

No matter who is president or who is elected president, the commander-in-chief will always do what his campaign contributors tell him to do!

How it works If you don’t know by now, save this column to understand how government works.

No president keeps his campaign promises. They can’t.

Congress makes the laws. The president only signs them – or not. Congress appropriates the federal dollars. The president only proposes allocations and expenditures. The president can

applied. Bush appointed Lawson to the appeals court in 2006.

Other judges who have applied include Ninth Judicial Circuit jurists Alice Blackwell, who has served on the bench since 1991, and Patricia Strowbridge, appointed by Scott in 2015; Judge Michelle Morley of the Fifth Judicial Circuit; and Judge Michael Rudisill of the 18th Judicial Circuit.

The list of applicants also includes Assistant U.S. Attorney Roberta Bodnar, of the Middle District of Florida; Orlando trial lawyer Daniel Gerber; and Sylvia Grunor, a Maitland personal-injury and family-law attorney.

Brevard to Citrus Perry’s replacement will have to be a resident of the area covered by the Fifth District Court of Appeal, which stretches across the state from Brevard to Citrus counties and includes counties such as Orange, Volusia, Marion and St. Johns.

Applicants must also have been a member of The Florida Bar for at least the past 10 years, as required by the state Constitution.

appoint a Supreme Court justice and maybe other federal judges, but the president can’t force a judge to consider or rule a certain way on any piece of legislation.

Yes, the president can make some executive decisions, and give pardons and things like that.

But he can’t raise a Black village or a single Black child. No matter who is president, AfricanAmericans will always have to depend on themselves!

Do for self!

We have to make our own money, generate our own revenue, and create our own job opportunities. We have to police and protect our own neighborhoods. We have to educate our own youth and others in our communities that seek knowledge and wisdom.

We have to make our own decisions about our community. We have to control the politics in our community, and abandon fake leaders that are merely puppets of the Democratic and Republi-

can Parties.

We have to “plead our own cause.” We have to support Blackowned newspapers, TV and radio stations and Black Internet sites. We have to talk about what’s important to us and write about what’s important to us. We have to run away from so-called mainstream media like a runaway slave running away from the plantation!

Think about it How many times do you have to be politically misled, punked, jacked and bamboozled before you stop politicians from lying to you, using you, abusing you and taking your campaign contributions and giving your money to political vampires that suck the political lifeblood out of Black communities?

The party that you love got about 90 percent of Black votes cast, but only felt like they should spend less than 2 percent of campaign money you contributed back to businesses in your neighborhood.

When you cry and moan about a political party that takes for granted the political support of

Tom Urban of the News Service of Florida contributed to this report.

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President Obama delivered his final State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress at the Capitol on Jan. 12, 2016.

Reverse Obama’s actions The governors want Trump to undo the more controversial Obama executive actions, such as those that stopped deportation of some children of illegal immigrants. They also hope the new Republican-controlled Congress will repeal as much of Obamacare as possible and lower the corporate tax rate.

But the governors also know history. They know that in 1981, Ronald Reagan won approval of a massive tax cut by summer, but his poll numbers tumbled

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Gov. Rick Scott will replace Florida’s only Black male Supreme Court justice, James E.C. Perry.

… He is barely a Republican. He could be barely a Democrat as well. Nobody really knows where he is going.”

met privately with the governors Monday night and told them the Trump administration would have specific plans for Day One, Day 100 and Day 200.

Gov. Nikki Haley of South Carolina, who Wednesday was elected vice chair of the RGA, described the uncertainty: “They didn’t know what they were going to get with Donald Trump. They knew what they were going to get with Clinton, and something had to change.”

There are changes, the governors said, that could come within the first 100 days.

So many of the key issues have already been debated. That’s why, said Gov. Nathan Deal of Georgia, who served in Congress before becoming governor, Trump has to tackle “some of the issues we’ve been putting off for quite a while.”

Stop feeling mad about Donald Trump. Trump is no different than your neighbors, coworkers, health care providers, teachers, professors, church members and others that voted for Trump! Start feeling good for yourself, about yourself.

Whatever Trump does as president that regards African-Americans, only the poor AfricanAmericans will feel it. Rich Blacks will enjoy Trump’s proposed tax cuts!

Don’t worry about Trump.

UNITE!

The panel responsible for whittling down the list of applicants for Scott includes a number of high-profile lawyers tied to Florida Republicans.

Unger, the chairman, was on the team of lawyers who represented George W. Bush and Dick Cheney in the 2000 Florida recount. Unger has also represented the Republican Party of Florida and the GOP-dominated House of Representatives in legal challenges involving redistricting.

The panel also includes Jesse Panuccio, who formerly served as Scott’s general counsel and as the governor’s executive director of the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity; Daniel Nordby, a lawyer who worked for the Florida House of Representatives and the Florida Department of State, and is also a former general counsel of the Republican Party of Florida; and Fred Karlinsky, an influential insurance lobbyist with close ties to Scott.

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its most loyal base and feel sorry about losing candidates that feel you are professionally inferior, you’re not only a political idiot.

You are a traitor to your race!

as the nation endured its worst recession at the time since the Great Depression. They saw Bill Clinton get his big deficit-reduction plan passed in 1993, then see his party lose control of Congress the next year.

They’re also aware it takes 60 Senate votes to pass anything controversial over a filibuster protest from the Democrats, and Republicans will be far short. That could make it difficult to reverse efforts on climate change or pull out of the Iran nuclear deal, among other things.

Divisive issues Trump, the governors said, has to be careful not to invest too much political capital in an issue that would further divide the parties. They cite Obama’s 200910 successful, though partisan, fight for an overhaul of the health care system, an issue that poisoned already-tense relations between Democrats and Republicans.

“You were loading regulation onto a system rather than unleashing economic power,” said Gov. Sam Brownback of Kansas.

The nation was split over how to revamp the health care system when Congress debated Obama’s plans, and the divide remains.

Republicans have effectively exploited that concern – but now they’re the ones who have to come up with policies that don’t create a toxic political backlash.

They can’t blame everything on Obama after Jan. 20.

Trump filled the highest reaches of his governing team by simultaneously appointing a man who had pressed Republicans to reach out to women and non-Whites and another man who has used his media organization to blister women and minorities as part of an agenda closely allied to White nationalist sentiments.

In a “60 Minutes” interview that aired Nov. 13, Trump described the right to gay marriage as “settled” because the Supreme Court had approved of it in 2015. At the same time, he said he would work to overturn the abortion rights decision the high court had reached 42 years earlier.

The construction of a giant wall on the Mexican border? The shredding of U.S. alliances with NATO? Sending Hillary Clinton to jail? Those may or may not remain part of his administration’s program, but he has issued contradictory messages on all three.

Principled or negotiable?

After 17 months of campaigning, it remains unclear whether Trump’s positions are a matter of conscience and priority or the opening gambits of negotiations that might lead somewhere unforeseen.

Trump may have best described his approach during the campaign: “I like to be unpredictable,” he said on more than one occasion.

“This is a guy, the nearest I can tell, who is the closest we’ve had to an independent president,” said Reed Galen, a former George W. Bush administration official who opposed Trump.

“This is a guy who ran against Republicans, Democrats and Washington.

He’s not a conventional anything. Who knows how much he cares about unifying the country he won without them?”

Needs time Still, forces are at work to influence him.

“I don’t think he is ideological. I think ultimately he is pragmatic,” Obama said in a news conference, suggesting that Trump may eventually reside closer to the mainstream than his campaign indicated.

Obama practically pleaded with Americans to give Trump time to find his footing on the matters that will be before him on Jan. 20.

‘Think hard’ Among them is the fate of the so-called Dreamers, who were brought to the country by their parents at a young age, without proper papers. Obama protected them from deportation.

His administration collected information about them as a precursor to granting legal status.

Now, that information belongs to a government soon to be led by a president who has insisted that he would force out those without proper documents. Trump said in recent days that his priority is deporting 2 million to 3 million migrants who he says are criminals – and he has not said what happens to the rest.

“Think long and hard,” Obama publicly counseled Trump.

GOP push Countering Obama’s push

is one by members of the president-elect’s party on Capitol Hill.

House Speaker Paul D. Ryan has reinterpreted Trump’s campaign plans to merge with his own. Trump’s detail-short vow to repeal and replace Obamacare became, in the speaker’s hands, a mandate to wholly change the nation’s Medicaid and Medicare programs, making both less generous.

Ryan and Trump remain on opposite sides when it comes to their positions on trade, on the construction of the Mexico wall and the sort of infrastructure spending that Trump promised.

Impacted by polls If the campaign is any indication, the most important measurement pushing Trump one way or the other may be public opinion.

Nearly every speech he made included some reference to his strong standing in polls, whether that was true at the moment or not.

Interviews with Trump supporters at his rallies suggest that many are looking for a change in direction but will not hold Trump to achieving all of his promises. Executing some of them, however, probably will be necessary lest Trump look as ineffective as the politicians he defeated.

Based on what other presidents have done, “he will try to follow through with the promises that he made,” said Dartmouth political scientist Brendan Nyhan. Trump may be able to claim victory without actually fulfilling his promises, Nyhan believes.

“These aren’t all-ornothing questions and he’s shown himself to be willing to reverse himself on the dime,” he said. “We shouldn’t be surprised.”

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The few places with no Black-White income gap Counties in Georgia, Virginia and Illinois have higher Black household income than that of Whites

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WASHINGTON – The income gap between Black and White households has grown since 2000 and only worsened since the recession.

In 2015, the median income for Black households was 59.5 percent of that for Whites, or $36,544 to $61,394. That’s a greater

gap than at the end of the recession in 2009, when Black income was 61.2 percent of White income.

Yet, a tiny number of places exist where Black household income is greater than that of Whites. Of the 364 large U.S. counties whose populations are at least 5 percent Black, there are seven, according to a Stateline analysis of U.S. Census Bureau American

Community Survey data for 2010-14.

County near D.C. Among them: Stafford County, Va., an exurban bedroom community of Washington, D.C., and home to military installations, where many Black families find contract work or commute to government jobs in the nation’s capital.

