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Williams to vie for Congressional seat

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>Editorial: 3rd District seat a hot ticket item > Column: Williams’ congressional bid

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SPORTS, 4 > O.J. Simpson granted parole

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Huntington Mayor Steve Williams speaks during a drug forum at the Big Sandy Superstore Arena.

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THE PARTHENON Huntington Mayor Steve Williams announced Tuesday his intention to run for the House of Representatives in the upcoming 2018 midterm election.

Williams, who has served as Huntington’s mayor since 2012, will run as a Democrat in the state’s 3rd Congressional District, which includes 18 counties in the southernmost part of the state.

Williams is the fourth candidate to !ile for the race. Richard Ojeda of Logan County and Tri-State Transit Authority CEO Paul Davis of Cabell County intend to compete

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McCain says ‘I’ll be back soon’

By DONNA CASSATA

ASSOCIATED PRESS Battling brain cancer, John McCain on Thursday vowed to return to the Senate, leveling fresh criticism at the Trump administration and aiming a good-natured dig at Republican and Democratic colleagues shaken by news of his diagnosis.

“I greatly appreciate the outpouring of support — unfortunately for my sparring partners in Congress, I’ll be back soon, so stand-by!” McCain said in a tweet. Showing no signs of stepping back from political and national security battles, he issued a statement slamming the Trump administration over its Syria policy.

The 80-year-old McCain, the GOP’s presidential nominee in 2008 and six-term Arizona lawmaker, was diagnosed with glioblastoma, an aggressive type of brain cancer, according to doctors at the Mayo Clinic in Phoenix, who had removed a blood clot above his left eye last Friday. They also managed to remove all of the tumor that was visible on brain scans.

The senator and his family are considering further treatment, including chemotherapy and radiation, as he recuperates at his home in Arizona.

In a blistering statement through his of!ice, McCain

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as Democrats, while West Virginia Del. Rupie Phillips of Logan County and Rick Snuffer of Raleigh County will enter the race as Republicans.

Each will vie for the seat set to be vacated by Republican Rep. Evan Jenkins, who is stepping down to make a bid for the United States Senate seat currently held by Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin.

As Huntinton mayor, Williams has taken on a leadership role, particularly during Huntington’s triumph in the America’s Best Communities contest earlier this year.

Huntington beat out 350 other communities and was awarded a $3 million grant to be invested in

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urban development as part of the Huntington Innovation Project.

Williams has also attacked the city’s opioid addiction problem head on, establishing the Mayor’s Of!ice of Drug Control Policy in 2014 to focus on prevention techniques, recovery options and law enforcement efforts to decrease drug traf!icking in the area. Last year, Williams was named to a joint task force by the National League of Cities and the National Association of Counties to combat opioid addiction throughout the nation.

With his candidacy, Williams said he is hoping to bring the same level of comradary he feels he has

brought to Huntington to the 3rd District and to the state as a whole.

“I want to bring that mindset and that vision to every community in the 3rd District and throughout West Virginia,” Williams said.

The mayor said in the release announcing his candidacy that “Congress is broken,” citing politicians “who care more about their political party than about what’s best for our people” as the chief reason.

“America can’t afford that approach any longer,” Williams said.

“West Virginia certainly can’t.”

Jared Casto can be contacted at casto178@marshall.edu.

Trump pressures senators to pass Obamacare repeal, replace later

By ERICA WERNER and ALAN FRAM

ASSOCIATED PRESS Lecturing fellow Republicans, President Donald Trump summoned GOP senators to the White House Wednesday and told them face-to-face they must not leave town for their August recess without sending him an “Obamacare” repeal bill to sign.

“I’m ready to act,” Trump said, putting the responsibility on Republican senators, not himself. During last year’s presidential campaign he had declared repeatedly that it would be “so easy” to get rid of the Obama law.

Trump’s comments Wednesday came just a day after the latest GOP health care plan collapsed in the Senate, leading Trump himself to say it was time to simply let President Barack Obama’s health care law fail. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell had indicated he was prepared to stick a fork in the Republican bill and move on to other issues including overhauling the tax code.

