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The final frontier ‘American Cartel’ Trade talks next? $120 A cosmic tour of Inside the battle Juan Soto rejects a images captured to bring down the $440 million offer by the Webb opioid industry from the Nationals telescope PAGE A14 OUTLOOK SPORTS ABCDE Prices may vary in areas outside metropolitan Washington. RE V1 V2 V3 V4 Democracy Dies in Darkness Thunderstorms 88/75 • Tomorrow: Thunderstorms 87/74 C14 SUNDAY, JULY 17, 2022 . $3.50 Gas prices ‘Don’t trust Sister Charlotte. Biden may surge Trust the bishop.’ makes once more push in in the fall Mideast Biden administration ARLETTE BASHIZI FOR THE WASHINGTON POST VOWS TO EXPAND is scrambling to contain U.S. ROLE IN REGION Case in Congo tests Vatican’s Aim is to curb Chinese the potential fallout claims of fighting abuse and Russian influence BY EVAN HALPER kinshasa, democratic re- BY CHICO HARLAN nations with the resources to BY CLEVE R. WOOTSON JR. Drivers relieved by the recent public of congo — The 14- AND ALAIN UAYKANI pressure and expose the church AND TYLER PAGER dip in gas prices may be in for a — attention is turning to regions shock when the summer winds year-old girl returned on the An aspiring Roman where the scale of abuse remains jiddah, saudi arabia — Cap- down, with energy analysts warn- back of a motorbike to the con- Catholic nun, 17, who both a mystery and a cause for ing a fresh round of price surges vent where she lived and studied. says she was raped by a trepidation. The Vatican’s hope is ping a four-day trip to the Middle could emerge as soon as October. Sobbing and in pain, she pulled priest when she was 14, that bishops in the developing East, President Biden laid out his The prospect of a new gas price aside a nun. recites the rosary in world, trained in new guidelines, vision of a future for the region on jolt coinciding with midterm can avoid the mistakes that have Saturday, a framework he hopes elections has the White House The girl said she’d just been Kinshasa, Congo. so badly damaged the Roman amplifies American values and in- and many Democrats on edge. raped by the priest who dropped Catholic Church elsewhere. vestment in this part of the world The price concerns are tied to her off. — and blunts the influence of the timeline for stricter sanctions The text Okitanunga said she Russia and China. on Russia that will further choke The nun, Henriette Okitanun- sent to Djomo’s phone in March the global oil supply. J.P. Morgan ga, tried to comfort the girl. She 2020 raises a defining question The day full of meetings with has warned that in a worst-case said she then followed the new for the church’s future: In places leaders of Iraq, Egypt, the United scenario — in which Russia retali- rule laid out by Pope Francis for where Catholic leaders have few- Arab Emirates and other regional ates by shutting down its supply handling such a report: She er checks on their power, how are powers was in part an attempt to altogether — the price of oil could alerted her superior to a possible they responding? change a narrative that has been jump to $380 per barrel, more crime. dominated by Biden’s interac- than triple what it is today. Djomo’s response, unfolding tions with Crown Prince Moham- “If you were to ask me where “Your Excellency,” the nun re- over the past two years, provides med bin Salman, the de facto lead- could oil prices go, I would say, called texting to Nicolas Djomo, one answer — and it shows the er of the country who has been ‘Pick a number,’ ” said Michael the local bishop. potential for the public crisis to accused of human rights abuses. Tran, managing director for glob- al energy strategy at RBC Capital, After clerical abuse scandals SEE ABUSE ON A12 “The United States is clear- who says that while the outlook is that have rocked much of the eyed about the challenges in the murky, several indicators point to Catholic world — generally in Middle East and about where we a price rebound. “This is the have the greatest capacity to help tightest oil market we have seen drive positive outcomes,” Biden in a generation or more.” said during his final remarks to a The worrisome prognosis for coalition of leaders from the Per- consumers, coming as the nation sian Gulf countries and some is already struggling with historic neighbors. “We will not walk away levels of inflation, has the Biden and leave the vacuum to be filled administration grasping for in- by China, Russia or Iran.” terventions that could bring re- lief. But ultimately, it remains un- clear whether Biden’s gambit will SEE GAS PRICES ON A10 deliver the results he is seeking. By the time Biden left the Middle @PKCapitol: Manchin’s public East on Saturday afternoon, much pronouncements matter most. A4 of the policy announcements the Manchin: Senator’s latest move is White House touted were either another defeat for White House. A9 SEE BIDEN ON A20 Lifesaving care collides Many young with post-Roe Democrats legal terrain are furious at their party BY FRANCES STEAD SELLERS On Tuesday’s ballot: Trump’s vision vs. Hogan’s BY DANIELLE PAQUETTE AND FENIT NIRAPPIL Gubernatorial primary in BRIAN WITTE/ASSOCIATED PRESS MICHAEL S. WILLIAMSON/THE WASHINGTON POST that exalts Make America Great around the triangle, n.c. — A woman with a life-threaten- Md. reflects split among Again conservatism or one de- ing ectopic pregnancy sought Republicans nationally Daniel L. Cox has the support Kelly Schulz is backed by Larry signed to appeal far beyond that Jillian Brookshire wanted to hurl emergency care at the University of Donald Trump. Hogan, the outgoing governor. base. her phone. Instead, she sum- of Michigan Hospital after a doc- BY ERIN COX moned just enough of her waning tor in her home state worried that The first thing Donald Trump viewed as a hostile proxy cam- tions. “It’s reflective of the challenges patience to delete the email from the presence of a fetal heartbeat did to rally Maryland Republican paign between Trump’s and Ho- The race plays out in a state that Republicans have in every Nancy Pelosi. meant treating her might run primary voters last week was deni- gan’s competing visions for the primary in the country,” said Mi- afoul of new restrictions on abor- grate their popular two-term gov- direction of the party. It echoes the where Republicans know both chael Steele, the former Republi- The House Speaker’s fundrais- tion. ernor, Larry Hogan. schism in GOP contests nation- men well and consistently give can National Committee chair ing plea landed in her inbox after “You’ll get rid of a lousy gover- wide as the party seeks nominees each high favorability ratings. who considered running for gov- the Supreme Court struck down At one Kansas City, Mo., hospi- nor,” Trump said during a tele- who can regain control of Con- Tuesday’s primary will force them, ernor of Maryland himself and did the constitutional right to abor- tal, administrators temporarily phone rally for state Del. Daniel L. gress in November’s midterm elec- for the first time, to choose whose not endorse a candidate. tion last month, a right the required “pharmacist approval” Cox, whom he called “100 percent philosophy they like more: one 20-year-old thought her political before dispensing medications MAGA” and the obvious choice to “Those are the battle lines party in control of the White used to stop postpartum hemor- succeed Hogan, a term-limited Re- Trump and his supporters have House and Congress should have rhages, because they can also be publican and Trump antagonist, drawn,” Steele said. “Where do we done more to protect. also used for abortions. in the deeply blue state. stand now in 2022? Are we still in a “You don’t want Hogan’s Trump era? He’s got a great deal of “It made me so mad, like, I can’t And in Wisconsin, a woman anointed successor,” Trump con- influence still.” even deal with this,” said Brook- bled for more than 10 days from tinued, referring to Kelly Schulz, a shire, vice president of the College an incomplete miscarriage after former Hogan Cabinet secretary. This month, a poll showed 44 Democrats of North Carolina. emergency room staff would not “Anybody he wants, frankly, I’d be percent of Maryland’s Republican “You have to focus on your own remove the fetal tissue amid a against just on that basis alone.” primary voters were undecided, economic gain in this moment confusing legal landscape that Maryland’s Republican pri- and the rest were split between when millions of people have lost has roiled obstetric care. mary race has become widely Cox and Hogan-backed Schulz. their right to bodily autonomy?” In the three weeks of turmoil “No one is casting an anti- The senior at Campbell Univer- since the Supreme Court over- sity, a private Christian college, turned the constitutional right to SEE MARYLAND ON A6 was venting on a recent July eve- abortion, many physicians and ning to student leaders from oth- patients have been navigating a Trump: Former president now er schools in the academic heart new reality in which the standard trails DeSantis in fundraising. A7 of this battleground state. Be- of care for incomplete miscar- tween bites of nachos at a Raleigh riages, ectopic pregnancies and Maryland voters: Issue of crime brewpub, the young liberals be- other common complications is looms large in governor’s race. C1 moaned a tough reality: Practical- being scrutinized, delayed — ly no one on their campuses COMICS......................................................INSERT OUTLOOK...........................................................B1 TRAVEL .............................................................. F1 CONTENT © 2022 seemed to like the Democrats. SEE ABORTION ON A16 EDITORIALS/LETTERS ...................................... A22 OBITUARIES.......................................................C9 WEATHER ........................................................ 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A2 EZ RE THE WASHINGTON POST . SUNDAY, JULY 17, 2022 TALK SHOWS How much will Biden’s Guests to be interviewed Sunday on bad week sway voters? major television talk shows 9 a.m. FOX NEWS SUNDAY They say that bad remains more than worrisome (WTTG) news often comes for the party in power. With White House economic in batches, and Republicans needing to pick up adviser Jared Bernstein; that was the case just five seats to take control of Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.). for President the House, most Democrats are conceding that they will be in the 9 a.m. STATE OF THE UNION Dan Balz Biden this past minority in the House and (CNN) week: a bleak new possibly the Senate starting in Gov. Doug Ducey (R-Ariz.); poll, another January. Rep. Elaine Luria (D-Va.); THE SUNDAY gloomy inflation Bernstein. TAKE report and a The rub comes on the question of how big that new Republican legislative majority might be. Here, the setback. As he traveled through forecasts are more clouded. 9 a.m. THIS WEEK (ABC, WJLA) the Middle East, the home front Biden’s approval ratings alone Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.); remained on fire politically. suggest a banner year for Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.); The grim poll came from the Republicans, and some in the White House coronavirus New York Times and Siena GOP are expansive in their response coordinator College. The three worst parts predictions. But how much are Ashish Jha. were: Biden’s approval rating perceptions of Biden connected registered at 33 percent; just 13 or not with the decisions some BILL O'LEARY/THE WASHINGTON POST 9 a.m. WHITE HOUSE percent of Americans say the voters will make about their CHRONICLE (PBS, WETA) country is heading in the right choices in November? President Biden mingles with guests Tuesday at the White House Congressional Picnic. Recent polls Francesco La Camera, direction; and 64 percent of suggest some fluidity in the electorate that could affect the size of Republican gains in November. director general of the One finding in the Times- International Renewable Democrats say they would prefer Siena poll that didn’t get much when they took control of the spread about the 2020 election. performance by GOP candidate Energy Agency, based in someone else as the party’s attention was voters’ preference House. In 2010, Democrats were The Jan. 6 committee hearings Herschel Walker. Abu Dhabi, discusses nominee in 2024. On the other for the outcome in House races. at about parity with Republicans have brought heightened world energy transitions. hand, he was three percentage The poll found that 41 percent or even slightly ahead on this attention to Trump’s central role Republicans still could flip points ahead of Donald Trump in said they preferred to see question in Post-ABC News polls, in the effort to overturn the Democratic-held Senate seats in a 2024 rematch. Democrats in charge after the and the GOP still had a huge election. Arizona and Nevada. Perhaps The economic report showed November elections compared victory. The more recent polls their flawed candidates will 10 THIS IS AMERICA AND prices rising 9.1 percent year- with 40 percent who said they suggest there is some fluidity in The prospect of a new House prevail if the Republicans’ wave a.m. THE WORLD (PBS, WETA) over-year, a four-decade high. It preferred a House under the electorate that could affect GOP majority focused on is overpowering. But the GOP was the latest reminder of how Republican management. the size of Republican gains. retribution rather than has not put strong candidates Exploring East Asia, stubborn this supposedly Among likely voters, Republicans governing might not thrill swing forward in the places they need Scandinavia, the Middle transitory inflation has turned led 44 percent to 43 percent. Clearly a lot of people, voters who already have a sour them most. East and the out to be and why it continues to including many who voted for attitude about the way Mediterranean. be cited as the top issue for The RealClearPolitics average Biden in 2020, have lost faith in Washington works. At the state Biden being a drag on of what pollsters call the generic his leadership. His approval level, Republican election- Democrats this fall is without 10:30 MEET THE PRESS (NBC, voters as they think about ballot question — a longtime rating among Democrats in the deniers are seeking office, and question, and he’s done nothing a.m. WRC) November’s midterm elections. measure that asks voters Times-Siena poll was 70 percent, threats to democracy persist. over the past few months to Preempted by coverage of Gas prices have gone down whether they would vote for the which is below what should be change that. If anything, his the British Open. recently but perhaps not enough Republican or the Democrat in expected in such a polarized Beyond that, other issues standing has weakened. If this to affect voters’ attitudes. their House race — shows the country. could provide some help for election is purely a referendum The legislative setback GOP currently with an advantage Democrats in competitive House on the president, Democrats will 10:30 FACE THE NATION (CBS, sounded familiar. Sen. Joe of 1.9 percentage points. The reasons for voters’ races. The Supreme Court’s suffer and perhaps suffer a.m. WUSA) Manchin III (D-W.Va.) decided to discontent are many. Inflation ruling on abortion will affect the significantly. Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R- Alan Abramowitz of Emory gnaws at family incomes; a votes of some and perhaps many Ill.); Washington Mayor put a halt to ongoing University analyzed 27 such polls president bears the brunt of that voters who disagree with the The question remains how Muriel E. Bowser (D); Amos negotiations over a scaled-down conducted since June 1, which concern. The pandemic appears court’s overturning of Roe v. much. And on that, Republicans Hochstein, senior adviser version of Biden’s Build Back showed Republicans with a 2.5 to be having lasting effects on Wade. Mass shootings and GOP are not doing much to help for energy security at the Better bill. Manchin balked over percentage-point edge. Then he many aspects of life and work, resistance to tougher gun laws is themselves, and Trump could State Department; Scott the president’s desire to spend separated them into those that adding to the unease. The sense another factor that some make it worse. GOP leaders Gottlieb, former Food and money to combat climate have a record of being friendly that government doesn’t work is suburban voters might consider. prefer an election focused on Drug Administration change. A year ago, that larger toward Republicans and those widespread. All of that is Biden, not on the past and not on commissioner; Jason bill stalled when, yes, Manchin that are generally more neutral. working against the Democrats. If this is a wave election year, Trump. The former president Furman, former chair of said he couldn’t go along with it. The Republican-friendly polls Republicans should be confident may not give them their wish. If the White House Council of Democrats hope something on showed a GOP advantage of 7.5 But for many swing voters, the about taking control of a Senate he were to announce his Economic Advisers. health care, including lowering points. The others put the prospect of Republican control that is now divided 50-50, even if candidacy for 2024 before prescription drug costs, can pass Republican edge at 0.4 points. may not be so appealing either. the map is not as favorable for November, as he is hinting, that eventually. Whatever emerges, if Democrats do even better in the As Nate Silver put it recently, them as in some years. But they would put him back into the it does, may not impress voters averages of polls taken since July “Voters have good reasons to have flawed or vulnerable election conversation in ways as much as White House officials 1, or after the Supreme Court disapprove of Biden without candidates in three states where that could crowd out other had hoped. ruled on abortion. wanting Republicans in they are defending seats: messages from the GOP. It’s easy to interpret all this as Congress.” Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania, J.D. further evidence that Democrats Democrats generally need to Vance in Ohio and incumbent Democrats hope the House are heading toward a shellacking have a clear lead in the polls to The GOP is still under the Ron Johnson in Wisconsin. They hearings on the Jan. 6, 2021, in November’s midterm feel comfortable about their thumb of former president also are at risk of losing an attack on the Capitol will have elections. 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SUNDAY, JULY 17, 2022 . THE WASHINGTON POST EZ RE A3 Politics & the Nation Beautiful Clothes Impeccable Service EVENINGWEAR TRUNK SHOWS TOM & LINDA PLATT TRUNK SHOW JULY 21 - JULY 23 ERIC GAY/ASSOCIATED PRESS washington’s Largest Special Occasion Angel wings and a cross hang on a gate that remains locked at Robb Elementary School, where two teachers and 19 students were killed, Collection Sizes 0 - 24 As Uvalde survivors wait, they struggleMonday in Uvalde, Tex. For the families of Uvalde, the dead are buried, but grief and rage stalk the survivors. OUR 53RD YEAR IN NORTHERN VIRGINIA | CRYSTALBOUTIQUE.COM 2160 Crystal Plaza Arcade | 703.415.1400 | Mon - Sat 10 - 5 | Parking Validated Anger, sadness and distrust course through the town as they await a report on the May 24 massacre DIGEST BY ARELIS R. HERNÁNDEZ SARAH L. VOISIN/THE WASHINGTON POST But a group of volunteers have MONTANA Two alligators have been Oscar Orona had a chance to been working behind the scenes removed from the area, but it’s take his son home 33 minutes Kat Roque, 10, signs the memorial for her best friend, Eliahana to help Uvalde families. Victims- 6 killed in crash not yet clear whether those were before the 10-year-old’s class was Cruz Torres, who was killed in the May mass shooting. First is an organization of mass during dust storm the reptiles involved. Cause of massacred. shooting victims and survivors death has not been determined. The memory of May 24 haunts. lion in state money. But while the $4,000 a week. But that’s not who have learned how to best At least six people, including It was awards day at Robb El- government has provided ser- possible with a traumatized son. manage donations and ensure two children, were killed Friday — Associated Press ementary School. Noah was vices and help in accessing specif- Between 160-mile round trips to they reach those in need. when a dust storm with winds beaming and asked to leave ic benefits such as health insur- San Antonio for medical and ther- around 60 mph hit a Montana INDIANA school with Orona. But Papi had ance, some families are still hav- apeutic care several days a week Together with Jeff Dion of the highway, causing a massive to go to work, and Mami was ing trouble with daily, immediate are the nights they clean and National Compassion Fund, they pileup of vehicles, authorities Murder charges recovering from surgery at home. and unexpected expenses. bandage AJ’s wounds and coax pulled together all the private said. dropped in slayings Orona thought it better that Noah the 9-year-old to sleep. dollars donated into the central- stay with his friends. The boy said Experts say the public dollars ized Uvalde pot. They are also The crash on Interstate 90 Prosecutors have dropped okay and bounded off. extended after a mass shooting The family has bills to pay, but keeping track of commitments outside Hardin, Mont., involved murder charges against a man Noah ran to the school build- tragedy usually do not go directly they are not the kind of people to from nonprofits that have 21 vehicles, including six semis, accused of killing four people ing door, stopped and turned to families but come in the form ask for help, Chavez said. They pledged money, to hold them ac- Sgt. Jay Nelson, a spokesman for inside an Indianapolis home in around to wave goodbye. of grants to public officials who said they are confused about countable and monitor whether the Montana Highway Patrol, 2015, citing the deaths of two “That was the last time I would use the money to contract mental what’s available and don’t have the checks do or don’t land in the told the Associated Press. witnesses and the discovery that see my old son, and now I have a health providers, advocates and time to investigate. Martinez bank accounts of victims and Ambulances were dispatched DNA evidence had been new son,” Orona, 59, said. “He other personnel to help victims plans to return to work but is their families. from as far as 50 miles away. compromised. survived physically, but mentally, navigate the assistance available. seeking routes that keep him emotionally, I don’t know who The Uvalde County commission- close to home in Texas. “When we experience these Video posted to social media The Marion County this young man is.” ers recently approved a contract mass shootings, the one thing you shows vehicles scattered across Prosecutor’s Office announced Noah, 10, survived a gunshot with a San Antonio organization “Nobody understands the af- feel is a loss of control,” the or- the interstate, including 18- Friday that they filed a motion to wound in the massacre, in which to run the Uvalde resiliency cen- termath for the surviving chil- ganization’s president, Anita wheelers that appeared to have dismiss charges against Nicholas 19 students and two teachers ter, where families go to meet dren,” Chavez said. “Yes, they see Busch, said. “One of the things to crashed into vehicles or veered Dunn, who had been scheduled were killed. But the family’s days with advocates. The funding is our kids walking around, but real- help you get back on your feet is into the median. to stand trial Monday in the fatal are now a carousel of chaos. Medi- being controlled by District Attor- ly, you don’t know. You don’t being able to make decisions for shootings of Terry Bettis, 41; cal appointments. Therapy ses- ney Christina Busbee, whose of- know what the next morning is yourself. That is why this fund Authorities believe a “quick- Sherri Taylor, 48; Tiara Turner, sions. Victim, council and legal fice did not respond to questions going to bring. You don’t know if exists. It exists so money can go arising dust storm” caused the 32; and Davon Whitlock, 18. meetings. Calls. Condolences. about the contract or how the he’s going to get angry or upset. directly to the victims and they pileup. Rallies and marches. Media leaks. promised $5 million in state mon- Anything triggers him and gets can decide what their families A judge later granted the Interviews. Money worries. ey will be administered. him upset. This is our life now, need to cope.” “It appears as though there dismissal of the four murder Heartbreak on repeat. and we can’t change it.” was heavy winds, causing a dust counts and other charges Dunn For the families of Uvalde, Tex., Abbott also said every family Busch said it’s best to leave the storm with zero visibility,” had faced. the dead are buried, but there is would be assigned a victim advo- AJ tries to be strong for his fund open for some time to maxi- Nelson said. little peace for the living. Grief cate to help them navigate all the parents, they said, but all they mize the amount of donations it Prosecutors said the charges, stalks downtown. Rage bursts resources available, but when want is for him to let them know receives. If it closes too early, the A summary of the storm from which can be refiled, were forth from residents. Distrust asked, several said they were un- when he’s hurting. “We are con- kind of help families receive is the National Weather Service dropped after the deaths of two shrouds every word delivered by clear who that person was. Sev- stantly having to watch him,” more limited, she said. But Dion showed there were wind gusts witnesses, including a woman officials. Hugs are the currency of eral families said information Chavez said. said there are mechanisms to give up to 64 mph in Hardin around who told police that Dunn told solidarity but deliver few an- about how to access public or advance payments for families in 4 p.m. local time Friday. her he killed the victims. swers. private funds has been unclear, On the bad days, when she need. When answers materialize — intermittent or nonexistent. needs someone who understands, The names and ages of the In addition, DNA results were as in the case of a new 77-minute she calls Abigail Veloz. Veloz is the The fund is holding town halls dead had not been released as of compromised and later found video leaked this week — it ar- The governor’s office did not mother of Miah Cerrillo, the in the coming weeks to explain early Saturday. Authorities said inadmissible, prosecutors said. rives ruthlessly and rips the answer specific questions about 11-year-old who smeared herself the process to Uvalde families, there were injuries in the pileup. wounds anew. Recriminations whether families would receive with her classmate’s blood and said Mickey Gerdes, an Uvalde — Associated Press mark every local meeting of the emergency cash assistance from pretended to be dead to elude the businessman serving on the — Timothy Bella council, county or school board. the $5 million state pledge and gunman’s rifle blasts. It was Miah fund’s steering committee. An exhaustive report on the kill- directed inquiries to a news re- who called 911 asking for help, FLORIDA Creamery linked to listeria ings, conducted by Texas House lease which did not deliver an using her dead teacher’s phone. Alfred Garza, whose daughter outbreak: Sixteen flavors of investigators and due this week- answer. Today, Miah can’t shower unless Amerie Jo Garza was killed, re- Woman grabbed by Sarasota-produced ice cream end, may help — or may not. the door is propped open and her cently received cash assistance alligators found dead linked to a deadly Listeria Uvalde’s mayor has accused the While Abbott had pledged to mother is nearby. from a private donor fund to pay outbreak contained the bacteria, state police chief of deception in make sure even eyeglasses were bills while he is out of work as a Authorities say a Florida Florida officials have confirmed. describing what he said hap- paid for, for example, Orona has “Mom? Mom? Are you there?” car salesman. woman was found dead after Big Olaf Creamery, which pened to evade responsibility. not received any money to pay for she calls to her, recalled Veloz, falling in a pond and being scientists had named as a likely Col. Steven C. McCraw, in turn, those his son lost that day. who replied, “Yes, I’m here. I “When everything is quiet and grabbed by two alligators. source after nearly two dozen alleged it was the school’s police won’t leave you.” you’re by yourself, I sit here in the people fell ill, had already chief, Pedro “Pete” Arredondo, On the private funding side, living room staring at Amerie’s The Sarasota County Sheriff ’s voluntarily stopped production who failed while in charge. The more than seven memorial funds Last week, Miah told her story photo. It’s an 18-by-24 of her last Office told news outlets that the when officials tested its governor lauded law enforce- for Uvalde families are growing again to investigators with the school picture,” Garza said. “I’ll elderly woman was seen falling equipment and ice cream for the ment’s alleged heroism and later and funneling into one large ac- district attorney’s office, prompt- sit here and think about the times into the pond along a golf course bacteria this week. One person declared himself livid at being count now worth more than $14 ing a night spent awake and up- we had. I feel like that’s the real in Englewood late Friday and has died, another had a misled about their inaction. The million, but the long process of set, her parents trying to console hard part: the acceptance, accept- struggling to stay afloat. miscarriage and 22 people have school board hasn’t presented a distributing the money means the her. ing the loss and you have to been hospitalized, according to plan for the day school starts — in families won’t be able to apply for confront it head-on. But it’s going While the woman was in the the Food and Drug four weeks. that financial support until fall. Miguel Cerrillo, her father, to be stupid hard.” water, two alligators were seen Administration. Already, the circumstances are tried to return to work as finances grabbing her, authorities said. taking a huge financial toll on “I’m barely making it,” said tightened. But the tire techni- There is no amount of money The woman was pronounced — From news reports those left behind. Some families Jose Martinez, father of AJ Marti- cian’s boss sent him home for 30 that will fix his son, said Orona, dead at the scene. have been able to survive with nez, who was shot in the leg and days without pay because he who was in Washington this week generous direct donations or Go- grazed by another bullet. “The could not focus. marking the recent passage of New coronavirus cases, deaths and 1.2m FundMes. Funeral costs were cov- last of our savings is almost done.” gun-control measures aimed at vaccine doses in the U.S., by day 1m ered by a private donor, and some “We are a little lost and con- stopping future mass shootings. 800k medical needs were met by insur- Martinez is a truck driver, own- fused,” Veloz said. But he’s already trying to make As of Friday 600k ance waivers. But the recovery is er and operator, and his wife, sure Noah will have resources for far more costly than any expect- Kassandra Chavez, is a homemak- State Sen. Roland Gutierrez (D) his recovery. CASES 89,298,122 ed, several surviving families er. He would normally be on the has sent letters to the governor Total said. Some have made things road, delivering produce cross- and Busbee seeking clarity about They have not yet gotten a 7-day average 132,211 work by stringing together the country and bringing in nearly victim compensation and asking dime from victim compensation initial emergency federal assis- for her removal as administrator. funds, he said. They opened a 7-day avg. 400k tance of $1,400 per family, donat- None of that has happened. GoFundMe, but Orona’s plan is to 200k ed gas cards and grocery gift find a lawyer to convert that mon- cards. ey into a trust for his son when he Feb. 29, 2020 Jan. 2021 0 But the financial support becomes an adult. Jan. 2022 July 15 promised by Gov. Greg Abbott (R) DEATHS 1,020,728 and other officials within days of “I’m going to be 59, my son is Total 4k the shooting has not fully materi- 10, so in eight years, I’ll be 67. Will 7-day average 421 alized. Abbott promised that no I be able to take care of him if he impacted family would have to can’t take care of himself?” he 7-day avg. 2k worry about costs, citing $5 mil- asked. Feb. 29, 2020 Jan. 2021 0 As they await the first investi- Jan. 2022 July 15 gative report on what happened May 24, the school shooting vic- VACCINE DOSES ADMINISTERED 5m tims and survivors say they are bracing themselves for the im- Total 779,563,765 4m pact. 7-day average 233,440 7-day avg. 3m “It’s all so overwhelming,” Gar- 2m za said. “It’s tarnished the town, and it’s not going to go away. And 1m where do we go from here?” Feb. 29, 2020 Jan. 2021 0 Jan. 2022 July 15

A4 EZ RE THE WASHINGTON POST . SUNDAY, JULY 17, 2022 The misplaced outrage over Hunter Biden and U.S. oil bought by China “Pres Biden to ease the disruption from an that fund bought a stake in recent sale to China suddenly delivery.” reports are correct that President reportedly sold oil international event — such as the Sinopec Marketing, a Sinopec was controversial. Indeed, as a practical matter, Biden’s son is still financially fr[om] American spike in oil prices caused by subsidiary that sells oil products. connected to China’s Sinopec and reserves to sanctions imposed on Russia for A lawyer for Hunter Biden in Matt Smith, the lead oil once a company acquires crude potentially profited off the sale of China’s Sinopec its invasion of Ukraine. 2021 said he “no longer holds any analyst for the Americas at Kpler, oil, it can ship it wherever it oil from our strategic reserve, which Hunter interest, directly or indirectly,” in a commodity data company, wants as a private enterprise, that’s outrageous. As you likely The Fact Biden may still Buried in the Reuters article BHR, although the Washington closely tracks customs data on with the destination determined know, Unipec is a wholly owned Checker b[e] tied to via his was this paragraph: “Cargoes of Examiner reported in March that such crude oil transfers. He said by supply and demand. McNally subsidiary of Sinopec and one of financial ventures SPR crude were also headed to Chinese records do not yet show the Biden administration, in said oil may be loaded on a ship 12 companies, out of 16 GLENN in China. If report the Netherlands and to a that. earlier releases from the SPR, headed for China — but then the applicants, to win contracts to KESSLER correct that’s Reliance refinery in India, an sold to China 2.5 million barrels price changes and the ship is purchase oil from the American industry source said. A third Then, on July 8, the Federalist, in October and 1.5 million barrels redirected to, say, India. U.S. strategic petroleum reserve. OUTRAGEOUS.” cargo headed to China, another an influential right-wing in November. officials learn only retroactively Some of Hunter’s financial — Sen. Charles E. Grassley source said.” publication, posted an article where oil is sent after delivery — interests in China were, and (R-Iowa), in a tweet, July 8 headlined with a snappy talking “This is not some new not when oil is delivered to the reportedly may still be, invested Search on Twitter for “Sinopec The next day, the right-leaning point: “Biden Sold Oil From development from an SPR selected bidder. in Sinopec.” Hunter Biden” and this is just Washington Free Beacon Emergency Reserves To Chinese perspective or from a U.S. crude one of many tweets from GOP published an article headlined: Gas Giant Tied To His Scandal- perspective,” he said in an In 2011, when President The Pinocchio Test lawmakers and supporters that “Biden Sold a Million Barrels Plagued Son.” interview. “It does not matter if it Barack Obama ordered the This is an example of how simple turn up. From U.S. Strategic Petroleum stays in the United States or not release of 60 million barrels to facts — SPR oil was sold to a Meanwhile, a colleague Reserve to China-Owned Gas That spurred the to influence the global price.” ease oil supply disruption caused subsidiary of a Chinese company, attended a town hall held July 8 Giant.” The reporter had dug up congressional tweets. “Hunter is by the Libyan civil war, oil was and Hunter Biden once had a by Joe Kent, a Washington state an Energy Department news still business partners w/ the CCP Smith said about two-thirds of purchased by U.S. subsidiaries of business relationship with that Republican running for Congress release issued weeks earlier, on [Chinese Communist Party] & the 30 million barrels announced companies headquartered in company — are turned into promising to impeach President April 21, which listed 12 they are buying our oil,” Rep. in April went to Europe, which is Singapore, the Netherlands and something nefarious. The Biden. When one attendee asked companies that had been Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) trying to wean itself off Russian Britain in addition to the United contract was awarded to the about the oil sales, there were awarded contracts to buy the oil tweeted, linking to the Federalist oil. But oil going to China or States. “Before the lifting of the highest bidders in a worried murmurs from the after submitting bids. article. “Can we impeach Joe elsewhere can free up other crude export ban in 2015, it was competitively bid process, and crowd and no pushback from the Biden now???” crude to go to Europe, he said. unlikely any product delivered to Hunter Biden was many steps candidate. Sixteen companies had the winning bidder was exported removed from the U.S. trading What’s going on here? A basic submitted bids, and by law, the You can see how a months-old “There has been a lot of buzz outside the U.S.,” Troiano said. So arm of the Chinese firm. misunderstanding of global oil government is required to sell to news release was used to churn lately, but I think it’s a complete while U.S. subsidiaries always markets. the highest bidder, with limited up the outrage machine. But nothingburger,” said Robert have been qualified bidders, it’s Moreover, there’s no reason for exceptions, such as sanctioned here’s why that outrage is McNally, the founder and unlikely that any product outrage. Oil prices are The Facts companies. misplaced. president of the Rapidan Energy delivered to the winning bidder determined by global supply and This all started with a Group. He was responsible for was exported outside the United demand. The Biden straightforward Reuters article Many of the firms that won Crude oil is an international international energy policy while States at the time. Now, there are administration is seeking to that appeared this month, contracts are the U.S. trading commodity. Its price is on the National Security Council no such restrictions. lower the global price of crude oil headlined: “Oil from U.S. arms of foreign companies, such determined by global supply and staff of President George W. by bolstering supply around the reserves sent overseas as gasoline as Equinor (Norway), Shell demand. The Biden Bush. He noted that the law The Biden administration has globe. Selling crude oil to traders, prices stay high.” The article (Netherlands/Britain), Atlantic administration is trying to allows SPR withdrawals to be said it will use the funds from the whether based in the United noted that government data Trading (France), Mercuria increase the supply of oil to help exported. current sales to buy oil to refill States, Europe or Asia, is part of showed that more than 5 million (Cyprus), Motiva (Saudi Arabia) bring down prices that have the SPR after prices have that effort. barrels released from the U.S. and Unipec (China.) The news soared as the United States and That’s because in 2015, dropped. Strategic Petroleum Reserve release said Unipec, a subsidiary its allies have tried to stem Congress repealed a 40-year-old Anyone who suggests the (SPR) was exported to Europe of state-owned Sinopec, received purchases of Russian energy law that had prevented the “Sen. Grassley’s point here is Biden administration is doing and Asia in June. 950,000 barrels of the 30 million- products. export of U.S. crude oil. not about where oil goes; it’s something wrong here — as barrel release. about where money goes,” opposed to following the rules — The Biden administration is What matters for the price of “This means that the SPR Grassley spokesman Taylor Foy earns Three Pinocchios. releasing oil from an emergency Buried in the Free Beacon oil is how much oil there is — not cannot dictate whether or not said. “It’s egregious anytime supply of crude oil, stored in story was the fact that Hunter who has it. companies export crude oil politicians or their families profit underground salt caverns along Biden, the president’s son, had received from the reserve,” the from their positions. When that the Gulf Coast, that was first set once had business dealings with “Where it goes is essentially Energy Department’s press profit comes from the sale of oil up in the 1970s. Presidents have Sinopec. Rosemont Seneca irrelevant,” oil industry secretary, Charisma Troiano, at a time when American families occasionally tapped the reserve Bohai, a private-equity firm consultant Philip K. Verleger said. “U.S. companies are are struggling with record or where Biden was principal, said. permitted to place bids on SPR near-record fuel prices, it’s invested in a fund generally crude oil; DOE cannot dictate outrageous. As Grassley noted, if known as BHR Partners. In 2015, Indeed, every oil industry what selected bidders will do analyst we contacted was with the SPR crude oil after puzzled by the fact that the Always listen to Manchin’s public comments, not what others hear in private @PKCapitol For a full year, we’re on the eve of a deal, we’re cycle of belief among other Democrats have close to a deal — only to senators, aides and lobbyists tried to divine discover that it falls apart.” working the legislation that a PAUL KANE what Sen. Joe deal would be at hand by the But in private, Manchin often end of July, pushing a steady Manchin III allows other negotiators to hear stream of media stories would say yes to, beginning with what they want to hear. He says advancing this view. private huddles last fall at the nice things about certain White House to more recent proposals, talks about wanting “Very good and productive Zooms with Senate Majority to get a deal, creating what discussions,” Schumer told Leader Charles E. Schumer (D- turns out to be false momentum reporters in late June, before N.Y.). for the really big deal. adding an important caveat. They seem to have all made “But there are still some issues the same mistake: hearing the Out in the hallways, after that have to be resolved.” nice tones that the West those meetings, Manchin has Virginia Democrat said in their continually delivered more Manchin responded to private meetings, while neutral assessments of where Schumer’s assertions through a dismissing his pessimistic things stood. staff statement that both sides comments in public as standard interpreted however they negotiating ploys. His comments to the press wanted: The senator, the aide Instead, Manchin is the odd Wednesday, after the latest said, “continues to engage in politician whose public scorching inflation report respectful conversations about pronouncements, whether in showed prices continuing to the best way to move our brief Capitol hallway interviews rise, telegraphed his decision country forward but is still or in detailed prepared Thursday to support only the seriously concerned about statements, carry more weight slimmest of measures. harmful inflation taxes hurting than whatever he tells his Americans.” colleagues in private. “I’m very, very cautious. And This reality came crashing I’m going to make sure that I Optimists saw him leaning in, back into play Thursday when have every input on scrubbing figuring the “seriously The Washington Post’s Tony JABIN BOTSFORD/THE WASHINGTON POST everything humanly possible concerned” portion of the Romm and Jeff Stein broke the that could be considered statement was just Manchin news that Manchin told Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.) heads to a meeting on Capitol Hill in May. He has said he cannot inflammatory,” Manchin told using negotiating tactics for Schumer he could no longer support parts of Democrats’ budget bill addressing climate change and raising taxes on the wealthy. reporters that day. leverage. Realists, like Jayapal, viewed that with great support big pieces of their Ultimately, just like those Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) said So she was not surprised. He said it was “not tougher at hesitation. emerging budget bill that would White House-led talks, the after the House finished its Manchin, Jayapal said, “is not all” to reach a deal after that address climate change and newer Manchin-Schumer weekly session. an honest negotiator … inflation report because it only “All along I’ve said show me a raise taxes on the wealthy. negotiations broke down over somebody who lies to his own confirmed his fears that he has deal,” she told reporters Friday. For a few months, Schumer the centrist senator’s panic over The leader of the president about being willing to been talking about for months. has tried one-on-one talks with surging inflation. As Manchin congressional Progressive get something done and then By July 7, Manchin had to Manchin on a slightly slimmed- said Friday on a West Virginia Caucus, Jayapal engaged consistently shows over and “I was talking about inflation issue a formal statement trying down version of President radio show, Democrats could Manchin in several private talks over again that he’s not before it was even thought to reel back expectations. Biden’s Build Back Better take a small deal now that in the late fall about his support interested in carrying out the about it. Now I’m more “Suggestions that a agenda, focusing on a few would lower prescription drug for the BBB agenda. She came Democratic Party agenda.” concerned than ever,” he told reconciliation deal is close are health-care items, incentives to costs and shore up health-care away believing him and threw Another key Democrat reporters. false,” Sam Runyon, a rein in climate change and premiums, or wait until her support behind pushing a $1 pleaded for all these talks to spokesman for Manchin, said at raising taxes on the wealthy. September to see whether trillion bipartisan infrastructure stay behind closed doors. Over the past two years, the the time. “Senator Manchin still Schumer took on this inflation had cooled down plan that her caucus felt “I think the problem has been Senate has seen several major has serious unresolved assignment after the disastrous enough for him to support a insufficient to addressing this continued effort to bipartisan proposals in which concerns, and there is a lot of end to talks that Biden and his bigger plan. climate issues, but she trusted negotiate in public in the ad hoc groups negotiated the work to be done before it’s senior advisers led last year with Biden’s own word that he would Senate,” said Rep. Richie Neal frameworks, on pandemic relief conceivable that a deal can be Manchin and other Democratic While some Democrats deliver Manchin for the more (D-Mass.), chairman of the in December 2020, reached.” holdouts on the full $2 trillion reacted with rage on Friday, a ambitious legislation. House Ways and Means infrastructure last year and on agenda that included expanded few said they learned their Committee. “It’s the public gun violence in June. Schumer did not give up and child tax credits, universal pre-K lesson long ago. A few weeks later, after Biden commentary afterward — we’re believed this past week could education and more. signed the bipartisan bill into near a deal, we’ve got a deal, Manchin was a party to each prove victorious, scheduling “It’s what, unfortunately, I law, Manchin bailed on the of those talks but never served calls and video meetings with saw back in December,” Rep. broader agenda. as the lead Democrat who Manchin even as he clinched the deal. quarantined at home in New 36-.M3O3N%TH CD*APY GA$afSoc2rcCon5AuenwRtsD Buy! 1,300 Tables! Trade! Appraisals! SellW! P York after contracting the F F GInsured & Guaranteed 100% Open! Largest Gun Show in Metro DC! As the Schumer-Manchin coronavirus. 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A6 EZ RE THE WASHINGTON POST . SUNDAY, JULY 17, 2022 FSUHRENFFITIEULRDE BRIAN WITTE/ASSOCIATED PRESS HISTORIC Republican gubernatorial candidate Kelly Schulz speaks June 30 in Annapolis, where she criticized a $5 MILLION DOLLAR television ad paid for by the Democratic Governors Association. Gov. Larry Hogan (R) is at left. STORE MOVING COMPLETE Proxy war between Hogan, SELL-OFF EVENT! Trump plays out in Md. race NOW OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. LIMITED TIME ONLY. LIMITED TIME ONLY!! MARYLAND FROM A1 JONATHAN NEWTON/THE WASHINGTON POST Monday, Tuesday 10-5 CLOSED WED Thursday, Friday, Saturday 10-6 Sunday 12-5 Hogan vote. A lot of people who During a protest in Annapolis in May 2020, Del. Daniel L. Cox (R) support Trump support Hogan. decries Gov. Larry Hogan’s coronavirus-related restrictions. CAOLMLPLMETEUSSETLL GOFOF!!! There’s a lot of crossover,” said Mileah Kromer, a pollster and an The potency of Trump’s en- thetical candidate who matches NALOLWORI7E0NT%ALORUFGFS! associate professor of political sci- dorsements this cycle is subject to her attributes. ence at Goucher College. “The debate. While his record overall is SALE ENDING SOON! question is whether some Mary- mixed, candidates in narrow cir- “The road map for success for land voters will expressly want to cumstances like Cox’s have fared Maryland Republicans is clear. If LIVING ROOMS BEDROOMS cast a pro-Trump vote.” particularly well: So far, of five we nominate approachable, cred- Republican candidates in gover- ible, and likable candidates who DINING ROOMS CHESTS AND ARMOIRES Democrats are rooting for nor’s races in which there is no effectively advocate for common- Trump-endorsed Cox to win. GOP incumbent running, four of sense conservative solutions, then FINE QUALITY RUGS LEATHER AND RECLINERS Trump’s favorites have won their we will be historically successful,” The Democratic Governors As- primaries. Maryland is the only Haire wrote. “Most independents Dulles, VA Showroom ONLY! sociation, which views Maryland test of his endorsements this and even some Democrats in 21080 Dulles Town Circle • Dulles, VA 20166 as its best shot to flip a governor- month. Maryland have already shown ship this season, has poured $2 they will vote for Republican can- 571-323-6000 million into the race already, ac- Cox has focused on parental didates like this — it’s our job to cording to campaign finance re- control over education curricu- make sure they are on the ballot.” ports. The association mailed lit- lum (particularly on race and sex- erature and aired ads promoting uality), upending abortion protec- Some Republican officials have Cox’s ties to Trump, highlighting tions, barring transgender ath- chosen to stay out of the gover- Cox’s skepticism about the 2020 letes from women’s sports and nor’s race rather than pick a side election results and saying he weakening gun laws. His anti- and risk alienating voters. would “protect the Second Hogan messages are a smaller yet Amendment at all costs” and is forceful part of his campaign and “I didn’t want to get involved in “100 percent pro-life.” tap into conservative outrage a contested primary. What good about coronavirus restrictions. does that do me?” said state Sen. The DGA, which has targeted Michael J. Hough, who is running Trump-backed candidates in oth- He unsuccessfully sued the Ho- unopposed in the Republican pri- er states with mixed results, de- gan administration over the re- mary for Frederick County execu- nies it is propping up Cox. The strictions, and, in a failed court tive. He said people hold a grudg- organization says it’s merely get- case, he represented a voter tossed es: “In Republican primaries, I’ve ting an early start on the general out of a precinct for not wearing a discovered the best thing to do is election — analysts predict strong mask in 2020. He also unsuccess- stay out.” head winds for Democrats, with fully attempted to impeach Hogan high inflation on voters’ minds over coronavirus restrictions. But others say their constitu- and President Biden’s approval ents wouldn’t tolerate backing ratings at record lows. Cox has promised a “forensic Hogan’s pick over Trump’s. In Del. audit” of the 2020 election, which Ric Metzgar’s southeastern Balti- But other Democrats — and Ho- Trump lost in Maryland 32 per- more County district that used to gan — see a Cox candidacy as an cent to Biden’s 65 percent. Cox be home to Bethlehem Steel, Metz- easy general election fight in a helped charter buses to the Jan. 6, gar said he backed Hogan early in state where Democrats hold a 2- 2021, insurrection and called Vice his tenure but became disillu- to-1 registration advantage and President Mike Pence a traitor on sioned as the governor criticized voters support abortion rights and Twitter that day, although he later Trump and seemed to distance gun control and elected Biden by a denounced “mob violence,” delet- himself from the Republican base. 33-point margin in 2020. ed the tweet and expressed regret about his language while facing a “I’m really not happy with Gov- Schulz, Hogan’s former com- legislative ethics inquiry. ernor Hogan calling Dan Cox a merce and labor secretary, has wack-job,” Metzgar (R) said. “That largely hewed to his electoral play- When Trump’s former chief was just so inappropriate, like book. She emphasizes pocketbook strategist, Stephen K. Bannon, in- fifth-grade stuff.” He said he would issues and crime reduction while terviewed Cox on his show recent- have considered backing Schulz if dodging divisive social topics as ly, Bannon raised the question of she had distanced herself from settled matters, including saying electability in November, telling Hogan. “I think that the folks have she would not change abortion Cox, “The rap on you is that you said that if that’s Kelly’s message, laws approved by voters — even can win a primary, but you can’t it’s time to move on.” though, as a state lawmaker, she win a general.” tried to weaken them. Maryland’s Republican pri- Cox responded that Democrats mary voters tell pollsters they like The approach dovetails with would vote for him by the thou- Trump more than Hogan, but what Hogan has called a battle for sands just as suburban women they’re divided on who should the soul of the Republican Party: and voters seeking more control lead the party. A June 28 Goucher emphasizing pragmatism along- over public schooling last year Poll found 78 percent of Republi- side traditional conservative val- helped buoy Virginia Gov. Glenn can primary voters approved of ues and trying to sell those values Youngkin to victory. In Maryland, Trump, compared with 67 percent to moderate voters. Cox said, “moms and mama bears who approved of Hogan. But the are out right now to protect their poll also found divisions regard- Her campaign is staffed by children.” ing the future of the party: 48 many Hogan alums, and she’s a percent said the GOP should be longtime friend of the governor He did not respond to multiple led by Trump, and 48 percent said and helped launch his 2014 upset interview requests. There are two it’s time for new leadership. win. She has raised dramatically other candidates on the GOP bal- more money than Cox, but the lot, although both have polled in Hogan spent the past week po- resources haven’t translated into a the single digits: disbarred attor- sitioning himself as a potential bump in the polls. ney and colorful perennial candi- national party leader, touring New date Robin Ficker, and attorney England and promoting his infla- On the campaign trail, she em- Joe Werner. tion-reduction plan in a New phasizes what’s possible for Re- Hampshire town hall. His visit to publicans in a deeply blue state: Even though registered Repub- the first-in-the-nation primary “Unlike my opponent Dan Cox, I licans represent fewer than 25 per- state follows meetings with na- don’t lie to Marylanders,” she said cent of Maryland voters, Republi- tional donors and a high-profile at a news conference Thursday. cans have won three out of the last speaking engagement, where Ho- five governor’s races, largely by gan has cast himself as a conserva- She has openly called Cox a nominating moderates who could tive in the Reagan mold trying to “nut” and “pathological liar” and appeal to independents and some rebuild a party sullied by Trump. emphasized her general election conservative Democrats. In late chances as a key selling point to May, Maryland Republican Party But Hogan has downplayed the conservatives, saying she’s the Chairman Dirk Haire wrote an primary as a proxy war between only thing standing between vot- opinion piece tacitly endorsing him and Trump. Asked about it by ers and a liberal governor eager to Schulz, talking about the electoral Fox News last week, Hogan dis- raise their taxes and pull the state successes of Republican women agreed, saying that “each race real- further to the left. and describing a successful hypo- ly comes down to the candidates themselves.” Cox, a general practice lawyer and one-term state lawmaker, has embraced Trump-style rhetoric and tied Schulz to Hogan, even as he developed his own campaign platform to “restore freedom.” In his latest fundraising email, Cox asked supporters, “Did you know that Maryland politics is impacting the entire nation, and in fact the world?” He said Hogan and Schulz “mis- used the Wuhan virus” for corona- virus restrictions as a tool to hurt Trump and accused Schulz of “suf- focating the constitution.” In other messages, Cox, a father of nine, has warned that “our schools are being used as indoctrination cen- ters to brainwash our children’s minds about their own bodies.”

SUNDAY, JULY 17, 2022 . THE WASHINGTON POST EZ RE A7 Trump fundraising ing like-minded candidates, can dips in first half of be used to pay advisers, cover 2022, trails DeSantis travel expenses and defray legal bills, among other costs. Former president’s yields party data, blaming the trend on JOHN LOCHER/ASSOCIATED PRESS fall as his time in office donors having less disposable in- One limitation, said experts in becomes more distant come because of inflation and on Donald Trump speaks in Las Vegas in July. Donors to Trump’s joint fundraising vehicle face a $10,000 campaign finance law, is that peo- their fatigue with the relentless annual limit. The committee tied to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis can accept unlimited contributions. ple behind such PACs can’t use the BY ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER fundraising appeals. Numerous money to further their own future AND ISAAC ARNSDORF Democratic incumbents in close to “hang up his hat and sail into and fundraising continues to more transfers to support other campaigns. Travel and other ex- Senate races reported record the sunset,” as the world’s richest grow and thrive at every level.” candidates and committees, and penses advancing a candidate’s Former president Donald hauls in the second quarter, in- man, Elon Musk, last week ad- higher costs to raise money on- political activities are subject to Trump’s fundraising slowed in the cluding Georgia Sen. Raphael G. vised him to do. Instead, he’s trav- Trump’s name and image dom- line, the person said. The Save contribution limits once the can- first half of 2022, falling below Warnock, who brought in $17 mil- eling the country stumping for inate fundraising appeals for oth- America PAC finished June with didate has declared for a certain $50 million in a six-month period lion compared with GOP chal- endorsed candidates, repeating er GOP candidates and party com- $112 million on hand, the person office, these experts said. for the first time since he left the lenger Herschel Walker’s $3.6 his debunked claims of election mittees, a sign of his enduring said, which would be a net gain of White House 18 months ago. million, and Nevada Sen. Cather- fraud and hinting at a third bid for pull with the party’s base. Trump about $11 million from the prior Even transferring those funds ine Cortez Masto, who raised $7.5 president. He recently told sup- has recently moved to rein in month. to a super PAC making independ- A fundraising committee that million compared with GOP chal- porters in Las Vegas that he “ran other entities’ attempts to fund- ent expenditures boosting the directs money to his various polit- lenger Adam Laxalt’s $2.8 mil- twice and won twice, and may raise off his coattails, and the The Save America PAC’s June candidate would likely provoke ical groups raised $17 million in lion. have to do it a third time.” tension would only intensify if report to the FEC is due on July complaints if the money “estab- the second quarter of this year, and when Trump officially an- 20. Earlier filings show the group lished the super PAC or is the according to a new federal filing. The new figures offer fresh evi- “He is not only raising money at nounces his candidacy. dispersed about $6 million in re- majority of the money financing That brings the committee’s haul dence of the financial muscle an unparalleled pace, but he is cent months to boost Trump’s the super PAC,” said Charles Spies, to at least $36 million so far this Trump could put behind a third investing in America First candi- “The entire fundraising appa- preferred candidates in Pennsyl- a Republican election lawyer. year. run for the presidency, as he dates and continuing to grow the ratus in the Republican Party re- vania’s Senate primary and Geor- sounds out allies about a possible MAGA movement into 2022 and volves around President Trump,” gia’s gubernatorial primary. He Trump’s committee reported The tally does not include new announcement. That dynamic beyond,” said Taylor Budowich, a said Caroline Wren, a Trump- prevailed in Pennsylvania, suc- its dividends as its fundraising direct contributions to Trump’s could influence the timing of any Trump spokesman, in response to aligned GOP fundraiser who cessfully elevating celebrity doc- practices are under scrutiny by Save America PAC, which won’t possible campaign announce- the new filings on Friday. helped organize the rally on Jan. 6. tor Mehmet Oz above a crowded the House select committee inves- be disclosed until late this month ment, as Republicans weigh “Candidates and party committees field, but failed to topple incum- tigating the Jan. 6 attack on the and have in recent months totaled whether he would clear the field The latest fundraising num- rely on President Trump’s name for bent Gov. Brian Kemp in Georgia. Capitol. Amanda Wick, a commit- up to $20,000. The PAC received and how his designs on 2024 bers show that his online solicita- their low-dollar fundraising ef- tee investigator, highlighted in a $23,409 this quarter through might reshape this year’s mid- tions continue to resonate with forts, and when it comes to high- The committee directed hearing last month how Trump WinRed, which processes online terms. his base, even as House investiga- dollar fundraising, President $75,000 in May to the law firm of and his allies raised $250 million transactions for Republican can- tors probing the Jan. 6, 2021, Trump has selflessly spent the past an attorney representing Cleta in the weeks after the election by didates and committees. Trump and DeSantis are the attack on the Capitol accuse him two years raising millions of dol- Mitchell, a pro-Trump lawyer who barraging his supporters with dominant fundraisers in their of deceiving his supporters with lars for America First candidates advised him on efforts to overturn fundraising emails promoting an The former president’s yields party, with Trump maintaining a promises of a nonexistent fund and organizations, including head- the results of the election. The “Official Election Defense Fund,” are falling as his time in the White reservoir of support from small- devoted to contesting election lining fundraising events for every attorney, John P. Rowley, did not even though no such fund existed. House recedes further into the dollar donors and DeSantis hav- fraud. major Republican Committee.” respond to a request for com- past. In the same six-month peri- ing won the backing of some of ment. “Not only was there the big lie,” od last year, Trump collected the GOP’s most generous mega- “Having campaigned and fund- Trump had been largely stock- said Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.). more than $56 million in online donors, foremost among them raised for President Trump since piling his PAC contributions, but Trump’s PAC also continued to “There was the big rip-off.” donations, and then raised about hedge fund manager Ken Griffin, 2015, there has been no stronger a person familiar with the group spend money at his properties, $51 million from July through who recently said he would move support and interest for him than who spoke on the condition of directing about $30,000 in recent A Trump spokesman did not December of 2021. his company, Citadel, from Chica- there is today,” said Ed McMullen, anonymity to describe its finan- months to the Trump Hotel Col- respond to a request for comment go to Miami. This week, DeSantis Trump’s ambassador to Switzer- cial details said its spending lection. about those allegations. The latest filing puts Trump’s is holding a trio of fundraisers in land who also served as his South jumped in June. The increase haul behind that of Florida Gov. Utah. Carolina state director during the stemmed from legal bills arising There are no explicit restric- Renato Mariotti, a former fed- Ron DeSantis, a possible contend- 2016 presidential campaign. from the House committee inves- tions on the personal use of funds eral prosecutor focused on securi- er for the 2024 Republican presi- The comparison is imperfect. “President Trump’s popularity tigating the Jan. 6 insurrection, raised by leadership PACs. Such ties and commodities fraud, said dential nomination. DeSantis, DeSantis is raising money for a committees, in addition to boost- the Justice Department is unlike- who delighted conservatives na- committee that can accept unlim- ly to bring charges related to the tionally with his hands-off ap- ited contributions, while donors fundraising practices highlighted proach to the coronavirus pan- can give only $10,000 per year to by the committee. Prosecutors demic, raised about $45 million in Trump’s joint fundraising vehicle. would face a host of challenges, he the first six months of the year, DeSantis also has an ongoing race said, including proving that au- according to state filings. for which he’s raising funds — he’s thors of the solicitations had an up for reelection this fall. So, too, intent to defraud and countering Small-dollar online donations is Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R), a possible defense that donors have dipped across the GOP, said another possible contender for would have chipped in regardless people familiar with the matter his party’s 2024 presidential nom- of the substance of the appeal. who spoke on the condition of ination. He raised $29 million in anonymity to discuss internal the first six months of the year, his Such appeals continue. Four campaign said. emails sent in May from Trump’s PAC, for example, asked donors to But Trump is hardly choosing contribute to a “Protect our Elec- tions Fund.” One subject line: “Future Elec- tion Fraud Alert.” It implored supporters: Please contribute at least $45 or more IMMEDIATELY to the Protect our Elections Fund.” Josh Dawsey, Dylan Freedman, Anu Narayanswamy and Chris Zubak- Skees contributed to this report. 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A8 EZ RE THE WASHINGTON POST . SUNDAY, JULY 17, 2022 Post-Roe, Democrats Ohio, brought in more than $9 fear state legislative million. races are overlooked Multiple strategists see a lon- BY ANNIE LINSKEY “You’re not going to ultimately EMILY ELCONIN/GETTY IMAGES ger-term pattern, pointing to As Democrat Veronica succeed if all you do is say, ‘Go Democrat Amy McGrath’s failed Klinefelt goes door to door in the elect another U.S. Senator,’ ” said An abortion rights demonstrator bows their head on June 24 in Detroit, as people protest the Supreme bid in Kentucky last cycle to un- suburban Michigan community David Pepper, the former Ohio Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, a case that in 1973 had established the right to an abortion. seat Sen. Mitch McConnell, the she’s hoping to represent in the Democratic Party chair and au- chamber’s top Republican — a state Senate, she says she repeat- thor of “Laboratories of Autocra- ate Minority Leader Jim Ananich, fecta of government that hasn’t earlier this year and hasn’t made race in which she raised massive edly has to make the case that the cy,” a book on GOP power in state a Democrat. “We should be in protected abortion is the federal a similar payment to the DLCC. sums of money but ultimately did outcome of her race matters in a legislatures. “The front lines of front of the table. If it’s a buffet, I government.” not come close to winning. larger fight for abortion rights. the attacks on democracy and want to be at the front. I don’t One person familiar with the “It’s almost as if people think core rights are state houses. We want to be at the end when there While Democratic leaders in funding decision noted that the In the weeks following the Su- there’s nothing that can be done need to act accordingly or we’re are only scraps.” Washington including President DLCC is permitted to raise an preme Court decision, the DLCC and the Supreme Court has made permanently on defense. And Biden are now pushing to codify unlimited amount of money has had conversations with the its decision and that’s it,” said when you’re permanently on de- Democrats pushing for more abortion rights in Congress, the while the federal House and Sen- White House about how to el- Klinefelt, who is vying for a seat in fense, you ultimately lose.” representation in state legisla- party does not have the votes to ate committees are not. DNC evate key races, according to a the Detroit area. “They just don’t tures say that Republicans have do so, due to resistance from aides say that they’ve significant- person familiar with the talks. A seem to be able to understand In Michigan, Klinefelt says she long outorganized them. Of the some centrists in their ranks to ly bumped up their direct finan- White House adviser said that that these decisions translate into detects an inclination toward giv- country’s 99 state legislative changing Senate rules to over- cial commitments in states, albeit Biden plans to ramp up his do- more power at the state level.” ing money to congressional can- chambers, Republicans control come GOP opposition. via different avenues, including mestic travel, which aides antici- Three weeks after the court’s didates as she dials for dollars, 62 while Democrats dominate 37. giving money to state parties. pate to include more focus on decision to erase a constitutional saying she frequently talks to The GOP holds full control of 30 “The front lines of the midterm campaigns across the right to abortion, Democratic donors who are used to giving in state legislatures while Demo- attacks on democracy These individuals spoke on the ballot. Both spoke on the condi- candidates and strategists in leg- federal races and don’t see a ben- crats hold full majorities in just 17. condition of anonymity to more tion of anonymity to discuss pri- islative contests across the coun- efit to spending in local ones. “It and core rights are openly discuss strategy. vate conversations and delibera- try are trying to tap into outrage hasn’t occurred to them that the Nonpartisan observers hold a state houses.” tions. over the decision and their new- investment in the state level will dim view for Democratic chances In some respects, Democrats found power to influence abor- have a bigger impact on their of narrowing the gap significant- David Pepper, the former Ohio eying state legislative races have The DLCC has also been persis- tion laws to generate more enthu- lives,” she said. ly this fall. Just four chambers Democratic Party chair experienced recent success. From tently outraised by its GOP coun- siasm for their campaigns. But are rated as “toss-ups,” by the April to June, the DLCC raised terpart, though in recent years some are finding that long-stand- Her state is one that activists University of Virginia’s Center Some Democrats familiar with $6.75 million — a second quarter that gap has closed. The DLCC ing challenges to compete for on both sides of the abortion for Politics. And three of those state races said they fear state record for the organization. raised about $32 million in the attention have persisted in the debate are targeting closely in the are held by Democrats. Now, legislative campaign efforts are 2018 campaign cycle, according wake of the ruling. wake of the court decision. Abor- Democrats eying these races are not getting enough money from In the same period, the Repub- to the most recent data available For years, Republicans have tion rights activists are also eying pointing to their capacity for the Democratic National Com- lican State Leadership Commit- via the Center for Responsive cemented an advantage in state legislative chamber takeovers in concrete actions on abortion, rel- mittee, which transferred $15 tee, the GOP counterpart to the Politics, or CRP. The RSLC raised legislative races, strategists in Minnesota and New Hampshire ative to Congress. million to the party’s main federal Democratic group, raised $9.8 nearly $50 million in 2018, ac- both parties acknowledge, en- this November. And they’re trying Senate and House committees million. cording to CRP. abling them to push through to protect Democratic majorities “As soon as we take a state conservative legislation on abor- in Colorado and Maine and pre- legislature, we will do something Democratic Senate candidates, Republicans say that relatively tion and other matters even at vent an antiabortion supermajor- to protect abortion in the state,” even in states where they are seen new Democratic organizations, moments like the present one, ity in North Carolina. said Jessica Post, the president of as underdogs, raised far more along with a constellation of vari- when Democrats control Con- the Democratic Legislative Cam- than the DLCC. Rep. Val Dem- ous gun control groups and pro- gress and the White House. Dem- Michigan Democratic Gov. paign Committee, or DLCC, the ings, a Democrat taking on Sen. abortion rights groups, more ocrats hoping to inject new ur- Gretchen Whitmer is running for main organization trying to elect Marco Rubio (R) in Florida, re- than make up the gap in funding gency into these contests are de- reelection as a staunch opponent Democrats in state legislatures. ported raising more than $12 between the two parties. And they manding more money and atten- of reinstating a 1931 abortion ban “In fact, the only Democratic tri- million in the second quarter. note that the RSLC has a broader tion from party leadership — in her state. The GOP-led legisla- Rep. Tim Ryan, a Democrat run- portfolio than the DLCC, includ- with no clear indication they will ture is pushing for the ban, which ning for an open Senate seat in ing backing other statewide can- get what they want. has been blocked by the courts, to didates like GOP secretary of Instead, Democratic messaging be enforced. Some activists are state contenders. has largely focused on federal also pushing for a ballot initiative races and a debate over the Senate to establish abortion rights in Republican State Leadership filibuster, some frustrated Demo- state law. Committee spokesman Andrew crats noted, even as individual Romeo accused Democrats of states now have sole discretion While the GOP controls the “sending out a smoke signal to over abortion laws. Some of these state House and Senate in Michi- their liberal billionaire donors to Democrats are voicing dissatisfac- gan, Democrats have made gains bail them out of political peril in tion with party leaders for not in recent years and a nonpartisan state races.” elevating local races more aggres- redistricting commission offered sively and not directing more fi- the party what leaders see as a Some Democrats said they are nancial resources to the contests. favorable map. Democrats need a plagued by a problem of their net gain of just three state Senate own making: Prominent figures seats to create a tie in the upper in the party who go on cable news chamber. shows and other platforms to urge voters to direct their outrage “We’re an afterthought and we on abortion to the battle for shouldn’t be,” said Michigan Sen- Congress. “There are folks who have a big megaphone who, I think, haven’t really gotten the message yet,” said Lala Wu, the co-founder and executive director of Sister Dis- trict, which works to elect Demo- crats in state races. “Democrats are very tardy to the party.” Photo by Flavien Carlod, Baptiste Le Quiniou for advertising purposes only. Sculpture: www.sophiebocher.com. TASCHEN. *Summer Sale prices valid in US only, from July 9 to 24, 2022; not to be used in conjunction with any other offer. GENEROUS DISCOUNTS ON ALL CLEARANCE AND EX-DISPLAY ITEMS

