By Denis Campbell
The healthcare debate rages across Capitol Hill with lobbyists fighting against a ‘single payer’ option as if it were the moral equivalent of the anti-Christ. Before you blindly accept any bill, please examine the very real (and ironic) face this debate has taken on for this journalist.
Paula Persichini-Petitti is a woman to whom [...]
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An Open Letter to President Obama and Congress – Help Bring Paula Home
Posted on 02 July 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (11) | Tags: auto accident, Black River Project, Healthcare debate, insurance, Lakota Nation leader, life flight, Mass. General Hospital, neurosurgeon, Paula Persechini-Pettiti, Pearl Means, Pine Ridge, Russell Means, South Dakota
McCain Gaming Pals Set 2,000% Odds Against Native American Vote
Posted on 21 May 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: 000+, 1/3 of the homes lack basic clean water and sewage, 100 per year, 15th amendment voting rights subject of much debate, 2, 2000% Odds Against Native American Vote, 21% of state prisoners are Native, 40% lack electricity, 500% chance your vote will not be counted, 53 for women and 47 for men, 60% have no telephone. average of 17-people live in eac, 900%, 97% of Lakotah people live below the poverty line, alcoholism affects 8 in 10 families, BIA, BIA “found no wrongdoing in the Pine Ridge election”, Black, blatant buying of votes, both higher than the U.S national average, Bureau of Indian Affairs, cannot afford heating oil, cannot even get paper ballots counted correctly, cast a provisional ballot, cervical cancer 500% higher, Denis Campbell, diabetes 800% higher, elderly die from hypothermia, emptying out the land’s entire productive capacity usin, Gandhi First they ignore you Then they laugh at you The, half the Reservation's adults battle addiction and dise, Hispanic, if you thought the revelations of orgies and parties at, If you want to be sovereign you have to act sovereign, Indian children are incarcerated 40% more than whites, infant mortality is 300%, Jack Abramoff, John McCain) controls this bureau, Lakota Nation leader, live and die by the generosity of those in charge of In, lose them, many residents use ovens to heat their homes, McCain Gaming Pals, median income $3, Native American, Native Americans on reservations, no 14th Amendment legal recourse, no one seems to care, not counted on election night, propane, purged from voter roles, rubber stamped the election result, running again for Pine Ridge Sioux Tribal President, Russell Means, senior BIA official speaking on condition of anonymity, Sioux Pine Ridge Nation elections are just blatantly st, South Dakota, stuff ballot boxes, system of colonial apartheid, teen suicide 150%, The Federal Courts won’t touch this, The gaming lobby (Rick Davis, the Lakotah life expectancy rate is the lowest in the U, this is even bigger, tribal council and tribal police don’t care if they’re, tribal councils are just figureheads, tribal police are directly involved, tuberculosis 800% higher than the national average, we face blatant vote rigging, withdrew from all US treaties 11-months ago, withdrew from the treaties to save our tribal culture., wood, yet they make up 9% of the population, you’re out of luck
Reprise: one of the most interesting people I interviewed during the campaign was Lakota Nation leader Russell Means. From last October.
by Denis Campbell
Hispanic? Congratulations, you’ve only a 500% chance your vote will not be counted. Black, 900%. Native American, 2,000%! While you may have been purged from voter roles in the first two classes, you [...]
Is it over?
Posted on 04 June 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: Chicago, clinton, CNN, Court TV, delegate count, Excel Center, FOX, John McCain, Louisiana, Minneapolis, Montana, Mr. Rogers, New York, obama, OJ Simpson trial, South Dakota
Can we come out now and go back to our lives? No? Barack has won but Hillary has not conceded? Aaaaargh! I feel like I did living in LA during the OJ Simpson trial. Will the government offer any counselling or addiction relief therapy to political junkies who will have scant little to do between [...]
Denver, Sioux Falls, Billings, San Juan… Aboooaaarrd!
Posted on 31 May 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: 50-state campaign, Bill Clinton, By laws committee, change, clinton, Democratic Primary wind down, Denver, Hope, Howard Dean, internet, Mark Penn, Michelle Obama, Michigan and Florida, Montana, obama, Puerto Rico, Raock Star appeal, Rush Limbaugh, South Dakota, Super Tuesday, wander off the reservation, White Voters Outside Appalachia, WVOA
The Democrat Primary local heads this weekend to a crucial (yawn) convention by-laws committee meeting that seems certain to have the thrill and impact of a wet firecracker vs. Hillary’s much feared nuclear option of three weeks ago. The Michigan and Florida delegations will be seated but with a 50% penalty and the delegates split [...]
She Said What?!?!?!
Posted on 24 May 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: 1968, apologising, Bobby Kennedy, clinton, DNA flaw, June, Mike Huckabee, NRA, obama, PMQs, political food chain, political survival, saying sorry, seeds of doubt, South Dakota, Swift-boat advert, Tony Blair
In yet another incident of foot in mouth disease, Senator Hillary Clinton yesterday voiced the unspoken/unthinkable fear of many by cravenly invoking the horrible memory of 1968’s assassination of Bobby Kennedy in California before a group of South Dakota news editors. Her half-hearted apology for the gaffe seemed as self-protecting and disingenuous as her explanation [...]
Op-Ed Column of the Day
Posted on 15 May 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: Bil Clinton, Bill Clinton, clinton, Gail Collins, hard working, John Edwards, Kentucky, Louisville, New York Times, obama, Op-Ed columnist, Oregon, Portland, Puerto Rico, South Dakota, West Virginia
Victory Plan for Hillary (click to see full article on nyt.com)
By GAIL COLLINS/Op-Ed Columnist
The New York Times Online
Published: May 15, 2008
Hillary Clinton scored a whopping victory in West Virginia. Trounced Barack Obama, who is consistently described as the inevitable presidential nominee.
Hard to know exactly what to do with this information.
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