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panicinthestudio · 5 years ago

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On Hong Kong, Nationalism, and Social Upheaval: A Mirror for the 21st Century

The protests in Hong Kong have reached a sustained, fevered pitch that shows no signs of slowing. In a usually politically apathetic and downtrodden place, six months of regular outbursts of strife is nothing to shrug at. While simultaneous global protests have broken out for similar and regionally distinct reasons, one might come to the conclusion that in comparison that cosmopolitan Hong Kong has had relatively few fatal casualties but that would be sidestepping the historical trajectories these things have taken.

What people don’t seem to grasp is that this is a city that has regularly felt the convulsions of modernity for over a century, before it even became a colony. As a spread out collection of villages in the first millennium CE, salt production taxation, piracy, luxury materials like incense and pearls, and a distant central bureaucracy were already the cause of riots. In the 19th century, it would become the port and military foothold to guard British imperial interests, including the intentional import of opium to an increasingly addicted wider Chinese public, cemented by wars and the resulting in the Treaty of Nanking and Convention of Peking.

Anti-colonial sentiments would take root, but becoming a intersection of East and West afforded new, perhaps unexpected developments in its global and political position. As an emerging 20th century economic center it had a relatively free press and access to modern academic and social thought. It became host to young, revolutionary fervor as well as political, social, and economic refugees; all signs and important touchstones in hastening the demise of Qing rule. Like many previous popular uprisings in China, it was a central idea that dynastic fall and the ousting of perceived foreign or corrupt influence (read: non-Han, Western, and in particular Manchurian power) would restore the country to its Heavenly Mandate.

The first Chinese Republic that emerged and Hong Kong helped birth would be short-lived. After becoming a battleground for Pacific aggression and World War II proper, and witnessing the retreat of the young Republic to Taiwan, civil war, and their aftermath, tensions in the 1950s and 60s remained high and widespread. Colonial repression was against a backdrop of the greater unresolved ideological conflicts and their influence locally, culminating in the 1967 leftist riots. This was the last time the Emergency Regulations Ordinance was invoked in Hong Kong as homemade bombs and domestic terrorism spread, people were burned alive, murdered, or assassinated in the streets and lasted eight months. Even when the dust settled, it set off a decades-long wave of migration that changed the face of Chinese communities globally.

This was a premonition of postcolonial anxiety; who would be recognized as the legitimate governing body of a united China and what the real political implications would be, in a clash between the Republic of China, which was under White Terror martial law and the paranoid iconoclasm of the Cultural Revolution of Mainland China. The colonial government woke to a state of unleashed and organized nationalist polarization. A lease of 99 years changed from “good as forever” to serious consideration for an impending repatriation of the leased New Territories and outlying islands within a generation, growing to become the return of the entirety of Hong Kong and the Kowloon peninsula and its citizens under the 1989 Sino-British Joint Declaration.

A similar situation in Macau in 1966 would result in the beginnings of the framework for both cities to be governed under One Country, Two Systems under vaguely-defined guarantees of preservation of existing rights and freedoms and a “high degree of autonomy” in practically identical versions of Basic Law. What has become obvious is that the People’s Republic has used the norms and mechanisms of internationally recognized treaties and repatriation to achieve their goal of unification under one nation-state, without real sincerity for the stipulations and necessity of two systems. Attempting among other things to stretch historical definitions of their territory, consolidating control over all disputed territories and ultimately targetting Taiwan. Similar experiments with military and authoritarian control continue to play out in Xinjiang and Tibet as “autonomous regions”.

The vague terms, hands-off oversight on the part of foreign co-signers, and legal limitations without clear plans after their 50-year expiry have meant China has been willing to renege or manipulate the exercise of the Basic Law and its protections after the fact, both through their own central bureaucracy and direction of the Chief Executive. Over the course of the current protests they declared the 1989 Joint Declaration a “historical document” rather than a binding agreement with the co-signers and the citizens, effectively claiming sole discretion of governing their “internal affairs”.

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This history of demonstrations, riots, and outbreaks of violence are preserved in the pop and social culture of protest and aggressive opposition tactics, as well the more recent reputation for political reticence, fear, and defeatism. Political and economic maneuvering, along with the decline of European empires after the World War II gave way to local material changes in allegiances and diplomatic relationships.

Establishment-aligned conservatives who once aligned themselves with the colonial powers, business elite, and/or Kuomintang Taiwan now find a shared nationalism and anti-progressive stance with the formerly young communists that now hold sway as the entrenched pro-Beijing camp. Pan-democrats as their political opposition are an uneasy confederation of progressives, reformists, and radicals aligned with emergent nativist, populist, separatist elements, as well as reactionaries in their obstruction of centralized Chinese authoritarianism, demands for full suffrage, democracy, and self-determination.

In 2003, protests against Article 23 brought out record numbers of people in opposition to clamping down with restrictions on the the right to free assembly and political expression using anti-subversion and national security laws and language. Failed Beijing-controlled electoral reform directly lead to Occupy Central and the Umbrella Movement in 2014, as well as the 2016 Mong Kok Fishball Revolution, effectively tanking the political establishment’s hold on popular support.

The rising political figures in the opposition and grassroots activists involved in those protests continue to experience political and legal persecution, bearing the brunt of representing the growing social and political disquiet. The Causeway Bay Books abductions and forced confessions, among other high-profile extrajudicial kidnappings, only confirmed fears of the opaque and encroaching bureaucratic and judicial systems of the PRC. Exercising freedom of speech, expression, and advocating for self-determination has resulted inconsistent legal interpretations and retributive disqualifications of candidates from standing for election or entitlement to being administered oath of office after being elected.

References to those previous conflicts keep popping up in 2019 actions against people, businesses, media, organizations, and unions that are historically associated with the People’s Republic. The 70th anniversary of the founding of the PRC and the 30th anniversary annual memorial of the Tiananmen Square massacre are just two reminders in the tortured historical litany of modern Chinese politics. Slogans like “if we burn, you burn with us” and “liberate (more accurately, restore) Hong Kong, the revolution of our times” reflect back on an awareness of the tactics and rhetoric of pre- and post-revolutionary China, reopening tensions of cultural North and South, Nationalist and Communist, foreign and local/indigenous. They also reveal a level of frustrated nostalgia and suffering that has not been addressed.

Idiosyncrasies like leaving pineapples are more clear when you understand they are idiom for the 1967 bombings; pasting and repurposing images of political figures to step on, humiliate, or deface hints at the local folk magic practice of “villain hitting” (打小人) and the targets’ presumed malevolence; while playing with the ambiguous meanings, homophones, and coded language that make Hong Kong Cantonese comic and irreverent are directly pulled from a deep and even ancient subversive streak.

The earlier rallying cries of the protests of “反送中, 抗惡法” can be read as “oppose extradition to China, fight the evil law”, while sounding similar to “oppose sending family (to the grave)”, namely the death knell of Hong Kong at the hands of China. The intent is obvious, as the phrase used for a familial tragedy also invokes the homophone taboo of gifting a clock or bell. “Hong Kongers, add oil (keep going)” has morphed from comfort and encouragement, to solidarity to “resist” and “avenge”.

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Ghost in the Shell re-imagined the late 20th century claustrophobic architecture and social landscape of Hong Kong as a near-future dystopia, when the traumas of war, globalization, overcrowding, ideological conflict, and technological acceleration were ominously already present and barely concealed. In a striking way, Hong Kong is still that glimpse into the future: its traditional economic and cultural influence is waning, cost and quality of life are at extremes. There is high barrier of entry and lack of social mobility for the younger generation, space is at a dizzying premium, it is politically under-defined by stunted by lack of democratic and civic access, all while increasingly dependent on an economically hungry and politically-abhorrent behemoth that they helped create.

In the last two decades they’ve suffered through repeated injury to their tourism industry, health and financial crises, intense social and economic pressure, and most importantly direct existential threat to their security and freedoms from China and CCP influence in the form of electoral, policy, and extrajudicial control. They are 7 million people with defined rights of democracy and autonomy facing down 1.4 billion, controlled by a single-party authoritarian state, directly supported by one of the largest military forces on the planet. The rush to close the split from over a century apart by homogenizing and socio-economic extortion, is absolutely a collision that we are watching happen in real-time.