SUNDAY, JULY 17, 2022 . THE WASHINGTON POST EZ RE A9 White House sidelined as Manchin again crushes Biden’s policy ambitions The senator’s shift on tax and climate policies comes after the president handed off negotiations to Democrats in Congress BY JEFF STEIN “Those are very important OLIVER CONTRERAS FOR THE WASHINGTON POST minimal involvement in negoti- initiatives to hold costs down ating Democrats’ domestic eco- nusa dua, indonesia — Presi- and address a high cost of living Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.) speaks in June. While some of the White House’s initial spending plan nomic agenda with Congress. for American families,” Yellen was included in the infrastructure law Congress approved, the bulk of it seems unlikely to pass. Treasury staff were not major dent Biden was in the Middle said. “We shouldn’t minimize participants in discussions East and Treasury Secretary Ja- the positive impact that those “This is how the White House “There’s huge global momen- tive actions on climate and among congressional Demo- net L. Yellen was here in South- changes can have. They’re signif- has always feared this would tum to move forward. Other pointed to her existing work on crats over one of the most signif- east Asia when talks over the icant for American families.” end. It vindicates their skepti- countries are moving forward,” international climate finance. icant proposed overhauls of the administration’s long-delayed cism toward Manchin over the Yellen said. “It will create a tax code in decades, even before sweeping economic agenda Talks between Biden and his past six months, but it also momentum for us to join in, Biden landed in Saudi Arabia Manchin ruled it out of negotia- stalled yet again. party’s 50th vote in the Senate marks the death of their climate too.” Friday after spending two days tions, two people familiar with broke down last winter when agenda and ambitions to trans- in Israel. He once promised to the matter said, speaking on the Sen. Joe Manchin III Manchin publicly announced form the country,” said one out- Still, despite Biden’s call for make the kingdom a “pariah” condition of anonymity to re- (D-W.Va.), the Senate’s most con- his opposition to an earlier, side White House adviser, speak- more aggressive executive ac- state for human rights viola- flect internal matters. servative Democrat, communi- more ambitious version of the ing on the condition of anonym- tion on the climate, Yellen ap- tions, but Russia’s invasion of cated to Democratic leadership legislation, and the two men had ity to reflect conversations with peared to reject calls to expand Ukraine and the resulting dis- Various administration offi- on Thursday that he would not a heated conversation after- administration officials. the work of the nation’s banking ruption to global oil markets has cials have tried to court the support tax hikes on the wealthy ward. Trust between their camps officials to make it more expen- forced the White House to en- senator. White House National or any new spending on clean never really recovered. In the interview in Nusa Dua, sive to loan to fossil fuel pro- gage with Saudi officials. Gas Economic Council Director Bri- energy as part of an economic Yellen said that the U.S. and its ducers. Some climate advocates prices have soared this year, an Deese traveled in March to package in Congress this sum- On Friday, Manchin insisted allies were still committed to and liberals have pushed this though they’ve fallen over the meet Manchin in West Virginia, mer, delivering a major blow to he might still consider support- moving forward on the global use of the Financial Stability past month. As a major oil where the two went zip-lining, two of the administration’s most ing some investments on fight- tax deal despite Manchin’s oppo- Oversight Council — a body of producer, Saudi Arabia has the according to CNN. Manchin important policy goals. ing climate change and raising sition. Yellen highlighted that independent financial regula- power to increase the world’s went with Interior Secretary some taxes, but only after seeing the global tax agreement gives tors led by Treasury — to combat supply, but it’s not clear that Deb Haaland to New River By Friday afternoon, Biden inflation data for July, which is countries taxing rights on multi- global warming, but Treasury they intend to do so or whether Gorge National Park in Glen urged lawmakers to pass what- due to be released on Aug. 10. national firms’ profits booked in has so far resisted that ap- that itself would notably affect Jean, W.Va., after which he post- ever they could to lower health- Even if that’s the case, delaying jurisdictions where taxes below proach. “FSOC is mainly con- prices at the pump. ed photographs of them smiling care costs, which Manchin has the legislation until then would the new minimum of 15 percent. cerned with evaluating the risks together on social media. said he’ll support, and promised make it nearly impossible to Yellen argued that means the of climate change for financial Yellen, meanwhile, is im- to take “strong executive action” pass before a Sept. 30 deadline U.S. will have an incentive to stability,” Yellen told The Wash- mersed in her efforts at a confer- John F. Kerry, the White to address climate change if the for using the process known as increase its tax rate or lose out ington Post. “It’s not really a ence of financial officials from House’s senior climate adviser, Senate wouldn’t act. budget reconciliation to get it on government tax revenue, de- direct tool to address climate the Group of 20 industrialized dined with Manchin in Paris this past a GOP filibuster in the spite Manchin’s current opposi- change.” Yellen said she would nations to enact a price cap on spring. Manchin talked fre- But a president who spent 36 Senate. Manchin’s opposition to tion to that provision. support the president’s execu- purchases of Russian oil. The quently with Steve Ricchetti, years in the Senate and another tax reform marks a major rever- treasury secretary has had only one of the president’s top aides, eight working closely with it as sal after months in which he and Klain personally apologized vice president had already taken called for Democrats to repeal to Manchin for any misunder- a back seat in the attempt to key parts of former president standings after talks fell apart in push his economic agenda prior- Donald Trump’s 2017 tax law to December. Energy Secretary ity through a Congress his party fight inflation. Jennifer Granholm traveled controls by the narrowest of with Manchin to West Virginia margins. The White House had Manchin’s latest abandon- in June to tout a plan to promote much earlier left Senate Majori- ment of Biden’s domestic agenda U.S. offshore wind projects. Gra- ty Leader Charles E. Schumer also marks another substantive nholm later said she was “bull- (D-N.Y.) to negotiate with Man- defeat for White House aides ish” about the prospect of a chin over how to assemble a bill who had just a year ago dreamed climate deal with Manchin’s ap- the West Virginia centrist could of transformational changes to proval. support. White House Chief of America’s economy, safety net, Staff Ron Klain has long been education system and tax code. None of those efforts kept skeptical about the potential for Manchin onboard with Biden’s a deal with Manchin, according Initially, the White House re- top priorities. to three people with direct leased roughly $4 trillion in new knowledge of his private re- spending plans. While some of “I’m sure they are furious. … It marks. that was incorporated into the has to be disappointing; they $1 trillion bipartisan infrastruc- keep moving closer to Manchin’s Asked about whether Man- ture law Congress approved last position and he keeps changing chin had negotiated in good fall, the bulk of it now appears the position,” said Dean Baker, a faith, Biden told reporters in likely never to pass. Manchin’s liberal economist in communi- Saudi Arabia: “I didn’t negotiate position also undermines the cation with senior administra- with Joe Manchin; I have no White House’s international pol- tion officials. “They’ve been try- idea.” icy ambitions, with the adminis- ing to negotiate with good faith, tration trying to rally the world recognizing Manchin’s con- Speaking to reporters outside to join in action to fight climate cerns. But he keeps moving the the conference of global finan- change and Yellen pushing a ball, and it just looks like he took cial officials on Saturday, Yellen new global minimum tax on the ball home.” touted the potential economic corporations that Manchin’s po- Tyler Pager and Tony Romm benefits of a package focused on sition now prevents the U.S. contributed to this report. the health care reform policies from implementing. as a meaningful step forward for the country. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT KEEP FAMILIES CONNECTED OSURPGPANORIZTAITNIGONS Incarcerated people and their loved ones need to stay Color Of Change connected. Period. UCC Media Justice Worth Rises Prison and jail telecom companies charge families as much as $1 a minute for Prison Policy Initiative simple phone calls. 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A10 EZ RE THE WASHINGTON POST . SUNDAY, JULY 17, 2022 Gas prices could surge in the fall, experts warn GAS PRICES FROM A1 al waterways. The insurance pol- FREDERIC J. BROWN/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES icies for most of the world’s oil Yet U.S. political leaders are cargo ships are written out of A Chevron station in Los Angeles in June. The cost of a gallon of gas has fallen from more than $5 a month ago to a national average of confronting the reality that even Europe. $4.60, according to AAA. But energy analysts say new, stricter sanctions on Russia will further choke the global oil supply. the most aggressive domestic po- litical and policy measures often As a result, Russia would con- ternational Energy Agency is urg- fund its war effort. energy industry who believes this pump. Knittel chronicled in a have scant impact over prices in a front steep new obstacles to mov- ing be implemented as part of the Although the plan has some can work,” he said. detailed academic paper how global oil market guided by forces ing its oil anywhere. The sanc- effort to assist Ukraine. The 10- those efforts backfired, leading to out of their control. tions are intended to double the point plan the agency unveiled prominent champions, energy ex- Other measures the Biden ad- oil shortages and long lines at gas amount of Russian oil pulled months ago — aimed at cutting perts are deeply skeptical. They ministration is pursuing would stations in the 1970s. Economists across the ideo- from the market since the war oil demand by the equivalent of warn that Russia has various take aim at oil companies, heavily logical spectrum warn that the began. all the cars in China — calls on levers it could pull to throw the taxing the “windfall” profits they The countries right now tin- measures the White House is economically advanced nations market into chaos, including cut- are earning from high prices. kering with aggressive market promoting — allowing Russian An internal U.S. Treasury to lower highway speed limits, ting off all shipments abroad, Leading Democrats argue that interventions are facing the same oil into the global market at analysis projects that could send make cities car-free one day a plunging countries like India such actions are overdue. dilemma all over again. Before reduced prices, taxing oil compa- the price of oil soaring 50 percent week and implement vehicle deeper into crisis. Russia invaded Ukraine, the ny “windfall” profits, cutting the above where it is today. Some sharing. “In my view, quite a lot of Hungarian government imposed federal gas tax — could ultimately market analysts are warning of The J.P. Morgan warning, that intervention is appropriate in price controls capping the cost of aggravate the energy crunch in potentially steeper climbs, which The plans are seen as political oil prices could more than triple this market,” said Sen. Sheldon gas at $4.80 per gallon. Shortages the United States, rather than could push gas prices beyond $6 a losers in the United States, echo- in a worst-case scenario, is pre- Whitehouse (D-R.I.). “You are not followed. Drivers there are now ease it. gallon. ing the unpopular conservation mised on its finding that Russia’s as government interfering in the prohibited from purchasing more initiatives that doomed the Cart- economy can sustain a cut in oil marketplace. You are counteract- than 13 gallons of fuel per day. “When things like this happen, The warnings all come with er administration when it con- production of millions of barrels ing the anti-competitive effects of we tend to focus on short-term caveats. In the event of more bad fronted an energy crisis in the per day. a cartel. Even if you are a free “Gas prices are set based on a fixes,” said Christopher Knittel, a economic news signaling a pro- 1970s. marketeer, it is fair game to knock world oil market, and it is tough professor of applied economics at longed recession, for example, “The problem is Russia gets a down anti-competitive, cartel- for any one country to have an MIT’s Sloan School of Manage- prices would likely stabilize. Less The White House is instead vote, too,” Book said. “Just be- driven practices.” appreciable impact on that mar- ment. “But, unfortunately, gas gasoline is used when the econo- lobbying world leaders to agree cause something has never been ket in a short time period,” Knittel prices are not really something my is in retreat. on a novel price cap that would done before doesn’t necessarily It is a potent argument and one said. “The way to stop this is a you can fix in the short term.” allow Russia to continue to sell its mean it can’t be done. But some- that resonates with voters, who rallying call for federal legislation A fresh round of coronavirus oil after Dec. 5 but at a heavily times there is a reason it has blame oil companies for high that reduces demand for oil over The White House worries come lockdowns in large Chinese cities reduced price. The idea is to avoid never been done.” prices. But the United States has a the long term. So next time prices at a moment consumers see gas would similarly weaken global a global shortage while also cut- history dating to the Nixon ad- go up like this, it won’t hit us as prices as one of the few things in demand and ease upward pres- ting the oil profits Russia uses to Chow called the effort “puz- ministration of trying to use regu- hard.” the economy trending in the right sure on prices. zling.” “I have not met a single lations to control prices at the direction. The cost of a gallon has person who has worked in the fallen from more than $5 a month Yet the imbalance between oil ago to a national average of $4.60, and gasoline supply and demand according to AAA. Oil is trading is so pronounced right now that for less than the price it did prices could swing back up before Russia invaded Ukraine. months before new sanctions take effect, in the thick of the Concerns about a potential re- midterm campaign, said Kevin cession dampening demand have Book, managing director at played big in the price drop. ClearView Energy Partners, a re- search firm. Another key reason prices have fallen lately is that initial sanc- “People procuring oil make tions against Russia are far less their bids early,” Book said. “It effective than planned. The coun- takes four to six weeks for it to be try’s oil is making its way into delivered. If they think a shortage world markets despite the re- is coming, they plan for it.” strictions, flowing to places like China and India. It means the The political and economic di- global supply is not as tight as lemma points to the challenges of forecast when the United States using energy as a foreign policy and Europe initially joined forces cudgel. to punish Russia over its inva- sion. “Energy sanctions were never the silver bullet people hoped,” That could change with the said Edward Chow, an energy next round of planned sanctions. security scholar at the Center for A full ban of cargo shipments of Strategic and International Stud- Russian oil to Europe is set to ies who worked in the industry take hold on Dec. 5, with the for decades. “Politicians are tell- market expected to factor in its ing voters that we can do this and impact much sooner. people don’t have to sacrifice. 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SUNDAY, JULY 17, 2022 . THE WASHINGTON POST EZ RE A11 Democrats use Pentagon policy bill to close loopholes that Trump exposed BY KAROUN DEMIRJIAN committee examining the insur- for policy that radiates beyond fense bill solely with Democratic proved a GOP initiative to create a The defense bill also seeks to House Democrats are taking rection. Another would give the the Pentagon, but it’s far from support. dedicated inspector general for build on a 2021 provision to re- what may be their last shot to mayor of D.C. the authority to guaranteed that all or even any of the Office of Management and place Confederate names on mili- address the lack of government mobilize the National Guard dur- these provisions will become law. Many supporters of the Trump- Budget (OMB), a White House tary installations — which Trump safeguards that they say enabled ing an emergency — or another Last year, for instance, the House themed provisions, all of which organization at the heart of used as grounds to veto the legis- some of former president Donald major security crisis. agreed to upgrade the D.C. may- were included in the House’s final Trump’s first impeachment over lation, prompting a historic con- Trump’s most audacious behav- or’s ability to mobilize the city’s defense bill through the amend- his administration’s withholding gressional override — with an ior: leveraging a mammoth Pen- The apparent sense of urgency National Guard units, but the idea ment process, have been clear of U.S. security assistance to initiative from Rep. Sheila Jack- tagon policy bill to target institu- goes beyond the simple fact that was dropped during negotiations what — and who — inspired their Ukraine. son Lee (D-Tex.) to recognize Afri- tional shortcomings highlighted passing stand-alone legislation is with the Senate and absent from legislative efforts. can Americans “who have served by his actions. difficult in a polarized Congress, the final bill that Congress sent to It was through the OMB that in the Armed Forces with honor, The $840 billion legislation, observers say. President Biden for approval. “On January 6, 2021, as our Trump ordered the successive heroism, and distinction by in- which passed the House on democracy was under attack, holds on distributing military creasing the number of military Thursday but is subject to change “Particularly if Republicans The political divisions shaping D.C.’s mayor was unable to call out hardware to the government in installations, infrastructure, ves- once the Senate weighs in later take the House, as many expect lawmakers’ calculations were the D.C. National Guard, wasting Kyiv — millions of dollars in aid sels, and weapon systems named” this summer, contains specific that they will, it’ll just be that thrown into sharp relief in recent hours and potentially costing he sought to use as leverage with for them. measures to fix problems laid much harder to get any of these days, when the House voted on an lives,” Reps. Carolyn B. Maloney Ukrainian President Volodymyr bare by the U.S. Capitol riot car- kinds of fixes into big bills — amendment to the defense bill (D-N.Y.); Anthony G. Brown Zelensky, whom Trump wanted to Efforts to erase the military’s ried out by Trump supporters on because Republicans will have offered by Rep. Bradley Schneider (D-Md.); and Eleanor Holmes announce an investigation with Confederate lineage gained bi- Jan. 6, 2021. control of what comes to the floor (D-Ill.) to compel the Defense De- Norton (D), D.C.’s delegate to Con- the potential to damage a political partisan support in Congress af- One provision calls for direct, in the House,” said Molly Reyn- partment, the FBI and DHS to gress, said in a joint statement rival, then-former vice president ter the murder of George Floyd closer scrutiny — by the military, olds, a congressional expert with establish “strategies to combat last week. “The January 6th at- Joe Biden. spurred broad introspection over the FBI and the Department of the Brookings Institution. White supremacist and neo-Nazi tack on the Capitol demonstrated the country’s history of racism. Homeland Security — of domestic activity in the uniformed services why this authority belongs in the A spokesman for the lead au- Floyd’s killing by a Minneapolis terror threats posed by antisemi- Come 2023, should Democrats and Federal law enforcement hands of D.C.’s mayor and not the thor, Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.), police officer set off massive pro- tism, neo-Nazi groups and white lose the handful of seats neces- agencies,” as the measure read. president.” did not respond to an inquiry tests in the spring of 2020, includ- supremacist ideologies, as well as sary to drive them into the minor- This has been a focus of Schnei- about the motivations for the ing in D.C., where the Trump groups on the far right such as the ity, it would complicate “the idea der’s since 2017, but attracted At the same time, not every amendment. OMB administers administration’s decision to sum- Proud Boys, which are now the of anything being portrayed as much broader interest in the af- amendment that could have cor- the entirety of the federal govern- mon large numbers of National subject of investigation by federal anti-Trump, especially if Trump termath of Jan. 6. rective effects on the government ment’s budget, an oftentimes ar- Guard personnel and federal law prosecutors and the House select comes out and says more formally firmament that came to a break- cane undertaking that has enforcement to the nation’s capi- that he’s running in 2024,” Reyn- Not a single House Republican ing point under Trump is present- prompted a wide spectrum of tal was met with objections from olds said. voted in favor of the venture. It ed as a direct clap-back to his calls for transparency and scruti- the mayor. was adopted into the House’s de- presidency. ny. The annual defense authoriza- tion bill often serves as a forum For example, the House ap- Ivana Trump died of ‘blunt impact injuries’ to torso, medical examiner says BY ADELA SULIMAN 64th Street home near Central JASON DECROW/ASSOCIATED PRESS by the passing of my mother. Mom York Attorney General Letitia AND SHAYNA JACOBS Park after police received an was brilliant, charming, passion- James (D) were postponed. Ivana Trump, the first wife of emergency call at 12:40 p.m., and Ivana Trump was found on a staircase at home in New York. Police ate and wickedly funny. She lived former president Donald Trump, she was pronounced dead at the found no sign of forced entry or obvious sign of trauma. life to the fullest. … I will miss her The depositions had originally died of “blunt impact injuries” to scene, according to two law en- forever.” Her siblings also shared been scheduled to take place dur- her torso, according to a report forcement officials with knowl- family photos online. ing a six-day window that began from the New York City chief med- edge of the event. New York police Friday. ical examiner Friday. The manner detectives began an investigation Ivana, who was born in the of death was classified as an acci- and found no sign of forced entry Czech Republic, married Donald “In light of the passing of Ivana dent, the report added. or obvious sign of trauma suggest- in 1977. They divorced in 1992. Trump yesterday, we received a The Trump family announced ing criminality. request from counsel for Donald that Ivana, 73, mother of Ivanka, In the 1980s, Donald and Ivana Trump and his children to ad- Eric and Donald Jr., had died at More than one in four Ameri- were one of the most famous pow- journ all three depositions, which home in Manhattan on Thursday. cans older than 65 fall each year, er couples in New York, frequently we have agreed to,” Delaney “I am very saddened to inform and falls are the leading cause of featured in the tabloids with a Kempner, a spokeswoman for the all of those that loved her, of which injury-related death among that social profile that seemed to grow New York attorney general’s of- there are many, that Ivana Trump age group, according to the Cen- at the same rate as the Trump fice, said. has passed away at her home in ters for Disease Control and Pre- business empire. Throughout New York City,” the former presi- vention. 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A12 EZ RE THE WASHINGTON POST . SUNDAY, JULY 17, 2022 A claim of sexual abuse, a suspicion of impunity ABUSE FROM A1 Sisters Servants of Mary, Com- and Djomo’s 25 years in Tshumbe all church figures are more re- reject. ARLETTE BASHIZI FOR THE WASHINGTON POST forter of the Afflicted — whose show just how far a bishop’s sponsive and accountable. Nuns “Money is playing a big role,” proliferate in new parts of the remaining members have fled powers can stretch. He operated and priests are required to report In the alleged rape in Tshum- world. For all the pope’s attempts rural Tshumbe and Djomo’s dio- in the middle of the vast Congo- accusations to higher-ranking re- said Prosper, whose group also is be, people supporting the girl say at reform, a bishop such as cese for Kinshasa, Congo’s capi- lese backcountry, leading a West ligious authorities. Dioceses are supporting the aspiring nun. they tried to alert others outside Djomo still has significant au- tal, where they pray and study in Virginia-size diocese with fleet- supposed to establish special of- “One day you have a case, and the the diocese. The girl’s uncle — thority in his diocese — and there a small concrete building in a ing electricity and scarcely a fices for receiving claims. Whis- next day you wake up and the the Rev. Alphonse Okongo — sent remains little recourse for those slum near the airport. paved road, one of the poorest tleblowers are to be protected. family is saying the case is over.” three letters in February and who disagree with his handling places in a nation still reeling One of the Congolese summit March 2022 to the Vatican am- of a claim. The girl says she feels recur- from a century of colonialist attendees, the Rev. Georges Ka- How a case is handled depends bassador to Congo and church ring stomach pain and panics plundering and despotic rule. lenga, led training workshops disproportionately on one fig- higher-ups in Rome. Ekumu, A Washington Post investiga- because she fears she’ll be pre- With the government absent in with the country’s bishops upon ure: the bishop. who founded the nuns’ associa- tion into the case — based on vented from becoming a nun much of the country, the church returning from Rome. tion, said she met in person in interviews and on a review of since she is not a virgin. functions as the de facto state. Because of the bishop’s place 2021 with one of the leaders of letters and emails sent to Djomo Djomo’s diocese teaches the stu- “The sin doesn’t have a color in the hierarchy, the church has the Vatican body that handles and other church officials — “She feels like she is no longer dents and funds the medical or a continent,” Kisangani Arch- struggled for years to construct abuse files, the Rev. John Joseph shows that the bishop failed to like the others,” said one of her clinic and even helps build roads. bishop Marcel Utembi, the presi- a system of checks and balances Kennedy, describing to him Djo- follow the Vatican’s guidelines. aunts, Marie Walo, 26. One nun, When Congolese President Félix dent of the Congolese conference that will boost the likelihood mo’s alleged coverup. The nuns, priests and the alleged Louise Ekoko, said the girl “lost Tshisekedi visited the region this of bishops, told The Post. “The that a prelate accused of a victim who pressed Djomo about the joy” that came naturally to year, he stayed at Djomo’s house, church cannot hide any cases.” coverup can be investigated and But the uncle, Okongo, says he the accusations say he orches- her before the alleged rape. She according to several familiar potentially disciplined. Francis’s never received a response. And trated a coverup that upended struggles to sleep and eat. with the trip. But there are reasons for con- attempt at a solution, drawn up Ekumu says she never received a the life of the victim, kept his cern. after the summit, calls on bish- follow-up despite sending emails own reputation intact and ab- The Vatican announced in On the issue of clerical abuse, ops to police one another: If a subsequently. Kennedy did not solved the alleged abuser within June that Francis had accepted much of the Vatican’s messaging Clerical abuse has proved to be bishop is accused of covering up respond to an email seeking the church’s own system. Djomo’s resignation. Bishops are has been aimed at bishops in widespread in country after abuse, a metropolitan bishop — comment. required to submit letters of regions like this. country, when someone looks for generally a figure heading an Some of those involved say resignation to the pope at age 75, it. And in much of Africa, few important urban archdiocese — Even the Congolese national Djomo demanded they stay qui- but the Vatican often extends When Francis convened a have been looking for it — not the can look into the case with the conference of bishops, where Ka- et. Those include the nun who their time. Djomo, who turned 78 first-of-its-kind summit on abuse government, not lawyers, not the backing of the Holy See. lenga has become the anti-abuse first informed him and, later, the on July 3, had been permitted to in 2019, it was born in part from media. Even the Vatican, which czar, says it has never heard alleged victim, who says he be- stay on for nearly three addition- the idea that the global church — doesn’t publish data on abuse Three years in, Bishop-Ac- about the 14-year-old girl’s case. seeched her in a one-on-one al years. not just in the United States and cases, has far from a full picture. countability.org, an independent Kalenga cited a “weakness in the meeting to forgive the priest, an Europe, but also in Africa and clearinghouse for abuse data, has system” — in which the investiga- encounter that made her feel The Vatican, as is its custom, Asia, where Catholicism is grow- “We do not know enough,” said found 28 instances in which this tion into an abuse case typically “sick.” did not provide an explanation ing — was at risk. Speakers tried the Rev. Hans Zollner, a German process has been used — with a amounts to a closed conversation for why the pope eventually ac- to puncture the theory, held by a priest who helped organize Fran- majority of the examples occur- between the relevant bishop and The girl’s uncle alleges that cepted Djomo’s resignation and minority of bishops, that abuse cis’s summit. ring in Poland, which has been the Vatican. after the family pressed ahead allowed him to retire. was just a Western problem. One convulsed by recent revelations with a court case, Djomo offered Indian cardinal said no church In much of sub-Saharan Afri- of clerical abuse. The clearing- “Each bishop is the boss of his him $15,000 — an enormous sum During his brief interview leader should believe that ca, the continent’s Catholic house found no such examples in area,” Kalenga said. “Unfortu- in a nation where most people with The Post, which occurred “things are different in my part stronghold, a taboo against dis- Africa. nately, it’s like that.” live on less than $2 a day — to hours after his resignation was of the world.” cussing abuse has a chilling ef- persuade his relatives to resolve announced, Djomo said the accu- fect on victims. Those who do The Post sent emails, in Eng- B efore the alleged rape and the matter. The uncle, a priest sations of a coverup were false, The new church rules that come forward must contend with lish and French, to 27 national- its aftermath, the nuns who worked for Djomo, said the and he accused the founder of Francis drew up merely modeled weak justice systems and corrup- level bishops conferences in Afri- lived in a simple convent bishop eliminated his job after the nuns’ association, Charlotte practices already well estab- tion. ca seeking data on abuse cases just minutes by car from the he refused. Ekumu, of fabricating a story. lished in countries seared by and asking whether any bishops bishop’s house. The Servants of scandal. But they were ground- Innocent Prosper, the execu- had been investigated or sanc- Mary made house visits to the Separately, when the nuns “I have documentation. You breaking in places like Congo. tive director of Lizadeel, a Con- tioned. Only the Burundi confer- elderly and sick, and many supported the girl, their founder have nothing,” he said. “Don’t golese nongovernmental organi- ence responded, saying that a taught in Tshumbe’s schools. says, Djomo retaliated by dis- trust Sister Charlotte. Trust the Those rules, the most substan- zation that works with victims of national-level office that was set banding their association. bishop.” tial effort by any pope to address sexual violence, said he knows of up to receive abuse claims had Sometime around 2019, a new the abuse crisis, have aimed to clerical abuse cases but they not received a single accusation priest was assigned to oversee After the girl’s family took the C atholic bishops are the gov- create a global system in which rarely go far, often being settled and that no bishop had been the nuns’ spiritual lives. case to police, Djomo did take at ernors of the church, an- with payoffs, which people in investigated. least one disciplinary measure, swering only to the pope, dire poverty find difficult to The Rev. André Olongo, a barring the accused priest, the priest with a brawny build, devel- Rev. André Olongo, from minis- try and from having unsuper- vised contact with minors. But that sanction, implemented eight months after the alleged rape, proved to be short-lived. This year, Djomo sent his find- ings on the case to the Vatican, after a diocese-run investigation that did not include an interview with the alleged victim. The Vati- can weeks ago determined there were insufficient grounds to show wrongdoing, Djomo said. “He has been acquitted. It was absolutely false,” Djomo said in a brief interview. Djomo cut short an initial conversation with The Post, say- ing he had to prepare for Mass, and declined further questions, referring them to the Vatican. He did not respond to a list of questions about his handling of the rape accusation. The Vatican said its Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith had “been able to deal with this case based on the evidence that was provided to it” and had deter- mined it could not “proceed any further.” “Should further, certain evi- dence be supplied by civil au- thorities, by the accusers, or by other witnesses, it would unfail- ingly be taken into due consider- ation,” the Vatican’s statement said. Olongo, the priest who was accused, declined to speak with Post reporters. Faustin Abedi, a lawyer who has helped to repre- sent Olongo during the case, said the priest says he is innocent. The Post does not publish the names of alleged victims of sex- ual violence. The girl, now 17, is an aspiring nun still living with the disbanded association — the PAUL HARING/CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: Members of the Sisters Servants of Mary, Comforter of the Afflicted, in Kinshasa, Congo, where they took refuge from their diocese in Tshumbe. The Rev. Georges Kalenga walks to his office after morning prayers at his church in Kinshasa in June. Bishop Nicolas Djomo, center front, with other Catholic prelates and a lay auditor at the Vatican for a 2014 synod on the family. ARLETTE BASHIZI FOR THE WASHINGTON POST

SUNDAY, JULY 17, 2022 . THE WASHINGTON POST EZ RE A13 “I don’t sleep when I think about this.” teenage aspiring nun who alleges that she was raped by a Catholic priest in her diocese in Congo PHOTOS BY ARLETTE BASHIZI FOR THE WASHINGTON POST jurisdiction was eventually transferred to Kinshasa. oped a reputation in the convent From that point, the case trav- and says Djomo made it orally. ate him,” one said. Olongo said of this case. for being aggressive and behav- eled on two tracks, one in the He says he immediately notified that “if anything happens — if I Boniface Okitapambi, the law- Olongo has filed a counter- ing inappropriately, according to slow gears of the Congolese jus- his siblings, including the al- see my name in the article — claim against the alleged victim, the nuns. Several nuns say he tice system and the other in the leged victim’s father, who con- you’ll be responsible.” yer representing the aspiring one family member and two began having consensual sex hands of the bishop. firmed that account. Two months nun of the Servants of Mary, said nuns, alleging that he is being with one member of their associ- later, when Djomo issued his The priests ushered the Post he has been involved in two cases defamed. ation and made unwanted passes Those familiar with the case priests their duties for the com- journalists toward the door. in the past several years in which at others. But to the extent that say Djomo took several steps to ing year, Okongo’s name was Tshumbe priests were accused of The court case has become those might have been warning weaken or dismiss the case on nowhere on the list — an effec- But two days later, one priest impregnating minors. In one more critical because the signs, Ekumu said it was difficult both tracks. He dissolved the tive job removal. The diocese staying at the compound made case, in which he defended the church’s own internal procedure to avoid a priest appointed and Servants of Mary, turning poten- stopped paying his salary. Okon- contact with The Post. He want- priest, the cleric was sentenced has effectively ended. trusted by the bishop. Sometimes tial witnesses into de facto nuns go described it as an act of ed to meet. to a period of house arrest, the 14-year-old girl was sent to in exile. In April 2020, Djomo retaliation. He has moved to Okitapambi said. The other case Several months ago, the al- run errands for Olongo. had called the association a “bea- Kinshasa, where he is unem- In that meeting, two Tshumbe is ongoing. leged victim’s uncle and father con of hope.” But in announcing ployed and sleeping at his young- priests said the diocese has dealt and a handful of nuns received The alleged victim says she the suspension in July 2021, he er sister’s house. in recent years with at least a Okitapambi said the case of letters from Djomo’s diocese ask- believes, in retrospect, that Olon- said the group was founded on half-dozen instances of alleged the aspiring nun has gained ing them to present themselves go was grooming her for abuse. “lies” and “duplicity” and was Djomo did not respond to a sexual abuse or misconduct by more traction than any other, in in person to provide their testi- involved with the practice of question about the alleged offer. priests. In at least three cases, the part because of the family’s per- mony. In one instance, she says, witchcraft. He accused Ekumu, priests said, Djomo moved to sistence. Olongo told her that all priests the founder, of spending “more M onths after the rape alle- discipline those who were ac- By that point — so long after take nuns as partners, implying than half the year” in the United gations against Olongo cused. (The Post obtained three Tadiongo said his family is the alleged rape — many of the that sexual relations were the States, where she has family, and came to light, he was decrees — from 2018, 2019 and Catholic but is willing to chal- people invited had moved else- norm. On a separate occasion, of “obstinate disobedience” to listed in a church document as 2020 — ordering the defrocking lenge the church as a way to where. Kinshasa is 600 miles she says, he fondled her breasts the bishop. holding a management position of priests facing abuse allega- preserve his daughter’s “career from Tshumbe. And they’d lost as she fetched some water. She in the diocese. But then the tions.) But in other cases, the and faith.” faith in Djomo to lead a fair says the pattern escalated on The nuns say the alleged vic- family took the case to court, and priests said, Djomo worked to investigation. Many of the nuns March 28, 2020, when he asked tim has convinced herself that Djomo instituted the sanction protect accused clerics from con- “We don’t care if the church is refused to participate. So did her into his room to make the the turmoil is her own fault. that prohibited him from minis- sequences. strong,” he said. Okongo, the uncle, who wrote to bed. She says Olongo lifted her, try and from unsupervised con- the bishop that the inquiry ap- dropped her on the bed and “I don’t sleep when I think tact with minors. “It depended on his personal I n Congo, justice can be hard peared “suspicious.” raped her. about this,” the girl said in an preference for the priest,” one of to come by. Okitapambi, who interview. With those prohibitions in them said. mostly handles divorces and The alleged victim, who does “He removed my clothes by place, Olongo retreated to Kin- property disputes, and says he not have a cellphone, was never force,” she said. Djomo is accused by the al- shasa, taking refuge in a com- Olongo was one of Djomo’s can’t afford his own car, has been contacted. leged victim’s family of trying to pound used by the diocese to favorites, the priests said, and “disappointed many times” by The alleged victim’s father, pay them to drop the court case. house clerics who are either was viewed by the bishop as a the Congolese system. The U.S. The Rev. Marcel Kilombo, the Michel Tadiongo, described his Okongo, the girl’s uncle, who studying in the capital or visit- potential successor. And he was Department of State, in its an- Tshumbe priest who was depu- daughter as a bright, shy girl who served as a priest under Djomo, ing. One recent afternoon, two among the protected ones, the nual human rights report, says tized by Djomo to lead the had gravitated to the idea of a said the bishop invited him to a Post reporters buzzed at the priests said. the Congolese judiciary is “cor- investigation, said the bishop religious life because she so ad- meeting in September 2021 at a compound entrance, announced rupt and subject to influence and delayed launching his own in- mired one of her teachers, a nun. church. Okongo says Djomo re- their identities, asked for Olongo The alleged victim’s uncle said intimidation.” Okitapambi says quiry because he was “waiting The family sent her off to the marked on the family’s difficult and were ushered into a central he knew of an earlier rape accu- relying on that system is his only for the justice process to con- association in 2019. It wasn’t financial situation and said he room. sation against Olongo because he choice. clude.” Kilombo said Djomo re- until months after the alleged could help to ameliorate it. had been transferred to the vil- versed course after the Vatican rape that she found the strength The priest appeared minutes lage of Djalo to replace him after “With all the ups and downs, applied pressure. Kilombo said to tell her parents, she says. “A way to buy silence,” Okongo later, shaking hands. But after that allegation. One of the priests it’s still better to try,” he said. he “could not blame” many of Tadiongo remembered thinking called it. the reporters explained the rea- who met with The Post said, the invitees for declining to that the family “couldn’t allow son for the visit, he broke off the independently of the uncle, that The family filed charges more testify, but some people did this to be hidden.” One family Djomo, Okongo says, offered conversation, saying he would he knew about the existence of than 18 months ago but has seen show up to speak. member, with legal training, him $15,000 — as much as the call his lawyer. Other priests that allegation. no resolution. The family is seek- helped Tadiongo take the case to priest, the family’s breadwinner, entered the room and threatened ing the arrest of Olongo and Kilombo said that on the basis police. (The alleged victim’s sur- would make in five years. to call the police. “It’s unthink- Abedi, the lawyer who has $40,000 in damages from the of the information he collected, name is different from that of her able you would come to humili- represented Olongo, said that he priest, as well as $70,000 from he was “personally convinced” uncle or her father.) Okongo says he rejected it: did not know of any earlier the diocese for “harm suffered.” that there had been a rape. “It’s dirty money.” accusations against the priest The sides have jostled over where and that he knew little about the case should be heard, and But he said it was up to Djomo Okongo does not have docu- Olongo’s life beyond the matter to compile the information and mentation of the alleged offer make a report to the Vatican. “The bishop is the only one who knows the content of the report and what he sent to Rome,” Kilombo said. Djomo referred questions about his handling of the case to the Vatican. The Post approached other priests in the diocese about the case. The Rev. Jules Omokonge, who has served as head of clergy in the diocese, said that after Rome’s decision of insufficient grounds to find wrongdoing, many clerics were “convinced that this case was a fake accusa- tion.” But Omokonge said that he had no proof to support such a belief and that it was “very difficult” for priests to get infor- mation on abuse cases in the diocese. Such cases, he said, were “handled by the bishop himself.” Priests say Djomo, during a recent visit to Kinshasa, went to the compound where Olongo was staying and notified the priests there of the Vatican’s finding. The news soon trickled out on WhatsApp groups — a setback so disappointing to the alleged vic- tim’s supporters that they decid- ed not to tell her. The announcement ended up being one of Djomo’s last moves as bishop of Tshumbe. Days later, he returned to his diocese and began his retirement. Olongo, meanwhile, no longer faces re- strictions; he can resume minis- try and have contact with mi- nors. “He is free now,” Djomo said in his brief conversation with The Post. “He can say Mass. I am so glad.” Caleb Kabanda in Kinshasa, Congo, contributed to this report. CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: The teenage aspiring nun who says she was raped by a parish priest is seen in June in a Kinshasa apartment she shares with other aspirants and nuns. Sister Henriette Okitanunga, 25, center, prepares to serve a lunch she will share with fellow nuns and aspirants at their residence in Kinshasa. The Rev. Alphonse Okongo, left, has breakfast at the nuns and aspirants’ home in Kinshasa with Boniface Okitapambi, the lawyer representing the alleged victim.

A14 EZ SU THE WASHINGTON POST . Dense Counter jets through clouds of gas Embedded young star and dust 2 light-years CARINA NEBULA aMvineadwgdnoiisfif tgeoadrltaexdy Light from a galaxy 13.1 Mirror images of billion years ago a single galaxy ocClfeugnsattrelaarlxryegion DEEP FIELD 100,000 l STEP NASA/GETTY IMAGES

SUNDAY, JULY 17, 2022 EZ SU A15 Mid-infrared view Near-infrared view h gas and dust Ionized gas and hot dust flowing up Edge on Star view of Rgaindsguasontfd distant galaxy Shock waves 0.25 light-years Foreground SOUTHERN RING NEBULA galaxy PHOTOS BY NASA Galaxy Two Take a cosmic tour inside Mspoirraeldgiasltaaxnyt the images captured by NASA’s Webb telescope light-years NASA/GETTY IMAGES BY JOEL ACHENBACH AND AARON STECKELBERG PHAN’S QUINTET bSmluaapsceskrivheole Foreground star NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, the biggest and most powerful space with “diffraction telescope ever built, is now roughly a million miles from Earth, pivoting from Galaxy One spikes” one patch of the heavens to the other as it studies the target-rich environ- ment that is our universe. The first handful of images were made public this Galaxies past week. Let’s take a closer look. Three and Four The Deep Field There are a lot of galaxies out there. This was the first image made public, Merging galaxies demonstrating the power of the telescope to pick up extraordinarily faint, Galaxy Five infrared light emitted within the first billion years of the universe. The image is centered on a galaxy cluster more than 4 billion light-years away, meaning its light was emitted roughly when the sun and Earth were formed. The galaxies in the cluster appear as creamy white blobs. These galaxies collectively create a powerful gravitational warp in space that acts as a lens, magnifying and distorting more distant objects. That results in funhouse-mirror galaxies like the one on the upper right of the image that NASA astronomer Jane Rigby refers to as the Laffy Taffy. In another part of the image, the lensing has turned a single galaxy into two mirror-image galaxies. The Webb team scanned dozens of the reddest — most distant — galaxies in this image, and determined that one of them — a tiny, pixelated blob — emitted its light about 13.1 billion years ago, just 700 million years after the big bang. Southern Ring Nebula Stars like our sun are nuclear fusion reactors that are remarkably stable over billions of years. But even they get old. This image shows what happens when a star dies. It’s shedding matter in its pulsing death throes. These clouds of gas and dust, including complex molecules, are the raw material for stars and planets not yet formed. NASA released two images, one in near-infrared (relatively close to the “visible” portion of the spectrum), and one in mid-infrared (farther along the spectrum). In the near-infrared, the material forms a ring of foamy gas and dust, with hot, ionized gas dominating the central region. Rays of light shoot through holes in the outer ring. Only one star is clearly visible at center. But this is a binary system — two stars, bound together by gravity. In the mid-infrared, we see both. The dying one is fainter. The telescope reveals that it is enveloped in dust. Our sun will look similar to this star in 5 billion years, explained Klaus Pontoppidan, Webb project scientist at the Space Telescope Science Institute. The image includes an intriguing slash on one shoulder that astronomers came to realize is a distant galaxy. Stephan’s Quintet The image has a whole lot of cosmos in it. There are stars from our own galaxy — meaning they’re in the foreground, cosmically speaking. Foreground stars in all the Webb images can be identified by their “diffraction spikes,” which are an artifact of the telescope’s design. The diffraction spikes on these images serve as something of a Webb telescope watermark. In the middle distance is what appears to be a quintet of galaxies. The one on the left is not part of the group but rather in the foreground, about 40 million light-years distant. The telescope can discern individual stars in the foreground galaxy. Many are aging “red giants” near the end of their lives. The other four galaxies are about 290 million light-years distant. Two are merging. The gravitational interactions of the galaxies have sent streams of star-forming gas and dust toward intergalactic space. Strikingly, this image, like the Deep Field, contains countless galaxies scattered across the background. Look closely and you will see lovely, very distant spiral galaxies not unlike our own Milky Way. Carina Nebula This nebula is a stellar nursery within our own galaxy. “What looks like a starry night sky is part of an immense bubble [that] has been carved from the cloud by the ultraviolet radiation and stellar winds from extremely massive, hot, young stars that have already formed,” said astronomer Amaya Moro-Martin of the Space Telescope Science Institute. Streams of ionized material are flowing toward the top of the frame. The Webb can see shock waves caused by newly ignited stars forming inside the cloud. Theirs is a hostile environment, for the same process that erodes away the cloud can halt star formation. About this story This annotation was compiled with the assistance of many scientists and researchers, including: Jane Rigby of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Joseph DePasquale and Amaya Moro-Martin of the Space Telescope Science Institute, and Garth Illingworth of the University of California at Santa Cruz. NASA/GETTY IMAGES

A16 EZ RE THE WASHINGTON POST . SUNDAY, JULY 17, 2022 New scrutiny of miscarriages, ectopic pregnancies endangers maternal health ABORTION FROM A1 two additional doctors to sign off KIM RAFF FOR THE WASHINGTON POST into preterm labor. In many cases, that a patient’s life is indeed in doctors terminate the pregnancy, even denied — jeopardizing ma- danger; other lawyers say no addi- ROBYN BECK/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES particularly if the patient devel- ternal health, according to the tional signature is needed. To pro- ops an infection. accounts of doctors in multiple tect herself from criminal pros- TOP: Aubrey Shumway of Provo, Utah, holds sonograms from her recent pregnancy. When the fetal states where new laws have gone ecution, Zeal’s colleague Elana heartbeat stopped, Shumway chose to have a surgery to remove the tissue. She said she wonders about A few days after Ohio’s abortion into effect. Wistrom turned to an emergency her options if a future pregnancy fails. ABOVE: Physician Franz Theard performs a sonogram on a ban took effect last month, Win- room physician who treated the patient seeking abortion care at the Women’s Reproductive Clinic in Santa Teresa, N.M., on June 15. chester, the maternal-fetal medi- While state abortion bans typi- patient and a radiologist who re- cine specialist, treated a patient cally carve out exceptions when a viewed the ultrasound showing high-risk pregnancies in Ohio. could contravene new laws. “Had I waited another day or whose water had broken at 19 woman’s life is endangered, the the rupture — a process that took “You don’t want to reach that “Right now, there are risks of slept through the night, I could weeks. The woman hoped to con- laws can be murky, prompting more than an hour. point, where things are that clear.” have bled out in my body and I tinue the pregnancy despite the some obstetricians to consult law- exaggeration and possibly even wouldn’t have known it,” said increased risks to her fetus and yers and hospital ethics commit- “It turned my attention away Lisa Harris, associate chair of misinformation from many differ- Hicks, a fourth-year medical stu- herself. But a day later, she spiked tees on decisions around routine from the bedside of the critical- obstetrics and gynecology at the ent quarters,” said Leslie Francis, dent who aspires to be a surgeon. a fever, and had an elevated heart care. care patient toward documenta- University of Michigan, said doc- a professor of law and an expert in rate and high white blood cell tion,” Wistrom said. tors are discussing creating a na- medical ethics at the University of With Roe overturned, she won- count — all signs of infection. “People are running scared,” tional registry of cases ranging Utah, who is concerned about a ders how that night would have Winchester checked with her law- said Mae Winchester, a specialist Ectopic pregnancies — when from ectopic pregnancy to cancer lack of data on the impact of the gone differently under more re- yer, then performed an abortion. in maternal-fetal medicine in the fetus implants outside the and heart disease in which “peo- new laws. strictive laws. Indiana lawmakers Ohio who, days after the state’s uterus, usually in one of the fallo- ple may not get what is currently are considering new restrictions “She was dying. It was very new restrictions went into effect, pian tubes and sometimes on the standard of care in counseling or Delaying treatment for an ecto- on abortion in a special session in black and white,” Winchester said. sought legal advice before she per- ovaries or in the cervix — don’t treatment.” pic pregnancy is so dangerous it late July. At least one legislator formed an abortion on a pregnant always show up on scans. They would amount to malpractice, has floated a total ban with no Although Ohio’s abortion ban woman with a uterine infection. can be terminated with an injec- Stories of dangerously delayed said Pamela Parker, an OB/GYN in exceptions to save the patient’s makes an exception to save a pa- “There’s a lot of unknowns still left tion of the drug methotrexate, care, promoted on Twitter and Texas’s Rio Grande Valley, who has life. Hicks worries that doctors tient’s life, Winchester considered out there.” which stops the cells from grow- other online forums, are often decided to practice in Arizona be- may not have been so quick to a pregnant woman she treated ing, or through surgery. If the hard to verify. And many of the cause of Texas’s restrictions and terminate her doomed pregnancy last year who had a malignant The need to intervene in a preg- procedure is delayed, the tube two dozen doctors interviewed by the overturning of Roe. if they had had to scrutinize tumor on her cervix that threat- nancy with the same medication may rupture, causing sudden and The Post about their experiences whether such care would violate ened her life, but not imminently. or surgical procedure used in elec- life-threatening blood loss. since the Supreme Court over- Rachel Hicks, 26, knows from the law. The woman had two children in tive abortions is not unusual. turned the right to abortion were personal experience and as a med- high school who begged her to Many state laws with new re- hesitant to describe details of in- ical student in Indianapolis how Then there are the complex but terminate the pregnancy and get As many as 30 percent of preg- strictions on abortion make ex- dividual cases for fear of running important swift action is. During not uncommon cases in which a treatment for the cancer. nancies end in miscarriage, the ceptions for ectopics, but uncer- afoul of lawyers and hospital ad- an April emergency room visit, patient’s water breaks early, put- spontaneous demise of a fetus, tainties can arise if a fetus im- ministrators, violating patient she discovered she had an ectopic ting the fetus — no longer sus- “They wanted her to see them commonly because of chromo- plants on Caesarean scar tissue on privacy or prompting a criminal pregnancy that had ruptured and tained by ample amniotic fluid — graduate,” said Winchester, who somal abnormalities. The meth- the uterus wall or if it cannot be investigation. was bleeding into her abdominal at risk of severe developmental performed an abortion on the ods of managing a miscarriage are located. cavity. Within two hours, she was problems and the mother at woman. “That’s something I don’t the same as for abortion, using a In the current political climate, in surgery to remove the fetal heightened risk of sepsis. Some of know if I would be allowed to do combination of drugs — mifepris- Patricia Nahn, another OB/ some physicians say antiabortion tissue and the fallopian tube those pregnancies result in live here in Ohio anymore.” tone and misoprostol — or a brief GYN in Zeal’s practice, said she colleagues are on the lookout for where the pregnancy had im- births; in others, the patient goes surgery known as dilation and recently had a patient displaying any decision that they believe planted. Ohio’s law makes exceptions for curettage, or D&C, to dilate the signs of an ectopic pregnancy, in- many conditions such as ruptured cervix and scrape tissue from the cluding abdominal pain. But be- membranes and preeclampsia. uterus. Left untreated, some mis- cause this was not a clear-cut case But others such as cancer are less carriages resolve naturally; others in which an ultrasound showed clear, according to Justin Lappen, lead to complications such as in- the fetus developing outside the head of maternal-fetal medicine fection or profuse bleeding. uterus, Nahn faced the potential at the Cleveland Clinic. of terminating a fetus that was in “It’s important for people to the uterus and violating Wiscon- “Not all patients with the same realize early pregnancy failure is sin’s abortion ban. conditions have the same risk,” common,” said Rashmi Kudesia, a Lappen said. fertility specialist in Houston. Instead of prescribing medica- tion to terminate the pregnancy in Major health systems like the Doctors in Texas — where since the safest manner, as she would Cleveland Clinic have been able to last September abortion has been have done before last month’s rul- harness resources quickly to ad- illegal after the detection of fetal ing, Nahn said, she was forced to vise doctors, Lappen said, unlike cardiac activity, around six weeks perform a riskier, invasive surgi- practitioners in private practices of pregnancy — report that phar- cal procedure to confirm the loca- or small, rural hospitals. macists have begun questioning tion of the ectopic pregnancy be- patients about miscarriage medi- fore ending it. Aubrey Shumway, who grew up cations, suspecting they may be in deeply conservative Utah, used instead for abortions. “If you had just waited and where an 18-week abortion ban is done nothing because you were in place while a state law banning “It is traumatizing to stand in a afraid, she could have died,” Nahn most abortions is challenged in pharmacy and have to tell them said. court, worries that treatment for publicly that you are having a miscarriages may change. miscarriage, that there is not a Antiabortion groups such as heartbeat,” Kudesia said. Live Action and LifeNews.com say The 35-year-old Provo resident that overturning Roe v. Wade does and her husband have been trying Carley Zeal, an OB/GYN in not stop doctors from treating to start a family since the summer southern Wisconsin and a fellow ectopic pregnancies or miscar- of 2019 and enlisted the help of a with Physicians for Reproductive riages. reproductive endocrinologist. In Health, said she recently treated a February, they were elated to find woman at risk of infection after a “Those procedures would re- out she was four weeks pregnant. miscarriage. Zeal said providers main legal and would not be con- But two weeks later, she experi- at another hospital had wrestled sidered abortion,” said Eric Schei- enced irregular bleeding. By the with what services they could per- dler, executive director of the non- ninth week, medical professionals form — with an 1849 law banning profit Pro-Life Action League. “No confirmed that the fetus had no almost all abortions back in effect physician can claim not to know heartbeat and she would miscarry. — and ultimately refused to re- that.” move the fetal tissue from the Shumway chose to remove the patient’s uterus. In South Carolina, where state fetal tissue via surgery. lawmakers are considering new “It really delayed her care,” Zeal restrictions on abortions in a July As she prepares to meet with said. “I saw her a week and a half special session, state Rep. John R. her fertility specialists again this later with an ongoing miscarriage McCravy III supports a ban with month, she feels uncertain of her and bleeding, increasing the risk no exceptions for rape or incest. options if another pregnancy fails. of severe bleeding as well as infec- But the Republican said that he She wonders if her doctors would tions.” favors exceptions to save the life of err on the side of caution and the mother and that concerns avoid procedures and medication Zeal gave the patient abortion about limiting care for ectopic also used for abortions. medication to expel the fetal tis- pregnancies and miscarriages are sue. overblown. “It concerns me greatly,” Shum- way said. “Regardless of how you Some doctors are feeling pres- “To use a word used often by the feel, this also affects people like sure to seek second opinions in left, it’s disinformation,” McCravy me who want to have children … their treatment of ectopic preg- said. “It’s never been a pro-life but want also to be safe, to be nancies, which account for be- tenet to constrain the doctors protected, to be cared for medi- tween 1 and 2 percent of pregnan- when it comes to medical emer- cally.” cies and are never viable. gencies.” Other women are planning Zeal said another physician in New abortion bans oversimpli- ahead in an effort to avoid situa- her practice contacted her the fy the reality of obstetric care, tions where they may be denied week after the Supreme Court de- physicians say, placing a binary on abortions. cision as she treated a patient with what is a continuous spectrum of a ruptured ectopic pregnancy. increasing risk. Pregnancy puts Kelly Walters, 37, who devel- “She knew exactly what she had to huge stress on a patient’s body, oped preeclampsia in two of her do because [the woman] was sometimes exacerbating existing four pregnancies, said she was so bleeding and was clearly going to health problems such as diabetes rattled by the abortion ban in die if nothing was done,” Zeal said. or hypertension until they be- Missouri, where she lives, that she “But she wasn’t sure what she come life-threatening. is now preparing to have a hyster- needed to document to be sure she ectomy. wouldn’t be charged with a felo- “With a patient with heart dis- ny.” ease, at what point in her preg- “I was told I absolutely can’t get nancy is she going to die?” said pregnant again,” said Walters, Some lawyers have advised David Hackney, a specialist in who has residual damage from physicians in her practice to get strokes caused by the preeclamp- sia. “I don’t think I could survive it.” (202) 730-9010

