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Robert Weiner, NATIONAL PUBLIC AFFAIRS AND ISSUES STRATEGIST Bob Weiner, a national issues and public affairs strategist, has been spokesman for and directed the public affairs offices of White House Drug Czar and Four Star General Barry McCaffrey, the House Government Operations Committee and Chairman John Conyers (D-MI), Congressman Charles Rangel (D-NY) and the House Narcotics Committee, and was Chief of Staff for the House Aging Committee and Chairman Claude Pepper (D-FL). He also was Legislative Assistant to Ed Koch of New York and a political aide to Ted Kennedy (D-MA) for his Presidential and Senate races. Bob worked at the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate as youth voter registration director in 1971-1972 when the constitution was amended to allow 18-year olds the vote. Since he left the White House in 2001, Bob heads up a public affairs and issue strategies company, Robert Weiner Associates. He is a regular political analyst on Radio America and has appeared on Bill Maher, CNN Crossfire, Today, Good Morning America, and the CBS, NBC, and ABC evening news. He is widely published in columns he writes on national issues in major papers throughout the country including recently the Washington Post, Denver Post, Miami Herald, Christian Science Monitor, New York Daily News, Baltimore Sun, Boston Globe, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Atlanta Constitution, New York Post, Washington Times, Sacramento Bee, Palm Beach Post, Salt Lake Tribune, Minneapolis Star Tribune, and Adweek. He is also regularly quoted in key media coast-to-coast, including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, AP and Reuters, concerning the presidential campaign and national issues. OpEd News Member for 843 week(s) and 4 day(s) 307 Articles, 2 Quick Links, 14 Comments, 3 Diaries, 0 Polls
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Saturday, January 25, 2020Securing Political Ads on Social Media from Hacks & Lies Has Chance to Not Be Dominated by Partisan Interests The content and purchasers of online advertisements are a mystery to the public because of outdated laws that have failed to keep up with big tech companies. It's confusing and hard to regulate-- privacy, honesty, and free speech don't mix easily.
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Friday, January 24, 2020Andrew Yang's Automation Truth Andrew Yang's solutions and talking points about job-loss from automation shouldn't be unique and idiosyncratic--but among the 2020 Democratic field, they are. Whomever the Democratic nominee is, they must pick up where Yang leaves off. If not, the Party risks another Trump victory.
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Friday, January 3, 2020Mississippi Bills Could Let State Escape Decades of Nation's Worst Poverty, and Show Country Way Out Mississippi could be a model of the best kind instead of being routinely cited for income failure. Instead of the chronic listing of Old Miss as the nation's poorest state, it could be showing the nation the way up.
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Wednesday, December 11, 2019Americans Ask Britain: Why a Snap Election and Not a 2nd Referendum? Americans wonder from across the pond, why will your Parliament issue a snap election and not a second referendum? A second referendum vote would better reflect what the public wants from its leaders. Much like our 2016 Presidential race, voting for the Prime Minister comes at a highly precarious cost.
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Monday, November 18, 2019Russia should be banned from 2020 Tokyo Olympics The Russian Federation wants to play by its own rules in the 2020 Olympic Games. However, Russia has had a long and shameful history of doping its Olympic athletes and has been banned since 2016.
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Friday, November 15, 2019ACA Repeal Would Devastate Jobs and Economy If Trump kills or diminishes the ACA, as he's trying to do, he'll lose his best talking point, national jobs growth. Despite ACA opponents' claims of "job killing" by the bill, the facts show that the 30 million new recipients and expanded benefits for 100+ million have generated exactly the opposite, big jobs increases -- and that's just common sense.
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Monday, October 28, 2019John Conyers, Progressive Giant John Conyers was the most consistent, rational voice for practical progressivism in America. With his low-key and steady tone, he always tried to move the bar of logic and accomplishment as far as he could and still win. Here is a vignette of some memories. 
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Wednesday, October 9, 2019Canceled US-Taliban Plan & Meeting Ignored World-Leading Opium Production Funding Terror; Now Must Get it Right With the Taliban's strength growing, especially if we make a deal, our national security is at stake. Stopping the spread of deadly narcotics' dirty money stops not just the drugs but the terrorism that accompanies them. 
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Monday, October 7, 2019Still Dawdling on Guns--How Can Nation Declare Vaping 'Crisis' but not Guns & Mass Shootings? The Trump administration recently has declared a public health "crisis" of the 17 deaths from vaping. How can a president do that and not say there is a real crisis which requires stepping in to stop mass shootings? 
