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Budgets are Moral
Documents

• . . . Surf Putah: Infrastructure and the Common Good
  http://surfputah.blogspot.com/2007/08/infrastructure-and-common-good.html
• California Progress Report: Republicans Hold California
  Budget Hostage to Slow Progress on Global Warming
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/08/republicans_hol.html
• California Progress Report: BEE COLUMNIST URGES FURTHER
  BUDGET DELAY–LEGISLATURE SHOULD
  ‘START OVER’ REGARDLESS OF CONSEQUENCES
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/08/bee_columnist_u.html
• The Ruth Group » California Chokes Medi Cal
  http://www.ruthgroup.org/2007/08/03/california-chokes-medi-cal/

Voting Integrity

• The BRAD BLOG : California Source Code Reports Released
  http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4907
• voiceofsandiego.org: Opinion… Security Through Obscurity
  http://www.voiceofsandiego.org/articles/2007/08/03/opinion/01lewis080307.txt
• The BRAD BLOG : CA Source Code Report: Diebold Voting
  Machines Can Be
  Hacked With Virus by Single Person, Affecting Entire Election
  http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4909

State and Local Electoral
Politics

• happening-here?: Direct mail musings
  http://happening-here.blogspot.com/2007/08/direct-mail-musings.html
• skippy the bush kangaroo: netflix pix in politix mix
  http://xnerg.blogspot.com/2007/08/netflix-pix-in-politix-mix.html
• Brian Dennert here: County Supervisor Race
  http://blogs.venturacountystar.com/vcs/dennert/archives/2007/08/denis_oleary_de.html

Water

• California Progress Report: HEY, THAT’S MY PUBLIC
  RESOURCE…PROPOSED WATER GIVE-AWAY
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/08/hey_thats_my_pu.html
• California Progress Report: The Dam Truth about California
  Water!
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/08/the_dam_truth_a.html

Other Points of Interest

• D-Day: Yearly Kos – Random Thoughts
  http://d-day.blogspot.com/2007/08/yearly-kos-random-thoughts.html
• D-Day: Yearly Kos – Friday Sessions
  http://d-day.blogspot.com/2007/08/yearly-kos-friday-sessions.html
• LAist: Apartment Complex Where Charles Bukowski Wrote “Post
  Office” For Sale, Could Be Leveled
  http://laist.com/2007/08/02/apartment_compl.php
• BeyondChron: Supreme Court Preserves Tenant Wrongful
  Eviction Claims
  http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=4784#more
• California Progress Report: Peter Schrag’s
  August—Time for Californians to Take a few French Lessons
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/08/peter_schrag_au.html
• California Progress Report: The Year of Living Dangerously
  in Health Reform in California
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/08/the_year_of_liv.html
• The California Majority Report // Today’s Fresh Meat
  http://www.camajorityreport.com/index.php?module=articles&func=display&ptid=9&aid=2145
• California Progress Report: POLL SHOWS VOTER ANXIETY ABOUT
  CORPORATE MISCONDUCT
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/08/poll_shows_vote.html

(Bumping back up. – promoted by Brian Leubitz)

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Budgets are Moral
Documents

• California Progress Report: Statement of Governor
  Schwarzenegger on Failure by California Senate to Pass State Budget
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/08/statement_of_go.html
• The California Majority Report // Budget Update: Senate
  Republicans Stall Budget Again as Governor, Senate Dems Press for
  Passage
  http://www.camajorityreport.com/index.php?module=articles&func=display&ptid=9&aid=2137
• California Progress Report: No California State Budget
  Despite Defection of One Republican State Senator and Pledge from
  Governor Schwarzenegger to Reduce “Operating
  Deficit” to Zero by Line Item Vetoes
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/08/no_california_s.html
• California Progress Report: CEQA, GLOBAL WARMING,
  REPUBLICANS AND THE STATE BUDGET
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/08/ceqa_global_war.html
• California Progress Report: LOW-INCOME FAMILIES PROTEST
  CALIFORNIA STATE BUDGET DEADLOCK – A Prelude to How Many State Senators
  Will be Greeted When They Get Home
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/08/low-income_fami.html
• Working
  Californians: One Republican Holding the Budget Hostage
  http://workingcalifornians.com/blog/julia_rosen/2007/08/02/one_republican_holding_the_budget_hostage
• The California Majority Report // Republican Budget
  Hypocrisy: Round Two
  http://www.camajorityreport.com/index.php?module=articles&func=display&ptid=9&aid=2141
• The California Majority Report // Schwarzenegger Needs to
  Put His Popularity On the Line for a State Budget
  http://www.camajorityreport.com/index.php?module=articles&func=display&ptid=9&aid=2140
• The California Majority Report // Governor Schwarzenegger
  to Senate GOP: What More Could You Possibly Want Out of this Budget?
  http://www.camajorityreport.com/index.php?module=articles&func=display&ptid=9&aid=2142
• The California Majority Report // Sierra Club California
  Blasts Senate GOP Budget Obstructionists
  http://www.camajorityreport.com/index.php?module=articles&func=display&ptid=9&aid=2144