But in an apparent change of heart, in keeping with his erratic engagement on the issue, Trump pressured McConnell to delay the key vote until next week, and he invited Republican senators to the White House for lunch.

There, with the cameras rolling in the State Dining Room, Trump spoke at length as he cajoled, scolded and issued veiled threats to his fellow Republicans, all aimed at wringing a health care bill out of a divided caucus that’s been unable to produce one so far.

“For seven years you promised the American people that you would repeal Obamacare. People are hurting. Inaction is not an option and frankly I don’t think we should leave town unless we have a

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President Donald Trump, along with, from left, Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev., Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., takes their seats during a luncheon with GOP leadership, Wednesday in the State Dinning Room of the White House in Washington. health insurance plan,” he said.

Seated next to Nevada Sen. Dean Heller, who is vulnerable in next year’s midterm elections, Trump remarked: “He wants to remain a senator, doesn’t he?” as Heller gave a strained grin.

Still, it seems improbable that the White House lunch will change the calculus in the Senate, where

McConnell has failed repeatedly to come up with a bill that can satisfy both conservatives and moderates in his party. Two different versions of repeal-and-replace legislation fell short of votes before coming to the !loor, pushing McConnell to announce Monday night that he would retreat to a repeal-only bill that had

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Editorial: 3rd Congressional seat is a hot ticket item

Column: What does Mayor Williams’ Congressional run mean for the city?

By TOM JENKINS

THE PARTHENON Huntington Mayor Steve Williams announced Wednesday he will be running for the third Congressional seat in West Virginia. The seat is currently held

by Republican Rep. Evan Jenkins, who announced this past May he would be challenging Democratic Senator Joe Manchin for his seat.

This could be quite a shake up for Huntington and the entire 3rd District of West Virginia if Williams is to win. First, it would be a swing in politic values as Williams, who will be running as a Democrat, has stated that he doesn’t believe in the “Jobs, Jobs, Jobs,” mentality. Williams told The Charleston Gazette-Mail that politicians do not bring jobs to the state, but businesses do.

The next piece that could affect Huntington and will be the basis for Williams’ run is what he has done for Huntington in his time as mayor, and how he has helped revitalize the area during the rise of America’s opioid epidemic. In the time Williams has been mayor, he has made it his main goal to put Huntington in a positive light and to stop the rapid growth of opiates in the city.

Williams has debated with members in Washington to provide more funding to West Virginia and Huntington speci!ically so that they may provide more treatment options for addicts. The mayor has also worked with Marshall University and Marshall President Jerome Gilbert to !ight the crisis and, as a result, the city has seen a drop in overdoses for the !irst time since 2015. Williams accomplished all of this on top of achieving one of his main goals of having Huntington named “America’s Best Community,” a title that came with a $3

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Mayor Steve Williams during the 2017 State of the City Address in Huntington. million grant to be used for urban development in the city.

Now what will come for Williams in his bid is the issue he had this past winter, with the budget de!icit that resulted in the loss of 24 city employees from both the police and !ire departments. The mayor did turn down a $10,000 raise approved by the Huntington City Council, but many still believe he could have done much more to stop the job losses.

But what really matters for Huntington is not if Williams stays or leaves, but who will replace him and if that individual will be able to continue Williams’ mission of positive growth for Huntington. The city is

on the right path and has seen a growth of local business, along with becoming a more palatable town for young graduates to move to. But whether its Williams or someone new, that trend has to keep moving.

Huntington could become the premiere city in West Virginia as a result of the achievements started by Williams. And the mayor believes he can do that for the rest of southern West Virginia. That battle will be much harder to !ight, but as for Huntington, Williams has placed the city in the right direction. It just needs to keep moving that way.

Tom Jenkins can be contacted at jenkins194@marshall.edu.

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The 2018 election is well over a year away, but some major announcements have already happened.

Congressman Evan Jenkins, R-W.Va., announced in May that he would be giving up his seat to challenge Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., for his senate seat.

Since Jenkins’ announcement, the West Virginia political world has seemingly been turned upside down.

