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Scott Peters Can’t Handle the Truth SAN DIEGO – In a bizarre, rambling screed, Scott Peters is still desperately trying to hide from his well-documented record on a number of issues, including his public support for cuts to Social Security and Medicare, his culpability in the ‘Enron-by-the Sea’ pension mess and his vote on the living wage. Saldaña spokesperson, Joe Kocurek, said t...
San Diego Politico - 3:30 p.m. - 6 clicks 
Progressive Newsweekly San Diego CityBeat Endorses Peters for Congress “Peters is smart, calm and savvy” and “represents the best chance of beating Bilbray” ~ San Diego CityBeat San Diego -- In t he first media endorsement in the race for the 52nd Congressional District, San Diego's leading progressive newsweekly, San Diego CityBeat, today endorsed Scott Peters over fellow ...
San Diego Politico - 3:08 p.m. - 6 clicks
Don't try Bigfoot hunting in California - it could result in your arrest and conviction, according to the California Department of Fish and Game (DFG). The DFG issued a statement in response to recent media reports about a Texas wildlife official proclaiming that bigfoot hunting is legal in the Longhorn State. "The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department says that in theory, it would be legal to...
DailyKos (California) - 10:24 a.m. - 10 clicks
Last week, I heard that Republican leaders in Congress, led by Budget Chairman Paul Ryan, are pushing a plan to give more huge tax breaks to Wall Street, CEOs and the richest 1% of Americans. And how do they plan to pay for these unfair giveaways? With budget cuts against workers, the unemployed, seniors and many more millions of families in the 99%, like me and my kids. I thought, ...
California Majority Report - 9:47 a.m. - 18 clicks
One does not expect to see personal, let alone partisan, attacks in a race for judge. And yet that is precisely what has happened in Yolo County. The chances of Clinton Parish defeating an incumbent with strong support from his own bench and much of the Yolo County Bar were slim to start, but his effort to inject energy and controversy into the race may be backfiring on him. The first fallout...
The People's Vanguard of Davis - 5:30 a.m. - 24 clicks
By Kathryn Phillips Sierra Club On Monday Governor Jerry Brown released the May Revision to his 2012-2013 state budget proposal. The revision, which reflects changes in revenue projections, notes that the expected budget shortfall for the year has climbed to $15.7 billion. Environmental programs or issues that are affected include the following: The State Department of Parks and Recrea...
California Progress Report - 1:03 a.m. - 11 clicks
By Jefferson McGee Last week, I heard that Republican leaders in Congress, led by Budget Chairman Paul Ryan, are pushing a plan to give more huge tax breaks to Wall Street, CEOs and the richest 1% of Americans. And how do they plan to pay for these unfair giveaways? With budget cuts against workers, the unemployed, seniors and many more millions of families in the 99%, like me a...
California Progress Report - 1:03 a.m. - 9 clicks
"GIVE THE HOUSE BACK!!! GIVE THE HOUSE BACK!!!" That was one of the slogans chanted by dozens of protesters gathered outside the Pasadena house of a Bank of America executive last week. The protesters were outraged over the alleged fraudulent foreclosure and sale of the home of a widowed mother and her five children. I attended the action, a joint effort by Los Angeles-based Occupy Fights...
DailyKos (California) - Tue 5:27 p.m. - 14 clicks
Filner Joins in Introduction of Mortgage Foreclosure Protection Legislation for Servicemembers and Their Families Washington, D.C. – Ranking Democratic Member Bob Filner (D-CA) joined top Democrats on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and the House Committee on Armed Services in introducing legislation that provides greater safeguards to protect servicemembers an...
San Diego Politico - Tue 4:52 p.m. - 12 clicks
Former San Diego Fire Chief Jeff Bowman Endorses Scott Peters for Congress Bowman, who led the City through the Cedar Fire in ‘03, says he’s
“eternally grateful” for Scott’s efforts to support the Fire Dept. San Diego, CA – In a video released by the campaign today, former City of San Diego Fire Chief Jeff Bowman lent his strong support to Scott Peters for Congress. I...
San Diego Politico - Tue 4:01 p.m. - 12 clicks
Women Occupy San Diego will host a family-friendly arts Celebration on the site of bitter clashes between San Diego police and Members of the Occupy Movement a few months ago ‘Occupy OUR Arts’ Family Celebration 10 am - 6 pm, Saturday, June 9 Civic Center Plaza, 3rd Avenue between ‘B’ and ‘C’ streets The one-day event will share another side of the Occupy movement, the Art of We The Peop...
