Greetings from Oroville !
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680_2 Charlie Brown , Mayor Jernigan, Mrs Jernigan
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Saturday, September 20, 2008, at the Veterans Hall in Oroville, CA. Left to right, Mrs. Jernigan, Mayor Steve Jernigan of Oroville, Charlie Brown, candidate for Congress in CA’s 4th district, and a volunteer for the Town Hall and BBQ event.
There’s lots more pictures and news of upcoming Charlie Brown events, if you’ll continue with me over the fold:
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650 Serving BBQ Lunch,
Volunteers from Oroville and Charlie Brown serve Lunch at the Town Hall on Sept 20, 2008
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658_2 Mayor Jernigan of Oroville
Mayor Steve Jernigan of Oroville Speaks to the Town Hall, and Introduces Charlie Brown
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669_2 Charlie Brown talks to Oroville
Charlie Brown talks to citizens at the Oroville Town Hall on Sept 20
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668 Crowd listens and asks
Some of the attendees listening to questions being asked
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667 Man asking Q
Asking about Presidential signing statements
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0684 Friends & Vets
Friends and Vets, Oroville, Sept 20
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686_2 The Volunteer Cooks, @ Oroville, & Charlie Brown
The Volunteer Cooks & Charlie Brown
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This was a fun event, and I am looking forward to more of them and hoping to see more CA- 04 people at them! There was a BBQ lunch, grilled tri – tip, potato salad, beans, made and served by the great people in the last photo, and then Mayor Jernigan, “the most popular person in Oroville,” as one person called him, spoke for a bit and introduced congressional candidate Charlie Brown. Charlie spoke and then took questions from the crowd.
Oroville is a lakeside community about an hour and a half north of Sacramento, in Butte County, with a city population of about 14,000, and a combined city/suburban/summer area population of about 55,000. There are a lot of retirees because it’s an easier pace than The Big City. The most distinguishing feature of Oroville, besides the big Dam & Reservoir, is the big Table Mountain Ridge which flanks the northern part of town and lets you know that you’re in foothills Gold Country, for Oroville was founded during the Gold Rush. Oroville also does what has to be the the most spectacular Northern CA 4 of July fireworks show over the Lake every year that draws such a huge crowd, that they run shuttle buses from town to the lake, and it’s a big lake . So Oroville, which also has Feather Falls Casino, depends on tourism for a lot of its revenues, and when the economy has a downturn, and people don’t travel as much, they are sensitive to that aspect of it. The people attending the Town Hall were also talking and asking a wide range of questions about the future course of our country and how do we encourage local jobs growth for the younger generation. They can tell, that the things that happened in Washington DC over the course of the last 7+ years, and that the course the current administration had set the country on, had not taken into account the long term effects upon their neighbors and friends’ everyday lives.
One of the questions I didn’t expect but was really glad to hear was “How do we stop the other guy (McClintock) from Swiftboating you?”
You see how that works? Open Democracy is Empowering. It was “how do we” do something, not “which consultant do we send a check to ?”
There was such a contrast to the other candidate running for congress in the same district it was mind boggling.
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NEXT UP: 41 DAYS TO CHANGE
•Charlie Brown will be holding another Family BBQ and Town Hall Meeting in South Lake Tahoe next Saturday, September 27 th.
WHO: Congressional candidate Charlie Brown
WHAT: BBQ and Town Hall meeting
WHERE: Bijou Park, 1099 Al Tahoe Blvd, South Lake Tahoe, CA 96150
WHEN: Saturday, September 27, 2008, time: 12pm-3pm
http://www.charliebrownforcong…
•PLUS, NEXT SATURDAY IS ANOTHER DISTRICT WIDE, CA- 04 DAY OF ACTION !
