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Martin Luther King stated, I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. No race is superior to another; but the Democrat party has tried to link President Trump and his supporters to the KKK without looking into their own mirror and history.

Trump stated all organizations of hate are unacceptable. This includes the KKK, Antifa, or Black Lives Matter, which uses their name as a mask to incite violence with political and racial tension.

Lets look at the facts of the KKK.

The Democrat party created the KKK to fight against equal rights for blacks after Republican President Abraham Lincoln won the Civil War. No Democrat voted for the 14th Amendment to grant citizenship to blacks. The KKK was honored at every Democrat National Convention from 1868 through the 1930s.

Several prominent Democrats dabbled as one-time KKK members President Harry Truman; Hugo Black, who was appointed by Franklin D. Roosevelt to the Supreme Court from 1937-1971.

Democrat Majority Leader, Robert Byrd, who was not only a KKK member; but a Grand Keagle, a recruiter for the KKK signed up members for $10 a head. He joined because it offered excitement, and because the Klan was an effective force in promoting American values. He stated in a letter, The Klan is needed today as never before, and I am anxious to see its rebirth. in every state in the nation. Byrd became the Democrat leader of the U.S. Senate and served from 1951-2010 and filibustered the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

In the 1960s Martin Luther King, Republican, fought against the Democrats, ultimately sacrificing his life for his dream of equality. It was Republicans and a black Republican by the name of A. Phillip Randolph, who organized Kings March on Washington in 1963, which was opposed by Democrat President John F. Kennedy, who used the FBI to target King while Attorney General Robert Kennedy, Democrat, used wiretapping to spy on Martin Luther King.

Remember Governor George Wallace? Democrat. Bull Connor? Democrat. They supported slavery and were the ones turning water hoses and dogs on black protesters in the 1960s

Democrat President Lyndon B. Johnson, who as a senator, also fought against the Civil Rights Act in 1957, was also known as a racist. Yet, he realized negroes were getting pretty uppity these days. LBJ continued, Now, weve got to do something about this, weve got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference. After Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act, he stated to two governors on Air Force One, Ill have those (N-word) voting Democratic for the next 200 years.

As recently as the 1980s, Senator Ernest Hollings, Democrat, publicly referred to blacks as darkies and Hispanics as wetbacks without suffering any punishment from his party.

In 1983, Republican President Ronald Reagan signed into law Martin Luther King Day as a national holiday. However, in 1985, then-Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton, Democrat, signed Act 985 into law, making the birthdates of Martin Luther King and Robert E. Lee, the general who led the Civil War Confederate Army, state holidays on the same day in Arkansas.

On May 5, 1993, Clinton praised Senator J. William Fulbright as my mentor, as he gave the nations highest civilian award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to a man who spent the vast majority of his public career and life as a proud segregationist, who voted against the 1964 and 1965 Civil Rights Acts.

I have no problem placing Civil War monuments in a Civil War museum; but there should not be a double standard. Monuments of racists Democrats should be also be taken down and placed in their own Racist Democrat Museum.

Frank Aquila

Manteca

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In her bid to become Virginias first openly transgender lawmaker, Democrat Danica Roem is getting a major boost from a donor who lives 800 miles away. Theyve never met. Shes not even sure how to pronounce his name.

Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele, a Democrat, has given $115,000 to Roems candidacy, nearly half of the money she has raised so far, and plans to keep contributing through the November election.

The six-figure investment in a race in the Washington exurb of Prince William County underscores the national interest in what is normally a sleepy, low-turnout affair. Abele, who is straight, sees a chance to make history by helping elect the first openly transgender candidate for a state legislature.

Shes running because shes an active citizen, and she cares and shell make a difference, said Abele, who chairs the Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund. That said, shell also set a precedent and make it safer for a lot of other candidates to run.

The Wisconsin politician said there would be a bit of poetry if Roem unseated Del. Robert G. Marshall (R), a 25-year incumbent who has gained notoriety for unsuccessful efforts to ban same-sex marriage and restrict which bathrooms transgender people canuse.

But Roem has mixed feelings about Abeles help.

The 32-year-old former journalist launched her campaign with a pledge to represent residents, not special interests. In a state without limits on campaign contributions, Roem declared her own cap and pledged she would not accept any donation greater than $500.

And then, during the spring Democratic primary race, Roem learned a hard political lesson.

Shed knocked on lots of doors but was badly trailing two rivals in campaign cash. She needed $14,000 to pay her staff and send out two additional mailers.