San Diego Politico - Tue 4:01 p.m. - 11 clicks
The Independent Voters Project sounds noble: "a non-profit, non-partisan, non-political (501(c)4) organization dedicated to better informing voters about important public policy issues and to encouraging non-partisan voters to participate in the electoral process." It's founded by former California Democratic state legislator Steve Peace, who gushes that California's new top-two primary syst...
DailyKos (California) - Tue 8:44 a.m. - 14 clicks
San Diego City Council to Pass Resolution Recognizing USWW Janitors;
Janitors Begin Hunger Fast For Family Health Care San Diego, CA - On Tuesday, May 15, 2012, USWW Janitors will hold a press conference to announce the beginning of a 3-day hunger fast for health care most San Diego janitors are not provided with by their employers. Following the press conference, the San Diego...
San Diego Politico - Tue 7:52 a.m. - 10 clicks
The San Diego Mayoral Race after the latest Survey USA poll : DeMaio - 31% Filner - 21% Fletcher - 21% Dumanis -13% As rule, you should never put too much stock into auto response polls. The market for this type of stock is volatile and the futures are constantly shifting. The Fletcher campaign was wallowing in third place until he renounced his Republican Party membership a...
San Diego Politico - Tue 7:52 a.m. - 11 clicks
Jon Li, Former Candidate and Longtime Activist in Davis, Appears to Have "Fingerprints" on May 8 Attack Mailer - The Vanguard has learned of the probable involvement of Jon Li, at least in the planning of the Independent Expenditure campaign funded by three Sacramento-based unions, and consulted by James Burchill. Full details remain sketchy, as Jon Li did not respond to multiple attempt...
The People's Vanguard of Davis - Tue 6:05 a.m. - 22 clicks
By Art Pulaski, California Labor Foundation For every cut the state is asking seniors, those with disabilities, workers and low-income Californians to absorb in the May Revise, there’s a wasteful corporate tax break that’s draining much-needed revenue. The cuts proposed today aren’t borne of necessity; they’re the result of a failed system that protects tax giveaways for the wealthy and well...
California Progress Report - Tue 12:29 a.m. - 15 clicks
By Dan Aiello Nearly 50 high school students from communities throughout California came to Sacramento last week to lobby state legislators in support of two bills aimed at protecting students from extreme or unjust discipline policies. From Crescent City to San Ysidro, Half Moon Bay to Truckee, students gathered for a morning rally on the north steps of the Capitol before meeting with la...
California Progress Report - Tue 12:29 a.m. - 13 clicks
By Duane Campbell The proposed California budget for next year says that income will be $15.7 billion less than available revenue. The report is here: http://www.dof.ca.gov/documents/2012-13_May_Revision.pdf California does not have enough money to continue the funding of schools, universities, fire and safety, and social services. The Republican Party has consistently ref...
California Progress Report - Tue 12:29 a.m. - 14 clicks
From Yahoo News: President Obama today announced that he now supports same-sex marriage, reversing his longstanding opposition amid growing pressure from the Democratic base and even his own vice president. In an interview with ABC News’ Robin Roberts, the president described his thought process as an “evolution” that led him to this place, based [...]...
RENWL (Restore Equality Now~West Adams/Los Angeles South) - Mon 10:24 p.m. - 13 clicks
Meet ' Captain Motion ', Michael J. Kennedy, Super Patriot?: I guess Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio needs to dodge the ongoing investigations into his abuse of power, corruption, civil rights abuses and racism. Joe called over to Riverside County, California today to endorse a candidate for Superior Court judge who as 'CaptainMotion' on FaceBook complains about the Black Panthers obst...
DailyKos (California) - Mon 9:47 p.m. - 13 clicks
Although I've followed politics since I turned 18, I don't believe I made my first political contribution until 2008. I'd moved to Ft Collins for school and my "representative" at the time was Marilyn Musgrave, whom I've sure many of you are familiar with. As a starving student, I didn't have a lot of cash, but I was able to kick in a few bucks for Betsy Markey (who went on to serve one term in ...
DailyKos (California) - Mon 7:07 p.m. - 22 clicks
This bizarre story out of California shows that voter registration fraud can occur, but as usual, it's not the individual voter committing it. The owner and an employee of a company accused of fraudulent voter registration drives in Sacramento County have been convicted of crimes of deception in the past. The owner of Momentum Political Services, Monica Harris, has an extensive criminal ...
DailyKos (California) - Mon 5:43 p.m. - 17 clicks
Across the nation, Republicans have been working hard to crack down on illusionary voter fraud, passing laws that make it more difficult for citizens, particularly minorities, to register and vote. Which makes this Sacramento Bee investigative piece http://www.sacbee.com/2012/05/13/4486043/public-eye-bounty-h about a Republican voter registration program in Sacramento County t...