Hong Kong is a place of contradiction, neither truly old or new, and my interest in the ongoing protests extends beyond it being a place that I am familiar or my sentimental attachments. What we are seeing is late-stage capitalism in its decline and exaggerated for us all to see: where democratic rights and freedoms are lip-service, oligarchs and convenient political operators are the only ones with any say, and rampant authoritarianism is unchecked while claiming to be the injured party. China’s paranoia is not unfounded historically, but it is unhinged when it is the state’s coercive use of power and deep insecurity that drives these problems in the first place.

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I’m well aware that there are actions over the course of these protests and demonstrations that have crossed the line. Violence and even vigilantism that was once shocking but distant, now grows closer. The bullets and flammables fly, the grievous injuries and accounts of abuse pile up in broader case of increasing intention to cause direct and permanent harm. The dehumanization, deaths under suspicious or unexplained circumstances, lack of accountability or responsibility on the part of police and inept government are adding insult to injury, further evidence of the primary criticism that they are neither valid or effective as an institution.

Carrie Lam and her bureaucracy’s inability to address any of the remaining demands or generate meaningful solutions can only be described as arrogance. There is no end to the current impasse as long as they continue to rely on China’s continued tepid endorsement. Her withering approval rating, the lack of real mechanisms to consider the needs of the populace, and the use of police as cover for their spoken and unspoken approval of brutal tactics are signs that they only wish to return to a superficial and ultimately, temporary normalcy.

These aren’t blanket “anti-government” protests as many conservative outlets insist on phrasing it, they are allied in their rejection of an unelected and unreceptive one. Rather than understand and resolve the root, Lam has made a hard-line declaration that the pressure of violence will not achieve further demands. In doing so she has missed yet another opportunity to reflect and reconcile, and will have to accept responsibility for prolonging this crisis further.

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When Did Democrats And Republicans Switch

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When Did Democrats And Republicans Switch

How Republicans Made Common Cause With Southern Democrats On Economic Matters

Why Did the Democratic and Republican Parties Switch Platforms?

Roosevelts reforms also brought tensions in the Democratic coalition to the surface, as the solidly Democratic South wasnt too thrilled with the expansion of unions or federal power generally. As the years went on, Southern Democrats increasingly made common cause with the Republican Party to try to block any further significant expansions of government or worker power.

“In 1947, confirming a new alliance that would recast American politics for the next two generations, Taft men began to work with wealthy southern Democrats who hated the New Deals civil rights legislation and taxes,” Cox Richardson writes. This new alliance was cemented with the Taft-Hartley bill, which permitted states to pass right-to-work laws preventing mandatory union membership among employees and many did.

Taft-Hartley “stopped labor dead in its tracks at a point where unions were large, growing, and confident in their economic and political power,” Rich Yeselson has written. You can see the eventual effects above pro-Democratic unions were effectively blocked from gaining a foothold in the South and interior West, and the absence of their power made those regions more promising for Republicans’ electoral prospects.

And They Are Holding Tightly To Their Party Identities

Americans political behavior and beliefs have grown ever more partisan over the past 40 years. Democrats and Republicans alike have become more likely to support their own partys candidates, to adopt their own partys issue positions, and even to distort their perceptions of objective facts to fit their own partys preferred version of reality. While political scientists have spent two decades documenting these trends, Donald Trumps presidency has broadened and accelerated this process.

Republicans and Democrats attitudes toward politicians and political organizations are getting farther apart

To understand these changes, I compared the results of surveys conducted by the Internet survey firm YouGov in November 2017 and January 2020. The data were matched and weighted to be demographically representative of the adult U.S. population. The 2017 survey included 736 Republicans and 930 Democrats; the 2020 survey included 1,098 Republicans and 1,386 Democrats.

In 2017, Republicans and Democrats differed in their average ratings of President Trump by 5.8 points on a 10-point scale. By this January, the difference had grown significantly, to 6.7 points. The endpoints of the scale were labeled extremely unfavorable feelings and extremely favorable feelings. The share of Democrats who gave Trump a zero increased from 71 percent to 81 percent, while the share of Republicans who gave him a 10 increased from 28 percent to 48 percent.

Red States And Blue States List

Due to the TV coverage during some of the presidential elections in the past, the color Red has become associated with the Republicans and Blue is associated with the Democrats.

The Democratic Party, once dominant in the Southeastern United States, is now strongest in the Northeast , Great Lakes Region, as well as along the Pacific Coast , including Hawaii. The Democrats are also strongest in major cities. Recently, Democratic candidates have been faring better in some southern states, such as Virginia, Arkansas, and Florida, and in the Rocky Mountain states, especially Colorado, Montana, Nevada, and New Mexico.

Since 1980, geographically the Republican base is strongest in the South and West, and weakest in the Northeast and the Pacific Coast. The Republican Partys strongest focus of political influence lies in the Great Plains states, particularly Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska, and in the western states of Idaho, Wyoming, and Utah.

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The Republican Party Becomes The Party Of Rich Northerners

All this while, economic issues were growing more important to Republican politicians. Even before the Civil War, the North was more industrialized than the South, as you can see from this map of railway lines. After it, this industrialization only intensified.

And during the war, the federal government grew a lot bigger and spent a lot more money and that meant people got rich, and owed their wealth to Republican politicians. The partys economic policies, Cox Richardson writes, “were creating a class of extremely wealthy men.”

Gradually, those wealthy financiers and industrialists took more and more of a leading role in the Republican Party. They disagreed on many issues, but their interests rather than the interests of black Southerners increasingly started to become the partys raison detre.

The Republican Party Was Founded To Oppose The Slave Power

Dinesh D’Souza Debunks the Myth of the “Switch” between Republicans and Democrat Party

For the first half-century after the United States founding, slavery was only one of many issues in the countrys politics, and usually a relatively minor issue at that. The American South based its economy on the enslavement of millions, and the two major parties which by the 1850s were the Democrats and the Whigs were willing to let the Southern states be.

But when the US started admitting more and more Western states to the Union, the country had to decide whether those new states should allow slavery or not. And this was an enormously consequential question, because the more slave states there were, the easier it would be for the slaveholding states to get their way in the Senate and the Electoral College.

Now, the issue here wasnt that Northern politicians were desperate to abolish slavery in the South immediately, apart from a few radical crusaders. The real concern was that Northerners feared the “Slave Power” the South would become a cabal that would utterly dominate US politics, instituting slavery wherever they could and cutting off opportunity for free white laborers, as historian Heather Cox Richardson writes in her book To Make Men Free.

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Summarizing The Party Systems As A Two

Current events and complexities aside, there has almost always been a two-party system in the United States. The mentality of each party can be expressed as northern;interests and southern interests, although I strongly prefer city interests and rural interests . Sometimes we see both;interests;in the same party, as;with Humphrey and LBJ, and sometimes it is less clear cut, but we can always spot it in any era.

Thus, we can use a simple two party answer as to which factions;held which interests over time, which I hope will be seen as helpful, and not divisive.;Remember the U.S. is a diverse Union;of 50 sovereign states and commonwealths where the need to get a majority divides us into red states and blue states as a matter of custom, not as enemies, but as a United Republic with a democratic spirit.

Northern City Interests: Federalists, Whigs, Third Party Republicans, Fourth Party Progressive era Republicans , Fifth Party Democrats , Modern Democrats.

Southern Rural Interests: Anti-Federalists, Democratic-Republicans, Third Party Democrats, Fourth Party Progressive Era Democrats , Fifth Party Republicans , Modern Republicans.

TIP: One way to;summarize all of this is by saying the changes happened under, or as a result of, key figures including Jefferson and Hamilton, Adams and Jackson, Lincoln, Grant, Cleveland, Bryan, the Roosevelts, Wilson, Hoover, LBJ, and Clinton. See a;comparison of the political ideology of each President from Washington to Obama.

