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Saturday, February 18, 2012

Artur Davis wants GOP to draft Jeb Bush

Artur Davis moves towards the GOP, Tom Davis thinks Republicans could lose the House, and the State of the Union is tonight.

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WHAT YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED:

* Former Rep. Artur Davis (D-Ala.) recommends in a National Review editorial that the GOP draft Jeb Bush into the presidential race, saying the former Florida governor “should measure his reluctance against the risks looming for his party and, potentially, his country” if Obama wins again. Even for Davis, who has made a career out of attacking his own party, this op-ed is pretty eyebrow-raising — perhaps a sign that he is ready to switch parties.

* Former National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Tom Davis (R-Va.) wrote in The Hill today that Democrats have a chance at taking back the House. “For Democrats to take 25 seats, they will need a wave,” he writes, urging Republicans to cooperate with the president. “Continued polarization and obstruction could create such a wave.”

* Another candidate in the crowded Democratic primary for Michigan’s new 14th district — former state Rep. Mary Waters now wants the oddly-gerrymandered seat. The district already pits Reps. Hansen Clarke and Gary Peters against each other, and Southfield Mayor Brenda Lawrence is already in the race.

* With the Florida primary coming up former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney and former Sen. Rick Santorum will all attend the center-right Hispanic Leadership Network’s conference in Miami at the end of this week. Jeb Bush and former commerce secretary Carlos Gutierrez are co-chairing the event.

WHAT YOU SHOULDN’T MISS:

* The State of the Union is tonight! With Warren Buffett’s secretary in the guest box, expect a heavy focus on reform of the tax code so wealthy Americans pay more. Romney, who released his own 2011 tax return today, has already issued a “prebuttal.” We’ll be liveblogging; in the meantime here’s some classic State of the Union hits to keep you warm.

* Tea party-backed Iraq War veteran Jesse Kelly, who came close to defeating Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) in 2010, will run in the upcoming special election for the resigning congresswoman’s seat.

* The Republican National Committee is airing an ad in swing states and Washington, D.C. in advance of the State of the Union attacking President Obama. But Democrat media buyers say it’s a tiny $27,000 buy — meaning few people will actually see the spot on TV.

* Arizona Senate candidate Richard Carmona (D) is defending Romney’s Bain Capital work, saying some of the criticism is misguided. Carmona, who served as surgeon general in the Bush Administration, is facing frequent fire from primary rival Don Bivens for crossing the aisle.

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Sunday, February 5, 2012

NFL playoffs 2012: For 49ers Vernon Davis, it’s about the team again

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NFL playoffs 2012: For 49ers Vernon Davis, it’s about the team again

Beck Diefenbach/Reuters - Vernon Davis catches the game-winning touchdown, evoking shades of Terrell Owens circa 1998, as the 49ers shock the Saints in last Sunday’s divisional playoff game at Candlestick Park.

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SANTA CLARA, Calif. – What the moment meant was apparent on Vernon Davis’s face, because when he caught that pass last Saturday – a franchise-changing, career-altering, season-sustaining play – the tears came and came quickly, running down his face for all to see. He rushed into the arms of his coach, Jim Harbaugh, as if – at 27, with the musculature of a fine sculpture — Davis needed a nurturing hug, a shoulder to cry on. He found Harbaugh’s shoulder, buried his head, and wept some more.

“It’s something I’ve been dreaming about my whole life,” he said days later, and that’s true. But it was not all.

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Davis is not one of those athletes who has been through what amount to trials and tribulations for millionaires – benched, sent to the locker room, the subject of a coach’s tirade – and says, “I was misunderstood.” Rather, his self-assessment is this: I was who I appeared to be — petulant and self-centered and everything you thought.

“When I first got here, it was all about what Vernon wanted,” Davis said here Thursday, three days before his San Francisco 49ers were set to host the New York Giants for the right to go to Super Bowl XLVI, an opportunity Davis provided with his game-winning touchdown catch against New Orleans last weekend. “It was all about me, what I wanted, achieving my goals instead of worrying about what the team wanted. And today, as we sit here, to me it’s all about the team. It’s all about the team.”

So he cried for the 49ers, who return to the NFC title game for the first time since 1998 in no small part because Davis caught seven balls for 180 yards and two scores in that wild 36-32 NFC divisional playoff win over the Saints. He cried for Harbaugh, the first-year coach who helped get them there. He cried for his grandmother, Adaline, who raised him and his six siblings in a small house off Georgia Ave. NW in the District, one woman doing the work of many.

