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Corneal Substructure Dosimetry Predicts Corneal Toxicity in Patients with Uveal Melanoma Treated with Proton Beam Therapy

Publication date: Available online 11 February 2019

Source: International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics

Author(s): Howard J. Lee, Andrew Stacey, Todd R. Klesert, Craig Wells, Alison Skalet, Charles Bloch, Angela Fung, Stephen R. Bowen, Tony P. Wong, Dean Shibata, Lia M. Halasz, Ramesh Rengan

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Purpose

The present study examines the relationship between dose to corneal substructures and incidence of corneal toxicity within six months of proton beam therapy (PBT) for uveal melanoma. We aim to develop clinically meaningful dose constraints that can be used to mitigate corneal toxicity.

Methods and Materials

Ninety-two patients were treated with PBT between 2015 and 2017 and evaluated for grade 2+ (GR2+), intervention-requiring corneal toxicity in our prospectively maintained database. Most patients were treated with 50 Gy (RBE) in 5 fractions, and all had complete six-month follow-up. Analyses included Mann-Whitney, Chi-Square, Fisher Exact, and receiver operating curve tests to identify risk factors for GR2+ toxicity. Bivariate logistic regression was used to identify independent dose-volume histogram (DVH) predictors of toxicity following adjustment for the most important clinical risk factor.

Results

The six-month PBT GR2+ corneal toxicity rate was 10.9% with half experiencing grade two and half experiencing grade three toxicity, with no grade four events. Patients with anterior chamber tumors had a higher risk (58.3%) for toxicity than those with posterior tumors (0%) or posterior tumors extending past the equator (25%, p<0.0001). On univariate analysis, larger COMS size was associated with increased toxicity rate (p<0.004). DVH analysis revealed that cutoffs of 58% for V25, 32% for V45, 51.8 Gy (RBE) for max dose, and 32 Gy (RBE) for mean dose to the cornea separated patients into groups experiencing and not experiencing toxicity with 90% sensitivity and ≥96% specificity. Bivariate logistic regression indicated that corneal V25, V45, and mean dose independently predicted for toxicity after adjusting for tumor location.

Conclusions

Patients receiving PBT for anterior uveal melanomas experience a high rate of GR2+ corneal toxicity due to increased corneal dose. Anterior location and corneal DVH parameters independently predict toxicity risk. We propose dosimetric constraints to facilitate treatment planning and toxicity mitigation.

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Nature Missing in the G.O.P.: Black and Hispanic Nominees for Governor

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For decades Republican leaders vowed to recruit more minority candidates and tried to project a “big tent” image for the party, and in recent years they saw some payoff with governors: Bobby Jindal of Louisiana and Nikki Haley of South Carolina, both Indian-Americans who have since moved on, and Brian Sandoval of Nevada and Susana Martinez of New Mexico, both Hispanic-American.

But in the first midterm elections under Donald J. Trump, whose campaign and presidency included strong appeals to white voters, Republicans have no black or Hispanic nominees for governor in 2018, and few from other racial minorities, in the 36 states holding elections for the position. The overwhelming majority are white men.

And with Mr. Sandoval and Ms. Martinez leaving by early January, Republicans are at risk of having an all-white bench of governors in 2019.

Democrats this year, by contrast, have nominated black, Hispanic and Native American candidates for governor in Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Maryland and elsewhere. This lineup comes after years when Democrats were weak on diversity in governors’ races.

The Republican falloff is striking after past election seasons when party leaders attempted to identify and then rally behind minority candidates for governor in major states, like Ohio and Pennsylvania.

But several Republican leaders, pollsters and former candidates said they see the lack of diversity as a consequence of President Trump’s offensive language on race, from Mexicans and immigrants to black football players and the protest in Charlottesville, Va., arguing that some prospective minority candidates don’t want to defend Mr. Trump or be aligned with his party. Other Republicans say that an embrace of white identity has become integral to the party’s culture and voter base under Mr. Trump, so it is no surprise that white candidates ran and won in primaries dominated by white conservative voters.

“It’s not complicated,” said Michael Steele, the former chairman of the national Republican Party, who is black. “These efforts have been made more difficult by the ugly rhetoric coming from this president when it comes to issues of race.”

Referring to some of Mr. Trump’s most incendiary comments, Mr. Steele said “whether you refer to their homeland” in vulgar language, “or whether you call their people criminals and rapists, it’s kind of hard to have a conversation after and say, ‘Will you vote for me?’”