California Majority Report - Mon 5:03 p.m. - 22 clicks
Previously on Darth Jeff's Guide to the California Assembly Races... For those just joining, welcome! This is a guide to the 2012 elections in California's 41st-80th (out of 80) Assembly seats. For the first forty, as well as a big picture look at these races and the new top-two election system California has adopted, please read the first part (titled, "I Left My Assembly Seat i...
DailyKos (California) - Mon 1:48 p.m. - 14 clicks
More than 230,000 people stopped being eligible for unemployment insurance benefits over the weekend—not because they got jobs, but because the emergency extended benefits program providing their benefits was cut as part of the payroll tax deal earlier this year. The number of weeks of benefits available in states drop as unemployment drops, which hit California, Colorado, Connecticut, Flo...
DailyKos (California) - Mon 1:26 p.m. - 17 clicks
Governor Brown slashes schools and social services, but California will not end corporate tax avoidance. The May Revise. The proposed California budget for next year says that income will be $15.7 billion less than available revenue. The report is here. http://www.dof.ca.gov/... California does not have enough money to continue the funding o...
DailyKos (California) - Mon 12:32 p.m. - 13 clicks
Hello. We just wanted to remind you that the next meeting of Eating Liberally Pasadena will be happening tomorrow night, May 15. We will be meeting at 7:30PM at: Firefly Bistro 1009 El Centro Street South Pasadena, California 91030 Thank you. Derek and Sherri ...
DailyKos (California) - Mon 11:02 a.m. - 12 clicks
State Senator Juan Vargas (D-San Diego) today called on the California Department of Insurance to take action on a state program that allows consumer groups to intervene in insurance rate cases and announced his intention to ask for a hearing on the program. According to the Department of Insurance, just one group has dominated the Insurance Department’s “intervenor” program s...
California Majority Report - Mon 11:02 a.m. - 60 clicks
By Marty Omoto, California Disability Community Action Network California’s budget deficit has swelled to a staggering $16 billion from the $9 billion it was projected in January, according to Governor Jerry Brown today, warning that the growing budget hole will mean that “…we will have to go much further and make cuts far greater than I asked at the beginning of the year.” The Democrat...
California Progress Report - Mon 9:45 a.m. - 17 clicks
By David Dayen, Firedoglake Over the weekend, California Governor Jerry Brown announced that the budget deficit for the next fiscal year has nearly doubled , from $9.2 billion to $16 billion. This almost assuredly means a commensurate increase in cuts to the state budget. In the last fiscal year, Brown staved off a series of budget cuts by playing a game of “ta-da.” He assumed a fiscal bu...
California Progress Report - Mon 9:45 a.m. - 13 clicks
While a poacher was fined over $20,000 and sentenced to a week in jail for poaching 47 lobsters inside a “marine protected area,” the state and federal governments are allowed to kill tens of millions of fish every year with impunity in order to export massive amounts of Delta water to wealthy corporate agribusiness interests on the west side of the San Joaquin Valley and southern California wa...
DailyKos (California) - Mon 8:27 a.m. - 14 clicks
By Peter Schrag You don’t have to look far to understand why California, like many other states, wants a waiver from key provisions of NCLB, the ten-year-old federal No Child Left Behind law. If we don’t get it, it may start to cost us. But what California wants is unique. We want not only a waiver but also a waiver from the conditions U.S Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has imposed for...
California Progress Report - Mon 12:12 a.m. - 14 clicks
When I was born in 1956, whooping cough, or pertussis was a serious childhood illness that still killed kids. A bacterial disorder it often isn't diagnosed until antibiotics are much less ineffective. I had whooping cough as a child so I know how awful it can be. I already had been diagnosed with asthma, and I spent weeks struggling to breathe. My coughing was extremely painf...
DailyKos (California) - Sun 10:07 a.m. - 14 clicks
Would be Death Knell of Salmon, Billions in Water Rate Hikes SACRAMENTO, May 11 - A panel of experts today identified a range of negative impacts from the proposed Bay-Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP), which envisions constructing a Peripheral Canal or Tunnel. “Restore the Delta is opposed to the BDCP and the peripheral canal because it is too expensive, it proposes to ship millions of acre-fe...
DailyKos (California) - Sun 12:23 a.m. - 14 clicks
I'm on voters' newly printed California ballots in for the US Senate race -- along with 23 other names, right between Gail Lightfoot and birther Orly Taitz. I've been standing up for progressive policies few Democrats dare address in this election: End Afghanistan, End Prohibition, Medicare for All, and Van Jones' Contract for the American Dream. It's all there at Levitt2012.org . ...
