Dems say State of Iowa made secret settlements with workers

03/17/2014

DES MOINES  — Iowa Democrats on Sunday demanded that Gov. Terry Branstad explain why six former state employees were given secret settlements to quit their jobs — mostly, the former workers say, because of their Democratic Party ties.

The state of Iowa has paid more than $282,000 in secret settlements to the six over the past three years.

All were asked to sign confidentiality agreements that would have kept the settlements out of public view, according to the Des Moines Register.

The newspaper obtained the documents through Iowa's open-records law.

The state says the positions were eliminated as part of a reorganization, and not in political retribution.

The employees held positions ranging from a public health supervisor to a design engineer. They were considered merit-­based employees, which gives them the ability to move into other available state jobs ahead of workers with less experience.

The workers contend they would have kept their jobs if the state hadn't violated workplace employment practices.

The newspaper found most of the settlements had tightly worded confidentiality clauses to prohibit the former employees from discussing the settlements, or the facts and circumstances that led to the payouts.

The state offered two former employees thousands of dollars more if they would sign agreements mandating their secrecy. Carol Frank, a former construction and design engineer who was laid off in September 2011, said she received an additional $5,000 for agreeing to a confidentiality clause.

Confidentiality clauses are discouraged by the U.S. Department of Justice because they quash openness in government. The American Bar Association in 2012 said such settlements “prohibit the public from knowing about systemic wrongful conduct.”

Geoff Greenwood, a spokesman for the Iowa attorney general, said his office was not involved in writing the settlement agreements. The Attorney General's Office believes the confidentiality clauses are not enforceable under Iowa law because the settlements are public records, Greenwood said.

Dean Ibsen, another former construction engineer for the state, said he refused to sign an agreement that included a confidentiality clause, though representatives of the Iowa Department of Administrative Services offered him more money.

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Man handing out religious leaflets outside Pinnacle Bank Arena is arrested

03/17/2014

LINCOLN  — A man who was distributing religious fliers outside of Lincoln's Pinnacle Bank Arena faces a trespassing charge, which he says he intends to fight.

Larry Ball was jailed after he approached strangers and asked if they wanted a small green flier titled “How to Know God,” according to the Lincoln Journal Star.

Ball, 76, was standing outside the arena during the boys state basketball tournament on Saturday. The arena sits on public property owned by the City of Lincoln and the West Haymarket Joint Public Agency.

According to police, the arena's security staff called police when Ball ventured beyond traffic barricades near the arena. Lincoln Police Officer Brian Ward said Ball had been warned several times.

Ball was released Saturday after posting bail.

Ball told the Associated Press on Sunday that he plans to fight the charge. Ball said he had spent the past three days at the arena handing out fliers and didn't pressure anyone who declined to take one. He acknowledged that security staff asked him to leave, but he argued that authorities had no right to remove him.

“I told them to go fly a kite — this was public property,” he said.

“My taxes help pay for that silly building. I like to eat out, and when I do, 2½ percent of my bill goes to it. That is public property, and you're not going to keep me off of it.”

City Attorney Rod Confer said that he was unfamiliar with the exact legal situation but that he didn't know of any specific city codes restricting people from handing out religious literature on the arena grounds.

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Failed Border Policy: UPDATE

03/17/2014

Chase ends with 7 illegal aliens in custody

Border patrol agents currently have seven immigrants present in the U.S. illegally in custody after a chase in Hidalgo County.

The chase happened at Linn-San Manuel, about 25 miles north of Edinburg.

Hidalgo County Constable Precinct 4 Eddie Guerra's office told Action 4 that Thursday night they were working Operation Storm Garden.

Operation Storm Garden is a task force aimed at patrolling high smuggling areas.

We are told constable deputies tried to stop a suspicious white pickup truck that had a broken tail light, north of Highway 281 around 10pm, but the driver refused to stop.

The driver then led authorities on a high speed chase.

It finally ended on FM 1017 about a mile west of 281, when he drove through a fence.

According to deputies they called on U.S. Border Patrol to assist, as they tried to make their way to the truck.

The truck was found empty with only a few bundles of marijuana and blankets.

They detained five people from El Salvador, including a 10-year-old child.