Jon Thompson, a spokesman for the Republican Governors Association, praised the party’s slate of candidates for governor, saying they were “fighting to expand opportunity and grow jobs for all Americans.”

“It’s misleading and unfair to report on candidates based on just one particular year when gubernatorial elections occur every year,” he said.

Abel Maldonado, the former Republican lieutenant governor of California under Arnold Schwarzenegger, said that Mr. Trump’s leadership of the party, and his highly successful record of endorsing candidates who went on to win primaries this year, created severe complications for minority Republicans.

“If you’re a Republican and Hispanic, and if you don’t come out to support President Donald Trump, you’re dead in the water,” said Mr. Maldonado, who is of Mexican descent. “And if you say you’re against Donald Trump, you lose his base.”

Mr. Maldonado argued that the problems stemmed from Mr. Trump’s divisive language; his policies, even the proposed border wall with Mexico, are defensible, Mr. Maldonado said. Still, the president’s propensity to speak in language that plays on racial stereotypes creates a difficult conundrum that few minority candidates would want to endure.

“I really like the things that he says on trade and the protection of our country. But how he says them? I’ll be honest with you, deep down it bothers me,” Mr. Maldonado said.

Republicans are conscious of the juxtaposition between their party’s candidates and the recent surge of nonwhite Democrats nominated in governors races nationwide. Democrats have had a historic nomination cycle in which several progressive candidates running grass-roots, upstart campaigns have secured the party’s nomination, including Andrew Gillum in Florida, David Garcia in Arizona, Paulette Jordan in Idaho, and Stacey Abrams in Georgia — who could be the first black woman to become a state governor.

Some of these Democrats are long shots, and neither party has a particularly impressive record with black candidates for governor. (Only two black governors have been elected in the modern era, both Democrats, L. Douglas Wilder of Virginia and Deval Patrick of Massachusetts.)

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Critics of the Democratic Party are quick to argue that this diversification happened in spite of many party leaders — who backed white candidates in some of those states in 2018 and in past years — and not because diversity was a priority for Democratic leaders. Nevertheless, the nominations of minority candidates have created contrasting trendlines between the two parties. Mr. Trump enjoys anemic approval ratings among minority voters, and Republican operatives fear that this, in combination with a disproportionately white slate of candidates, could pose electoral problems for Republicans in the midterms and beyond.

“If we’re a big tent we need to make that clear and we need candidates that reflect the country as a whole,” said Brendan Steinhauser, former campaign manager for Texas Senator John Cornyn, a Republican Party leader. “And we’re not seeing those numbers right now.”

Mr. Steinhauser said the party has gone backward since 2014, when it had more prominent minority governors nationwide — including Mr. Jindal and Ms. Haley — and more white politicians appeared comfortable campaigning in minority communities.

“Focusing on the base and Anglo voters more than ever is just not going to work,” Mr. Steinhauser said.

Whit Ayres, a prominent Republican pollster who wrote a book called “2016 and Beyond: How Republicans Can Elect a President in a New America,” said that while the party could benefit from more minority candidates, this election cycle could also just be an anomaly. Mr. Ayres, who worked with Florida Senator Marco Rubio’s failed presidential campaign in 2016, pointed to several minority Republicans who are currently in prominent offices, such as South Carolina Senator Tim Scott and Ms. Haley, who stepped down as governor of South Carolina to become Mr. Trump’s ambassador to the United Nations.

“We have many candidates both in Texas and Florida, like Marco Rubio, who have won a majority of the Hispanic vote in their campaign,” Mr. Ayres said. “So it’s perfectly possible for Republican candidates, without in any way moderating their fundamental principles, to succeed in the Hispanic community. But you have to try.”

The party has nominated a handful of candidates for governor who are not white men, including an Asian-American nominee in Rhode Island, Allan Fung, and a Samoan-Hawaiian woman in Hawaii, Andria Tupola. There are also nonwhite Republicans elsewhere on the party ticket this year. John James, a black Republican, is the party’s choice for Senate in Michigan; he received Mr. Trump’s endorsement. And Republican gubernatorial nominees have chosen six candidates for lieutenant governor who are racial minorities, including a Cuban-American woman in Florida and a Native American woman in Minnesota.

Republicans with closer ties to Mr. Trump’s administration brushed aside the idea that the president has made it more difficult for minority candidates to succeed within the party.

