We are a week away from summer vacation, and it is hard to believe I am almost done with my first year as a Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School teacher. As I have mentioned before, my first year was full of challenges, as well as many moments of pure joy. I can’t quite pinpoint exactly when I made the choice to pursue a career as an educator, but I know that at some point during the school year, I embraced the challenges and everything that comes with being a teacher. And just like the students from the 2017 graduating class, I feel an enormous sense of pride and gratitude for the MVRHS community. I’m thankful for the knowledgeable and kind teachers and principal who graciously supported me and shared helpful insight that helped guide me throughout the school year. Congratulations, MVRHS class of 2017, I couldn’t be more proud of you.
I asked the Brazilian-American MVRHS students who graduated on Sunday to share their experiences, perspectives, and hopes for the future in this week’s column.
Abraham Nunes
High school was an incredible experience for me. Although I did go through tough times, I had the right people by my side to help me and to guide me through challenging times. I can’t say that I enjoyed all of high school, because that would not be true. But what I can say is this: I have no regrets. The person that I am today needed to go through all that for me to be where I am today. All I care about now is the well-being of others. That’s why I fought hard to graduate from high school, being the first one in my family to do so. During graduation, hearing all those people that I care about — my family, friends, and other loved ones — shout my name proudly is what I fought for throughout all four years of high school. I am truly blessed to have so many people by my side, encouraging me to be someone better, someone stronger, taking on every challenge head-on with no hesitation.
Now I’m going to have to fight even harder to be the first one to graduate from college in my family, paving a path for my brothers and little sister to follow when it’s their turn to walk onstage and receive their high school diploma. While in college, I plan on pursuing my dream of becoming an art teacher, allowing me to teach high school students not only necessary skills in the fine arts and crafts but also how art can help you get through tough times. College is a big step for me as well as my family, but it’s a step I will take. Lesley University awaits me, and I plan on giving them my all, just like I gave Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School.
Camilla Prata
Caio, Vilmar, Camilla and Claudia Prata. —Juliana Germani
I spent my freshman and sophomore year at the Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter School, which I enjoyed very much. However, I decided to transfer to the regional high school, to play tennis on the girls tennis team and take advanced classes. Taking these harder courses helped me get the Martha’s Vineyard Vision Fellowship Scholarship. Being awarded this scholarship was very beneficial to me, because it helped me take part in an internship over the summer for two years at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital with Dr. Karen Casper, and also helped me financially. I am very excited that I will be attending the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in the fall. I will be on the premed track, in hopes of one day becoming a doctor. I am grateful to have attended the past four years in these wonderful schools, and I hope my project with the Martha’s Vineyard Vision Fellowship will help the Martha’s Vineyard community greatly.
Paulo Pereira
Paulo Pereira Jr., class essayist, delivers his speech at graduation. —Juliana Germani
During graduation, I felt a sense of accomplishment and a sense of pride. I felt accomplished and prideful because all of the hard work and effort that I put into everything paid off. Graduating from high school was an achievement in itself, as I was born in Brazil and grew up in America dreaming of getting a higher education. Navigating between these two cultures shaped me into the person I am today, and made me a strong and resilient person, and I am now making my dream of going to college a reality. I am thankful for my parents, who taught me how to dream hard and work even harder. I am thankful for my brother, educators, mentors, peers, and friends who challenged me and believed in me. I am grateful for MV Youth and the scholarship that I was awarded, as it equates to a full ride at the college of my choice. I am thankful for every hand that helped me get to this point in my life. I will become the first in my family to embark on the journey to college, and with this accomplishment comes great responsibility. I strive to set high expectations for my younger brother to follow. My high school experience — well, to keep it simple, let’s just say it was an experience. There were good times and there were bad times throughout the four years. In the near future, I plan on either studying medicine to become an orthopedic surgeon, or studying something pertaining to business. Nonetheless, I am very content with my accomplishments these past four years, and plan to take every opportunity presented in my direction and turn it into something meaningful in the years to come.
Nayson Perez
This past Sunday I celebrated with my classmates our graduation from MVRHS. I remembered all the good times we had together since elementary school. We celebrate everything we have achieved with a lot of effort. We said goodbye and wished each other good luck in this new stage of our lives. I look forward to going to the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. I chose this university because of the programs and opportunities it offers, and because it is one of the best public universities in New England. I have been blessed with the MV Youth Scholarship, and I am determined to explore and experiment so that I can find my passion.
Ana Della
During my four years in high school, many people kept telling me how fast everything was going to pass. But I’ve never felt like that up until graduation day. From our entrance to the moment we threw our caps up, and then, in a blink of an eye, we were done with this chapter in our lives. I felt as if I was watching a movie about my life, with everything I lived and learned. It is a feeling of finishing one cycle and starting another. We feel happy despite the fact that we have no idea what awaits us in the next few years. All the speeches resonated with me, each had different stories but with the same purpose of wishing success and happiness, to show that we should be proud to be where we are. Graduation is the day that I will keep forever in my heart, with much affection and joy.
A partir de este lunes, los televidentes del Canal RCN dejaron de ver en las emisiones de noticias, la tradicional sala de redacción al fondo del set y se encontraron con enormes pantallas planas que cambian de color según la hora de emisión.
El director de Noticias RCN, Rodrigo Pardo, dijo a Semana.com que la idea del cambio es tener un espacio más ágil, más agradable y acorde con las tendencias mundiales en informativos.
La idea de tener a los presentadores siempre sentados con la mesa en frente puede resultar monótona y acartonada, algo heredado del formato norteamericano de noticias desde hace 15 años, prácticamente desde el surgimiento de los canales privados.
Esta vez RCN quiso ajustarse más al modelo europeo donde se elimina de la vista, la sala de redacción y se ofrece un espacio amplio para que el presentador se mueva libremente e interactúe con las noticias y con los elementos tecnológicos que enriquecen los contenidos.
Más gráficos, mapas y ayudas visuales harán parte de la presentación de noticias que ayudarán a profundizar y aportar en un informe. Desde inicios de año se empezó a trabajar en el proyecto, en 2 meses e construyó el set mientras que la graficación tardó seis meses.
El cambio de imagen trae además más profundidad en la información, más contexto y más relevancia en secciones como “Protagonista de la noticia” y “Noticia en contexto” que antes pasaban inadvertidas pero con el nuevo formato ganarán espacio.
En estudios que realizó previamente el canal, los televidentes percibían el espacio denoticias como anticuado y distante, por eso se trabajó especialmente en estos dos conceptos para la propuesta de cambio que se estrenó este lunes.
Frente a las críticas del noticiero por parte de los televidentes en redes sociales, Pardo considera que hay que ser muy coherentes y tener la capacidad de saber qué comentarios tienen buenas intenciones y cuáles en cambio simplemente se deben desechar.
Por eso se tendió a las sugerencias constructivas de los televidentes que dieron como resultado los cambios.
Rodrigo Pardo asegura que el noticiero no se ve como un espacio más del canal que debe responder al rating sino que responde a los compromisos de informar y de responsabilidad con la sociedad. De hecho, su trabajo no se mide en términos de puntos de rating sino de calidad de la información, que es su foco.
Hoy todo el noticiero en estudio se graba con cámaras de alta definición, HD mientras que algunas cámaras de reportería todavía son de definición estándar. El noticiero está en un proceso de actualizar todo el equipo técnico a alta definición.
El equipo de trabajo está compuesto por 50 periodistas en Bogotá, 50 en el resto del país, 10 corresponsales internacionales y unas 110 personas más de equipo técnico y producción.
“Como me enseñó Felipe López (Fundador de Semana), el periodismo es un oficio de pequeños triunfos y derrotas y al final del día se ven los verdaderos resultados. Las noticias más exitosas no son las que más se ven sino las que logran tener el adecuado ángulo de equilibrio e imparcialidad”, concluye.
Ante una revolución tecnológica que se acelera y una creciente demanda de noticias a través de Internet, Clarín pone en marcha una nueva y ambiciosa etapa de su proceso de transformación digital. El cambio incluye una profunda reorganización de su redacción por la cual las rutinas de trabajo se vuelven 100% online y la producción de contenidos se realiza las 24 horas para todos los soportes. Hoy, Clarín.com es líder de audiencia en el país.