People from every corner of the 3rd District have begun launching campaigns.

The candidates who have of!icially !illed out !iling paperwork are Paul Davis and Richard Ojeda on the Democrat side and Rick Snuffer and Rupie Phillips on the Republican side. Some others have announced their plans to run, such as Huntington Mayor Steve Williams.

Not much information about Davis other than his party af!iliation is currently available.

Ojeda just !inished his !irst legislative session as a state senator. He is most known for becoming the lead sponsor on the medical marijuana bill and working until the bill was eventually passed before the end of the session.

Ojeda is no stranger to the

race in the 3rd Congressional District. Ojeda ran for the seat back in 2014 against incumbent Nick Rahall in the primary election.

Ojeda lost the Democratic primary to Rahall, who was later defeated by Jenkins.

Snuffer is also not new to this race. The former state delegate was also defeated by Rahall during the 2012 general election.

Snuffer is your typical Republican candidate, who is pro-life, pro-traditional marriage and anti-Obamacare.

Phillips is a member of the West Virginia House of Delegates. His message during his campaign announcement was consistent with the message of his entire political career: coal, coal, coal.

The same can be said for all of the other of!icially registered candidates thus far. Reminiscent of President Donald Trump’s campaign promises, these men are also offering something that they simply cannot guarantee.

When voting in Nov. 2018, consider all of your options; there’s sure to be plenty more by then.

Obviously, this election could be a turning point for the state as a whole.

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News in Brief Student victim of scam, loses more than $20,000 STAFF REPORT

An international Marshall student was the victim of a scam, resulting in a loss of more than $20,000.

According to WSAZ, Cabell County deputies say the 27-year-old Chinese native was targeted by a scammer believed to live in Indiana. The scammer promised the student an extended time at Marshall University and also threatened to “get in him in trouble” with Homeland Secuirty.

The student originally wired $3,333 to the scammer in January before later following up with an additional $18,620, which WSAZ reports was wired to a bank in northern Indiana.

On Thursday, Marshall’s Of!ice of International Student Services sent an email to students urging them to be cautious of persons who offer legal advice on immigration matters.

“If you need advice regarding your immigration status, please be sure to speak with an international student adviser in the Of!ice of International Student Services or an experienced, licensed immigration attorney,” the email said.

According to WSAZ, additional suspects of interest in relation to the incident have been identi!ied and the matter is currently being investigated by the sheriff’s of!ice as well as the FBI.

Four added to Marshall Board of Governors STAFF REPORT

Gov. Jim Justice appointed three individuals to the Marshall University Board of Governors, while classi!ied Marshall employees selected a fourth member to join the board. The new appointees will serve four year terms, set to end in 2021.

Justice’s appointments include Woodrow Duba of Daniels, James L. Farley of Cincinnati and Patrick J. Farrell of Huntington, while classi!ied employees appointed Carol Hurula, a manager of business operations in the Division of Academic Affairs. Duba is the general manager of Beaver Coal Co. Ltd. in Beckley, while Farley is president of Nursing Care Management of America Inc. in Cincinnati.

These appointments follow the departures of four board members — three whose terms expired and another member who is no longer eligible to serve. Duba and Farley will replace former board members Dale Lowther and Phillip Cline, respectively, while Hurula will replace classi!ied faculty representative Miriah Young, who became ineligible for a board position after accepting a job at the Marshall Finance Of!ice.

“I applaud Gov. Justice for making excellent appointments,” Marshall President Jerome Gilbert said in a release, “They each bring a valuable skill set to the board and I look forward to working with each of them.”

STAFF REPORT

Marshall President Jerome Gilbert received a contract extension Wednesday after a unamious approval by the Marshall University Board of Governors, according to a release by University Communications.

Gilbert, who took of!ice in 2016, was originally contracted until Jan. 15, 2018. His new contract extends to July 15, 2022.

In response to his extension, Gilbert said that he was “grati!ied” and excited.”

“It is an endorsement of my vision for the university,” Gilbert said. “The extension tells me I have unamious backing of the board to move ahead with my plans to make changes that will help Marshall become an even greater institution. I look forward to working with students, faculty and staff to achieve our goals.”

