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Editorial/Opinions
Views From The Right
Views From The Left
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By Carm Hooper
B y Brenda Ma use
The road to the White House
The coming good new days
From the Manvel Mayor
Delores Martin
Welcome to new council members
2,
Straight Talk
Ron Paul
The Keynesians stole the jobs
Government Access
U.S. Representative
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the Alvin Sun-Advertiser.
DAN MOORE.......
DONNA HOPKINS...
DAVID MONEY.....
STEPHEN COLLINS.
ALBERT VILLEGAS .
SHERI SAENZ......
BRENDA GROVES ..
DARLENE HALL ....
BETTY CRAWFORD.
LINDA KNIGHT.....
MELISSA NOLASCO
Hudson to take their places on
council. We have a city we are
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the Alvin Sun-Advertiser.
President
Barack Obama
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue,
Washington, D.C. 20500
(202)456-1414
comments@whitehouse.gov
US. Senator
John Cornyn
United States Senate
Washington, D.C. 20510-5922
(202) 224-2934
5300 Memorial Drive, Suite
980
Houston, TX 77007
(713) 572-3337
Fax: 202-228-2856
comyn.senate.gov/public/
ILS. Senator
Ted Cruz
B40B Dirksen Senate Office
Building.
Washington, D. C. 20510
(202) 224-5922
312 Cannon HOB
Washington, D.C. 20515
(202) 225-5951
6302 W. Broadway,
Ste. 220
Pearland, TX 77581
281-485-4855
olson.house.gov
State Senator
Larry Taylor Dist.ll
P.O. Box 12068
Capitol Station
Austin. Texas 78711
(512) 463-0111
174 Calder Rd. Ste. 151
League City, TX 77573
281-332-0003
State Representative
Dennis Bonnen
Room CAP 1W.6, Capitol
P.O.Box 2910
Austin, TX 78768
(512) 463-0564
122 E. Myrtle
Angleton,TX 77515
(979) 848-1770
dennis .bonnen @
house.state.tx.us
State Representative
Ed Thompson Dist. 29
1400 N. Congress Ave.,
E2.506
Austin, TX 78701
P.O.Box 2910
Austin, TX 78768-2910
(512) 463-0707
ed.thompson@
house.state.tx.us
Governor
Greg Abbott
P.O. Box 12428
Austin, TX 78711
Info and Referral:
800-843-5789
Opinions: 800-252-9600
govemor.state ,tx .us/contact
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2.5 percent to $1,243 per ounce
on Friday. Gold mining stocks
also saw significant gains on
Where has the time gone?
Another school year is behind
us. Summer is here and chil-
dren are seeking new chal-
lenges. The Lord has blessed
Brazoria County with an enor-
mous amount of rain, and we
hope and pray in His mercy
He will let it recede to where it
belongs. People say in July we
will be praying for rain, but let
us just wait and see.
Many changes have taken
place. We bid farewell to two
fantastic councilmen: Melody
Hanson and Lew Shuffler, who
dedicated their lives to the ser-
purchase a car or real estate without their husbands’
permission. Family violence wasn’t usually pros-
ecuted, and there were no crisis centers for women
and children who were abused or beaten.
In the 50s and 60s, blacks living in the south
were routinely terrorized and black men were
lynched; perpetrators were never caught and pros-
ecuted. Blacks could not attend the cinema in Lake
Jackson until 1968. In 1972, a Needville doctor still
had a “colored” entrance into a separate, unair con-
ditioned waiting room. Blacks still do not have edu-
cational or job opportunities that white folks do in
America. Social problems emanating from lack of
opportunity, perpetual marginalization, and poverty
in black communities have never been sufficiently
addressed because much of America is still racist.
In the 60s, Cesar Chavez started the United Farm
Workers. The movement gave names and faces to
the million migrant workers toiling for a pittance
and living in miserable conditions to put fruits and
vegetables on the tables of white folks. Chavez
devoted his life to the cause, but in 2004, migrant
farm worker families still had considerably less
education and shorter lifespans than Anglos, and
their median family income was less than $10,000
a year.
There were a few powerful white guys - liber-
als - who looked out from comfortable positions
in life and did their best to help people who were
struggling: FDR, Ted Kennedy, and Lyndon John-
son come to mind. They are heroes, and so are Rosa
Parks, Martin Luther King, Cesar Chavez, Maggie
Kuhn and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Their names
are not as prominent as they should be in our his-
tory textbooks. Those heroes and the thousands of
people who were inspired by and worked alongside
them struggled to find a place in America for His-
panics, blacks, and women.
America has gone from rubboards and buggies
to space travel in the last 75 years, and American
innovation, usually led by old white guys, deserves
credit for that. However, they have done their best
to keep the land of opportunity exclusively theirs.
The America they created - the one Buchanan is
remembering with fondness - is a white males-only
ruthlessly oppressive Christian country club. Wom-
en, Hispanics, and blacks have had to fight to be
able to vote, to get jobs, for equal opportunity, and
for respect. And they still do not have it. The Old
Republican White Guard establishment has fought
them every step of the way. The world they created
is hateful, militaristic, chauvinistic, and corrupt.