The typical Black household there earned an average of $105,628 from 2010 through 2014, the highest income of the seven counties. White house-

holds earned an average of $99,533 during that time.

Washington, D.C., by contrast, had one of the biggest gaps in the nation — Black household income was $40,829, little more than a third of the $115,109 for white households.

Georgia, Illinois suburbs In Fayette County and Clayton County, Ga., suburbs of Atlanta, Black households made $83,396 and $41, 292 respectively compared to White household incomes of $80,500 and $40,231.

In nearby Fulton Coun-

ty, which includes Atlanta, Black households made $35,407 compared to Whites’ $88,279 — or just 40 percent of what White households made.

And in Kendall County, Ill., a Chicago suburb, Black households made $96,146 compared to the $89,236 of Whites. In Chicago’s Cook County the $34,935 Black median household income was less than half that of Whites.

Net worth gap Blacks’ higher income compared to Whites in

these exurban counties is an anomaly in a nation where income disparity has grown. Pay for Blacks, relative to Whites, has been shrinking since 2000, according to a study earlier this year by the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute (EPI).

Black men make 22 percent less than similarly qualified Whites, and Black women make 11.7 percent less than White women, the study found.

Besides higher earning power, White households have 13 times the net worth of Black households — a gap that has also grown since the recession, according to a Pew Research Center study this year. (The Pew Charitable Trusts funds both the Pew Research Center and Stateline.)

Higher marriage rates Besides being exurban areas, there are other similarities between some of the counties where Black household income is greater than for Whites. And the similarities don’t suggest a pathway to narrowing the income gap between Blacks and Whites across the nation.

In those with the highest Black income — Kendall County, Ill.; Stafford County, Va.; and Fayette County, Ga. — college education rates are high for both Blacks and Whites.

Marriage rates also are high, which results in more two-income families that can afford some of the expensive homes there.

Housing, schools College education creates job opportunities, but doesn’t fully explain or solve the Black-White income gap, according to the EPI study. Pay for new Black male college graduates, for example, is 18 percent below that for White male grads.

The greatest similarities may be their proximity to core urban areas and high-paying corporate or government jobs, as well as their supply of affordable, albeit expensive, homes and good schools.

Valerie Wilson of EPI said affluent Black families may have had to move farther from cities to find the good housing and schools they seek because the Black middle class, with less net worth, cannot afford rising housing prices in the cities or private schools.

Geography matters

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Andrez Beltran, the economic development coordinator for Kendall County, Ill., suggests that is the case there.

“Affluent African-American families move out of Chicago or the near suburbs to Kendall County but retain their jobs close to the city,” Beltran said. “Less affluent African-Americans do not have the means.”

It’s hard to draw any lesson for reducing income inequality by looking at affluent Atlanta suburbs like Fayette County and the city of Atlanta, said Jim Skinner, senior planner at the Atlanta Regional Commission, which studies demographic trends.

“We can’t say that one geographic area is doing something right compared to any other,” he said.

Fayette County is reflective of the few counties where there is income parity. It is a draw for Black managers at large corporations and government agencies based in Atlanta.

“African-Americans here generally commute into Atlanta for those corporate jobs at companies like Delta Air Lines, CocaCola and UPS. These companies place a high value on diversity,” said Charles Rousseau, a Fayette County commissioner and retired government employee in Atlanta.

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Trump won. Stop whining and grow up!

A few years ago, I wrote one of the most difficult columns that I have ever had to write. I had to publically deal with my sexuality and I had to finally confess to the public that I was heterosexual.

I was tired of living in the shadows and finally mustered up the courage to out myself. I was heartened that all my friends and family supported me and told me how courageous I was. Many of my celebrity friends called me and told me how proud they were of me and they understood that it took a lot of courage to publically admit that I like women.

Another revelation Now, I have an equally difficult confession to make.

After voting for Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election and wholeheartedly supporting the Republican Party, I have finally come to terms with the fact that I am a racist. I am xenophobic. I hate women; I’m misogynistic. I hate Muslims; I’m Islamaphobic. And must I hate America, because I’m a fascist.

And because I refused to vote for Hillary Clinton, I obviously hate Blacks and other minorities, even though I am Black myself. I hate all immigrants and definitely want to send all women back to the Stone Age, the good ol’ days when they simply did what they

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were told.

How did I find myself in Clinton’s “basket of deplorables?”

Because I’ve been watching cable news and reading mainstream newspapers. I’ve also been listening to Black liberal media pundits like Roland Martin, Van Jones, Angela Rye, National Urban League President Marc Morial, and NAACP President Cornell Brooks.

I am ‘deplorable’ They all said that since I voted for Donald Trump for president, I must be all of those things: racist, xenophobic, misogynistic, and Islamaphobic. The liberal political class also indicated, that in order to be absolved of my sins, I would have to confess that Hillary Clinton lost because of the sexist, angry White men that voted against her.

Listening to these liberals whine and complain proves that they still don’t get why their candidate lost: the customer (the voter) is always right.

As a political analyst, I am

Yes, the struggle continues As millions of other Americans, I was disappointed watching the gradual dissolution of a Hillary Clinton presidency. Although hopeful, I wasn’t completely surprised by the election’s outcome. History – both past and recent – gives me little reason for total optimism.

Pundits suggest that America can survive a Trump presidency. I am struck by the tepid, measured analysis they present. Their election post-mortems steer clear of racial implications.

Some offer that Trump will now govern from a more centrist position. I disagree and believe Trump will live up to as many of his promises as possible. His professed views come from the core of his guiding value system.

‘Psychotic’ responses In Trump’s campaign, immigrants, refugees, women, Mus-

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lims, the disabled, and ethnic minorities have been victimized by the vitriol and demonization of the candidate. Criticism or opposition to his positions drew psychotic responses and open calls for violence against adversaries.

Not surprisingly, his open hostility to criticism is teamed with an apparent obsessive compulsion for revenge and retaliation.

Trump outsiders clearly recognize racism when we see it and realize that, left to his own devices, we have little hope for an optimistic future.

On day one, Trump promises the start of his wall. If that’s unsuc-

The 2016 election – How Obama lost his mojo It seemed to have shocked them by the millions. The Obama “Mojo” is no longer good. The young light-skinned skinny guy with the Muslim name is becoming a memory now.

He did not have to make it so.

But for some reason, he wanted to get in this 2016 presidential election. He pled to people who were admiring him as something spiritual – the first Black president of the United States.

That historical event crept up on us. To millions of Americans who idolized the very thought of his existence, he must never go away.

Messianic figure He would go to foreign nations and hundreds of thousands of people would come out just to hear his voice. Many could not understand English, but they knew he had African blood – and that was good enough.

The few African-Americans that study political leaders seemed to give him a pass at

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each social incident. He didn’t take his family to worship anymore. Before, he was attending a “sure-enough” Black church on the south side of Chicago. I can’t overemphasize the historical highlight of his becoming an American president.

In Nairobi, Kenya there was a well-established political joke: “A Luo (a secondary Kenyan tribe) will become president of the United States before a Luo will be President of Kenya.” That joke is no longer funny.

At first, 98 percent of Blacks supported President Obama on any issue. They would consider dying for him just to get his point across. But as his Saul Alinsky style of politics became evident, more and more who idolized him became fewer and fewer.

stunned that Hillary supporters are actually blaming the voters for her loss. They are calling the voters dumb, angry, racist, and uneducated, or in Hillary’s own words, they are a “basket of deplorables.”

Trump received 29 percent of the Hispanic vote and 8 percent of the Black vote. Are they also dumb and racist?

College students across the country claimed to be so traumatized by Trump’s election that some schools like Yale University cancelled classes and provided grief counselors. I am not kidding. This actually happened.

Don’t like result What is amazing is the reaction by Hillary supporters. There has not been one charge that the election was not fair. Her people simply don’t like the result and decided to take to the streets to march in protest.

Even the controversial 2000 presidential election that featured then-Texas Governor George W. Bush and Vice President Al Gore did not lead to this level of protest. No one disputed the fairness of that election; they disputed the counting of the votes. Eventually, even Al Gore accepted the results of the election and the country moved on.

Many of the people protesting

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simply didn’t like the results of the election. Trump won, so, get over it. Stop whining and grow up!

Hillary and her supporters felt like they were entitled to the office of the presidency. They thought that they deserved the office because she was a woman with the last name of Clinton.

She had been running for president most of her life and now that they came so close, they refuse to reconcile the fact that the American people rejected her and her message.

America was great Trump won on a campaign theme of “Make America Great Again.” The liberal response was,

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cessful, I expect the enactment of some type of draconian immigration policy that gives latitude to ban the immigration of Muslims and Hispanics into this country.

Although antithetical to the Constitution, I can see the concoction of a ‘cover’ rationale to ban the immigration of Muslims based on religion. I can envision the roundup and deportation of many undocumented immigrants, and the breakup and destruction of their families justified as “the will of the American people.”

I fully expect that Trump and his congressional allies will begin to dismantle every accomplishment of President Obama and effectively strip his historical legacy. They’ve stolen a Supreme Court appointment that rightfully belongs to President Obama and will, in future appointments, stack the court with conservative appointments that will alter the country’s direction for generations. We can expect Republican repeal of Obamacare and, that done, millions of uninsured again at the mercy of the insurance industry.

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Trump promises to appoint Supreme Court justices who will reverse Roe v. Wade and make abortion illegal. That single act will eliminate the right of women’s reproductive autonomy and suggests a return to a time of back-alley abortions.

Like many, I have long understood the euphemism “Making America Great Again.” It reassures White racists and Whites who disavow racism, but are ‘insecure’ with the “browning” of America, that their racial superiority will be reestablished. It’s the foundation of a campaign that believed American racism – overt and covert – was sufficient to engender success.

The effect is ongoing and immediate. We’ve seen the ugly racism emerge throughout Trump’s campaign and it’s reported that in Virginia, some White students gathered in a school hallway chanting, “Build that wall! Build that wall!” Minority students are described as “disturbed, frightened and confused.”

