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Dirty Cop Wants Pot Okayed Mexico prepping to buy more Sarah Palin says Rand Paul vs. Black Hawks: settling in for a ‘waterboarding is how Republican lengthy fight in drug war? we baptize terrorists.’ establishment PAGE 5 PAGE 11 PAGE 12 Volume 16, Issue 8 April 30-May 6, 2014 Ward 5 Chamber of Commerce Member In surprise move, NBA Commissioner bans Clippers owner Sterling for life NBA players praise a decision by NBA Commissioner Adam Silver to ban Donald Sterling from the game. The Clippers owner made racially offensive comments recorded during a private conversation, the NBA confirmed Tuesday. By Harry Bruinius ling are deeply offensive and harm- noon, saying the NBA had con- they came from an NBA owner only “painful moment for all members Christian Science Monitor ful,” said Commissioner Silver in a firmed that the voice on the record- heightens the damage and my per- of the NBA,” will also urge the NEW YORK — Acting with press conference Tuesday after- ings was indeed Sterling’s. “That sonal outrage. Sentiments of this NBA’s board of governors to exer- breathtaking speed and decisive- kind are contrary to the principles cise its authority and force a sale of ness, new NBA Commissioner of inclusion and respect that form the team, which requires a three- Adam Silver banned Los Angeles the foundation of our diverse, fourths majority vote of NBA own- Clippers owner Donald Sterling for multicultural, and multiethnic ers. “I will do everything in my life on Tuesday, fining the NBA’s league.” power to ensure that that happens,” longest-standing owner $2.5 mil- For the new commissioner, the he said at Tuesday’s press confer- lion for privately making racist re- stakes couldn’t be higher. In Feb- ence. marks against black people. ruary, Silver succeeded David The outspoken owner of the The unprecedented decision Stern, one of the most successful Dallas Mavericks, Mark Cuban, came less than four days after news commissioners in the history of pro- had expressed caution Monday broke that a surreptitious audio re- fessional sports, helping to shape about forcing Sterling out as owner, cording revealed Sterling telling his the NBA into a global phenomenon saying it would be a “very, very girlfriend not to bring black people during his 30-year tenure. slippery slope” to disenfranchise an to Clippers games. In the recording, “Wow. Just wow. I did not ex- owner for something said in the pri- Sterling also chastised the woman pect this,” says Mark Conrad, di- vacy of his home. for posting Instagram photos of rector of the sports business pro- “What Donald said was wrong. Hall-of-Fame player Magic gram at Fordham University in New It was abhorrent,” Cuban said be- Johnson. York. “This was really a bold, gutsy, fore Monday’s playoff game The recordings caused an imme- and important move by the new against the San Antonio Spurs. diate and widespread furor during NBA commissioner, and I think “There’s no place for racism in the the NBA’s lucrative series of play- he’ll have a lot of support in the NBA, any business I’m associated offs — the most visible time of the public. He’ll certainly have a lot of with. But at the same time, that’s a year for the league. support from the players, and I think decision I make. I think you’ve got “The views expressed by Ster- he will have support from many to be very, very careful when you Damning recording: Donald Sterling can be heard telling his girlfriend owners, given what has happened.” start making blanket statements My Point Vanessa Stiviano (right) not to bring black people to Clippers games. Silver, who said this has been a (See Sterling, Page 4) of View By Rolando Larraz Dirty cop wants pot okayed Not too long ago, when I was a youngster, and someone wanted to By Rolando Larraz get his way and to recruit snitches ing through his illness for all the destroy someone’s reputation, they Las Vegas Tribune through intimidation and threats. damage he has done to so many started the rumor that that person After years of putting young Channel 3 reminded its audience people, he wants people to feel was gay (in those days, people used people behind bars and ruining their that in 2002 Kallas stated “We don’t sorry for him and now he wants the to be more insensitive and called clean record for possession of mari- believe the initiative is a good thing marijuana law. them “queer”); whether true or juana, Detective David Kallas tells for the public and certainly not a Kallas told Channel 3 that medi- false, it was meant to discredit the KSNV My news 3 in Las Vegas that good thing for law enforcement,” cal