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President Trump famously imploded a strategy to diversify the Republican party, often gearing his campaign and administration toward the priorities of his base of overwhelmingly white voters.CreditDoug Mills/The New York Times

“If you’re an establishment, traditional Republican, this is a tough environment no matter what,” said Ari Fleischer, a former White House press secretary who has oscillated between supporting and criticizing Mr. Trump.

Newt Gingrich, the former speaker of the House and a vocal defender of Mr. Trump, said candidate recruitment is always a difficult task, but particularly in a political environment he described as “anti-conservative.”

“I do think we have had a harder time, because of the environment not necessarily Trump, getting a Republican to get in the arena,” Mr. Gingrich said. Referring to Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh, Mr. Trump’s Supreme Court nominee who has faced sexual misconduct allegations, he said: “Take a look of what’s happening with Kavanaugh, If you’re a normal rational person do you really want to do this? It’s harder to recruit across the board because of how tough and how brutal its been.”

Mr. Gingrich said Mr. Trump and other White House officials are aware they need to “increase their margins” among black and Latino voters. He said he expected a robust effort to increase minority turnout for Republicans ahead of the midterm elections in November, but he did not offer specific remedies besides “social media.”

Some political observers on the right and the left contended that this turnout effort would be much easier to accomplish with a more diverse slate of candidates. Derrick Johnson, the president of NAACP, said he believed the party’s slate of candidates was indicative of a larger trend, fueled by Mr. Trump: the coalescing around white identity and interests.

“This is telling about the future of the Republican Party,” Mr. Johnson said. “As this country grows to be a more diverse country, they’re becoming more of a monolith.”

Frank Keating, the former Republican governor of Oklahoma and one-time chairman of the Republican Governors Association, said that Republicans need to be careful in order to ensure they’re projecting that their party is welcoming to all.

Mr. Keating said, in Oklahoma, he and fellow Republicans faced a similar diversity problem in the 1990s, and they made a concerted effort to find minority Republican voices — which culminated in the election of J.C. Watts, the first black Republican House member elected to Congress from a state south of the Mason-Dixon line since Reconstruction.

“You have to go out of your way to do” recruitment, Mr. Keating said. “Because a lot of people just think, ‘Politics is not the place I want to be.’”

He added a warning shot for the Republican Party: “This cycle may be an anomaly, but we need to focus make sure we don’t have two election cycles of an anomaly.”

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And with Mr. Sandoval and Ms. Martinez leaving by early January, Republicans are at risk of having an all-white bench of governors in 2019.

“It’s misleading and unfair to report on candidates based on just one particular year when gubernatorial elections occur every year,” he said.

“I really like the things that he says on trade and the protection of our country. But how he says them? I’ll be honest with you, deep down it bothers me,” Mr. Maldonado said.

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Allan Fung of Rhode Island is one of the few minorities nominated by Republicans to run for governor this year.CreditSteven Senne/Associated Press

“Focusing on the base and Anglo voters more than ever is just not going to work,” Mr. Steinhauser said.

Republicans with closer ties to Mr. Trump’s administration brushed aside the idea that the president has made it more difficult for minority candidates to succeed within the party.

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“This is telling about the future of the Republican Party,” Mr. Johnson said. “As this country grows to be a more diverse country, they’re becoming more of a monolith.”

“You have to go out of your way to do” recruitment, Mr. Keating said. “Because a lot of people just think, ‘Politics is not the place I want to be.’”

He added a warning shot for the Republican Party: “This cycle may be an anomaly, but we need to focus make sure we don’t have two election cycles of an anomaly.”

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Nikki Haley and Bobby Jindal, both Indian-Americans and former Republican governors, were once among several minority politicians in the G.O.P. who led states.CreditCreditSean Rayford/Getty Images

And with Mr. Sandoval and Ms. Martinez leaving by early January, Republicans are at risk of having an all-white bench of governors in 2019.

“It’s misleading and unfair to report on candidates based on just one particular year when gubernatorial elections occur every year,” he said.

“I really like the things that he says on trade and the protection of our country. But how he says them? I’ll be honest with you, deep down it bothers me,” Mr. Maldonado said.

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Allan Fung of Rhode Island is one of the few minorities nominated by Republicans to run for governor this year.CreditSteven Senne/Associated Press

“Focusing on the base and Anglo voters more than ever is just not going to work,” Mr. Steinhauser said.