How The Republicans Became Socially Conservative

The Fourth;Party Republicans;began;to change when;the Progressive Republican Theodore Teddy Roosevelt broke;from the party in 1912 . Following the break, the Republicans;increasingly embraced social conservatism;and opposed social;progressivism .;From Harding to Hoover, to Nixon, to Bush they increasingly favored classical liberalism regarding individual and states rights over;central;authority. This attracted some socially conservative Democrats like states rights Dixiecrat Strom Thurmon. It resulted in a Southernization of the;Republican party and drove some progressive Republicans from the party over time.

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President Truman Integrates The Troops: 1948

Fast forward about sixty shitty years. Black people are still living in segregation under Jim Crow. Nonetheless, African Americans agree to serve in World War II.

At wars end, President Harry Truman, a Democrat, used an Executive Order to integrate the troops.

These racist Southern Democrats got so mad that their chief goblin, Senator Strom Thurmond, decided to run for President against Truman. They called themselves the Dixiecrats.

Of course, he lost. Thurmond remained a Democrat until 1964. He continued to oppose civil rights as a Democrat. He gave the longest filibuster in Senate historyspeaking for 24 hoursagainst the 1957 Civil Rights Act.

Republicans Lose Black Voters

For more than half a century after the Civil War, black voters held strong loyalties to the Republican Party. But those loyalties began to wane with the depression and the New Deal, and by the time race returned to the forefront of national politics in the 1950s, the number of black voters who;identified as Democrats was twice the number who identified as Republicans.

Still, considering that the South had been Democratic for so long, it did briefly seem that it was possible the Republican Party would discover its roots as the party of civil rights for black Americans. It was Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower who sent in federal troops to Arkansas to enforce the Supreme Courts decision to desegregate schools, after all.

But instead, it was a Democratic president Lyndon B. Johnson who signed the Civil Rights Act into law in 1964. Republicans gave the bill a good share of support in Congress, but the partys presidential nominee that year, Barry Goldwater, argued that it expanded government power too much.

As a result, Republicans went from losing black voters to losing them spectacularly. Ever since, it’s been common for 80 percent or even more of black voters to support Democrats.

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The Kkk Was Founded By Democrats But Not The Party

The Ku Klux Klan was founded in 1866 by ex-Confederate soldiers Frank McCord, Richard Reed, John Lester, John Kennedy, J. Calvin Jones and James Crowe in Pulaski, Tennessee. The group was originally a social club but quickly became a violent white supremacist group.

Its first grand wizard was Nathan Bedford Forrest, an ex-Confederate general and prominent slave trader.

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Experts agree the KKK attracted many ex-Confederate soldiers and Southerners who opposed Reconstruction, most of whom were Democrats. Forrest even spoke at the 1868 Democratic National Convention.

The KKK is almost a paramilitary organization thats trying to benefit one party. It syncs up with the Democratic Party, which really was a;racist party openly at the time, Grinspan said. But the KKK isnt the Democratic Party, and the Democratic Party isnt the KKK.

Although the KKK did serve the Democratic Partys interests, Grinspan stressed that not all Democrats supported the KKK.

The Anti-Defamation Leagues Center on Extremism senior fellow Mark Pitcavage told the Associated Press that many KKK members were Democrats because the Whig Party had died off and Southerners disliked Republicans after the Civil War. Despite KKK members’ primary political affiliation, Pitcavage said it is wrong to say the Democratic Party started the KKK.

Fact check:Yes, historians do teach that first Black members of Congress were Republicans

The Party Of Kennedy V The Party Of Nixon In The Civil Rights Era

Two things started happening at the same time:

Racist Democrats were getting antsy

Neither party could afford to ignore civil rights anymore

In 1960 Kennedy defeated Nixon. At the time of his election, the both parties unevenly supported civil rights. But President Kennedy decided to move forward.

After Kennedys assassination in 1963, Johnson continued Kennedys civil rights focus.

As you can imagine, that did not sit particularly well with most Southern Democrats. This is when Strom Thurmond flew the coop for good.

In fact, a greater percentage of Congressional Republicans voted for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than did Democrats. Support for the Act followed geographic, not party, lines.

Soon after, the Republicans came up with their Southern Strategy a plan to woo white Southern voters to the party for the 1968 election.

The Kennedy and Johnson administrations had advanced civil rights, largely through national legislation and direct executive actions. So, the Southern Strategy was the opposite states rights and no integration.

As in the Civil War, the concepts of states rights and tradition, were codes for maintaining white supremacy.

Starting with Thurmond in 1964, and continuing throughout the Johnson and Nixon administrations, Dixiecrats left the Democrats for the Republicans.

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What Is The Democratic Party

Democratic Party is a big party in the USA. The Democratic-Republican Party processes this party. It is one of the two major political parties. It was most noteworthy in 1828 by Andrew Jackson, who was the first president of this party. Washington DC headquarters of this party. Its symbol is the donkey, and the color is blue. For instance:-

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Angela Rayner Biography and Profile

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Angela Rayner Biography and Profile

Angela Rayner was born on March 28 1980, in Stockport, Greater Manchester. She is the youngest person to be the shadow education secretary, at the age of 36. Mrs Rayner went to Avondale School, but left aged 16 when she became pregnant, without any qualifications. She later studied part time at Stockport College, and qualified as a social care worker. She then joined Unison because of the conditions she saw during the decade she worked for in that profession. Mrs Rayner was once under fire for bullying a shopkeeper and misuising Commons notepaper, when she failed to get a special edition of Star Wars high heels.

Angela Rayner certainly has a powerful story, what Denis Healey liked to call a ‘hinterland’. She grew up on a Stockport council estate, brought up by a mother who couldn’t read or write. She left school at 16, pregnant. Her life was, she has said, heading in the wrong direction until: “Labour’s Sure Start centres gave me and my friends, and our children, the support we needed to grow and develop”. And without the NHS, she proclaims her son Charlie, who was born prematurely, would not be alive today.

The challenges Rayner has overcome to make it to Parliament and represent the people of Ashton-under-Lyne (the first woman to do so), have given her a passionate zeal for Labour’s achievements in government.

Who is Angela Rayner?

“From the beginning of my working life I’ve always stood up for working people, first as a Trade Union rep representing care workers and then as a regional union official. Now I use the skills I’ve developed to represent the communities of Ashton, Droylsden and Failsworth.” – Angela Rayner.

Angela Rayner is not an Oxbridge-educated, former Special Adviser, professional politician.

She did not have a privileged upbringing and never went to public school or university. She was brought up on a council estate and left her local comprehensive at 16 with no qualifications and a baby already on the way, after being told she would ‘never amount to anything’.

Angela Rayner has spoken about how Labour’s Sure Start centres gave her, and her friends, the support they needed to become better parents and to grow and develop as young adults.

After a spell at the local FE College, Angela started working as a care worker for Stockport Council where she gained experience at the sharp end of public services. Much of her time was spent providing one-to-one care to elderly people in their own homes, looking after their personal hygiene, preparing meals, listening and showing empathy.

She was soon put forward by her women work-mates to speak for them as a union rep with UNISON. “I was mouthy,” she says, “and I would take no messing from management.”

She rose through the ranks of the trade union movement with her direct experience of low pay, long hours and zero hours contracts, to become the most senior elected official of UNISON in the North West of England.

In 2015, Angela Rayner became the first woman MP in the 180-year history of her Ashton-under-Lyne constituency. She was soon promoted to the shadow whip’s office by the new Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn and then went on to hold the position of Shadow Pensions Minister, before becoming a member of the Shadow Cabinet as Shadow Secretary of State for Education. Her approach to education policy is driven by frustration that the school system abandons so many young people. “I am not OK with the system that allows certain people to fail or be chucked out. I don’t accept that.”

Her difference has been dragging Labour education policy more towards the centre, softening its hostility to free schools and prioritising nursery-care spending before subsidising university tuition fees. She has been one of Corbyn’s most effective shadow cabinet members while keeping her distance from him — refusing to sign a loyalty pledge demanded by Momentum, his personal campaign group. She’s making her own progress on her own terms: Tories talk about her as the party’s most effective shadow education secretary for a generation.

