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Aimee Allison does not share progressive values

by dto510
Aimee Allison says she's a progressive, but she drives an especially gas-guzzling SUV, sends her son to private school, allows her campaign staff to steal her opponents' signs and literature, and doesn't ask for Oakland Love from her volunteers.
Aimee Allison claims to be a progressive in her race against the incumbent, a legal aid lawyer who is a pro-choice and anti-war leader, yet Ms. Allison clearly does not share progressive values. Why not?

* She drives an SUV

* Her son attends private school

* Her campaign trashes her opponent's lawn signs

* Her campaign is benefiting from a lying "push poll" paid by an out-of-town rich guy

* She watches her staff steal her opponent's campaign literature

* She considers "Oakland Love" to be "optional" for volunteering for her

Is this the sort of person that we want on the Oakland City Council?
by chemtrails@notcool
is she against experimentation with weather modification in our atmosphere such as HAARP in Alaska? I bet she wont say. hahaha
by _
If you will read the article on the SUV issue, you will see that the car was given to her husband when she and her husband could not afford a car. Allison is trying to sell the gas guzzler. Of course, with gas prices so high now, no one wants it. In due course, she will have to take it to a dealer and take whatever she gets. The smear campaign being waged by the Democrats, as with this posting above, is a sign of desperation. The Democratic Party has never had to campaign in Oakland, or most of the rest of the Bay Area, for about 46 years, at least. And then, they just had to campaign against their twin party of capitalism, the Republicans. The Communist and Socialist Parties that were on the ballot were knocked off by the witchhunts of the 1940s and 1950s. Peace & Freedom did not come into existence until 1968 and did not become socialist until 1974, both in reaction to the Democrats' complicity in promoting the war against Vietnam. The Green Party showed up in 1990, in reaction to the Democrats' complicity in all the war and fascism perpetrated by the Republicans. We are all keeping our fingers crossed for Aimee Allison.
by jeromepeters
Face it, when you're standing by a candidate who has nothing but her reputation and promises to run on, the fact that she's a hypocrite makes a big difference. Now, I don't know where you get the idea that Oakland Democrats are the problem with the United States, but Aimee also cheers for the Democrats to take back Congress and is not eager at all to let people know she's a Green party candidate. So, if your plan is to put the Greens on the Council, why don't you run on it?

I didn't think so. Wasn't it only a year or so ago that the Alameda County Green Party Council got a non-white on it?
by Ben
Totally, completely false: "Aimee Allison says she's a progressive, but she ...
"drives an especially gas-guzzling SUV"
SHE DOESNT DRIVE IT, SHE DOESN'T OWN IT, AND IT GETS THE SAME MPG AS HER OPPONENTS TRUCK. HER HUSBAND WAS GIVEN THE CAR BY HIS SISTER AND THEY HAVE HAD IT FOR SALE FOR MONTHS

"sends her son to private school"
HE'S A SPECIAL NEEDS STUDENT WHO'S CONDITION COULD NOT BE MET BY OAKLAND SCHOOLS

"allows her campaign staff to steal her opponents' signs and literature,"
HA HA JUST BECAUSE THE WRITER WRITES THIS AND CITES HER OWN BLOG DOESN'T MAKE IT TRUE

and doesn't ask for Oakland Love from her volunteers
THIS ISNT AIMEES WEBPAGE OR CAMPAIGN - ITS SOME OTHER GROUP THAT WROTE THAT
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