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Romney Aide said on Media interview that Romney was going to ask Obama to man-up on Libya…….likewise and sure enough, President Obama did man-up and gave Mitt Romney good lessons about FACTS…….which drove Mitt Romney somersaulting to Reality Check……..It is Because He Asked For It……
It is a Historic evidential fact that, pathetic liars get Real only when they get whipped properly with Facts slammed right on their faces. That is when they get in the knowing, and the Truth is, you cannot get away with lies when the TRUTH is standing.……Hehehehehe, President Obama, like a Head Teacher of our times, was standing with a cane on his hand for discipline…….
Mitt Romney could not believe what he was seeing at the time, for he was “pretty much exposed that REALITY can send someone scampering, when in fact one does not have “A Fact-Based Plan” to DEFINE themselves or what they intend to do in Public Office. Last night again as is his usual self, we saw another Romney Candidate who consistently changed positions and failed to stay steady on strategic course and in focus with Specifics how he Aim to do things differently from President Obama.
The exposure was clearly evident as Romney seemed nervous and very uncomfortable struggling to be on the defensive. President Obama on the other-side with show-cases, proved he meant business from the moment he took office on a serious economic collapse and steadied the situation with Mission accomplished in Three-Quarter-Way both with significant good results showing up to in confirmation to both Domestic and Foreign reflective good results. Which is why, Obama’s job approval with housing bustling ratings are headed to the right direction. This is proof that, President Obama proved to America people and the world that, he stayed in command without swaying or flattering; for which case, Obama strived to get America with the rest of the world out of Economic and Security mess.
Judy Miriga
Diaspora Spokesperson
Executive Director
Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc.,
USA
http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com
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Complete Second Presidential Town Hall Debate 2012 Barack Obama vs Mitt Romney Oct 16, 2012
Published on Oct 16, 2012 by REALVIDEOS2013
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I think its safe to say Obama is going to get re-elected. That was utter rape.
DJrezafication6 hours ago
If the popular vote is tied
A tie in the national popular vote means Mr. Obama would likely get re-elected narrowly with 290 electoral votes–just over the 270 needed to win.
The president can simply tie the popular vote and still win the Electoral College because he has more state-by-state combinations to get to 270 than Romney does. So he’d most likely squeak out wins in most of the battlegrounds where he leads – enough for that 290 majority – while losing a few others, and breaking even in the popular vote. He’d rely heavily on slight wins in Ohio and smaller states like Colorado and Iowa and Wisconsin to get him there, because Romney would take larger prizes of Florida and Virginia by very small margins, as well as North Carolina.
More assertive Obama trades barbs with Romney, targets wealth issues
By Liz Goodwin, Yahoo! News
National Affairs Reporter
The Ticket – 8 hrs ago
Obama and Romney, talking over each other. (John Moore/Getty Images)
A much more aggressive President Barack Obama showed up to the second presidential debate Tuesday, which at times devolved into angry crosstalk with Republican rival Mitt Romney.
President Obama was under pressure to perform dramatically better at this debate—held at Hofstra University in Long Island, N.Y.—than the one held two weeks ago. Gov. Romney’s energetic performance at that first debate quickly boosted him in the polls, with some recent measures showing he and the president in a virtual tie among likely voters.
Romney kept up his Denver demeanor, attacking Obama on his jobs record, failure to pass immigration reform, policies in the Middle East, and other issues. But this time, instead of simply repeating portions of his stump speech, Obama was ready with specific retorts and counter-attacks. The president frequently accused Romney of twisting facts, occasionally interrupting him as he spoke.
At one point, the debate almost became a shouting match over whether President Obama had cut back oil extraction from public lands. Obama repeatedly said Romney was lying about his claim that oil production was down, pointedly saying, “Not true, Governor Romney.” (Politifact ranked a similar claim by a conservative super PAC “half true.”) Feeling the heat, moderator Candy Crowley took the candidates to another topic.
The 90-minute town hall-style debate got personal at times. Romney took a detour on an answer on immigration reform to address Obama campaign claims that his personal fortune is invested in China and shielded from taxes. “Mr. President, have you looked at your pension?” he asked, implying the president is also unaware of the nature of his investments. “You know, I don’t look at my pension,” Obama retorted, adding, “It’s not as big as yours so it doesn’t take as long.”
Obama returned more than once to the topic of Romney’s wealth, saying Romney sees nothing unfair about millionaires paying the same tax rate as a nurse or other middle-class worker. Later in the debate, Romney criticized Obama for attending political events so soon after the U.S. ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens, was killed, and also said Obama’s campaign unfairly painted him as a villain. Obama closed the debate by mentioning Romney’s leaked comments that half the country is dependent on government.
Both candidates appeared comfortable with the more intimate town hall-style, during which an audience of 80 undecided voters, handpicked by polling organization Gallup, watched and asked questions. Audience members picked by Crowley asked the candidates about immigration reform, jobs, gun control, the gender pay gap, and other issues. In answer to a question about the economy from college student Jeremy Epstein, Romney said if elected he could guarantee Epstein would find employment when he graduates in 2014 because of his economic policies. “I’m going to make sure you get a job,” Romney said. Obama answered a question about the pay gap with a personal story about his mother’s struggle to make ends meet while raising two children on her own.
By the end of the debate, Romney spoke for nearly 41 minutes, Obama a little over 44 minutes.
The final debate of the election is Monday in Boca Raton, Florida, and will focus on foreign policy.
Biden: Romney vague, ‘sketchy’ at debate
Associated Press – 16 mins ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Joe Biden is dismissing as “rhetoric but not much substance” Mitt Romney’s answers to questions at Tuesday night’s presidential debate.
“Everything is sketchy,” Biden said.
President Barack Obama “had a great debate,” Biden said, “and I expect you’ll see another great one next Monday” when the two presidential candidates meet for a third and final debate.
Biden also addressed questions over the Obama administration’s response to requests for increased security at the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya. The U.S. ambassador and three other Americans were killed there last month. At last week’s vice presidential debate, Biden had asserted “we weren’t told” about the requests. But a State Department official had acknowledged during congressional testimony receiving the request.
Biden said he meant that he and Obama were not personally aware of those requests. “It never got to us,” Biden said.
The vice president also accused Romney of trying to “politicize a tragedy” by continuing to make the Benghazi attack an issue in the campaign.
Biden spoke in a round of television interviews aired Wednesday morning.
Wednesday in politics: Obama, Romney campaign after aggressive debate, and more
By Phil Pruitt | The Ticket – 1 hr 3 mins ago
President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney will be back on the campaign trail Wednesday following a debate that at times felt like a verbal fistfight.
Obama produced a much more assertive performance at the Hofstra University clash, and Romney maintained the energetic demeanor that chalked up a win for him in the first showdown.
The buzz Wednesday will focus on whether Obama’s attack style Tuesday night will counter what was widely panned as a lackluster presentation in the first debate. It also will focus on whether Romney came away from the second debate maintaining the momentum he picked up in the first one. And, of course, there will be a lot of talk about who told the truth, and about how CNN’s Candy Crowley did as moderator.
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Obama will campaign Wednesday in Iowa and Ohio, while Romney will head to Virginia. And Vice President Biden will stump in Colorado and Nevada, and Romney running mate Paul Ryan will be joined by Condoleezza Rice at a rally in Ohio.
Biden also gives his reaction to the second presidential debate in interviews on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” CBS’ “This Morning,” and NBC’s “Today.”
Also worth noting Wednesday: Bill Clinton attends a New York fundraiser for Obama; Tagg Romney campaigns in North Carolina and Craig Romney in Colorado for their father; and Speaker of the House John Boehner heads to Iowa to campaign for Romney.
And then there is this: First lady Michelle Obama tapes an interview Wednesday for broadcast on Friday’s “LIVE with Kelly and Michael.”
Aide: Mitt Romney Will Ask Obama to ‘Man Up’ on Libya
By Jonathan Miller | National Journal – 22 hrs ago
Debate Fact-Check: The Second Presidential Debate Between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney
No Debate: Obama Rediscovers His Nerve and Makes It a Race
Romney-Obama Debate No. 2: Inflicting Pain, But Not Feeling It
A foreign policy adviser to Mitt Romney, in a preview of the second presidential debate, said on Tuesday that Romney will ask President Obama to “man up” on his response to the terrorist attack in Libya that left four Americans dead.
Richard Williamson, the former special envoy to Sudan under President George W. Bush, was asked on Fox News how Romney would bring up the issue of September’s attack on the American mission in Benghazi in the debate.
“I think Governor Romney, quite properly, will be asking questions, probing, and trying to ask the president to man up, accept his responsibility and explain to the American people the failure that resulted in four American deaths,” Williamson said.
He later added of Obama: “He can run but he’s not going to be able to hide. He’s going to have to man up and tell the American people what he knew, when he knew it and what he’s doing.”
On Monday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said she took “responsibility” for the terrorist attack that led to the death of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans.
Williamson said that there needs to be “transparency” from the administration about the attack. “The administration has to come clean,” he said. “It is a presidential-level decision protecting our diplomats overseas. It’s the president’s obligation to make sure that diplomats in difficult situations have adequate security so they can do their job, and clearly they failed here.”
Williamson also alleged that Obama must have seen information in daily briefings indicating the previous attacks on the compound and other threats in Libya. “The information was there. The White House has certain responsibilities,” he said.
Fact Checking:
Mitt Romney wrongly claimed that it took 14 days for President Barack Obama to brand the assault on the U.S. Consulate in Libya a terrorist act. Obama yet again claimed that ending the Afghanistan and Iraq wars makes money available to “rebuild America,” even though it doesn’t.
A look at some of their claims:
OBAMA: The day after last month’s attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, “I stood in the Rose Garden and I told the American people and the world that we are going to find out exactly what happened. That this was an act of terror and I also said that we’re going to hunt down those who committed this crime.”
ROMNEY: “I want to make sure we get that for the record, because it took the president 14 days before he called the attack in Benghazi an act of terror.”
OBAMA: “Get the transcript.”
THE FACTS: Obama is correct in saying that he referred to Benghazi as an act of terrorism on Sept. 12, the day after the attack. From the Rose Garden, he said: “No acts of terror will ever shake the resolve of this great nation, alter that character, or eclipse the light of the values that we stand for. … We will not waver in our commitment to see that justice is done for this terrible act.”
OBAMA: “Let’s take the money that we’ve been spending on war over the last decade to rebuild America, roads, bridges, schools. We do those things, not only is your future going to be bright, but America’s future is going to be bright as well.”
ROMNEY: “As a matter of fact, oil production is down 14 percent this year on federal land, and gas production was down 9 percent. Why? Because the president cut in half the number of licenses and permits for drilling on federal lands and in federal waters.”
OBAMA: “Very little of what Governor Romney just said is true. We’ve opened up public lands. We’re actually drilling more on public lands than in the previous administration and my — the previous president was an oilman.”
OBAMA: “For young people who’ve come here, brought here often times by their parents, have gone to school here, pledged allegiance to the flag, think of this as their country and understand themselves as Americans in every way except having papers, we should make sure we give them a pathway to citizenship. And that’s what I’ve done administratively.”
ROMNEY: “I know he keeps saying, ‘You want to take Detroit bankrupt.’ Well, the president took Detroit bankrupt. You took General Motors bankrupt. You took Chrysler bankrupt. So when you say that I wanted to take the auto industry bankrupt, you actually did. And I think it’s important to know that that was a process that was necessary to get those companies back on their feet, so they could start hiring more people. That was precisely what I recommended and ultimately what happened.”