In the University Communications release, Chairman of the Board of Governors Wyatt Scaggs praised Gilbert’s “tremendous leadership to our university and the entire region” and noted the Board’s acceptance of Gilbert’s “vision” and “direction” for Marshall.

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The !inancial terms of Gilbert’s contract remain unchanged, with the president set to earn an annual salary of $430,000.

Justice considers recalling Legislature this year

By MICHAEL VIRTANEN

ASSOCIATED PRESS Gov. Jim Justice said Thursday that he’s considering recalling the West Virginia Legislature this year to again consider exempting veterans’ pensions from state income taxes and adding a 5 percent surcharge to highway contracts to fund addiction treatment.

“I’m going to look really, really hard about calling them back in soon,” Justice said.

He told The Associated Press that both measures are “no brainers” and that contractors were in agreement on the 5 percent fee on successful highway project bidders. That would have provided almost $150 million for treatment facilities, social workers and law enforcement to address West Virginia’s drug epidemic, he said.

“We have got a tremendous drug problem that we need to !ix,” he said.

According to the governor, the tax exemption for veterans’ retirement income would cost about $3 million. “We just walked away from our vets,” he said.

Both measures were considered by the Legislature earlier this year but weren’t !inally enacted as the governor and lawmakers pushed their respective tax and budget proposals.

Justice’s comments followed his appearance Thursday before state highway workers in Clarksburg to discuss his road reconstruction initiative that the Legislature did approve when it was called back into a special session to enact a budget.

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increased by law to 3.5 cents a gallon, the vehicle sales tax rose from 5 to 6 percent and the vehicle registration fee went up from $30 to $50.

Transportation Secretary Tom Smith said the increased taxes and fees supporting the projects, which will provide about $10 million a month, but none has dropped into the Division of Highways coffers yet.

“What we did is we found a way to move a whole lot of work forward ... that was planned for other years,” Smith said. “The !irst three months of this program starting right now has let $350 million of work, roadway work, that would not have gotten started this year without the governor’s program.”

Smith said it will create thousands of immediate jobs. There will be work in every county of the state, ranging from secondary service roads to reconstructing Interstate 64 in Charleston, he said.

A highway bond issue for $230 million is scheduled for late October. In early October, voters are scheduled to vote on further highway bonding for $600 to $800 million that would follow next year.

Justice said it would be a great mistake for voters to reject it.

“All in the world you’re voting on is just one thing, and that is allowing us to put pieces that area already passed ... into a bucket to be able to bond and then generate gigantic amounts of money to build our roads and to put people to work by the thousands,” he said.

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The Juice will be loose: O.J. Simpson granted parole KEN RITTER

ASSOCIATED PRESS LOVELOCK,Nev.—O.J.Simpson was granted parole Thursday after more than eight years in prison for a Las Vegas hotel heist, successfully making his case in a nationally televised hearing that re!lected America’s enduring fascination with the former football star.

Simpson, 70, could be a free man as early as Oct. 1. By then, he will have served the minimum of his nine-to-33-year armed-robbery sentence for a bungled attempt to snatch sports memorabilia and other mementos he claimed had been stolen from him.

All four parole commissioners who conducted the hearing voted for his release after about a half-hour of deliberations.

They cited his lack of a prior conviction, the low risk he might commit another crime, his community support and his release plans, which include moving to Florida.

“Thank you, thank you, thank you,” Simpson said quietly as he buried his head on his chest with relief. As he rose from his seat to return to his prison cell, he exhaled deeply.

Then, as he was led down a hall, the former athlete raised his hands over his head in a victory gesture and said, “Oh, God, oh!”

Simpson’s sister, Shirley Baker, wept and hugged Simpson’s 48-year-old daughter Arnelle, who held a hand over her mouth.

During the more than hour-long hearing, Simpson forcefully insisted — as he has all along — that he was only trying to retrieve items that belonged to him and never meant to hurt anyone. He said he never pointed a gun at anyone nor made any threats during the crime.

