UMDNJ chief to press for change

The Star Ledger ^ | Friday, March 10, 2006 | BY TED SHERMAN AND JOSH MARGOLIN

[Calpernia]

In his first interview since becoming interim president of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Vladeck -- despite a calm, easygoing manner -- made it clear that more change is on the way.

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"The rules of the game in this place have changed, and they haven't been changed by us," he said. "Even though the state is our lifeblood, we cannot, as a matter now of law, engage in some of the kinds of behaviors that have existed in the past. Some of the kinds of things that have (been) reported -- that may have become standard operating procedure in the past -- we cannot do anymore."

The university is now operating under an unprecedented deferred prosecution agreement that was put in place in December, after the university was criminally charged with Medicaid fraud.

That agreement granted broad powers to a federal monitor, former federal Judge Herbert J. Stern, who now has oversight over the university's $1.6 billion budget and sweeping authority to open the university's books, recommend firing staff and make major reforms.

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[Calpernia]

Charles Merrill

Merrill: sources - ABC, The New York Times, The New York Post, and his website.

Merrill was once married to Princess Evangeline Zalstem-Zalessky. Born in 1897 in New Jersey, Evangeline Johnson was the daughter of Robert Wood Johnson, co-founder of the pharmaceutical company Johnson & Johnson. Evangeline was thrice married, first to the conductor Leopold Stokowski, then to a Russian nobleman known as Prince Zalstem-Zalessky and lastly to Merrill.

Zalessky was more than three decades older than Merrill. She died in 1990 at the age of 93.

In the years that followed, Merrill met his partner Kevin Boyle on a beach in California.

“After my wife passed away I went to West Hollywood,” he recalls. “I got a bit part as a pirate in Steven Spielberg’s ‘Hook.’ It was during that trip that I met Kevin. He’s very gentle, artistic and intuitive. Eventually he came back here to live with me on the mountain.”

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MULTI-millionaire blueblood Charles Merrill has devised a novel way to protest President Bush's proposed constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage: He's stopped paying his taxes. The eccentric Merrill, 71 - whose cousin, Charles Merrill, founded Merrill Lynch, and whose late wife, Evangeline, was the only daughter of Johnson & Johnson founder Robert Wood Johnson - is refusing to file tax returns for 2004 or 2005 and wants other wealthy gays to join him.

"My partner and I believe marriage is when two people love each other regardless of their sexual organs," Merrill tells PAGE SIX from his home in the hills of North Carolina. "We're paying first-class taxes to be treated like second-class citizens and we're sick of it."

[Calpernia]

homosexualagenda

[SheLion]

UMDNJ/Robert Wood Johnson ping

Just seeing that name gives me the shivers!

[Calpernia]

Did you see the posts I've added?

[wagglebee]

In a twisted way, I would like to see him forced into court to get a ruling on this protest. If some pro-homosexual activist judge decides that not paying income tax is a valid form of protest, it could work out really well for the rest of us.

[Calpernia]

http://entertainment.excite.com/celebgossip/pgsix/id/02_18_2006_1.html

Excerpt:

Merrill, whose paternal line stretches back to Nathaniel Merrill, an immigrant to the Massachusetts Bay Colony from England in 1620, says it all comes down to "taxation without representation."

"According to the General Accounting Office, there are over 1,049 protections and incentives extended to straight married couples, none of which we get," he fumes. "I'm just doing the same thing that Mahatma Gandhi did in India and the colonists did during the War for Independence."

In his former life, Merrill was married to Evangeline Johnson (aunt to Jets owner Woody Johnson, and great aunt to demi-socialite Casey) who was 30 years his senior, but shared Charles' affinity for art and existentialism. (Evangeline had previously been married to orchestral conductor Leopold Stokowski, who made "Fantasia" with Walt Disney.)

After her death in 1990, Charles met his longtime lover, Kevin Boyle, who's 20 years younger, although he stills remains close with the Johnson clan - "They're very supportive," he says.

[Calpernia]

Notice though, these names and business connections.

[SheLion]

Did you see the posts I've added?

Yes!  Lots of reading.  It will take me awhile to catch up!!!  Good going!!!  You are really on top of this issue!!!