With the exception of those maligned or threatened by him, few seem to understand or care about the resurgence or impact of racism generated by Trump and his campaign.

Although I see nothing funny about our present circumstance, humorist Shel Silverstein’s poem, “Point of View,” sums it up: Oh how I once loved tuna salad, Pork and lobsters, lamb chops too, ‘Til I stopped and looked at dinner, From the dinner’s point of view.

I urge Trump to look objectively at the hate-filled, divisive environment he has created, and work for reconciliation. This nation faces a future filled with turmoil from which we may never fully recover if its leadership disavows past and current patterns of racism.

Not American?

The 2016 election was more than party loyalty to our president; it would be the protection of his legacy. If the Democratic Party were to lose, it would be on him.

President Obama was a nouveau radical. That is not real Americana, but somehow he managed to keep the admiration of progressives and radicals at the same time, while not offending mainstream America.

I remember him throwing out the traditional “first pitch” at a major league all-star game. It was so awful and I thought to myself, “This guy has never played baseball. That is so strange.”

One thing I noticed about our president is that he has thin skin.

He gets very upset when people criticize him about anything.

Not too long ago, the Congressional Black Caucus requested a meeting with him to talk about some hiring issues. He later lambasted them at their annual event. He screamed at them, “Stop complaining!”

He’s too sensitive to be a prudent judge or a level-headed political official. All the charismatic descriptions that he once held were fading away.

Bad decision The 2016 election was more than party loyalty to our president; it would be the protection of his legacy. If the Democrat-

ic Party were to lose, it would be on him. So he made a dangerous decision: He would actively join the Clintons in their quest for the presidency. It was a terrible mistake.

Most of us have had enough with the Clintons, especially Hillary. He was going to embrace their baggage and say nice things about them. The scandals – felonies for common persons – will now be recognized as truthful and worthy of taking note. He put his name on them. It put his past performance into the same mud pit.

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Slowly but surely, segments of American voters started to back away. The deeper the scandals got, the least likely his embrace of the Clinton candidacy would sell to the voters.

Many walked away White males, White females, Hispanics, Asians and even Blacks started to pull away from the Clinton mystique and even the Obama mojo. My mother would say, “If you play in dirt, it will eventually get in your eyes.”

Obama could not see the filth he was associating with. His judgement became impaired.

Barack Hussein Obama started to slowly slide from his “throne.”

It lessened him in front of all to see. His failed deeds – Obamacare, IRS scandals, Veterans Administration scandals, unemployment failures, Hillary’s sleazy past and Bill’s legendary libido. He put his legacy on the line playing with those dirty doers. It got in his eyes.

History will give the final report.

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EDITORIAL

America, what have you done?

In September, I wrote a column entitled, “Ignore the Polls. Hillary Will Win in ‘Wave’ Election.” I was right about the polls. I was wrong about her win, and that’s the understatement of my life. Here’s to the triumph of White nationalism over multiculturalism and globalism.

Fear of Trump No doubt you’ll see pundits and pollsters all over TV trying to explain why they were so wrong.

They would do well, however, to just shut up and pray, because President-elect Trump instills as much fear as President-elect Obama inspired hope. Indeed, I fear he will execute his pledge to “black out” all of Obama’s signature accomplishments from the history books.

Obama unwittingly invited this prospect by making his legacy a galvanizing issue during Hillary’s campaign. I admonished him against doing so in a September 2016 column entitled, “WTF! Obama Says It Would Be a ‘Personal Insult’ If Blacks Don’t Vote for Hillary…?”

In April 2014, I also wrote, “For far too many Republicans, it would seem a natural fate for the first Black president to preside over what they claim are the worst years in U.S. history. Their ulterior motive or misguided hope being that this would ensure no Black is elected president for at least another 100 years.”

This is why Trump’s victory says far more about White racism than White anger. Not to mention that the “angry Whites of rural America” who voted to elect Trump also voted to re-elect nearly all of the do-nothing, dysfunctional members of the Washington establish-

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ment elite who purportedly incited their anger.

Reasonable explanation To be fair, pundits had a perfectly reasonable expectation that Whites in places like Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Michigan – who voted for Obama – would vote for Hillary. Especially because they based it on a juxtaposition of Obama’s salutary policies (e.g., saving the auto industry and championing healthcare reform) and Hillary’s pledge to build on them, against Trump’s pie-in-the-sky slogans and pledge to either repeal or revoke those policies.

But here’s why those Whites defied that expectation, showing little regard for their own welfare and even less for Obama’s legacy.

No Black American has been the target of a racist awakening more than Obama (as old viral memes like “You lie,” “Show me your birth certificate,” and “He’s a Muslim socialist” duly attest).

I’m on record stating my suspicion that many Whites voted for Obama in 2008 more as a gesture of racial absolution than of political faith. And having thusly absolved themselves of their sins of racism, many of them now feel liberated to give way to their racial prejudices without fear of being called racists.

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cent). White people repudiated Hillary Clinton and embraced Trump, despite his racist, misogynistic, and jingoistic rhetoric, as one of their own.

Hillary Clinton counted on White women, especially collegeeducated White women, to save the day for her. But Trump won 53 percent of the White female vote.

He won 45 percent of the collegeeducated White women’s vote, losing that vote to Hillary Clinton by just 6 percentage points. Sixty-two percent of White women who didn’t go to college voted for Trump, while just 34 percent voted for Clinton.

White folks won the day for Trump in an amazing showing of White solidarity. Trump took 58 percent of the White vote, but did not get a majority vote from any other racial/ethnic group.

Only 8 percent of African-Amer- Class over gender College-educated White womicans voted for Trump. He did better among Asian-Americans (29 en’s narrow vote for Clinton did percent) and Hispanics (30 per- not overcome the overwhelming

America doesn’t deserve Trump, but Dems deserved to lose It’s over. The crotch-grabbing racist con man beat the lying corporate warmonger. Donald Trump is president-elect.

It didn’t have to happen that way. Trump’s winning 58 million votes were a hair fewer than Clinton’s popular vote; a million or two less than Republican losers McCain in 2008 and Romney in 2012; six and ten million behind Obama’s 2012 and 2008 numbers.

No reason to vote The buffoonish Trump was elected with such a low turnout because Hillary Clinton’s campaign was even less competent and credible. To borrow the condescending language Barack Obama deploys before Black audiences, Hillary’s campaign never gave Cousin Pookie much reason to get up off the couch and vote.

Republican and Democratic parties are alike owned by their one-percenter investor/contributors. Democratic Party shot callers decided they’d risk losing with Hillary Clinton rather than winning with Bernie Sanders.

So Democratic party leadership, their media allies and the entire Black political class got behind Hillary Clinton and helped collude and conspire to eliminate Senator Bernie Sanders, the Dem-

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Dump Trump’s ‘brand’

Trump wins for White America I began Election Night with exuberance. I was among the many who forecast a Hillary win. The only disagreement among my circle was how big the Hillary rout would be. I thought she’d get at least 300 electoral votes, and hoped that she’d thump Trump by getting as many as 340, holding him to less than 200 votes.

The tables were turned and Trump was the one doing the thumping, with the electoral vote count estimated to be 306-232 (at this writing, final counts were not in). Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton won the popular vote, garnering around 400,000 more votes than Donald Trump.

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That said, I urge those of you who cannot even countenance a Trump presidency to resist mounting feckless street protests.

Instead, All Americans should appreciate the categorical imperative of treating anything branded “TRUMP” – from hotels to neckties and vodka – as if it were branded “KKK.” The legacy of his publicity stunt masquerading as a presidential campaign should be a Trump brand so tarnished that the only people willing to patronize his businesses are the fools who voted for him.

Given that the vast majority of such voters are poor and uneducated by Trump’s own estimation, it would only be a matter of time before he’s forced into the mother of all his bankruptcies (i.e., for failing to make payments on the debt he brags about using to finance his businesses).

And trust me, this Croesus-envying narcissist would rather go bankrupt than depend on the rabble-rousing suckers who attend his rallies to keep his real-estate empire afloat. Which is just as well, given that most of them can barely afford a night at a budget hotel.

Meanwhile, Trump spent much of his campaign damning Hillary for abusing her position as secretary of state to enrich her family. But he demonstrated throughout a congenital habit of projecting onto others his most brazen faults. Therefore, it would be entirely consistent for him to abuse his position as president to (further) enrich his family.

A vigilant and sustained campaign to shun and shame the TRUMP brand is the only effecsupport other Whites gave him.

White women valued culture and class over gender. Many of them are the mothers, daughters, sisters or wives of the White men who gave Trump 63 percent of their vote.

Hillary Clinton failed to energize the base, or transcend the indifference that too many voters felt for her. Turnout was only 56.8 percent, just one percent higher than 2012, and lower than the 58.2 percent turnout in 2008. More than 95 million people who were eligible to vote failed to.

The Republican vote was similar for Trump and for Mitt Romney, the last Republican Presidential nominee. Democrats turned out in much lower numbers for Clinton than they did for Obama.

Why? Voter suppression is part of the answer. People of color were more likely to be affected by voter suppression measures than Whites.

There were nearly 900 fewer voting places in 2016 than in 2012. Further, states like Wisconsin, which Hillary lost by less than a percentage point, introduced new voter ID laws between 2012 and 2016. Clinton lost by less than 2 percent of the vote in Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Florida.

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Party leaders counted on it anyway, and it wasn’t enough. That was incompetence.

A second and relatively weak card Democrats played was conjuring up an Imaginary Hillary Clinton, a defender of women’s’ and human rights who held hands with the moms of killer cop victims, and occasionally mumBRUCE A. bled about Black lives matterDIXON ing and the need to reform the criminal justice system. But HillBLACK AGENDA REPORT ary’s decades-long record as a ocrat with the best chance against tool of banksters, billionaires and any Republican opponent. one-percenters was so well-established in the public mind that Three cards Imaginary Hillary was a difficult Once Bernie Sanders was elim- sell. inated Hillary waged a lazy and ineffective campaign, playing a Ineffective endorsement hand with just three cards.