Minutes later, they also found two Mexican nationals running away from the scene.

Authorities told us all seven were turned over to border patrol.

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White Man March Coming To NYC To Fight "Anti-White Agenda"

03/17/2014

White Man March Coming To NYC To Fight "Anti-White Agenda"

No matter what your background or interests might be, there are lots of fun events happening around the city in the coming days, and one will surely appeal to you: there's the official St. Patrick's Day Parade on Monday (and several smaller related events over the weekend), the festive Jewish holiday of Purim starts on Saturday, and for the horrible racists among us, white power aficionados are organizing a White Man March as well for Saturday. Something for everybody!

Runnin' Scared picked up on the latest groovy happenings in the white supremacist world; the "worldwide" event, which has been scheduled for Saturday March 15th, was organized by 30-year-old Massachusetts resident Kyle Hunt. Hunt, who graduated from Amherst College with a double major in psychology and theater and dance, has written extensively about his hopes for the rallies:

We are planning to show that White people are organized and impassioned, that we know what the anti-white agenda is all about, and that we are dedicated to waking up as many of our folk as possible. We will make it clear that we will not sit idly by as our race is discriminated against, mocked, displaced, and violently attacked, all of which amount to white genocide, according to the United Nation’s own definition of genocide. This is why one of our big messages, which will be displayed on many large banners, is “DIVERSITY” = WHITE GENOCIDE. These banners will spread the message to the public at large in the most effective way possible.

When he puts it like that, all-caps writing on banners does sound incredibly effective, just like those people who write in all-caps on the internet—who isn't swayed by them?

Kyle Hunt

Hunt acknowledges that it's hard to organize this kind of event on such a large scale—so the group has (seemingly informally) partnered up with another white supremacist group, Free America Rally (FAR), for the main NYC event. You have to email them (go ahead: info@freeamericarally.org) to get the full information about what they're planning, but based on their previous events, it'll likely take place outside the Plaza Hotel at 59th Street and 5th Avenue, and will involve a couple of sad looking men carrying a sign or two, glumly arguing over whether it's taking power away from white people to eat from a Halal cart.

Another commenter on White Man March, identifying themselves as a member of the New York Coalition, wrote that they'll be hosting an event throughout the day at 165-25 Jamaica Avenue in Queens, which the Voice points out appears to be "a busy intersection near a Gap, a mattress outlet, and a plus-sized clothing store." The commenter wrote, "This event will only work if you truly believe in the cause. Come prepared to participate. We need leaders who are willing to educate and stand with us when it looks like no one is there."

All of which is to say, even though the event is happening on Saturday, you shouldn't necessarily expect to see it happen. Considering that Hunt and his likeminded friends perceive that society is marginalizing white men to an extent that is tantamount to genocide, the fact that most people won't actually notice any events happening seems especially appropriate. OPEN YOUR EYES SHEEPLE.

Here are some important sartorial tips if you plan on attending the event:

If you are a man, put on a pair of light khakis and a nice dress shirt. It should almost look like you are a groomsman at a wedding. Or maybe like an avenging Aryan angel. Women, you know how to look great in white.

You could also wear sunglasses. Ancient warriors knew that a mask covering the eyes offers protection, but also provides the wearer with extra confidence. Sunglasses can intimidate others who cannot see your eyes, while making you seem cool and collected.

You'll be glad to know that even within the white power community, this event has garnered its share of controversy: "This is bluntly insulting to real activists," commenter Travis Golie wrote on a FAR article about the March. "For years we have honored the 21st as White Pride day. The United Nations even protested by creating a World Wide diversity day on the 21st. And now FAR is showing its ignorance to the WP day, or its cowardice to challenge the United Nations. Either way, it insulting to us activists who have stood by FAR from the beginning. FAR used to be about activism, about unity, about the cause. Now many proven patriots are excluded from events even though they have helped spread activism. Now we shun our own holidays. Its a sad day."

It's a sad day indeed.

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A modern day version of Elenor Rigby nears death

03/17/2014

Son says Fred Phelps Sr. of Westboro Baptist Church is near death  

Fred Phelps Sr., founder of the Westboro Baptist Church known for its virulently anti-gay pickets, is in a care facility, a church spokesman said Sunday.

