Daily Archives: October 3, 2006

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CA-SoS: I HEART Debra Bowen

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You know, I don’t normally gush over candidates, but I really, really dig on Debra Bowen.  She had a conference call yesterday with some bloggers.  And never before have I seen somebody who really, really just GETS it.  She talked about a few things that I found really great.

  • Her bills: She had a couple of bills signed including SB 1235: Absentee votes to be included in the 1% hand sample, SB1747: Machine testing observation by anybody not just representatives of Central Committees, SB 1760: Requires paper trail last 22 months. 

    Arnold vetoed her initiative reform bill (Bad Arnold, Bad!) and the student pollworker bill. I really don’t get that last one. 

  • Voting issues: What’s wrong with Inkavote: Many ballots were completely blank because they required very hard pressure, and there were no ink in some of the stylus.

    On Diebold: She discussed several issues, including programming the device lack of real security, and the hotel mini-bar key lock system.  Yikes all around!  Kinda makes you wish for good ol’ fashioned ScanTron voting.

  • In the next weeks, she will be going back to basics on the campaigning, working on name ID and turnout efforts.  She has a debate with McPherson on Oct 18 (OOPS: I fixed this. It’s not on the 16th, but rather the 18th), I beleive.  I’ll double check that one, and promote it when it’s coming up.  It’s going to be with the SF Chronicle and will be streaming on CBS5’s website until the election.  Full details soon.

Debra Bowen really, really gets the issues in election reform.  We need her to be our Secretary of State for precisely that reason.  While our match campaign for her has concluded (very successfully I might add), you can still give money to Bowen through our ActBlue page.

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CA-04 Charlie Brown smacks down Doolitt’s stooge

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(Edited to embed the video. Doolittle are getting some fundraising help from President Shrub today. If you are in the area, check out the Rally for a Real Choice. – promoted by SFBrianCL)

Hi – My first visit ever to calitics (sorry to say), but at Brian’s suggestion I’m posting this youtube video of Charlie Brown (CA-04) ‘debating’ w/Doolittle’s proxy re: the issue of the Marianas Islands. Not sure what he found so funny about forced abortions and sex slaves.

p.s. I’m not a member of Charlie Brown’s staff or campaign, just a volunteer.

Hope to see some of you at the Rally for Change tonight at 5:30 in Loomis!

Jerry Brown

Field Poll on CA-Sen, CA-AG, and CA-LtG

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The Field Poll (PDF) continues to dribble out.  In today’s installment, we get numbers for CA-Sen, CA-AG, and CA-LtG.  First of all, I must add the caveat on all of these down-ballot numbers.  Most people generally aren’t that informed about down-ballot races and don’t even care to get informed all that much.  Consider the numbers with a grain of salt. 

Oh, and CA-Sen isn’t a race.  Why people even bother to poll this one is beyond me.  Feinstein is ahead of Crazy Dick Mountjoy 57-29. I guess if that shows us anything, it’s how messed up that Datamar poll was that showed this as a 11-point race.  Datamar really needs to work on their likely voter model.  It’s like they think that the entire state has the same voting model as San Diego.  It doesn’t.

CA-AG Jerry Brown v. Chuck Poochigian

Jerry Brown’s lead shrank down to 15 points over Chuck Poochigian.  (July)

Brown(D)  45(54)
Poochigian (R) 33(30)
Other  8(1)
Undecided  18(12)

Interestingly enough, the gains weren’t really to Pooch, but rather to Undecided and Other.  I guess that may be a function of Pooch pretty much running a negative campaign without much in the way of positive ads.  Pooch’s name ID is pretty low, so he better get to getting his name out there or the new, tougher Jerry Brown model will nameID him to death.

CA-LtG: John Garamendi v Tom McClintock

This race tightened up a bit.  Here are the numbers (July)

Garamendi(D)  41(48)
McClintock (R) 39 (38)
Other 8 (1)
Undecided 12 (13)

Garamendi is leaking some Dems to third party candidates.  So, tell your friends…there will be no 3rd party voting on Lt. Gov.  We really don’t want Tom McCrazytock getting anything of a platform.  McClintock still has a bunch of residual name ID from the recall. However, I think low-40s his really his ceiling.  He really is just too conservative for this state.  When people see his positions they get a bit queasy on voting for him, whether or not he can dish out some “straight talk”.

I’ll be updating the Poll HQ with these numbers after all of the down ballot numbers are released.