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The Tap: Wednesday, July 27, 2016

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The Tap covered election news, public policy, and other noteworthy events from February 2016 to February 2022.

Review of the day

The excerpts below were compiled from issue #27 of The Tap, which was published on July 30, 2016. READ THE FULL VERSION HERE.

Federal

  • U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) received the vice presidential nomination of the Democratic Party on Wednesday night by acclamation. During his acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention, Kaine spoke about his years in public service and vouched for Hillary Clinton’s character. He said, "I want to tell you why I trust Hillary Clinton. On a personal level, as he's serving our nation abroad, I trust Hillary Clinton with our son's life. Remember Karla, the little girl we heard from on Monday who was worried that her parents would be deported? Karla said she trusts Hillary to keep them together. And remember the Mothers of the Movement last night? They said they trust Hillary to keep other mothers' sons and daughters safe." He then criticized Trump, saying, "You know who I don't trust? Donald Trump."
  • Day three of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) featured the following speakers: President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, among others. In the most anticipated speech of the night, Obama attacked Donald Trump and his campaign slogan and explained why Clinton and Kaine are the right people to serve as president and vice president. Obama said, “America is already great. America is already strong. And I promise you, our strength, our greatness, does not depend on Donald Trump.”
  • Federal Judge Paul Friedman ruled that John Hinckley, the man who tried to assassinate President Ronald Reagan in 1981, can be released from a mental hospital with restrictions. According to The Hill, “Hinckley will not allowed [sic] to contact his victims, their relatives or knowingly travel to areas where the current president or members of Congress are present.” Hinckley, who was found not guilty by reason of insanity, shot President Reagan, a police officer, a Secret Service agent, and Reagan’s press secretary in an attempt to impress actress Jodie Foster.
  • On Wednesday, Donald Trump implied that Russian hackers should find and publish emails that Hillary Clinton deleted from her private email server. He said, "If they hacked, they probably have her 33,000 emails. I hope they do. They probably have her 33,000 emails that she lost and deleted. You'd see some beauties, so we'll see. … Russia, if you are listening. I hope you are able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by the press." The comments came two days after the FBI announced that it was investigating whether the Russian government leaked the Democratic National Committee’s emails in order to influence the presidential election.
    • Clinton senior policy adviser Jake Sullivan responded to Trump’s comments in the following statement: "This has to be the first time that a major presidential candidate has actively encouraged a foreign power to conduct espionage against his political opponent. That's not hyperbole, those are just the facts. This has gone from being a matter of curiosity, and a matter of politics, to being a national security issue.”
    • When asked if the Russian government is trying to help him get elected, Trump said, "I don't know anything about it. I can tell you, I think if I came up with that, they'd say, 'Oh, it's a conspiracy theory,' it's ridiculous. I mean I have nothing to do with Russia. I don't have any jobs in Russia. I'm all over the world but we're not involved in Russia." Trump was then asked “whether Russian funds have flowed into his businesses and if Russian President Vladimir Putin is trying to control him as a result.” Trump said, "Is that the theory? I haven't heard that at all. I mean I haven't heard that. But I have nothing to do with Russia, nothing to do, I never met Putin, I have nothing to do with Russia whatsoever."
  • Trump said on Wednesday that he would like to raise the federal minimum wage to “at least $10.” Trump also said that “states should really call the shots” on setting a minimum wage. According to The Wall Street Journal, “In calling for a federal wage increase to $10, Mr. Trump is putting himself more in line with President Barack Obama and other Democrats, including his opponent, Hillary Clinton.”
  • The manager for a children’s patriotic song-and-dance group, the USA Freedom Kids, is considering suing Donald Trump’s presidential campaign for breaking a verbal agreement with the performers. According to The New York Times, the trio of young girls sang a song called “Freedom’s Call” before a January Trump rally in Pensacola, Florida. Jeff Popick, the group’s manager, said that he was never reimbursed for travel to Des Moines, Iowa, for a second appearance and was not compensated for the original performance in Florida.
  • Washington Post reporter Jose DelReal was patted down and barred from entering the first public event for Mike Pence as the Republican vice presidential nominee. DelReal was initially denied press credentials (as the Trump campaign has done for the Post in the past), and when he tried to enter through the general admission line, he was told he could not enter with a laptop and cellphone. When he tried to re-enter without a cellphone, DelReal was patted down and then told by security, “I don’t want you here. You have to go.”
  • Donald Trump’s presidential campaign announced Jeff DeWit as the national campaign’s chief operating officer. He is currently the state treasurer of Arizona. DeWit had served as Trump’s Arizona campaign chair, and his new role “will focus on the operational aspects of the campaign including budgetary and logistical matters,” according to the campaign.
  • A Politico review of FEC records showed that billionaire investor George Soros has “donated or committed more than $25 million to boost Hillary Clinton and other Democratic candidates and causes” this election cycle. Among the groups Soros had backed were Priorities USA Action (the main super PAC supporting Hillary Clinton), the opposition research super PAC American Bridge 21st Century, another super PAC called Immigrant Voters Win, and a nonprofit organization aimed at redistricting called the Voting Rights Trust. These contributions represent a change for Soros, who had not donated heavily to politics since the 2004 presidential election. Most of Soros’ work has been in support of his international foundations.
  • On Wednesday, Libertarian vice presidential nominee Bill Weld said that he and Gary Johnson support the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal and free trade in general. Weld said, “We’re the only free trade ticket in the race.” Weld added, “I’m convinced TPP is good policy. I’m not sure that the rank-and-file members in Congress agree with Mr. Trump on that. Until quite recently, you thought of the Republican party as the free trade party. It’s just Mr. Trump that’s gone off the reservation. … [The TPP] brings us in under the rubric, under the tent of a free trade area with 11 nations…in Asia that does not include China. So it’s almost like an informal economic alliance with those 11 countries. So it’s more than a beachhead - it’s planting the flag, economic flag big-time in Asia, and that’s worth a lot to us.”
  • When asked how Hillary Clinton will improve her standing with white men who have not attended college, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said, “With an economic agenda to create jobs, good-paying jobs, increasing paychecks. The economic agenda is what is really — it’s about the economy. You know that statement. It’s not a cliche. It’s a fact. And I think that, so many times, white — non-college-education — educated white males have voted Republican. They voted against their own economic interests because of guns, because of gays, and because of God, the three G’s, God being the woman’s right to choose.”

