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Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Aminu Tambuwal
Following the withdrawal of the security details attached to the Speaker of the House of Representatives Speaker, Aminu Tambuwal, 60 All Progressives Congress members of the House now move around with him to serve as security for the Speaker.
SUNDAY PUNCH learnt the 60 Reps have been accompanying Tambuwal around Abuja to protect him against potential security threats.
The lawmakers do not only drive along with him in a motorcade, they also form a shield around Tambuwal to protect him.
Tambuwal had, on Tuesday in Abuja formally defected from the Peoples Democratic Party to the All Progressives Congress, following weeks of speculation and intrigues.
One of the lawmakers providing shield for Tambuwal, Mr. Ahmad Ali, said, We are covering him and we will continue to fight this illegality until it is quashed.
We all went with him to the (Federal High) court today (Friday) to challenge the withdrawal of his security personnel.
Ali, who is the Chairman, House Committee on Justice, said the members would do everything within their power to protect Tambuwal.
Tambuwal and the APC have since defended his defection, claiming that the PDP had factions, in addition to arguing that the courts have yet to resolve pending cases on defection before them.
It was also learnt that the speaker and his loyalists were working to ensure that the alleged plot by the Presidency and the PDP caucus to reconvene the House before December 3 is frustrated.
A funny thing happened to New York progressives on their way to a total takeover of politics and public policy in the Empire State on Tuesday. Reality intruded.
It was only a year ago that the progs were presenting themselves as an irresistible force, about to transform New York from merely a reliably blue state into a pulsating cobalt beacon.
After all, Bill de Blasio running with a hot-pink City Council slate and backed heavily by the (putatively) progressive Working Families Party had just buried 20 years of middle-of-the-road municipal government under a 73%-of-the-vote landslide.
Havana on the Hudson had arrived. Next stop, Albany!
Or, as hard-left icon Bertha Lewis put it: Were baaaaack! The right wing will have to deal with it!
Well, as it turned out, not so much.
Polls suggest that the New York lefts principal strategic goal unambiguous control of the state Senate and with it, the catbirds seat in Albany seems all but unobtainable going into Tuesdays general election.
Its always-tenuous relationship with Gov. Cuomo is in tatters.
And its high hopes for sweeping victories in on-the-margin New York congressional districts have long-since faded; far greater is the likelihood of substantial Republican House gains in the state.
So what the hell happened?
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How Gov. Cuomo derailed the progressive wave
By Jeff Shesol October 31 at 2:07 PM
THE ALL NEW DONT THINK OF AN ELEPHANT!
Know Your Values and Frame the Debate
By George Lakoff
Chelsea Green. 168 pp. Paperback, $15
Progressives, as a rule, do not look back with nostalgia at 2004 a dismal, disempowering year, a time of swiftboating and flip-flopping and generally being left sputtering in the face of the Bush-Cheney barrage. One exception to that rule is Barack Obama, whose keynote address at that years Democratic National Convention launched him toward the office he now holds.
There is at least one other exception: George Lakoff, distinguished professor of cognitive science and linguistics at the University of California at Berkeley. For Lakoff, those were heady days. The election and its aftermath brought sold-out speaking gigs; invitations to dinner with Democratic strategists, Hollywood liberals and former president Bill Clinton; the label guru; and, at one memorable gathering of Senate Democrats, hugs.
In the wake of John Kerrys defeat, Democrats turned to Lakoff to teach them how to communicate, how to get and stay on message, how in Lakoffs semi-scientific parlance to frame. The professors calling card the one that earned him a seat at Democratic tables that year was a handbook titled Dont Think of an Elephant! In it, Lakoff set out, for a lay audience, his theory that physical structures within the brain, activated by the use of coded and morally loaded language, determine our responses to political stimuli. Put differently, framing is what Republicans were doing when they said, repeatedly, that John Kerry looked French. As your cognitive unconscious was well aware, this was not a compliment.
Ten years on, Lakoff is still a proponent of framing. He puts it to work in the title of his new book, The All New Dont Think of an Elephant! As readers of the previous edition will discover, this one is not all new; it is, in point of fact, only slightly new, but Lakoff has always held that progressives put too much stock in facts. He begins the book with a quick victory lap: In 2004, he tells us, hardly anyone had heard of or thought about ... how social and political issues were framed. Today, millions of people have. That, Lakoff notes, is a lot for one small book to have accomplished.
Nor is that all. The Elephant playbook, its author contends, helped Obama to win the White House and Senate Democrats to expand their majority in 2008. Hope, as we know, was the mantra that year, and Lakoffs hope was that the superior framing would continue. Well, it didnt. Within months of Obamas inauguration, Lakoff believes, the Democratic Party slid back into its mumbling, losing ways and the GOP regained framing superiority in public discourse at the national level. Now, having snatched back the ground they lost in 2008, the Republicans are setting their framing sights on the cities as well as the states. Republican metaphors know where you live.
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Book review: The All New Dont Think of an Elephant! by George Lakoff
The All Progressives Congress has warned the Federal Government to desist from compounding illegality by compelling members of the House of Representatives to sign a paper seeking to reconvene the House ahead of the December 3 adjourned date.
This was contained in a statement in Abuja on Friday by APCs National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed.
The party said, We have heard from the grapevine that the FG is inducing legislators with a view to reconvening the House, but this will amount to piling illegality upon illegality since only a resolution by all principal officers of the House can reconvene the House.
We cannot put anything beyond a government that will unlawfully withdraw the security details of the countrys number four citizen, who has not been removed as the Speaker of the House of Representatives, simply because he defected from the ruling party to the opposition. For as long as he remains Speaker, Rt Hon Aminu Waziri Tambuwal is entitled to all the statutory perks of his office.
APC accused the President Goodluck Jonathan-led government of ruling by vindictiveness, rather than in accordance with the rule of law.
It added, Despotism, arbitrariness and impunity are the watch words of the Jonathan administration, hence it has
desecrated most national institutions, including the judiciary, and has now put the legislature in its cross hair.
The legislature is one of the last standing institutions after the onslaught of the ravaging Jonathan Administration, which has
nothing but contempt for the concept of the separation of powers, the rule of law and perception of the country by the international
community.
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