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Ruben
Gallego of Phoenix, Arizona holds a Latinos for Udall sign at a canvass
kickoff campaign event on October 25, 2014 in Thornton, Colorado. Udall
is seeking reelection as one of Colorado's two senators and faces
Republican challenger Cory Gardner in a tight race for the seat. (Photo
by Marc Piscotty/Getty Images)
It
showed that, among Latinos, 50 percent say it doesn't matter who wins
the Senate come November.
And among those who do think it will matter,
twice as many say it would be a good thing (30 percent) if the GOP took
over as say it would be a bad thing (15 percent).
This is a
demographic, we will remind you, that voted 71-27 for President Obama
just two years ago.
And only 15 percent are concerned about a
GOP-controlled Senate.
While there is a fairly big margin of
error (plus/minus 10 points) in this sub-sample, those are still
striking numbers -- and they comport nicely with the idea of Hispanics'
declining faith in the Democratic Party.
And if you can't get voters to
believe something will change, it's hard to make a convincing case to
get them to vote.
This
snapshot poll shows Latinos holding views more similar to political
independents then self-identified Democrats.
Among Democrats, 50 percent
say a GOP Senate would be a bad thing. Even that seems kind of muted --
but not nearly as muted as among Hispanics.
On the economy,
Latinos are much more likely to be down on the state of the country --
again, sounding much more like independents than Democrats.
Three
quarters of Latinos have a negative view on the economy, which (in the
abstract, at least) is often voters' top priority. Democrats have a
better outlook, with 43 percent viewing the economy positively.
Of course, for the 2014 election, this probably doesn't matter much. [Huh?] We've noted before that only in a handful of states is there a big enough population of Latinos to sway the outcome, which is why immigration reform has been put on the back-burner.
And
beyond 2014, Democrats are still in better shape than Republicans when
it comes to the Hispanic vote, as the below chart shows. Keep this in
mind as angling for 2016 begins, with President Obama's promised
executive action up first.
Let's show America what justice, liberty, life, peace and prosperity are all about.
Thank you for voting by Tuesday 4 November 2014.
Respectfully,
Richard "Ricardo Carlos" Charles
Candidate for Las Vegas District 1 US Representative
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Washington (CNN) -- Nearly 7 in 10 Americans are
angry at the direction the country is headed and 53% of Americans
disapprove of President Barack Obama's job performance, two troubling
signs for Democrats one week before the midterm elections, a new CNN/ORC International Poll shows.
Democrats are battling to
try and save the Senate majority, while hoping to prevent more losses
in the House, which the GOP controls by a 234 to 201 margin.
In the Senate,
Republicans need a net gain of six seats, and several state polls in the
past month of contested races show that Democrats are in danger of
losing control of the majority, and thus Congress.
Currently, Democrats
control the Senate by a 55-45 margin with two of those seats held by
independents that align themselves politically with Democrats.
The CNN/ORC poll shows
that 30% of Americans are "very angry" and 38% are "somewhat angry"
about the way things are going in the country, while 31% expressed "no
anger" at all.
CNN Polling Director Keating Holland notes the 31% of
"very angry" Americans matches the mood of the country in 2010 when
Republicans took back control of the House.
In next week's election,
the emotion of anger could be a motivating factor in driving out GOP
voters. While 36% of Republican voters said they are "extremely" or
"very enthusiastic," about voting this year, only 26% of Democrats use
that language to describe themselves, in the CNN/ORC poll.
"That 10 point difference
is certain to affect turnout and hurt Democrats' chances in marginal
districts," Holland said about the 435 House races on the ballot next
Tuesday.
And this enthusiasm gap,
coupled with dissatisfaction over how the president is leading the
country, is likely to influence the dozen races that will decide which
political party controls the Senate for the next two years.
A deeper
look into the polling data shows that Obama's job performance is only
viewed favorably in the Northeast, 51%, and in urban areas, 60%.
All but one of the races
that will decide which party controls the Senate in 2015 are located in
the three other geographic areas of the country and Obama's approval
rating is in the low 40's in each one.
· In the Midwest, where Democrats are trying to hold an open Senate seat in Iowa, Obama has a 56% disapproval rating.
· In the South, where
three Democratic incumbents are battling for re-election in Arkansas,
Louisiana, North Carolina, and Republicans are trying to hold an open
seat in Georgia, as well as protect Senate Minority Leader Mitch
McConnell in Kentucky, the president has a 52% disapproval rating.
· In the West where
Democratic incumbents are fighting for another six year term in Alaska
and Colorado, Obama's disapproval rating is 55%.
Making matters even more
difficult for Democrats is that Obama's disapproval rating among rural
voters is 70% and the eight states listed above have sizable rural
populations.
