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Denton Record-Chronicle
Saturday, July 23, 2016
Clinton fills out ticket with Kaine
BRIEFLY
ACROSS THE NATION
Baton Rouge, La.
David Duke says he
plans to run for Senate
no mention of her impending
pick during a somber meeting
Friday with community leaders
and family members affected by
the Pulse nightclub shooting in
Orlando and a later campaign
rally in Tampa.
Kaine won election to the
Senate in 2012 after serving as
Obama’s first chairman of the
Democratic National Commit-
tee. The Democratic National
Convention starts Monday in
Philadelphia, and Kaine will
likely speak in the slot reserved
for the vice presidential pick on
Wednesday night.
Before entering politics,
Kaine was an attorney who spe-
cialized in civil rights and fair
housing. He learned Spanish
during a mission trip to Hondu-
ras while in law school, an expe-
rience he still references on the
campaign trail. During his polit-
ical career, he’s demonstrated an
ability to woo voters across party
lines, winning his 2006 guber-
natorial race with support in
both Democratic strongholds
and traditionally Republican
strongholds.
His wife, Anne Holton, is the
daughter of a former Virginia
governor, a former state judge
and, currently, the state’s educa-
tion secretary. The couple has
three children.
lies lobbying the Clinton cam-
paign on their behalf. But Kaine
had a particularly powerful
backer: Obama, who told the
campaign during the selection
process that he believed the sen-
ator would be a strong choose.
Trump, in a text to his own
supporters, said Obama, Hillary
and Kaine were “the ultimate in-
siders” and implored voters to
not ‘let Obama have a 3rd term.”
Kaine is viewed skeptically
by some liberals in the Demo-
cratic Party, who dislike his sup-
port of free trade and Wall
Street. They pushed Clinton to
pick Massachusetts Sen. Eliza-
beth Warren or Ohio Sen. Sher-
rod Brown, intensifying their
criticism of Kaine late this week
as his selection appeared immi-
nent.
senator,
Klux Klan leader former governor
David Duke, an avowed white .
supremacist, announced Friday SGGfl 3S CGfllMSl
on his website that he plans to
run for U.S. Senate in Louisiana.
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“I’m proud to announce my
candidacy for the United States
Senate,” Duke said in a video. “I
believe in equal rights for all and Clinton named Virginia Sen.
Tim Kaine as her vice presiden-
tial running mate Friday, adding
a centrist former governor of a
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I also demand respect for the
rights and heritage of European crucial battleground state to the
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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, accompa-
nied by Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., speaks at a rally last week in
Annandale, Va. Clinton announced Kaine as her running mate
on Friday.
In a text message to support-
ers, the presumptive Democrat-
ic nominee said, “I’m thrilled to
Duke’s announcement came
as the state is grappling with
deep racial tensions after the
shooting death of a black man by tell y°u this ^rs^: ^ve ch°sen
Sen. Tim Kaine as my running
white police officers and the kill-
ing of three law enforcement of-
ficers by a black man. It also
came one day after Donald
Trump accepted the GOP nom-
ination for president.
Duke said in the video, “I’m
oveijoyed to see Donald Trump
and most Americans embrace
most of the issues that I’ve appearance together today
at a rally in Miami.
Clinton’s decision caps a
mate.’
On Twitter a few seconds lat-
er, Clinton described Kaine as “a
man who’s devoted his life to
fighting for others.”
Kaine himself tweeted, “I’m
honored to be her running
mate.” The two will make their
aide. She then called President
Barack Obama to inform him of
the decision.
Kaine, 58, had longbeen a fa-
vorite for Clinton’s ticket. Active
in the Senate on foreign rela-
tions and military affairs, he
built a reputation for working
across the aisle as Virginia’s gov-
ernor and as mayor of Rich-
mond. He’s also fluent in Span-
ish, which could help the cam-
paign appeal to many Hispanic
Americans who have been
turned off by Republican Don-
ald Trump’s harsh rhetoric
about immigrants.
