[NYPOST] Veteran Harlem Rep. Charlie Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Rangel Congressman-for-Life from Harlem, who became what 20 terms in Congress turns you into ... is going to seek re-election to a 23rd term to Congress next year, The Post has learned.
Rangel, 83, is expected to make an announcement "sooner rather than later," said Manhattan Democratic Chairman and Harlem Assemblyman Keith Wright.
"Congressman Rangel is running. You can't keep the old war horse down," said Wright, adding, "I'm with him all the way."
Despite being censured for ethics violations in 2010, Rangel won the Democratic primary in a squeaker in 2012, beating back a strong challenge from state Sen. Adriano Espaillat.
The new 13th Congressional District is majority Latino. The Dominican-born Espaillat is expected to run again, and would likely be Rangel's strongest foe.
But Wright deadpanned, "Espaillat who? I've never heard of him."
Rangel is also facing potential challenges in his central Harlem base. The Rev. Michael Walrond, of the First Corinthian Baptist Church, who has close ties to civil rights hustler Al Sharpton ...Tawana Brawley's spiritual advisor... , and the Rev. Calvin Butts, of the Abyssinian Baptist Church, have expressed an interest in running.
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Long, but recommended. If the people and opinions therein are anything like representative of Real America™...
O is toast. With a fork in him.
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Wait until those who have purchased insurance through the website and exchanges arrive at the doctor's office and discover they're not actually in the system.
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We had them in our neighborhood. Thought at first they were Jehovah's Witnesses. Two pairs of them in Sunday best. They went to each door, then skipped mine and one other neighbor, which is when I knew they were Democrats.
[FRESNOBEE] Gov. Jerry Governor Moonbeam Brown ... those who ignore history are bound to repeat it ... , who championed environmental causes when he was governor before and made global warming a focus of his current administration, has been targeted in recent weeks by an increasingly vocal group of activists whose animosity would once have appeared improbable.
Environmentalists frustrated with Brown's permissiveness of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, have followed the Democratic governor to events throughout the state since September, heckling him for his approval of legislation establishing a permitting system for the controversial form of oil extraction.
The protests have become an awkward sideshow for the third-term governor, highlighting the deepening division between Brown and environmentalists -- a reliably Democratic constituency -- as he prepares for a re-election bid next year.
"The issue ... here is about how Governor Brown wants to be remembered, and his history, and what his legacy is going to be in Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,," said Victoria Kaplan, campaign director at MoveOn.org Civic Action. "Is he going to be remembered as the governor who backtracked on his commitment to addressing climate change?"
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HHHMMM, HHHHMMM, wehell, IIUC apparently California's debt is NOT so large or prohibitive such that the State Govt. is prevented from buying green cars + related at State or public expense for residents???
[The Hill] The White House on Monday categorically denied a report that President Obama is planning a trip to Iran next year. There is no truth to this report, National Security Council spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden told The Hill in an email. Translation: The trip will take place in the April or May timeframe.
[NY Times] The White House is offering more money to insurance companies as an incentive for them to let people keep insurance policies that were to have been canceled next year.
The administration floated several proposals on Monday to help offset the loss in premium revenue and profit that it said might occur if insurers went along with President B.O.s request to reinstate canceled policies.
Millions of people have received notices saying their policies were being canceled because they did not comply with minimum coverage requirements of the new health care law.
In a notice published Monday in the Federal Register, the administration acknowledged that insurers had a valid concern: They may be stuck with sicker, higher-cost customers in the new insurance exchanges because healthier Americans will stay on their existing health plans for another year.
Facing a political furor over the cancellation of insurance policies, Mr. Obama announced on Nov. 14 that he would temporarily waive some requirements of the new federal law and allow insurers to renew current policies for current enrollees for a year.
Insurers criticized the presidents move, saying it could upset the assumptions on which they had set premiums for new insurance products providing coverage in 2014.
Many people with serious illnesses were excluded from the old policies. As a result, the administration said, people on those policies may be healthier than average.
If they do not enroll in the new health plans, the administration said, the average cost of claims for people in those plans may be higher than expected, and this increase in costs could lead to unexpected financial losses for insurance companies.
To reduce this risk, the administration said it could provide financial assistance to certain insurers through a program under which the government will share in their losses and profits for the next three years.
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[SACBEE] Several years of shrinking salaries for Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,politicians ended Sunday, when a 5.3 percent raise that pushes politicians' base pay from $90,526 to $95,291 kicked in.
It's the first pay hike in more than six years for the state's 120 politicians and 12 constitutional officers following repeated rounds of salary reductions approved by the Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, Citizens Compensation Commission during the recession.
Critics of the salary cuts have said that inadequate pay deters talented people from running for state office. Others, though, contend that higher pay is not justified when so many people and businesses in the state continue to struggle financially.
Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,'s base pay for politicians is the highest in the country, although they do not receive pensions. Legislators also receive tax-free per diem payments while the Legislature is in session, totaling about $30,000 a year.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Charlie 
With a fork in him. 
Jerry 
[NY Times] The White House is offering more money to insurance companies as an incentive for them to let people keep insurance policies that were to have been canceled next year.