“I’m sorry it happened, I’m sorry, Nevada,” he told the board. “I thought I was glad to get my stuff back, but it just wasn’t worth it. It wasn’t worth it, and I’m sorry.”

Inmate No. 1027820 made his plea for freedom in a stark hearing room at the Lovelock Correctional Center in rural Nevada as the four parole commissioners in Carson City, a two-hour drive away, questioned him via video.

Gray-haired but looking trimmer than he has in recent years, Simpson walked briskly into the hearing room in jeans, a light-blue prison-issue shirt and sneakers. He chuckled at one point as the parole board chairwoman mistakenly gave his age as 90.

The Hall of Fame athlete’s chances of winning release were considered good, given similar cases and Simpson’s model behavior behind bars.

His defenders have argued, too, that his sentence was out of proportion to the crime and that he was being punished for the two murders he was acquitted of during his 1995 “Trial of the Century” in Los Angeles, the stabbings of ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman.

Before the hearing concluded, one of the two memorabilia dealers Simpson robbed, Bruce Fromong, said the former football great never pointed a gun at him during the confrontation, adding that it was one of Simpson’s accomplices. Fromong said Simpson deserved to be released so he can be with his children.

“He is a good man. He made a mistake,” Fromong said, adding the two remain friends.

Arnelle Simpson, the eldest of Simpson’s children, also testi!ied on his behalf, saying her father is not perfect but realizes what a mistake he made and has spent years paying for it.

“We just want him to come home, we really do,” she said.

Simpson said that he has spent his time in prison mentoring fellow inmates, often keeping others out of trouble, and believes he has become a better person

during those years.

“I’ve done my time. I’ve done it as well and respectfully as I think anybody can,” he told the board.

Asked if he was con!ident he could stay out of trouble if released, Simpson replied that he learned a lot from an alternative-to-violence course he took in prison and that in any case he has always gotten along well with people.

“I had basically spent a con!lict-free life,” he said — a remark that lit up social media with sarcastic comments given the murder case and a raft of allegations he abused his wife.

Several major TV networks and cable channels — including ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox, MSNBC and ESPN — carried the proceedings live, just as some of them did two decades ago during the Ford Bronco chase that ended in Simpson’s arrest, and again when the jury in the murder case came back with its verdict.

Simpson said if released he plans to return to Florida, where he was living before his incarceration.

“I could easily stay in Nevada, but I don’t think you guys want me here,” he joked at one point.

“No comment, sir,” one of the parole board members said.

An electrifying running back dubbed “The Juice,” Simpson won the Heisman Trophy as the nation’s best college football player in 1968 and went on to become one of the NFL’s all-time greats.

The handsome and charismatic athlete was also a “Monday Night Football” commentator, sprinted through airports in Hertz rental-car commercials and built a Hollywood career with roles in the “Naked Gun” comedies and other movies.

All of that came crashing down with his arrest in the 1994 slayings and his trial, a gavel-to-gavel live-TV sensation that trans!ixed viewers with its testimony about the bloody glove that didn’t !it and

stirred furious debate over racist police, celebrity justice and cameras in the courtroom.

Last year, the case proved to be compelling TV all over again with the ESPN documentary “O.J.: Made in America” and the award-winning FX miniseries “The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story.”

In 1997, Simpson was found liable in civil court for the two killings and ordered to pay $33.5 million to survivors, including his children and the Goldman family.

Then a decade later, he and five accomplices — two with guns — stormed a hotel room and seized photos,

plaques and signed balls, some of which never belonged to Simpson, from two sports memorabilia dealers.

Simpson was convicted in 2008, and the long prison sentence brought a measure of satisfaction to some of those who thought he got away with murder.

Cerin in the 81st.

Bites have become a meaty problem for soccer.

“The only way to put a stop to this is to have lengthy suspensions. I understand that people make bad decisions in the heat of the moment, but it can never be acceptable to bite an opponent,” said Donovan, like Lalas now an analyst for Fox Sports. “I would assume that CONCACAF will take a particularly hard stance given their insistence on the captains speaking before each game about the importance of acting in an appropriate manner and that ‘our children are watching.’”