The one-percenter Democrats’ The first was the broken record third card was the early and unof how unthinkable and unprece- conditional endorsement of Hilldented a disaster a Trump presi- ary Clinton by the First Black dency would be. He’s a clownish President and Michelle. This had sexual predator who pronounced proven effective in Chicago in climate change a hoax and would 2011 and 2015 where Obama’s criminalize abortion, open con- blessings were key to fastening centration camps, repeal Obam- Rahm Emanuel on the city’s jugacare, legalize stop and frisk, ular vein after a half-century of build a wall, appoint Neander- Daley family rule. thals to the Supreme Court, deThe entire Black political class port six or ten million immigrants got behind Hillary too, from civinstead of Obama’s paltry two il rights icons who ruminated million and who might be in hock on how they hadn’t seen Bernie to the Russians.

Sanders back in the day to some Except for the thing about the other wise heads who assured Russians, it’s roughly the same us a vote for the Green Party’s picture Democrats have drawn Jill Stein and Ajamu Baraka was of every Republican presidential an act of “narcissism” or maybe candidate since Nixon. A story White privilege. But at the end of told that many times just gets old. his time in office, the Obama en-

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tive way to protest his presidency. vested interest in what Trump does as president of the United States.

Checks and balances Speaker Paul Ryan is leading Besides, Trump is constitutionally and institutionally precluded a chorus of Republican leaders from fulfilling many of his out- in singing Trump’s praises. But landish campaign promises, like their resentment over his bull-inbanning Muslims, building that a-China-shop run to the White House is palpable. wall, and locking Hillary up.

Therefore, don’t be surprised I am willing to bet, for example, that his promise to reshape the if they seize the first opportunity Supreme Court in Antonin Sca- to impeach and replace him with lia’s conservative image will be Vice President-elect Mike Pence, thwarted by every liberal justice who Republicans and Democrats outliving his presidency. alike consider far more fit to serve Hence, chances are very good as president for a litany of wellthat his presidency will prove as documented reasons. great a disappointment to his raAnd, given Trump’s Nixonian bid supporters as it will to his en- inclination to punish his enemies, raged detractors. to say nothing of his Clintonian Beyond this, the only consola- inclination to enrich himself, he is tion I can offer is that America has bound to provide all kinds of opsurvived far worse than anything portunities for them to do so. a Trump presidency portends.

Anthony L. Hall is a BahamiWhole world watching an native with an internationGod help America. But bear in al law practice in Washington, mind that the entire world has a D.C. chines weren’t working, and a judge ruled to keep the polls open longer to compensate for the broken machines. Clinton lost North Carolina by less than 4 percent.

How many more might have voted but for broken machines and other chicanery? How many spent hours in line, and how many had to leave lines because they had to go to work?

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dents coming to school, shouting, “Build the wall!” These children are emulating their elders, including the president-elect.

A new reality Donald Trump was able to tap into the angst that too many Whites felt during the Obama presidency, and win the presidency in the name of White solidarity and White supremacy.

It seems incongruous that a rich, privileged, urban businessman should become the voice of the working class disgruntled, the rural neglected (Trump got 62 percent of the rural vote), and White women. But this is the new reality – the triumph of White privilege and hate rhetoric.

Whites are just 40 percent of the population in California, a state that gave Hillary Clinton 61.5 percent of its vote. And the U.S. Census reports that by 2044, there will be no majority group in our nation.

White folks might as well enjoy Trump while they can, but time and demographics are our side.

White supremacy won’t reign forever.

Hillary Clinton ended her campaign with more than $50 million in the bank! Might some of that money have made a difference in energizing the base? Could more people have been put on payroll as organizers in battleground states, especially North Carolina and Pennsylvania? Should grass-roots organizers have received more resources?

Lots of fingers can be pointed in this post-election analysis, but Trump won. It hurts, but it is a reality we will all have to grapple with for four years.

Part of the ugly reality is the realization that too many of our fellow citizens have embraced a racially divisive candidate whose rhetoric has unleashed hateful speech and attitudes.

Julianne Malveaux is a WashThe Detroit News reported that students in Oakland, Mich., ington, D.C.-based economist blocked pathways of Latino stu- and writer.

The buffoonish Trump was elected with such a low turnout because Hillary Clinton’s campaign was even less competent and credible. To borrow the condescending language Barack Obama deploys before Black audiences, Hillary’s campaign never gave Cousin Pookie much reason to get up off the couch and vote. dorsement didn’t carry the clout it used to.

Thanks to two generations of lazy Democrats who refused to try to consolidate the victory of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, the Supreme Court in 2013 nullified its key provisions, enabling a constellation of laws and practices aimed at limiting access to the ballot on the part of students, minorities, the elderly and constituencies likely to vote Democratic.

In the 2016 election cycle, these practices stripped another few million Democratic voters from the rolls.

one percent. Hillary Democrats, including Bernie himself, could no longer acknowledge joblessness, low wages, lack of housing, permanent war or the high cost of medical care or they’d be campaigning against themselves.

Donald Trump didn’t win because of some mysterious upsurge of racism and nativism. He won because Hillary Clinton’s campaign was even less inspiring and less competent than his own, and worked hard to snatch its own defeat from the jaws of victory.

America might not deserve Blame themselves President Donald Trump. But Democrats were the authors of Hillary Clinton didn’t deserve to their own defeat this presidential win. election. Hillary couldn’t camBruce Dixon is managing edipaign against the one percent because her party is a party of the tor of BlackAgendaReport.com.

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NOVEMBER 18 – NOVEMBER 24, 2016 used in his previous leadership bids that the Democrats have to refocus their organization on a “grassroots” approach rather than “top-down driven” effort.

He said that was one of the lessons of this year’s elections, where the Democrats managed to turn out large numbers of voters in major urban areas but were overwhelmed in other areas of the state.

“You can’t possibly get enough votes out of our heavily Democratic areas if we completely ignore two-thirds of the state,” Clendenin said.

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U.S. Congressmen Patrick Murphy and Bill Nelson board Air Force One with President Obama after a rally for Hillary Clinton at Florida International University Arena on Nov. 3 in Miami.

Florida Democrats seeking answers, state leader Party members reflect on election, will decide who will be next chair

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TALLAHASSEE – After losing the state’s presidential and U.S. Senate races and failing to make major gains in the Legislature, Florida Democrats are groping for a way forward as the 2018 elections loom with battles for governor and all three state Cabinet seats.

The immediate issue is who will lead the Florida Democratic Party and its 4.87 million voters, with the Nov. 11 announcement that Allison Tant, who has chaired the party since 2013, is stepping down in January.

Tant, a former Tallahassee lobbyist who was known for her Allison ability to raise Tant

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Attorney General Pam Bondi’s office is arguing that a Pinellas County judge should be allowed to move forward in a death penalty case, even though the Florida Supreme Court ruled that a state capital-sentencing law is unconstitutional because it does not require unanimous jury verdicts for the sentence to be imposed.

Late last month, a majority of the Supreme Court granted a request by lawyers for convicted murderer Patrick Albert Evans to stop Circuit Judge Joseph Bulone from moving forward with a trial that had been slated to begin Oct. 31. Justices Charles Canady and Ricky Polston dissented without comment.

The Supreme Court’s halting of the Evans case was the strongest indicator yet that Florida’s death penalty remains in flux in the aftermath of a pair of opinions issued by the high court on Oct. 14. Those decisions found that a statute passed in March in response to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in a case known as Hurst v. Florida was unconstitutional “because it requires that only 10 jurors recommend death as opposed to the constitutionally required unanimous, 12-member jury.”

‘Jurisprudential quagmire’ warning In Evans’ case, Bulone issued an order saying he would begin

money for Democrats, led the party through two difficult election cycles as Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton lost last week in the state and gubernatorial candidate Charlie Crist lost in 2014 to Republican incumbent Rick Scott.

Replacement names U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, who could face a challenge from Scott in 2018, defended Tant’s leadership Monday.

Nelson, who is the only Democrat holding a statewide office in Florida, called her “a strong and dedicated leader.”

“I hope the energy she brought to our party will stay with us for years to come,” Nelson said in a statement.

Several names have emerged as potential Tant successors including former state Sen. Dan Gelber of Miami Beach; Alan Clendenin, a state party vice chair and Hillsborough County state committeeman; Annette Taddeo, a former Miami-Dade County chair and a 2014 candidate for lieutenant governor; Dwight Bullard, who lost a reelection bid last week for his Mi-

ami-Dade Senate seat; and Susannah Randolph, a former aide to U.S. Rep Alan Grayson and a longtime Orange County party activist.

“I think we will hear more names. I don’t think you’ve heard all the names you’re going to hear,” said former state Sen. Steve Geller, who was just elected to the Broward County Commission.

As for the election outcome, Geller said: “When you’re on the losing side, the question is always the same.”

“Did you lose because you didn’t go enough to the center under the theory that the majority of voters are in the center or did you lose because you didn’t go enough to the extreme (and energize the base)?” he said.

Still in shock In Clinton’s case, Geller said the Democrats relied too heavily on the Obama “coalition,” which was weaker without the incumbent president on the ticket, and the Democrats were hurt by outside factors, including the FBI reopening an investigation of Clinton-related emails shortly before the election.

Geller said it was too early to speculate on how this year’s defeats, including U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy’s loss in the U.S. Senate race, will impact the 2018 elections, including the race for governor, a post the Democrats have not won since 1994.

“This week, people are still in shock,” Geller said.

The Florida Democrats will regroup in county-level elections next month, where the 67 party organizations will select county chairs, vice chairs and state committeewomen and committeemen.

Out of that group of local Democratic leaders, the state party will meet sometime in January to select Tant’s replacement, who would serve as the state chair for the next four years, including the 2018 elections as well as the 2020 presidential race.

Clendenin return?

Clendenin, who was narrowly defeated by Tant in the last party leadership election in 2013, said he is seriously considering running for the party chair again, but has not made a final decision.

