Kansas Gov. Jeff Colyer tells black woman “You have a gap in your teeth. We are part of the master race. Don’t you forget that.”
Kansas Gov. Jeff Colyer has called on a Leavenworth County commissioner to resign after he told a black woman at a public meeting that he belongs to a “master race.”
“Racial and discriminative language have no place in our society, and most especially when spoken by someone holding a public office,” Colyer said in his statement Saturday afternoon. “The inappropriate remarks made by Leavenworth County Commissioner Louis Klemp are unacceptable and do not reflect the values of the county which he represents. As such, I call on him to step down as county commissioner.”
Klemp’s comment came as Triveece Penelton was making a road development presentation during the Nov. 13 meeting, FOX 4 of Kansas City reported. He was not happy with the options being presented by her and a colleague.
“I don’t want you to think I am picking on you because we are part of the master race,” Klemp told Penelton. “You have a gap in your teeth. We are part of the master race. Don’t you forget that.”
Klemp, chairman of the three-member commission, also has a gap in his teeth. Fellow commissioners Robert Holland and Doug Smith have also called for Klemp to leave.
“In the best interest of the county, he should resign,” Smith said. The commissioners’ page on the county website on Saturday showed photos of Holland and Smith but only a blank space where a photo of Klemp would appear.
In a statement released Friday, the Leavenworth City Commission said it “denounces the use of ‘master race’ or any other language that has historic ties to racism, division and bigotry in any setting at any time.”
Earlier this year, Holland asked the Kansas Attorney General’s Office whether Klemp could be removed from his chairman position. Though he hasn’t received an answer, Holland said he make a motion Tuesday to remove Klemp, according to the Leavenworth Times.
Last year, Holland criticized remarks made by Klemp in which he said he admired Confederate General Robert E. Lee.
Pit bull climbs into crib, fatally attacks 5-day-old girl
DUNNELLON, Fla. — Authorities in Florida say a pit bull climbed into a crib and fatally attacked a 5-day-old girl.
Investigators with the Citrus County Sheriff’s Office say they are investigating the girl’s death as an accident and no criminal charges are expected to be filed.
The Citrus County Chronicle reports the attack took place early last week.
Arriving deputies found a family member performing CPR on the infant, who was still somewhat responsive. The girl was taken to a hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
A relative told deputies that the dog had jumped on a bed which was next to the bassinet and started attacking the baby girl.
Animal control officers took the pit bull to an animal shelter where the dog was euthanized.
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Fake movie producer convinces teens to have sex with him, headed to prison for decades
CLEVELAND (WEWS) — A Norwalk man is headed to federal prison for 20 years after luring two teenage girls by playing the role of a movie producer.
“He actually said he was from Los Angeles,” said U.S. Attorney Justin Herdman.
Charles Thomas Barbarotta used fraud to convince two minors to engage in commercial sex acts. He told two teenage girls he was a movie producer.
“The promise was he would make them into movie stars albeit pornographic movie stars,” said Herdman.
But, it wasn’t true. Barbarotta used the scheme to induce the teens into performing sex acts with him by saying he was producing a pornographic movie. He plead guilty to two counts of sex trafficking of a minor.
“This is another example of how these predators take advantage of youth through social media,” said Renee Jones, President of the Renee Jones Empowerment Center and Northeast Ohio Human Trafficking Law Clinic.
Jones said the youngest sex trafficking victim that has come to her center was just 9-years-old.
“Unspeakable things done to children,” she added.
Both Herdman and Jones stressed again that parents need to know what their children are doing on apps, phones, and social media.
“Be as engaged as you can in your kid’s online activity, so many predators want to take advantage of your kids,” said Herdman.
Authorities believe there could be more victims. If you know of possible victims, call the Cleveland FBI at 216-522-1400.
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Trump rates his presidency ‘A+’: ‘Is that enough? Can I go higher than that?’
President Trump rated his performance in the White House an “A+” on Sunday.
He offered this assessment during a wide-ranging interview on “Fox News Sunday.” Chris Wallace had asked Trump where he ranks himself among great U.S. presidents.
“Where do you rank yourself in the pantheon of great presidents? There’s Lincoln and Washington. There’s FDR and Reagan. Do you make the top 10?” Wallace asked.