THE FACTS: What Romney recommended did not happen, and his proposed path probably would have forced General Motors and Chrysler out of business. He opposed using government money to bail out the automakers, instead favoring privately financed bankruptcy restructuring. But the automakers were bleeding cash and were poor credit risks. The banking system was in crisis. So private loans weren’t available. Without government aid, both companies probably would have gone under and their assets sold in pieces.
OBAMA: “And what I want to do is build on the 5 million jobs that we’ve created over the last 30 months in the private sector alone.”
ROMNEY: “I’m going to bring rates down across the board for everybody, but I’m going to limit deductions and exemptions and credits, particularly for people at the high end, because I am not going to have people at the high end pay less than they’re paying now.”
THE FACTS: Romney is proposing to cut all income tax rates by 20 percent, eliminate the estate tax and the alternative minimum tax, maintain and expand tax breaks for investment income, and do it all without adding to the deficit or shifting the tax burden from the wealthy to the middle class. He says he would pay for the tax cuts by reducing or eliminating tax deductions, exemptions and credits, but he can’t achieve all of his goals it under the budget rules presidents must follow.
The Tax Policy Center, a Washington research group, says in a study that the tax cuts proposed by Romney would reduce federal tax revenues by about $5 trillion over 10 years. The study concludes that there aren’t enough tax breaks for the wealthy to make up the lost revenue, so the proposal would either add to the deficit or shift more of the tax burden on to the middle class.
Romney’s campaign cites studies by conservative academics and think tanks that say Romney’s plan will spur economic growth, generating enough additional money to pay for the tax cuts without adding to the deficit or shifting the tax burden to the middle class. But Congress doesn’t recognize those kinds of economic projections when it estimates the budget impact of tax proposals.
However, Obama is not responsible for all of the deficits that have occurred on his watch. Most of the federal budget — like Medicare, food stamps, Medicaid and Social Security — runs on autopilot, and no one in a leadership position in Washington has proposed deep cuts in those programs. And politicians in both parties voted two years ago the renew Bush-era tax cuts that have contributed to the deficit. Even under the strict spending cuts proposed by Romney, the debt would continue to rise, just not as fast.
The National Alliance party Parliamentary Aspirant for the newly created Kisumu Central Constituency last week fled from an angry mob which was demanding cash from him after he had given the a number of groups in the area.
Mr Ken Obura was evacuated to safety by a horde of body guards as the crowd which was composed of youths chased his Land cruiser car using motorbikes and boda bodas through a rough section near the Obunga police post.
Obura had just finished giving several groups in the area grants for expanding their businesses and attempted to leave the venue of the rally.
The youths jumped on motorbikes and chased his motorcade for almost a kilometer and caught up with him near the Kisumu Cotton mills forcing him to stop.
Baying for his blood the youths who jammed him demanded a share since they are also voters in Kisumu central.
They left after their demands were met.
Nyanza police Chief Joseph Ololetito arrived at the scene after the crowd had dispersed.
Obura earlier while addressing the crowd promised to empower the young people and women.
He blamed the current crop of leaders for neglecting the common.
The aspirant warned that he would monitor how funds he disbursed to the various groups are used before giving more.
Obura promised to tackle all their problems when elected as the first Mp of Kisumu central which has been hived off Kisumu West and East.
He called on the areas voters to vote for Uhuru Kenyatta
JOE Donde the former Gem MP who is considered as one of the most articulate and highly polished politicians inside Luo-Nyanza is the man moist favored to clinch the powerful position of Siaya County governor come March 4th,2013.
The signs of Donde’s impending victory in the contest for the powerful position of Siaya County governor were visibly witnessed during the last Sunday ODM campaign rally held in Siaya Town and which was attended by a huge crowd of ODM supporters.
The campaign rally was called by the Lands Minister James Aggrey Orengo. The Ugenya MP also used the meeting for officially launching his campaign for the Siaya County Senate seat. The contest for the Siaya County Senate seat has become so controversial due to the fact that it pitted the two regional political power base.
It pitted Orengo and the Finance Assistant Minister Dr. Oburu Odinga, who is the MP for Bondo and the elder brother of the Prime Minister Raila Odinga. So far there are no signs that the PM will come to the aid of his brother. Both Orengo and Dr Oburu Odinga are considered as the closest political advisers of Raila Odnga.
The last Sunday meeting came in the wake of another controversial rally held at the same venue the previous week. The controversial rally was convened by Dr. Oburu Odinga and his supporters. The Finance Assistant Minister also used the rally to launch his campaign for the Siaya County Senate seat.
It turned chaotic when a group of people suspected to the hired goons storm the venue and causing those in attendance to dispersed in disarray after a man carrying a panga {machete} was spotted mingling with the crowd and moving menacingly towards the direction of the dais. Dr Odinga’s security detail and supporters wrestled the man to the ground and beat up u mercilessly before the man was frog-matched to the nearby Siaya Police station where the man was locked up in police custody.
Within minutes the accomplices of the man had regrouped and matched to the police station and storm it with the demand that the man be released forthwith, they too were overpowered and nine of them were apprehended and taken into police custody.
Addressing the mammoth crowd, Orengo said that he had offered his candidature and wanted to serve the Siaya people as their Senate representative, therefore it was jp to the residents of the region to decide. He had come forward and wanted to conduct his campaign in a peaceful manner, adding that he had no feeling of enmity to Dr. Oburu Odinga, it was therefore up to the electorate to decide as to who should be their Senate after the polls slated for March 4, 2013., In attendance were the Sports Minister Dr.Paul Otuoma, Rangwe MP Martin Otieno Ogindo, Alego Usonga MP Edwin Ochieng’ Yinda and the Gem MP Jakoyo Midiwo- who is also the government Chief Whip Jakoyo Midiwo who is also the government Chief Wip and a maternal cousin of Dr.Oburu Odinga., civic leaders from all over Siaya County representing six constituencies.
It emerged that behind the scene reconciliation meetings have been going on for sometime, but these meeting had produce no amicable solution as the two D Odinga and Orengo instead that they will go full length to the ballot boxes.
Jakoyo Midiwo whose mentor is arguably Dr. Oburu Odnga launched the most scathing criticism of the Finance Assistant Minister charging that instead o working for an amicable solution to the issue, he was issuing threats. Leaders in Siaya County had agreed that all the elective positions either in the County governance, national assembly, senate or governorship would be shared proportionately.
In the previous week’s rally convened by Dr.Oburu Odinga which was held in at the same venue, ony one MP ha attended the meeting. He was eng. Nicholas Gumbo the MP for Rarieda who is the only one supporting Dr. Odinga. It has since emerged that the rest of Siaya ODM leadership are firm in their support for Orengo.
In the case of Joe Donde, he will square it with his fellow man from Gem constituency Julius Okinda
Born I the house of a former senior journalist Isau Donde Odinga who retired shortly before his demise in the late 1970 after serving the government in various capacities and finally as the Provincial Information Officer, Nyanza
Soft-spoken and well mannered Joe Donde is also the brother of the former career diplomat at one time Kenya’s Ambassador to Egypt ms Mary Donde who retired after heading many of the country’s diplomatic missions abroad, Joe Donde lost his Gem seat to Jakoyo Midiwo in 1997 and has since kept a low profile preferring to work quietly as an international consultant.
Siaya County has six parliamentary constituencies, namely Raried, Bondo, Gem, Alego-Usonga, Ugenya and the newly created Ukwala which was curve out of Ugenya by the IEBC as part of the newly created addition 80 seats.
Judging from the utterances of the people I the huge crowd which had attended the campaign rally called by Orengo the governorship will definitely go to Joe Donde who is headed for a landside election victory an will be the next Siaya County representative in the Senate.
UNLESS THE GOVERNMENT TAKES STRINGENT SECURITY PRECAUTION MEASURES SOME PARTS OF WESTERN KENYA COULD TURN TO BE CHAOTIC DURING THE NEXT GENERAL ELECTIONS.
News Analysis By Leo Odera Omolo In Kisumu City
ALTHOUGH the usually volatile violence prone Counties in Southern Nyanza and Kisii regions are still quiet with no major ugly incident so far as the county is only five months away from the impeding general elections, reports emerging from Siaya and Kisumu Counties are all painting gloomy future.
Within last week lone the two regions witnessed ugly incidents which should be the matter of grave concern for those responsible for the security and safety of Kenyan citizens. All these incidents are pointing to the direction of shape of things to come during the next general elections which is only five months away.
Two senior politicians in Siaya and Kisumu were forced to flee the venues where they were conducting functions at different venue for their dear lives following the invasion of the venues by marauding, drunken and heavily drugged hired goons.
The two politicians were the Finance Assistant Minister Dr. Oburu Odinga who is also the MP for Bondo. The other one is the Education Assistant Minister Prof. P Ayiecho Olueny who is also the Muhoroni MP.
Olueny was forced out of funeral home in Kaumswa in North East Kano, Nyando district within is Muhoroni constituency in Kisumu County. Prof Olueny was among the hundreds of mourners who had attended the burial of the brother of the Nyando County Council Samuel Onyango Ong’ou..
Scores of people sustained bodily injuries during the commotion with unconfirmed reports that two people were stabbed with knives and sustain serious injuries.
While the funeral program was in progress Prof Olueny’s arrival in Muhoroni political derby James Onyango Koyoo, a Nairobi business man triumphantly stormed the funeral home accompanied by close to 300 rowdy youths sparking off a chaotic and ugly incidents.
The Assistant Minister’s plea for calm and orderly hit the rock. Olueny’s youth and supporters appeared to have been shocked and scared as they were also outnumbered by K’Oyoo’s rowdy goons. Fighting ensued and the mourners took to their heels. It was during the commotion that several people especially elderly men and women were run-over by the fleeing mourners in th4e stampede that followed.
The MP also vanished in the crowd and left the venue.
Prior to his death in a helicopter crash on June 10th the former Assistant Minister for Internal Security the late Joshua Orwa Ojode had suggested that all the funeral gatherings inside Luo-Nyanza would in the future require public meeting s licenses from the police so that the security men could be presence and monitor the proceeding an also to protect the lives and property of the bereaved families an funeral goers.
Unfortunately Ojode died accidentally before putting his suggestion into place. The Minister was reacting to an incident in Kaspul-Kabondo where MPs, ministers, and Councilors were forced out and had to be escorted to safety by the police when the fighting erupted.
During the same weekends the Finance Assistant Minster Dr. Oburu Odinga was forced to cut-short his speech at a campaign public rally in Siaya Tow after a man was spotted among the crowd brandishing a panga {machete} apparently suspected of planning to attack the Assistant Minister wit the weapon.
The man whose name was given only as Otieno was cornered, subdued by the Minister’s security details and supporters who beat him savagely before frog-matching the suspect to the nearby police station where he was take into custody. Within minutes, the suspect’s nine accomplices who had attempted to storm the police station while demanding that the suspect be released from the police custody were also arrested and take into custody.
It later emerged that the group were part of the to of the hired goons to cause mayhem and to intimidate Dr Oburu Odinga who is involve in the cut-throat sot of the campaign for the Siaya County Senate seat which the Lands Minister James Aggrey Orengo is his arch-rival.