DISTRICT WIDE DAY OF ACTION SATURDAY 9/27 08
Time: 10 am to 2 pm Place: Roseville , Grass Valley, Quincy, Placerville, Truckee, Auburn, South Lake Tahoe, all have district offices and will be doing canvassing and phone banking
•EARLY OCTOBER, MARK YOUR CALENDERS AND GET READY TO RUMBLE ! DEBATE !
THE FIRST CA- 04 DEBATE: CHARLIE BROWN DEBATES TOM MCCLINTOCK IN OROVILLE THURSDAY OCT 2 , 2008 , 8:00pm to 9:00pm
Charlie Brown Debates Tom McClintock in Oroville
Thursday October 2, 2008 | 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
The League of Women Voters of Butte County, along with the Chico Enterprise-Record and the Oroville Mercury-Register, are co-sponsoring a televised voters forum at the Southside Community Center in Oroville. For more details, please visit ChicoER.com or OrovilleMR.com.
I was hoping the League of Women Voters of Butte County would have this event listed on their calender page, but I would keep checking back until they update it:
http://www.lwvbuttecounty.org/ League of Women Voters of Butte County 1 530 895 VOTE
NOTE TO PEOPLE USING MAPQUEST and GOOGLE TO FIND THINGS: THERE ARE 2 COMMUNITY CENTERS LISTED FOR OROVILLE, and they’re NOT the same thing. One’s in the north part of town and the other is in the south part of town. Please confirm location before attempting navigation. (Don’t ask me how I know this, but the people at the south one are super about giving directions …..) The Chico Enterprise Record does not have this listed on their events calender yet.
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and on a final note:
It’s SEPTEMBER 24 ! Less than one week to the Sept 30 FEC 3rd Quarter donation deadline , 41 DAYS TO CHANGE , where we can SEND MC DOLITTLE DUCK – the real – issues back to Ventura County !
Ya wanna see what he did recently? click on my name and read those previous 2 diaries, he doesn’t rate any exposure here. No Show Tom, Fake Schedule, Swiftboating, & Keystone Kops
http://www.dailykos.com/story/…
McClintock, Ron Rogers, Kevin Ring, and THAT swiftboat ad http://www.dailykos.com/story/…
Ya wanna see what it looked like the last time I saw a Republican congressional candidate in Oroville, during the pre- Primary? Click here, scroll down to the middle, and enjoy the “bonus humor photos” of Doug Ose’s crew riding around on oil barrels in front of a moving van (Ose’s family is in the mini storage busines, so home foreclosures and people moving works out very well for them )
http://www.dailykos.com/story/…
By the way, Republican Doug Ose formally endorsed Tom McClintock. thank you. Doug Ose, on the night he lost the Republican Primary, on teevee “well, I guess I’ll just go back to earning more money.” You said it, Mr. Multimillionaire Self Funding Carpetbagger Candidate Developer who took Abramoff Money.
Why does the 3rd Quarter FEC deadline matter? Because the candidates then have to file the reports online, and it’s possible to see the true financial support levels of each candidate. And that influences financial supporters in the last quarter. They want to see the candidate can win. Charlie Brown has thousands of supporters, and is getting individual donations from inside the district. McClintock on the last filing had just around 800 individual donations. Yes. ONLY 819 people, and many of these were duplicates from the same business entity using multiple names of family members, or from other Republican candidates that had already dropped out. And the majority of them were from out of district. A great deal of them were from Southern CA. I went thru the entire list and I counted it. McClintock has no money, going down the home stretch (shockingly little, around a hundred thousand) unless he sells his soul at this point to some nefarious Bush administration supporter trying to curry future favors.
Charlie Brown lives, raised a family, and worked in the district, and wants to represent the people living here now in 4. To McClintock, who resides in Lungren’s district 3 but represented yet another in the state senate legislature so as to collect the tax free per diem, it’s just another mailing address.
Charlie Brown’s contributions page link: https://www.charliebrownforcon…
Actblue link: http://www.actblue.com/entity/…
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photos by diary author. grateful for assistance provided by diary spouse that day
cross post at dailykos and progressive blue
