While there is a presidential race going on throughout the country, there will be races for Board of Supervisors seats here in San Francisco and the San Francisco Examiner provides a glimpse of what we can expect throughout the years. Here are some quick points:

Thus far, incumbents Carmen Chu, Ross Mirkarimi and Sean Elsbernd are unopposed.

The biggest non-incumbent fundraiser by far is Claudine Cheng in D3 with $44,145. This is my district and the one I am most interested in. It looks like Cheng could be the frontrunner. David Chiu has the support of the progressives.

Anyone have opninions on the race in D3 or any other district?  

In the meantime, a conservative organization called Plan C is holding a candidate forum this Wednesday evening.

2008 will be a watershed year for San Francisco politics, as seven seats on the Board of Supervisors are up for election. Four “open” races are being watched most of all, as in districts 1, 3, 9, and 11, Jake McGoldrick, Aaron Peskin, Tom Ammiano and Gerardo Sandoval are all being forced out by term limits.

This large turnover means that San Francisco has a tremendous opportunity to make a fresh start this year with new ideas, new visions, and hopefully, a new spirit of cooperation that will improve the quality of life for all San Franciscans. The new Supervisors will take office in January 2009.

Candidates are beginning to emerge for the four “open” districts – and it’s time to get to know them! Plan C is sponsoring a “Meet the Moderates” event – an opportunity to meet and hear from moderate, pro-quality of life candidates who will be running in the open races this year. Virtually all of the high profile candidates who have announced thus far will be there – and this is the first time that most of them will be addressing a citywide gathering. There will be plenty of time to mingle one-on-one with the candidates, so we hope you’ll come.

My understanding is that among the confirmed candidates are:

D1: Alicia Wang

D3: Joe Alioto, Claudine Cheng, Lynn Jefferson

D9: Eric Storey

D11: Ahsha Safai

This is not my ideal organization to spend an evening with, but they did manage to get a number of candidates together and, since my Supervisor, Aaron Peskin, will be termed out, I appreciate the chance to size up the candidates early. Should be interesting.  

(Another excellent regional recap. – promoted by SFBrianCL)

I figured I’d wait until all the votes were counted before I gave my rundown of the election, but they’re still counting absentee and provisional ballots as we speak, so  this could end up a bit off.

Nationally, things went strongly for Democrats, unseating Republican incumbants left and right, shifting control of both the House and (narrowly) the Senate, and pushing the Democratic caucus leftwards a bit (media narrative to the contrary). Here in California, things look a bit different, although Jerry McNerney’s grassroots upset in the 11th CD was a fantastic victory, Lou Correa’s narow win in the 34th State Senate District race down in OC looks solid enough to count on now, and Charlie Brown’s run in the 4th CD is a sign that no seat is safe when incumbants are corrupt and Democrats are willing to run hard with great candidates and local grassroots support. With some effort, similar challenges could be made, esp. in the 3rd CD and most of the so cal suburban seats as well in 2008. If McNerney and the new Democratic leadership in the House and Senate can start to work out a better deal for the delta and Central Valley agriculture, an alternative to the pro-corporate farm, anti-environmental, suburban sprawl, “free” trade, and commodity price depressing policies of Pombo’s old status quo, Calfornia Democrats might find that parts of Inland California might be less forbidding political territory than they assume. Here’s hoping McNerney gets the support to make it happen.

Here on the left coast, with our expensive media market and special incumbant-protection gerrymandering, incumbants and the status quo largely ruled the day, with nary a change in seats save McPherson’s losing to state senator and SoS-elect Debra Bowen. Schwarzeneggar held the statehouse, and the Democrats took everything else, except for Bustamante’s loss to Steve Poizner. Basically, California showed itself once again to be a Democratic state, as long as you don’t have an egregiously bad candidate (Bustamante), or the Democratic Party and its sources of income decide not to support you (Angelides). The old coastal/inland divide was in full effect for many of the races, although the 1E water bond reversed the usual pattern by pulling high numbers from the delta counties, somewhat unsurprisingly seeing as we’re the most likely to end up underwater if the levees go. The Courage Campaign has an interesting analysis of why the blue wave seemingly missed california here, and jules from Alliance for a Better California has another keen perspective here as well that’s worth a read as well. While the initial reports of the election harped on how low turnout is, the final results that are trickling in as elections boards muddle through the absentees and provisionals are showing turnout numbers in the low 50s. Which suck compared to 2004’s 76% turnout, but are still better than the low 40s numbers that were being trumpeted.