What has emerged is that all the Siaya MPs have ganged agaist Dr. Oburu Odinga bid for the Senate seat. They are all favoring his arch-rival the Lands Minister James Aggrey Orengo who is the Ugenya MP. Orengo is also favored by the electorate who feels Dr Odinga candidature is not viable considering that fact the same electorate are being asked to vote for his younger brother the Prime Minister Raila Odinga who all seemed to have agreed to vote for in his presidential bid.
However, one MP has remained neutral over the issue. He is the Alego-Usonga MP Edwin Ochieng Yinda. But the MP has since lost hi patency then he discovered that Dr Oburu Odinga has appointed his formidable challenger in Alego-Usonga parliamentary seat contest Charles Odunga Mamba a wealthy Kisumu hotelier to be one of his campaign manager. MP Yinda has since feel provoked changed his mind and lost his patience and has joined hands with his other parliamentarian colleagues in Siaya in opposing Dr Odinga candidature for the senate seat
Dr Oburu Odinga made an error in drafting Mr Odunga Mamba into his campaign team, and MP Yinda has since read mischief arguing that Dr. Odinga was grooming Mr Odunga Mmba to grab is Alego Usonga seat. Mp Yinda who is arguably one of the wealthiest Luo MP and businessmen
And representing a constituency which covered Siaya Town, things seemed to work against .Oburu Oginga, who at later date might find himself confined strictly to conduct his campaign inside his Bondo consttuency.
All the Siaya MPs including Dr Oburu Ognga’s own cousin Jakoyo Midiwo {Gem} Nicholas Gumbo {Rarieda and Edwin Ochieng’ Yinda Alego Usonga are vehemently opposed to Dr.Odinga candidature I the Senate contesting. They have been joined by civic leaders from all the six constituencies of Alego-Usonga, Rarieda, Bondo, Gem, Ugenya and the newly created Ukwala.
They consider Dr. Oburu Odinga ambition to grab the Siaya Senate seat as part of the excessive arrogance on the part of members of the Odinga family. Dr.Odinga younger sister Ruth Adhiambo Odinga is vying for Kismu County governor position to the chagrins of the local people.
The popular saying now is that members of the Odinga family who wished to contest any elective seat should do so in side their Bondo district which their home turf and not elsewhere, but all agreed to support Raila’s presidential ambition.
A prominent politician in Homa-bay County has called upon the ODM board of election to reconsider the possibility of postponing the party’s primary nomination dates from December 4/5 to another suitable date towards the end of the same month.
Dr Mark Matunga, who is also an aspirant for the Homa-Bay County governor position cited the KCE national examination, which would be taking pace at the same, adding this could have an adverse implication on the performance of students.
“Most schools classrooms will be used as polling stations, counting halls, wile candidates will be traversing the villages while making a lot of noisy through signings and blowing loudspeakers and aujas, vuvusellas and drums. The campaign noises in villages which are located next school could have negative effect on the performance of students sitting for national exam.
Moreover many teachers would be engaged as counting clerks, supervisors, returning officers and counting clerks at the time when they would be required to invigilate and supervise the exam to ensure that their student performed ell at the exam.
D Matunga has suggested that the ODM primary nomination dates be pushed forward to after December 20th . This will be after the schools re closed and the student gone hoe for the end of the year school holidays so the campaign noises will have no negative effect on the student’s performance.
He said his calls for the postponement of the ODM primary nominations must not be construed as meaning he is opposed to the party tentative nominate program, but feels that the logic must prevail, because Kenya valued education of their children highly.
Meanwhile the information emerging from the Suba region of the greater southern Nyanza says that Dr. Matunga is currently the leading contender for the Homa-Bay County governor position is under heavy pressure to switch his candidature fro that of the County governor and contest the Mbita parliamentary seat.
The aspirant who hails from Mfangano Island in Mbita district has yet to respond to the voters demand nor could he be reached for his reaction and comments on the latest demand could not could be reached through mobile phone.
Mbita constituency which was originally part of the Lambwe constituency which was established in 1961 has had half a doze of MPS previously, but none has ever come from Mfangano Island.
The first MP for Lambwe Valley constituency was Dr Joseph Gordo Odero-Jowi from Karungu in what is today Nyatike constituency. This was during the Lancaster Constitution, which had a tri-cameral parliamentary system with the National Assembly.
The late Senator Sellemiah Mbeo-Onyango from Mfangano was elected to represent the entire larger South Nyanza district I the Senate. But when the tri-cameral parliamentary system together with regional assemblies were abolished following the constitutional changes of 1965/1966 which were effected by an ct of Parliament, a new Mbita constituency was created after Lambwe constituency was sub-divided into two with the creation of Mbita constituency specifically to accommodate the South Nyanza district Senator. The late Mbeo Onyango therefore become the first MP for Mbita.
Under this new arrangement Dr. Oero-Jowi switched his political cmp to the newly created Ndhiwa prliamentary seat.
In the 1969 general election, the Late Mbeo-Onyango defended his seat, but he was trounced by a fellow islander George Osingo Migure from Rusinga Island. Migure, however, lasted for only five year one terms, and the seat was gabbed by the late Aphonce Okuku , the younger brother of the late Tom Mboya
Alphonce Okuku hails from Rusinga Island. He successfully defended his seat in 1974, but lost badly to Peter Clever Otieno Nyakiamo in 1983.BOTH Okuku and Nyakiamo served in the cabinet of President Moi as an Assistant Minister and full cabinet minister respectively.
Nyakiamo was from Kaksingiri in what is now Suba South, although he had a family root in Wakula sb-clan who are his uncles and who lives in Mfangano Island whose Wasiambi sub-clan lives in Kakasingiri, he was defeated was won by the former Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Works Dr. Valentie Omolo–Opere who whose time as Mbita MP saw the constituency being splinted into two with the creation of Gwassi constituency into two with the creation of Gwassi constituency, and the late Dr. Valentine Omolo Opere, another person from the mainland. Omolo Opere lost the seat to Felix Nyauchi a Nairobi lawyer who who the seat during the euphoria of Ford-Kenya in the 1992 first multiparty elections.
It was during Nyauchi time when the constituency was splinted into two with creation of Gwassi. Nyauchi as trounced by a Nairobi businessman Zadock Syong’o in1997 while during the same period of time Gerald OtenKajwang.won the Mbita seat and successfully defended it n2002 an 2007. Kajwang’ hail from Waondo in Gembe location in Lambwe Division. Looking deeply at the background of Mbita constituency, one could easily see that it is the residents of Mfangano Island who have yet to produce a parliamentary representative in Mbita ever since the inception of the constituency, though their voting strength is almost equal to those of the registered voters in the twin-Rusinga Island.
All the previous representatives have either come for the mainland or the neighboring Rusinga Ind, hence a strong demand by the residents of Mfangano that this time they be given a chance to produce one of their own as the next MP.
The Islanders have picked on Dr Matunga. However,Dr Matunga’s candidature, however, would complicate things for the Nominated MP Millie Odhiambo who hails from their neighboring Rusinga Island and who is so popular in Mbita at the moment an expected to sail through easily. This is because Dr.Mutunga is arguably the mentor of Milie Odhiambo.
The two have had a good rapport and cordial working relationship on friendly term, and people in the region expect Dr. Matunga to lend a hand of support by backing Ms Odhiambo in her bid to be elected as the next Mbita MP and she is equally expected to campaign for Dr.Matunga bid for the Homa-Bay County governor position.
Although she could be termed as a young firebrand legislator, Millie has performed very well in parliament even above the average of men and women sitting in the current 10th parliament. She has been an effective contributor to almost every local and international issue when such issues comes up for debate in the house to the house for debate. She has proved to be so eloquent an effective and formidable debater and one whose leadership has been tasted as a leader.
Since both Matunga and Odhiambo had one background of being the indignant Suba, and belonging to the two Islands whose inhabitants have the same background voters in the Sub region would like to see both Odhiambo an Matunga serving in senior positions in the next government an parliament.
Both Odhiambo an Matunga are wit armed with proper educational background and working experience.
This writer could not reach either the two, Odhiambo and Matunga to clarify these rumors, though the rumor about heavy pressure being put on Matunga to switch from contesting the governorship to that of Mbita parliament is so rampant in Mbita town and its environs.
Sorry my darling………I sincerely apologize. I left both my b/berry and Droit charging and kind of put them on silent mode….then I was out of the network……So, it is the reason I did not get any of your messages and from others alike.
All my mind and everything was focused on Joe Biden coming on stage and everything else in between was like wasting my time and frustrating my focus.
In short, Biden did exactly what I looked-forward and expected he would do. He proved that fact that, Presidential Leadership is not anywhere close to salesmanship job. It requires tact, forecast and strategy……trategy is maths which you must calculate…….you must have a plan to get it right……
Joe was Joe we all love………He dominated the Debate and did not give the Lad any chance to spew lies but took opportunity to school him and straighten him out. Joe laid his facts passionately and clearly with decorum and captivated every moment of the time. I was thrilled and very happy to see how Paul Ryan scrambled and tried his best even as he tried “at short quick intervals” to lubricate his mouth and throat with sips of water, he did not find escape route…. his throat kept drying….Joe Biden was on him like he could not believe what he saw……..
Ryan tried to steady jabs without clear facts or substances; but however much he tried, blows kept coming towards him. At one point he was reminded by Joe about a referenced evidence at Joe Biden’s website, which he benefited from a stimulant package for Reform he officially sent requested through Biden and for which Ryan has never spoken about or showed appreciation……….It is true, one cannot eat and pooh on the same place you ate from…..but atleast with human empathy, there should be some kind of a show of recognition where someone has done some good………Give Credit where Credit is Due……..In addition, Ryan was reminded about shared sacrifice in unity of purpose more or so when the Country is under attack…..People come together and plan and share common values……..and, Joe Biden took opportunity to remind the audience and people watching from the comfort of their homes and across the world, how much President Obama sacrificed and achieved since taking office and the reason why America is respected all over the world which is why the world can look back and be proud that the world is free from terrorist attacks and ………there are more good things to come.
Joe made my night and my words were finished…….I am soo happy and many people I believe feel the same…….I have not yet found the right words to use…….I am still gathering momentum………I am proud of Joe and those of like minded because I know we have very many good people out there and we shall have a wonderful world full of Peace and happiness……
Judy Miriga
Diaspora Spokesperson
Executive Director
Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc.,
USA
http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com
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Watch This……See why Ryan is a Lad to be schooled.
Joe Biden vs Paul Ryan – Vice Presidential Debate 2012 – FULL VP DEBATE
Published on Oct 11, 2012 by JamaicanMon
VP Debate
Condescending Paul doesn’t want you to worry your pretty little head about all the complicated math.
Complete Vice Presidential Debate 2012: Joe Biden vs. Paul Ryan – Oct 11, 2012 – Elections 2012
Streamed live on Oct 11, 2012 by TheNewYorkTimes
Debate pre- show overview. History of debates. Watching the debates with social media. Biden Ryan Vice Presidential Debate. Comprehensive Debate Fact Checking
Vice Presidential debate review: Joe Biden and Paul Ryan grinned like sharks, biting each other
Thu, 11 Oct 2012 19:47:00
VP debate tees up closing issues for Romney, Obama
By NANCY BENAC and PHILIP ELLIOTT | Associated Press –
DANVILLE, Ky. (AP) — In a spirited debate that laid out stark choices, Joe Biden and Paul Ryan teed up pointed arguments on the economy, social policy and America’s place in the world that President Barack Obama and GOP rival Mitt Romney now will drive forward into the campaign’s final stretch.
