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Kamal Haasan, actor: "If you want a ban on jallikattu, let's also ban biryani… I'm a big fan of Jallikattu."
Suriya, actor: "Paradoxical to see those aiding extinction of native breeds talk about cruelty to animals in the bull-taming sport".
"Words such as heritage, identity, and history are generally being used by scholars but are now the buzzwords among youth due to Jallikattu issue. Thanks to all those who secured a ban on Jallikattu and prompted the youth to fight for a common cause."
Dhanush, actor: "Jallikattu is an integral element of the voice and identity of Tamilians."
Vijay, actor: "Law was not created to rob people off their tradition and rights but to protect it. Jallikattu is every Tamilian's identity. Those who are protesting against the ban on Jallikattu are united by the feeling that they are Tamilians but not out of compulsion or political pressure. I bow down to each and everyone of them."<eot>Applications are as follows but not exclusive to -Chrysler 360 (1974-1978) V8 Passenger Models . This kit contains rod bearings, main bearings, rings, and gaskets. Brands may include Perfect Circle, King, Victor Reinz, etc. Pictures are generic and we reserve the right to substitute brands. Please call us if you have any questions concerning products. Please include sizes on pistons, piston rings, rod bearings, and main bearings when applicable.
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Filed in Delaware by cassandra_m on August 11, 2016
Specifically, email from a Delaware State Representative campaigning to an email list for his wife, running for Wilmington City Treasurer. This is supposed to be a Big No No, right? And I would expect that if he is emailing this Wilmington-based list, there are probably others he is emailing as well. As I understand it, public officials are not supposed to campaign or conduct campaigns via their state-provided emails. And yet, here we find Representative Charles Potter campaigning via his taxpayer-provided email for the election of his wife. Velda Potter is running for Wilmington City Treasurer and was fired from a senior position in the Williams Administration for apparent misuse of city resources for her son's Foxtail concert. Certainly, there were no formal charges over this, but even Dennis Williams was embarrassed enough over it to let her go.
So what do you think? Am I wrong about this prohibition on the use of official's email? Should the state's Ethics Commission take this up? Or how about the AG's office, or the Office of Elections?
Tags: Bamboozled!, Rep. Charles Potter, Velda Jones-Potter
By the time the Department of Elections, the AG's office and the Ethics Commission huddle to determine who has jurisdiction, the primary will be over.
The letter itself is an embarrassment, filled with spelling, punctuation and grammatical errors. It is totally lacking in the attention to detail that is essential for successful service as a city treasurer or as a state legislator.
Apparently she thinks the window-dressing bank job qualifies her for whatever grift she wants to run on the citizens of Wilmington and Delaware.
For what it's worth, I live nowhere near the city and I'm on the list, too.
This isn't the first time the Potter's have used state resources to campaign. In 2008, I noticed a call from a state number on my home phone (remember landlines?). I called it back and it was Velda. She was making campaign calls. I told her that she should not be calling from her government office phone for this. She said, "well, it's after work hours." I told her that wasn't the point. Apparently, they never got it.
On that note, many people don't get it. The use of government resources to work campaigns in alive and well in Delaware. All you have to do is look at the County Executive and Ciro Poppiti campaigns for that. Both have county employees working on the campaign, with one hiring specifically for that purpose. How, in a state so small, do they get away with it? Is it that no one can be bothered to take action, or is it that the regulatory agencies don't really care?
True, but the Potters are a particularly malignant force in Delaware politics. If not for them, Williams would not be mayor.
Was the Foxtail public money ever paid back? I think they owed the city 10K or more. I would like to know that answer. I bet they stiffed the taxpayers….
@chris: When you go over to friends' houses, do you check the sofa for spare change when they leave the room?
If Potter sent this out via his state e-mail, it is a blatant misuse of the state e-mail, and should be subject to legal action.
Which begs the question, with seemingly half of Wilmington running for office, can someone please explain how this ethical cesspool gets a free pass?
That is my question. With greater competition seems to come less scrutiny. We have campaigns using government resources for campaign related things, hiring people to government jobs to work campaigns, and blatantly promising future positions for support on Facebook, but yet nothing comes of it. It seems to be a political free-for-all of who can push the limits the furthest and not get caught.
You look at that subject line, and that From line and it is an open and shut case. The investigation should be about two minutes long.
For those who might want a refresher on the Foxtail incident:
Foxtail Highlights Wilmington's Ethics Problem
Williams' Mayoralty Headed for Potter's Field?
As the Potters' Field Turns
A Wilmingtonian's Appeal to City Council President Theo Gregory
We really covered the heck out of this. The ethics issues here are huge and there's never been a fix to the City's ethics oversight, and as far as I can tell, it doesn't look like the City's Ethics Commission is even operational.
This ought to be investigated for failure to use bcc: alone.
@SussexWatcher thumbs up
I don't know the process but I think an ethics complaint can be filed in the State House against the state rep. But I think another House member actually has to file it. Not sure…but then the House Ethics Committee would need to address it and provide a sanction?
Honestly, Common Cause and Claire Snyder Hall should be proactive with this one. She's been doing a great job on a lot of these ethics type issues in the state. I enjoy her op-eds on many issues that matter.
Sometimes people send the wrong email from the wrong address
Looks like the Potters are taking a page out of HIlary' playbook. Also if the only thing she has to run on is that 25 year old resume then she really is drinking to much KOOL AID.
