Baadhi ya wajumbe wa kikosi kazi hicho wakiendelea na majumu yao.
Naibu Waziri wa Wizara ya Afya, Maendeleo ya Jamii, Jinsia, Watoto na Wazee, Dkt. Hamisi Kigwangalla amekutana kwa mara ya pili na kikosi kazi cha watu 24 ambacho kitakuwa na kazi ya kutengeneza mpango mkakati wa kuwezesha kuboresha Mfuko wa Afya ya Jamii (CHF).
Mkutano unaoendelea katika ukumbi wa Wizara hiyo ya Afya, leo Februari 20th, 2016 unachambua mambo mbalimbali ya kuweza kuyafanyia maboresho na ya kimkakati ilikuweza kufikia malengo ya Mfuko huo wa Afya ya Jamii (CHF).
Katika Mkutano huo, Dkt. Kigwangalla ni mwenyekiti wa kikosi kazi hicho ambapo kwa ujumla na wajumbe hao wapo kupanga mikakati thabiti.
Baadhi ya Wajumbe wa kikosi kazi hicho wanaoshiriki kikao ni pamoja na Prof. Angwara Kiwara, Prof. Phares Mujinja, Dkt. Francis Frederick, Dkt. Heri Marwa, Dkt. Deogratius Pisa, Dkt. Amos Kahwa, Irene Kiria, Semkae Kilonzo, Gemini Mtei, Dkt. Jehovaness Aikaeli na Obey Assey.
Wengine ni Mathias Kabunduguru, Dkt. Dereck Chitama, Prof. Flora Kessy, Florence Mwanri, Athuman Rehani, Maximillian Mapunda, Bedason Shallanda, Daniel Ngowi, Beng' Issa, Edwin Mikongoti, Hussein Sengu, Dkt. Beatus Leon na Dkt. Pastory Sekule.
Mkutano huo ukiendelea.
Baadhi ya wajumbe wa kikosi kazi hicho wakimsikiliza Naibu Waaziri wa Afya Dkt.Kigwangalla (Hayupo pichani) wakati wa mkutano huo unaoendelea Wizarani hapo.
Naibu Waziri Dkt.Kigwangalla ambaye ni Mwenyekiti wa kikosi kazi hicho (kulia) akiwa pamoja na baadhi ya wajumbe hao. (Picha zote na Andrew Chale,modewjiblog).
SERIKALI ya kijiji cha Mfyome, kata ya Kiwele katika Halmashauri ya wilaya ya Iringa vijijini mkoani Iringa imefanikiwa kukamata shehena ya mbao 298 zinazosadikiwa kukatwa kutoka kwenye msitu wa Gangalamtumba uliopo kijijini hapo na kusababisha uharibifu mkubwa wa kimazingira.
Wananchi hao kwa kwa kushirikiana na Chama Cha Wanasheria Watetezi wa Mazingira kwa Vitendo (LEAT) kupitia mradi wake wa ushiriki wa wananchi katika kusimamia maliasili unaofadhiliwa na Watu wa Marekani (USAID)imefanikiwa kukamata shehena ya hizo zenye thamani ya shilingi miloni 8 baada ya kupatiwa mafunzo ya ufuatiliaji uwajibikaji katika jamii kwa wananchi.
Akizungumza mara baada ya kukamatwa kwa mbao hizo katika kijiji cha Mfyome, Afisa Mawasiliano wa LEAT, Miriam Mshana alisema elimu ya uwajibikaji katika jamii ni muhimu kwa vile inasaidia kuongeza hamasa miongoni mwa wananchi wanaoishi katika maeneo yanayozungukwa na rasilimali kuweza kuzilinda.
Alisema kuwa Leat kwa kushirikiana na USAID waliwapatiwa mafunzo wanakijiji ambapo mradi huo unawafikia katika kuwawezesha kutambua uwajibikaji katika jamii kwa wananchi katika uhifadhi wa mazingira ambapo juhudi kubwa inafanyika katika kuwadhibiti watu ambao wanaharibu mazingira na kuwachukulia hatua kali.
Mshana alisema kuwa katika miaka ya nyuma jukumu la kutunza misitu, wanyamapori na uvuvi lilikuwa linafanywa na Serikali lakini hivi sasa jukumu hilo limepelekwa katika ngazi ya vijiji na wilaya ambapo wananchi wanashiriki moja kwa moja katika utunzaji wa rasilimali husika na kupatiwa mafunzo sahihi ya utunzaji wa mazingira.