Los cambios y los nuevos desafíos fueron presentados ayer, en un auditorio colmado, ante todo el plantel periodístico de Clarín por el editor general, Ricardo Kirschbaum, y por el editor general adjunto, Ricardo Roa. Ellos expusieron las reformas generales y respondieron preguntas de editores y redactores.
“Apostamos a una transformación radical de la manera en la que hacemos periodismo, para responder a las nuevas demandas de nuestro público y brindar información de calidad en todos los formatos y dispositivos. El medio digital nos obliga a un proceso de edición continuo y unificado donde las notas se producen ni bien suceden y luego se enriquecen para el diario impreso”, explicó Kirschbaum.
Foto: Fernando de la Orden
Para transitar este camino, se reorganizan los horarios de trabajo de la redacción para que la producción periodística se realice de manera integral desde las primeras horas del día.
“Vamos a producir las notas en una redacción de trabajo continuo las 24 horas del día. En Clarín ya no se trabajará para la Web o para el diario de papel: se creará contenido útil para todas las plataformas, entre ellas la edición impresa, que seguirá ofreciendo un valor agregado a sus lectores”, añadió Roa.
Definió asimismo que la redacción estará orientada a satisfacer las demandas de los distintos sectores de la audiencia, desde la información política más rigurosa hasta los videos que se viralizan en las redes sociales. “El proyecto es distribuir los contenidos que requieren todos los públicos y ser líderes en todos los segmentos”, añadió.
Actualmente, el tráfico de Clarín proviene de tres principales fuentes: los que ingresan al sitio con su navegador, los que buscan información en Google y así llegan a Clarín, y los que acceden a los contenidos por referencias que encuentran en las redes sociales. “Es equívoco plantear que hay que trabajar sólo para una de ellas. Podemos crecer en redes y buscadores sin perjudicar el acceso directo”, dijo Ricardo Roa.
Foto: Fernando de la Orden
En la nueva estructura de la redacción, un equipo de periodistas con amplia experiencia quedará a cargo de manera exclusiva de la edición del impreso. Dependerá de la Mesa Central de Redacción, que también tendrá a su cargo la supervisión general de la Web.
A su vez, se crearon nuevas funciones para responder a los requerimientos del producto digital. La Mesa Digital, por ejemplo, sumará una Mesa de Urgentes dedicada a publicar las noticias de último momento en la Web, hasta que el personal de la sección asuma el seguimiento del tema y encare su cobertura en profundidad.
También se resolvió fortalecer especialmente a la Mesa de Audiencias, que cuenta con equipos destinados a la atención de las redes sociales, a la optimización de los contenidos para buscadores (SEO), al análisis de las métricas de tráfico y a la detección y creación de contenidos masivos que atraen importantes cantidades de visitas.
La Mesa Visual, en tanto, será reforzada para enriquecer la cobertura con una sólida producción de fotografías y videos.
“Tenemos futuro si logramos llegar en digital a todas las audiencias: la que valora nuestro periodismo y está dispuesta a pagarlo, y la masiva de redes que nos da un ancho de mercado para monetizar mejor la publicidad”, aseguró Kirschbaum.
Foto: Fernando de la Orden
“Los resultados demuestran que los lectores están dispuestos a pagar por un buen periodismo, lo que nos reclama ofrecer información de altísima calidad en todos los soportes” (Ricardo Kirschbaum)
Con esta reorganización, Clarín avanza decisivamente en un camino de transformación que vienen recorriendo los grandes medios de comunicación del mundo. Como parte de esa mutación, y para asegurar que el periodismo de calidad sea sostenible en el nuevo contexto, Clarín fue el primer diario argentino en implementar este año un sistema de suscripción digital que ya consiguió 35.000 adhesiones, superando las expectativas.
“Buscamos un nuevo modelo económico -señaló Kirschbaum-. Los resultados demuestran que los lectores están dispuestos a pagar por un buen periodismo, lo que nos reclama ofrecer información de altísima calidad en todos los soportes. En la nueva etapa, a eso apuntamos como máximo objetivo.”
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Sanción será de 950 soles para conductores no autorizados por esta comuna. Los reincidentes tendrán que pagar 1,900 soles.
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Estos vehículos deben estar afiliados a una empresa autorizada por la Municipalidad. Los que reincidan en esta infracción, recibirán una sanción que subirá a mil 900 soles.
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WASHINGTON/TOKYO, Dec 5 — Six U.S. Marines were missing following a still-unexplained mishap off the coast of Japan on Thursday involving two U.S. Marine Corps aircraft, which may have collided mid-air during a refueling exercise gone wrong, U.S. officials said.
Japan’s defense ministry said that its maritime forces had so far rescued one of the seven Marines who were aboard the two aircraft at the time of the incident. Search and rescue efforts were ongoing, U.S. and Japanese officials said.
The rescued person had been on the F/A-18 Hornet fighter jet, and was a in stable condition at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japanese Defense Minister Takeshi Iwaya told a news conference.
“The incident is regrettable, but our focus at the moment is on search and rescue,” he said. “Japan will respond appropriately once the details of the incident are uncovered.”
The Marine Corps said in a statement that the incident occurred around 2 a.m. local time in Japan on Thursday (1700 GMT Wednesday) about 200 miles (322 km) off the Japanese coast.
The Marine Corps band called ‘The Presidents Own’ was created in 1798. Here they are in 1893.
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The Marines pose for a photo in Egypt in 1907.
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Marines pose with a German trench mortar in 1918.
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Marines duing WWI circa 1918.
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Marines run a drill during combat training in Germany, 1918.
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Grumman FF-2, circa 1930
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Pearl Harbor survivor Technical Sergeant Anglin on December 8th 1941.
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Marines patiently wait to be called for ‘chow time’ 1943.
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Marines admire a photo of a pin-up girl in 1943 while in Japan.
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James Wrobel, Designer of VMF-312 Insignia, circa 1943
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Marines arrive on the Japanese island Saipan. 1944 WWII
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Marines stationed in Bougainville.
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Marines wait for letters from home to be distributed.
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Pictured here : ‘Code Talkers’ 1943 were a group a Native American Marines would used their native language to relay coded messages.
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Marines fire a 155mm Howitzer Iwo Jima.
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A Navy Corpsman administers blood plasma to a Marine. 1944
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Marines are surrounded by bullet shells at the base of Mount Suribachi.
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Marines raise the American flag in Iwo Jima. 1945
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Marines celebrate the end of WWII. 1945
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Korean War 1950.
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Female Marines began training in Parris Island, South Carolina, 1949.
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Marines line up to receive items from home. Usually soda, candy and cigarettes.
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A welcome banner can be seen here in Vietnam welcoming the Marines in Danang in 1965.
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A Marine rests while he can in Vietnam. 1968.
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Moment of Peace: Corporal Larry G. Nabb (Brush, Colorado) finds a moment of peace in front of a gaily decorated Christmas tree at Quang Tri Combat Base. Nabb is serving as a truck driver with 3d Marine Division’s Headquarters Battalion, and is one of thousands of Marines celebrating their Christmas in Vietnam
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Private First Class Ronald Duplantis prepares a 122mm enemy field weapon for shipment.
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Marines carry supplies from a cargo plane to a nearby base. 1969.
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Marines register to vote for the 1969 presidential election.
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David Gurfein sits next to a Christmas tree in Saudi Arabia while serving during Operation Desert Shield/Storm.
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Marines prepare to enter Saddam Husseins palace in 2003.
The F/A-18 and the KC-130 Hercules refueling aircraft had launched from Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni and were conducting regular training when there was a “mishap,” the Marine Corps said.
The Marine Corps did not elaborate on the nature of the incident. A U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said it occurred during a refueling exercise.
Officials who spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity were unsure precisely how the mishap occurred but none suspected foul play. An investigation has begun.
The Marine Corps suggested Japanese search and rescue aircraft had taken the lead on the rescue mission.
“We are thankful for the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force’s efforts as they immediately responded in the search and rescue operation,” it said. (Reporting by Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali in Washington and Kaori Kaneko and Tim Kelly in Tokyo; Editing by Peter Cooney and Rosalba O’Brien)
Un auto impactó hoy contra una camioneta de la Gendarmería francesa en la céntrica avenida de los Campos Elíseos de París, informaron a Efe fuentes policiales.
