by afampov · March 2, 2021
By Frederick A. Hurst
Jynai McDonald is running for Springfield’s Ward 4 City Council seat placing her in position to join several other local African American women elected officials who have been playing a significant, if not dominant, political leadership role for the benefit of the African American community and Springfield in general.
32-year-old Jynai is the daughter of Lester McDonald III and Victoria Lewis. Her paternal grandparents migrated to Springfield from Mississippi and North Carolina many years ago. Her maternal grandparents migrated to Springfield from Georgia and South Carolina. Along with the McDonald and Lewis families, she is also connected to the Washington, Redd and Wilkerson families just like so many of our Springfield African-American families are so interconnected. And, like so many of us, Jynai is a product of the distant generation of Southern migrants who escaped to the North for a better
that can t be key to sustainable future in iraq. i don t think that s the model united states is seeking. tikrit is a better pair dime. in tikrit, you had the iranian head of the revolutionary job core, his forces trying to work with shia militia on the ground to take tikrit from isis. they failed and stalled only when the u.s. backed forces came in to help the iraqis were we able to push isis out of tikrit. that s a story that hasn t been told much. it served two important purposes. it reclaimed tikrit for people and pushed back forces. it sent a signal to iran we re not going to let you get on the ground and take over iraq. that s an important objective for u.s. military planners. one is arrest isis advance, and second is send signal to iraqis u.s. and other coalition partners have their back. they don t need to turn to iran for help.
going to be a delicate dance moving forward. lastly, a u.s. special operations forces raid in syria launched from iraq essentially took down the money manager of isis. were able to kill him and app ri end his wife. this is a special operationsz force. it started with gunfire led to hand to hand combat. we have no formal use of force in syria yet young men and women are put directly into harm s way. is this the future of war against isis? special operations forces paired with american air strikes in the hopes sunni tribal groups in iraqi army can soon do something? that s the model. gathering that intelligence from the isis compound in eastern syria will get us information we can go attack the rest of the network. that s how we made advances against the network in iraq. that s how we made advances against al qaeda core.
including about 1.5 million children. he takes a dim view of programs like job core who he says costed outweigh the benefits. federal assistance to college students and the low energy assistance program, the national school breakfast program and even head start. the report claims snap discourages work among female head of households and married men and concludes that the national school launch program created by congress in 1946 to ensure that war drafties were fit for combat, quote, contributes to obesity among school children, i guess by giving the little ones too much food? what he says does work, wait for it, is tax cuts. that s what he wants to do while consolidating or cutting federal anti-poverty programs, all of which combined amount to about
the shelf, bills waiting to be passed that could provide a veteran s job core and could provide tax fairness and help the refinancing of homes and that could build infrastructure projects. these things are just waiting to happen, but we need the votes. so, they need to send people like me, people like the fine candidates at this table so that the president can have the support and the congress he needs to move the country forward. do people know about those bills? i feel like, when you tell a voter there is a thing called the american jobs act that would tell x, y, z. what they do know is this republican leadership and the house of representatives and that tea party conference has blocked the ability of the president and the american people to move forward in a productive way. now, notwithstanding the tremendous obstructionism that is evident to people on the ground that i talk to day after day after day what we are pointing out, congress not