With just 25 days to go in Campaign 2012 and throngs of people already voting, Obama and Romney will try to answer two questions that their running mates posed to the tens of millions of Americans who watched Thursday’s hard-fought, 90-minute debate.
“Who do you trust?” Biden asked.
“Wouldn’t it be nice to have a job-creator in the White House?” asked Ryan.
Biden, eager to make up for the president’s lackluster performance in his first debate with Romney, played the aggressor throughout. And the president gave his running mate a quick thumbs up for delivering with the energy and feeling that he did not.
“His passion for making sure that the economy grows for the middle class came through so I’m really proud of him,” Obama said after watching the debate aboard Air Force One on the way home after a day of campaigning in battleground Florida.
Ryan came back at the vice president with harsh talking points, a flurry of statistics and a sharp economic warning: In another Obama term, he said, “Watch out, middle class, the tax bill’s coming to you.”
Romney, who watched the debate at the end of a campaign day in North Carolina, got on the phone to Ryan immediately afterward to congratulate his running mate.
Now attention shifts to the two remaining debates between Obama and Romney: Tuesday’s “town hall” style faceoff in Hempstead, N.Y., and a final showdown, over foreign policy, on Oct. 22 in Boca Raton, Fla.
And the campaigns get right back into the thick of it on Friday, looking for ways large and small to shift more voters their direction in the small number of states whose electoral votes are still up for grabs: Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Ohio, New Hampshire, Nevada, North Carolina, Virginia and Wisconsin.
Look for Romney in Virginia and then linking up with Ryan in Ohio. Biden and wife Jill will woo young voters at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. Obama will spend a rare day in Washington, preparing for the next two debates and taking campaign contest winners out to eat.
With so little time left in the countdown to Nov. 6, “every day, every hour counts,” said Rahm Emanuel, the Chicago mayor who served as Obama’s first White House chief of staff. “Everything counts.”
The president has set aside a serious chunk of time for preparation after being faulted for underestimating the importance of his first debate with Romney. He’ll be hunkered down in Williamsburg, Va., from Saturday until Tuesday rehearsing, with Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass, acting as a proxy for Romney.
Romney’s return to Ohio this weekend signals the importance of a state seen by both sides as the decisive to the whole election. Obama holds the edge there.
Obama had to hope that Biden’s solid showing on Thursday was enough to shift a campaign dynamic that has had the momentum moving Romney’s way since the first debate. Romney, for his part, had to hope that Ryan’s performance would keep up the good karma for the GOP.
The running mates clearly sensed that the stakes were higher than usual for their faceoff, and both played hardball throughout, frequently interrupting one another and challenging one another’s assertions.
On television’s split screens, Biden’s body language — a montage of pained smiles, winces, head shakes and eye rolls — often screamed incredulity when Ryan was speaking.
“I know you’re under a lot of duress to make up for lost ground,” Ryan shot back at Biden at one point, “but I think people would be better served if we don’t keep interrupting each other.”
In one of the night’s lighter moments, Ryan helpfully provided a translation of one of Biden’s putdowns.
“This is a bunch of stuff,” Biden said of Ryan’s dismissive characterization of the president’s Iran policy.
“What does that mean, a bunch of stuff?” asked moderater Martha Raddatz of ABC News.
“It’s Irish,” Ryan offered.
“It is,” Biden agreed, to laughter from the audience. “We Irish call it malarkey.”
At another point, Ryan used Biden’s own history of gaffes to explain away Romney’s much-criticized comment dismissing the 47 percent of Americans who pay no taxes, a comment that Biden brought up repeatedly after Obama had failed to mention it in his debate.
“I think the vice president very well knows that sometimes the words don’t come out of your mouth the right way,” Ryan said.
There were spirited exchanges on taxes, abortion, Medicare, Libya, and more. It may not have broken new ground, but the conversation gave viewers a clear illustration of the sharp choices before them come Election Day.
“In case you haven’t noticed, we have strong disagreements,” Biden said in his closing statement. And then he distilled the Democrats’ campaign pitch into a simple bid to give anxious Americans “a little bit of peace of mind.”
Ryan then spoke of the “big choice” in this election, and argued that Obama had had his chance and failed.
“This is not what a real recovery looks like,” he said. “You deserve better.”
For all of the political back-and-forth that’s transpired over the past two months, the race essentially stands where it was in August, before the two national political conventions, with the two candidates running about even in national polls.
There’s been no shortage of drama in between: the revelation of Romney’s caught-on-tape comment about the 47 percent, Biden’s remark that the middle class has been “buried” in the past four years, Obama’s weak showing in the first debate, the ongoing tussle over the administration’s handling of the attack that left four Americans dead in Benghazi, Libya, and more.
With turnout critical, both campaigns are devoting considerable energy to ensuring that supporters are registered to vote and taking advantage of the early voting options that are available in many states. Nearly a million Americans have already voted.
The Democrats’ month-long “gotta vote” bus tour will be in Milwaukee on Friday, just in time to rev up supporters for the opening of Wisconsin’s early voting season on Monday.
And both sides are keeping up the push for campaign contributions to keep the battleground-state airwaves full of political ads. Within a few hours of the debate, Romney, Obama and Biden all were out with emails to their supporters, asking for more cash.
When I launched my bid for presidency five years ago, I made a solemn commitment to the people of Kenya to tackle the problems that continue to keep the country in a state of backwardness and under-performance. I particularly singled out the rehabilitation and improvement of infrastructure as being fundamental. Today, many roads have been rehabilitated and many new ones constructed. The railway system, which had virtually collapsed, is slowly but steadily regaining its place as a major mode of transport. Air and marine transport have also received due attention. So, our country is once again moving its people and goods. We can and will do more. We have also witnessed unprecedented investment in energy resources, with special attention given to renewable energy. Water and irrigation infrastructure has equally received keen attention. Continued investment in infrastructure still remains my top priority.
However, as we continue to focus attention on the foregoing, we cannot ignore one single challenge that confronts the people of Kenya today – creating jobs for our people, especially the youth. The need for creating more employment opportunities is informed by an open unemployment rate of 15%. Many of our graduates from the universities, tertiary institutions, vocational training centres and secondary schools find themselves roaming the streets of major urban centres in search of non-existent jobs.
The last census results indicate an increase in the dependent population at 42% (of which the largest proportion are fulltime students) compared to 33.9% in 1999. This places an inordinate burden on the economy. With an increasing dependency ratio, an expanding labour force, coupled with low employment levels, unemployment is a major problem. To tackle the problem of unemployment, I will introduce the following, among other measures:
Roll out a ten-year investment promotion programme and give incentives to domestic and foreign investors based on four key criteria: the number of jobs created, foreign exchange earned/saved, local inputs used and technology transferred.
Reform and restructure the Kenya Industrial Estates (KIE) into a Kenya Industrial and Enterprise Development Agency (KIEDA). The agency will establish full-fledged Business Incubation Centers in each county, which will act as business incubation hubs for promising investments.
Work with county governments to establish at least one major industry in each county.
Facilitate the establishment of modern, green industries that meet domestic consumption and export needs;
Encourage and give incentives to banks and other financial institutions to finance industrialization.
Focus education and training systems to be more responsive to the needs of the national and global economies, including the needs of a well skilled workforce.
Establish and fund centers of excellence in technology innovation in all counties.
Increase the level of investment in research and development from the current level of 0.3 to 2.5% of the GDP; and
Put in place a progressive tax policy to encourage savings and investments.
This is Kenya’s moment to courageously confront the challenges and reclaim the dream of our founding fathers of conquering poverty, disease and ignorance. My principal promise to all Kenyans in the next five years is to develop and implement effective policies for expanding decent employment opportunities in Kenya in all sectors.
I believe together we will.
Yours Sincerely,
Raila Amolo Odinga
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http://raila-odinga.com/new/splash.php
From: Lenore Palladino, MoveOn.org Political Action
Dear MoveOn member,
Danger! Mitt Romney now leads President Obama 49% to 45% in the respected Pew Research poll.
And listen to this: Women are the key to this dramatic change, as Obama’s election-winning, 18-point lead among women voters was completely wiped out. Absolutely gone.1
It’s no wonder, given the stunning media silence lately on the dangers Romney represents for women’s rights and health. But we’ve got a great way to change all that and help get Obama’s lead back with women voters.
Scarlett Johansson, Eva Longoria, and Kerry Washington have teamed up with director Rob Reiner to make an absolutely knock-your-socks-off TV ad reminding American women of the terrible consequences of a Romney presidency.
It has the star power to cut through the noise and grab the media’s attention, but we need to raise $400,000 to run it during TV shows with lots of women viewers in key swing states like Florida and Ohio.
The seismic shift in the women’s vote toward Romney happened during a gaping media void on his terrible policies affecting American women—but we haven’t forgotten:
He called Roe v. Wade “one of the darkest moments in Supreme Court history,” and he could be appointing up to three Supreme Court justices.2
He would “get rid” of Planned Parenthood, let employers decide a woman’s contraception coverage, and let insurance companies charge women more.3
He picked Paul Ryan as his running mate—a man who tried to redefine rape in his efforts to limit a woman’s right to choose.4
We’ve got a way to help get the president’s lead back with women voters. And it means putting you together with stars of stage and screen Scarlett Johansson, Eva Longoria, and Kerry Washington.
Thanks for all you do.
–Lenore, Wes, Stephen, Joan, and the rest of the team
Sources:
1. “Romney erases Obama’s advantage among women in new poll,” The New York Post, October 9, 2012
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=282325&id=54390-21095459-vUkYqSx&t=4
2. “On Anniversary Of Roe, Romney Condemns Decision As ‘One Of The Darkest Moments In Supreme Court History,'” Think Progress, January 23, 2012
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=275560&id=54390-21095459-vUkYqSx&t=5
“Three Current Supreme Court Justices Will Turn 80 Before The End Of The Next Presidential Term,” Think Progress, February 6, 2012
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=282306&id=54390-21095459-vUkYqSx&t=6
3. “Mitt Romney On Planned Parenthood: We Will ‘Get Rid’ Of It,” The Huffington Post, March 13, 2012
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=274362&id=54390-21095459-vUkYqSx&t=7
“Amid confusion, Mitt Romney says he does support Blunt amendment,” The Boston Globe, March 1, 2012
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=282334&id=54390-21095459-vUkYqSx&t=8
“Romney health care law anniversary overshadowed,” CNN Political Ticker, April 12, 2012
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=275565&id=54390-21095459-vUkYqSx&t=9
“Gender Gap Persists in Cost of Health Insurance,” The New York Times, March 19, 2012
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=275566&id=54390-21095459-vUkYqSx&t=10
4. “How Todd Akin And Paul Ryan Partnered To Redefine Rape,” Think Progress, August 19, 2012
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=279207&id=54390-21095459-vUkYqSx&t=11
Birth control, Planned Parenthood, equal pay laws, the right to earned family leave, and the right to control our own bodies and health care decisions are all issues that have dominated the political debate this year–but not one of these issues came up in the first presidential debate, even though that debate was supposed to cover all topics under the banner of “domestic policy.”
Now we have an opportunity to fix that–but we’ve got less than 12 hours to make it happen.