“I think I’m doing a great job. We have the best economy we’ve ever had. We’re doing really well. We would’ve been in a war with North Korea if, let’s say, that administration continued forward,” Trump said referring to his predecessor, Barack Obama.
“So where do you rank yourself?” Wallace asked.
“I would give myself, I would — look, I hate to do it, but I will do it — I would give myself an A+. Is that enough? Can I go higher than that?” Trump replied.
Trump said that had he been “more modified, more moderate,” he wouldn’t have been able to accomplish half of what he has in the past two years. He added it’s important for the president to have “a certain ability to fight back.”
He expressed pride in the Republican Party’s ability to keep the Senate in the midterm elections, and suggested that losing the GOP majority in the House of Representatives doesn’t reflect on his presidency.
“I have people that won’t vote unless I’m on the ballot, OK? And I wasn’t on the ballot,” Trump said.
The current economic boom is overshadowed at times by Trump’s endless controversies. Although the health of the economy relies on far more than a president’s actions, Trump and Obama have both claimed credit for the strong economic recovery, and both contributed to its success.
Whether the topic is politics, business or entertainment, it is not uncommon for Trump to give himself superlative marks or exaggerate his accomplishments. The president told the Washington Post’s Bob Woodward last September that no other president in U.S. history has done as well as he has.
“Well, accurate is that nobody’s ever done a better job than I’m doing as president. That I can tell you,” he said. “So that’s … and that’s the way a lot of people feel that know what’s going on, and you’ll see that over the years.”
Based on polling, the American public does not appear to agree with Trump’s rating of his job performance. Gallup reports that his most recent job approval rating is just 38 percent, while the historical average for U.S. presidents from 1938 to 2018 is 53 percent.
In his 1987 memoir “The Art of the Deal,” co-written by Tony Schwartz, Trump attributed a large part of his success to playing to people’s fantasies, and said that “a little hyperbole never hurts.”
“People want to believe that something is the biggest and the greatest and the most spectacular. I call it truthful hyperbole,” Trump wrote. “It’s an innocent form of exaggeration — and a very effective form of promotion.”
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Chipotle rethinking firing manager who refused to serve black customers over ‘dine and dash’ fears
The restaurant chain Chipotle announced Saturday that it had terminated one of its managers for suggesting in a viral video that five black customers were planning to order food without paying — but on Sunday, the company acknowledged to Fox News that it was considering re-hiring the manager because her suspicions may have been well-founded.
In a series of video clips seen more than 3 million times on Twitter, a Chipotle customer in St. Paul, Minn., identifed as 21-year-old Masud Ali, and several friends are told by a manager: “You gotta pay, because you’ve never had money when you come in here.” An employee adds, “We’re not gonna make food unless you guys actually have money.”
As Ali and his friends complain about “stereotypes,” the videos show employees at the store claiming that the group had previously ordered food on two occasions without paying. The store manager also calls the police in the videos, which were recorded and uploaded by Ali.
In one video clip, the manager smiles and tries to ignore the men while they produce what appears to be cash, as proof that they can pay for their food. One of the employees visible in the kitchen is black.
“It sounded really racist — the way she said it was racist,” Ali told Minnesota’s Star Tribune newspaper on Friday. “She asked for proof of income as if I’m getting a loan.” On Twitter, Ali asked Chipotle: “Can a group of young well-established African-American get a bite to eat after a long workout session?”
Ali also posted the restaurant’s phone number and address to social media. Within hours and under a deluge of criticism, Chipotle issued a statement implying that the manager had acted out of bias and announcing her termination.
“Our actions were based on the facts known to us immediately after the incident, including video footage, social media posts and conversations with the customer, manager, and our employees,” Chipotle Chief Communications Officer Laurie Schalow told Fox News on Sunday. “We now have additional information which needs to be investigated further. We want to do the right thing, so after further investigation we will re-train and re-hire if the facts warrant it.”
Despite reports on Twitter late Sunday that the manager had received her job back, Chipotle confirmed to Fox News that “nothing has changed from this morning. We are still investigating a few things.”
“After further investigation we will re-train and re-hire if the facts warrant it.”
In a previous statement on Saturday, the company had said: “We are committed to treating all of our customers fairly and with respect. … Regarding what happened at the St. Paul restaurant, the manager thought these gentlemen were the same customers from Tuesday night who weren’t able to pay for their meal. Regardless, this is not how we treat our customers and as a result, the manager has been terminated and the restaurant is being re-trained to ensure something like this doesn’t happen again.”