Here in Yolo County H and I were narrow votes, with H passing but I failing by an incredibly narow margin (it was moot anyways, since Sacramento County pounded Measure J), and with West Sac and Woodland buying the arguments in PG&E’s heaping mounds of flyers while Davis fought in vain to balance them out. sigh, Better luck next time, I guess. There is a thoughtful analysis by doug paul davis over at the davis vanguard on H and I as well. In the 3rd Supervisor District, Matt Rexroad beat Frank Sieferman 54-46, largely divided along urban-rural lines. Rexroad’s Woodland First strategy paid off well, and Sieferman was clearly outmatched in terms of fundraising and the mechanics of campaigning. It will be interesting to watch how Rexroad does as County Supe, and whether he forgets his protestations that he has no ambition for higher office in two years. A tip of the hat to Matt, though, for sending my traffic through the roof on election day. Let it not be said that I am ungrateful.

In Davis, choice voting passed easily 55-45, and Target passed with a narrower 52-48 a razor-thin margin of 674 votes, once the absentees came in, with No votes clustering in the old neighborhoods of downtown Davis, Old North Davis, North Davis (not the newer bird streets), East Davis,  Village Homes and part of Stonegate, whereas it gained support from South Davis, West Davis, North Davis and the rest of Stonegate. I’d bet that student votes played a deciding role, but then again they usually do, as part of the 20% of the town that isn’t really on one factional side or the other in the Mod-Prog turf wars. The No on X people assumed, I think, that the 60% there reflected a solid Progressive consensus in the city, something that the passing of K seems to disprove. My sense is that these elections are decided by a 20% in the middle who just don’t obsess about city politics the way that activists on either side do, and tend to tune in to the discussions towards election day, but don’t really have an emotional stake like the folks who put up yard signs or table at farmer’s market, or write impassioned letters to the Enterprise. My hunch is that the promise of cheaper stuff and the appeal of not having to drive out of town for basic shopping carried the day, and that the “Remember why you live in Davis” wasn’t convincing to people whose reason for living here has more to do with the location of their school or job than an ideological committment to a progressive community per se. Doesn’t mean that they can’t be convinced, just that I’m not so sure that they were really reached by the No on K folks all that well. I agree with Lamar that K was no mandate for further big box development; basically, both K and H&I suggest that elections can be bought with enough glossy mailers, but not landslide victories.

Personally, I think K presents a pretty clear way forward for the progressive camp; namely, that it is necessary to think about where we want the city to go, and how to solve problems that the city has, if we want to inspire or convince enough of the city to actually make that happen. If we want a healthy, thriving downtown, we need to work out how we’re going to preserve what we have while finding non-big box or non-chain options for buying basic goods not provided by the boutique shops that make up much of the downtown businesses. If we don’t want sprawl, we have to find a way for regular people to afford housing in town, and that probably means accepting a denser multistoried downtown. Lamar Heystek’s living wage suggestion is a good start, but a citywide living wage would be another interesting thing to move on. Mostly, I get the sense that the city is sort of floating, with both sides of the discussion defining their visions in strikingly conservative ways, preserving what is “unique” about Davis* as if our community were a fossil or work of art instead of talking about making it an interesting place and a healthier, more inclusive community.

*as if a bedroom comunity/college town with good schools and safe streets, and the occasional parade/farmer’s market is really as unique as all that.

cross-posted from surf putah

I figured this might be a nice thing to share, since a lot of people don’t know some of the downticket races and props so much… again these are my views, and not that of Calitics.

Hi everybody, so I filled out my absentee ballot and already sent it in, it’s the only way to fly in Oakland since our know nothing Elections Supervisor bought a bunch of Sequoia systems fraud machines despite popular outcry… anyway here’s how I voted:

Partisan Offices – statewide
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Governor – Phil Angelides
Lt. Governor – John Garamendi
Secretary of State – Debra Bowen
State Controller – John Chiang
State Treasurer – Bill Lockyer
Attorney General – Jerry Brown
Insurance Commisioner – Cruz Bustamente (with waffling)
United States Senate – (blank) or Diane Feinstein (see below)
United States Representative – Barbara Lee
State Assembley – Sandre Swanson
Judges – re-elect
Statewide propositions.
Proposition 1A-NO!
Propositions 1B-1E Yes.
Proposition 83 – NO!!
Proposition 84 – Yes
Proposition 85 – FUCK NO!!!
Proposition 86 – Yes
Proposition 87 – HELL YES!
Proposition 88 – No
Proposition 89 – YES YES YES! HELL YES!!
Proposition 90 – NO!
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City of Oakland
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Measure M – yes
Measure N – YES!
Measure O – YES YES YES!