The Commission on Presidential Debates has launched a public site where anyone can submit a question to be considered for the Oct. 16 debate. This is our chance! If enough of us submit questions about these core issues that matter deeply to women–who make up a majority of the electorate–there’s a real chance one or more will make it into the debate.
The deadline for questions is TONIGHT at 11:59 PM ET, so get your question in right away. Whether it’s reproductive freedom, equal pay, domestic violence, or birth control, your question deserves to be answered. Getting these questions into the debate will come down to whether enough of us weigh in and in big enough numbers to make a real impression.
So far, just over 1,000 questions have been submitted. That means, with nearly 375,000 UltraViolet members, we have a huge opportunity to make sure questions about issues that matter to women—from contraception, choice and abortion, to equal pay, domestic violence, and family leave policies—are noticed.
We can’t let the final domestic policy debate go by without these important issues being addressed. Women are 52% of the population, and all of these issues impact not just women, but our families, the economy, and all of society.
The presidential election is less than 30 days away. Now is when millions of voters are just beginning to tune in and pay attention to what the candidates have to say, so this upcoming debate on October 16 will be crucial. All voters, women and men, deserve to know where the presidential candidates stand on these important issues.
Check out the site and submit your question today.
http://www.google.com/moderator/#16/e=1fe6a2
Scores of people were arrested and taken into police custody in Siaya Town on Monday following an attempt by a group of suspected hired political goon attempted to disrupt the ODM campaign rally.
The meeting turned chaotic after a man who was spotted brandishing a machete and suspected to be preparing to attack the Finance Assistant Minister Dr. Oburu Odinga was beaten savagely before being frog-matched to Siaya Police Station where he was taken into custody.
Siaya police Chief Stephen Cheteka confirmed the incident. The man whose name was given as simple as Otieno had attempted to disrupt the meeting. This prompted the youth allied t Dr Oburu Odinga to swang into action pounced on the panga man, and unleashed kicks and blows on the him before pinning the suspect to the ground
His nine other accomplices were also cornered by the police and taken into custody bring the number of those arrested to ten.
The multiple sources in Siaya town the battle for the coveted Siaya County Senate seat has turned nasty with the supporters of the two leading contenders for the seat threatening to unleash terror to each other.
The Siaya County Senate seat is being contested by two political giants in the region, namely the Lands Minister James Aggrey Orengo and the Finance Assistant Minister Dr.Oburu Odinga, who is also the elder brother of the Prime Minister Raila Odinga
Concerted efforts have been made by the stakeholders, sitting MPs from the region include to have the two men reconciled in vain. Each one of the two politicians is insisting that they would full length to the ballot box, and that none is wiling to stand down for the other, though both of them are staunch member of the ODM.
Information reaching us and rumors making the rounds in Siaya town says, Orengo is having the upper hand and would definitely touch Dr. Oburu Odinga, whose candidature appeared to have the blessing of the resident of only in two parliamentary constituencies, namely Bondo and Rarieda.
Siaya County has six parliamentary constituencies, namely Gem, Ugenya, Ukwala, Alego-Usonga, Rarieda and Bondo. Orengo has the upper hand in the other four constituencies and he is expected to perform better than Dr.Oburu Odinga.
Orengo’s campaign has yet to hit the ground, the Minister is, however, said to be using his proxies who have amounted elaborate and effective campaign and hunt for votes all over Siaya County.
Information making the round is that the electorate have unanimously agreed that they would vote for the Prime Minister Raila Odinga on man-to-man in his presidential bid but are said not to be very comfortable with Dr. Oburu Odinga’s candidature for the Senate seat.
Information emerging from Bondo itself say that a sharp division has emerged between the two major sub-clans residing in Bondo district, namely Jo-Sakwa, Dr. Oburu Odinga’s own sub-clan and who have the majority of the registered voters and the Jo-Yimbo, who are the minority sub-can shariung Bon
The Bondo parliamentary seat has remained the exclusive preserve of the Jo-Sakwa ever since its inception in 1963 starting with the late Jaramogi Oginga Odinga as its first MP.Dr Oburu Odinga has represented the area for close to 19 years ever since the death of his father Jaramogi Ogings Odinga in January 1994.
The popular opinion making the round is that it is time the Odinga family to vacate this seat for another man from Jo-Yimbo. This has came about following the rumor that Dr. Oburu Odinga had panned to front son Elijah Abonyo Oburu to succeed him as the next Bondo MP, while he himself settle in the Senate.
This is the issue, which those proxies campaigning for Minister Orengo against Dr. Oburu Odinga are reported to be exploiting to the maximum.If The campaign by the two goes to full length and the two fail to agree, the electorate might switch their support to the Roman Catholic former Nun Sister Agnes Awuor who is contesting or the Siaya Senate seat as an independent candidate.
The former nun is reported to have been sacked by the Vatican for having joined politics which is contrary to the doctrine of the Catholic Church. But on the ground her name and euphoria is sweeping the region like Tsunami. She is the one to watch because she is increasingly attracting the women and youth votes and she could the two political giants of Siaya a run for their money.
On the election of the Siaya County governor, the name of the former Gem MP Joe Odonde is sweeping the region. He is contesting against another fellow from Gem Julius Okinda.
A Parliamentary aspirant in the newly created Awendo parliamentary electoral constituency has pledged that he would struggle hard to ensure that the much exploited sugar cane farmers get the better return for their crops.
He will work hand in hand with the Provincial Administration and to ensure police authorities in a joint concerted effort to get rid of cattle rustling, thuggery and insecurity in the small farming town of Awendo and it environs..
Joseph Otieno Owuor who is billed to be in the forefront of beating his rivals and a possible favorite of the electorate in the forthcoming contest the in the new constituency which was recently curved out of the old Rongo constituency said sugar cane farmers working within the sugar cane growing zones of the Awendo-based SonySugar company have a bone to chew with the management the facility.
He accused SonySugar for having made the unilateral decision to reducing the cane prices from K.shs 4.800 per ton to Kshs 3,800 per ton arguing this radical reduction would seriously hurt the cane growers economically.
SonySugar management made such drastic decision without consultation with the stakeholders, who is in this context are the cane farmers in the region. The reduction has negative impact on the income of the farmers.
The move is viewed as one way of impoverishing the cane growers, taking into account the current exorbitant prices of farm inputs. The cane growers still faces extra costs, including the costs of harvesting an transportation from the field to the factory which leaves them with only a peanut payment for their cane bills.
Owuor was speaking during an exclusive interview with this writer at his rural home near Dede market in Central Sakwa Location, Awendo district within Migori County. He said poverty index I the area remained high despite of high circulation of money in the areas as a result of sugar cane farming, production of made sugar and its sales by SonySugar, and something must be done to arrest the situation before it got out of hand
Owuor who is currently serving the Minister for public Services Dalmas Otieno as his Personal Assistant {PA} said members of the farming fraternity in the Awendo cane growing zones have a lot of grievances to complaint about, and which must be addressed urgently.
The farmer’s complaints are genuine and need to be addressed, taking into account that farm input such as fertilizers, labor and other overheads
“The costs of harvesting and transportation have also gone up threefold, exposing the cane farmers to a lot of suffering. Some of them could not adequately feed their family and at the some time pay school fees for their school-going children, hence the need for the prices of raw cane to e o the upward trend all the time.,” said Owuor.
Touching on the rate of crime waves in the region Owuor said this has impacted negatively on the business community in Awendo town and traders in the outlaying marketplaces.
The problem, he added, has come about because of the recent influx of so many people into the small farming town of Awendo and its environs. These people have come from all over Nyanza Province and beyond in search of green pasture and business opportunities, but some of them are suspected as having dangerous past criminal records and needed some kind of vetting by the local chiefs and police before they were readily allowed to access rental houses in Awendo town which they are using as hideouts while executing their heinous crimes.
Owwor scathingly criticized Awendo zonal director who represented the zone in the Kenya Sugar Board for working in isolation without effectively engaging the management of the Awendo-based SonySugar Company into a dialogue on various issues and problems affecting the cane farmers.
The KSB director for Awendo zone is Zachariah Okoth Obado who’s working relations with top manger of SonySugar Company is reportedly not very cordial.”The area KSB director is not serving the best interest of the farmers.
Owuor appealed to youth and women to register s voters in their thousands when the exercise started. This, he said, is the only way of ensuring that they voted for the ODM leader Raila Odinga to realize his presidential ambition and also to ensure that the party secure good number of MPs in the next parliament.
He said by registering in large number as voters the residents of Awendo district and Migori County would give the ODM a comfortable victory at the next polls,” The Wananchi must also ensure they enrolled as party paid up members to facilitate their active participation I the day to day activities of ODM in their localities.’
Owuor urged the ODM leadership to soldier on with the votes hunting campaign while ignoring the activities of political turn-coats and party hoppers who have fled fro the party in search of green pasture in other parties hoping to lay their hands in the campaign resources which is said to be in abundance and unlimited supplies plus ill-gotten drugs money included.
Owuor who is facing three other aspirants vying or the same seat is believed to be somehow much experienced in public affairs, having gained a lot of experience during his services with Dalmas Otieno, which has exposed him to access the operations of the government system works, while most of his rivals for the same seat are said to be green horns.
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photo of Joseph Owuor an aspirant for the Awendio parliamentary seat on
We are headed to the right direction and President Obama is right……It cannot be said better than the attached videos….. Being the first Black President, having taken the country from the brink of collapse with a burden that accumulated for about more than 30 Years; he worked hard to put the country on the right track; benefits of which will be reaped for many years to come. The result is not showing perfection not yet because those plans that has been planted by President Obama and team has to take full turn to be effective. It has to permeate every fiber and tendrils and fizzle through every limb of economic veins to make alive parts that were already frozen and collapsed so that economy bounce can be fully felt by everyone and also that it in effect remain stable and sustainable even more effective for a very long time.
The driver of the Reform that provided the improvement cannot be thrown out to bring a new driver; not just yet…….Why?……….It is because the economy is still too weak to be played around-with by those who brought us into this mess in the first place. This is the very reason why President Obama should be given a second chance to complete what he started and so to give America a Clean Bill of Good Health. This must be done if we want the change to get better so life can be of meaning to all of us in a balance where every one has a shot for opportunity to improve their own lifestyles. This is a structure for Peace and Unity people……….it reduces reasons to conflict, hate and animosity because there is not need to fight when people have equal opportunity for access to what they need without discrimination racial biasness or the Rich get richer and the Poor Poorer…….
President Obama is offering the best leadership across the whole world effects of which will soon be felt and manifested by all immediately when Peace and unity abounds and conflicts conclusively resolved……This is why he is different from all other Presidents and may we all give Credit to where Credit is due…….Obama is working for all of us……..
Cheers everybody…….
Judy Miriga
Diaspora Spokesperson
Executive Director
Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc.,
USA
http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com
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Martin Bashir – Romney, job ‘truthers’ cry foul after positive jobs report
Published on Oct 5, 2012 by Licentiathe8th
Oct 5, 2012
MSNBC analyst Jonathan Alter and Democratic strategist Julian Epstein pick apart mounting conspiracy theories about today’s jobs report — promulgated by some Republicans and conservative pundits — that say President Obama somehow doctored the numbers.
very informative , and honest journalism. Thank? you.
storm10862 days ago
The ED Show – The death of a talking point….Bilo 8%
Published on Oct 5, 2012 by Licentiathe8th
Oct 5, 2012
For years Republicans have been attacking President Obama for not getting the unemployment rate below eight percent. But with today’s news, their attack is officially dead. Tonight Ed Schultz takes a look back at some of their greatest hits with Democratic strategist Chris Kofinis.