The statement came after a Facebook post that appeared to come from Phelps’ estranged son Nathan Phelps said that Phelps, 84, was near death.

“I can tell you that Fred Phelps is having some health problems,” church spokesman Steve Drain said. “He’s an old man, and old people get health problems.”

A staffer at a hospice told The Star she could release no information, citing health care privacy laws.

The post on the Facebook page for Nathan Phelps, who left the Topeka church years ago, said Fred Phelps “was excommunicated from the ‘church’ back in August of 2013.”

Drain declined to comment Sunday on whether Fred Phelps had been voted out of the church. Drain said Westboro Baptist Church doesn’t have a designated leader.

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Writing about his father’s condition, Nathan Phelps said: “I’m not sure how I feel about this. Terribly ironic that his devotion to his god ends this way. Destroyed by the monster he made.

“I feel sad for all the hurt he’s caused so many. I feel sad for those who will lose the grandfather and father they loved. And I’m bitterly angry that my family is blocking the family members who left from seeing him, and saying their good-byes.”

A Kansas gay rights group on Sunday urged the gay community to respect the privacy of the “notoriously anti-LGBT” pastor if his health is declining.

Phelps and the members of his church have “harassed” the grieving families of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Kansans and others, Thomas Witt, executive director of Equality Kansas, said in a prepared statement.

But Witt asked everyone to let Phelps’ family and friends mourn in peace.

“This is our moment as a community to rise above the sorrow, anger, and strife he sowed,” Witt wrote, “and to show the world we are caring and compassionate people who respect the privacy and dignity of all.”

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Money, power, spoils of office tempt state lawmakers

03/16/2014

HARRISBURG — Former FBI Agent James J. Wedick Jr. knows legislative corruption like few others.

The 35-year bureau veteran went undercover to investigate and convict a California legislative leader and more than a dozen other public officials in the 1980s and '90s. He was one of the agents on the Abscam sting operation on Congress, which began in the 1970s and is portrayed in the movie “American Hustle.” Members of Congress were videotaped taking would-be bribes from a phony sheik.

Wedick does not hesitate when asked to explain what might foster the “culture of corruption” that analysts identify in Pennsylvania's General Assembly, marked by the arrest of a state senator last week as the 15th current or former lawmaker accused of corruption since 2007.

“It's money,” said Wedick, who retired from the bureau and owns a consulting firm in Sacramento. “There's a lot of money to go around in professional (full-time) legislatures,” such as those in Pennsylvania, California, New York and Michigan. “It's a way for (legislators) to bleed assets from the state without anyone really knowing.”

With 253 members, Pennsylvania's is the largest full-time assembly in the nation. Salaries range from $84,012 for rank-and-file members to $131,149 for the two chambers' top leaders. Its budget: $277 million annually. Lawmakers get lucrative pensions, health care, a state-paid car if they choose, a $157 per diem for working in Harrisburg, and a staff of about 2,700 people.

Such incentives might make people more willing to do whatever they think they need to do to keep their jobs, even if that crosses the line, Wedick said.

He doesn't use a broad brush: Most legislators in large and small states follow the law, and maybe “2 to 3 percent” don't play by the rules.

‘TEMPTATION AND OPPORTUNITY'

Rep. Tim Krieger, R-Hempfield, has fought an uphill battle for three sessions to enact legislation to scale back the assembly to a part-time citizens legislature. He agrees with Wedick. In a professional legislature, “there's temptation and opportunity,” Krieger said.

A part-time assembly “would change the kind of people who serve, and they wouldn't depend on it for a job,” Krieger said.

“Is it the institution or the individual” responsible for corruption, asked Rep. Dwight Evans, D-Philadelphia, who worries about the legislature's reputation. A former House leader, Evans agrees with the late Democratic Gov. George Leader, who said: “We cannot hope to improve the standards of performance in government until we improve the standards of modern society.”

Philadelphia-area Sen. LeAnna Washington, a Democrat, last week became the latest lawmaker charged with crimes. She is accused of theft of services and conflict of interest for using her state staff for personal and political benefit. Through her attorney, she denied wrongdoing.

In January, another Philadelphia Democrat, Jose P. Miranda, was charged with allegedly having a “ghost” employee on his payroll to kick back money to Miranda's sister. Miranda maintains his innocence.