SUNDAY, JULY 17, 2022 . THE WASHINGTON POST EZ RE A17 For Democrats, winning back young voters is key DEMOCRATS FROM A1 issues. They’re tired of fundraising PHOTOS BY CORNELL WATSON FOR THE WASHINGTON POST emails from politicians they feel across the country, including in have let them down. CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: Jillian Brookshire, Megan Wagner, Jailyn Neville and Albaro Reyes-Martinez. All four are young North Carolina, where several con- Democrats at North Carolina colleges who have frustrations with their party, especially in the wake of Roe v. Wade being overturned. gressional and state midterm races “In the next four months, if there are expected to be competitive. In isn’t something substantive done senior at Meredith College and the knocking, nudging their class- draft opinion in May. She braced “What they are doing in Wash- order for Democrats to defy dire on the issues they care about, there College Democrats’ membership mates to register to vote, remind- herself for a right she’d known all ington is not working. People are electoral forecasts in November, is a real danger that young voters director. She’d gotten the same ap- ing them that the midterm elec- her life to vanish. She called for her heartbroken,” Neville said. strategists say, their base must vote will not vote or volunteer on cam- peal for cash and shared a tweet tions could bring big changes to university to cut ties with vendors with the fervor they showed in paigns to the same degree as they slamming it on Instagram: “Do not their backyards. supporting antiabortion mea- So Young and Neville poured 2020 — including the youngest did in 2020,” said David McLen- spend a single dollar trying to buy sures. She started brainstorming their energy into sketching up a Americans, who turned out in rec- nan, a political science professor back your bodily autonomy from A tougher crowd awaits this fall. safe locations for heartbroken stu- march route through campus. ord numbers overwhelmingly for and poll director at Meredith Col- people who sold it out from under A 2021 Washington Post-- dents to gather. Chatting at a Chapel Hill coffee President Biden. lege in Raleigh. “They are very you.” University of Maryland poll found shop, both criticized Biden for tak- unhappy with the ability of Demo- that 54 percent of 18-to-29-year- “I felt like I was planning for this ing two weeks to release an execu- At stake here in North Carolina crats to get stuff done.” There was Albaro Reyes- olds said they were not proud of the more than the federal government tive order in response to five dec- is access to abortion. The state has Martinez, 21, a senior at the Univer- way democracy works in America, was,” said Young, a 20-year-old ades of precedent evaporating. become a destination for patients Democrats have found some sity of North Carolina at Greens- the only age group with a majority senior at UNC-Chapel Hill. seeking the procedure from its success in races for state govern- boro and president of the College expressing that sentiment. “But really, the executive order southeastern neighbors under ment in North Carolina but have Democrats of North Carolina, who Young, an activist focused on was eight weeks late,” Young said, tighter restrictions, according to floundered more in federal con- chimed in: “Keep your money.” In about half of states where lifting minority voices, began orga- starting her clock with the leaked Planned Parenthood. Republicans tests. They haven’t won a Senate or reliable data is available, mean- nizing a rally for those grieving the opinion. “You knew this was com- need to gain five General Assembly presidential race in this state since The trio knew that lawmakers while, researchers at Tufts Univer- Supreme Court decision minutes ing. No wonder people are politi- seats to reach the majorities re- 2008, when Barack Obama was fundraise during emotionally sity flagged that the number of after word broke. She swapped cally disillusioned.” quired to override Democratic Gov. the clear preference of young vot- charged moments. They knew 18-to-24-year-olds who were regis- texts with her classmate, 21-year- Roy Cooper’s veto of antiabortion ers across the country, inspiring Washington gridlock was a great tered to vote in June is lagging old Jailyn Neville, a student gov- Neither wanted Biden to run measures. many to cast ballots with a zeal the staller of dreams. They were just behind the 2018 pace, especially for ernment adviser who already had a again in 2024, even if they weren’t party has since been unable to sick of it. They’d rather see Pelosi freshly eligible ballot casters. name in mind: Redirect the rage. sure who might have a better shot But Biden’s popularity with the replicate. guiding donors to an abortion at the White House. Neither knew under-30 crowd has declined since fund, for example. “It gets harder when we keep Now the event was 11 days away, what to do about the growing di- he took office, unnerving cam- Some political analysts predict- winning elections and nothing is and the young women were hoping vide between young Democrats paigns who see presidential ap- ed the fall of Roe v. Wade would And if they felt this way, what happening. Not everyone’s going to nail down a speaking appear- and Washington. proval ratings as a gauge of how unleash a burst of civic enthusiasm were the less-committed voters go- to be like: ‘Okay, yeah, let’s go vote ance with a congressional con- elections will shake out. A New among the country’s youth, who, ing through? for them again,’ ” Reyes-Martinez tender. They sought to give class- “There’s this feeling of mass York Times/Siena College survey according to a recent Monmouth said. mates a reason to not give up: helplessness,” Neville said. “Mass found that a mere 1 percent of poll, disagreed with the decision The group planned to channel Their November votes could mean uselessness.” 18-to-29-year-olds “strongly ap- more than any other age group. their distress into backing state Redirect the rage the difference between students Emily Guskin contributed to this prove” of the president’s job per- Assembly and congressional can- Rayna Young read the leaked being able to get an abortion or not. report. formance. In interviews with The Wash- didates: phone-banking, door- ington Post, however, 10 college Midterms draw fewer voters Democrats in North Carolina de- than presidential races and fre- scribed a mixed impact: yes, more quently come down to which side of their peers are ready to fight can persuade their core voters to back — but more are furious with show up. That’s an especially heavy the Democrats. lift for the party of a first-term president, history shows, made “The disillusionment starts at heavier now by the weight of rising the top. If people keep being out of inflation and crime that Republi- touch on a national level, it is going cans expect will motivate droves to to hurt us in local elections,” said turn out for the GOP. Megan Wagner, president of the Young Democrats at the University Some fierce contests are unfold- of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. ing near North Carolina’s Research Triangle, where roughly 176,000 Keep your money students attend a cluster of higher The Pelosi email arrived while learning institutions. Young Dem- ocrats are trying to steer attention Brookshire was buckled into the away from the national standard back seat of her grandparents’ van. bearers lambasted on social media Had she been home, the Raleigh to local needs and consequences. native imagined she would have flung her phone onto the ground. “It’s a challenge because all around us are angry people who “It made me so mad,” she said, are tired of politics,” Brookshire recalling her reaction. “For years, said. Democrats have campaigned on codifying Roe. Then it’s over- They’re angry the Democrat-led turned. 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A18 EZ RE THE WASHINGTON POST . SUNDAY, JULY 17, 2022 E steban Sinisterra Paz the world was 5 years old when armed men told his PHOTOS BY CHARLIE CORDERO FOR THE WASHINGTON POST family’s displacement in 2004. family — and every- “People from small towns want one else in their small, Young designer predominantly Afro- makes a colorful to show our cultural expressions Colombian town of Santa Bárbara mark dressing in bigger cities like Buenaventura de Iscuandé — that they had to incoming leader and Cali,” he said, two cities where leave. Anyone who stayed behind, he has lived. “In my case, I wanted they warned, would be killed. Sinisterra and woman who will be Colombia’s to show it once I realized, after first Black vice president express their heritage being discriminated against, that Sinisterra, his parents and I was a Black man. In my home- three sisters jumped into a boat BY DIANA DURÁN IN BOGOTÁ, COLOMBIA town, I wasn’t aware I was a Black and traveled down the Iscuandé man — I was just a regular guy.” River. It carried them to a safe resist and come to power.” to have a chance,” Rojas said. A refuge: The home of his grand- Márquez’s sartorial transfor- large part of the population there In Santa Bárbara de Iscuandé, a mother, a seamstress. The place is Black. Many recommended Sin- cluster of wooden shacks with where, for the first time, he saw mation took work. isterra, whom Márquez already zinc roofs, everyone was Black. the magic of fabric being turned “It was not easy to convince her knew. And almost everyone was poor. into something more. to give up jeans,” Rojas said. When “Within our community, she They didn’t know the armed He grew up helping his aunt Márquez started the campaign as has always been a leader, an inspi- men who forced them to flee, but sew dresses, and his grandmother a presidential candidate, she ration,” Sinisterra said. “I had al- they knew to heed their warning. make blankets with the fragments didn’t want to wear two-piece ready manufactured garments for By then, records show, illegal coca his aunt no longer needed. When suits. They agreed: They wanted her.” crops had begun to fill the fields of he was 14, he started dreaming of color. Nariño, their department on the founding a fashion line. Sinisterra began working with border with Ecuador. Massacres, “I wanted designers from the African-inspired prints after his killings and displacements have Now 23, he’s the personal de- southwestern part of the country become common as paramilitary signer for the woman who will and guerrilla groups fight for ter- become Colombia’s first Black ritory. vice president. Francia Márquez, a housekeeper turned environ- Sinisterra launched his fashion mental activist and lawyer, will line, Esteban African, to pay for take office alongside President- food and other needs. His parents elect Gustavo Petro in August. lacked professional training. They bought and sold items to Throughout the campaign and support their four children, but since the election, Márquez has money was scarce. Sinisterra and used her growing prominence to his cousins would gather bottles mainstream her Afro-Colombian of the Colombian liquor aguardi- heritage. In this, Sinisterra is her ente — “burning water” — to sell partner. The vice president-elect, for change. working with Sinisterra and fash- ion consultant Diana Rojas, has Sinisterra thought he could drawn notice for the bright colors make a living from fashion. Ini- and intricate patterns that are tially, men’s fashion. unusual for the political arena here, where few Black politicians His father was not keen on the have reached national office and idea: Needlework is meant for few female politicians wear cloth- women, he said. So, Sinisterra ing beyond traditional profes- signed up for social work. He sional attire. wanted peace with his father. He aimed to become the first in his “Márquez’s wardrobe has been family to attend university. a vehicle for sharing her origin and culture,” said Mona Herbe, a Sinisterra has juggled his un- visual artist in Bogotá. “In her dergrad studies and his fashion speeches, she has mentioned with line. He has one semester left clarity problems her people have before he graduates as a social been subjected to, like racism, worker who happens to also be a marginalization, injustice and designer, with a small workshop precariousness. But, with her in his family’s home in a working- clothes, she sends messages of the class neighborhood on Cali’s east beauty, complexity and richness side. That’s where he keeps his of her ancestors.” fabric, two knitting machines, an ironing table — and the bright, Márquez, who before the cam- colorful handmade pieces ready paign was a jeans-and-shirt kind to be delivered. of person, described a 2019 trip she took to Senegal’s Gorée Is- Fabrics with African prints are land, a port from which enslaved Sinisterra’s raw material. “I find Africans were shipped to the that the most pretty and represen- Americas. tative fabric is the Kente print, which pays homage to Ghana’s “You see people wearing color- women picking up the fruits the ful clothes all the time,” she told land gives,” he said. “It is a bit The Washington Post before the similar to the baskets made by election. “The drawings on the women in the Pacific to gather up fabrics have many meanings. So, whatever the ocean provides.” for me, to represent this in a political campaign is to also talk He has mostly created suits of of the language of memory, which multiple pieces so that Márquez has been deleted from us, denied can mix and match them in differ- to us. I dress the way I do on ent combinations, creating the purpose.” illusion of a different outfit every day. “I’m a poor woman,” Márquez And there’s the potential has said repeatedly. benefit of helping her connect with Colombia’s substantial Afro- Africa and the Colombian Pa- Caribbean community — official- cific heritage are on every skirt, ly 6.2 percent of the population, top or jacket. but believed to be larger. Sinisterra says Márquez has re- Márquez was also courting ceived donations of fabric but has controversy — again. She spent paid for every finished piece. He the campaign discussing her won’t reveal how much. “She is Blackness and calling out Colom- my sister. We decided to support bia’s racism. That’s disruptive talk her political aspiration,” Sinister- in a country that for generations ra said. “It’s something that goes identified its people as sharing a beyond economic issues. We have single mixed race, called Mestizo, to stick up for each other.” even as Afro-Colombian and In- digenous communities faced dis- The work has gained attention proportionate rates of poverty, for Sinisterra’s business. He says violence and displacement. he’s been contacted by other poli- ticians, artists and scholars. He “The problem people have with didn’t give details. Francia is that she is a Black woman who does not behave well, He has been invited to the inau- who knows she is Black, and guration Aug. 7. knows what that means in histori- cal terms,” anthropologist Eduar- “The day she will take office I’d do Restrepo said. like to see Francia making all the people that are behind her, and Márquez and Sinisterra share have invested time and effort in much in common. Both are Afro- this collective, beautiful and Colombians from the country’s meaningful project, feel proud,” Pacific coast; both are among the he said. “I hope she makes all the roughly 8 million people who children who sometimes believe were forcibly displaced during Black people have no opportunity Colombia’s bloody, decades-long to hold such positions, proud.” conflict. In her campaign speech- es, Márquez often spoke directly He also wants to see which to the “nobodies” — the poor, the outfit Márquez has selected of the excluded, the Indigenous, the three he has sent her. Afro-Colombian. He still doesn’t know what he’ll “I’m a nobody, too,” Sinisterra wear. said. “But we have risen up to TOP: Esteban Sinisterra Paz, 23, in his Cali studio. He and Vice President-elect Francia Márquez are Afro-Colombians from the country’s Pacific coast. LEFT: Sinisterra’s materials. DIGEST UNITED KINGDOM healthy people, the U.K. Met the likelihood of exceptional heat close to the border with Ethiopia, violence around Haiti’s capital, victims “were not directly Office, the country’s weather waves in Britain, a country after several days of tribal Port-au-Prince, saying 99 people involved in gangs” but were Britons brace for service, said Friday. The British unaccustomed to such clashes in which they said 31 have been reported killed in targeted by them. 100-plus-degree heat heat record is 38.7C (101.7F), set temperatures. Few homes, people were killed. The regional recent fighting between rival Rebels suspend talks with Chad in 2019. apartments, schools or small government said 39 people had gangs in the Cite Soleil district government: Rebels in Chad The British government held businesses in the country have been wounded, 16 shops alone. “We have so far said they will suspend their an emergency response meeting Rail passengers and users of air conditioning. Britain usually destroyed, and a night curfew documented, from January to participation in talks with the Saturday to plan for record high the London Underground has moderate summer declared in the towns of the end of June, 934 killings, 684 government, raising doubt about temperatures in coming days subway system were being temperatures. Across the U.K., Damazin and Roseires. But three injuries and 680 kidnappings their involvement in a national after weather authorities issued advised not to travel on Monday average July temperatures range local residents told Reuters that across the capital,” said Jeremy dialogue in August meant to be a their first-ever “red” warning for and Tuesday unless absolutely from a daily high of 21C (70F) to clashes were continuing on Laurence, spokesperson for the precursor to long-awaited extreme heat. necessary. With children and a low of 12C (53F). Saturday in several locations and U.N.’s Office of the High elections. The peace-building older people considered that state security forces were Commissioner for Human talks in Qatar were meant to ease The alert covers large parts of particularly vulnerable to high — Associated Press not deployed there. Rights. He added: “Over a five- tensions after interim president England on Monday and temperatures, schools and Sudan declares curfew amid U.N. expresses concern over day period, from 8-12 July, at Mahamat Idriss Déby seized Tuesday, when temperatures nursing homes have been urged tribal clashes: Sudanese deadly violence in Haiti: The least 234 more people were power following his father’s may reach 40 degrees Celsius to take steps to protect students authorities have declared an U.N. human rights office killed or injured in gang-related death last year. (104 Fahrenheit) for the first and older residents. overnight curfew in two towns in expressed concern about rising violence in the Cite Soleil area of time, posing a risk of serious southeastern Blue Nile state, the city.” He said most of the — From news services illness and even death among The alert comes as scientists say climate change is increasing

SUNDAY, JULY 17, 2022 . THE WASHINGTON POST EZ RE A19 Air of corruption wafts over Iran’s anti-graft leader Multiple scandals and asking that $735 million be OFFICE OF THE IRANIAN SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT/ASSOCIATED PRESS have ensnared allies transferred to the private compa- of the new president ny. The ruins of the 10-story Metropol building, which collapsed May 23 in Abadan, southwestern Iran. The case has come to symbolize official wrongdoing. Reports emerged that construction of the building had proceeded despite warnings from supervising engineers. BY BABAK DEHGHANPISHEH The head of the department A luxury-building collapse, a that had arranged the deal was Enraged crowds held protests has no foundation and it will become a symbol of a deeper rot, that appear once and are dealt grain-import swindle, an incom- ousted in late June, according to for several days in Abadan, collapse,” Hafezi said. prominent lawyer Saleh Nik- with,” he said. “It’s not the first petent minister accused of nepo- state media. chanting slogans against local bakht said in a telephone inter- time or the last time that some- tism — a string of cases linked to authorities and the central gov- The blame for the Metropol view from Tehran. thing like this has happened. This government corruption has cast a “I hope the government realiz- ernment, while security forces collapse and other recent scan- could happen in any city or any grim light on the year-old presi- es that what happened in the retaliated with tear gas and ar- dals has fallen on Raisi’s govern- “In the Islamic republic, these province.” dency of Iran’s Ebrahim Raisi, a Agriculture Ministry isn’t only rests. The official death toll in the ment, but they have for many types of issues aren’t something hard-line judge who came to economic corruption but an ac- building collapse was 43, accord- Again! power promising to clean up the tion against the food security of ing to the semiofficial Iranian Never Paint system. the country,” a Twitter user Students News Agency, but locals The cases — some involving named Hassan Sadeghinejad claimed that many more people Our siding products resist extreme climate conditions, government ministries or impli- said in a post last month. were still buried under the rub- including high temperatures, humidity, rain, hail, snow, cating high officials — have ble. stoked popular anger at a mo- That controversy followed a and even hurricanes. ment when Iranians are reeling shake-up at the Ministry of Co- Among the dead was the politi- from rising prices and an eco- operatives, Labor and Social Wel- cally connected owner of the NO payments nomic downturn, conditions fare in mid-June. For months, building, Hossein Abdolbaghi, of- and 0% interest caused by a combination of West- critics had been accusing Co- ficials said, although, in a meas- for 18 months ern sanctions, an accelerating operatives Minister Hojatollah ure of the deep distrust of the global economic crisis and the Abdolmaleki of hiring friends government, many Iranians took Payments as low as $159 monthly. government’s removal of subsi- and family members to work at to social media to accuse authori- With approved credit based on dies on basic goods. the agency, a charge he denied, ties of faking his death as a way to 1000 square feet. “Mister President, does this according to state media. Abdol- avoid arresting him. State media Offer valid 30 days following corruption with this large vol- maleki was also accused of not has since reported that 14 people date of written price quote ume eventually have an end point doing enough to address protests associated with the building have given prior to 7/31/22. or no?” Seyed Morteza Hosseini, a by teachers, retirees, bus drivers been arrested, including the serv- member of parliament, said two and laborers who have been hit ing mayor and at least two former $2,500 off weeks ago, referring to recent hard by the country’s dismal mayors, along with engineers su- accusations that a private compa- economic situation. pervising the project. a whole house ny with an Agriculture Ministry of siding contract to import wheat and On June 13, Abdolmaleki re- On July 8, two well-known film barley never delivered the goods, signed, tweeting that he had directors, Mohammad Rasoulof *Terms and Conditions Apply. despite being paid. stepped down to increase “coor- and Mostafa Aleahmad, were ar- See Ameritech for details. The allegations have been es- dination” in the government. He rested for “creating insecurity” pecially embarrassing for Raisi, was the first minister to resign after the Metropol collapse, ac- Minimum purchase of 1000 square feet. who campaigned last year on an since Raisi took office in August. cording to state media. The two anti-corruption platform in an were among dozens of filmmak- Call Today election in which most of the In a parliament session in May, ers who signed an open letter for Free competition was sidelined and lawmaker Seyed Naser Mousavi asking security forces to lay down Estimate less than half of the electorate Laregani said that Abdolmaleki their weapons rather than attack voted. 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Khodaian, the head of the Gener- Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatol- al Inspection Organization, a Crowds of anguished friends lah Ali Khamenei, issued a state- government watchdog, said dur- and relatives gathered at the site ment of condolence in the col- ing a judiciary meeting in late seeking news of their loved ones, lapse — but not until three days June, according to Mizan, the only to discover that the local afterward, fueling a perception judiciary’s news site. emergency services had barely that the country’s leaders are out He said ministry officials started rescue work. Civilians of touch. wrote a letter to the Central Bank clawed through the rubble with claiming that the importation of bare hands and rudimentary The problems with the the goods had been completed tools in search of survivors. Metropol building were hardly a secret while it was being built. 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A20 EZ SU THE WASHINGTON POST . SUNDAY, JULY 17, 2022 Biden extols vision of expanded U.S. role in Middle East BIDEN FROM A1 EVAN VUCCI/ASSOCIATED PRESS already in motion or incremental. Post contributing columnist Ja- had conducted its own investiga- EVELYN HOCKSTEIN/REUTERS For Mohammed, who grinned mal Khashoggi. tion into Khashoggi’s killing and that the perpetrators had been TOP: President Biden participates in a working session with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin widely as he chaired the leaders’ Still, the trip to Saudi Arabia so arrested. Salman at the Al Salman Royal Palace in Jiddah on Friday. BOTTOM: Mohammed attends a summit on summit, Biden’s trip delivered far has been marked by the figura- Saturday. Mohammed leads an oil-rich country that Biden sees as vital to lowering gas prices. what he desperately wanted: a full tive chess match and literal fist “We had an investigation. Peo- welcome back to the world stage. bump between the two leaders. ple were put on trial. They were ber and extremely concerned for row,” it added. Biden also was aware of the arrest For Biden, meanwhile, it could be U.S. intelligence officials say Mo- convicted, it went to appeal. The his health and physical security DAWN said Ghafoor was arrest- but declined to specify whether weeks or months to see whether hammed orchestrated Khashog- decision went to the Supreme given the well-documented record the president had raised the issue the renewed ties with Saudi Ara- gi’s killing, and Biden had said Court and it was affirmed. And we of abuse in the UAE, including ed in connection with a money- in his meeting Saturday. bia will fulfill his domestic objec- Saudi Arabia’s government should have individuals who are paying torture and inhuman treatment,” laundering case while calling it tives and outweigh the fierce be a pariah. But Mohammed leads the price in jail. This is what every Sarah Leah Whitson, executive di- “politically motivated.” The Abu But during their meeting, blowback he faced for taking the an oil-rich country that the ad- civilized country does,” he said. rector of DAWN, said in a state- Dhabi government media office Biden did invite the UAE leader to trip. ministration sees as vital to stabi- “We took responsibility for it as a ment Friday. did not immediately reply to ques- visit the United States. lizing the region and lowering gas country.” tions about the nature of the In more than four hours of prices, and so Biden reluctantly “We urge the Biden administra- charges against Ghafoor. “Challenges you face today only meetings, Biden tried to cover a lot agreed to meet with him. Biden’s interactions with Mo- tion to secure the release of an make it a heck of a lot more impor- of ground: extending the Yemeni hammed on Sunday were more arbitrarily detained American A State Department official said tant we spend time together,” cease-fire; increasing regional All told, he spent three hours abbreviated. Before heading into a lawyer before agreeing to meet that the United States was aware Biden said. food security; addressing the rip- with the crown prince, participat- meeting of the full coalition, the with the UAE’s leader [Moham- of Ghafoor’s arrest and that con- Sarah Dadouch in Beirut contributed ples of the Russian invasion of ing in a bilateral meeting, and leaders posed for a group photo, a med bin Zayed] in Jiddah tomor- sular officers have visited him. A to this report. Ukraine on energy markets; im- shaking hands with an array of tradition at multilateral gather- senior administration official said plementing stronger protections Saudi officials. At the end of the ings. Mohammed, the host of the for human rights in the region; night, Biden said he took a hard day’s events, escorted Biden in, and addressing the threat of an line on human rights despite the and after the photo, the crown Iran feared to be seeking nuclear apparent show of comity. Saudi prince led Biden into the meeting weapons. officials later described an ex- room, chatting as they walked a change that was much less con- few feet ahead of the other leaders. To that end, Biden announced frontational than the president’s $1 billion for food security assis- description. Yet Biden’s meetings with Mo- tance for the Middle East and hammed were not the only ones North Africa, regions that face The fist bump, which was cap- shadowed by concerns about hu- acute hunger in part because of tured by Saudi state media and man rights. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, one quickly disseminated around the of the world’s top exporters of world, became a powerful symbol Before the president’s meeting wheat before the war. Advisers and a lightning rod for Biden. The with the leader of the United Arab said the president stressed to his president, who has made clear his Emirates, the country arrested counterparts that he hoped their discomfort over the one-on-one Asim Ghafoor, an American citi- countries would be partners for meeting, was accused of bestow- zen who previously served as a decades and focused conversa- ing legitimacy on the Saudi gov- lawyer for Khashoggi. tions on diplomacy and deter- ernment, which has a long track rence to avoid future conflicts, record of violating human rights. Ghafoor is a board member of noting that he was the first U.S. Democracy for the Arab World president to visit the Middle East In a meeting with reporters Fri- Now, which was founded by since Sept. 11, 2001, without Amer- day night, Adel al-Jubeir, a Saudi Khashoggi, and it issued a state- ican troops being involved in a diplomat and former foreign min- ment that the arrest was based on major ground war in the region. ister, said the crown prince had “trumped up” charges. assured Biden that Saudi Arabia As gas prices have risen sharply “We are outraged at the unjusti- in recent months, Biden has faced fied detention of our board mem- immense domestic political pres- sure to do something to lower them at the pump — and aides have hoped the president’s trip would lead to Saudi leaders’ in- creasing production and bringing oil costs down. There were no such announce- ments during the trip, however, although Biden said Friday that “based on our discussions today, I expect we’ll see further steps in the coming weeks.” Getting the diverse group of Middle Eastern leaders to buy into his blueprint is vital for the admin- istration. If the United States doesn’t try to exert influence, Biden and his aides have said re- peatedly, China and Russia will rush in — and shape the future of the region. “The bottom line is: This trip is about once again positioning America in this region for the fu- ture,” Biden said in a speech late Friday. Biden’s trip comes as he is limp- ing at home. His approval ratings have plummeted, his domestic agenda remains hobbled, and members of his own party have asked whether he should seek a second term. The struggles at home also raise questions about whether he will be able to see any of his promises made in the region through to completion. 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SUNDAY, JULY 17, 2022 . THE WASHINGTON POST EZ M2 A21 Outcry over U.S. visa delays after Kenyan sprinter nearly misses race BY KARINA TSUI, TONY KARUMBA/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES and he said that officials had yet some taking the conspiratorial RAEL OMBUOR, to provide him an explanation line that the United States was ADAM KILGORE ABOVE: Kenyan athlete Ferdinand Omanyala, one of the fastest sprinters of all time, trains in Nairobi for the delay. As far as he knew, “deliberately” withholding the AND CLAIRE PARKER on June 30. Because of visa problems, Omanyala arrived in Eugene, Ore., from Kenya’s capital mere Omanyala said, he had provided athletes’ visas, fearing that they Ferdinand Omanyala, 26, hours before he was to compete in the World Athletic Championships. BELOW: Omanyala competes all necessary information. would defeat their American known as Africa’s fastest man, Friday. He posted a time that, while not his best, was good enough to advance him to the semifinals. competitors. Others, including feared he would not be able to But the sprinter had already students, complained about the compete in this month’s World Visa records are confidential CARMEN MANDATO/GETTY IMAGES in Omanyala’s visa, Kenyan me- started to move on. He planned uphill battle they face to enter Athletics Championships in Eu- by law, Andrew Veveiros, a dia reported. to fly to Birmingham, England, the United States, without the gene, Ore. — the most significant spokesman for the U.S. Embassy details of individual visa cases.” for another meet straight from fame of star athletes to help them event in his sport after the Olym- in Nairobi, wrote in a WhatsApp In this case, U.S. authorities George Kinoti, director of the Oregon. advocate for faster processing. pics. message to The Post on Saturday, office, told local reporters Friday The African record holder “therefore we cannot discuss the may not be at fault. Kenya’s that a government ministry had “I hope this time,” Omanyala In 2020, in light of the corona- from Kenya, one of the fastest Directorate of Criminal Investi- asked him to investigate allega- said, “I get there early.” virus pandemic, the State De- sprinters of all time, was sup- gations launched a probe into the tions of bribery and inclusion of partment announced suspen- posed to fly to the United States circumstances behind the delay non-officials — so-called “joyrid- Omanyala’s close call touched sions for all routine visa services on Monday, giving him five days ers” — on the list of travelers for a nerve across the continent, in most countries around the to settle in before his first the trip. Officials from that min- where residents hoping to travel world — a move that has affected 100-meter race. But with barely a istry’s department of sports re- to the United States often face hundreds of thousands of people day left to make the Friday jected the claims, news site Na- difficulties. Athletes from Kenya seeking refugee status and non- evening start, he had yet to tion.Africa reported. and across Africa have long faced immigrant visas. receive a U.S. visa, without which trouble getting U.S. visas in a he would be barred from a com- Kenyan sports officials said timely fashion, and Omanyala’s While the website of the U.S. petition that could cement his Omanyala had failed to disclose problems drew widespread at- Embassy in Nairobi says that visa legacy. some information on his visa tention in Kenya, where thou- applications have resumed, offi- The document arrived a day application, which contributed sands often face far slower time- cials note that they “are faced before the race, and he got in to the delay. lines for visas than athletes do. with a significant backlog of with only a few hours to spare, cases resulting from closures due set to compete with runners who Omanyala’s manager, Marcel African athletes were given the to COVID-19” and that “all appli- had not just stepped off a plane. Viljoen, told The Post he doubts option to fast-track their visa cants should expect delays.” Omanyala told The Washing- that explanation. applications, but delays have ton Post he applied for a visa with been significant — some roughly According to the State Depart- the rest of the Kenyan team July “As far as I know the whole six to eight months, Viljoen told ment’s Bureau of Consular Af- 7. The majority of his teammates team went to the embassy at the The Post on Friday. World Athlet- fairs, the average wait time for a received visas the next day, same time. Ferdinand is accus- ics and the organizing committee U.S. visitor visa appointment in Omanyala said. His never tomed to the process and defi- for the event in Oregon worked Nairobi is 687 days — more than showed up, for reasons that re- nitely knows the implications of with participants around the 3.5 times the average wait time mained unclear to him. He fault- leaving out information. So I world to help resolve visa issues, for a U.S. traveler visa in London. ed the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi doubt it,” he wrote in a WhatsApp but 20 athletes or officials had The website also notes it takes for the unexplained delay. message. their applications refused, ac- roughly 665 days to get an ap- “It’s really disappointing, and I cording to a statement sent to pointment to process a U.S. stu- hope they do better next time,” After he failed to reach the The Post. dent visa. Omanyala said. “I know they are final on Saturday, Omanyala said hosting the Olympics in 2028, so that he had not been told about A Nigerian sports official, In a statement sent to The I really hope they learn from this the assertion that he had submit- speaking to the Guardian, said Post, State Department spokes- and do much better next time.” ted an incomplete application, that some Nigerian athletes have man Ned Price said visas are When Omanyala woke up had to pull out of competitions at handled on a case-by-case basis. Thursday morning, “I had al- the last minute because of visa ready given up coming here,” he problems. He said that despite Dennis Kiogora, a founder of said. “I was supposed to run on paying visa fees in April, some the Kenya Airlift Program, an Friday. God works miracles.” athletes were given consular ap- initiative connecting postgradu- After the visa finally arrived pointments for dates in March ate students from Kenya to uni- Thursday, Omanyala boarded a 2024. versities across the United five-hour flight from Nairobi to States, said most students in his Doha at 6 p.m. He flew 14 hours “Before the American govern- program could not secure visas to Seattle, getting nine hours of ment accepted to host this World ahead of a September start date. sleep in business class. His one- Athletics Championships, I ex- hour flight from Seattle to Eu- pected their embassies around “It is a huge crisis for us gene landed three hours before the world to treat the athletes, because we have so many bright his race. He drove directly to coaches and accredited journal- students who have already been Hayward Field. ists with respect,” the unidenti- admitted to universities in the Omanyala finished his first- fied official told the Guardian. “I U.S.,” he said. “Most students round heat in third place, at 10.10 am sure this kind of treatment who are supposed to report in seconds, well off his season-best won’t be meted to athletes, offi- September have [visa] appoint- time of 9.85 but good enough to cials and journalists from Great ment dates in 2023.” Kiogora advance him to Saturday’s semi- Britain, Germany and Australia.” added that since May, only 20 out finals, where his effort fell short of 140 students have received and he was eliminated. South African media outlet visas to the United States. MSN reported that several run- ners traveling from Cape Town to Allan Ngaruiya, 32, a partici- Oregon were stranded in Italy pant in the Airlift Program, said because of visa problems. that even with delays, he won’t be able to start his studies in the Omanyala’s delay sparked a spring. He said his sponsor with- reaction on social media, as Ken- drew funding for his studies yans posted about the setbacks because of visa issues. for athletes or their own waits —

A22 EZ RE THE WASHINGTON POST . SUNDAY, JULY 17, 2022 opinion ABSURD AMERICA SERGIO PEÇANHA Stop. Take a minute to look back 13 million years. This is a nebula — a giant cloud of gas and place Star Carina Nebula where stars are born. It’s called Carina Nebula. Carina is one of the largest star-forming regions Nebula, a cloud in the Milky Way. It is about 7,600 light-years of gas and dust. away. This means that it would take 7,600 years traveling at the speed of light to go from Earth to Carina’s region. So this is not Carina Nebula as it looks today but as it did 7,600 years ago, when the light recorded by the new James Webb telescope left its source. Present About 13 billion years These are stars The oldest point in the that just formed in image above. our galaxy from the dust in the Dinosaurs extinct The Sun and Big Bang nebula. 65 million the Earth are formed 13.8 billion Astronomers don't years ago 4.5 billion years know the full story years of how these features formed. Bonkers, right? Everything about the Webb telescope is An image of mind-boggling. Ponder this: Humans sent a the distant telescope the size of a tennis court into space and universe parked it four times farther away than the moon. The distorted 1 million miles Webb Faraway galaxies are Moon galaxy farther, some 13 billion Earth light-years from us. There it orbits the sun along with us, just so we Star Lighter blurs can get some pictures. such as these are galaxies Sun Earth Webb that are closer Earth’s orbit Moon to us. Brighter points Star such as this one are stars in our own galaxy. The very first Webb image made public Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera Mid-Infrared Instrument Two views of showed thousands of galaxies as they appeared a dying star about 13 billion years ago — that’s almost as far back in time as the Big Bang itself. The core of Remember, most of the dots and smudges in that a dying star in our first image are galaxies — not stars. Galaxies can galaxy. contain billions of stars and planets. And that Scientists got their image shows just a tiny speck of space — NASA first clear peek at a compared it to the patch of sky that would be second here. covered by a grain of sand held at arm’s length on A cloud of gas the surface of the Earth. made of chemical components Present Jesus is born. 5,600 B.C. ejected by the 4 B.C. The time shown in dying star. the picture above. Stephan’s U.S. signs Declaration Egyptians build Quintet of Independence. pyramids at Giza. 1776 A.D. Around 2,500 B.C. The five galaxies labeled form the first The Big Bang itself is not something we’ll be able Star group of galaxies ever to see with the Webb telescope. But the images discovered, in 1877. the telescope produces will help us learn when 2 Scientists believe and how the first celestial objects were formed as 1 that these clouds are the universe cooled. a sign of a black hole The Webb will help us better understand much 3 in the middle of this more than how galaxies form. These two photos 4 galaxy. show how a star similar to our sun looks as it is dying. As the star loses strength, it sheds its outer 5 The galaxies are layers, creating a cloud of gas — the cloudy ring clashing here. surrounding the core. Such images will help us Galaxy 1 in this understand how dying stars spread atoms and photo is molecules into space, and how that changes the 40 million light-years chemistry of the universe. away from us. With the Webb, we’ll also be able to see how stars The other four are are born. This image shows a group of five about 290 million galaxies. Some of the galaxies are so close that light-years away. they crash into each other, forming new stars. Finally, the Webb telescope allows scientists to Bright spots collect data on the chemical composition of stars with flares are and planets outside our solar system. This kind of stars in our own detailed information will ultimately help us look galaxy, the for signs of life elsewhere in our galaxy. Milky Way. These stunning images are a major achievement for us Earthlings. And given everything absurd Smaller dots we’ve witnessed on Earth of late, they are more are galaxies than that. If nothing else, the humongousness of much farther the universe ought to put our problems into away. perspective. A little insignificance isn’t such a bad thing. Sources: All photographs by NASA, ESA, CSA and STScI. Yvette Cendes, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, helped to label the images on this page. Mercedes López-Morales, also from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, and Nikolay Nikolov, from the Space Telescope Science Institute, were also consulted for this piece.

SUNDAY, JULY 17, 2022 . THE WASHINGTON POST EZ RE A23 sunday opinion SEBASTIAN MALLABY RUTH MARCUS Trumpism I’m no longer doubtful: If Garland makes the has a case, Trump must be prosecuted inflation fight A nyone who professes absolute urgent certainty that Donald Trump EVELYN HOCKSTEIN/REUTERS should be indicted on a N ear the peak of the last inflation- charge of his efforts to pre- Attorney General Merrick Garland during a news conference at the Justice Department on June 13. ary era, in 1979, Federal Reserve vent the peaceful transition of power Chairman Paul A. Volcker provid- hasn’t thought seriously enough We know now how extensively real bad on Jan. 6,” White House aide resisting his pressure not to certify ed a lesson in central-bank leader- about the potential consequences of Trump pressured state officials to sup- Cassidy Hutchinson said Meadows the electoral college vote. We know ship. Ignoring the Fed’s regular schedule such an unprecedented prosecution. port his scheme to overturn the elec- warned. now that the assertion by Trump of meetings, he summoned his colleagues tion. It wasn’t just the infamous call to impeachment lawyer Michael van der to a secret weekend confab, then emerged Anyone who thinks it should be an Georgia Secretary of State Brad We know now that Trump wanted Veen that “at no point was the presi- to inform the world that the Fed had easy call for the Justice Department to Raffensperger to “find” the necessary to join the mob in marching on the dent informed the vice president was rewritten its playbook. The details of the turn a blind eye to Trump’s conduct number of phantom votes but also his Capitol — that this was his plan all in any danger” was also untrue. new policy mattered less than the signal hasn’t been paying attention. pressure on Arizona House Speaker along; that his lawyers believed this that Volcker sent. Enough is enough, the Russell “Rusty” Bowers to support a would be “legally a terrible idea for What criminal statutes does all this chairman was saying. He would conquer Not so long ago, I was squeamish — slate of phony electors. us,” according to Hutchinson; and conduct violate? Try 18 U.S.C. Section inflation, and Fed conventions wouldn’t nervous about the consequences, im- that he was enraged when he was 1512(c), which applies to anyone who stop him. mediate and long-term, of having any We know now that Trump’s exhor- prevented from following through. “corruptly . . . obstructs, influences, administration prosecute its pred- tation to come to Washington on or impedes any official proceeding, or Volcker faced consumer-price inflation ecessor and chief political rival. Jan. 6, 2021 — “Be there, will be wild” We know now that Trump was fully attempts to do so.” Try 18 U.S.C. Sec- over 12 percent, which is considerably — was merely the desperate culmina- aware that some of the supporters he tion 371, which prohibits conspiracy worse than the present challenge. Yet Prosecuting Trump threatened to tion of his frustrated attempts to urged to go to the Capitol and “fight “to defraud the United States”; such today’s Fed confronts another moment in further divide an already polarized forestall the vote-counting by other like hell” were heavily armed. defrauding includes efforts to ob- which aggressive action is the safest path nation; a conviction, even if secured, means. struct “the lawful functions of any and conventional caution is dangerous. would be deemed illegitimate by a We know now that when the rioters department of Government.” This is not just because the latest substantial portion of the population. We know now that Trump was breached the Capitol, Trump was un- consumer-price report was troubling, If acquitted, Trump could be embold- secretly plotting all along to urge his perturbed. “He doesn’t want to do Is it in the interests of justice — and though it was. It’s because of the risk ened and empowered, a martyr to a supporters to march on the Capitol anything, Pat,” Meadows told White is it in the broader interests of the presented by the next presidential election. seeming Democratic vendetta. that day — that this was no off-the- House counsel Pat Cipollone, accord- nation — to charge Trump with a cuff, ad-libbed exhortation but a pre- ing to Hutchinson. We know now that crime? The Justice Department’s Start with the latest inflation numbers. And whatever the outcome, the meditated, closely held plan. the claims of Trump’s impeachment “Principles of Federal Prosecution” Consumer prices were up 9.1 percent in fateful step of bringing charges lawyers that he, “like the rest of the offer some guidance here. Two sen- June from a year earlier, the highest against a former president based on We know now that officials across country, was horrified at the vio- tences in particular stand out: increase in four decades. Worse, the rise his conduct in office could unleash a the administration, including White lence,” were false. was not confined to volatile items such as dangerous cycle of tit-for-tat political House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows “If a person . . . is reasonably be- food and energy: Everything from cars to prosecutions and revenge prosecu- and Director of National Intelligence We know now that Trump was lieved to have engaged in criminal clothes to rents climbed upward. The tions. This is the stuff of banana John Ratcliffe, feared violence erupt- similarly unfazed by the chants to activity at an earlier time, this should month-to-month measure was even more republics, not the American system of ing on Jan. 6. “Things might get real, “hang Mike Pence” — in fact, that he be considered in determining whether worrying than the annual one. June prices justice. thought Pence deserved that fate for to commence or recommend federal were fully 1.3 percent higher than May’s. prosecution.” Special counsel Robert I was also doubtful that Attorney JUSTIN SULLIVAN/GETTY IMAGES S. Mueller III identified 10 instances Ordinarily, the Fed could indulge in a General Merrick Garland would ulti- in which Trump might have obstruct- learned debate about what these data mately determine that the building Former president Donald Trump addresses a crowd of supporters at a ed justice in connection with the imply for the future. The optimists could blocks of a successful criminal case “Save America” rally in Anchorage on July 9. Russia probe; Mueller didn’t proceed point out that commodity prices, whose had been assembled — or, if they were, because Trump, as a sitting president, surge last year contributed to inflation, that bringing the case was in the was shielded from indictment under have recently subsided. Likewise, the interest of justice. Justice Department practice. federal budget deficit has shrunk dramati- cally, curbing another force driving infla- Prosecutors, after all, must be confi- “The fact that the accused occupied tion. Wages are rising less quickly than dent of their ability to prove their case a position of trust or responsibility they did last year, and financial markets beyond a reasonable doubt. Applying which he/she violated in committing have tumbled. Put all this together, and the precise elements of the criminal the offense, might weigh in favor of perhaps inflation will come down by itself. law to the conduct of a president who prosecution.” There is no greater posi- Maybe the Fed has the option of not would argue that he was acting in the tion of trust or responsibility than the tightening too hard and allowing the exercise of his official duties would presidency, and no one who so fla- economy some oxygen. introduce complicated questions of grantly and repeatedly abused that constitutional law. Garland, by nature trust more than Trump. But, however plausible the case for cautious and methodical, would pro- optimism, the Fed can’t rule out the ceed only if the evidence were too If and when Garland confronts the danger of another inflation shock. China overwhelming to ignore. agonizing choice of whether to pros- might resume lockdowns. Ukraine- ecute a former president, that posi- related embargoes might intensify. An We don’t know yet what he will do; tion — and that history — should be important, commodity-exporting emerg- there are too many critical witnesses top of mind. ing economy could succumb to a Sri left to be heard from, and the evidence Lanka-style breakdown. A more lethal we have heard has not been tested by strain of covid-19 or a natural disaster experienced prosecutors — no less could strike. In 2005, Hurricane Katrina subjected to cross-examination. caused a sharp inflation surge by knock- ing out oil refineries. But my squeamishness and doubts have yielded — if not to the absolute With the future so uncertain, the Fed conviction that Trump should be has to judge not just which interest-rate prosecuted, then to the increasing policy is most likely to be right but also belief that charges are warranted, and which would be most costly if wrong. The that failing to bring them would be answer to the second question is obvious. more damaging to the nation than After a year when inflation has come in turning a blind eye to his effort to higher than expected month after month, subvert democracy and prevent the the Fed cannot allow it to continue at peaceful transfer of power. anything like the present level. The dollar is supposed to act as a unit of account and What changed my mind? The evi- a store of value. It is the mechanism that dence. The facts amassed by the coordinates the physical and intellectual House select committee are damning, labor of millions. If people can’t rely on it, morally and legally. To understand they will lose the appetite to save, invest their weight and import, think back to and plan for the future. the second impeachment trial and wonder: What if we knew then what Meanwhile, the election calendar looms we know now? ominously. Defeating inflation could be a drawn-out business: It took Volcker from We know now that Trump could 1979 to 1982 to get inflation down to have harbored no doubt that he lost around 6 percent. Further efforts were the election, and resoundingly. This required after that: As late as 1989, unwelcome fact was driven home to Volcker’s successor, Alan Greenspan, him by his attorney general, senior raised the short-term interest rate to Justice Department officials, White almost 10 percent to keep the lid on prices. House lawyers and his own campaign If the current inflation is conquered twice team. as fast, the struggle will still extend beyond the next presidential contest. JASON WILLICK For now, the Fed is lucky to be working Liberals would be wise to compromise alongside a supportive executive. Presi- on the election case at the Supreme Court dent Biden is old enough to remember the T here are two ways for liberals to 1970s and the cost of letting inflation go handle the Supreme Court’s con- resolution in Dobbs would not have legislatures alone can regulate elections, theory that might win over Barrett, Rob- unchecked. He prides himself on being an servative majority. They can stay changed the outcome. But the case still and that other state authorities have erts or Brett M. Kavanaugh. “institutionalist,” and the Fed is among the course, not pull any punches, highlights the risks of unyielding liberal- essentially no role. the institutions he respects. Meanwhile, and try to rally a political backlash ism before a Supreme Court where jus- Such intermediate theories likely ex- Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen is against the court whenever they are tices appointed by Democratic presi- But liberals are herding themselves ist. University of Iowa law professor herself a former Fed chair. She probably defeated. Or they can adopt a more dents fill just three seats of nine. into a dubious position of their own — Derek Muller, for example, has contem- cares more about the Fed’s ability to carry moderate constitutional position, and that the Constitution’s reference to the plated a “weak version” of ISL. It would out its inflation-fighting mission than focus on persuading two conservative That brings us back to the coming state “legislature” is meaningless. They hold that the legislature doesn’t have about her own job. justices who can limit the originalist term. A case out of North Carolina, argue that because state constitutions total autonomy over elections, but that legal advance in particular cases. Moore v. Harper, asks the justices to created state legislatures, other state “there is some outer bound” to how far its Historically speaking, this is unusual. interpret the clause of the Constitution constitutional officers can also set elec- laws can be bent by other state officials U.S. presidents from Truman to Johnson In last term’s Dobbs v. Jackson Wom- that says the rules for elections “shall be tion rules. before the federal courts can step in. to Nixon to the elder Bush have attacked en’s Health Organization abortion case, prescribed in each State by the Legisla- the central bank whenever inflation liberals took the first route. That seems ture.” The idea that state legislatures This at least seems to be the emerging That “outer bound” is uncertain, just reared its head and the Fed tried to quash to have undermined Chief Justice John have constitutional authority over elec- liberal-legal consensus. One Harvard law as the bounds of a right to abortion it. Donald Trump followed in this tradi- G. Roberts Jr.’s effort to win the support tion law is known as “independent state professor recently called independent would have been uncertain under Rob- tion even though inflation wasn’t much of of one more justice for his compromise legislature theory.” state legislature theory, or ISL, “de- erts’s proposed compromise in Dobbs. a problem on his watch: He kept up a outcome — upholding Mississippi’s bunked” in the Los Angeles Times, and Liberals could help their cause by pro- barrage of intemperate tweets about the abortion restriction without overturning That might not seem like an ideologi- other academics deemed it “unsupport- moting scholarship and briefs that ad- central bank’s decisions. If Trump or a Roe v. Wade. Liberals may be poised to cally charged issue, but it is. During the able” in these pages. A paper in the vance a version of ISL that they can live Trumpist wins in 2024, he or she will make the same mistake in a high-profile 2020 elections, Republicans bristled as University of Chicago’s Supreme Court with, and showing that it is workable. probably attack the Fed for attacking elections case in the coming term, with state courts and executive branch offi- Review refers to the “independent-state- That could present the conservative jus- inflation at the expense of growth and similar consequences. cials went beyond legislatures in altering legislature notion and related rubbish.” tices with an option between accepting jobs, even though the best thing the Fed election rules in response to the pandem- North Carolina’s disruptive position and can do for the economy is to deliver stable In Dobbs, the five-justice conservative ic. One example was the Pennsylvania There’s one problem: Most justices on simply reading the word “legislature” prices. Vacancies on the Fed’s decision- majority pointed out that Roberts could Supreme Court’s September extension of the Supreme Court may disagree. Five of out of the Constitution’s elections clause. making committee could be filled by not identify “any of the more than 130 the state ballot deadline. Meanwhile, the court’s conservatives have joined hacks with no stomach for the short-term amicus briefs filed in this case that Democrats fear that Republican legisla- opinions that credit state legislatures’ In politics and constitutional law, that costs of containing inflation. advocated” his middle-ground ap- tures want to suppress votes, and reason- constitutional responsibility for election moderating approach is out of style. Why proach. The legal and activist communi- ably believe that they should be checked law. Only the newest conservative jus- seek a middle ground when you can Because of this political factor, the ty was divided between liberals insisting by other branches of state government. tice, Amy Coney Barrett, has no record on heighten the contradictions and roll the inflation fight is especially urgent. If the the court say Roe was right and conserva- the issue. dice on total victory? But conservatives Fed fails to control prices in the next tives insisting the court say Roe was The case is therefore being portrayed aren’t going to stop bringing high-stakes 21/2 years, its job might become much wrong, and the majority chose the latter. as another high court ideological show- If this court is presented with a binary questions before a sympathetic court. In harder. Already, the Fed is expected to down that will boost the fortunes of one choice on ISL next term, a majority could simply declaring originalist legal theo- raise interest rates by about two percent- Perhaps a push by liberal litigants and party or the other. North Carolina Re- endorse it — just as it rejected Roe when ries a menace to democracy, liberals may age points by year’s end. It should sum- their supporters to flesh out a halfway publicans take the dubious position that given a binary choice last term. Yet legal be protecting their pride, but they’re mon the courage to deliver more than half outside the federal government, state liberals seem uninterested in putting inviting more judicial routs. of that expected hike at this month’s policy forward an intermediate constitutional meeting.

A24 EZ RE THE WASHINGTON POST . SUNDAY, JULY 17, 2022 ABCDE DRAWING BOARD ANN TELNAES AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER EDITORIALS Building better bargains Mr. Biden is taking the right approach to the latest clash with Mr. Manchin. W HEN DEMOCRATS em- barked this summer on de- table; he was just waiting until next They faced two bad choices: risk getting BY ANN TELNAES veloping a dramatically month, and the next round of data, to dig nothing on climate and taxes, or risk scaled-down version of the in. After that, he’d consider some form of getting nothing at all. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR economic package once dubbed Build climate response, and some additional [email protected] Back Better, they had decided not to let taxation, though whether he and his The worst thing Democrats could the perfect be the enemy of the good. party could agree on the particulars was have done, and the worst thing they Don’t change Arlington ings because of their reluctance to lend to Last week, they faced another challenge: uncertain. could do now, is allow their frustrations fossil fuel companies. The article report- not to let the good become the enemy of over Mr. Manchin’s erratic swings to lead Emily Hamilton’s sunny view of the ed that because of “hurricanes, floods the just okay. President Biden, perhaps having to deal-dashing acrimony. The loss of Arlington County Board’s intention to and rising temperatures in places such as learned a lesson or two from the Decem- legislative progress on climate would be change residential zoning policy, “What Texas” financial firms must “assess and Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.) an- ber dissolution of Build Back Better, was worse than unfortunate; a spike in critics of diversifying Arlington’s housing address climate risks.” nounced on Thursday that he could not quick to respond: Mr. Manchin had said inflation today is a poor reason to doom get wrong” (Local Opinions, July 10), support a bill containing spending to he was comfortable moving forward this cities to rising sea levels tomorrow. Yet discounted the effect on the environment The next article I read, two pages over, ward off climate change or tax increases month on prescription drug pricing the expiration of the enhanced ACA and potentially higher taxes while as- was “In Houston, the ‘hottest weather on the wealthy and corporations — reform and an extension of soon-to- subsidies would also be catastrophic — suming that a plethora of new structures I’ve ever seen’ has brutalized its resi- despite expectations, following his ex- expire subsidies for low- and middle- saddling the 13 million Americans en- would be affordable. dents.” It said the National Oceanic and tended negotiations with Senate Majori- income people on Affordable Care Act rolled in the marketplaces with explod- Atmospheric Administration “has de- ty Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) health exchanges. Democrats, he said, ing costs that many of them may not be Where single-family homes currently clared Harris County and Houston to be that a deal was imminent. The culprit should “get it to my desk so I can sign it.” able to afford. Changes to drug pricing, exist, the county would allow townhous- the most at-risk area in the country for behind this turnabout appeared to be The White House, meanwhile, would similarly, are smart policy and politics es or eight-unit apartment buildings to weather and climate disasters.” the latest inflation numbers, which take executive action on climate. This alike. Democrats must keep fighting for be built. Ms. Hamilton didn’t address the prompted the senator to declare that was the right approach for a leader in a rules and incentives that will curb global influx of cars and other vehicles that I cannot be the only one to see the approving more taxes and more spend- tough spot. Democrats are running out warming, whether those come from would accompany this type of expansion. irony here. ing at this moment was “not prudent.” of time as the midterms approach to pass Congress or the White House. But they There are areas of Arlington now where a Mr. Manchin insisted he was still at the a bill under the filibuster-bypassing should also take care as they do it not to person cannot park a car. Why not subsi- Kathryn Smith, Leesburg budget process known as reconciliation. end up fighting against themselves. dize rent in apartments on condition that the renters cannot own a car? Supporters No cap-and-trade authority A worrisome new normal of this zoning change claim that every- thing can be done via buses, the metro Adrian Vermeule’s broadside against The global heat waves should be a warning for the future. and shared cars. I live in Arlington, and West Virginia v. EPA, “There is no con- I N YOSEMITE National Park’s famed the closest bus stop to me is about a servative legal movement” [Outlook, July Mariposa Grove, giant sequoias have half-mile away. That would be doable if I 10], was oddly silent on the ultimate ques- grown for millennia. As some of the were still in my 20s, but that was 50 years tion: whether the Clean Air Act authorizes largest and oldest living things in the ago. the Environmental Protection Agency to world, their preservation — which was create a cap-and-trade program for green- first given legal protection under Abra- This change will hurt our property house gas emissions from existing ham Lincoln — predates the National values, which we have spent years earn- sources. The answer is no. Park Service. This month, they were ing. More important, it will change the threatened by a nearby wildfire that was character of Arlington — and not in a Curiously, Mr. Vermeule ignored the exacerbated by dry, hot conditions. good way. statute’s 1990 amendments that included That is just one of many dramatic a new title creating a cap-and-trade pro- weather events taking place around the Patricia Peak Klintberg, Arlington gram to stop acid rain. I spent many late country and world. In Texas, record- Emily Hamilton’s July 10 essay on nights in the office of then-Sen. George breaking temperatures forced the state’s Arlington’s “missing middle” housing J. Mitchell (D-Maine) working on that power grid operator to warn residents to proposal got it wrong in two respects program. None of us there would have cut back on energy use or face the risk of about trees. bothered with such an effort if, as Mr. Ver- blackouts. Around 35 million Americans First, tying the size of large multifami- meule contended, the EPA already had were placed under heat advisories or ly structures to the footprints currently such authority. excessive heat warnings. permitted for large single-family homes Western Europe is also experiencing simply increases the threat such me- As the court explained, when an agency extreme heat waves — Spain is experienc- gastructures pose to mature trees. Earlier makes such an “extravagant” claim, “both ing its second in less than a month, while this year, Arlington County finally com- separation of powers principles and a the United Kingdom issued its first-ever mitted to study reform of the overly practical understanding of legislative in- “extreme heat” warning. Italy has faced generous lot coverage limits it adopted tent make us ‘reluctant to read into am- prolonged heat and drought, and a for single-family homes in 2005. It biguous statutory text’ the delegation glacier collapse officials attributed to should pursue that reform so it gets these claimed to be lurking there.” As for climate change resulted in the deaths of limits right — before extending them to Mr. Vermeule’s retort that there was “no 11 people earlier this month. In China, at MARK FELIX/BLOOMBERG NEWS multifamily structures. constitutional question to avoid,” this has Second, the tree canopy requirements been refuted time and again. And his least 86 cities released heat alerts; in the A man lets his dogs drink from a fountain during a heat wave in Houston on July 11. permitted by state law have nothing to do complaint that courts shouldn’t “construe city of Nanjing, officials opened air-raid with mature tree preservation. They statutes narrowly to avoid a potential shelters for locals to escape the heat. already under pressure from Russia’s exceeded — the number of extreme merely require developers that cut down question of constitutionally invalid del- These cases should not be viewed in invasion of Ukraine. They are linked with weather events a person will experience such mature trees to plant new ones egation” puts him at odds with both his isolation. While links between individual a range of health problems and correlate would nearly quadruple, according to designed to achieve certain canopy after old boss, the late justice Antonin Scalia, weather events and global warming can- with higher rates of crime, anxiety and the United Nations Intergovernmental 20 years. And, as the “missing middle” and with his frequent co-author Cass not be determined immediately, studies depression. A 2021 analysis from the Panel on Climate Change. A greater rise proposal itself recognizes, that limited R. Sunstein, who describes this interpre- have found that concurrent heat waves Atlantic Council estimated that the drop in temperature would be even more canopy requirement will be reduced tive approach as “a salutary kind of affecting parts of North America, Europe in worker productivity due to extreme calamitous, with unthinkable conse- from 20 percent for single-family zoning democracy-forcing minimalism.” and Asia have become more intense and heat costs the U.S. economy $100 billion quences for global hunger, disease, mi- to as little as 10 percent for multifamily frequent over the past few decades. An annually — a figure that could double by gration, productivity and standards of zoning. C. Boyden Gray, Washington analysis by World Weather Attribution, a 2030. living. Thus, while it remains unclear wheth- The writer represented the America First group of scientists who analyze whether As President Biden and congressional Slashing greenhouse gas emissions er some form of multifamily zoning Policy Institute as amicus curiae in West extreme events are connected to climate Democrats struggle to find enough sup- and transitioning to a greener economy might provide benefits that outweigh its change, found that last year’s devastating port for their climate agenda, the on- at the scale and pace needed would costs, one thing is clear: The current Virginia v. EPA and was White House heat wave in the Pacific Northwest was going heat waves offer a small window require creativity, innovation and politi- proposal is not good for trees. counsel to President George H.W. Bush. “virtually impossible without human- into what the future could look like if cal courage. But the cost if we fail is far William R. Richardson Jr., Arlington caused climate change.” global warming continues unabated. more daunting: a future in which climate Golfers want to get paid, too Such patterns have disastrous, far- Even if we keep the global temperature disasters, and all the damage and insta- A get-out-of-jail-free card reaching effects. Heat waves pose a rise under 1.5 degrees Celsius — the bility that come with them, become the I understand those who condemn LIV particular threat to global food supplies, threshold scientists believe should not be new normal everywhere. Regarding the July 13 Metro article Golf as sportswashing funded by blood “District votes on traffic tickets”: money. But I don’t understand those, Still, no accountability such as Sally Jenkins [“St. Andrews, When a plague of lawlessness rules golf ’s real home, doesn’t need a fake like It’s time there were answers in the unjustified shooting of Bijan Ghaisar. District streets, what does the D.C. Coun- Norman,” Sports, July 14] and Barry F OR TWO years, the FBI investigat- cil do? It erases the obligation of paying Svrluga [“Dirty money of LIV Golf is ed the death of Bijan Ghaisar, the Virginia prosecutors. Mr. Greenblatt look into whether the ac- traffic fines by the very drivers who paying for a low-rent act,” Sports, July 1], unarmed young accountant shot Most recently, Attorney General Mer- tions of officers Lucas Vinyard and Ale- endanger all — children to seniors and who complain that the LIV format has no to death in 2017 by a pair of jandro Amaya, who fired 10 shots into everyone between — with careless and cut and guarantees money to every rick Garland’s Justice Department last Ghaisar’s car after he had stopped, and as reckless behavior. golfer who plays. What’s so terrible about month declined to reopen the federal that? U.S. Park Police officers after an unwar- criminal civil rights case against the po- he slowly turned the wheel of his car and Rewarding bad driving with a get-out- ranted, low-speed chase in Fairfax County, lice, citing the high bar of proving the began creeping away from them, com- of-jail-free card is, well, just plain nuts. I Many pro athletes in other sports have Va. A video of the incident provides pow- officers “willfully used unreasonable ported with Park Police policy, training hope D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) contracts that guarantee them huge erful evidence that the officers opened fire force.” In fact, that is precisely what they and guidelines. It also asks for a review of vetoes this measure with the same speed sums even if they don’t do well. Why not because Ghaisar was a menace to did, firing a volley of bullets into Ghaisar’s the agency’s use-of-force policies, policing by which these motorists terrorize our should pro golfers be required to take the himself or the police or others — he was head — incredibly, after an incident that methods and de-escalation training for streets. No ifs, ands or buts about it: Bad risk of not getting paid for what they do? not — but because the officers were hot- began with a garden-variety fender bend- officers. driving, no license. Whatever your job is, imagine that your headed and angry. Anger, justified or not, er involving Ghaisar’s car on the George Ghaisar did not deserve to die. He had employer said, “From now on, you’ll be does not confer on law enforcement a Washington Memorial Parkway in North- apparently used marijuana — an autopsy Sam Alcorn, Washington competing every week with others who license to kill. ern Virginia. showed it in his system — and he exercised do the same job. Each week, only those in Still, unacceptably, there has been no Mr. Warner and Mr. Grassley, who rec- bad judgment by repeatedly driving away A heated irony the top half will get paid. Everyone else accountability in Ghaisar’s death. A bipar- ognize injustice when they see it, have from the officers after they had pulled him gets zero and has to pay his own work tisan pair of senators, Mark R. Warner now asked for an investigation. In a letter over before the final, fatal encounter. But I read two articles back-to-back in the expenses to boot.” Would you be thankful (D-Va.) and Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa), to Inspector General Mark Greenblatt of remember: The incident began with a July 14 Post. The first was the front-page for the opportunity to do your job with is now rightly demanding answers. the Interior Department, which oversees minor traffic violation, when he drove off article “Wall Street takes heat for stances “real substance,” or would you switch to The U.S. justice system has failed in the Park Police, they offered a blunt as- after his car was rear-ended by an Uber, on climate,” which reported that Republi- an employer that pays all its workers? this case. The FBI probe dragged on for sessment of the institutional failures that without significant damage to either car. can policymakers in 23 states are threat- too long, for reasons that remain unclear. followed upon the killing of Ghaisar, who A chase and police escalation were utterly ening retaliation against financial firms Jonathan Siegel, Chevy Chase The Justice Department under President was 25 years old. “Investigations involv- unjustified — let alone a hail of bullets. for limiting investments in fossil fuels. Donald Trump was wrong not to pros- ing the use of deadly force should be Police should open fire as a last resort, The article cited a Texas policy that  Letters can be sent to ecute the officers on criminal civil rights handled in a manner that reinforces confi- under the most extreme and threatening blocks financial firms from bond offer- [email protected]. Submissions must charges. A federal judge, who gave no dence in law enforcement,” they wrote. circumstances. Ghaisar deserved a fine, be exclusive to The Post and should include indication of having studied the avail- “The FBI and DOJ’s handling of this case not a death sentence. And the public the writer’s address and day and evening able video evidence, wrongly dismissed a has not met that bar.” deserves answers from an agency that has telephone numbers. criminal manslaughter case brought by The letter goes on to request that so far provided none. ABCDE NEWS EDITORIAL AND OPINIONS OFFICERS RUTH MARCUS................Deputy Editorial Page Editor FREDERICK J. RYAN JR. SALLY BUZBEE .................................... Executive Editor SHARIF DURHAMS.................Deputy Managing Editor KAREN TUMULTY.............Deputy Editorial Page Editor JAMES W. 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SUNDAY, JULY 17, 2022 . THE WASHINGTON POST EZ RE A25 DAVID VON DREHLE BANDAR ALJALOUD/SAUDI ROYAL PALACE VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS JAMES HOHMANN Republicans President Biden greets Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on July 15 in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia. Understanding are stuck with the DeSantis- antiabortion KAREN ATTIAH Newsom zealots buddy movie Biden’s fist bump with MBS A ccess to abortion was not the was a crass betrayal C alifornia Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) only right protected by Roe P resident Biden just fist- calls Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) v. Wade. The right of conserva- bumped a man who has my a mafia boss. ments of arms to Riyadh for its bloody an authoritarian bully who is “ban- tive politicians to make extreme friend and colleague’s blood on Those who have followed Moham- war in Yemen. That has led to repeated ning books, making it harder to promises to antiabortion hard-liners, his hands. calls for Washington to stop arming vote, restricting speech in classrooms, even and to pass grandstanding laws without med bin Salman’s rise know that he is a the Saudis. But now, according to Reu- criminalizing women and doctors.” fear they would ever be enforced, was man obsessed with social media and sheltered as well. The end of Roe spells It’s not a stretch to say that when his public image. When he came to the ters, the Biden administration is re- DeSantis says Newsom is a hypocritical the beginning of accountability for politi- Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin United States on his tour in 2016, he portedly weighing lifting a ban on statist who turned San Francisco into “a cians who indulged the fanatics. Salman began his ascent to power in made a point of posing with the biggest sending Saudi Arabia offensive dumpster fire,” treats Californians “like 2015, he made his mark through fear names in Hollywood and Silicon Val- weapons. peasants” and allowed the “coercive bio- This reality is dawning on them. Roe and repression. He launched a bloody ley. After the murder, MBS had his If Jamal were alive today, he would medical apparatus” to destroy countless was dead for only a few days before the war in Yemen, kidnapped the Leba- picture taken with Jamal’s oldest son, have urged Biden to demand that Mo- livelihoods during the pandemic. first monstrous result was reported. A nese prime minister, blockaded Qatar, Salah. The image, which shows MBS hammed bin Salman release those child of 10 in Ohio, raped at least two imprisoned critics and, most notori- shaking hands with the visibly discom- who were jailed during the prince’s What is going on here? More than you times, was denied access to an early-term ously, orchestrated the operation that fited Salah, is chilling. rise. Jamal often wrote about people might guess. The two mega-state gover- abortion due to a “trigger law” passed by murdered Post contributing colum- Visuals like these help MBS consoli- like influential cleric Salman al-Ouda nors, brawling for days, are on oddly legislators who probably never imagined nist Jamal Khashoggi, according to a date power, and now Biden has given and Saudi economist Essam al-Zamil, parallel missions: Both want to run for the unpopular measure would take force. U.S. intelligence assessment. him a supercharged one. Make no who continue to languish in jail. He president in 2024 and wrest control of Pandering to their radical base, the On the campaign trail, called for the release of their parties from an old guard along the lawmakers served up a hard ban on Biden promised us all that women’s activist Lou- way. DeSantis, 43, and Newsom, 54, have abortion after just six weeks with no he would hold Saudi Ara- The image of Biden treating Mohammed jain al-Hathloul, who found excellent foils in one another as they exception for rape or incest. bia accountable for its was eventually freed work to nudge Donald Trump and Joe crimes and make the bin Salman like a casual friend gives the from prison but remains Biden, both septuagenarians, to the side- A poll by the Kaiser Family Founda- country a “pariah.” under a travel ban. Did lines. While Trump and Biden decide tion found that most voters were un- Instead of transforming ultimate green light to resume business as Biden speak up for them whether to run again, DeSantis and aware of, or unclear about, the severe the crown prince into an too? The transcript of his Newsom are seizing their opportunities. restrictions their legislators were play- outcast, Biden has made normal with the kingdom. remarks suggests that he acting with, back when the Supreme him a pal. On Friday in didn’t. Newsom spent $105,000 to air an artful Court prevented such laws from taking Jiddah, Saudi Arabia, the There are plenty of attack ad against DeSantis on Fox News in effect. But the court pulled the trigger on president greeted MBS, as voices in Washington ar- Florida. “Freedom, it’s under attack in your the trigger laws — and within days, a the de facto Saudi ruler is known, with mistake about the meaning of the sig- guing that realpolitik, energy policy state,” the Californian said in a message little girl in grade school, a traumatized that stunning fist bump. According to nal the president of the United States and America’s geopolitical interests timed to coincide with July Fourth. “Don’t crime victim, a child with no real under- news coverage of the day, the crown has just broadcast across the world. should win out over the murder of one let them take your freedom.” standing of what was happening to her, prince was unrepentant, only smirk- Since Jamal’s murder, companies, aca- man. was forced to travel out of Ohio for ing when asked by reporters if he demic institutions, think tanks and But for Jamal’s family and friends, DeSantis responded by noting that Cali- medical care. would apologize to Jamal’s family. other institutions have distanced pushing for accountability for his kill- fornia’s population declined the past two In a news conference later in Jid- themselves from Saudi Arabia, pulling ing was never just about one man. years. “It’s almost hard to drive people out The panic on the right was immediate dah, Biden said he made his views on out of conferences, halting contracts Jamal’s murder became a symbol for so of a place like California, given all their and thunderous. The twin pillars of Jamal’s murder “crystal clear.” and generally avoiding the problems many other tragedies in this world, natural advantages, and yet they’re finding conservative orthodoxy, Fox News and Biden’s casual treatment of the of associating with a country whose including attacks against journalists a way to do it,” he said at a news conference. the Wall Street Journal, plunged in crown prince is an embarrassment. leader had one of his critics chopped to and the hypocrisy of the United States recklessly to question whether such a His friendly gesture — indeed, this pieces. Now the image of Biden treat- cozying up to oil-rich dictators. De- The buddy movie is chiefly important child existed. They couldn’t find her in entire, disgraceful visit — is a crass ing Mohammed bin Salman like a manding justice for Jamal also served for raising the profiles of both men at a their Twitter feeds. Their haste revealed betrayal of a campaign promise he casual friend gives the ultimate green the larger goal of deterring atrocities time when the two parties are having some a desperate hope that the brutal misogy- made to the American people. light to resume business as normal by despotic regimes subsidized by second thoughts about their most likely ny of the antiabortion base would not be In 2020, Biden vowed that he would with the kingdom. Now that Biden is U.S. taxpayers. nominees. But the Newsom and DeSantis so plainly demonstrated in such short outdo then-President Donald Trump cozying up to the Saudi regime, the Many of us had hoped that pushing back-and-forth has the potential to become order. by taking the moral high ground on coast is clear for others to do so as well. Saudi Arabia to take responsibility for a real debate about ideology as the two Saudi Arabia, specifically declaring Americans wanted this to turn out the murder of Jamal Khashoggi would parties search for direction in the post- In their rush, they forgot that strin- that he would hold MBS accountable differently. Polling shows that the lead to more humanity in the Trump era. gent privacy laws protect the confidenti- for Jamal’s murder. Now, however, overwhelming majority of people in American-led world order and our pol- ality of abuse victims and children; lack the images of a grinning Biden sitting this country really don’t like Saudi icies toward the Middle East. We had Both want to run for president of details concerning a child rape victim with Mohammed bin Salman make Arabia’s regime. In the wake of Jamal’s hoped that Biden would be a stronger in 2024 and wrest control is normal and laudable. Meanwhile, our president look like a desperate murder, more Americans became ally in that fight. of their parties from an police went about their work, arrested supplicant forced to kiss the ring of aware of Washington’s huge ship- Sadly, we were wrong. old guard along the way. the rapist and secured a confession. And the Ohio legislature is accountable for its KATHLEEN PARKER Florida’s governor says his state is a work. magnet because he’s “created a citadel of A dark family tragedy. And now an arrest. freedom.” DeSantis promised “freedom I can’t find evidence that pollsters I n the literary genre known as South- from indoctrination” as he signed a bill in have ever put this specific question to ern Gothic, writers dip into the good-size piece of South Carolina. kill him so that his surviving son, also April to ban the teaching of critical race voters: Should a 10-year-old be forced to fantastic, the grotesque and the ma- You don’t have to be a prophet to know named Alex (but known as “Buster”), theory. The governor used this f-word carry her rapist’s baby? But I have a guess cabre because that’s just the way could receive a $10 million payout in life 35 times last month in a news release what the results would look like. Ample things are down here. Not were, but are that a family accustomed to being ad- insurance? announcing he signed the state’s budget. survey data shows a strong majority of — as in the South as it is, and ever was, mired and feared for nearly a century Americans favor early-term abortion ac- and as it ever shall be, world without can begin to believe it was immune to That incident might make sense if we Newsom, meanwhile, is on the leading cess and the rape-and-incest exception. I end. the usual rules. This sense of entitlement didn’t know that Alex Murdaugh’s shirt edge of progressive efforts to revive Dem- daresay that in their next campaigns, tends to increase with each successive from the night of the shootings showed ocratic appreciation of freedom. In the most Ohio politicians would rather not Amen to that. Living in the South, you generation as the gene pool is diluted. blood stains that one would expect from Independence Day commercial, he says have to defend what the legislature has see, it’s hard to write for very long Even so, people adapt. They’re used to a gunshot. Investigators also found cell- California still believes in “freedom of done to this child. without splicing in some scripture. things being a certain way, and every- phone footage that put Murdaugh at the speech, freedom to choose, freedom from There’s a reason God and Jesus are so thing gets sorted out at church, anyway. crime scene, contradicting his claim that hate and the freedom to love.” Newsom’s The same reluctance can be seen in the popular here. History without redemp- he had been elsewhere. And, according version of freedom is that Americans campaign of deception underway in tion would be a tough fate. How does one Except, not this time. A Colleton to People magazine, Maggie Murdaugh should “live free from fear of gun vio- Kansas, where the first referendum on face the guilt of slavery without a shot at County grand jury indicted Murdaugh had texted a friend as she drove to meet lence” and government control of wom- abortion rights of the post-Roe era will be forgiveness and rebirth? on Thursday on two counts of murder her husband at the family compound. en’s bodies. held on Aug. 2. Voters are being asked to and two counts of possession of a weap- Something’s “fishy,” she reportedly text- undo a 2019 ruling by the state Supreme Even now, grisly crimes are not rare. on during the commission of a violent ed. “He’s up to something.” The two men aren’t without their draw- Court that the Kansas Constitution guar- Sometimes, it seems like the DNA is crime. Already, he had been charged backs. Newsom, with fine suits and slicked- antees abortion access. tainted with crazy, not because of in- with 88 (no, that’s not a typo) criminal Murdaugh has already admitted to back hair, got in trouble for attending a breeding or too much barbecue but offenses related to alleged insurance being addicted to opioids. The case has lobbyist’s birthday party in 2020 at a tony Substantially funded by the conserva- because Southerners are cursed with fraud, embezzlement and assorted other raised new questions about some other Napa Valley restaurant in violation of tive hierarchy of the Catholic Church in memory. People also have a deep and offenses. Alex Murdaugh has denied any mysterious deaths, including that of the covid-era rules he had issued. As mayor of Kansas, the campaign is filling mailboxes abiding respect for human nature; our connection with the killings. Murdaughs’ longtime housekeeper, San Francisco, he had an affair with the with postcards soft-pedaling the effect of vices ride shotgun. whose body is being exhumed years after wife of a top staffer as he was exiting a the proposed amendment. It would not You can ask yourself why it took local her death was declared an accident; and five-year marriage to Kimberly Guilfoyle outlaw abortion in Kansas, supporters And so, nothing much surprises us, authorities more than a year to charge that of a 19-year-old man, whose demise (who is now engaged, as it happens, to say reassuringly — not bothering to add even when someone as prominent as Murdaugh with killing his wife and son. in a possible hit-and-run accident is Donald Trump Jr.). that it would green-light whatever anti- Alex Murdaugh allegedly murdered his Who besides his own family couldn’t being reinvestigated by local authorities abortion laws the legislature wishes to wife, Maggie, and son Paul at their rural guess months ago that he was the likeli- based on information discovered in the DeSantis has his own demerits, of enact. family compound last summer. est suspect? His “distraught” call, made double murder. These are in addition to course, but they fall in different categories. after he had just discovered his dead the death of 19-year-old Mallory Beach, A working-class kid who sailed through Under the umbrella of Roe, the meas- In such situations, the polite thing to wife and son lying on the ground was, to who was killed when the now-deceased Yale and Harvard Law, he emerged with a ure would most likely have passed with do is to reassure one another that Alex, say the least, unconvincing. Paul Murdaugh wrecked the family boat chip on his shoulder about his roots (which little fanfare in a low-turnout summer 64, legal scion of a dynastic Lowcountry in a 2019 accident. helps him as a pol) and a tendency to primary. And it may pass anyway: Kan- family, couldn’t have had anything to do Why would he kill his wife and son? remind people that he’s the smartest guy in sas is a very red state. But opposition to with the killings. Why? Because he’s a What was his motive? His lawyers are Did I mention that Southern Gothic the room (which does not). the amendment has been energized by Murdaugh. His father, grandfather and asking these questions, but authorities novels tend to run long? This is a case the realization that conservative law- great-grandfather all held the top prose- will hopefully explain that soon. While where stranger than fiction doesn’t do Both governors relish house-to-house makers are beholden to antiabortion cutorial position in the state’s 14th Cir- we’re biding time, here’s another ques- the genre justice. fighting in the culture war and delight in extremists. cuit, dating back to 1920. Which means tion for readers: Why would an innocent trolling the opposition. Newsom became a one family basically controlled the scales man attempt suicide, as Murdaugh ap- Then again, this is the South, where national figure in 2004 for defying state How extreme? Jim Bopp is an Indiana of justice. And everything else across a parently did in a different incident, by justice itself has been known to take long law as mayor and issuing the first same-sex attorney who, as general counsel for paying a lousy marksman to shoot and holidays. marriage licenses. DeSantis, who barely National Right to Life, drafted model won his 2018 governor’s race, became a legislation for the Republican lawmakers household name for opening his state up in who compete vigorously for the group’s 2020 when most governors kept theirs endorsement. Bopp candidly told Politi- closed. co that his bill would ban abortion at any stage of pregnancy with only one excep- Neither is afraid of big business. tion: lifesaving surgery. In other words, Newsom announced July 7 that California’s yes, in Bopp’s model world, that child in state government will begin producing its Ohio would have no choice but to carry own insulin to undercut the market price her pregnancy to delivery. charged by pharmaceutical companies, which conduct vital but expensive research Jeff Durbin, a Phoenix-area pastor and development. DeSantis dismantled a whose YouTube channel boasts special tax district created 55 years ago that 300,000 followers, would go still further, enabled Disney to build the world’s most granting legal “personhood” to any fertil- popular theme park because its chief exec- ized human egg and making pregnant utive criticized a bill that bans educators people criminally liable for an abortion. from discussing sexual orientation and In her portrait of the self-styled “abor- gender identity with students before the tion abolition” movement, the excellent fourth grade. Elizabeth Dias of the New York Times quoted a colleague of Durbin who felt no Both men are clearly risk takers who punishment was too severe. Of her own sense an opportunity to turn the page on abortion, she said: “I took a life, I should Trump and Biden and still run as Washing- give my life.” ton outsiders in an era of deep frustration with the status quo. Such zealotry can no longer be ig- nored. Protected by Roe, the conservative Of course, it’s far from clear that either position on abortion has moved steadily Biden or Trump will stand aside. And even toward extreme stances like these. The if they do, there is no guarantee that old goals — parental notification, wait- DeSantis or Newsom will emerge as a ing periods, clinic regulations and so nominee in 2024. But the two governors forth — have been replaced by blindly are already altering the landscape on draconian bans. And having courted the which those questions will be answered. activists for decades, Republicans will And their interests are, for the moment, in not easily swing back toward more a strange alignment of convenience. nuanced views embraced by the Ameri- can mainstream. They have been playing footsie in the dark with some dangerous people; the Supreme Court has switched on the lights.

