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After Donald Trump made a phone call to the wife of a soldier, U.S. Army Sgt. La David Johnson, who died earlier this month in an ambush by Islamic radicals in Niger, the president's words of condolence to the grieving widow became a national controversy.

Congresswoman Frederica Wilson was present with Myeshia Johnson when she took the president's call, and claimed on Tuesday that Trump told Johnson:

"He knew what he signed up for."

SDSU’s annual homecoming football game is set for this Saturday, October 21 at SDCCU stadium.

The game will feature the Aztecs taking on the Fresno State University Bulldogs. The "Battle for the Old Oil Can" game will also be the backdrop for the signature collection phase for SDSU West.

So, if you're attending the game, you'll likely be asked for your signature while tailgating.

"FRIENDS OF SDSU" EFFORT

While most of the national media's election coverage is focused on the upcoming 2018 elections, there are many contentious races happening right now.

One such race that independents should pay attention to is in Manitou Springs, Colorado, where the mayoral race is heating up. Incumbent independent Mayor Nicole Nicoletta is being challenged by Democrat Ken Jaray.

Earlier this month, we reported on the uncertain fate of a ballot access reform bill in North Carolina. That bill has now passed, liberalizing ballot access laws in North Carolina, but also carrying with it controversial elements related to judicial elections.

The words “campaign finance reform” saturate the airwaves every election season, but is this really something we need or just another talking point? If campaign finance reform is so important for conservatives and liberals alike, why do we have so much trouble implementing it?

If you believe that elections can be bought with enough money, it becomes clear why so many folks dislike our current methods of funding political campaigns.

It’s just wrong.

Go to the websites of major polling organizations and look at their measurements of “party identification.” You’ll find something interesting: Sometimes the graphs will show two lines: one for Democrats and one for Republicans. But sometimes, they show three lines. Democrats, Republicans, and independents.

A funny thing happens when they include that third line. More often than not, those who don’t identify as either Democrat or Republican almost always equal or exceed those who do.

T.J. O’Hara is joined by Verna Williams, Interim Dean and Nippert Professor of Law at University of Cincinnati College of Law.

Verna published a Law Review article titled “Guns, Sex, and Race: The Second Amendment Through a Feminist Lens,” where she explores the racial and gender history of the Second Amendment.

T.J. discusses her Law Review article extensively, delving into historical cases regarding the Second Amendment and applying these concepts to today’s discussion.

Our political system is failing because our government has become little more than a perpetual banquet for selfish interests that feed themselves first, and worry about the health of the nation later, if at all (See part 1 in this series).

This is the situation in which we now find ourselves, and it must be reversed.

For "we the people" to fix the system, here is an uncontroversial, common sense, and unifying organizing principle:

The death toll continues to climb.

The county Health and Human Services Agency updated its hepatitis A outbreak numbers which inluded an additional death to bring the total to 19 and increased the number of cases to more than 500 at 507.

Efforts are underway to vaccinatate, sanitize and educate the public on the crisis.

Many of the voters who are becoming the most disenchanted with parties are those who live in “one-party states,” and have experienced closed partisan primaries and/or politically gerrymandered districts.

They know how it feels for their vote not to count, having experienced the injustice of being shut out from primary elections or of belonging to a substantial group of politically like-minded people whose votes have been diluted such that they have no representation in Congress.