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Mineral Wells Index / Sunday, January 17, 2016
Call Classifieds at 940-327-0838
PAGE 4
Drawn to an Opinion
Wanting to
live in Dr.
▼ NATIONAL PERSPECTIVE
Kmg s wor d This rebellion is different
Sargent
As a young student, Mineral Wells High
School graduate Janakae Sargent wrote a lot of
poems, including one about Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr., and another about racism.
While attending Texas Tech University, she was
killed in a car wreck, involving a
drunk driver, in November 2006
while serving as a designated
driver for a group of friends.
Her mother, Kandi Mitchell
Wiley, shared these two poems
by Janakae, both in her memory
and honor, and in observation of
Martin Luther King Jr. Day on
Monday. She said Janakae was
just 13 and almost 15 years old
when she wrote the following poems.
"Janakae was so talented and wise beyond her
years," Wiley said. "A free spirit who couldn't be
swayed from her own beliefs, values arid opinions."
Racism
By Janakae Sargent (Nov. 27, 1999)
This thing called racism
Is really quite pointless
I don't understand how
People can be so heartless
How can a human
Turn against his fellow man
No species on Earth
Can be as ruthless as people can
God created us all
We were meant to love
Not just each other
But also the Lord above
People have an issue with race
But I don't see the point
We should just trust fate
Love God, each other
And ourselves.
Dr. King’s Dream
By Janakae Sargent (Jan. 15, 2001)
There once lived a man who dreamed of peace.
I share his dream and hope with all my heart
That his dream comes true.
He was an outspoken man, a reasonable man.
One who did not see color and ignored race.
To him, skin had no hue.
He was killed for his beliefs
And since his death, several innocent people
have been killed, too.
When will the hatred end?
I want to live in Dr. King's world.
Where hatred is non-existent
And everyone is friends.
By DAVID M. SHRIBMAN
Throughout most of the 20th
century the Republican Party was
a peaceable kingdom. Its roots
were in farms and finance, its
adherents the managerial class,
small-business owners and mem-
bers of Rotary and country clubs,
its power centers the Eastern col-
leges, the Farm Bureau, Madison
Avenue, Wall Street and Main
Street, plus much of the prairie
Midwest and Mountain West.
The party dominated the 1920s,
the 1950s and the 1980s. Rarely
were its disputes bitter, and sel-
dom did its disagreements break
into open or prolonged bickering.
But when the Republicans do
fight, they fight fiercely. And
this winter may be their fiercest
fight ever.
The party of the American
establishment is undergoing the
biggest revolt against its own
establishment since at least 1964.
Two ferociously anti-establish-
ment figures are dominating the
Iowa caucuses, accounting, if polls
are to be believed, for half the
GOP vote. The three main estab-
lishment candidates together
account for only 13 percentage
points. Statewide, according to the
latest Fox News Poll, 57 percent of
Republicans believe they have
been betrayed by their own party.
In an interview the other
morning, commentator Patrick J.
Buchanan, who ran two insurgent
campaigns for president and won
the 1996 New Hampshire prima-
ry, told me "the Republican estab-
lishment is a church whose pews
are empty."
In earlier Republican upheavals,
the rebels were defeated in nomi-
nation fights (1952,1992 and 1996),
rejected in a brutal general election
defeat (1964) or merged with the
establishment (1980). This time
businessman Donald J. Trump and
Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas are con-
ducting White House drives that,
unlike the Barry Goldwater cam-
paign of 1964, do not so much aim
Shribman
to take over the
party as they seek
to ridicule, repudi-
ate and renounce
its leadership.
"The civil war
in the Republican
Party of the
United States,"
Theodore H.
White wrote in
his "Making of the President"
volume for 1964, "is one of the
more fascinating stories of
Western civilization." If White,
who died 30 years ago, were here
today, he might argue the sen-
tence applied even more so to the
2016 race.
The difference: This time it is
not a faction that is in rebellion
but the majority of the party.
The Democrats, famous for
their interrial feuds, have not in
modern times faced an insurrec-
tion remotely like the one the
Republicans are experiencing
right now, except perhaps at the
end of the Lyndon Johnson years.
But even then, the party estab-
lishment moved in rough align-
ment with the party base, and the
rebels left the Johnson camp with
reluctance and regret.
Not so this time with the
Republicans. "The people I know
are relishing the discomfort this is
causing with an establishment they
can't stand," said Buchanan. "The
base of the party is totally
estranged from the establishment."
The Fox Iowa poll shows that
nearly two-thirds of Republicans
with no college degree feel
betrayed by their party, which
might lead to the conclusion that
this rebellion is class-oriented and
in fact fueled by new Republicans
who do not fit the party's tradi-
tional mold. But that is not the
case; more than half of Republicans
with college degrees feel betrayed
by their party, too — and nearly
three in five of those who say they
will "definitely" attend a party
caucus two weeks from now share
that bitter sentiment.
