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THE UNIVERSITY OF DAILY KANSAS
MONDAY OCTOBER 20, 2008
ELECTION 2008
McCain pushing for swing state Ohio
ASSOCIATED PRESS
TOLEDO,Ohio—Evoking " Joe the Plumber" near his hometown in this pivotal state, Republican John McCain on Sunday cast himself as the guardian of
middle-class workers and small-business owners who fuel the economy.
"If I'm elected president. I won't raise taxes
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on small businesses, as Sen. [Barack] Obama proposes, and force them to cut jobs," McCain said of his Democratic opponent during a rally at the convention center. "I will keep small business taxes where they are, help them keep their costs low and let them spend their earnings to create more jobs, not send to Washington."
McCain flew to Toledo, near where "Joe the Plumber" Wurzelbacher lives, from the state capital of Columbus amid the GOP's push for this swing state and its 20 electoral votes.
The Holland, Ohio, plumber was in New York making the media rounds with his family, but McCain has been evoking his spirit after making him the focal point the final presidential debate between McCain and Obama. McCain also mentions Wurzelbacher at his rallies after the plumber was videotaped questioning Obama about whether his tax plan would keep him from
buying the two-man plumbing shop where he works.
While some analyses showed Wurzelbacher faring better under Obama's plan than McCain's, McCain has lashed out at Obama for saying that while his policies may force some to pay higher taxes, they were designed to "spread the wealth around" by targeting only families making over $250,000 annually.
"Sen. Obama is more interested in controlling who gets your piece of the pie than he is growing the pie," McCain told a crowd of several thousand.
McCain is now employing someone who made those calls against him to highlight Obama's association with a Vietnam War radical.
Graduate's photo beats 20,000 to make cover
Melissa Madison Fuller, 2008 graduate, shows her photograph, "A Flaming Lip," which was chosen to appear on the cover of JPG Magazine. The photograph of the lead singer of the Flaming Lips was taken at the Wakarus Music and Carmina Festival.
BY SACHIKO MIYAKAWA
smivakawa@kansan.com
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Melissa Madison Fuller stood among the crowd to snap pictures of The Flaming Lips at the Wakarus Music and Camping Festival. Her camera restlessly followed the lead singer, Wayne Coyne, amid bright, wielding flashlights.
"It's one of the most intense experiences," said Fuller, a 2008 graduate from Ottawa. "I was completely absorbed into this brilliant, beautiful man."
"It itted out to me from the first time I saw it as a rare capture of the energy and excitement that can be found at a live music show." Minor said.
Fuller also made small trips near Lawrence to take pictures while she was studying at the University
Fuller said she was shocked when she found out the news.
Four months later, her picture, "A Flaming Lip," appeared on the cover of JPG Magazine, a photography magazine published in San Francisco. JPG Magazine has ties to an online community site and features pictures contributed to the Web site from its members.
Laura Brunow Minor, JPG Magazine's editor in chief and 2003 graduate and KU alumna, said Fuller's picture was selected among 20,000 photos submitted to the online community site for the October-November 2008 issue.
"I could shape the way my children and my friends' children think about what our life is like," Fuller said.
"I want to capture the beautiful, intimate moment that people love each other, and that convinces you that they are happy." Fuller said.
Fuller has taken pictures since she was in high school. She said she enjoyed taking pictures of her friends and family the most.
"My brother and I were outside screaming," Fuller said.
Her camera captures scenes of everyday life of people around her. Some pictures just depict her friends hanging around in an apartment kitchen. She watches people and releases a shutter when she finds an expression or moment that will stand out in people's memories.
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"It's such a good reason to explore," Fuller said.
of Kansas. She drove around the country and photographed her friends in a grassland or by a lake.
She said during her driving she also found places like abandoned schools and houses, which turned out to be her favorite places to photograph. She said one of the weirdest places she visited was a missile silo located in south Lawrence.
Fuller also said photography allowed her to the meet many people she sought for different photo opportunities.
"It's a cool way to connect with people. I build relationships out of nothing. I make friends because of
photography," Fuller said.
She graduated from the University in May with a bachelor's degree in psychology. She moved to Nashville, Tenn., and now tries to build her career, which now consists of band photography and portraits. Her camera follows people wherever she goes.
Jordan Ryan, Salina senior, and one of Fuller's friends, said she always enjoyed getting photographed by Fuller.
"She's very passionate and curious about the world," Ryan said. "She's not settling for mediocre things in her life. She always creates photos that speak to her."
— Edited by Arthur Hur
ECONOMY Freddie Mac secretly paid consulting firm $2 million
WASHINGTON — Freddie Mac secretly paid a Republican consulting firm $2 million to kill legislation that would have regulated and trimmed the mortgage finance giant and its sister company, Fannie Mae, three years before the government took control to prevent their collapse.
In the cross hairs of the campaign carried out by DCI of Washington were Republican senators and a regulatory overhaul bill sponsored by Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb) DCI's chief executive is Doug Goodyear, whom John McCain's campaign later hired to
manage the GOP convention in September.
Freddie Mac's payments to DCI began shortly after the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee sent Hagel's bill to the then GOP-run Senate on July 28, 2005. All GOP members of the committee supported it; all Democrats opposed it.
and Freddie Mac pose to the housing market, the overall financial system and the economy as a whole," the senators wrote in a letter that proved prescient.
Unknown to the senators, DCI was undermining support for the bill in a campaign targeting 17 Republican senators in 13 states, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press. The states and the senators targeted changed over time, but always stayed on the Republican side.
In the midst of DC1's yearlong effort, Hagel and 25 other Republican senators pleaded unsuccessfully with Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., to allow a vote.
Obama has received $120,349 in political donations from employees of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae; McCain $21,550.
"If effective regulatory reform legislation ... is not enacted this year, American taxpayers will continue to be exposed to the enormous risk that Fannie Mae
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