Velda Potter has former Mayor Sills prominently displayed on her pieces but Jim Sills has endorsed Darius Brown. He was on channel 28 with Darius last week. Ouch!!!
The Potters wouldn't understand any of the pages in Hillary's playbook.
I read the e-mail and it sounds like she should be running for Mayor. I don't think the Treasures office is responsible for JOBS. She does not belong in the Treasurers office they both belong in JAIL.
According to the Center for Public Integrity, legislators are not prohibited by state law from "using state resources for personal purposes." https://www.publicintegrity.org/2015/11/09/18357/delaware-gets-f-grade-2015-state-integrity-investigation
State merit employees are barred from doing so, but it does not appear that the GA put the same restrictions on themselves.
However, there is this: http://delcode.delaware.gov/title11/c005/sc06/index.shtml#1211
@J "You look at that subject line, and that From line and it is an open and shut case. The investigation should be about two minutes long."
Yea two minutes, but…
You need to see the rest of the email's header to see if the email was actually sent from a government computer or from a private computer.<eot>An as-yet unannounced famous face will apparently be involved in the auction, set to be moulded after a US tradition, says Silverstone Auctions.
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Chris Evans is behind the sales, it reports, while the festival will also feature performances from Razorlight and Texas.
“We’re delighted to support Chris Evans and his efforts in raising important funds for Children in Need," commented Silverstone's Nick Whale, whose company will be facilitating both auctions.
“The auctions themselves are going to be full of State-side razzmatazz, including themed sales, grid slots, cars being driven up on a specially constructed stage, along with vendors being interviewed during the sale by our celebrity assistants," said Mr Whale.
Half of what is raised through selling the cars will be donated to Children in Need, says Silverstone.
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Sir John Hurt’s wife, Anwen, has led tributes to the veteran actor after he died at the age of 77.
The Bafta-winning star, known for his roles in Alien and The Elephant Man, had been treated for pancreatic cancer in 2015.
Sir John’s wife said he had brought “joy and magic” and it would be a “strange world without him”.
He recently starred as Father Richard McSorley in Jackie, the biopic of President John F Kennedy’s wife.
Media captionSigourney Weaver remembers Sir John Hurt’s famous Alien scene
Despite being given the all-clear from cancer, he last year pulled out of Sir Kenneth Branagh’s production of The Entertainer on the advice of his doctors.
Lady Hurt confirmed Sir John had died on Wednesday at his home in Norfolk.
“John was the most sublime of actors and the most gentlemanly of gentlemen with the greatest of hearts and the most generosity of spirit,” she said in a statement.
“He touched all our lives with joy and magic and it will be a strange world without him.”
US director Mel Brooks described Sir John as “cinematic immortality”, as tributes poured in for the star.
Brooks paid tribute to Sir John, who had starred in his comedy Spaceballs, saying on Twitter: “No one could have played The Elephant Man more memorably.”
He added: “He carried that film into cinematic immortality. He will be sorely missed.”
Sir John also played the part of wand-maker Mr Ollivander in the Harry Potter films.
Author of the books, JK Rowling, tweeted: “So very sad to hear that the immensely talented and deeply beloved John Hurt has died. My thoughts are with his family and friends.”
‘Entertaining new audiences to the end’
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By Nick Higham, BBC correspondent
John Hurt was an unusual actor, instantly recognisable, yet never typecast. He seemed to take every part he was offered and make a success of them all.
Other star actors enjoy a decade or two in the sun before their reputation fades. John Hurt continued entertaining new audiences to the end. It made compiling his television obituary difficult: what on earth to leave out, when it was all so good?
He was the deranged Caligula in I, Claudius and those two brave but ostracised outsiders, the gay Quentin Crisp in The Naked Civil Servant and the hideously disfigured John Merrick in The Elephant Man. To a younger generation he was the War Doctor in Doctor Who and the wand-maker Mr Ollivander in Harry Potter.
He was blessed with a distinctive voice, gravelly and honeyed, and a characterful face, which as the years passed grew increasingly lined and craggy – the legacy of his years as a hell-raiser.
He was good at complex characters – at once confident and vulnerable, or arrogant yet sympathetic.
And he lived life to the full: four times married, he lived at various times in Oxfordshire, Ireland, Kenya and Norfolk and (having briefly been to art school in his youth) took up painting again towards the end of his life though it’s hard to know how he found the time.
Director Guillermo del Toro tweeted: “John Hurt was nothing if not movingly human. Loyal, loving and incredibly intelligent and kind. He was family.”
Stephen Fry praised Sir John for being “great on the stage, small screen and big”.
Media captionSir John completed his last film, That Good Night, in 2016. Credit: GSP Studios
The veteran actor’s last cinematic role was in That Good Night, in which he played a terminally ill playwright, Ralph.
Despite “his own personal battles with illness” during filming in Portugal last year, the producers said Sir John was “proud” and “keen” to work on the “extremely poignant” project.
Producers Alan Latham and Charles Savage said in a statement: “We watched John in awe during filming and feel privileged to have had this opportunity to work with him.”
Lord of the Rings star Elijah Wood said: “It was such an honor to have watched you work, sir.”
British actor Alfred Molina said Sir John was “a gloriously talented actor, one of the best, of this or any era.”
Obituary: ‘The mulberry of my mind’
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John Hurt was one of Britain’s best-known and most versatile actors.
He was born on 22 January, 1940 in Chesterfield in Derbyshire. Over six decades, he appeared in more than 120 films as well as numerous stage and television roles.