April 2, 2018

Kushner: We struck deal with Sinclair for straighter coverage

Donald Trump's campaign struck a deal with Sinclair Broadcast Group during the campaign to try and secure better media coverage, his son-in-law Jared Kushner told business executives Friday in Manhattan.

Kushner said the agreement with Sinclair, which owns television stations across the country in many swing states and often packages news for their affiliates to run, gave them more access to Trump and the campaign, according to six people who heard his remarks.

In exchange, Sinclair would broadcast their Trump interviews across the country without commentary, Kushner said. Kushner highlighted that Sinclair, in states like Ohio, reaches a much wider audience — around 250,000 listeners — than networks like CNN, which reach somewhere around 30,000.

“It’s math,” Kushner said according to multiple attendees.

But Sinclair and other networks said such a deal is nothing nefarious or new - just an arrangement for extended sit-down interviews with both candidates, one many campaigns have done in previous years to get around the national media and directly to viewers in key states.


https://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/trump-campaign-sinclair-broadcasting-jared-kushner-232764

April 1, 2018

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April 1, 2018

Why Winning Matters: Equal pay for women, sick time for all workers on the way to becoming law in NJ

NOTE: PLEASE SHOW THIS TO ANYONE WHO REFUSED TO VOTE FOR PHIL MURPHY BECAUSE HE WAS "TOO CORPORATE".



Working women in New Jersey could soon have one of the nation's strongest laws guaranteeing pay equity after lawmakers moved Monday to pass a measure that would ban employers from paying them less than men for "substantially similar work."

The legislation, which would give women and minorities a better chance at prevailing in pay-discrimination cases and increase the damages they could win, now heads to the desk of Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy, who has signaled he will sign it.

“This is a very emotional day for me, knowing the fact that we are making history here in New Jersey, history for the United States,” said Assemblywoman Pamela Lampitt, D-Camden, who has led the fight for the legislation along with Sen. Loretta Weinberg, D-Teaneck. “This bill will give our daughters a better chance — a better chance of a future and equal pay and to be equally respected.”

The Assembly also advanced a separate bill that would require employers to provide paid sick leave for full- and part-time workers. That measure, which has yet to clear the Senate, has also been heralded as a long-overdue protection for working women.



https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/2018/03/26/equal-pay-women-sick-time-all-workers-way-being-law-nj/453668002/

April 1, 2018

Immigration chief in SF apologizes for social media post seen as offensive

The head of federal immigration enforcement in Northern California apologized for posting an image on social media that Muslim American groups say is offensive because it dehumanizes Muslim women.

David Jennings, head of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in San Francisco, shared the image — an online meme that spread around the world — on LinkedIn in an attempt at humor. The Chronicle noticed the post this week.

The image depicts three patio umbrellas that are intended to resemble three people in body-covering burqas along with the caption, “I spent 30 minutes talking to them to learn more about their culture until the barman told me they were umbrellas.”

In a caption attached to the post, Jennings wrote that he was trying to use “lessons learned from my terrorism mentor … Guess I need more work.” After The Chronicle asked ICE officials about the post, Jennings removed it from the job-oriented social networking site.

Jennings said in a statement that it was “directed to a former co-worker and instructor in Arab culture and was meant to poke fun at myself and use me as an example to show that everyone can and should keep learning about people from different cultures, including people like me with extensive experience working with different cultures and traditions.”



https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Immigration-chief-in-San-Francisco-apologizes-for-12794945.php?utm_campaign=twitter-premium&utm_source=CMS%20Sharing%20Button&utm_medium=social