Victor Montagliani, president of the Confederation of North and Central American and Caribbean Association Football, said a subset of the group’s disciplinary committee will examine

the report from the match commissioner, Randolph Harris of Barbados, and share it with the involved federations along with other evidence. The subset group then will decide whether discipline is warranted.

Uruguayan forward Luis Suarez was suspended three times for bites: seven Dutch league matches in 2010 (PSV Eindhoven’s Otman Bakkal), 10 games in England in 2013 (Chelsea’s Branislav Ivanovic)

and four months and nine international matches (Italy’s Giorgio Chiellini during the 2014 World Cup).

“That set the precedent, and everything else will be longer than that,” predicted McManaman, a former Liverpool and England star who now is an analyst for ESPN and BT Sport. “It’s incredible. It’s been so unusual. We’ve had a raft of them in the last four to !ive years. Beforehand, you can’t remember anything like

that going on.”

Romero also twisted Altidore’s nipple during the jostling ahead of a corner kick.

While the Americans had stinging criticism for the behavior, U.S. coach Bruce Arena said he couldn’t fault Canadian referee Drew Fischer, a Major League Soccer regular, for not noticing the incidents away from the ball ahead of restarts.

Retired Premier League referee Peter Walton, now general manager of the Professional Referee Organization that oversees on-field officials in the U.S. and Canada, said video technology can be a solution. FIFA experimented with Video Assistant Referees during this year’s Confederations Cup and Under-20 World Cup. “Part of the protocol for the VAR is that they can identify serious missed incidents from the

referee,” he said. “Acts of violent conduct should be and ought to be picked up on VAR and then the information would be given to the referee to adjudicate.”

Walton said MLS referees have become more proactive to limit the pushing and shoving that goes on ahead of restarts.

“What you’ll !ind is that players will try to circumvent the law, and if that means they bring in other acts of disrepute, then that’s maybe something of!icials need to be aware of,” he said. “So whilst we’re looking for the grappling, the grabbing, the tripping, the blocking, maybe we should be opening our repertoire to other areas of player behavior.”

Lalas said VAR would have changed Wednesday night’s game.

“This would have been seen and !lagged, and the player would have been kicked out,” he said.

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Former NFL football star O.J. Simpson enters for his parole hearing at the Lovelock Correctional Center in Lovelock, Nev., on Thursday, July 20, 2017. Simpson was convicted in 2008 of enlisting some men he barely knew, including two who had guns, to retrieve from two sports collectibles sellers some items that Simpson said were stolen from him a decade earlier.

Biting criticism for El Salvador players for gnawing on US RONALD BLUM

ASSOCIATED PRESS PHILADELPHIA — Pushing and shoving? Of course. Pinching? Borderline. But biting?

Retired stars Landon Donovan, Alexi Lalas and Steve McManaman said lengthy suspensions are needed to stop players from sinking their teeth into opponents, as El Salvadorans did against Americans Jozy Altidore and Omar Gonzalez in the CONCACAF Gold Cup. “In my hierarchy of things, it’s spitting at the top and then biting as a close second of the most vile, disgusting and to be quite honest ridiculous things to do on a sporting !ield,” Lalas said Thursday, a day after Altidore was bitten on the back of a shoulder by Henry Romero in the 57th minute of the Americans’ 2-0 quarter!inal win. Gonzalez was gnawed

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Democrats urge swifter action from Trump on opioid addiction

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In a Wednesday, March 29 file photo, President Donald Trump shakes hands with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie during an opioid and drug abuse listening session, in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington.

By JILL COLVIN

ASSOCIATED PRESS President Donald Trump's drug commission is drawing new criticism after it missed a second self-imposed deadline.

Twenty senate Democrats, including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, have written to the acting director of the Of!ice of National Drug Control Policy urging him to "consider important initiatives that could help deliver faster relief to millions of Americans."

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"As the Commission is taking steps to address drug addiction, we are concerned that essential components, such as action on already existing recommendations, are being delayed," they wrote.

