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By the way, if you're looking for an inexpensive way to get on the Internet, visit our hosts, the Los Angeles Free-Net, a volunteer non-profit organization.)
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VOLUNTEER at our Campaign Headquarters at 730 E. Carson Street, just across from the Carson City Hall!
or at the
Democratic Action Center, 2221 Rosecrans Blvd., Suite 229 in El Segundo, phone (310) 536-0093
or visit the Campaign Websites of
and do what you can to help!
or Visit the our other endorsed candidates and Propositions websites below.
Besides our own Club headquarters, you can also volunteer at the
Democratic Action Center
The South Bay's first ever permanent Democratic Headquarters!
Get involved in Statewide and local Democratic campaigns and get information on other local Democratic Clubs.
2221 Rosecrans Blvd., Suite 229
El Segundo, CA 90245
phone: (310) 536-0093
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Setting the record straight on John Kerry's joke...
Watch the documentary "HACKING DEMOCRACY"
on HBO Cable TV this weekend,
about the fight to expose the ease of manipulating Electronic Voting Machines.
It is airing at 9:00 AM and 12:00 Noon on Saturday,
6:00 AM and 9:00 AM on Sunday,
& en español at 2:10 AM on Monday morning (Sunday night)
on various HBO channels. Visit your friends if you don't have HBO!
It will be available on "HBO On Demand" starting Monday, election eve.
Better yet, record "HACKING DEMOCRACY" and watch it after helping to get out the vote!
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Statewide Offices: (click on the candidates' names to visit their websites!) |
Governor: |
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PHIL ANGELIDES |
Lieutenant Governor: |
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JOHN GARAMENDI |
Secretary of State: |
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DEBRA BOWEN |
Controller: |
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JOHN CHIANG |
Treasurer: |
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BILL LOCKYER |
Attorney General: |
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JERRY BROWN |
Insurance Commissioner: |
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CRUZ M. BUSTAMANTE |
Board of Equalization, District 4: |
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JUDY CHU |
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United States Senator: |
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DIANNE FEINSTEIN |
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United States Representative: |
35th District: |
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MAXINE WATERS |
36th Distrtict: |
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JANE HARMAN |
37th District: |
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JUANITA MILLENDER-MCDONALD |
46th District: |
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JIM BRANDT |
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State Senator: |
28th District: |
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JENNY OROPEZA |
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Member of the State Assembly: |
51st District: |
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CURREN D. PRICE |
52nd District: |
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MERVYN M. DYMALLY |
53rd District: |
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TED W. LIEU |
54th District: |
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BETTY KARNETTE |
55th District: |
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LAURA RICHARDSON |
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Judge of the Superior Court: |
Office No. 8: |
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DEBORAH L. SANCHEZ |
Office No. 18: |
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JOHN C. GUTIERREZ |
Office No. 102: |
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GEORGE C. MONTGOMERY |
Office No. 144: |
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JANIS LEVART BARQUIST |
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Water Replenishment District of Southern California: |
Member, Board of Directors, Division 1: |
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WILLARD H. MURRAY, JR. |
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West Basin Municipal Water District: |
Member, Board of Directors, Division 1: |
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RONALD C. (RON) SMITH |
Member, Board of Directors, Division 2: |
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GLORIA GRAY |
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Statewide Measures: |
Prop. 1A - Transportation Funding |
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YES |
Prop. 1B - Highway Safety, Port Security |
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YES |
Prop. 1C - Housing & Emergency Shelter |
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YES |
Prop. 1D - Kindergarten-University Facilities |
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YES |
Prop. 1E - Disaster, Flood Prevention |
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YES |
Prop. 83 - Sexual Predators (Jessica's Law) |
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YES |
Prop. 84 - Water Quality, Flood Control |
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YES |
Prop. 85 - Waiting Period & Parental Notification Constitutional Amendment |
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NO |
Prop. 86 - Tax on Cigarettes Constitutional Amendment |
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YES |
Prop. 87 - Alternative Energy, Tax on Oil Producers Constitutional Amendment |
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YES |
Prop. 88 - Education Funding, Property Tax Constitutional Amendment |
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NO |
Prop. 89 - Campaign Public Financing, 0.2% Corporate Tax Increase, Campaign Contribution Limits |
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YES |
Prop. 90 - Government Acquisition, Regulation of Private Property Constitutional Amendment |
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NO |
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Los Angeles City Measures: |
Prop. H |
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YES |
Prop. R |
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NO |
VOTE NOVEMBER 7th!
