Debbie Wasserman Schultz will step down as chairperson of the Democratic National Committee at the conclusion of the Democratic National Convention after being subjected to renewed calls to step aside in the wake of the DNC email leaks.
The committee issued a statement Sunday afternoon in which Schultz said the best way to further the Democratic party's goal of electing Hillary Clinton as president would be to "step down as party chair at the end of this convention.
"As party chair, this week I will open and close the convention, and I will address our delegates about the stakes involved in this election not only for Democrats, but for all Americans. We have planned a great and unified convention this week, and I hope and expect that the DNC team that has worked so hard to get us to this point will have the strong support of all Democrats in making sure this is the best convention we have ever had.?I’ve been proud to serve as the first woman nominated by a sitting president as chair of the Democratic National Committee,cheap air jordans, and I am confident that the strong team in place will lead our party effectively through this election to elect Hillary Clinton as our 45th president," Wasserman Schultz said.
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The congresswoman, who faces a primary challenge for her Florida House seat, has been under intense criticism since the Friday release by Wikileaks of 20,000 hacked DNC emails from January 2015 to May 25, 2016, that show messages sent and received by at least seven top DNC officials discussing Bernie Sanders' campaign and viability.?The emails reveal irritation with Sanders' staff and the candidate himself, with one message suggesting the Vermont senator be questioned about his religious faith in an attempt to hurt him with Kentucky and West Virginia voters.?"It might (make) no difference, but for KY and WVA can we get someone to ask his belief. Does he believe in a God. He had skated on saying he has a Jewish heritage. I think I read he is an atheist. This could make several points difference with my peeps. My Southern Baptist peeps would draw a big difference between a Jew and an atheist," the email reads.
An immediate consequence of the leak was Wasserman Schultz's weekend decision not to speak at the convention.?Sanders, who has been a frequent critic of Wasserman Schultz's tenure as chair, issued a renewed call for her resignation earlier Sunday, saying he "asked and?demanded Debbie Wasserman Schultz's resignation many, many months ago,cheap real jordans, and I state that again. I don't think she is qualified to be the chair of the DNC,"? Sanders told?CNN. Social media channels also have been teeming with disgust toward the DNC and Wasserman Schultz specifically.?
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"I have been privileged to serve as the DNC Chair for five and a half years helping to re-elect President Obama and Vice President Biden,cheap jordans for sale, strengthening our state party partnership in all 50 states, leading a vigorous primary election this past year while preparing for the general election and representing millions of Democrats across the country. I couldn’t be more excited that Democrats are nominating our first woman presidential candidate,air jordan 11,http://hammer-corps.be/index.php?site=forum_topic&topic=2299cheapjordanshoesfreeshipping.com/bolg, Hillary Clinton, a friend I have always believed in and know will be a great president.?We arrived here in Philadelphia with the most inclusive and progressive platform the party has ever proposed and a unified recommendation from the Rules Committee on our path forward as Democrats. I am proud of my role in leading these efforts."
Democrats will put forward a progressive platform that reflects the pressure Sanders' popularity placed on the party establishment as he declined to stop campaigning even after Clinton secured enough delegates to be nominated. Sanders' delegates helped to push the platform leftward in exchange for him to drop his presidential bid and embrace Clinton.?
"My first priority has always been serving the people of the 23rd district of Florida, and I look forward to continuing to do that as their member of Congress for years to come. As the mother of my three amazing children and the Representative of Florida’s 23rd congressional district,http://www.mixi.co.th/forum/newtopiccheapjordanshoesfreeshipping.com/bolg,jordan shoes, I know that electing Hillary Clinton as our next president is critical for America’s future," Wasserman Schultz said.
In a statement, Clinton said she's "grateful to Debbie for getting the Democratic Party to this year's historic convention in Philadelphia, and I know that this week's events will be a success thanks to her hard work and leadership. "

SUZHOU, China — A few minutes after our tour boat glided past the neon lights of Suzhou’s spanking new business district,cheap jordans 11, the city abruptly fell dark. The modern LED display that had illuminated the night sky over Jinji Lake was little more than a show to entice investors to do business in what had been touted for the past hour as a booming tech and industry hub.
A city of 6.5 million in China’s southeast Jiangsu Province, Suzhou is described by Chinese government officials as a shining beacon of the country's modernizing economy, with 28,000 projects funded by more than $100 billion in foreign investment from 116 countries.