The letter to Richard Baum comes after the President's Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis, which is chaired by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, pushed back its deadline to release an interim report for a

passed Congress when Obama was in of!ice.

Yet almost as soon as that plan was unveiled it too was killed off as three GOP senators, one more than McConnell can afford to lose in the narrowly divided Senate, announced opposition.

Complicating matters further, in his comments at the White House lunch Trump was back to supporting repeal and replace legislation, not just repeal.

“We have no choice, we have to repeal and replace Obamacare,” Trump said.

“We can repeal it but the best is repeal and replace.”

Notwithstanding the mixed messages, what was clear Wednesday was that after promising for seven years to repeal and replace “Obamacare” — and using the issue to obtain majorities in Congress and the White House — many Republican senators are reluctant to abandon the effort, even as some acknowledge it would take a dramatic intervention to change the outcome.

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through his of!ice, McCain criticized the administration over reports that it was ending a program to assist Syrian opposition forces !ighting the government of Bashar Assad.

“If these reports are true, the administration is playing right into the hands of Vladimir Putin,” said McCain, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee. “Making any concession to Russia, absent a broader strategy for Syria, is irresponsible and short-sighted.”

More signi!icantly, McCain’s absence is forcing Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., to delay action on health care legislation. Republicans need his vote in order to move forward on repealing and replacing President Barack Obama’s law.

McCain’s closest friend in the Senate, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, said that they had spoken by telephone Wednesday night and that the diagnosis had been a shock to McCain. Graham said “woe is me” is not in McCain’s DNA. “One thing John has never been afraid of is death,” said Graham, who said he expects McCain to be back at the Capitol.

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second time.

The signees are urging the Trump administration to do more to combat the opioid epidemic, including implementing recommendations put forward by former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy in a November 2016 report.

The group is also criticizing an administration budget proposal that would cut nearly $400 million in funding for drug and mental health programs and the Department of

“Know anybody who can work miracles?” said GOP Sen. Pat Roberts of Kansas ahead of the White House lunch.

As Chuck Grassley of Iowa got on board the bus that would ferry senators to the Trump lunch, he tweeted: “I’m eager to replace Obamacare and I’m the !irst one on the bus to the Whitehouse to !ind the magic to get to ‘yes.’”

The three senators who are publicly opposed to moving forward on the repealonly bill are Sens. Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia.

Asked before the lunch if there was anything the president could say to change her mind, Capito said: “I think he just needs to see where the differences are — again.”

The lunch came some 24 hours after Trump appeared to write the whole effort off entirely, telling reporters: “I think we’re probably in that position where we’ll just let Obamacare fail. We’re not going to own it. I’m not going to own it. I can tell you that the Republicans are not going to own it.

conference on immigration legislation, Graham said McCain called him three times. “He is yelling at me to buck up, I’m so going to buck up,” Graham said.

Meantime, prayers and words of encouragement multiplied on Thursday from presidents and Senate colleagues past and present.

“I called Senator John McCain this morning to wish him well and encourage him in his !ight. Instead, he encouraged me,” said former President George W. Bush, who prevailed over McCain for the GOP presidential nomination in 2000.

“I was impressed by his spirit and determination.”

Former Sen. Bob Dole of Kansas said: “Having known John for many decades, I am certain that he is as tough as they come — if anyone can defeat this, it’s him. John is a true American hero.”

According to the American Brain Tumor Association, more than 12,000 people a year are diagnosed with glioblastoma, the same type of tumor that struck McCain’s Democratic colleague in legislative battles, the late Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts. The American Cancer Society puts the !ive-year survival rate for patients over 55

We’ll let Obamacare fail and then the Democrats are going to come to us and they’re going to say, ‘How do we !ix it?’”

Many Republicans support the repealonly approach that McConnell plans to try to bring up for a vote next week, and they questioned how senators who voted for that idea two years ago could oppose it now.

But for others, the implications are too severe now that the bill could actually become law with a Republican president in the White House ready to sign it. The Congressional Budget Of!ice has estimated that more than 30 million people would lose insurance over a decade under the legislation.