or Vote by Mail NOW!
Register to Vote by October 23rd!
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... Well, it's too late now! ...
If you are properly registered to vote, you should have received your 192-page Official Voter Information Guide, describing the Propositions and the candidates for Statewide office, from the Secretary of State's office and you should have received your OFFICIAL SAMPLE BALLOT. If you have altered your voter registration in the last several months because perhaps you moved or changed your Party affiliations, however, or if you are a new citizen who recently registered to vote, you may NO LONGER be registered to vote!
Our Republican Secretary of State took it upon himself to create a voter registration database, in a deal with the Bush administration's Department of Justice, to compare new voter registrants' registration information with their driver's license and Social Security data. If you've left out, say, your middle initial in either signature or forgot to dot your 'i's, or if you're a woman who got married or divorced and changed your surname, then your new registration may have been thrown out! Tens of thousands of voters have been taken off the voter registration rolls.
A judge has ruled that a similar method of disenfranchising voters in the State of Washington was unconstitutional, so our Republican Secretary of State has had to stop using his voter registration database to throw voters off the rolls. But if you don't receive your Voter Information Guide or your Sample Ballot in the mail soon, then call the L.A. County Registrar-Recorder's office at 1 (562) 466-1323 and ask if you are still registered to vote!
Vote for Debra Bowen for Secretary of State, by the way, and support her campaign!
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CLICK TO ENLARGE
Senator Betty Karnette with GVDC Vice President Don Dear at our July 2006 general meeting. Betty stopped by unexpectedly to thank us for our endorsement in her campaign for the 54th State Assembly District and to let us know what's going on in the State Legislature. (Photo by Richard Schwartz)
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ELECTION & VOTER REGISTRATION INFORMATION:
LOS ANGELES COUNTY REGISTRAR-RECORDER
LA Vote.net
1 (562) 466-1323
CALIFORNIA SECRETARY OF STATE
Elections and Voter Information
The Republicans are targeting Phil Angelides, Debra Bowen and Jerry Brown in their races for Statewide office. So, if you can, please visit their websites (click on their names) and do what you can to contribute to their campaigns. Every little bit helps!
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JUST TO SET THE RECORD STRAIGHT...
Here is John Kerry's joke about George W. Bush:
I can't over-stress the importance of a great education.
Do you know where you end up if you don't study?
If you aren't smart?
If you're intellectually lazy?
You end up getting us stuck in a war in Iraq.
(When reading the joke, which was in the middle of a string of jokes to warm up the audience, Senator Kerry lost his place and left out the "us." As a result, President Bush and his Press Secretary Tony Snow have been attacking Senator Kerry for the past few days for "disparaging our troops." Maybe George Bush and Tony Snow should spend more of their time attacking Osama bin Laden and the other people who planned 9/11! Never heard them attacking Jay Leno, who flubs a joke nearly every night.)
Here is John Kerry's original response to the White House accusations after Senator Kerry flubbed the joke:
"If anyone thinks that a veteran, someone like me who's been fighting my entire career to provide for veterans, to fight for their benefits, to help honor what their service is; if anybody thinks that a veteran would somehow criticize more than a hundred and forty thousand troops serving in Iraq, and NOT the President, and his people who put them there, they're crazy! It's just wrong. This is a classic GOP, textbook, Republican campaign tactic."
(Thanks to Randi Rhodes of "Air America Radio" for the quotes.)
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