But he cried, too, for Mike Singletary, because the YouTube moment that has defined Davis’s career to this point actually was the one that turned it around. The public humiliation of that scene – when Singletary, then in his first game as San Francisco’s head coach, yanked Davis from the game after a penalty, sent him to the locker room, and publicly upbraided him afterward – went into those tears last week.

“He helped me,” Davis said. “It made me open my eyes. When it happened, I was like, ‘Maybe it’s not all about me. Maybe it’s not about what I want.’”

What Davis wanted, growing up in the Petworth neighborhood of Northwest, was the moment he had against the Saints. With 14 seconds left, the 49ers trailed by three, but had the ball at New Orleans’s 14 yard line. Davis charged off the line of scrimmage.

“All the friends here, we talked about it,” Adaline Davis said last week, invoking Davis’s childhood nickname. “We said, ‘If “Duke” wins that game, he’s going to cry.’”

“It touched his heart,” said his brother Vontae, a cornerback for the Miami Dolphins. “It was meant to be.”

‘The Good Lord will always provide’

When Vernon Davis used to head out into the streets as a kid, up to Truesdale Elementary School for a game they called “throwback” – essentially hurling a football into the air, then trying to tackle the kid who came up with it – his situation was different, Petworth was different. He never really had a relationship with his mother; his relationship with his father to this day consists of occasional visits back in Washington, but not much more. Adaline Davis – left to raise Davis and his siblings as their mother battled a drug problem – provided what she could, cleaning houses.

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Sunday, January 15, 2012

A Local Life: Malcolm Davis, 74, pastor-turned-potter ministered through clay

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As early as 1960, Malcolm Davis began organizing civil rights bus caravans and sit-ins in the South. He helped lead voter registration drives and was confronted by the Ku Klux Klan, all while he was still a seminary student.

After he became an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ, he moved to Washington in 1967 as the ecumenical campus chaplain at George Washington University. He became a leader in the peace movement and helped organize antiwar marches along with such ’60s activists as Jane Fonda, Tom Hayden and Abbie Hoffman.

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But his dramatic personal history, with its fading echoes of an era when young people sought to build a new social order, is only the prologue to the full story of Malcolm Davis.

He was still a popular campus minister in 1974 when a neighbor invited him to attend a class on ceramics sponsored by the D.C. Department of Parks and Recreation.

“I thought it was going to be an evening lecture, so I went from work dressed in my clerical collar,” Mr. Davis recalled in a 2003 oral history interview. “In a matter of weeks, I was transformed. It was as if there was that potter in me all my life just waiting to get out and just never had the opportunity.”

Over time, he gave up his ministry to devote himself to making ceramics. He became renowned for his porcelain and for a colorful ceramic glaze that he developed. He taught other potters all over the country, and museums and private collectors paid top prices for his teapots, cups, bowls and plates.

“He’s a historical figure in pottery because of that glaze,” Mikhail Zakin, a potter and teacher at the Art School at Old Church in Demarest, N.J., said. “He was just intuitively a beautiful potter.”

Mr. Davis, who lived in Washington and had a studio in Upshur County, W.Va., died Dec. 12 at Sibley Memorial Hospital’s rehabilitation facility in the District. He was 74 and, according to his wife, had a pulmonary embolism three days after hip-replacement surgery.

There was something about his discovery of ceramics that had the life-altering force of a religious epiphany. Mr. Davis had spent years grappling with the eternal questions of the human spirit only to find himself drawn in a direction he never expected.

“It was when I touched clay for the first time in my life, at almost 40, that it changed my life forever,” he said in a 2010 speech to the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts. “Something inside took over. .?.?. Clay found me without my seeking it.”

He was surprised as anyone, because he had never before shown much aptitude for art or for working with his hands. As a senior in high school in Hampton, Va., he took an art class, thinking he would get an easy A.

He flunked.

From pastor to potter

Malcolm Herbert Davis was born Oct. 17, 1937, in Newport News, Va. His father was a banker, and his mother was a church volunteer.

At the College of William & Mary, he majored in mathematics and was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa honor society before graduating in 1959.

Two years earlier, during the 350th anniversary commemoration of the founding of Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in North America, Mr. Davis was one of three people to ride in a horse-drawn carriage with Queen Elizabeth II.

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