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Same-state U.S. presidential contenders could vex donors
By Gabriel Debenedetti
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As Texas Senator Ted Cruz charmed Republican activists and religious leaders in Iowa last week, he insisted that he was there to promote his party's agenda and not to test conservative voters' enthusiasm for him as a potential candidate for president in 2016.
Even so, Cruz's venture to a state that holds a key early vote in the presidential nomination process was widely seen as a sign that the freshman senator, a favorite of the conservative Tea Party movement, hasn't ruled out a run for the White House and is aware that if he does run, he will need to build a political base well beyond Texas.
That is partly because of another Texan who could contend for the Republican nomination: Governor Rick Perry, a fundraising powerhouse in the state. Perry has announced that he will leave office next year and has left open the possibility that he might try to redeem himself from the debate gaffes that derailed his bid for the White House in 2012.
The potential for a Cruz-Perry showdown in 2016 already is causing some anxiety among Texas' Republican Party leaders, fundraisers and donors, many of whom like both men and are concerned about being pressured to support just one.
Similar scenarios are unfolding to lesser degrees in Wisconsin and Florida, states that also have two potential contenders for the party's presidential nomination - Governor Scott Walker and U.S. Representative Paul Ryan in Wisconsin, and former Governor Jeb Bush and U.S. Senator Marco Rubio in Florida.
In New York, Democrats have at least two potential White House contenders of their own - former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Governor Andrew Cuomo.
The unusual number of states with multiple potential candidates poses a particular challenge for party operatives looking for hints about who might emerge by early 2014 as leading contenders for the White House.
Strategists say it creates a dynamic that could shape the early stages of the 2016 campaign, and alter the notion that a candidate can't seriously contend for the presidency without overwhelming support in his or her home state.
'WHICH CHILD?'
For donors, particularly in Texas and Wisconsin, "the problem is, they hate being forced to choose. It's like being asked, ?Which child do you love more?'" said Matt Mackowiak, a Republican strategist in Austin, Texas. "For a lot of (donors), what they are trying to do right now is resist committing."
No high-profile contender has jumped into the presidential race, even though the ongoing feud between two other Republicans - Kentucky Senator Rand Paul and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie - has made it seem as if they already are running. In states with more than one potential contender, there are signs of contrasting strategies in looking ahead to 2016.
In Texas, a Perry presidential campaign clearly would be rooted in that state, analysts say, while a Cruz campaign would be based there but likely would be more of a national effort aided by Tea Party followers and big-money conservatives.
Perry, 63, appeals to the state's political establishment, which he has led for 13 years as governor. He has traveled to Connecticut and other states in recent months, largely to tout Texas' job-creating economy and urge gun makers, pharmaceutical firms and other companies to relocate to his state.
Perry has made a point of fundraising on behalf of TexasOne Corp., a state-sponsored nonprofit group that gives companies a chance to help shape Texas' economic policies - if they pay $250,000 a year to become a "partner" with the group. TexasOne, created by the state economic development office, also gives the governor an easy way to keep in touch with big donors.
Cruz, 42, has gone to Iowa, South Carolina and other key states in the presidential nomination process, building a national profile as a rising star in the conservative movement.
For now, Perry and Cruz brush aside talk of a run for the White House. Republican leaders in Texas, however, are nervously watching for a collision between the two.
"If you have Governor Perry and Senator Cruz running, it's going to be an awful decision for some people, because among the conservative base both are extremely popular," Texas Republican Party Chairman Steve Munisteri said.
Joe Nixon, Perry's Houston-based campaign lawyer last year, notes that neither Perry nor Cruz has sought donations for a presidential campaign. If they do, he said, "it might be one of those situations where people might write big checks to both."
CONTRASTS IN WISCONSIN
In Wisconsin, a similar contrast in strategies could play out between Walker and Ryan, political observers say.
As Wisconsin's first-term governor, Walker, 45, has thrilled Tea Party conservatives and angered Democrats by seeking to diminish the power of public workers' unions.
Walker has a substantial fundraising network in Wisconsin and last year drew millions of dollars in donations from out-of-state conservatives to fight a union-led recall effort against him.