DailyKos (California) - Sat 9:29 p.m. - 14 clicks
Next week we will be turning in the signatures for our ballot petition to force health insurance companies to justify their rates and get permission before instituting their rate hikes. Download , sign and return in the mail by the end of the weekend to be part of the signature turn-in or forever hold your peace. This short video preview of the initiative by our friends in Hollywood exp...
DailyKos (California) - Sat 7:22 p.m. - 11 clicks
SACRAMENTO – In this Democratic weekly radio address, Speaker John A. Pérez (D-Los Angeles) praises President Barack Obama for announcing his support for marriage equality. Speaker Pérez, the first openly gay person to be elected to the position of Assembly Speaker in the country, said Obama’s remarks were a historic milestone for the LGBT community and for equality in the United States. Preside...
California Progress Report - Sat 12:53 p.m. - 14 clicks
My fellow OccupyLA protestor and 99%'r extra-ordinaire - Pete Thottham - continues his dedicated efforts to make a change. Pete Thottham quit his elected position due to the realization of the tyranny, cronyism and corruption within our systems of government. He created and maintains a sub part of the OccupyLA movement entitled the self explanatory " Occupy The R...
DailyKos (California) - Sat 12:52 p.m. - 15 clicks
On May Day - also known as International Workers Day - the Campaign for a Healthy California , Occupy LA and Occupy LA Wellness held a rally in support of universal health care. The rally at Mariachi Plaza in East Los Angeles attracted several hundred people, and was part of various May Day actions held around the city. The event featured speakers and musical entertainment. A highlight ...
DailyKos (California) - Fri 5:22 p.m. - 11 clicks
In an extraordinary move, the California Public Utilities Commission's legal counsel has issued an apology to Senator Alex Padilla (D-Los Angeles) for the fiscal analysis that the commission had submitted for Senate Bill 1161, legislation that would prevent the agency from regulating the Internet without legislative action. At Thursday's PUC meeting in Fresno, PUC Legal Counsel Frank Lindh tol...
California Majority Report - Fri 5:22 p.m. - 88 clicks
San Diego Letter Carriers Food Drive Celebrates 20th Anniversary Nation’s Largest Single-Day Food Drive Helps Stamp Out Hunger WHAT: On Saturday, May 12, 2012, San Diego and Imperial Counties Labor Council will again join forces with San Diego letter carriers and others to Stamp Out Hunger across Ame...
San Diego Politico - Fri 2:44 p.m. - 13 clicks
Co-Moderators: Joanne Faryon, KPBS Evening Edition Host, and Elsa Sevilla, KPBS San Diego's Historic Places - Producer & Host Latino Issues Mayoral Forum Thursday, May 31, 2012 Shiley Theater University of San Diego 6:30-7:30 p.m. The City of San Diego is preparing to elect its next mayor. Please join the candidates in a discussion that affects our growing ...
San Diego Politico - Fri 11:09 a.m. - 13 clicks
In this week of conversation about matters gay, it feels as if I ought to comment on the Washington Post story of young Mitt's prep school "pranks." BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich. — Mitt Romney returned from a three-week spring break in 1965 to resume his studies as a high school senior at the prestigious Cranbrook School. Back on the handsome campus, studded with Tudor brick buildings and manic...
Happening-Here - Fri 11:09 a.m. - 18 clicks
To esolorio@energy.ca.gov, jennifer.jennings@energy.ca.gov I would like to ask the CEC two major questions in regards to possible bribery by the applicant. First I suspect that this whole CEC appication might be a bribe to make work for the CEC,, as the CPUC is need to determine "NEED" before the project is supposed to go to CEC. Therefore this order of the appication is not correct and ...
San Diego Politico - Fri 10:25 a.m. - 14 clicks
Members of the Coastside Fishing Club and California Department of Fish and Game (DFG) officials on Thursday morning teamed up to transfer 60,000 baby Chinook salmon (smolts) from tanker trucks to specially-built net pens floating in Pillar Point Harbor in Half Moon Bay. The hatchery-raised Central Valley salmon – normally released into San Pablo Bay at this time of year – were released into t...
DailyKos (California) - Fri 8:43 a.m. - 16 clicks
By Brian Heller de Leon Center on Juvenile & Criminal Justice The High Desert Daily Press featured a three-part story last week exploring how San Bernardino County prosecutes, supervises, and rehabilitates their juvenile offenders. Daily Press reporter Beatriz E. Valenzuela looked at patterns of juvenile crime and arrest reductions , the unbridled powers of local district attorneys to ...
