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 Avery Sunshine glows on

Nockturnal Escape Soul Release Live, held
every fourth Thursday of the month by Nockturnal Escape. The artist of
the evening was Avery Sunshine from Atlanta, Georgia at the Cuba Libre.
With a style similar to Jill Scott and Nenna Freelon, the up and coming
artist connected with her audience and signed autographs as she soulfully
revealed her talent. Since 2005, the Soul Release Live "urban soul concert
series" has featured national artists such as Goapele, Jaguar Wright,
Anthony David, Julie Dexter, Rhonda Thomas and more. For at least one
night a month, Jacksonville has an opportunity to listen to live music and
feel good vibes in a positive atmosphere.The artist is shown above signing
an autograph for Angela Kelly.


 Ethics panel
 The House ethics committee
split along party lines this week as
Republicans demanded pre-elec-
tion trials for two prominent
Democrats, Charles Rangel and
Maxine Waters.
 The rift is important politically
because proceedings in October
could generate negative headlines
for Democrats. Trials after the
election would likely keep the
Democrats' ethics record in the
background in midterm campaigns
largely fought over economic
issues.
 The split shatters anew the image
of the committee as a panel where
members of both parties work
together to investigate allegations
of ethical wrongdoing.
 In past years, the committee has
been stymied by internal, partisan
disputes over its investigative rules
and by a agreement between the
parties to avoid new cases.
 A statement by ranking commit-
tee Republican Jo Bonner, signed
by all five Republicans on the 10-
member committee, accused
Chairman Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif.,
of stalling the Rangel and Waters
cases. Both lawmakers have asked
for trials before the election.
 Until now, the committee has


Democrats to Base: Let's Get


 Continued from front
 Two days earlier, Obama urged
the Congressional Black Caucus to
redouble its efforts: "I need every-
body here to go back to your neigh-
borhoods, to go back to your work-
places, to go to the churches and go
to the barbershops and go to the
beauty shops. And tell them we've
got more work to do."
 His appeal to the bedrock groups
of the Democratic Party comes in
the homestretch of an election sea-
son in which Republicans are
poised to gain seats in the House,
possibly seizing control, and the
Senate. Polls show Democrats far
less excited about the Nov. 2 elec-
tions than Republicans are, while
independent voters tilt heavily
toward the GOP. The onus is on
Democrats to mobilize their core


constituencies minorities and
die-hard Democrats among them -
to show up at the polls.
 "It's going to be very hard to win
if the base doesn't turn out in big
numbers," said Connecticut Sen.
Joe Lieberman, an independent who
votes with Democrats. Given the
landscape, he said: "Democrats
have to try to change the minds of
some independents, and that's going
to be hard. So, the main priority of
Democrats, to avoid what could be
a disastrous election, is to bring out
the Democratic voters."
 A recent Gallup poll shows that
among self-identified members of
each party, 47 percent of
Republicans say they were very
enthusiastic about voting while 28
percent of Democrats say the same.
Republicans also now have a 55


percent to 33 percent advantage
among independent voters.
 Efforts by Obama and his belea-
guered Democrats to rallying
dispirited foot soldiers have been
clear over the past week.
 Senate Majority Leader Harry
Reid, locked in a close race in his
home state of Nevada, dangled
before the party immigration legis-
lation that Democratic-leaning
Hispanics favor. And, with the
White House's support, the
Democratic-held Senate forced a
vote Tuesday on repealing the law
banning gays from serving openly
in the military, a priority for gay-
rights advocates.
 But neither effort went anywhere.
Reid never did more than promise
to try to get the Senate to act on
immigration, and Senate


faces split over Rangel, Waters trial dates
been actively issuing decisions congresses, commit-
under Lofgren's chairmanship, tee members have
partly due to new procedures that returned to
force the panel to address recom- Washington during a
mendations of an independent recess in an effort to I
ethics office run by non-lawmak- conclude pressing
ers. ethics matters."
 Rangel, of New York, is the for- Lofgren "has
 mer chairman of the influential repeatedly refused to
 Ways and Means Committee, set either the Rangel I
 which writes tax law. Waters, of or Waters trial before
 California, is a senior member of the November elec-
 the House Financial Services tion," Bonner said.
 Committee, which approved the Rangel is accused by Cong. Rangel was overwhelmingly re-elected.


recent overhaul of financial indus-
try regulations and established new
consumer protections.
 Rangel is accused of financial
wrongdoing and misuse of his
office, while Waters is charged
with improperly helping a bank in
which her husband owns stock -
receive federal financial aid.
 The Republican statement said,
"Members of the committee have
repeatedly expressed their willing-
ness and desire to move forward
with public trials of these matters
and have repeatedly made them-
selves available to the chairwoman
for October settings."
 The House may recess for the
elections as early as this week.
Bonner, of Alabama, said, "In past


Fired Up
Republicans blocked the "don't ask,
don't tell" legislation in a defeat for
Democrats and gay rights advo-
cates.
 Despite the failure, Democrats,
nonetheless, sent a message to their
rank and file: We're working for
you, now work for us.
 Republicans painted Democrats
as desperately playing election-year
politics.
 Sen. John Coryn of Texas, chair-
man of the committee in charge of
electing Senate Republicans,
accused Democrats of "a blatant
attempt to score last-minute votes
just weeks before an election." He


a House investigating
committee of 13 ethical violations.
Allegations include using House
stationery and staff to solicit
money for a New York college cen-
ter named after him; soliciting
donors with interests before the
Ways and Means Committee, leav-
ing the impression the money
could influence official actions;
and failing to disclose at least
$600,000 in assets and income in a
series of inaccurate reports to
Congress.
 Rangel is also accused of using a
rent-subsidized New York apart-
ment for a campaign office, when it
was designated for residential use,
and failing to report to the IRS
rental income from a unit in a


added, "These tactics are an insult
to millions of Americans."
 And Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.)
said, "In Sen. Reid and the
Democrats' zeal to get re-elected,
this is a cynical ploy to try to galva-
nize and energize their base."
 Democratic officials say they
hope the pitch will help motivate
what many Democrats acknowl-
edge is a moribund base, and, per-
haps, persuade at least some inde-
pendents to vote against
Republicans.
 From the White House to Capitol
Hill, Obama, House Speaker Nancy
Pelosi and her top lieutenants also
have been granting interviews to
black and Hispanic media as well as
other outlets whose listeners and


Dominican Republic resort.
 The New York congressman has
acknowledged some ethical lapses,
including his failure to pay taxes
on time and his belated financial
disclosures.
 Waters is charged with trying to
obtain federal financial assistance
for the minority-owned OneUnited
Bank, where her husband is an
investor. She denies any wrongdo-
ing, saying she did nothing more
than request that Treasury
Department officials meet with an
association of minority-owned
banks that included OneUnited.
 OneUnited eventually received
$12 million in federal bailout
money, but Waters insisted she had
nothing to do with that decision.


viewers are heavily Democratic.
 And starting next week, the pres-
ident will participate in the first of
four big-city rallies in Wisconsin,
Pennsylvania, Ohio and Nevada
aimed at once again firing up back-
ers of his 2008 presidential cam-
paign.
 The efforts to stoke the
Democratic base are a striking turn-
around from the last two national
elections, when it was Republicans
who were depressed and seeking to
fire up enough of their core con-
stituents in the campaign's final
weeks to fend off Democrats. They
didn't succeed; Democrats attracted
wide swaths of voters to rise to
power in Congress in 2006 and the
White House in 2008.


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