They have kept their grasp on power by institution-
alizing greed and capitalizing on people’s fears.
The inclusive, multicultural America of the fu-
ture will be built on our treasured documents, the
Declaration of Independence and our Constitution.
And we will really mean that part about peace and
justice and that men - all men - are created equal.
We will also remember that the powers of our
government are derived from the consent of the
people.
All people.
The Old Republican White Guard placed their
personal agendas above the Constitution they were
sworn to uphold.
Pat Buchanan is right: his breed is aging out, and
the best days of the United States of America lie
ahead.
U.S. Representative
Randy Weber Dist. 14 Pete Olson Dist. 22
510 Cannon House
Office Bldg.
Washington. DC 20515
(202) 225-2831
weber.house.gov
Pat Buchanan, the columnist, author, TV pundit,
and serial candidate for president recently appeared
on National Public Radio4 s “Morning Edition.” The
77-year-old paleoconservative lamented the “good
old days.” He believes America has changed for the
worse: “So we are about what?—25 years away
from where Americans of European descent will
be a minority in the United States.” He complained
that half the families in California don’t speak Eng-
lish in the home. Referring to high immigration
from 1890 to 1920, he said “All those folks from
Eastern and Southern Europe were assimilated and
Americanized ... We created a really united country
where 97 percent of us spoke English in 1960.”
For many Americans, 1960 was not a stellar year.
Privileged, well-educated Buchanan was never in
touch with real America. Bom in Washington, D.C.,
where he’s lived and worked all his life, Buchanan
became part of that bastion of power at a young
age. And because of his sheltered worldview, Bu-
chanan missed the sheer wonder of an incredible
75 years of growth and change in the United States.
I am thinking of the miracle of running water
and electricity that we did not have in Freestone
County, Texas, when I was bom. By 1950, only 64
percent of American homes had a bathroom with a
flush toilet, shower or tub, and hot and cold mnning
water. Poor rural tenant farmers - white, black, and
Hispanic - didn’t have those amenities for a few
more decades. One percent of homes in the United
States still don’t.
As soldiers returned from World War II, many,
like my Dad, moved their families to cities to fill
plentiful jobs. The American Federation of Labor,
successfully bargaining for better wages and ben-
efits, made those jobs decent ones. At their peak,
the AFL-CIO had a membership of 20 million. The
American Middle Class was created by post-war
jobs and supply and demand for housing and con-
sumer goods.
The 50s gave us wringer washing machines and
electric irons, and our iceboxes were replaced by
refrigerators. We had a low divorce rate, likely be-
cause women did not have economic freedom. The
birthrate in the U.S. in 1957 for women ages 15-
19 was 96.3 per thousand. (In 2016, it is 12.5 for
women of all ages.) In the 50s, a wife was expect-
ed to freshen up, slip on high heels, and greet her
husband at the door with an adult beverage when
he arrived home from a hard day at work. When
they miss the 50s, what the Old Republican White
Guard refers to is the time before women got the
freedom that birth control provided and before that
pesky Civil Rights Bill of 1964 passed.
The tiny black and white TVs of the 50s and 60s
gave us a window on the world. Telephones gave
us a larger support system. Electric appliances
took much of the time-consuming drudgery out of
keeping house so it was easier for women to juggle
homemaking and employment outside the home.
Despite more opportunity for women in the work-
place in the 60s and 70s, they made half the salary
their male counterparts did. In 2016, women work-
ing in the private sector still only earn 70 percent of
what men do in comparable jobs. In 1972, married
women could not get credit cards in their names or
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won a total of 2,203. The number you hear the
Democrats crediting to her (2,780) includes 577
super delegates.
In addition to Clinton’s good news, there is
some very bad news. Just this morning The New
York Post reported that a “source at the FBI” has
said that the investigation being conducted by the
Department of Justice and the FBI is “criminal.”
And, former federal prosecutor Bradley Simon
stated, “If it is proved that Clinton knowingly
sent, received or stored classified information
in an unauthorized location, she risks prosecu-
tion under the same misdemeanor federal secu-
rity statute used to indict former CIA Director
General David Petraeus.” The criminality of her
investigation was confirmed by the president’s
press secretary during a meeting with reporters
following Bernie Sanders’ departure from the
White House.
Today (Thursday, June 9) President Obama
formally endorsed Hillary Clinton as his heir-
apparent to the presidency. Was Obama’s en-
dorsement a subtle way of sending a message
to the investigating agencies mentioned in the
paragraph above, that he wants them to ignore
the findings in her case? (And does the fact
that Loretta Lynch, Obama’s attorney general,
scooted into the White House shortly after Ber-
nie Sanders left have any significance in this
whole matter?) Whether or not this speculation
has any bearing on Clinton’s nomination and/or
candidacy remains to be seen in the days ahead.
It is ludicrous that Obama’s approval rate is cur-
rently 52 percent, but polls show that only 40.7
percent approve of his job performance. This is
extremely confusing to me. How can it be said
that he is great when he is obviously NOT doing
a great job? Thus, whether his endorsement for
Clinton is a positive or a negative will be proven
when the proverbial pudding is done!
