November 2012 Blog Posts (18)

Hutchinson Report Host Earl Ofari Hutchinson on Saturday, December 1, will present an on air townhall on the issue of whether President Obama should appoint UN Ambassador Susan Rice as Secretary of State on KPFK-Pacifica Radio (90.7 FM), streamed globally on kpfk.org at Noon PST. The program will feature statements from Rice and State Dept officials on the controversy over Rice’s possible appointment.

“The GOP’s…

Earl Ofari Hutchinson

House Speaker John Boehner didn’t bother to go through the pretense of recommending more women and minorities to chair House committees. All nineteen of his chair picks were white men. The committee chairs determine what legislation gets heard or stonewalled in the House. So Boehner’s naked move to assure that white guys still rule in the House seemingly makes mockery of all the GOP’s big post election…

On Saturday December 1, 2012, Enrique Peña…

West Los Angeles College Spanish Language Studies Dept.

The Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable awarded a special Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable Teacher Impact Cash Award on Monday, November 26 to West L.A. College Professor Josefina Coulton and the College’s Spanish Language Studies Dept.  WLA College President Nabil S. Abu-Ghazaleh and WLA College VP Academic…

Earl Ofari Hutchinson

The conventional political wisdom is that now that President Obama is safely back in the White House and does not have to worry about re-election he can do what  a few other freshly minted second term presidents have done. And that’s take off the gloves and let fly with a series of bold, reform initiatives. FDR, Harry Truman, LBJ, and Bill Clinton did that. Obama gave an early hint that he may be more aggressive in…

Earl Ofari Hutchinson

GOP house members are following a horrid precedent in trying to torpedo the possible nomination of Susan Rice for Secretary of State. The precedent was laid down by their Senate counterparts. That’s dithering, delaying, and flat out obstructing Obama’s nominees. The most glaring example of this is their record shattering stonewalling of Obama’s judicial picks. They insured that Obama almost had the dubious…

Earl Ofari Hutchinson

GOP leaders don’t even try to hide that their sudden pile on the immigration reform bandwagon is a blatant, cynical, politically panic driven attempt to bag a few more Latino votes in future elections. The ploy won’t work, and a few of the more thoughtful heads in the GOP know it. The reason has nothing to do with the fact that many see their sudden pirouette on the party’s age old hostility to…

Sent Letter of Praise and Support to Uruguayan President

Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable President Earl Ofari Hutchinson on Saturday, November 18 hailed Uruguayan President Jose Mujica’s decision to donate nearly all of his salary to meet the needs of the poor. Mujica is a selfless example of a national leader that puts aiding humanity above acquiring personal wealth. Hutchinson sent a letter of praise and support to Mujica at the Uruguayan Embassy in…

Earl Ofari Hutchinson

The GOP hit on UN Ambassador Susan Rice for the murderous Benghazi attack is not about her alleged bungling, untruthfulness, or lack of accomplishment. It’s yet another GOP ploy to weaken, besmirch, and taint President Obama. Change the name from Rice to Attorney General Eric Holder and it’s a virtual rerun of four years ago. Days after Obama’s 2008 election victory, he publicly announced that he planned to tap Holder for the…

Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Despite tepid and cautious remarks from a handful of GOP congressional leaders and commentators that they are open to compromise on the Bush tax cuts and revenue raising measures, President Obama will still have a huge fight on his hands getting his tax proposals passed.  The hard truth is that the pummeling the GOP got in the election hasn’t moved them one inch from their stuck in cement tax orthodoxy…

Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Much has been made that defeated GOP presidential contender Mitt Romney got more white votes than any other presidential candidate since George H.W. Bush’s presidential win in 1988. But the reason he did can’t be chalked up simplistically to racial fear, dislike and disgust with President Obama. An untold number of white Romney voters chose him based on party loyalty, political alliance, voting tradition, and a…

Earl Ofari Hutchinson

GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney got more white votes than any other GOP presidential candidate since George H.W. Bush in 1988 and he still lost. He trounced President Obama among white males, senior citizens, rural voters, and self-identified Christian evangelicals and he still lost. GOP ultra conservative congressional and senate candidates and incumbents were heavily bankrolled, got lots of media ink,…

The Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable announced its Impact Micro Awards for November on Friday, November 10. The November awards are part of our Building Self-Sustaining Communities Project. The Project supports organizations working in Los Angeles and America’s most underserved communities in cities nationally. The city chosen in November is Morristown, Tennessee. The city was ranked by the 2011 Census as…

 Earl Ofari Hutchinson

President Obama was a good and a bad prognosticator about his future in 2009. In the first two weeks after he was sworn in for his first term he told an NBC interviewer that if he didn't deliver he'd be "a one term proposition." Obama knew better than anyone else that as the first African-American president, a moderate to liberal Democrat, and a relatively inexperienced, untested Oval Office occupant, he would be on the firing line to…

In 1972 when then Democratic Party candidate Senator George McGovern ran for the Presidency, he had assembled a small group of supporters. This group consisted of Labor, Students, Women, Minorities, and LGBT. It was small back then, however…

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