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OutKLMlNoOok EZ BD SUNDAY, JULY 17, 2022 . WASHINGTONPOST.COM/OUTLOOK . SECTION B ACamretreilcan Inside the battle to bring down the opioid industry JAHI CHIKWENDIU/THE WASHINGTON POST At the Drug Enforcement Administration, Joseph Rannazzisi investigated opioid makers and distributors, but he was forced out in 2015 after a pressure campaign from drug companies. L ateonhislastdayasaDEAagent, This story is ties across the country. drug cartels flood the country with ship- the opioid industry. With his intimate Joe Rannazzisi grabbed a mail- adapted from His agents had successfully raided the ments of the cheap and highly addictive knowledge of the DEA, Barber helped to room cart to wheel a few boxes of “American Cartel: synthetic opioid. write legislation for the drug industry that personal belongings to his Ford Inside the Battle to warehouses of Fortune 500 companies. gutted the agency’s ability to aggressively Excursion. He had turned in his Bring Down the The DEA fined them tens of millions of Most people don’t know the real story pursue the companies. With a few words, badge earlier that day — one without a Opioid Industry” dollars. Some of the companies were of the opioid epidemic. It’s not solely the new law changed the definition of formal goodbye lunch that was now an by Scott Higham household names, such as Walgreens and about Purdue Pharma and the Sackler what kind of corporate behavior consti- evening without farewell drinks. Almost and Sari Horwitz CVS. Others had escaped public scrutiny, family. It’s about how a constellation of tuted an “imminent danger” to the public. everyone had already cleared out of the but he saw them as equally or even more drug companies went after the DEA, and It raised the evidentiary bar for the DEA, Drug Enforcement Administration’s sleek culpable, companies such as Mallinck- how the DEA lost that war, not to the making it nearly impossible for the agen- office complex in Arlington, Va., and the rodt Pharmaceuticals, Cardinal Health, cartels, but to lobbyists and lawmakers cy to meet the new standard in its efforts silent corridor was a numbing coda to a Teva Pharmaceuticals, McKesson Corpo- and K Street attorneys. to shutter drug company warehouses. The career that for all its accolades seemed to ration and AmerisourceBergen Corp. legislation sailed through Congress in have ended in defeat. Rannazzisi came under attack by a 2016 at the height of the prescription drug Righteous investigations, Rannazzisi tightknit coalition of drug company exec- epidemic and was signed into law by It was an unusual feeling for the mus- believed. But he and his team had been utives and lobbyists with close ties to President Barack Obama without a word cled, tough-talking New Yorker who’d crushed, their struggle to stop the de- members of Congress, and high-ranking from the Oval Office. spent 30 years bringing down bad guys. structive flow of pain pills snuffed out by a officials inside the Department of Justice. highly organized, well-financed pressure They were aided by a cadre of former On Capitol Hill, the measure was spon- As head of the DEA’s division for polic- campaign. federal officials lured away from the DEA sored by then-Republican Rep. Tom Mari- ing the drug industry, Rannazzisi and his and the Justice Department by the lucra- no of Pennsylvania and Sen. Marsha agents had pursued corrupt doctors and Today, America’s opioid crisis is worse tive payrolls of the companies they once Blackburn, a Republican from Tennessee, the nation’s largest drug manufacturers, than ever. Last year, the nation logged a regulated and the downtown D.C. law along with Sen. Orrin G. Hatch, a Republi- distribution companies and pharmacy record-breaking 100,000 drug overdose firms that represented them. can from Utah, and Sen. Sheldon White- chains that were pouring powerful and deaths, most of them due to fentanyl, highly addictive opioids into communi- which is 50 times more potent than hero- One was D. Linden Barber, a top DEA SEE CARTEL ON B2 in. There is no end in sight as Mexican lawyer who left the agency to represent It’s not just us. Western INSIDE OUTLOOK What made Harvey Weinstein democracies are fragmenting. a monster? Does it matter? In 1974, Marian Henley Elections in France, Colombia policies. Politics in the United States, had a choice. B3 Book review by now serving 23 years in prison. But in and Spain show discontent’s with our well-entrenched two-party sys- Caetlin Benson-Allott hunting for Weinstein’s “Rosebud,” Au- cycle, says Richard H. Pildes tem, are nonetheless being shaped by Why a writer signs his letta both aggrandizes the monstrous similar forces — although here fragmen- name “under erasure.” B4 I n horror movies, the monster (al- mogul (by analogizing his megalomania T hree major elections on the same tation means the Democratic and Re- most) always rises from the dead for to “Citizen Kane”) and extends the cul- Sunday in June — in France, publican parties are torn by internal INSIDE BOOK WORLD one final scare. One could be forgiven tural conversation around the perpetra- Colombia and Spain — tell the factional conflicts that party leaders for feeling the same way regarding books tor and what makes him tick. fundamental story of democracy in our struggle to surmount. Such battles made The essence of baseball and articles about Harvey Weinstein. era: the continuous disaffection with the House Republican caucus ungovern- and those who play it. B6 What is to be gained, one wonders, from As a biography, “Hollywood Ending” government, the collapse of traditional- able when Reps. John Boehner and Paul reading another thousand or hundred focuses more on Weinstein himself than ly dominant parties and figures, and the Ryan took turns as House speaker, In praise of the fungus thousand words about the studio exe- the issues of sexual misconduct and constant search for alternatives — which leading both to abandon that powerful among us. B7 cutive-slash-sexual predator who raped professional intimidation featured in is quickly followed by yet more disaffec- position. They’re also why the Demo- or otherwise assaulted more than 100 Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey’s “She tion and the search for yet other alterna- cratic Party damaged itself, perhaps women between the 1970s and 2010s? Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment tives. This is no longer a narrative of irreparably for this year’s midterms, His crimes have been well covered in Story That Helped Ignite a Movement” dysfunction distinctive to one country, if with a prolonged internal debate over newspaper and magazine stories and in and Ronan Farrow’s “Catch and Kill: it ever was. The Conservative Party in whether to link major infrastructure books by the journalists behind those Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Britain is now scrambling to find a new legislation with the grander aspirations exposés, not to mention multiple pod- Predators.” In those books, the journal- prime minister; the government in Italy of the Build Back Better bill, as well as casts and documentaries. Inasmuch as ists who broke the story of Weinstein’s is near collapse. The nature of political conflicts between the party’s moderate each new commentary extends Wein- serial sexual abuse in 2017 explain how authority has fundamentally changed. and progressive wings that have ham- stein’s notoriety and postpones his obso- their reporting for the New York Times Political power has become fragmented, strung immigration policy and kept lescence, it arguably serves his core and the New Yorker, respectively, finally as voters abandon traditional parties critical bipartisan legislation to boost desires: fame and influence. A similar exposed Weinstein and led to his arrest, and turn to upstart, insurgent parties or U.S. chip manufacturing in prolonged point has been made many times about conviction and imprisonment. Kantor, independent, free agent politicians from limbo. Even with unified control of true crime and serial killers; as Teen Twohey and Farrow concentrate on the across the political spectrum. government, the parties find it difficult Vogue’s Sandra Song put it, “When we assault survivors and their bravery in to govern. focus so much on the murderer — their exposing a predator. Notably, these au- In multiparty democracies, such as neuroses, their troubled pasts — we thors also contextualize Weinstein’s the three that held elections last month, The recent elections in France, Eu- ignore the fact that the victims of these downfall within the #MeToo movement. the fragmentation of political power rope’s second-largest economy, offer a crimes were also people.” Ken Auletta makes it more difficult to form govern- particularly striking example of the certainly does not ignore the victims in By contrast, Auletta zooms out from ments, causes those governments to be dynamics affecting nearly all democra- “Hollywood Ending: Harvey Weinstein the 2017 revelations about Weinstein to fragile and prone to collapse, and weak- cies in the West. When he was initially and the Culture of Silence,” his new identify the producer’s other victims: the ens their capacity to deliver effective elected president in 2017, Emmanuel biography of the former film producer, employees he bullied, the business part- Macron upended the existing political ners he exploited and the brother he order; indeed, he was dubbed “le disrup- belittled. Auletta also plumbs Weinstein’s teur.” Since the 1950s, France had been childhood and early adult years to uncov- er factors that might have contributed to SEE DEMOCRACIES ON B4 SEE WEINSTEIN ON B5

B2 EZ BD THE WASHINGTON POST . SUNDAY, JULY 17, 2022 Pills, overdoses and a complex quest for justice CARTEL FROM B1 Paul T. Farrell Jr., a edented profits while, to Farrell’s mind, his MATT MCCLAIN/THE WASHINGTON POST MADDIE MCGARVEY FOR THE WASHINGTON POST lawyer from neighbors were being exterminated by opioids house, a Democrat from Rhode Island. The bill Huntington, such as OxyContin, Percocet, Vicodin and the against the opioid companies had been wait, people are ...” was heavily backed and financed by the opioid W.Wa., helped ubiquitous blue oxycodone 30mg tablets man- crushed. Most were eager to sign up. The “Just like Doritos,” Borelli wrote back. “Keep industry. build a case against ufactured by a St. Louis company he’d never money they would make as expert witnesses drugmakers and heard of — Mallinckrodt, a drug industry giant would help. But more important, they wanted eating, we’ll make more.” To fend off the DEA, the companies hired the distributors after that had managed to avoid the spotlight. In payback. At the height of the opioid epidemic in 2011, smartest and most well-connected lawyers in seeing the ravages 2006, Purdue Pharma manufactured 130 mil- Washington. One of them was Jamie Gorelick, of opioids in his lion pain pills. That same year, Mallinckrodt By October 2019, on the eve of the first trial executives at AmerisourceBergen, the third- a former deputy attorney general during the hometown. manufactured 3.6 billion pills, nearly 30 times against the opioid industry in the nation, Far- largest drug distributor in America, circulated Clinton administration who became a partner Jamie Gorelick, more than Purdue. Mallinckrodt’s pills became rell, Lanier and hundreds of other lawyers had an email chain containing a parody of the at WilmerHale, a powerhouse law firm two who served as a so popular on the black market that users and launched the largest and most complex civil theme song from the 1960s CBS sitcom “The blocks from the White House that had a thou- deputy attorney drug dealers called them “blues” or “30s.” litigation in American history on behalf of Beverly Hillbillies.” The parody compared sand lawyers in cities around the globe. The general during the thousands of counties, cities and Native Ameri- those addicted to opioids to “Pillbillies,” poor firm represented Cardinal Health, which the Clinton Farrell’s mother, Charlene, had seen too can tribes. The coalition won access to a confi- and uneducated Appalachian hillbillies. DEA had been chasing since 2011 for distribut- administration, many deaths, gone to too many funerals. dential pill-tracking database and millions of ing enormous amounts of pain pills. represented internal corporate emails and memos during “Well the first thing you know ol’ Jed’s a Cardinal Health in “Someone should do something,” she said as courtroom combat with legions of omnipotent drivin South,” the parody went. “Kinfolk said Gorelick was able to get a memo outlining its fight against the her husband stood over the stove, frying up law firms defending the opioid industry. Jed don’t put too many in your mouth, / Said her client’s concerns into the hands of the Drug Enforcement bacon. Sunny Florida is the place you ought to be / So deputy attorney general at the time, James M. Administration. For Farrell, the internal documents and they loaded up the truck and drove speedily. / Cole. Rannazzisi was summoned to the Justice Farrell’s younger brother, Patrick, a fighter emails revealed a horrifying panorama on cor- South, that is. / Pain Clinics, cash ’n carry. / A Department to explain himself to Cole during Drug company pilot during the Iraq War, chimed in. porate greed and political cowardice. The rec- Bevy of Pillbillies!” an unprecedented meeting. Another former executives — from ords included once-confidential communica- deputy attorney general, Craig S. Morford, had left, George Barrett “Isn’t that what you do for a living?” he asked tions from inside corporate boardrooms, DEA When lawyers first discovered the parody in joined Cardinal as chief of legal affairs. He had of Cardinal Health, Farrell. headquarters and the marbled corridors of piles of documents the companies had dis- sent a three-page memo to Rannazzisi’s boss at Joseph Mastandrea Capitol Hill. The documents found their way closed to the plaintiff’s lawyers, Farrell thought the DEA, detailing the company’s complaints of Miami-Luken, Farrell felt it was a fair question. He em- into thousands of lawsuits filed in federal it was a prank. about the agency’s aggressive enforcement ef- John Hammergren barked on a journey into the corrupt labyrinth courthouses across the country and formed the forts. of McKesson, J. of America’s opioid industry. Soon he would basis of a legal battle without precedent in “This can’t be real,” he wrote to one of his Christopher Smith collaborate with some of the most colorful, American jurisprudence — a bruising, complex colleagues. Rannazzisi had never seen anything like it. of H.D. Smith high-profile plaintiff’s lawyers in the nation, and unfinished quest for justice. Lawyers for the drug gangs and trafficking Wholesale Drug including Mark Lanier, a 58-year-old Texas It was real. For 10 years, the “Pillbillies” organizations he’d investigated had never been Company and lawyer who was one of the wealthiest and most Farrell and Rannazzisi realized that the email was an inside joke at AmerisourceBer- able to lobby the highest-ranking officials of Steven Collis of successful trial attorneys in America. companies had manufactured, distributed and gen. During a 2021 trial in Charleston, W.Va., the Justice Department on behalf of their AmerisourceBergen dispensed 100 billion pain pills across the involving AmerisourceBergen and two other clients. Instead of facing criminal prosecution, — testify at a 2018 Lanier lived large on a 35-acre estate about country over nine years, from 2006 through drug distributors — McKesson and Cardinal Cardinal’s executives walked away from the hearing on Capitol 25 miles north of Houston. When he wasn’t 2016. One breathtaking disclosure after an- Health — Farrell questioned one of the case by paying a fine. “A traffic ticket,” Rannaz- Hill. suing big corporations, he raised chickens, other — from emails that mocked addicts to AmerisourceBergen executives who had zisi called it. sheep, goats, monkeys, geese, potbellied pigs sales reports chronicling the rise of pill mills — shared the parody with his colleagues. It was and llamas on the manicured grounds of his showed the indifference of big business to the the first case to finally go to trial. Dozens more But it was the way of Washington, where estate, framed by orchards of apples, plums epidemic’s toll. Farrell and Rannazzisi, already were waiting in line. there was a constant revolving door between and peaches. hardened by their experiences with the compa- the agency, the Justice Department and the nies, were appalled by how corporate execu- News of the parody blew up on Twitter. The companies they were supposed to be holding In front of jurors, Lanier played the role of a tives dehumanized the people who were over- reaction was so hostile and threatening, the accountable. The pattern was a win-win for the country lawyer, telling folksy stories, using dosing and dying from their products. AmerisourceBergen executive who was testify- former employees and the drug companies. props and reciting verses from the Bible. His ing became the target of death threats. The The employees could triple or quadruple their methods sounded gimmicky, but they persuad- One company, Cephalon, tried to motivate judge overseeing the trial summoned the law- salaries by going to Fortune 500 corporations ed those in the box who were the ultimate its sales force with a video of a dubbed version yers to his chambers and cautioned Farrell and or their law firms on K Street. And they knew arbiters. Over the course of his 37-year career, of Dr. Evil from the Austin Powers movies. In his legal team against introducing any more precisely how the agency and the department Lanier tried more than 200 personal-injury the video, Dr. Evil threatened to kill any sales incendiary company emails. operated, and how they could be thwarted. and product liability lawsuits. He won nearly rep who failed to sell enough of its fentanyl $20 billion in verdicts against corporations in product. The DEA’s crackdown on the opioid industry Rannazzisi’s friends had known for months cases involving asbestos, prescription drugs and the barrage of lawsuits may have decimat- that he was being targeted by the opioid indus- and metal hip implants. Victor Borelli, a national sales representa- ed the black market for pain pills, but they left try and its allies in Washington and had been tive from Mallinckrodt, compared the highly untold millions addicted. Opioid users ostracized inside his own agency — no longer a But having seasoned litigators bankrolled by addictive pain pills he was selling to tortilla searched for other options, setting off two more welcome crusader. A new administrator, powerful plaintiff’s law firms was not enough. chips. cataclysmic waves of death. In 2015, heroin Chuck Rosenberg, who was more sympathetic Farrell knew he needed people on the inside of overdoses surpassed the number of deaths to the plight of the drug industry, had been the DEA to make his case. He enlisted Rannaz- “Keep ’em coming!” one sales rep wrote to from pills. Two years later, the third wave of the installed at the DEA. He wanted Rannazzisi out zisi as his star witness. He also drafted other Borelli. “Flyin’ out of here. It’s like people are epidemic, fueled by fentanyl, overcame heroin of his job, and his team disbanded. DEA agents and investigators whose cases addicted to these things or something. Oh, as the No. 1 driver of overdose deaths, devastat- ing even more communities across the country. Rannazzisi’s buddies called him at home, ALEX BRANDON/ASSOCIATED PRESS gently probing to see if he was safe. Could Since Farrell filed his first lawsuit against someone as obsessive and wounded as Rannaz- the opioid industry in 2017, hundreds of law zisi transition to retirement? firms have joined the case, and they have signed up more than 4,000 towns, cities, coun- “Don’t worry, I’m not going to off myself,” he ties and Indian tribes as their clients. Court- told them. room discovery battles continue to produce internal corporate documents and emails. One Still, some wondered whether they should of the documents was a playbook detailing how take his weapon, a Walther PPK .380, just to be the industry could divert attention away from sure. itself and place the blame for the opioid epi- demic on the DEA. Rannazzisi was just a little bemused by the concern. He may have lost his job, but he was no As of today, the legal counterattack has quitter. He had two daughters at home to take resulted in nearly $40 billion in settlements by care of, and a new coonhound mutt from the companies such as Johnson & Johnson and the pound named Banjo. nation’s top three distributors, McKesson, Car- dinal Health and AmerisourceBergen. Mall- As he left DEA headquarters in October inckrodt and Purdue have also settled and are 2015, he hoped the fight would go on in some now in bankruptcy court. form. Addiction to opioids was an epidemic. People were dying from overdoses by the hun- But it doesn’t feel like a victory to the people dreds of thousands. The companies would who have waged the fight, like Rannazzisi. This eventually choke on their greed. Citizens month, a federal judge ruled in favor of those would eventually demand that their govern- distributors, dismissing claims filed by Farrell ment stop it all. There had to be a reckoning. and other attorneys that the companies were responsible for the opioid epidemic in West The shape of that reckoning, however, was Virginia. not visible to Rannazzisi on the dreary Friday in October when he was finally cut loose from More people are dying of opioid overdoses the DEA. He had no idea that one day he would than ever before, Rannazzisi says, but not one return to the trenches of the opioid war, this executive of a Fortune 500 company has gone time as a key witness against the same compa- to jail — or has even been criminally pros- nies that were responsible for his demise. ecuted. A year later, on a Sunday morning in 2016, “A kid slinging crack on a corner goes to jail, Paul T. Farrell Jr. sat at the kitchen table in his because he has a gun, for five or 10 years or parents’ home as his father prepared breakfast. whatever. But a corporation that’s involved A local news story in the Charleston Gazette- with the distribution of drugs that are killing Mail was the talk of the town. It reported that people all over the country — the illegal distri- several drug companies, including some of the bution of these drugs — why did they not get largest in the nation, had sent 780 million prosecuted?” Rannazzisi said. prescription pain pills to West Virginia within six years, while 1,728 people in the state over- “The answer is power and influence.” dosed. The shipments were enough to supply Twitter: @ScottHigham1 433 pain pills to every man, woman and child in @sarihorwitz the state. Scott Higham is a Pulitzer Prize- and Emmy Award- Farrell’s family had lived in Huntington, winning reporter assigned to The Washington W.Va., for generations. They were Irish Catholic Post’s investigative unit. He is a co-author of immigrants who arrived in New York’s Hell’s “American Cartel: Inside the Battle to Bring Down Kitchen during the 19th century and made the Opioid Industry.” Sari Horwitz is a Pulitzer their way to West Virginia. Huntington once Prize-winning investigative reporter who covers prospered from the coal mines. But those boom criminal justice issues for The Post, where she has years were long gone, and Farrell’s town had been a reporter for 38 years. She is a co-author of descended into something resembling a zom- “American Cartel.” bie movie — shells of human beings wandering downtown, empty syringes and needles in pub- lic parks, parentless children, an entire genera- tion raised in foster homes or by grandparents. One of his closest friends, Mark Zban, a star athlete, was prescribed opioids following a series of injuries. Farrell watched in horror as his friend descended into oxycodone oblivion. At 6-foot-5 and 220 pounds, Zban was built for the NFL. But hobbled by serious knee injuries and a blown disk, his dreams of turning pro faded. By 2006, with six children and a high- stress job selling medical supplies, Zban’s pain from his sports injuries had become unbear- able. Doctors prescribed low doses of hydro- codone, then higher doses of oxycodone. When he couldn’t convince doctors to write him more prescriptions, he bought pills on the streets of Huntington. Getting high became his daily routine. Noth- ing else mattered. “I was so embarrassed and ashamed of what I was doing. I really isolated myself,” Zban said. “It got so bad that it became more important than my kids. I’m embarrassed to say that.” As the newspaper story made the rounds at the Farrells’ breakfast table that morning, Far- rell, a trial lawyer, realized that the blame didn’t lie with Mexican drug cartels or any of the usual suspects, but instead with American companies, all of them profiting from the misery on the streets outside. These corporations were earning unprec-

SUNDAY, JULY 17, 2022 . THE WASHINGTON POST EZ BD B3 I had a choice When Texas cartoonist Marian Henley was violently raped in 1974, she didn’t have to worry about what would happen if she got pregnant. The Supreme Court had decided Roe v. Wade the previous year. Today, at least five states ban abortion with no exceptions for rape. Texas will join those states in a couple of weeks. You finally got me, covid, after all I did to avoid you A fter two vaccinations and two boosters, New country away caring for her elderly mother. I ask my doctor, “Is my husband safe?” He’s is also his personality type. By Day 5, the official covid gets me. After 27 months of dodg- Yorker Candy “I’ve never been that sick,” he wheezed through even older than someone my age. end of isolation, he dines yards away from my ing the coronavirus by limiting my activ- Schulman says his thick metal door. new meal tray at my desk. We watch movies in ities and much of my life. After all that hand two years ago Her advice: Don’t eat meals or sleep in the separate rooms, then text each other our reac- washing. After missing holidays, graduations, she would have That was omicron. The Washington Post same room. Wear masks in the house. No need tions. birthdays, funerals. Years after I stopped disin- been terrified. reports that omicron infections might not for Clorox. fecting groceries. Now she’s provide lasting immunity against today’s B- It’s lonely at the bottom. I keep reminding mostly just something-or-other, the most transmissible Remove from list: Spray husband with Lys- myself I’ve been fortunate, as I slurp potions of The bars in my Greenwich Village neighbor- angry. bug yet. The headline on NPR: “Don’t panic.” ol. raspberry Emergen-C and all the sorbet I want hood are more crowded than ever, as if the The surge this fall could be worse. without guilt. I still feel bad about my death pandemic is over. I, too, grow weary of caution My contemporaries count the number of wish to 45, even though on his watch, hundreds and let my guard down. Covid knows and is Remember when we thought it might be friends, relatives and enemies who have suc- of thousands of people needlessly died from quick to attack. In Westchester, no less, not the over in two weeks? Remember when we were cumbed in the past week, some for the third covid. Today it’s the third-largest cause of death New York City epicenter. I allowed myself a day afraid of bedbugs? Remember when we had time. in the United States. of old-time freedom: swimming in an indoor never heard of monkeypox? pool, dinner in a restaurant followed by an When President Donald Trump had covid, I My doctor grants me permission to take indoor concert, albeit masked. I still have canned beans I stocked up on in felt guilty wishing he would die. I’m an anti- walks outside. I feel morally obligated to wear March 2020. Now I realize that when you have gun lefty with a psychology degree who teaches my mask everywhere, increasingly angry at More surprising than careful-me getting covid, the last thing you want is beans. A college students to have values and empathy vaxless, maskless people who continue to covid is that I’m not scared. I’m far from a calm science writer friend advises me to drink 100 for others. I have never wanted to harm any- spread covid. More therapy. person and would have been terrified two years ounces of fluids a day. I count each ounce of one. ago. Today I treat it like a cold. Checking the bone broth as it goes down, hoping it blasts My father was a fatalist, a mathematician expiration date of the NyQuil in my medicine away my virus like a tidal wave. “What about Hitler?” a friend asked during who believed in gambling in the stock market cabinet, I’m not unduly alarmed. Even though lockdown. “Would you wish him death from while his own mantra was, “When your num- the New York Times reports a community My first sign is an intense headache. I don’t covid if he were alive?” ber’s up, it’s up.” infection level in New York City, where I live, know it yet, but it will last for weeks. My doctor averaging more than 4,000 new cases a day. prescribes Paxlovid, the controversial antivi- Of course. I thought about consulting a Experts fear that we will all have to cope Nationally, there are more than 130,000 daily ral. On our telehealth visit, she’s set up her rabbi about my rage — except I didn’t have one. with subvariants infecting people several cases, a 16 percent increase in the last two computer so I can see her only from the Instead I scheduled an extra therapy session. times a year, but they dispute one another’s weeks. As New York’s caseload plateaued be- eyebrows north. crystal ball predictions. I believe in science, but fore rising again, the virus used its unlimited “Anger stems from your past, from the un- we’ve never traveled here before. I start to pass to visit the Mid-Atlantic, the South and the I hear her say, “Paxlovid will keep you out of conscious,” my therapist said. worry again about everyday concerns: whether Southwest. The World Health Organization the cemetery.” my daughter is using sunscreen, shark sight- now reports that “the virus is running freely,” “So it’s okay?” I asked. ings at the beach, cars that swerve dangerously spiking in the United States and Europe. She actually says, “It won’t shorten the virus, “Our time is up,” she said. on the freeway. Soon I segue into mass shoot- but it’ll reduce the risk of hospitalization and I email everyone I was in contact with prior ings, climate change, the tanking stock market, Miraculously, I haven’t lost anyone to the death for someone your age.” to my symptoms. the war in Ukraine. I live a mile from Ground pandemic. Even my 99.9-year-old mother-in- “I had covid already!” one friend boasted in Zero and am skilled at new normals. law, whom my husband moved into a Florida Doctors have been using that phrase — an emailed response. “I was thinking of how nursing home in the third wave of the pandem- someone your age — since before I entered the terrifying it would have been if you’d gotten Before I finalize my new worry list, I test ic, is thriving, anticipating her coming birth- high-risk covid group. The pandemic began covid two years ago in NYC. Now it’s just a small negative. I throw my mask up in the air the way day. when I was 67, back when a friend sprayed her nuisance. Thank heaven for vaccines!” a college graduate tosses her cap toward the clothes with Lysol after each outing. I sipped my husband’s wine 12 hours before sky, joyful and relieved, yet uncertain about the I’ve dropped off gallons of chicken soup to my first splitting headache. He keeps testing future. I start to panic. What if this headache sick friends’ homes, trying to assess their Antivirals can reduce the risk of hospitaliza- negative. never goes away? breathing levels through peepholes. I was tion and death by 90 percent if taken in the first “Maybe he’s immune,” my doctor’s arched ready to take one friend to the hospital at the few days of symptoms. Yet this “lifesaving” brows say. Twitter: @CandySchulman worst of his bout. He was alone, his wife half a drug is still unproven. It leaves my throat with I’m the one who exercises regularly and Candy Schulman is an essayist, creative-writing a nasty taste, a blend of grapefruit juice and sticks to a Mediterranean diet. He eats a huge professor and native New Yorker. soap, as a woman accurately described it to chocolate chip muffin every morning, joined a Rachel Gutman-Wei in an article in the Atlan- gym and went only once. tic. I’m grateful to still have my sense of smell. I’m grateful my husband is negative, which

B4 EZ BD THE WASHINGTON POST . SUNDAY, JULY 17, 2022 My name is a Confederate monument, so I cross it out when I write it I n August 2017, I stood with about a dozen Baynard “Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlan- I’m aware that such a gesture could be empty eight White men, one of whom I believe was my other people in the predawn streets of Balti- Woods needed tic Slave Route,” the African American studies and even harmful, especially if followed too great-grandfather. more, watching equestrian statues of Rob- a way to reject scholar Saidiya Hartman writes that she chose fervently. It could serve to make me feel better ert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson swing from a his family’s role a Swahili name in an attempt to “undo the past while adding extra work for someone else try- The coverup was effective enough that no crane as they were removed from their plinths. in the history of and reinvent myself,” without taking into ac- ing to figure out how to deal with the practical one was ever held accountable. The name of A few days earlier, I was covering the racist rally slavery without count that “Swahili was a language steeped in issues surrounding this idiosyncratic byline. Peter Lemon was largely erased, rarely men- in Charlottesville when James Alex Fields denying it. He mercantilism and slave trading and dissemi- tioned in print again, other than in threat: In slammed his car into an anti-fascist march, found it in the nated through commercial relations among This technique is not something I want to 1887, 16 years after Lemon’s assassination, the killing Heather Heyer, seriously wounding a philosophical Arab, African, and Portuguese merchants.” In impose on others, nor could in every circum- Manning Times printed a letter to the superin- dozen more and shocking Americans into ad- strategy of what seems almost like a warning against my stance even if I wanted to. This publication, for tendent of the town, which had hired a Black dressing the history behind the thousands of writing ‘under best intentions, she writes, “The ugly history of instance, doesn’t allow a strike-through com- man as a police officer. “You are spotted,” the Confederate monuments in the United States. erasure.’ elites and commoners and masters and slaves I mand in the byline field. But when I am in letter read. “And it would be to my surprise if had tried to expunge with the adoption of an control and when it is my choice, as on the cover you don’t reconsider this matter you will be I grew up in South Carolina, where I had authentic name was thus unwittingly en- of my new book, I choose to cross it out as a done like Peter Lemon the Radical you can been raised to revere Lee, Jackson and other shrined.” reminder of the white supremacy we still need guess what became of him.” white-supremacist enslavers. Among their to undo. number, I counted members of my own family. In his autobiography, Malcolm X explains My great-grandfather, on the other hand, Standing out there, sleepless and shattered, I his name. “For me, my ‘X’ replaced the white The backlash to anti-racist education shows was praised by other White people as a man realized that my own name had stood as a slavemaster name of ‘Little’ which some blue- that there is power simply in naming White- who could be counted on when times got tough. Confederate monument over every story I had eyed devil named Little had imposed upon my ness. But drawing attention to the workings of He was a stalwart of the Democratic Party, ever written. maternal forebears,” he writes. The X served as Whiteness is, of course, inadequate to address which at that time was the party of “white a variable, standing in for the name that was the horrors hidden in our names — and of other man’s supremacy,” and was elected to the South I’d been looking into my family’s history stolen. And when White reporters asked about names erased. Carolina State Legislature, which passed the since the Mother Emmanuel church massacre the X or what his “real name” was, he had the apartheid Jim Crow laws that governed the in Charleston, S.C., in 2015, but after Char- opportunity to remind the reporters of that In 1871, my great-grandfather I.M. Woods state for another 70 years. Having learned all of lottesville, I again began to contemplate what it theft. was involved in the assassination of Peter J. this, I figured that crossing out my own name meant that in 1860, to take a single year, various Lemon, a Black county commissioner in South would be meaningful only if I could restore the Baynards believed that they owned 781 people, As an inheritor of that racist history, that was Carolina, as part of a wave of Klan terrorism name of Peter Lemon to the public record. I while the Woodses — from whom I’m directly not an option for me. Seeking some way to attempting to topple the Reconstruction re- began sharing my research with a local activist descended — claimed possession of 23 more. acknowledge the past embedded in my name gime, which happened in 1876 when a vicious and historian named George Frierson. Last But enslavers tended to marry enslavers, so I without continuing to honor it, I recalled the campaign of murder, fraud and repression April, on the 150th anniversary of the crime, we have no idea how many thousands of people philosophical strategy of putting a word “un- ended in the storming and occupation of the discovered the place where Lemon had been were held in bondage by those associated with der erasure.” It was a technique popularized by state Capitol. shot. Last month, we made a joint presentation my family. the French deconstructionist Jacques Derrida, to the Clarendon County Council, putting Lem- who argued that certain words contain their Lemon was a remarkable man, born into on’s name back into the public record, urging The question of what to do with Confederate own negation, which he signified by crossing bondage in Clarendon County in 1842. When them to name their administrative building monuments became, in my mind, mixed up them out. Such words, he suggested, are un- the Civil War began, he managed to escape and after Lemon and denouncing my family’s role with the question of what to do with my name. avoidable tools for speaking and thinking, but went to fight with the 5th Massachusetts caval- in his murder. For me, the answer was easy with monuments they are also inadequate. As such, they had to ry, for the Union side. He returned to Claren- to enslavers. Pull them all down. But the situa- be eliminated while also remaining legible. don County and was elected as a county com- Next, I hope to fund the installation of a new tion with my name and byline seemed more missioner in 1868, despite an election fraught gravestone in the cemetery where the histori- complicated. My own version of that would be: “Since the with racist violence and voter fraud. He helped cal records show that Lemon was buried. legacy of slavers cannot be borne, their names lead a Black militia, formed to fight back Since before Reconstruction, Black Ameri- are crossed out. Since the legacy of slavers against the brutal attacks of the Ku Klux Klan. These actions, too, are insufficient. But I cans have thrown off “slave names,” but I had cannot be covered up, their names remain Hundreds if not thousands of people, Black and need to acknowledge the harm those previous- never read or heard about White people ad- legible.” White, who supported the multiracial democ- ly bearing my names have caused. Every such dressing our enslaver names. But I knew I could racy of Reconstruction were tortured and action will always be flawed, but nevertheless no longer carry mine innocently, so I decided to But it is not a neutral action. I am trying to killed. necessary, just as my name can neither be try to grapple with what it represents. unbind the knots of power that still have effects changed nor borne. in the present. As Derrida writes, when a name On April 19, 1871, Congress passed the Third I quickly realized that, though I could no is “cancelled by a work of erasure,” it is “obliter- Enforcement Act, also called the Ku Klux Klan Only when we are aware of the cost of our longer bear my name — which I share with my ated rather than forgotten, toned down, deval- Act, which was intended to protect the newly history can we begin to reckon with what is Trump-supporting father, who died last year — ued.” And so I leave my name, but I cross it out, established rights of the formerly enslaved and owed. For me, this is a first, small step toward I could not change it either. To change it would allowing the slash to act as crime scene tape, end the campaign of terror in South Carolina reparations. only continue the coverup that kept me from both marking off that history and acknowledg- and other states. On that same day, according recognizing its reality. And any name I chose ing it. The strike through my name serves as a to congressional testimony and a coroner’s Twitter: @baynardwoods would probably be just as fraught as my own. reminder of my civil, psychological and ethical report, Lemon was lured to the Clarendon Baynard Woods is a writer living in Baltimore. He obligation. County town of Manning on county business is the author of “Inheritance: An Autobiography of I avidly sought out stories of other people and ambushed and shot by a party of six to Whiteness.” engaged in undoing their names. In her book French, Spanish and Colombian elections show a cycle of democratic discontent DEMOCRACIES FROM B1 A voter prepares to servatives; neither party managed to get a LUDOVIC MARIN/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES This constant churn in our politics makes for cast her ballot in candidate into the second, final round of the what Lee calls “the perpetual campaign.” governed by the main party of the left (the France’s presidential elections, as was the case in regional parliament. That suggests voters are Socialists) or the right (the Republicans). Yet parliamentary France. turning against the Socialist-led governing Dissatisfaction with the dominant parties in 2017, voters abandoned those parties to elections on June coalition, a further sign of the turmoil and is just as profound in the United States as such a shocking extent that neither was able 19. The results Instead, one of the two final candidates disaffection in that nation. elsewhere. In 2016, an outsider — independ- to get a candidate into the second, final showed a break was an independent populist and real estate ent Bernie Sanders — nearly captured the round of the French presidential election. with President mogul who was not widely known before the As the June 19 elections across these Democratic Party’s presidential nomination, Macron ran and won as a free agent, Emanuel Macron, election and didn’t hold public rallies; his diverse countries show, citizen dissatisfac- while another outsider to traditional politics disconnected from any existing party struc- with gains by more success in making it to the second round was tion is pervasive and readily mobilized, but — Donald Trump — did win the Republican ture. Virtually overnight, he instead created a radical political credited in significant part to his substantial more easily in the negative form of rejecting nomination. The faction-riven conflicts in- new party, essentially a personality-based parties on the right social media following, including on TikTok. traditional parties and political figures. Yet side the parties are playing out now in the reflection of his own views, which he de- and the left The other candidate, Gustavo Petro, a former when insurgent parties or free agent candi- primaries, with House members seeking to scribed as “neither left nor right.” This fragmenting the guerrilla fighter who went on to win with dates get elected, voters quickly turn on them knock out their own party’s incumbents by pop-up party, composed of many political National Assembly. 50.4 percent of the vote, promises to change as well, in a continually turbulent process. On supporting primary challengers — a taboo novices, then quickly managed to capture Colombia to a state-centered economy. the economic front, voter grievances stem that began breaking down in 2020. Ameri- majority control of the National Assembly. from the effects of globalization on middle- cans’ belief that the two major parties are France seemed poised to have a completely On the same day, Spain held a major and working-class wages, the 2008 financial doing an adequate job is at one of its lowest new, effective governing majority. provincial election. The country had been crisis and its aftermath, and rising inequality. points ever. Not surprising, then, half the governed by a dominant center-left and On the cultural front, conflicts over pandem- country now identifies as independents, the Yet as soon as Macron started to propose center-right party, which had won alternat- ic policy and, in many countries, immigration highest share in history. Support for third policies, it was his turn to be dramatically ing elections since the end of the Franco era. policy fuel further anger and disaffection. parties has also never been greater in the disrupted. The “yellow vest” street protests But beginning in 2014, Spanish politics Social media is a major contributor as well: It United States; in a Gallup poll last year, 62 spiraled France into a year of constant fragmented dramatically. That year, a new makes possible the instant mobilization of percent said a third party is needed. political turbulence starting in late 2018. party, Podemos (“we can”), arose out of the opposition, delegitimizes political authority Despite this, in April, Macron was reelected, street protests of the spontaneous “Indigna- no matter who is exercising it and, in the In response to this dissatisfaction, some with the collapse of the two traditional dos” movement. The country ended up United States especially, enables the emer- reformers urge the United States to adopt parties now confirmed in a second election: holding four national elections from 2015 to gence of free agent politicians who can find proportional representation for the purpose In the first round, their candidates received a 2019 in an effort to find a stable governing national audiences and raise vast amounts of of creating a multiparty democracy. Members mere 1.8 percent (Socialist) and 4.8 percent coalition. In five years, Spain’s two-party money through small donations, even in of Congress have introduced legislation to (Republican) of the vote. Once again, Macron system shattered into an unwieldy five-party their first years in office. permit states to implement proportional won in a contest that pitted him against the system. In the last of those elections, the representation — which they are currently right-wing insurgency party of Marine Le Socialist leader, Pedro Sánchez, was forced to The French, Spanish and Colombian exam- prohibited from doing — for elections to the Pen. After winning consecutive presidential form Spain’s first coalitional government in ples, and similar ones across Western democ- House. As the recent European elections terms, perhaps now Macron would be able to order to put together a thin majority in racies, shed light on the turbulent politics in demonstrate, however, in this era of political exert effective authority. parliament, which in 2020 made him prime the United States. Starting with the Republi- fragmentation, proportional representation minister. can capture of the Senate in 1980, not since has problems of its own. If the United States And yet, voters turned sharply against the Civil War have we had such an extended moved in this direction, the left and right Macron a mere two months later when But the country’s recent major provincial period in which partisan control of at least would fracture into two or three parties each elections were held for the National Assem- election is revealing discontent with that one of the three national political institutions (at least). Proponents of proportional repre- bly. The success of more radical parties on fragile government. In Andalusia, Spain’s — House, Senate, White House — is realisti- sentation celebrate that. Yet as dysfunctional right and left stripped the president of a most populous region and long a stronghold cally up for grabs nearly every election. As the and ineffective as Congress currently is, can legislative majority and fragmented the Na- of the Socialist Party, the conservative Popu- congressional scholar Frances Lee puts it, we you imagine trying to cobble together majori- tional Assembly to the point of “turbulence lar Party won an outright majority in the are now governed by “insecure majorities”; ties in a Congress of five or six parties? and incoherence,” as one analyst wrote. voters continually turn on the party in power. Indeed, even Macron advisers say they expect Democracies are facing numerous chal- “total paralysis” of the legislature; some lenges, including, in some countries, the rise advisers say the only option is for Macron to of illiberal forces and the risk of sliding back dissolve the Assembly in a year and call for into semi-authoritarian regimes. But politi- new elections. cal fragmentation is affecting nearly all Western democracies and reflects a wide Colombia’s presidential vote tells a similar range of ideological positions. Concerted, tale of churning democratic disaffection, in a sustained political majorities are necessary perhaps more puzzling context. As in France, to empower governments to deliver major both of the traditionally dominant parties, policy reforms, but the splintering of parties the Liberals and the Conservatives, col- and the rise of essentially independent lapsed. The incumbent president, Iván politicians are making effective government Duque, a moderate conservative, was term harder to deliver across the West. Given the limited. In his four years in office, Duque forces driving this dissatisfaction, it would be “oversaw a record of policy success un- naive to believe there’s some simple cure-all matched in recent South American history,” for restoring stronger governments. Still, as David Frum put it in an Atlantic essay. The there are institutional reforms that might country’s economy expanded at an annual help the United States push back against rate of 8.5 percent in the first quarter of this factionalism and fragmentation: changes to year, and Duque effectively managed a mas- the structure of primary elections; the use of sive influx of 1.7 million refugees from ranked-choice voting; more competitive elec- Colombia’s collapsing neighbor, Venezuela. tion districts; traditional forms of publicly Despite this, Duque left office with an financed elections (rather than those based approval rating of around 20 percent. Faced on small donors); greater input from elected with budget struggles owing partly to the party figures in choosing presidential nomi- pandemic, he had proposed raising taxes on nees. If democracies are unable to deliver many common goods and services, triggering effective government, disaffection, anger and months-long street protests, which, even alienation will continue to grow. Even worse, after Duque rescinded the proposal, turned that failure can draw voters to authoritarian into an expression of general anti-govern- leaders, who promise to cut through dysfunc- ment rage, with at least 58 deaths, many at tion and deliver what democratic govern- the hands of police, according to a human ments seem unable to provide. rights organization there. As in other democ- Richard H. Pildes is the Sudler family professor of racies recently, voters turned against the constitutional law at New York University School of political class as a whole. Anti-establishment Law and a co-author of “The Law of Democracy.” politicians trounced the Liberals and Con-

SUNDAY, JULY 17, 2022 . THE WASHINGTON POST EZ BD B5 A Hollywood villain, through a wider lens WEINSTEIN FROM B1 HOLLYWOOD bullying behavior Auletta uncovered in 2002: sexual behavior. The other 20 inventory Mira- JEENAH MOON/GETTY IMAGES ENDING temper tantrums, verbal abuse of staff and max’s successes with “Pulp Fiction,” “Sling the mogul’s criminal behavior. Was it his Harvey colleagues, and profligate eating, smoking Blade,” “The Piano” and “Scream.” Auletta most true-crime reporting, it exists because angry and overbearing mother? Was it, as Weinstein and and spending. Perhaps this is the Harvey that proposes that those successes are the reason women suffered. Yet its main topic is neither Weinstein himself puts it, growing up “poor, the Culture Auletta knows best, or perhaps Auletta is Weinstein’s contemporaries protected him, those survivors nor the noble reporters and ugly, Jewish,” always the outsider and the of Silence quietly reasserting the significance of his 2002 but in devoting more pages to Weinstein’s prosecutors who ended a monster’s reign of underdog (positions, it should be clear, that By Ken Auletta profile and the revelations it contained. business dealings than his victims, the author terror. It is, still, the monster himself. I am not Weinstein also embraced)? Who cares? As Penguin Press. perpetuates a value system that prizes art over convinced that knowing Weinstein better will anyone who’s ever seen a horror movie knows, 466 pp. $30 Either way, I found myself wondering why I the people hurt by its maker. Certainly Wein- help women “gain some sort of power over ex post facto explanations of the monster’s Harvey Weinstein should care about Weinstein’s corporate pow- stein should not have yelled at colleagues, culturally endemic narratives in which girls pathology are beside the point. The revela- arrives at court in er struggles, such as whether he was insubor- started a whisper campaign to diminish the and women are brutalized” — a common tions about Norman Bates’s terrible childhood New York in dinate to Michael Eisner after Disney bought Oscar chances of “Saving Private Ryan,” or rationale for the genre that Tanya Horeck at the end of “Psycho” do nothing to help February 2020. The Miramax in 1993. Maybe Miramax didn’t forcibly kissed, stripped and molested actress- references in her book “Justice on Demand: Marion Crane, the victim of Bates’s murderous former film make as much money for Disney as the es and his employees. These offenses are not True Crime in the Digital Streaming Era.” So “shower scene” attack. Nor do such revela- producer is now Weinstein brothers claimed, and maybe Har- commensurate, however, and in his rush to read “Hollywood Ending” if you’re interested tions prevent future Normans from assaulting serving 23 years in vey did refuse to acknowledge Eisner as his document all of Weinstein’s inappropriate in how power is amassed and exploited in the future Marions or teach women how to avoid prison after being boss. But broken budgets and tyrannical behavior, Auletta, however inadvertently, sug- U.S. film industry, but don’t read it expecting Normans altogether. convicted of rape arrogance are less grievous offenses than rape gests that they are. answers about sexual violence or how to stop and a separate and sexual assault, and “Hollywood Ending” it. The monster has nothing to teach you. Like all of Auletta’s work, “Hollywood End- criminal sex act. implicitly conflates them. For instance, in a “Hollywood Ending” is a finely crafted Caetlin Benson-Allott is a professor of English, ing” is thoroughly researched and eminently 28-page chapter on “The Culture of Silence,” biography of an ignominious sexual predator. film and media studies at Georgetown University readable. Auletta is a highly skilled journalist which protected Weinstein in the mid-1990s, It is not a prurient book, yet I could never stop and author of “The Stuff of Spectatorship: Material whose ability to assemble compelling narra- Auletta devotes only eight pages to criminal questioning its approach to its subject. Like Cultures of Film and Television.” tives from scores of sources helps him craft well-rounded characters and juicy prose. A prime example is his description of Wein- stein’s “unhinged, Shakespeare-worthy rela- tionship with his younger brother, Bob Wein- stein, which gyrated from an impregnable partnership to screaming matches, stony es- trangements, and, at least once, bloody blows.” Bob co-founded Miramax and the Weinstein Company with Harvey and initially shared Harvey’s mercurial temper and verbal- ly abusive tendencies. Yet over the course of “Hollywood Ending,” Bob Weinstein emerges as an emblem of redemption. Whereas Bob too once berated staff and even paid the settle- ments to some of Harvey’s victims (ostensibly without realizing that their claims involved assault), he entered treatment for alcoholism in 2004 and later tried to guide his brother toward addiction recovery as well. What Bob knew and how much he enabled Harvey remains unclear, but in Auletta’s hands his character demonstrates that rehabilitation is possible, that Harvey could have changed but didn’t. By exploring Harvey’s relationship with his brother and other men, Auletta humanizes the monster, which makes his approach feel fun- damentally misguided. As Auletta himself is the first to admit, he failed to expose Wein- stein’s sexual predations in a 2002 profile for the New Yorker. Auletta admirably addresses that shortcoming in his book and praises Kantor, Twohey and Farrow for eventually breaking the story he couldn’t. Yet “Hollywood Ending” persists in emphasizing the same DBroookresn A six-part podcast | No-knock warrants can destroy lives. Why are they so easy to obtain and carry out? Listen wherever you get your podcasts N0229 6x10.5