Kwa upande Chuki Mduda ambaye ni mjumbe wa kamati ufuatiliaji uwajibikaji katika jamii katika ngazi ya wilaya amesema baada ya kukamatwa kwa mbao hizo uongozi wa kijiji umeamua mbao hizo zitumike kutengenezea madawati ili kumaliza tatizo la uhaba wa madawati kijijini hapo.
Alisema mbao hizo zimetokana na miti ya asili iliyoko katika msitu wa msitu wa Gangalamtumba ulioko katika kijiji cha Mfyome walikutwa nazo waaribifu wa mazingira baada ya wananchi wengi kupatiwa elimu ya mazingira na kuanza kulinda msitu huo.
Alisema kuwa kwa sasa wananachi baada ya kupatiwa elimu wamekuwa wakiwakamata watu wanaoharibu mazingira na kuwapeleka katika uongozi wa Serikali ya mtaa ili hatua za kisheria ziweze kuchukuliwa dhidi.
Mradi wa ushiriki wa wananchi katika kusimamia maliasili unaosimamiwa na LEAT kwa uadhili wa shirika la maendeleo la kimataifa la Marekeni (USAID) unatekelezwa katika vijiji 32 kutoka halmashauri mbili za Iringa vijijini na Mufindi mkoani Iringa.
MFYOME Villagers at Kiwere Ward of Iringa district Council in Iringa Region has succeeded to arrest 298 timber consignment suspected to be cut from Gangalamtumba village natural forest to the existing causing environmental destruction early this month.
The villagers in conjunction with the Lawyers Association advocates of Environmental Action (LEAT) through its project of citizens' participation in natural resource management funded by the American people (USAID), has succeeded to capture wood delivery with street value of nine million shillings.
Speaking yesterday during the monitoring and evaluation project activities; introduction alternative income generating activities (IGAs) at Mfyome village, LEAT Communications Officer, Miriam Mshana said education in social responsibility is important as it helps raise morale among citizens living in areas around the resources they protect.
“This is due to the fruitful result of the training of citizen engagement in Government oversight of the management of natural resources (forestry and wildlife),” said Mshana.
She said that in collaboration with USAID, LEAT trained villagers in the social responsibility project by empowering citizens in environmental conservation where great efforts have been undertaken in control people who are destroying environment and take drastic measures.
Mshana said that in previous years, to take care of the forests, wildlife and fishing was carried out by the government but now that the role is currently under consideration at the level of villages and districts where citizens are directly involved in the handling of related resources and trained in the proper handling of the environment.
The government leaders and service providers are equally required to prepare, submit and disseminate implementation reports at the end of financial year.
"This project of citizens engaging in natural resource management aims to empower people to participate in government oversight in managing natural resources through Social Accountability Monitoring,” said the Communications Officer.
She said that the project was aimed at making sure that government leaders and service providers are held fully responsible when they fail to deliver the required services as they are indicated in the strategic plan, annual work plan and the district budget in relation to natural resources.
In implementing the CEGO-NRM project, Lawyers' Environmental Action Team (LEAT) was done in collaboration with Community Based Organizations (CBOs) aiming at empowering the citizens in Natural Resources Management (NRM), Social Accountability Monitoring (SAM), as well as Income Generating Activities (IGA's).
The CEGO-NRM project aims to empower the citizens of Iringa Rural and Mufindi districts in Iringa region to improve accountability and oversight of public resources by increasing their participation in natural resources management, benefit sharing, governance, and oversight of services delivery at the local government authority levels.
On her part, Chuki Mduda is a member of the Social Accountability Monitoring (SAM) committee at the district level, said after the arrest of the timber; the village administration has decided to use the timber to make some school desks to finish the problem of shortage of desks in the village.
Mduda said the timber logged from the natural forest of Gangalamtumba which is in the Mfyome village which those people were found doing the destruction of the environment after many citizens got education to protecting the environment.
She said that now the citizens have education they will arrest those who damage the environment and took them to the local government to take legal action against them.
However, the project of involving citizens in the participation of management of natural resources managed by LEAT and supported USAID has been implemented in 32 villages from the two district councils of Iringa rural and Mufindi in Iringa Region.
These districts were selected because they contain wildlife management areas, wildlife resources, forests, and protected areas.