In subsequent interviews, though, Chipotle representatives admitted that the manager might have been right in claiming that individuals in the group had ordered food just days before without paying once their order was completed. (As a matter of policy, Chipotle only provides food to customers upon payment, but store employees finish making orders before payment is requested at the register.)
“We are not able to confirm that with 100 percent certainty,” Schalow acknowledged in a statement to The Twin Cities Pioneer Press. “We asked Masud if he was in our restaurant on Tuesday and he said no.”
And almost immediately, it emerged that Ali had apparently spoken favorably of “dining and dashing” — the practice of ordering food and not paying for it — several times on Twitter in the past.
“aye man i think chopotle catchin up to us fam. should we change locations and yoooooo what should we do about the other thang,” read a since-deleted post on Ali’s account from 2016.
In 2015, he wrote that “we finna goto Applebees and eat as much as we can and tip the nice lady 20cents and walk the f— out.”
When another Twitter user objected, he replied that “we’re just borrowing the food for a couple hours” as opposed to dining and dashing.
Later that year, he opined that “Dine and dash is forever interesting” and discussed stealing Tabasco bottles from Chipotle.
Another post read: “Guys we’re borrowing food… that’s it. And if the lady tries to stop you at the door don’t hesitate to truck the sh– out of that bi—.” Ali has since deleted all of these posts.
“We finna goto Applebees and eat as much as we can and tip the nice lady 20cents and walk the f— out.”
As those tweets surfaced over the weekend, Chipotle’s media representatives, including Schalow, initially said that they had seen the tweets and would stand by their decision to fire the manager — seemingly contradicting Schalow’s statement to Fox News on Sunday.
According to author Matt Palumbo, Schalow had previously claimed that the store’s manager was justifiably terminated because she broke protocol by requiring payment before making the customers’ food, regardless of her suspicions about the customers’ intention to pay.
Palumbo called Schalow’s suggestion that Chipotle had not been aware of Ali’s tweets when it fired the manager an “absolute lie.” (For her part, Schalow has reportedly said that other information — and not simply Ali’s tweets –was behind Chipotle’s desire to reconsider the manager’s fate.)
“The correct action to take would have been to make their food and not hand it over to them until they paid for it,” Schalow had asserted as part of her justification for firing the manager, according to Palumbo.
Ali did not respond to Fox News’ request for comment.
The episode follows several other high-profile incidents of alleged racism that have rocked the service industry. In May, Starbucks closed 8,000 of its stores for anti-bias training after two black men were arrested for trespassing in one of its Philadelphia shops. The store manager, who stopped working at Starbucks shortly after the episode, had called the police because the men remained seated in the shop without ordering anything, and refused to order something when asked.
Earlier this year, a fired Chipotle manager who was accused of stealing $626 ended up winning nearly $8 million from the company in a wrongful termination suit.
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Bow Wow Threatens To Leak An Erica Mena Sex Tape
Bow Wow and Erica Mena turned into sworn enemies after their relationship fell apart.
Bow Wow is the latest celebrity to cross the line of socially acceptable conduct, by issuing an idle threat to his ex-lover, Erica Mena. The ex-lovers have been embroiled in a bitter war of words ever since going their separate ways. Mena, who came to the decision on both their behalves, is now facing a potential breach of privacy, with Bow Wow threatening to leak a sex tape they allegedly filmed while they were still a couple.
Mena is primarily known for her “acting” in various Love & Hip Hop spinoffs. She broke off her engagement with Bow Wow in 2015, after spending the better part of a year combing through bridal packages. Speaking of which, Mena once suggested that Shad Moss lacked the foresight to make sensible electoral decisions, because and I quote, he has a small “you know what.”
Revenge porn is a serious offense, and though most of the legislation is flawed, Bow Wow may soon live to regret this Twitter outburst. Cooler heads, svp.
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Democrat’s ex-mistress says she’s rebuilt her life since tabloid scandal, now focus of film
Donna Rice Hughes’ reputation was shattered when she was accused in 1987 of having an affair with Democratic presidential candidate Gary Hart.
But Hughes has managed to rebuild her life in the last several decades, the now-60-year-old told the State of Columbia, S.C.