“The culture of corruption goes on,” said Christopher Borick, a political science professor at Muhlenberg College in Allentown.

By mid-2012, eight legislative leaders were in prison at the same time on corruption charges. Former House Speakers John Perzel, R-Philadelphia, and Bill DeWeese, D-Waynesburg, briefly shared a cell in Camp Hill State Correctional Institute.

Of the 15 current or former legislators charged, 11 pleaded guilty or were convicted by juries. In addition to Washington and Miranda, whose cases are not resolved, a former House member was acquitted and another lawmaker was declared incompetent to stand trial but faces charges.

‘BROAD BELIEF'

Other, complex factors contribute to the corruption, which ebbs and flows at the Capitol.

The building where lawmakers and the governor work is a monument to graft. Not long after its dedication in 1906, Treasurer William Berry, a Democrat, began an investigation in a state otherwise controlled by Republicans. Berry uncovered hefty overcharges: The building slated to cost $9 million with furnishings actually cost $13 million. Fourteen people were indicted. In 1908, five people — including architect Joseph Huston, whose likeness is over the keyhole in the Capitol's main brass door — were convicted.

Pennsylvania's part-time legislature gradually shifted to full time as part of an effort to “modernize” the chamber in the 1960s and 1970s. Lawmakers hired more staff, opened district offices and got offices in the Capitol. Former House Speaker Herb Fineman, a Philadelphia Democrat who led that effort, later was convicted of a felony and resigned in 1977 when charged with obstruction of justice.

Voters never approved moving to a year-round legislature, but in 1959 approved a constitutional change from a two-year to an annual state budget, requiring legislators to spend more time in Harrisburg, starting in 1961.

Pennsylvania's history of strong political parties, patronage and ward politics helped foster the culture that continues today, political and legal analysts said.

The backdrop of “machine politics” through the 20th century makes the state's voters more tolerant of political crimes and may help explain why so many legislators were charged with offenses ranging from abuse of the public payroll to use of staff for campaigns, experts said.

“It's very much part of the fabric of the state,” Borick said. In states such as Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey, there's “broad belief” among citizens that “this is how politics works,” he said.

Since the 1970s, political crime evolved from personal enrichment to using state money for campaigns, sometimes on a large scale, said former Acting U.S. Attorney James West, who was a federal prosecutor in central Pennsylvania. He notes that a Superior Court decision holds that using state money for campaigns is a political and personal benefit for a lawmaker.

‘CROSSING SOME LINES'

State political bosses ruled Pennsylvania in the early 1900s. There's a statue of a powerful boss, Boise Penrose, on state grounds adjacent to the Capitol. That power shifted to county political organizations and, with their decline, went to the General Assembly's partisan caucuses in the 1970s and '80s, said G. Terry Madonna, a political science professor at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster.

Another theory explaining corruption-prone states is politicians who “compete not over ideas but for the spoils of office,” said J. Wesley Leckrone, a Widener University political science professor.

Politics is viewed as a profession, and “if that means crossing some lines, that's not seen as a problem,” Leckrone said. “It doesn't help we have a professional state legislature.”

The bill for a part-time legislature would mean loss of full-time income and benefits for legislators.

“It will never move until the public says, ‘We want it,' and the public hasn't said that yet,” Krieger said.

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Grading teachers: Union resistance to more useful evaluations perpetuates mediocrity or worse

03/16/2014

Every additional star in a restaurant review on Yelp means a 9-percent increase in revenue. One in four Americans chooses a primary-care doctor from online ratings. At Carnegie Mellon University, where I've taught for over a decade, anyone can see my student evaluations online and these reviews determine whether I will remain a part-time professor there. Relying on ratings and evaluations of everything from restaurants and muffler shops to doctors and lawyers is now an accepted and essential part of our daily lives.

What would happen if Pittsburgh Public Schools teacher evaluations were available online? That is not likely to happen anytime soon (state law forbids it) but recently, public schools in our city did the next best thing. Some five years ago, teacher evaluations seemed to be the viable course for change and, after investing over $24 million from a grant from the Gates Foundation, Pittsburgh Public Schools worked with the teachers union and other key players to develop the Research-Based Inclusive System of Evaluation, also known as RISE.