After seeing her opponents April fundraising reports, she rethought her vow. A short time later, Abele and other board members of the Victory Fund spoke with Roem in a conference call about her four-way primary race.

I was really, really super idealistic, and then we were getting killed, said Roem, who reluctantly agreed to take larger donations. I wasnt happy about it, and Im still not super happy about it.

[This transgender boy fought for the right to run for Prom King. Now he is suing to use the boys bathroom]

Abele sent $10,000 after the conference call. The night before the June 13 primary, he chipped in $15,000. He has kept the money flowing.

Roem says his generosity allows her to spend more time talking to voters about local issues like transportation and congestion, instead of calling donors. And, unlike corporations with business before the state, Abele does not appear to be motivated by self-interest. Roem will not take money from companies seeking statecontracts.

Ill certainly give Chris a hug, just like Ill give anyone else a hug, she said. Does that mean I have to do what he wants? No.

Marshall, in a statement, blasted Abele as a multimillionaire radical sexual ideologue who wants to buy the election for Danica to impose laws penalizing those who adhere to the Laws of Nature and Natures God.

So far, Roem said she has raised about $270,000, one of the largest hauls for a House of Delegates candidate. The last Democrat to come close to defeating Marshall raised $376,000 in 2013 and stilllost.

Roem is far from the only beneficiary of Abeles largesse. Hes given nearly $500,000 to local Wisconsin campaigns, backed Tammy Baldwins (D-Wis.) successful bid to become the nations first openly gay senator, and donated about $600,000 to Hillary Clinton. He supports causes for minority groups, too.

Every rights movement that has ever succeeded ... succeeds precisely and only because its not just the aggrieved who are active, Abele said. My world is a better place when people who are not like me have every right that Ihave.

[Gavin Grimm just wanted to use the bathroom. He didnt expect a national debate]

Abele was elected county executive in 2011, succeeding Republican Scott Walker, who had become governor. The son of the co-founder of Boston Scientific, Abeles fortune comes from his family and his own ventures in medical-waste disposal and real estate development .

U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wis.), who is gay, recalls Abele being incensed in 2006 when Wisconsin voters approved a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage. After a federal judge struck down that ban in 2014, Abele offered to pay overtime costs for extended court hours so couples could take their vows.

Hes someone who also happens to be wealthy and tries to use his money to further social justice, Pocan said. Here, he sees a chance to break another barrier.

Abele has fended off criticism from the left for actions he has taken as county executive, including his opposition to public-sector unions over pensions and his donations to and support for GOP state lawmakers.

His largest donation to Roem came on the day in late July when President Trump tweeted that he would ban transgender individuals from serving in the military. Abele happened to be at the White House that afternoon for the announcement of a new Foxconn factory in Wisconsin.

While the jobs will be great for my state, please know that the $50K donation I made online earlier from the White House represents about as well anything else I could say my feelings regarding the Presidents comments, Abele texted Roem. Get elected!

Republicans are quick to criticize Roems dependence on an out-of-state donor, and political analysts say the contributions could spark a voter backlash.

Some people will look at that as outsiders trying to meddle in a Virginia race, said Stephen Farnsworth, a political scientist at the University of Mary Washington.

He said Roems near-exclusive focus on community issues may be the best antidote to the claim some might make that this is a carpetbagger-financed election.

John Whitbeck, chairman of the Republican Party of Virginia, sees national interest in Democrats running for local legislative seats as a sign of weakness. They are having to go outside Virginia for people like this Milwaukee county executive to get the money to run these races, he said.

But Roem counters that shes also beating Marshall in raising money locally, with nearly 200 donations totaling almost $15,000. Marshall says he has not begun to ramp up his fundraising efforts.

Roem said that she doesnt need to ask her biggest patron for money. Every contribution from Abele has come unsolicited.

Im treating him the same way Im treating any of my other donors, Roem said. They all get thank-you cards.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said on Sunday that it was premature to try to remove U.S. President Donald Trump by claiming he is physically or mentally impaired.

Schiff told Jake Tapper on CNNs State of the Union program that it did not make sense for Trump's opponents to focus on the 25th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which two Democratic lawmakers invoked against the president after his controversial comments about a white nationalist rally in Virginia.

Under the 25th Amendment, the vice president takes over as acting president if he and a majority of either Cabinet officials or "such other body as Congress may by law provide" declare in writing that the president "is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office."

I think were still far from concluding that thats the case," Schiff said, "even though we find, many of us, his conduct anathema and there to be a serious problem here."

