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Politics Gubernatorial candidate Tim Donnelly, center, gestures while speaking with reporters at the California Republican Party 2014 Spring Convention, March 15, 2014, in Burlingame, Calif. Ben MargotAP
(BURLINGAME, Calif.) The ongoing struggle over the direction of the GOP played out this weekend as the California Republican Party met at its convention: The party in California and elsewhere is torn between supporters who want to steadfastly hold to conservative principles and those who want to take a more moderate, pragmatic approach that could resonate with a broader cross section of voters.
The choice could not be more clear than in the two Republicans vying to challenge Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown. Tim Donnelly is a conservative state assemblyman who advocates expanding gun rights, and Neel Kashkari is a former U.S. Treasury official who wants to focus on the economy and education.
Kashkari is clearly in the expansion camp.
The Republican Party in 2012 was cast as the party of no, the party that doesnt like different, diverse communities, the party thats only for old, rich white guys, Kashkari, 40, told the gay group Log Cabin Republicans on Saturday.
The new Republican Party that I want to build is the diverse Republican Party. Every ethnicity, every sexual orientation, every lifestyle, everyone is welcome. The biggest tent youve ever seen in your life, he said.
The GOP has been steadily losing support in California for two decades, and registration has slipped below 29 percent. The party has struggled to win over younger voters and minorities, and party Chairman Jim Brulte said broadening the partys reach to potential new voters is a top priority this election year.
Still, the delegates who typically attend party conventions are among the most active and passionate, so many of those at the weekend gathering in Burlingame were sporting Donnelly for governor stickers.
The only thing Republican about Kashkari is the R after his name, said Judi Neal, a member of the Pasadena Republican Women Federated. I dont think hes capable of reaching out to conservatives.
Christopher Cole, who is chairman of the party in Lassen County in far northeastern California, said a moderate candidate would have a tough sell wooing conservatives in his county.
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The All Progressives Congress has said it is greatly distressed at the deaths of 19 job seekers at the venues of the Nigerian Immigration Service job test on Saturday, calling it a direct consequence of 15 years of misrule by the PDP-led federal government.
In a statement issued in Lagos on Sunday by its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said the Minister of Interior must bear direct responsibility for the needless deaths by immediately stepping down from his post, if he has any honour left, or be fired.
APC commiserated with the families of the victims and wished those who were injured a speedy recovery.
Massive mindless looting of the public treasury has seen funds that could have been used to create millions of jobs end up in the deep pockets of corrupt government and PDP officials, without any consequence for the thieves, while the incompetent federal government led by a clueless President continues to deceive the public with cooked figures showing job creation where indeed there have been job losses,.
Today, sadly, the truth has been laid bare: 5,000 or so vacancies declared by NIS have attracted over six million applicants, from which over half a million was shortlisted, according to published reports, and the desperation of our youth to eke out a decent living has been exploited by a villainous government that forced each applicant to cough out N1,000 thus raking in N6bn from jobless people, the party said.
Is it true that the Minister directly presided over the recruitment and money-making venture? Could this have been part of the governments fund-raising measures for the 2015 elections? Why was a huge number of applicants invited for only 5,000 jobs or less? Why was such a shoddy arrangement made for the test when so many people were invited? Could the test not have been done in batches to avoid a stampede? How much indeed was realised from this glaring extortion of job seekers? What happened to the money?
An investigation into the needless deaths of our youth, under a government that has failed them in every respect, must seek to answer those questions and recommend ways to avoid a recurrence. At least if a government cannot create jobs, it must neither profit from its incompetence nor send the victims of its ineptitude to their early graves.
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The All Progressives Congress on Sunday called for investigation into the needless deaths of some job seekers at some venues of job test of Nigerian Immigration Service.
Not less than 19 people were reported dead among the over one million applicants on Saturday at some centres of the test for the NIS jobs.
APC interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, in a statement in Lagos, described the incidence as a direct consequence of unemployment problem plaguing the nation.
The party, according to the statement, expressed great distressed at the deaths of the job seekers, adding that the Minister of Interior should bear the direct responsibility for the deaths.
The statement said that APC commiserated with the families of the victims and wished those injured speedy recovery.
It decried governments inability to create jobs for the nations teeming youths, stressing that the number of jobless Nigerians had reached alarming rate.
Massive mindless looting of the public funds that could have been used to create millions of jobs end up in the deep pockets of corrupt government officials without any consequence.
The truth has been laid bare 5,000 or so vacancies declared by NIS attracted over six million applicants, from which over half a million was shortlisted, according to published reports, it stated.
The statement said that the ministry of interior had many questions to answer over the arrangements made for the job tests in 37 venues nationwide.
Is it true that the minister directly presided over the recruitment?
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Christians Claim Liberals Are Brainwashing Children
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