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Crashing the Party
Congressional Candidate Carol Brouillet describes the challenges she and other 9-11 Truth, Impeachment, Peace candidates experience trying to get their message out to the public....
Posted: Fri, Nov 3, 2006 9:54am PST
Webb, Tester and Angelides: The Best and Worst Campaigns of 2006
Thanks to dailykos.com, mydd.com, and youtube.com, political junkies can now closely assess the campaign strategies of key state and national races. When Virginia Senator George Allen uses a racial slur, or his staff assaults a Webb campaign volunteer, the event can be seen on the Internet within hours. These and other sites also enable us to get activists’ up to the minute campaign reports, rather than having news about breaking campaign events filtered and distorted by the media. Based on m...
Posted: Fri, Nov 3, 2006 7:00am PST
Berkeley Against ELECTION LIES from Chamber of Commerce (save Kriss and Dona...) PHOTOS
Outrageous election lies funded by Berkeley's Chamber of Commerce were protested Wednesday, November 2, 2006 in front of old City Hall in Berkeley, CA at Noon.
The Chamber has put forth numerous well-funded hit pieces for developer-friendly candidates, in an effort to unseat two of the nation's most progressive city council candidates. The agenda of the Chamber, based on what this reporter has learned, appears to be at the very least: evictions for development; police abuses for cultura...
Posted: Thu, Nov 2, 2006 6:36pm PST
II. IMPEACHMENT CARNIVAL OF HORRORS - Krissy Keefer, Carol Wolman & Peter Phillips (video/quicktime 35.2MB)
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.
Krissy Keefer is the Green Party's nominee against Pelosi; Carol Wolman is running for the House in District One as a nonpartisan write-in candidate; and, Peter Phillips leads Project Censored at Sonoma State University....
Posted: Thu, Nov 2, 2006 4:44pm PST
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