The architects of RISE wanted to replace the nearly useless binary teacher evaluation system of “satisfactory” or “unsatisfactory” that is common across the commonwealth with something far more discerning and meaningful for students and teachers alike. Can you imagine asking a friend to recommend a pediatrician and getting a “satisfactory” response?

A year after implementing RISE, not surprisingly, the results showed our city's public school teachers falling into four broad categories. Those in the top group, 15 percent, were found to be teaching heroes, producing results at often twice the level of a second group of “proficient”-rated teachers. It is these proficient teachers who deliver a good product and, hopefully, are on a path of continuous improvement to becoming teaching heroes as well. Then there's a third group of teachers who, for different reasons, “need improvement.” That is, they need targeted professional development to become proficient.

Finally, one of the most significant results of RISE was the finding of a fourth group, about 10 percent of Pittsburgh Public Schools teachers. These teachers, based on multiple, sophisticated measures, are, in fact, failing our city's students. These teachers are in need of serious developmental remediation or, in some cases, termination.

A crude “satisfactory” or “unsatisfactory” never would have identified either the excellent teachers or the failing ones, let alone discerned the proficient ones from those needing improvement. Many factors affect student performance, yet failing to use the readily available and proven assessment tools now common in a host of high-skill professions like teaching means failing to acknowledge excellence and embracing mediocrity while contributing to still further dismal performance.

But ominous forces may undermine the extraordinary innovation that is RISE. For one, Pittsburgh Public Schools will be bankrupt by 2016, absent major immediate change. This is surprising (or maybe not, depending on how you view it), as our city's schools spend almost $19,000 per pupil, which is about $4,000 more than the per-pupil spending average throughout Pennsylvania public schools and about $5,000 more than the national average for per-pupil spending. Meanwhile, our city's students still fall far short of meeting even minimal academic standards.

The consequence of going broke is layoffs, and if they come under the current status-quo system of hiring and firing, the last teachers hired — no matter how good in the classroom they may be — will be the first ones fired. Our best and most promising teachers, as determined by RISE, simply have no protection. The pain of last-in-first-out layoffs will not be evenly felt across our city either, as schools serving low-income and minority students are twice as likely to have an ineffective teacher.

Worse, the existence of the RISE innovation itself is threatened because the Pittsburgh Federation of Teachers is mounting a campaign to dilute the “cut score” component, making it difficult, if not impossible, to identify teachers in need of remedial support or termination. If we are not able to separate the excellent, good and trying-hard teachers from the failing teachers, then any evaluation system loses its purpose and meaning and we return to mediocrity or worse.

Some local leaders know we're at a moment of truth for our city's public schools. In 2013, Superintendent Linda Lane formed an extraordinary partnership with foundations, civil rights organizations and education nonprofits to make the case that the Pittsburgh schools should have more flexibility over furlough decisions in order to protect effective teachers, particularly in the city's most hard-to-staff schools. Sadly, the Pittsburgh Federation of Teachers opposed this effort, too.

Every student in our city deserves the highest quality teaching possible and we must be willing to do everything to provide it. Fairness for both the provider and receiver of services is the prime motivator for any effective evaluation system, whether it is for something as mundane as finding a coffee shop or as vital as finding excellent teachers and great schools.

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Most transparent administration ever chooses special interests over energy independence

03/16/2014

Alaska sues over rejection of Arctic refuge plan

JUNEAU — The state has sued the federal government over rejecting Alaska's exploration plan for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

The state last year proposed a plan aimed at determining the refuge's oil and gas potential. Gov. Sean Parnell's administration argued under the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, the Interior Secretary must approve an exploration plan if it meets necessary requirements.

A regional Fish and Wildlife Service director found, and the agency's director affirmed, that the authorization for an exploration program on the refuge's coastal plain expired in 1987. The lawsuit disputes that.

Parnell said the state sued to ensure Americans have a chance to learn about the region's resources.

The Alaska Wilderness League's Cindy Shogan said it's time for the state to take no for an answer "and move on."

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As The World Burns: The Left pushes prepubescent faggotry

03/16/2014

School Under Attack For Pro-Masculine Mentality

A mother and her 9-year-old son say school officials won't let him bring a My Little Pony bag to school. 

