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We Won!
Sunday June 20th, 2010
(Written on 6/9/10)
78.9% of Green Party voters affirmed the mission of this campaign: to do everything in our power to impact California in a positive direction. We are building a world where we spend more energy going toward what we want than running from what we fear.
We see clearly that the Democratic and Republican parties – which we're calling the Titanics because they're heading straight for the iceberg – do not allow the actual problems to be addressed, nor real solutions to be put on the table.
Q. Why don't the Titanic Parties give people what they want and need?
A. Because they will not alienate their corporate sponsors. They need to say the right words so that voters will vote for them, and give just enough goodies so that we'll stay in line, but at the end of the day, they will not alienate their corporate sponsors.
Corporations should never be in control of our elections, our economy, or our culture, for the simple reason that legally they do not have the complex set of goals and values that real people have. People want health, happiness, love, security, fulfillment. The simple goal of a corporation is financial profit (increasingly, for CEOs not even shareholders).
We don't take their money; we're running this campaign with your contributions - as long as you are a real person and not a corporate person! Please click the DONATE button. We'll use it wisely and well.
A better world is possible.
NO on PROP 14!
Monday May 31st, 2010
See the blog entry, second one down.
Please vote on Tuesday, June 8. After the polls close, join our campaign for an Election Night Party; see events page for details.
Focusing on immigration...
Monday May 31st, 2010
A friend forwarded a scary email targeting immigrants this morning, and asked what I thought. The word that comes to mind immediately is scapegoating.
Just when Americans are beginning to understand how the Wall Street banks and mega-corporations have sunk the economy, our attention is being refocused on ... immigrants.
The Wall Street bailouts of $700 Billion cost every man, woman, and child in the U.S. $2,000 each. Then in 2010 the Supreme Court said corporations could give unlimited money to political campaigns. This made regular people angry, no matter what their political affiliation.
Historically, when we look at what has dramatically damaged our economies and budgets, we see how Enron in the late 1990s and early 2000s bought off both Titanic parties in the California legislature, got the laws they wanted, faked energy shortages, and took California for billions. Before that in the 1980s and 1990s the savings and loan crisis resulted in regular people footing the bill to bail out S&Ls. Right now we see oil companies making record profits, paying less and less in taxes, and charging us more and more at the gas pump. "Supply and demand" – does demand refer to demand for higher executive pay?
Immigrants were not involved in any of these devastating economic blows, and yet they have been targeted by some in the government and media and internet to distract our attention from those people and corporations who are really destroying our budgets and economy.
Scapegoating.
Someone came up with the phrase weapons of mass distraction. Let's not let anyone distract us. The mega-corporations and billionaires are the big-money threats working against the California we want: the California that has great schools, parks, libraries, healthcare, transportation, water, and job opportunities – for all of us.
NO on PROP 14!
Thursday May 20th, 2010
Prop 14 is one of those propositions that may sound good, but is terrible!
www.stoptoptwo.org/ gives you a lot more information, but in summary....
Prop 14 pretends to be "open primary," but more accurately should be called "top two," or party-killer! Only two candidates would be left in November, when Prop 14 would exclude all the independent, alternative political parties like the Green Party, Peace and Freedom, and Libertarian. Prop 14 would favor only Democrats and Republicans that are incumbents or highly funded. Even the Democratic and Republican Parties don't like it because it would reduce voter choice within the parties. Mega-corporations, like insurance companies, with their huge campaign contributions - bribes actually - are the chief proponents.
Please vote NO on Prop 14, and spread the word as widely as possible to your California contacts, NORTHERN and SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.
And yes, Prop 16 is also a liar proposition, pretending to be green, but at least PG&E has to admit it's paying for the ads, so we get a clue!
Summary suggestions: new Prop 13 is a mixed bag, NO on Prop 14, YES on Prop 15, NO on Prop 16, and NO on Prop 17.
Thanks for voting.
Gay Rights – It's Time!
Sunday May 16th, 2010
I found it amazing and wonderful that gay rights took a giant leap forward in Mexico City this year, on the same day California students marched for their rights.
March 4th was the day Latin America's first gay-marriage law took effect.
Mexico City's legislature had approved the first law explicitly giving gay marriages the same status as heterosexual ones. The change allows same-sex couples to adopt children, apply for bank loans together, inherit wealth and be included in the insurance policies of their spouse, rights they were denied under civil unions.
Gay rights are coming, and I am so proud to be a candidate of the Green Party whose platform explicitly supports full gay rights.
It’s time!
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