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Robert Weiner, NATIONAL PUBLIC AFFAIRS AND ISSUES STRATEGIST Bob Weiner, a national issues and public affairs strategist, has been spokesman for and directed the public affairs offices of White House Drug Czar and Four Star General Barry McCaffrey, the House Government Operations Committee and Chairman John Conyers (D-MI), Congressman Charles Rangel (D-NY) and the House Narcotics Committee, and was Chief of Staff for the House Aging Committee and Chairman Claude Pepper (D-FL). He also was Legislative Assistant to Ed Koch of New York and a political aide to Ted Kennedy (D-MA) for his Presidential and Senate races. Bob worked at the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate as youth voter registration director in 1971-1972 when the constitution was amended to allow 18-year olds the vote. Since he left the White House in 2001, Bob heads up a public affairs and issue strategies company, Robert Weiner Associates. He is a regular political analyst on Radio America and has appeared on Bill Maher, CNN Crossfire, Today, Good Morning America, and the CBS, NBC, and ABC evening news. He is widely published in columns he writes on national issues in major papers throughout the country including recently the Washington Post, Denver Post, Miami Herald, Christian Science Monitor, New York Daily News, Baltimore Sun, Boston Globe, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Atlanta Constitution, New York Post, Washington Times, Sacramento Bee, Palm Beach Post, Salt Lake Tribune, Minneapolis Star Tribune, and Adweek. He is also regularly quoted in key media coast-to-coast, including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, AP and Reuters, concerning the presidential campaign and national issues. OpEd News Member for 842 week(s) and 5 day(s) 307 Articles, 2 Quick Links, 14 Comments, 3 Diaries, 0 Polls
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Friday, April 21, 2017DeVos Push for Education "Choice" in Florida, Boca Raton, and Nation Helps Few, Hurts Most For most parents across America, access to quality education for their children is a top priority. School choice is great for the small percentage who have the financial means to afford a top-notch education. For everyone else, school choice poses more problems than it is worth.
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Tuesday, April 11, 2017The Federal Reserve's missed mandate: jobs The Fed seems to forget the "maximum employment" piece of its mandate, instead deciding to focus all of its energy on interest rates to assure big business profits. The unemployment rate is down but the bar is set at complacency. If the Fed remembers its mandate of maximum employment, it can help the country see unemployment rates it hasn't seen since the 1960s.
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Saturday, January 14, 2017Richie Neal now in leadership, new challenge: keep Social Security safe If we've learned anything about Trump, it's that not only doesn't he shy away from fights, he embraces them. One of the first fights he has as president will be with his own party over Social Security. Whoever wins the fight will determine whether or not the elderly, now and in decades to come, live in poverty.
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Sunday, December 18, 2016America's scandalous way of paying women You would almost think that something as basic as gender equality would long be established in our society. Far from it. Especially when it comes to getting paid the same amount of money for the same work, the inequality between men and women is dramatic. As long as we do not accept that women are worth just as much as men, the gap will never close, and we will forever be stuck in the archaic age of inequality.
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Friday, December 16, 2016Democrats, Trump and Congress: surprising common ground Although Democrats in Congress don't agree with most of Donald Trump's policies, there are some surprising areas of common ground in infrastructure spending and even concerning the Affordable Care Act. Congressional Democrats can either whine, curl up with a good book and their dogs as Hillary says she was tempted to do, or get to work.
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Saturday, November 19, 2016People to people approach is the best solution for Syria The war in Syria is tremendously complicated and its overlapping layers require a multi-layer solution. The USA's best relations with Latin American and African nations have been when the Alliance for Progress, Vista, and Peace Corps were at top usage. Syria could be a similar success story with a people to people approach.
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Thursday, November 17, 2016If Trump Means What He Says About No Unneeded Wars, Change President's First Briefing Each Day from Just Military Issues If President-elect Donald Trump means what he says about no unneeded wars, he should change the President's first briefing each day -- "The Daily Briefing" each morning -- from just military issues. This would be one way to assure that public policy in the United States of America is made for its people and not for the military.
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Saturday, October 22, 2016TPP is failing because we are learning what makes a bad-or good-trade deal What we do know about past trade deals is that with the secretiveness of the issue, voters cannot decide who is right or wrong and why. If America has "lost millions of jobs" as Trump contends because of them, perhaps that explains why we are no longer at full employment, meaning no longer with 3% unemployment as past decades but now consider 5% as a good "bar".
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Friday, October 21, 2016Risking Small Boat Migration to Europe: Why Egyptian Teens Risk Their Lives Egypt needs the education and skills to better the lives of its young people, and make the dangerous decision to try and flee less appealing. The truth is, Middle Eastern nations need to spend some of their money from billions of dollars in military aid and use it instead for education and training of their young people.
