Democratic National Committee, Clinton and Sanders Sue State of Arizona

PHOENIX – The Democratic National Committee, or DNC, and their White House candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, sued on Friday the State of Arizona on behalf of several voters who waited up to six hours to vote in the March primaries.

The lawsuit was filed in a Phoenix federal court representing seven voters who had to wait up to six hours to vote.

The lawsuit said that delays affected Latino, African American and Native American voters, and focuses especially on the decisions of the authorities in Maricopa County, the most populous region of the state.

The suit asks why for the primaries on March 22 this county reduced the number of available polling stations to 60, when in 2012 there were 200, a provision which caused huge queues even after the polling closed.

Plaintiffs include the first president of the Navajo Nation, Peterson Zah, and the Senate campaign of Ann Kirkpatrick who aims to replace Republican John McCain.

The suit points out that Arizona has a long history of discrimination against minority groups and questioned the decision of the state’s elections department’s decision to reject provisional tickets at an “alarming number.”

It also indicated that the rights of minority voters could be violated in future elections as a result of a recently approved law by the state legislature, which makes it a crime for an individual to submit a ticket signed and stamped at a polling station in the name of another voter.

“Democrats believe our country is stronger when every voice is heard and every vote is counted, and we will keep fighting to make sure the sacred right of every American to vote is protected,” said DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz in a press release.

The plaintiffs request that the rights of all residents of Arizona be protected during the next general election in November, and that the court orders Maricopa County to present a plan specifying the locations and numbers of voting centers that will be available.

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Rebecca Zahau Murder Case moves to Superior Court of California

Case No.

37-2013-00075418-CU-PO-CTL

SECOND AMENDED

COMPLAINT

FOR: 

WRONGFUL

DEATH  

BATTERY 

ASSAULT

NEGLIGENCE

CONVERSION

 

 

ADAM SHACKNAI, DINA SHACKNAI,NINA ROMANO ,conspired to plan, and did in fact murder Rebecca Zahau. (Wow)

(a) striking REBECCA on the head multiple times with a blunt instrument; 

(b) physically restraining her;

( c) further restraining her by binding her legs with tape;

( d) gagging her;

( e) binding her hands behind her back with rope;

(t) binding her ankles together with rope;

(g) removing the previously placed tape from her legs;

(h) strangling her to the point

of unconsciousness or death;

 

 

Note from blogger : This is my 42nd article on Rebecca Zahau and I hope her family get's some type of justice. I feel bad for Dina Shacknai because she lost her son and I hope she find's some closure.

 

I would like to hear from Dina or anyone regarding your thoughts on this article or if you feel the above three suspect(s) are innocent or guilty?

 

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Hungry cows keep food waste out of landfill

Francisco “Pancho” Martinez jerked the dump truck forward and out poured a whole bed’s worth of tomatoes, squash, melons and other past-prime produce mashed into a slop Friday morning.

While most humans would turn up their noses at the half-rotted and moldy produce, a herd of cows quickly swarmed the pile. Soon, on the ranch that operates on Martinez’s land off State Route 82, all that could be heard was the sound of contented bovine mastication.

“Right now, all that grass, it will keep an animal alive,” Martinez said, pointing to the dry stubble covering the hills. “But this stuff, they go for this stuff.”

Squash, he added later, is the cows’ favorite, and whatever isn’t eaten decomposes and helps improve soil health.

The herd is one of many in the area that benefits from close proximity to what has historically been the largest port of entry for imported fruit and vegetables from Mexico.

The free load of produce unfit for human consumption the cows enjoyed Friday came from the Borderlands Food Bank, which collects between 25 and 40 million pounds of mostly edible imported produce from local warehouses every year and distributes it to food banks and nonprofits around the country. But not all of it ends up on the tables of families in need, and last year nearly 2 percent of the total went to local ranches, like the one on Martinez’s land and more than 30 others in Santa Cruz County.

However, due to a now-enforced cap at the county landfill, the food bank has turned to composting and ranch donations much more heavily since then, according to director Yolanda Soto. While Borderlands Food Bank is where Martinez and others pick up much of the produce waste for cattle, the Nogales Community Food Bank and a number of local produce companies also give spoiled produce to ranchers.

Martinez said produce warehouses regularly call him looking to rid themselves of spoiling food. On a good day, he said, he can run six loads to his property, “depending on how fast they load me,” and he tries to put in three days a week during peak produce season, which can spell big savings.

“It helps him quite a bit because otherwise you’d have to buy hay,” Martinez said of the rancher who leases his land.

Landfill limits

The help goes both ways. For the produce companies that give spoiled food to Martinez and others, it saves them $45 a ton in landfill fees, as well as the cost of driving it there. But for the food bank, the help is even more critical.

Intoxicated Man leaves 1,4 and 6 yr old in car at Mcdonald's

A Rio Rico man was found in an apparently intoxicated state after leaving his three small children unattended in a car at a local fast food restaurant, authorities said.

Jose M. Aviles, 29, was arrested and jailed on three counts of child neglect, child abuse and endangerment, as well as resisting arrest.

According to the Nogales Police Department, a concerned citizen reported shortly before 7 p.m. Friday that the children had been alone in the vehicle at the McDonald’s on Crawford Street for approximately 30 minutes.

Officers arrived at the scene and found the children, ages 1, 4 and 6, in a vehicle littered with trash. A half-consumed beer can was also near the front seat, NPD said.

The officers learned that the children’s father, Aviles, was supposed to be caring for them at the time. He was later located at his residence and suspected of being under the influence of alcohol.

The children were not harmed, NPD said, and were turned over to a family member. The Arizona Department of Child Safety was also contacted about the incident.

Sheriff Antonio Estrada said Aviles was combative and uncooperative during his intake at the jail and detention officers had to physically subdue him, which resulted in Avila's rough appearance in his mug shot.