All the Rest

• Daily Kos: A GREEN, ENERGY INDEPENDENT MILITARY?
  http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/8/1/184340/6793
• The California Majority Report // California Unions Playing
  Role in Yearly Kos Convention
  http://www.camajorityreport.com/index.php?module=articles&func=display&ptid=9&aid=2138
• Dump Doolittle: “Interesting” might be an understatement –
  CA 04 Primary
  http://solongjohn.blogspot.com/2007/08/interesting-might-be-understatement-ca.html
• DownWithTyranny!: DIANNE FEINSTEIN– AN ENEMY OF
  PROGRESSIVE VALUES, PROGRESSIVE IDEAS AND… PROGRESSIVES
  http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2007/08/dianne-feinstein-enemy-of-progressive.html
• The Ojai Post: chainchainchain…
  http://www.ojaipost.com/2007/08/chainchainchain.shtml
• Metroblogging Los Angeles: Cop in UCLA taser case used
  innappropriate force, report finds
  http://blogging.la/archives/2007/08/cop_in_ucla_taser_case_used_in.phtml
• California Progress Report: New Study Finds Health Care
  Proposals Insufficient to Protect Californians
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/08/new_study_finds.html
• Daily Kos: Diebold, Sequoia, and Hart admit e-voting
  systems unsecure
  http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/8/2/11541/40184
• The California Majority Report // Today’s Fresh Meat
  http://www.camajorityreport.com/index.php?module=articles&func=display&ptid=9&aid=2139

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Budgets are Moral
Documents

• The California Majority Report // Budget Irony: Four
  Reasons the Senate Republicans Budget Blockade Doesn’t Add Up
  http://www.camajorityreport.com/index.php?module=articles&func=display&ptid=9&aid=2132
• California
  Progress Report: Perata Hopeful About Tonight’s Vote on
  California State Budget
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/08/perata_hopeful.html
• Working Californians: Real World Impacts of Missing Budget
  http://workingcalifornians.com/blog/julia_rosen/2007/08/01/real_world_impacts_of_missing_budget
• California
  Progress Report: Will Brinksmanship on California State Budget Come to
  an End in Tonight’s Senate Vote?
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/08/will_brinksmans.html
• democracyforcalifornia.com: A California “Katrina” in the
  Making?
  http://www.democracyforcalifornia.com/blog/archives/002256.html

Straight-Up Electoral
Politics

• Firedoglake – Rootstrapping
  http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/07/31/rootstrapping/
• Dump Doolittle: Mighty interesting Republican primary
  taking shape in CA 04
  http://solongjohn.blogspot.com/2007/08/mighty-interesting-republican-primary.html
• The California Majority Report // Another McNerney
  Challenger?
  http://www.camajorityreport.com/index.php?module=articles&func=display&ptid=9&aid=2135

Freedom to Marry (Equally
Accurate: Bigotry in the Initiative Process)

• Pam’s House Blend: A Little Dab of Deception Will Do Ya –
  And Do Us In
  http://www.pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=2484
• The Mad Professah Lectures: Lorri Jean Has Online ‘Dust Up’
  With Heterosexual Supremacist
  http://buckmire.blogspot.com/2007/07/lorri-jean-has-online-dust-up-with.html
• The Mad Professah Lectures: Heterosexual Supremacists
  Circulate Even Worse Anti-Gay Constitutional Amendment
  http://buckmire.blogspot.com/2007/08/heterosexual-supremacists-circulate.html

We’ve Only Got the One
Planet

• D-Day: Best Lede Evah (Cheney’s Involvement in the Klamath
  Trainwreck)
  http://d-day.blogspot.com/2007/08/best-lede-evah.html
• The Left Coaster: a tree grows in Yellowstone
  http://www.theleftcoaster.com/archives/010748.php
• happening-here?: Back in town…
  http://happening-here.blogspot.com/2007/07/back-in-town.html
• California
  Progress Report: Largest Water Grant in U.S. Bureau of Reclamations
  History Set
  for Today: Delta, Fish, and California to Pay the Cost
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/08/largest_water_g.html