[Calpernia]

http://www.le-gal.org/site/pasthonorees.html

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Robert Abrams, New York State Attorney General (1991)
Hon. Karen S. Burstein (1995)
David Dinkins, New York City Mayor (1990)
Mary C. Dunlap, Esq. (1993)
Barney Frank, member of Congress (1987)
Bill Green, member of Congress (1988)
Elizabeth Holzman, Kings County District Attorney (1989)
David Mixner (1994)
Hon. Eve Preminger (1992)
Charles E. Schumer, member of Congress (1996)

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George Terzian (1988)
Joy Tomchin (1993)
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As per David Mixner, the Victory Fund, which was financial cofounded by David Mixner.

http://www.victoryfund.org/clientuploads/documents/Victory_2003_E-Resolution.pdf

Page 25 specifically says The Gay & Lesbian Fund provides financial support to openly lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender candidates and officials.

And it has lists of members, donors and sponsors.

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National Association of Lesbian, Gay, & Bisexual Community Centers
Assists in coordinating existing smoke-free initiatives and prepare community centers to carry out tobacco programming such as prevention programs, media campaigns, peer organizing, cessation programs, and developing policies around tobacco industry donations.
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[Calpernia]

For search fund, kicks and giggles.

I couldn't figure out the 'direct' gay monies from UMDNJ to the Gay & Lesbian funds.

Looks like Robert Wood Johnson created thepraxisproject.org for that.

And tobacco(?) is the front funder for gay groups?

thepraxisproject.org leads to interesting google pulls.

[Calpernia]

Materials from other LGBT Community Foundations

Building Diverse Community-Based Coalitions

– by the Praxis Project,

www.thepraxisproject.org/tools/Coalition_Building_2pdf.pdf

– offers a 5-page overview with practical suggestions about

some of the steps an organization can take to include a

broad base of communities, and how to identify potential

allies, understand their connection to your community, and

engage their interest in collaboration.

[Gabz]

The "praxis project" are admitted socialists and they fund ILLEGAL ALIENS.............

[Gabz]

The "praxis project" are admitted socialists and they fund ILLEGAL ALIENS.............

SO sorry - I meant to type MARXISTS - not socialists.

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National Coordinating Committee for the US Social Forum; social justice leaders from across the US who work on issues including environmental justice, poverty, racial justice, immigration, and workers’ rights.

blah blah blah

The World Social Forum (WSF) model is spreading around the world and a wide range of grassroots organizations and networks have announced the location of the first U.S. Social Forum (USSF)

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blah, blah.....“For us immigrants, the growth of our new communities here have been met not only with repressive policies, racist backlash, abuse and exploitation in the workplace, and scapegoating for socio-economic problems suffered by working class communities, we now also have to face state policies that ask to further extract from our already burdened communities. For instance, Georgia SB 529 seeks to suck up immigrant’s hard-earned income by taxing our remittance wire transfers to our families back home. We are displaced by US economic policies, harassed and kept in a state of constant fear to ensure a cheap and disposable labor supply for US corporations. Immigrant communities in GA and around the country challenge all these, and we say “No Taxation Without Representation.” -Colin Rajah (National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, Chair Program Working Group)

blah blah...“The political moment in the United States brings four important intersections: the war in Iraq, Indigenous Artic drilling, Katrina survivors and US-Mexico border & immigration issues. In fact, all four issues are under the Department of Defense and Homeland Security.” - Ruben Solis (Southwest Workers Union, Southwest Regional Representative)

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[Calpernia]

border/immigration ping

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1593821/posts?page=37#37

[Calpernia]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1593821/posts?page=37#37

RELATED/FUNDED

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1564593/posts
Advocacy group wants office of immigrant affairs
New Jersey Immigration Policy Network ^ | 01/24/06

Posted on 01/25/2006 9:02:19 AM EST by Calpernia

10-page document issued by New Jersey Immigration Policy Network to the Governor

New Jersey Immigration Policy Network, a coalition of more than 70 civil rights, community and social services organizations, recently presented Corzine with a 10-page issue paper asking him to take action within his first 100 days in office.

(snip)....network executive director Partha Banerjee was optimistic.

"Based on what he has done in the past, I'm very hopeful he'll put words into action," Banerjee said.

The network wants Corzine to appoint an advisory committee to explore establishing a statewide office to coordinate services to New Jersey's immigrant communities. State Sen. Ronald Rice, D-Essex, said Monday his office is drafting a bill to that effect to be introduced in a few weeks.

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[Coleus]

everyday there is another story, today a dean resigned. I wonder if there will be any prosecutions. UMDNJ is one of many entities in the state that have to be investigated.