B6 EZ BD THE WASHINGTON POST . SUNDAY, JULY 17, 2022 Book World CRIME REVIEW BY BALAJI RAVICHANDRAN Why Britain welcomes international bad guys — and their money I n 1835, Britain took out a loan for 20 million BUTLER TO tions on currency. They thus avoided the CHRIS RATCLIFFE/BLOOMBERG NEWS investigations into money laundering by the pounds, which then amounted to some THE WORLD postwar weakness of the sterling and drew on Russian mafia, Firtash might not have been 40 percent of its annual income. The loan, How Britain Helps the vitality of the dollar. This severed the can register a company in Scotland without arrested at all. He was captured by the Austri- worth 300 billion pounds (more than $350 bil- the World’s Worst dollar’s relationship to the bullion well before having to reveal the identity of its owners or an authorities in 2014 and has since been lion) today, was not paid off until 2015, at the People Launder President Richard Nixon made it official in the provenance of its funds. All one needs is an fighting extradition to the United States in taxpayers’ expense. Money, Commit 1971. “Money,” writes Bullough, was now worth address. This obscure law has been used to Viennese courts. Yet, even after this, his aristo- Crimes, and Get whatever “someone would pay for it” — which commit international fraud, steal $1 billion cratic partners in Britain continued to support Britain has often claimed that this money Away With only the rich could afford to do, and from from Moldova and aid the arms trade between and protect him. This is just one example of went toward the abolition of slavery and the Anything which the bankers stood to profit. Ukraine and the Persian Gulf — all detailed in how much Russian money flowed into Britain slave trade. But not a cent of it went to the By Oliver Bullough the book. after 1991 and the political influence it pur- formerly enslaved or as reparations. Instead it St. Martin’s. The second step was the transformation of chased. went to enslavers, who wanted compensation 288 pp. $28.99 Britain and many of its remaining insular Perhaps the most disturbing story in the for the loss of income from their “properties.” If Oliver Bullough possessions — Gibraltar, Jersey, the British book involves, appropriately enough, Russia None of this would have been possible, the acts of abolition took decades to pass, after writes that Britain Virgin Islands — into offshore tax havens. This and Ukraine. Given the strategic importance Bullough argues, without the collusion of Brit- multiple failed attempts, it was in no small made itself a allowed the wealthy to sequester their money, of Ukraine as a purveyor of Russian gas, ish lawmakers, or the bankers and lawyers part because British lawmakers, hundreds of “butler” to the in dollars, under British jurisprudence while President Vladimir Putin installed a puppet to with whom they had intimate ties. The bank- whom had interests in and income from slave world’s rich and avoiding the regulations and taxation of poor- oversee the Ukrainian side of this business. ers, for their part, gave the same two excuses: trade and labor, would not consent until the powerful by setting er countries, which were drained of their This man was Dmitry Firtash, whose identity one, if we don’t do it, someone else will; two, government capitulated to their demands. up offshore tax revenue. Britain itself suffered. Because of was long hidden. Once exposed, however, he our work will create wealth, reduce poverty havens, creating an competition from countries like Gibraltar, law- was able to move to Britain under its “golden and promote peace. (As the head of Goldman This “compensation” has cast a long but artificial currency makers in Britain set about liberalizing laws visa” scheme, which allowed anyone wealthy Sachs once modestly put it: “We’re doing God’s hidden shadow in British history. Among its and allowing on gambling and reducing the tax burden on enough to immigrate in the name of “invest- work.”) Most British lawmakers either looked beneficiaries were the ancestors, already rich oligarchs to buy bookmakers, who nevertheless moved to Gi- ment.” the other way or drained the nation’s investiga- from slave labor, of the actor Benedict Cum- influence. braltar to avoid paying any tax at all. This tive agencies of money and resources in the berbatch and of David Cameron, who was allowed them to put profits back into advertis- Firtash partnered with an aristocrat named name of austerity. This is in stark contrast to serving as prime minister in 2015. ing and nurture a new generation of gamblers. Raymond Asquith, who now holds a peerage in the United States, where agencies such as the For those with a gambling addiction, this Parliament. He donated money to the Univer- FBI have far greater independence and power. This forgotten piece of history reveals an proved fatal. As many as 650 suicides a year in sity of Cambridge, was hosted by Parliament, important truth about Britain. It is a place Britain have been linked to gambling. opened the London Stock Exchange and even One can sense the urgency and dismay in where politics has always had an incestuous met the Duke of Edinburgh. His ascent Bullough’s writing, but, given the political relationship with the rich, and where money Those seeking to bring blood money into through the British establishment was aston- direction of Britain at the moment, he is not trumps morals. Oliver Bullough, in his latest Britain, however, need not have looked too far. ishing, and nobody thought to investigate optimistic. Britain is better than this, he says. book, “Butler to the World: How Britain Helps Thanks to a loophole in Scottish law, anyone where his money came from. (He bought gas at Why, I do not know. Nor am I convinced of his the World’s Worst People Launder Money, artificially low prices, then sold it at a high central conceit — Britain as butler — which he Commit Crimes, and Get Away With Any- premium.) Were it not for the FBI and its hammers in at every opportunity, and which thing,” charts the newest manifestation of this soon becomes tiresome. A butler, Bullough corruption. must know, is constrained by his class and opportunities. Britain isn’t. It chooses to be His account begins with the 1956 Suez corrupt and complicit. Crisis, which, in the wake of World War II, was a point of national humiliation for Britain. As This April, Boris Johnson became the first Dean Acheson, secretary of state under Presi- sitting prime minister in history to be found dent Harry Truman, put it, “Britain has lost an guilty of breaking the law, for holding parties empire and has not yet found a role.” It soon during the pandemic lockdown. Fortunately did, argues Bullough. With the help of its for him, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine allowed bankers, almost all drawn from its upper him to deflect attention from his long history classes, it set about transforming itself into a of iniquities. This is ironic, as Johnson and his “butler” — another very British invention — predecessors paved the way for Russian oli- who serves his rich and powerful patrons garchs to “invest” money in Britain. The oli- without making his presence or intercessions garchs, in turn, donated money to the Con- on their behalf explicit. This is the guiding servative Party, bought up newspapers, sup- metaphor of the book, which he takes from the ported Johnson’s campaign, were made peers Jeeves and Wooster novels of P.G. Wodehouse. and were given access to the highest levels of (Jeeves was a valet, not a butler. But never the British government. Now Johnson has the mind.) temerity to stand on the global stage and pretend to support Ukraine and abhor Russian The first step in the formation of “Butler interference. There is no image more fitting to Britain,” as Bullough infelicitously puts it, was represent the face of Britain today. the creation of the eurodollar, an artificial Balaji Ravichandran is a writer based in New York. currency devised by bankers in London that allowed them to trade in dollars within Brit- ain, without being subject to American regula- SPORTS REVIEW BY STEVEN V. ROBERTS A collection that goes beyond ballplayers’ stats to tell their human stories G ood sportswriting is not mainly about ASSOCIATED PRESS who won the game. It’s about who played the game — their flaws and fears, Jackie Robinson, the first Black major league baseball player, steals home in a 1948 game. Columnist Ira Berkow took a creative approach to showing his impact. triumphs and tears. It’s also about the social setting in which those games are played, BASEBALL’S Berkow has a creative way of showing the off to my hotel in the black part of town, and Carew recalled rooming with Tony Oliva, an about the way sports reflect and reveal our BEST EVER impact of Jackie Robinson, who integrated they’d go off to their hotel.” outfielder who had suffered torn cartilage in humanity. In this collection of his newspaper A Half Century the sport in 1947. He turns to Ed Charles, a his knee: “I’d be asleep and wake up and hear columns, “Baseball’s Best Ever: A Half Cen- of Covering Hall journeyman infielder in the 1960s, who I laughed a lot, too. One of my favorite Tony cry like a baby in the night because of the tury of Covering Hall of Famers,” Ira Berkow of Famers recalled “the biggest day of my life,” when he characters is Lefty Gomez, a southpaw pitcher pain.” quotes another sportswriter, the immortal By Ira Berkow was 13 and Robinson came through his with the Yankees in the ’30s who once said Red Smith, on this point: “Games are a part of Sports Publishing. hometown in Florida with the Brooklyn about the slugger Jimmie Foxx, “He’s got Finally here are two bits of folk wisdom every culture we know anything about. … The 528 pp. $40 Dodgers. “I realized then I could play in the muscles in his hair.” Lefty’s catcher Bill Dickey that apply to sportswriters (and book review- man who reports on these games contributes major leagues,” Charles said. “When it was recalled a game when Gomez kept shaking off ers) as well as ballplayers. One comes from his small bit to the record of his time.” over, we chased the Dodger train as far as we his signs as Foxx came to bat. Finally Dickey the old Cardinals pitcher Dizzy Dean: “I ain’t could with Robinson waving to us from the ran out to the mound and asked Lefty what he what I used to be, but who the hell is.” And this Berkow, who wrote mainly for the Newspa- back. We ran until we couldn’t hear the sound wanted to throw. “I don’t want to throw him one from hurler Catfish Hunter, a country boy per Enterprise Association syndicate and any more. We were exhausted but we were nothin’,” replied the pitcher. “Maybe he’ll just from North Carolina: “The sun don’t shine on then for the New York Times, donates more never so happy.” For another angle Berkow get tired of waitin’ and leave.” the same dog all the time.” True enough, but than a “small bit” to that record. I often found interviews Larry Doby, who integrated the the sun shines on, and through, enough of myself skipping over the statistics and the American League just after Robinson’s debut A big part of baseball, often hidden from these columns to make this collection well standings he writes about — we already know and remembered the loneliness of being a the fans, is the nagging injuries that plague worth reading. what happened, after all — and focusing on pioneer once the games were over: “It’s then many players — especially catchers — during Steven V. Roberts teaches journalism and politics the personal stories, especially the ones about you’d really like to be with your teammates, a six-month season. Said Johnny Bench, one at George Washington University. His latest book is failure and disappointment. Here for instance win or lose, and go over the game. But I’d go of the best backstops ever, “I’ve been shot up “Cokie: A Life Well Lived.” is Mickey Mantle, a boyhood idol of mine, who with so many painkillers to stay in the lineup told Berkow in 1971, three years after retiring that if I were a race horse I’d be illegal.” Rod from the New York Yankees: “Playing baseball is all I’ve ever known. It makes me kind of bitter that it’s all over. You look around and see other guys my age, other guys forty years old, who are just starting to reach their peak in other jobs. And I’m finished.” Some statistics can be fascinating, howev- er, and one of my favorite columns features all the ways in which baseball’s biggest stars screwed up. Warren Spahn, one of the best left-handed pitchers of all time, gave up 434 home runs. Babe Ruth led the majors in strikeouts in four different years and whiffed 1,306 times — a benchmark for decades until Mantle flailed even more often. The record for grounding into double plays in a single World Series is seven — held by Joe DiMaggio. “At times, as the evidence shows, even the greatest among us aren’t great, or even very good,” Berkow writes. “Somehow, though, that’s heartening.” All collections of previously published pieces contain strengths and weaknesses. They can capture moments in real time, unfiltered by false nostalgia or faulty memory. But they can also feel dated and repetitive. Too many columns here focus on anodyne speeches by Hall of Fame inductees and elegiac tributes to recently departed old-tim- ers. But at his best, Berkow can turn a phrase like an all-star second baseman turning a double play. Here he describes Ozzie Smith, the ineffable shortstop of the St. Louis Cardinals: “He leaps, he dives, he whirls. He seems to appear behind second base as if popping from underground; he can soar and stay aloft like a hummingbird and wait for a line drive to arrive.” Of Kirby Puckett, a rotund yet robust hitter for the Minnesota Twins, Berkow says that he “is built like a keg of dynamite and periodically explodes like one.” One of this volume’s recurring themes is the intersection of race and baseball, and

SUNDAY, JULY 17, 2022 . THE WASHINGTON POST EZ BD B7 Book World N owadays racism and sexism are almost THE HIDDEN ECOLOGY REVIEW BY RICHARD SCHIFFMAN universally scorned as evils. But specie- KINGDOM sism, the notion that humans are OF FUNGI Our planet is covered in fungus, inherently superior to all other organisms Exploring the and that’s a good thing and, therefore, entitled to exploit them, Microscopic remains firmly rooted in our way of thinking World in Our JAHI CHIKWENDIU/THE WASHINGTON POST — and acting. Forests, Homes, and Bodies the algae together into a composite organism Fungi are also being cultured as meat natural world rather than against it. “Look to Granted, charismatic flora and fauna like By Keith Seifert whose most important ecological function is replacements, and their mycelia fibers have the fungi. Learn from their ways,” Seifert dolphins, redwoods and bald eagles are Greystone. breaking rocks down to create new soil. been enlisted in the manufacture of biode- urges. regarded as worthy of our empathy and 280 pp. $27.95 gradable packaging and building materials. protection. Weeds, rodents and creepy-crawl- Mushrooms, like Less well known — until recently at least — These voracious microorganisms are being The book is fact-heavy but lacking in the ies of all kinds, on the other hand, are this psychoactive are the vast underground networks of myceli- used to clean up oil spills and radioactive kind of entertaining anecdotes and asides decidedly less admired. Psilocybe mexicana um in forests, termed “the woodwide web,” waste, and to break down plastics. Biopros- that might make for easier reading. It also variety, are the which connect trees to one another and pectors are seeking out new varieties of fungi jumps from topic to topic without exploring On the bottom of just about everyone’s list fruiting bodies of facilitate the transfer of nutrients and infor- in the wild that can help produce a new anything in much depth. These are less flaws are fungi, the Rodney Dangerfields of the certain fungi. mation among them. generation of pharmaceuticals and psychoac- than the nature of the task that Seifert has set biotic world. They are loathed by many who Fungus species are tive drugs. (The hallucinogen LSD was made for himself — to provide an encyclopedic view them as unhygienic hangers-on that believed to Plants depend on the fungi that live on from the ergot fungus that grows on wheat.) survey of the field. need to be stamped out with a lethal battery outnumber all their roots to help them better absorb of fungicides, disinfectants and pharmaceuti- animals, plants and nutrients, protect against pathogens and The author credits these humble organ- For the innately curious, “The Hidden cals. birds combined. tolerate drought. Seifert says we need to isms with the capacity to spark a revolution Kingdom of Fungi” will be an eye-opening harness these talents. Instead of lacing fields in the way that humans relate to nature. introduction to a secretive world that most of But eradicating fungi from the world — with nitrogen-based fertilizers to artificially Technology is often seen as being opposed to us know too little about. even if that were possible — would amount to stimulate plant growth, the author envisions the natural order. But the burgeoning field of Richard Schiffman is an environmental journalist. signing our own death warrant, says Keith a shift toward “biofertilizers” — fungi-rich “mycotechnology” points to a future in which His latest book is a poetry collection, “What the Seifert in his book “The Hidden Kingdom of inoculants that will help crops to take we will learn to work together with the Dust Doesn’t Know.” Fungi: Exploring the Microscopic World in nitrogen directly out of the air. Our Forests, Homes, and Bodies.” The retired Canadian mycologist (fungus scientist) has written an accessible primer on a much-maligned category of organisms whose lives sustain our own. Without fungi, forests could not grow, agriculture would grind to a halt, carbon could not be recycled. There would quickly be no life at all. Fungi, the author tells us, are the meek that long ago inherited the Earth. There may be 10 times more species of fungi than all animals, plants and birds combined. (No- body knows for sure, because most fungi have never been adequately surveyed.) Rob Dunn, an ecologist who contributed an engaging foreword, suggests that we rename our current Anthropocene era “the Myocene,” because “however great our human impact may be, it pales in comparison with that of the fungi.” Yet even science came late to their study, and mycology remains a relatively under- funded backwater whose acolytes conduct their investigations in basement laboratories far from the gleaming halls of the more prominent disciplines. Like the scientists who study them, fungi prosper in even the smallest and most inhospitable niches, from the bottom of the sea to the cracks in wood flooring. Fungal evolution diverged from other living king- doms 1.5 billion years ago, and fungi remain among our planet’s most resourceful survi- vors. The reason they are so indispensable is that fungi are nature’s undertakers, tasked with disposing of the dead, returning vital nutrients to the soil and ensuring the continuity of life. These natural recyclers are everywhere. Seifert tells us that there are about 2,000 miles of fungal hyphae — microscopic fila- ments far thinner than a human hair — in a single teaspoon of rich organic soil. Fungi inhabit our guts and colonize our skin and hair follicles. These companions rarely pose threats to human life, the author assures us, although there are notable exceptions: the mold aspergillosis, for one, which kills thou- sands of people a year because of hospital-ac- quired infections. Poison mushrooms (mush- rooms are the fruiting bodies produced by certain fungi) contain deadly mycotoxins that discourage foragers. For the most part, however, fungi live in harmony with the ecosystems that they help keep in balance. But that balance is being disturbed. With climate change, fungal tree diseases spread by bark beetles are destroy- ing conifer forests throughout North Ameri- ca. Fungal rusts and smuts that are proliferat- ing in our increasingly warmer and wetter world endanger the world’s coffee supply. Seven out of the nine major crop diseases that threaten our food supply are fungal. Despite their destructive potential, fungi have a generous knack for working coopera- tively with other organisms. Their best- known symbiotic partnership is with lichen, in which algae produce food for fungi through photosynthesis, and the fungi knit HISTORY REVIEW BY SHARRONA PEARL By healing soldiers’ faces, an innovative plastic surgeon restored their dignity I f the face is the mirror of the mind, as THE ment. The importance of the face — of ASSOCIATED PRESS series of snapshots. Saint Jerome observed, then what hap- FACEMAKER appearance — in how we understand our- Fitzharris is presented with a tricky pens when the face is disfigured by the A Visionary selves and how others understand us has a more ways than one. savagery of war? “Whereas a missing leg Surgeon’s very long history; the ability to intervene in There are a lot of powerful stories in this dilemma: how to honor these men as people might elicit sympathy and respect,” Lindsey Battle to Mend such powerful ways, electively or otherwise, in their own right, and not just experimen- Fitzharris writes in her examination of World the Disfigured is rather newer. book. But Gillies’s heroism isn’t quite enough tal subjects or links in the chain of Gillies’s War I facial injuries and repairs, “a damaged Soldiers of to drive a narrative. The soldiers are treated research agenda. Gillies, Fitzharris makes face often caused feelings of revulsion and World War I War has always driven developments in gently and with respect, although we don’t clear, did not view them that way; the disgust.” By Lindsey medicine and healing, partly because it really get to know them enough to distin- research was in service of them rather than Fitzharris creates so much need. Gillies met that need in guish them from one another. I’m not sure we them providing an opportunity for re- Her book “The Facemaker: A Visionary Farrar, Straus could, with the limited material available, search. Fitzharris sticks close to the pro- Surgeon’s Battle to Mend the Disfigured and Giroux. but there is an ache, a kind of loss in this cedures, the operations and the soldiers Soldiers of World War I” conveys the emo- 336 pp. $30 who underwent them. Gillies’s own life tional, physical and psychical effects of Surgeon Harold takes a back seat, though we have some having an injured and altered face, directly Gillies, center, joins biographical details. from those who had to deal with them. That’s with others to both the soldier-patients and the medical accept an American We don’t always know what the soldiers personnel who cared for them, tried to heal donation of hospital thought about it all. That’s understandable: them and sometimes could only stand help- equipment in Fitzharris has pieced together this series of lessly alongside them. England in July vignettes from soldiers’ letters, combined 1940, during World with Gillies’s records and hospital archives. Fitzharris, a medical historian, anchors War II. Along the way, we learn a great deal about her story around Harold Gillies, an innova- hospital administration, health care on the tive plastic surgeon who dedicated his prac- front and the staggering efforts required to tice — and indeed his life — to facial save even a few lives in highly turbulent reconstruction. For each of Gillies’s new conditions. We learn about bravery, as well as procedures or experimental interventions, profound commitment to and respect for Fitzharris offers a long history of plastic human life in a situation designed to eradi- surgery, acknowledging the debts Gillies and cate both. We learn straight from the soldiers others had to, in particular, Indian and themselves. Chinese doctors as well as more recent Western approaches. We already knew that pain is real. That faces matter. That disability lies as much in In many ways, this is the story of a hero. how others treat people and how the world Gillies not only pioneered a number of does or does not accommodate differences in important plastic surgery techniques but bodies and minds. That doesn’t make the also was profoundly committed to giving soldiers’ testimony any less powerful, empa- disfigured soldiers back their dignity. He thetic and meaningful. treated their bodies and, Fitzharris makes Sharrona Pearl is an associate professor of clear, their minds and souls. Gillies was, in history and bioethics at Drexel University. Her most her rendering, not just a surgical trailblazer recent book is “Face/On: Face Transplants and the but also a key figure in expanding what Ethics of the Other.” counts as health and what counts as treat-

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METROKLMNO EZ RE C SUNDAY, JULY 17, 2022 . WASHINGTONPOST.COM/LOCAL 8 a.m. Noon 4 p.m. 8 p.m. High today at RETROPOLIS LOCAL OPINIONS OBITUARIES approx. 4 p.m. 75° 83° 88° 80° Stephen K. Bannon’s Maryland voters probably John Froines, 83, was one 88° contempt-of-Congress trial will have to wait weeks to of the “Chicago Seven” echoes that of Nixon learn the outcome of this tried after the 1968 Precip: 50% burglar G. Gordon Liddy. C5 week’s primary races. C4 Democratic convention. C9 Wind: SE 4-8 mph Prosecutors seek 15-year sentence in Jan. 6 case BY SPENCER S. HSU Those refusing plea deals The defense for Reffitt, a 49- essential example of an intent to DANA VERKOURTEREN/ASSOCIATED PRESS U.S. prosecutors asked a judge are warned of enhanced year-old former oil industry rig both influence and retaliate Friday to sentence the first Capitol punishment for terrorism manager, asked for a below-guide- against government conduct A sketch depicts Guy W. Reffitt, left, with lawyer William Welch in riot defendant convicted at trial to lines sentence of two years in pris- through intimidation or coer- court in D.C. He was the first Jan. 6 defendant convicted at trial. 15 years in prison, following visory federal guidelines. on. But Assistant U.S. Attorneys cion,” the statutory definition of through for the first time on Reffitt was convicted March 8 of Jeffrey S. Nestler and Risa terrorist violence subject to harsh- threats to seek enhanced terror- Berkower sought a punishment er punishment. ism sentencing penalties for indi- five felony offenses, including ob- that would be about three times viduals who reject plea deals in the struction of Congress’s meeting to longer than any sentence handed Reffitt “played a central role” at Jan. 6, 2021, attack on Congress. certify the 2020 presidential elec- down to date in a felony Jan. 6 the head of a vigilante mob that The request for Guy W. Reffitt, a tion, interfering with police and case, calling his case exceptional. challenged and overran police at a recruiter for the extremist Three carrying a firearm to a riot, and key choke point, and conventional Percenters movement who led ri- threatening his teenage son who “Reffitt sought not just to stop sentencing rules are of “inad- oters at the Capitol, is roughly turned him in to the FBI. Congress, but also to physically equate scope” to account for the one-third longer than the nine to attack, remove, and replace the range of his offenses, they wrote in 11 years recommended under ad- legislators who were serving in a 58-page sentencing memo. Congress,” prosecutors wrote. They called his conduct “a quint- A jury found that Reffitt traveled SEE REFFITT ON C5 Voters in Md. worried by crime ISSUE LOOMS LARGE IN GOVERNOR’S RACE Prominence veers from usual voter priorities ROBB HILL FOR THE WASHINGTON POST BY OVETTA WIGGINS Crime in Baltimore and be- Entrepreneurs spur new business surge yond has become a top issue in the governor’s race in Maryland, a D.C. region bricks-and-mortar openings now surpass the number of pandemic-induced closings in early 2020 stark departure in a wealthy, highly-educated state where the BY JOHN D. HARDEN vices, construction, entertainment mists say have grown as well. economy and education usually Call it the Great Hustle. and wholesale disappeared during the Combined, the District, Maryland draw the most voter attention. Despite record unemployment and first part of 2020 in the D.C. metro Even before the mass shoot- concerns of widespread business clo- area, the number of new bricks-and- and Virginia saw applications for ings in Highland Park, Ill., Uval- sures early in the coronavirus pan- mortar businesses continually in- business licenses jump from about de, Tex., and Buffalo, persistent demic, the number of people seeking creased in the next few quarters and 176,000 in 2019 to 219,000 in 2020 and gun violence in Baltimore and to start and develop their own busi- surpassed the number that closed, 262,000 in 2021. beyond were reshaping the de- nesses in the D.C. region surged, a Bureau of Labor Statistics data shows. bate in the gubernatorial primary Washington Post analysis shows. That growth — much of which came in The surge was a surprising byprod- as frustrated residents pressed While more than 1,000 establish- educational services, health care, con- uct of the pandemic, experts said, as candidates to push beyond ments in sectors including food ser- struction and finance — does not new business owners emerge in an thoughts, prayers and talking include the online shops that econo- effort to supplement dwindling in- points and provide solutions. comes, turn hobbies into professions “We can’t keep doing what we’re doing,” said Marvin “Doc” SEE REBOUND ON C3 Cheatham Sr., 71, a community activist and president of the Mat- Taqueria Xochi chef and co-owner Teresa Padilla cuts up a prickly pear cactus leaf for use in many of thew Henson Neighborhood As- the dishes at the U Street restaurant. Padilla and Geraldine Mendoza opened their bricks-and-mortar sociation in Baltimore, who spon- sored a candidate’s forum last business in October 2020 after losing their jobs when the pandemic first hit. month. Recent high-profile incidents Md. readies for competitive primaries New bridge over Potomac thrust the wreckage and root aims to double train capacity causes of shootings into candi- Heated contest among her old seat in a competitive race Because of how deep blue the dates’ laps as they struggle to Democrats in 4th, as against former Prince George’s Prince George’s-anchored district A pedestrian span is part route for trains traveling south of break through in an election GOP eyes redrawn 6th County state’s attorney Glenn is — Joe Biden won it by 80 of the project, expected the nation’s capital. The new span where many voters remain unde- Ivey. The seat is open after Rep. percentage points in 2020 — who- to be completed by 2030 between Washington and Arling- cided headed into the final BY MEAGAN FLYNN Anthony G. Brown (D) decided to ever wins the primary will almost ton would double train capacity stretch, shifting the focus and In the shadow of the Maryland run for attorney general. without a doubt become the dis- BY LUZ LAZO to support commerce and in- tenor of the governor’s race: a gubernatorial race, voters head- trict’s next member of Congress, Virginia is advancing a $2 bil- creasing demands for passenger gunman sprayed 60 rounds from ing to the polls Tuesday will pick The race has attracted millions making it Maryland’s highest- lion plan to expand freight and rail along the busy East Coast an assault weapon in Northeast candidates in Maryland’s eight of dollars in outside spending, stakes race Tuesday. passenger train traffic over the corridor. Baltimore, killing a man in his congressional districts to solidify particularly from a super PAC Potomac River, hoping to allevi- mid-20s; a bullet ricocheted into matchups in a tumultuous mid- affiliated with the American Isra- All of Maryland’s six other ate a growing bottleneck at a The project will also add a the home of an 83-year-old wom- term election year. el Public Affairs Committee, Democratic incumbents face bridge that has connected the pedestrian and bike bridge be- en as she lay in bed; a 15-year-old The Democratic primary in which endorsed Ivey and has noncompetitive primary chal- Southern and Northeastern Unit- tween Long Bridge Park in Ar- allegedly opened fire in down- Maryland’s 4th Congressional been attacking Edwards. Mean- lengers; Rep. Andy Harris, the ed States for more than a century. lington and East Potomac Park in town Baltimore, killing one teen, District is at the top of the bill, as while, Edwards, who served the delegation’s only Republican in The plan calls for a new two- the District, creating a walkable injuring two others and sending the district’s former congress- duration of the Obama adminis- the heavily GOP 1st District, is track span parallel to the Long connection from the growing hundreds scrambling for cover. woman Donna F. Edwards hopes tration, has drawn on allies with unopposed, but two Democrats, Bridge, which serves as the main Crystal City neighborhood to the The tension has echoes in races to complete a comeback bid for national star power, ranging from Dave Harden and Heather Miz- Southwest Waterfront area. Plans up and down the ballot nationally Hillary Clinton to House Speaker eur, are vying for the chance to call for the project to be complet- and comes against a backdrop of Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), flexing challenge him. Sen. Chris Van ed by 2030. urgency and consequential bipar- the kind of relationships with key Hollen (D-Md.) is also on the tisan federal action on firearms Democratic figures that Edwards ballot but does not have a serious Virginia unveiled design con- last month. Tough-on-crime mes- has argued makes her more challenger. cepts for the project this month, saging, a hallmark of 1990s-era equipped to return to Congress. politics driven by fallout from the SEE CONGRESS ON C6 SEE BRIDGE ON C2 “war on drugs,” is reverberating through midterm races across the country as cities face upticks in gun violence and homicide rates, squeezing Democrats caught be- tween promises of advancing so- cial justice and reducing violence. Democratic candidates vying to succeed term-limited Republi- can Gov. Larry Hogan, who SEE CRIME ON C7 Election coverage inside What to expect in the races for Montgomery state’s attorney, Prince George’s sheriff. C6, C7 Theresa Vargas She is away. Her column will resume when she returns.

C2 EZ RE THE WASHINGTON POST . SUNDAY, JULY 17, 2022 commuter Montgomery o∞cials devise plan to make walking safer BY KATHERINE SHAVER MONTGOMERY COUNTY PLANNING DEPARTMENT) older, will know where they can Montgomery County resi- take breaks. dents who need a sidewalk must Pedestrians cross Georgia Avenue at Connecticut Avenue in Silver Spring, an area with heavy vehicle traffic. Despite prior Montgomery ask for one and typically wait up County initiatives to improve safety for pedestrians, they remain among the most vulnerable road users, especially in lower-income areas. Boyds resident Miriam to 10 years to get it — and that’s if Schoenbaum, a pedestrian and there’s no outcry from neighbors to shift in a more walkable require “complete streets” that ously focused pedestrian safety miles but have 40 percent of all transit advocate, said she hopes opposed to losing a favorite tree direction if we’re going to be- provide, and sometimes priori- improvements at a more micro pedestrian collisions. public officials will devote or space for street parking. come the sustainable, attractive tize, pedestrian and bicycle facil- level when updating individual enough funding to carry out the But as traffic congestion and climate-resilient county I ities. He said Montgomery also communities’ long-term growth “I think there are lot of people recommendations. Not only grows, the population ages and think we all want it to be.” stands out for developing an plans. The county also recently in the county who would walk would people walk more if it felt an increasing number of lower- algorithm that predicts the like- approved new design guidelines more if they felt safe, if they felt safer, she said, but drivers would income residents can’t afford About 11 percent of all trips in lihood of crashes — and the need for local roads to encourage comfortable, if they felt their welcome reducing their chances cars, Montgomery planners say the Washington region are made for proactive safety improve- slower driving speeds, such as by needs as pedestrians were con- of hitting someone. their 1 million residents need by foot or bicycle, according to ments — at different locations narrowing lanes, and adopted a sidered in making some of the faster, more proactive and data- the Metropolitan Washington based on vehicle speeds, the bicycle master plan in 2018. decisions about our roads,” Gla- “There needs to be a county- driven ways to make walking Council of Governments. Even surrounding land use and other zier said. wide recognition of walking as safer and less stressful. as the region has opened new factors. Even so, pedestrians remain something people do to get from Building sidewalks more trails, added bike racks to buses among the most vulnerable road He said the Montgomery plan Point A to Point B in the county,” quickly — and before residents and incorporated pedestrian “A lot of these environments users. While they were involved will be one of the first in the said Schoenbaum, a statistician have to ask — is one of dozens of and cycling facilities into larger are inherently unsafe to walk in in 4 percent of all Montgomery country to include the mapping for a federal agency. “Otherwise recommendations they present- transportation projects, COG of- simply because of the speeds collisions between 2015 and of dirt paths, cul-de-sac cut- transportation planning mostly ed this past week for the first ficials say, safety remains a prob- people go and how wide these 2020, they suffered 27 percent of throughs and other shortcuts focuses on the roads, and then countywide “pedestrian master lem. roads are,” Farrell said. “It’s very severe injuries and fatalities, that walkers have created for they stick the pedestrian stuff on plan” aimed at retrofitting a difficult for a motorist going 50 planners say. The dangers are more direct routes. It also goes afterward.” suburb designed for cars. COG senior transportation mph to see a pedestrian in a particularly acute in lower-in- beyond other local plans, he Other proposals include add- planner Michael Farrell said crosswalk in time to stop.” come areas, which contain said, by suggesting more public Glazier said he’s aware some ing street lighting and more tree most Washington-area jurisdic- 14 percent of the county’s road restrooms and benches so walk- of the recommendations prob- shade, as well as gradually buy- tions, including Montgomery, Montgomery planners previ- ers, particularly those who are ably will face pushback in a ing smaller firetrucks and other county where about 90 percent government vehicles that leave of trips are taken by car and drivers with fewer pedestrian motorists suffer through some of blind spots. Planners say they the country’s worst traffic con- will use public input and safety gestion. Road space for a new data to prioritize improvements sidewalk might require taking based on where they are needed street parking on some narrow most, rather than catering to roads, while a longer “walk” residents who press for them signal in one direction could most persistently. The current mean a longer red light in the approach, planners say, can give other. short shrift to lower-income communities where people tend He said he also appreciates to walk more but might have less that finding the money to ex- connection to government. pand and upgrade a pedestrian They say the county also must network neglected for decades respond to rising demand for will be a “really big lift.” The plan more walkable communities, as suggests additional funding revealed by higher home prices could come from higher state in neighborhoods where resi- vehicle registration fees for larg- dents can walk to pick up dry er vehicles that are more danger- cleaning or grab a cup of coffee. ous for pedestrians and higher “We really see this as an market rates for public parking. economic competitiveness is- sue,” said Montgomery transpor- “We’re really digging out of a tation planner Eli Glazier, who is hole,” Glazier said. leading the effort. “I think this plan really understands the need Montgomery planners will so- licit public input on the recom- mendations this summer and fall before the planning board delves into the details early next year, he said. 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SUNDAY, JULY 17, 2022 . THE WASHINGTON POST EZ M2 C3 Surge in new businesses a surprise pandemic byproduct REBOUND FROM C1 ROBB HILL FOR THE WASHINGTON POST (DCPS did not respond to a request for comment.) or embark on new ventures. Taqueria Xochi, a Mexican restaurant on U Street in the District owned by Teresa Padilla and Geraldine Mendoza, opened in October The latter was the case for 2020 after the two lost their jobs in the early days of the pandemic. In between they operated out of a pop-up kitchen and a food truck. The experience pushed O’Don- nell to leave DCPS and found Teresa Padilla and Geraldine workers regained crucial hours profitable. Executive Director Carl Brown nomic panic.” Aaliyah in Action, an organiza- Mendoza, who were displaced in their days when they started Experts said the pandemic ac- said, the center helped 800 peo- He and his team now help tion that provides families with from jobs as a pastry chef and a working from home early in ple. A year later, that number care after the loss of their baby, restaurant manager, respectively, 2020. celerated the trend of people more than doubled, to 1,640, and clients with web design, video for which she also serves as CEO. after the pandemic hit in March going into business for them- then hit 1,665 in 2021, he said. and podcast production, graphic 2020. Their jobs were among the “The pandemic definitely al- selves, which had been jump- design and music composition. If employers or industries more than 140,000 positions in lowed us the luxury of having started by the emergence of Etsy, “I’ve never seen it like this Mentoring college students and don’t support workers, O’Don- the food and accommodation more time and energy,” said web Uber and Lyft. A 2019 U.S. Census before,” Brown said. “There’s no providing them with career ex- nell said, “people will leave the industry that disappeared in the developer Nameer Rizvi, who Bureau report published by a sign of this slowing down.” perience is a focus, too. profession, or they’ll leave and go months after the pandemic be- lives in Ashburn, Va., but worked team of economists reported that find somewhere else that they’re gan across the D.C. metro area, in D.C. “My commute to the office self-employment held a relatively Some in the region, such as Other new entrepreneurs were valued.” according to BLS data. was two hours there and then stable share of the workforce for D.C. resident Will Deatherage, part of another side of the pan- two hours back. So to have that about 50 years — until a rise started their own businesses be- demic’s reshaping of the work- Local governments play a vital But in the summer of 2020, four hours of the day back, that within the past decade. cause the pandemic made it force: an explosion in resigna- role, Montgomery County busi- Padilla and Mendoza began sell- definitely helped.” tougher to find a job. Deatherage tions. From April 2021 through ness liaison officer Daniel Koro- ing sandwiches from a Capitol “I think that we’re seeing, in built Catholics for Hire — a May 2022, an average of more ma said, in creating an ecosystem Heights pop-up kitchen and a The newfound time allowed many ways, the long-anticipated media consultant group — after than 4 million people nationwide that provides support to new food truck, found success, and Rizvi and his partner, Naomi- rise of the gig economy,” Halti- his internships disappeared left their jobs each month, the businesses — with tools such as then secured their own building. Grace Panlaqui — also a web wanger said. “I think it really when pandemic lockdowns went highest level ever recorded since start-up grants, office spaces and In October 2020 they opened developer — to follow up on an took off in the pandemic, partly into place. at least 2000, according to BLS programs that help owners man- their bricks-and-mortar eatery, idea they had seeded in early because we realized we could data. age their businesses properly. Taqueria Xochi, a fast-casual 2020: an app to aggregate con- actually do it.” “I had about 10 or 15 job But some local jurisdictions and Mexican restaurant in the Dis- cert listings from across D.C. applications that I was pursu- Elizabeth O’Donnell was a part business development centers, trict named after the ruins of D.C.’s Small Business Develop- ing,” he said. “They were all going of the pandemic resignation Montgomery among them, are Xochitecatl in central Mexico. Rizvi and Panlaqui named it ment Center, located at Howard very well. I was getting a lot of wave. O’Donnell, 31, had been a finding it difficult to keep pace DC Music Live. For now, they University, helps would-be busi- callbacks, lots of interviews, and D.C. Public Schools teacher for with the recent surge in new Padilla now works as the head said, they’re still freelancing and ness owners with basic start-up all of a sudden the pandemic hit seven years, but after her daugh- businesses. chef and Mendoza as the opera- working regular jobs while tin- classes in areas such as financial and every single one of those job ter Aaliyah was stillborn at seven tions manager. The business kering with the app, which is still literacy, business promotion and opportunities — gone. Hiring months in 2020, O’Donnell said, In Montgomery, which had grew quickly, Mendoza said. in its early stages and not yet international expansion. In 2019, freezes, budget cuts. A total eco- she was denied paid family leave. previously struggled with busi- ness formation, officials say they “It happened unexpectedly are seeing an almost 30 percent and organically,” she said. increase in demand for business “Thankfully, we had a lot of licenses and services since the friends that told the city about beginning of the pandemic. our food through word of mouth for us. And that’s what gave us “We need to be more compre- the confidence to push and to say, hensive, and when we do that, ‘OK, this is going to work.’ ” then we are able to help small businesses to become viable in The local boom in business the industry because it is impor- creation, experts say, could yield tant that we provide to them,” a spike in innovation and a shift said Daniel Koroma, a business in workplace culture, forcing liaison officer for the county. companies to re-examine their relationships with workers, who Still, Haltiwanger said, most have quit in waves for new jobs or licenses will probably not turn to strike out on their own. into businesses or, if they do, they might not stick around. 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C4 EZ RE THE WASHINGTON POST . SUNDAY, JULY 17, 2022 Local Opinions WASHINGTONPOST.COM/LOCALOPINIONS . [email protected] Virginia’s Want Maryland primary results? Wait. clean-energy future is in peril BY CHERYL C. KAGAN CHIP SOMODEVILLA/GETTY IMAGES BY ALFONSO H. LOPEZ AND MICHAEL TOWN V oters traditionally expect Campaign signs compete for space July 7, the first day of early voting, at the Silver Spring Civic Building. election results on election O n June 30, the Supreme Court dealt a major night. Ballots are counted, much of a head start, the general elec- abbreviated campaign season be- even later than mail-in ballots. blow to our nation’s ability to combat the pundits make projections, tion was not officially certified until tween the primary and general elec- Share the expectation of delayed climate crisis when it sided with coal companies and the candidates deliver victory or Nov. 30. Many local candidates were tions created by the court-ordered and their political allies in a ruling that signifi- concession speeches. Marylanders sworn in to office the very next day. postponement to the voting schedule. results with your friends, family, cantly limits the Environmental Protection Agency’s will be frustrated on July 19, when Third and most troubling, conspiracy neighbors and colleagues. Correct ability to regulate carbon pollution from power plants. they learn that this won’t be the case. This year, I sponsored a bill to allow theorists are likely to raise unfounded their rumors, allay their fears and We could be waiting until mid- to late for early processing of mail-in ballots doubts and make false allegations that express your confidence in our elec- This ruling is a setback in many ways, but it made August for the outcome and certifica- a modest eight days before the start of fraud or corruption are the only expla- tion systems. several points painfully clear. First, with action at the tion of the primary elections. early voting. Despite Hogan’s message nations for the delay. The tally will administrative level now called into question, Congress of support for this early canvassing, he definitely change when the mail-in Truly, you might be shopping for must act to address climate change in a meaningful How could this be? vetoed the bill. The nonpartisan ballots are added to those counted on back-to-school clothing before we way. Second, state action on climate change and clean An outdated law, an evolution in League of Women Voters sent a letter Election Day. This is neither unexpect- know the Democratic and Republican energy just got even more important. Sadly, Virginia voting habits, technology and old- to the governor condemning his deci- ed nor suspicious. gubernatorial nominees. With nine Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) is letting Virginians down at a fashioned partisan politics are to sion. Cynics had two explanations for candidates seeking the Democratic time when addressing climate change has never been blame. his perplexing veto. Some muse So what can you do about this? nomination for governor, the margin of more urgent. Thirty-eight states specifically al- whether this was pandering to the If you requested a mail-in ballot, victory could be very narrow and will low for mailed ballots to be counted right wing of the Republican Party as complete it. Sign the oath on the en- require time-consuming, accurate and In the past several years, Virginia has passed some of before Election Day. Eleven states and he contemplates a presidential bid. velope and send it (postage-paid) thorough tabulation before certifica- our nation’s most ambitious laws to cut carbon pollu- D.C. allow election administrators to Others suggest a strategic tactic to through the post office or slip it into a tion. Montgomery County, Maryland’s tion and accelerate the transition to clean energy — laws start processing these ballots before further compress the general-election convenient, secure, video-monitored most populous jurisdiction, has a goal that are returning dividends to Virginians by growing polls close. Maryland is the only state timetable to help his preferred guber- drop-off box before 8 p.m. Tuesday. If of certifying its election results no later our economy, cleaning our air and making Virginia a that specifically forbids opening and natorial candidate, Kelly M. Schulz. you try voting in person after having than Aug. 12. The State Board of Elec- safer, healthier place to call home. scanning mail-in ballots until two requested a mail-in ballot, you’ll only tions would likely certify within a week days after Election Day. Hogan refused to take executive be allowed to cast a provisional ballot, of Montgomery County. These policies are supported by two-thirds of Vir- This hasn’t been a problem until action again. And the State Board of which won’t be counted until a week ginians, people who recognize the threat of climate recently. In 2014, just 3 percent of the Elections declined to bring a legal case after Election Day. Maryland will always be committed change and want to see their elected leaders take action. roughly 734,000 ballots came in the for emergency relief. Don’t ask for an online-delivered to fair and accurate elections. That’s If you were wondering whether Youngkin actually mail. These were generally college stu- ballot. Though it sounds quick and what our democracy requires. Though wants to be a governor for all Virginians, you don’t have dents, business travelers, military per- So we will wait. And wait. easy, it’s not. Voters will need a printer, this timetable might be much later to look much further than his track record on the sonnel or those facing health crises. This extraordinary delay creates an envelope, a stamp and more. Then, than we’re used to, that’s what we’ll environment, which has earned him an F in the Virginia That night, the leading candidate de- several problems. First, it adds a mas- the local elections staffers need to hire have to accept for now. Let’s hope this League of Conservation Voters’ first-ever gubernatorial clared victory after his opponents con- sive burden to our hard-working, bipartisan teams to transfer your se- will be changed before November. rankings. ceded defeat before 10 p.m. competent and dedicated local elec- lections to scannable ballot stock. This The writer, a Democrat, represents Maryland allows “no-excuse absen- tions staff. The uninformed will blame process makes more work for voters Montgomery County in the Maryland Youngkin began working to roll back climate safe- tee ballots,” offering flexibility to busy (or even threaten) these workers for and is supremely time-consuming Senate, where she is vice chair of the guards before he was even inaugurated, telling a room people. During the coronavirus pan- the lack of timely results. After all, it’s and expensive for election adminis- Education, Health and Environmental of business leaders in Hampton Roads — our state’s demic, voters shifted from traditional estimated that scanners can process trators. Your ballot will be counted Affairs Committee, which has jurisdiction most flood-prone region — that he would work to take polling places to casting ballots from only 10,000 ballots in a 12-hour shift. over election law. Virginia out of the multistate Regional Greenhouse Gas home and mailing them (postage- Second, the delay shortens the already Initiative (RGGI), which is cutting pollution while paid) or depositing them in secure and returning hundreds of millions of dollars to our state video-monitored drop-off boxes. every year to protect communities from flooding, save More than 500,000 Marylanders low-income Virginians money on their energy bills and chose the mail-in option for this pri- position the commonwealth to respond to climate mary election. Depending on the change. number that are returned, we could be looking at half the ballots (or more) Youngkin issued an executive order directing agen- processed after Election Day. cies to immediately begin the process of removing With the exception of landslide or Virginia from the RGGI, despite the fact that the uncontested elections, it would be General Assembly passed a statute in 2020 mandating foolhardy to predict a winner based participation. He forgot that only the legislative branch solely on the ballots cast in person can lawfully pull Virginia out of the initiative. during early voting or on Election Day. Why didn’t we allow our 24 county His attacks haven’t stopped there. After the legisla- boards of elections to start processing ture rejected his choice for the post of secretary of ballots earlier? Well, we tried. natural and historic resources, Youngkin kept on In 2020, Maryland Gov. Larry Ho- Andrew Wheeler, a former coal lobbyist and a Trump gan (R) issued an executive order for administration EPA administrator who has built a mail-in ballot counting to begin 33 days career around attacking environmental protections before Election Day. Even with that that safeguard our air and water. Youngkin paid Wheeler $185,000 as a senior adviser before creating for Glenn Youngkin gives Virginia parents another victory Wheeler, through Executive Order 19, his own office in charge of cutting regulations in Virginia by an arbitrary BY MARY VOUGHT port per-pupil educational costs. The $100 million appropriation proved its worth in Virginia. 25 percent. If Wheeler’s track record of effectively Most other states — 45, to be exact for lab schools will allow Virginia to As the mother of two school-age dismantling environmental safeguards is any indica- A fter years of frustration, Vir- begin catching up with the rest of the tion, it’s clear what comes next: a Virginia where ginia parents finally have — already have the types of innova- country on educational innovation, children, I recognize the ways in polluters benefit and Virginians’ health and environ- reason to celebrate. Legisla- tive schools Youngkin is envisioning. giving universities the opportunity which the past two years have put ment suffer. tion recently signed into law These charter schools receive public to bring their skills to bear on the parents and students through so by Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) will funds but operate outside many of best ways to educate young people. many traumas — school shutdowns Our economy is also in jeopardy because of the create new, innovative schools the bureaucratic regulations and re- Already, George Mason University and quarantines, problems with vir- Youngkin administration’s extreme actions. In June, the throughout the commonwealth. strictions that can stifle creativity has indicated that it wants to work tual education, mask mandates, lost Biden administration announced a wind power coali- Families frazzled by years of corona- among teachers and principals. In with Northern Virginia Community learning and more. And as the moth- tion between the federal government and 11 East Coast virus-related school shutdowns and these states, parents appreciate the College and Fairfax County Public er of a child with a disability, I know states from Maine to North Carolina. Noticeably absent: outraged by the curriculums taught options charter schools provide and Schools to create a lab school in full well the added hardships that Virginia, a state that has been working to drive offshore in their public schools could even- value the accountability for results Northern Virginia. Youngkin has special-needs parents face trying to wind development in recent years. In 2021, Siemens tually have more options for their required as part of an institution’s said that other universities also have find an educational program that Gamesa announced its plans to build the United States’ sons and daughters. charter. expressed interest. will allow their children to grow and first offshore wind turbine blade facility at the Ports- thrive. mouth Marine Terminal, a major economic investment The budget package that Youngkin Unfortunately, Virginia law re- More applicants would come to in the commonwealth and one that only came because signed into law last month included quires local school boards to approve the table to create lab schools if But after all that suffering finally of our commitment to a clean-energy future. $100 million for university-adminis- the creation of each new charter Virginia lawmakers went further by comes a ray of hope. Youngkin has tered “lab schools” in Virginia. Of the school. And most Virginia school allowing public school funding to delivered on one of his key promises Youngkin’s actions are undermining this future. The appropriation, $5 million will go boards will not endorse any model follow each student who selects a lab — to empower parents with more fact that this administration is turning a cold shoulder toward planning grants for parties that serves as “competition” for the school. This proposal would provide and better educational choices. Not to fellow East Coast states — including three with interested in creating lab schools, traditional public schools they run — the ultimate form of accountability only will parents throughout the Republican administrations — in what is already a including public universities, com- even if that competition would by allowing dollars to flow to the commonwealth benefit from this major economic driver in Virginia shows just how munity colleges and select nonprofit benefit Virginia families and stu- schools that are best meeting par- promise kept, but the next genera- willing Youngkin is to put his extreme ideology over colleges, and $20 million of the dents. As a result, the entire com- ents’ and students’ needs. Hopefully, tion of Virginians will, too. what’s best for Virginians. It might grab news headlines appropriation would go toward lab monwealth had but seven charter Democrats in the state Senate will The writer is the founder of Vought or garner praise in conservative circles as Youngkin schools’ start-up expenses, with the schools in 2021, serving only about rethink their opposition to this con- Strategies and a visiting fellow at the works to elevate his national profile, but it hurts the remaining $75 million used to sup- 0.1 percent of the student population cept once the lab-school model has Independent Women’s Forum. state he was elected to lead. statewide. Alfonso H. Lopez, a Democrat, represents parts of Arlington and Fairfax counties in the Virginia House of Delegates and is the founder of the Virginia Environment and Renewable Energy Caucus. Michael Town is executive director of the Virginia League of Conservation Voters. Leave Rock Creek Park’s upper Beach Drive closed to cars BY SETH YEAZEL Central Park and occupies nearly ment, would someday be used for half of the $1.2 million cost of ly opening safe pedestrian access the wake of the pandemic. NPS 5 percent of the total area of D.C. the pleasure of the automobile Rock Creek Park’s establishment throughout Beach Drive, it will spends a significant portion of its N early 30 years before driven by 21st-century commut- onto the residents of D.C. In fact, join Paris, New York and other proposal describing the negative President Benjamin Har- This is why it is crucial that the ing suburbanites. Congress D.C. residents helped build the cities that have done so for many impacts of social trails and un- rison established D.C.’s National Park Service reconsider imagined that at the end of the roadways with their own hands. of their roads. NPS, on the other leashed dogs since the start of Rock Creek Park as a its proposal to reopen upper 20th century and after “future D.C. residents living in tenant hand, explains it is instead con- the pandemic but fails to ad- “pleasure ground for the benefit Beach Drive to vehicle traffic generations . . . develop [Rock housing along present-day Beach cerned with the fact that vehicles equately connect these develop- and enjoyment of all people of nine months out of the year, Creek Park] into a thing a beauty Drive were required to pay rent may be delayed “2.5 to 4.5 min- ments to the closure of upper the United States” on Sept. 27, rather than continuing to keep it . . . a million souls” would live in to the government or contribute utes during peak periods” and Beach Drive and short-shrifts the 1890, naturalist John Burroughs free for pedestrian use, as it has D.C. and the park would be a to the establishment of this may have to slow down as much reduced pollution and vehicular wrote that “there is perhaps not been since the start of the coro- place where a child could “pull a roadway in the form of physical as “6 mph between the Maryland accident risks to Rock Creek another city in the Union that navirus pandemic. leaf or put its foot upon a turf of labor. “Chain gangs,” likely all state line and Broad Branch Park’s wildlife. has on its very threshold so much grass” rather than fear injury D.C. residents, constructed en- Road.” NPS balanced this fact natural beauty and grandeur, In 1890, Congress indeed con- from a vehicle speeding on its tire viaducts and bridges with against its finding that perma- Ironically, while claiming that such as men seek for in remote templated that this pleasure way to a matter across town. “no machinery or appliances oth- nent closure of upper Beach the closure of upper Beach Drive forests and mountains.” He said, ground would be laid out and er than a common block and Drive would “greatly reduce” the has led to heavier park use, NPS “A few touches of art would prepared for “roadways . . . to be The people of D.C., who, in the tackle” to accommodate the number and severity of vehicle decries the reduced park access convert this whole region into a used for driving.” However, Con- wake of the pandemic, have park’s roadways. crashes into pedestrians and de- that would allegedly result from park unequaled in the world.” gress mandated that these road- made a major push to reshape termined that 2.5 to 4.5 minutes the closure of upper Beach Drive. ways’ purpose was to “provide city streets to serve people rather Considering this, it would be saved is worth that risk. Visitor-use facilities would still An 1867 congressional assess- for the preservation from injury than vehicles, and whose council especially inequitable for the ve- be accessible via motor vehicle. ment of the land noted its “wild or spoliation of all timber, ani- members and congressional del- hicles of out-of-state residents to Further stretching the bounds and romantic charm” with “every mals, or curiosities within said egate have declared support for bisect this great pleasure ground of credulity, NPS explains that NPS has failed to adequately facility [being] offered for laying park, and their retention in their permanently closing upper with their desire for fast and closing upper Beach Drive to consider its own proposal, but out and constructing a grand natural condition, as nearly as Beach Drive, have an especially convenient transportation to vehicles would threaten wildlife thankfully we have an opportu- national park.” Some members of possible.” Driving at the time important stake in the matter, destinations beyond the park. and wildlife habitat rather than nity to weigh in on this issue and Congress, having just established primarily referred to horse- not least because it is entirely Thankfully, Maryland residents mitigate any potential harm, be- make our voices heard. NPS is Yellowstone National Park, as- drawn carriage. Restoring Beach within their own district. have largely been supportive of cause closure of the road at the accepting comments on this pro- serted that the valley of Rock Drive as an urban thoroughfare the efforts to refashion upper start of the pandemic has corre- posal until Aug. 11 and is hosting Creek is “upon a par” with it. clearly doesn’t align with this The 51st Congress, known as Beach Drive for permanent pe- lated with increased recreational a virtual public meeting on July purpose. the Billion Dollar Congress after destrian use, and the Montgom- visitor use. NPS fails to consider 18 from 6:30 to 8 p.m. This grandiose park repre- it passed the first non-war ery County Council favors this that national park visitation and The writer is a lawyer and avid sents arguably our nation’s great- Of course, in 1890, Congress billion-dollar budget, felt ever so approach. the negative impacts of this visi- researcher of Rock Creek Park and est urban retreat. It boasts more did not envision that these new sensitive to further spending in tation skyrocketed nationwide in its founding. than twice the area of New York’s roadways, meant for the preser- 1890 and therefore lodged one- If D.C. succeeds in permanent- vation of nature and its enjoy-

