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2023-09-26 20:49:46

Former House of Delegates member Danielle Walker of Morgantown is no longer leading the American Civil Liberties Union of West Virginia.

Former House of Delegates member Danielle Walker of Morgantown is no longer leading the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of West Virginia.

A statement provided by Anne Farmer, ACLU-WV Board of Directors president, notes, “We are unable to provide comment at this time, as this is a personnel matter. We can confirm that Eli Baumwell has been serving as the interim executive director since Sept. 15.”

The organization’s website says Baumwell will continue to serve as ACLU-WV’s chief lobbyist at the West Virginia Legislature.

An outspoken, progressive Monongalia County Democrat, Walker took the executive director post in April of this year, becoming the first Black woman to hold the position.

She was elected to the House of Delegates in 2018. With a fiery, church pulpit oratory, Walker often helped lead demonstrations at the Capitol protesting abortion bans and LGTBQ+ issues.

She resigned from the legislature and as vice-chair of the West Virginia Democratic Party to take the ACLU-WV job.

Walker told West Virginia Public Broadcasting when she took the ACLU leadership role that an initial priority would be to make the unaware in West Virginia understand how the ACLU-WV can help people to help themselves.

“ACLU has done some wonderful things and is still doing wonderful things in our state,” Walker said on April 3. “But we also have some pockets regionally, where some folks don’t even know the mission of ACLU. And so those are the target areas that we’re going to look towards.”

Messages to Walker for comment remained unanswered at the time of publication.

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2023-09-26 14:57:28

Huaibei City’s Study and Guidance Report on Studying and Implementing Xi Jinping’s Socialist Thought with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era Theme Education Theory was held

On the followingnoon of September 26, the city’s study and guidance report on the study and implementation of Xi Jinping’s socialist ideology with Chinese characteristics for a new era was held. Municipal Party Committee Secretary Qin Weiguo, Municipal People’s Congress Standing Committee Director Fang Zongze, CPPCC Chairman Qian Jieshu, and current department-level leading cadres attended the meeting. Jin Genghua, member of the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee and Minister of the Organization Department, presided over the meeting. Members of the Provincial Party Committee’s Theme Education Second Circuit Supervision Group attended the meeting.

Wu Meifang, director of the Party Building Teaching and Research Department of the Provincial Party Committee Party School, gave a coaching report titled “Strengthening the Party’s Political Construction, Wholeheartedly Supporting the “Two Establishments” and Resolutely Achieving the “Two Maintenances””. The report has a clear theme, rich content and highlighted key points, which further deepened the participants’ understanding of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era and gave them a deeper understanding of the decisive significance of the “two establishments”.

When presiding over the meeting, Jin Genghua pointed out that awareness should be further improved. Further improve our political position, from the perspective of firmly supporting the “two establishments” and resolutely achieving the “two safeguards”, we will regard the development of thematic education as the most important political task at present, and organize all work to the letter. Promote it well and implement it well.

Jin Genghua emphasized that responsibilities must be further strengthened. We should adapt measures to local conditions and implement precise policies to guide and identify the focus and focus of each country’s thematic education, and promote the theme education to be deeper and more solid. Measures need to be refocused. Always keep in mind the primary task of “learning ideas”, insist on focusing on both aspects of education and practice, and promote both; carry out in-depth investigations and research to truly find and solve practical problems; find the right entry points and breakthroughs, and develop deeper and more practical ideas and measures for service development; Persist in learning, comparing, inspecting, and rectifying, and promote the solution of a number of problems that are needed for development, what the grassroots hope for, and what the people want. The style of work must be stricter. Establish a correct view of political achievements, insist on proceeding from reality in everything, pay more attention to open-door education, and use the people’s sense of gain, happiness, and security to test the effectiveness of thematic education. Work needs to be coordinated once more. Adhere to systematic advancement and effectively transform the learning results into vivid practice of doing a good job and promoting the high-quality transformation and development of Huaibei.

