by tyler | Jan 18, 2024 | CNN, us
Here’s a look at the life of former House Speaker Paul Ryan.
Birth date: January 29, 1970
Birth place: Janesville, Wisconsin
Birth name: Paul Davis Ryan
Father: Paul M. Ryan, an attorney
Mother: Elizabeth “Betty” (Hutter) Ryan Douglas
Marriage: Janna (Little) Ryan (December 2, 2000-present)
Children: Liza, Charlie, Sam
Education: Miami University (Ohio), B.A., 1992
Religion: Roman Catholic
Ryan’s father died of a heart attack when Ryan was 16.
Double-majored in economics and political science at Miami University (Ohio).
Ryan is a fitness buff and enjoys bow hunting.
1992 – Legislative aide to Senator Robert Kasten of Wisconsin.
1993-1995 – Staff assistant and speechwriter for the Empower America think tank, which was co-founded by Rep. Jack Kemp (R-NY).
1995-1997 – Legislative director for Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas.
November 3, 1998 – Is elected to the US House of Representatives for the 1st District of Wisconsin. Ryan is reelected in 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014 and 2016.
2011-2014 – Chairman of the House Budget Committee.
March 29, 2012 – Ryan’s 2013 budget proposal is passed by the Republican controlled House, 228-191. The budget plan is later defeated in the Senate, 57-40.
August 11, 2012 – Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney announces Ryan as his choice for vice presidential running mate.
August 17, 2012 – Released tax documents show that Ryan and his wife earned $323,416 in 2011 and paid an effective tax rate of 20%.
November 6, 2012 – The Romney-Ryan ticket is defeated in the general election by the Obama-Biden ticket, but Ryan wins an eighth term representing Wisconsin’s 1st District.
October 8, 2013 – The Wall Street Journal publishes an op-ed by Ryan in the midst of the 16-day government shutdown, in which Ryan discusses the challenges of reaching a budget agreement.
December 2013 – Ryan and Senate Budget Chairman Patty Murray strike a budget deal that avoids a shutdown until 2015. It passes the House 332-94 and the Senate 64-36 and is signed by President Barack Obama.
July 24, 2014 – Ryan releases a 73-page plan to fight poverty, called “Expanding Opportunity in America.”
January 6, 2015-October 29, 2015 – Chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means.
October 22, 2015 – Officially announces he is running for House speaker.
October 28, 2015 – House Republicans nominate Ryan for speaker of the House.
October 29, 2015 – Becomes the 54th speaker of the US House of Representatives.
April 12, 2016 – Ending speculation that he could be drafted as the Republican presidential nominee during the party’s summer convention in Cleveland, Ryan declares, “I do not want, nor will I accept the nomination…Count me out.”
November 8, 2016 – Ryan wins reelection to the House, defeating Democrat Ryan Solen 65% to 32%.
January 3, 2017 – Ryan is reelected as the speaker of the US House of Representatives.
December 22, 2017 – President Donald Trump signs into law an overhaul of the US tax code, an issue the speaker has long supported.
April 11, 2018 – Announces he is not seeking reelection.
January 3, 2019 – Retires from Congress.
March 2019 – Appointed to the board of Fox Corporation and serves as chair of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee.
April 15, 2019 – The University of Notre Dame announces that Ryan will be a guest lecturer for political science and economics during the 2019-2020 academic year.
October 28, 2019 – Ryan announces the launch of the American Idea Foundation, a nonprofit organization aimed at fighting poverty.
February 2021 – Ryan joins the private-equity firm Solamere Capital as Partner and Chair of the Executive Partner Group.
by tyler | Jan 18, 2024 | CNN, us
Here’s a look at one of the most successful golfers in history, Tiger Woods.
Birth date: December 30, 1975
Birth place: Cypress, California
Birth name: Eldrick Tont Woods
Father: Earl Woods
Mother: Kultilda (Punsawad) Woods
Marriage: Elin Nordegren (October 5, 2004-August 23, 2010, divorced)
Children: Charlie Axel and Sam Alexis
Education: Attended Stanford University, 1994-1996
Won the Masters Tournament five times, the US Open three times, the PGA Championship four times and the British Open three times.
Woods is the PGA career money list leader.
With 82 PGA Tour wins, Woods is tied with Sam Snead for most all-time career victories.