In May 2016, she spoke out against the government’s plans laid out in the Queen’s Speech. Although Labour lost the vote, she won plaudits from commentators and education professionals for her speech, where she outlined how grinding poverty and deprivation had affected her experience of school, saying:

“I was a NEET – not in education, employment or training – and I had no GCSEs at grade A to C; and, as I said, I had a baby at 16. School, for me, was not a place where you went to be educated, but a place where you got away from your parents for a couple of hours while they got some respite from you, and where you were able to see your mates…

Her politics are shaped not only by the opportunities extended to her, but those denied to her friends and family, especially her mother, who dropped out of school aged 12. ‘She followed the fairground wherever it went. She was almost feral, and her mum and dad didn’t care. Two of her siblings were given to a Christian couple down the road and just never came back home.’ Had government intervened, she says, things might have been different.

‘My mum’s had learning deprivation and mental health problems; she is economically not viable. That’s the penalty on society for not investing in my mum and putting those interventions in place.’

For Rayner, this is the point about welfare: failure to support people leads to greater economic and social cost later. She’s almost evangelical while talking about it, presenting her life story as proof. The system worked with her, she says, but it failed her mother — and both of their lives were defined by it.

Her own schooling ended when she was aged 16 — an experience, she says, that shaped her whole political outlook. ‘I was pregnant when I left school, so I needed income support. I didn’t even have functional skills, not even GSCEs in English and Maths, so I needed to go back to college.’ She was in the same position as her mother a generation earlier but the difference for her, she says, was that by 1997 the welfare state was big enough to step in. She had her firstborn Ryan and once said that she “felt she was worthless”.

‘I would have been seen as a scrounger, a scally unlikely to make anything of my life. But without those interventions I wouldn’t have been able to have my son, who is having a great life and has done really well for himself. And I wouldn’t now be a taxpayer who pays their way in life, no longer on any benefits. I wouldn’t be supporting my other two wonderful children. Sometimes you have to invest in people to get the best out of them. To me, that is socialism. That is why I’m a Labour member rather than a Conservative.’

Mrs Rayner responded to Boris Johnson’s ill-comments of single mothers, saying: “I think it’s absolutely disgusting. I remember people like that making those comments about me.

“I might be the shadow education secretary, but inside I’m that 16-year-old that didn’t think I was worth anything. And people like him make women who are already vulnerable feel that they’re the problem. They’re not the problem.”

Next Labour Party Leader? Jeremy Corbyn announced that he was standing down as leader in the wake of Labour’s crushing defeat, when the party won just 202 seats – its worst election performance in more than 80 years. Angela Rayner has been identified as a runner and rider in the Labour leadership race – should Jeremy Corbyn resign. Mr McDonnell named shadow education secretary Ms Rayner as a possible successor to Mr Corbyn in an interview with former Labour spin doctor Alastair Campbell for GQ magazine, saying whoever comes after Mr Corbyn “has got to be a woman”.

Family Away from Parliament and politics, Angela Rayner is married to Mark, who is also a UNISON official, and has three sons.

Angela Rayner Biography and Profile

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‘CATASTROPHE’ in Houston — WAPO: Trump Organization wanted to build Trump Tower in Moscow during 2016 campaign — Rove playbook back in 2018 — JOHNNY DESTEFANO wedding — B’DAY: Bill Cohen

BUZZ — THERE IS ALREADY DISCUSSION about Congress allocating emergency money to help rebuild Houston — America’s fourth-largest city — after this massive storm. Remember: these legislative fights are not easy. As HuffPo’s Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller) pointed out last night on Twitter, it’s not always easy to pass these kinds of bills. We have to imagine the level of devastation in Houston, combined with the state’s large delegation in Congress, will make this a bit easier.

Good Monday morning. WELCOME TO THE LAST WEEK of relative quiet in Washington. Congress is back next week and also has to deal with:

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The National Flood Insurance Program expires at the end of September. … The FAA needs its authority renewed by the end of September. … SCHIP, a state-based children’s health-care program, must be renewed by the end of September. … AND, the government runs out of money Sept. 30 and the debt ceiling needs to be lifted by Sept. 29.

THERE ARE ROUGHLY 50 LEGISLATIVE DAYS left in 2017.

HOUSTON CHRONICLE FRONT PAGE – “SWAMPED BY HARVEY” http://bit.ly/2wVjq1k … NYT: “Deadly Storm Transforms Houston Streets Into Raging Rivers” http://nyti.ms/2xqfMu1 … WAPO: “Catastrophic flooding in Houston” … USA TODAY: “CATASTROPHE: Inundated Houston faces an ‘unprecedented’ 50 inches of rain” … WSJ: “Rain, Floods Deluge Texas”.

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DEVASTATION IN TEXAS — HOUSTON CHRONICLE: “No end in sight to historic floods caused by Harvey,” by Mike Tolson: “The normally matter-of-fact National Weather Service joined in the excited reaction to a deluge that began just after dark Saturday night and promised never to end: ‘All impacts are unknown and beyond anything experienced,’ it said in a Sunday tweet. One of its meteorologists, Patrick Blood, hardly knew what to call it. ‘It’s catastrophic, unprecedented, epic — whatever adjective you want to use,’ he said.

“Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner said late Sunday that police and fire officials received nearly 6,000 calls and had rescued more than 1,000 people. Many of the high-water rescues involved people trapped on their roofs or in their attics in southeast Houston. ‘It breaks your heart,’ Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo said via livestream on Twitter, as he stood in waist-high water in north Houston. ‘But it’s Texas, we’ll get through it.’ …

“Gov. Greg Abbott said 3,000 National Guard members will join the Texas Guard in areas ravaged by Harvey. The federal government declared Harris County a disaster area Sunday morning. President Trump said he would come to Texas to inspect damage on Tuesday if possible. On Sunday, the president praised the government response in a tweet, writing: ‘Wow — Now experts are calling #Harvey a once in 500 year flood! We have an all-out effort going, and going well!’” http://bit.ly/2vC44Ky

— Brian L Kahn (@blkahn): “Coast Guard flyover reveals stunning scope of Harvey flooding. Everything is underwater” http://bit.ly/2vBLum3

— IT WILL BE INTERESTING TO WATCH how Trump surveys this storm. Both Houston airports, Hobby and George H.W. Bush Intercontinental, are closed. The city is completely paralyzed.

— “Why Wasn’t Houston Evacuated Before The ‘Unprecedented’ Storm?” by BuzzFeed’s Nidhi Prakash: “Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner defended the decision, telling reporters at a press conference Sunday that officials did not expect the city to be directly in the line of the storm, and that there was not time to evacuate residents safely. ‘In this particular case, the hurricane, we were not in the direct line,’ Turner said. ‘It is true we anticipated a lot of rain, a lot of rain. But the best place for people to be is in their homes.’ ‘You cannot in the city of Houston put 2.3 million people on the road. That is dangerous,’ he continued.