Murkowski told reporters that repealing the Affordable Care Act without the promise of a replacement would cause uncertainty and chaos. She suggested a better approach might be to go back to the committee room and work on a bipartisan basis “in a way that the public feels that we are really working toward their best interests.”

at about 4 percent.

McCain, a former combat pilot, has a lifetime of near-death experiences — surviving a July 1967 !ire and explosion on the USS Forrestal that killed 134 sailors, !lying into power lines in Spain, being shot down in October 1967 and falling into Truc Bach Lake in Hanoi, and going through 5 1/2 years in a North Vietnamese prison.

“The Hanoi Hilton couldn’t break John McCain’s spirit many years ago, so Barbara and I know — with con!idence — he and his family will meet this latest battle in his singular life of service with courage and determination,” said former President George H.W. Bush.

Commenting on both McCain and the response, Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said, “The outpouring of bipartisan respect and love for John McCain as he faces this cancer battle reminds us that after all the meanness there is a human side to politicians. Count this Democrat in John McCain’s corner.”

In the past, McCain had been treated for melanoma, but this primary tumor is unrelated.

Doctors said McCain is recovering from his surgery “amazingly well” and his underlying health is excellent.

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Justice's escalating focus on treating drug addiction as a criminal justice issue.

"For the millions of Americans currently suffering from addiction or abuse, another day could be a matter of life or death," they wrote.

The White House referred questions to the Of!ice of the National Drug Control Policy, which did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Christie said earlier this week that he'd asked for an extension because of the outpouring of public comments the commission had received after its !irst public meeting.

"I asked for an extension because we got over 8,000 public comments after our !irst public meeting and I did not think it was appropriate not to review all of those public comments, and to the extent necessary, address some of them in the interim report," he said.

The commission was supposed to submit its interim report within 90 days of the March 29 order that established the commission.

Christie made !ighting drug addiction a cornerstone of his 2016 presidential campaign and has dedicated his last year in of!ice to the issue.

The letter's signees include Sens. Dianne Feinstein, Sherrod Brown, Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris and Cory Booker.

With his irascible grin and !ighter-pilot moxie, McCain was elected to the Senate from Arizona six times, most recently last year, but was twice thwarted in seeking the presidency.

An upstart presidential bid in 2000 didn’t last long. Eight years later, he fought back from the brink of defeat to win the GOP nomination, only to be overpowered by Obama.

McCain chose a little-known Alaska governor as his running mate in that race, and helped turn Sarah Palin into a national political !igure.

McCain returned to the Senate, determined not to be de!ined by a failed presidential campaign.

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JULY 21 Party on the Patio / Eat in the Street Heritage Station

JULY 21-23 HART in the Park Ritter Park Ampitheater

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Party on the Patio to feature authentic Reggae artist FRANKLIN NORTON

LIFE! EDITOR For anyone who hasn’t had the time to make it to the beach this summer, the Greater Huntington Parks & Recreation District is here to help—by bringing the beach to Huntington.

Party on the Patio at Heritage Station, set to begin on Friday, at 7 p.m., will feature the sounds of Jamaican-born Reggae artist, Shayar, and his band Krooshall Force.

Shayar brought his music to the states in 1984, when he moved from Ocho Rios in Jamaica to Brooklyn,

N.Y. Nearly 14 years later, he moved to Beckley, W.Va., “where the natural beauty is akin to that of Jamaica,” states his biography on his of!icial website.

Shayar has played guitar for grammy award-winning Reggae musician Burning Spear, and has also toured with Anthony B, the Itals and Gregory Isaacs.

The GHPRD plans to complement Shayar’s Reggae style of music by creating a beachy scene right in downtown Huntington. The patio of Heritage Station will be covered with sand, according to Renee Watterson, the reservation specialist at GHPRD.

Watterson also gave insight into some of the activities available for all ages at the Friday evening event.

“We’re closing 11th street,” Watterson said. “There’s going to be a food truck rally. We’re going to have corn hole and Jenga and other things in the street.”

Watterson explained that the event is free to attend, with food from local food trucks, Coca-Cola products and alcoholic beverages all available for purchase.

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