Up for reelection in 2014, Walker recently made appearances in Iowa and South Carolina - moves that many in the party view as a signal that he is considering a presidential campaign.
Unlike his friend Walker, Ryan, 43, has never won a statewide race in Wisconsin. When he was Mitt Romney's vice presidential running mate last year, the Republicans lost the state to Democratic President Barack Obama.
But thanks to last year's campaign, Ryan - who built his budget-cutting reputation as an insurgent, Tea Party-aligned policy wonk - has become a national figure among conservatives.
He has made a string of appearances with other Republican candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives, and 70 percent of the disclosed donations to Ryan in 2012 came from outside Wisconsin, according to data from the Center for Responsive Politics, a Washington research group.
So while Walker's base is firmly in Wisconsin, from a campaign fundraising perspective Ryan essentially would be a national candidate who happens to be from Wisconsin, said Washington-based Republican strategist Ford O'Connell.
If both were to run for president, "it would be a very difficult decision for many Wisconsin Republicans," said Scott Suder, the Republican majority leader in the State Assembly.
WAITING FOR BUSH AND CLINTON
Florida's potential candidates for 2016 are famously close.
Bush, 60, has been a supportive mentor to Rubio, 42, a rising star whose standing among some conservative Republicans has suffered lately because of Rubio's backing of a broad overhaul of the nation's immigration laws.
Many Republicans oppose the plan because it could open the door to U.S. citizenship for millions of undocumented immigrants. The Pew Hispanic Center has estimated that more than three-quarters of the nation's 11 million undocumented immigrants are Hispanic; in recent elections Hispanics have tended to vote for Democrats.
Rubio has played down the possibility of a presidential campaign while Bush, whose father and brother were presidents, has indicated that he is at least considering a run. Republican operatives in Florida say that if Bush decided to run, the party's establishment almost certainly would back him.
"I would say 90 percent of the money that would be involved in Florida would, if there were a race between the two of them, go to Jeb," said Brian Ballard, Romney's finance co-chairman in Florida during the 2012 campaign. He said Bush is part of the state's "political DNA," having remained active in state politics since leaving the governor's office in 2007.
"If you really want Marco Rubio to run for president, you have to be rooting for Jeb Bush not to run," Ballard said.
Clinton's position in New York is similar to Bush's in Florida: If she runs, Cuomo - and most other potential Democrats nationwide, likely would step aside, analysts say.
Cuomo, 55, has said that his decision on whether to run for president would not be affected by Clinton, 65. But strategists say that a Clinton candidacy would leave Cuomo without much of a support base, because they would pursue many of the same donors.
Unofficial fundraising groups supporting Clinton's candidacy are already operating, most notably a group called Ready For Hillary. It reported raising $1 million in June, an indication that among Democrats, the fundraising picture for 2016 is already solidifying.
(Editing by David Lindsey and Jim Loney)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/same-state-u-presidential-contenders-could-vex-donors-192552265.html
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Gay, lesbian sports hall of fame honors athletes
Updated 10:18 PM ET
CHICAGO Dave Pallone, who was part of Chicago history when he umpired the first night game at Wrigley Field, is returning to Chicago to take part in another chapter of American sports history: His inclusion in the inaugural class of what organizers say is the first-of-its-kind National Gay & Lesbian Sports Hall of Fame.
On Friday night, Pallone will be honored in the first class of inductees that includes tennis greats Martina Navratilova and Billie Jean King, Olympic diving champion Greg Louganis, and Jason Collins, who in April became the first active male professional athlete in a major team sport to publicly reveal he was gay.
"It is a tremendous honor and ... I hope it gives young people and adults alike who happen to be LGBT and want to be in professional sports another example of why they should continue to strive for their dreams," Pallone said.
Rick Garcia, a prominent Illinois gay rights activist agreed, saying he hopes the hall of fame encourages gay and lesbian youth to "have a career in sports and excel in that career and still be honest about who they are."
The events will include a dinner Friday night to honor the inductees at a ceremony at the Center on Halsted and an event on Saturday at Wrigley Field called "Out at Wrigley," which organizers says is the largest "Gay Day' at a major league sporting event.