“‘When you combine Houston and Harris County, you literally cannot put 6.5 million people on the road. If you think the situation right now is bad, you give an order to evacuate, you are creating a nightmare. Especially when it’s not planned.’ To illustrate this, Turner pointed to the city’s disastrous evacuation efforts during Hurricane Rita in 2005, when some 2.5 million residents tried to leave Houston before the storm, creating monumental traffic jams and leaving 100 people dead.’” http://bzfd.it/2wCcSF4

— “FEMA director says Harvey is probably the worst disaster in Texas history,” by WaPo’s Joel Achenbach and Lisa Rein: “The disaster Hurricane Harvey — now a tropical storm — has created is immense in scale, encompassing thousands of square miles of Southeast Texas. It has brought epic flooding that will affect millions of people. Rivers are still rising, the rain still falling. ‘This will be a devastating disaster, probably the worst disaster the state’s seen,’ William ‘Brock’ Long, administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, told The Washington Post on Sunday. ‘The recovery to this event is going to last many years to be able to help Texas and the people impacted by this event achieve a new normal.’” http://wapo.st/2xFfizz

— CLICKER – “Hurricane Harvey in Photographs: Powerful photos from the storm battering the Gulf Coast.” 28 pix on one page http://nyti.ms/2vvER5o

THE IMPACT, by AP’s Marcy Gordon: “With the heavy precipitation expected to last for days, it’s still unclear how bad the damage will be, but there is already evidence of widespread losses. Key oil and gas facilities along the Texas Gulf Coast have temporarily shut down, and flooding in the Houston and Beaumont areas could seriously pinch gasoline supplies. Companies operating in the Gulf of Mexico have evacuated drilling platforms and rigs, crimping the flow of oil and gas. Experts believe gasoline prices could increase as much as 25 cents a gallon.” http://bit.ly/2wC2sVJ

HELPING HOUSTON — DONATE TO THE RED CROSS http://rdcrss.org/2xqrjcC

MEXICO TO TRUMP: WE’RE NOT PAYING FOR THE WALL — CNN: “In response [to a Trump Sunday tweet], the country’s foreign ministry released a statement saying Mexico would not pay for a wall or other physical barrier at the border ‘under any circumstances.’ ‘This determination is not part of a Mexican negotiating strategy, but a principle of national sovereignty and dignity,’ the statement said.” http://cnn.it/2xq6VIA

TRUMP’S MONDAY — THE PRESIDENT will lunch with VP Mike Pence and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. At 2 p.m., he’s meeting with Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. At 3:15 p.m., Finnish President Sauli Niinisto gets to the White House. At 4:20 p.m., the two leaders hold a joint press conference.

****** A message from the American Bankers Association: It’s no secret that banks help create jobs and economic growth by lending to America’s employers. But America’s banks themselves employ thousands of women and men. Can you guess how many? Is it 200,000, 1 million or 2 million? Find out: http://politi.co/2wc3FR6 ******

SIREN — “Trump’s business sought deal on a Trump Tower in Moscow while he ran for president,” by WaPo’s Carol Leonnig, Tom Hamburger and Ros Helderman: “While Donald Trump was running for president in late 2015 and early 2016, his company was pursuing a plan to develop a massive Trump Tower in Moscow, according to several people familiar with the proposal and new records reviewed by Trump Organization lawyers. As part of the discussions, a Russian-born real estate developer urged Trump to come to Moscow to tout the proposal and suggested that he could get President Vladimir Putin to say ‘great things’ about Trump, according to several people who have been briefed on his correspondence.

“The developer, Felix Sater, predicted in a November 2015 email that he and Trump Organization leaders would soon be celebrating — both one of the biggest residential projects in real estate history and Donald Trump’s election as president, according to two of the people with knowledge of the exchange. Sater wrote to Trump Organization Executive Vice President Michael Cohen ‘something to the effect of, ‘Can you believe two guys from Brooklyn are going to elect a president?’’ said one person briefed on the email exchange. Sater emigrated from what was then the Soviet Union when he was 6 and grew up in Brooklyn.

“Trump never went to Moscow as Sater proposed. And although investors and Trump’s company signed a letter of intent, they lacked the land and permits to proceed and the project was abandoned at the end of January 2016, just before the presidential primaries began, several people familiar with the proposal said.

“Nevertheless, the details of the deal, which have not previously been disclosed, provide evidence that Trump’s business was actively pursuing significant commercial interests in Russia at the same time he was campaigning to be president — and in a position to determine U.S.-Russia relations. The new details from the emails, which are scheduled to be turned over to congressional investigators soon, also point to the likelihood of additional contacts between Russia-connected individuals and Trump associates during his presidential bid.” http://wapo.st/2wKZJdj

SUSAN GLASSER: “For All His Fire And Fury, Trump Hasn’t Changed Much: Six months in, the president who shocked the world is a lot more conventional than his words suggest” http://politi.co/2xFQw2j

TRUMP’S WHITE HOUSE — “Trump’s prized perk: Oval Office photo ops,” by Josh Dawsey: “Donald Trump has grown frustrated with many parts of being president. But the former showbiz star is still in love with one perk: The Oval Office photo op. Despite the weight of multiple Russia investigations, open war with GOP leaders and a stalled congressional agenda, Trump has spent considerable time grinning behind the Resolute Desk, where he summons visitors from PGA star John Daly to former campaign aides to pastors, truck drivers, tech CEOs, teachers and even journalists to pose in front of the gold curtains.

“He tells aides, from senior White House advisers to his private bodyguard, Keith Schiller, to snap the photos on cell phones, or he shouts for Shealah Craighead, the official White House photographer, to come in. The often impatient president will sometimes pose for several minutes per sitting, taking variations of a photo with a single group. He even stands with people to inspect the photos. ‘Check the lighting,’ one senior White House official said, describing his comments. ‘Are your eyes closed? Do you want another? He knows these are special moments for people.’

“The photos illustrate how master-marketer Trump sees the job, White House officials say — and are one part of the presidency that don’t seem to grate on him, even though other presidents have barely tolerated the click-and-grin sessions.” http://politi.co/2wBV6Sa

2018 WATCH — “Team Trump turns to Rove playbook to juice 2018 turnout,” by Alex Isenstadt: “Donald Trump’s White House may take a page from the Karl Rove playbook. The administration has been in talks to put conservative initiatives on the ballot in 2018 midterm battleground states in hopes of energizing base voters dispirited by the performance of Republican-controlled Washington. The strategy is similar to the one Rove used in 2004. The George W. Bush political guru helped engineer a slate of anti-gay marriage amendments that year to boost GOP turnout in swing states such as Ohio, an approach that many are convinced helped pave the way for Bush’s reelection. (Rove has denied accounts that he orchestrated the 11-state effort.)

“White House aides are less interested in a ballot initiative campaign focused on social issues, fearful that it would only serve to further stoke an already-motivated liberal base. Instead, according to three people familiar with the deliberations, they’re considering initiatives involving tax reform and other economic issues seen as more likely to invigorate conservatives. Tax reform also goes to the heart of Trump’s agenda, and he’s expected to spend much of the fall pursuing it.” http://politi.co/2whIIUI

FIRST IN PLAYBOOK – HMM — AMERICAN ACTION NETWORK, the big-time conservative outside group, is launching a five-figure TV and digital ad thanking Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio) for supporting tax reform. It’s AAN’s first ad to applaud a Democrat. The ad http://bit.ly/2xq4fuQ

SHADE, THROWN — “Gorka Says McMaster Has ‘Obama Lens’ on Threat of Radical Islam,” by Jerusalem Post’s Michael Wilner: “In an interview with The Jerusalem Post, Gorka said he had not once heard H.R. McMaster speak critically of the state in his six months since taking office. ‘I’m not here to feed stories of palace intrigue – I hate that, and I’m still loyal to the president and his agenda,’ Gorka said. But ‘I have never heard Gen. McMaster say things that are anti-Israeli. I’ve never heard that.’ Gorka did, however, offer harsh criticism of McMaster’s stance toward Islamists, speaking of the violent extremism as a problem inherent to Islam itself. McMaster ‘sees the threat of Islam through an Obama administration lens, meaning that religion has nothing to do with the war we are in,’ Gorka said. ‘He believes — and he told me in his office — that all of these people are just criminals. That is simply wrong.’” http://bit.ly/2wBRorR

SARAH ELLISON in October’s Vanity Fair, “Exiles on Pennsylvania Avenue: How Jared and Ivanka Were Repelled by Washington’s Elite: “When I asked a longtime associate how Jared and Ivanka felt about their time in Washington, the first word uttered was ‘sacrificial.’ … Ivanka is more practiced in the spotlight than Kushner, though she can be cold to staffers, particularly those who are not in favor with the president, according to a former West Wing aide. ‘She tries to charm you at first, and then there’ll be the cutting remark in front of her father,’ the former adviser added. Kushner, though he tries to be casual and jokes with other staffers, can have even more of an edge.