marijuana would ease the person’s reputation for whatever he supports the law that allows during an initiative that would have disease’s symptoms. “It would take reason. medical cannabis in Nevada. legalized medical and recreational away the pain in both my tibia and Later on, throughout the years, Kallas, former head of the Po- marijuana. both my knees, both my ankles and accusations changed, and in order lice Officers’ Union and undercover That was 14 years ago and also my hips,” Kallas told the News to destroy the reputation of some- officer with the Las Vegas Metro- Kallas was undercover, working in 3 reporter. one the rumor was started that the politan Police department — with Organized Crime, Intelligence and In 1997 Kallas was a candidate person in question was a commu- a not-too-clean record for his un- David Kallas Vice units at different times, and it for Henderson City Councilman nist. scrupulous work ethics — is now with Channel 3 that aired last Fri- was not good for him to legalize and immediately had the support of Even today, it’s still a shame to suffering from a “painful disease in cannabis. the then-head of the police union, have been tied to or affiliated with day. communist groups or individuals; his bones” and “searching for re- Kallas is known for his dirty But it is all about Kallas and Andy Anderson, and the head of the people get so nervous that they lief,” according to the interview police work, stopping at nothing to Kallas only, and now that he is pay- (See Kasllas, Page 5) never look at the members of the U.S. Congress who ever were, or still are, if not red, at least pink. Has Obama’s approval really hit new low? Time passed and then the accu- satory word was MOB. People were A new Washington Post/ABC News poll suggests accused unfairly of being “con- nected to the mafia,” and the con- Democrats could face serious headwinds in the sequences were very much a disas- November midterm election. But it doesn’t suggest ter because the assumption was that all “mob-connected” people were things are getting worse for President Obama. criminals and would damage the By Peter Grier presidential approval rating — reputation of any person so accused Christian Science Monitor about current levels — Republicans or so connected to that person. WASHINGTON — President could hold as many as 54 or 55 Sen- I recall one time I was at the old Obama’s approval ratings are not ate seats. Latin Deli on East Sahara where I good. For much of 2014 they have In that context, new Washington used to have lunch and I started a hovered in the low 40 percent Post/ABC News poll results are conversation with a lady that I, as range, which is a danger zone for more bad news for the White the gentleman I am, had offered my the Democratic Party. House. They show Obama’s ap- seat to because the place was Soft presidential polls generally proval dropping to 41 percent, a packed, as always, with people that equal a poor performance in mid- new low for this particular survey. loved Mimi and Miguel’s cooking. During the conversation with term elections for the president’s In the issue-by-issue breakdown, that lady, she asked where I worked party, and given current poll num- only 42 percent of respondents said and I told her that recently I got a bers the question may not be they approved of the way the presi- job at the Spanish newspaper; she whether the GOP will win control dent is handling the economy. Only got all nervous and with a grim ex- of the Senate, but by how much. 37 percent approve of the way he pression told me I was working in Earlier this year pollster Sean is handling health care. Thirty-four a very bad place, that the owner of Trende at RealClearPolitics wrote percent approve of the way he is Obama’s approval rating has hit a new low as Americans disapprove of the newspaper (me) was a gangster that given a 43 percent average (See Obama, Page 6) his policies on the economy, health care and the crisis in Ukraine. and that the business was controlled by the mafia. POLITICAL ANALYSIS “Let me tell you about Rolando,” she said. “Do not mess with him because I know him very well and I am going to give you Politics, Lies, Corruption and So Much More By Gordon Martines have been wrongly perpetuated tant questions and answers that This race-profiling method, some advice because you seem to I can’t tell you how refreshing it against our community, and espe- were brought up by citizens and which has been kept secret from the be a very decent young man with nice manners.” is to be free of the police employ- cially the Black community.
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