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Monday, April 4, 2016
Education gap in GOP race
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By Jennifer C. Kerr
Associated Press
WASHINGTON - It was in
Nevada, just about month ago,
when Donald Trump pro-
claimed his affection for the un-
educated.
‘We won with young. We
won with old. We won with
highly educated. We won with
poorly educated. I love the poor-
ly educated,” the Republican
presidential front-runner boast-
ed after coasting to a decisive
victory in the state’s caucuses.
He should love them.
Trump
leads his rivals for support
among the less educated, and
draws more modest backing
from college graduates and
those with postgraduate study,
according to exit polls conduct-
ed for the Associated Press and
television networks by Edison
Research.
In an analysis of voters by ed-
ucation in states where exit or
entrance polling is available,
nearly half of those with high
school diplomas or less school-
ing said they supported the bil-
lionaire. Just over 40 percent of
those with some college study fa-
vored him. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz
captured the next best showing
among the two groups, with 27
and 28 percent, respectively.
What is it about Trump that
he attracts such a strong show-
ing among those who haven’t
graduated from college?
“I think it is incorrect to look
at the data and conclude that
those voters are more ignorant,”
Katherine Cramer, a political sci-
ence professor at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison, said in an
interview. “Instead, there’s a
strong correlation between hav-
ing a college degree or not, and
your economic situation in life.”
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publican comers for the party to
use a contested convention to
pick someone not even on the
ballot. Priebus acknowledged
that was a remote possibility, but
said he believed his party’s can-
didate would be “someone who’s
bow out came as Republican
concerns grew about the pros-
pect of convention chaos if
Trump fails to lock up his party’s
nomination — or even ifhe does.
Behind Cruz in the polls in
Wisconsin, Tmmp faces the
prospect that a loss Tuesday will
raise further doubts that he can
net the needed delegates, mak-
ing it far easier for his party to
oust him in a floor fight at the
convention.
Cruz, Tmmp’s closest chal-
lenger, has only a small chance
to overtake him in the delegate
hunt before the convention. He
spent his afternoon rallying sup-
porters in Wisconsin in an event
heavy with references to the
state’s beloved Green Bay Pack-
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Cleveland in July even without
competing in the remaining
nominating contests. He added
that he had relayed his concerns
to Republican National Com-
mittee officials at a meeting in
Washington this past week.
“I said, ‘Why is a guy allowed
to run?’ All he’s doing is just he
goes from place to place and los-
es,” Tmmp told reporters at Miss
Katie’s Diner in Milwaukee,
where he stopped for breakfast.
Wisconsin holds its presidential
primaries Tuesday.
Kasich’s campaign tried to
flip the script, contending that
neither Tmmp nor Texas Sen.
Ted Cruz would have enough
delegates to win the nomination
outright going into Cleveland.
“Since he thinks it’s such a
good idea, we look forward to
Tmmp dropping out before the
convention,” said Kasich spokes-
man Chris Schrimpf.
On the Democratic side, Hil-
lary Clinton told NBC’s Meet the
Press that she had yet to receive
a request from the FBI for an in-
terview regarding the private
email system she used as secre-
tary of state. And during a series
of stops at Brooklyn church ser-
vices, she got in a dig at her
Democratic opponent, Vermont
Sen. Bemie Sanders, who has
identified as an independent for
most of his career.
“I know we have to have a
Democrat succeed Barack Oba-
ma,” Clinton said.
Clinton and Sanders an-
nounced they’d agreed to a de-
bate in New York before the con-
sequential April 19 primary,
though the timing remained un-
clear. Sanders fired up a crowd
in Wausau, Wisconsin, hoping
to continue his string of recent
campaign victories even as Clin-
ton maintains a sizable delegate
lead.
So far, Tmmp’s populist pitch
to ordinary folks facing econom-
ic uncertainty is resonating, says
Michael McDonald, associate
professor of political science at
the University of Florida.
“A lot of people have under-
estimated Tmmp because they
expect a candidate to do things
in a certain way. And because he
breaks the mold on that in some
respects, they miss when he’s
making these appeals that speak
directly to the voters,” he said.
Cramer calls it the “politics of
resentment,” when a candidate
taps into the economic stress
and gives people something
concrete to blame. “Tmmp is
able to direct people’s profound
uneasiness with their situation
in life at a target” — the govern-
ment, trade policies, or a group
of people.
Cramer explains, “These are
folks who have been feeling a
real stmggle to make ends meet
for decades now and they see a
candidate coming along who
says to them, ‘You’re right. You’re
not getting your fair share. It
sucks. And I’m going to stand up
for you.’”
running.
Working to right his cam-
paign after a rough patch,
Tmmp has found himself on the
defensive, struggling to explain
away controversies over abor-
tion, nuclear weapons and his
campaign manager.
‘Was this my best week? I
guess not,” Tmmp said on Fox
News Sunday.