Clinton was weighing two fi-
nalists: Kaine and Agriculture
Secretary Tom Vilsack, a long-
time friend of the candidate and
former President Bill Clinton.
Kaine’s strong ties to Virginia, a
crucial general election battle-
ground, and his foreign policy
experience put him over the top,
according to a person close to
the campaign, who insisted on
anonymity because the person
was not authorized to discuss
the process publicly.
Both men had friends and al-
Stephanie Taylor, co-founder
of the Progressive Change Cam-
paign Committee, said Friday
that Kaine’s support for the
Trans-Pacific Partnership trade
pact gives Republicans “a new
opening to attack Democrats on
this economic populist issue.”
Clinton’s campaign largely
declined to comment on the
search process, trying to keep
the details — even the names of
the finalists — under wraps to
try to maximize the impact of
their announcement. She made
championed for years. My slo-
gan remains America first.”
A registered Republican, highly secretive, months-long
process to find a political part-
ner. Clinton called Kaine by
phone around 7:30 p.m. Friday
to offer him the job, and he ac-
cepted, according to a campaign
Duke would be seeking an open
seat vacated by Republican Da-
vid Vitter.
Nearly two dozen candidates
have signed up for the Senate
race.
Roger Villere, chairman of
the Republican Party of Louisi-
ana, said in a statement the par-
ty “will play an active role in op-
posing” him.
“The Republican Party op-
poses, in the strongest possible
terms, David Duke’s candidacy
for any public office. David Duke
is a convicted felon and a hate-
filled fraud who does not em-
body the values of the Republi-
can Party,” Villere said Friday.
Trump takes
swipe at Cruz
Now it’s Philadelphia’s turn
ber of protesters expected, esti-
mated at 50,000 each day.
Kenney wouldn’t say how
many officers will be on the
streets during the protests, but
said the city’s “exemplary” po-
lice force is ready.
The ambush killings of
eight police officers in Dallas
and Baton Rouge, Louisiana,
stoked fears of violence and
bloodshed at the conventions.
There was an “extremely
heavy police presence” in
Cleveland, with officers for the
most part protecting people’s
right to peacefully protest, said
Eric Ferrero, an Amnesty In-
ternational deputy executive
director.
with two dozen arrests over
four days. Philadelphia is cau-
tiously optimistic its Demo-
cratic National Convention
can follow in those footsteps
while letting protesters have
their say.
“Obviously the destruction
of property or hurting some-
one is a non-starter, but you
can be as angry and loud as
you want to be,” Mayor Jim
Kenney said.
Several factors could make
Philadelphia’s protests vastly
different than those in Cleve-
land, including the city’s sprawl-
ing protest sites, from down-
town to the convention site four
miles away, and the sheer num-
Cleveland stayed
peaceful during
GOP convention
of
consist
Trump and his
running mate,
Mike Pence,
making per-
functory re-
marks saluting
the convention
By Jonathan Lemire
Associated Press
CLEVELAND - A day after
accepting the Republican presi-
dential nomination, Donald
Trump pivoted back to the GOP
primaries on Friday, choosing to
re-litigate a pair of months-old
battles with rival Ted Cruz.
In what should have been a
feel-good victory lap the morn-
ing after his thundering accep-
tance speech, Trump instead de-
fended his decision to retweet an
unflattering photo of Cruz’s wife,
Heidi, and returned to wonder-
ing about possible links between
Cruz’s father and President John
F. Kennedy’s assassin. He also
declared he would never accept
the Texas senator’s backing.
“He’ll come and endorse. It’s
because he has no choice. But I
don’t want his endorsement,”
Trump said. “Ted, stay home.
Relax. Enjoy yourself”
Cruz, in Georgia on Friday to
campaign for a Republican con-
gressional candidate, never
mentioned Trump but received
a standing ovation upon his en-
trance and again when he men-
tioned “a little-noticed talk that I
gave in Cleveland.”