The “why’s” are below the cut.

Partisan Offices – statewide
Governor –
Phil Angelides

It’s an easy decision really, Arnold has been playing the part of a moderate ever since he got his ass handed to him in the last “special election”. Phil Angelides, has the brains, the know how, and the plan to lead this great state, and it’s the rare case where the establishment backed candidate is actually the best one of the bunch. It breaks my heart that his idiot campaign manager is such a fool and might blow it.

Let’s be clear, no Democrat or Independent should vote for Arnold… Period.

oh and Pete Camejo used to be cool, but is kind of a dick now.
I voted for him over Gray Davis, and would gladly do so again, but the Democratic Nominee is a Pragmatic progressive, what the hell is Pete doing in this race anyway?

I really hope Phil can pull it off, but rather then just hope, i’m going to canvass and call for him this weekend.

Lt. Governor –
John Garamendi
Tom McClintock is an asshole. One of the biggest assholes in CA.
Garadmendi is kind of “eh.” but has his moments. I’m not his biggest supporter like some folks, but he’s good… I like Phil a hell of a lot better personally. He’s big on stem cell research… so am I, ’nuff said.

Secretary of State –
Debra Bowen
uh… Verified Voting activist/superstar vs. Arnold’s Diebold loving appointee?
no fracking contest. I am totally all about Debra Bowen, and you should be too.

State Controller –
John Chiang
He’s a good dude.

State Treasurer –
Bill Lockyer
I could make a statement about the statewide office “revolving door”, but i’ll save that for my buddy Cruz.
Lockyer has done a decent enough job as AG, why not let him handle the money?
Sure.

Attorney General –
Jerry Brown
I had my issues with him as mayor of my city, and it bugs me that he’s so adamant on the very Draconian Death Penalty, but Poochigian is far worse and has way more of a douchebaggy name. ha ha! I guess Jerry’s plan is to hold every office in the state before he dies…

Insurance Commisioner –
Cruz Bustamente
I literally felt dirty in the recall after I voted “NO” (esp. since Gray Davis was an ass and I wanted him gone, just not that way), and then voted for Bustamente, even though I really wanted to vote for Arianna. I have rarely felt “dirty” after voting except for when I voted for that useless waste of flesh. The ONLY thing I can think of that he did that I liked was the lawsuit against Enron after the rolling blackmail… which was admittedly heroic and kind of awesome. Otherwise… he’s a jackass! And… it seems like you see the same 6 or 7 names every cycle as they all play this game of musical chairs changing positions. Totally lame. Ugh, a tactical vote at best… but at least i get to vote FOR Phil and Debra this cycle.

United States Senate –
Oh DiFi! DiFi, DiFi, DiFi… you bum me out, i’m glad this will be your last Senate term, as you are a constant source of elitism and frustration. I hate that you are so beholden to big business, you’re most “reliable” when it comes time for the one liberal boilerplate issue I am most mushy on… gun control. I hate that you embolden torturers, and need to have crushing amounts of public outrage before opposing real a-holes like John Roberts confirmation. There are a few things you are ok on, but overall, the only reason to vote for you is because Democrats need to take control of the Senate to keep checks and balances and such around. I may vote for you, I may not… I wrote myself in for the primary, because quite frankly, I could do a hell of a lot better job. If I do vote for you, it’s because Dick Mountjoy, while a wonderful pr0nstar name would be a absolutely horrid Senator, not because you are worth a damn at all.

United States Representative-
Barbara Lee
One of my top 10 politicians ever, and my representative, if half of the congresspeople out there had even a quarter of her integrity and guts we’d be a lot better off.

State Assembley-
Sandre Swanson
Seems like a good dude, smart progressive type, and Babs likes him. Besides what am I going to do, vote “Peace and Freedom”? It’s Oakland baby!

Judges
re-elect all… got caught with my pants down on this one, but since I don’t have any beefs rightn ow, i’ll just be ready next time.