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Thursday, September 29, 2016Enthusiasm for Federal Service and Politics Despite Cynics Amid the cynicism and criticisms of the media and the politicians who use the federal government and the political system as a scapegoat lie the five million federal employees who chose to join the government workforce. Politics and government are incredibly gratifying when you can work on issues that help the American people. That should be our response the next time someone disparages your local elected official. 
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Friday, September 2, 2016A plague on both our houses on torture The nation is divided as it continues to debate torture of terror detainees. Yet as much as torture is condemned by many, even the President, there really is "a plague on both our houses", since Trump wants "worse" but Democrats have prosecuted no one who created the program or CIA officials (and their administration high ups) who condone and contract it out to foreign countries.
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Friday, July 15, 2016Sen. Leyva's bill would protect child victims of sex abuse The Justice for Victims Act, which has gained traction by passing the state Senate before the summer recess and is ready to be voted on by the Assembly, gives California the chance to take a strong stance against the Catholic Church's ongoing cover-up of child sexual abuse. Why must the true victims -- the victims of sexual assault -- be haunted by their abuse while the Church sweeps its wrongdoings under the rug? 
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Sunday, July 10, 2016The U.N.'s Shame--Stop UN Peacekeeper Rapes of African Victims Rapes by U.N. peacekeepers in Central Africa, in the hundreds, are repeated year after year. The victims are the very people the peacekeepers are supposed to protect. The United Nations has announced over 100 new cases of sexual abuse by peacekeepers in the Central African Republic this year. Now, Human Rights Watch reports that the U.N.'s Congolese peacekeepers were responsible for at last 12 deaths. This is the U.N.'s shame. 
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Saturday, July 2, 2016Benghazi myths: what Hillary can say to Trump and Gowdy The Benghazi investigation has only confirmed that there is little new information. On October 22, 2015, after his eleven-hour Clinton grilling, Gowdy said, "I don't know that she testified that much differently today." 
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Thursday, June 16, 2016Flags lowered, but guns still raised: Orlando proves mass shootings still happen Friday, June 17 marks the one-year anniversary of the shootings and murders of nine victims at Emanuel AME Church. While the Confederate flag has been taken down throughout South Carolina, mass shootings haven't stopped, as the June 12 horrific mass killing of 49 in Orlando shows once again. Guns and assault weapons aren't any harder to buy. The flags are lowered, but guns are still raised. 
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Saturday, June 11, 2016Ryan's new Congress agenda is wrong, safety net has not failed Speaker Ryan's new agenda will be titled, "A better way." In fact, Ryan's premise of "failure" is wrong. He'd at least partially privatize Social Security, which has reduced seniors' poverty from the 44% it would be to just 9%, according to the Center for American Progress. It is the most successful social program in American history. 
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Monday, May 23, 2016Ban Russian Track Team from 2016 Rio Summer Olympics The Olympics in Rio could turn out to be the dirtiest Olympics ever. A documentary March 6 on German TV station ARD showed that Russian coaches who have been banned for doping still have their jobs, and claimed that Russian officials are tipping off athletes prior to what are supposed to be random drug tests. USA Track and Field (USATF) is an important member of IAAF. The world organizations and we should vote to keep the ban.
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Thursday, May 12, 2016Iowa case shows age discrimination persists, despite law People 50 and older will be 35 percent of the workforce by 2019, according to the Urban Institute. With more cases coming in, there is pressure for Congress to act against discrimination and for the Department of Justice to put in place protections for seniors' job security. Seniors vote in the highest percentages of any age, so this not only makes good sense, but good politics. 
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Wednesday, April 27, 2016Politicians need to find way to reach millennials In 1972, with the Vietnam War raging, voter turnout reached a still unmatched height of 55 percent for 18- to 24-year-olds, and 68 percent for all under age 30However, by 2012, 45 percent of 18-29-year-olds voted, down from 51 percent in 2008. The problem was even worse in the 2014 midterm, with only 20 percent of 18-29-year-olds voting nationwide -- the lowest ever in a federal election. 
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Monday, April 25, 2016'Lack of political will' strains space program Mission to Mars? When? Neil Armstrong declared that his landing was, "One small step for (a) man, one giant leap for mankind." That joy of science and exploration is a great hope. However, since those first steps, the U.S. has barely crawled toward anywhere else. Every major power in the world has some form of interest in Mars. With so many countries showing so much enthusiasm towards the "Red Planet, the new space race is on. Page 10 of 16 First Last Back Next 11 12 13 14 15 16 View All |