His father nicknamed him “Tiger” after a South Vietnamese soldier with whom he fought alongside during the Vietnam War.
1978 – At the age of 2, wins a putting contest with Bob Hope. The match was staged for the “Mike Douglas Show.”
1980 – Appears on the TV show “That’s Incredible.”
1991 – Wins his first US Junior Amateur golf championship. At 15 years of age, Woods was the youngest champion in history until 14-year-old Jim Liu broke his record in 2010.
1992 – Wins his second US Junior Amateur golf championship.
February 27, 1992 – Competes in his first PGA tournament at the age of 16. He is given a sponsor’s exemption in order to play and is the youngest player ever to play in a PGA tournament at that time.
1993 – Wins his third US Junior Amateur golf championship.
1994-1996 – Wins three consecutive US Amateur golf championships.
August 27, 1996 – Turns professional.
August 1996 – Signs a five-year endorsement deal with Nike worth $40 million.
October 6, 1996 – Wins his first tournament as a professional at the Las Vegas Invitational.
1996 – Forms the Tiger Woods Foundation for the promotion of minority participation in golf and other sports. In February 2018, the charity is renamed TGR Foundation to reflect its growth and scope.
April 13, 1997 – Wins his first Masters Tournament.
May 19, 1997 – Signs an endorsement deal with American Express worth between $13 and $30 million.
June 1997 – Becomes the No. 1 ranked golfer in the world after his 42nd week on the PGA Tour. At 21 years, 24 weeks, he is the youngest player ever to hold the No. 1 spot.
August 15, 1999 – Wins his first PGA championship.
June 18, 2000 – Wins his first US Open by 15 strokes, the largest margin in US Open history.
July 23, 2000 – Wins his first British Open.
September 14, 2000 – Signs a five-year endorsement contract with Nike. It is worth an estimated $85 million, making it the richest endorsement contract in sports history, at the time.
June 16, 2002 – Wins his second US Open.
December 8, 2003 – Named PGA Player of the Year for the fifth straight year.
May 13, 2005 – Woods fails to make the cut at the Byron Nelson Championship in Irving, Texas. It is the first time since 1998 that Woods is eliminated from a tournament.
November 23, 2005 – Wins the PGA Grand Slam of Golf for a record-breaking sixth time.
February 10, 2006 – Opens the Tiger Woods Learning Center in Anaheim, California.
May 3, 2006 – Woods’ father, Earl Woods, dies of prostate cancer.
July 23, 2006 – Wins his third British Open.
August 20, 2006 – Wins his third PGA Championship.
August 12, 2007 – Wins his fourth PGA Championship.
April 15, 2008 – Undergoes arthroscopic surgery on his left knee. He had two prior surgeries on the same knee, first in 1994 to remove a benign tumor, and another arthroscopic surgery in December 2002.
June 16, 2008 – Wins the US Open in sudden death, defeating Rocco Mediate.
June 18, 2008 – Woods announces that he will undergo reconstructive anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) surgery on his left knee and will miss the remainder of the PGA tour season.
February 26, 2009 – After an eight-month hiatus from golf due to knee surgery, Woods plays the second round of the World Golf Championships Match Play and loses to Tim Clark.
November 15, 2009 – Wins the Australian Masters.
November 27, 2009 – Is taken to a hospital after being injured in a car accident in front of his home in Florida. He is released later the same day.
December 2, 2009 – Woods apologizes for “transgressions” that let his family down – the same day a gossip magazine publishes a report alleging he had an affair. He does not admit to an affair and offers no details about the “transgressions” in his statement.
February 19, 2010 – Makes a televised statement apologizing for being unfaithful to his wife and letting down both fans and family. “I had affairs, I cheated. What I did was not acceptable, and I am the only person to blame,” he says. Responding to rumors, Woods says that his wife never hit him, as some media reported in connection with the car crash on November 27, 2009, and that there has “never been an episode of domestic violence” in his relationship with his wife. Woods also says that he entered a rehabilitation center for 45 days, from the end of December to early February, and that he will continue to receive treatment and therapy.
October 31, 2010 – After 281 straight weeks, the longest in Official World Golf Ranking history, Woods loses his No. 1 ranking to Lee Westwood.
2010 – Loses about $20 million from estimated endorsements after sponsors including Gatorade, AT&T and Accenture end ties. Other sponsors including Nike, Upper Deck and EA Sports remain with Woods.
