From yamagata at virtual-markets.net Wed Mar 2 11:16:35 2005 From: yamagata at virtual-markets.net (G Richard Yamagata PhD) Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 11:16:35 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Davis Democrats] TONIGHT: Davis Democrat Club board meeting on Wednesday, March 2nd Message-ID: <20050302191635.CBBA620026F8@mx.dcn.davis.ca.us> Greetings Davis Democrat Club Boardmembers, There is a board meeting tonight of the Davis Democrat Club. All members are welcome to attend. Please find the minutes below from the January meeting. There will be 20 copies of the agenda printed out for the meeting. There will be 15 copies of the minutes printed out from the January meeting. Davis Democrat Club Meeting February 16, 2005 This meeting was held at the Blanchard Room in the Yolo County Library. Present (15 members total) were: President: Tony Gruska, Vice President: Absent Treasurer: Betty Weir Recording Secretary: G Richard Yamagata Acting Past President: Bob Bockwinkel Newsletter Editor: Committee representative present Publicity: Barbara Slemmons Special Adjunct Membership Chair: absent Parlimentarian: Arun Sen Board members: Rhonda Gruska, Mary Lou Hernandez, John Chendo, Lyle Smith, Mike Syvanen, Pam Neiberg, Adrienne Kandell, Julia Sanchez. Absent from Meeting: Vice President, Kingsley Melton; Special Liaison, Susan Peter-Thompson; Board Member Max Rothe; Board Member Jim Pollock; Immediate Past Vice President, Joyce Wilson; Board Member, Rick Vulliet. Guests: There were no guests at this meeting. All those present were Davis Democrat Club board members. Tony called the meeting to order at 7:00 PM. MINUTES OF PAST MEETINGS: The minutes from the December 6th meetings were moved for approval by Adrienne Kandell and seconded by Arun Sen. The minutes passed without objections. AGENDA: The agenda was moved for approval by Tony Gruska. It was seconded by Arun Sen. The agenda passed with no objections. OTHER MINUTES The Woodland Democrats were not at this meeting, even though a representative from the group is on the e-mail list. There were no representatives from the Campus Dems, Young Dems nor High School Dems. There was a Young Dems meeting this night, so no representative from that meeting was expected. No Action was required nor taken. TREASUERER'S REPORT It was announced that $11,699.49 was in the club's treasury. The club took in $770 from the Valentine's general meeting and another $405 in dues. We currently have 118 paid memberships. VALENTINE'S GENERAL MEETING Rhonda Gruska gave the report on this general meeting. It was a successful meeting with over sixty people attending. The place was already decorated. Mary Lou brought sandwiches, Mike Syvanen brought a dessert dish and others brought other dessert items. Electeds that attended and spoke were Jim Provenza, Lois Wolk and Mike Machado. Representatives for electeds were Elly Fairclough for US Representative Mike Thompson and Mike Syvanen for Mayor Pro-Tem, Sue Greenwald. The only problem was that no photographer was present at this event. It was stated that whoever is chair of the event in the future should make sure or arrange for a photographer is present. Feedback was that this February event was well-coordinated, there was enough food present and the publicity by Barbara Slemmons was very successful in drawing people to this event. May Lou stated that she woul have liked to have been able to ask more questions before certain electeds left the event. It was stated beforehand that it was known that two of the electeds were coming from work and would make an appearance and leave for home from the event. APRIL GENERAL MEETING It was stated that past April general membership meetings were on coops and political action subjects, like the Patriot Act. Lyle Smith volunteered to chair the April event. He proposed that it center on Schwartzenegger and his initiatives that he plans to have on the November ballot. Lyle wants to talk on how they will adversely affect teachers and health care throughout the state of California. He proposes to issue invitations to speakers that represent teachers, PERS, redistricting, and the CPR budget plans. Arnold's theme or slogan is "starve the monster." Rhonda Gruska make the motion that Lyle will chair the April general membership meeting and that its topic will be California voter initiatives, providing information to help people vote Democrat on them. Adrienne seconded the motion. Barbara asked that a plan be revealed before the next meeting. She wanted a date, time and place to be selected and that she be informed as publicity chair. Betty stated that she wanted the event to be a potluck event. Mike Syvanen stated that the meeting should focus on the state issues as they are affected by party politics. He also suggested that it should be left open to bring in pertinent speakers on timely topics as the situation concerning the voter initiatives develop. Mike stated that even at