That “talk” was perhaps the
most dramatic moment of the
GOP’s four-day convention. Dor-
mant since ending his campaign
in early May, Cruz reignited the
personal feud between the top
two finishers in the Republican
primaries when he spoke at the
convention but would not urge
his hundreds of delegates to vote
for Trump in November. Boos
echoed across the arena.
Trump made no mention of
his former rival during his ac-
ceptance speech Thursday
night, but he switched gears Fri-
day morning. The invitation-on-
ly event, billed as a thank-you re-
ception for supporters and staff
at Trump’s Cleveland hotel, at
first looked like it would simply
By Kristen De Groot
Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA
Cleveland breathes a sigh of re-
lief after protests during the
Republican convention came
and went without mass disrup-
tions and violence, eyes now
turn to Philadelphia, the na-
tion’s fifth largest city that offers
a bigger stage for bigger pro-
tests over a much larger area.
Cleveland’s marches and
rallies ended quietly Thursday
As
Sacramento, Calif.
Governor denies parole
for Manson follower
Trump
and pledging
California Gov. Jerry Brown
denied parole Friday for Leslie
Van Houten, the youngest fol-
lower of murderous cult leader
Charles Manson who is serving
a life sentence for killing a
wealthy grocer and his wife
more than 40 years ago.
Brown overturned the rec-
ommendation of a parole board
that found Van Houten was no-
to win in November.
Then Trump bore in on Cruz,
calling his non-endorsement
“dishonorable” before revisiting
the hubbub over the celebrity
businessman March’s retweet of
a post that juxtaposed an unflat-
tering photo of Heidi Cruz with
a glamour shot of Trump’s wife,
Melania, a former model. At the
time, Cruz criticized Trump for
involving his wife and Trump’s
responded by accusing a super
PAC affiliated with Cruz of send-
ing a risque photo of Melania
Trump to Utah voters.
“I didn’t start anything with
the wife,” Trump said Friday.
“Then when I saw somebody
tweeted a picture of Melania and
a picture of Heidi, who I think, by
the way, is a very nice woman and
a very beautiful woman.”
“I think [she’s] the best thing
he’s got going and his kids, if you
want to know the truth,” he con-
tinued during a nearly 15-min-
ute ramble about Cruz.
Trump turned to justifying
how, on the eve of the Indiana
primary, he touted a story in the
National Enquirer tabloid that
printed a photo that purported
to show Cruz’s father, Rafael,
with Lee Harvey Oswald.
“All I did was point out the
fact that on the cover of the Na-
tional Enquirer there was a pic-
ture of him and crazy Lee Har-
vey Oswald having breakfast,”
the GOP nominee said. “Did
anybody ever deny that was the
father? They’re not saying, ‘Oh
that wasn’t really my father.’”
Cruz, in May, denied that his
father was in the photo.
Breaion King,
who was
longer the violent young woman
who committed a gruesome
murder and was now fit for re- violently
thrown to the
lease. She has completed college
degrees and been a model in-
mate.
ground by a
white police
officer during
a traffic stop
in Austin last
year, speaks
at a news
conference
Friday in
Austin.
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The Democratic governor ac-
knowledged her success in pris-
on and her youth at the time of
the murders, but he wrote in his
decision that she failed to ex-
plain how she transformed from
an upstanding teen to a killer.
“Both her role in these ex-
traordinarily brutal crimes and
her inability to explain her will- Rodolfo
ing participation in such horrific Gonzalez,
violence cannot be overlooked Austin American-
and lead me to believe she re-
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mains an unacceptable risk to
society if released,” Brown wrote.
Van Houten, 66, participated
in the killings of Leno La Bianca
and his wife, Rosemary, a day af- Black woman calls
Arrested teacher: 1 waited. I prayed.