So ... Stay tuned to your humble columnist to
see what this next week will show us in this war
to the White House!
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miracles between now and July
that will propel the economy to
where according to their terms
a rate hike would be appropri-
ate.
Many will point to the May
employment numbers and the
weak economy in general and
pin all the blame on President
Obama. However, Obama is
only part of the problem. The
real culprit is an economic
philosophy shared by both Re-
publicans and Democrats for
many decades. It is a belief in
the fantasy of effective central
economic planning by the Fed-
eral Reserve. It is a belief that a
central bank can determine bet-
ter than the free market what
interest rates should be. This
belief results in mal-invest-
See Talik, page 10A
Before I begin this column, I want to make
my readers aware that the Republican National
Committee has set up a website at which each of
us can actively take part in the preparation and
rating of the 2016 platform for this year’s com-
ing presidential election. I have gone there and I
have taken part in the “survey” which will give
the RNC influence from “we the people” when
it comes to what is really of the greatest interest
to each of us regarding a number of major ar-
eas of this year’s platform. This website is www.
platform.gop. I suggest that everyone take the
time to participate in this first-ever opportunity
to open to the American electorate a chance to
make your concerns known and have them taken
into consideration when the Republican Party’s
platform is finalized for approval at the Conven-
tion.
Now, let’s take a look at the present status of
the Republican and Democratic candidates. Even
before the last weeks of the Republican primary,
those primary candidates running against Don-
ald Trump accepted the facts of the election and
bowed out of the race. This was a coalescing step
on the part of those opposing Trump. As a result,
the Republican primary voters in the states hold-
ing their primaries so late in the primary calendar
moved to vote for the “presumptive nominee”
and the Donald did what was said he could not
do. He garnered more than the required 1,237
delegates required to win the nomination at the
first vote in Cleveland, Ohio, in July. Trump suc-
ceeded in winning more states and votes than 17
other initial primary candidates and has won a
total number of 1,542 bound delegates, 305 more
than the minimum required.
So, how’s Hillary Clinton doing? The Demo-
crats have only one additional primary and that is
Washington, DC. The total number of Washing-
ton, DC, delegates to be won is 20. Clinton has
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Late last week the markets
were shocked by a
Clain, Delores Martin, Nicole
Mitchell, Beverly Stephenson,
Luis Martinez, Debbie Carrillo
and Frances Fisher. I would en-
courage everyone, if you have
an opportunity, please take this
class. It is both educational and
a very rewarding experience.
The police department is plan-
ning another class in the falL were shocked by a surpris-
There will be a Parks Mas- ingly bad May jobs report -
ter Plan Community Workshop the worst monthly report in
Thursday, June 23 from 6-7:30 nearly six years. The experts
p.m. at the Church of the Har- expected the US economy to
vest, 7505 Wilson Drive, Man- add 160,000 jobs in May, but it
veL Please mark your calendar turns out only 38,000 jobs were
and come out to share your added. And to make matters
ideas regarding the parks for worse, 13,000 of those 38,000
our city. were government jobs! Adding
Bravo to the Manvel EMS for more government employees is
opening their doors to the DPS a drain on the economy, not a
officers who are here to provide measure of economic growth,
support and their services to the Incredibly, there are more than
flooded areas of Brazoria Coun- 102 million people who are ei-
ty. God bless you, gentlemen! ther unemployed or are no lon-
Oliver Wendell Holmes once ger looking for work.
said, “The best thing in this Gold reacted to the report
world is not so much where we quickly and decisively, gaining
stand, as in the direction we
are going.” Be safe and have a
blessed day.
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the day.
As recently as late May,
there was confident talk about a
rate increase when the Federal
Reserve meets in June. Tran-
scripts of the Federal Reserve’s
April meeting showed that the
central bank was seriously con-
sidering a June rate hike. With
last week’s jobs report and oth-
er bad news, that is increasing-
ly unlikely. In fact, citing the
weak May employment num-
bers, Goldman-Sachs is now
predicting that there is a zero
percent chance of a rate hike in
June. Of course they also see
this as a temporary blip in an
otherwise robust economy, pre-
dicting a 40 percent chance of a
rate hike in July.
I don’t mean to rain on Gold-
man’s parade, but there are no
vice of our city and welcomed: under Michelle Vela has also
Melissa Sifuentes and Jerome expanded to include Theresa
Vance and Courtni Black.
Permits Department has also
very proud of and it is up to us to grown to include Beverly Ste-
promote and encourage growth phenson.
that we can all be proud of. We have a new fire marshall,
Our police department and Michael Dumas. The Manvel
Chief Keith Traylor continue staff is growing.
to grow to meet the growing The first Citizens Police
needs of our community. There Academy class just graduated,
are now four sergeants: Tim The graduating class included:
Underwood, Jason Scates, An- Larry Akery, Michelle Bow-
thony Meshell and Scott Kar- man, Derek Dalmolin, Espe-
powicz to cover all the shifts, ranza Mendoza, Sophia Hall,
Michael Capnick has been Megan Kriewaldt,Thesdus Mc-
added as a patrolman. Dispatch
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