the time of the meeting, Arnold did not know what was going to be placed on the ballot as a voter initiative. John Chendo volunteered to help contact and bring in grass root speakers and audience. Lyle will decide on the when and where the event will take place. Lyle stated that on the 14th-15th of the month of April that a party convention was taking place and that the event should be after that weekend. It was noted at this time that a thank you card should be sent to Rita Martin and her retirement community for the use of their facilities for the last general membership meeting. It was stated that Norma Turner of 506 Fillmore Court in Davis could be asked to host this event. Adrienne asked at this time that a new agenda item be added -- paper verification of ballots and the Secretary of Sate of California. This was added as the next to last item on the agenda. Betty stated that we need to let the club membership know about what voter initiatives are good and which are bad. Lyle agreed. The motion was called as a question where Lyle will set the program and ask either Norma Turner or Rita Martin to act as host for the location and will set the date and pass the information on to Barbara. This motion passed 13 in support and 1 vote in opposition. CHAMPAGNE BRUNCH Betty volunteered to be chair. Mike Syvanen said that he would help. Tony said that he would coordinate the invitations. Betty will call the Cooks and coordinate the date with them. It will more than likely be in June. Betty explained why they prefer to the have the event in June. The invitations will be in an envelope bearing the Democrat party donkey stamp. The planned speaker will be Phil Angelides. CLUB NEWSLETTER It was stated that Tonya said that she would not make every meeting. She was already working on the next two newsletters and that the March newsletter was ready to be mailed out. John Chendo stated that representatives from the newsletter committee can report. Tony stated that the club can supply articles. Mary Lou stated that we should be helping Tonya out more. This is where the newsletter committee comes in and we have a set of proofreaders as noted in the newsletter. BY-LAWS COMMITTEE John Chendo, chair of the by-laws committee, reported to the board. The next by-laws committee meeting is scheduled for Tuesday at Betty's house at 7:30PM. The purpose, he stated, was to formalize ourselves and to cut down the language in the by-laws. Also, a goal is to clarify the meaning of each section of the bylaws. These are the main goals. On thing that John wants to achieve is to make the club more accessible to the new people that have recently joined the club and that wish to become more involved. To that end, Betty Weir stated that we need to make the general meetings better - more pertinent topics and programs to bring the people to the meetings. John Chendo agreed and said that we need more better programs for each meeting. As for the by-laws, John thinks that we will need more side meeting on them before they are brought forth at a general membership meeting. John wants to hear more ideas about what have been doing in the by-laws committee. The process will take until April. We can have the by-laws approved by the board at the April meeting and then approved by the general meeting later that month. Arun Sen disagreed with that time line assessment. He stated that the committee had spent lost of time going over the by-laws trying to understand the intent of the language when it was written and to make sure that this intent is clear to the first time reader. He stated that he believed that the by-laws will not be ready until 2 to 3 months after the April General Membership Meeting. John Chendo then agreed that it will more than likely be a couple of month after the April meeting that the by-laws will be ready to be voted upon. NEW MEMBERSHIP Rhonda stated that Lois Wolk commented that 77% of Yolo County voted for Kerry. She stated that she did not know why we cannot improve upon that. Betty stated that she has a stack of cards with names of people that were once Davis Democrat Club members and had not paid dues in years. Many of these people still receive the newsletter. Rhonda volunteered to telephone these people to get them to pony up membership dues. Tony stated that he is working with two people, Randy Millikin and Rita Martin, to build the club database and list of members. PAPER BALLOTS AND PAPER VARIFICATION Adrienne Kandel stated that Freddy Oakley, the Yolo County Clerk, supports paper verification of electronic ballots. She is in the minority in the state of California. Adrienne proposes that we stand behind our county clerk. She made the motion that we send a letter to Lois and Mike Machado asking them to take up our position on voter verification on paper of any vote taken in California. John Chendo seconded the motion. The discussion settled on Adrienne writing the letter and Tony signing the letter on behalf or the Davis