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Friday, October 4, 2019Saving Small Town Newspapers The newspaper industry has two paths it can pursue. One is the continued, status quo of spiraling downward and cutting costs. The other is pursuing innovation in video, re-invigorating investigative work the editorial style article, and other innovations each paper can uniquely create. It's an essential decision that is up to America's newspaper publishers to decide the fate of such an important industry.
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Wednesday, September 25, 2019"You Can't Handle the Truth" -- Trump's Intelligence Actions Threaten US Leadership "You can't handle the truth," Jack Nicholson shouted in "A Few Good Men." President Trump is silencing the intelligence community and shifting it into an apparatus full of "yes men" that will ignore the Russian threat and global climate change, manufacture a crisis at the border, and lie about the realities of Iran, North Korea, and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) thereby creating more global insecurity.
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Monday, September 23, 2019It's Not the Debates, It's the Coalition of Voters in Caucuses and Primaries That Will Decide the Winner In November 2020, Democrats need everyone to show up. No group will make the difference and every group will make the difference. To defeat the president, Democrats will need overwhelming votes from every community. In other words, Democrats can't count on their "coalition." They have to work at it.
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Monday, September 16, 2019WARNING: Michigan, Nation's Poor Face Loss of Health Insurance by White House Texas Case Assault Trump's executive harm done to the ACA already shouldn't take place just because a party different than Trump's party made the law. The ACA should be expanded and strengthened for generations to come. Texas v. United States shows that healthcare can't be trusted to radical, poorly-reasoned politically motivated opponents. Republicans as well as Democrats get sick and can go bankrupt as a result it's a nonpartisan fact of life.
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Friday, September 13, 2019Bipartisan History Training for Congress Could End Current Gridlock After recent mass shootings, there couldn't be a better time to embrace the bipartisan legacy left by leaders like Pepper, O'Neill, Dole and Grassley. The House Administration and Senate Rules committees should immediately instruct the clerk of the House and secretary of the Senate to have the Congressional Research Service incorporate these lessons into congressional orientation and include current members and staffs too.
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Friday, August 23, 2019Dems Repeating Hillary's Fatal Mistake on West Virginia Coal? Although the decline of coal is sharp in West Virginia, they can still become a leader in greener practices. Democrats can win West Virginia when they help alter the business model to work for the environment with wind and solar energy, not against it when jobs they urge are permanent, funded, and with a timeline.
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Wednesday, August 7, 2019Domestic-Violence Laws Ignore Mental Abuse For far too long, types of abuse have been isolated from one another or downplayed. However, as New York moves forward to make coercive-control legislation a reality, the other 49 states need to make it a top priority too. Mental well-being and safety are just as important as the physical. 
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Friday, July 19, 2019Hey President Trump--Invite Cong Omar to White House for discussion as Obama did with Gates Hey President Trump--If you want to reduce the flames, as Ivanka suggested you do, why not invite Cong. Ilhan Omar to the White House Lawn for lunch-drinks and discussion about mutual respect and lower rhetoric on both sides as Obama did with Henry Gates after a brouhaha on race relations, and as you did with Cong. Cummings on prescription prices. 
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Monday, July 8, 2019USA World Soccer Victory Making Case for ERA: Re-launch the campaign This is where the Equal Rights Amendment comes in. It's time to re-launch the campaign for the full ERA. On the first night of the Democratic presidential debates, Julian Castro supported ERA passage and got cheers. After the 19th Amendment was passed by Congress in 1919 and ratified in 1920, the ERA was first introduced to Congress in 1923. However, Congress did not pass the ERA until 1972 -- nearly 50 years later. 
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Thursday, June 27, 2019Transgender America and Trump's Reign Identifying as part of the LGBT community-- more inclusively LGBTQ+-- seems to be costly in Trump's America. With tweeted promises in 2016 including, "Thank you to the LGBT community! I will fight for you while Hillary brings in more people that will threaten your freedoms and beliefs," Mr. Trump has done the exact opposite.
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Wednesday, June 26, 2019Crime Bill Dilemma -- Legislation Needed During Crack and Murder Epidemic, but Better and Fairer Strategies Required Now The issue is complicated. Opponents of the law must acknowledge the positives of the 1994 Crime Bill--like Biden's Violence Against Women Act--and re-implement its federal assault weapons ban, to stop the weapons that Clinton banned, but now are used in 95% of mass shootings killing ten or more. But we also need to further expand drug treatment rather than imprisonment. Page 6 of 16 First Last Back Next 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 View All |