Republicans with closer ties to Mr. Trump’s administration brushed aside the idea that the president has made it more difficult for minority candidates to succeed within the party.

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“This is telling about the future of the Republican Party,” Mr. Johnson said. “As this country grows to be a more diverse country, they’re becoming more of a monolith.”

“You have to go out of your way to do” recruitment, Mr. Keating said. “Because a lot of people just think, ‘Politics is not the place I want to be.’”

He added a warning shot for the Republican Party: “This cycle may be an anomaly, but we need to focus make sure we don’t have two election cycles of an anomaly.”

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Nikki Haley and Bobby Jindal, both Indian-Americans and former Republican governors, were once among several minority politicians in the G.O.P. who led states.CreditCreditSean Rayford/Getty Images

And with Mr. Sandoval and Ms. Martinez leaving by early January, Republicans are at risk of having an all-white bench of governors in 2019.

“It’s misleading and unfair to report on candidates based on just one particular year when gubernatorial elections occur every year,” he said.

“I really like the things that he says on trade and the protection of our country. But how he says them? I’ll be honest with you, deep down it bothers me,” Mr. Maldonado said.

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Allan Fung of Rhode Island is one of the few minorities nominated by Republicans to run for governor this year.CreditSteven Senne/Associated Press

“Focusing on the base and Anglo voters more than ever is just not going to work,” Mr. Steinhauser said.

Republicans with closer ties to Mr. Trump’s administration brushed aside the idea that the president has made it more difficult for minority candidates to succeed within the party.

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“This is telling about the future of the Republican Party,” Mr. Johnson said. “As this country grows to be a more diverse country, they’re becoming more of a monolith.”

“You have to go out of your way to do” recruitment, Mr. Keating said. “Because a lot of people just think, ‘Politics is not the place I want to be.’”

He added a warning shot for the Republican Party: “This cycle may be an anomaly, but we need to focus make sure we don’t have two election cycles of an anomaly.”

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Nikki Haley and Bobby Jindal, both Indian-Americans and former Republican governors, were once among several minority politicians in the G.O.P. who led states.CreditCreditSean Rayford/Getty Images

And with Mr. Sandoval and Ms. Martinez leaving by early January, Republicans are at risk of having an all-white bench of governors in 2019.

“It’s misleading and unfair to report on candidates based on just one particular year when gubernatorial elections occur every year,” he said.

“I really like the things that he says on trade and the protection of our country. But how he says them? I’ll be honest with you, deep down it bothers me,” Mr. Maldonado said.

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Allan Fung of Rhode Island is one of the few minorities nominated by Republicans to run for governor this year.CreditSteven Senne/Associated Press

“Focusing on the base and Anglo voters more than ever is just not going to work,” Mr. Steinhauser said.

Republicans with closer ties to Mr. Trump’s administration brushed aside the idea that the president has made it more difficult for minority candidates to succeed within the party.

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“This is telling about the future of the Republican Party,” Mr. Johnson said. “As this country grows to be a more diverse country, they’re becoming more of a monolith.”

“You have to go out of your way to do” recruitment, Mr. Keating said. “Because a lot of people just think, ‘Politics is not the place I want to be.’”

He added a warning shot for the Republican Party: “This cycle may be an anomaly, but we need to focus make sure we don’t have two election cycles of an anomaly.”

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Nikki Haley and Bobby Jindal, both Indian-Americans and former Republican governors, were once among several minority politicians in the G.O.P. who led states.CreditCreditSean Rayford/Getty Images

And with Mr. Sandoval and Ms. Martinez leaving by early January, Republicans are at risk of having an all-white bench of governors in 2019.

“It’s misleading and unfair to report on candidates based on just one particular year when gubernatorial elections occur every year,” he said.

“I really like the things that he says on trade and the protection of our country. But how he says them? I’ll be honest with you, deep down it bothers me,” Mr. Maldonado said.

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Allan Fung of Rhode Island is one of the few minorities nominated by Republicans to run for governor this year.CreditSteven Senne/Associated Press

“Focusing on the base and Anglo voters more than ever is just not going to work,” Mr. Steinhauser said.

Republicans with closer ties to Mr. Trump’s administration brushed aside the idea that the president has made it more difficult for minority candidates to succeed within the party.

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“This is telling about the future of the Republican Party,” Mr. Johnson said. “As this country grows to be a more diverse country, they’re becoming more of a monolith.”

