CA-Gov: Two Wednesday Phil Events in LA & SF

(Come on down and see Phil in Action! – promoted by SFBrianCL)

There are going to be two events on Wednesday 8/16 for Phil Angelides, one in LA, the other in SF. 

They will both address issues important to California families.  As Conan pointed out on GovernorPhil, the campaign has announced that Phil will be releasing a major economic plan. The LA event will be in Hollywood from 9:30-11.  The SF event will be in the Bayview from 1:30-3. I’ll be there, come say hi if you have a chance.  I’ll likely be wearing my Giants hat with a camera and recorder dangling around me (or check my bio for a picture).  Full details in the extended.

Conan noted at GovernorPhil that Senator Feinstein will be in attendance as well (at the SF one ??). I hadn’t heard that before, but that would certainly add to the excitement of the event.

First the morning event in L.A.:

Please join


GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE


PHIL ANGELIDES


as he brings his fight for
California families to Los Angeles


Wednesday, August 16
9:30am – 11:00am


Boys & Girls Club of Hollywood
850 N. Cahuenga Blvd.
Hollywood, CA 90038


Please RSVP here
or call 916-448-1998, ext 170 or email [email protected]

And in the afternoon, he’ll be in S.F.:

 

Please Join


Gubernatorial Candidate
PHIL ANGELIDES


As he brings his fight for
California Families
to San Francisco


Wednesday, August 16
1:30 – 3:00 pm


Jeremiah’s Pick Coffee Co.
1495 Evans Ave. (East of New Hall St.)
San Francisco, CA 94124

Please RSVP here


Or contact Matt Kaczmarek at
916-448-1998 ext. 142 or
[email protected]

Pearls for Phil Angelides!

(An innovative fundraising idea! Thanks edrie! – promoted by SFBrianCL)

Hello, all!  this is day two of the “pearls for phil” fundraiser that i first offered on dailykos on friday and have posted the offer again today!

i am offering (personally, cuz i have no cash but i DO have pearls!) a strand of pearls to the person making the highest donation to the phil angelides campaign between now and friday, aug 17!  i am ALSO offering a second strand to be given to a second “winner” (taken from random drawing to include all those who donate ANY amount to the campaign during the same period!  all you have to do to be a part of this fun – raiser is to email me confirmation of your donation (as little as $5.01 will get you in!) and on Sunday (i work all day sat), i’ll pull the highest donor and then draw the second winner! 

here’s what they look like——————>

why am i doing this?  please check beneath the fold and i’ll explain it all!

after reading neutron’s diary about the co chair of dianne feinstein’s campaign endorsing schwarznegger, i was livid!  i am tired of “big money” buying elections! i want to see elections return to the hands of the voters – for OUR votes far outnumber the ONE vote of the angela bradstreets of the world – the problem, however, is that our “money” doesn’t buy the same benefit!

so, since i have little “cash” – it hit me! i have pearls!  i string them, i wholesale them, i HAVE them!  by making this offer, i am hoping that i can “donate” much more than my meager “cash” donation – i am hoping to be able, through you all, to raise much more money than i could ever personally donate and, at the same time, give something in thanks to those who make it possible for ME to “donate”!

so, make a donation and you, too, could have a strand of beautiful pearls worth an appraised value of $500 or higher!  as i said on kos, i’ll even throw in that really nifty leather box to keep your new pearls safe and beautiful!  after you donate, send me an email with the confirmation (thank you) note from the campaign (or copied check – minus personal stuff) and you’re in the running!  my email is takebackcongress2006 at gmail dot com.  [privacy disclousure: NOTHING will be done with your email other than confirming and thanking you personally!  i promise!  won’t forward, won’t disclose, won’t tell!]

good luck and please help california terminate the terminator by supporting phil angelides for governor!  oh, we DO have donations in, btw!  thank you to the wonderful folk who have sent money!

i’ll post a new diary every day until the end of the “contest”.

thanks, again!  from me, from california and from ALL of us who want to take back america!

CA EPA: Global Warming is Real, Imminent

With much apologies to global warming “agnostic” Dan Walters, the debate on global warming is over.  The overwhelming scientific consensus concludes, to varying degrees of seriousness, that global warming is an issue that must be dealt with in the very near future.  On Friday, California’s environmental protection agency published a report summarizing their research:

Increasing temperatures will transform California, threatening some of its most valuable resources in coming decades.  That’s the primary message of a new state publication that summarizes 17 scientific studies examining how global warming is expected to play out in California.

“The potential impacts of global warming are unmistakable, adding more days of deadly heat, more intense and frequent wildfires, shorter supplies of drinking water and serious public-health risks,” Linda Adams, the state’s secretary for environmental protection, said yesterday during a news conference at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla.
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“Climate change is an issue we all need to be educated about,” said Mike Chrisman, California’s secretary for resources. “We’ve got to do a better job of educating. It’s a long-term effort, (and) we’ve got to get people talking about it.”

