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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 840 week(s) and 5 day(s) 304 Articles, 2 Quick Links, 14 Comments, 3 Diaries, 0 Polls
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Friday, January 27, 2023Consolidate, Strengthen the International Effort to Stop the Use of Rape as a Weapon of War Rape and other forms of sexual abuse have long been used as means of control, humiliation and dominance in wartime. These vicious acts have been perpetuated by systems that call for world peace over all else.
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Saturday, December 10, 2022US-Mexico Drug Standstill: Decades of Failed Solutions and Time for a Change The U.S. should juridically strangulate black-market exchanges, by targeting social infrastructure between Mexican cartels and their domestic accomplices. There has to be a better concerted campaign on external and internal supply disruption to offer an alternative to the counternarcotic program in action, and to make better use of strained personnel. There needs to be a will to stop the drug flow on both sides of the border.
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Saturday, December 10, 2022The NRA'S Big Mistake Opposing Assault Weapons Ban With the U.S. House passing the first assault weapons ban in almost three decades, the Senate has remained silent. President Clinton had done it before, and President Biden, then Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, pushed and enacted the assault weapons ban in 1994. Congress and state legislatures -- often more progressive than Congress--could undoubtedly do it in 2022.
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Thursday, October 13, 2022Biden's Court Report Took Reform Nowhere, Congress Must Act to Avoid Clear Politics and Restore Support for the Court So far this year, as conservatives are funneling another 1.6 billion dollars to Leonard Leo on his conservative judicial nominee list campaign, simply electing Democrats is not enough. We must demand that our legislators push legislative efforts to reform the Supreme Court to promote basic fairness in the Supreme Court and the necessary justice for every American. 
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Thursday, October 13, 2022Weaponization of Nuclear Civilian Sites as Dangerous as Nuclear Bomb Threats, Diplomacy Needed Immediately Even though the power is back on, Europe's largest nuclear power plant, Zaporizhzhya, which is surrounded by Russian troops, has lost all external power for safety systems twice in five days. Russian nearby shelling and troop ineptness around the plant are at fault. Despite international calls for demilitarization in these ardeas, it has not happened, and the region and the world are at risk.
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Saturday, September 10, 2022How to Get the Young Voters to Turn Out This year, young people care about climate change with the planet at stake, school gun deaths, abortion choice, student loans, jobs, rent prices escalating, inflation, the survival of our democracy and a lot more. Bringing those issues home requires tremendous effort from both parties.
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Thursday, August 25, 2022Restoring Housing Amendment Limiting Rent Could Save Millions of Americans; 36% of Americans Rent As inflation continues nationwide, renters have been left with particularly sore wallets. It is time for Congress to act to rescue renters. The framework is already in place to do so in the shape of former New York Mayor Ed Koch's 1974 Housing amendment.
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Thursday, August 18, 2022Late Night Comics Undermine Suffering of Ukrainian and Russian People As comedians make jokes about Putin's regime, it is easy for individuals who live thousands of miles away from Ukraine and Russia to make ill-fitting jokes about the suffering both Russian and Ukrainian people face while dealing with thousands of deaths, decimated cities, millions of displacements citizens, military rapes, and tortures of real war.
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Wednesday, August 17, 2022Why is Harvard Report Getting All the Press When the White House, the Capitol, and Stone Mountain Were Built on Slavery Instead of focusing on Harvard's report, it is essential for our country to realize how racism and slavery were used to create the White House, Capitol, and Stone Mountain. The White House and Capitol could take a page from Monticello to work harder to honor Black individuals who built these historical sites and invite their descendants to events as honored guests.
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Thursday, August 11, 2022Recent Congress, Media Sensationalizing UFO "Sightings" Defuses Real Work When "Objects" Likely Not Extraterrestrial The press ignores that UFOs are likely foreign spy satellites or asteroids of varied shapes. The "flashes of light" are likely sunlight reflections. The media and congress are pandering on the unproven instead of focusing on future missions to the moon and Mars. NASA and the press should quit pandering to UFO thrill seekers and consider UFOs as serious security threats to our country.