June 7, 2011 – Announces he will miss the US Open due to knee and Achilles tendon injuries.
July 19, 2011 – Woods announces that after a 12-year relationship, he and caddie Steve Williams will no longer be working together.
August 4, 2011 – Returns to golf at the Bridgestone Invitational, after a nearly three-month break.
August 11, 2011 – Plays one of his worst first rounds of golf in a major championship. He fails to make the cut at the PGA Championship for the first time in his career.
October 3, 2011 – For the first time in 15 years, Woods does not make it onto golf’s top 50 players list, according to the official World Golf Ranking.
October 5, 2011 – Signs a new endorsement deal with Swiss watch-maker Rolex.
March 25, 2012 – Earns his first PGA Tour win since September 2009, in the Arnold Palmer Invitational in Orlando.
June 3, 2012 – With his win at the Memorial Tournament, ties Jack Nicklaus with 73 PGA Tour victories.
July 2, 2012 – Beats Nicklaus’ PGA Tour record with the AT&T National win. Woods’ 74th PGA Tour win ranks him in second place on the all-time list.
September 3, 2012 – Becomes the first PGA tour participant to earn $100 million.
March 25, 2013 – Woods wins the Arnold Palmer Invitational for the eighth time, and regains the No. 1 spot.
March 31, 2014 – Woods undergoes back surgery for a pinched nerve.
August 23, 2015 – Posts a top 10 finish at his debut at the Wyndham Championships but ends his season as the 257th ranked player in the world. His finish was four shots off eventual winner Davis Love III. Woods has now missed the cut for three majors in a row.
December 1, 2015 – Announces that he underwent his third microdiscectomy surgery last month – a procedure to remove bone around a pinched nerve to allow space for it to heal – and admits he has no idea when he will be back on the course.
July 20, 2016 – It is announced that Woods will miss the PGA Championship due to his continued recovery from back surgery. This marks the first time in his career that he has missed all four major championships.
December 4, 2016 – Woods finishes 14 shots behind the winner in the Hero World Challenge, his first competitive event in more than a year.
May 29, 2017 – Woods is arrested on suspicion of DUI in Jupiter, Florida. He says in a statement that he had “an unexpected reaction to prescribed medications” and that alcohol was not involved.
June 19, 2017 – Woods announces that he is receiving professional help to manage medication for back pain and a sleep disorder.
July 3, 2017 – Announces that he has completed an intensive program for managing his medications.
October 27, 2017 – Woods pleads guilty to reckless driving. His 12-month probation is contingent on completing any recommended treatment including DUI school, 50 hours of community services and random drug and alcohol testing.
December 3, 2017 – Making his long-awaited return from a fourth back surgery – his first tournament for 301 days since pulling out of the Dubai Desert Classic in February – Woods finishes in a tie for ninth place in the Hero World Challenge tournament in the Bahamas.
September 23, 2018 – Wins the Tour Championship at Atlanta’s East Lake Golf Club, for his first PGA Tour victory since August 2013 and his 80th overall.
April 14, 2019 – Wins his fifth Masters and 15th major title.
May 6, 2019 – President Donald Trump presents Woods with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, during a White House ceremony.
October 27, 2019 – Wins his record-equaling 82nd PGA Tour title at the Zozo Championship in Chiba, Japan. Woods is tied with legendary golfer Sam Snead, who won 82 titles throughout his more than 50-year career.
May 24, 2020 – Woods and Peyton Manning defeat Phil Mickelson and Tom Brady by one stroke in “The Match: Champions for Charity” golf tournament at the Medalist Golf Club in Hobe Sound, Florida. The event raises over $20 million for coronavirus relief efforts and captures an average of 5.8 million viewers to become the most-watched golf telecast in the history of cable television.
February 23, 2021 – Woods is hospitalized after a serious one-car rollover accident in Los Angeles County, according to the LA County Sheriff’s Department. Wood’s agent Mark Steinberg said the golfer suffered “multiple leg injuries” and was in surgery following the accident. The next day, Woods is “awake, responsive, and recovering” in the hospital after emergency surgery on his lower right leg and ankle at the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. The leg fractures were “comminuted,” meaning the bone was broken into more than two parts, and “open,” meaning the broken bone was exposed to open air, creating risk of an infection, Chief Medical Officer Dr. Anish Mahajan says in the statement.