Louganis, who was attending the 2013 World Aquatics Championships in Barcelona, will not be in attendance Friday, but expressed gratitude for being included with the groundbreaking group of inductees.
"It's an honor to be included with that group because of the things they've done and what they have stood for," he said. "I'm very flattered."
Openly gay athletes
Executive Director Bill Gubrud said the decision to establish what he says is the country's first hall of fame honoring gay athletes and their supporters is not tied to Collins' announcement earlier this year. He said factors such as changing attitudes about homosexuals, particularly among young people, made him and others think this was the ideal time to create an institution that honors the contributions that gays have made in sports as well as the hardships many endured because of their sexual orientation.
Among those being inducted is the late Glenn Burke. An outfielder with the Oakland Athletics and the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 1970s, Burke is widely believed to have delivered the first high-five. Though he did not publicly come out until two years after he left baseball, Burke maintained until his 1995 death from AIDs that he was run out of the game by "prejudiced and homophobic" managers and front offices that knew he was gay.
King, Navratilova on Jason Collins' coming out, LGBT rights
"This will help preserve history," said Gubrud. "You are not going to know where to go if you don't know where you've been and many in the gay community don't know Glenn Burke."
Gubrud also said that a number of the inductees who are not gay are being recognized for having "helped create safe environment for LGBTs to compete in sports at every level." Among those is Ben Cohen, an English rugby player. "He founded a foundation to stop bullying against LGBTs," Gubrud said.
Gubrud said Chicago was chosen to be hall of fame's home for a number of reasons, starting with the city's place as a major gay tourist destination. Also, he said, "Chicago is one of the most gay-friendly cities in the United States."
He also said the Cubs hold a special place in the gay community, explaining that it was the Cubs more than a decade ago that became the first professional sports team to place an ad in a gay newspaper.
Gubrud said a site for the actual hall of fame has not been selected, but that organizers are in the process of putting together a plan to raise money and find a building.
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More church abuse scandal files released by 5 Catholic religious orders
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Five Catholic religious orders released the confidential personnel files of a dozen priests and nuns accused of sexually abusing children for decades as they worked as trusted religious leaders in the Los Angeles Archdiocese.
The 1,700 pages pertain to the 10 priests and two nuns who were accused in civil suits of molesting children while working in the nation's largest archdiocese. They were released under the terms of a 2007 settlement that paid $660 million to more than 500 alleged victims.
The archdiocese itself released thousands of pages in January -- detailed files showing how now-retired Archbishop Roger Mahony and other church leaders handled molestation complaints by shielding suspect priests from law enforcement.
In contrast, most of the files released by the religious orders deal more with mundane personnel matters, and some don't even mention sexual abuse at all.
The fact that the files don't reflect the misconduct alleged in civil lawsuits doesn't mean it didn't happen, said victims' attorney Ray Boucher, who posted the documents on his firm's website.
"Much of this went unreported," he said. "You're talking about kids that were terrorized and frightened in so many different ways, with no place and no one to turn to."
But Joelle Casteix, western regional director of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, said she was troubled by the differences in the two sets of files.
"We're not seeing the depth of detail," she said. "It's either that they didn't keep the records or they disposed of them or not all of them have been turned over."
"But it's a good first step. At least it's something. It's enough to invigorate the victims to keep fighting."
J. Michael Hennigan, the attorney for the archdiocese, did not return phone calls.
The clergy whose files were released have been accused of molesting a total of 21 victims from the 1950s to the '80s. Several of those suspects are now deceased.
The files include more than 500 pages on a priest named Ruben D. Martinez, a member of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate. The church settled eight lawsuits accusing him of molesting boys from 1970-82 at St. Ferdinand Catholic Church in San Fernando, Holy Family in Wilmington and Mary Immaculate in Pacoima.
While there's little documentation about the alleged abuse, there are hundreds of pages of invoices and psychiatric reports from the years his order spent trying to cure him of his pedophilia, including time spent at a New Mexico retreat for abusive clergy.
After years of therapy, one report said he was participating in Sexual Compulsives Anonymous, which helped him deal with "his deviant arousal to children and his urges for sex with adult male hustlers." Another report said Martinez estimated he'd had sex with about 100 boys.
