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Yellow button on California voting machines permits multiple votes "Just push the yellow button and you can vote as many times as you want," Tom Courbat, an Election Integrity advocate from Riverside County, California informed The BRAD BLOG tonight. Not that we're in any mood to report more such stories, but this seems to be a big one. A very big one....
Posted: Thu, Nov 2, 2006 1:20pm PST
Republicans in Last-Minute Push to Elect Rob Black In danger of losing control of Congress, Republicans nationwide are warning that if Democrats win, “San Francisco values” will govern the country. But that hasn’t stopped them from getting involved in San Francisco politics – as part of Karl Rove’s infamous “72 Hour Strategy” to get out the Republican vote. The Republican Party has stepped into the District 6 Supervisors’ race, and has sent a mailing to Party members urging the defeat of Chris Daly – while promoting challengers Rob Black and ...
Posted: Thu, Nov 2, 2006 8:50am PST
Code Pink Action Alert: Code Pink is working hard to get out the peace vote - and is outraged about a quote in the Sacramento Bee by a Charlie Brown campaign representative that "Code Pink does not belong in the 4th District." Here's what you can do, courtesy of this action alert from Code Pink:...
Posted: Wed, Nov 1, 2006 8:45pm PST
Battle for Democracy in District 6 San Francisco District 6 Supervisor Chris Daly is being challenged for his seat on the board. Daly, a former housing rights activist was elected to the board of supervisors in 2000 and re-elected in 2002. He has been a champion for affordable housing in district 6. Rob Black, a former aide to Supervisor Michaela Alioto-Pier is running on a conservative platform, supporting tenancy in commons and home ownership. Daly has accused wealthy interests downtown of illegally funding campaign atta...
Posted: Wed, Nov 1, 2006 6:44pm PST
I. IMPEACHMENT CARNIVAL OF HORRORS - The Raging Grannies (video/quicktime 29.8MB) IMPEACH BUSH/CHENEY held an Impeachment Carnival of Horrors outside Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi's office in San Francisco on Oct. 31st and delivered petitions with 12,000+ names demanding that Pelosi take the lead in having the House of Representatives impeach George W. Bush. The Raging Grannies were there. Three-minute QT 7 movie. 30MB....
Posted: Wed, Nov 1, 2006 10:30am PST
Republicans on the Run: Education and Anti-War Rally Nov. 1 noon Bill Durston will speak at the education and anti-war rally at CSU Sacramento on Wednesday, Nov. 1, 12 noon....
Posted: Tue, Oct 31, 2006 11:04am PST
Berkeley Race Reveals Similar Tactics Used Against Daly In San Francisco and Berkeley, progressive incumbents are under siege by heavily-funded campaigns for being “soft on crime.” In San Francisco, Supervisor Chris Daly has been barraged with hit-pieces by the Police Officers Association and challenger Rob Black. In Berkeley, City Councilman Kriss Worthington is on the receiving end of the most expensive campaign in that city’s history. Like Black, Worthington’s challenger (George Beier) has blamed the incumbent for a high crime rate in the Distr...
Posted: Tue, Oct 31, 2006 7:22am PST
Nov 1: John Nichols Speaks on John Nichols discusses his new book, "The Genius of Impeachment: The Founders’ Cure for Royalism" - Wednesday, November 1st at 7 PM, New College Cultural Center 766 Valencia St., San Francisco. FREE!...
Posted: Mon, Oct 30, 2006 1:24pm PST
District 6 Supervisors Race Goes Down to Wire For the first time since San Francisco reinstated district elections in 2000, an incumbent supervisor is not assured of victory a week before Election Day. Since downtown businesses, BOMA, the Plumbers Union, the Police Officers Association, and other opponents of Supervisor Chris Daly have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on mailers attacking him, Daly’s negatives have been raised enough to put his once-certain re-election in doubt. In a district where only 13,000 residents cast ballot...
Posted: Mon, Oct 30, 2006 6:19am PST
Leave No District Behind: S.F. Progressives Should Run for Every Seat In the October 19th edition of Beyond Chron, I explained that Democrats will probably take back Congress this year because, unlike in the past, they have aggressively fielded candidates in almost every district. Initially criticized as foolish and a waste of resources, Howard Dean’s “Fifty State Strategy” has been such a success that, along with the national climate, Republicans now have to defend their seats in places like Idaho. In the final weeks before Election Day, San Francisco progress...
Posted: Fri, Oct 27, 2006 7:54am PDT
Secretary of State holds student mock elections Peace and Freedom favorite 3rd party of student voters...