California Progress Report - Fri 12:44 a.m. - 14 clicks
As the California State University OK’d 10% raises for incoming campus Presidents , the University of California announced that it is pondering a 6% fee increase . If I were a conspiracy theorist, I’d wonder why all of these sorts of things—the decisions on administrative pay, Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau’s call to break up UC, the fee increases occur near the end ...
California Mwananchi - Thu 11:08 p.m. - 2 clicks
United Air Lines has a counter in the cargo facility just for these very special arrivals. These baggage handlers produced the traveler's crate. Finally we got a glimpse of the new member of our household, still locked in his jail. Morty's people had decided, reluctantly, that he needed a new home with friends on the other side of the country. After a long flight, a fellow has...
Happening-Here - Thu 11:08 p.m. - 15 clicks
SDLRLA Mayoral Forum SDLRLA is proud to host the only mayoral candidates forum dedicated to Latino issues. SDLRLA, together with its partnering organizations, will ask the candidates about their views on immigration, education, labor, criminal justice, and other issues that uniquely affect San Diego’s Latino community, in a town hall style format. Award winning journalist J...
San Diego Politico - Thu 7:09 p.m. - 14 clicks
DAVE ROBERTS OUTLINES PLAN TO BOOST ECONOMY AND CREATE JOBS Calls on More Assistance for Start-up Businesses SAN DIEGO - We need more corporate headquarters and more start-up businesses to help boost the San Diego region's economy and create new jobs. I'm calling for a two-pronged approach to business development; a review of the county's regulatory process specifically as...
San Diego Politico - Thu 7:09 p.m. - 13 clicks
SACRAMENTO - The California Alliance for Jobs today praised votes by the Los Angeles City Council and the Fresno Board ofSupervisors this week strongly supporting California's high-speed rail project. "The High Speed Rail Authority listened to concerns, made critical changes in the new business plan, and the result is a better, faster, and less expensive project that clearly has reg...
California Majority Report - Thu 3:05 p.m. - 18 clicks
You might think that only in spy novels does the villian negotiate to your face while having his henchman sneak up on you and stab you in the back. But you would be wrong. This is what banks are still allowed to do in California: negotiate with you about loan modification terms, all the while pursuing foreclosure proceedings and often serving foreclosure papers while "negotiations" are still in ...
DailyKos (California) - Thu 12:07 p.m. - 14 clicks
The Golden State could lose its lead as the world's technology leader if the state's Public Utilities Commission (PUC) tries to extend its turf and make California the first to regulate the internet, the leaders of the technology industry's top two trade groups, TechNet and TechAmerica write in an op-ed that appears in today's Sacramento Bee. The blast comes as the PUC decides today at a meetin...
California Majority Report - Thu 11:32 a.m. - 52 clicks
The Sacramento Bee Letter to the Editor: On Friday, May 4, 2012, the Sacramento Bee published an editorial by former Assembly Member Fred Keeley regarding net energy metering. This article incorrectly referenced my bill, AB 2514, which is a net energy metering study bill. Mr. Keeley said that the bill changes the current net metering cap. AB 2514 does nothing ...
California Majority Report - Thu 10:42 a.m. - 13 clicks
Peters speaks out of both side of his mouth regarding cuts to Social Security, Medicare “How can you trust someone like that to protect what’s important?” SAN DIEGO – After being soundly criticized for his televised statement supporting cuts to Social Security and Medicare, Congressional candidate Scott Peters is attempting elaborate verbal gymnastics to wrigg...
San Diego Politico - Thu 7:23 a.m. - 12 clicks
Saldaña applauds President Obama’s Stand on Marriage Equality Vows to repeal DOMA SAN DIEGO – Lori Saldaña, who co-authored California’s landmark Marriage Equality legislation, thanked President Obama for being the first American President to support marriage rights for LGBT Americans. “Despite the setbacks for the LGBT community over the last few days, I believe this i...
San Diego Politico - Thu 7:23 a.m. - 12 clicks
A e-mail I sent to UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau on the subject of his recent co-authored paper, "Modernizing Governance at the University of California" ----- Dear Chancellor Birgeneau, Congratulations. On your impending retirement as Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley at the end of the year. On the publication of the paper “Modernizin...
California Mwananchi - Thu 1:13 a.m. - 16 clicks
Hello. The next meeting of Eating Liberally Pasadena will be on Tuesday, May 15, 2012. We will be meeting at 7:30PM at: Firefly Bistro 1009 El Centro Street South Pasadena, California 91030 The Mission Station Metro stop is only one block away from the restaurant and the car parking lot is behind the restaurant with the entrance to the left of Firefly Bistro on El Centro Street. It ...
DailyKos (California) - Wed 8:26 p.m. - 11 clicks