SUNDAY, JULY 17, 2022 . THE WASHINGTON POST EZ RE C5 Attorney says client’s conduct on Jan. 6 was ‘aberration’ REFFITT FROM C1 Prosecutors may be hoping FBI, view as domestic terrorism,” in with his older sister and began “I could really see how my argued. Reffitt’s trial judge sends a clear FBI Director Christopher A. Wray working as a KFC dishwasher father[’]s ego and personality fell “The very fundamental ques- to D.C. from his home in Wylie, Tex., signal to the roughly 330 defen- testified to the Senate Judiciary after enduring years of physical to his knees when President with an AR-15-style rifle and semi- dants still awaiting trial on felony Committee in March 2021. abuse from his father, Broden Trump spoke, you could tell he tion that must be answered is, automatic .40-caliber handgun charges and who may still be wrote. After becoming a father listened to Trump’s words as if he should Mr. Reffitt who did not and repeatedly stated his intention considering whether to accept a Defense attorneys decry the himself, Broden said, Reffitt was was really truly speaking to him,” engage in any violence, did not to come armed with a handgun and plea deal or gamble before a jury. threat of applying such enhance- devoted to his children. Reffitt, his daughter said. throw any objects at police, did plastic handcuffs to drag lawmak- About 70 people have pleaded ments in plea talks as coercive, his attorney said, was a self-made not attack police with any weap- ers out of the building. After re- guilty, and 10 including Reffitt calling them the “nuclear option” man who took his family abroad Reffitt started a security busi- ons,” and did not enter the Capi- turning from Washington, he have been convicted at trial. because prosecutors can ratchet while he worked in places like ness and joined the Three Percen- tol or breach restricted areas for threatened his children not to turn up sentencing-guidelines ranges Malaysia in charge of operations ters in Texas. long “be treated similarly to him in to authorities. Some congressional Demo- by 50 percent or more, even for worth tens of millions of dollars, those that did?” Broden asked. crats have pressed Justice De- offenses not designated by stat- but was financially and emotion- At the Capitol, Reffitt never The request by the U.S. attor- partment officials to explain why ute. However, the final decision is ally devastated after a downturn entered the building, unhol- In a letter to the judge, Reffitt ney’s office in D.C., which is over- prosecutors had not sought up to judges in any case, whatever in the oil and gas industry. He lost stered his handgun or committed outlined family traumas since seeing prosecutions of roughly tougher sentences in Jan. 6 cases the recommendation. his job in November 2019. any violence, his attorney said. 2020 including medical and men- 835 Capitol siege defendants fed- by seeking enhancements for ter- Without condoning Reffitt’s “par- tal health emergencies and erally charged so far, is not bind- rorism. They have pointed to re- Reffitt attorney F. Clinton Reffitt’s daughters noticed anoid statements” to his chil- pleaded for leniency for the sake ing at Reffitt’s Aug. 1 sentencing marks this year from Attorney Broden urged Friedrich to weigh that “his mental health was de- dren, Broden argued that he nev- of his family. “My regrets for what hearing before U.S. District General Merrick Garland, who his client’s unique circum- clining” over that period, Broden er gave any indication he would has happened is insurmountable. Judge Dabney L. Friedrich. The suggested such enhancements stances, view his actions as an wrote. Reffitt fell “down the rab- actually harm them. There’s not a day go by that I don’t longest sentence in a Jan. 6 case could come as prosecutors win “aberration,” and avoid sentenc- bit hole of political news and regret how much this has affect- handed down to date is about five convictions in more-serious cas- ing disparities with already sen- online banter,” wrote one of his Reffitt has also spent 19 ed [my wife and kids],” Reffitt years for a Florida man who es. tenced Jan. 6 felony defendants daughters, and he fell under the months in unusually harsh pre- wrote. “Yes, what is happening to pleaded guilty to attacking police convicted of violent assaults on sway of Donald Trump “constant- trial detention conditions at the my family is all my fault, I would with a fire extinguisher and “That attack, that siege, was police or bringing more weapons ly feeding polarizing racial decrepit D.C. jail, spending about like to fix it, please. … I simply ask wooden plank. criminal behavior, plain and sim- to Washington. thought.” half that time under 22- or 23- for a chance to prove myself ple, and it’s behavior that we, the hour-a-day pandemic-related again.” Reffitt left home at 15, moved lockdowns in his cell, his lawyer RETROPOLIS Bannon’s contempt-of-Congress trial echoes that of Nixon burglar Liddy BY ERICK TRICKEY WILLIAM A. SMITH/ASSOCIATED PRESS democratic institutions. His 1980 raged by the leak, grew deter- “But we’ve got some [other] dirty 1974, Liddy cited dubious nation- White House aide G. Gordon autobiography, “Will,” justified mined to ruin Ellsberg. “Don’t tricks underway.” al security grounds for refusing to Liddy sat in a parked car behind G. Gordon Liddy was convicted breaking the law as a rough-jus- worry about his trial,” Nixon told answer the subcommittee’s ques- an office building with his hunt- of contempt of Congress for tice response to the radical left his chief of staff, H.R. Haldeman. Those tricks later included the tions. The judge found Liddy ing knife unfolded. “Use it I refusing to testify about a and the “thought, spirit, life-style, “Just get everything out. Try him Watergate break-in of June 1972, guilty and gave him a suspended would, if I’d had to,” Liddy later break-in intended to discredit and ideas of the ’60s movement.” in the press.” in which Barker and Martinez jail sentence and a year’s proba- wrote. “I have given my men word the Pentagon Papers leaker. Liddy wrote, “I knew exactly what were among the five men arrest- tion — “indicating that the penal- that I would protect them.” had to be done and why, and I was Reading Ellsberg’s FBI file, the ed. Liddy and Hunt, working for ty was light because of Mr. Liddy’s Inside the building, three men Congress. under no illusion about its legali- plumbers saw that Lewis Field- Nixon’s reelection committee, other sentences,” the New York — two wearing CIA-provided dis- That conviction has striking ty.” ing, Ellsberg’s psychiatrist, had oversaw the break-in via radio Times reported. (In a weird twist, guises — had broken into a psy- refused agents’ requests for an from a hotel room. They were all Liddy protested that his proba- chiatrist’s office in Beverly Hills, echoes today. Stephen K. Bannon, Nixon biographer John A. Far- interview. So Liddy and fellow indicted and found guilty of bur- tion ordered him not to associate Calif., and were rifling through former strategist for President rell described the mustachioed plumber E. Howard Hunt decided glary, conspiracy and illegal wire- with felons, a command he file cabinets. They were looking Donald Trump, is scheduled to go Liddy as “a right-wing zealot, with to break into Fielding’s office to tapping in January 1973. Sen- couldn’t follow because he was in for dirt on Daniel Ellsberg, leaker on trial Monday, charged with two a fixation for Nazi regalia and a get Fielding’s file on Ellsberg. tenced to 80 months to 20 years in jail. The judge later reduced his of the top-secret Pentagon Papers, counts of the same crime, for his kinky kind of Nietzschean philos- prison, Liddy refused to testify to probation to one hour.) which had exposed government refusal to testify before the House ophy, [who] peppered his conver- John Ehrlichman, Nixon’s chief implicate higher-ups. lies about the Vietnam War. But Jan. 6 committee about his possi- sation with German idioms and domestic adviser, approved the Much as the Jan. 6 committee the burglars couldn’t find Ells- ble involvement in plans for that organized a White House screen- break-in and asked the CIA’s dep- In spring 1973, Watergate pros- has unearthed major revelations berg’s file. So they trashed the day. Bannon, who has cited execu- ing of the Nazi propaganda film uty director to help Hunt. A CIA ecutors learned about the Ells- despite top Trump associates’ re- office, throwing files and pills tive privilege — even though he ‘Triumph of the Will.’ ” Liddy told technician gave Liddy and Hunt a berg burglary. They disclosed it to fusal to testify, the House intelli- around to make the break-in look hadn’t worked at the White House fellow Nixon administration spy camera built into a tobacco the judge in Ellsberg’s Espionage gence subcommittee completed like a drug crime. since 2017 — faces up to two years trickster Egil “Bud” Krogh, “Bud, pouch and two disguises, which Act case, who made it public and its work despite Liddy’s stone- It was the night of Sept. 3, 1971. in jail if convicted. if you want anyone killed, just let they wore while casing Fielding’s later dismissed the charges walling. Its report, issued Oct. 30, Nine months later, in June 1972, me know.” Another Nixon aide, office. Liddy’s disguise included against Ellsberg, citing govern- 1973, found that CIA officials “had Liddy and some of the same men As with the Jan. 6 insurrection- Gordon Strachan, summed him glasses, a dark brown wig, a Kan- ment misconduct. The CIA’s aid to no support in reason or law” when conspired to commit a more fa- ists, Liddy’s contempt for Con- up this way: “Liddy’s a Hitler, but sas driver’s license (name: George the burglars came out in the they aided Liddy and Hunt and mous burglary, at the Democratic gress reflected a contempt for at least he’s our Hitler.” F. Leonard) and a device to stick press, and a House intelligence were “the unwitting dupes for National Committee headquar- in his shoe to change his gait. subcommittee launched an inves- purely domestic White House ters at the Watergate complex. An Army veteran and former tigation. staff endeavors.” In 1973, Liddy was convicted of FBI agent, Liddy had worked on For the break-in itself, Liddy his role in the Watergate burglary Nixon’s 1968 presidential cam- and Hunt handed the disguises to Liddy, called before the sub- Liddy served four years in pris- but refused to testify about it to a paign and in the Treasury Depart- two of the three men Hunt hired committee in July 1973, rose and on for the Watergate burglary and grand jury, protecting the high- ment. He joined the White House for the job: Cuban exiles Bernard raised his right hand, but then was released in 1977 after Presi- ranking Nixon aides who had staff in June 1971, the day after the Barker, Felipe De Diego and Eu- told the judge, “I respectfully de- dent Jimmy Carter commuted his approved it. A judge found him in New York Times began publish- genio Martinez. The three men cline to take the oath as a witness.” sentence. He pursued a career as contempt of court. ing the Pentagon Papers. He soon smashed a window to get into The subcommittee immediately an author, radio talk-show host Liddy also refused to testify became part of the Nixon White Fielding’s office and ransacked it voted to cite him for contempt, and occasional character actor, before a House intelligence sub- House’s Special Investigative — but came out empty-handed. and the full House voted to do the playing villains. He died in 2021. committee investigating the CIA’s Unit, nicknamed the “plumbers” They celebrated with Liddy and same in September. In March links to the psychiatrist’s office for their task of combating leaks. Hunt over champagne anyway. 1974, the Justice Department “Liddy never seemed to doubt,” break-in. As a result, Liddy was charged Liddy with two counts of writes Garrett M. Graff in “Water- convicted in March 1974 of a The plumbers’ first task was to Ehrlichman gave Nixon a contempt of Congress — the same gate: A New History,” “that fight- rarely charged crime: contempt of discredit Ellsberg, a defense ana- vague account of the failed bur- day he, Ehrlichman and the three ing the nation’s enemies meant lyst who was charged with violat- glary the next day. “We had one Cuban burglars were charged fighting Nixon’s enemies.” That is, ing the Espionage Act. 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C6 EZ SU THE WASHINGTON POST . SUNDAY, JULY 17, 2022 MARYLAND In Montgomery, an unusual prosecutor’s race unfolds Three challengers in a DEGONIA CAMPAIGN; JABIN BOTSFORD/THE WASHINGTON POST; PAYLOR CAMPAIGN; MIREKU-NORTH CAMPAIGN Chicago, Tampa and elsewhere. But Mireku-North’s larger usually uncontested vote Paylor, 53, who serves as a message is to reform the office — are pushing for change CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: Tom DeGonia, John McCarthy, Perry Paylor and Bernice Mireku- she promises to make the most North, are all 2022 Democratic primary candidates for Montgomery County state’s attorney. deputy state’s attorney in Prince changes of any candidate — and BY DAN MORSE George’s County, said about 61 reduce “the over-criminalization For the first time in 16 years, the Montgomery County State’s Law and worked as a prosecutor they are charged; how often percent of the inmates in Mont- of our youth.” the incumbent top prosecutor in Attorney’s Office in 1982. He rose in Montgomery’s State’s Attor- they’re given a chance at diver- gomery’s jail population are Maryland’s largest county faces through the ranks, handled a ney’s Office for eight years, even- sion and treatment programs Black, while the percentage of She promised to establish a primary opponents — three of number of high-profile murder tually running a felony team designed to avoid jail; what kind Black residents in the county is “diversion coordination team” in them — who say the very nature cases, and in 2006 sought to lead before going on to private prac- of plea deals they’re offered; and about 20 percent. the office that can spot of John McCarthy’s established the office — an elected post in tice in Rockville. DeGonia re- if convicted, what kinds of sen- community-based options for status as Montgomery County Maryland. cently served as president of the tences are imposed. For Montgomery’s juvenile de- defendants to keep them out of state’s attorney underscores why Bar Association of Montgomery fendants detained in youth facili- jail early on in the process of new blood is needed. He sailed to victory and has County. “You can’t know if your pro- ties, the numbers are even more cases. “There’s a disconnect between rarely been challenged since, go- grams are working if you’re not stark: 93 percent of youth held what the community wants and ing unopposed in the 2010, 2014 In his campaign, DeGonia tracking who is succeeding and before their cases are resolved During the candidates forum, the status quo,” said Bernice and 2018 primaries, and facing a said, he has knocked on the who is not succeeding,” DeGonia are “non-White,” according to a Mireku-North delivered an im- Mireku-North — a lawyer in Republican challenger in only doors of more than 5,000 resi- said. February 2021 report by the passioned promise to push pros- private practice and a former one of those races — eight years dents. He promises to attack the Maryland Department of Juve- ecutors to look at juvenile of- line prosecutor in nearby Anne ago. proliferation of firearms in The assertion got a boost by nile Services, and 100 percent fenders more broadly and as Arundel County — who is seek- Montgomery, particularly ghost the recent release of a report by who are charged as adults are whole people. ing to unseat McCarthy. He has received endorsements guns — which are often assem- the Montgomery County Coun- non-White. (The report does not The other challengers — Tom from several leading Democrats, bled at home and are hard to cil’s Office of Legislative Over- provide the underlying totals for “What’s going on with the DeGonia and Perry Paylor — including Maryland Attorney trace — by setting up a detailed, sight that was critical of data those percentages, and notes family? What’s going on with have been making similar pitch- General Brian E. Frosh, former multidisciplinary firearms task collection in McCarthy’s office. that the majority of all youth school before we even consider es in the county of 1.1 million Montgomery County executive force. It would prosecute cases, ages 11-17 in Montgomery County putting that person through the residents just north of Washing- Ike Leggett and state Sen. Wil- looking to impose stiff sentences “The State’s Attorney’s Office — 64 percent — are non-White.) system and further traumatizing ton. All three cite local incarcera- liam C. Smith Jr. (Montgomery). where possible, but also support (SAO) has not prioritized top- them?” she said. “Because that’s tion rates that they say dispro- Leggett was the first Black coun- youth conflict-resolution pro- line data reporting or perform- “It’s time to bring a fresh what it’s really all about. When portionately affect minorities ty executive in Montgomery grams and work with state and ance measurement,” the report approach and new eyes to that these kids are going through the and have stressed to voters that County, and Smith is the first federal agencies to try to halt the found. “The SAO is unable to office,” Paylor said. system, they’re going through they are far more willing to drive Black chair of the state’s power- trafficking of illegal guns into the report data that makes compari- something that’s a result of trau- fundamental change. ful Judicial Proceedings Com- county. sons between racial and/or eth- A longtime private attorney, ma. And it’s about time we stop “Longevity in itself isn’t bad,” mittee. nic groups in a consistent and Paylor joined the Prince George’s disregarding that. That’s inap- said DeGonia, a private attorney DeGonia also emphasized ra- transparent way because their State’s Attorney’s Office as a propriate for this county and not and former prosecutor. “The “John’s record and my rela- cial justice and said he would data is housed in an outdated prosecutor in 2019 and in 2020 the way to move forward for the problem is when you start to take tionship with him — that’s why I “overhaul systems set up to de- case management system that was promoted to deputy state’s future of Montgomery County.” the office for granted — as op- endorsed him,” said Smith, who humanize defendants.” contains erroneous and inconsis- attorney. posed to serving the public — has pushed for criminal justice tent data.” McCarthy acknowledged that and can’t acknowledge what reforms. He said that under McCarthy, If elected in Montgomery, he the criminal justice system has you’re doing is not state of the the state’s attorney’s office has no McCarthy said he agreed with said, he plans to assign three historically been unfair to mi- art.” Of the three challengers, De- way to track whether minority many of the report’s findings prosecutors, an investigator and norities and that too many Black Adds Paylor, a top-ranking Gonia, 51, has proposed a de- defendants are treated different- while noting that the report a paralegal to a “conviction and defendants are behind bars. But prosecutor in neighboring tailed structural shift in the ly along the many steps of the detailed how complicated data sentencing integrity unit,” which he said that the reasons are far Prince George’s County and a office. He would decentralize criminal justice system: How collection can be in the criminal would review past cases pros- more complicated than one pros- former private attorney: “The operations in favor of “communi- justice system. Demographic in- ecuted by the office that may ecutor’s office and that he has pursuit of criminal justice is ty-based prosecution” by placing “There’s a disconnect formation about defendants have had questionable out- constantly worked to address the evolving across the country, but prosecutors in each of the coun- between what the comes in from different sources comes. And he said he would problem. it’s not evolving at the appropri- ty’s six police district stations. — police, jails, courts, his office bring behavioral health special- ate pace here in Montgomery That approach, DeGonia says, community wants and — and cannot be synthesized on ists into the office to help evalu- “When we charge someone, County.” would allow prosecutors to bet- the status quo.” software systems designed years ate and recommend possible when we offer a plea deal, any- McCarthy calls the assertions ter inform police officers of re- ago to manage cases and not case dispositions. thing, we absolutely don’t care nonsense, saying he has led form measures, get prosecutors Bernice Mireku-North, former Anne parse out such data. what their race is,” McCarthy Maryland’s prosecutors in re- engaged earlier in cases, and Arundel County line prosecutor “We want to put our resources said. forms since taking office. And he enable crime victims to know It is for that very reason, into reducing recidivism,” he says his challengers’ views reflect who is handling their case. McCarthy said, that he is upgrad- said. His said his office has con- a limited understanding of what ing his data management sys- stantly worked to reduce the voters want in a time of rising “It’s much more of a communi- tems and last year commissioned Paylor said he also would go number of nonviolent offenders gun violence. ty-engagement model,” he said. a study of his office by a group after the proliferation of ghost in the county jail by diverting “Without any question, people called Prosecutorial Perform- guns and would be “aggressive, thousands of defendants into who are interested in public DeGonia, a native of Missouri, ance Indicators, which has also fair and consistent” in prosecu- treatment and other programs. safety see me as their best advo- graduated from American Uni- studied prosecution offices in ting gun cases. And he touts programs to keep cate,” he said. versity’s Washington School of people from ever being charged, Residents have already started “I am the candidate to bring including “Speak up, Save a Life,” making their choice for the office Montgomery County into mod- which warns teenagers of the during early voting in Maryland. ern times,” he said at a candi- dangers of opioid use. Election Day is on Tuesday. The dates forum sponsored by the primary winner will be the final Montgomery Women’s Demo- “My frustration about this choice, as no Republicans are cratic Club. race has been nearly everything running, which is not unusual in that has been mentioned that the highly Democratic county. Two years ago, Mireku-North, needs to be done, we’ve already The state’s attorney’s office 40, was named co-chair of Mont- done,” McCarthy said. prosecutes everything from mis- gomery County Executive Marc demeanors to murders, employ- Elrich’s Reimagining Public Smith, the state senator who ing about 82 attorneys along Safety Task Force. endorsed him, said the incum- with other staff. bent’s three challengers are tal- McCarthy, 70, taught high Mireku-North says the posi- ented and likable. But he noted school briefly after college, took tion gave her insight into the that McCarthy is someone he night classes at the University of State’s Attorney’s Office that first met as a youth — he played Baltimore, and eventually joined helped her decide to seek the in a basketball league against a office. She said she found trans- team McCarthy coached. parency and data collection lack- ing, which she said she would Their friendship grew into a make a top priority. professional one, to the point that Smith said McCarthy re- A former prosecutor and cur- mains a key local prosecutor rent private attorney, Mireku- with whom he can discuss crimi- North said fear of crime is very nal justice reform issues. real in the county and must be addressed. Some residents worry “I think his own initiatives, his about being mugged walking record on these issues is clear,” through Silver Spring at night, or Smith said. “But the most impor- being carjacked while driving. tant thing about his candidacy is She promised to “seek zealous he understands we’re nowhere and fair prosecution when war- near where we need to be.” ranted.” Voters will solidify matchups in Md. congressional races CONGRESS FROM C1 during her first term in 2009 ership role within the Democratic approval rating for Biden, the mon. Mileah Kromer, director of thing up to chance at this point.” when she voted “present” on a Caucus. When United Democracy wind is at Republicans’ back. the Sarah T. Hughes Center for Mariela Roca, an Air Force Republicans’ most high-profile resolution supporting Israel’s Project’s first attack ad came out, FiveThirtyEight rates the race a Politics at Goucher College, called matchup is in Western Mary- right to defend itself from attacks Pelosi defended her in a video- “toss-up,” while the Cook Political it a “weird national happen- veteran from Puerto Rico, is also land’s 6th Congressional District, from Gaza. But, in a race where taped message as “one of the most Report pegs it as leaning Demo- stance, because Hogan actually running for the Republican nomi- where several contenders are the economy and public safety effective members” in Congress, cratic. has been going out and trying to nation, along with Jonathan Jen- seeking to take on Rep. David and gun violence dominate while other allies like the League support Republicans who are get- kins. Colt Morningstar Black and Trone (D-Md.). Recent redistrict- among voters, the attack ads have of Conservation Voters and J Del. Neil C. Parrott (R- ting primaried by folks from the Robert Poissonnier are on the ing means they have a better nothing to do with Israel policy. Street began placing their own ad Washington), who leads the field Trump wing.” Republican ballot but have not chance than they’ve had in years Instead, the ads have resurfaced buys to back Edwards. of Republican candidates in filed any campaign finance re- to flip the seat red. criticism Edwards faced in her fundraising, is seeking a rematch Foldi had been a volunteer for ports. Outside influence in unsuccessful runs for Senate and J Street released an ad attack- against Trone. Parrott, a social Hogan’s gubernatorial campaign Maryland’s 4th Prince George’s County executive ing Ivey for his support and dona- conservative known for leading as a teenager in 2014, Hogan said In Maryland’s Eastern Shore- about her constituent-services tions from AIPAC, which it point- petition drives to force referen- on a podcast recently. Parrott, anchored 1st District, Democrats Ivey, a white-collar attorney record in Congress. ed out has also endorsed Republi- dums to repeal same-sex mar- meanwhile, sued Hogan over his had high hopes last year that a running on his record of fighting cans who objected to election riage or in-state tuition for un- emergency health orders at the redistricted congressional map violent crime and starting other Edwards has pledged to voters results on Jan. 6, 2021. Ivey’s documented immigrants, among beginning of the pandemic. would make it easier to unseat community programs as the to do better if elected again. But campaign decried the ad’s at- other things, lost to Trone by Harris. But after the protracted county’s top prosecutor from she has also pushed back against tempt to link him to those Repub- roughly 20 points in 2020. He was Kromer said that although Par- court battle, the final map largely 2002 to 2011, outraised Edwards the perception of her the ads have licans and called for the ad to be feeling more optimistic about his rott is a “known entity” in the stifled the party’s momentum: in the race, according to the latest created, painting her as aloof and taken down last week. chances this year under the new district, Foldi’s more high-profile The district remains solidly red. federal campaign finance figures. disconnected from her constitu- map — which he himself helped endorsements may make a siz- He pulled in $1.2 million to Ed- ents. Edwards argues she helped And with just days to go to the usher in by suing the state over able dent, particularly among un- Mizeur, a former liberal del- wards’s $980,000. plenty of them, particularly dur- election, he got help from liberal the initial map passed by Demo- decided voters. “This kind of stuff egate from Takoma Park who now ing the housing crash when many icon Rep. Maxine Waters (D- crats. A state judge ruled in his does matter in the home stretch, lives on an organic-herb farm on But that is overwhelmingly due had foreclosure issues. Calif.), who put out a robocall to favor and found that map illegally when people are looking for any- the Shore, has raised nearly $2 to hefty assistance Ivey has re- 4th District voters urging them to advantaged Democrats, ordering thing to make a decision — even million in the race — more than ceived from AIPAC, setting up Schall suspected that the cam- vote for Ivey. a new one be drawn. one piece of information might be Harris. She is running in the somewhat of a proxy battle be- paign has devolved into attacks enough,” she said. primary against Dave Harden, a tween two Israel policy advocacy because the two candidates over- Former delegate Angela Angel But Parrott has a wider field of former member of the U.S. For- groups: AIPAC and the more lib- whelmingly agree on liberal is- (D-Prince George’s) and a num- competition this year — namely Trone, the multimillionaire co- eign Service who has positioned eral J Street, which has endorsed sues — and “if it was just the two ber of little-known contenders in a 25-year-old conservative for- founder of Total Wine & More himself as a moderate best able to Edwards and come to her aid. of them agreeing on all the issues, are also seeking the Democratic mer journalist named Matthew with the ability to self-fund his take on Harris and compete in Donna probably wins running nomination, though they have Foldi, who scrutinized Democrats campaign, has so far funneled $12 redder, rural areas. AIPAC donors have given Ivey away,” Schall said. not been competitive with Ivey and the Biden administration for million of his personal money nearly $570,000 this cycle, mak- and Edwards in fundraising and outlets like the Washington Free into his coffers. Trone, who in Democrats have been especial- ing up roughly half of his total “They took a charge against endorsements. Beacon and has indicated he Congress has focused primarily ly determined to oust Harris after contributions, not including Donna Edwards that is both hard wants to do the same in Congress. on mental health and addiction, the Jan. 6 riot and with renewed $150,000 Ivey loaned his cam- to prove and hard to defend, and GOP sets eyes on Trone, faced criticism in his first cam- urgency this week, after the com- paign. And a super PAC affiliated they just decided to put enough Dems on Harris Despite lacking a voting record paign that he was “buying” the mittee investigating the attack on with AIPAC, the United Democra- money behind it to create a per- or name recognition compared to seat. This year, with the Demo- the Capitol revealed Harris at- cy Project, has spent nearly $6 ception,” Schall said of the attack The state’s new congressional six-term delegate Parrott, Foldi cratic majority on the line, tended a December 2020 White million on ads supporting Ivey on her constituent services rec- map for the next decade didn’t do has managed to secure support Kromer said she didn’t anticipate House meeting with President and attacking Edwards — a major ord. “You could have a conversa- any favors for Trone, who is now from major Republican figures. that criticism would at all deter Donald Trump and other Repub- outside influence that undoubt- tion all day long about whether the only vulnerable Democrat in In the final weeks, House Minori- Trone from spending as much as lican lawmakers centered on ac- edly impacts the race, said Justin that is fair or right or moral, but Maryland in this year’s midterm. ty Leader Kevin McCarthy (R- possible. tions that could be taken on Jan. 6 Schall, a Maryland-based Demo- it’s effective.” Calif.), Gov. Larry Hogan (R) and to keep Trump in power. cratic strategist who previously After redistricting, the new 6th Donald Trump Jr. have endorsed “David Trone has the individu- managed Brown’s campaign for Edwards championed liberal District swung 13 points in Re- him — the latter two are compet- al funds to come as close to But the political reality is that governor. causes ranging from Medicare- publicans’ favor, though it is still ing Republican archetypes who ensuring a victory as you can,” Harris’s district “is just not drawn for-all to LGBTQ rights and gun a district Biden won by 10 points are far more often butting heads Kromer said, “and with the Con- in a way that makes Democrats AIPAC broke with Edwards violence prevention while in Con- in 2020. But in a year when than finding anything in com- gress this close in balance, no very competitive,” Kromer said. gress, eventually landing a lead- Democrats face a foreboding na- Democrat is going to leave any- Trump won the district by 14 tional environment and a poor points in 2020.

SUNDAY, JULY 17, 2022 . THE WASHINGTON POST EZ RE C7 MARYLAND A guide to this week’s Prince George’s County Sheri≠’s O∞ce contenders BY KATIE METTLER Throughout the pandemic, County. Gibson also promised to im- said, is hands-on and active. training, in-service retraining, AND JASMINE HILTON Carr has worked with the Prince Throughout his career, Gibson prove recruiting, including prior- “One of the things that we’ve supervision and discipline. George’s County Family Justice itizing the recruitment of Latino For the first time in more than Center to help victims of domes- said, he has gained management, deputies to reflect the growing got to do is begin to restore the “I want to be a partner with the a decade, the Prince George’s tic violence with additional re- training and planning experience Latino population in Prince trust in the community,” he said. citizens, listen to the concerns of County Office of the Sheriff will sources outside of the sheriff ’s — including working on develop- George’s. “That is going to take being very the citizens and then work to- have a new leader. Voters will office’s initial response, he said, ing active-shooter protocols and visible.” gether to resolve issues,” Jones choose from five candidates in and with the Prince George’s the presidential inaugural secu- He also wants to start a reserve said. the Democratic primary election County Department of Housing rity plan. deputy sheriff program. Sylvester E. Jones Sr., 62 Tuesday. There are no Republican to provide assistance to those Loralyn Mayo, 50 candidates. facing eviction with the emergen- Gibson said he decided to run Dave Grogan, 56 Current status: Retired assis- cy rental assistance program. He because, in his view, other candi- tant director, U.S. Marshals Current job: President and CEO, Sheriff Melvin High, who has hopes to continue these efforts as dates lacked his experience. Current job: Private security Service American National Protective held the office for 12 years, an- sheriff by focusing on preventing contractor, Defense Depart- Services nounced his plans last fall to not domestic violence with expanded “I have qualified myself time ment Jones, a nearly 30-year resi- seek reelection and will retire at services, providing community and again managing the activities dent of Prince George’s County Mayo aims to become the first the end of the year. He has en- members with mental health re- of law enforcement over a long This is Grogan’s second bid for and a Chicago native, served in woman to hold the sheriff’s posi- dorsed one of his deputies in the sources through partnerships period of time,” he said. sheriff, having ran and lost to local and federal law enforcement tion in the county. race. with agencies, and participating High in the 2018 primary. agencies for more than 30 years. in community outreach to assist He was placed on paid admin- He became the first Black law With more than two decades of The sheriff ’s office is one of youths and seniors. Carr said he istrative leave in District Heights He served as an active reservist enforcement officer in the U.S. law enforcement experience, dozens of law enforcement agen- will also focus on pursuing war- after the Maryland Police and in the Marine Corps and worked Marshals Service to become inter- Mayo has served as a deputy cies in Prince George’s, including rants for violent offenders in the Correctional Training Commis- for 25 years as a U.S. marshal. nally promoted to a senior execu- sheriff in Alexandria and with the county and municipal police de- county through partnering with sions found some record-keeping Grogan retired in 2013 and start- tive role, as assistant director of U.S. Marshals Service. She has partments, but is the only agency the Prince George’s County Police issues during an audit. ed a second career in privacy the judicial security division. also served as a background in- with an elected leader. All other Department and municipal agen- security. During his time as a marshal, he vestigator with government and chiefs are appointed. cies to share information. Gibson told The Post those oversaw federal courtroom secu- federal agencies, she said. issues were quickly resolved and Grogan calls himself a “civil rity, security of judges, witness In Prince George’s, the sheriff is Carr also wants to create more that the city’s punitive actions and human rights advocate” and protection and prisoner pro- Mayo is president and CEO of responsible for managing 300 community programs and events were motivated by a personal said he has spent his time in law grams. her own security firm, American deputies and civilians who exe- to engage with citizens, including grievance from the then-mayor. enforcement advocating for po- National Protective Services in cute warrants, carry out evic- a mentorship program for youths, Gibson was allowed to return to lice accountability and transpar- Jones is also a Gulf War combat Maryland, which provides vari- tions, respond to certain domes- while working alongside non- full duty, but his contract was ency. veteran and served in the Army as ous security services including tic violence calls and handle secu- profits and community organiza- later not renewed. a military police lieutenant colo- armed and unarmed security, rity at the courthouses in Hyatts- tions. “Everything that we do is nel. After retiring from the Mar- event security, surveillance, con- ville and Upper Marlboro. for service, so the citizens have a In Prince George’s, the sheriff is responsible for shals Service, he first ran for sulting and personal bodyguards, right to know exactly what’s going managing 300 deputies and civilians. Prince George’s County sheriff in according to the firm’s website. The Post interviewed all five on and what’s happening in that 2014, and then again in 2018, candidates for sheriff about their agency,” Carr said of police re- He then became chief of the That work included joining losing twice to incumbent High. “I understand that a woman, in vision for the office, their job form. small Edmonston department in with other Black employees to sue fact, is equally equipped to pro- qualifications, how they’ll inter- 2020. the U.S. Marshals Service over “The county needs innovative, vide superb law enforcement act with the community and what He said he will ensure the office racial discrimination allegations. new leadership and a fresh set of leadership, but having the qualifi- they think of local and statewide is “accountable and transparent.” Gibson’s campaign for sheriff, well-qualified eyes,” Jones said. cations to become the sheriff of efforts to increase transparency with the slogan “We Can Do “I’m not afraid to speak the this great county is what I thrive and accountability within law en- “That’s why I’m running,” Carr More,” includes plans to involve truth and speak the realities,” he In retirement, Jones has served off of,” Mayo said. forcement. added. “Wanting to be able to the office more aggressively in the said, promising to change the with community organizations, provide a better service and re- day-to-day public safety efforts in culture of law enforcement with- including as a member of the Mayo said her vision for the John D.B. Carr, 45 imagine the mind-set of public the county — working closely in the county by starting “from board of directors for the People sheriff’s office includes continued safety, so if somebody from public with the Prince George’s County the top.” for Change Coalition in Largo, protection of the judicial branch Current job: Assistant sheriff, safety comes to your home, you’re Police Department and other mu- helping returning citizens find of the county, safety for domestic Bureau of Field Operations able to say, ‘Hey, I feel safe. This nicipal and state agencies to get His primary campaign promis- jobs and hosting forums on anti- violence victims, partnering with chief, Prince George’s County person is coming here to help me “directly involved in violent es include an investment in men- bullying and housing issues, he local law enforcement agencies to Office of the Sheriff and make the situation better and crime,” host community events tal health awareness and psycho- said. If elected, Jones said he will end gun violence, being visible in not make it worse.’ ” and educate residents, Gibson logical screenings for those ap- focus on enhancing child safety the community and seeing an A Prince George’s County na- said. plying to work as a deputy at the and school security, developing increase in diversity and more tive, Lt. Col. Carr has served for 20 Elliott W. Gibson, 68 sheriff’s office, as well as addi- programs to mitigate domestic women in leadership in the office. years at the Prince George’s sher- The sheriff ’s office “is standing tional training. violence, prioritizing criminal iff’s office. He has worked in Current job: Chief, Edmonston in the middle … but they’re not warrants of violent offenders, Her focus areas include creat- nearly “every unit and division,” Police Department directly involved,” he said. “I want As a lifelong Prince George’s holding listening sessions with ing youth programs and building including supervisory roles in the to make sure they get directly resident, Grogan said his deep community members and advo- relationships with seniors, train- warrants and fugitive division, Gibson has worked in law en- involved.” ties in the community could help cating for quality health care for ings on de-escalation and mental domestic violence intervention forcement and public safety in with recruiting efforts, especially residents and mental health re- health, and combating recidivism division and internal affairs divi- the Washington region for more Gibson said if elected he would among young people. sources. and outstanding warrants. sion, he said. than 40 years, rising to captain in expand the office’s eviction duties the D.C. police department before to include information cam- That’s how he got involved in Jones said he also wants to fill Mayo said it is important to “Being in the agency and being serving as chief of police in Dis- paigns for renters and landlords law enforcement while attending vacant jobs within the office and listen to community members’ in the community, I know what trict Heights and then Edmon- about preventing eviction and Bowie State University as a stu- believes accountability within needs when it comes to law en- we need to do to increase and to ston, both in Prince George’s accessing rental assistance. dent. law enforcement starts with re- forcement reform and through better serve our citizens,” Carr cruitment, hiring, de-escalation training and education. said. “Experience matters.” His leadership approach, he and mental health awareness “I’m going to change the narra- tive, and I will make history,” she said. Maryland voters’ worries over rising crime rates are evident in governor’s race CRIME FROM C1 the governor’s spokesman con- statewide violence prevention co- “It’s outrageous,” he said dur- more needs. He’s not in the zation Tandea Family, said more tested, citing funding for police, ordinator. ing a recent appearance on trenches with us. He doesn’t walk resources should be given to sparred with city leaders on crime crime control, victim services and WBAL radio. In “Baltimore, they in our shoes.” grass-roots organizations like his as he sought to elevate his nation- community-based programs. John B. King Jr., who is en- just continue to have no account- that work with teenagers, trying al profile ahead of a potential dorsed by Our Revolution Mary- ability whatsoever for their ac- Crews said she would like to to head off violence. Miles knew presidential run, have been talk- Two years ago, following pro- land and other left-leaning or- tions.” see a strategy that includes ensur- 17-year-old Neal Mack, who was ing about crime with more urgen- tests after the murder of George ganizations, agreed with a need ing that police officers “are gunned down in the Inner Har- cy, and in some cases more ag- Floyd by a Minneapolis police for greater oversight from parole Several Baltimore residents trained in being compassionate bor in May. Mack had become gressively, than in past election officer, Democrats were discuss- and probation and advocated for said they have objected to the city and caring for the community, involved with Tandea Family, cycles. One candidate suggested ing ways to rethink policing and “policing plus” mental health ser- being used as a political tool by not just out to make an arrest. which offers $50 to youths to help declaring a state of emergency in to ensure that police are held vices, addiction treatment and Hogan and in past years by for- Some people have mental illness- clean up the community. Baltimore. Another, who wants to accountable for misconduct. Now job training. mer president Donald Trump. es. They don’t need to be arrest- hire more police, launched a cam- candidates to lead a state that ed.” He said Mack had also attend- paign ad that some voters de- passed sweeping policing chang- But he cautioned against a “I don’t like how he talks about ed some of the group’s programs scribed as fearmongering. The ad es want voters to know that their return to an old way of thinking Baltimore,” Rita Crews, a commu- She said a “major start” would where they talk about what it opens with a hooded carjacker support for social justice does not on solutions, which fueled Mary- nity association president in Be- be to shut down the open drug means to be Black and becoming wielding a crowbar, banging on a mean they are soft on crime. land’s high incarceration rates lair in Northeast Baltimore, said markets. “They are scary and you a change agent in your communi- windshield and startling a wom- and ultimately left the state lead- of Hogan, who is finishing up his can tell where they are,” she said. ty. an at a red light. “We can’t have people dragged ing the country in its percentage second and final term in office. out of their cars and have their of people serving life sentences “Stop talking nationally about Cheatham, meanwhile, liked Mack was on his way, Miles “I have the experience and plan cars stolen at intersections,” said who are Black. Baltimore City and talk to us first Baker’s idea of deploying the Na- said: “I just wish we had more to tackle crime now,” former state Comptroller Peter Franchot, before deciding this is what Balti- tional Guard. Others, like Elijah time.” Maryland attorney general Doug- who is in a horse race with Moore Gansler’s own ticket encapsu- Miles, head of community organi- las Gansler, who has made crime and former U.S. labor secretary lates the complexity of the issue. fighting a central plank of his Tom Perez for the Democratic ENTRY DOOR campaign, said in the ad. Gansler, nomination in the 10-person He wants to hire 1,000 new SPECIAL OFFER who trails in polling, fought back field. “You can’t have a buoyant officers statewide, install 10,000 against criticism over his ad, say- economy in the state of Maryland new lights on Baltimore city 50% Off Installation ing “with almost 3,000 people if people don’t feel safe in their streets and get illegal guns off the killed in Baltimore City alone communities.” streets. His running mate, Can- Quality Entry Doors Installed In One Day during this administration, this dace Hollingsworth, founded a Professional, Highly Trained Craftsmen is not a scare tactic. This is real.” Franchot, who said he would political party, Our Black Party, have “zero tolerance for any kind whose platform includes “defund Sliding Patio Doors and French Doors Available! 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Meanwhile, Moore recently called on Ho- to make the state “safer, stronger” the Anne Arundel police chief gan to immediately fill the more and their platform “builds ac- 202-816-8808 DC called for an “all-hands-on-deck than 100 open state Department countability, ensures that law en- 301-661-3168 MD approach” this month after a re- of Parole and Probation jobs. City forcement agencies have the re- 703-552-4480 VA cent string of shootings in the leaders said last year that 1 in 3 sources they need to address vio- suburbs of Baltimore. Last suspects in nonfatal shootings lent crime, establish stronger VA #2705029456A | MHIC #46744 | DC #67000878 | NC #77474 month, a gunman killed three and homicides are either on pa- community connections and in- people at a factory in Smithsburg, role or probation, under the state vests deeply in the additional near the Pennsylvania border. purview. He also wants to in- resources that communities need Statewide crime tallies for 2021 crease funding for community that prevent crime from happen- are not publicly available, and violence prevention groups. ing in the first place. data across jurisdictions show spikes in some categories and “We have to actually build “Black communities deserve to dips in others. For example, in strong partnerships across state be safe from violent crime and Prince George’s County, homi- and local and federal law enforce- they also deserve to be safe from cides and nonfatal shootings ment agencies to be able to track those responsible for protecting dropped but carjackings soared and trace and solve these gun them,” he said in an emailed year-over-year, while neighbor- crimes,” said Moore, who while statement. ing Montgomery County saw rel- campaigning mentioned attend- atively flat rates of gun-related ing the funeral of a friend’s broth- That sentiment echoes a mes- homicide and nonfatal shootings er who was shot recently in a case sage that Rushern L. Baker III rose 75 percent. of mistaken identity. “And we’ve hammered during his short-lived got to get these guns off the time on the trail. Baker called for “We’re watching crime that streets. That is how you’re going a state of emergency and deploy- feels like it’s more brazen, and [to] actually stop [crime] from ing the National Guard in Balti- we’re watching … answers that happening before it even hap- more. His first campaign ad com- feel more elusive,” said best-sell- pens.” plained of inaction, asserting ing author and former nonprofit that Black men were being chief Wes Moore, one of three Perez said a “true partnership “slaughtered,” and “because front-runners in the Democratic has been absent” between the they’re Black, nobody in power primary. Moore said voters are state and local leaders. He said gives a damn.” increasingly becoming aware of the state has a legal responsibility the state’s role in addressing the to address the failings of its de- Hogan has repeatedly said Bal- problem and what he described partment. As a former federal timore residents, including its as Hogan’s failure to partner with prosecutor, Perez said, he would Black residents, are fed up with city leaders — a characterization work with former colleagues at feeling unsafe, citing his internal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Fire- polls as evidence of support for arms and Explosives to deal with his crime-fighting legislative illegal guns and would create a package that included tougher sentencing for repeat violent of- fenders.

C8 EZ SU THE WASHINGTON POST . SUNDAY, JULY 17, 2022 MARYLAND Unusual police request results in daring duckling rescue BY KYLE MELNICK MONTGOMERY COUNTY POLICE DEPARTMENT ers were in place, it was time to People walk in to police sta- scoop up the ducklings. tions for all kinds of reasons — to The rescued ducks and their mother continue marching on Spartan file a report, to ask an officer a Road, less than a half-mile from the police station. One by one, Chen raised the question or maybe to check on a tiny birds to the surface. As each case. At 11 a.m. Wednesday, MONTGOMERY COUNTY POLICE DEPARTMENT and-brown feathered ducklings plained the situation. Trapped one resurfaced, its mother, who someone walked into a Mont- looking confused. The babies, he baby ducks. A mother duck yelp- had stopped quacking, greeted it. gomery County police station in Montgomery County Police officer H. Chen reaches down a storm believed, had slipped through ing. They raced over and arrived Olney, Md., with an unusual drain to save ducklings in Olney, Md., on Wednesday. the drain cover’s cracks. within five minutes. The rescue When they were all together request for help: A duck was was on. again, the duck family trekked as acting strangely by a storm Chen noticed two small tun- a pack toward Spartan Road. drain. Could the police check it nels inside the drain and became The emergency-responders out? concerned that the tiny duck- opened the drain cover, and Chen “Of course I’m glad that they The duck, the person said, had lings might waddle inside the ran behind a nearby CVS, where can be together back on their been walking on a sidewalk atop tunnels where he couldn’t reach he found blue plastic containers journey,” said Chen, 39. the storm drain for about an them. He didn’t want to wait for on the ground, perfect to block hour, making a distress noise the county’s animal control serv- the underground tunnels. Montgomery County police that sounded like crying. ice, but he needed to remove the posted photos of the rescue on Officer H. Chen was at the drain cover, which weighed With the plastic containers in Twitter, prompting people to station doing paperwork when about 100 pounds. hand, Chen reached down about comment on the lighthearted he heard the report about the four feet into the storm drain and adorable situation. duck. Chen, who asked The So he called three Montgom- while a Fire and Rescue em- Washington Post to withhold his ery County Fire and Rescue Serv- ployee held onto Chen’s body “I saw a lot of likes that we did first name because he was con- ice members he knew and ex- from his belt. Once the contain- a great job for the community,” cerned about possible harass- Chen said. ment, decided to see if he could help. His mind quickly went to Chen, who joined the depart- one of his most fulfilling mo- ment in 2014, said he wanted to ments as an officer, when he be a police officer since he was a reunited parents with their kid. His family immigrated to 3-year-old child who had run out New York from China in the of their house unsupervised. 1990s, and while learning Eng- A duck is obviously not a child, lish, Chen became enamored he thought, but he wanted to see with movies in which Jackie if he could reunite this animal Chan played police officers, such family. as “Police Story” and “Rush When he arrived at the scene Hour.” in the 3200 block of Spartan Road, less than a half-mile from He joined the military in 2010 the station, he heard the sound of following his graduation from ducks calling from inside the the University of Connecticut’s drain. The mother duck was still ROTC program. Now, while there standing vigil. working full-time with Mont- Chen peered inside the drain gomery County, Chen trains on and saw a circle of eight yellow- weekends for the Army Reserve. He said he’s glad he helped the ducklings reunite with their mother, and even better that it made people smile. “It’s great that people are joy- ful,” Chen said. “If those photos made their days, then I did my part.” THE REGION MARYLAND THE DISTRICT Saturday downpour is Professor clarifies role in art scandal Biden second-heaviest of July nominates BY MARY CAROLE MCCAULEY ple to imitate. But it’s mostly work, the warrant said, in 2017 three for BY MARTIN WEIL In an hour, Reagan National A University of Maryland art because Basquiat’s work has sky- they upped their offer to 10 judgeships No one seems to claim that Airport measured an official 0.24 rocketed in value. percent of the net proceeds from July means “time of rain” in any inches of rain. In the next hour professor caught up in the art the sale. Justice Dept. attorney, known language, but that another 1.09 came down. forgery controversy swirling In 2017, an untitled 1982 paint- two federal prosecutors doesn’t mean we haven’t been around a now-discredited exhibit ing by Basquiat of a black skull on The collection’s owners didn’t chosen for D.C. courts getting soaked here in Washing- It seemed to fall first in of the works of the late painter a turquoise background went un- know that Mumford had been ton. smaller-sized drops, but then the Jean-Michel Basquiat at the Or- der the hammer at auction for interviewed by the FBI twice in BY KEITH L. ALEXANDER Soaked, as we were on Satur- full armament of the atmosphere lando Museum of Art went public $110.5 million and remains one of 2014 and signed an affidavit say- President Biden on Wednesday day, when showers began in late seemed to join in the downpour, this month in an effort to clear the most expensive paintings by ing that he had never met with announced he was nominating afternoon to drench Washington with large fat drops hissing on her name. an American artist ever sold. Basquiat, never bought paintings three new judges to D.C. courts. itself, with effects that included treetops, pattering on roofs. from the artist, and never stored The president nominated Vijay flooding in Alexandria, high wa- Jordana Moore Saggese, a pro- But what elevates the seizure of paintings by the artist in his Shanker to the D.C. Court of ter in Anne Arundel County and Part of a road was flooded near fessor of American art at the the works in “Heroes & Monsters” locker. Appeals. Shanker is the deputy a pause in the Washington Na- the Braddock Road Metro sta- university, wrote in a statement above the run-of-the-mill art forg- chief of the appellate section in tionals baseball game. tion in Alexandria. High water released July 8 by her attorneys ery scandal is the involvement of Mumford died in September the criminal division of the Jus- In a plaintive tweet that was reported on Route 1 in that tentative opinions that she a respected regional museum 2018 at his father’s home in Silver tice Department, where he has scored high on the mournfulness College Park. expressed in two reports as to the with annual revenue in 2018 of Spring. worked since 2005. scale, the team said “it once was a authenticity of more than two about $2.7 million. Among other Biden also nominated two bright, bright sunshiny day . . . ” How heavily the rain fell could dozen paintings purportedly by red flags that might have tipped About a year before, the collec- prosecutors — Laura Crane and That, of course, would do well be inferred from how well it Basquiat, once known as “the off curators, one artwork is paint- tion’s owners had hired Saggese, Veronica Sanchez — from the U.S. as a description of our rapidly curtained our view of objects in Black Picasso,” were twisted and ed on a piece of cardboard dis- the author of two books on Bas- attorney’s office in the District to changing July afternoons. Satur- the landscape. Figures provided taken out of context. She wrote playing the FedEx logo. But the quiat, to provide her professional serve as judges in D.C. Superior day became our seventh day this by the National Weather Service that her provisional analyses logo is in a typeface that wasn’t opinion of the artworks. Saggese Court. month of measurable rain, with a indicated that the thick gray were used to provide an aura of created until 1994, the warrant wrote that she “trusted and re- Crane has prosecuted cases in total so far of at least 6.5 inches. curtain of rain had cut visibility legitimacy to the exhibit that she said — six years after Basquiat’s lied” on the attorney who told her the office since 2014 and had (Three other July days got credit for a time to a quarter mile. had never intended. death. the story about Mumford and previously worked at the law firm for raindrops, but not enough to Basquiat and the storage locker. WilmerHale. Sanchez has measure.) But spectacular as it seemed, “For several months, my name The warrant also describes ag- At the time, Saggese was a profes- worked as a prosecutor since But by 8 p.m., Saturday had rewarding as it was to watch, the and reputation have been gressive efforts by De Groft to sor at California College of the 2009 and had previously worked earned a spot in this month’s rain resulted from a summer dragged into the public scandal quash dissent. Arts. as a trial attorney in the antitrust record book, as the second- storm. Such storms we know to surrounding the discredited Bas- division of the Justice Depart- rainiest day of July 2022. be frequent, but not unceasing. quiat works previously on display Saggese wrote that when she The attorney also dangled a ment. In two fiercely wet hours on at the Orlando Museum of Art,” attempted to dissociate herself golden carrot in front of the pro- The judgeships in D.C. Superi- Saturday after overcoming hours The rain seemed to reach a she wrote. “I wish to set the with the exhibit, De Groft “bul- fessor’s eyes, telling Saggese “that or Court and the D.C. Court of of dryness, Washington recorded crescendo. Flood warnings con- record straight.” lied and insulted me and even after the artwork sold for millions Appeals are federally appointed an official 1.33 inches of rain. tinued to fly, urging residents sought to blackmail me.” of dollars, [he] would fund schol- positions. But nominees for the Only the astonishing deluge of throughout the area to beware of The scandal has roiled the art arships,” in her discipline. D.C. courts go through a more July 9 outstripped the redoubt- swiftly rising waters. world since the FBI raided the The warrant quotes from an complicated nomination process able rains of Saturday afternoon Orlando Museum of Art on June email that De Groft allegedly sent Nonetheless, the professor was than federal judges across the and evening At moments, the rain itself 24 and seized all 25 canvasses on to Saggese on Feb. 12, in which he determined to remain objective. country. The judges in the Dis- On July 9, the measured rain- began to diminish. Dark clouds view in the exhibit, “Heroes & threatened to reveal that she had Some of the purported Basquiats trict are first selected by the city’s fall came to 4.05 inches. But began to thin, and gaps emerged. Monsters: Jean-Michel Basquiat, been paid $60,000 to issue two she dismissed as forgeries. When Judicial Nomination Commis- Saturday’s two-hour figure the Thaddeus Mumford, Jr. Ven- reports stating her opinion of the she examined others, she was sion, whose members are select- amounted to at least three-quar- At one point during the tor- ice Collection.” two dozen artworks. unsure. ed by locally and federally ap- ters of an inch more than on any rent it almost seemed that the pointed officials. The commis- other day in this wet month. rain had gone, at least from the According to a 41-page search “You want us to put out there “I rejected nine works out- sion sends its selections to the Saturday may have had its environs of Washington. warrant, the FBI confiscated the you got 60 grand to write this?” right,” Saggese said. president, who nominates one bright and shining hours, but artworks — all of which were for the email asks. “Ok then. Shut up. and sends that person to the many of us did not need to look Clouds seemed to move away sale — six days before the exhibit You took the money. Stop being “I concluded that 11 works Senate Homeland Security and for to see the atmosphere prepar- in swift procession. At one level, was scheduled to close one year holier than thou.” could be Basquiat’s based solely Governmental Affairs Committee ing to convert itself to a raindrop dark gray clouds rolled slowly early and depart the museum for on a review of photographs,” she for consideration. production footing. past in a kind of formal review. Italy. The email goes on to say, “Be wrote. She reserved the right to As of late January, the D.C. Dark clouds intruded on the As some moved, they trailed quiet is my best advice,” and “Do change her mind after inspecting Superior Court and D.C. Court of edges of our field of view, and it tendrils of rain that seemed to “I believe that the significantly your academic thing and stay in the works in person, which she Appeals were confronting a rec- was obvious that the air was stretch from cloud to ground. advanced date of the internation- your limited lane.” was never able to do. ord 19 total empty seats — 16 of laden with moisture and humidi- al departure of the Mumford Col- which were in Superior Court, a ty. In front of them, below them, lection from OMA is to avoid In her email, Brumback de- But her opinion of half a dozen quarter of its entire bench, By late afternoon, reports had came small and ragged white further scrutiny of the prov- scribed De Groft’s remarks as of the artworks in the collection though the Senate soon after arrived from around the region clouds, following one after the enance and authenticity of the “inappropriate.” was more favorable. According to confirmed three D.C. judicial telling of bursts of rain here and other in a northbound parade. works by the public and law the warrant, Saggese wrote that it nominees. there. Flood warnings had been Against the gray upper-level enforcement,” Special Agent Eliz- The FBI has been investigating was her “professional opinion The empty seats, due largely to issued for many areas. background, they prompted the abeth Rivas wrote in the warrant. the alleged scam since the fall of that this work is consistent with judges retiring, left the court- The city itself, particularly imagination to conceive of the 2013. The warrant outlines a con- the hand of Jean-Michel Basquiat house strained with an onslaught downtown areas, seemed for ships and chariots of some an- Four days after the raid, the voluted scheme in which the forg- and may be attributed to him.” of cases, many of which had been hours to have missed most of cient empire, depicted along the museum’s board of trustees sev- ers claimed that two dozen lost delayed more than two years Saturday’s moisture. roofline of a classical temple. ered relations with its museum Basquiats had been discovered in In making that determination, because of the pandemic and are This seeming atmospheric director. a storage locker formerly owned the professor said she relied on a now being rescheduled. omission was remedied between Meanwhile, the sun could not by the late television producer positive finding from a handwrit- According to the White House, 6 and 7 p.m. be completely smothered. At mo- “The Orlando Museum of Art’s and writer Thaddeus Quentin ing expert who had been hired to the president’s nominations As if signaling that something ments, even as rain fell, its Board of Trustees is extremely Mumford Jr. verify Basquiat’s signature. And Wednesday make up the 23rd was afoot, a dark, elongated and orange rays streamed through concerned about several issues she relied on what she had been round of nominees for federal slightly elliptical cloud seemed the grayness. It reflected off with regard to the ‘Heroes and The warrant claims that the told was an airtight story tracing judicial positions and his tenth to drift over the Potomac River, upper windows of tall buildings. Monsters’ exhibition,” chairwom- collection’s owners fabricated a the artworks’ provenance. slate of nominations this year. He like an ominous mother ship in a It imparted an orange tinge to an Cynthia Brumback wrote in a story that the Emmy Award-win- has put forward a total of 123 science fiction tale. the curtain of rain that still fell. June 28 email. “Effective immedi- ning Mumford — who had But for even the works that she judicial nominees. What could it mean? In fact, ately, Aaron De Groft is no longer worked on such hits as thought were most likely to have the clouds-to-rain equation has From time to time, small director and CEO of Orlando Mu- “M*A*S*H” and “The Cosby been created by Basquiat, Sag- become well-known to many of patches of blue sky could be seum of Art.” Show” — had befriended Basqui- gese emphasized in her reports us, even if we were not versed in spied through small gaps in the at in the 1980s and purchased a that her findings were prelimi- the more arcane and abstruse stack of cloud above. It suggested Basquiat, who died in 1988 treasure trove of paintings for nary and should not be construed aspects of weather forecasting. a full-scale summertime deploy- from a heroin overdose at age 27, $5,000 in cash. as establishing their authenticity. The hour from 6 to 7 satisfied ment of many of the most salient is a favorite target of art forgers. expectations and fears. features of this season’s weather As recently as late May, federal According to the story, Mum- So she was outraged when she systems. agents charged a prominent deal- ford placed the paintings in a learned that excerpts from the er in Palm Beach, Fla., with wire storage locker, where they lan- reports were quoted in the cata- It was a summer day, with rain fraud, mail fraud and money guished for three decades. After logue and that “incomplete and and sun, with patches of blue and laundering for selling allegedly Mumford stopped paying rent on misleading extracts” had been plenty of gray. It provided sum- fake works by Basquiat, Andy the locker, the paintings were leaked to the New York Times. mer stickiness aplenty, but also Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and auctioned off in 2012, the collec- moments of pleasure, when a others for millions of dollars. tion’s owners said. “Those claims are false,” she soft breeze sprung up, a seeming wrote, “and their publication sign of showers and storms do- Partly, that’s because the self- The owners pressured Mum- caused me substantial reputa- ing their stuff miles from where taught Basquiat’s style — highly ford to support their story, the tional damage and emotional dis- we found ourselves at the mo- expressionistic and based in graf- warrant said. They offered to tress. Nowhere in the reports did ment. fiti — can appear deceptively sim- finance a television show pro- I provide the positive or definitive duced by Mumford if only he attribution to Basquiat of any of would sign the ownership decla- the OMA works.” ration. When that ploy didn’t — Baltimore Sun

SUNDAY, JULY 17, 2022 . THE WASHINGTON POST EZ RE C9 OBITUARIES JOHN FROINES, 83 SUSIE STEINER, 51 Journalist and author of the stylish Manon Bradshaw detective series JAMES A. PARCELL/THE WASHINGTON POST BY HARRISON SMITH During a writers’ retreat in From left, John Froines, Bobby Seale and Tom Hayden attend an event in Chicago in 1996. Dr. Froines southwest England, Guardian went on to a career in research on environmental contaminants and worker safety after the trial. journalist Susie Steiner spotted a poster that seemed to capture Chemist was charged in the essence of British stoicism in 1969 ‘Chicago Seven’ trial five morale-boosting words: “Keep Calm and Carry On.” BY BRIAN MURPHY was married to actress Jane Fon- into custody by police, which has Printed in white block letters on JONATHAN RING A few months before the 1968 da from 1973 to 1990 and became been widely described as the larg- a plain red background, the Democratic National Convention a California state senator.) est mass arrest in U.S. history. message was a source of comfort Susie Steiner also helped popularize the “Keep Calm and Carry On” in Chicago, a call came for John for Ms. Steiner, especially as she poster after including it in a story for the Guardian. Froines, an antiwar activist and Dr. Froines went on to have a In New Haven, Dr. Froines and labored over her first novel, a PhD chemist from Yale. On the distinguished career as an envi- his wife worked with a defense family drama about sheep farm- “It can sometimes seem that just when you get line was Tom Hayden, a fellow ronmental scientist, often engag- fund for Seale and Ericka Hug- ers on the Yorkshire moors. the thing you want most in life, something else member of the anti-establish- ing in research with social justice gins during a trial for conspiracy When she returned to her ment Students for a Democratic implications such as examining to murder in the killing of a Black newspaper office in late 2005, gets taken away, as if some celestial Society and a rising star of the pollutants that directly affect Panther member suspected of be- she included the poster in an reckoning is going on.” left. lower-income areas or migrant ing an informant. That trial re- article about her favorite gifts Come to Chicago, Hayden workers. But his Chicago Seven sulted in a hung jury, and Seale for the home, noting that the Susie Steiner, in an article about losing most urged. Dr. Froines’s experience in moment never left him. It was and Huggins were freed. motivational picture dated to of her vision to a hereditary disorder anti-violent organizing — sit-ins, often revisited in interviews, doc- World War II and had been community marches, vigils — was umentaries and films, including a Dr. Froines taught chemistry at rediscovered a few years earlier cedural,” her American editor, and left the paper in 2012 to needed. Tens of thousands of 2020 Netflix drama, “The Trial of Goddard College in Vermont be- by a secondhand bookshop in Andrea Walker of Random become a full-time author. demonstrators were expected to the Chicago 7,” directed by Aaron fore becoming head of toxic Northumberland. “Truly,” she House, said in an email. “Detec- stream into Chicago in late Au- Sorkin, with Danny Flaherty play- chemical standards for the Occu- wrote, “there is no better man- tive Manon Bradshaw’s personal By then she had given up gust with various views and agen- ing Dr. Froines. pational Safety and Health Ad- tra to live by.” life — the mystery of how she driving as a result of retinitis das, including some bent on chal- ministration in Washington in After her story came out, “all might find true love; how she pigmentosa, the genetic condi- lenging police. A 1969 image of the seven the mid-1970s. Among his priori- hell broke loose,” said Barter might be a working parent with- tion that robbed her of her sight. Dr. Froines (pronounced FRO- defendants, standing as if in a ties was developing standards to Books co-owner Stuart Manley, out having a mental breakdown; As her vision diminished, writ- ins), who died July 13 at 83, would police lineup, became one of the reduce lead poisoning in indus- who had started selling copies of how she might lose the extra 20 ing seemed to get easier. “My leave Chicago embedded in the signature works by renowned tries. the poster after finding one of pounds she’s been carrying for sight loss, which has begun to public consciousness, alongside photographer Richard Avedon. the original prints in a box of old decades — was given as much limit me only in the last five some of the 1960s’ counterculture Dr. Froines is second from the left At a San Francisco conference books. In a 2020 interview with weight as the mystery behind years, has accompanied an in- leaders, as part of the “Chicago with a deadpan expression and a in 1979, Dr. Froines, then di- the Guardian, he credited Ms. the central crime in the story. crease in my creative output as a Seven.” The group was charged by hand in his pants pocket. vorced, met Andrea Hricko, a Steiner’s article with turning the novelist,” she wrote in a 2016 the U.S. government for allegedly worker safety advocate. They poster into a national phenom- “Long before the proliferation essay for the Independent. “The fomenting riots and promoting As recently as 2021, Dr. Froines were married later that year. enon, leading to a host of deriva- of this kind of character-driven two seem intertwined, as if the violence during street clashes be- recounted the tumult of that sum- tive mugs, postcards, flags and crime series on Netflix and the less I can see of the world, the tween demonstrators and police mer during an interview with Dr. Froines went on to serve as pint glasses bearing cheeky mes- success of a show like ‘Mare of more I can focus inwardly.” and the National Guard. “The “@theBar,” a Chicago-based legal the deputy director of the Nation- sages such as “Keep Calm and Easttown,’ ” she added, “Susie world is watching,” some protest- affairs podcast. He noted that he al Institute for Occupational Safe- Drink On.” was writing this kind of fiction.” Ms. Steiner married Happold, ers chanted. may have been targeted for arrest ty and Health. In 1981, Dr. Froines Like other Brits, Ms. Steiner a former Guardian journalist The trial in 1969 became a by undercover police after some took a position at the University grew exasperated by the trend, Susan Elizabeth Steiner was who now runs a video produc- touchstone for the era’s disquiet protesters used cloth soaked in of California at Los Angeles as a even as she took its message to born in London on June 29, tion agency, in 2006. In addition and divisions — with Abbie Hoff- pungent butyric acid to empty out professor of toxicology. He re- heart. She spent more than a 1971, and grew up on the city’s to her husband, survivors in- man, Jerry Rubin, Hayden and the Hilton Hotel. mained at the university for more decade working on her farming north side, where she studied at clude two sons, George and Ben; two others charged with crossing than 30 years, directing the Cen- novel, “Homecoming,” and by the Henrietta Barnett School for her parents; a brother; and a state lines with intent to start a “So I think it was in part due to ter for Occupational and Environ- the time it was published in 2013 girls. Her parents, John Steiner sister. riot, and Dr. Froines and antiwar the chemical warfare, if you will,” mental Health and leading re- she had lost most of her vision to and the former Deborah Picker- activist Lee Weiner facing allega- Dr. Froines said. search into areas such pesticide a hereditary disorder. She was ing, were both psychoanalysts. Before she began her cancer tions of instructing demonstra- contamination, diesel pollution deemed legally blind just six In writing novels that explored treatments, Ms. Steiner started tors on how to construct devices Academia and activism and air quality at landfills. months after she sold the book characters’ fears, dreams, hid- researching a potential novel such as stink bombs and nail- John Radford Froines was born at a publishing auction. den motivations and desires, based on the life of Bernard studded Styrofoam balls. The group Physicians for So- “It can sometimes seem that Ms. Steiner effectively became a Spilsbury, a British pathologist Froines and Weiner were ac- in Oakland, Calif., on June 13, cial Responsibility in Los Angeles just when you get the thing you psychoanalyst herself, her hus- and pioneer of modern forensic quitted. The convictions for the 1939. His parents were shipyard recognized Dr. Froines in 2012 for want most in life, something band said in a phone interview. science. That project was put on rest of the “Seven” were tossed workers during World War II. Dr. his “courageous commitment to else gets taken away, as if some hold during her chemotherapy out in 1972 on appeal. Of the Froines was 3 when his father was scientific integrity and for in- celestial reckoning is going on,” Ms. Steiner said she was an and radiation treatments, when defendants, Weiner is the only killed while returning home from creasing our understanding of she wrote in an article at the “obsessional journal writer” reading became a “lifeline” as survivor. the docks, the family statement the health impacts of toxic chemi- time. when she was a teenager — she turned toward books about The proceedings riveted the said. cals on the health of workers and Relying on a small window of “mostly melodrama about my mortality, grief and cancer, all nation. It was part showdown communities.” vision in her right eye, she went heightened emotional states” — while isolated at home amid the over the power vs. protest strug- Dr. Froines was a standout on to write critically acclaimed and turned toward journalism coronavirus pandemic. gles in the 1960s and part per- athlete at Berkeley High School, “John embodied the spirit of novels about a volatile but sym- during her junior year at the formance art by Hoffman and named to its football Hall of ‘science for the people’ by using pathetic police detective, University of York, when she “It falls to writers to make Rubin — well-known leaders of Fame. After graduating in 1957, he his scientific knowledge and re- Manon Bradshaw, who solves started writing for a student sense of the terror of illness,” the Youth International Party, or served in the Air National Guard search to save the public and murders in Cambridgeshire publication called Nouse, in she wrote in a 2020 essay for the Yippies — with tirades against the and, in 1962, received a bachelor’s working Americans from the tox- even as she struggles to raise her what she described as an effort Guardian, “because people who judge and acts of courtroom dis- degree in chemistry from the ic impacts of pollution and unsafe adopted son as a single mother to “make it look like I always are suffering — people who are obedience. Hoffman threw a kiss University of California at Berke- materials,” said Bill Zimmerman, and confronts mundane domes- wanted to do journalism.” lonely, sick and bereaved — to the jurors during the prosecu- ley. a political consultant who had tic problems like a broken coat need the solace that stories tion’s opening statement. He and joined Dr. Froines in 1970s anti- rack. “Her sexual fantasies, such After graduating in 1993 with provide, to see their suffering Rubin came to court dressed in Dr. Froines completed a doc- war activism. as they are, generally involve a bachelor’s degree in English, reflected in the suffering of judicial robes. (An eighth defen- torate in physical chemistry at men performing minor DIY she wrote for newspapers in- characters. I’m not sure that I dant, Black Panther Party co- Yale in 1967. He also became Dr. Froines died at a hospital in while retaining their emotional cluding the Daily Telegraph, will want to read lockdown founder Bobby Seale, was re- involved with community-orga- Santa Monica, Calif., of complica- equilibrium,” Ms. Steiner wrote. Evening Standard, Times of novels: it’s bad enough living it. moved from the overall case.) nizing efforts with the Students tions from Parkinson’s disease, Just after she turned in the London and Guardian, which There are an additional 35,000 “Froines’s courtroom antics for a Democratic Society in New his family said in a statement. manuscript for her third and she joined in 2001. She worked bereaved people or families out were comparatively mild,” the Los Haven, Conn., where he met his final Bradshaw book, “Remain there as a writer and editor, there now. That seems a more Angeles Times reported from the first wife, antiwar activist and In addition to his wife, a pro- Silent,” in May 2019, Ms. Steiner focusing on lifestyle features, pressing need: to talk about trial. Sketch artists captured him women’s studies lecturer Ann Ru- fessor emerita in environmental was diagnosed with glioblasto- while writing fiction on the side, grief.” slumped in his chair or cringing bio. They married in 1965. health at the University of South- ma, an aggressive form of brain wryly. ern California’s Keck School of cancer. She had written the Dr. Froines would sometimes In 1968, after two years at a Medicine, survivors include a novel, she later said, “with a 9cm walk side-by-side to court with postdoctoral fellowship in Brit- daughter from his first marriage, tumor pushing my brain over its his friend Hayden, who was seen ain under Nobel laureate George Rebecca Froines Stanley of Ham- midline. But I didn’t know about as the most politically experi- Porter, Dr. Froines and his wife den, Conn.; a son from his second it.” enced of the group. Hayden were asked by Hayden to help marriage, Jonathan Froines of Ms. Steiner was 51 when she helped shape the seminal Port coordinate events in Chicago dur- Los Angeles; and two grand- died July 2 at a hospital in the Huron Statement, a 1962 mani- ing the Democratic convention. daughters. Hampstead section of London. festo on social change that be- Many demonstrators believed the Her husband, Tom Happold, came a reference point for the presidential nominee, Vice Presi- “No one is the same now as confirmed the death, of cancer. antiwar movement and other dent Hubert H. Humphrey, would then [in the ’60s],” Dr. Froines While Ms. Steiner’s first novel 1960s student activism. (Hayden follow President Lyndon B. John- told the Los Angeles Times in was generally well received, she son’s policies to continue the Viet- 1990. “I think it’s more valuable to established her reputation as a nam War. look at a person’s history — to see stylish and witty writer after if they have been consistent with- turning toward crime fiction After the Chicago Seven acquit- in the context of their values. We with her Bradshaw books, which tals, Dr. Froines traveled the still need student protesters be- made bestseller lists in England country as a speaker at antiwar cause many of the problems of the and found a wide audience in events, including helping orga- ’60s continue and new issues the United States. The first two nize a May Day march in Wash- have emerged. But nobody’s a volumes, “Missing, Presumed” ington in 1971 that led to more student activist at 50. You’d have (2016) and “Persons Unknown” than 12,000 people being taken to have your head examined.” (2017), were shortlisted for the Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award, a top honor for British crime fiction. Both books were “saved from sinking into soap opera by win- ning prose, sympathetic charac- ters and an appreciation of life’s joys as keen as a knowledge of its dangers,” wrote Wall Street Journal reviewer Tom Nolan. “What I loved about Susie’s crime writing was that it com- bined an exceptional kind of character study with a superbly plotted mystery and police pro- Retropolis Stories of the past, rediscovered. washingtonpost.com/retropolis S0129-6x1.75