November 29, 2021 – In an exclusive interview published in Golf Digest, Tiger Woods speaks publicly about his golfing future for the first time since his car crash. “I think something that is realistic is playing the tour one day, never full time, ever again, but pick and choose, just like Mr. (Ben) Hogan did,” Woods tells interviewer Henni Koyack.
March 9, 2022 – Woods is inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame at the PGA Tour headquarters in Florida.
April 7, 2022 – Tees off in the first round of the Masters, his first tournament in 14 months, completing a remarkable comeback after sustaining serious leg injuries in his February 2021 car crash.
October 2022 – Erica Herman, a former girlfriend of Woods, files a complaint in Martin County, Florida after their six-year relationship comes to end. Herman alleges a trust owned by Woods violated the Florida Residential Landlord Tenant Act by breaking the oral tenancy agreement. On March 6, 2023, Herman files a second complaint aimed at nullifying the NDA she signed in 2017. On May 17, 2023, a Florida judge rules against Herman, calling her claims that the NDA is invalid and unenforceable “implausibly pled.” In June 2023, Herman drops her lawsuit alleging a trust owned by Woods violated the Florida Residential Landlord Tenant Act. In November 2023, Herman drops her appeal to nullify the NDA.
April 19, 2023 – Announces he has completed “successful” surgery on his ankle following his withdrawal from The Masters earlier this month.
January 8, 2024 – Woods ends his 27-year partnership with Nike.
by tyler | Jan 18, 2024 | CNN, us
Rex Heuermann has now been charged with killing four women whose bodies were discovered bound with belts or tape and wrapped in burlap along a stretch of Long Island’s Gilgo Beach in 2010.
A married father accused by authorities of leading a double life, Heuermann had faced three counts of first-degree murder for the killings of Melissa Barthelemy in 2009, and Megan Waterman and Amber Costello the following year, according to the Suffolk County district attorney. He has pleaded not guilty and is being held without bail.
The 60-year-old New York architect also has been charged in the disappearance and killing of a fourth woman, Maureen Brainard-Barnes, whose remains were found near the same spot, prosecutors said Tuesday. He had been identified as a prime suspect in the killing since his arrest in July.
Heuermann pleaded not guilty Tuesday morning to the superseding indictment charging him with murder in the second degree in the death of Brainard-Barnes.
Heuermann “has maintained his innocence from day one,” his defense attorney said after he was charged in the fourth killing.
“He said, ‘I’m not guilty of these charges,’” defense attorney Michael Brown said. “He’s looking forward to fight these charges and we’re doing that. We’re going to continue to prepare.”
Heuermann was first identified as a potential suspect in early 2022, shortly after a multi-agency task force was formed to examine cold cases involving nearly a dozen sets of human remains found along Long Island’s South Shore between 2010 and 2011, including the “Gilgo Four.”
“The grand jury investigation of the so-called Gilgo Four is over. It has been concluded,” Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney said Tuesday, noting that the same panel will continue looking into other murder cases.
Gloria Allred, a victims’ rights attorney representing Barthelemy, Brainard-Barnes and Waterman family members, said it is “long overdue to provide justice for vulnerable women who are missing and murdered.”
Allred said it’s up to a jury “to decide if this defendant will be found guilty of the murder of Maureen and the murder of other women for whom the defendant has been indicted.”
Here’s what we know about the deaths of those four women:
Brainard-Barnes was 25 years old and believed to be a sex worker when she was last seen on July 9, 2007. She had called a friend in Connecticut, where she lived, and said she had an “out call,” according to Suffolk County police.
The young woman was reported missing by a friend to the Norwich Police Department in Connecticut on July 14. Her remains were found on December 13, 2010, on the north side of Ocean Parkway, near Gilgo Beach.
She is believed to be the first Gilgo Four victim.
Authorities identified Heuermann as a suspect in early 2022 using cell phone data, witness descriptions and other information, and obtained a sample of his DNA from leftover crust in a pizza box he threw out.
Investigators found the DNA of Heuermann’s wife on a leather belt that was used to restrain Brainard-Barnes, according to an indictment.
She had been restrained by three leather belts, one of which was used to tie her feet and ankle legs together, the indictment states.
Heuermann’s wife and her two children were in Atlantic City at the time of the killing of Brainard-Barnes, according to a bail application.