“It’s a long road we’re facing,” said Clendenin, who lost a bid for a seat on the Hillsborough County School Board this fall. “And I think everybody in this party is doing some soul searching right now.”

If he runs, Clendenin said he would emphasize the theme he

Although he was longtime Clinton supporter, Clendenin said he favored the shared approach of Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump who both had “a bottom-driven movement that percolated up from social media and then was implemented into a grassroots movement that was real and in the field.”

With many names circulating as possible party chairs, Clendenin questioned whether some of the candidates will be eligible since they must first be elected as a county precinct committeeman or committeewoman to be eligible for a county leadership post and then the state chair.

Clendenin said it was possible for some of those candidates to maneuver their way into eligibility, but it would likely draw more controversy after the clash between the Sanders campaign and the national Democratic Party in this year’s presidential primary.

“I don’t think they’re going to be able to withstand that type of scrutiny this time around,” he said.

Bullard interested Bullard, who was defeated in his re-election bid last week by state Rep. Frank Artiles, R-Miami, said he is interested in the party leadership position.

Bullard said he would emphasize “a recommitment to our grassroots political ideology, putting everyday working families before special interests.”

“People want to know there is a party out there working for them and that it represents their voices,” Bullard said, pointing to issues like protecting Social Security, raising the minimum wage and protecting individual rights “regardless of sexual orientation.”

Bullard said Trump was more successful with voters based on a campaign strategy of “fear.”

“I would say the antithesis of that would be an atmosphere of positivity,” Bullard said, saying the party needs a message that appeals across the racial and economic spectrums.

“They all want better health care, a better education…a positive economic outlook,” he said.

to empanel a death-qualified jury and, if Evans is found guilty of first-degree murder, “proceed to a penalty phase consistent with” the Oct. 14 Supreme Court decisions. But, arguing that judges shouldn’t be allowed to rewrite the statute, lawyers for Evans immediately asked the high court to intervene, warning of a “jurisprudential quagmire” if the court allowed the case to go forward “without appropriate guidance.”

In a 17-page response filed Monday, Assistant Attorney General Christina Pacheco said the circuit judge should be allowed to proceed, as long as he instructs the jury that a unanimous recommendation is required for a death sentence.

“This procedural process falls within the trial judge’s inherent ability to adopt appropriate mechanisms that are necessary to apply the law in a constitutional manner,” Pacheco wrote.

Corrections officers return to PBA

The Florida Police Benevolent Association said Tuesday it has won an election to represent state corrections officers and probation officers, after five years of representation by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.

The Florida PBA had served as the collective-bargaining representative for Department of Corrections workers for three decades but was ousted in 2011 by the Teamsters.

The PBA campaigned to regain the representation this year and said in a news release Tuesday that the Florida Public Employees Relations Commission verified that it had received 73 percent of the vote.

– The News Service of Florida

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A team of sea turtle experts from NOAA and the University of Florida work to recover oiled and endangered turtles in the Gulf of Mexico, near the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on June 14, 2010. They search in areas where there is sargassum, a type of sea plant, where turtles gather, but also contains oil.

State to get share of Deepwater Horizon money THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA

Florida is slated to get $19 million to continue conservation programs tied to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil-spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.

The money going to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is part of $370 million awarded Tuesday by the National Fish and Wild-

life Foundation’s Gulf Environmental Benefit Fund for 25 projects in five Gulf Coast states. Four of the projects are in Florida.

“By properly targeting funding from the Deepwater Horizon disaster, we can ensure that Florida’s recovery efforts are tailor-fitted to meet the needs of our wildlife and citizens,” Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Chairman Brian Yablonski said in a prepared statement.

The largest allocation to Florida, more than $11 million, will be for the state agency and Audubon Florida to implement a new beach-nesting plan for birds.

– The News Service of Florida

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WILL TRUMP DELIVER ON HIS PROMISES? On trade and the Supreme Court. Yes. On some other issues, it’s more of a maybe.

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A small group outside the courthouse during an anti-Donald Trump protest on Nov. 11 in Fort Worth, Texas. Trump has proposed building a barrier wall along the southern border, “extreme vetting” of arriving immigrants, and expelling millions of undocumented workers.

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Donald Trump made many promises in his improbable route to the nation’s highest office. But can he deliver? On some issues, will he even want to follow through?

TRADE Trump: “A Trump administration would change our failed trade policies, and I mean quickly.”

Can he do it? Yes. A 1974 law empowers presidents “with very broad authority to terminate trade agreements,” said Kansas City, Mo., lawyer Marshall V. Miller, who represented U.S. companies in negotiating terms of the North American Free Trade Agreement.

Without needing legislative approval, President Trump could even raise tariffs on imports if he deems it protects national interests.

Will he? Trump minces no words about renegotiating NAFTA, which he calls a U.S. job killer and the worst trade deal in history. On Nov. 10, Canada’s ambassador to Washington, David MacNaughton, signaled flexibility: “We’re ready to come to the table.”

Trump also may tear up the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a pact that Congress has yet to ratify.

But experts question the wisdom. The treaty with Pacific Rim countries eventually would eliminate duties on U.S. agriculture exports, which would help farmers. The partnership also has strategic value because China, an aggressive military player in the region, has been left out and would lose influence as a result.

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President Barack Obama meets with President-elect Donald Trump on Nov. 10 in the Oval Office of the White House in their first public step toward a transition of power. tine Grow, senior vice president of America’s Health Insurance Plans, an industry group that supported the Affordable Care Act. “They want affordable coverage. They want the control to choose a plan that best fits them.”

Already wavering, the president-elect on Nov. 11 said he would be OK keeping parts of the Affordable Care Act. He said he supports the law’s ban on insurance companies denying coverage to people with pre-existing health conditions and the allowance for parents to insure their kids until age 26.

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TAX REFORM Trump: “My tax cut is the biggest since Ronald Reagan. I’m very proud of it. It will create tremendous numbers of new jobs.”

Can he do it? Sure, with a GOP-controlled Congress.

Trump wants to reduce the corporate tax from 35 percent to 15 percent, repeal the estate tax, reduce the number of income brackets and change how some business taxes are collected. All require congressional approval.

Some of those changes — estate tax repeal, for example — may move through Congress quickly, within the first 100 days.

But the more difficult parts may take months to pass.

Will he? It’s expensive, and complicated. The Tax Foundation says his plan will cost the government about $600 billion a year for 10 years, worsening the federal deficit. Trump has promised 4 percent growth, which he says will provide enough revenue to overcome the lower rates.

A tax overhaul has some bipartisan support. “I want to work with President Trump,” said Sen. Claire McCaskill, a Missouri Democrat. “If we can

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Then Republican vice presidential candidate Mike Pence talks with workers before speaking about trade and the economy at a private event at Charlotte Pipe and Foundry on Aug. 24 in Charlotte, N.C. get things done, let’s get things done: tax code reform, infrastructure. … Those are things I am down for and want to help with.”

HEALTH CARE Trump: “Obamacare is a disaster. … Repeal and replace.”

Can he do it? Not by himself. The rare exercise of repealing any act of Congress requires legislative action. And the massive Affordable Care Act — parts of which have broad public support — won’t be vanquished easily.

“Replace” is going to be even harder. It will take months, at least, for lawmakers to construct a program that doesn’t leave the 20 million people now covered

through Affordable Care Act exchanges or expanded Medicaid in the cold.

Trump has argued that insurance firms be allowed to compete for customers across state lines, but otherwise his alternative solutions are sketchy.

Will he? “Because he so categorically made this pledge over and over,” Trump will have to make a strong effort to undo Obamacare, said Wayne Fields, retired communications professor at St. Louis University.

Rising premiums on the exchange plans — to the tune of 25 percent jumps in next year’s coverage — will give Congress a reason to make changes.

“But what hasn’t changed?

The demands of consumers haven’t changed,” said Kris-

Trump: “We’re going to rebuild our infrastructure, which will become, by the way, second to none.”

Can he do it? For decades, presidential candidates have pledged to create jobs by rebuilding highways, bridges, electric grids and water systems.

But the costs in an era of soaring national debt have been prohibitive.

Trump’s plan — largely to be financed by private investment spurred by tax credits — weighs in as high as $1 trillion.

Will he? Analysts were curious that Trump hit on infrastructure early in his victory speech. It could be an issue on which many Republicans and Democrats can agree, so long as the rebuilding is done efficiently.

“The bad infrastructure we have is costing all of us money anyway” in electric-grid brownouts and pothole damage to cars, said Brian Pallasch, managing director of government relations for the American Society of Civil Engineers.

IMMIGRATION Trump tweet: “We, as a country, either have borders or we don’t. IF WE DON’T HAVE

BORDERS, WE DON’T HAVE A COUNTRY!” Can he? Yes and maybe.

Trump has offered a series of immigration-related proposals, from building a barrier wall along the southern border, to “extreme vetting” of arriving immigrants, to expelling millions of undocumented workers already here.

Much of that agenda can be accomplished quickly, and by executive order. He’s likely to rescind President Barack Obama’s programs easing immigration restrictions. Obama ordered deportations only for immigrants in the country illegally and suspected of violent criminal acts.

Trump could deport more than 1 million immigrants on the current deportation list.

Millions more might follow.

“He can simply say to the Department of Homeland Security, the Border Patrol, ‘Start enforcing our immigration laws,’ ” said Hans von Spakovsky of the Heritage Foundation.

Other medium-term actions could include improved border security patrols and heightened scrutiny of refugees. Banning all immigrants of a specific ethnicity or religion would almost certainly face legal challenges and would be hard to enforce.

Congress has already authorized construction of a wall along the Mexican border. But it has never authorized money to build it, and it may now do so.

Trump has promised to make the Mexican government pay for the wall. The Mexican government has refused, and it isn’t clear how, short of war or confiscation of private property, he can honor that promise. He has suggested blocking transfers of money from the U.S. to Mexico, a plan that would almost certainly prompt lawsuits.

The wall could cost between $10 billion and $25 billion.

