While Trump Won York County, Pa., Republican Cal Weary Backed Clinton

Posted in Audio, Family/Parenting, Media Archive, Politics/Public Policy, United States on 2016-12-15 13:45Z by Steven

While Trump Won York County, Pa., Republican Cal Weary Backed Clinton

Morning Edition
National Public Radio
2016-12-15

Steve Inskeep catches up with Cal Weary, an ex-art teacher from York, who spoke about race and politics as part of the York Project in 2008. Weary, an African-American, is a registered Republican.

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Report from The York Union: Stephen Woolfe MEP: The Futures of Britain and UKIP

Posted in Articles, Media Archive, Politics/Public Policy, United Kingdom on 2016-06-08 23:32Z by Steven

Report from The York Union: Stephen Woolfe MEP: The Futures of Britain and UKIP

The Yorker
2016-06-07

Jack Harvey, Editor/Editorial Director


Photo credit: James Hostford

For some voters, a mixed-race candidate for UKIP doesn’t quite add up. “UKIP? But they’re against immigrants, aren’t they?” one might say. This is not true, says Stephen Woolfe, the MEP for North West England and the party spokesman for Economic Affairs and Migration. UKIP is not against immigration nor the immigrants themselves.

Born in Manchester in 1967, Stephen Woolfe comes from a working-class family. When his parents’ relationship ended, he and his siblings were taken to live with his grandmother until his family could acquire a council house. The family slept in a single room and as a child Woolfe was washed in the kitchen sink. His mother worked in a biscuit factory, cleaned the local bookmaker’s and manned a shoe shop all at once to make ends meet. By his own admission, Woolfe didn’t have much, but his family ensured that he came away from his childhood in the possession of two distinct things: a determination to work hard and an education. “I was always being given books. We read; my mum would read to me at night.” Woolfe secured a scholarship at an independent school, St. Bede’s College and went on to study Law at Aberystwyth University. From his youth, Woolfe learned the value of hard work and the possibility to better oneself…

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