The LuLac Edition #4,004, February 12th, 2019

MINNESOTA SENATOR ANNOUNCES FOR PRESIDENT IN SNOWSTORM!

Senator Amy Klobuchar (Photo: U.S. Senate)

You have to give Senator Amy Klobuchar credit for braving the elements in announcing her bid for President. Even stalwarts like the late Hubert Humphrey and Walter Mondale never tried that!
Klobuchar entered the 2020 presidential race Sunday with a speech in the middle of a Midwestern snowstorm, joining a record number of women in the most diverse Democratic primary field in U.S. history.
"At a time when we must heal the heart of our democracy and renew our commitment to the common good, I stand before you as the granddaughter of an iron ore miner, as the daughter of a teacher and a newspaperman, as the first woman elected to the United States Senate from the state of Minnesota, to announce my candidacy for president of the United States," she told supporters braving frigid temperatures and relentless snowfall at an outdoor rally along the Mississippi River in Minneapolis.
Klobuchar, who is expected to tout her moderate politics and Midwestern roots on the campaign trail, denounced the polarization in Washington and the divisiveness in political discourse.
Diaper Don responded to her event saying she looked like a snowman. She retorted back that his hair would never withstand the wind and cold. Good shot back at him. Once a loudmouth impotent bully, always one. Good luck Senator K.

SALAVANTIS IN

Luzerne District Attorney Stefanie Salavantis has decided to run for a third term. Salavantis can’t run for another term because of the Home Rule Charter. She won an upset election 8 years ago by about 200 votes and has not looked back ever since.
Salavantis has managed the office well and surrounded herself with good people. Barring any unforeseen developments, she should win easily in a Democratic County that has become more energized since 2016.

CARTWRIGHT ANNOUNCES $212,440 IN HUD FUNDS TO ADDRESS HOMELESSNESS

U.S. Representative Matt Cartwright announced that the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) awarded $212,440 in Continuum of Care (CoC) funds to two local organizations in Northeastern Pennsylvania – the Commission on Economic Opportunity in Luzerne County and United Neighborhood Centers of Northeastern Pennsylvania in Lackawanna County.
“It is of critical importance to impart more resources to local areas to ensure safe shelter for the homeless and to provide the services needed for people to have the stability they need to turn their lives around,” said Rep. Cartwright, a member of the Appropriations Committee. “I am delighted these critical dollars will be dedicated to helping individuals and families in our communities.”
The CoC program is part of a strategic plan to solve homelessness for veterans, adults, families, youth, and children. The program provides federal funding to nonprofit organizations and State and local government agencies to rehouse homeless individuals, increase access to mainstream programs for the homeless, and promote self-sufficiency. This funding award is for new, CoC planning, Unified Funding Agency (UFA) costs, and Domestic Violence Bonus (DV Bonus) projects.

LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY-A HISTORY

Lincoln's Birthday is a legal, public holiday in some U.S. states, observed on the anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth on February 12, 1809, in Hodgenville (Hodgensville, Hodgen’s Mill), Kentucky.Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio,,California, Missouri, and New York observe the holiday.
In other states, Lincoln's birthday is not celebrated separately, as a stand-alone holiday. Instead Lincoln's Birthday is combined with a celebration of President George Washington's birthday (also in February) and celebrated either as Washington's Birthday or as Presidents' Day on the third Monday in February, concurrent with the federal holiday.
The earliest known observance of Lincoln's birthday occurred in Buffalo, New York, in either 1873 or 1874. Julius Francis (d. 1881), a Buffalo druggist, made it his life's mission to honor the slain president. He repeatedly petitioned Congress to establish Lincoln's birthday as a legal holiday.
The day is marked by traditional wreath-laying ceremonies at Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site in Hodgenville, Kentucky, and at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.. The latter has been the site of a ceremony ever since the Memorial was dedicated. Since that event in 1920, observances continue to be organized by the Lincoln Birthday National Commemorative Committee and by the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States (MOLLUS). A wreath is laid on behalf of the President of the United States, a custom also carried out at the grave sites of all deceased U.S. presidents on their birthdays. Lincoln's tomb is in Springfield, Illinois.
On February 12, 2009, the annual wreath-laying ceremony at the Lincoln Memorial commemorated Lincoln's 200th birthday in grand fashion.  (wikipedia, LuLac)