En un mensaje en su cuenta de Twitter, la Prefectura de Policía informa de que hay una “intervención policial en curso” en los Campos Elíseos, por lo que pidió a los ciudadanos y a los turistas que evitaran la zona.
El único fallecido a raíz del incidente fue el atacante, un hombre de 33 años que en su vehículo llevaba una AK-47, armas blancas, cartuchos, una garrafa de gas y varios explosivos, informó a la prensa el ministro del Interior francés, Gérard Collomb.
El jerarca agregó que la intención del atacante era hacer estallar el vehículo.
La Fiscalía francesa confirmó que el caso es investigado como atentado terrorista. El detenido, al que le encontraron un arma, tenía antecedentes por ser peligroso para el Estado.
No hubo heridos tras el ataque y se trató de una colisión “voluntaria” que ha producido un pequeño incendio. Por este motivo fue que algunos transeúntes relataron que oyeron una “explosión”.
La zona del incidente, que ha sido acordonada por la Policía, es en el comienzo de la avenida, muy cerca del Palacio del Elíseo, sede de la Presidencia francesa, que se prepara para recibir dentro de unas horas al rey Abdalá de Jordania.
En las noticias más leías del día, la delegada en Tlalpan, Claudia Sheinbaum, informó que el Colegio Enrique Rébsamen estaba bien construido y tenía todos los papeles en regla. La mañana de este lunes se desalojó a todo el personal que labora en la Torre de Pemex tras recibir una amenaza de bomba, por protocolo de seguridad se procedió a evacuar para realizar la revisión correspondiente y Trump pidió a los dueños de los equipos que cuando alguno de sus jugadores se arrodille durante el himno, como protesta por el racismo, lo despida… pero sólo encontró rebeldía.
1. Las noticias falsas que cuentan otro terremoto del 19 de septiembre
El terremoto que colapsó el centro de México se ha convertido en una buena oportunidad para divulgar noticias documentos, videos o imágenes alteradas o falsas sobre el sismo y sus consecuencias, además de rumores que no corresponden a la realidad.
Estas noticias falsas han generado psicosis entre una sociedad que ya se encuentra apabullada por los resultados del temblor más mortífero sufrido por México desde 1985. Te decimos algunas noticias que resultaron ser falsas.
Las noticias falsas que cuentan otro terremoto del 19 de septiembre. Ver nota.
2. La NFL planta cara a Donald Trump
Las reacciones en las ligas deportivas más importantes de Estados Unidos como la NFL, NBA y MLB, no se hicieron esperar y protestaron contra las soeces críticas del presidente Donald Trump.
El mandatario pidió a los dueños de equipos de la NFL que despidan a los jugadores que se arrodillen durante el himno nacional y en la NBA, los actuales campeones Golden State Warriors, cancelaron su visita a la Casa Blanca. La MLB tuvo también su primera reacción cuando el pelotero de los Atléticos de Oakland se arrodilló durante la entonación del himno previo al duelo contra los Rangers.
Hoy por la mañana se desalojó a todo el personal que labora en la Torre de Pemex tras recibir una amenaza de bomba, por protocolo de seguridad se procedió a evacuar para realizar la revisión correspondiente.
Horas después la situación en el edificio ubicado en Marina Nacional 329, colonia Verónica Anzures, en la delegación Miguel Hidalgo fue aclarada y se informó que se trató de una falsa alarma.
Evacuan Torre de Pemex tras amenaza de bomba. Ver nota.
4. Norcorea asegura que Trump les declaró la guerra
Corea del Norte, afirmó este lunes que Estados Unidosle declaró la guerrar y amenazó con derribar bombarderos estadounidenses.
“Trump proclamó que nuestro liderazgo no iba a permanecer mucho tiempo”, dijo el ministro norcoreano a la prensa afuera del hotel donde se hospeda en Nueva York. “Le declaró la guerra a nuestro país”, aseveró. “Todos los Estados miembro y el mundo entero deberían recordar claramente que fue Estados Unidos el primero en declarar la guerra a nuestro país”, dijo Ri Yong Ho.
Norcorea asegura que Trump les declaró la guerra. Ver nota.
5. Colegio Rébsamen operaba con legalidad: Sheinbaum
Claudia Sheinbaum, delegada en Tlalpan, informó que el Colegio Enrique Rébsamen, que se colapsó por el sismo del martes pasado, estaba bien construido y tenía todos los papeles en regla, y que la atribución del uso de suelo le corresponde a la Secretaría de Desarrollo Urbano y Vivienda del gobierno capitalino.
Señaló que de acuerdo a la norma para la construcción de escuelas, el edificio del colegio que se colapsó tuvo una falla en términos estructurales, dado que el sismo en la zona tuvo una intensidad de 90. Aclaró que la seguridad estructural de edificio es responsabilidad de un director de Obras y de un corresponsable de seguridad estructural.
Colegio Rébsamen operaba con legalidad: Sheinbaum. Ver nota.
Judy Nguyen is frustrated that anyone with enough money or the right connections can run as a candidate in an election. She’s disappointed she hasn’t seen immediate, tangible change under President Biden. And she feels for Americans who are trying to survive in an era when gas prices are skyrocketing and baby formula is scarce.
But she realizes she’s also part of the problem.
“I’m one of those people who talk like, oh, I want change, but then I don’t always vote,” Nguyen said as stood in the shade with her baby in a Brea shopping plaza. “I know I’m in a way at fault, but sometimes it’s just so hard to know who to believe” and who to vote for, she said.
The 40-year-old Democrat from Fullerton voted for Donald Trump, then for President Biden, and for Gov. Gavin Newsom. She isn’t happy with any of them.
“I’m just really sad,” she said, and she’s still deciding whether to cast a ballot in California’s primary election on Tuesday.
Across the shopping center, a handful of poll workers waited for voters to arrive. Over the course of an hour, one person showed up; it was another poll worker arriving to start her shift. Turnout is dismal so far for California’s primary election Tuesday, with about 15% of registered voters having cast a ballot as of Monday afternoon, according to election data received by the consulting firm Political Data Intelligence.
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Election experts say the lackluster participation by Californians stems from a dearth of excitement over this year’s contests, which largely lack competitive races at the top of the ticket. It’s a stark contrast with other parts of the nation where voter turnout is exceeding expectations.
“It’s a boring election,” said Paul Mitchell, vice president of PDI. “It’s clear from what we’re seeing that we’re going to have a low-turnout election despite the fact the state has made it easier than ever to vote.”
Even though every registered voter is being mailed a ballot, the Democratic consultant predicts primary turnout is likely to be under 30%. “Nothing puts this in better contrast than looking at Georgia right now: They’re doing everything they can, it seems, to make it harder to vote, yet they are having record turnout because voters there feel the future of the country is at stake.”
California’s early returns are a major drop off from the same period in September’s gubernatorial recall election, when nearly 38% of voters had voted as of election eve. Some 22% of voters had cast ballots at the same point before the last midterm primary election, in 2018, when ballots were not yet mailed to all California voters.
That primary offered enraged Democrats their first opportunity to rebuke then-President Trump. More than 37% of voters turned out — the highest for a midterm primary in two decades. About 58% of voters cast ballots in the recall, a race that presented a sharp contrast between Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom and the leading GOP challenger, radio host Larry Elder.
California’s 2022 primary election ballot includes races for governor, attorney general, the Legislature and Congress, as well as local contests.
“Election fatigue is definitely part of it, since the recall was so blustery. It was in everyone’s face,” said GOP strategist Beth Miller. “Because the recall election was last year, voters feel like they’ve already voted or had an election.”
Voters may be biding their time and turn in their ballots or vote on election day, she added. (Mail ballots postmarked by Tuesday will be counted as long as they are received by June 14.)
“We don’t know,” said Miller, who has been working in California politics for decades. “I’ve never seen it this slow in terms of ballots remaining out. Clearly voters are either completely disinterested or just now focused as election day nears.”
Some voters who haven’t cast ballots this year said they had simply lost trust in elected officials.
“They’re all the same. They say what they need to say to get you to vote,” said Kimela Ezechukwu, a Democrat who lives in the northern Los Angeles County district represented by GOP Rep. Mike Garcia, which will be among the most contested congressional districts in the nation this year.