This? is 7.8% beautiful to watch
Tyrone Thrower44 minutes ago
We need to flush boehner and his henchmen out of congress to keep? unemployment on the low.
koukimonzta1 day ago
It looks like the Dem. will take the Senate. The House is a problem. Another lame duck Congress… you’d think people would be sick of seeing the Republicans blocking everything by now.
This was good news of course. ? But unless the Dem. take the House its all a moot point as nothing will get done even with Obama winning.
FuzzyBunnyCursing2 days ago
The Last Word – Rewriting the debate: Nobody won
Published on Oct 5, 2012 by Licentiathe8th
Oct 4, 2012
The political media covers presidential debates as if they are sporting events. MSNBC’s Lawrence explains why that’s a big mistake in the latest Rewrite.
OMFG ROFLMFAO!!!!
That was a perfect analogy and 100% correct!?
9753flyer2 days ago
This is truly a great video…Please listen and watch this one..all of it..But, watch the last 20 seconds…Those last 20 seconds are incredible…thanks for? posting…this is a great one..
quite outstanding..and I have seen hundreds of the….Stuart
stuartarticles2 days ago
The Last Word – Obama mocks Romney’s ‘crackdown’ on Big Bird
Published on Oct 5, 2012 by Licentiathe8th
Oct 4, 2012
Mitt Romney wants to try and balance the budget by getting rid of Big Bird which will save exactly a miniscule fraction of the federal budget. MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell gets analysis from TheGrio.com’s Joy Reid.
Chris Hayes Takes Us Through The Looking Glass Of Republican (Mitt Romney) Fuzzy Tax Math
Published on Oct 6, 2012 by incitebytes
Clip from October 6, 2012, Up with Chris Hayes where Chris takes a moment to take us through the looking glass of Republican fuzzy tax math. Chris clearly explains why presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s statements literally don’t add up when it comes to the looming tax bonanza for rich folk under Romney’s policies.
The ED Show – Mitt Romney’s Big Bird problem
Published on Oct 5, 2012 by Licentiathe8th
Oct 5, 2012
Mitt Romney continues to feel the heat for saying that he’d gut federal funding for PBS. Ed Schultz and MSNBC analyst Karen Finney discuss what Romney’s cuts would really mean.
honor student since 1995, thanks Sesame Street?
devmanification2 days ago
The ED Show – Romney gets big boost from coal company
Published on Oct 5, 2012 by Licentiathe8th
Oct 5, 2012
Mitt Romney is getting a big boost from a major coal company. According to a new report from The New Republic, Murray Energy CEO Robert Murray makes his salaried employees give to Republican candidates as well as the company PAC. The New Republic’s Alec MacGillis tells Ed Schultz what he learned about this prominent coal company.
Nothing from Bob Fatass Murray should surprise anyone.?
MsZeitgeist852 days ago 4
poor coal miners? had to attend that shit rally for Romney..that is criminal.. the boss is a criminal
xadam2dudex2 days ago 2
For those who don’t know who Bob Murray is go watch TYT’s story on the Utah mine collapse. ?
MsZeitgeist8513 hours ago
Theres no such thing as “clean coal”. Thats? an outright lie.
obamasmomma691 day ago
Osama Dead? GM Alive -Obama 2012
JewsChristiansUnited11 minutes ago
Obama on jobs report: We’ve “come too far to turn back now”
By Lindsey Boerma /
CBS News/ October 5, 2012, 1:45 PM
President Obama speaks at a campaign event at George Mason University, Friday, Oct. 5, 2012, in Fairfax, Va. / AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster
Celebrating a September jobs report that showed the lowest unemployment level since he took office, President Obama on Friday tried to make the case at a Fairfax, Va., rally that “this country has come too far to turn back now.”
The Labor Department announced Friday that employers added 114,000 jobs last month, and the unemployment rate fell to 7.8 percent – a welcome gift for the president, up against newfound momentum from GOP nominee Mitt Romney. Positive news about Americans finding work could help to tip the scale in the incumbent’s favor, something Mr. Obama half-joked about Friday.
Obama on jobs report: We’ve come “too far to turn back now”
“For the ‘undecideds’ who are here,” he said to laughter in the crowd, “as well as those who are watching today – I’ve said before, this is a choice not just between two candidates and two parties, but a choice between two fundamentally different visions for America. And today, I believe that as a nation, we are moving forward again. We’re moving forward again.”
While the president acknowledged there are still “too many of our friends and neighbors” looking for work, he argued, “they were struggling long before the crisis hit.”
“Today’s news certainly is not an excuse to try to talk down the economy to score a few political points,” he continued after talking up the jobs numbers for a minute and a half. “It’s a reminder that this country has come too far to turn back now.”
Mr. Obama also continued to mock Romney’s performance Wednesday at the first presidential debate – which pundits have largely awarded to the GOP nominee – calling his policy arguments an “extreme makeover” from his primary platform.
Obama: Romney “fact-checked by his own campaign”
After Romney claimed in the debate that he’d cover preexisting conditions under his health care plan, the president said, “I explained, ‘Well actually your plan doesn’t do that.’ And then his campaign has to come out and say, ‘Actually, that’s not true, our plan wouldn’t do that.’ So Gov. Romney was fact-checked by his own campaign. That’s rough.”
And though Romney on Thursday night called “completely wrong” a remark he made privately that 47 percent of Americans are dependent on government and consider themselves “victims,” Mr. Obama didn’t let up on the comments, saying Romney proved he is “willing to write off half the nation” before even taking office. He also kept up his ridicule of Romney’s promise to cut federal funding to PBS as a way to bring down the deficit.
“For all you moms and kids out there, don’t worry,” Mr. Obama said, “somebody is finally getting tough on Big Bird… Elmo’s gotta watch out too. Gov. Romney plans to let Wall Street run wild again, but he’s going to bring down the hammer on Sesame Street.”
Romney to slam Obama foreign policy: ‘Hope is not a strategy’
By Holly Bailey, Yahoo! News
Senior Political ReporterThe Ticket
LEXINGTON, Va.—Looking to bolster his foreign policy credentials in the final weeks before Election Day, Mitt Romney will accuse President Barack Obama of “passive leadership” in the Middle East and will link last month’s deadly attack on the United States consulate in Libya to a larger critique of what he’ll describe as Obama’s failed leadership overseas.
“Hope is not a strategy,” Romney will argue in a Monday morning address at the Virginia Military Institute, according to excerpts released by his campaign.
Romney will use his speech to double down on his criticism of the Obama administration’s response on the attack in Libya, which claimed the life of Ambassador Chris Stevens. The Romney team is hoping to capitalize on what they believe is the Obama administration’s misstep in pointing to an anti-Islamic video as the trigger for last month’s attack as well as criticism over whether the attack could have been stopped in the first place by beefing up security at its overseas outpost.
“The attacks on America last month should not be seen as random acts. They are expressions of a larger struggle that is playing out across the broader Middle East–a region that is now in the midst of the most profound upheaval in a century. And the fault lines of this struggle can be seen clearly in Benghazi itself,” Romney will say, according to his campaign.
He will argue the attack in Benghazi was “likely the work of the same forces that attacked our homeland” during the 9/11 attacks 11 years ago.
“This latest assault cannot be blamed on a reprehensible video insulting Islam, despite the administration’s attempts to convince us of that for so long,” Romney will say. “No, as the administration has finally conceded, these attacks were the deliberate work of terrorists who use violence to impose their dark ideology on others, especially women and girls; who are fighting to control much of the Middle East today; and who seek to wage perpetual war on the West.”
Romney will also use the speech to offer new details on his overseas approach. Among other things, he is expected to call for more direct intervention in Syria, arguing that anti-government forces should have weapons. He will also call for the U.S. to be tougher on Iran, saying that if he’s elected president he will “not hesitate to impose new sanctions” on the country to stop the country from acquiring nuclear capabilities.
The speech comes as Romney tries again to gain advantage over what he has repeatedly described as Obama’s “weak” and “naïve” foreign policy approach. But it also comes as Romney tries to clean up his own perceived foreign policy missteps, including his own widely criticized response to the attacks in Libya, in which he accused Obama of sympathizing with those who had launched the attacks there on and on diplomatic missions overseas.
Romney is also still trying to undo damage from an overseas trip he took in July that was largely overshadowed by his suggestion that London hadn’t done enough to prepare for the Summer Olympics and by a swipe at Palestinians, whom he suggestion hadn’t moved ahead economically because of their culture.
On Sunday, the Obama campaign used the trip to preemptively attack Romney’s speech.
“We’re not going to be lectured by someone who has been an unmitigated disaster on foreign policy every time he’s dipped his toe in the foreign policy waters,” spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters aboard Air Force One as Obama launched a West Coast fundraising swing.
‘The only person who has offended Europe more is probably Chevy Chase,” Psaki added in an apparent nod to “National Lampoon’s European Vacation.”
Romney has come under criticism from both Democrats and Republicans for not offering enough details on what his foreign policy approach would be if he wins the White House. In previewing the speech Sunday, Romney aides argued he would offer “new details” on what his approach would be, but it was unclear exactly how far he would go in detailing exact policies.
“We’ve gotten various excuses about Benghazi, statements that (the White House) had to pull back from,” Eliot Cohen, a former adviser to George W. Bush who is now advising Romney, told reporters Sunday. “But you haven’t had an attempt to portray: What’s going on here? How should we think about it? What should we do about it? Gov. Romney’s going to do step forward and do the kind of things he would do as president–which is to lay out exactly those things.”
But the excerpts of his speech included points that Romney has previously made before on the campaign trail, arguing the country’s overseas leadership has diminished under Obama’s watch.
“I believe that if America does not lead, others will–others who do not share our interests and our values–and the world will grow darker, for our friends and for us. America’s security and the cause of freedom cannot afford four more years like the last four years,” Romney will say, according to excerpts. “I am running for president because I believe the leader of the free world has a duty, to our citizens, and to our friends everywhere, to use America’s great influence–wisely, with solemnity and without false pride, but also firmly and actively–to shape events in ways that secure our interests, further our values, prevent conflict, and make the world better–not perfect, but better.”
Olivier Knox contributed reporting from Los Angeles.
Obama: 7.8% unemployment rate means U.S. has come too far to turn back now
11:38 AM, October 5, 2012
Associated Press
President Barack Obama says an encouraging jobs report shows that the country has made too much progress to turn back to the policies that he says led the nation into an economic crisis.
Obama got much-needed good news today following his disappointing debate performance as the unemployment rate dropped to 7.8%. That’s the lowest it’s been since he took office in 2009.
At a campaign event in suburban Washington, Obama said the report was “a reminder that this country has come too far to turn back now.”
Cheers erupted from the crowd at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., when Obama noted that the jobless rate is now at its lowest level since he became president.
Republican rival Mitt Romney says Obama still hasn’t done enough to create jobs.
It has been established that the Eldoret North MP William Ruto for some unknown reasons was technically barred from addressing thousands of mourners in his own constituency forcing the outspoken politician to leave the venue prematurely.
The incident took place during the high profile burial of the former Assistant Minister Elijah Sumbeiywo at his home in Sergoit on the Eldoret Iten road.