Tierney described victim Brainard-Barnes as an “intellectual” and “artistic.”
“She was a devoted sister, a devoted mother, a devoted daughter, and she’s sorely missed by those that loved her,” Tierney said.
Brainard-Barnes’s family called the latest indictment “an important chapter in the long pursuit of justice.”
“It has been 16 years since the last time I saw my sister, 16 years since I heard her voice, because 16 years ago, she was silenced,” Melissa Cann said after Tuesday’s court proceeding.
Cann, 39, described her sister as a loving mother, sister and friend.
“Maureen would never get the chance to show the world how talented she was,” her sister said, choking up. “My family will never get the chance to know who Maureen would be today because her life was tragically taken.”
Nicolette Brainard-Barnes was only 7 years old when her mother was killed. She said the loss changed the trajectory of her life.
“While the loss of my mom has been extremely painful for me, the indictment by the grand jury has brought hope for justice for my mom and my family,” said Nicolette Brainard-Barnes, now 24.
Cann told CNN in 2011 that she desperately tried to solve the mystery of her sibling’s disappearance, scouring her emails and phone records, and staying in touch with families of the other victims.
Cann said her sister worked a seasonal telemarketing job and turned to escort services in desperation when left unemployed and facing eviction.
Barthelemy was 24 years old when she was last seen on July 12, 2009, in the basement apartment where she lived in the Bronx, according to the Suffolk County police website on the Gilgo killings.
On the night she was last seen, Barthelemy, a sex worker, told a friend she was meeting a man and would be back in the morning, according to the police website.
Barthelemy’s mother reported her missing on July 18. Records for her cellphone showed activity in Manhattan as well as Freeport, Massapequa and Lindenhurst on Long Island.
In July and August 2009, according to a bail application for Heuermann, Barthelemy’s phone was used by a man to make taunting calls to the victim’s family.
Steve Cohen, who was an attorney for Barthelemy’s mother at the time, told CNN the caller said he killed her daughter.
“Do you think you’ll ever see her again?” the unidentified male caller asked Barthelemy’s sister on August 26, 2009, according to Cohen. “You won’t. I killed her,” he said and hung up.
In another phone call, just days after Barthelemy disappeared, Cohen said the unidentified male caller referred to the victim as a “whore” in a short conversation with her then-15-year-old sister.
In one call, the man described in graphic detail to the victim’s sister what he had done sexually to Barthelemy, according to Cohen.
Barthelemy’s remains were the first set of female remains found in bushes along an isolated strip of waterfront property. At the time, authorities were searching for another missing woman, Shannan Gilbert, a 23-year-old from Jersey City, New Jersey, who hadn’t been seen since May 2010.
“I still don’t sleep through the night thinking about all of it,” Lynn Barthelemy, the victim’s mother, told CNN in 2011.
She said she jotted down everything she learned about the case in a notebook and spoke regularly with families of other victims.
Investigators believe Barthelemy was the second of the women to be killed.
Waterman was 22 years old when she was last seen on June 6, 2010.
A resident of Maine, Waterman was last seen by her family boarding a Concord Trailways bus heading from Maine to New York, according to Suffolk County police.
She was a sex worker, police said. At 1:30 a.m. on June 6, she left the Holiday Inn Express on Long Island to meet a client, according to police.
Waterman was reported missing in Maine on June 8. Family members said it was unusual for her not to check on the daughter Waterman had left in their care.
Her body was found on December 13, 2010, near Gilgo Beach.
Waterman’s family at one time used funding from a nonprofit human rights organization to hire a team of private investigators to help search for her.
Dottie Laster, a member of that team, told CNN in 2011 Waterman sounded starstruck when she called her mother to boast that her clients included doctors, lawyers and law enforcement officers.
Costello was 27 years old and living on Long Island when she was last seen. She struggled with a heroin addiction and worked as an escort to help support her habit, according to Suffolk County police.
She was was last seen leaving her home on September 2, 2010, to meet a client. Her remains were found on December 13, 2010, near Gilgo Beach. She is believed to be the fourth victim.
Witnesses told investigators that the client she met the day she went missing had been at her home previously. They described the man as “a large, white male, approximately 6’4” to 6’6” in height” with “big oval style” glasses. A witness also said the man resembled an “ogre.” Heuermann’s bail application noted the description from these witnesses in 2010 matched Heuermann.