But experts on China tell a different story. Though there are no official statistics,?some analysts estimate the nationwide commercial real estate vacancy rate was hovering between 30 and 50 percent even before the recent economic slowdown.
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“They’re very good at doing marketing and showing perceptions of what isn’t,” said Peter Adriaens, a professor of entrepreneurship at the University of Michigan and Sichuan University institute in Suzhou. “For example the fact that many buildings are empty … They have way more tech parks and incubators then there is need for them or there is a pipeline to fill them.”

The Chinese pumped hundreds of billions of Yuan into building tech parks and developing urban centers over the last decade as China experienced prodigious GDP growth, often more than 10 percent per year. But China's annual GDP growth rate has fallen from 11.9 percent in early 2010 to just 7.5 percent late last year, prompting Princeton Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman?to declare in July that “the Chinese model is about to hit its Great Wall, and the only question now is just how bad the crash will be.”
That downward trend, which arrives as President Xi Jinping implements reforms aimed at reducing state investment and subjecting the economy to stronger market forces, is evident in the lack of strong interest in many of the nation’s designated investment destinations. While Suzhou, an attractive city just 60 miles from Shanghai, has been able to keep its grade-A office space vacancy rate down to about 13 percent, other cities have seen less success.
Hangzhou, one of China’s wealthiest and most treasured cities, is home to a number of major tech incubators and commercial projects, but its prime office vacancy rate was 27 percent as of July, according to CB Richard Ellis. Tours of two of its leading tech parks showed the city’s strong potential as an innovation center, but dozens of glass-walled buildings remain empty as — despite the many incentives offered to foreign and domestic companies — investment isn’t flowing in. Even boom cities like Suzhou are seeing signs of slowing growth; its Genway I-Park industrial park reported a total occupancy rate of just 70 percent in May.

In cities from Wuhan to Tianjin, dozens of these self-contained tech and investment hubs and so-called “future cities” have been built to create a form of Silicon Valley-style synergy to drive innovation and lead a Chinese tech boom. But, as in Hangzhou, many of the buildings in these parks sit fallow as entrepreneurs and companies pass them over for other opportunities.
Many observers are left wondering whether China’s huge outlays on these projects will ever bear fruit or whether some will remain empty, testaments to the communist nation’s inability to plan industries to drive its economy.
Said E. Dawlabani, an economist at Memenomics Group in La Jolla, Calif., sees the way Beijing handles its shift towards free market economics as a key factor in that calculation, as the government will scale back on directing workers, companies and funds toward ideal cities.

“If they shift to an emphasis on free market forces then I foresee a glut of these buildings going unfilled” he said. “I would see what they’re describing as the Manhattan of China turning into nothing but rust columns if the transition to a free market economy is too quick.”
The vacancy problem applies to housing as well, as the construction boom China underwent in recent years led developers — spurred by low interest rates, government assistance and other incentives — to build thousands of hulking residential buildings, many of which sit mostly empty. “If you build it they will come” is a mantra that does not apply to these endeavors.
“You’ve got a number of societal shifts going on,” explained Selig Sacks, co-chairman of the U.S./Greater China Transactional Practice at the law firm Foley & Lardner, Milwaukee. “You’ve got the announced intent to have 25 million new urban dwellers a year, and yet where will those high-value jobs come from to allow these people to leave their farms and assume an urban lifestyle?”

Tracy Chen, a senior research analyst and portfolio manager for mortgage-backed securities at Brandywine Global Investment Management, who earned a master's degree at Sichuan University in Chengdu, says if China hopes to fill its empty towers it will need sustained growth.
“The overbuilding of housing — empty cities — as well as excess capacity in the manufacturing industry can be attributed to government allocation. It really depends on the growth,” she explained. “I have no problem believing that China can absorb those cities if it can continue six to seven percent growth and institute those structural reforms. Otherwise it will stay empty.”