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4 Thursday, November 6,2008 BULLETIN www.dailyutahchronicle.com All stories and photos from The Associated Press Obama picks Emanuel for chief of staff WASHINGTON—President-elect Barack Obama pivoted quickly to begin filling out his new administration on Wednesday, selecting hard-charging Illinois Rep. Rahm Emanuel as White House chief of staff while aides stepped up the pace of transition work that had been cloaked in pre-election secrecy. Several Democrats confirmed that Emanuel had been offered the job. While it was not clear he had accepted, a rejection would amount to an unlikely public snub of the new president-elect with- In this June 6,2008, file photo Rep. Rahm Emanuel, D-lll., left, huddles with then-Democratic presidential candidate in hours of an electoral Sen. Barack Obama, D-lll. in Chicago. President-elect Barack Obama chose Emanual to be his White House chief of staff. college landslide. With hundreds of jobs considerably further than til later in the week, when ership. As chairman of the to fill and only io weeks that while campaigning he has promised to hold Democratic campaign comuntil Inauguration Day, in South Carolina. "I don't a news conference. As mittee in 2006, he played an Obama and his transition take a dime of their money, president-elect, he begins instrumental role in restorteam confronted a formi- and when I am president, receiving highly classified ing his party to power after dable task complicated by they won't find a job in my briefings from top intelli- 12 years in the minority. Emanuel maintained his anti-lobbyist campaign White House," he said of gence officials Thursday. lobbyists at the time. In offering the post of neutrality during the long rhetoric. Because they often have White House chief of staff primary battle between The official campaign Web site said no political prior experience in gov- to Emanuel, Obama turned Obama and Sen. Hillary appointees would be per- ernment or politics, lob j to a fellow Chicago politi- Rodham Clinton, not surmitted to work on "regula- byists figure as potential cian with a far different prising given his longtions or contracts directly appointees for presidents style from his own, a man standing ties to the former known for his bluntness as first lady and his Illinois and substantially related of both parties. to their prior employer for On the morning after well as his single-minded connections with Obama. The day after the electwo years. And no political making history, the man determination. Emanuel was a political tion there already was appointee will be able to elected the first black presilobby the executive branch dent hacl breakfast with his and policy aide in Bill Clin- j ockeying for Cabinet Several after leaving government wife and two daughters at ton's White House. Leaving appointments. service during the remain- their' Chicago home, went that, he turned to invest- Democrats said Sen. John der of the administration." to a" nearby gym and visited ment banking, then won a Kerry of Massachusetts, Chicago-area House seat who won a new six-year But almost exactly one his downtown offices. Aides said he planned six years ago. In Congress, term on Tuesday, was anyear ago, on Nov. 3, 2007, candidate Obama went no public appearances un- he moved quickly into lead- gling for secretary of state. Iraq expects answer on pact after U.S. election PHOENIX—Before resting from the grueling presidential race, John McCain began discussing with senior aides what role he will play in the Senate now that he has promised to work with the man who defeated him for president., Democrats, who padded their majorities in the House and Senate, have a suggestion: McCain can mediate solutions to partisan standoffs on key legislation as he did to help avert a constitutional meltdown over judicial confirmations in 2005. "There's a need for the old John McCain, a leader who worked in a bipartisan'way," Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said Wednesday. GOP leaders, never fond McCain's independent streak or blunt style, nonetheless are reaching out to keep him in the fold and keep Republican ranks as robust as possible during the next Congress, two knowledge- able GOP officials said on condition they not be named because the conversations were private. One obvious focus will be the war in Iraq. After two years spent more on the campaign than in the Senate, McCain will return as the ranking Republican on the Armed Services Committee. That will put the fourterm Arizona senator in a position to influence Democrat Barack Obama's plan to set a timetable to withdraw U.S. troops from combat in Iraq. "That would be good," Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C, said in a telephone interview. "I would love to see McCain work with President Obama in dealing with Iraq in a way that Republicans and Democrats could agree on." During the campaign, McCain staunchly opposed setting such a time frame, even as the Iraqi government began working with the Bush administration to do so. Activists jarred by Prop 8 win LOS ANGELES—In a heartbreaking defeat for the gay-rights movement, California voters put a stop to gay marriage, creating uncertainty about the legal status of 18,000 same-sex couples who tied the knot during a four-month window of opportunity opened by the state's highest court. Passage of a constitutional amendment against gay marriage—in a state so often at the forefront of liberal social change—elated religious conservatives who had little else to cheer about in Tuesday's elections. Gay activists were