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AIPAC attendee displeased with Democrat Jews #39; siding w/ Obama against Israel
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War has broken out in the neatly tended suburbs east of San Francisco Bay, over a simple question: Is only one kind of Democrat allowed in blue California?
In a special election for a single seat in the state Senate, millions of dollars have been spent in a pitched battle for the answer.
The combatants are organized labor and a man it has spent three years trying to bury, Orinda Mayor Steve Glazer, an unlikely foe given his lifelong role as a political strategist for labor-backed Democrats and their causes. The only reason Glazer may survive Tuesday's election is that he has some moneyed guardian angels who have pumped in hundreds of thousands of dollars on his behalf.
Nature abhors peace, at least in politics, so it was inevitable that in a state controlled by one party the schisms would begin to show within. But like a family gathering where niceties suddenly give way to an explosion of long-nurtured grievances, it has gotten quite brutal.
In Walnut Creek and Concord and the neighboring environs, voters are being barraged with messages decried by the opposing side as nasty or misleading or flat-out devious. It's all that and more, powered by money, money and more money.
"From the outside people say, 'California, this great blue state,'" Glazer said. "When you look beneath the surface it is not so cozy. It's not about Democrats versus Republicans. It's now back to what type of Democrat is an acceptable Democrat."
Or, as labor leaders would put it, it's about preserving the gains for which they have long fought against Democrats, if need be, just as they have fought against Republicans.
"We will continue to educate voters about the candidate's views on issues critical to our members, confident the vast majority of voters share our middle-class agenda," said Jon Youngdahl, executive director of SEIU California, the coordinator of the biggest anti-Glazer effort.
The stakes are huge in every direction. For Democrats like Glazer who have embraced labor-opposed changes to teacher tenure or government pensions, it is about retaining a foothold in a party where union views are dominant. (His biggest benefactor, Bill Bloomfield, a wealthy Southern California businessman, backs education changes fought by unions, one of the reasons he cites for spending more than half a million dollars to boost Glazer.)
For unions, it is about reminding current and future politicians that their money comes with a demand of loyalty, an exchange that has grown more important as voters veer from their desires.
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A top democrat is calling for the firing of more Secret Service agents following the agency's recent drunk driving scandal, calling the news "extremely frustrating."
"I am extremely upset about it," Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Maryland, said Sunday on CBS' Face the Nation. "And it's extremely frustrating, to see an agency that is supposed to be the number one elite protective agency in the world protecting the most important person in the world - the most powerful person in the world - to operate like this."
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The ranking member of the House Oversight Committee also wanted more heads to roll over the scandal, saying that Secret Service Director Joseph Clancy needs to rid the agency of some agents that "should not be there."
"I'm very impressed with the things that [Clancy's] done already," Cummings said. "But now I think he's going to have to begin to get rid of even more people. There are certain people that should not be there."
Though he praised Clancy's record since the resignation of embattled former director Julia Pierson, who stepped down from her post after investigations into White House fence-jumpers, Cummings maintained that there was still more room for improvement.
"Director Clancy has come in and he has made many, many changes. As a matter of fact, he's now gotten rid of the half of the top folks in the agency," the Democratic legislator said. "But clearly this latest incident shows we've still got a lot of work to be done."
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Allison Jones, The Canadian Press Published Sunday, March 15, 2015 7:32AM EDT Last Updated Sunday, March 15, 2015 11:52AM EDT
TORONTO -- During her formative years as a transgender woman -- or girl, really -- Erika Muse says she was subjected to conversion therapy, which left her depressed, suicidal and with a mere lingering shred of self-esteem.
The treatment is roundly condemned, but still practised by some, says an Ontario New Democrat seeking to make the so-called therapy illegal. Cheri DiNovo's private member's bill would ban any attempt to change the sexual orientation or gender identity of someone 18 and under.
Muse, now 26, came out as trans at age 16 and sought treatment to both work through associated issues and get medication to help her become a woman. She was sent to someone billed as an expert in trans issues, but for the next eight years he refused to prescribe medication, leaving her in a body she hated, and did not treat her trans identity as real, she says.
"The sessions were not therapeutic but abusive," Muse says. "They led to trauma about my body and a lack of faith in myself. I often left feeling violated and hurt."
Muse says her therapist billed under OHIP -- the province's health insurance plan -- not specifically for conversion therapy but for general therapy. DiNovo wants to ban conversion therapy for anyone 18 and under, and delist it from OHIP for those over 18.
But Health Minister Eric Hoskins said there is no OHIP coverage for that type of therapy.
He spoke in supportive terms of DiNovo's efforts, but said there are already measures in place to crack down on inappropriate practices.
"I would encourage any patient or individual that is aware of a health-care provider providing this type of intervention that they report that individual to the (College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario)," he said last week.
"CPSO would see it as almost certainly an act of professional misconduct."
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