The project on Citizen Engagement in Government Oversight (CEGO) in Natural Resources Management and Social Accountability Monitoring (SAM) was the project aimed at making sure that government leaders and service providers are held fully responsible when they fail to deliver the required services as they are indicated in the strategic plan, annual work plan and the district budget.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign stop Friday, Feb. 19, 2016, in North Charleston, S.C. (Photo: Matt Rourke/AP)
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Donald Trump has won over many working class Americans with his populist message, reflected in his large and consistent lead in the polls. One might expect his rivals to be targeting this large bloc of voters, but for the most part they aren’t even attempting to compete for them.
Much of Trump’s support comes from men and women who feel left behind, economically and culturally. Economically, they blame trade deals and immigration for the collapse of job markets in manufacturing and industrial towns. Culturally, they feel looked down on by elites, who live vastly different lives.
Trump, with both his policy positions and his attitude, has promised to restore the fortunes of these voters. He has said he would impose tariffs as high as 45 percent on Chinese goods that undercut U.S. manufacturers — though he’s recently tried to back away from that position — and has famously promised to deport all of the 12 million or so undocumented immigrants in the country.
It’s widely agreed upon that tariffs would eliminate American jobs of companies that export goods to China, and would drive up the cost of goods for low- and middle-income Americans who shop at Wal-Mart, Target or Amazon, major retailers that are stocked with a steady flow of cheap imports from other countries like China, where labor costs are far less for manufacturers. And in fact, manufacturing job losses over the last decade or so are due more to efficiency gains from increased use of robots, rather than cheaper labor overseas.
Yet none of Trump’s rivals are emphasizing that point. Occasionally, one of them has said, as former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush did at a debate in mid-January, that a massive tariff would be result in “higher prices for consumers” and would be “devastating for the economy.” Rubio said in that same debate, in Charleston, that “if you send a tie or a shirt made in China into the United States and an American goes to buy it at the store and there’s a tariff on it, it gets passed on in the price to price to the consumer.”
However, no one is focusing on this argument, either with paid ads or repeated emphasis on the campaign trail.
Neither are they hammering Trump for saying he will make no changes to Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, which are the biggest long term drivers of the U.S. government’s $19 trillion national debt. If the debt continues to grow unchecked, it will hurt economic growth as well as eat up more and more of the federal budget, leaving less money for other spending.
Trade is a thorny issue. Although U.S. participation in the global economy has clearly benefitted the country as a whole over the past few decades, it has also been a period of deep disruption and loss for many Americans, whether or not it’s due to robots or cheap Chinese labor. Any argument for trade must acknowledge this, and that’s an uncomfortable proposition for a politician under the white hot lights of the presidential primary.
In addition, while Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Jeb Bush and John Kasich are all politicians and thus not above pandering, the idea of promising the return of manufacturing jobs en masse is too far fetched for them to promise. And so they are left with the prospect of telling bewildered blue collar workers that the government can help them transition into a new economy.
But by ignoring the issue, they are ceding the argument to Trump. And while each of them talk with some frequency about the struggles of every day Americans, none of them are going out of their way stylistically at events to speak directly to working class voters and to promise dramatic action to help blue collar and working class Americans.
“We need to take our message to people who are living paycheck to paycheck,” Rubio said Friday at a rally in Columbia.
Presidential candidate Marco Rubio along with South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, U.S. Representative Trey Gowdy and U.S. Senator Tim Scott ® wave as they arrive on stage during a campaign event in Columbia, South Carolina. (Photo: Chris Keane/Reuters)
But Rubio’s personal story — which involves his parents emigrating from Cuba — complicates any effort to reach out to voters who to some degree blame immigration for their woes. And Rubio and Cruz have been so preoccupied with selling themselves as the most dogmatically conservative that they have neglected Trump’s less ideological voters.
Rubio policy adviser Avik Roy said that Rubio “has spent a ton of intellectual capital on the question of how we address the problem of how the 21st century economy isn’t working for those in the lower middle class.” Roy pointed to Rubio’s “luring manufacturers back to the U.S.” and for “making vocational and higher education more affordable.”
Yet Trump’s more powerful appeal to his unique constituency may be more visceral than any policy position. Trump is someone who has lived among elites but has been laughed at by them as well, most famously at the White House Correspondents Dinner in 2011, when President Obama mercilessly mocked Trump, who had been spreading doubt about Obama’s birthplace.
Trump is now running as “a traitor to his class.” He offers less-well-off Americans a chance to get back at those who they perceive to have benefitted from the same policies–free trade, open borders—that they blame for their economic plight.Working class Americans by and large now live radically different lives from those in the upper class. Elites increasingly eat different foods than the rest of the country, have vastly different cultural tastes, and have more stable families and communities .