disappointed and began looking for battlegrounds elsewhere in the back-and-forth fight to allow gays to wed. "There's something deeply wrong with putting the rights of a minority up to a majority vote," said Evan Wolfson, a gay-rights lawyer who heads a group called Freedom to Marry. "If this were being done to almost any other minority, people would see how un-American this is." Legal skirmishing began immediately, with gay-rights groups challenging the newly passed ban in court Wednesday and vowing to resist any effort to invalidate the same-sex marriages that took place -following the state Supreme Court decision in May. The amendment, which passed with 52 percent of the vote, overrides that court ruling by defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman. Thirty states now have adopted such measures, but the California vote marks the first time a state took away gay marriage after it had been legalized. •3 i ~/^ ^ But in conceding the presidency to Obama Tuesday night at a Phoenix hotel, McCain pledged "to do all in my power to help him lead us through the many challenges we face." He allowed that defeat was disappointing but said that starting Wednesday "we must move beyond it and work together to get our country moving again." Aides said they believed McCain would work well with Obama as president because much of his best work in the Senate has been done with Democrats, including a landmark campaign finance law he crafted with Wisconsin Sen. Russ Feingold and an unsuccessful effort with Massachusetts Sen. Edward M. Kennedy to pass comprehensive immigration reform. 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Marie: Abbr. 53 It may be held at a 39-Down 54 Flood of ideas? 57 Observer 58Bam young 'un 59Where to see "bombs bursting" 60 Flat sound 61 One who wants you to put away everything he sets out 62 Two-time Time Man of the Year(and a 9Contents of hint to 17-, some pits 27-, 41-and 10 Provoke 54-Across) 11 "War and Peace," e.g. DOWN 11980s craze 12 Business partner starter . 2 Quickly 13 Takes the starch out of 3 Campaign target 18 Product 4 Suffix with promoted as insist having both "beauty" and 5Preinterview "brains" purchase, maybe 22 Nickelodeon's explorer 6 Lit, as a match 7Zealot's group 24 Newspaper piece 8 Rve-spot EditedbyWillShortz 43/30 Mostly Sunny • Students for Sensible Drug Policy Powwow: 3 p.m. to 4:20 p.m. @ West of the Union Patio • Biology Seminar Series: 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. @ Skaggs Building Room 210 • Football vs.TCU: 6 p.m. @ Rice-Eccles Stadium • Sterling McMurrin Lecture on Religion and Culture: Journey into Islam; 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. @ Jewish Community Center 7 Friday V Mostly Sunny 49/46 • UMNH Scientist in the Spotlight: Derinna Kopp: 9:30 a.m. @ Utah Museum of Natural History • KUED's Thank You Gift Sale: 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. @ Eccles Broadcast Center, Dumke Boardroom • Post-Election Chill-Out Session: 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. @ CESA, Union Room 23$ • Much Ado About Nothing: 7:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. @ Pioneer Theatre Saturday Partly Cloudy 54/41 • Men's Basketball vs. Grand Valley State (Exhibition): 2 p.m. @ Huntsman Center • Women's Basketball vs. Southern Oregon (exhibition): 5 p.m. @ Huntsm a n Center • -• . •• , ^ .: • African Children's Choir: 7:30 p.m. @ Kingsbury Hall ' ^ • • Much Ado About Nothing: 7:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. @ Pioneer Theatre -: Afghan president demands Obama end civilian deaths WECH BAGHTU, Afghanistan—The Afghan president on Wednesday demanded that President-elect Barack Obama put an end to civilian casualties as villagers said U.S. warplanes bombed a wedding party, killing 37 p e o p l e nearly all of them women and children. The U.S. military said it was investigating, and a villager said American forces had given them permission to bury the dead, which he said included 23 children and 10 women. A U.S. spokesman added that "if innocent people were killed in this operation, we apologize and express our condolences." The bombing Monday afternoon of the remote village of Wech Baghtu in the southern province of Kandahar destroyed an Afghan housing complex where women and children had gathered to celebrate, villagers said. U.S. Minnesota Senate race heads into automatic recount ST. PAUL, Minn.—A slugfest for nearly two years, Minnesota's U.S. Senate race headed into a new round Wednesday as the campaigns girded for an automatic statewide recount to determine whether Republican Sen. Norm Cole: man's bare lead over Democratic challenger Al Franken would stand. T' Coleman declared himself the winner of Tuesday's election, but Franken said he would let the recount play out, hoping it would erase the incumbent's 475-vote lead out of nearly 2.9 million ballots. State officials said the recount wouldn't start until mid-November and would probably take weeks. UTAH Utah House speaker concedes race Utah House Speaker Greg Curtis has conceded his state House seat to Democrat Jay Seegmiller. With 66 percent of precincts reporting, Seegmiller led with 55 percent of the vote Tuesday. In 2006, Curtis, a Sandy Republican, narrowly escaped with a 20-vote victory over Seegmiller. Many voters were unhappy with Curtis over his support for a professional soccer stadium in Sandy and a private school voucher program that voters ultimately killed. Seegmiller's win is a huge victory for Democrats. Curtis has served in the Legislature for 14 years. 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