Nationally, when asked
if they agree with Obama on issues that matter most to them, only 42%
said yes, while 55% said they disagreed with him, in the poll.
It is no surprise that Obama has purposely stayed away from campaigning for Senate candidates in difficult contests.
It is widely believed
that Democratic seats in Montana, South Dakota, and West Virginia will
be won by Republicans in November. If this were to happen, Republicans
will only need a net gain of three more seats to take back the Senate
majority.
As for Congress, only 13% of Americans approve of how it is handling its job, while 85% disapprove.
Let's show America what justice, liberty, life, peace and prosperity are all about.
Thank you for voting by Tuesday 4 November 2014.
Respectfully,
Richard "Ricardo Carlos" Charles
Candidate for Las Vegas District 1 US Representative
Here's what We The People can do here now: 2014: It's time to donate and join us to elect Constitutional Independent Representatives not funded by special interests.
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Law Lets I.R.S. Seize Accounts on Suspicion, No Crime Required
Photo
Carole Hinders at her modest, cash-only Mexican restaurant in Arnolds Park, Iowa. Last year tax agents seized her funds.Credit
Angela Jimenez for The New York Times
ARNOLDS
PARK, Iowa — For almost 40 years, Carole Hinders has dished out Mexican
specialties at her modest cash-only restaurant. For just as long, she
deposited the earnings at a small bank branch a block away — until last
year, when two tax agents knocked on her door and informed her that they
had seized her checking account, almost $33,000.
The Internal Revenue Service
agents did not accuse Ms. Hinders of money laundering or cheating on
her taxes — in fact, she has not been charged with any crime.
Instead,
the money was seized solely because she had deposited less than $10,000
at a time, which they viewed as an attempt to avoid triggering a
required government report.
“How
can this happen?” Ms. Hinders said in a recent interview. “Who takes
your money before they prove that you’ve done anything wrong with it?”
The federal government does.
Using
a law designed to catch drug traffickers, racketeers and terrorists by
tracking their cash, the government has gone after run-of-the-mill
business owners and wage earners without so much as an allegation that
they have committed serious crimes.
The government can take the money
without ever filing a criminal complaint, and the owners are left to
prove they are innocent. Many give up.
Photo
The I.R.S. seized almost $33,000 from Ms. Hinders.Credit
Angela Jimenez for The New York Times
“They’re
going after people who are really not criminals,” said David Smith, a
former federal prosecutor who is now a forfeiture expert and lawyer in
Virginia. “They’re middle-class citizens who have never had any trouble
with the law.”
On
Thursday, in response to questions from The New York Times, the I.R.S.
announced that it would curtail the practice, focusing instead on cases
where the money is believed to have been acquired illegally or seizure
is deemed justified by “exceptional circumstances.”
Richard Weber, the chief of Criminal Investigation at the I.R.S., said in a written statement,
“This policy update will ensure that C.I. continues to focus our
limited investigative resources on identifying and investigating
violations within our jurisdiction that closely align with C.I.'s
mission and key priorities.”
He added that making deposits under $10,000
to evade reporting requirements, called structuring, is still a crime
whether the money is from legal or illegal sources. The new policy will
not apply to past seizures.
The
I.R.S. is one of several federal agencies that pursue such cases and
then refer them to the Justice Department. The Justice Department does
not track the total number of cases pursued, the amount of money seized
or how many of the cases were related to other crimes, said Peter Carr, a
spokesman.
But the Institute for Justice,
a Washington-based public interest law firm that is seeking to reform
civil forfeiture practices, analyzed structuring data from the I.R.S.,
which made 639 seizures in 2012, up from 114 in 2005. Only one in five
was prosecuted as a criminal structuring case.
The
practice has swept up dairy farmers in Maryland, an Army sergeant in
Virginia saving for his children’s college education and Ms. Hinders,
67, who has borrowed money, strained her credit cards and taken out a
second mortgage to keep her restaurant going.
Their
money was seized under an increasingly controversial area of law known
as civil asset forfeiture, which allows law enforcement agents to take
property they suspect of being tied to crime even if no criminal charges
are filed.
Law enforcement agencies get to keep a share of whatever is
forfeited.
Critics
say this incentive has led to the creation of a law enforcement
dragnet, with more than 100 multi-agency task forces combing through bank
reports, looking for accounts to seize.
Under the Bank Secrecy Act,
banks and other financial institutions must report cash deposits greater
than $10,000. But since many criminals are aware of that requirement,
banks also are supposed to report any suspicious transactions, including
deposit patterns below $10,000. Last year, banks filed more than
700,000 suspicious activity reports.
Owners who are caught up in
structuring cases often cannot afford to fight. The median amount seized
by the I.R.S. was $34,000, according to the Institute for Justice
analysis, while legal costs can easily mount to $20,000 or more.
