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...Rick Engh, a 14-year town-council member who was mayor pro tem under Ventura, has less happy memories of those days: "I probably served more as mayor than he did. He was always away making movies and everything." Engh also charges that Ventura was "two-faced." One of his initiatives as mayor was to stop cigarettes from being sold at convenience stores. "Yet," Engh says, "he would sit there at the meetings chewing snuff and spitting in the cup. I thought that was rude and disrespectful to the audience...
...late-70s, “skateboarding seemed ripe for the museum of failed fads.” What saved it was street skating in cities.“Recognizing that it could happen anywhere and on everything, that’s what saved skateboarding,” Rick Charnoski says. Charnoski co-directed “Deathbowl to Downtown” alongside Coan “Buddy” Nichols.“If skating was about going out your door and skating whatever’s in front of you, you could turn on 10 times more kids than...
...enough to make sure that happens. The campaign has declined to discuss its black media outreach or even the basics of how it plans to get black voters to the polls, beyond one strategy it employed during several primaries: distributing flyers in salons and barbershops with large black clienteles. Rick Wade, the Obama campaign's senior adviser for black affairs, says simply, "African Americans are a crucial part of the Democratic base. They know what's at stake during the general election. We expect to see a tremendous turnout...
...where Flo was taking about 20 people out to dinner. On the ride over, as he showed me his $40,000 diamond-encrusted watch, I asked Flo, whose success is pretty recent and fragile, if spending all this money was such a good idea. He told me that rapper Rick Ross told him that you have to spend money with the confidence of someone who knows he's going to make a lot more. I informed him that Rick Ross is not a certified financial adviser. "He's certified. He makes a lot of money," he told me. I could...
...McCain campaign vehemently denies that Davis was doing any kind of negotiating. "It is not a legal problem for Sen. McCain to ask campaign aides for advice or to go to the Hill... Rick was there, he was not negotiating. He was there gathering information." The aide added that all decisions remain with McCain and his senate staff. "Our counsel blessed him going to the hill." The campaign also pointed out that Obama's campaign spokesperson Robert Gibbs was giving statements to reporters at the Capitol Thursday, though there is no evidence that Gibbs or any other top-level Obama...