State

Local

  • The San Francisco Unified School District Superintendent Richard Carraza announced plans to resign from his position. Carraza, who has served as the superintendent since July 2012, was unanimously chosen as the sole finalist for superintendent of the Houston Independent School District in Texas. The Houston ISD school board must wait 21 days before taking a final vote on Carraza’s appointment, according to Texas law. The San Francisco school board was aware of Carraza’s potential resignation and selected Myong Leigh to serve as interim superintendent. Leigh is employed as the district’s deputy superintendent for policy and operations. If Carraza’s appointment is finalized, Leigh will become the interim superintendent on September 1, 2016. San Francisco school board president Matt Haney said that the search for a permanent new superintendent would begin as soon as possible. The San Francisco Unified School District served 56,620 students during the 2013-2014 school year.
  • The Chicago Public Schools (CPS) Board of Education authorized a $250,000 payment to a law firm for work on a lawsuit during 2016. District CEO Forrest Claypool describes this lawsuit as “in deep freeze.” According to Claypool, the law firm Jenner and Block was hired earlier in 2016 to potentially file a civil rights lawsuit on behalf of CPS against what Claypool described as “a racially discriminatory state funding system.” State lawmakers passed a stopgap budget in June 2016 that included additional funding for CPS and led the district to freeze its plans for a lawsuit in the foreseeable future. Ronald Marmer, the general counsel for CPS, was previously employed by Jenner and Block. He was appointed to his position as CPS general counsel by the school board in October 2015. Marmer did not comment on the case when contacted by The Chicago Tribune. A letter of agreement between CPS and Jenner and Block set up terms for future work by the law firm. The agreement includes a per-hour billing rate of $295, the payment of “reasonable out-of-pocket expenses and internal charges,” and the payment of all fees to the law firm within 30 days of billing. Chicago Public Schools served 396,641 students during the 2013-2014 school year, which was 19.1 percent of all Illinois public school students.

Preview of the day

The excerpts below were compiled from issue #26 of The Tap, which was published on July 23, 2016. READ THE FULL VERSION HERE.

Federal




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