The funeral which had attracted the huge crowd was also attended by among other mourners, the retired President Daniel Arap Moi, the Vice President Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka, and the Industrialization Minister Henry Kosgey who read the Prime Minister Raila Odinga condolence message to the bereaved family.
It has been confirmed from the multiple sources in Eldoret that Ruto who is the presidential candidate on the United Republican Party of Kenya {URP}was in attendance with a large number of Kalenjin politicians and MPs, but looked restless and unsettled during the ceremony, which had attracted many Kalenjin luminaries and leaders from other regions of Kenya.
The URP leader according to the same sources was in pensive mode and left the venue abruptly while the ceremony was still going on.
The report further revealed that the bereaved family of the late Sumbeiywo who was at one time the head of the presidential Security Escort for the retired President Moi had requested the mourners tat here be no political speeches in keeping up with the norms of Kalenjin culture and tradition.Sumbeiywo briefly represented the Keiyo North constituency in parliament after his retirement fro the police force upon reaching the mandatory retirement age. He left the force while serving in the rank of Senior Deputy Commissioner of Police and the venture into parliamentary politics.
Local political pundits were quick in interpreting the incident as meaning rejection of Ruto’s political leadership by a section of the larger Kalenjin community, an issue which could have negative repercussion on his presidential bid.
From: Ouko joachim omolo
Voices of Justice for Peace
Regional News
BY FR JOACHIM OMOLO OUKO, AJ
NAIROBI-KENYA
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2012
Nairobi wire com this week received an email message from a supposed staff member at Ipsos Synovate, who alleges that some top managers have been receiving money from a leading presidential candidate, to doctor opinion polls.
According to the information opinion polls are doctored in a realistic manner, not arousing clear discrepancies and in a realistic way. Apparently, the candidate is made to gain considerable ground slow but sure, despite the situation on the ground being different.
In a recent opinion poll released by Ipsos Synovate support for Uhuru Kenyatta as president had jumped to 30 per cent from 23 per cent in July. Uhuru is now just behind Raila who has 36 per cent.
According to the result, Uhuru would comfortably beat Raila in a second round run-off vote, as would Mudavadi. Uhuru’s support has been growing steadily for the last two years.
If elections were to be held October last year, Prime Minister Raila Odinga would be the most popular presidential candidate with 34 per cent of Kenyans indicating that they would vote for him, while Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta would only get 24 per cent of Kenyans votes.
William Ruto would garner 10 per cent of the vote, Kalonzo Musyoka 9 per cent, Martha Karua 5 per cent, Eugene wamalwa 2 percent. Other presidential aspirants such Peter Kenneth, Raphael Tuju and others would garner less than 2 per cent of votes.
According to the new constitution you can’t win unless you get 50 plus of the votes in the first round. Because Raila got only 36 percent in the first round there will have to be a runoff. And according to the poll, if there is a runoff, Uhuru Kenyatta will win with majority votes.
This is because supporters of other presidential candidates, especially from his Central Kenya, Eastern, North Eastern, Nairobi, Western, and Rift Valley respectively. This is according to Synovate results because they prefer Uhuru than Raila.
Last year PNU complained that Raila had bribed the Synovate to show that Uhuru was slugging behind-this time PNU reloaded TNA has not complained. It can give the hint why the allegations of bribery are not very far from the truth this time round.
Even though Deputy Prime Minister, Muslia Mudavadi has no backing from his own constituency, he would defeat Raila if they went for re-run. The impression is to demonstrate to Kenyans that there would be no need to waste the votes on a candidate who won’t make it to presidency.
Another impression is that without Mudavadi Raila would barely make it to 20 percent since Luhya’s are the 2nd most populous ethnic group in the country, just like Kikuyu to Uhuru. Without these two communities Raila won’t make it to State House.
Although Vice President, Kalonzo Musyoka got 800,000 in 2007, while Raila got 700,000 votes purely made up of Luo votes in 1997, Raila according to the Synovate result would defeat Kalonzo because he is not popular among Kenyans.
Uhuru will defeat Raila in re-run considering that he will get William Ruto’s 10 percent supporters, Kalonzo’s 9 percent, Eugene 2 percent, Peter Kenneth and Martha Karua’s supporters, Ole Kiapi, few from Ali Mwakwere’s Coast contribution and Aden’s North-Eastern contribution among others. Raila numbers in central is only 1 percent, 2 percent in Eastern and 5 percent in Rift Valley.
Raila cannot score higher votes in Rift Valley because of Ruto whose Kalenjin base constitutes are the majority voters. In the last elections Raila received 2 percent in Central and 5 percent in Eastern.
The other curious thing Kenyans are challenging Synovate of is why it is deliberately avoided asking Kenyans how they would vote if two of the presidential contenders were locked at The Hague.
To be fair, Synovate was expected to ask Kenyans who would they vote for once ICC trials began? Against the background that Synivate results look suspicious. It is why it is believed that Synovate and all researchers are paid by those who they project to be leading.
Synovate suspicion emerged recently when President Kibaki’s Party of National Unity planned to control opinion polls. A team of PNU lawyers working with MPs Jamleck Kamau (Kigumo) and John Muthutho (Naivasha) were drafting a Bill to control opinion polls conducted by research companies and even media houses.
Kamau filed a party motion in Parliament calling for regulation of opinion polls. The Bill would create an Opinion Polls Control Board to regulate the conduct of surveys. One clause under consideration is a requirement that the Board approves all questionnaires in advance and authorise results of surveys before they are released to the public.
The proposed Bill came shortly when in April Synovate said that Prime Minister Raila Odinga was the preferred 2012 candidate was for 38 percent of Kenyans; Uhuru 18 percent, Kalonzo 13 percent and Ruto 8 percent.
PNU politicians, including Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka, have been criticising political opinion polls in recent months. Kalonzo accused research companies, especially the market leader Synovate, of doctoring opinion polls in favour of Prime Minister Raila Odinga. The argument was that there was no way Raila could beat Uhuru that much.
Fr Joachim Omolo Ouko, AJ
People for Peace in Africa
Tel +254-7350-14559/+254-722-623-578
E-mail omolo.ouko@gmail.com
Peaceful world is the greatest heritage
That this generation can give to the generations
To come- All of us have a role.
I foresee, and will work towards building a united, prosperous and modern Kenya founded on popular democracy and social justice where all citizens enjoy strong safeguards for the environment and a nation in which political and economic power is devolved and exercised by the people.
I intend to complete the journey of social, economic and political transformation, as embodied in the Constitution of Kenya 2010 and join Kenyans in their war against poverty, impunity, unbridled greed and sectarianism.
I am committed to transparency and accountability in all aspects of management of public affairs, an unwavering affirmation of Kenyan people’s human dignity, cultural integrity and sovereignty of the people, economic development geared towards enhancing equity, social justice and the social welfare of current and future generations, gender and inter-generational equity, democratic governance based on popular will of the people and the rule of law, respect for and understanding of labour as a critical factor in economic development, a modern and green economy based on scientific and technological innovation, sustainable use of our natural resources and protection of our environment.
Thank you.
Yours Sincerely
Raila Amolo Odinga
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Zero. Zip. Zilch. That’s the number of times women or women’s issues came up in last night’s debate.
Women are driving participation in this election. Women’s issues–from access to affordable contraception and health care to pay equity–have dominated the political debate since February. And also, by the way, we are 52% of the population. So it’s no wonder that focus groups from last night’s debate are showing women outraged that these issues didn’t come up even once.1
We deserve to have the issues that affect us directly and that millions of us care so deeply about debated by the presidential candidates.
That’s why so many of us fought so hard to get the Commission on Presidential Debates to appoint a female moderator for the first time in 20 years. Candy Crowley will be moderating the next debate, and while the format will be a town hall, Crowley will have a say in what questions get asked and she’ll control the follow up questions.
Can you sign the petition asking Candy Crowley to make sure issues that impact women–like birth control, pay discrimination and access to health care services–are included at the next debate? We’re hoping to send her and her staff comments and signatures from thousands of concerned women by Monday morning.
Add your name.
http://act.weareultraviolet.org/sign/crowleydebate/?akid=198.6000.Cw-wUr&rd=1&t=3
When you sign the petition, you can add what questions you would like to see asked in the comments box and we’ll make sure to get that over to Crowley and her staff on Monday too.
Last night covered a host of issues that are deeply important to women and men–like job creation, tax policy, student loans and the future of Social Security and Medicare. But a lot of equally important issues–like the ability of government to interfere with the personal medical decisions of women or whether pay equity protections need to be in place–were wholly ignored. And that’s not fair to women and their families.
Under-representing women and the issues that matter to them is sadly not a new problem in politics or media coverage of elections. This year alone, news coverage of Planned Parenthood featured quotes from women just 26% of the time. In coverage of birth control women were only quoted 19% of the time. Even NPR only quotes women 23% of the time.2
And if there were ever an election where women needed the loudest voice possible, it would be this one.
Time is short, but Candy Crowley and debate organizers are watching the reaction to this debate closely as they choose topics and questions for the next one. Focus groups are showing that women are frustrated–and we need to show Crowley and the rest of the debate organizers how many of us are demanding that issues we care about are included. Please sign today.
Add your name today.
http://act.weareultraviolet.org/sign/crowleydebate/?akid=198.6000.Cw-wUr&rd=1&t=4
Thanks for speaking out!
–Nita, Shaunna and Kat, the UltraViolet team
Sources:
1. How Did Voters React to the Debate?, ABC News, October 3, 2012
2. Gender Gap of Women Voices in Broadcast TV, Radio and Print, 4thEstate.net
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Issues that impact women directly–like birth control, pay equity and reproductive freedom–didn’t come up once during the debate. And focus groups are showing that women all over the country are frustrated about it. Can you sign the petition asking moderator Candy Crowley to include these important issues in the next debate?
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Candy Crowley: Women deserve a voice in the next debate!
Zero. Zip. Zilch. That’s the number of times women or women’s issues came up in last night’s debate.
Women are driving participation in this election. Women’s issues–from access to affordable contraception and health care to pay equity–have dominated the political debate since February. And also, by the way, we are 52% of the population. And we deserve to have the candidates debate the issues that impact us directly.
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No, President Obama did not loose big on Obama / Romeny debate last night.
That is a lie……and a big Lie……Get the facts right……. !!!
In any debate, there is one side for the motion and the other side against the motion and people looks at points of Facts, Substances and the Agenda for the debate. Here each one had to defend their Policy Statements of Facts.
That was the agenda for last night’s Presidential debate between Obama and Romney. The topic was Health care and the economy.
The Truth is Romney did not have substance proposal for his agenda in both Healthcare and the economy for which he had to defend his case against that of President Obama………In a twist of events, he said he was not going to tax the Rich……It is a plain lie. Those are who he is fighting for………For those who care for entertainment where Romney seemed like was in charge, they had it…….I am not surprised the likes of Samwel Omwenga did not intelligently analyzed details of the debate……
As a thief would do, Romney took Obama’s plan and ran with it throughout the debate in a surprise turn of events to subdue President Obama. Romney took ownership of President Obama Healthcare and Economic Plan during the debate and settled for it….. This is why President Obama had to agree with Mitt Romney at some instances…….which in real sense Obama won against Romney if Romney totally agreed with Obama’s plan……..Was this the way it was to go…..No…..!!!