C10 EZ RE THE WASHINGTON POST . SUNDAY, JULY 17, 2022 OBITUARIES DEATH NOTICE DEATH NOTICE DEATH NOTICES FRANCISCO MORALES BERMUDEZ, 100 BALLARD BRYANT MONDAY- FRIDAY 8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. SATURDAY-SUNDAY 11 a.m. - 4 p.m. Ex-Peruvian military ruler presided ELINOR BALLARD “ELLY” (Age 94) BRIAN JACKSON BRYANT over repression, return to democracy To place a notice, call: On Wednesday, May 11, 2022 of Bethes- On Friday, July 8, 2022 Beloved husband 202-334-4122 BY BRIAN MURPHY showed American officials were Condor, but he acknowledged his da, MD. Beloved wife of the late J. Lincoln of Sylvia T. Bryant and loving father to Bri- Francisco Morales Bermudez, a aware of Operation Condor, led government cleared the extradi- Ballard. an Kelley and Rylee Bryant. Brian is also 800-627-1150 ext 4-4122 Peruvian army general who by Chilean dictator Gen. Augusto tion of some people wanted by Loving mother of Betsy, Melanie, Jimmy survived by his parents, Janet and Tyrone seized power in a 1975 coup and Pinochet, but apparently did little Argentina’s military regime. He and Heather; loving grandmother of Jen- Bryant and Peyton “Jeff” Jackson; siblings, FAX: steered the country to elections to rein it in. The South American often said he needed to avoid nifer, Hope, Jade and Julie; great-grand- Frank Bryant (Allene), Tiva Lewter (Hasan), 202-334-7188 five years later, but also joined governments at the time used a conflicts in the region to keep mother of Lincoln, Allie, Jan Lincoln, Jere- Garrett and Randall Jackson; and a host of other South American strongmen communications network built focused on his goal of restoring my and Leela Elinor. She is also survived other relatives and friends. EMAIL: in a clandestine network that left on encryption machines from a civilian rule. by her many nieces, nephews and friends. On Monday July 18, a visitation will be held [email protected] hundreds of political opponents Swiss company called Crypto AG, Elly is predeceased by her sister, Ann from 10 a.m. until hour of service 11 a.m. at Email and faxes MUST include jailed or presumed killed, died which was secretly owned by the He allowed elections in 1980 Somma. Elly’s Celebration of Life will be the First Baptist Church of Glenarden, 3600 name, home address & home phone # July 14 in the Peruvian capital, CIA as part of a decades-long amid an economic crisis that left held at Brookside Gardens Auditorium, Brightseat Rd., Landover, MD. Entombment of the responsible billing party. Lima. He was 100. operation with West German in- his regime struggling. Voters re- 1800 Glenallan Avenue, Silver Spring, MD in Ft. Lincoln Cemetery. Condolences to Fax & email deadline - 3 p.m. daily Mr. Morales Bermudez’s son, telligence. turned to the presidency Fernan- on Saturday, July 23 at 1 p.m. Memorial Remigio Morales, confirmed the do Belaunde, who was ousted in a contributions may be made to the Mont- www.pridgenfuneralhome.com Phone-In deadline death but did not provide a specif- In Peru, meanwhile, Mr. Mo- 1968 coup that began 12 years of gomery County Humane Society at www. 4 p.m. M-F ic cause. rales Bermudez received signals military rule in Peru. mchumane.org or to the Bethesda YMCA CAGE Mr. Morales Bermudez was of support from the White House. at www.ymcadc.org Please view online 3 p.m. Sa-Su among the last surviving leaders “Ambiguity is a good term to guestbook at CURRENT 2022 RATES: from the military-led juntas that He was hosted in Washington describe [Mr. Morales Bermu- held sway over much of South for Latin American summits and, dez],” said Dinges. “He did bring www.pumphreyfuneralhome.com ( PER DAY) America in the 1970s and 1980s, in June 1977, first lady Rosalynn the country back to an elected often with support from Wash- Carter joined Mr. Morales Bermu- government. He also was not of DEATH NOTICE MARSHALL CAGE MONDAY-SATURDAY ington as anti-communist allies dez and his family at a Peruvian the brutality level of Pinochet and Black & White despite widespread repression resort. Secretary of State Henry others. But that doesn’t clear him, BLUM Marshall Ernest Cage of Crofton, MD died and rights abuses. Kissinger visited Lima in early either.” peacefully at home on July 6, 2022 at the 1\" - $150 (text only) At first, Mr. Morales Bermudez 1976 and endorsed Mr. Morales LINDA PLATT BLUM (Age 75) age of 72. Preceded in death by his mother, 2\" - $340 (text only) stood somewhat apart from the Bermudez’s “fresh vision” based Francisco Remigio Morales father, brothers and sister. Survived by his region’s right-wing rulers. Days on “international realities” — a Bermudez Cerruti was born Oct. Linda Platt Blum passed away on July 10, wife of 40 years, Tricia, children, Christine 3\" - $490 after taking power in August clear nod toward the general’s 4, 1921, in Lima with a political 2022 after a short but heroic battle with Kenney, Tracy (Michael Hutman) Mann, 4\" - $535 1975, he vowed to keep alive some move away from the Soviet Union pedigree. His grandfather, Remi- pancreatic cancer. Shilo (Cyndi Miles) Cage, Amanda (Frank) 5\" - $678 of the socialist-style policies of and its allies. gio Morales Bermudez, led Peru She is survived by her soulmate and life Speaks, Adam (Ashley) Cage, grandchildren ousted Gen. Juan Velasco, includ- as president from 1890 to 1894. partner Tom Manning. Devoted Mother and relatives. He will be dearly missed. ------ ing nationalization of key indus- “We sense some disquiet in the of Michael Blum (Debbie), Madeline Blum Friends received at celebration of life SUNDAY tries and a “militant, active anti- Cuban Embassy here,” said a clas- His father, Lt. Col. Segundo and Monica Best (Justin). Greatest sister Saturday, August 6, at 12 p.m., American Black & White imperialism” stance. sified U.S. Embassy cable from Remigio Morales Bermudez, was of Diane Platt and Joe Platt (Mary). Proud Legion Crownsville Rd, Annapolis. Please 1\"- $179 (text only) He later drifted more in line Lima in July 1976, part of a trove killed in a possibly politically Grandmother of Matthew, Jake, Joshua and view and sign family guestbook at www. 2\" - $376(text only) with the other military juntas, of State Department documents motived attack in 1939. Mr. Mo- Caleb. Linda was also a loving aunt, great beallfuneral.com/obituary/marshall-cage. 3\" - $543 courting U.S. support and aid and made public by the secret-spilling rales Bermudez took increasingly aunt and cousin. Linda had many special 4\" - $572 loosening state controls on the group WikiLeaks. prominent roles in the military- friends, including the Ashman and Massino 5\" - $738 economy. Another major shift: led regime after the 1968 coup. families. Linda was the family historian and 6\"+ for ALL Black & White notices aiding a regional network, known Conviction in Italy (He also served briefly as econo- confidant, very easy to talk to and full of $150 each additional inch wkday as Operation Condor, to arrest or In 2017, an Italian court con- my minister in Belaunde’s first wise advise. $179 each additional inch Sunday extradite political opponents, civilian government.) After retiring from the Montgomery Coun- -------------------- many later “disappeared” as ap- victed Mr. Morales Bermudez in ty School system she enjoyed shopping, MONDAY-SATURDAY parent victims of death squads. absentia for the Operation Con- Mr. Morales Bermudez twice tennis and eating cheap Chinese take-out. The precise number of people dor disappearance of more than served as Velasco’s economy min- Most of all she loved her time with Tom Color killed after cross-border rendi- 40 people, including more than ister and was Peru’s prime minis- and her family. To say she won’t be forgot- 3\" - $628 tions under Operation Condor 20 with dual Italian citizenship. A ter, a mostly ceremonial post, ten is an understatement. 4\" - $676 remains unclear. John Dinges, a life sentence was given to Mr. when he seized power in 1975. He A memorial gathering will be held at a later 5\" - $826 longtime writer on Latin Ameri- Morales Bermudez and other for- quickly tried to bring a political date. can affairs and author of the 2004 mer political and military leaders truce, allowing a return to Peru ------ book, “The Condor Years,” said he in Latin America including for- for all political figures, journalists SUNDAY has documented more than 650 mer Bolivian president Luis and others exiled under Velasco. cases. The repression, however, García Meza Tejada. Color was part of a much larger wave of Mr. Morales Bermudez ran for 3\" - $665 brutality by South American re- In February, Italy’s highest president in 1985 but received 4\" - $760 gimes against dissidents, opposi- court rejected an appeal by Mr. little voter support. He is survived 5\" - $926 tion clerics, journalists and oth- Morales Bermudez’s defense by his son. 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SUNDAY, JULY 17, 2022 . THE WASHINGTON POST EZ RE C11 DEATH NOTICE DEATH NOTICE DEATH NOTICE DEATH NOTICE DEATH NOTICE DEATH NOTICE COLLETT CORRIGAN DEVINE BOUSHEE MARC STEPHEN COLLETT (Age 71) was president and founder of ViroDefense CATHERINE DICESARE CORRIGAN THOMAS E. DEVINE PH.D. FRANK LAWRENCE BOUSHEE College, Latimer, England. He next served as Inc., which aims to develop antiviral drugs to (Age 100) Executive Officer and Commanding Officer Marc S. Collett of Washington, DC, died address global health threats. Over his long Thomas E. Devine, Ph.D., 84, departed this Captain Frank Lawrence Boushee, USN with VS-25, an anti-submarine squadron as- June 11, 2022, surrounded by family and career, he was a mentor and friend to many On Tuesday, July 12, 2022 of N. Potomac, life peacefully the morning of July 7, 2022, (ret.), got his last catapult on July 5, 2022 in signed to the USS YORKTOWN (CVS-10). He friends. He was a renowned expert in the young scientists. MD; beloved wife of the late John Joseph with his nephew Matt at his hospital bed- Jacksonville, FL, following a period of declin- then served as Air Boss of USS BENNINGTON study of viruses and an entrepreneur in Marc easily developed and maintained nu- Francis Corrigan; loving mother of Michael side. Tom was a Research Geneticist with ing health. He was 97 years old. (CVS-20). In September 1967, Frank report- the biotechnology and biopharmaceutical merous business and personal friendships J. Corrigan, John J. Corrigan, Maria A. Corri- the US Department of Agriculture for most Frank was born on January 2, 1925 in Sibley ed to CNO’s staff in the Pentagon, and after industries. Marc received his BS and PhD. and enjoyed travel, especially if it involved gan, and Frances A. (John) Royo. Cherished of his long career. He is internationally Hospital, downtown Washington, D.C. to Cle- several months of training, reported to the from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, beaches, boats, and water. He was a long- grandmother of Lloyd and Joseph Shumak- known for his work in soybean and alfal- lia Blanton Martin and Franklin Boushee. He American Embassy, Ankara, Turkey, as ALUS- and completed his postdoctoral fellowship time model train enthusiast and later in er. Beloved sister of Rose Josephine Moran fa genetics. He earned the degrees of B.S. spent his first five years on an 86-acre chick- NA. Frank returned to the Pentagon as In- at the University of Colorado, Denver. After life took up kayaking on the Potomac River. (married to the late William Joseph Moran). from Fordham University, M.S. from Penn- en farm in Fairfax County, VA. In 1930, the spector General for the Defense Intelligence directing research at several companies, he Despite a long battle with Parkinson’s, Marc Also survived by many other loving rela- sylvania State University, and Ph.D. from family moved to NW Washington, DC, where Agency, and completed his last tour as Chief always had a smile on his face and a twinkle tives and friends. Iowa State University. He was a Fellow of he and his little sister, Clelia Jane, attend el- of Staff, NTTC, Memphis, TN, in 1977. in his eyes, ready to listen to your stories or Catherine DiCesare Corrigan was born in the American Society of Agronomy, as well ementary and junior high school. The family Frank logged over 4,000 hours in more than tell some of his own adventures. Palermo, Sicily on October 20, 1921. She as a Fellow of the Crop Science Society of moved to Mount Lebanon, Pittsburgh, PA, in 25 land, sea, multi- and single-engine air- He is survived by his wife, Leslie Roberts, his immigrated to the United States in 1928 America. He served on the National Coun- 1939. In high school, Frank was a member craft, and made more than 700 carrier land- stepson, Nathan Friedman, brothers, Robert and graduated from the College of Notre cil of the American Genetic Association of the National Honor Society, Chief Justice ings – more than 100 on straight decks, and Collett and Michael Dierkes, numerous niec- Dame of Maryland in 1944. She founded and chaired both the Soybean Genetics of the Student Supreme Court, wrestling more than 100 at night. He landed on CAV, es and nephews, and many friends. The Woodlawn School of Bethesda, MD in Committee and Soybean Crop Advisory champion, and member of the Pennsylvania B, E, L, N, and T. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to 1950, working as owner and principal until Committee. He was born to James Michael State Champion Cross Country Team. He In addition to his military service, Frank was the Dr. Marc Collett Endowed Fellowship for her retirement in 1990. A pioneer in child- Devine and Anna Brady Devine and raised enlisted in the Navy V-1 program in Decem- a doting surrogate father to his extended Discovery Fund at the University of Michi- hood education, she was fondly known as in the Bronx, New York City. Tom main- ber 1942, and graduated from high school family and the children of family friends, all gan. Checks should be made to University of “Miss Kitty.” She married John Joseph Fran- tained close contact with his many cousins in January 1943. Following V-12 training and of whom adored him. He mentored them Michigan and sent to the Michigan Medicine cis Corrigan in 1964 at St. Jane Frances de in Ireland and around the U.S. through fre- NROTC education, Frank reported to the with steadfast principles, fierce loyalty, and Office of Development, 777 E Eisenhower Chantal. quent travels, as well as hosting travelers. United States Naval Academy on June 13, a wry wit. His practical jokes were the stuff Pkwy, Ste 650, Ann Arbor, MI 48108. You Friends will be received at Pumphrey Fu- He was an active member of community 1944. of legends. may also call 734-764-6777 or visit the web- neral Home, Rockville, INC, 300 W. Mont- organizations: Knights of Columbus, Irish Frank was commissioned an Ensign on June In 1977, Frank and Betty retired to Wilm- site victors.us/marccollett to make your gift. gomery Ave., Rockville, MD on Tuesday, American Cultural Institute, Scoutmaster 6, 1947, and reported to the USS ARNEB ington, NC., where he had spent childhood No funeral will be held. July 19, 2022 from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. for Boy Scouts of America, Ancient Order (AKA-56) in the Pacific. After ARNEB was de- summers with family at Wrightsville Beach. A Mass of Christian Burial will be offered of Hibernians, and mentor for High School/ commissioned in Philadelphia, he spent the There, he was involved in establishing a vi- COOKE WILLIAMS at St. Raphael’s Catholic Church, 1513 Dun- USDA Science Fair projects. Dr. Devine next two years on USS CORAL SEA. He then able Republican Party in North Carolina and ster Rd, Rockville, MD 20854, on Wednes- played a critical role in developing the first reported to NAS Pensacola for flight train- New Hanover County, and enjoyed using his DORIS COOKE WILLIAMS NOVEMBER through some of the world’s most signifi- day July, 20, 2022 at 10:30 a.m. Interment Cooperative Regional Project of the His- ing, and received his Gold Wings in Septem- NC commercial fishing license at every op- 22, 1932 - JULY 11, 2022 cant events. She often spoke of the events will take place at Gate of Heaven Ceme- torically Black 1890 Colleges and Universi- ber 1951. Assigned to VS-22 in Norfolk, VA, portunity. In 2013, they moved to Jackson- of WWII and became an avid history enthu- tery on Thursday, July 21, 2022 at 12 p.m. ties within the discipline of Agronomy. His he flew AF, SNB, and S2F aircraft. ville, FL, to be near family. Formerly married to George L. Simons, siast as an adult. At a young age, Doris de- Memorial contributions may be made in philanthropic generosity included scholar- In 1955, Frank married Betty Wise East, his Frank was predeceased by an infant older Shelton D. Cooke, and Jerome M. Williams, veloped a love of music and dance which her name to Saint Anselm’s Abbey School, ships to Irish American Cultural Institute’s “one and only,” and received orders a few brother, Britt; his parents; stepmother, Ag- mother of Debra Simons (Mark Vancura) and led to her producing musical productions 4501 S. Dakota Ave, NW, Washington, DC Irish Way program and the St. Columcille weeks later to TPT at PAX River, MD, for his nes Boushee; wife, Betty Wise East; sister Susan Karlheim (David), sister to Dorothy while attending McKinley Tech High School 20017. Institute. He is survived by his sister, Ann first shore duty. Naval War College and Air and brother-in-law, Clelia and Ray Bullard; Keefer, grandmother to Christopher, Deanna in Northeast D.C. Sparks, of El Paso, TX. He was a parishioner Intelligence School completed his three great-niece Roslyn Boushee Henderson; (Colton), Moni, Mari, great-grandmother to Before achieving her dream to become the www.pumphreyfuneralhome.com at St. Mary of the Mills for over 45 years. years of shore duty. He reported next to USS niece, Molly Bullard McRae; and nephew-in- Layla and Aunt to many nieces and neph- best wife and mother, she worked her way The Visitation will be held Friday, July 22, at HANCOCK (CVA-19), then VS-38. He was law, Rick Pease. ews peacefully entered Heaven on Monday, up the secretarial pool at NASA. Whether CRANE 10:30 a.m. at St. Mary of the Mills, Laurel, the sole USN student at Joint Services Staff He is survived by his sister, Kathy B. Ames July 11, 2022. she, as the Regional Cookie manager, was MD. Tom’s Funeral Mass will be 11:30 a.m. (Mark); nieces Clelia Davis, Britt Pease, Ros- Born in 1932, Doris Ann Christy lived distributing hundreds of Girl Scout cookies BARBARA CRANE at the same location. lyn Volpe (Tim), Danielle Lawson (Jeff); neph- from her garage or working the snack booth ew-in-law Jesse McRae; as well as many for Adelphi Boys Club, she did it all in pearls. Barbara Crane Gilbert died peacefully on www.gaschs.com grand- and great-grand nieces and neph- Doris will long be remembered for her beau- July 9, 2022 with her family by her side. She ews, cousins, and friends. ty inside and out. was a long-time resident of both Washing- ECKENRODE In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation As a woman of faith, Doris began and led ton, DC and Miami Beach, FL. to Navy Marine Corps Relief Society, 875 for many years the Tuesday morning Bible Barbara was born to Max and Annette Wer- JAMES E. ECKENRODE North Randolph St., Arlington, VA 22203, or study at Hillandale Baptist Church. Year af- ner on December 26, 1939 at St. Vincent’s RETIRED MONTGOMERY COUNTY Saint Mark’s Episcopal Church, 4129 Oxford ter year, she hosted a large Mother/Daugh- Hospital in Staten Island, where her father Avenue, Jacksonville, FL, 32210. Burial will ter banquet. She deeply loved serving in the also worked as a doctor for many years. POLICE OFFICER be in Arlington National Cemetery at a fu- church, hosting family gatherings, providing After graduating from Ohio State Univer- ture date. for those in need, and putting a smile on sity, she traveled the world with friends On Saturday, July 9, 2022, of Arrangements are being handled by Naugle someone’s face. and family and that is where her love of Kensington, MD passed away Funeral Home, Jacksonville, FL. A celebration of life service will be held at travel first began. That thirst for adventure peacefully at home surround- South Columbia Baptist Church, 8814 Guil- helped launch her career at Pan Am. After ed by his loving family at age GIBSON ford Rd., Columbia, MD 21046 on Saturday, many years at home to raise her kids, she 83. He is survived by his be- July 23 at 11 a.m. A reception will follow. In returned to the world of travel, becoming a loved wife of 54 yrs., Louise lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may well-loved and respected travel agent. She Anne Eckenrode and two loving sons, be made to Gilchrist Hospice Services. continued this work for decades, working Brian J. of Burtonsville, MD and Michael up until the time of her death. She was J. of Kensington, MD. He was preceded in www.LastingTributesFuneralCare.com universally admired by colleagues, ven- death by his parents, brother John and Ma- dors, clients and competitors for her vast rie Eckenrode; brother William Eckenrode; DUNNE knowledge and experience. She was 82 and sister, Sandra Saylor. Also survived by and grew their family with four children: Da- years young and full of life, forever joking six nieces; one nephew, and many loving vid, Nancy, Daniel, and Steven. the Federal Disaster Assistance Administra- that she was 39. Famous for her zest for relatives and friends. Relatives and friends Dad enjoyed driving, especially long car tion, Associate Administrator of the United life, zumba, fitness, health and doting on may call at Holy Cross Church, 4900 trips, and took his family each summer to States Environmental Protection Agency, her grandchildren, she never represented Strathmore Avenue, Garrett Park, MD on different states, staying with friends and rel- and Vice President of Dyn Corp. Tom, also the actual age she was. Tuesday, July 19 from 10 to 11 a.m. where atives, in roadside motels, or in the tent at a known as “Buddy” to his grandchildren, was Barbara was the beloved mother of Robert Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrat- campground. a devout Catholic, an avid reader, a Notre and Jennifer (Richard Harford) and most ed at 11 a.m. Interment Gate of Heaven Dad, the engineer, built many things for his Dame enthusiast, a political junkie and a devoted grandmother to Ryan, Katie, Will, Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, memorial family over the years, including a two-level lover of fine food and good wine. His great- Tommy, Maya and Emma. contributions may be made to Montgom- treehouse in the weeping willow tree in the est joy was his family. He cherished watch- She is survived by her husband David, her ery County Police Alumni Association, backyard, a custom-designed wooden wag- ing his grandchildren’s sporting events and sister Ilene, nephews Gary and Peter, chil- Inc. at PO Box 431, Damascus, MD 20872. on to pull the morning newspapers around was proud of their many achievements. dren, grandchildren, stepchildren Melody, www.collinsfuneralhome.com the neighborhood, and a big white box for Tom will be remembered for his dedication Cliff, and Mitch and step-Grandchildren the top of the car to hold that tent. to his faith, devotion to family and gener- Judy, Samantha, Ben and Jenna. Dad was faithful. He attended Sunday ser- osity to everyone he met. Tom is survived She was beloved by all who knew her and vices and Wednesday night family dinners by his beloved wife of 61 years, Carol, his will be greatly missed. We know you’re for years at First Baptist Church of Whea- children Jeanne Olding (Pete), Peter Dunne looking down on us in utter disbelief at it ton. He served as a deacon and a Sunday (Amy), Sharon Winesett (Archie) and Susan all. Love you grams! School teacher. He later had membership at Lozupone (Joe), 14 grandchildren, Tom, Kate, Private service to be held at a later date. Montgomery Hills Baptist Church where he Maggie and Patrick Olding, Finn, Kevin, Bren- also enjoyed serving and fellowship. His last nan and Bridie Dunne, Archie, Meghan, and DAVIS FOX church membership was at Rockville United Erin Winesett, Joseph, Brendan, and Conor Church (RUC) where his kindness, gentle- THOMAS PATRICK DUNNE Lozupone, and his two brothers Jim and DRUSILLA B. DAVIS (Age 88) MARGUERITE L. FOX (Age 68) RANDALL DWIGHT GIBSON ness, and patience were his legacy. Terry. Tom was preceded in death by his Dad’s hobbies and interests included, read- It is with great sadness that we brothers Peter and Dennis. The family will Transitioned peacefully at her Suitland, MARGUERITE L. FOX (Margie), died peace- Randall Dwight Gibson passed away Friday, ing and movies, sightseeing, and explaining share the passing of Thomas receive guests on Wednesday July 20th at MD home on Wednesday, July 6, 2022. Her fully, on July 7, 2022, after a battle with June 24, 2022. Randall was born to Caroline mathematical equations, problems, and Patrick Dunne, on July 14, 2022, 10 a.m. at Georgetown Preparatory School husband of 68 years, Bernard Davis, tran- Pancreatic Cancer. Margie is survived by Cynthia Cobb Gibson and Dwight Frederick puzzles on the table napkins waiting for at age 85. Tom was born to Fin- Chapel, 10900 Rockville Pike, North Bethes- sitioned on March 9 of this year. She is Mary her partner of over 35 years; her Gibson on February 6, 1935 in Oklahoma dinner whenever the family was out to eat. ley Peter and Josephine Dunne da, MD 20852. The Funeral Mass will follow survived by her son, Kelvin Davis (Debra); brothers and sister: Greg, Gary (Leslie), City, Oklahoma. When he was about three He drank coffee daily, until his kidney dis- on September 3, 1936, in Chica- at 11 a.m. at Georgetown Prep Chapel. In daughter Ruby Turner (John); two grand- Mark (Lisa), Robert (Tracy), Lisa (Steve), years old the family moved to Norfolk, Vir- ease caused him to stop, usually ordered go, IL. He attended St. Ignatius High School lieu of flowers, contributions may be made children and five great-grandchildren. She Richard (Jennifer); and by 25 nieces and ginia for Dwight to work as a weatherman at a hamburger, and always was a “yes” for and the University of Illinois. In 1960 he mar- in his name to Little Sisters of the Poor, 4200 is also survived by sisters Mabel Walton, nephews. Margie is preceded in death by the local airport. The Gibson family included ice cream, mostly vanilla but occasionally ried his loving wife, Carol Lucas. Tom, Carol Harewood Road NE, Washington, DC 20017. Ophelia Watson; sister-in-law Thelma Oli- her parents Oscar and Stella Fox. View- his older sister Juanita, as well as younger butter pecan. Mom over the years made ap- and their four children moved to Maryland Please sign the guestbook at: ver (Harry) and many relatives and friends. ing at St. Bartholomew’s Catholic Church, siblings, Leo, Charles, Dorothy, and Susan. proximately 57 German chocolate cakes for in 1969. Tom had a lengthy and successful A visitation will be held on Wednesday, 6900 River Road, Bethesda, MD 20817 on After growing up in Norfolk, Randall enrolled his birthday celebrations. career in the Federal government and the www.DeVolFuneralHome.com July 20 from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. followed Monday, July 18, 2022, from 10am to 11 first at Old Dominion University then fin- Randall was preceded in death by his par- private sector including Administrator of by funeral services at 11 a.m. at the Righ- a.m.; Mass of Christian Burial at 11 a.m.; ished his BS degree in electrical engineer- ents, Dwight and Caroline, and siblings, teous Church of God, 616 56th Street N.E. Internment at Cedar Hill Cemetery, 4111 ing at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, in Juanita Kaputska, Leo Gibson, Charles Gib- DUNN in Washington D.C. Internment at Chelten- Pennsylvania Ave, Suitland, MD 20746. In 1958. son, Dorothy McCarty, and Susan Renz. ham Veterans Cemetery Thursday, July 28 lieu of flowers, contributions may be sent An internship opportunity brought Randall He is survived by his wife, Bonnie, and ness administration. Tommy was a witness at 11:15 a.m. at MD Veterans Cemetery in to Catholic Charities DC, 924 G Street, NW, to Silver Spring Maryland after graduation to children, David (Ani) Gibson, Nancy (Mike) to Woodstock, an Army Reservist, a passion- Cheltenham, MD. Washington, DC 20001. For a full obituary, work for Vitro Corp. He went on to work for Morin, Daniel (Jeaninne) Gibson, and Steve ate tennis player and skier, an avid photog- go to www.colefuneral.com. Vitro on the Polaris, Poseidon, and Trident Gibson. His grandchildren: Grant, Gwen, and rapher, a die-hard Washington football fan, DEATH NOTICE missile testing projects until his retirement Gavin Gibson; Grace, Henry, Jack, and Macy and a master woodworking craftsman who in 1994. During his time at Vitro, Dad took Morin; and Vivienne Gibson. built much of the handsome furniture in his his family to Hampton, New Hampshire for Randall has many, many nieces, nephews, meticulous home. a year-long assignment working with the their spouses, and families, as well as an Known for his booming voice and equal op- submarines. extensive loving family through his marriage timism, Tommy delighted in traveling with While in Silver Spring Randall attended First to Bonnie, her siblings and cousins and their his dear wife Senora, honing his self-taught Baptist Church of Silver Spring, where he extended families. craft on project after project, and sharing his met his life-long friend, George Kidd. A funeral service will be held Friday, July 22 wonderful vinyl collection in his man cave While attending a Baptist Student Union at 11 a.m. at the Rockville United Church, while shooting pool with friends and fam- Christmas party at the University of Mary- 355 Linthicum St, Rockville, MD. In lieu of ily, loving the competition as much as the land, Randall met Bonnie Lee West. Randall flowers, donations in his memory can be company. was invited through his connection with the made to The Alzheimer’s Association (www. Tommy is predeceased by Senora, his wife Baptist Student Union at George Washing- alz.org). and companion of 35 years, and is survived ton University where he was completing his by his sisters Ellen Dunn and Karen Dunn master’s degree in electrical engineering. Shakkour (Peter); his goddaughter Kelsey Randall and Bonnie were married in 1965 Carter, nieces and nephews, and a host of other family and friends. Despite Tommy’s G0REE LOWENTHAL absence, his home and spirit remain a tes- THOMAS DUNN JR. tament to that never-ending optimism, his Advisors” in 2015-2022 and was also named State Department economist, for 60 years. unexpected loss not diminishing his eternal to the Forbes “Best-In-State Wealth Advisor” Alice and Bill worked together in Santiago, Thomas Dunn, Jr., loving son, dear brother, hope. A virtual memorial service is being list from 2018-2022. Skip was respected for Chile, Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Paris, and devoted husband passed peacefully in planned with details to follow. his integrity, leadership and willingness to France. She learned to speak Spanish and his sleep on July 5, 2022. He was 79. A native mentor young people in his profession. French fluently. As a diplomat’s spouse she son of NE Washington, DC and a longtime Skip felt strongly about giving back to his excelled at embracing the cultures in which resident of Bowie, MD, Tommy graduated community. His love for lacrosse led to his lived. Together they enjoyed many travel from McKinley High School and Howard involvement in the creation of the Alexan- adventures. University and enjoyed a long career in busi- dria youth lacrosse program, serving as Alice was active in various organizations: the club commissioner. Skip was passion- Misiones Rurales in Argentina that sup- FERGUSON PAUL F. G0REE III “Skip” ate about supporting young people in their ALICE MESSINGER LOWENTHAL ports rural education, The Association of pursuit of higher education. He created a American Foreign Service Wives, where Skip Goree, of Alexandria, Virginia, died scholarship for the Dream Project, an orga- Alice Messinger Lowenthal died peacefully she advocated for recognition of the roles suddenly on July 8, 2022. Skip was born nization that empowers students whose im- on Monday July 11, 2022 at Maplewood Park women play in the US Foreign Service, as on April 3, 1959, in Waco, Texas to Beverly migration status limits their access to edu- Place, surrounded by family, longtime care- well as the University Women’s Club. In the and Paul Goree. The son of an Air Force pi- cation opportunities. He was also involved in giver Noellie Rosario, and the very helpful US she resided in Lake Barcroft, VA. She and lot, Skip grew up in Puerto Rico, California, Rebuilding Together Alexandria, assembling staff at Maplewood Park Place. her husband, Bill, were active supporters of Alabama and Northern Virginia. Skip grad- a team that transformed houses for Alexan- Alice was born December 19, 1926, raised in The Lake Barcroft Association. She was an uated from W.T. Woodson High School and drian’s in need. Belle Harbor, Queens, NY, daughter of Peter avid conversationalist, reader, gardener, and Randolph-Macon College, where he majored With all he accomplished professionally, and Helen Messinger. She graduated from cook. Alice adored being a grandmother. in Political Science. Always a sports enthu- there was nothing Skip was prouder of than Far Rockaway High and Vassar College, the Alice is survived by her four children, Sidney siast, he played football and lacrosse in his family. Skip is survived by his parents, first woman to graduate from college in her Maas, (Frank), Peter Lowenthal, (Lucy), Harry high school and college. He then went on to Beverly and Paul Goree of Ashburn, VA. He is family. Lowenthal, (Karen), Jane Rothschild, (Daniel); coach his four children in soccer, basketball also survived by his wife, Lynnette Goree of Happily married to William Lowenthal, a US seven grandchildren; Edward, (Jenn) and Ar- and lacrosse. Alexandria, VA, and his four adored children, thur Maas, (Jenna) Max and Rachel Lowen- Skip spent the past forty years working Conor (Kerry), Caroline, Gillian and Chase. thal, Samuel, (Amber) and Claire, (Noah) for Merrill Lynch. He joined their Wealth His sister, Gigi Sellers (Bruce) and brother Lowenthal, and Leah Rothschild Corona, Management practice in 1982 as part of Alan Goree (Roger Bishoff) also survive, as (Chris). Two great-grandchildren; Aliza Maas the Operations Management Development well as four nieces and three nephews. and Willa Corona. Program and transitioned into an advisory A Celebration of Skip’s Life will be held on A private Celebration of Life will be held in role in 1988. He was named by Barron’s July 21, 2022, at 10:30 a.m. at the Immanuel Bethesda. Memorial contributions in her magazine as one of the “Top 1,200 Financial Chapel at the Virginia Theological Seminary, memory may be made to the charity of your 3737 Seminary Road, Alexandria VA. In lieu choice. of flowers, charitable contributions in Skip’s name may be made to Dream Project, c/o LOW Cecelia Morales, PO Box 7419, Arlington, VA 22207 (www.dreamproject-va.org) or Act for Alexandria, 201 N. Union St. #110, Alexan- dria, VA 22314 (www.actforalexandria.org). BOBBIE FAYE FERGUSON GOTTLIEB the Director of Public Affairs for the Office of Civil Rights at HEW. From government Bobbie Faye Ferguson, 78, of Sherman Oaks, CA, passed away, June 25, 2022, from natural SIDNEY V. GOTTLIEB “Sid” vorite interests were being with his family, NANCY OTTO LOW service to the private sector, Nancy founded causes. She was born on October 10,1943,in Memphis,TN to JP and Dora Gammel. Bobbie music, racing his sailboat on the Chesapeake Nancy Low + Associates, a marketing and Faye grew up in Eudora, AR, and graduated from the University of Arkansas at Monticello Sid passed away after a long illness on July Bay, gardening, traveling and kayaking. Some Nancy Otto Low of Chevy Chase, MD passed communications firm on the leading edge of receiving a degree in Speech and Communications. 11, 2022 just after his 94th birthday. He is of his activities were being the President of suddenly of a heart condition on July 5, intangibles marketing and market research. Bobbie Faye, representing her University, was in the Top Ten in the Miss Arkansas Pageant. survived by his devoted wife and BFF Dorrie the Non-Affiliated Jewish Sunday School. 2022. Born March 26, 1941 in Brooklyn, NY, Named Ernst & Young’s “Entrepreneur of She was Teacher of the Year in Little Rock where she taught history at McClellan High Powell Gottlieb, his cherished children, Nanci He was a member of the Parish Creek Sail- a graduate of the NY School of Music and the Year” and being named twice to Mary- School. While there, she was sponsor of the debate team and Gottlieb, Susan and (son-in-law) Jeff Bern- ing Association and an avid sailboat racer Art, and an alumna of Pembroke College, land’s Top 100 Women, Low retired in 2002. the cheerleading squad. stein and adored grandsons Jason and Eric. winning numerous awards . He taught safe Brown University [Class of 1963], Nancy Low’s commitment to giving back in her Upon moving to Dallas, TX, she taught speech and debate at Skyline High School and was He was born in Chicago, Illinois, graduated boating and he was Commander of the U.S. moved to the Washington, DC area in 1972. community, a pillar of her Christian faith, one of the founding members and acting teachers at the KD Studio. from the University of Illinois, served with Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla 710. He served After college Nancy joined the Diplomatic was evidenced by her service to the boards She later became a successful model and actress, with TV credits including Designing Wom- honor in the Korean war, came home met on the Rockville Board of Elections and was Corps of the Foreign Service with posts in of numerous local, national, and interna- en and Dukes of Hazard, and films like Superman. She also taught acting at the LA Film and married Dorrie. Their life together took a member of the Rockville Concert Band for Buenos Aires and Manila. Returning to New tional organizations. Among these are Actor’s Lab. them to Pittsburgh, PA, where he worked for almost 40 years. A man with an incredible York, she joined the staff of Governor Nel- BioLogos, The Smithsonian Women’s Com- A Clinton appointee, she started NASA’s multimedia program in Washington, DC, and would the Bettis Atomic Energy Commission. His sense of adventure. After retirement he was son Rockefeller as a seminal member of the mittee, Arena Stage and the National Center later serve in the same position for The Department of Homeland Security in Los Angeles, next move took him to Rockville, MD, where recruited to assist as a crew member on a Women’s Unit, and was an integral part of of Leadership. She remained and active/life- CA. he worked for Documentation, Inc. He ended sailing vessel doing a transatlantic crossing. the founding of the Women’s Political Cau- time member of the Blue Hill Troupe (NYC), Bobbie Faye is survived by her son, daughter-in-law, three grandsons, two brothers, a sister- his career working for NIH as a Management His adventure started in Gibraltar with a final cus where she worked closely with Gloria The Washington Savoyards (WDC), and Com- in-law, nieces and nephews, and too many friends to count. Analyst in the Office of the Director. His fa- destination of Florida. The planned four-week Steinhem, Betty Friedan, Bella Abzug, and munity Bible Study both in DC and Arizona. Bobbie Faye truly lived life to the fullest; traveling the world as well as enjoying life’s simple crossing was complicated by poor winds and others. In 1972 she was appointed as the Always a creative spirit, Low followed her pleasures, but most of all spending quality time with family and friends. She was a support- a broken mast and concluded in Puerto Rico Director of Public Information at the Equal artistic muse throughout her life, becom- ive cheerleader to all the people in her life and a beloved member of her community. She after five weeks. Sid earned another degree Opportunity Employment Commission. She ing a widely exhibited mosaic artist of will be missed immensely. from the University of Maryland. He became was then asked by Joseph Califano to be the “pique assiette” technique. Creating The Celebration of Life will be held at 12 noon, August 20, in Los Angeles, CA. a volunteer at the Holocaust Museum and beauty out of brokenness energized her to Donations can be made in her name to: Los Angeles Mission the Smithsonian Museum of American Histo- craft commissioned works turning antique https://losangelesmission.org/ways-to-give/. ry, where he was a docent and a member of fine china and other family heirlooms into the Board of Directors. He also volunteered unique and functional memoryware. Her When the need arises, let families find you in at the Smithsonian Gardens and Hillwood memoir, “MOSAIC or, My Coffee was Always the Funeral Services Directory. Museum. His was a life well lived with honor Cold” was published by American Journeys and integrity; and, he will be greatly missed in 2012. To be seen in the Funeral Services Directory, by many. Special thanks to the wonderful Nancy is survived by her husband David; her please call paid Death Notices at 202-334-4122. people of Montgomery Hospice and to his son John; his daughters Lucy (19) and Han- long-time caregiver Ruth Bonta. He will be nah (17); her daughter Amanda; and son-in- laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery law Peter Trautmann; and their boys Noah at a later date. Contributions in his memory (12), Luke (11) and Parker (8). may be made to the charity of your choice or A CaringBridge site has been created in her The Smithsonian Museum of American Histo- name where arrangements will be posted. ry or Hillwood Museum Service will be held 11 a.m., Saturday July 23, at National Presbyterian Church in Washington, DC.

C12 EZ RE THE WASHINGTON POST . SUNDAY, JULY 17, 2022 DEATH NOTICE DEATH NOTICE DEATH NOTICE DEATH NOTICE DEATH NOTICE DEATH NOTICE MASON FRAKES LANGWEIL PAGE SIMMONS in 1968, then went on to get M.A.s from the FORREST FRAKES SONDRA LANGWEIL LOUVERTA SIMMONS (Age 75) New School of Social Research and Catholic University, and a J.D. from Boston University Forrest Frakes, age 80, passed away on Sondra Langweil, of Crofton MD, passed Entered into eternal rest on Thursday, June Law School. July 3, 2022, after battling cancer. He was away peacefully on July 6, 2022. Sondra is 23, 2022. Dearly beloved wife of Irvin Sim- John worked for 33 years at the Department born on April 6, 1942 in Nashville, TN. survived by Lawrence Langweil, her loving mons. Also survived by devoted daughter, of Education, dedicating a career to public Aside from his family, his greatest devotion husband for 69 years, daughters Helane Leisa Savoy, and son, Jason Simmons, five service by advising the National Adult Edu- was serving in the United States Air Force. DiGravio, Irene Langweil, Estelle Renee grandchildren, two great-grandchildren, cation Program, the Federal Impact Aid Pro- He is a Vietnam War veteran and served Palestino (Thomas), and Janet Langweil five sisters, and a host of other relatives gram, and representing the government in honorably for 22 years. The highlight of his (Jay). She was pre-deceased by her broth- and many friends. Mrs. Simmons can be cases before several Federal Appeals Courts. military career was serving at the White er, Milton Wolfsohn. Her six grandchildren viewed at Stewart Funeral Home, 4001 John is survived by his daughter, Tomiko, and House Communications Agency. He then were the loves of her life. Sondra grew up Benning Road NE, Washington, DC 20019, son-in-law Kenneth Bennett of Quincy, MA, went on to work for the Veteran’s Adminis- in Brooklyn, NY and moved several places on Saturday, July 23, 2022 from 10 a.m. his brother Craig Mason of Morton, IL, as well tration for 37 years. with Larry after marriage, most of them until service at 11 a.m. Interment at Fort as many friends all over the world. Mr. Frakes is predeceased by his father, in New Jersey, Maryland, and Florida. She Lincoln Cemetery, 8401 Bladensburg Road, A Celebration of Life service will be held at William Kiser Frakes, and mother, Willie had several different administrative jobs Brentwood, MD 20722. Service will be live St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Washington, DC Nooner Frakes. He is survived by his wife and many outside interests. While living in streamed. Online condolences and fond in the Fall. of 59 years, Frances, and four children: Cherry Hill, she learned to fly a plane. She memories may be offered to the family at In lieu of flowers, please consider a dona- Arland Frakes, Sylvia Nolan (Patrick), Ma- loved boating (especially on the “Lady Son- tion in memoriam to the Interfaith Council rie Fleming (Gary), and Stephanie Taylor dra”), gardening, playing bridge, and ani- www.stewartfuneralhome.com of Metropolitan Washington (https://ifcmw. (Ray). He had 13 grandchildren and 16 mals. She loved travelling and organized JOHN RAMON MASON (Age 75) org/). great-grandchildren. at least 20 different photo albums of her ELINOR VIRGINIA PAGE Following a military funeral, Mr. Frakes was travels to most of the continents. First, John Ramon Mason, passed away at home laid to rest in the family plot. last, and always, she loved her family, and Elinor Virginia Page passed away on July 1, SMITH in Washington, DC, Sunday morning July 3, mostly her beloved husband, Larry. There 2022 after a long and full life of 95 years. 2022. GOLBERG will be a memorial service celebrating her She led a very active and productive life DANIEL ARTHUR SMITH John was born September 3, 1946 in Lincoln, life planned at a later date. In lieu of flow- where she workied at the C & P Telephone IL, to Ramon and Mary Mason. He graduated ARON ANTHONY GOLBERG ers, contributions may be made in her hon- Company for 42 years and at the Kennedy Daniel Arthur Smith, beloved son of the from Carleton College with a B.A in Religion or to the Alzheimer’s Association or the Center for 27 years until the age of 89. She late Joseph and Julia Smith, brother of Aron A. Golberg, aged 68, died Anne Arundel SPCA. was one of a kind and very loved by all her Joyce Wilson, Mary Ali, Maggie Bernarding OSTER at home on Sunday, June 12 www.LastingTributesFuneralCare.com friends and family; she will be missed terri- and Kathryn Hyyppa, left this world on July 2022 of an undiagnosed neuro- bly. She is survived by her son, Carl Nelson 16, 2022. He was an amazing and loving ROSE-MARIE OSTER Park, Dr. Rose-Marie Oster died on July 14, logical disease. He is survived MCCASKILL Meredith, his wife Linda and grandsons man, great friend and successful business- 2022 at the age of 88. As a well respected by his wife, Sally Waxman of Tom and Ben, as well as her daughter, Deb- man, known for his kindness, patience and Beloved retired Professor Emer- member of the Swedish academic and cul- Bethesda, MD, his sister, Laura FLOYD A. MCCASKILL bie Lessans, her husband Raymond, grand- generosity. He is survived by four sisters ita of Germanic and Slavic Lan- tural community she will be sorely missed. Golberg (Michael Hamilton) of Washington children Sheridan, Seth, Jonathan (his wife and nine beautiful nieces and nephews. A guages and Literature at the Her dedication to and love for the teaching DC and his brother Michael Golberg (Rose) Floyd A. McCaskill, 90, passed away peace- Meghan and great grandchildren Holden memorial service and mass will be sched- University of Maryland College of Swedish culture, history and languages to of Dorset, England. Born in Manchester, fully on June 18, 2022 after a long illness. and Easton). She will be interred at Ar- uled for the early Fall. Details will be no- six decades of American college students at England, Aron came to the U.S. in 1967 Floyd was born October 26, 1930 in New lington National Cemetery next year along ticed when finalized. The family requests many of the top U.S. universities is a legacy but he remained faithful to his hometown Carrollton, MS to the late William and Lula side her beloved husband, Joesph Page. that donations be made to the Capital that will carryon long after her passing. Dr. football team, Manchester United. Aron McCaskill. Floyd leaves to mourn his pass- Hospice. Oster was the winner of the Phillip Merrill was educated at Albany Academy, Yale, ing his beloved wife of 67 years, Peola; his PALMER Presidential Scholars award as Faculty and Harvard Law School. His initial work sons, Winston and John and granddaugh- SNEAD Mentor of the year in 2012 and The Amer- as an attorney for the federal government ters, Kristian Thomas and Lakia Davis and EDITH HELMA PALMER ican Scandinavian Foundation Translation was when he was employed by the U.S. a host of family and friends. A memorial JACK CARSON SNEAD prize of 1997. She also served as a trustee Justice Department’s Office of Special In- service will be held on Saturday, July 23 at Edith Helma Palmer, 81, of Reston, VA, LT. COL., USAF (RETIRED) of the Board of the American Scandinavian vestigations where he prosecuted former 11 a.m. at Turner Memorial AME Church, passed away peacefully on July 7, 2022, at Foundation, a Vice Chair of the Board of Nazis living in the United States who were 7201 16th Pl., Hyattsville, MD 20783, where her home. Passed away in Ft. Washington, MD, at the Washington School of Psychiatry and involved in persecution during World War Floyd was a longtime member. In lieu of She was born to the late Herta and Jo- age 92, on July 12, 2022. Survived by his President of the American Scandinavian II and who then lied on their immigration flowers, the family is asking that a dona- sef Prinz on October 3, 1940, in Vienna, wife, Glo Snead of Ft. Washington, MD; a Association of the National Capital region. and naturalization applications. Following tion be made in his memory to the Johanna Austria. Edith married George Bruce Palm- son, David Snead of Marblehead, MA; a As per Rose-Marie’s final wishes no funeral OSI, he worked at the Environmental Pro- Morris Women’s Missionary Society. er III (Bruce) in 1964, and they lived togeth- daughter, Angela Smith, and son-in-law or memorial services will be held and her tection Agency Office of General Counsel er in Washington, DC and Reston, VA. She Charles Smith of Springfield, VA; grandson ashes will be returned to her native Sweden. in a number of areas including noise and MCKULSKY became a U.S. citizen in 1972. Carson Smith of Providence, RI; grand- Donations in her name may be made to the air pollution, toxics and pesticides regu- Edith is survived by three children: George daughter Cara Smith, also of Springfield; a American-Scandinavian Foundation. lation, and international issues. Aron was EDWARD WILLIAM MCKULSKY Bruce Palmer IV, of Reston, VA; Julia Palmer sister Doris McCabe of Robert Lee, TX; and especially proud of the work he did on Winkler, of Winnetka, IL; and Francie Palm- a brother-in-law Jim Caraway of Bryan, TX. PARK-CONROY the Protocol on Environmental Protection Edward William McKulsky passed away in er Hammer, of Denver, CO. She is also sur- A Funeral Service will be held on Monday, to the Antarctic Treaty. For over 25 years, Fairfax, VA, on July 10, 2022, of complica- vived by four grandchildren: Ellie Winkler, July 25, 2022 at the Kalas Funeral Home & demanding but always fair to the attorneys Aron was a volunteer at the U.S. Holocaust tions from Parkinson’s Disease. He was Becky Winkler, Charlie Hammer, and Spen- Crematory, 6160 Oxon Hill Rd., Oxon Hill, who practiced before her. She was widely Memorial Museum. An avid reader of lit- 78 years old. Ed retired as a Special Agent cer Hammer. Edith was predeceased by MD at 2 p.m. admired for her ability to keep the parties erature, a devotee of history, preferably for the Drug Enforcement Administration husband Bruce in 1985 and brother Günter “at the table” in even the most contentious British, and a dedicated thespian (as both in 1997 after 29 years of service. He was in 2013. www.KalasFuneralHomes.com disputes. a performer and as an audience member), posted in San Francisco, Thailand, San Di- Edith received a J.D. from the University of She was a member and past officer of the Aron was a fervent friend who shall be ego, and Washington, DC. He is survived by Vienna in 1963, and an M.S. in comparative SOKOLSKY National Association of Women Judges and missed terribly. A Celebration of Aron’s his wife, Dominique Banville, his children, law from George Washington University in winner of the Board of Contract Appeals Bar Life will take place at a later date. In lieu of Tamera Mock (Tim), Edward A. (Brooke 1972. She was a civil servant in the Europe- ROBERT ELY SOKOLSKY Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award. flowers, donations may be made in Aron’s Nunnally), Matthew D. (Stevie); and five an Law Division of the Library of Congress She was recognized as one of the 500 lead- memory to the Foundation of the National grandchildren, McKenzie, Madison, August, for over 40 years, finishing service as the On Wednesday, July 13, 2022, ing judges in America by Lawdragon Mag- Institutes of Health (FNIH) to support the Edith, and Brody. Services on August 31, Chief. She spoke six modern European lan- Robert Ely Sokolsky, of Rock- azine. Undiagnosed Diseases Program. Please 2022. For more information please go to guages and Latin. ville, MD passed away. Beloved Carol’s life extended far beyond the world visit www.fnih.org/donate or send your DirectCremationServicesofVirginia.com An avid amateur musician, Edith participat- husband of the late Helene of contract law. She was married to her be- tax-deductible gift to FNIH, 11400 Rockville ed in several choirs, including the Thomas Sokolsky; devoted father loved husband Coleman for 36 years. And Pike, Suite 600, North Bethesda, MD 20852. Circle Singers. Other interests included bal- of Robyn (Michael) Rogers, she developed an extraordinary group of let, cats, cooking, hiking, skiing, and yoga. Kimberley (Rod) Nordheimer and Cara friends who reflected her many interests, HOGG She passed her appreciation of lifelong Sokolsky; cherished grandfather of Ryan, including travel, golf, and books. learning to all her children. She was loved Kyle, Graham, Ellie and Haden. Graveside The self-described “DOJ ladies” were a and will be missed immensely. service will be held privately. In lieu of flow- group of path-breaking women attorneys The funeral will be held at 11 a.m., Friday, ers, memorial contributions may be made who supported one another during their August 12, 2022, at St. John Neumann, to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital time at the Justice Department, when life Reston, VA. She will be buried at a later (stjude.org). Services entrusted to Sagel was not always easy for women lawyers. date in her husband’s grave at Arlington Bloomfield Danzansky Goldberg Funeral They remained inseparable friends for years National Cemetery. Care. afterwards, when they traveled together, www.sagelbloomfield.com CAROL N. PARK-CONROY celebrated together, and helped one anoth- er through life’s challenges. ROSEMARY LEE HOGG MONCAYO PUGH STERNBURG Judge Carol Park-Conroy died of cancer on Carol loved travel. Her curiosity and search July 7, 2022. A long-time resident of Alex- for adventure took her around the world, On Thursday, July 7, 2022, of McLean, VA. SUSANA AURELIA MONCAYO SANDRA B. PUGH “Sandy” JERALD STERNBURG andria, VA, she is survived by her husband including to Patagonia, southern Africa, the Beloved wife of the late Gordon M. Hogg, (Age 92) Coleman J. Conroy and many close friends. Middle East, and India. Jr. (USN Ret.). Devoted mother of Gordon Sandra B. Pugh, Age 74 of Washington, DC, On Thursday, July 14, 2022, Jer- Carol served as a trial judge on the Armed She was an avid skier who later shifted her E. Hogg (Rebecca Ryder) of Lexington, KY, Susana Aurelia Moncayo died on Saturday, passed away peacefully on Wednesday, ald Sternburg of Delray Beach, Services Board of Contract Appeals for 22 athletic interest to golf, a sport where she Anita L. Cook (Gregory) of Staunton, VA, Ev- June 2, 2022 of Arlington, Virginia and for- July 6, 2022; Loving and devoted mother of Florida. Beloved husband of years, where she adjudicated complex dis- also excelled and made many more friends. elyn P. Hogg (David Bernard) of Damascus, merly of Quito, Ecuador. Susana was born the late Darin Pugh. She leaves to cherish Marcia Sternburg; devoted putes involving the Defense Department She was a member of the Mount Vernon MD, and Millicent R. Frederickson (Leo) of on March 4, 1930. She is survived by her her memory one brother Charles Smith father of Susan (Mark) Sharer and government contractors. Following Country Club. Corvallis, OR. Loving sister of the late Ev- brother Andrew Moncayo, niece Susan (Paula), two granddaughters Sharena and and Karen (Gary) Myers; loving her retirement from the Board in 2013, she Carol and Coleman also created a book dis- elyn L. O’Neil and the late Julia L. Hicks. Campbell, nephews William David Camp- Jasmine Troxler, daughter-in-law Kimberly brother of Dorothy (Hyman) Kitover, Shel- worked as a mediator, arbitrator, and neutral cussion group that has been memorable for Rosemary also leaves behind her cher- bell and Abelardo Moncayo (Meghan) and Troxler, many cousins including Demetrius don (Arlyne) Sternburg, and Jason (Susan) case evaluator. She was among the nation’s three reasons: It was co-ed. It has continued ished grandchildren, Evan Cook (Rachel) his sons Alejandro and William. Prede- Anderson (Bernice) and Pamela Smith, oth- Sternburg; cherished grandfather of Ste- leading advocates for alternative dispute for nearly a half-century. And it has been the and Molly Cook (Ian Edwards); Amanda ceased are her parents Aurelia Andrade er relatives and friends. Great-granddaugh- ven (Susie) Sharer, Eric Sharer, Jenna (Jay) resolution. She chaired the Public Contract setting for respectful, if passionate, debate Lignelli (Joseph), and Melinda and Emily Moncayo and Abelardo Moncayo, sister ter, November A. Troxler also proceeded Pickett, Brandon Myers, Alex Myers and Law Section of the American Bar Associa- over hundreds of books. Bernard; Ryan and Karin Frederickson; her Angela Campbell (William Paul), brother her in death. Visitation Tuesday, July 19, great-grandfather of Henry. tion and co-chaired its Alternative Disputes A celebration of Carol’s life will be held at a great-grandchildren Roland, Nellie, and Abelardo Moncayo (Yolanda) and niece 2022 from 9:30 a.m. until hour of service Funeral service will be held on Sunday, July Resolution Committee. later date, but there will be no funeral ser- Bonnie Cook; her dear, late-in-life com- Yolanda Moncayo. She also leaves behind 10:30 a.m. at J.B. Jenkins Funeral Home 17, 2022, 12:30 p.m. at Temple Beth Ami, Carol was born in Eau Claire Wisconsin to vice at this time. Contributions in her mem- panion, Ralph Mason; and many fondly many relatives and wonderful friends in 7474 Landover Rd., Landover, MD 20785. 14330 Travilah Road, Rockville, Maryland Harlan and Dessie Niebuhr. She is prede- ory may be made to the National Women’s remembered relatives and friends. A Cel- Quito, Ecuador and in the United States. A Interment Fort Lincoln Cemetery. Profes- with interment to follow at Garden of Re- ceased by her parents and her sister Mary. Law Center or Living Beyond Breast Cancer. ebration of Life will be held in the Audito- private service will be held. sional Services Entrusted to Johnson & membrance. Family will be observing Shiva Carol graduated from the University of Wis- rium at Vinson Hall Retirement Community Jenkins Funeral Home. on Sunday, July 17, 2022 at 6:30 p.m. at consin (Madison) and received her JD from in McLean, VA, late in July. Inurnment at www.murphyfuneralhomes.com the residence of Karen Myers. Memorial George Washington University. She clerked Arlington National Cemetery. SHARPE contributions may be made to Alzheimer’s for US District Court Judge Joseph Waddy, Association (alz.org). Services entrusted to served as a trial attorney in the civil division WILBUR BLAINE SHARPE JR. “Bill” Sagel Bloomfield Danzansky Goldberg Fu- of the US Department of Justice, and worked (Age 100) neral Care. in private practice before being appointed to www.sagelbloomfield.com the Board of Contract Appeals in 1989. Wilbur “Bill” Blaine Sharpe, Jr., of Ashburn, She had a reputation for being tough and VA, and previously of Bethesda, MD, passed STUDDS on Sunday, July 3, 2022. Born June 24, 1922, ROBERTS JENKINS NELSON in Lebanon, IN. Bill was a U.S. Army veteran DR. SUSAN MARTIN STUDDS (Age 68) of both WWII and Korea. During WWII, Bill JANUARY 30, 1954 - JULY 10, 2022 FRANKLIN LEWIS ROBERTS Justice of the Village of New Hempstead, HERBERT B. JENKINS (Age 86) ELIZABETH CAMPBELL NELSON was a POW at Oflag 64 in Szubin, Poland, NY, where he and his family lived for many from 1943 to 1945. Bill married the love Of Madison, IN, formerly of Hyattsville, MD Franklin Lewis Roberts passed away peace- years. Frank and Cynthia moved in 1998 to Herbert Byron Jenkins of Silver Spring, On Wednesday, June 29, 2022 died peace- of his life, Mary Eileen Glenn, in 1946 and passed away on Sunday, in Louisville, KY. fully on July 14, 2022 in North Bethesda, MD. Maryland, where Frank was board president MD departed this life on Friday, June 30, fully at Maplewood Park Place where she the couple soon welcomed their daughter, She served over 30 years in higher edu- He was born in New York City on January 24, of Old Georgetown Village Condominium for 2022. He leaves to cherish his memory, had lived since 1997. She was born on Cynthia Louise. During his 40+ year civil- cation including Provost of the National 1933 to mother Celia and father Harry. After 14 years. He worked as a docent at the US his wife, Valeria W. Jenkins; son: Sean B. December 29, 1920; she was 101. She is ian career, Bill lent his retail management Intelligence University in Washington, DC, spending his childhood years in Richmond, Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washing- Jenkins; granddaughter, Zavia D. Jenkins; preceded in death by her husband of 70 talents to Kay Jewelers, Woodward and faculty/administrator at National Defense VA, the family returned to New York. ton, DC for many years. sisters, Robbie Jenkins Jackson Johnson, years, C. Roger Nelson. Lothrop Department Stores, and Burberrys University, George Mason University, and He graduated from Cornell University in An avid sports fan, Frank closely followed Mildred Mack, Aretha Jenkins Coleman Elizabeth “Bess” is survived by her loving of London. He was a devoted community Trustee at Moravian University. She is sur- 1954 and the New York University School of his beloved New York Yankees, New York and a host of other relatives and friends. children, Thomas C. Nelson (wife, Kathryn), service participant in Chambers of Com- vived by her husband, Jeffrey L. Studds of Law in 1959. He worked as an attorney for Football Giants, Duke Blue Devils, and Wash- The family will receive friends from 5 until and Nancy N. Walker (husband, Dennis), merce, Rotary International as a Paul Harris Madison, IN, son John (Kristy) Studds of 35 years. ington Capitals. Frank also reveled in com- 7 p.m. on Tuesday, July 19, 2022, at Mc- devoted grandchildren, Patrick N. Walker fellow, and as the founder of the first Polish Beijing, China and brother Eric Martin of El Frank was a veteran of the Korean War, serv- pleting both the New York Times and Wash- Guire Funeral Home 7400 Georgia Ave. NW, (wife, Yuka), Laura W. Sharbel, (husband, American non-profit, the Polish-American Cerrito, CA. ing as a First Lieutenant in the 7th Infantry ington Post crossword puzzles on a daily Washington, DC 20012. Celebration of life John), Scott K. Nelson (wife, Casey), Natalie Foundation for the Commemoration of Visitation 5 to 8 p.m. Friday, July 22 at Ly- Division. He married the love of his life, Cyn- basis. Always a stickler for precision, he cor- will be Wednesday, July 20, 2022, at West C. Walker, Elizabeth H. Nelson; and cher- POW Camps in Szubin. Bill was an unflag- tle Welty Funeral Home. Funeral 11 a.m. thia Halperin, in 1958. responded on occasion with William Safire Hyattsville Baptist Church, 3100 Nicholson ished great-grandchildren Atticus G., Wyatt ging optimist, a classic gentleman, and ad- Saturday, July 23 at Madison Presbyterian In the mid-1980s, he coached—with great and Will Shortz, New York Times crossword St., West Hyattsville, MD 20782 Viewing 10 W. and Logan M. Sharbel. mired by all those who knew him. Church. Services are being handled by Ly- success—the Ramapo High School Mock Tri- puzzle editors, discussing nuances of the a.m. until service at 11 a.m. Interment will Elizabeth was born and raised in Canasto- Bill is survived by his daughter, Cynthia tle Welty Funeral Home at al team. In 1993, Frank was named the first clues in the puzzles they created. Frank be on Thursday, July 21, 2022, at 1 pm at ta, New York. She attended Bradford Junior Burgess (husband, Glenn) and granddaugh- proudly maintained records of his corre- Garrison Forest Veterans Cemetery, 11501 College and graduated from the University ter Lauren Burgess. Bill was preceded by www.lytlewelty.com spondences. He was also a multiple award Garrison Forest Rd., Owings Mills, MD of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, NC. She re- his parents, Hattie Olive Shaw and Wilbur winner in the weekly New York Magazine 21117. sided in Washington, DC for 75 years. Blaine Sharpe, Sr., two brothers, three sis- TAYLOR writing contests. A lifelong volunteer, she had been a mem- ters, and his cherished wife, Mary, who Frank leaves behind his beloved wife, Cyn- www.mcguire-services.com ber of the Board of Directors of Planned passed away in September 2020. ERIK T. TAYLOR thia, children Tracy Roberts Berman (Todd) Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington; A joint funeral service with his beloved MAY 30, 1967 – JULY 6, 2022 of North Bethesda, MD and Hal Roberts LEVENGARD a member of the Women’s Board of Co- Mary will be held at a later date and will (Dawn) of Ridgefield, CT as well as four lumbia Hospital for Women; and a mem- take place at the Fort Myer Old Post Chap- He is survived by his mother, Ruth; sister, beloved grandchildren: Aaron and Ross HERBERT M. LEVENGARD (Age 93) ber of the Board of Directors of Columbia el with a burial at Arlington National Cem- Cheryl; brother, Chris; daughters, Jasmine Berman and Lily and Amanda Roberts, who Hospital for Women. She was a founding etery. and Victoria; granddaughter, Brielle; broth- brought him great joy and pride. He leaves On Thursday, July 14, 2022, member and active volunteer of the Ward In lieu of flowers, contributions may be er-in-law, James; sister-in-law, Kiana; neph- behind many nieces and nephews as well HERBERT MEYER LEVENGARD Circle-Georgetown Meals on Wheels Pro- made to Friends of Oflag 64 (https:// ews, Joshua and Andrew; nieces, Rachel as a brother, Dr. Steven Roberts. of Silver Spring, MD. Beloved gram. She was a member and volunteer friendsofoflag64.org/). For full obituary and and Naomi; and The Way of Life Church of Funeral services are to take place on July husband of Joyce E. Leven- of Westmoreland Congregational United to view and sign the family guest book, Christ Family. 17th at 1:30 p.m. at Cedar Park Cemetery gard. Devoted father of Mark Church of Christ. In recent years she or- please visit: His viewing will be held on July 22, 2022 in Paramus, NJ. (Kathleen) Levengard, Jack ganized and led a group of Maplewood from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. at Not About Me Memorial contributions can be made to the Levengard (Sophia) and Deborah (Christo- residents who served children and their www.PumphreyFuneralHome.com Ministries, 3106 Branch Avenue, Temple American Cancer Society. pher) Couture. Loving grandfather of Scott, families by making crafts, gifts and games Hills, MD 20748. Adam, Rebecca, Katrina and Eric. Cher- for the patients at Children’s Inn of the Na- FDlfWneiuneithrndeefeedacnyrmtoaaotulrihrliyiSseei.neessrtv,hicees RUDOLPH ished great-grandfather of Jon. Graveside tional Institute of Health. WILLIAMS funeral services will be held on Monday, A memorial service and celebration of her To be seen in the July 18, 2022, 11 a.m. at King David Memo- life will be held at a later date. In lieu of Funeral Services DOLORES CAROL WILLIAMS (Age 93) rial Garden, Falls Church, VA. Immediately flowers, contributions can be made in Eliz- Directory, please call after the service, the family will receive abeth C. Nelson’s name to the Children’s paid Death Notices at Of Temple Hills, MD. Died on July 14, 2022. relatives and friends at the Levengard Inn at NIH and Planned Parenthood of Met- 202-334-4122. She is survived by children, Dave (Trudy) residence. Shiva will be observed at Lev- ropolitan Washington, DC, Inc. Please view Williams, Richard (Vickie) Williams, Paul engard residence on Tuesday and Wednes- and sign the family guestbook at Williams and Cyndi Russell; grandchildren, day from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and from 5 p.m. Jaime (Tommy) Abell, Jenna (John Wall) to 9 p.m. Memorial contributions may be www.pumphreyfuneralhome.com Williams. Megan Williams, Chris (Katie) Wil- made to the Jewish Social Service Agency. liams, Curtis Williams, Lindsay (Ben) Dar- Arrangements entrusted to TORCHINSKY row, Caitlin Russell, Dylan Russell and her HEBREW FUNERAL HOME, 202-541-1001. great-granddaughters, Abigail Williams and Emmie Darrow. were married the next year. In 1985, Don- WENDELL Family will receive friends at Lee Funeral ald retired from the Army and worked as a Home, 6633 Old Alexandria Ferry Rd., Clin- DONALD E. RUDOLPH JR. “Rudy” civilian for the Army at the Cameron Station MITCHELL WENDELL (Age 99) then to Potomac, MD. In the early 1970s, ton, MD, on Wednesday, July 20, from 10 Motor Pool in Alexandria, VA and, later, the he married Blanquita Maldonado who died a.m. to 12 p.m. Service will start at 12 p.m. SSG Donald E. Rudolph Jr. “Rudy”, age 76, of Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall Motor Pool Mitchell Wendell, a pioneer and renowned in 1999. While a resident of Asbury Village Internment will be held at Maryland Veter- Glendale, AZ, passed away on July 4, 2022. in Arlington. He was a bus driver, dispatcher expert in the use of interstate compacts in Gaithersburg, Mr. Wendell met his sec- ans Cemetery, Cheltenham, MD on Thurs- Donald was born on June 2, 1946 in Minne- and maintenance coordinator. governing states’ work across jurisdictions, ond wife, Lois Walton Boesch and married day July 28, at 1:45 p.m. Donations can apolis, Minnesota and survived Polio as a Beginning in high school and continuing in died July 8, 2022 in Cupertino, California. He in 2000. Mr. and Mrs. Wendell moved to be made to St. Jude Children’s Research child. After graduating high school in 1965, his off-duty hours in the military, Donald was three weeks shy of his 100th birthday. Ryderwood Village in Silver Spring in 2008 Hospital. he enlisted in the U.S. Army. He began his enjoyed the performing arts. He was an Mitchell Wendell was born in 1922 to Anna before moving to Sunny View Retirement military career with the Army Security Agen- actor, constructed sets, and operated light- Schilling and Benjamin Wendell, and grew Community in Cupertino, CA in 2013. Lois cy (ASA), was an Entertainment Specialist ing. Donald also liked to square dance and up Brooklyn. Despite progressive blindness, Wendell died in 2014. in Japan, and was later assigned duties in play pool. He delighted countless children he received an A.B. from Brooklyn College An avid afficionado of classical symphonic transportation at U.S. installations and Ger- at military installations in his role as Santa and an LL.B. and Ph.D. from Columbia Uni- and operatic music, Mr. Wendell also en- many. Claus. Very observant, with a quick wit, Don- versity where he served as Editor of the joyed international travel by cruise ship. He In 1969, while stationed in Arlington, Vir- ald was a people person and would never Columbia Law Review. He subsequently continued his interest in political science to ginia, Donald joined the Arlington Volunteer hesitate to drop what he was doing to help taught Political Science at Hunter College the end, reading and discussing audiobooks Fire Department. Over the years, he was a others. (1946-47), Hamilton College (1947-49) and on politics with friends and relatives. Anoth- firefighter, rode the ambulance and held nu- After repeated illness prompted his retire- American International College (1949-62). er interest for Mr. Wendell in later years was merous positions including Assistant Chief ment in 2012, he and Kimberly relocated Mr. Wendell moved his legal and consult- helping his friend Anatoliy Babayev develop and President. For many years, he was also to Glendale, AZ, purchased a home and ad- ing practice to Washington, DC. in 1962 and JustPhone, a simple voice-controlled phone Treasurer of the Arlington County Firefight- opted numerous rescue dogs. Donald’s in- and app for seniors and for those with visual er’s Association. In 1975, while on a recre- tense grit and determination inspired those impairment. ation center trip to Hershey Park, PA, he met around him. He attended and supported Mr. Wendell leaves behind: a cousin Murray his wife, Kimberly, who was from Phoenix, community theater throughout the Phoenix Pollack of Washington, DC and his children, Arizona and serving in the U.S Navy. They Metropolitan area. He also enjoyed traveled Haley Pollack of Oakland, CA and Seth Pol- around the country, did woodworking, and lack of Chicago, IL; and another cousin’s played cards. children, Robin Sadker Daugherty of Den- Donald was preceded in death by his par- ver, CO and Jacqueline Sadker Kamins ents, Medal of Honor recipient Donald E. Ru- of Portland OR. His family also includes: dolph, Sr. and Helen Rudolph and his sister Robert Boesch (Mary Nelson) of New York, Shirley Rudolph (Burgi.) He is survived by his NY; Laura Kleinerman of New York, NY; Wil- wife, Kimberly, niece Tiffany Burgi, nephew liam (Elise) Boesch of Pensacola, FL; Doris Austin Burgi, Jr., niece Kate (Jeremy) Casper Boesch of Los Altos, CA; Richard Boesch (Burgi), two great nieces and a great neph- (Daryll Harris) of Hyattsville, MD; their collec- ew. tive six children and five grandchildren. Visitation and a service will be held on July A private service is planned. 21, 2022at 10 a.m. at Heritage Funeral Chap- Condolences and remembrances may sent el, 6830 W. Thunderbird Road, Glendale, AZ c/o Neptune Society, 798 S Second St, San 85381. At a later date, Donald will be laid to Jose, CA 95112. rest with military honors at the National Me- morial Cemetery of Arizona. In lieu of flowers, donations to a charity of your choice would be appreciated.