The 54-year-old psychologist said she was more passionate about politics when she was younger. Now, she believes the system has turned into something akin to “Game of Thrones.” Once politicians “get inside that political machine, that just somehow sucks their soul out.”
Ezechukwu makes it a point to vote in presidential elections, but hasn’t decided whether to vote in the midterm primary, she said as she sat with her son at a park in Lancaster. “I’ve found peace not watching TV or following politics. I’m trying to live a healthy life; be at peace. Shouldn’t that be the goal?”
Political experts said voter apathy, which typically increases during non-presidential elections, may be compounded by anxiety — over issues ranging from mass shootings to high gas prices.
“There seems to be an endless, ongoing barrage of really bad things that everyone in this country and state is having to deal with,” said Darry Sragow, a veteran Democratic strategist and publisher of the nonpartisan California Target Book, which handicaps races. “Voters are very much at loose ends.”
Far lower turnout for younger voters
Election turnout is traditionally highest during presidential contests and drops during the midterms, especially among young and minority voters. In this primary, 18% of white registered voters had cast ballots as of midday Monday, according to data received by PDI, compared with 8% of Latinos, 15% of Asian Americans and 14% of Black voters. While 31% of voters 65 and older had returned their ballots, roughly 6% of those between 18 and 34 had, according to the PDI data.
“Either you’re super involved being a young person … or honestly, it’s stressful and it’s kind of overwhelming to get into all of this,” said Ana Andrade, 19, as she ate a breakfast sandwich at Grand Central Market with fellow student Melina Deinum-Buck, 20.
Andrade, a USC student from Dana Point, and Manhattan Beach resident Deinum-Buck, who attends George Washington University, said gun control, abortion rights, climate change and drug decriminalization are issues of deep personal importance, but they also said they had not heard much about the primary election because they’d been studying abroad.Neither had voted, but both said they planned to.
“I need to do more research,” Deinum-Buck said.
Andrade added, “I’m not that educated on it yet.”
Uncompetitive top races dampen turnout
Newsom and Sen. Alex Padilla face little-known and underfunded competitors, and the most interesting statewide contests appear to be for insurance commissioner and controller, contests that do not generally elicit passion from voters.
“The thing that guarantees you’re voting is the top of the ticket,” said Raphael J. Sonenshein, executive director of the Edmund G. “Pat” Brown Institute for Public Affairs at Cal State L.A. “And there’s like zero here. The governor’s race is a complete afterthought.”
Republicans are widely expected to retake control of Congress in November — President Biden’s approval ratings are low, and economic concerns such as inflation are at the top of voters’ minds. That’s on top of the historic trend of the party in the White House traditionally losing seats in Congress in the first midterm election in its tenure.
The top two vote getters — regardless of party — in the June primary will move on to the November election.
California is unlikely to determine control of the House, but it is expected to influence the margin of the GOP’s power because of the number of competitive races in the state. The voter turnout in most of the scrutinized races largely mirrors the paltry turnout across the state, with a few exceptions.
In the newly drawn open 3rd Congressional District, which includes South Lake Tahoe and Mammoth Lakes and has a hotly contested race for its open seat, 19% of voters have cast ballots. Another district with notable participation is Democratic Rep. Mike Levin’s, which straddles Orange and San Diego counties and is being contested by multiple GOP candidates; 20% of voters had weighed in there as of Sunday.
Some in Levin’s district, even those who had not yet cast their ballots, said they were gravely concerned about the direction of the nation.
“It’s a really confusing time,” said Robert Claypool, a Greek Orthodox priest, after he finished his daily walk on the beach path in San Clemente.
The 69-year-old lamented how it now takes about $100 to fill up his small car and wished Newsom would temporarily waive the state’s gas tax. Groceries are now more expensive when he shops for his wife and five children. And the registered Republican worries about formula shortages for newborns.
“I’m willing to stand by extreme oil or gasoline prices, but what about kids? That’s just terrible,” Claypool said, adding that he and his family plan to gather Tuesday and decide who to vote for.
“Everybody should vote,” he said. “If you stop voting, that apathy hurts everybody.”
Nearly $33 million has been spent on advertising in the race — more than three-quarters of which came from one billionaire candidate — making it one of this year’s most expensive contests in the nation, according to AdImpact, which tracks political spending.
But despite the onslaught of television ads, mailers and texts, some 287,200 Angelenos had voted as of Monday — about 14% of the city’s registered voters, according to PDI.
Billionaire developer Rick Caruso and Rep. Karen Bass are the top contenders in the race, with City Councilman Kevin de León trailing.
Sonenshein said a problem among L.A. voters may be a lack of understanding that if a mayoral candidate receives more than 50% of the vote on Tuesday — unlike in most state or federal elections — he or she wins, and there is no run-off.
“I think we’re on the cusp of a huge election in November, both in California and nationwide,” he said. “The problem in Los Angeles is that people don’t always realize you might not get a choice in November.”
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This is the first open mayor’s race since city leaders decided to consolidate municipal elections with state contests in hopes of increasing voter turnout. The last contest without an incumbent — in 2013 – drew nearly 21% of voters in the primary and a little more than 23% in the run-off.
Cashmier Cloud, a 34-year-old employee of the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health, was among the voters who had already cast her ballot for Rep. Karen Bass for mayor. She recently ran into the congresswoman at a grocery store but said, “I was always going to vote for her.”
Cloud was taking a break from a poll-working shift last week at St. Paul Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Jefferson Park neighborhood. There was plenty of time — the polling place had nearly a dozen volunteers and hardly any voters.
Cloud, 34, has concerns about the record of Bass’ main rival, billionaire developer Rick Caruso.
“He’s had the finances to assist L.A. years ago,” she said, noting the shopping centers Caruso owns. “You’re at the Grove with all this money and influence but you haven’t done anything in the past, so what’s different now?”
Zack Tomas, 77, had a different view as he sat at an outdoor table at the Grove.
“He’s a good man. Is he a good politician? I don’t know. I hope he is, and I wish him the best,” said the limousine driver, a registered Democrat. Tomas was unsure if he would vote.
Recall in San Francisco motivates voters
Turnout is higher in San Francisco, where 21% of the city’s registered voters had cast ballots as of Sunday. A divisive attempted recall of the city’s progressive Dist. Atty. Chesa Boudin is helping drive turnout. The city has experienced high-profile smash-and-grab robberies at flagship department stores in tourist areas as well as daunting homelessness and open-air drug use.
Edward Samonte, 63, is among those frustrated by Boudin’s performance since the Democrat was sworn in in 2020. “I’m sure he does some good for the city,” the Muni worker said near a Garfield Square bus stop, “but I’m hearing more negativity than good, so I voted for the recall.”
Cindy Mendoza, 50, said she planned to vote against the recall. “We need to give elected officials the chance to do their job. The work that they do doesn’t happen overnight or rest on one case,” she said from a Potrero Hill garden where she volunteers.
Mendoza added that she feels overwhelmed by the number of recent elections. San Francisco had a contentious school board recall earlier this year, on top of last fall’s gubernatorial recall.
“It’s too much,” she said.
Times staff writer Anabel Sosa contributed to this report from San Francisco.
Rural usually means Republican. But this county is a Democratic speck in California’s sea of red.
If you read through the many, many profiles written of presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg in the past several months, it’s hard not to notice just how many reporters happen to have had intimate personal encounters with the candidate, often months before he was in the headlines.
I should know: last October, I had my own intimate, off-the-record encounter with Mayor Pete. We met at the Roxy Hotel in Tribeca. I had a beer—he stuck to water—and we talked about his political ambitions and the state of the Democratic Party and why Trump won. He laid out his case for how a millennial municipal official from a town the size of a New York City Council district could somehow seize the Democratic nomination. It felt like we connected—we went over our allotted time, and I had another beer, and by the end I had shifted from veryskeptical to only moderately skeptical, just maybe seeing a lane for his candidacy.
When I stood up and left our table, Buttigieg stayed, and I recognized a woman sitting at the bar. It was a reporter from Buzzfeed News, waiting to take my place.
Our meeting was part of a strategy, one run with surprising sophistication and efficacy for a candidate whose highest-profile gig so far is a local office in the fourth-biggest city in Indiana. Buttigieg’s rise from unlikeliest of contenders to actual top-tier presidential candidate has been fueled in part, maybe in large part, by his astonishing success courting the press. And when I began asking around to figure out who was behind that strategy, the same name kept coming up: Lis Smith.
