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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
Haunted by the Past: MAUREEN DOWD - Electing a Novice;The Taxi Driver: THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN+ - Dowd: Electing a Novice - Those who declaim on the need for Senator Barack Obama to have more experience must forget who’s running the country. THE COMPLETE ARTICLE
- GOP Rep Sweeney's Wife Told Police He Was "Knocking Her Around" And More...
Posted: Wed, Nov 1, 2006 8:44am PST
Election campaign reveals Democrats’ lurch to the right With the US midterm elections just a week away, Democratic Party leaders and candidates are waging the most right-wing campaign in the party’s history. The essential content of this campaign is a pledge to continue the Bush administration’s policies of militarism abroad and social reaction at home....
Posted: Wed, Nov 1, 2006 6:39am 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
Holland: All elections manipulated - except one In Holland people can 'vote' in the 22 November election. Or now play chess with the 1187 hacked and easily manipulated electronic voting computers. It's scary to see what the creatures in power do to screw the people. Taking away everybody's vote and voice too....
Posted: Tue, Oct 31, 2006 8:03am PST
Green Party Senatorial Candidate in Penn. Defends Receiving GOP Funding We speak with Green Party senatorial candidate Carl Romanelli about his failed attempt to get his name on the ballot in Pennsylvania. The state's restrictive ballot access laws required Romanelli to get over 67,000 signatures on his nominating petition compared to just 2,000 for the major party candidates. We also ask about the funding Romanelli received in his ballot drive, which came from an unlikely source - prominent Republicans....
Posted: Tue, Oct 31, 2006 7:30am PST
Will a Shocking New GOP Court Victory and Rove's Attack on Ohio in 2006 Doom the Democrats On Sunday in Ohio, a judge put on hold a decision that suspended the state's new voter identification law. We speak with political science professor Bob Fitrakis and independent journalist Harvey Wasserman who say this law imposes a series of draconian requirements for voter ID that are more difficult to fulfill by the poor, homeless and elderly - all constituents who tend to vote Democratic....
Posted: Tue, Oct 31, 2006 7:29am PST
Vote Suppression in 2006: Rule Changes Threaten to Disenfranchise Hundreds of Thousands of Voters Experts say new computerized voter lists and new rules regarding voter registration and ID requirements have the potential to disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of voters. We speak with the Brennan Center for Justice that has a new report detailing the ways in which the vote could be suppressed in several states next week....
Posted: Tue, Oct 31, 2006 7:28am PST
Hacking Democracy: New Documentary Exposes Vulnerability of Electronic Voting Machines The mid-term elections are one week away - will your vote be counted? A new HBO documentary exposes the vulnerability of electronic voting machines. The film follows investigative journalist Bev Harris as she investigates the security and accuracy of electronic voting systems. Harris joins in our firehouse studio....
Posted: Tue, Oct 31, 2006 7:27am PST
Mass abstention in Bulgaria’s presidential election Low voter turnouts have characterised the two rounds of Bulgaria’s presidential elections held in October. A low turnout held in mid-October meant no candidate received enough votes to win outright in the first round. In a second runoff ballot held on October 29, the incumbent Georgi Parvanov, supported by the Bulgarian Socialist Party, emerged victor against his main rival, the leader of the far-right Ataka (Attack), Volen Siderov....
Posted: Tue, Oct 31, 2006 7:25am 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
The Immoral Majority: JOHN TIERNEY - The Sinner Bloc ; Money trails lead to Bush judges + Tierney: The Sinner Bloc - Republicans are hoping that righteous voters will come through for them on Election Day. But this year looks like the revenge of the sinners.
THE COMPLETE ARTICLE AND MORE...
Posted: Tue, Oct 31, 2006 7:01am PST
Stealing America: Vote By Vote (San Jose) Temekula Gallery above the Pagesincolor.com Fair Trade store at 888 E Santa Clara St, San Jose, Ca @ 19th st (There is a big Tax preparation service sign above the Pagesincolor sign)...
Event Date: Fri, Nov 3, 2006 7:00pm PST
Posted: Mon, Oct 30, 2006 6:49pm PST
Robert Scheer: "Playing President" - Lecture and book-signing First Presbyterian Church
1140 Cowper Street, Palo Alto
(Wheelchair accessible)...
Event Date: Fri, Dec 1, 2006 7:30pm PST
Posted: Mon, Oct 30, 2006 5:42pm 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
Is this the dirtiest election ever? Republicans fear landslide defeat Republican candidates across the United States are taking the dubious art of negative advertising and character assassination to unprecedented levels of toxicity as polls indicate possible landslide gains for the Democrats on 7 November in crucial mid-term congressional elections....
Posted: Mon, Oct 30, 2006 6:14am PST
Demand Congress Impeach U.S. President George W. Bush. Demand your Representatives in Congress to Vote for the Impeachment and Prosecution of U.S. President George W. Bush. for Criminal Obstruction of Justice, Criminal Fraud, Murder!...
Posted: Sun, Oct 29, 2006 11:09pm PST
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