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Office Eagle The people’s choice Award for being “The Most Factual.” SEPTEMBER 8 - SEPTEMBER 14, 2018 VOLUME 68, NUMBER 21 $1.00 Ayanna Pressley Will Become Florida Mom Charged With Murder First Black Congresswoman In Case Of Missing 2-Year-Old Son In Massachusetts A Florida mother Jordan after giving them a has been arrested for ride on Saturday night in Last week, a stunning political murdering her two-year- the Tampa Bay area. victory came out of Florida with old son after his body was Jordan Belliveau’s body Tallahassee Mayor Andrew discovered more than two was found in woodland in Gillum’s unforeseen win in days after he was reported Largo, Florida. Stinson, the Democratic gubernatorial missing. told police that a man had primary. This week, a political Charisse Stinson attacked her, knocking her surprise arrived out of Boston. reported the boy missing out. At-large Boston City Council early Sunday, according She later admitted member, Ayanna Pressley, 44, has stunned political prognosticators and to police in Largo, Florida. injuring the boy and Charisse Stinson allegedly struck the toddler uncon- defeated longtime Congressman Mike Capuano in the Democratic primary A statewide Amber Alert leaving him to die, police scious and left him to die. for Massachusetts’ 7th congressional district. Congressman Capuano, who was issued for little Jordan say. a man who offered them a in Clearwater, Florida. is well regarded by colleagues, has been in Congress for twenty years. Belliveau after his mother Police believe Stinson, lift in his car. The driver According to a video of her In less than sixty days, Pressley is to become the first Black U.S. Stinson told authorities 21, lied about being went on to hit her, she had hearing, the judge charged Representative ever elected to Congress from Massachusetts. The seat she a man named “Antwan,” attacked when she said said. Stinson with murder and a will be representing, Massachusetts’ 7th district, was once held by John F. who had dreadlocks and initially that she and her Stinson appeared in court count of aggravated child Kennedy. gold teeth, kidnapped son had been picked up by Wednesday afternoon abuse. Pressley’s victory is one in a growing line of stunning upsets by progressive candidates this primary season. Many political observers are citing polls indicating Democrats will flip many House seats in their favor on November 6th. NATION JOIN IN FAREWELL Andrew Gillum Wants TO QUEEN OF SOUL Opponent To Focus On Issues, Not Race The man who could become Florida’s first black governor on Sunday called on his opponent to refrain from name-calling and to focus on the issues. Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum, the Democratic nominee for governor, was asked about comments Republican U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis made after Tuesday’s primary. DeSantis Andrew Gilum said voters aren’t going to “monkey this up” by electing Gillum. Provided photo “He’s gotten accustomed to calling names. Louis Farrakhan, from left, Rev. Al Sharpton, Rev. Jesse Jackson and former President Bill Clinton attend the He’s a Harvard-educated man, surely he knows funeral service for Aretha Franklin at Greater Grace Temple, Friday, Aug. 31, 2018, in Detroit. Franklin died Aug. his way around the U.S. vocabulary,” Gillum 16, 2018 of pancreatic cancer at the age of 76. told MSNBC’s Joy Reid. “But he chooses rather ormer presidents and mourners filled the same Detroit play piano when he was just 8, and to embrace these kinds of dog whistles and preachers joined a church that hosted Rosa Parks’ he remained close to her for the rest bullhorns.” parade of singers Friday funeral and offered prayers, songs of her life. They talked for hours at While saying he wouldn’t engage in name- in a hip-swaying, and dozens of tributes. Guests a time. piano-pounding farewell to Aretha included former President Bill Bill Clinton described himself as Ron DeSantis Please see Florida, page 6 F Franklin, remembering the Queen Clinton, former first lady Hillary an Aretha Franklin “groupie,” saying of Soul as a powerful force for Clinton, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, he had loved her since college. He musical and political change and a Stevie Wonder and Smokey traced her life’s journey and praised steadfast friend and family member. Robinson. her as someone who “lived with Statement from the In a send-off both grand and Robinson, the Motown great, personal, a celebrity lineup of remembered first hearing Franklin Please see Franklin, page 6 Jacksonville Community Action Committee on Obama and Bush Deliver Eulogies Recent Shootings at John McCain Funeral By The Jacksonville Community Action Committee By Terrell Jermaine Starr “And yet, somehow, never lost his energy or his optimism or his zest for The Jacksonville Community Action Committee sends its condolences to Former President Barack Obama life. So cancer did not scare him. And the families of the two people shot dead and many more hurt by a white male remembered Sen. John McCain as he would maintain that buoyant spirit shooter at the Jacksonville Landing on Aug. 26. This senseless carnage has no an honorable man who made him to the very end. place anywhere, and we wish a full and swift recovery to those injured. a better president during his eulogy Too stubborn to sit still, This weekend was particularly bloody for Jacksonville, which saw another at the Arizona lawmaker’s funeral opinionated as ever, fiercely devoted mass shooting just days before at the Raines v. Lee High School football Saturday. to his friends and, most of all, to game, which left one dead and two injured. The shooter at the Raines v. Lee Former President George W. Bush his family,” Obama continued. “It High School football game wasn’t caught or apprehended, even with over also delivered a eulogy, something Former President Barack Obama showed his irreverence, his sense of Please see Shooting, page 6 that Obama joked about during pauses as he speaks at a memo- humor, a little bit of a mischievous his remarks. Obama said he was rial service for Sen. John McCain, streak. After all, what better way to saddened and fairly surprised when R-Ariz., at Washington National get the last laugh than to get George McCain called him earlier this year Cathedral in Washington, Saturday, and I to say nice things about him to Editorial...............................1 Sept. 1, 2018. McCain died Aug. 25, I Church..........................2 and asked that he deliver his eulogy, a national audience.” N Youth News...............................3 from brain cancer at age 81. Community.....................10 according to video provided by CNN. Taking a swipe at Trump at S Columns.............................10 “But after our conversation ended, in conforming to some pre-packaged Saturday’s funeral was McCain’s Local-Florida............................7 I realized how well [the phone version of what a senator should be daughter, Meghan McCain, when I Sports........................8 D Local-Georgia........................9 conversation] captured some of John’s and he didn’t want a memorial that she said during her remarks, “The Classified...............11 essential qualities,” Obama said. “To was going to be prepackaged, either. America of John McCain doesn’t E Business..................................12 start, John liked being unpredictable, It also showed John’s disdain for self- need to be made great again because even contrarian. He had no interest pity. He had been to hell and back. America was always great.” PAGE 2 THE STAR SEPTEMBER 8, 2018 Community News Listings are due the Tuesday before the next issue. 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