“You have to go out of your way to do” recruitment, Mr. Keating said. “Because a lot of people just think, ‘Politics is not the place I want to be.’”

He added a warning shot for the Republican Party: “This cycle may be an anomaly, but we need to focus make sure we don’t have two election cycles of an anomaly.”

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And with Mr. Sandoval and Ms. Martinez leaving by early January, Republicans are at risk of having an all-white bench of governors in 2019.

“It’s misleading and unfair to report on candidates based on just one particular year when gubernatorial elections occur every year,” he said.

“I really like the things that he says on trade and the protection of our country. But how he says them? I’ll be honest with you, deep down it bothers me,” Mr. Maldonado said.

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Allan Fung of Rhode Island is one of the few minorities nominated by Republicans to run for governor this year.CreditSteven Senne/Associated Press

“Focusing on the base and Anglo voters more than ever is just not going to work,” Mr. Steinhauser said.

Republicans with closer ties to Mr. Trump’s administration brushed aside the idea that the president has made it more difficult for minority candidates to succeed within the party.

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“This is telling about the future of the Republican Party,” Mr. Johnson said. “As this country grows to be a more diverse country, they’re becoming more of a monolith.”

“You have to go out of your way to do” recruitment, Mr. Keating said. “Because a lot of people just think, ‘Politics is not the place I want to be.’”

He added a warning shot for the Republican Party: “This cycle may be an anomaly, but we need to focus make sure we don’t have two election cycles of an anomaly.”

Read More | https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/03/us/politics/republican-governors-midterms.html |

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Establishment Democrats Are Pouring Millions Into Rhode Island to Save an Unpopular Governor From an Insurgent Challenge

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Establishment Democrats Are Pouring Millions Into Rhode Island to Save an Unpopular Governor From an Insurgent Challenge

Democrats across the country are zeroed in on a handful of dynamic gubernatorial candidates hoping to make history in three states currently governed by Republicans. In Florida, Georgia, and Maryland, Andrew Gillum, Stacey Abrams, and Ben Jealous are running unapologetically progressive campaigns that could result in each candidate becoming the first African-American to govern each state.

The Democratic Party and its allies, meanwhile, are pumping much-needed resources into Rhode Island in an effort prop up an unpopular incumbent governor facing an insurgent challenge in a blue state.

Democratic Gov. Gina Raimondo is working to fend off a progressive, albeit underfunded, primary challenge from the left. Matt Brown, a former Rhode Island secretary of state, is running a grassroots campaign against Raimondo, who he describes as “the most extreme corporatist Democrat in the country.”

The Democratic Governors Association has pumped in $1 million to support Raimondo, money that won’t be available for Georgia, Florida, or Maryland. EMILY’s List, which helps elect pro-choice women, jumped in as well, spending $345,000 on pre-primary mailers for the incumbent. Although Raimondo presents herself as pro-choice, she was criticized by reproductive rights advocates for passing what amounted to restrictions on abortion access during her first term in office and is listed as “mixed-choice” by NARAL Pro-Choice America.

A July survey found Raimondo with a 40 percent job approval rating among the general public and 58 percent among Democrats. That dropped to 29 percent among independents, who are legally allowed to vote in Wednesday’s primary.

Raimondo, a former venture capitalist, has raised nearly $7.8 million for her re-election, raking in much of her fundraising from the same corporate players responsible for the state’s fiscal problems. The claim of “most extreme corporatist” may sound like hyperbole, but as state treasurer, Raimondo touched off a scandal by pushing through pension reform legislation that handed a billion dollars of state worker money over to hedge funds with links to the conservative movement, which harvested eye-popping fees.

Brown would have to overcome steep odds, but he maintains that the race is closer than public polls show. And the Raimondo campaign’s decision to go negative in the days leading up to the September 12 primary — from a TV ad accusing her opponent of “money laundering” to attacks centered on the nuclear nonproliferation group he co-founded — indicate the race is indeed tightening. One mailer, funded by a pro-Raimondo Super PAC, showed an image of a nuclear explosion and read “Matt Brown Nuked His Own Nonprofit.”

She’s also taking it seriously enough to have gone out and acquired an endorsement from civil rights icon John Lewis, a congressperson from Georgia. But when Lewis later learned Raimondo was running against Brown, whom he called a “very, very good friend,” he said publicly that he regretted the endorsement.

Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo, center, speaks with Lisa McGovern, left, and Betty Toye at the Pilgrim Senior Center in Warwick, R.I. on Aug. 2, 2018.

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Despite her fundraising prowess, Raimondo is so unpopular she could lose the general election in the solidly blue state. However, former state Rep. Joe Trillo, who was President Donald Trump’s state campaign chairman, is running as an independent and could act as a spoiler, helping Raimondo’s re-election chances. Recent polls have her deadlocked with Republican candidate Allan Fung, who she narrowly defeated in 2014. That year, the Raimondo campaign spent about $6.3 million in a three-way race in which she won 41 percent of the vote. The same July poll found Brown 15 points behind the likely GOP challenger, but 45 percent of voters still hadn’t heard of him, meaning he could quickly gain ground by winning the nomination.

Raimondo’s head-to-head polling calls into question the conventional argument that centrist or pro-corporate candidates deserve support because they are more electable. “She’s taken millions in campaign contributions from Wall Street, fossil fuel industry, tobacco industry, lobbyists, corporations, tax breaks, and benefits from the state,” Brown said in an interview. “And she has, I think, raised a total of $7 million dollars now for this race and yet, as you point out, still a large majority of Rhode Islanders are looking for a different candidate with a different vision.”

Throughout her political career, Raimondo has also received thousands of dollars from the family that owns Purdue Pharma, a company widely blamed for fueling the opioid epidemic.

Brown’s campaign has sworn off corporate political action committee money, relying instead on individual contributions. The campaign boasts hundreds of volunteers that knock on doors and hold phone-banking sessions. In the first two months of the campaign, he said, they held over 70 events all across the state, “in people’s living rooms, talking to their friends and neighbors.” As for his policies, he’s running on “Medicare for All,” the creation of a public bank, tuition-free college, undoing Raimondo’s cuts to Medicaid, and a “Green New Deal.”

The gubernatorial hopeful has the backing of progressive groups like Our Revolution, Justice Democrats, Indivisible Rhode Island, and Rhode Island Progressive Democrats of America. Raimondo, on the other hand, is supported by nearly all local labor unions, Planned Parenthood Votes! Rhode Island Political Action Committee, LGBTQ community advocates, and the Rhode Island chapter of the National Organization for Women.

Raimondo has refused to participate in even a single debate with her primary opponent. “She has funded her campaign with millions of dollars from Wall Street and corporations in an attempt to buy the election, while doing no debates with me about our records and our visions for the state,” Brown said. “So, it’s really — the kind of campaign she’s running is not democracy.” Raimondo told the Providence Journal she skipped out on debating because Brown is “not operating in good faith,” accusing him of telling lies.

The only conclusion one can come to when a candidate avoids debate, Brown said, is that the candidate has an indefensible record. “And in her case, it’s a record of always working for Wall Street and corporations at the expense of the people. It’s a record of cutting Medicaid and giving out corporate giveaways, handouts, out to handpicked corporations that are often her campaign donors,” he continued.

“It’s a record of taking money from the executives of a gas company and then turning around and announcing that we’re going to do ‘whatever we have to to make sure we’re successful here at building a fracked gas and diesel oil burning plant in Rhode Island,’ which would be bad for everyone in the state, bad for our future, bad for our children. The only one it’s good for is the corporation. The fracked gas corporation, they’d make a bundle off Rhode Islanders, and Gov. Raimondo gets campaign contributions from them in return.”

Historic primary victories, like that of Ayanna Pressley, who unseated a 10-term Democratic incumbent in Massachusetts, or Gillum’s victory in Florida, have energized him. “I think we’re on the verge of the next major upset in this battle for the future of the Democratic Party,” he said.

Top photo: Democrat Matt Brown, a gubernatorial hopeful and former Rhode Island secretary of state, greets volunteers at a nomination papers training event in North Kingstown, R.I. on July 3, 2018.

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Into the Badlands es una serie que, desde un punto de vista, tiene todo lo que necesito para abstraerme un poco de la rutina pues sus dosis de acción, suspenso y mujeres guapas, además de la fotografía y la estética que impera, más no por ello deja de ser sacrificable cuando la situación lo requiere, ha hecho de esta una de esas excepciones que me hacen estar pendiente de lo que sucede en la llamada “pantalla chica”.