Smith is a fierce New York City-based Democratic operative who helped engineer the plan to get Buttigieg in front of not just national political reporters, but anybody with camera or a microphone. There may be nobody more central to Mayor Pete’s media success—besides the candidate himself, and arguably his social-media-savvy husband, Chasten Buttigieg—than Smith, who serves as a communications advisor and all-around aide. In the last several months, Buttigieg has been not just all over cable and in the newspapers, but in Our Daily Planet, an environmental morning newsletter with just over 5,000 Twitter followers; in a financial planning podcast called Pete the Planner; and on West Wing Weekly, the obsessive episode-by-episode podcast breakdown of The West Wing. He’s been a guest on Buzzfeed’s morning news show, got featured on Vice’s nightly news show and sat down with a couple of the guys from Barstool Sports.
Over-saturation? Not possible, Smith says.
“I want him on everything,” she told me.
The story of American presidential politics is in part the story of the consiglieres who steer the candidate along the path: the person who pushes them forward, comforts them when the campaign flails, plots long-term strategy and tactical short-term advantage, bends the ear of the press corps and makes the public case for a candidate in ways the candidate cannot. Obama had David Axelrod. George Bush had Karl Rove; Bill Clinton had James Carville. Each was the political id the candidate couldn’t, or wouldn’t, express.
But there may be no political couple odder than that of Buttigieg and Smith.
“Pete and I, you can probably tell are pretty laid-back, pretty low-key, I guess what you would call pretty midwestern,” said Mike Schmuhl, Buttigieg’s campaign manager, who sounds like the host of a classical-music radio station who just returned from a yoga retreat. “We are humble and kind, to quote Tim McGraw. Chill.”
“Lis, I guess you could say, comes from a very different world than Northern Indiana.”
***
Lis Smith bursts through the doors of a marbled hotel bar in Brooklyn wearing oversized Anna Wintour sunglasses, a faux-fur lined coat and impossibly thin and tall high heels. She’s on her phone talking to another Buttigieg aide. She puts the word fuck through every part of speech the word can be bent into: noun, pronoun, gerund, verb, term of endearment, sobriquet, epithet, honorific. She is practically shaking with excess energy. I tell her that I have been calling around to former co-workers and associates, trying to get a sense of how she operates. “How badly, she asks me,“are you trying to fuck me over right now?”
She is operating on two and a half hours sleep, having just arrived back in New York on a charter jet from South Bend, IN, after Buttigieg announced he was running for president. She has a three-day-old copy of the New York Post in her bag. It is, she says, the only paper she subscribes to.
She orders a beer, downs it, and orders another. It is 5:15 on a Monday afternoon. Across the street, Brooklyn hipsters of all ages and manner of facial hair are lining up around the block at a bowling alley/music venue to catch Buttigieg at a fundraiser. A few weeks ago, a couple of hundred people expressed interest in this event. Eight hundred have showed up.
And so, she says, she can’t talk right now. Her phone is “literally exploding.” There is a top political reporter for a major national newspaper apologizing for blowing off a meeting with Buttigieg earlier and trying to get one now, asking Smith, “Will you ever forgive me?”
TV news executives are calling, she says, emailing, now complaining that Buttigieg isn’t doing their shows often enough. A text arrives from John Weaver, a top advisor to former Ohio governor John Kasich. When Smith opens up her laptop, there are saved tabs about Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton, a YouTube video of a facial massage routine, kale recipes, a Time Out City Guide to Dubai and 2012 Huffington Post article about how the Obama and Romney campaigns used Twitter.
After the fundraiser, Buttigieg is going to rush off to 30 Rock to do Maddow, then in the morning New Day on CNN, and then fly to Iowa, then do “Morning Joe” when he’s back. He is in talks to do a Fox News town hall in the coming weeks, building off the surprise success of Bernie Sanders’s appearance on Fox, and in the past couple of weeks has also been on Ellen and The View, as well as Preet Bharara’s podcast, The Intercept’s podcast and The New Yorker’s podcast. At the newsstand around the corner, you could buy a New York magazine with Buttigieg’s beatifically smiling face splashed across the cover, and a New York Times with an A1 story about his time at Harvard.
“My observation,” said David Axelrod, who worked with Smith on President Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign, “is that she is the quiet hero of his emergence.”
The speed with which Buttegieg emerged has been astonishing, which happens to be the speed at which Smith works. Schmuhl, his campaign manager, says a typical scene from the trail for the three of them is arriving ten or fifteen minutes early to the airport gate, and while he and Buttegieg—who he’s known since 8th grade in Indiana—take a moment to relax for a minute before boarding, Smith will head to the airport bar with her laptop and phone and begins texting and emailing reporters and clapping back to critics on social media. The candidate and the campaign manager dutifully board the aircraft, and just when it seems the door is about to close, as they start looking around nervously, in comes Smith, sunglasses and coat still on, laptop and cords dangling from her arms, phone pressed against her ear.
“You’ve got this hard-nosed New York-style political operative and this friendly Hoosier mayor,” he said. “They have grown to like and trust each other. But it is kind of fascinating to watch.”
Smith met Buttigieg on the recommendation of Axelrod and former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley. He was thinking of running for chair of the Democratic National Committee. She had served as a senior aide on O’Malley’s 2016 bid and with the Maryland governor when he was head of the Democratic Governors Association. She knew Axelrod from 2012, when she worked as the director of rapid response for President Barack Obama’s re-election effort. (The rapid-response job, Smith says, was for her “like being a pig in shit. Are you kidding me? When they gave me the job I thought, first of all this job exists? And you are going to pay me to be really quick and really aggressive and to take on Mitt Romney? I would do that for free.”)
The way Smith tells it, she thought she was done with presidential politics after O’Malley’s campaign fizzled in2016. She advised a couple of governors still left in office, and started taking on more nonprofit clients. Axelrod told Buttigieg about Smith, and O’Malley told Smith about this young mayor from South Bend. She figured that Buttigieg’s sexuality and impossible-to-pronounce last name rendered him dead on arrival, but started researching the 35-year-old Indiana mayor and promptly fell down an eight-hour Google rabbithole. She became obsessed with the idea of working for him, then became further obsessed when she actually met him, and developed the notion that once people got to meet him they would start to like him.
It was by no means an obvious career move for Smith. She has advised New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe and Montana Gov. Steve Bullock, people who on paper at least are far more likely top-tier presidential contenders, and served as a top aide for a number of senate and gubernatorial races. The obvious thing to do would have been to take on high-paying, quieter corporate gigs, or to re-enter politics with someone truly high profile.
“Lis has an insurgent mentality,” said David Axelrod, a top aide for both of President Obama’s campaigns. “She gravitates to candidates who are challenging and testing the status quo. You don’t reach out to the 35-year-old gay mayor of South Bend, Indiana because you think it will be an easy ride.”
She signed on as a consultant when he was laying the groundwork for a longshot campaign to become the chair of the Democratic National Committee. At that point, reporters she had developed relationships with began to reach out, wondering what she was doing wasting her credibility on a little-known character who seemed like a step down the ladder of political prospects. Smith ended up dropping most of her other clients, politicians and non-profits alike.
“Lis has absolutely no fear,” said Jeff Smith, a former Missouri lawmaker who dated Smith for four years and considers her one of his closest friends. “There is nothing too big for her. She doesn’t give a fuck. She is the most competitive person I have ever known.”
This includes with her own boss. She is 36, a year younger than Buttigieg, which, “Thank god. Otherwise I would kill myself.” Which is to say that Buttigieg may know seven languages and carry around Ulysses and sit in with the South Bend Orchestra on piano, but as far as his top aide is concerned, it is only because he has an extra year on her.
“I think I am impressive because I am a violinist and I went to Dartmouth and I speak French and have travelled all over the world and, I don’t know, I know a lot about great apes,” she says. “But there have been a few times when I’ve been around him when I knew something, a factoid or something he didn’t know, and let me tell you, I fucking lord it all over him. ‘Oh really, you didn’t know that? I can’t believe you didn’t know that! I thought everybody knew that.’”
