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Monday, April 7, 2008
Turner, Mary Lauterbach on CNN
CNN’s Susan Candiotti, reporting from Dayton, is airing a piece on Maria Lauterbach and her mother’s concerns about the impact of her death on women in the Marines.
Mary Lauterbach tells Candiotti she is worried about the safety of women in the U.S. Marine Corps, and feels the corps inadequately protected her daughter. Through her congressman, Rep. Mike Turner, R-Centerville, she sent a list of questions to the Marines about their investigation of her daughter’s death. Turner’s office hopes to get a reply from the Marines this week.
The story also includes video of a young Maria Lauterbach talking about her desire to join the Marines and eventually become a police officer.
The story also features an interview with Turner, who wonders whether Lauterbach’s death will have a “chilling effect” on other women coming forward who are raped.
Lauterbach, whose body was found buried in the backyard of fellow Marine, Cpl. Cesar Laurean, near Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, in January, accused Laurean of raping her in spring of 2007. Laurean faces murder charges and went missing in January. He is suspected of being in his native Mexico.
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Voinovich to Strickland: Let’s work together on this jobs thing
Sen. George Voinovich Monday wrote a letter to Gov. Ted Strickland urging him to support a Voinovich bill aimed at making it easier for states to implement regional workforce and economic development programs that meet the needs of the workers and employers.
The Workforce Innovation in Regional Economic Development Act of 2008, or the WIRED Act, is hoped to make it easier for states to attract and keep businesses by providing them with more flexibility for their federal workforce dollars.
The WIRED Act tweaks the Workforce Investment Act of 1998, which was passed by Congress to authorize service and training for youths, adults and laid-off or dislocated workers to give states and regions greater flexibility in their use of federal workforce development dollars.
Currently, the Workforce Investment Act program funds cannot easily be used across program areas. Voinovich aims to make it easier.
In his letter, Voinovich applauded Strickland’s plan to overhaul Ohio’s workforce development program, and asks for feedback on his bill.
“We must quickly find an answer to the question of why at the same time Ohio has so many displaced manufacturing workers and yet so many Ohio manufacturers are indicating that they are unable to find the skilled workers they need to thrive in the 21st Century economy,” he wrote.
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Brown calls Colombian Free Trade Agreement a “betrayal”
Sen. Sherrod Brown Monday predicted Congress would not pass a free trade agreement with Colombia that President Bush sent to it Monday, calling it a betrayal of the middle class.
“The proposed Colombia (Free Trade Agreement) betrays small businesses, it betrays workers, and it betrays consumers,” Brown, D-Ohio, said. “Colombian workers earn little more than $600 a month. This (free trade agreement) is much less about finding new markets for American goods than it is a continuation of this administration’s failed trade policy - a policy that exploits workers in developing nations, fosters unsafe working conditions, and allows unsafe products and food into our country.
“There will be no backroom deals to save this agreement - it stands alone, and it will be defeated in the open.
“We want trade and plenty of it - but under rules that raise standards and ensure our exports have a lasting and sustainable market of consumers.”
He also criticized the Colombian government’s response - or lack of one - to violence against union leaders in Columbia. “Its response has been unacceptable,” he said.
