Priest writes to Xenophon over naming

Priest writes to Xenophon over naming

The Adelaide priest named as an alleged rapist by Senator Nick Xenophon has hit back, saying his reputation has been irreparably smeared and denigrated.

Senator Xenophon named Monsignor Ian Dempsey under parliamentary privilege earlier this month.,wholesale POLO Ralph Lauren SERIES,Anime importers

Now Monsignor Dempsey has written to Senator Xenophon to protest his innocence.

He says his Adelaide parishioners, Navy personnel, friends and family know him as an honourable and trustworthy chaplain.

"Hardly the accolades an alleged rapist would receive," he wrote.

"You have shot the wounded, you who proclaim to be an advocate of those who are hurting in our society."

MGolf Ladies Clubsonsignor Dempsey said he had not been charged with any offence and had not been interviewed by the Archbishop's lawyers.cheap coach handbag

He said Senator Xenophon went ahead with naming and shaming him, relying on information from a single source and having refused offers from the Adelaide Archdiocese for a briefing.

Monsignor Dempsey explained his decision not to stand down while allegations were dealt with.

"With my integrity and background as a Catholic priest ... I thought that I was honest enough not to have to stand down and continue my priestly ministry," he said.

In NY-9 special election, Dems race to stave off an upset

In NY-9 special election, Dems race to stave off an upset

Democrats here spent Tuesday in the final throes of a frantic, last-ditch effort to stave off a loss in the special election race to replace Anthony Weiner.

Democrat David Weprin, trailing Republican Bob Turner in multiple polls, raced to half a dozen campaign stops, imploring voters at senior centers and subway stops to cast their ballots for him.

Party officials say their best hope for winning lies on the shoulders of the vaunted Queens County Democratic Party machine, which kicked into high gear Tuesday. Inside its headquarters — which doubles as the Weprin campaign’s nerve center — get-out-the vote workers rushed to pick up manila folders containing block-by-block layouts of the district; others sat at the phones,cheap Giants JerseysSports jerseys wholesale methodically working through voter-contact lists. Volunteers fanned out across Queens,Ed Hardy wholesaleCheap Flower Girl Dresses handing out glossy placards highlighting Weprin’s endorsement from the New York Times editorial page.

Despite the last-minute Democratic push, the GOP appeared poised to capture the 9th District seat – an upset that would signal a rejection of President Barack Obama on his party’s turf and underscore the peril that he and Democrats up and down the ballot could face in 2012.

On Capitol Hill, Republicans expressed cautious optimism but refused to predict that Turner, long an underdog, would prevail.

The suddenly intense interest surrounding Turner’s candidacy was on full display Tuesday, when he cast his ballot at a Breezy Point polling station. As he walked outside of a Catholic mass on his way to the polls, Turner was swarmed by a horde of jostling camera crews and reporters.

US poverty numbers hit record high

US poverty numbers hit record high

The US poverty rate hit its highest level since 1993 last year, with a record 46 million people living below the American poverty line, according to census data.

A government report released on Tuesday said the poverty rate rose for a third consecutive year to hit 15.1
per cent in 2010, up from 14.3 per cent a year earlier.

The US definition of poverty in 2010 was an annual income of $22,Cheap Christian Louboutin314 for a family of four, and $11,139 for a single person.

The survey showed struggles for the rest of Americans, with median annual household income falling 2.3 percent to $49,445.

However, the census report said there was no "statistically significant" change in inequality between 2009 and 2010 based on its index.

The poverty rate for blacks and Hispanics was much higher than for the overall population at 27.4 per cent and 26.6 per cent, respectively. Among regions, the South had the highest poverty rate at 16.9 per cent and the highest percentage without health insurance, 19.1 per cent.

The Census Bureau said the number of people country-wide without health insurance coverage rose to 49.cleveland cavaliers jerseys9 million in 2010 from 49.0 million in 2009.

The report,2012 nfl super bowl jerseys showing the first full year since the recession officially ended in June 2009, supports the notion that Americans have been losing ground economically. It showed real median incomes fell 6.wholesales mac Lip gloss4 per cent from pre-recession levels in 2007 and were 7.1 per cent below the peak in 1999.

Underlying the census data was a rate of economic growth too weak to compensate for the loss of hundreds of thousands of jobs from 2009 to 2010, as the recession officially ended but the jobless rate shot up from 9.3 per cent to 9.6 per cent.