La tercer temporada se estrena en este 2018 y, mientras se encuentra en proceso de filmación, AMC nos ha compartido las primeras imágenes de lo que veremos en este drama desarrollado en una futura sociedad feudal.

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AMC reveló las primeras imágenes de la tercera temporada de la serie de artes marciales “Into the Badlands”. La tercera entrega se encuentra en pleno rodaje en Dublin, Irlanda, y regresará al canal muy pronto. Las imágenes muestran al elenco principal formado por Daniel Wu (Tomb Raider) como Sunny, Ally Ioannides (“Parenthood”) en la piel de Tilda y la nominada a mejor actriz en British Independent Film Award 2017 Emily Beecham (“Daphne”) como la Viuda. También se presentan las nuevos personajes regulares, Lorraine Toussaint (“Orange is the New Black”) en el papel de Cressida y Babou Ceesay (“Guerrilla”) como Pilgrim.

“Into the Badlands” es una historia postapocalíptica y visualmente deslumbrante que trata sobre la supervivencia y el poder ambientada en una futura sociedad feudal. En Estados Unidos, el programa cerró su segunda temporada como una de las diez mejores series escritas de la televisión.

La tercera temporada encuentra a Sunny (Wu) viviendo por su cuenta, haciendo todo lo posible para mantener a su pequeño hijo, Henry, luego de la muerte de Veil. Cuando Henry contrae una enfermedad misteriosa, Sunny debe unir fuerzas con Bajie (Nick Frost) para regresar a los Badlands, donde la Viuda (Beecham) y la baronesa Chau (Eleanor Matsuura) están empeñadas en perpetrar una prolongada guerra que ha desestabilizado toda la región. Ya sin el apoyo de Tilda (Ioannides) ni de Waldo (Stephen Lang), la Viuda debe encontrar nuevos aliados en Lydia (Orla Brady) y en Nathaniel Moon (Sherman Augustus), el exregente que perdió la mano en un duelo contra Sunny y Bajie en la segunda temporada. Pero cuando un misterioso líder nómada llamado Pilgrim (Babou Ceesay) llega a los Badlands con la misión de recuperar Azra y dar paso a una nueva era de “paz”, los viejos enemigos deben unirse para defender las tierras.

Además de Toussaint y Ceesay, el nuevo elenco de esta temporada incluye a Sherman Augustus (“Westworld”), quien interpreta a Moon; Ella-Rae Smith (“Clique”), como Nix; Lewis Tan (“Iron Fist”), en el papel de Gaius; y Dean-Charles Chapman (“Game of Thrones”), como Castor. Aramis Knight (Ender’s Game), en el papel M.K.; Orla Brady (“Fringe”), en el de Lydia; y Nick Frost (Shaun of the Dead), en el de Bajie, regresan en la tercera temporada al igual que Wu, Beecham e Ioannides.

“Into the Badlands” fue creada por Alfred Gough y Miles Millar, productores ejecutivos, showrunners y escritores, y cuenta con la producción ejecutiva de los nominados al Oscar Stacey Sher y Michael Shamberg, y David Dobkin, Stephen Fung, Michael Taylor y Daniel Wu. “Into the Badlands” logró debutar dentro del top 3 de producciones con mayor rating en la historia de la TV Paga de EE.UU.

Babou Ceesay as Pilgrim, Lorraine Toussaint as Cressida – Into the Badlands _ Season 3, Episode 2 – Photo Credit: Aidan Monaghan/AMC

Daniel Wu as Sunny – Into the Badlands _ Season 3, Episode 1 – Photo Credit: Aidan Monaghan/AMC

Ally Ioannides as Tilda – Into the Badlands _ Season 3, Episode 3 – Photo Credit: Aidan Monaghan/AMC

Daniel Wu as Sunny; single – Into the Badlands _ Season 3, Episode 3 – Photo Credit: Aidan Monaghan/AMC

Emily Beecham as The Widow – Into the Badlands _ Season 3 – Photo Credit: Aidan Monaghan/AMC

Into the Badlands: Un anticipo de su tercer temporada Into the Badlands es una serie que, desde un punto de vista, tiene todo lo que necesito para abstraerme un poco de la rutina pues sus dosis de acción, suspenso y mujeres guapas, además de la fotografía y la estética que impera, más no por ello deja de ser sacrificable cuando la situación lo requiere, ha hecho de esta una de esas excepciones que me hacen estar pendiente de lo que sucede en la llamada "pantalla chica".

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