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

California Representative Zoe Lofgren on Friday introduced a resolution urging Vice President Mike Pence and Trump's Cabinet to have medical and psychiatric professionals examine the president to help determine whether he can do his job.

"Many Americans, including many Republicans, have observed the President's increasingly disturbing pattern of actions and public statements that suggest he may be mentally unfit to execute the duties required of him," Lofgren said in a statement.

Representative Jackie Speier, also of California, said in a Twitter post on Tuesday that Trump was "showing signs of erratic behavior and mental instability that place the country in grave danger. Time to invoke the 25th Amendment."

Speier wrote the post after Trump's explosive news conference on Tuesday, when he blamed violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, not just on white nationalist rally organizers but also on counter-protesters. Trump said there were "very fine people" in both groups.

Those comments also provoked criticism from Republican Senator Bob Corker, who told reporters on Thursday that Trump "has not yet been able to demonstrate the stability nor some of the competence that he needs to demonstrate in order to be successful," according to a Tennessee local news website. Corker did not refer to the 25th Amendment in his remarks.

Reporting by Julia Harte; Editing by Lisa Von Ahn

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MARTIN ESPINOZA

THE PRESS DEMOCRAT | August 20, 2017, 8:35PM

| Updated 6 hours ago.

Sonoma County residents have been waiting weeks, months and in some cases years for todays solar eclipse the likes of which has not made an American coast-to-coast journey in nearly 100 years but you may not even get to see it, according to the National Weather Service.

Steve Anderson, a forecaster for the Weather Service, said satellite images suggest it may be cloudy this morning during the eclipse. Its expected to start about 9 a.m., peak at 10:15 a.m. and end at 11:30 a.m.

Its not good news, Anderson said. It may clear out a little sooner tomorrow, but if you really want to make sure you see it, you might want to get on Highway 101 and head north to Ukiah or go to far eastern Napa County, like Lake Berryessa.

Anderson said cloud cover is likely to reach up to 2,500 feet. That does not bode well for the Robert Ferguson Observatory, which sits at 1,275 feet in Sugarloaf Ridge State Park. There is Sonoma Mountain at 2,463 feet, which would still leave you short, so that means Mount Hood (2,664 feet) could be your best local bet.

In the cradle of Sonoma, Napa and Lake counties theres Mount Saint Helena at 4,341 feet, while the city of Cobb in Lake County is at 2,631 feet.

Meanwhile, fires in southwestern Oregon have threatened areas close to the 70-mile path of totality in Oregon that offers the most spectacular views of the eclipse, which will completely blot out the sun. Hundreds of residents in Oregon have been asked to evacuate their homes. About 1 million eclipse visitors are expected in the state.

Anderson said about five wildfires in southwest Oregon and northwest California have sent smoke high into the atmosphere, where upper level winds are bringing it to the North Coast. The smoke is too high to smell but its presence is more than visible.

You might get a good sunset out of it, Anderson said. When its that far away, the smoke naturally rises, so when it gets down here its very high.

High temperatures today are expected to be about 80 degrees in Santa Rosa, 86 degrees in Cloverdale and about 65 degrees on the coast with all-day cloud cover.

You can reach Staff Writer Martin Espinoza at 707-521-5213 or martin.espinoza@pressdemocrat.com. On Twitter @renofish.

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THE PRESS DEMOCRAT | August 20, 2017, 7:55PM

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One man late Thursday night sprayed three hateful words on the garage door of a northwest Santa Rosa family.

Sunday afternoon, a clean-up crew of more than 50 people appalled by the display of racism, showed up to wipe away the graffiti and show Fijian immigrants Di and Bentley Chong Wan that one guy with a spray can doesnt speak for them.

Residents of the older subdivision near Coffey Park streamed into the cul-de-sac where the Wans have rented a home for the last year bearing covered dishes, small bouquets of flowers and supportive signs reading, Only Love Prevails Here and Keep Hate out of Santa Rosa.

I am so overwhelmed by the support of my neighbors, said Di Chong Wan, surveying the turnout from a camp chair on the sidewalk. Something good always comes out of small bad things. Love overrides everything.

Helen Tucker, who lives a few streets over, had walked past Di Wan in Coffey Park Saturday and approached her after noticing shed been crying.

If it happens somewhere else its hard to do anything about it. But I can do this and it feels really good, said Tucker, who has lived in the neighborhood for 25 years. For the potluck she looked up Fijian recipes and made a traditional banana cake.

Di Wans husband Bentley, 50, said it hit him like a brick wall when he came home Friday morning after working all night both he and his wife are in-home caregivers to discover someone had scrawled I hate n.....s in large black letters on his garage door.