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for going 15 mph over the speed
limit around lunchtime. Follow-
ing a struggle, King was hand-
cuffed and driven to jail by Offi-
cer Patrick Spradlin, who told
her that “I don’t blame” whites
for being afraid because of vio-
lence in the black community.
Both officers have been
placed on desk duty and prose-
cutors have opened a criminal
investigation into Richter’s ac-
tions during the stop.
“If something is wrong, ev-
eryone needs to be held account-
able,” King said. “So for me, I feel
we’re starting to take the neces-
sary steps for us to be able to
come together as a community
and the nation.”
King, an elementary school
teacher, didn’t file a complaint
after her arrest and said Friday
she didn’t know she had that op-
tion at the time.
“I was embarrassed and I was
ashamed and I did not know
what I needed to do,” King said.
“So through everything, honest-
ly, what I did was I waited. I
prayed. ... And everything
comes together when it’s time.”
Austin Police Chief Art Ace-
vedo condemned both officers’
actions and has called com-
ments on the video “disturbing.”
He said he had been unaware of
the stop or the video until the
Austin American-Statesman
obtained a copy and began ask-
ing about it, and was critical of
his chain of command for not
alerting him at the time of the
arrest.
Acevedo said the investiga-
tion of the officers will include
their conduct in the year since
the incident. He said the traffic
stop had been originally classi-
fied as a Level 3 use of force,
which Acevedo said means there
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ly” members murdered pregnant TOT IHlUy 3S AUSIin
officers probed
actress Sharon Tate and four oth-
ers in 1969. Van Houten did not
participate in the Tate killings.
The crimes and the trials that fol-
lowed fascinated the world and
became tabloid fodder.
By Paul J. Weber
Associated Press
AUSTIN - A black Texas
teacher thrown to the ground by
a white officer during a traffic
stop, and then told by another
white officer on the way to jail
that blacks have “violent tenden-
San Diego
Judge may deny Trump
request to dismiss suit
was no serious injury or com-
plaint.
In one of two videos, Spra-
dlin is heard asking King, “Why
are so many people afraid of
black people?”
King replies that she is also
trying to figure that out.
“I can give you a really good
idea why it might be that way,”
he said. “Violent tendencies.”
A federal judge said Friday he ries, raid Friday she is grateful
is inclined to deny a request by the P°^ce chief has publicly
Donald Trump’s lawyers to dis- apologized,
miss a lawsuit that accuses the But Breaion King said Austin
Republican presidential nomi- police still have culture changes
nee of defrauding customers at to make and called on the U.S. to
the now-defunct Trump Univer-
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come together after patrol car
video of her arrest again height-
ened national attention and ten-
sity.
Spradlin goes on to say,
“Some of them, because of their
appearance and whatnot, some
of them are very intimidating.”
It is only a few moments into
the traffic stop when Richter is
heard in the video ordering King
to “stop resisting” as he orders
her out of the car. The angle of
the video doesn’t fully show
King while she is inside the car.
Richter orders King to put
her hands behind her back while
the two struggle on the ground.
Richter has been a police offi-
cer since 2010 and Spradlin
since 2001, according to Austin
police.
U.S. District Judge Gonzalo
Curiel did not elaborate on his
thinking during a lengthy hear- black people,
ing in San Diego — one day after Newly released footage of her
Trump accepted the Republican June 15, 2015, arrest is the latest
nomination for president of the ^ a string of videos showing
United States tense encounters between police
and blacks across the country.
The most charged run-ins in re-
cent weeks have been fatal, set-
ting off protests, police officers
being fatally shot and President
Barack Obama holding a tele-
vised town hall on race.
sion over police treatment of
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trocelli, urged the judge to re-
consider, calling the lawsuit a
“gross overreach” of federal civil
racketeering statutes. He told
the judge the plaintiffs have
failed to show that Trump him-
self orchestrated allegedly mis-
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