The Secretary-General of the Standing Committee of the Municipal People’s Congress, the Municipal Government, the CPPCC, and the main responsible comrades of the Party Groups (Party Committees) of all county and district committees, municipal committees, ministries and units directly under the municipal government attended the report meeting.

Chief reporter Wang Shouming

Photojournalist Huang Heming

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2023-09-26 18:10:00

Federal deputy, André Flahaut did not run as a candidate to occupy the head of the socialist list in the next federal elections. Dimitri Legasse, current regional deputy and president of the PS federation of Walloon Brabant, will be the only candidate to claim this place during the internal elections organized by the PS Walloon Brabant this Friday and Saturday.

Will we see the Nivellois once more on the lists, or will the PS Walloon Brabant have to do without its biggest voice maker? “I am content to observe, for the moment, limit myself to commenting on the Minister of State. I have not been asked anything. People are positioning themselves, making declarations. I am observing. And I have passed the age of begging. If I’m not asked for anything, I’m not going to grovel.”

“An attitude to favor personal careers rather than the general interest”

The heads of the socialist lists in the federal elections, as later in the regional and provincial elections, will be designated by universal suffrage of the members of the Walloon Brabant PS. And nothing prevented André Flahaut from being a candidate. But we can imagine that the Nivellois, who cannot be described as partridge of the year, is well aware that the support of the local Rebecquoise and Tubizienne gives a probably decisive advantage to the Rebecquois Dimitri Legasse.

“What I remember is this attitude to favor personal careers rather than projects or the general interest. Yes, the election (of the head of the list) will be by universal suffrage. This is indisputable. But I’m curious to see how many members will vote. Those who carried out this operation will have to assume the consequences. Because, sometimes, we pick ourselves up.”

“His only motivation for choosing the Federal is to be able to accumulate”

André Flahaut does not hesitate to attack his successor at the head of the PS federation of Walloon Brabant. This will not surprise observers: the tensions between the two men are only alleviated by the fact that they avoid dialogue. “We have a candidate (Dimitri Legasse) whose only motivation for choosing the federal government is the fact of being able to combine with a mandate as mayor, believes André Flahaut. I am not sure that this is a good message. It gives the impression to put one’s personal interest before the general interest.”

“I’m afraid that the Walloon Brabant PS will fall apart”

As he prepares to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of his first party card, André Flahaut says he is worried: “I’m afraid that the Walloon Brabant PS is falling apart. We won’t make the Walloon Brabant PS progress by falling back on a local or part of Walloon Brabant. Making a list also means thinking regarding the sociology of the territory concerned, it means thinking regarding candidates who will be able to convince voters in the West but also in the center and in ballast.”

We will have understood, André Flahaut hardly appreciates the way in which he is sidelined. Or, at the very least, the way he feels like he’s being sidelined. “There are surely people who are happy to see me out of their way, but there are also some who still support me and who tell me their disappointment.”

The Minister of State, however, is careful not to formally announce that he will not run for the head of the socialist list in Walloon Brabant for the next regional elections.

Applications to occupy this place will be possible from next Monday, the day following the “primaries” for the federal elections. Who will apply? This is not an obligation but nevertheless a wish of the party at the national level: it is recommended to have a woman at the head of the list in the Region when a man already occupies this position at the Federal.

Can the PS afford to leave Flahaut on the sidelines?

Suddenly, all eyes are on Laurence Smets and Anne Lambelin. Team Legasse versus team Flahaut. New tensions in perspective? That might be. Especially since André Flahaut refuses to clarify his intentions: “For the moment, I am observing.”

Can the PS really let André Flahaut “observe”? The socialists do not have a lot of vote-makers. André Flahaut is the most important with nearly 15,000 preferred votes during the elections. Dimitri Legasse then reported almost 9,000 preference votes. The two men were heads of the list, respectively at the federal level and at the Region. They were then both elected. Staying in the top three parties in Walloon Brabant is almost the assurance of once once more having, at least, one elected official in Brussels and one in Namur.

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