Costello’s sister, Kim Overstreet, told CNN in 2011 that she took out an ad hoping to catch the killer. The ad implored other women who work as escorts to call Overstreet. She wanted them to tell her if they ever encountered a client who was threatening or just didn’t feel right.
“What happened to Amber eats at me every day,” Overstreet said at the time. “Finding out who did this consumes me. I stay up all night doing research and trying to re-trace her last steps.”
Witnesses also said the man drove a first-generation Chevrolet Avalanche – a key clue that prosecutors said helped lead them to Heuermann.
This story has been updated with additional information.
by tyler | Jan 18, 2024 | CNN, us
Here’s a look at the life of John Reed, former Citigroup CEO.
Birth date: February 7, 1939
Birth place: Chicago, Illinois
Birth name: John Shepard Reed
Father: name not known publicly – plant manager for Armour & Company
Mother: name not known publicly
Marriage: Cynthia “Cindy” (McCarthy) Reed (September 1994-present); Sally (Foreman) Reed (divorced)
Children: with Sally (Foreman) Reed: Tenley, December 1974; Tefford, July 1971; Timothy, January 1968; Traci, March 1965
Education: Washington and Jefferson College, B.A., 1960; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, B.S. 1961 (dual degree program); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Sloan School of Management, Master of Science, 1965
Military service: US Army Corps of Engineers, 1962-1964, Lieutenant
Lived in Buenos Aires from ages 5 to 17 due to his father’s job with Armour & Company.
After retiring from Citigroup, Reed and his wife founded the John and Cindy Reed Foundation, which focuses on environmental and educational efforts.
Credited with advancing the adoption of the ATM across the United States.
Salary as chairman of the New York Stock Exchange, at his request, was $1.
1965 – Joins Citicorp.
1975-2003 – Member of Philip Morris/Altria board of directors.
June 19, 1984 – Reed is named CEO of Citicorp.
1998 – Citicorp merges with Travelers in a $37 billion deal to become Citigroup Inc.
November 9, 1999 – Reed testifies before the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Governmental Affairs regarding money laundering.
April 18, 2000 – Retires as co-chairman and co-chief executive of Citigroup Inc.
September 17, 2003 – New York Stock Exchange Chairman Richard Grasso resigns over criticism of his compensation package.
September 21, 2003 – Reed is named interim chairman of the New York Stock Exchange.
2004-2008 – Serves as a member of the Altria Group board of directors.
April 2005 – Steps down as chairman of the New York Stock Exchange.
February 4, 2010 – Testifies before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs regarding the financial crisis.
2010-2014 – Serves as chairman of the board at MIT. Reed remains a life member emeritus of the board of trustees.
2011-present – Member of CaixaBank’s board of directors.
February 16, 2016 – Is elected president of the board of Boston Athenaeum, an independent library and museum.
by tyler | Jan 18, 2024 | CNN, us
Here is a look at the life of Jay Inslee, governor of Washington and former 2020 Democratic presidential candidate.
Birth date: February 9, 1951
Birth place: Seattle, Washington
Birth name: Jay Robert Inslee
Father: Frank Inslee, biology teacher, coach and athletic director
Mother: Adele (Brown) Inslee, store clerk
Marriage: Trudi (Tindall) Inslee (August 27, 1972-present)
Children: Jack, Connor and Joe
Education: Stanford University, 1969-1970; University of Washington, B.A., 1973, economics; Willamette University College of Law, J.D., 1976, graduated magna cum laude
Religion: Protestant
Inslee is dedicated to addressing climate change and other environmental issues.
While in the US House of Representatives, he served on the House Committee on Energy and Commerce and on the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming.
He was the first governor to enter the 2020 presidential race.
At Seattle’s Ingraham High School, Inslee was the starting quarterback.
Worked his way through college doing odd jobs.
Has praised the “Green New Deal,” saying it is “raising people’s ambitions” and “making what might seem impossible within the realm of the possible,” but has not outright said he would support the entire package. Nor has he endorsed Medicare-for-all.
Established Washington’s Marijuana Justice Initiative. It allows for gubernatorial pardons for those previously convicted of a single misdemeanor marijuana crime “between January 1, 1998, and December 5, 2012, when I-502 legalized marijuana possession.”