Will he? Yes. A crackdown on illegal immigrants and illegal immigration was a central promise of the Trump campaign. He’ll likely sign a flurry of executive orders on his first day in office overturning many of the immigration policies of the Obama administration.

DODD-FRANK ACT Trump: “I also think we have to get rid of Dodd-Frank.”

Can he? It would take congressional approval to completely repeal the financial oversight rules intended to stop the sort of overextension of the banks that caused the 2008 meltdown and subsequent federal bailout. But Trump’s regulators and appointments could ignore it, or not punish firms that violate it.

Will he? Republicans hate Dodd-Frank. Liberal Democrats such as Sen. Elizabeth Warren will fiercely resist any major changes to finance laws.

Trump has inched away from his all-or-nothing position. He might fight this battle later.

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FLORIDA COMMUNITY CALENDAR Orlando: Jazmine Sullivan will perform at the Orlando Classic Tastemasters’ official game after party Nov. 19 at the House of Blues Orlando.

The show starts at 10 p.m.

Jacksonville: Catch Fantasia with Guordan Banks and LaPorsha Renae on Nov. 25 at the Times Union Center for Performing Arts or Nov. 26 at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale.

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The Florida Classic game pitting Bethune-Cookman University against Florida A&M University takes place Nov. 19 at Camping World Stadium in Orlando. Details: floridaclassic. org. Rattlers or Wildcats, there will be plenty of tailgating with families and friends at the stadium prior to the game. FILE PHOTO

Orlando: The I Love the 90s Tour stops at the Amway Center on Dec. 3. Performers: Salt N Pepa, Coolio, Tone Loc, All-4-One and Young MC.

Veteran journalist Gwen Ifill dies at 61

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Gwen Ifill, the awardwinning journalist and anchor of the public television news programs “PBS NewsHour” and “Washington Week” whose career included moderating the vice presidential debates in 2004 and 2008, died of cancer Monday, according to a statement released by PBS. She was 61.

Citing health problems, Ifill had taken a two-month leave of absence from her duties at PBS in April while she was undergoing treatment, but she returned in May. In early November, she again went on leave from the network for health reasons.

“Gwen was one of America’s leading lights in journalism and a fundamental reason public media is considered a trusted window on the world by audiences across the nation,” Paula Kerger, president and chief executive of PBS,

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IRAN NUCLEAR PACT Trump: “The worst deal ever negotiated.”

Can he? Trump may try to unilaterally abandon the agreement, while promising to negotiate a better one. The current deal is entangled in other international agreements, so immediate abrogation will be tough.

And it isn’t clear if Iran will agree to a new negotiation. But pressure from Congress — and Israel — could push this ahead on the to-do list.

Will he? Iran has never admitted it is developing nuclear weapons. If the Trump administration abandons the agreement, though, Iran could resume the bomb-building program the world knows it has pursued.

WAR ZONES Trump: “I have a plan to defeat ISIS, but I won’t broadcast it.”

Can he? In fact, Iraqi government forces, with critical help from the U.S. military, may recapture all Islamic State-held territory in that country by the time Trump takes office in January. But many of the fighters will go underground and carry out terrorist attacks.

Trump also insisted that bombing campaigns on oil fields controlled by the Islamic State were needed to rob the would-be caliphate of revenue.

“Attack the oil, because that’s their primary source of wealth,” he said during the campaign. In fact, through Operation Inherent Resolve, the U.S. military has bombed those

said in a statement. “Her contributions to thoughtful reporting and civic discourse simply cannot be overstated.”

Major honor On Wednesday, Ifill had been scheduled to be presented with the John Chancellor Award by the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, an honor that recognizes cumulative career accomplishments in the field.

Ifill was to be the first African-American to receive the award in its 21-year history.

“Gwen Ifill’s career embodies the best of our profession … her unflinching pursuit of the truth, healthy skepticism of those in power and her commitment to fairness,” said the dean of Columbia’s journalism school, Steve Coll, who was on the nine-person jury that decided the award.

In opening a news conference Monday afternoon, President Barack Obama

assets. As of Sept. 26, the Defense Department said 2,638 targets were “damaged/destroyed.”

Syria poses far trickier questions. Islamic State fighters cleared from Iraq will show up in Syria. Trump’s often-vague statements about the region fuel speculation that he’d partner with Russia in Syria — flipping U.S. policy that calls for the ouster of Syrian President Bashar Assad.

Teamed with Russia and the Damascus government, the U.S. might hope to rid Syria of the Islamic State. But experts warn it would be harder than taking back Iraqi territory.

Such a move would also align American military might with war criminals who control the regime.

It would alarm allies Saudi Arabia and Israel and heighten already complex relations with Turkey.

Will he? Many of the goals Trump describes in defeating the Islamic State would be nearly impossible without sending in U.S. ground troops. Trump hasn’t said he’s willing to do that.

James Phillips, a Middle East and terrorism analyst at the conservative Heritage Foundation, said that Russia’s vanquishing of Chechen rebels in Grozny worked in the short term, but it bred Islamic terrorists in that region and beyond.

“There’s the old line that politics is all about what you want, and government is what you get,” Phillips said. “It’ll be interesting to see President-elect Trump cross that bridge.”

SUPREME COURT Trump: “The justices that I am going to appoint will be pro-life. They will have a conservative bent.

They will be protecting the Second Amendment. They

Gwen Ifill said Ifill “was an extraordinary journalist. She always kept faith with the fundamental responsibilities of her profession — asking tough questions, holding people in power accountable, and defending a strong and free press that makes our democracy work.”

In her own words Since 2013, Ifill teamed with Judy Woodruff as coanchor and served as comanaging editor of “PBS NewsHour,” which was the first television news program to be led by two women journalists. The significance of the position was not lost on her.

are great scholars in all cases, and they’re people of tremendous respect.”

Can he? Yes. Will he? Yes. Trump’s appointment of a justice to replace the late Antonin Scalia will be a major initial test of his presidency and his approach to office.

“There’s a lot of collateral damage out there right now,” said Patrick McInerney, a Kansas City-area attorney and a Democrat.

“This may be one of the vehicles for him to establish himself as someone willing to talk, and willing to compromise.”

Trump has offered 20 judges he would “consider” for the Scalia seat.

But it isn’t clear if the nomination, which may be announced before Trump takes office, would come from the list. Already some Republicans and Democrats are urging the president-elect to announce a compromise choice, one acceptable to moderate Democrats.

“He could find a conservative jurist that would pass the Senate with 75 votes without a big battle,” said Greg Musil, a local attorney and one-time Republican candidate for Congress. “And then he could start off on a grand note, unlike Obama.”

Nuts to that, conservative groups say.

“I don’t know why he needs to offer any kind of olive branch,” said Spakovsky of the Heritage Foun212243A01 dation. “Certainly Hillary Clinton would not do so.”

“When I was a little girl watching programs like this — because that’s the kind of nerdy family we were — I would look up and not see anyone who looked like me in any way,” she told The New York Times in 2013.

“I’m very keen about the fact that a little girl now, watching the news, when they see me and Judy (Woodruff ) sitting side by side, it will occur to them that that’s perfectly nor-

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St. Petersburg: Catch Tracy Morgan on Nov. 11 at The Mahaffey Theater and Nov. 13 at Hard Rock Live Orlando.

Orlando: Jodeci is scheduled Dec. 11 at the House of Blues Orlando for a 7 p.m. show.

Fort Lauderdale: Stanley Clarke performs Dec. 4 at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts. The show starts at 7 p.m.

Miami: The King and Queen of Hearts Tour featuring Maxwell and Mary J. Blige stops at the AmericanAirlinesArena on Nov. 29.

Orlando: The Central Florida International Auto Show is Nov. 24-27 at the Orange County Convention Center –

mal — that it won’t seem like any big breakthrough at all.”

Born in New York City as the fifth of six children of a Panamanian-born father who was an African Methodist Episcopal minister and a mother born in Barbados, Ifill’s family frequently moved around the northeast United States during her childhood.

She graduated from Simmons College in Boston in 1977 with a degree in communications, and her journalism career began in college with an internship at the Boston Herald (then the Herald-American).

Covered White House Ifill eventually moved on to cover politics for The Baltimore Evening Sun followed by working at The Washington Post and The New York Times, where she was hired in 1991 to cover Congress and, eventually,

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Tickets: www.AutoShowOrlando.com.

Pompano Beach: Boyz II Men takes the stage at the Pompano Beach Amphitheater on Dec. 2. The 7:30 p.m. show will include Al B. Sure.

Orlando: Kanye West: The Saint Pablo Tour is scheduled Dec. 6 at t he Amway Center.

Miami: The God of the Trap show featuring Gucci Mane stops at the James L. Knight Center on Nov. 23.

St. Petersburg: Lauryn Hill’s The MLH Caravan: A Diaspora Calling! Concert stops at The Mahaffey Theater on Dec. 6 and Dec. 8 at House of Blues Orlando.

the White House.

In 1994, after being what she described as “dared” by her friend and colleague Tim Russert to switch to TV, she joined NBC to cover Capitol Hill. Five years later, she moved to PBS as the host of “Washington Week,” becoming the first Black woman to host a major political talk show on TV. In 2008, “Washington Week” earned a Peabody Award that praised “its reasoned, reliable contribution to the national discourse.” In 2009, Ifill released the best-selling book “The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama.”

She received more than 20 honorary degrees from universities and was presented with the Fourth Estate Award from the National Press Club in 2015.

She also moderated numerous public forums in recent years, including a town hall with Obama in June 2016.

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Most people recognize the importance of a healthy lifestyle when it comes to physical and emotional well-being, but you may not realize that some health-related activities can pose a safety risk if you don’t take proper precautions. Making safe habits part of your healthy lifestyle can help ensure you’re able to enjoy the results of your efforts.

Warm up your workout. Exercise and physical activity are essential to a healthy lifestyle, but failing to approach your workouts with the proper warmup and know-how can really backfire. According to the experts at WebMD, a warmup is important because it gets blood circulating and eases muscles into more vigorous activity, getting them loose, warm and ready for the challenge.