“Once, when [Reince] Priebus asked Kushner what his team of [Reed] Cordish and [Chris] Liddell had been up to, Kushner retorted, according to someone who heard the exchange, ‘Reince, we aren’t getting paid. What the f*** do you care?’ … When they lived in New York, Kushner used to remind Ivanka that ‘we’re in the zoo, but let’s try hard not to be part of the animals.’ He often would add, ‘You want to be watching.’ The friend noted that Kushner has traded up into a higher-powered circle: ‘He is rolling with the prince of Saudi Arabia and not the real-estate guys anymore.’” http://bit.ly/2xFJHxI

WSJ: “Uber Selects Expedia CEO Dara Khosrowshahi to Lead Company,” by Greg Bensinger: “Uber Technologies Inc.’s board has voted to appoint Expedia Inc. Chief Executive Dara Khosrowshahi as its new CEO, capping a tumultuous nine-week search after Travis Kalanick resigned in late June, according to people familiar with the matter. Uber’s board was deciding on Sunday between Mr. Khosrowshahi and Meg Whitman, chief executive of Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co., ultimately electing the lesser-known executive who has been at the helm of Expedia since 2005. Representatives for Uber didn’t return requests for comment and an Expedia spokeswoman declined to comment.” http://on.wsj.com/2wBVnEB

FUN STORY — “Former Eagles All-Pro Jon Runyan explains why he’s an Uber driver – and what happens when fans recognize him,” by PhillyVoice’s Matt Mullin: “Runyan, the one who spent nine of his 14 seasons in the NFL with the Eagles – has actually been driving for Uber for almost nine months now. And before you ask, he isn’t broke. … [H]e made more than $40 million in his NFL career and has continued to work throughout his post-football life – in addition to his work on radio on and TV, Runyan was a two-term U.S. Representative former New Jersey’s 3rd congressional district (2011-2015) and is about to enter his second season as the NFL’s Vice President of Policy and Rules Administration. So, no, Runyan isn’t driving for Uber because he needs the money. The truth is, he just gets bored sometimes.” http://bit.ly/2vBQg2F

REMINDER — Power Briefing, our afternoon edition, is taking a break this week.

PHOTO DU JOUR: An unidentified man helps Carlos Torres, in tube, get to dry ground after Torres drove his tractor-trailer into a freeway flooded by Tropical Storm Harvey on Sunday near downtown Houston, Texas. | Charlie Riedel/AP Photo

MORE ZINKE DRAMA — “Sale of Interior secretary’s motor home raises $25K question,” by AP’s Bobby Caina Calva in Helena, Montana: “U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s dormant congressional campaign committee recently sold a 2004 motor home at a steep discount to an old friend in the Montana Legislature. But a seemingly ordinary transaction between friends, when seen through the optics of stringent campaign finance laws, can raise a bevy of questions – especially when those friends are politically high-powered and well-connected. …

“The buyer, state Sen. Ed Buttrey, said the 37-foot (11-meter) recreational vehicle had engine problems and other damage, which would undercut its value. But he still felt he got a ‘nice deal.’ Buttrey maintains there was nothing improper about the transaction. Yet he acknowledged it might prompt questions, especially because he says he’s in the final vetting stages for a key post in Zinke’s Interior Department.” http://bit.ly/2xpG3Zo

AT THE PENTAGON — “Trump Forges Ahead on Costly Nuclear Overhaul,” by NYT’s David Sanger and William Broad: “During his speech last week about Afghanistan, President Trump slipped in a line that had little to do with fighting the Taliban: ‘Vast amounts’ are being spent on ‘our nuclear arsenal and missile defense,’ he said, as the administration builds up the military. The president is doing exactly that. Last week, the Air Force announced major new contracts for an overhaul of the American nuclear force: $1.8 billion for initial development of a highly stealthy nuclear cruise missile, and nearly $700 million to begin replacing the 40-year-old Minuteman missiles in silos across the United States.

“While both programs were developed during the Obama years, the Trump administration has seized on them, with only passing nods to the debate about whether either is necessary or wise. They are the first steps in a broader remaking of the nuclear arsenal — and the bombers, submarines and missiles that deliver the weapons — that the government estimated during Mr. Obama’s tenure would ultimately cost $1 trillion or more.” http://nyti.ms/2xq6b6q

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SPEAKING OF TAX REFORM … — “How Stephen M. Ross’ gift to the University of Michigan ended up in tax court,” by Detroit Free Press’ Matthew Dolan and David Jesse: “On his way to becoming the University of Michigan’s largest donor, Stephen M. Ross and a group of business partners donated a collective gift to his alma mater. In return, the partnership claimed a giant charitable tax deduction: $33 million. The [IRS] didn’t buy it. IRS lawyers flagged Ross and his partners as engaging in a ‘tax avoidance scheme lacking in economic substance … to the benefit of Mr. Ross and his associates at Related Companies.’ It would take nearly a decade of legal wrangling before U.S. Tax Judge James S. Halpern sided with the IRS last month and disallowed the entire $33-million write-off that the judge valued at a more paltry $3.4 million. The judge also imposed maximum civil penalties for a ‘gross valuation misstatement’ that could now cost Ross and his partners millions more.” http://on.freep.com/2vkrZ5X

THE WAVE OF PROTESTS — “Masked anarchists violently rout right-wing demonstrators in Berkeley,” by SF Chronicle’s Lizzie Johnson, Erin Allday, Michael Cabanatuan and Nanette Asimov: “An army of anarchists in black clothing and masks routed a small group of right-wing demonstrators who had gathered in a Berkeley park Sunday to rail against the city’s famed progressive politics, driving them out — sometimes violently — while overwhelming a huge contingent of police officers.

“Hundreds of officers tried to maintain calm in and around Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center Park before the 1 p.m. ‘No to Marxism in Berkeley’ rally, putting up barricades, searching bags and confiscating sticks, masks, pepper spray and even water bottles. … But once again, counterdemonstrators frustrated efforts by police, who numbered about 400. As the crowd swelled to several times that size, officers stepped aside and allowed hundreds of people angered by the presence of the right-wing rally to climb over the barriers into the park.” http://bit.ly/2waStWA

SPOTTED: Rex Tillerson at Cactus Cantina with his wife and security on Sunday afternoon … Janet Yellen on a United flight from Jackson Hole to Chicago in coach Sunday morning. She was coming back from the Fed conference at Jackson Lake Lodge … Mike Cernovich yesterday at the Whole Foods in Logan Circle.

WEEKEND WEDDINGS — BOEHNERLAND — Johnny DeStefano, assistant to the president and director of presidential personnel, and Sarah Cascio got married on Saturday at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Kansas City, Missouri. Pic http://bit.ly/2iCECTV SPOTTED: Mike Sommers, Guy Harrison, Rep. Kevin Yoder (R-Kan.) and his wife Brook, former Rep. Deborah Pryce (R-Ohio), Josh Pitcock and his wife Katie, Paul and Autria Lindsay, Brian and Natasha Walsh, Mike Shields and Katie Walsh, Matt Lakin, Brett Loper, Anne Bradbury, John Criscuolo, Tom and Amy Allman Dean, Patrick Lyden, Kevin McGrann, Dave Schnittger, Josh Saltzman and his wife Mary.

— Robin Levy, DC-based communications manager for Exelon, and Justin Gray, the Washington correspondent for Cox Media Group’s TV news stations, were married Saturday at Lake Massapoag in Sharon, Massachusetts, where Robin grew up sailing. “The mid-afternoon wedding was followed by a reception in a boathouse overlooking the water. Following the wedding, the guests played bocce and cornhole before feasting on a traditional New England clambake, and ending the night with old school bomb pops. … They met the traditional DC way, through mutual friends.” Pic, courtesy of Zac Wolf http://bit.ly/2vk6RwD

— CNN Situation Room producers Meghan Rafferty and Elizabeth Hartfield married on Saturday at the home of Mimi Gurbst and Tom Hartfield in the Sonoma County California wine country town of Healdsburg. The couple will be honeymooning on a road trip to Yellowstone. Pics http://bit.ly/2wVlg23 … http://bit.ly/2gjjEJc SPOTTED: Wolf Blitzer, Amy Entelis, Virginia Moseley, David Chalian, Adam Levy, Vaughn Sterling and Jay Shaylor.