“Another characteristic of the new upper class—and something new under the American sun—is their easy acceptance of being members of an upper class and their condescension toward ordinary Americans,” conservative scholar Charles Murray wrote recently. “Mainstream America is fully aware of this condescension and contempt and is understandably irritated by it.”
Trump, who has mastered the process of manipulating the entertainment- and outrage-obsessed worlds of TV and social media, is acting out his own revenge on those who have scorned and mocked him.
“A lot of people have laughed at me over the years,” Trump said last month . “But they’re not laughing at me anymore.”
Tech entrepreneur and marketing genius Seth Godin inadvertently explained the way that Trump supporters can live vicariously through their hero. In a recent interview, Godin explained the difference between companies like Suzuki and Harley Davidson.
Suzuki makes cars for people to buy “if all you want is transport,” Godin said. But “no one gets a Suzuki tattoo.” By contrast, motorcycle maker Harley Davidson is a “tattoo-worthy” brand, because it does something more than just sell a product.
Harley Davidson, Godin said, “changed disrespected, disconnected outsiders into respected family members, insiders.” It is a company started by people who said, “‘The purpose of my business is to change people, to change them from something into something else.”
“That’s what you get when you pay $12,000 for a motorcycle,” Godin said.
Translated into this year’s presidential race, Harley Davidson represents Trump. Suzuki, run by people who apply “systems thinking to an existing clear need,” is a symbol for a candidate like Bush.
Bush, the former Florida governor, is a “systems thinker.” During a recent town hall meeting in New Hampshire, Bush had several chances to connect on a personal level with people in the audience who asked questions: a student, a woman with a sick father, and a blue collar man who asked about jobs lost to outsourcing.
In each case, Bush missed his window to make a personal connection and retreated into talking about wonkish policy details and big picture analysis of the problem. Though Bush did show some emotion when he began to talk about his daughter’s struggles with drug addiction, even then he quickly suppressed his feelings and moved quickly to a discussion of how to best help addicts.
The man who asked Bush about jobs lost to other countries looked more blue collar than most every other person inside the packed school cafeteria, who by and large looked like the well to do voters who usually attended 2012 Republican nominee Mitt Romney’s events. His head was shaved bald and he had a handlebar mustache that prompted Bush to call him “the man with the cool mustache.”
The man asked Bush: “What’s your plan for bringing jobs back that have left: Ford, GM, other companies, manufacturing. What’s your plan to get those companies back here to create a better job base?”
Bush could have noted that many blue collar Americans feel that the political elite have sold them out through free trade deals and badly enforced borders, and thanked the man for coming. He could have asked him about his personal experience and drawn out his feelings about Trump.
Instead, Bush went straight to tax policy, arguing for a change in how the U.S. government taxes companies who bring profits back home from plants or offices overseas.
Bush could sense that his talk of a “territorial tax system” was not connecting. “Capital investing may sound like an abstract idea,” he said.
Yet he persisted with the clinical argument. “It’s how you create higher wages,” he said.
That may be, but voters want more than dry theory or even facts. They want a human, emotional appeal as well. And on both counts, Trump’s rivals are surrendering a large swatch of the electorate to the current frontrunner.
Viongozi mbalimbali wa Chama cha Demokrasia na Maendeleo CHADEMA ngazi ya Mkoa na Taifa hii leo wanatarajia kuzindua Rasmi Ofisi ya Mbunge wa Viti Maalumu Mkoa wa Mwanza (Chadema) iliyopo Mtaa wa Ghana, Kata ya Nyamanoro Jimboni Ilemela.
Uzinduzi huo utaambana na shughuli mbalimbali ikiwemo kutembelea Hospitali ya Rufaa ya Mkoa wa Mwanza Sekour Toure. Pichani juu ni Secretary wa Mbunge wa Viti Maalumu Mkoa wa Mwanza (Chadema).
Pichani ni Mbunge wa Viti Maalumu Mkoani Mwanza (Chadema), Susan Maseke.
Kushoto ni Ofisi ya Katibu (Mwenye Miwani) wa Mbunge Viti Maalumu Mkoa wa Mwanza (Chadema) na Kulia ni Ofisi ya Katibu wa Baraza la Wanawake Chadema (BAWACHA).
Jengo la Ofisi ya Mbunge wa Viti Maalumu Mkoani Mwanza (Chadema), Susan Maseke ambayo inatarajiwa kuzinduliwa Rasmi hii leo. Ofisi hii iko GreenView, Mtaa wa Ghana Kata ya Nyamanoro, Jimbo la Ilemela Mkoani Mwanza.