SUNDAY, JULY 17, 2022 . THE WASHINGTON POST EZ RE C13 IN MEMORIAM IN MEMORIAM DEATH NOTICE DEATH NOTICE DEATH NOTICE DEATH NOTICE BOYLE TRACY EBHARDT HARROP MOUZAVIRES PATRICIA ANNE BOYLE MILDRED M. TRACY “Mooie” CARLTON M. EBHARDT ANN DELAVAN HARROP WILLIAM ELIAS MOUZAVIRES ing as a patent office legal examiner, and Sunrise Sunset starting a successful intellectual property July 9, 1959—July 17, 2005 July 17, 1926 February 24, 2012 Carlton Mason Ebhardt, lovingly referred Ann Delavan Harrop, Foreign Service part- William Elias Mouzavires passed away law career. In 1960 he married Elizabeth C. The joys we had when you were with us. by most as “DD”, passed away peacefully ner, poet and cherished wife, mother and peacefully with his family at his side Sat- O’Brien and had two children, Crosby and The profound sorrow when you left us. My Beloved Mama on July 7, 2022, at home surrounded by grandmother, died June 23, 2022 of pan- urday, July 9, 2022. Billy, Moose, Dad, and Farrell, before their divorce. Ultimately, Bill The wonderful memories of you that we family in Charleston, SC. creatic cancer at age 94. She was a dog Grandpa are some of the names he went started his own legal firm with his second Your absence is larger than anyone’s He was born in Alexandria VA, July 28, person. She is survived by her husband of by, the last two being his favorites. Born wife and partner, Jane, with whom he had keep always. presence, BUT when I listen closely 1937, where he met his beloved wife Le- 69 years, Ambassador William Harrop, four April 20, 1935, in New York, NY to Mary a daughter, Christina. Together, the dynam- We still love and miss you — our wife, onora F Colasanto, who preceded him in sons Mark, Caldwell, Scott and George, and Elias Mouzavires, he quickly proved he ic duo of Jane and Bill raised three children I can hear the song of angels and I know death and will welcome him home in Heav- and their wives and six grandchildren. A could make it there, playing with the Pee- and helped many inventors realize the fruits our mother, our daughter. that you’re still with me. en. He is survived by his three daughters, memorial service will be private. Memorial wee Rangers in Madison Square Garden, of their labors. He enjoyed tennis, golf, sail- Walter, Matt, Stephanie, Mom and Dad The love between a Nina Patton, Mary Alexandre (Joe), Robin donations may be sent to the Humane Res- and then realized bigger dreams, graduating ing, and traveling during most of his life, with Paluso (Geno) and his six grandchildren. cue Alliance www.humanerescuealliance. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a some of his favorite places being Jamaica, FLEMING Mother and Daughter grows forever. He is a Veteran of the US Navy, served the org. Biography available at degree in civil engineering and an ice hock- Britain, Mt. Riga, and Florida. So enjoy- Your one and only, City of Alexandria as a Deputy Sheriff and ey national championship; then he moved able were his trips to the Sunshine State, MIKKI retired as an Inspector in the US Marshals www.josephgawlers.com to D.C. and showed he really could make it he eventually bought a home in Bradenton Service after 27 years. A mass will be held anywhere, earning a law degree at George- Beach where he flew south for the winter. Friday, July 22 at 10:30 a.m. at Basilica of SULLIVAN town University night school while work- Later, as he aged, he turned more to cross- St. Mary’s 310 S. Royal St., Alexandria, VA word puzzles, watching sports, and listen- followed by a private burial. A reception ing to music (sometimes while conducting following mass will be held at the Old Do- if he had anything resembling a baton). A minion Boat Club at 0 Prince Street, Alex- cancer survivor for over twenty years, he fi- andria, VA. nally passed due to its complications, and is survived by his wife, Jane Mouzavires, their FOOR daughter, Christina Mouzavires, her family, their son, Crosby Elias Mouzavires, and his family. Farrell Mouzavires preceded him in death in April 2013. Visitation and Funeral services will be held at Money & King Funeral Home, 171 W. Ma- ple Ave., Vienna, Virginia, 22180. The visita- tion will be from 6 to 8 p.m. on Wednesday, July 27, 2022, and the funeral service will be at 11 a.m. on Thursday, July 28, 2022. Donations may be sent to the following charities: Inova Health Foundation and Tun- nel to Towers Foundation. DEATH NOTICE OLESON ARMSTRONG MARIE P. FLEMING HELEN BAKER DOWNS ARMSTRONG KENNETH L. FOOR DONNA RAE SULLIVAN JOHN ROY OLESON rector for Operations in the USAID Mission 2/11/1925 - 7/13/2021 to Colombia until his return to Washington Helen Baker Downs Armstrong, 93, of A memorial service for Rev. Kenneth L. Donna Rae Sullivan, 85, of Parkton, Mary- John R. Oleson, a retired US Foreign Service in 1970 to attend the Department of State’s We love you. We miss you. It’s been a year. Union Bridge, MD passed away peacefully Foor, who passed away May 7, 2022, will land passed away Saturday, July 2, 2022, at Officer and Development Advisor, died on Senior Seminar in Foreign Policy. Upon grad- You will live on in our hearts. at her home on Wednesday, July 13, 2022. be held on July 23 at the Palisades Com- home due to complications from metastat- July 6, 2022 in Towson, MD, of complications uating the following year, he undertook a Gone but never forgotten. Born March 29, 1929 in Brookeville, Mary- munity Church in DC at 12 Noon.. ic breast cancer. She was the daughter of related to dementia. He was 91. series of overseas assignments as Director Louise, daughter; land she was the daughter of the late Wil- the late Frances Vero and Raymond Vero. He was born on October 12, 1930 in Wauke- of the USAID Missions to Paraguay (1971 - liam Tyson Downs and Lillian Agnes Matul- GOVAN She is survived by her daughters, Susanne sha, WI, to Emil Oleson, a dairyman, and 1973), Bolivia (1973 - 1976), and Honduras Michelle and Ebony, granddaughters; wich Downs. Perciavalle, Shannon Knox, Siobhan Pi- Arline Oleson (nee Wittig), and was raised (1979 - 1981) and as Deputy Director of the Daniel, grandson Genesis, Amari and She is survived by a son, David Armstrong etruszkiewicz, her son, Sean Sullivan, and with a sister, Monica Steger. His family then USAID Mission to Egypt (1976 - 1979). His (Monica) of Fort Walton Beach, Florida; three grandchildren, Aurora Knox and Ryan moved to New Jersey where he attended time in Egypt spanned the several years Ethan; great-grandchildren daughters, Linda Stacho and her late hus- and John Pietruszkiewicz. In addition to the public schools of Elizabeth and Cran- leading to and just after the Camp David Ac- band, John of Chambersburg, PA, Teresa her parents, she was preceded in death by ford. He went on to attend Harvard College cords during which time the US assistance LABIB Prescott of Frederick, Maryland and Bar- her husband, Lt. Col. John P. T. Sullivan and where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa program to Egypt was increased enormous- bara Jean Wastler (David) of Union Bridge, her brother Charles Vero. Donna will be and graduated with high honors in Econom- ly. Maryland; six grandchildren, Michele Sta- buried alongside her husband at Arlington ics in 1952. After attending the University John and Mary returned to the DC area early cho, Andrea Barnes, J. Stephen Puddy, Jr., National Cemetery. She worked at George- of Copenhagen for a year under a Fulbright in 1982, residing in Chevy Chase, MD. After Kelli Koehl, Dustin Armstrong, and Britni town University Medical School’s Office of fellowship, he entered Harvard Law School serving as Director of the Office of Central Denney; and 10 great-grandchildren. Admissions for over 40 years before retir- where he was elected to the Board of Stu- American Affairs and of the Office of Ande- In addition to her parents, she was pre- ing. She was a kind, thoughtful, resilient dent Advisors and graduated with honors in an Affairs in USAID’s Bureau of Latin Amer- ceded in death by her husband, Jack L. person, and a wonderful mother. She was 1956. He was then admitted to the Illinois ican and Caribbean Affairs, he became that Armstrong brothers, Robert W. Downs and loved and will be sorely missed. bar and became an associate of a major Chi- Bureau’s Deputy Assistant Administrator for Stanley E. Downs; and a sister, Evelyn J. cago law firm. Program. Nerland. WILLIAMS While at law school, he met Mary Elizabeth He retired from the Senior Foreign Service Interment will be in Gate of Heaven Ceme- Russell of Saco, ME, then attending Welles- in 1985 with the rank of Minister Counsel- tery, Silver Spring, Maryland at a later date. ley College, and they married in 1957. or. Remaining in the DC area, he undertook Arrangements made by Brown Funeral In 1958, he joined the career foreign service an active career of consulting on various Home. of the Department of State. He had assign- aspects of development work. He was par- Online condolences may be offered at ments in the Bureau of Economic Affairs in ticularly active in efforts in Latin America Washington, DC, and in its overseas mis- involving reforms to the justice sector. He www.BrownFuneralHomesWV.com sions in Bilbao and Mexico City. In 1965, he retired from consulting work in 2000 where- transferred to the Agency for International upon he and his wife moved to Baltimore. ADEL MAHMOUD LABIB MICHAEL A. GOVAN Development. He initially was an Attorney John and Mary loved to visit museums and Advisor to the Bureau of Latin American and attend theater, concerts, and opera in Bal- July 12, 1930 On July 4, 2022. Devoted husband of Mar- Caribbean Affairs and then became the re- timore, Washington DC, and New York City; Cairo, Egypt sha Govan, loving father of Monica (Mar- gional legal advisor to the USAID Missions they maintained their life-long love of travel qus) and wonderful Pop Pop to Marlie. in Colombia and Ecuador while stationed in both throughout the US and abroad; and, ∞ He is also survived by his mother Queen Bogota. He later became the Assistant Di- they delighted in attending and following January 12, 2021 Esther Queen, his mother-in-law Joyce the activities of their three beloved grand- Arlington, Virginia Ferguson, two brothers Darius Queen and sons. “MY ONLY WISH IS FOR PRAYERS AND Samuel Govan, his sister Chanel (Charles) John has been predeceased by his parents Govan, sisters-in-law Gina, Linda, Cathy- and his sister, Monica Steger Rusk, as well KIND WORDS” Brother in laws James, Jr. (Benita), and as her husband, Daniel Rusk. He is survived David (Siobhan), his Goddaughter/niece by his wife of sixty-four years; his daugh- DEATH NOTICE Chanae Washington, nieces Janay, Za- ter, Lisa Meagher, and her husband, Bren- kiyyah, Eniya, Sadiyyah, and Kareemah. dan; his sons, Neil and Eric Oleson; and his BAKER nephews Darius, Darryl, James III, Za- grandsons, Declan and Finnian Meagher and meer. Great nieces and nephew James Jasper Davenport. IV, Juliet, De’Airah,Ke’Shawn, Zaire, and In keeping with his wishes, a memorial a host of other relatives and friends. Pre- service will not be held. In lieu of flowers, ceded in Death by his father-in-law James please send a donation either to Harvard L Ferguson, Sr. Visitation July 22,2022 9 University or the educational institution of a.m. until hour of service 11 a.m. at New your choice or to one of his favored chari- Smyrna Missionary Baptist Church, 4417 ties: AMFAR, AFSC, the ACLU, the Center for Douglas Street NE, Washington, DC 20019. Constitutional Rights and the United Way. Interment Cheltenham Maryland Veterans DEATH NOTICE Cemetery. Services by Bianchi. ROBINSON Baker after the war, and they had one son. LILLIAN WILLIAMS (Age 80) Northwestern, Oberlin and Williams College. The Bakers moved to Alexandria, Virginia, Later he worked for the CIA in Washington where Alice flourished among a network Lillian G. Williams (MaDear), of Washington, DC, then obtained his law degree at George of lifelong friends. She loved that feeling of DC born on May 9, 1942 and transitioned Washington University. He practiced law community. Every Sunday, she and her hus- on July 9, 2022. She is survived by her chil- at the law firms Patton Boggs, Bell Boyd & band attended two services at their respec- dren Renee L. Mackey, Stepfan A. Martin, Lloyd, and Ludwig & Robinson. During this tive churches, St. Rita’s Catholic Church and Tracee L. Ceaser-Scott; grandchildren and time, for over 20 years, he taught interna- Westminster Presbyterian Church. In 1997, great-grandchildren. Visitation will be held tional law classes at George Washington they moved to Aldersgate Retirement Com- Thursday, July 21, 2022; 10 a.m. until time University. He and his wife moved to Tucson, munity in Charlotte, North Carolina. Waldon of funeral 11 a.m. at Alexander Memorial Arizona in 2018. Phillip was an avid reader, passed away in 2005, and Alice felt blessed Baptist Church, 10675 Crain Highway, Up- with interest in history, sports, economics, to have so many friends there, for the rest per Marlboro, MD 20772. Interment Har- art, philosophy and politics. He loved tennis, of her life. She considered the staff there mony Memorial Cemetery. racquetball, skiing and diving, as well as as extended family and again flourished as watching old movies, and visiting museums a social butterfly. From church to bingo to MARTIN and good restaurants. An experienced world getting together with her friends, she bene- traveler, he loved visiting the British Virgin ALICE L. BAKER (Age 104) fited from the positive vibe this community and later as a school nurse in Arlington PHILLIP LYSLE ROBINSON Islands, and embarking on road trips with provided her. County and as a public health nurse for his family. He is survived by his wife, Cather- Alice Baker passed away on June 28, 2022. After a private celebration of life, her final Fairfax County, specializing in maternal and Phillip Lysle Robinson passed away on July ine Robinson, his son, Maxwell Robinson, of She is survived by her son Michael and resting place will be next to her husband child health. 6, 2022. He was born on March 29,1947, Baltimore, Maryland, and cousins Anna Mal- daughter-in-law Lori. Born in Washington, at the Westminster Presbyterian Church Deanna married Charles (“Charlie”) Perkins in Phoenix, Arizona. He attended Central bos of Grenoble, France, Lindy Patterson, DC, in 1917, she worked for the U.S. Govern- Columbarium in Alexandria, Virginia. Martin, Jr., in 1965. They settled in McLean, High School in Phoenix, the University of of Honolulu, Hawaii, Rick Patterson, of San ment, often volunteering at the USO during Donations in her memory may be made VA, in 1981, where they raised their three Arizona in Tucson, and Whittier College in Marcos, California, John Lawrey and Robert World War II. She met and married Waldon L. to St. Jude’s Research Hospital. Charitable children and made many close friends. In California. As a young man, he played pro- Lawrey, of Kingman, Arizona. A memorial giving and helping those less fortunate was later years, Deanna and Charlie split their fessional tennis, before becoming a profes- service will be held later this year in the Brit- what life was about to her. time between McLean and Sheepscot Pond sor of political science, teaching at Cornell, ish Virgin Islands. Memorial contributions in Maine. may be made to George Washington Univer- Deanna is survived by her husband, Charlie; sity Law School. Arrangements under the son Chuck and daughter-in-law, Tanya of care of Vistoso Funeral Home 520-544-2285 Kingsville, MD; son Adam and daughter-in- law, Sarah of Kampala, Uganda; daughter WOOD Bethany of Brooklyn, NY; and grandchildren, BRISCOE-TONIC Zoe, Hannah, Aiden, and Penelope. She was Mrs. Wood wrote freelance stories for the predeceased by her sister, Melinda (Jones) New York Daily News from 1954 to 1963 School, Class of 1986. She continued on to DEANNA JONES MARTIN (Age 81) Lukei. and was Legislative Correspondent for the the University of the District of Columbia A Memorial Service will be held at St. John’s Montgomery Advertiser/Alabama Journal in where she earned an Associate of Applied Deanna Jones Martin of McLean, VA, passed Episcopal Church, 6715 Georgetown Pike, 1964. Science in Mortuary Science. Kim worked away peacefully at home on June 18, 2022, McLean, VA, at 11 a.m. on July 29, 2022. In She was a friend and colleague to many in at various funeral homes in the Washington after a brief battle with cancer. lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the political and newspaper press world in- DC Metropolitan area for over 20 years be- Born Deanna Leigh Jones on September 6, The Natural Resources Council of Maine at cluding the late White House Correspondent fore opening her own Briscoe-Tonic Funeral 1940, in Norfolk, VA, she was a daughter (https://nrcm.salsalabs.org/honoraria). To Helen Thomas, Congressman Steny H. Hoy- Home in 2008. She was a loving wife, amaz- of the late Alvah Lee and Every Vance (Wil- share condolences with the family or for er, the late Maryland State Senator Michael ing mother, devoted daughter, an energetic liams) Jones. After earning degrees at the more information please visit https://tinyurl. Miller, County Executive Parris N. Glenden- sister, spoiling aunt, and loyal friend. Her University of Virginia and Boston University, com/DMartinObit ing, Governor and US Ambassador to the UN contagious smile, warm spirit, generous she served as a clinical nursing instructor Adlai E. Stevenson. Her first address book heart, and unexplainable kindness will be included the phone numbers for Jack Benny, missed by each person she encountered. MCDONALD ESTELLE GAINES WOOD Charlie Chaplain, Joan Crawford, Governor Left to cherish her memories loving hus- Dewey, Mrs. Phil Graham, Cary Grant, Wil- KIMBERLY CHANTEUSE band, Tony; daughter, Tristan; father, Francis; Thursdays”, bridge club, book clubs and a August 14, 1923 - December 3, 2020 liam R. Hearst II, Howard Hughes, Burl Ives, BRISCOE-TONIC two sisters, Denise and Sharon (Tony, Sr.); writing group. Jackie was a poet, short story Born in Birmingham Alabama in 1923, Es- Boris Karloff, Gene Kelly, Jack Kennedy, Ethel two brothers, Greg (Sylvina) and Eric (To- writer, avid reader, and proud librarian. She telle Gaines Wood, a career journalist, be- Merman, Mary Pickford, Frank Sinatra, Shel- OWNER OF BRISCOE-TONIC nia); best friend, Ronnette; nieces, nephews, was devoted to her job and made meaning- gan her writing career at an early age as ley Winters, Ed Wynn, and Loretta Young., FUNERAL HOME aunts, uncles and a host of other relatives ful differences in her students’ lives, mento- Editor-in-Chief of Phillips High School’s year- political/city page editors of major daily and friends. ring them to get summer jobs, providing a book and weekly “Mirror” newspaper. newspapers, the Park and Metropolitan po- On Tuesday, July 12, 2022 Kim- Visitation will be held Friday, July 22, 2022 welcoming space to spend lunchtime, and She went on to study English and chemistry lice, the D.C. morgue, along with the phone berly Chanteuse Briscoe-Ton- from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. at Briscoe-Tonic always providing an empathetic ear. Jackie at Alabama Polytechnic Institute at Auburn. numbers for numerous House and Senate ic entered into eternal life Funeral Home Mechanicsville, 38576 Brett made lifetime friendships everywhere she During WWII Mrs. Wood was one of the few members. peacefully with her family at Way, Mechanicsville, MD 20659 and from 4 went-- high school, college, Dolley Madi- women to sit on the copy desk for the Bir- She won the George Aman Award for Public her side. Born July 6, 1968 to p.m. until 9 p.m. at Briscoe-Tonic Funeral son Apartments, workplaces, membership mingham News and the Atlanta Journal. She Relations in 1982 for Outstanding Volun- Francis and the late Frances Home Waldorf, 64 Industrial Park Drive, Wal- groups, neighbors and beyond. Always an worked for the Democratic National Com- teer Service to Citizens of Prince George’s Dickerson Briscoe in Washington, DC. Ed- dorf, MD 20602. Visitation will also be held independent woman who paved her own mittee during the 1946 mid-term Campaign. County for her many years of service on the ucated by Prince George’s County public on Saturday, July 23, 2022 from 8 a.m. until path, she lived a life of the utmost integrity. In 1946 she arrived in Washington D.C. to Board of Elections Supervisors, including schools, graduating from Potomac High time of Mass of Christian Burial 10 a.m. at She was a staunch proponent of civil rights, work as public relations counsel for Con- Chair. Holy Family Catholic Church, 2210 Callaway fairness and equality, marching in protests gresswoman Helen Douglas Mankin, the Her biggest story was the one that she St., Hillcrest Heights, MD 20748. Interment and speaking out at her workplace on behalf first woman to be elected to Congress for didn’t write herself — “The Universalist will follow at Resurrection Cemetery, Clin- of all people. After retirement, Jackie mar- the state of Georgia. Mrs Wood met Con- National Memorial church was the scene ton, MD. ried Zollicoffer Travis of Charlotte, NC at the gresswoman Mankin while covering her yesterday of the wedding of Miss Estelle age of 62. They spent a lot of time in Piney congressional campaign for the Atlanta Sonia Gaines… and Walter H. Wood…,” Pic- DICK JACQUELIN MCDONALD “Jackie” Creek, NC where they loved entertaining Journal. ture Editor of the Evening Star.” (August 10, friends and family at the New River. Jackie is A life-long Democrat, Mrs. Wood soon turned 1952.) She and Walter raised four children in MARY ANN DICK Mary received a Bachelors and a Masters Jacquelin “Jackie” McDonald of Alexandria, survived by her niece Emilie Blythe McDon- back to journalism, covering news from the Prince George’s County: Mrs. Edith ‘Muffin’ degree in Biology from Boston University, VA died on May 29, 2022 due to complica- ald (husband Bruce Smolanoff and daughter White House for the Republican-leaning Wood Dell (Sam) of Cockeysville, MD; Mrs. Mary Ann Dick 86 of Fairfax Virginia passed and a Masters degree in Microbiology from tions connected with COPD. Jackie was born Miranda Smolanoff), nephew Quinn Hauser Washington Times-Herald (which was ab- Sarah Wood Cooksey (Mike) of Milton, DE; away peacefully on July 8, 2022. Mary was Harvard University. She joined one of the on February 21, 1936 in Columbia, SC. Her McDonald, niece Cassandra Viola Good- sorbed by the Washington Post in 1954), Mary Madeline Wood of Great Mills, MD; born in Peabody, Massachusetts on March first Peace Corp deployments and served in early childhood years were spent moving luck-Johnson (husband Nate Goodluck-John- where she worked for seven years. During Walter Hunt Wood, Jr. (Pam) of Bristow, VA; 28, 1936 to Cecelia and Theodore McNichol. El Salvador. Her professional career included around to different construction job loca- son), sister-in-law Polly Burns, cousins Linda this time she worked with Jacqueline Bouvi- four grandchildren — Emily and Walter Hunt Mary was married to Daniel Bernard Dick for vaccine research at Park Davis and Walter tions with her building contractor father and Milton Hodge and Bob Baston, many er before she married John F. Kennedy. Mrs. Wood III and Samuel and Thomas Cooksey. 49 years and together they had three chil- Reed. Mary stopped working to stay home Francis “Slim” McDonald, mother Emilie beloved members of the Travis family, her Wood also interviewed Madame Chiang Kai- She is also survived by the family’s dear dren, Brian Dick, Kathryn Winn, and Angela with her children and was a wonderful and Estelle Richard and brother Francis Dudley godchildren Scott, Ashley (O’Connor) and shek and the famous operatic tenor Jussi lifelong friend, Colonel Susan Roley Malone, Dick. loving mother. She also supported many McDonald. They lived in SC, NC, Panama Jeffrey Woodworth, and countless friends all Bjorling. She once had a private audience USMC. charitable causes and was a member of the City, and ultimately settled in Charlotte, NC. over the country. She kept in very close con- with the Washington Times-Herald owner While raising her children in Clinton Mary- League of Women Voters. Mary’s greatest Jackie attended Myers Park High School, tact with all of her friends and family, never Cissy Patterson at her home, His Lordship’s land, Mrs. Wood was Acting Editor for The joy in the later years of her life was spend- graduating in 1954. She attended Limestone forgetting a birthday or special occasion. Kindness. Enquire Gazette, and wrote the local Clinton ing time with her family, children, grandchil- College in Gaffney, SC with a BA in English. An example of her thoughtfulness is that Mrs. Wood would say “she was raised in news for the Star Leader. Students from dren, brothers and sister, and their families. After graduating, she moved to Charleston, she always carried birthday candles in her politics.” and covered Court House, State Surrattsville Senior High will remember Mary is survived by her children and grand- SC for several years, where she worked as purse, just in case she needed to sponta- House, the U.S. Congress, and the White her standing in the bleachers ringing her children; sister Helen Caron, and brother an English teacher in North Charleston. In neously celebrate someone’s birthday. She House. In 1950 she traveled with President cowbell supporting the Hornets. She also John McNichol. She was predeceased by the mid-60’s she moved to Arlington, VA, was open-minded and curious and loved to Truman on a train trip from Washington, D.C. worked at Voice of America (1967 - 1968) her husband Daniel Dick; brother Thomas and eventually settled in Alexandria, VA meet new people, try new foods, and learn to Conlee City, Washington. and volunteered for the Absentee Voters McNichol; and parents Theodore and Cece- where she taught English at Parker Gray new things. She was a fantastic dancer and In The Guildsman “Meet the Press” column Bureaus of the DNC in every presidential lia McNichol. Middle School then George Washington had a hilarious sense of humor. She traveled featuring Mrs. Wood (June, 1953) Sue De campaign from 1948 through the late 70s. Mary may be viewed from 4 to 8 p.m. July 21 High School. She worked 2 jobs to support extensively to Europe, Canada and Mexico, Bruin wrote, “Hiding her trigger-sharp mind Mrs. Wood enjoying reading and writing po- at Fairfax Memorial Funeral Home. Mary’s herself while getting her Masters of Library even traveling solo to Mexico in her 80’s behind wide sloe eyes, impish smile and etry, classical and abstract art and opera. Funeral Mass will be held at 1:30 p.m. Science at Catholic U, then worked as a li- to visit family. She was a beacon of light peach-velvet voice, she can charm, trick She loved nature and studied plants, birds July 22 at St. James Catholic Church, Falls brarian at Hammond Junior High School, and positivity to all who knew her and will or demand a story quicker than guys with and insects. She was a scholar in all things Church, Virginia. Memorial donations may eventually becoming Head Librarian for be greatly missed. Her service will be held twice her 12 years in the business.” Shakespeare, Heidegger, and Nietzsche. be made in Mary’s name to So Other Might over a decade. She was an active member in August in Alexandria. In lieu of flowers Private Burial to take place on July 21, 2022 Eat (SOME). of the Delta Kappa Gamma Society and the please give donations to WETA (her local at the Cheltenham Veterans Cemetery, Alexandria Retired Teachers Association. PBS station) at give.weta.org or the Beatley where her late husband, a Washington Post She also was part of many social groups, Central Library at beatleyfriends.org/donate. USMC combat press correspondent during including “First Fridays”, “International Food WWII is buried

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SPORTSKLMNO DM2 SUNDAY, JULY 17, 2022 . WASHINGTONPOST.COM/SPORTS For McIlroy, Open becomes duel to end drought Trade of Soto Hovland stands between ing sign in capital letters seemed fourth major title in the last 11 when other players pass in front BRITISH OPEN may be golfer and his first win to tack on a fresh meaning. played, and he has searched of them. They fill the stands St. Andrews, Scotland, through today on table in a major since 2014 through fields near and far since behind the famed Road Hole, EVERYTHING HAS LED TO then without winning one or No. 17, sounding just a little bit POS. TO PAR BY CHUCK CULPEPPER THIS, it has read all week, always even squandering one. It has led like soccer beneath good soccer seeming to mean this birthplace him all the way to this hopeful, clouds. T1 Viktor Hovland -16 st. andrews, scotland — The of golf and the 149 preceding precarious Sunday: sesquicen- Opens, but maybe it pertained tennial Open, runaway senti- “How can you not root for Rory McIlroy -16 sky opted for some good Scottish also to the four majors Rory ment, tied for the Sunday morn- Rory?” said Scheffler, No. 1 in the brooding Saturday evening in- McIlroy won and then the 29 en- ing lead with 24-year-old Norwe- world at the moment. T3 Cameron Smith -12 stead of the inappropriate sun- suing majors he has not. Those gian phenom Viktor Hovland at shine that marred previous days. 29 color his pursuit of a drought- 16 under par, well out ahead of What noise they made around Cameron Young -12 A frenzied seriousness settled destroyer at the world’s foremost Cameron Smith and Cameron 8 p.m. as the northern daylight over this 150th British Open. And course and event. Those 29 help Young at 12 under, Scottie Schef- persisted and the clubhouse T5 Si Woo Kim -11 from the grandstand behind make the meaning inflate and fler and Si Woo Kim at 11 under. chandelier came on. What a No. 18 with the stately old build- the noise boom. Sunday they promised with their Scottie Scheffler -11 Outfielder spurns offer ings bunched around, a market- The knowledgeable galleries lungs and throats. Both McIlroy of 15 years, $440 million “It’s what dreams are made of,” of Britain realize all of it clear and Hovland had reached that 7 Dustin Johnson -10 McIlroy said late Saturday at a from Scotland to his native Road Hole and had reached, from the Nationals seasoned age 33. Northern Ireland, so they’re unfortunately, the road, either TV: 4 a.m., USA; 7 a.m., NBC chanting his name even at times side of it. McIlroy bogeyed from Inside: Rory McIlroy’s eagle chip-in BY JESSE DOUGHERTY He was a rambunctious 25 in — and the crowd’s ensuing roar — The Washington Nationals will August 2014 when he won his SEE BRITISH OPEN ON D3 created a defining moment. D3 consider trading Juan Soto this month after he turned down a In her second 15-year, $440 million offer made chance, she’s recently, according to four people one of a kind with knowledge of the matter. Soto, a 23-year-old superstar, can D’Amato is 37, a mother of two, a Realtor reach free agency after the 2024 and America’s fastest female marathoner season, meaning the Nationals can keep him through the rest of JONATHAN MEHRING FOR THE WASHINGTON POST this season and the two after it. But doubt about retaining him long term has pushed the club at least to field trade offers ahead of the Aug. 2 deadline. The Nationals’ most recent of- fer came near the start of July, according to two people familiar with the timing. It does not include payment deferrals, ac- cording to two people familiar with the terms, which was also the case with offers to Soto in November and May. Once the Athletic reported the figures and the Nationals’ intentions Satur- day, Soto was frustrated that the situation — and the uncertainty surrounding it — was in public view. “It feels really bad to see stuff going out like that because I’m a guy who keeps everything on my side. I keep everything quiet,” Soto said before Saturday’s game against the Atlanta Braves, a 6-3 loss that finished after a 109-min- ute rain delay in the eighth. Soto singled twice and scored on Josh Bell’s triple. But even with five hits between Soto and Bell, the Braves pushed ahead with SEE NATIONALS ON D5 Braves at Nationals Today, 1:30 p.m., MASN Inside: Nats have the No. 5 pick in what is a crucial draft for them. D5 BY CAROLINE PINEDA IN RICHMOND W ith the last pale-yellow traces of sunrise of two in the thick of her second chapter as a In a new hanging over the track at St. Christopher’s professional runner. Fourteen years after being forced sports era, School, Keira D’Amato prepares to run. ¶ It’s from the sport by injury, five years after using running loyalty is up for sale 6:37 a.m. on a Thursday in June. The surrounding to lift herself out of one of the lowest points of her life, streets have yet to wake, save for a local running group D’Amato finished the Houston Marathon in a time of logging laps around the track and a few people walking 2 hours 19 minutes 12 seconds, toppling a U.S. record their dogs. A caramel-colored cat, dubbed “Track Cat” that had stood since 2006. ¶ She had stumbled back into by local runners, slinks by as D’Amato presses her feet the sport almost by accident; now she had reached its one after the other into a black chain-link fence, waking summit by knocking down one carefully calculated goal her calves. ¶ It’s an unlikely training ground for the after another. After she crossed the finish line in The strange and gluttonous world American record holder in the women’s marathon, but Houston and reveled in the feeling of breaking the of sports is having everything about D’Amato’s story is unlikely. She record, she looked around and thought: I can go faster. commitment issues again. It claimed that record in January, as a 37-year-old mother SEE D’AMATO ON D8 has become a Jerry regular problem, Brewer with the pursuit of money and “In a way, it just feels like this is my fun thing,” Keira D’Amato, shown training at a school near her home in Richmond, power devouring all lingering says of running. “It’s my hobby. Some people are in book clubs. Some people collect stamps or coins. This is what I do.” virtue. However, this current outbreak of subversive behavior is preposterously rampant — and crushing to the feeble traditions that once carried these games. Look almost anywhere, and you notice an erosion of commitment, which used to be a fundamental athletic principle. Kerley leads a U.S. sweep in the 100 Loyalty is a musty concept in big- money sports. This is not limited to how fickle the participants have become, with free agents He lived with his siblings and his fastest man in the world by inches and trade-demanding stars Sprinter who switched aunt’s children, 13 kids under one over countrymen Marvin Bracy- manipulating professional team from 400 cements status roof in a three-bedroom house. Williams and Trayvon Brommel. building and a college athlete Kerley finished in 9.86 seconds, revolution spurred by the as an all-time great “Things were never given to 0.02 seconds ahead of both transfer portal and the name, him,” said his agent, Ricky Simms. bronze medalist Bromell and sec- image and likeness free-for-all. BY ADAM KILGORE “He had to go take things because ond-place Bracy-Williams, who The players receive a that’s the way it was when there led until the last five meters. Ker- disproportionate amount of eugene, ore. — The tattoo on were so many mouths to feed. He’s ley’s lean gave him the crowning blame, but the institutions are wanted this for a long time. He achievement of an ascendant ca- becoming just as mercurial. the inside of Fred Kerley’s left arm really wants it quite badly, to be reer and the Americans a podium Everyone and everything is open reads Meme. It is the name he uses the best and to be one of the sweep. for business, which makes for his aunt, the woman who greatest ever.” nothing sacred. We will look raised him in Taylor, Tex. Kerley “We said we was going to do it, back at this period as a final moved in with her when he was Kerley cemented all-time sta- and we did it,” Kerley said told the assault that eliminates our 2 years old, after his father went to tus Saturday night at Hayward crowd. “USA, baby.” CHARLIE RIEDEL/ASSOCIATED PRESS ability to romanticize the highest jail and his mother lost her way. Field. In a 100-meter final levels of sports. drenched in red, white and blue at The second night of the first Fred Kerley finished the 100 meters in 9.86 seconds, 0.02 ahead of the world track and field champi- world championships contested countrymen Marvin Bracy-Williams and Trayvon Brommel. SEE BREWER ON D7 onships, Kerley seized the title of SEE TRACK ON D7 SOCCER GOLF BASEBALL D.C. United, playing without all-star Taxi Fountas, Jennifer Kupcho and Lizette Salas shot a 61 to finish A pitcher from the University of Tennessee who throws showed little life in a 2-0 loss at Minnesota United. D2 off a win in Michigan at the LPGA’s lone team event. D3 105 mph has become a polarizing prospect. D5

D2 EZ M2 THE WASHINGTON POST . SUNDAY, JULY 17, 2022 DIGEST SOCCER ROUNDUP AUTO RACING checkered flags over his past Spain to face host England in Euro quarterfinals eight races, a hot streak that NASCAR driver East started in May at Darlington SPAIN 1, threatening on the counterattack 2013, will play Austria in the quar- Dániel Gazdag converted a penal- is killed in stabbing (S.C.) Raceway, and he added his DENMARK 0 but unable to find a clear shot on terfinals Thursday in Brentford. ty kick in the 79th to give the second win last month at goal. Philadelphia Union a 2-1 victory NASCAR driver Bobby East Nashville Superspeedway. FROM NEWS SERVICES After missing the past two Eu- over the New England Revolution was fatally stabbed Wednesday at Spain will play host nation Spain had numerous efforts ropean Championships because in Chester, Pa. . . . a California gas station, Allgaier controlled a wreck- England in the quarterfinals at from forward Athenea Del Castil- of injury, Popp has three goals in authorities said, and police fatally filled race in his No. 7 Chevrolet the Women’s European Champi- lo, but all were stopped by goal- three games at this tournament in Host Montreal defeated Toron- shot his alleged killer while and is again in the hunt to win a onship after beating Denmark, keeper Lene Christensen, while England — the latest a header to, 1-0, on an own goal by Lukas investigating the stabbing Friday. first Xfinity championship. He 1-0, to finish second in Group B on captain Irene Paredes had a goal- early in the second half from MacNaughton. . . . took the lead with 48 laps left and Saturday. bound header cleared off the line Kathrin-Julia Hendrich’s cross. East, 37, was filling up his grabbed the checkered flag for Denmark, losing finalist in the on the stroke of halftime. Rafael Czichos’s goal in the vehicle at a 76 gas station in Chevrolet and JR Motorsports. last continental showpiece in On Sunday in Group C, the 23rd minute held up for the host Westminster, Calif., about 6 p.m. 2017, exits in the group stage. Spain will play England on Netherlands needs to avoid losing Chicago Fire in a 1-0 victory over when he was confronted by a Landon Cassill finished third. A draw would have been Wednesday on the south coast in to last-place Switzerland to ex- the Seattle Sounders. . . . man and stabbed in the chest, He has yet to win a NASCAR race enough for Spain to hold on to Brighton in its third consecutive tend its title defense into the according to authorities. He was over 332 career Cup races, second place, and it took until the quarterfinal appearance in the quarterfinals. Diego Rubio and Gyasi Zardes taken to a hospital, where he 194 Xfinity races and eight Truck 90th minute for Marta Cardona’s UEFA tournament. scored, and the Colorado Rapids died. Series races. His 17 laps led were header to clinch the victory. Sweden, which is second in the beat the LA Galaxy, 2-0, in Com- as many as he had total in his It was a cagey affair to begin Germany already had clinched group and is tied with four points merce City, Colo. . . . “The victim was found on the Xfinity career entering the race. with at a sunny Brentford Com- top spot in Group B before beat- with the Netherlands, plays Por- ground suffering from a serious munity Stadium, with Denmark ing Finland, 3-0, in Keynes in tugal. The Swedes, ranked second Diego Fagundez scored in the stab wound to the chest area,” the Noah Gragson was fourth and Saturday’s other match. in the world, need only a draw to 79th minute to help Austin get a Westminster Police Department Brandon Brown ran fifth. . . . go through, while Portugal has to draw with host Dallas, 1-1, in wrote in a news release. There were goals from Sophia win and hope the Dutch avoid Frisco, Tex. Colton Herta posted a fast lap Kleinherne’s header, Alexandra defeat to advance. Police announced that Trent of 59.2698 seconds in qualifying Popp and Nicole Anyomi. l NWSL: Ebony Salmon’s hat William Millsap, 27, was a at Toronto, becoming IndyCar’s l MLS: Mikkel Uhre scored the trick led the host Houston Dash to suspect in the stabbing. He fled first two-time pole winner this Germany, which won the last of tying goal in the 75th minute and a 4-1 victory over the Chicago Red the scene as authorities arrived, season. its record eight European titles in Stars. according to police. The Californian will start Without Fountas, D.C. is left at a loss On Saturday, Westminster Sunday from the No. 1 spot for the police said in a news release that ninth time in his career. MINN. UNITED 2, Until Rooney is cleared, Ashton as Durkin slipped. Amarilla re- Goalkeeper Bill Hamid is out at police fatally shot Millsap at an D.C UNITED 0 will continue overseeing on-field turned it to the open Argentine least two months after hand sur- Anaheim apartment where the A different driver captured the operations and implementing with a leaping flick. Reynoso gery, and wing back Brad Smith West County SWAT team had top starting spot in each of the BY STEVEN GOFF Rooney’s plans. drove a 12-yard one-timer past will miss the rest of the season gone to serve a warrant for him. series’ first nine races. goalkeeper Rafael Romo. after tearing an ACL on July 8. No officers were injured, but a Coach-in-waiting Wayne Three days after witnessing a 2-2 Defender Tony Alfaro (ankle) and police K-9 dog suffered a gunshot Herta edged out six-time series Rooney watched D.C. United from draw with Columbus at Audi Field, Though the hosts continued to forward Adrien Pérez (foot) are wound that was not life- champ Scott Dixon, whose best the suite level again Saturday. But Rooney watched alongside Pete apply pressure, D.C. did build also unavailable. threatening. time on the bumpy, 11-turn, of greater import to a 2-0 defeat at Shuttleworth, who served on his some decent possession late in the 1.786-mile course came on his last Minnesota United, Taxi Fountas Derby County staff in England last half. But without Fountas, there Midfielder Russell Canouse re- Police said the motive for East’s lap of the day. Two-time series watched from home. season. Given his presence, Shut- was no menace. turned from a three-week injury killing was not known. winner Josef Newgarden will The Greek all-star did not travel tleworth seems likely to join the absence, entering in the 81st min- start third. because of a lower body injury, D.C. staff soon. Team officials have “We didn’t create enough,” Ash- ute. . . . Born in Torrance, Calif., East and without him, his team did not said Rooney will bring one Eng- ton said. “Guys just need to play was the son of U.S. Auto Club Hall Series points leader Marcus have much hope of taking any- land-based assistant with him. with a little more confidence in Chilean attacker Martín of Fame car builder Bob East. He Ericsson will start ninth in thing from an MLS match that terms of everything.” Rodríguez, who signed June 23, later moved to Brownsburg, Ind., IndyCar’s first race at Toronto transpired in predictable fashion. Saturday’s match fell one day continues to await a work visa. to pursue his career in racing. since 2019. Fountas (10 goals in 12 appear- after D.C. traded Julian Gressel to Five minutes into the second ances) was held back for precau- Vancouver for up to $900,000 in half, Reynoso doubled the lead. A Morrison arrives for talks The auto club hailed East, a If Dixon wins Sunday’s race, he tionary reasons. “It’s nothing ma- general allocation money. Gressel D.C. giveaway led to a rapid coun- Ravel Morrison, a much-trav- three-time USAC national will tie Mario Andretti (52) for jor,” interim coach Chad Ashton was an important figure over terattack. Amarilla sailed down champion driver, as “one of the the second-most career wins in said. “We expect him back soon.” 21/2 years, but his wing back posi- the left side before crossing to eled attacking midfielder who most prolific drivers of his era.” IndyCar history. A.J. Foyt holds His absence was conspicuous as tion doesn’t exist in Rooney’s pre- Reynoso, who, with his second played for Rooney at Derby Coun- East captured 56 career USAC- the record with 67. D.C. lacked ideas and opportuni- ferred formation, and his contract touch in the heart of the box, ty, arrived in Washington on Fri- sanctioned feature victories TENNIS ties at Allianz Field in St. Paul. was to enter a team-held option placed a low shot past Romo for day for a possible move to D.C. during the course of his career. “We weren’t as dangerous pos- this winter. his sixth goal in five matches and United, three people close to the He competed in dozens of races Fourth-seeded Maxime Cressy sibly as we could have been,” Ash- ninth overall. situation said. Morrison, 29, had for NASCAR as part of its ended second-seeded John ton said. “But it’s next guy up; With injuries, Gressel’s depar- four goals and four assists last Xfinity Series and Truck Series Isner’s 10-match winning streak we’ve got to do a little bit better. . . . ture and the ongoing wait for new “We hurt ourselves by giving season before becoming a free between 2005 and 2008, on the grass courts of Newport, [Fountas] scored a lot of our goals signings, United’s ranks were thin. away the ball in bad areas,” de- agent. He is among several Euro- according to racing news site R.I., beating his fellow American, this year, and when he’s not here Needing help in the attack, the fender Brendan Hines-Ike said. pean-based players on D.C.’s list of Frontstretch. 6-2, 4-6, 6-3, to advance to the we obviously miss him.” technically gifted Andy Najar “Poor turnovers that led to coun- signing targets before the Aug. 4 Hall of Fame Open final. Emanuel Reynoso scored early moved from the back line to at- terattacks and led to most of their transfer deadline. — Timothy Bella in each half as D.C. (5-11-3) fell to tacking wing. Chris Durkin, a nat- chances. That’s got to be cleaned Martin Truex Jr. won a pole Cressy, seeking his first ATP 1-6-3 in its past 10 outings. ural defensive midfielder, filled up.” Zanne called from Loudoun for the first time in his three-plus title, will face No. 3 seed Rooney, the former English su- Najar’s right back role. Ivorian midfielder Abdoul seasons with Joe Gibbs Racing Alexander Bublik of Kazakhstan, perstar who was named the coach Here’s what else to know about and will lead a Toyota-heavy top who defeated Australia’s Jason Tuesday, is not permitted on the Given the lineup, D.C. was not D.C.’s defeat: Zanne was called up from Lou- five to green at New Hampshire Kubler, 6-3, 6-2, in the other sideline until he receives a work going to manufacture many scor- doun United, where he has con- Motor Speedway in Loudon. semifinal. visa. He is, however, allowed to ing opportunities. In the 11th min- Kamara sidelined with injury tributed one goal and one assist in Truex turned a lap of travel with the team and meet ute, though, one came about on a Aside from Fountas, D.C. ar- 11 appearances in the second-divi- 127.113 mph and won his After the matches, former with players and staff before and well-designed set piece — and sec- sion USL Championship. He made 20th career NASCAR pole — the Australian player Lleyton Hewitt after matches. ond-year attacker Kimarni Smith rived in the Twin Cities without his MLS debut in the 87th min- previous 19 were won with other was inducted into the should have put away a six-yard several injured players. The other ute. . . . teams. He has 12 wins with JGR International Tennis Hall of Fame header. one scratched late in the week was since 2019. during a ceremony. Ola Kamara, who scored the stop- On Saturday in Leesburg, Lou- Truex, the 2017 Cup champion, RUGBY Two minutes later, Minnesota page-time equalizer against Co- doun (4-11-3) conceded four goals has 31 career victories but is (9-8-4) went ahead. Reynoso lumbus as a substitute. The Nor- in 18 minutes of the second half in seeking his first win this season. Chile pulled off a stunning squared a header to Luis Amarilla, wegian striker, whose seven goals dropping a 4-1 decision to the He has not finished better than comeback to qualify for its first then bolted into a gaping channel are second on the team, is side- Tampa Bay Rowdies (11-3-7). 11th in any of his last four races. Rugby World Cup after beating lined with a strained gluteus. Truex led a Toyota run that the United States, 31-29, in took four of the top-five spots. Glendale, Colo. Backed by lively fans, Gunners cruise in friendly 23XI Racing took the third and fourth spots with Kurt Busch in Chile lost the first leg of the ARSENAL 2, the No. 45 and Bubba Wallace in Americas qualifying playoff last EVERTON 0 the No. 23, respectively. Truex’s week in Santiago, 22-21, and had JGR teammate Christopher Bell to win by two in the return match BY PJ MORALES starts fifth. to advance. Chase Elliott will start second baltimore — In the 36th min- in the No. 9 Chevrolet. He won Santiago Videla converted a last week’s race at Atlanta Motor kick for the lead with five ute of the Charm City Match Speedway. . . . minutes to play for the Condors, between Arsenal and Everton on In Saturday’s Xfinity race, who trailed 19-0 after 30 minutes. Saturday night, attacker Bukayo Justin Allgaier outran Trevor Saka drilled an open shot and Bayne for his third series victory Chile goes to the Rugby World wheeled away in celebration. of the season. Cup in France next year in Pool D Bright red smoke flooded out Allgaier won all three with England, Argentina, Japan from the Arsenal supporters’ sec- and Samoa. The United States tion, engulfing the west side of can still qualify via a tournament M&T Bank Stadium. in November in Dubai involving Portugal, Kenya and Hong Kong. The fans in red jerseys repeat- ed, “Arsenal! Arsenal! Arsenal!” — From news services They didn’t stop, even as the and staff reports match resumed. TELEVISION AND RADIO It was just a preseason friend- MLB ly, but in a 2-0 Arsenal win, the crowd was boisterous. 1:30 p.m. Atlanta at Washington » MASN, WJFK (106.7 FM) 1:30 p.m. Baltimore at Tampa Bay » MASN2, WIYY (97.9 FM) Gunner fans took up most of 1:30 p.m. Boston at New York Yankees » MLB Network the stadium, with Everton’s sup- 7 p.m. MLB draft, Day 1 » ESPN, MLB Network porters largely confined to the area behind their team’s goal. WNBA Las Vegas at Connecticut » WJLA (Ch. 7), WMAR (Ch. 2) With the red smoke and chants 1 p.m. Minnesota at Washington » NBC Sports Washington and scarves and screams, it 3 p.m. Indiana at Seattle » CBS Sports Network seemed like a scene from Emir- 6 p.m. ates Stadium in London. NBA SUMMER LEAGUE “We didn’t know what to ex- pect, but I think it was 40,000 3 p.m. Portland Trail Blazers vs. New York Knicks » ESPN supporters, 35,000 Arsenal fans,” JULIO CORTEZ/ASSOCIATED PRESS 4 p.m. Milwaukee Bucks vs. Toronto Raptors » NBA TV Arsenal Manager Mikel Arteta 5:30 p.m. Phoenix Suns vs. Indiana Pacers » ESPNU said afterward. “They really Goalkeeper Matt Turner and Arsenal had a sizable contingent of supporters at M&T Bank Stadium. 6 p.m. Oklahoma City Thunder vs. New Orleans Pelicans » NBA TV made a difference, and the boys 7:30 p.m. Washington Wizards vs. Golden State Warriors » ESPN2 really appreciate it.” 8 p.m. Denver Nuggets vs. Utah Jazz » NBA TV Everton’s fans, though less nu- AUTO RACING merous, were plenty spirited, too, — even as Arsenal took an early surreal when you travel so far later. as they shouted and waved flags lead and never looked back. It and see fans with Everton shirts Both teams replaced most of 3 p.m. NASCAR Cup Series: Ambetter 301 » USA Network was a rare opportunity for fans on.” from the area to watch the power- their starters after halftime, but GOLF British Open, final round » USA Network houses from across the Atlantic. There were also moments of the energy remained. 4 a.m. British Open, final round » WRC (Ch. 4), WBAL (Ch. 11) The last time Baltimore hosted a tension in the stands, such as 7 a.m. PGA Tour: Barracuda Championship, final round » Golf Channel game between English Premier when newly signed Arsenal strik- “[The fans] have been very 6 p.m. League teams was 2012, when er Gabriel Jesus was tackled in passionate — they’ve been out- Liverpool and Tottenham the 14th minute and hit the side our hotel waiting for hours,” SOCCER UEFA Women’s Championship, Group C: Switzerland vs. Netherlands » squared off in the same venue. ground hard. Or when the Brazil- Arteta said, laughing. “They’ve Noon ESPN2 ian argued with Everton’s Abdou- been pretty consistent the last MLS: Orlando City at Atlanta United » WJLA (Ch. 7), WMAR (Ch. 2) “It’s brilliant for us to come laye Doucouré 12 minutes later. few days, and it shows with the 3 p.m. NWSL: Orlando at Washington » Paramount Plus and get that atmosphere and engagement they’ve had with the 5 p.m. Women’s Copa América, Group A: Chile vs. Bolivia » Fox Sports 1 support,” Everton Manager Frank In the 33rd minute, Jesus team.” 5 p.m. MLS: New York City FC at New York Red Bulls » ESPN Lampard said. “It’s always a bit scored the opening goal. Saka 5 p.m. MLS: FC Cincinnati at Columbus » Fox Sports 1 doubled the lead three minutes “It really gave the game a 7:30 p.m. Women’s Copa América, Group A: Ecuador at Colombia » Fox Sports 2 nice little edge,” Lampard said. 8 p.m. TENNIS ATP: Hall of Fame Open and Swedish Open, finals; WTA: Ladies Open sweater or tank top? 5 a.m. Lausanne and Hungarian Ladies Open, finals; Hamburg European Open, early rounds » Tennis Channel Stay one step ahead of the weather with the TRACK AND FIELD Capital Weather Gang 9 a.m. World championships, Day 3 » CNBC washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang 2 p.m. World championships, Day 3 » WRC (Ch. 4), WBAL (Ch. 11) @capitalweather 8 p.m. World championships, Day 3 » CNBC 10 p.m. World championships, Day 3 » WRC (Ch. 4), WBAL (Ch. 11) CYCLING Tour de France, Stage 15 » USA Network 8 a.m. PROFESSIONAL BASKETBALL S0141 4x2 3 p.m. Big3: Week 5 » WUSA (Ch. 9), WJZ (Ch. 13) 8 p.m. The Basketball Tournament: Team Arkansas vs. Omaha Blue Crew » ESPNU