***
That is not the typical relationship of advisor to political principal, but “typical” is not a word people use about Smith. If there is one thing that makes Smith unique, it’s not her knowledge of great apes or her particular skill eviscerating her opponents on Twitter; It’s that her skin was toughened by a stretch of time in the rawest, roughest media environment of all, the NYC tabloid scrum. And when it happened, the story was her. Smith had moved to New York in 2013 to work for Eliot Spitzer, the disgraced former governor who’d stepped down in a prostitution scandal. He was attempting a comeback by running for the modest job of New York City comptroller, and when the vote came in, he pulled in a respectable 48 percent, even though the entire city’s political establishment was against him. After his loss in the primary, Smith went to work on the winning election campaign and then the transition of New York City mayor Bill de Blasio.
That fall, Spitzer and Smith started dating, which led to the New York City tabloids staking out her apartment to watch the pair coming and going. “ELIOT AND DeBABE” blared the cover of the New York Post, which ran several photos of the pair together inside its pages and a column from the acid-tongued Andrea Peyser which called Smith “not just any ordinary bimbo” and called her “an ambitious, youngish cookie” who “presumably does not charge Eliot for any services rendered.”
The tabloids followed the pair to Christmas at Smith’s parents house in the upscale suburb of Bronxville. Smith’s mother is a descendent of a signer of the Mayflower Compact, and a cousin of lead Watergate investigator Sam Ervin, and her father was a partner at the white-shoe law firm Sidley Austin. Just before he was sworn in, de Blasio yielded to Peyser’s prodding and cut Smith loose just before he moved into the mayor’s office.
“It wasn’t an ideal situation, but it taught me a lot,” Smith says now. “So many flacks lose their mind over inconsequential things, and have no sense of, ‘This is good press, this is mediocre press, and this is awful press.’ That is something you know once you have been through awful press.”
Spitzer and Smith stayed together for more than two years, with the tabloids following them pretty much the whole time. The saga gave Smith an insight that most campaign operatives lack: what it’s actually like to be that bug trapped under the magnifying glass.
“As a flack, you don’t always understand what it feels like to be a principal, what it feels like to be under scrutiny. And so when they feel like they are getting attacked, or their families are getting atttacked, they think staff can never talk to them on the level, and it is frustrating for principals, because they are like, ‘You are just a kid, you don’t know anything.’ But with me, I can tell them, This is what is going to happen, this is how we are going to deal with it. It may look like the sky is falling, but just ride this out.”
“Candidates and the people around them can get so spun up about things, and when you get spun up you make the worst mistakes,” she says.
The whole saga also taught her the rhythms of the New York tabloids, which have similarities to the national political press. “You get a sense of the news, what is going to get picked up,” she said, reaching into her bag for her copy of The Post, which she said she was saving for Buttigieg. “You know what people are going to react to, and you know that the tabloids, just like the political press, oftentimes just wants a little scalp and then they will move on.”
Buttigieg recently started getting savaged online when it surfaced that he had told an audience in 2015 that “all lives matter,” and as it happened, he was due to speak at Al Sharpton’s annual National Action Network convention. Smith marched him to the front of where the national and New York press were gathered, telling him, “Are you ready for your first gaggle?” He stayed until the matter was exhausted.
The New York tabs may have sharpened her game, but people who’ve known her for years say Smith came ready for the fight. Jeff Smith, her former boyfriend, recalls one time when he was running for office, his campaign manager’s phone rang. The guy didn’t have time to say hello before Smith could hear screaming coming over the line. “He looked white as a ghost, didn’t say anything, just nodding along. He hung up and looked at me in horror, and then my phone started ringing. It was Lis telling me I need to fire my campaign manager, that the guy is a fucking idiot. It went on like this, just cursing up a blue streak for like two minutes.”
The aide’s mistake, Smith recalls, had to do with email: He failed to BCC reporters on a press release he blasted out. “Keep in mind she was 22 at the time,” Smith said. “And also keep in mind she was wasn’t working on my campaign. She was my girlfriend.”
Later, says Smith, when he was a state lawmaker, “I would say to her, ‘I am going to talk to such-and-such group,’ and she would tell me, ‘This is what you should say.’ And I would say to her, ‘Lis, I am not going to say that, it’s not my style, it’s not going to work. Of course, then I would, I’d get a tepid reception and she would never let me hear the end of it. ‘God, you fucked that up. If you had any balls you would have said what I told you to say.’”
“Dating her was four years of that.”
***
When Smith signed on to help Mayor Pete run for DNC chair, it was a part-time gig—helping a candidate nobody had ever heard of run for an insider position, the kind of job decided not by the public, but in backrooms by the most hardcore party loyalists. That is not how she ran his race. She ran it like he was trying to be president, getting him in front of as many microphones as she could find. “This 35-Year-Old Mayor From Indiana Is Wowing National Democrats” The New Republic declared. “Pete Buttigieg emerges as Democratic ‘rock star’” proclaimed Business Insider during the race. “Meet the DNC dark horse: Indiana mayor Pete Buttigieg is shaking up the race for Democratic chair,” added Salon.
“What we did is fucking ridiculous. I don’t know if that delegate from Oklahoma is going be reading the Elle.com profile, but a lot of people are and they should get to know Pete Buttigieg,” she says. “That was my philosophy. Let’s just blow it out. It might not get you the votes, but I am not the political director. I am here to get you clips. I figured he was special and it couldn’t hurt if everybody knows who he is.”
Through the DNC race and afterward, Smith treated the national political press like it was another constituency that needed to be courted. She led Buttigieg on a series of one-on-one meetings over beer, coffee, lunch or cigars with what used to be known as the Gang of 500—those reporters, producers and pundits who shape much of the nation’s political coverage. Buttigieg has gotten a number of lavish longform features, so many that some have jokingly wondered if Smith is getting paid by the profile.
There were, Smith guesses, probably 150 such meetings with the national press corps, and when he travelled across the country, speaking to local county party dinners and fundraisers across the midwest and the Great Plains, they would make time for one-on-ones with the local political press there, too. “It wasn’t just the biggest names, people you know,” Smith says. “It was younger reporters, super-hungry reporters that really know how to use Twitter, people who can then go to a cocktail party and tell their friends they had a beer with this guy Pete Buttigieg three hours from now.
“It’s a super-aggressive thing to do. Other candidates, they don’t need to do it. They are already well-known.”
As a thirty-something mayor of a medium-sized city, Buttigieg faced a credibility threshold with the national press. But he is also the kind of person journalists tend to like: bookish, somehow both earnest and with a sense of irony, and willing to talk the way journalists like people to talk, playing the pundit and getting into the political process and discussing his own ambitions. And although Smith would never say it, it plays on political reporters’ narcissism, too. Well, of course someone running for president would need to talk about it with me first, right?
“It’s about getting to know people and them getting to know you,” Buttigieg says when I see him after the Brooklyn fundraiser, where he at least pretends to recall our earlier meeting and what we talked about. He’s on his way into a black car to do Maddow. “It’s a local-politics mentality to find the people that are going to be telling this story, and if nothing else making sure they have a real understanding of who you are. There is only so much you can do to bare your soul over a beer, but hopefully people get to know you on some level and more than they would one gaggle at a time.”
Before they get in the car, I ask Buttigieg if Smith is being helpful in his campaign. He shoots her a look and gives a mock shrug, as if it’s an inside joke between the three of us, now old chums: “I mean, a little….I guess.”
As voters look for someone who can beat Trump, the fact that the press corps appears to vouch for this curious character, a young liberal red-state mayor, means that voters can give him a second look too. And the fact that he’s everywhere, from cable TV to Ebony to your local NPR show to your favorite sports podcast, means that a guy with no name recognition is suddenly hard to avoid.
“Lis knew that she had to build wide to build up,” said Stephanie Cutter, who also worked on Obama’s 2012 effort. “Pete’s hitting at this moment in part because of the legwork they did. Regular voters and the media were primed for it.”
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Now that they have achieved liftoff, as it were, Smith is preparing for the next part of the campaign. Her plan is to emulate maybe the best-known and most successful insurgent move of recent campaign history: John McCain’s 2000 Straight Talk Express. Smith has been exploring the idea of renting a bus, and just as McCain did, inviting reporters aboard to travel and fire away at Buttigieg with any question they want, all day, day after day. Smith has been studying the effort, reaching out to reporters who were there, and has been in regular contact with John Weaver, who helped engineer it.