Dan Cayan, a climate scientist at Scripps, said the general public is beginning to recognize the specter of rising temperatures. … “I think people have, in a sense, a mental scoreboard, and they’re seeing these factors accumulate,” Cayan said. “I really believe that this is becoming an issue that is starting to get taken more seriously.” (San Diego Union-Trib 8/12/06)

But don’t worry Dan, perhaps your home in Sacramento will have a better view of the water. After all much of Sacramento will be flooded by higher sea levels, so you’ll get the view of water  just by looking down at your floor.

More on the flip…

Seriously though, the danger of global warming appears to be getting a greater level of attention.  However that has yet to translate into any action on the Bush administration’s part.  However, in the state of California, we have a piece of proposed legislation to do something about all of those greenhouse emissions.  AB 32 would limit the amount of emissions, and eventually begin to turn back the clock on our emissions levels.  It’s far from sufficient, but it’s a legitimate first action.

However, Schwarzenegger wants to gut the bill.  He wants to have the legislation governed by his own appointed committe,rather than the Air Resources Board.  Further, he wants to create a bypass for the legislation if his political appointees determine that the “economics” don’t permit the emissions reductions.

It’s a short-sighted move by Arnold, just as the Bush administration has been short-sighted in their commitment to fight global warming.

The Modern Campaign

cross-posted from my local blog Turn Tahoe Blue

Many people, especially in the media, think that modern campaigns means modern technology. And nothing more. I believe that is not the case and there are two campaigns in the Tahoe area that prove my point.

In Nevada Jack Carter sure uses modern technology, he uses the internet extensively, especially through the blogging activities of his daughter Sarah. This way the campaign got a lot of attention on the big blogs like Daily Kos and MyDD. She also writes daily for the Carter Blog on the Carter for Nevada campaign website. Furthermore the Carter campaign also employs YouTube and MySpace to connect to a wider audience.

All that said the Carter campaign is aware of the fact that if you wanna reach voters you have to go to where they live and engage with them face to face. Jack Carter is constantly traveling to meet voters. He has recently been on a tour through 11 towns throughout Nevada. He has realized that you have got to go to the rurals if you want the people living outside of the major cities and towns to vote for you. His rural strategy is an integral part of this.

A good example of modern campaigning in California is the candidate in the 4th Assembly district, Rob Haswell. He’s got a good campaign website which includes a campaign journal which keeps those interested in his campaign up to date.

Yet, Rob Haswell also realizes that if you wanna win you better get out and travel the district. So, he has recently announced that he will travel to every town in the district on his “Whistle Stop Bus Tour” saying in a press release:

I’m excited to begin our Whistle Stop Bus Tour because it will enable us to share ideas directly with voters in their own communities.

What both candidates have in common is that conventional wisdom and their party’s establishment don’t believe that these campaigns can win. Therefore both Jack Carter and Rob Haswell had to get creative. They both had to move beyond these perceptions and engage directly with as many voters as possible.

A combination of using modern technology, mostly the internet, and meeting face to face with voters is what a good modern campaign should look like. Jack Carter and Rob Haswell show how it’s done.

CA-Gov: Email confirmation: You Pay to Play with Arnold

It looks we have more confirmation of what we already knew: You have to pay to play with Arnold Schwarzenegger.  This from today’s SacBee:

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger called off a fundraiser scheduled for Monday after his campaign found out about an e-mail in which a participant told potential contributors they would have a chance to talk to the governor about a bill that may come across his desk.
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Allison Neves, executive director of the California Society of Facial Plastic Surgery, sent an e-mail to the society’s members inviting them to attend the event, saying it would give them a chance to talk to Schwarzenegger about a bill they oppose.

“This event will provide us with a very important opportunity to discuss our opinions about Senate Bill 438 with the governor,” Neves wrote in the e-mail obtained by The Bee. (SacBee 8/12/06)

Poor Arnold had to cancel the event, costing him $500K from this particular special interest.  It’s getting harder and harder to find special interests in Sacramento now that Arnold has renamed the ones that he likes as “hard-working Californians”, but I guess you get put on the back of the bus if you get busted trying to buy influence.  But don’t worry, Arnold will still take your money…he’ll always take your money.  You plastic surgeons are still ahead of the teachers and nurses, those are the special interests who Arnold really had in mind when he said he would go to Sacramento and “terminate the special interests.”

Yup, to Arnold, teachers and nurses are the special interests, multi-millionare plastic surgeons…they are hard working Californians.  For more information on a better alternative, see GovernorPhil.