Know that technique matters. Another potential safety pitfall when it comes to working out is improperly using weight machines or employing improper technique for activities like yoga or core training. Failing to execute your exercises correctly can not only produce sub-par results, you may actually end up hurting yourself by causing a sprain or other injury. Even if you tend to be a loner when it comes to working out, enlist the expertise of a trainer or coach who can show you the ropes before you set out solo.

Exercise caution outdoors. A few hours spent in the great outdoors can leave you feeling refreshed and invigorated; fresh air is good for your body and your spirit.

However, spending too much time soaking up the sun can have a detrimental impact on your health – overexposure to UV rays is a major risk factor for developing skin cancer. Exposure to the elements, such as strong winds or harsh cold, can also take a toll on your body.

Contact lens safety tips With nearly 41 million adults in the U.S. wearing contact lenses as a safe and popular form of vision correction, there is a growing trend among Americans to alter the appearance or color of the eyes by using decorative contact lenses. However, if these lenses are bought illegally and without a prescription from your eye doctor, they could lead to serious health issues and potentially damage your eyesight permanently.

“Many consumers consider these lenses a fashion or costume accessory when, in reality, decorative lenses are also classified as medical devices and still pose the same potential safety and health issues as corrective contact lenses and require a prescription,” said Andrea P. Thau, O.D., president of the American Optometric Association (AOA).

The AOA recommends contact lens wearers take proper steps to protect their eyes and maintain a consistent hygiene routine, including: • See a doctor of optometry for a comprehensive eye examination and proper fitting and prescription for decorative contacts lenses, even if you don’t require lens-

The American Melanoma Foundation recommends lathering up with a sunscreen that has a Skin Protection Factor (SPF) of at least 15 any time you’ll be outdoors for more than 20 minutes. Even winter conditions pose a threat to bare skin, as snow can actually reflect UV radiation.

Be wary of expiration dates. Most people at least periodically use prescription drugs or over-the-counter medicines as part of their commitment to staying healthy.

However, for people who rarely use medicines, their cabinets may be filled with potentially dangerous, expired medications.

According to the FDA, both prescriptions and over-the-counter meds can lose their effectiveness over time and even become unsafe. Especially concerning are the medicines that can change chemical composition or become a breeding ground for bacteria over an extended period of time.

That’s why it’s important to properly discard medicines after their expiration dates have passed.

Make reasonable eating choices. With countless diet options available, it may seem impossible to know which is most likely to help you achieve your desired results. When evaluating eating plans, be careful to avoid diets that are excessively restrictive, as these can have a serious impact on bodily organs that rely on nutrients to function. Also be wary of diets that recommend cutting entire food groups; a balanced diet with moderate portion sizes is the best approach for delivering your body the nutrition it needs for top performance.

Committing to healthier living is an important step, so be sure you can reap the rewards by making your journey to better health a safe one. Find more tips for living a healthy lifestyle at elivingtoday.com.

es to correct your vision.

• Never buy lenses from retail outlets or online sites that don’t require a prescription.

• Always follow the recommended contact lens replacement schedule prescribed by your eye doctor.

• Wash and dry hands before handling contact lenses.

• Carefully and regularly use cleaning solution to rub the lenses with fingers and rinse thoroughly before soaking overnight in multi-purpose disinfectant solution.

• Use fresh solution to clean and store contact lenses – never reuse old solution.

• Only use products recommended by your eye doctor to clean and disinfect lenses. Saline solution and rewetting drops do not disinfect lenses.

• Store lenses in the proper storage case and replace your case every three months.

In addition, cases should be rubbed with clean fingers, rinsed with solution, dried with a tissue and stored upside-down when not in use.

• Remove contact lenses before exposing them to water.

See your optometrist immediately if you experience redness, pain, irritation or blurred vision while wearing your lenses.

For more information about contact lens hygiene and safety, the risks associated with decorative contact lenses and to find an optometrist near you, visit aoa.org.

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The damaged beachfront hotel Reposoir du Village in Port Salut, Haiti, is shown on Oct. 11.

How ‘apocalyptic’ hurricane Matthew impacted Haiti’s tourism market The country is still trying to assess the financial toll to the tourist economy and overall struggling tourism brand.

too low, but he won’t offer his own guess.

“Nobody has put together anything that looks at the damage done to the environment, which we have to address,” Hyppolite said.

Unlike the neighboring Dominican Republic or nearby islands of the Turks and Caicos, Port-Salut didn’t boast luxury brands or ritzy all-inclusive resorts. It instead relied on its natural beauty with the ocean on one side, lush banana, coconut and breadfruit farms in rolling hills on the other side, and waterfalls nearby.

“They had a good, natural setup,” Hyppolite said. “Now after Matthew, we’re back to the drawing board.”

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PORT-SALUT, Haiti – The almond trees have been stripped bare, and the tropical palms and royal poincianas that once brought life to the now eroded seaside oasis are all but gone.

The only thing familiar about the long stretch of Pointe-Sable beach in Haiti is its water, which is once more a clear blue-green, weeks after this section of the southwestern peninsula bore the brunt of Hurricane Matthew.

The Category 4 storm sent a wall of seawater crashing through Port-Salut’s beachfront hotels, nightclubs and restaurants, gulping down everything in sight.

“Apocalyptic,” said Jean-Marie Cherestal, Port-Salut native, former prime minister and a hotelier whose 30-room inn at Pointe-Sable, Le Relais du Boucanier, suffered extensive damage from Matthew’s Oct. 4 winds and storm surge. “All of the vegetation, and every house that was constructed with (corrugated metal sheets) have practically all disappeared.”

Afraid and stressed Pausing, he struggles to hold back the tears. They flow anyway.

“I love Port-Salut,” Cherestal, 69, continued, detailing how he helped lead the transformation of the coastal city from a sleepy farming community west of Les Cayes in the late 1980s to one of a handful of tourist destinations in Haiti, with its mountain view, clean beaches and air-conditioned, oceanfront rooms.

While Haiti’s capital of Portau-Prince has attracted famous Americans such as Oprah Winfrey, Kim Kardashian and Bill Clinton with its lure of brandname hotels, Port-Salut, with its sandy beaches, cobblestone streets and natural charm, was about the Haitian diaspora.

Families such as the Leforts, who long ago migrated to the United States, returned regularly along with scores of others to celebrate Saint Dominique, the town’s patron saint, usually in August, while expats like hotelier Yanique Boursiquot invested after falling in love with the place during her missionary travels.

“Everyone is afraid. Everyone is stressed,” said Marie Jeanne Lefort, a Pembroke Pines resident, who had to come see “in order to believe” what she was hearing about the devastation to her hometown. “The slightest bit of wind, and everyone starts freaking out.”

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An elderly woman walks along a debris-filled street in Roche a Bateau, Haiti on Oct. 9.

No power, no tourists Two years ago, Lefort’s older brother, Pierre Forges, a respected and well-known teacher who now lives in Miami, celebrated a family reunion here along the beach. Last week, Lefort, 73, revisited the spot.

“Nothing’s left,” she said.

Or almost nothing. Of Port-Salut’s 19 registered hotels, two survived Matthew’s 145-mph winds and flooding, tourism officials said. But even the survivors don’t feel particularly lucky: the town remains in perpetual blackout with downed power lines and poles, the coastal road is damaged and residents are wondering how long it will be before life returns to normal.

“My team is alive, and my hotel withstood the hurricane,” Catherine Barriere, the owner of L’Auberge du Rayon Vert, said while enjoying a visit with friends at her unscathed, 35-room property. “Still, I don’t know what to do. I am emotionally drained.”

These days, with no electricity or running water, there are no tourists.

In the month since Matthew made landfall 146 miles west of here, near the rural village of Les Anglais on Haiti’s southwestern tip, the country is still trying to assess the financial toll both to Port-Salut’s tourism economy and the country’s overall struggling tourism brand.

Tourism after quake While most people have come to associate Haiti more with disaster than tourism, the country has been aggressively pushing tourism as a means to rebuild after its devastating earthquake on

Among the disconcerting revelations after the storm: most hoteliers lacked insurance.

“It was expensive,” said Boursiquot, the owner of Fortress Inn, a 15-room hotel.

Six years ago, Boursiquot and her late husband, Charles, invested about $2.5 million in transforming an incomplete shell into their dream retirement project. Things were looking up.

Then Matthew struck.

“You don’t know where to start,” said Boursiquot, who estimates it would cost her about $150,000 to repair the hotel. “I would love to have it back, but financially, especially now, it’s hard to say because what we had, we invested into it.

“All of the things that we had were destroyed, carried out by the water … the dishes, the glasses,” she said. “The bar is completely gone.”

The scene is even more devastating farther up the beach at Dan’s Creek Hotel, where the storm destroyed all but two rooms, carrying even the stove and bedsheets out to sea, said hotel manager Frantzy Charles, 39.

Jobs gone too Former Haiti Prime Minister Jean Marie Cherestal breaks down as he talks about the damage Hurricane Matthew brought to the area and also to his beloved boutique hotel, Le Relais du Boucanier in Port Salut.

Jan. 12, 2010.

It has increased the number of regular direct airline routes from the U.S., pushed for the expansion of the landing strip at Les Cayes’ airport to receive commercial flights and promoted the country’s hidden coastlines among the diaspora, and European and Canadian travelers at tourism fairs.

The result was more than 515,804 overnight stays in 2015 compared to 367,219 the year before the quake, according to the tourism ministry, and investments by international brands such as Best Western, Marriott, Hilton Garden, Spain-based NH Hotel Group and Colombia-

based Decameron Hotels & Resorts. “(Matthew) put a pause in the tourism industry because the headlines read, ‘Haiti is devastated,’” Tourism Minister Guy Didier Hyppolite said. “We had cancellations pouring in on us.”