“I am a liberal Democrat, but I was so into the McCain thing. I romanticize it. I have talked to all the guys who see in the shots. I fucking love John McCain. Why do I fucking love John McCain? Because he was a badass. He was out there. He was going up against George Bush, who had $50 million and he had $4 million, and so he just decides to tear up the playbook and put himself out there. And if people like it they like it, and if they don’t they were probably never going to vote for you anyway.”
Weaver says that recreating that atmosphere in the days of Twitter, and in the days when the national political press corps has metastasized into a constantly hungry and multi-headed beast equipped with cell phones, is ten times harder than when his team tried it in 1999. But it has a clear parallel to Smith’s relentless scheduling of meetings between Buttigieg and reporters—an audaciously direct way to connect with reporters that bouth the campaign pretty good press.
“It’s really hard to do a hit piece on a guy who you are going to see the next morning over coffee and donuts,” says Weaver. “It takes the edge off a bit. Maybe a story that would be 80-20 bad you can get down to 60-40 bad, and that little bit is worth it.”
Smith says that’s worth it. That even in the age of Twitter, that especially in the age of Twitter, people don’t really care about gaffes. They just get swallowed up by the next news cycle, and never reach the voters who matter anyway. “Politics has a bias toward the status quo,” she says. “People get stuck in a rut because something worked last cycle, and so they think it will work this cycle and it doesn’t. You have to know the social media ecosystem, how people are sharing and consuming their news. It’s why in one day we do CBS Sunday Morning, The View, Teen Vogue and the New Yorker. It’s about hustling for opportunities. Pete has no battle scars.
“It pisses me off,” she adds, “When candidates think they are too good for some of these outlets, or that it cheapens them to do TMZ or do a more entertainment focused thing. No, actually, it shows a fundamental disrespect for the people who consume their news on this platform if you aren’t willing to go where they are.”
After the fundraiser, Smith and Buttigieg climb into an SUV and headed to 30 Rock. Smith starts texting me, wanting to know if I’d seen the celebrities in the audience, including George Takei, Kal Penn and Kate McKinnon. She wants to know if I’d seen Buttigieg answer a question about the Notre Dame fire from a French TV station, in French.
“Can I tell you something very off the record,” she texts.
Trump’s Secretary of State accuses the organization of trying to hide work Trump State Department was doing
Robert Redfield, the former head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told Vanity Fair he received death threats after an appearance on CNN in March where he said he believed COVID-19 may have escaped from a lab in Wuhan, China.
He told the magazine that “death threats flooded his inbox” from “prominent scientists,” some of whom were former friends.
“I was threatened and ostracized because I proposed another hypothesis,” he said. “I expected it from politicians. I didn’t expect it from science.”
Redfield made the comments months before it was considered acceptable to publically question the lab-leak theory. He told Dr. Sanjay Gupta in the interview that he still thinks “the most likely ideology of this pathogen in Wuhan was from a laboratory, escaped. Other people don’t believe that. That’s fine. Science will eventually figure it out. It’s not unusual for respiratory pathogens that are being worked on in a laboratory to infect the laboratory worker.”
The Twitter account for CNN’s “New Day” framed Redfield’s theory as lacking “clear evidence.”CNN’s digital writeup of the interview called Redfield’s remark “a controversial theory without evidence.”
The Vanity Fair report said that back in January 2020, Redfield received a troubling message from Dr. George Fu Gao, the head of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
Gao warned him about sickened individuals in Wuhan. The report said “Redfield immediately offered to send a team of specialists to investigate” because he had suspicions about the Wuhan Institute of Virology. If a team found antibodies in blood samples of workers there, that would be convincing evidence. China refused, he said.
After months of minimizing that possibility of a lab leak as a fringe theory, the Biden administration joined the worldwide push for China to be more transparent about the outbreak.
Richard Dearlove, the former head of the UK’s MI6 intelligence agency, told the Telegraph this week, “We don’t know that’s what’s happened, but a lot of data have probably been destroyed or made to disappear so it’s going to be difficult to prove definitely the case for a ‘gain-of-function chimera’ being the cause of the pandemic.”
Fox News’ Michael Ruiz the Associated Press contributed to this report
President Joe Biden likely has the BA.5 Covid-19 variant but his symptoms “continue to improve,” according to the White House.
“His primary symptoms, though less troublesome, now include sore throat, rhinorrhea, loose cough and body aches,” White House physician Kevin O’Connor said in a memorandum on Saturday.
The president on Friday completed his second full day of Pfizer’s Paxlovid, an antiviral pill that can reduce the risk of hospitalization for Covid-19 patients, O’Connor said.
While the president is responding to the therapy “as expected,” he has likely contracted the Covid-19 BA.5 variant, which is currently responsible for 70% to 85% of U.S. infections.
Biden, who is fully vaccinated and received two booster shots, tested positive for Covid-19 on Thursday and has reported “very mild symptoms.”
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Mercurio se verá como un punto negro sobre el Sol.
El “mordisco” o “tránsito” de Mercurio ocurre apenas una decena de veces cada siglo, a intervalos de 3, 7, 10 y 13 años.
Ocurre cuando el Sol, Mercurio y la Tierra quedan perfectamente alineados, y porque ambos planetas no orbitan en el mismo plano.
Y este lunes 9 de mayo será una de esas escasas ocasiones en las que se podrá ver el planeta como un punto negro sobre la superficie solar.
El fenómeno tendrá lugar entre las 11:12 y las 18:42 UTC.
Los tránsitos sobre el Sol únicamente los pueden efectuar Mercurio y Venus, por ser los dos únicos planetas en órbitas interiores; esto es, más cercanas al astro rey que la de nuestro planeta.
La última vez que Mercurio transitó sobre el Sol fue el 8 de noviembre de 2006 y el próximo será el 11 de noviembre de 2019, pero luego habrá que esperar al 13 de noviembre de 2032.
Y Venus lo hace con aún menos frecuencia, apenas dos veces cada siglo.
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Mercurio es un planeta interior; orbita más cerca del Sol que la Tierra.
Ambos fenómenos han sido estudiados desde el siglo XVII por científicos como Pierre Gassendi, Jeremiah Horrocks, Edmond Halley y Mikhail Lomonosov.
Las observaciones han sido importantes para determinar el tamaño real de los planetas, las distancia precisa de estos cuerpos y el Sol, y para establecer cómo es la atmósfera de Venus.
Precaución
Como el diámetro de Mercurio es solo 1/158 del diámetro del disco solar, para ver el tránsito es necesario utilizar un telescopio equipado con un filtro especial— un diafragma de cristal muy denso o de un plástico llamado tereftalato de polietileno, Mylar o PET— que elimina las radiaciones peligrosas para la vista.
El fenómeno “no se puede observar con gafas oscuras, negativos, radiografías, vidrio ahumado, plásticos de colores, discos compactos o CD, vidrio de soldadura”, ni otros materiales, advierte el astrónomo Germán Puerta Restrepo en su blog de la Subgerencia Cultural del Banco de la República de Colombia.
Y es que hacerlo así puede provocar graves lesiones en el ojo.
Sin embargo, sí hay una forma de disfrutarlo aunque no tengas un telescopio en casa o seas socio de un club de astronomía.
Y la manera en que lo hizo el filósofo y astrónomo francés Pierre Gassedi en 1631, cuando atestiguó por primera vez el paso de un planeta ante una estrella, nos da pistas de cómo hacerlo.
Gassedi logró ver a Mercurio sobre el disco solar gracias a una cámara oscura o pinhole.
Aunque la suya fue de gran escala— necesitó un telescopio, un cuarto oscuro y un asistente en él—, varios expertos
explican los pasos a seguir para fabricar una cámara oscura casera.
Materiales
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El astrónomo francés Pierre Gassedi fue el primero en observar un tránsito de Mercurio. Lo hizo en 1632.
Según Lech Mankiewicz, del Centro de Física Teórica de la Academia Polaca de Ciencias y Pawel Rudawy del Instituto Astronómico de la Universidad de Breslavia, ambos en Polonia, se necesitan estos materiales:
Un tubo de cartón con tapas, como los que se utilizan para guardar carteles, cuanto más largo mejor
Dos cartulinas negras tamaño A4
Un pedazo de papel vegetal o papel de calcar
Un sobre de cartón
Una aguja fina
Tijeras y una cuchilla para papel
Pegamento y cinta adhesiva
Fabricación
Los expertos adelantan que hay que ser muy cuidadoso y tener paciencia.