Statewide propositions.
Proposition 1A
NO!
I already have to do the legislatures job a couple times a year because so many props like this have the budget locked down.
fuggit. Transportation funding is vital, but mandatory amounts are dumb, and i’m sick of it, and having to research these stupid things.

NO!

Propositions 1B-1E
Yes.
I’m still pissed that this somehow has turned into “Arnold’s issue” when he had to be dragged kicking and screaming into it just in time for election season. But whaever… infrastructure is important.

Now again, don’t we elect a fracking legislature for this crapola???
STOP BOTHERING ME!!!

Proposition 83
NO!!
A Blatant sop to get out the religious types that are always concerned about “focusing on the family” as well as authoritarian a-holes. Look, I think sex offenders are horrible too, but this is Draconian! GPS monitoring for life?
That’s a slippery damn slope. All of the empty posturing that goes over sex offenders sickens me almost as much as the offending itself. Ok, not really… but still… come now. The standards are fine now.

Proposition 84
Yes
Bond measure make me curl up my lip like Billy Idol, because the mantra seems to be “borrow, borrow, borrow”, but this is about water safety and flood control. Every week in rainy times when I drive to Roseville and I see the Delta swelling, I get images of the levees and New Orleans.

no thanks.
It’s a begrudging yes, but a yes, nonetheless.

Proposition 85
FUCK NO!!!
Yet again another winger “base turner outter”, a “waiting period and parental notification before termination of a minor’s pregnancy”. Right, because it’s far too easy to have this horrible operation performed now right? I am for personal freedom, and that includes a woman’s right to have dominion of her own body, including minors.
I cannot emphasize FUCK NO, enough.

Proposition 86
Yes (with some waffling)
Sorry smokers! Try to see beyond the pocketbook on this one.
I’m all for everybodies personal freedom to fuck up their lungs and give themselves cancer, but we still don’t have real education about the drug that is tobacco and we need that.

a few concerns have been raised by some friends of mine on this… mainly that it goes to private hospitals and adds stuff into the constitution, which bums me out… but still, i’m a soft yes.

Proposition 87
HELL YES!
Reduce dependence on foreign oil? Reduce air pollution?
Wait, why would anybody be against this again?
Oh yeah… the oil companies.
Screw them!

Proposition 88
No
It sounds good on first read, property tax to pay for more funding for schools right?
It creates a bad amount of bureaucracy, and who decides what are “academically successful” schools anyway?
lame!
no.

Proposition 89
YES YES YES! HELL YES!!
This is the public financing of elections, if you are going to vote for only two things this year… well… then you are being silly, but the key is to vote for Phil Angelides and this. Because god damn… I mean GOD DAMN… this will fix soooo many of our problems. Not the least of which is that you need to be an eccentric billionaire to win a statewide race in this damn Nationstate of ours called CA.

Proposition 90
NO!
Uh… dude? Why are NY Libertiarians writing propositions for California?
Eminant domain is BS, but so is this:
From speakout:

This measure has so much to dislike that it brings together in opposition one of the most unusual alliances imaginable. Joining virtually every environmental group in the state in opposition are taxpayers rights groups, the California Chamber of Commerce, consumer groups, scientists and public health agencies and even the California Farm Bureau.

That a-hole Tom McClintock likes it too, so that should be reason enough to vote no. A good rule of thumb is if the left and right both agree on something, there’s probably something significant happening.

Pretty much everybody agrees this one is BS.
NO!

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City of Oakland

Measure M
yes
Whatever. Some BS about the polce and fire retirement board… just reading about it made my attention wander, there’s no argument against, no penalty. If it wasn’t about peoples retirement I wouldn’t have voted either way at all.

Measure N
YES!
Kick ass new library at Henry J. Kaiser center?!
HELL YEAH!

edit: and also more funding for critical library infrastructure and other things my librarian friends can tell you more about.

Measure O
YES YES YES!
If you are against this Measure you are truly against Democracy… come on… ranked choice voting! Who loses? We’d be looking at city council member Aimee Allison if this already went through!
besides less elections = better in my book.

(Hmmm…sounds fishy – promoted by SFBrianCL)

We all make mistakes. Even me. However, very few of us make mistakes this big.

First, a little background. Some state and local government employees (iclunding myself) are required, under California law, to disclose any real estate, stock or other financial interests that may present a potential conflict of interest. I’m sure many emplyees might forget a few shares of stock, or if a spouse’s parent company may do business in a given locale. But $6 million?