And the Rest

• California
  Progress Report: Simple Challenge to Electronic Voting Machines – Prove
  My Vote Was Counted Accurately
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/08/challenge_to_el.html
• California
  Progress Report: California PUC Shortchanges Limited English Phone
  Consumers–Legislature Must Now Act and Pass AB 891
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/08/california_puc.html
• SoHum Parlance: Solfest 2007
  http://redwoodreality.blogspot.com/2007/08/solfest-2007.html

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Today Is All About The
Voting Integrity

• The BRAD BLOG : Report from Public Hearing on Debra Bowen’s
  ‘Top-To-Bottom Review’ of Voting Systems
  http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4895
• The BRAD BLOG : California’s DRE Voting Systems Tested for
  Accessibility, Fail Fair Test
  http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4890
• The BRAD BLOG : Good Overviews of California’s
  ‘Top-to-Bottom
  Review’ of Voting Systems and the Pathetic Election Official/Vendor
  Talking Points in Response
  http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4897
• The BRAD BLOG : California’s Unreleased Top-To-Bottom
  Reports
  http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4898
• California Progress Report: Credible Evidence Shows
  Computer Based Voting Machines Have Security Flaws—Where Does
  This Take Us?
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/07/credible_eviden.html

Budgets are Moral
Documents

• The California Majority Report // Ackerman Has No Exit
  Strategy Except Preserving His Job
  http://www.camajorityreport.com/index.php?module=articles&func=display&ptid=9&aid=2129
• Working Californians: Missing Budget Squeezing Schools and
  Hospitals 
  http://workingcalifornians.com/blog/julia_rosen/2007/07/31/missing_budget_squeezing_schools_and_hospitals

Smörgåsbord

• terryfaceplace: Snap! Disappointment with Democrats
  http://terryfaceplace.blogspot.com/2007/07/snap.html
• Speak Out California!: California voters needed NOW to help
  raise fuel economy, curb global warming
  http://www.speakoutca.org/archives/2007/07/historic_vote_c.php
• The People’s Vanguard of Davis: Vanguard Packs Odd Fellows
  For Birthday Bash
  http://davisvanguard.blogspot.com/2007/07/vanguard-packs-odd-fellows-for-birthday.html
• California Progress Report: San Joaquin Valley Voters View
  Air as Serious Health Problem and Want Stronger Action Taken By State
  Government
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/07/san_joaquin_val.html
• Dump Doolittle: No contributions yet for John Doolittle’s
  legal defense fund
  http://solongjohn.blogspot.com/2007/07/no-contributions-yet-for-john.html
• D-Day: The Bermuda Triangle (CDP’s odd focus on Federal
  Republicans)
  http://d-day.blogspot.com/2007/07/bermuda-triangle.html
• The Liberal OC » A Gift of Public
  Funds… to Rich People with Boats
  http://www.theliberaloc.com/2007/07/31/a-gift-of-public-funds%e2%80%a6-to-rich-people-with-boats/
• California Policy Inbox »  Report
  Focuses on California’s Day Laborer Population
  http://inbox.berkeley.edu/?p=365

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It’s a Lazy Sunday
Afternoon, and this is all I found for the last couple days, so I’m not
bothering to sort it.  Yes, this is the actual category
heading.

• D-Day: The Tribe Has Spoken… Will The Voters?
  http://d-day.blogspot.com/2007/07/tribe-has-spoken-will-voters.html
• SoHum Parlance: AIPAC and Mike Thompson
  http://redwoodreality.blogspot.com/2007/07/aipac-and-mike-thompson.html
• The BRAD BLOG : California Finds DRE Touch-Screen Voting
  Systems Easily Hackable, as House Dems and PFAW Strike Deal to Use Them
  in American Elections Anyway
  http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4888
• Politics in the Zeros:  L.A. County foreclosures
  up 799%
  http://polizeros.com/2007/07/28/la-county-foreclosures-up-799/
• The People’s Vanguard of Davis: Why Do Democratic City
  Councils Plan Housing That Republicans Will Live In?
  http://davisvanguard.blogspot.com/2007/07/why-do-democratic-city-councils-plan.html
• California Progress Report: Arnold The Fish Terminator:
  Schwarzenegger Campaigns For Delta Canal, More Dams
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/07/arnold_the_fish.html
• Speak Out California!: While California Dreams-
  Weekly Update Vol.1 No. 8
  http://speakoutca.org/archives/2007/07/while_californi_4.php
• SFist: More Bay Area Print Media Jobs Getting Axed
  http://sfist.com/2007/07/28/more_bay_area_p.php
• California Progress Report: SACRAMENTO BEE SHOULD BE
  AWARDED CHEAP SHOT LAURELS FOR ATTACK ON STAFF OF THE
  LEGISLATURE [ed.
   Bill Cavala seems to love the ALL CAPS POST TITLES.
   MAYBE SOMEONE COULD ASK HIM ABOUT THAT.]
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/07/sacramento_bee.html