The Oblates released the files on four other priests, including Robert Koerner. He was assigned to several churches in the East San Fernando Valley in the early 1940s. He later was transferred to St. Patrick's Church in the Imperial County town of Calipatria, where the files indicate he was accused of molesting several youngsters.
The file said that Koerner, who died in 1999, admitted fondling and kissing both boys and girls but didn't see any harm in his actions.
Emmett Schaller, also a member the Oblate order, was named in a civil suit accusing him of molesting a boy at St. Ferdinand's. His file also indicates he received extensive treatment in which he admitted that he'd been in trouble because of his sexual behavior.
Joseph Murphy, another Oblate priest assigned to St. Ferdinand's, was also accused of abuse between 1957-1960. His file includes correspondence about his missionary work but makes no mention of any alleged misconduct.
The file for Mathias Faue, a Benedictine father, includes a 1985 letter from a superior telling him, "You clearly have a problem" and encouraging him to seek help after he was accused of inappropriately touching boys on a playground. Faue also was arrested for lewd conduct in an X-rated movie theater in Long Beach and later pleaded guilty to trespassing.
Faue was named in two civil suits accusing him of molesting children at St. Benedict Church in Montebello between 1963-68. He died in 1988.
Among the five who served within the Marianist Order, two had worked at Chaminade High School's two campuses in the San Fernando Valley, where allegations arose. The three others had worked as instructors at Junipero Serra High School in Gardena.
In 2002, a woman accused priest Thomas Havel of molesting her from 1968-73 while he was assigned at St. Philip the Apostle Parish in Pasadena. He also had been assigned to St. Bernardine parish in Woodland Hills, and at Junipero Serra High School in Gardena. Havel eventually left the priesthood and the Marianist Order settled the case, according to the files.
Allegations were levied in 2003 against Joseph DiPeri, saying he'd molested a student at Chaminade High School in Canoga Park in 1977-78, The campus dean was informed at the time, but no action was taken.
"There was no mandatory reporting at the time of the alleged incident," says a letter from an LAPD detective in DiPeri's file.
DiPeri removed himself from the priesthood and the last known information indicates he was in a retirement home for priests in New Jersey and was on a "permanent monitoring system" with the archdiocese there.
But Charles George Fatooh, currently a monsignor at the Monterey Archdiocese, became principal of Chaminade on the Chatsworth campus in 1979. He was voted Teacher of the Year in 1975. In 2006, Chaminade was served with a copy of a complaint for damages related to alleged sexual abuse by Fatooh during the 1973-74 school year.
Most recently, Fatooh was accused of failing to alert police or providing help to a boy who was being molested by another priest he knew in Salinas in 1991.
Two others -- John McGloin and Bernard Pleimann -- were accused of sexual misconduct while they taught at Juniper Serra, but it was unclear when the alleged abuse occurred.
In one letter, top-ranking clergy said McGloin had relationships with nuns. In a letter requesting dispensation from the priesthood in 1969, McGloin wrote: "I am convinced that a life of celibacy which I once embraced is beyond me. ... You know me well -- I've had this problem in varying degrees since my profession." The files don't specify allegations of child abuse.
Pleimann requested dispensation from the priesthood, but was denied the first time. In a letter written in 1973, he wrote: "I am afraid if I remain in the Society any longer I will become a bitter man."
Also among the files were two sparse documents listing Sister Agnes Santomassimo of the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart, who briefly served as a kindergarten teacher from 1950. She later worked in various hospitals in New York Illinois and Canada in various position from 1950 to 1969. She was a provincial office secretary from 1969 to 2002. While her files were released as part of the group, they don't specify the allegations against her.
Another nun, Sister Mary Joseph, who belonged to the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, was accused of misconduct after her death, but the order found nothing to substantiate the claims, said Sister Barbara Anne Stowasser, a spokeswoman for the order. Among her assignments, Sister Mary Joseph taught third grade at Our Lady of the Valley in Canoga Park in 1961.
Several dozen more files are expected to be released this fall by other orders that had clergy working in Los Angeles.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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