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DAILY REPORT Holding
the Democrats accountable today, tomorrow...forever.
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Monday,
Aug. 25, 2003
… “Voters Don’t
Want Bush Re-Elected – Poll” –
headline on VOANews (Voice of America).
Newsweek poll shows 49%-44% split on
re-elect question. Excerpt: “The
majority of American voters would not like to
see President Bush re-elected to another term
according to a poll by Newsweek
magazine. The survey released Saturday
showed that 49 percent of registered voters
would not back the president for a second
term if the vote were held now. Forty-four
percent would support Mr. Bush's re-election.
The poll marked the first time in a
Newsweek survey that supporters of Mr.
Bush were out-numbered by those who would not
like to see him back remain in office. In
April, 52 percent of voters backed the
president for a second term, while 38 percent
did not. The Newsweek report
attributed the decline in the president's
popularity to public disenchantment over the
Iraq war. The poll found 69 percent of
respondents said they were concerned that the
United States will be bogged down for many
years in Iraq without achieving its goals
there. Nearly half of those polled said
they were concerned that the cost of the war
will lead to a large budget deficit and
seriously impact the U.S. economy. And more
than half said they thought the estimated $1
billion per week the United States is paying
for the war effort is too much and should be
scaled back. However, 61 percent still
believe the United States was right to take
military action against Iraq in March.
Only 18 percent of those polled believe a
stable, democratic government can be set up in
Iraq in the long term. And only 13 percent of
respondents said U.S. efforts to establish
security in Iraq and rebuild the country have
gone well since May 1, when combat officially
ended. The Newsweek poll results are
based on telephone interviews with more than
one thousand adults aged 18 and older. It was
conducted on August 21 and 22. The margin of
error is plus or minus three percent.”
… GOP Goal: Defeat
Daschle. Headline from yesterday’s Chicago
Tribune: “Sen. Daschle ‘target No. 1’ for
right wing…GOP determined to beat S.
Dakotan” Report – an excerpt – from coverage
datelined Elk Point, SD, in yesterday’s
Tribune by Jeff Zeleny: “The Democratic leader
of the U.S. Senate had just finished scrubbing
dead insects from the windshield of his rented
Ford Taurus when he returned to the highways
of South Dakota to make another stop on an
annual summertime journey to protect his
political future. There is, perhaps, not a
Democrat anywhere in America who is more
hunted than Sen. Tom Daschle is. The White
House, the Republican Party and a collection
of conservative groups are working tenaciously
behind the scenes and in public to end
Daschle's 25-year run as a Democratic icon in
one of the most Republican states in the
nation. That's one reason the senator is
driving to Elk Point, and places across the
state, hoping to counter the television ads,
the telephone calls and the series of mailings
designed to convince voters it's high time to
dump Daschle. The depth of his Catholic
faith has been questioned. Two days before the
Iraq war, a group called the Daschle
Accountability Project sent a letter
throughout the state not so gently comparing
him to French President Jacques Chirac. And
then there are the death threats. In
March, a few hours before Daschle arrived for
an event in Spearfish, a man was arrested
after coldly declaring over a pay phone: ‘We're
going to kill Sen. Daschle today.’ Two
years ago, Daschle's office was among those in
Washington targeted with deadly anthrax
spores. ‘I try not to think about it. I'm very
fatalistic, but I don't believe you can live
your life in fear,’ said Daschle, declining to
discuss the numerous other threats he has
received. ‘I don't consider myself immune from
criticism or hyperbolic rhetoric. That's
probably just part of politics today.’…His
is one of at least four seats Republicans
believe they stand a chance of winning in the
2004 congressional election season, a period
that even some Democrats fear may be bleak.
Stephen Moore, president of the Club for
Growth, a conservative Washington group that
carefully watches the South Dakota race, said
voters should know that their senator does not
represent the views of the state. ‘There
are two Tom Daschles,’ Moore said. ‘The
Tom Daschle with a very liberal voting record
who has become part of the Washington
establishment and the Tom Daschle that
masquerades as a prairie-state populist,
pumping gas for people during his August
recess.’ For the next 15 months, Moore
added, ‘Daschle is target No. 1.’”
… Hart
comeback? Reports say ex-wannabe looking at
Senate run. Excerpt from report yesterday
from Denver by AP’s Catherine Tsai: “Gary
Hart, who decided against joining the
Democratic presidential race this year, is
being asked by national and Colorado
Democratic leaders to make a 2004 Senate run
against GOP incumbent Ben Nighthorse Campbell.
‘I've had several conversations with him about
it,’ said Chris Gates, chairman of the
Colorado Democratic Party. ‘A lot of us in
Colorado and Washington would love to see Gary
take this race on. He's listening.’
Details about talks between Hart and the
Democrats were first reported by The Denver
Post on its Web site Saturday. A telephone
message left at Hart's office Saturday was not
returned. A former Colorado senator, Hart
sought his party's nomination for the White
House in 1984 and 1988. This year, he
weighed a campaign from January until May
while delivering policy speeches and meeting
with Democratic activists across the country.”
This morning’s headlines:
Des Moines
Register, top front-page headline: “Bomb
explodes at home of cleric…Iraqis say U.