San Francisco Board of Supervisors candidate Jaynry Mak failed to disclose her ownership interest in real estate valued at more than $6 million and the income she received from it while working as a city legislative aide, public records show.

As an aide to Supervisor Fiona Ma, Mak was one of hundreds of city employees and elected officials required to annually report real estate and stock holdings, income and other financial information to comply with government conflict of interest laws.

Mak, a 29-year-old lawyer who quit her city job earlier this year to run for the Board of Supervisors seat being vacated by her former boss, said her failure to disclose the information was a mistake and an innocent oversight — one she corrected this summer as she began her campaign.

Sure, innocent like Paris Hilton is “innocent”. And this isn’t even the first time she had to explain herself.

Earlier this summer, Mak was forced to explain her involvement with a real estate partnership that paid $5 million for property near the future home of a proposed 49ers football stadium development.

The acquisition took place while Mak was still a legislative aide and before an announcement by the football team about its plans for a stadium and residential project at Candlestick Point. Though Mak was listed only as an agent for the real estate partnership, her involvement raised questions about whether members of the partnership had access to inside information from City Hall before buying the land.

Then last month, Mak’s campaign also faced questions about whether it reported the true source of several political donations from people in low-wage jobs — maids, handymen, garment workers and line cooks — who gave her $500, the maximum amount allowed by law.

Mak has said the donations simply reflect friends of hers and her family and others whom she has helped over the years digging deep to show their support and gratitude. Still, the city attorney has opened an investigation in the matter at the request of the Ethics Commission, which enforces local campaign finance laws, sources familiar with the investigation said…..

Public records show that in 2004 Mak became joint owner with her mother of a property on Noriega Street in the Inner Sunset District valued at $811,486. For two years, she did not declare her stake in the single-family home on annual economic interest disclosures as she was required as an aide to Ma.

In 2005, Mak, along with her husband or parents, spent nearly $5.7 million to buy four separate west-side San Francisco properties, records show. She didn’t declare those homes on disclosure forms for that year either.

Mak eventually reported them — and the fact that she collects at least $40,000 a year in rent from the properties — on disclosure she filed in August, as she left City Hall and began her campaign for supervisor.

The contributions may be a little shady, but it looks more like business as usual than anything else. However, to fail to report million in holdings is not an innocent slip-up, and tell me that she is either incredibly dumb, incredibly corrupt……or both.

Needless to say I’m voting Democratic in the State and Federal elections. Here is how I plan to vote/support on ballot issues and local elections.

Statewide Ballot Issues:

1A.-1E.:
I now work in a municipal public works department and I know how stretched local communitie are trying to make capital improvements given the dollars they currently have. I’m also happy that there will be more (though still not enough) for public transportation.

Prop 83: Yes
Prop 84: Yes
Prop 85: NO NO NO
Prop 86: Yes (Sorry smokers)
Prop 87: Yes
Prop 88: Yes
Prop 89: Yes
Prop 90: No

Local Elections:

Board of Education:
Dan Kelly
Bob Twomey
Jane Kim

Supervisor District 2: Undecided
Supervisor District 4: Doug Chan
Supervisor District 8: Alix Amelia
Supervisor District 6: Rob Black
Supervisor District 10: Sophie Maxwell
BART Director: Emily Drennen
College Board: Undecided

City Ballot Issues:
A: Yes
B: No
C: No
D: Yes
E: No

F: Undecided
This is a tough call for me and one for which I would appreciate any input. On one hand, paid sick leave should be a basic right. On the
other hand, I know there are many small businesses that truly operate right at the margins, and I worry about the consequences of
such a policy. What does everyone think?

G: No
H: Yes
J. YES YES YES
K: Yes

Ok, that where I stand as of tonight. I welcome all opinions, suggestion, criticism or general rant you may have about what I wrote. Before I stop, I want to than SF For Democray for putting on the canssidates forum yesterday on Fillmore. I thought I knew who I was going to support and who I would not support, but watching the
candiates changed my mind in several instances. I wound up supporting Green candidates for School Board and BART Board. I also learned that Jaynry Mak is as vacant as Fiona Ma and Hydra Mendoza’s tenure in the Mayor’s office did NOT prepare her for the School
Board, IMHO. 😉

(X-posted at GovernorPhil.com)

Folks, folks, let’s get back to the subject at hand here.