Yet as he campaigned in Mil-
waukee, Tmmp returned to the
confident bravado his support-
ers have come to expect. He said
the state of play in Wisconsin
“reminds me so much of New
Hampshire, where we had this
massive victory and it wasn’t re-
ally anticipated.” In reality,
Tmmp had led polls for months
in New Hampshire and was
widely expected to win.
“I think this has the feel of a
victory,” he told reporters, as a
plate of untouched fried eggs
and bacon grew cold.
In Egypt, former Tmmp rival
and South Carolina Sen. Lind-
sey Graham tried to reassure an
Arab world wary of Tmmp, who
has called for banning Muslim
immigration to the United
States.
“That’s really appealingto peo-
ple,” Cramer said before Tuesday’s
primary in Wisconsin, where
Cruz is leading Trump in polls.
Exit polls from most of the
primaries and caucuses held to
date show Tmmp has trailed
among voters having a high
school degree or less in only one
state where data is available so
ers.
Kasich has acknowledged he
cannot catch up in the delegate
race, leaving a contested con-
vention his only path to victory.
He has faced calls in the past to
step aside, but those nudges be-
came less frequent following his
decisive victory last month in his
home state.
Still, Kasich suggested a con-
tested convention would not in-
volve the chaos that party lead-
ers fear.
far. Cruz led in his home state of
Texas. The high school graduate
sample size wasn’t large enough
in Massachusetts and Vermont
for a solid measure.
Court races become battleground
“Kids will spend less time fo-
cusing on Bieber and Kardash-
ian and more time focusing on
how we elect presidents,” Kasich
told ABC. “It will be so cool.”
Republicans fear an unseem-
ly internal fight would damage
the party in November’s general
election, and Tmmp isn’t ruling
out the possibility of running as
an independent if he’s not the
nominee, making it that much
harder for the GOP to retake the
White House.
Such talk has “consequenc-
es,” said GOP Chairman Reince
Priebus, though he tried to quell
the prospect of a convention
fight. He told ABC that the pro-
cess will be clear and open, with
cameras there “at every step of
the way.”
Frustration with the GOP
field has stoked calls in some Re-
ance of power by expanding or
reducing their court’s size, or
making it easier to impeach
judges whose rulings upset the
legislative majority.
“State courts are the final
word on a host of state law issues
that have high stakes for busi-
nesses’ bottom lines, legislatures’
agendas and the rights of indivi-
duals,” said Alicia Bannon with
the Brennan Center for Justice at
New York University. “Who sits
on state courts can have a pro-
found impact on the legal land-
scape in a state, and special-in-
terest groups and politicians are
increasingly paying attention.”
State supreme court elec-
tions have begun to resemble the
rough-and-tumble, high-dollar
campaigns associated with races
for governor or Congress. Voters
in about two dozen states are
casting ballots for state supreme
court justices this year. Spend-
ing for two Arkansas Supreme
Court seats alone topped $L6
million, setting a state record for
TV ad buys in a judicial election.
The Judicial Crisis Network,
which is spending millions
campaigning against President
Barack Obama’s Supreme Court
nominee Merrick Garland, and
the Republican State Leader-
ship Committee were successful
in seeing their candidates elect-
ed, including a new chief justice
who says he’s guided by “prayer,
not politics.”
The races were so acrimoni-
ous that some Arkansas Repub-
licans are considering ending
popular elections for the top
court, while some Democrats
want more transparency by out-
side spending groups.
By Christina A. Cassidy
Associated Press
ATLANTA — Much atten-
tion is being paid to the U.S. Su-
preme Court vacancy, but equal-
ly partisan battles are being
waged for control of state courts
around the nation.
In states where voters elect
Supreme Court judges, millions
of dollars are being spent to re-
shape the courts for years to
come. Judicial watchdogs say
spending by national groups
overwhelmingly favors judges
on the right of the political spec-
trum, and is mostly aimed at
maintaining or improving the
courts’ responses to corporate
interests while countering state-
level spending by labor unions
and other interest groups.
Lawmakers are busy too, de-
bating proposals to tip the bal-
“The Congress is going to be
around no matter who is presi-
dent,” Graham said after meet-
ing with Egypt’s leader.
On the delegate front, North
Dakota Republicans at their
state convention were set to se-
lect 25 of their 28 national dele-
gates on Sunday. North Dakota
isn’t holding a primary or caucus
in the 2016 race. Nevada Demo-
crats held county conventions
on Saturday, leading up to a final
determination of delegates at a
statewide convention in May
Clinton turned backed a chal-
lenge from Sanders in the state’s
caucuses in February.
Tmmp’s call for Kasich to
From Page 1A
Leak
Washington-based Internation-
al Consortium of Investigative
Journalists.