When a thief practices how to steal, they practice for perfection and they prepare to take Victims of circumstances by surprise……..in risk taking against Realistic Set-Plan of Action……..Which the American people in their wisdom would not accept to trade Liberty for livelihood and survival and Security for handouts on cheap lie gambled in unscrupulous deals that cannot be sustained in Romney’s Trickle-down Plan from the Rich. Without specifics Romney is going nowhere…….This is a very serious risk we cannot afford to be fooled about…….
Fact Check This:
The debates are yet another chance to deliver campaign talking points……did Romney present that case??? No……
President Obama:
Took the country on the verge to collapse and stedied it. Accomplished a number of great promises he made and the list is clear. Have put in place a number of to do achievements but blocked by the GOP Republicans e.g. Education Plan, Job Creation Plan, Veteran Job Plan, etc., The president, for his part, will take credit for creating an impressive “4.5 million jobs.”
Romney:
Before either candidate muddles this up, here are the key planks of Romney’s tax plan:
– Bush-era income tax cuts and capital gains tax cuts become permanent.
– All income tax rates are cut by an additional 20 percent.
– The Alternative Minimum Tax and the estate tax are repealed.
– In agreement to President Obama’s Obamacare and Economic
Plan, where is Mitt Romney’s plan to Repeal and Replace Obamacare
set in the debate?????? Instead, he solidified Obama’s Plan……Who then won on substances…….???……Rejecting 47% of population in his jobs plan could uniquely generate more jobs with pioneering offshoring jobs to China, is deplorable and is completely ridiculous.
The idea that Mitt Romney’s plan can somehow “slash individual income tax rates without losing federal revenue or favoring the wealthy” remains at best unproven and, in our judgment based on available public information and evidence, it remains impossible why Paul Ryan had to say this…..”I don’t have time—it would take me too long to go through all the math.”…..when pressed by the media…..
President Obama is the most likeable bi-partisan President in Washington and to say the least, he has struggled to bring the united front but adamantly rejected by the GOP Republicans who planned in advance to have President Obama as a one term President……..which is why, they are looking for the slightest opportunity to steal votes and make Mitt Romney the President. In this case, it is the reason why they are almost giving Mitt Romney 100% debate win over President Obama after stealing President Obama’s Plan in the debate……..What a shame…….!!!
Compared to his GOP Republican interests……..President Obama is on facts but Mitt Romney/Paul Ryan and team are looking for votes through lies and this will not help Romney/Ryan team……..people must reject those who debate on lies…….it is a crime that must not be entertained by good people who are truly looking for Peace, Unity and Harmony in order to move forward successful in a progressive development agenda where all have a share of opportunity to better improve lifestyle. It must not be that the Rich are to plan for the rest of all people…..It has been tested before and the result is the catastrophic Eurozone Economic collapse which equally affected America’s economy and which is why, before President Obama took power, the economy was in serious crisis…….In a selfish and greedy way, they still plan to have everything for themselves without empathy or care for sharing……..This is unacceptable……..
Samwel Omwenga, we know who you are working for and we know why……The fact remain that, people know their rights and the votes, if not stolen or suppressed will count and President Obama will continue to fight hard for victims of selfish and greedy rich who do not value or care for Human Rights………
Just know that, President Obama has not been defeated yet………we stand for the Truth and the Truth shall set us all free……..
Judy Miriga
Diaspora Spokesperson
Executive Director
Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc.,
USA
http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com
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In kenyaonline@ . . ., Samuel Omwenga wrote:
Fellow Kenyans,
I did not watch the debates but as soon as they were over, a die-hard Obama supporter frantically tried to reach me via phone but I was not available and can now see several missed calls from him. His text says it all, “Obama just blew his chance to put away Romney. He bombed!”
Alarmed, I quickly started perusing the best news outlets which can give you the most favorable news about Obama, MSNBC, Huffington Post, etc and they are all saying the same thing: Romney won and won big.
The danger of this is this, Romney is from tomorrow going to carry the banner “the Come Back Kid” much as Clinton did in 1992, except, and this is the irony, Clinton actually lost a primary (I think New Hampshire) but somehow went on to declare himself the “Come Back Kid” and with that attitude, he sent George Bush Senior to early retirement.
Let’s home the same thing doesn’t happen with Romney.
The one sure reason why it may, is because Americans have the shortest memory of all people I know.
Forget about the polls from yesterday; when the news splash say Romney floored Obama as they no doubt will, there will be a stampede of voters thronging to his side and suddenly Obama becomes hapless.
The only thing that’s going to save Obama from this point on is to arouse even more of his base.
The 47% Romney dismissed as irrelevant in his campaign strategy and hope they show up in large numbers to negate gains Romney is likely to enjoy with the momentum coming from this obvious victory many did not Think he would pull off.
A prayer wouldn’t hut; Romney surely will pray as well, but it Appears his prayer has already been answered. It’s now game on and only each man’s destiny will prevail according To God’s will. In other words, it’s all now in God’s hand and given He doesn’t do favors, His will simply shall come to pass but the two have to do what they Humanly can for that’s really what life is all about; at least among
believers.
Say a prayer but do your best.
Obama did not do his best.
Was this God’s will?
Maybe. Why?
Peace, Unity and Truth
Omwenga
Samuel N. Omwenga, Esq.
Chief Executive Officer
LLP Enterprise, LLC http://www.llpenterprisellc.com
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The battle for Kisumu County Senate seat has taken a new political dimension with the voters in all the six parliamentary constituencies appear not settled with the candidature of the Medical Services Prof.Peter Anyang’ Nyong’o who has already declared his interest in the seat.
Prof.Nyong’o lance his campaign for the seat in a colorful ceremony held at the Tom Mboya College in Kisumu on September 17,2012. This was only a week after another high profile aspirant for the same seat had launched his well attended campaign for the same seat a the same venue.
The aspirant is a Nairobi based managing director of an international engineering firm Maxwell Otieno Odongo {The Aga Khan} as he is known to his peers.
Eng Otieno Odongo is the managing Director of Otieno Odongo and Partners Engineering company, which is involve in word-wide construction and consultancy projects, and a prominent businessman in both Nairobi and Kisumu. He is a large scale sugar-cane farmer in Kibos-Miwani area and running other chain of businesses including rice factory at Ahero Town and the Homa-BayTourist Hotel.
The contest for the Kisumu County Senate sea has also attracted another wealthy Nairobi based quantity surveyor Ocholla-Ogoda who at one time was the successful chairman of the populist Gor Mahia Football Club during the clubs hay-days when it won triple of cups and trophies in Kenya and Africa.
Ocholla Ogoda also launched his campaign or the same seat two weeks ago at a well attended ceremony held at the Kenyatta Sports Ground in Kisumu City, which was also attended by the Assistant Minister for Education Prof P Ayiecho Olweny and other political personalities in the region.
Kisumu County is made of seven parliamentary constituencies, namely Nyakach, Muhoroni, Nyando, KisumuTown East, Kismu Town West, Kisumu Central and Seme. Out of the seven constituencies two were recently created by the IEBC while one had its electoral boundaries realigned This is Kismu Town West which was separated from the original Kisumu Rural that has also created the new Seme constituency and Kisumu Central, which is exclusively covering the City center and its environs making the constituencies to seven instead of the previous five.
The general elections are only five months away. It comes the time when Prof. Nyong’o’s medical Services Ministry has come under severest criticism putting the Minister’s integrity to question.
Prof. Nyong’o has also come under heavy fire and scathing criticism for his Ministry’s handling of the National Hospital Insurance Fund’ board of management. The doctors strike, which has left many inpatient an outpatient in government hospitals and health enters dying due of luck of doctors attentions.
Prof. Nyong’o in his poor handling of doctors strikes has clashed with stakeholders in the NHIF like COTU {K} the Federation of the Kenya Employers {FKE} both of which have stakes in the NHIF. He is also known not a high performing MP at the constituency level and his decision of shifting from parliamentary politics is viewed by local pundits as an act of desertion from the electorate after dismal performance in the past.
Unfortunately, the same voters in the old Kisumu Rural constituency will be the same people, the Minister is expecting to vote or him to capture the more lucrative Senate seat, but which is promising to very competitive How he would be fairing on is nobody’s intelligent guesswork.
Eng Otieno Odongo, who is also a lawyer by profession, is a man of substantial means. He has established several medium and small scale cottage industries in Kisumu, where hundreds of local youths are currently employed, while his enterprising engineering consultancy firm is said to be contracted in many parts of the world appeared to be the man to watch in the impending contest, which the pundits have christened as the “Battle o Giants”.
KISUMU County is made of four Luo sub-clans, Namely Nyakach, Seme, Kisumo and Jo-Kano which is the most populous. If the clans arithmetic is anything to go y, then the Kano voters are expected to carry the day. But this might not be the case, and what expected to be o the play s party politics.
The region is an ODM stronghold. This one of the reasons why many residents of the ODM primary nominations, which is schedule on January 4,2013. This is the only sensible way of creating the level playing ground for all the aspirants who would be vying for the elective posts in various.
Eng Otieno-Odongo hails from Kochogo sub-clan in Kano plains, while Ocholla Ogoda originally came from Nyakach, but is family has settled in Muhoroni settlement area. He could still manage to harvest more votes in Nyakach, his original Songhor, Fort Tennan, Chemelil, Kopere.and Koru.
Prof Nyong’o hails from Seme community one of the major Luo-sub-clans living in Kisumu County. His previous role was to represent a small portion of the Jo-Kisumo sub-clan known a Kisumo Karateng’. The sub-clans happen to be the minority voters in the old Kisumu Rural constituency where the groups were grouped together with the Jo-Seme forming Kisumu Rural constituency since its inception in 1962.
However, Jo-Seme have had the lion’s share with their own sons represent the constituency ever since its inception with only the late John Robert Ouko a member of the Jo-Kisumo sub-clan having won the election for the first time in the late 1970s. Ouko had represented the constituency for only five years before he switched his political camp to Kisumu Town.
At the independence elections of 1963, the late Tom Okello Odongo was made the firs MP for Kisumu Rural. He was from the Jo-Seme-Group.He was followed by the late Whycliff Onyango Ayoki in the ate 1960s and Wilson Ndolo Ayah in the 1970s and later by Ochoro Ayoki in the late 1990s
Owing to the fact that that Jo-Seme had the superior in voting number, something which ha created ill-feeling among the Jo-Kisumu people and Jo-Seme. The two sub-clans, however, were recently separated with Jo-Kisumu people having their own constituency in Kisumu Town West which is mainly or the Jo-Kisumu, it would be an up-hill task for Nyong’o to succeed in successfully canvassing the Jo-Kisumu to vote for him in his bid for the Senate seat.
There is another sub-clan called Jo-Kajulu, which forms the part o Kisumu Town East constituency, but could essentially plays a, important ole as the source of a wing votes.
The Jo-Kano clan would definitely lay the claim on the Senate seat. This clan has spreads its wing into three administrative districts, namely Muhoroni, Nyando and Kisumu East and the Nyanza Sugar belt area. Eng Otieno Odongo stands a better chance of clinching the Senate seat going by the sub-clan arithmetic. However, the winner will depend on individual’s campaign style and strategies.
All the three aspirants are men of substantial means and well known personalities to the residents of Kisumu County and how each and every candidate would be interacting with the voters, though the soft spoken Eng.Otieno Odongo had the upper hand
Prof Nyong’o could only perform better if the odm boss Raila Odis own protracted battle for his presidential campaign and might no find time of coming to the rescue of his friend Nyong’o.