Assessing the damage Hyppolite said the government is still trying to assess the damage to figure out how best to help hoteliers recover, whether through a low-interest loan or grant. Hyppolite says an Inter-American Development Bank estimate of $15 million in damage for the entire storm-ravaged south is far

A landmark of sorts with its multistory French Colonial architecture and mysterious disappearance of founder Daniel Evinx in 2014, Dan’s Creek had become synonymous with Port-Salut. Today, it’s a gutted out shell of its former glory, the oceanfront balconies mostly gone.

“It was a reference point for the area,” Charles said as workers around him unearthed broken furniture from beneath a pile of fallen concrete and washed up debris. The hotel, he said, employed 18 people — all of whom are now out of jobs.

“We don’t know what we’re going to do,” he said. “There is a touristic void. When people say they are coming to Port-Salut now, what are they coming to see? You may have one or two who come to bring aid, but in terms of tourism, coming to relax, that’s going to take time.”

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Detroit Lions wide receiver Anquan Boldin spearheaded a trip to Capitol Hill this week for players to discuss police brutality and race issues with members of Congress. Boldin told ESPN’s Jim Trotter that he asked Lions safety Glover Quin, Philadelphia Eagles safety Malcolm Jenkins, Cleveland Browns quarterback Josh McCown and wide receiver Andrew Hawkins to join him because they are “all guys who are well-respected in the league and who have the same goal as myself.” Boldin said there’s a huge mistrust” between the police and the African-American community, and he wants to help close that gap.

Monae tells story of Black women who helped win space race

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If you know Janelle Monae, you know her as a high-energy, Afro-futuristic musician. Others recognize her as an “easy, breezy, beautiful” Covergirl.

This winter, however, everyone will know her as an actor as she stars in “Hidden Figures,” which opens in limited release Christmas Day — on the heels of a supporting turn in Barry Jenkins’ “Moonlight.”

The film, which will be her first major role, pinpoints the secret to America’s success in the space race: a group of Black women, known as “computers,” who served as the brains behind many of NASA’s early successes. It’s a story, Monae said, that made her emotional when she first read the script.

Black and brilliant “I cried … because I had never heard of Katherine Johnson or Dorothy Vaughan or Mary Jackson or any of the colored computers who worked at NASA,” she said. “These are true American heroes; they made America great again. How could they not be mentioned (in history)?

I’m appalled, outraged.

“But I’m also excited that we finally get to see a different side of Black women. We get to see us as brilliant-minded mathematicians who are necessary to the culture.”

“Hidden Figures,” adapted from Margot Lee Shetterly’s book of the same name, highlights the contributions of the Black women who worked at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (which would become NA-

SA) through the mid- to late 1970s.

At the center of the story are Katherine Johnson (played by Taraji P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer) and Monae’s Mary Jackson, who, along with other Black women, overcome sexism and racism to become integral members of the organization.

Filmed at Morehouse For Monae, the role was an opportunity to return to her roots. In addition to the movie filming at the historically Black, all-male Morehouse College in Atlanta — where she often performed before being discovered by Sean “Diddy” Combs in 2006 — she was able to flex the acting chops she sharpened at the American Music and Dramatics Academy.

Granted, she’s always considered herself “an artist-storyteller who wants to tell unique, untold, universal stories in unforgettable ways,” “Hidden Figures” is the 30-year-old’s chance to take some of the ideals championed in her music — namely, women’s rights and sisterhood — and transpose them to film. “(This film) empowers us, inspires us that no matter what sexism or setback we experience because we are women, we can prevail,” she said. “When we stick together we can change the world. We sent a man into space!”

‘Sisters’ off screen The onscreen sisterhood spilled off screen as Spencer and Henson became “big sisters” to Monae, with the trio holding potlucks at their homes by filming’s

end. Monae admits that being opposite Oscar-caliber actresses was daunting.

“They told me: ‘I believe in you. I’m excited about this role for you. This is your year,’” Monae said.

“And there’s nothing like your heroes affirming you.”

“Moonlight” director Barry Jenkins also praised Monae, noting that he didn’t expect the “spaceage musician” to be the “wholesome Earth mama” he wanted for the role. But after a Skype session where the two got to know each other, he was convinced she was perfect.

On set, she didn’t allow her newness to overwhelm her, he said. In fact, “I could see that she was watching Mahershala (Ali, who plays her boyfriend in the film) and learning things and quickly applying them.

“That’s when I knew she knew what she was doing,” he said. “And even if she doesn’t know what she’s doing, she knows how to be, and that’s more, if not most, important.”

‘Force of nature’ Theodore Melfi, director of “Hidden Figures,” calls Monae “a force of nature (that’s) just so alive and on fire for life.” He credited her approach to music for her apt skills as an actress.

“It’s very similar to how an actor approaches a role,” he said. “She creates an entire world for herself, interior and exterior, and that’s what an actor does.”

As for what audiences might take away from the film, Monae quotes a line from her character that she hopes moviegoers — and the broader entertainment industry — remember: “Every time we try to move

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Janelle Monae is shown at the 60th BFI London Film festival ‘Moonlight’ premiere on Oct. 6 in London. ahead, they move the finish line.”

“I want those in the position of power to stop making it hard for us to have opportunities,” she said.

“We’re here. We’re ready.

We can do the work. Hell, we birthed this entire nation! We have to hire more women. I’m ready to femme the future, and by that I mean creating more opportunities for women,

especially women of color, in music, film, TV and entertainment. It’s going to be so important that we don’t make it hard; don’t move the finish line.”

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A full, delightful feast Round out your holiday meal with mouthwatering courses FROM FAMILY FEATURES

While the turkey typically receives all the attention at holiday gatherings, rounding out your meal with the perfect snacks, sides and desserts is the key to a successful feast.

Start your guests off with NYC-Style Pita Chips with Herbed Ricotta and Arugula to keep big appetites at bay then serve Slow Cooker Mashed Sweet Potatoes with Marsh­ mallows alongside the main course as the ideal complement to any meat. Finally, top off an evening of delicious food with Caramel Macchiato Ice Cream Pie to send everybody home happy.

NYC-STYLE PITA CHIPS WITH HERBED RICOTTA AND ARUGULA Servings: 6 1/4 pound fresh ricotta cheese 1/2 teaspoon fresh thyme leaves, chopped 2 ounces baby arugula leaves 1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt 12 Stacy’s Simply Naked Pita Chips Scoop ricotta into small bowl, add chopped thyme, mix well.

On a platter, lay out 12 pita chips.

Top each chip with small dollop of ricotta mix and leaf of baby arugula; drizzle with olive oil and season with salt.

SLOW COOKER MASHED SWEET POTATOES WITH MARSHMALLOWS Prep time: 15 minutes Cook time: 4 hours, 10 minutes Servings: 8 5 pounds sweet potatoes, peeled and cut into cubes

1/2 cup Kitchen Basics Original Chicken Stock 1/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar 4 tablespoons butter, cut into chunks 2 teaspoons McCormick Ground Cinnamon 1 teaspoon salt 1/2 teaspoon McCormick Ground Nutmeg 2 cups miniature marshmallows Spray inside of 6-quart slow cooker with non-stick cooking spray. Add sweet potatoes, stock and brown sugar.

Cover.

Cook 4 hours on high or until potatoes are tender, stirring after each hour. Stir in butter, cinnamon, salt and nutmeg. Cover. Let stand 5 minutes.

Beat potatoes with electric mixer on medium-high speed until smooth. Top with marshmallows. Cover. Cook 10 minutes on high or until marshmallows are slightly melted.

CARAMEL MACCHIATO ICE CREAM PIE Servings: 10 Prep time: 20 minutes Total time: 4 hours, 55 minutes Crust 9 graham crackers 1 cup finely chopped almonds 1/4 cup granulated sugar 4 tablespoons butter, melted Filling 1 container (1.5 quarts) Dreyer’s or Edy’s Grand Coffee Ice Cream, softened 1/2 cup Nestlé Toll House SemiSweet Chocolate Morsels, chopped, divided 1/2 cup Nestlé La Lechera Dulce de Leche 1 tub (8 ounces) frozen whipped topping, thawed 1/2 cup sliced almonds, toasted To make crust: Heat oven to 325 F. In food processor, add graham crackers and pulse until crackers

resemble fine crumbs. Add crumbs to bowl along with chopped almonds, sugar and butter; stir to combine. Press into bottom and up sides of 9-inch deep-dish pie plate.

Bake 5 minutes. Remove from oven and cool completely.

To make filling: Spread ice cream into cooled pie crust, smoothing out over bottom. Sprinkle with half of the chopped morsels.

Heat dulce de leche in microwavesafe bowl on high for a few seconds to soften; stir. Pour over chocolate morsels, spreading evenly.

Spoon whipped topping over dulce de leche, covering entire surface of pie.

Sprinkle with remain­ing morsels and almonds.

Freeze 30 minutes. Remove pie from freezer and cover with foil. Place back in freezer for at least 4 hours, or until pie has set. Remove from freezer 10 minutes before serving.

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ONE TERRIFIC TURKEY Centering your holiday meal around a turkey cooked to golden perfection is the ideal way to serve a feast. Without the right preparation and execution, however, your bird could fall short. To ensure your holiday dinner centerpiece lives up to expec­tations, follow these simple tips, from purchase to plate: 1. Buy the right bird.

Finding a turkey that’s just the right size for your expected party is the start to a successful gathering. One com­mon rule of thumb is to buy 1 pound of turkey per person – so for a 10-person meal, purchase a 10-pound turkey. Don’t forget that nearly everyone loves leftovers, so you may consider buying a few pounds more than necessary.

2. Be patient. If you opt for a frozen turkey, don’t rush the thawing process.

For larger turkeys, it can take days to defrost properly.

3. Timing is everything.

Finding the right amount of time for your turkey to spend in the oven is crucial but not always the easiest thing to do. For an 8-12-pound bird, aim for 2.5-3.5 hours; 12-16 pounds for 3.5-4 hours; 16-20 pounds for 4-4.5 hours, and so on. The key is bringing the turkey to a temperature reading of 170 F. 4. Let it rest. Instead of pulling the turkey out of the oven and immediately carving it, give it a chance to rest for 20-30 minutes, which allows the juices to soak into the meat and moisten it up.