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Wednesday, August 10, 2022Aung San Suu Kyi: Whether Hero or Cop Out, Now Must Fear for Her Life Aung San Suu Kyi, the deposed democratic leader of Burma, now has reason to fear for her life after the latest February 2021 military coup. Though Suu Kyi currently resides in solitary confinement, the Washington Post reported on July 25, 2022, that four pro-democracy activists in Burma were executed. As the face of Burma's democracy, Suu Kyi is surely next on the list.
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Tuesday, August 9, 2022Assault Weapons Should be Banned, We Should Not Allow Teens to Have Guns In the U.S., there have been over 300 mass shootings this year due to active-shooter situations with an assault rifle. It is also estimated that when the Federal Assault Weapons Ban ended in 2004, there were around 8.5 million guns on the market. Since then, the number of dangerous weapons has more than doubled and the amount of mass shootings as also increased.
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Thursday, July 21, 2022Don't Be Fooled--"Good Guy with Gun" Doesn't Work Despite Recent Outlier Although a lone gunman in Greenwood, Indiana, Elisjsha Dicken, was able to take down an active shooter on July 17, this instance of a "good guy with a gun" neutralizing a dangerous shooter is extremely rare. Comedian Jordan Klepper demonstrates in his comedy segment that the NRA's theory that a "good guy with a gun" could stop a potential active shooter is not only rare, but baseless, by the numbers.
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Friday, July 8, 2022Catholic Church Abuse of Pelosi's Religion Should be Condemned Though she is not the first and will likely not be the last politician to receive this treatment from the Church, Pelosi made sure to point out the hypocrisy of San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone, saying that she is "opposed to" the death penalty, and "so is the church, but they take no actions against people who may not share their view." That is only the tip of the iceberg.
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Thursday, July 7, 202225th Anniversary of Britain's Silence as Prime Reason for Hong Kong Repressions Great Britain has been silent about its role in the suppression of Hong Kong by inaction despite its original agreement to assure freedoms from the creation of the independence treaty and since the UK ceded to the Communist takeover, and did nothing when it could have and still can. Hong Kong's freedom of speech and of the press is rapidly waning as mainland China asserts more and more control.
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Saturday, July 2, 2022Congress Must Offer Food Relief to Help Detroit and Nation Immediately Before Election Adjournment As midterm elections approach, Congress must persist to offer food relief to help Detroit and the nation. Democrats need to come together and resolve their differences. An article on June 28 n the Washington Post is titled "As inflation climbs, Democrats race to revive economic package."
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Saturday, June 11, 2022Following Tribe Putdown, Holder Urges Trump Indictment Which Should Encourage Willis to Press On It is crucial that Willis work past this intimidation to do what is necessary in prosecuting the guilty and protecting Georgia's and America's democracy.
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Wednesday, April 27, 2022Russia, Parents, Drug Questions Facing Future Olympics; Beijing Issues Remain The IOC has complete control and final say on how the Olympics are run. The COVID restrictions mostly worked. However, they learned important lessons and must do more to celebrate. We assume and hope that the reason for the Ukrainian-war suspension is only temporary and that peace will come soon. The Olympics will be better if they learn from the recent questions and experiences.
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Wednesday, April 13, 2022Go Bold but Go to Public Hearings Now by Jan 6 Comm And GA Prosecutor t's time to go bold, but go, now, for the January 6 Committee and the Georgia prosecutor. On April 6, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told us, in response to our question about making sure the January 6 Committee would have public hearings so the America people can know who caused the attempted insurrection and why, she agreed and said, "We want the truth, the truth."
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Tuesday, March 22, 2022Move Afoot to Restore House Aging Committee with Pepper Legacy to Protect Seniors A reactivated House Aging Committee is pivotal. The legislation is authored by David Cicilline (D-RI) and championed by activist Herbert Weiss. It has 41 cosponsors. Whip Jim Clyburn, 80 (D-SC), often reminds people that the "wisdom of elders" complements the enthusiasm of youth -- we need both. Strong supporters include Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), Doris Matsui (D-CA)--they lead the Democratic Caucus's sub-group on Aging. Page 3 of 16 First Last Back Next 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 View All |
