Daily Archives: December 11, 2007

California, San Diego

Open Thread

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It’s been a little while since it was open.  What’s on your mind besides, now, this insanely catchy song West Coast by Coconut Record?

San Diego is having trouble getting out the message that people need to be conserving water.  According to several commenters, the water shortage is a myth.  I suppose as long as you can turn on a faucet, nothing is real for some folks.

In other San Diego news, the city can’t seem to keep track of its legal costs and isn’t sure what to do about it.  Is that better or worse than oral transparency (which is my new and favorite term)?

Marinucci reports that Hillary may not be so inevitable in California after all.  This comes on the same day that Rep. Barbara Lee endorsed Obama.  But is the race going to really last past Nevada?

New America Media says, thanks in no small part to Rep. Brian Bilbray, immigration is your 2008 wedge issue.  Anybody want to ask why none of these Republican fear-mongers aren’t busting their corporate buddies?

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Today I Endorsed Barack Obama

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(This could be the first time that all three top Democrats are in California on the same day.  Plus there’s this endorsement from one of our finest Representatives. – promoted by David Dayen)

I wanted to share some exciting news with you, as today I announced my endorsement of Senator Barack Obama for President of the United States.

Like so many Americans, I first heard Senator Obama when he delivered his electrifying speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston. Deep down, I knew I’d witnessed history in the making.



Barack Obama represents a bridge to the future. He embodies the hope and new direction that our country so desperately needs.  As I’ve watched Senator Obama campaign for the Presidency, I am convinced that he is a real agent of change; a man who can lead our nation in a new and positive direction.  

This century cries for social, environmental, diplomatic, global, and neighborhood solutions to the misery that confronts far too many people in our own country and around the globe.  I share Senator Obama’s vision and active commitment to building a society based on activism, progressive values and a keen sense that we must act now and outside of the usual bounds of partisanship and expediency.

I know that a President Obama would find a prompt and effective way to end the occupation of Iraq and that he would strengthen US diplomacy and international development as an instrument of national policy to prevent crises that lead to war and conflagration.    

I know that a President Obama would place education, health care, poverty, economic security, criminal justice reform, climate change and all of the important domestic issues at the top of his agenda.  

And, I know that a President Obama would make the eradication of HIV/AIDS at home and abroad a top priority.  

I founded One Voice PAC as an organization dedicated to helping elect truly progressive candidates who will challenge the status quo. To that end, I am honored to endorse Senator Obama’s candidacy and I hope you will join me in helping him secure the Democratic nomination for the presidency.