After law school, works as an attorney with Peters, Schmalz, Leadon & Fowler (later Peters, Fowler and Inslee), and serves as a city prosecutor for over a decade.
November 1988 – Wins an open seat in the Washington House of Representatives for the 14th District against Lynn Carmichael (R) with 51.64% of the vote. Is reelected in 1990 with 61.82% of the vote.
1989-1993 – Washington House of Representatives.
November 1992 – Wins US House of Representatives seat for Washington’s 4th District against Richard “Doc” Hastings (R) with 50.84% of the vote.
January 3, 1993-January 3, 1995 – US House of Representatives.
November 1994 – Loses his reelection bid to the US House of Representatives to Hastings with 46.6% of the vote.
1995-1996 – Attorney at Gordon, Thomas, Honeywell, Malanca, Peterson & Daheim L.L.P.
September 1996 – Unsuccessful gubernatorial bid, only coming in third with 10% of the vote in the primary.
1997-1998 – Region 10 Director for the US Department of Health and Human Services under US President Bill Clinton, serving Alaska, Idaho, Oregon and Washington.
November 1998 – Wins US House of Representatives seat for Washington’s 1st District, after four years out of office, against incumbent Rick White (R) with 49.77% of the vote.
January 3, 1999-March 20, 2012 – US House of Representatives. Reelected six times.
2007 – His book, “Apollo’s Fire: Igniting America’s Clean Energy Economy,” written with Bracken Hendricks, is published.
March 10, 2012 – Announces he will resign from the US House of Representatives in order to focus on his run for governor of the state.
November 2012 – Wins the election for governor of Washington, defeating Rob McKenna (R) with 51.54% of the vote. Is reelected in 2016 with 54.39% of the vote.
January 16, 2013-present – Governor of Washington.
February 11, 2014 – Announces that he is suspending executions while he is in office, meaning he will issue reprieves when any capital cases come to his desk for action.
2015-2016, 2017-2018 – Education and Workforce Committee Chair, National Governors Association (NGA).
2016-2017, 2018-2019 – Education and Workforce Committee Vice Chair, NGA.
2016 – Endorses Hillary Clinton for president of the United States.
2017-present – Co-chair of the US Climate Alliance, a group he co-founded with California Governor Jerry Brown and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. The Alliance pledges to uphold the Paris Climate Accord following the United States’ withdrawal from the agreement.
2017-2018 – Chairman of the Democratic Governors Association.
July 5, 2017 – Inslee signs Washington’s paid family and medical leave act into law. It is considered one of the most generous such laws in the nation.
November 6, 2018 – Loses a bid to enact a statewide carbon emissions tax, for the second time in two years.
March 1, 2019 – Releases a video announcing his presidential candidacy.
March 14, 2019 – Signs a bump stock buy-back program into law a week before a nationwide ban takes effect. The devices, which replace the standard stock and grip of a semi-automatic firearm, make it easier to fire rounds from such a weapon by harnessing the gun’s recoil to “bump” the trigger faster.
August 21, 2019 – Suspends his 2020 presidential campaign.
August 22, 2019 – Announces that he is running for a third term as governor.
November 3, 2020 – Wins reelection to a third term as governor.
June 30, 2022 – Inslee issues a directive that bars state police from cooperating with out-of-state investigatory requests related to abortion in his efforts to make the state a “sanctuary” for those seeking abortion services. The decision comes after the US Supreme Court ruled to strike down Roe v Wade, the 1973 legal precedent which guaranteed people’s federal constitutional right to abortion. The historic ruling essentially leaves abortion laws in states’ hands.
September 9, 2023 – Inslee endorses State Attorney General Bob Ferguson for the 2024 Washington gubernatorial election race.
by tyler | Jan 17, 2024 | CNN, us
Here’s a look at the life of former NFL running back Ray Rice, who played six seasons with the Baltimore Ravens.
Birth date: January 22, 1987
Birth place: New Rochelle, New York
Birth name: Raymell Maurice Rice
Father: Conrad Reed
Mother: Janet Rice, special education teacher
Marriage: Janay (Palmer) Rice (March 28, 2014-present)
Children: Jaylen, 2016; Rayven, 2012
Education: Attended Rutgers University 2005-2007
Rice’s father, Conrad Reed, was accidentally killed in a drive-by shooting when Rice was 1 year old.
Myshaun Rice-Nichols, a cousin and father figure to Rice, was killed in a car accident when Rice was 11 years old.