S. recruiting former Saddam agents”
Main online
stories, Quad-City Times: “Marines pull
back from Liberia” & “Bombay blasts
kill at least 25, wound 150”
Nation/world
heads, Omaha World-Herald online: “U. S.
recruits once-feared Iraqi agents” & “Palestinian
leaders battle for control”
New York
Times, featured online reports: “U. S. to
Send Iraqis to Site in Hungary for Police
Course” & “4 Hamas Militants Killed in
Israeli Attack”
Sioux City
Journal, top online stories: “Crime drops
to 30-year low” U. S. Justice Dept,
reported yesterday that violent and property
crimes dropped to lowest level since records
were first compiled three decades ago. & “Rain
dampens Montana wildfires”
Featured
stories, Chicago Tribune online: “Bomb
targets Shiite cleric, kills 3 guards” & “Blair,
top aides await grilling in Iraq arms probe”
Iowa
Briefs/Updates:
The Sioux City
Journal reported that three were charged
with drunk driving and four ticketed for
driving without a license during a late
night vehicle check in Sioux City
Friday. More than 200 vehicles were checked
and the police department reported that 64
citations were issued along with 10 equipment
citations.
From the
Korean Front: Fist Fights break out between
North Korean reporters and peace protestors on
eve of critical talks.
Excerpt from
BBC News coverage: “North Korean
journalists have traded punches with human
rights protesters in the South Korean capital
Seoul, just days before sensitive nuclear
talks. The North's athletics team
threatened to pull out of the world student
games, or Universiade, under way in the city
following the scuffles which left a German
protester lying on the ground. Japan, one of
the six nations involved in the unprecedented
six-party talks on the North's nuclear weapons
ambitions, has also seen tension over links
with the secretive Communist state. Bomb
alerts affected southern Japan in what appear
to be protests against the resumption of the
country's sole ferry link with the North.
Three days of talks are due to begin on
Wednesday in Beijing at which the United
States, China, Russia, South Korea and Japan
are due to sit down with the North to discuss
the nuclear issue which has been aggravating
already strained relations in the region since
October. The summit comes after months of
delicate negotiation and the organizers of the
Universiade in Seoul have been hoping the
North's participation will foster
reconciliation before it begins. At least
four North Korean reporters stormed out of the
Universiade media center to confront a group
of some 20 activists brandishing banners
denouncing Northern leader Kim Jong-il and
showing photos of starving children in the
famine-stricken North. ‘What is this? Take
that away immediately,’ yelled one of the
reporters, Ri Gwang Nam, as one of his
colleagues confronted the protesters, before a
fight began -- lasting almost 10 minutes. A
German doctor among the rights activists,
Norbert Vollertsen, who was already on
crutches when he arrived at the rally, was
knocked to the ground and later taken to
hospital by ambulance. South Koreans among the
protesters joined the brawl, shouting ‘Come
here, you Communists’, but about 100 riot
police and 40 other officers moved in to break
up the scuffles.”
Today’s editorials, Des Moines Register:
“Build
fences and wait…Until Palestinians rein in
the terrorists, no road map can lead to
peace…Separating Israel and the Palestinians
seems to be the only strategy left.” & “Reality
check on MSAs… They’re just another tax
shelter, not health-care reform” At
Allianz golf in West Des Moines, Pooley loses
lead – but recovers for win.
Pooley posted
his second straight four-under 67 on Sunday to
win the Allianz Championship by three strokes.
Pooley ended the event at 13-under-par 200.
Bruce Lietzke, Bruce Fleisher and Jim Thorpe
each carded rounds of two-under 69 at Glen
Oaks Country Club to finish in a share of
second place at 10-under- par 203. Former
major league pitcher Rick Rhoden
held the lead at one point during the final
round but three bogeys on the back nine
did him in. He finished with a two-under 69
and tied for fifth at nine-under-par 204
alongside Doug Tewell (66) and Tom Kite (68).
Pooley began the day with a one stroke
lead, but that evaporated quickly as he
bogeyed the first. He recovered to birdie
the next. The 2002 U.S. Senior Open winner
birdied the fourth to move to 10-under.
DSM 7 a. m.
72, partly cloudy. Temperatures across Iowa at
7 a.m. range from 61 at Harlan and 64
in Boone, Muscatine and Audubon
to 73 in Pella, Clarion, Oelwein and
Fort Madison. Today’s high
98, chance-T-storms. Tonight’s low 73, chance
T-storms. Tuesday’s high 94, chance T-storms.
Tuesday night’s low 69, partly cloudy.
Wednesday’s high 90, partly cloudy.
The
Hands-On America flag to remember 9/11
returns to Bettendorf school after nationwide
tour. Summary of report by the Quad-City
Times’ Mary Louise Spear: The Hands-On
America flag created by a sixth-grade class at
Rivermont Collegiate School, Bettendorf, is
home after a year of traveling around the
United States. And students already are
brainstorming about where the flag should go
next. Students in Tracy Paxton’s sixth-grade
class crafted the flag last fall as a
remembrance of Sept. 11…The stripes are
hand-crafted with the prints of every
Rivermont student. Paxton sent the flag to
former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani
on Oct. 18, 2002, and received a postcard back
that thanked the class for sending the
handmade flag. ‘It is young people like you
that will carry America into a bright future,’
Giuliani said in his note to Paxton.
Paxton showed students a notebook of
memorabilia compiled by people along the
flag’s journey. Giuliani sent the flag to
New York Fire Engine Co. 55, home of one of
the first groups of firefighters to respond to
the Twin Towers disaster. From there the
flag traveled to Emlenton and Oil City,
Pa., Spartenburg and Greenville, S.C., Shawnee
Mission, Kan. and Desert Garden School in El
Centro, Calif. where principal Kathy
Brandenburg was amazed by her 580 students
wanting to examine every single star. The
final stop was at the Laredo Children’s
Museum.
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