Antes que nada hay que quitar las tapas al tubo.
Se debe cortar un círculo de cartulina negro del diámetro de las tapas, cubrir el interior de una de ellas con éste y afianzar la unión con cinta adhesiva. Hay que asegurarse de que queda bien cubierto.
Después, utilizando el alfiler, hay que hacer un fino agujero en el centro que atraviese tanto la cartulina como la tapa.
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Este nivel de detalle de Mercurio sólo es apreciable con un telescopio.
El hoyo debe tener un diámetro de entre 0,5 milímetros y un milímetro.
Se coloca la tapa forrada con la cartulina en un extremo del tubo, y a la otra tapa se le hace un agujero en el centro, de unos dos tercios de su diámetro.
En este caso, el agujero se cubrirá con papel vegetal y se sellará también con cinta adhesiva.
Una vez colocada esa tapa en el otro extremo del tubo, la cámara oscura casera estará casi terminada.
Pero antes de apuntar con ella hacia el cielo, hay que cumplir con dos pasos imprescincibles para proteger los ojos del Sol.
Para ello se tendrá que cortar al sobre de cartón un círculo de un diámetro un poco menor del diámetro del tubo y quitárselo.
En ese hoyo se insertará después el tubo de cartón.
El envoltorio deberá quedar cerca de la tapa que se cubrió con papel vegetal, y no en el centro del tubo.
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Tu cámara oscura debe parecerse a ésta.
Así, cuando se apunte con el tubo al sol, el sobre cubrirá por completo la cara, dejándola a la sombra. Este paso es muy importante, advierten los expertos.
Para mayor protección ante la radiación, se cubrirá el tubo con el resto de la cartulina negra.
Una vez hecho todo esto, solo quedará apuntar con el tubo al Sol, con el extremo en el que se hizo el agujero de alfiler.
Así, lo que se verá del otro extremo es la imagen de Mercurio sobre el disco solar proyectado en una superficie— el papel vegetal—, y de forma segura.
El Instituto Argentino de Radioastronomía ofrece una alternativa en su página web, que incluye una caja de cartón.
Pero si no quieres tomarte este trabajo, siempre lo podrás consultar en directo a través de la pantalla de la computadora, ya que la NASA lo va a emitir
Mike Huckabee, former Arkansas governor and father of White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, lashed out at Senator Mitt Romney over his critical statement about President Trump.
“Know what makes me sick, Mitt?” Mike Huckabee tweeted Friday. “Not how disingenuous you were to take @realDonaldTrump $$ and then 4 yrs later jealously trash him & then love him again when you begged to be Sec of State, but makes me sick that you got GOP nomination and could have been @POTUS.”
The tweet was posted shortly after Romney issued his statement on the release of the redacted Mueller report.
“I am sickened at the extent and pervasiveness of dishonesty and misdirection by individuals in the highest office of the land, including the President,” Romney said.
“I am also appalled that, among other things, fellow citizens working in a campaign for president welcomed help from Russia-including information that had been illegally obtained; that none of them acted to inform American law enforcement; and that the campaign chairman was actively promoting Russian interests in Ukraine,” Romney continued.
“Reading the report is a sobering revelation of how far we have strayed from the aspirations and principles of the founders,” he further noted.
Democratic socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the newest political figure everyone loves or loves to hate. From her ‘Green New Deal’ proposal to combat climate change to her clapbacks against Trump and her critics, here’s how AOC danced her way into the spotlight. USA TODAY
A new, unlikely bipartisan duo agreed Thursday to introduce legislation in the House and the Senate to ban former lawmakers from becoming lobbyists.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., said she would “co-lead” a bill with Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, if they “can agree on a bill with no partisan snuck-in clauses, no poison pills, etc – just a straight, clean ban on members of Congress becoming paid lobbyists.”
The exchange came after Cruz, a vocal conservative lawmaker, found himself agreeing with Ocasio-Cortez’s stance that it should be illegal for lawmakers to become lobbyists once they retire from Congress.
“Here’s something I don’t say often: on this point, I AGREE with @AOC Indeed, I have long called for a LIFETIME BAN on former Members of Congress becoming lobbyists,” Cruz tweeted. “The Swamp would hate it, but perhaps a chance for some bipartisan cooperation?”
Ocasio-Cortez tweeted Thursday afternoon that former lawmakers shouldn’t join lobbying firms following an analysis claiming that nearly 60% of former lawmakers have joined a variety of lobbying jobs.
“If you are a member of Congress + leave, you shouldn’t be allowed to turn right around&leverage your service for a lobbyist check,” she tweeted. “I don’t think it should be legal at ALL to become a corporate lobbyist if you’ve served in Congress.
“At minimum there should be a long wait period,” she added.
Of lawmakers who were part of the 115th Congress from 2017 to Jan. 3 who are working outside of politics, 59% now work for “lobbying firms, consulting firms, trade groups or business groups working to influence federal government activities,” according to an analysis by Public Citizen, a progressive think tank and advocacy group.
Currently, House members are banned for one year from joining a lobbying firm after leaving office, while senators are barred for two years.
President Donald Trump has previously promised on the campaign trail to “drain the swamp.” However, a number of former Trump officials have joined lobbying firms, including former Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke.
Cruz and Ocasio-Cortez, however, are not the only lawmakers to share the same sentiment.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., who is running for president, has forcefully chided a former lawmaker for joining a lobbying firm. Warren called out on Twitter ex-Rep. Barbara Comstock, R-Va., after she became senior adviser in Baker Donelson’s Government Relations and Public Policy Group, asking whether she was going to register as a lobbyist or “bob & weave around the rules?”
The Massachusetts Democrat has also introduced a bill that would put a lifetime ban on lobbying for former lawmakers, presidents and top executive branch appointees.
In addition, similar legislation has also been introduced in the House. Rep. Trey Hollingsworth, R-Indiana, introduced a bill in the fall of 2017 that would impose a lifetime ban on lobbying by former members of Congress.
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Los mil comerciantes del mercado San Camilo de Arequipa acordaron paralizar actividades hoy, en apoyo al paro macro regional sur de 48 horas en apoyo a los pobladores del valle de Tambo.
El mercado San Camilo permanece con las puertas cerradas, mientras que los vendedores de pan instalaron sus puestos en la calle Perú y los que venden comida se ubicaron en la Plazoleta.
Con letreros instalados en las puertas de acceso donde se lee: “el agro es vida, mina no”, los comerciantes apoyan la medida de fuerza, dejando de recibir a unos 5 mil compradores y perdiendo 100 mil soles aproximadamente.
En tanto, los mercados de la plataforma comercial Andrés Avelino Cáceres funcionan en forma normal desde la madrugada.
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Denver police officer Jose Manriquez and his attorney Randy Corporon join ‘Fox & Friends’ to discuss the impact of the vaccine.
California Governor Gavin Newsom announced on Friday that the Golden State would be the first state in America to require COVID-19 vaccinations for K-12 students.
Newsom announced the vaccine mandate while speaking at a San Francisco-area school, saying all eligible students will be required to be vaccinated before attending class.
The current plan would require students older than 12-years-old to receive the coronavirus vaccine in order to be able to attend class. This step would add the COVID-19 vaccine to the required list of childhood vaccinations required to attend school.
The vaccine requirement would be enforced after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) gives the approval for different age groups to receive the shot while allowing religious and medical exemptions.
With the mandate, California becomes the first state to require students to be vaccinated against COVID-19 to attend class.
Newsom’s mandate comes just weeks after he dodged a recall election effort over his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.
California announced in August that all school staff must provide a proof of full vaccination or be tested for COVID-19 at least once per week in order to teach in-person. Schools are required by the state to be in full compliance by Oct.15.
New York City also recently implemented a vaccine mandate for teachers in the Big Apple, prompting a group of teachers to petition the U.S. Supreme Court to block the city’s mandate.
Fox News’ Jon Brown contributed reporting.
Houston Keene is a reporter for Fox News Digital. You can find him on Twitter at @HoustonKeene
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