In Nevada, where the white population is 51% and shrinking, Democrats Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders bickered about race on Friday while trying to woo Hispanic and African-American voters.
Two thousand miles away in South Carolina, where some of the white population cling to “Bibles and guns”, the six men vying for the Republican presidential nomination stewed over dirty tricks on the campaign trail.
On the eve of the Democratic caucuses in Nevada and the Republican primary in South Carolina, Clinton and Sanders appeared to be running neck-and-neck, while billionaire entrepreneur Donald Trump slipped in the polls and support for Texas senator Ted Cruz surged in the comfort of the evangelical south.
Clinton brought out her entire famous family for a chilly evening rally in Las Vegas as part of a last-ditch effort to get Nevadans out to the caucuses on Saturday morning. Chelsea Clinton, visibly pregnant, lauded her mother the role model.
Former president Bill Clinton announced that the Latino Victory Project had changed its bylaws to endorse his wife, its first time supporting a non-Hispanic candidate.
But earlier in the day Sanders picked a fight over the issue of race, accusing Clinton of cozying up to Barack Obama, not because she admires him but because she wants to use him to win the black vote.
“Hillary Clinton now is trying to embrace the president as closely as she possibly can,” Sanders said, according to excerpts from an interview with BET that will broadcast on Sunday. “Everything the president does is wonderful. She loves the president, he loves her and all that stuff.
FacebookTwitterPinterest Bernie Sanders sings on stage with performers at a campaign rally in Henderson, Nevada. Photograph: Jim Young/Reuters
“And we know what that’s about,” the Vermont senator continued. “That’s trying to win support from the African-American community where the president is enormously popular.”
Clinton responded via Twitter: “@POTUS’ achievements speak for themselves. The idea that supporting him is a ploy to win black votes is baffling.”
The Clintons were introduced by Hispanic actors America Ferrera and Eva Longoria and joined at the rally by former interior secretary Ken Salazar and Marcia Fudge, an African American member of Congress from the crucial swing state of Ohio.
Stepping away from her usual policy-wonk style, Clinton exhorted her supporters to imagine a tomorrow “where we finally pass comprehensive immigration reform”, “where we knock down every barrier that stands in the way of Americans getting ahead and staying ahead”, “where the minimum is not a poverty wage”.
Meanwhile the state department released another batch of Clinton’s emails, including 64 now deemed “classified”.
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But Sanders, who was expected to face challenges among minority voters as the Democratic nominating contest headed from Nevada southward, got a boost to his image as a long-time advocate and protester for civil rights: late Friday the Chicago Tribuneunearthed a photo of Sanders as a 21-year-old activist facing arrest.
As has become custom for his closing rallies on voting eve, more than 2,000 Sanders supporters showed up in Henderson for an event that felt more like a rock concert than a political campaign. Sara Hughes and her boyfriend Michael Darata, both with giant mohawks, said they showed up because Sanders’s message resonated with them: “Bernie says F-you to the system, like I feel,” said Hughes. “He’s calling people out. They don’t want to hear it. They feel threatened by him.”
Sanders added to his stump speech lines aimed at diversity – that “we are listening to our brothers and sisters in the Latino community”, “we are listening to our African-American brothers and sisters” and “we are listening to the women”.
And he laid into the other other opposition: “Not only will we fight the racism and the xenophobia and the bigotry of Donald Trump,” Sanders said to cheers of his name at the mention of another, “together we are going to demand that Congress pass comprehensive immigration reform and a path towards citizenship.”
In South Carolina, Trump’s support in one poll dipped below 30% for the first time this year as Cruz climbed within five points in another. The real estate mogul has been courting an evangelical state long dubbed “Bush country” by adding to his brash populism a confrontation with the pope and a political dynasty.
Trump walked back his defense against Pope Francis earlier on Friday. Then he proceeded to double down against Apple, reiterating his calls for a boycott of the company’s products over an encryption row surrounding the investigation into the mass shooting in San Bernardino, California.
Sanders dominates Nevada airwaves
“Apple computer, boycott Apple,” Trump said at a closing rally in North Charleston. “We want the secrets. They don’t want to open up the phones.”
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Trump also added a debunked urban legend to his stump speech. This one was about John Pershing, the commander of the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I who, in Trump’s telling, “took 50 terrorists, and took 50 men and 50 bullets”. The American war hero, whom Trump described as “a rough guy”, apparently then dipped the bullets in pig’s blood.