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Budgets are Moral
Documents

• California Progress Report: Memo to the California State
  Senate on the California Environmental Quality Act
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/07/memo_to_the_cal.html
• California Progress Report: Senate Republican Budget Move
  to Gut the California Environmental
  Quality Act Raises Larger Questions
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/07/senate_republic_1.html
• Working Californians: Arnold Fundraising Instead of Solving
  Budget Impasse
  http://workingcalifornians.com/blog/julia_rosen/2007/07/27/arnold_fundraising_instead_of_solving_budget_impasse
• California Progress Report: The Latest on the California
  Budget from Senator Perata
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/07/the_latest_on_t.html
• The California Majority Report // Jack O’Connell Raps
  Denham for Budget Blockade
  http://www.camajorityreport.com/index.php?module=articles&func=display&ptid=9&aid=2116
• Working Californians: Budget Impacting Health Care
  Negotiations
  http://workingcalifornians.com/blog/julia_rosen/2007/07/27/budget_impacting_health_care_negotiations

The War on (some people
who use some kinds of) Drugs

• DownWithTyranny!: REEFER MADNESS
  http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2007/07/reefer-madness.html
• The Progressive Connection:: Jerry McNerney Wants John
  Cosgrove To Go To Jail
  http://www.theprogressiveconnection.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=115

Local News

• terryfaceplace: Register voters in San Diego
  http://terryfaceplace.blogspot.com/2007/07/register-voters-in-san-diego.html
• SoHum Parlance: Organic Planet Festival
  http://redwoodreality.blogspot.com/2007/07/organic-planet-festival.html
• The People’s Vanguard of Davis: Reisig’s Errors Put All
  Gang Injunctions In Deep Jeopardy
  http://davisvanguard.blogspot.com/2007/07/reisigs-errors-put-all-gang-injunctions.html
• The Ojai Post: City Releases Second Draft of Chain Ordinance
  http://www.ojaipost.com/2007/07/city_releases_second_draft_of.shtml
• SFist: Tsk, Tsk – The Latest On The Board Of Supes Code Of
  Conduct Proposals
  http://sfist.com/2007/07/27/tsk_tsk_the_lat.php

Press Corps

• “An old soul…: Again, LA Times Fails the Public in Their
  Report about Dubya’s Speech to ALEC
  http://anoldsoul.blogspot.com/2007/07/again-la-times-fails-public-in-their.html
• California Progress Report: COVERAGE OF THE L.A.
  MAYOR’S PRIVATE LIFE REFLECTS POORLY ON JOURNALISTIC STANDARDS
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/07/coverage_of_the.html

All the Rest

• California Progress Report: The California Democratic Party
  Position on Net Neutrality and Affordable High Speed Internet
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/07/the_california_36.html
• California Progress Report: THE ‘UNIT
  RULE’, OUTLAWED IN THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY 50 YEARS AGO,
  RESURFACES AS A TOOL TO SUPPRESS MODERATES IN THE G.O.P.
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/07/the_unit_rule_o.html
• Left In SF » On the way to cleaner diesel
  http://leftinsf.com/blog/index.php/archives/2094
• Dump Doolittle: Looks like a primary rematch between
  Doolittle & Holmes
  http://solongjohn.blogspot.com/2007/07/looks-like-primary-rematch-between.html
• The California Majority Report // Jerry Lewis’s
  Passion for Home Improvement Turns Out to be Deeper than Previously
  Thought
  http://www.camajorityreport.com/index.php?module=articles&func=display&ptid=9&aid=2118
• California Progress Report: Surprises in Independent
  Computer Expert Findings Just Released in “Top-to-Bottom Voting System
  Review” of California Secretary of State Bowen
  http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/07/surprises_in_in.html

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Governor’s Race

• Julia Rosen notes the new Angelides TV ad, and points us to Steve Maviglio’s advice for Phil.
• Randy Bayne points out that Americans want universal coverage for health care. Phil Angelides thinks single payer is the way to go (California is larger than Canada, and 60% the size of France; I think we could do it). Governor Schwarzenegger thinks that universal coverage is a good idea, but has no plan to get there — now that’s some governing, huh? (Oh, and this is why universal coverage is important: real people with real problems.)
• Frank Russo asks if Californians are willing to be honest with themselves and pay for the government they want. I tend to put it a bit less politely: are Californians going to continue to fall for Schwarzengger’s Republican “and a pony” thinking, where the Republicans promise services without paying for them, and everyone gets a pony?
• Julia at ABC on the same topic.
• Our press kinda sucks on policy — they get bored. But just wait for the endless articles on the importance personality in November. Yippee skippee.