There
is nothing illegal about depositing less than $10,000cash unless it is
done specifically to evade the reporting requirement.
But often a mere
bank statement is enough for investigators to obtain a seizure warrant.
In one Long Island case, the police submitted almost a year’s worth of
daily deposits by a business, ranging from $5,550 to $9,910. The officer
wrote in his warrant affidavit that based on his training and
experience, the pattern “is consistent with structuring.” The government
seized $447,000 from the business, a cash-intensive candy and cigarette
distributor that has been run by one family for 27 years.
There
are often legitimate business reasons for keeping deposits below
$10,000, said Larry Salzman, a lawyer with the Institute for Justice who
is representing Ms. Hinders and the Long Island family pro bono.
For
example, he said, a grocery store owner in Fraser, Mich., had an
insurance policy that covered only up to $10,000 cash. When he neared
the limit, he would make a deposit.
Ms.
Hinders said that she did not know about the reporting requirement and
that for decades, she thought she had been doing everyone a favor.
Photo
Jeff Hirsch, an owner of
Bi-County Distributors on Long Island. The government seized $447,000
from the business, a candy and cigarette distributor run by one family
for 27 years.Credit
Bryan Thomas for The New York Times
“My
mom had told me if you keep your deposits under $10,000, the bank
avoids paperwork,” she said. “I didn’t actually think it had anything to
do with the I.R.S.”
In
May 2012, the bank branch Ms. Hinders used was acquired by Northwest
Banker.
JoLynn Van Steenwyk, the fraud and security manager for
Northwest, said she could not discuss individual clients, but explained
that the bank did not have access to past account histories after it
acquired Ms. Hinders’s branch.
Banks
are not permitted to advise customers that their deposit habits may be
illegal or educate them about structuring unless they ask, in which case
they are given a federal pamphlet, Ms. Van Steenwyk said.
“We’re not
allowed to tell them anything,” she said.
Still
lawyers say it is not unusual for depositors to be advised by financial
professionals, or even bank tellers, to keep their deposits below the
reporting threshold.
In the Long Island case, the company, Bi-County
Distributors, had three bank accounts closed because of the paperwork
burden of its frequent cash deposits, said Jeff Hirsch, the eldest of
three brothers who own the company.
Their accountant then recommended
staying below the limit, so for more than a decade the company had been
using its excess cash to pay vendors.
More
than two years ago, the government seized $447,000, and the brothers
have been unable to retrieve it.
Mr. Salzman, who has taken over legal
representation of the brothers, has argued that prosecutors violated a
strict timeline laid out in the Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act,
passed in 2000 to curb abuses.
The office of the federal attorney for
the Eastern District of New York said the law’s timeline did not apply
in this case. Still, prosecutors asked the Hirsches’ first lawyer,
Joseph Potashnik, to waive the CARFA timeline. The waiver he signed
expired almost two years ago.
The
federal attorney’s office said that parties often voluntarily
negotiated to avoid going to court, and that Mr. Potashnik had been
engaged in talks until just a few months ago.
But Mr. Potashnik said he
had spent that time trying, to no avail, to show that the brothers were
innocent. They even paid a forensic accounting firm $25,000 to check the
books.
“I don’t think they’re really interested in anything,” Mr. Potashnik said of the prosecutors. “They just want the money.”
Bi-County
has survived only because longtime vendors have extended credit — one
is owed almost $300,000, Mr. Hirsch said.
Twice, the government has made
settlement offers that would require the brothers to give up an
“excessive” portion of the money, according to a new court filing.
“We’re just hanging on as a family here,” Mr. Hirsch said. “We weren’t going to take a settlement, because I was not guilty.”
Army
Sgt. Jeff Cortazzo of Arlington, Va., began saving for his daughters’
college costs during the financial crisis, when many banks were failing.
He stored cash first in his basement and then in a safe-deposit box.
All of the money came from paychecks, he said, but he worried that when
he deposited it in a bank, he would be forced to pay taxes on the money
again. So he asked the bank teller what to do.
“She said: ‘Oh, that’s easy. You just have to deposit less than $10,000.'”
The
government seized $66,000; settling cost Sergeant Cortazzo $21,000. As a
result, the eldest of his three daughters had to delay college by a
year.
“Why
didn’t the teller tell me that was illegal?” he said. “I would have
just plopped the whole thing in the account and been done with it.”
Let's show America what justice, liberty, life, peace and prosperity are all about.
Thank you for voting by Tuesday 4 November 2014.
Respectfully,
Richard "Ricardo Carlos" Charles
Candidate for Las Vegas District 1 US Representative
Here's what We The People can do here now: 2014: It's time to donate and join us to elect Constitutional Independent Representatives not funded by special interests.
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