It shocked us. Weve seen stories like this in the news and now its happening to us, he said. I didnt know what I should do, or if I should do anything at all. I brushed it off a little bit. But finally it dawned on me that this is unacceptable.

One of the Wans five sons who was home at the time, spotted the hate tag and called Santa Rosa Police.

The Wans have a small security camera outside their home and captured footage of the perpetrator, which they gave to police. In the meantime, Bentley Wan decided to take matters into his own hands. He said he determined that the vandal was a 28-year-old man who had been visiting the son of a neighbor.

The Wans tracked down the man, who does not live in the neighborhood, and invited him to come over and talk. He showed up Saturday night, Bentley Wan said, and spent about 90 minutes talking with his family. He told them he lashed out after he found his car, parked near the Wan home, vandalized. He wound up apologizing.

The Wans declined to identify the man.

I was trying to understand why he did it, said Bentley Wan, who was a teacher of math and economics in Fiji. Was he coerced? What did he mean? I concluded he was just a young, drunken man who was mad and wanted to vent his anger and frustration. I dont know why he chose the word he did.

Santa Rosa police said the incident is under investigation. They were unaware the Wans had identified and met with the perpetrator.

Sgt. Marcus Sprague, who supervises the property crimes unit, said Sunday the recording submitted by the Wans lacked sufficient quality to make a positive identification. He said the case remains under investigation and detectives today will interview potential witnesses and review the tape and see if there is anything else we can do.

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Ultimately, it will be up to the Wans to press charges if a suspect is identified, he said.

Sprague said there is no apparent rash of hate graffiti in the Wans neighborhood.

Graffiti is typically a misdemeanor. But it can rise to a felony if there is a suspicion that it is related to a hate crime, Sprague said.

The Wans immigrated from Fiji eight years ago and chose to settle in Santa Rosa at the urging of friends.

They told me the weather is beautiful, Bentley Wan said. The people are beautiful. It has all the comforts of the city but it doesnt feel like a big city. Its homey. I came here and found its the absolute truth.

Despite the words left on his garage, his faith in community remains unshaken thanks to the support from acquaintances and complete strangers.

Thank you. The only word that comes to mind is that were overwhelmed by your love and care, he told the gathering, after several took up rags and solvent and wiped off the words in a display of solidarity. Since it was discovered Friday, the graffiti was concealed behind a banner hung by neighbor Pamela Van Halsema. A teacher and librarian at Kenilworth Junior High, she organized the block party believing there is safety in numbers and if people know one another, they will be more likely to support each other.

Van Helsema said she has long worried about a rising and vocal hate rhetoric in the country that came to a head at a white nationalists rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, Aug. 12. The gathering turned violent, leaving one counter-protester dead and 34 people injured. Two Virginia State Police officers in a helicopter monitoring the rally also died when it crashed.

Van Helsema printed out flyers and knocked on doors around the neighborhood. The reaction was mixed.

I had one person say, Well, maybe somebody doesnt like them. And another literally cried when I told them what happened, she said.

She has attended several meetings of Santa Rosa Standing Together, a grass roots group aimed at breaking community social and racial barriers. She learned the first step to understanding is getting to know one another. Bringing people together in her own neighborhood seemed to a good place to start.

Sharing a meal together is one of the best levelers in the whole world. Often what you bring reflects a little bit of who you are, said Van Helsema, whose two daughters saw the graffiti Friday morning while walking the dog. Daughter Talia Mulder, 17, knocked on the Wans door and offered to paint their garage.

Betsy Sanville, a nurse from Forestville, brought several heart signs on stakes saying Love Lives Here and Be Kind to place in the Wans yard. Di Wan is a caregiver for her 91-year-old mother.

Shes just a big-hearted and warm-hearted woman who makes my mom feel safe and brings lightness to her home with a sense of humor and tender loving care, she said.

Im surprised how sad this makes me feel. And some of that is not knowing what to do about it, not knowing how I can make the most difference to change peoples thoughts.

Bentley Wan said he doesnt feel like pressing charges. That, he said, would smear the mans name.

The last thing we want is for him to lose his job or be destroyed, Bentley Wan said. That would destroy what this whole process is trying to restore. I was taught not to bear a grudge and not to carry hatred. You cant live your life carrying excess baggage. It will just slow you down.

You can reach Staff Writer Meg McConahey at 707-521-5204 or meg.mcconahey@pressdemocrat.com. On Twitter @megmcconahey.

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