This reflects another important
shift in the character of
Republican politics. A quarter-
century ago, the Republican Party
had a share of issue-oriented
activists who were less concerned
with victory in the general elec-
tion than with their own special
causes, often involving social
issues such as abortion.
Indeed, at the party's 1992
convention, when Buchanan
spoke of the "culture war" that
was enveloping the nation, those
issue activists played a key role
in the platform fight at the par-
ty's Houston convention. In a
study published in the Political
Science Quarterly, the Colby
College political scientist L.
Sandy Maisel found that their
determination to shape a docu-
ment that customarily is soon
forgotten resulted in their suc-
cessful exclusion of moderates
from the platform committee.
Now these very same activists
— or their next-generational lega-
tees — are determined to prevail
in the election itself, and their
rhetoric, especially from Cruz, is
full of disdain for the establish-
ment candidates they say always
get the nomination but never get,
or keep, the presidency. Their
examples are Gerald R. Ford and
George H.W. Bush, who were
defeated for re-election in 1976
and 1992, respectively, along with
nominees Sen. Bob Dole of
Kansas (1996), Sen. John McCain
of Arizona (2008) and former
Gov. Mitt Romney of
Massachusetts (2012).
The roots of this rebellion actu-
ally go back to 1976, with the chal-
lenge Ronald Reagan mounted to
the nomination of Ford, an acci-
dental president but as a former
House minority leader and a crea-
ture of moderate Grand Rapids,
Mich., politics, a sturdy symbol of
the Main Street strain of the
Republican establishment. Ford
was a Rotarian, and in fact his
hometown club now bears the
See SHRIBMAN, page 5
Address Book
FEDERAL
President Barack Obama
1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
Washington, D.C. 20500
(202) 456-1414
Fax: (202) 456-2461
president @ whitehouse .gov
U.S. Senators
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas)
United States Senate
B40B Dirksen Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510-4306
Phone: 202-224-5922
Fax: 202-228-0755
http://www.cruz.senate.gov/contact.cfm
Sen. John Comyn (R-Austin)
Room 370, Russell Building
Washington, D.C. 20510
(202) 224-2934
Fax: (202) 228-2856
Web: http://comyn.senate.gov/
U.S. CONGRESSMAN
Mike Conaway (R-Midland)
2430 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
(202) 225-3605
Fax: (202) 225-1783
San Angelo District Office
33 Twohig, Ste. 307
San Angelo, TX 76903
(325) 247-2826
E-mail: www.house.gov/writerep
STATE
Gov. Greg Abbott
P.O. Box 12428
Austin, TX 78711
(512) 463-2000
Fax: (512) 463-1849
E-mail through www.govemor.state.tx.us
STATE SENATOR
State Sen. Craig Estes (R-Wichita Falls), District 30
P.O. Box 12068
Capitol Station
Austin, Texas 78711
(512) 463-0130
District office:
2220 San Jacinto BUd., Ste. 318
Denton, TX 76205
(940) 898-0331
Fax: (940) 898-0926
E-mail: craig .estes @ senate .state .tx .us
STATE REPRESENTATIVE
State Rep. Jim Keffer (R-Eastland), District 60
Office No. E2.802
P.O. Box 2910
Austin, TX 78768-2910
(512) 463-0656
(800) 433-1716
District office:
(800) 433-1716
j ames ,keffer@house .state .tx .us
PALO PINTO COUNTY
Palo Pinto County Courthouse
P.O. Box 190
Palo Pinto, TX 76484-0190
Phone: (940) 659-1253
Fax: (940) 659-2590
Web: www.co.palo-pinto.tx.us/
County Judge David Nickias - (940) 659-1253
Comm. Curtis Henderson, Pet. 1 - (940) 659-1210
Comm. Louis Ragle, Pet. 2 - (940) 659-1257/
(940) 664-2050
Comm. Mike Pierce, Pet. 3 - (940) 659-1258/
(254) 672-5851
Comm. Jeff Fryer, Pet. 4 - (940) 659-1259/
(940) 769-2524
E-mail - lupe.terrazas@co.palo-pinto.tx.us
CITY OF MINERAL WELLS
Mineral Wells City Hall
115S.W. 1st St.
P.O. Box 460
Mineral Wells, TX 76067
Phone: (940) 328-7700
Fax: (940) 328-7704
Web: www.mineralwellstx.gov
Mayor Mike Allen - mayor@mineralwellstx.gov
Councilman At-Large, Place 1 Clif Wright - council-
placel @ mineralwellstx.gov
Councilman At-Large, Place 2 Brian Reagan - council-
place2@mineralwellstx.gov
Councilman Ward 1 Thomas Lively - councilwardl@
mineralwellstx.gov
Councilman Ward 2 Tammy Underwood - council-
ward2 @ mineral wellstx .gov
Councilman Ward 3 John Upham - councilward3@
mineralwellstx.gov
Councilman Ward 4 Wayne Johnson - councilward4@
mineralwellstx .gov
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