Selected three times for the Pro Bowl (seasons 2009, 2011 and 2012).
Founded the Ray Rice Charitable Fund to support underprivileged children in Baltimore and his hometown of New Rochelle, New York.
Key events in the Ray Rice story.
Post-football activities have included working with organizations such as A Call to Men and the Childhood Domestic Violence Association and speaking to professional football teams about domestic violence.
April 26, 2008 – Selected in the second round, 55th overall, in the NFL draft by the Baltimore Ravens.
July 2012 – Signs a five-year, $35 million contract with the Ravens.
February 3, 2013 – Rice earns a Super Bowl ring when the Baltimore Ravens defeat the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl XLVII, 34-31.
February 15, 2014 – Rice and his fiancée, Janay Palmer, are involved in an early-morning fight on an elevator in an Atlantic City, New Jersey, casino. Atlantic City police say Rice and Palmer struck each other with their hands and refused medical treatment at the scene. The couple is arrested and taken to the Atlantic City Police Department holding facility. Each is charged with simple assault.
February 19, 2014 – TMZ releases video of Rice dragging Palmer out of the elevator in which the incident occurred.
March 27, 2014 – Rice is indicted by an Atlantic County grand jury on a charge of third-degree aggravated assault. The charge against Palmer is dropped. Rice and Palmer are married the next day.
May 1, 2014 – Rice pleads not guilty to aggravated assault and applies for a program for first-time offenders that could clear him of charges in one year.
May 20, 2014 – Rice is accepted into a diversionary program, or a pretrial intervention program.
May 23, 2014 – The Ravens hold a news conference with Rice and Palmer. Rice apologizes for “the situation my wife and I were in.”
July 24, 2014 – The NFL announces a two-game suspension for Rice.
July 31, 2014 – Rice tells reporters at a Ravens news conference that the violent incident is not representative of who he is. “You know that’s not me,” he says. “You know that’s something I have to live … with the rest of my life.” He calls his actions “inexcusable.”
August 1, 2014 – NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell addresses the media for the first time after Rice’s suspension while in Canton, Ohio, for the Pro Football Hall of Fame ceremonies. He defends his decision: “I take into account all of the information before I make a decision on what the discipline will be. In this case, there was no discipline by the criminal justice system. They put him in that diversionary program.”
August 28, 2014 – Amid criticism for Rice’s punishment, the NFL announces a new, harsher policy for domestic violence and other violent conduct. In a letter, Goodell admits that he got the Rice punishment wrong, without mentioning him by name.
September 8, 2014 – TMZ releases surveillance footage from inside the elevator showing Rice punching Palmer. Hours later, the Ravens terminate Rice’s contract and Goodell announces Rice’s indefinite suspension from the NFL. The league claims it had not seen the video from the elevator’s interior until it was released by TMZ.
September 10, 2014 – The NFL announces that former FBI Director Robert Mueller will lead an independent inquiry into the league’s investigation and how it gathered evidence in the case. Two NFL owners who are attorneys – John Mara of the New York Giants and Art Rooney II of the Pittsburgh Steelers – will oversee the independent investigation.
September 16, 2014 – The NFL players’ union announces it has filed an appeal of Rice’s indefinite suspension by NFL Commissioner Goodell.
October 21, 2014 – NBC Sports ProFootballTalk reports Rice has officially filed a wrongful termination grievance against the Baltimore Ravens.
November 5-6, 2014 – Former US District Judge Barbara Jones, a neutral arbitrator, presides over Rice’s indefinite suspension appeal hearing in New York.
November 28, 2014 – Rice wins an appeal of his indefinite suspension by the NFL, and is reinstated effective immediately, according to the NFL players’ union.
January 9, 2015 – Mueller releases his “Report to The National Football League of an Independent Investigation into the Ray Rice Incident.” According to the report, investigators did not uncover evidence that anyone at the NFL received or viewed the interior video before it became public. He concludes that the NFL, “should have taken additional steps to obtain all available information about the February 15 incident.”
January 15, 2015 – Rice’s salary grievance filing against the NFL is settled.
May 21, 2015 – After Rice completes the terms of the pretrial intervention program, a judge dismisses the domestic violence charges against him.
December 31, 2023 – Is honored by the Baltimore Ravens as a “Legend of the Game.”