The boy and his mother say he's getting shoved around because bullies think his pick of a favorite toy is for girls. It's a decades-old kids show where pony characters emphasize the bonds of friendship. It's become anything but friendship for 9-year-old Grayson Bruce.  

Grayson Bruce, My Little Pony fan, "they're taking it a little too far, with punching me, pushing me down, calling me horrible names, stuff that really shouldn't happen." 

Grayson picked a Rainbow Dash bag out this year, which he says has intensified the attacks against him. Grayson, "most of the characters in the show are girls, and most of the people put it toward girls, most of the toys are girlie, and surprisingly I found stuff like this." 

Grayson has developed a following on Facebook after a friend made a support page for him. Grayson stands by his favorite cartoon and the message he says it sends. His mother says, why not? Noreen Bruce, Grayson's mom, "it's promoting friendship, there's no bad words, there's no violence, it's hard to find that, even in cartoons now." 

But Noreen says Thursday the school asked him to leave the bag at home because it had become a distraction and was a "trigger for bullying." Noreen, "saying a lunchbox is a trigger for bullying, is like saying a short skirt is a trigger for rape. 

It's flawed logic, it doesn't make any sense." Noreen wants punishment for the students involved.  Buncombe County Schools declined an interview, but sent us this statement, "an initial step was taken to immediately address a situation that had created a disruption in the classroom.  

Buncombe County Schools takes bullying very seriously, and we will continue to take steps to resolve this issue." So Grayson is using a different bag to carry his lunch to school, but he and his mom say they don't believe it's right to force him to leave the My Little Pony bag at home.

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First Nations on Quebec sovereignty debate: We decide our own future

03/16/2014

MONTREAL - A First Nations leader has a message for anyone talking up the issue of Quebec independence during the province's election campaign: don't forget about us.

Ghislain Picard, chief of the Assembly of First Nations of Quebec and Labrador, says First Nations have the right to determine their own future and aren't bound to the result of another referendum vote.

It's useless to consider Quebec sovereignty while there's still uncertainty about the place of aboriginal peoples, Picard said.

"We have the right to self-determination and this right is not negotiable," Picard said in a statement.

If the Parti Quebecois succeeds in getting a majority in the April 7 vote and works toward calling another referendum, Picard says First Nations will take steps to protect the interests of their members.

"Let us be even more clear: Quebec can decide what it wants in terms of its culture, its identity and its development, but it cannot claim sovereignty over a territory which is still, fundamentally, First Nation."

Similar concerns were raised in the lead up to the last referendum in 1995.

In that year, Quebec's Cree and Inuit both held referendums of their own and voted overwhelmingly against Quebec becoming independent.

Sovereignty became a major focus of the current campaign after media baron Pierre Karl Peladeau joined the Parti Quebecois last Sunday, when he raised his fist and declared he wanted to help make Quebec a country.

But PQ Leader Pauline Marois has moved away from the issue in recent days.

A new poll released Saturday suggests Peladeau's entry into the campaign, and the heightened focus on sovereignty, has favoured the Liberals more than the PQ.

On Saturday, Marois focused on the PQ's plan to address homelessness, while continuing to attack Liberal Leader Philippe Couillard for his approach to getting Quebec's distinctiveness recognized by the rest of Canada.

She even suggested Couillard call a referendum of his own on his constitutional plans.

For his part, Couillard appeared to back away from an earlier statement that as premier he would push federal, provincial and territorial officials to take Quebec's unique status into account in any constitutional talks.

Couillard said Saturday his priority in any relations with the rest of Canada would be the economy.

Saturday's Leger Marketing poll for Montreal's Le Devoir newspaper found the PQ and Liberals tied with 37 per cent of the vote, with Francois Legault's Coalition dropping to 14 per cent.

The poll suggests the PQ retains a lead over the Liberals amongst key francophone voters.

The poll also said 59 per cent of respondents would vote no in a referendum and 69 per cent want less talk of it during the campaign.

The online survey of 1,205 people between March and 13 has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.8 per cent, 19 times out of 20.

- with files from Julien Arsenault in Sept-Iles and Martin Ouellet in Boucherville

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