Posted: Fri, Oct 27, 2006 5:53am PDT
Fresno Progressive Political Endorsement Grid 
This progressive political endorsement grid will appear in the November Community Alliance newspaper. It shows endorsements for state and local races from the following organizations:
Democratic Party
Peace and Freedom Party
Green Party
Planned Parenthood
Central Valley Progressive PAC
Fresno Teachers Association
SEIU-UHW
League of Women Voters
Central Labor Council...
Posted: Thu, Oct 26, 2006 2:22pm PDT
12 Days to Elect Aimee Allison This is a call to action to the progressive community
to come out and volunteer (or donate) to elect Aimee
Allison to City Council, District 2 in Oakland with
the same passion and vigor that we elected Ron Dellums
in June. Oakland's future stands in the balance.
Join me with the same passion that we stand together
for Oakland's youth, as this election will truly
determine the direction of our City and our youth....
Posted: Thu, Oct 26, 2006 1:25pm PDT
The Oakland-to-Berkeley, Bring It On, Parade of People for Impeachment... GRAND LAKE AREA
9:15 – gather by the Grand Lake Theater.
9:30 – March through Lakeshore shopping District.
10:00 – Leave Grand Lake Farmers’ Market. Grand to Broadway to clock tower at Piedmont & 41st.
PIEDMONT AVENUE AREA
11:00 a.m. – Leave clock tower at Piedmont and 41st to Pleasant Valley, to Broadway, to College, to Ashby.
ELMWOOD DISTRICT
12:30 p.m – Leave Elmwood. Ashby to Telegraph, to Bancroft, to Shattuck, to Berkeley BART.
BERKELEY
Approx 1:30 – arrive Berkeley BA...
Event Date: Sat, Oct 28, 2006 9:30am PDT
Posted: Thu, Oct 26, 2006 10:08am PDT
Chronicle Admits Lying About Daly’s Stance on Police Budget In the ninth paragraph of a ten graph story on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors support for police foot patrols, the October 25 San Francisco Chronicle noted that “the board voted unanimously to place $2.5 million requested by the mayor’s office for police overtime and other law enforcement funding on hold until supervisors consider authorizing the spending later in the year.” The paper also cited the budget analyst’s conclusion that the funding request was premature. But on September 2...
Posted: Thu, Oct 26, 2006 8:17am PDT
Why I left the Democratic Party 
Barbara Becnel who fought valiantly to save anti-gang advocate Stanley "Tookie" Williams from being executed explains here why she left the Democratic Party.
Today she is endorsing Green Party candidates including Peter Miguel Camejo who is running against Arnold Schwarzenegger who could have pardoned Williams but didn't.
Becnel wrote the Forward to Camejo's book, California Under Corporate Rule....
Posted: Tue, Oct 24, 2006 10:02pm PDT
California Propositions: Voters Beware Today voters need to beware when going to the polls to vote because much is at stake. Voters need to study the propositions and read their Official Voter Information Guide; and for those who will not, they need to vote no to spending their hard earn dollars and the future savings of our children. Voters should not be persuaded by expensive TV commercials because those commercials are more expensive than what we can realize....
Posted: Tue, Oct 24, 2006 8:50am PDT
The Oakland-to-Berkeley, Bring It On, Parade of People for Impeachment... 
...and the Restoration of our Rights. (OBBIOPPIROR) We're on the march from the Grand Lake area all the way into downtown Berkeley this Saturday, October 28 beginning at 9:30 a.m., protesting this administration, this war and the passage of the MCA 2006 and the wholsale gutting of the Bill of Rights. Please gather 9:15 a.m. by the Grand Lake Theater, or meet up with us on the parade route as it comes through your neighborhood. A fun time for all to show that discontent with this government...
Posted: Mon, Oct 23, 2006 8:25pm PDT
TONIGHT IN SF: Meet Pelosi's PRO-IMPEACHMENT Green Party challenger Had enough of Nancy Pelosi's opposition to impeachment? Come meet Ms. Pelosi's remarkable, pro-impeachment, pro-peace, progressive Green Party opponent, Krissy Keefer, at an event tonight (9pm to 11pm) in San Francisco's Western Addition....
Posted: Mon, Oct 23, 2006 3:59pm PDT
Deadline to Register to Vote is TODAY, Monday, October 23rd! Today is the LAST DAY to register for the upcoming election. You might not know how you're going to vote now, but you won't have the opportunity to take action if you don't register at all....
Posted: Mon, Oct 23, 2006 11:31am PDT
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