Apparantly the Schwarzenegger campaign, like many elected officials don’t have the slightest understanding of computers.

What they hope is that the press, on the whole, doesn’t either. And sadly, in many cases that is true. The cries and  whining about “hacking”, and whining and crying they are, are preposterous. To these idiots world, anything vaguely involving computers that they don’t like is hacking. I work in IT, and i’m damn good at it, to say the grounds they are talking about is shaky is giving it far, far too much credence.

Let’s get back on point now.
There are the same apologists that always say “What’s the big deal?” everytime somebody makes a racist and stereotyping remark. Everybody is just being “too pc” and should lighten up.

Here’s why the “hot blooded” thing makes a difference.

“All jews are cheap.” “All blacks are dumb.” “All Muslims are terrorists.”

Neither of these statements are true, and if somebody said them, they would be rightfully harrangued as a racist and a fool, perhaps a dangerous one.

It’s a stereotype, and repeating the myth doesn’t make it go away it reinforces it, moreover it shows true character. Just like George Allen’s ties to the KKK and other hate groups.

Character matters.
Everybody seems, for some reason, to be buying the acting job that Arnold is a moderate now,
It reminds of the David Cross bit about Trent Lott making racist statements at Strom Thurmond’s 768th birthday. He goes on BET and apologizes:

“Well first of all… I didn’t know them microphones were on.”

The guy is sleazy, plain and simple… to be fair, it doesn’t matter if he said it in private, it really doesn’t even matter if the woman in question wasn’t offended.

I. DON’T. CARE

Because it’s not about that statement, or that person, it’s character.

Immediately after Arnold made some racist and steretyping statements, suddenly the right wing pundits and blogosphere started thumping their chest and talking about procedure and process… HOW did somebody get this conversation? The content itself is absolutely irrelevant.

Why is that the real issue?
Because the pundit class says it is? Because they are too damn lazy to any kind of research.
(see Joe Lieberman’s website being “hacked” for that)

Perhaps Arnold should call in some plumbers to fix the leak, like his hero Richard nixon.
Anyway it’s always nice seeing some Democrats tripping all over themselves to defend the Governor.

(Willie Brown i’m talking to you.)

And Media outlets, do your damn job for once and do some investigative reporting would you.

thanks in advance.

-C.

Here we are at Labor Day weekend. Two months to go before Election Day and we just MIGHT be poised to take the U.S. House of Representatives. So, at this point in the election cycle, I would like to ponder this question:

What would it mean for San Francisco, and the people of the Eight Congressional District if Nancy Pelosi becomes Speaker?

Other than the symbolic prestige, would it mean more money to upgrades the streets? Perhaps the city can upgrade and improve our transit system? Could BART get enough funding to expand further into the South Bay and consider providing service to the North Bay?

Who would benefit the most politically? Gavin Newson? Fiona Ma? Mark Leno? The local unions?

When I lived in Michigan, John Dingell was my Congressman, and Christmas came year-round while he was Oversight Chairman. Hopefully now, California, especially the Bay Area, can get its fair share.

This just in my email box by way of the California Young Democrats. Fromer Senator and Vice-Presidential candidate John Edwards will stump for Phil Angelides.

Please Join the next governor of california Phil Angelides for a TAKE BACK CALIFORNIA RALLY with special guest Senator John Edwards.

Saturday, September 9th

4:30pm ?E6:00pm

Booker T. Washington Community Center

800 Presidio Avenue

San Francisco, CA

Be there and help change California’s future!!

The Assembly just passed this bill that would ensure 7 million uninsured Californians, and of course Arnold is planning on vetoing the bill without offering any solutions.

The bill would eliminate private medical insurance plans and establish a statewide health insurance system for all state residents, reports The San Francisco Chronicle. The state senate is expected to approve changes to plan and send it the Republican governor, who has expressed his opposition to a single-payer plan.

The Chronicle said the governor, however, has not offered an alternative for the state’s 7 million people who are uninsured. His office has said the governor would propose solutions in his State of the State address in January if he is re-elected.

please! I really hope nobody falls for that line, that sounds like the old bait and switch to me. Fool me once… shame on you…

I wish there was a candidate that actually believed in covering everybody, oh wait there is, his name is Phil Angelides.

And if you’d like to help him win, you can donate here on the ActBlue GovernorPhil page… let’s try to get to 100 donors!

-C.