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During the 1988 presidential campaign, the Miami Herald reported that Hughes, a then-29-year-old model-actress, was photographed cavorting with Hart aboard “Monkey Business,” a yacht owned by a pal of Hart, then a U.S. senator from Colorado. The story set off a media frenzy and derailed Hart’s candidacy. The scandal broke after Hart denied he was having an extramarital affair, and even challenged skeptical reporters to follow him if they did not believe him.
“I was blindsided and thrown into a media feeding frenzy. I kept saying, ‘I just wanna go home.’ … The media fixated on me for the next 18 months.”
Hughes says she stayed out of the public spotlight for nearly 10 years. She testified before Congress in 1995 to speak out against pornography on the Internet. Hughes also founded “Enough Is Enough (EIE), a non-profit organization that raises awareness about internet pornography, sexual predators and cyberbullying.
President Trump during the 2016 election signed the EIE’s Children’s Internet Safety Presidential Pledge which called upon the future president to pledge to enforce existing federal laws designed to prevent the sexual exploitation of children online.
Hughes is also a mother and grandmother. She is reportedly working on a biography to tell her side of the 1987 debacle.
“[T]he movie is not my story,” she said.
The story is now the subject of the new film “The Front Runner,” starring Hugh Jackman as Hart.
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N.J. couple en route to their wedding killed in fiery chain-reaction crash in Pa.
A New Jersey couple on their way to get married in Pittsburgh were killed in a fiery chain-reaction crash last week on Interstate 78 in Berks County, Pennsylvania.
Kathryn M. Schurtz, 35, and Joseph D. Kearney, both of Jersey City, died in the collision Wednesday afternoon in Windsor Township.
Their car was struck from behind by a tractor-trailer and pushed into another tractor-trailer, according to Pennsylvania State Police. Three other tractor-trailers were also involved.
Kearney is originally from Pittsburgh, according to his Facebook profile.
Schurtz is a 2001 graduate of Union Catholic High School who grew up in Fanwood. She earned her bachelor’s degree at George Washington University according to an obituary published Sunday.
Schurtz went onto receive a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Notre Dame. She worked as the head of platform partnerships for Oracle Data Cloud in New York.
Schurtz is survived by her parents Joseph and Karen as well as a sister, brother-in-law and nephew. Visitation will be held Monday at Immaculate Heart of Mary Roman Catholic Church in Scotch Plains from 4 to 8 p.m. Monday and 10 to 11 a.m. Tuesday.
In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Kathryn M. Schurtz Scholarship Fund at Union Catholic High School in Scotch Plains.
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Former Ohio judge who brutally beat wife arrested after she is stabbed to death
Lance Mason served just nine months in prison for assault
A former Ohio judge who served just nine months in prison for brutally beating his wife four years ago has been arrested after she was found stabbed to death.
Aisha Fraser’s body was discovered in the driveway of her home in the city of Shaker Heights on Saturday.
Lance Mason, her estranged spouse, was initially taken to hospital after crashing into a police car at the scene and is now being held in custody.
In 2014 Mason punched Fraser around 20 times after the couple argued while returning from a relative’s funeral.
He repeatedly slammed her head into the dashboard, armrest and passenger window of a car and bit her on the face during the attack.
The couple’s six- and four-year-children were in the vehicle at the time, according to NBC News.
Mason also broke Fraser’s orbital bone and left her with injuries so severe that she required reconstructive surgery, according to WKYC.
He was removed from his position as a judge shortly afterwards and pleaded guilty in 2015 to attempted felonious assault and domestic violence.
The former judge was sentenced to 24 months in prison for the assault, yet served just nine.
After Mason was released from prison he was hired in 2017 by Cleveland mayor Frank G Jackson, subsequently serving as the director of Cleveland’s minority business development.
Aisha Fraser was killed on Saturday (Shaker Heights Teachers Association )
Mr Jackson fired the former judge on Saturday, after his arrest.
WKYC reported that that Mr Jackson sent his “deepest condolences to the family of Ms Aisha Fraser, especially to her children”.
Mason’s earlier conviction bars him from ever returning to work as a judge.
The victim had worked as a teacher for two decades and a Gofundme page set up by the Shaker Heights Teachers’ Association is collecting donations in Fraser’s name.
Proceeds will go to her two young daughters.
The Shaker Heights Police Department said in a statement that the investigation into the teacher’s death is “ongoing”.
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