“We better start getting tough and we better start using our heads,” Trump said, “or we are not going to have a country, folks.”
The story seems to stem from Pershing’s stint commanding an American garrison in the Philippines where he helped put down a rebellion on the island of Mindanao. It also seems to be entirely untrue, despite Trump’s pledge that “this is something you can read in the history books”.
Trump repeated a supporter’s comment at his final rally before the New Hampshire primary, saying that Cruz was “a pussy” for not calling to reinstate waterboarding. He won in the Granite State, and on Friday in the Palmetto State he described the torture tactic as “borderline minimal, minimal torture”. He also said Cruz “lies more than any human being I have ever seen”.
Cruz reportedly met with longshot candidate Ben Carson in a South Carolina storage closet to settle a dispute over allegations that Carson’s campaign had engaged in “dirty tricks” in Nevada.
And as the race has entered comfortable territory for him – the Bible belt – he has fully embraced America’s culture wars, ratcheting up his usual rhetoric on second-amendment gun rights and abortion.
Donald Trump sidesteps supreme court dispute, while Ted Cruz goes all in
The Texas senator, who has a history of arguing before the US supreme court, went all-in this week on his qualifications to select the successor to Antonin Scalia after the justice died on 13 February.
He told a rowdy audience standing under an American flag at an airplane hangar in West Columbia that “we are one justice away from the supreme court striking down every restriction states have placed over the last 40 years on abortion”.
Later, Cruz expressed disdain for the notion that the second amendment does not guarantee the individual right to bear arms. In response, a man in the crowd shouted “my cold, dead hands!”, quoting the famous words of the late actor and NRA activist Charlton Heston.
“You and me both, my friend,” Cruz responded.
On Friday, the reality-TV star Phil Robertson joined Cruz as a warm-up act with a sermon that returned to the country’s revolutionary roots of how “we won” because of two things alone: “Bibles and guns.”
But Cruz, in a tacit acknowledgment that he was polling behind another reality show veteran, broke his own southern-comfort comedy routine by slipping into a line from Trump: “We’ll be winning so much we’ll be tired of winning,” he said.
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Charles Starling, the 63-year-old pastor at Hidden Valley Baptist Church in nearby Gaston, repeated Cruz’s lines like the rally was a revival.
Afterward, he said it didn’t take a papal entrance into politics to trust Cruz’s moral values over Trump’s questionable religious devotion. “I do not know who is saved or who is not – same goes for Trump, and neither does the pope,” he said. “Trump’s been saying a lot of the right things, but as far as sincerity, I have a lot of doubts.”
Undecided voters had even more doubts. And there will likely be a lot of them; South Carolina election officials are predicting a record turnout.
Patsy George, of Columbia, had just sat through Florida senator Marco Rubio’s final pitch during a rally at the downtown Marriott hotel on Friday, and she said her decision was “a toss-up” between Rubio and Cruz.
On the one hand, George said she found Rubio’s push for a comprehensive immigration reform bill two years ago to be troubling – even though he has disavowed his prior stance in favor of a more hardline approach.
“Hopefully he’s learned from what he did before,” she said. “I’ve liked him for years.”
At the same time, George said she was not a fan of what she had heard about Cruz in recent weeks – including reports that the Texas senator’s campaign had spread rumors on the night of the Iowa caucuses that Carson was dropping out of the race in an effort to peel away the retired neurosurgeon’s supporters.
“He’s apologized, but I didn’t like that,” George said of Cruz. “I’m a little concerned about his presentation. I don’t know how genuine he is.”
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Rubio’s campaign is locked in an ongoing feud with Cruz, as the two senators vie for a crucial second-place finish against Trump’s insurgency.
Earlier this week, the Cruz campaign circulated obviously Photoshopped images of Rubio shaking hands with Barack Obama – an anathema in conservative circles. The Florida senator has warned of more shenanigans beyond those pictures.
This is amid a political climate where Jeb Bush’s Super Pac is spending big on opposition phone calls – even against the Ohio governor John Kasich who planned to leave the state ahead of Saturday’s results – and the airwaves have been blanketed with ominous messages about the law, guns and money.
As a local poll showed Rubio eclipsing Cruz, a Rubio spokesman suggested a looming Saturday ahead: “We fear the worst dirty tricks are yet to come.”
Baadhi ya wajumbe wa kikosi kazi hicho wakimsikiliza Naibu Waaziri wa Afya Dkt.Kigwangalla (Hayupo pichani) wakati wa mkutano huo unaoendelea Wizarani hapo.