ENGAGED — Claire Magee, corporate counsel at Raycom Media and formerly assistant general counsel at Allbritton, got engaged to Russ Ferguson, an attorney at Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice and former Senate Judiciary Committee staffer. “Russ popped the question at the Bartholdi Fountain [at First and Independence S.W.] and had both families waiting as a surprise at Corduroy, the site of their first date 8 years ago.” Pic http://bit.ly/2xpQHiN

FIRST IN PLAYBOOK – OBAMA ALUMNI — Miguel E. Rodriguez, who was Obama’s director of legislative affairs and also a State and Hillary alum, has been hired as senior vice president of government affairs for the Center for American Progress. He most recently was a partner at Bryan Cave.

BIRTHDAY OF THE DAY: Bill Cohen, chairman and CEO of The Cohen Group and former secretary of defense and senator from Maine. What he’s reading: “I’m reading multiple books, but completing one of my own, a novel entitled ‘Final Strike.’ It involves the hazards of mining asteroids — an endeavor that we and other nations are exploring. Some asteroids could accidentally be put on a collision course with Earth. What are the options if we have little notice?” Read his Playbook Plus Q&A: http://politi.co/2vCjoal

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"We have been notified by a number of area hotels that they have lost meeting groups that were in contract phase," said Kathleen "Kitty" Ratcliffe, president of Explore St. Louis in a statement Monday morning. "We've also been working with a number of organizations that are already contracted to help them address any concerns that they have had expressed from their attendees."

The statement did not specify how much business was lost as a result and Ratcliffe was not immediately available to address questions regarding her statement. But a spokesman for Explore St. Louis, Anthony Paraino, said: "We do not have permission from the hotels or the groups to give their information to the press."

The NAACP travel advisory issued last month came at the urging of Rod Chapel, head of the Missouri NAACP after state legislators passed a bill making it harder for employees to make the case for workplace discrimination.

The advisory was the first of its kind from the country's oldest and largest civil rights organization and set off a round of media interviews nationwide for Chapel and other NAACP leaders.

It also brought Missouri back into the spotlight as a state struggling with racial issues, from Ferguson in the summer of 2014 to the University of Missouri's Columbia campus the following year. But it was not until Senate Bill 43 came along that Chapel urged the national NAACP to take action in the form of a travel advisory, putting the rest of the country on notice of Missouri's ongoing struggles.

"I didn't feel like we had any other choice," Chapel told the Post-Dispatch prior to Ratcliffe's statement. "We tried to talk with legislators. That didn't work. Talk with the executive branch. That didn't work. Offer amendments (to the bill), and that didn't work. There was no other recourse but to tell people that if coming here, be careful and know what you are coming into."

The state NAACP will hold a rally Tuesday in opposition to the new law. The event will begin at 6 p.m. at Union Memorial United Methodist Church in St. Louis.

While the advisory has made a big splash, grabbing headlines and radio and TV time, it's unclear what kind of lasting effect it will have. It expires on Aug. 28, the same day the new law goes into effect.

Daniel P. Mehan, CEO of the Missouri Chamber of Commerce, which supported the legislation, said that while his office has no data to know exactly what kind of impact the NAACP statement will have on the state, "it is concerning that the travel advisory is partially based on legislation that does not have anything to do with travel. A piece of employment law legislation, which aligns Missouri law with federal standards, should not cause anyone to be concerned about travelling to Missouri. Employment law standards in the majority of other states are similar or even stricter than Missouri’s new law."

When Gov. Eric Greitens signed the bill June 30, the governor said in a release that the law brings Missouri in line with 38 other states and the federal government.

Jerry Hunter, an attorney with Bryan Cave and former director of the Missouri Department of Labor, said the NAACP advisory singling out Missouri makes no sense and he questions its timing.

"My problem with (the NAACP's action) is the bill has nothing to do with travel, Hunter said.

He points out that in a Missouri Supreme Court decision in 2007, the standard of proof regarding discrimination was changed from "motivating factor" to "contributing factor." The new Missouri law changes the standard back to how it was before and reflects national standards used by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

"If Rod had called and asked my opinion (on the law), I've have given him the history," said Hunter who is African-American. He pointed out that Chapel also is a former director of the state Labor Department. "If you want to debate whether it should be contributing or motivating factor, I don't have a problem with that. Let's sit down and have a discussion. There could be legitimate views on both sides."

However, Hunter said, when Chapel and others start labeling the legislation as "Jim Crow or Bull Connor, using those kinds of provocative terms, people won't focus on what the real issue is. It defeats the whole purpose of the discussion."

Cut off in the Capitol

The travel advisory was first approved in June by the state NAACP before the bill was passed and signed into law. Some who oppose the advisory are calling it Chapel's shot across the bow after he was cut off during testimony against the legislation four months earlier.

During testimony on the bill, Chapel came to the witness stand and criticized the measure, the heart of it requiring plaintiffs to meet a higher standard of proof in discrimination suits. He said supporters, which included the University of Missouri system, were "united in expanding discrimination."

The comments frustrated Republican committee chairman, Bill Lant of Pineville, who told Chapel to keep his comments focused on the bill. Chapel continued, calling the legislation "nothing but Jim Crow." Lant shut off Chapel's microphone. The Republican leadership later apologized and Chapel finished testifying at another hearing.

Hunter said that while Chapel's comments were off-the-mark, he should have been able to continue and understands why cutting off his testimony would be upsetting to Chapel and others.

Chapel said he has heard the arguments that a travel advisory could bring economic harm to people of color in Missouri if tourism and other revenue declines as a result. But he said the support he is getting for the decision has been overwhelming.

Earlier this month, the heads of the Legislative Black Caucus and Missouri Faith Voices, a nonpartisan group representing various faiths, released a joint statement backing the NAACP's decision.

State Rep. Alan Green, D-Florissant said he was initially optimistic the Black Caucus would have a voice in Jefferson City when the newly elected Greitens invited caucus members to a reception. But that changed as the bill moved forward.

"Subsequently, on several occasions I attempted to meet with the governor and was ignored. In fact, since the reception photo, he has yet to meet with me or the Black Caucus," Green said.

The Rev. Cassandra Gould, executive director of Missouri Faith Voices, said Greitens signing the bill "is an effort to make the barriers to achieving justice so high as to legalize discrimination in the state of Missouri."

A day after the joint statement from the faith group and the black caucus, the St. Louis County NAACP announced that it had changed its position and fully supported the advisory.

"After additional study and consultation with our state conference, the St. Louis County NAACP wholeheartedly supports the travel advisory issued by our national conference," the chapter headed by Esther Haywood said in a news release Aug. 5. Two days earlier, the county chapter had urged the national NAACP to either rescind or amend the travel advisory, arguing that it would cause economic harm to African-Americans working in the hospitality industry.

“We suggest that if the NAACP does not rescind their advisory immediately, then they should add to it the other 38 states, which all already have this standard for monitoring discrimination in place, ” Haywood said in the initial statement.

Chapel said the group talked about the law in more detail and what it means for minorities "but more importantly what we think we need to do as a state conference, that people are informed of their rights and that it is not OK to do this."

Schools react

Mun Choi, president of the University of Missouri system, issued a statement on Aug. 7 expressing disappointment in the travel advisory. Choi said that he alongside leaders at all campuses "have made remarkable progress" toward "creating a community that values the diversity of background, experiences, perspectives and thought."

Choi said he had a "constructive conversation" with Chapel explaining the initiatives underway "and we mutually agreed to continue the dialogue and to share new ideas to continue to improve our university."

The bill's sponsor, Rep. Kevin Austin, R-Springfield, said the bill would align Missouri with federal standards. Legislators said it was that alignment that was key for supporting the measure. That alignment is also why the University of Missouri supports the measure, said system spokesman John Fougere.