Several McClatchy journal-
ists joined more than 370 jour-
nalists from 78 countries in the
largest media collaboration ever
undertaken after a leak.
The document archive con-
tains 2.6 terabytes of data.
As a registered agent, the
Mossack Fonseca law firm in-
corporates companies in tax ha-
vens worldwide for a fee. It has
avoided close scrutiny from U.S.
law enforcement officials.
Mossack Fonseca denied all
accusations of illegal activity.
“We have not once in nearly
40 years of operation been
charged with criminal wrongdo-
ing,” spokesman Carlos Sousa
said. ‘We’re proud of the work
we do, notwithstanding recent
and willful attempts by some to
mischaracterize it.”
The law firm’s co-founder,
Ramon Fonseca, in an interview
last month on Panamanian tele-
vision, said blaming Mossack
Fonseca for what people do with
their companies would be like
blaming an automaker “for an
accident or if the car was used in
a robbery.”
Yet plenty of criminals are
named in the documents, like
drug traffickers and convicted
fraudsters.
“The offshore world is the
parallel universe of the ultrarich
and ultrapowerful,” said Jack
Blum, a white-collar crime at-
torney and an architect of the
[politically exposed persons] or
VIPs.”
aire construction mogul, openly
obtained companies through
Mossack Fonseca. The Treasury
Department, when sanctioning
him in 2014, suggested that the
oligarch acted on behalf of “a se-
nior official.”
That was widely believed to
mean Putin, whose fingerprints
were not on any offshore compa-
acclaimed 2014 book Putin’s
Kleptocracy: Who Owns Rus-
sia?
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The one-word answer was,
“No.” Yet, Roldugin is godfather
to Putin’s daughter Mariya.
“Roldugin is, by his proximity
to a serving head of state, clearly
an exposed person,” Mark Pieth,
a former head of the Swiss jus-
tice ministry’s organized crime
division, told the ICIJ team.
The documents show how in
2008 a company controlled by
Roldugin had influence over
Russia’s largest truck maker Ka-
maz, joining with several other
offshore companies to help an-
other Putin insider acquire ma-
jority control of the company.
They wanted foreign invest-
ment, and German carmaker
Daimler later that year bought a
10 percent stake in Kamaz for
$250 million.
The offshore company that
connects many Putin loyalists is
Sandalwood Continental Limit-
ed in the British Virgin Islands.
Roldugin was a shareholder un-
til 2012, as was Oleg Gordin, a
little-known
whom incorporation docu-
ments describe as linked to ‘law
enforcement agencies.”
The files also mention a com-
pany co-owned by Putin friend
Yury Kovalchuk, the largest
shareholder of Bank Rossiya.
Kovalchuk was among those
targeted by U.S. sanctions in
2014 in retribution for Russia’s
invasion of Crimea. Another
friend, Arkady Rotenberg, Pu-
tin’s judo partner and a billion-
A Kremlin spokesman, Dmi-
try Peskov, said last week that
ICIJ was publishing a “series of
fibs” that amounted to a media
“attack” on Putin. Peskov sug-
gested that unknown “organiza-
tions and services” were behind
the media reports.
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formation gathered by reporters
working under the umbrella of
the nonprofit International
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of Russia, you don’t need a writ-
ten contract. You are the law,”
said Karen Dawisha, an aca-
demic, former State Depart-
ment official and author of the
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A security guard sits Sunday outside the Mossack Fonseca
law firm in Panama City.
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Jack Schmvtic Si Son
Patrick Fallon Jr., head of the
FBI’s financial crimes section.
The most extraordinary alle-
gations in the archive revolve
around Putin’s closest associ-
ates, including Sergey Roldugin,
a close friend since the late 1970s
when Putin was a young KGB
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
The archive, which dates to
the late 1970s and extends
through December 2015, reveals
that 14,000 intermediaries and
middlemen bring business to
Mossack Fonseca.
No part of the world is un-
touched, including the United
States.
States such as Delaware, Ne-
vada and Wyoming register
thousands of corporations an-
nually, often without identifying
the true owners. Some of the bil-
lions of dollars moving through
the domestic economy come
from anonymous foreigners
who inflate real estate prices in
places like Miami, buying prop-
erties outright in cash.
“We know [of] upwards to
$6 to $10 billion a year laun-
dered through the U.S.,” said
We take every opportunity
to create the kind of
personal relationships
that allow us to provide the
individualized, sensitive
service your family deserves.
agent.
Roldugin is a cellist for the St.
Petersburg orchestra, yet his
name appears as the owner of
offshore companies that have
rights to loans worth hundreds
of millions of dollars. A Russian
businessman
news service report in 2010 dis-
closed that he owned at least 3
percent of Bank Rossiya, Rus-
sia’s most important bank.
When Mossack Fonseca
helped open a bank account in
Switzerland on behalf of Roldu-
gin, the application form asked
if he had “any relation to PEPs
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