“Federal anti-discrimination laws that are enforced nationwide provide sufficient protection and would allow us to continue to strongly combat discrimination without exposing the University to increased unnecessary liability and defense costs,” Fougere said in a statement.

Washington University Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton weighed in last week.

"The recently announced 'travel advisory' underscores the importance of continuing to build a community that is diverse and inclusive," Wrighton said in a university blog post. "To our university community — especially the students and family members who will be traveling to campus — know that we will do everything we can to make your experience here fulfilling, rewarding and enriching. And know that we remain committed to our community values of mutual respect, tolerance and inclusion."

During a hearing on the bill, Joseph Sklansky, an assistant vice chancellor and associate general counsel for Washington University, told the committee the bill would correct overreach from a decade-old court decision that changed criteria for such workplace discrimination lawsuits. Sklansky was a member of the school’s former Coordinating Council for Diversity Initiatives, which dealt with past employment discrimination lawsuits on behalf of Washington University.

Sklansky stated where he worked and what he does for the university but also told the committee he was there on his own behalf. A school spokesman later said Sklansky took a vacation day to attend the hearing.

Ratcliffe said in her statement that "we fully respect the rights of any organization to share their concerns with SB 43 or any other piece of legislation. However, we are discouraged that the travel industry is being used as a weapon against politicians for their policies. Ultimately, it is not the politicians who suffer from these actions, but it is the hard working men and women of our state's hospitality industry that will bear the impact and outcome."

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Just years after adopting its internet neutrality guidelines, the Federal Communications Commission will be on the cusp of tearing them down.

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In 2015, the FCC, led with the aid of Democratic Chairman Tom Wheeler, put in location regulations to make sure that broadband vendors could not abuse their powers with the assistance of charging agencies for quicker get admission to their customers or unfairly prioritising visitors.

The FCC is now run with the support of Chairman Ajit Pai, appointed by using President Trump in January. Weeks ago, in a speech at the global telephone enterprise’s biggest amassing, Pai laid out his argument for why internet neutrality has to move, pronouncing that, since the passage of the rules in 2015, funding for broadband infrastructure had declined for the first time outside of a recession. Republican Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, at some stage in a Senate committee listening to remaining week, issued his personal critique, calling the policies an “illegal power snatch” through the FCC.

“In my view, the biggest regulatory hazard to financial increase at the internet is the FCC’s open net order,” Cruz stated.

While it’s now not positive how they will dismantle the 2015 guidelines — whether or not it’s a new rule-making method from the FCC or via regulation using Congress — what is clean is they may be probable dangle the promise of a faster move to following services like 5G era for purchasers.

But Democrats and consumer advocates say the dismantling of these guidelines offers the broadband vendors an excessive amount of electricity, so one can result in better prices for clients and groups looking to access the net. The argument about broadband investment is controversial; the rules have not stopped wi-fi carriers from grabbing approximately 5G, 1000 mbps.

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“Anecdotally, it does now not seem that regulatory uncertainty has had a significant impact on new investment,” said Craig Moffett, an analyst with MoffettNathanson.

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The internet neutrality regulations approved via the FCC in February 2015 relied on a clause known as Identify II to reclassify broadband as a public utility, subjecting the Internet to a few of the same policies that have governed the century-vintage smartphone network.

Huge cell phone corporations, cable operators and Republicans argue that the stringent utility-fashion law chills funding.

On Wednesday, Cruz mentioned a 2016 Capex record written using Hal Singer, an economist with the Washington-based totally firm Economists Integrated, which does work for AT&T and Verizon. Singer’s report shows that eight out of 12 home companies that participated in the survey pronounced a decline in capital expenditures because 2014, a year earlier than the internet neutrality order become passed. In overall, he estimates that spending is down approximately 5.6 percent within the zone.

Pai used comparable data from the change institution US Telecom, which also confirmed a $1 billion decline in total broadband spending from in 2015 in comparison to 2014.

But former chairman Wheeler, who extensively utilised us Telecom Statistics, said in a speech in January earlier than stepping down that broadband spending had increased using $1 billion among 2013, while he took workplace, and 2015, while the guidelines went into impact.

“community investment is up, investment in progressive services is up, and ISPs’ revenues — and inventory costs — are at document stages,” he said. “So, wherein’s the fireplace?”

What broadband carriers say

Even broadband carriers are torn about the effects the law has had on their spending. Verizon Leader Financial Officer Matt Ellis stated in January that the business enterprise’s spending is affected little or no using “whoever the management is run using and the regulatory regime.”

Comcast Chief Financial Officer Mike Cavanaugh in December admitted that the agency had probably overstated the drag the law could have on its investment. The business enterprise’s capital spending was up greater than 30 percent in 2016 compared with 2014, the 12 months earlier than the FCC regulations took effect, in step with Singer’s record.

Charter Communications Chairman and CEO Tom Rutledge final month downplayed the consequences that the law had on its enterprise. “It did not have an effect on us.”

Not everybody sees it that manner, however. AT&T’s CEO Randall Stephenson stated on his corporation’s fourth-quarter income call, “there has been no manner anyone can argue that [placing utility-style regulation on mobility and internet businesses] isn’t always suppressive to investment.” AT&T’s spending turned into down extra than sixteen percentage, consistent with Singer’s facts.

The fear is real

Even as coverage makers debate whether or not the FCC’s guidelines have hampered broadband funding, smaller internet companies say a repeal of the regulations could hurt them.

While Snap, the organisation that gives the Snapchat messaging app, determined to go public earlier this yr, it stated in a filing with the Securities and Alternate Commission that if the authorities removed the open-net rules, that action ought to “severely damage” its business. It warned if the exchange takes place, “mobile companies may be able to limit our users’ capacity to access Snapchat or make Snapchat a much less appealing opportunity to our competition’ programs.”

Without the regulation, wireless providers could make offers with Snap’s competitors, like Fb’s Instagram, that would deliver them an advantage over Snap’s provider.

Different startups say that Without the FCC’s net neutrality protections, their agencies will be threatened. Rami Essaid, co-founder and CEO of cybersecurity startup Distil Networks, stated that his employer is based on fast Internet connections to eliminate malicious cyber attacks for its clients quickly.

Essaid brought that Without the FCC’s protections to maintain the web open, he is afraid broadband vendors might take advantage of their control over consumers’ get admission to the network to rate agencies like his extra expenses to attain clients quicker.

“If net provider providers priced for fast lanes, we wouldn’t exist,” he stated. “We would not be able to come up with the money for the delivered cost to do business.”

Residence of playing cards

Republicans and large ISPs say they support the principles of net neutrality. However, consumer advocates and Democrats say stripping broadband of its category as a software undermines the policies’ criminal basis. The result: Protections could fall like a Residence of cards.

Gigi Sohn, a former adviser to Wheeler, stated the FCC tried two times before to impose the policies Without reclassifying broadband as a software and both times it lost in a federal courtroom. The 1/3 time, while the FCC reclassified broadband, became the appeal, she said.

Congress could skip a new law ensuring those protections. Senator Thune, a Republican from South Dakota, has stated he’s willing to work with Democrats to draft bipartisan regulation addressing the difficulty. However, so far no new legislation has been delivered.

Greater than one hundred seventy organisations, inclusive of the American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic Frontier basis, despatched a letter Tuesday to Pai, in addition to Sens. Thune and Invoice Nelson, a Democrat from Florida, urging them to hold the standards of net neutrality.

“Until Congress acts there is no strong net neutrality Without Title II,” Sohn said. “it is like love and marriage. You can not have one Without the other.”

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Who is Angela Rayner?

Angela Rayner is not an Oxbridge-educated, former Special Adviser, professional politician.

Angela Rayner has spoken about how Labour’s Sure Start centres gave her, and her friends, the support they needed to become better parents and to grow and develop as young adults.

She was soon put forward by her women work-mates to speak for them as a union rep with UNISON. “I was mouthy,” she says, “and I would take no messing from management.”

Mrs Rayner responded to Boris Johnson’s ill-comments of single mothers, saying: “I think it’s absolutely disgusting. I remember people like that making those comments about me.

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