Democrat Club Executive Board. John Chendo agreed with the statement. He stated we should push our electeds by widely circulating the letter. We should also try to get an op ed piece published in the paper to give our electeds an issue to address. John Chendo volunteered to proofread the letter. The motion was made that Adrienne will write a letter to the California State elections board and copy it to the newspapers. The motion carried unanimously. Lyle Smith commented that we should forward a copy of the letter to MacPherson or whoever gets appointed as Secretary of State. The Woodland Democrat Club is already doing this. We should get the signatures of all of the board members on this letter. He further stated that John Kerry is an advocate of a paper trail for all presidential elections. OLD AND NEW BUSINESS Barbara asked that fixed dates be set for the April General Membership Meeting and that she be informed so she can start promoting the event. Rhonda made a motion to thank Barbara her photo efforts on promoting the Valentine General Membership Meeting and her past work on Davis Enterprise photos to promote past club events. NEXT CLUB MEETING Mike Syvanen asked that the meeting dates be standardized for the Club each month. It can be the first Monday through Thursday, but should be standardized. It was discussed which dates would not work for people. Kingsley and Pam Nieberg cannot make the first Monday of the month. Kingsley was ill tonight and could not make the meeting. Betty seconded this motion. It was decided that the meeting would be the first Tuesday of the month or as close to that date as possible as allowed by the Yolo County Library's booking of the Blanchard Room. ANNOUNCEMENTS The Davis High School Democrats pizza fundraiser was announced. ADJOURNMENT Barbara Slemmons moved for adjournment of the meeting. Richard Yamagata seconded and the motion passed without dissent. The meeting ended at 7:59 PM. From yamagata at virtual-markets.net Fri Mar 18 14:15:42 2005 From: yamagata at virtual-markets.net (G Richard Yamagata PhD) Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 14:15:42 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Davis Democrats] Petition Message-ID: <20050318221542.07F7120023F9@mx.dcn.davis.ca.us> Greetings All, This is from Davis Democrat Club (DDC) board member Adrienne Kandel. Please note that all DDC board members are authorized to post to this list. You must use the e-mail address that you are registered as a user to post to this list. The e-mail address is on the "From" field of this and every e-mail that you receive from the list. Otherwise, send the e-mails to me or any other board member that has this figured out and they can post your e-mail. =========================== Petitions only work if politicians look to elections, and elections only work if votes are counted openly, and recountably with paper trails - not by Republican donors with "black boxes" they promise you are counting votes right - even though ALL the mistakes in the last election were in Bush's favor. So for the Tubbs/Jones/Boxer/Lautenberg/Clinton/Kerry. Count Every Vote Act only has 116,000 citizen sponsors, although the NY Times calls it "the gold standard of election reform." 1. Go to this site to sign on as a citizen cosponsor. http://www.friendsofhillary.com/CountEveryVote 2. Go to this site to ask your Congresspeople and Senators to sign or - or ask them more directly. http://ga4.org/campaign/counteveryvote/d7b7sn9zj83m8e ------------------ FURTHER INFO BELOW, BUT NO NEW TASKS TO DO ------------------------------ Among many other important facets of this legislation, the "Count Every Vote Act" will: * Provide voter-verified paper ballots for every vote cast on electronic machines * Set uniform standards for provisional ballots * Ensure equal access to voting machines and election personnel in every community * Designate Election Day as a federal holiday * Reduce wait times for voters at polling places * Make deceptive voter suppression activities a federal crime * Restrict the political activities of state elections officials and voting machine manufacturers 20 AMAZING FACTS ABOUT THE 2004 ELECTION 1. 80% of all votes in America are counted by only two companies: Diebold and ES&S. 2. There is no federal agency with regulatory authority or oversight of the U.S. voting machine industry. 3. The vice-president of Diebold and the president of ES&S are brothers. 4. The chairman and CEO of Diebold is a major Bush campaign organizer and donor who wrote in 2003 that he was "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year." 5. 35% of ES&S is owned by Republican Senator Chuck Hagel, who became Senator based on votes counted by ES&S machines. 6. Republican Senator Chuck Hagel, a long-time friend of the Bush family, was caught lying about his ownership of ES&S by the Senate Ethics Committee. 7. Senator Chuck Hagel was on a short list of George W. Bush's vice-presidential candidates. 8. ES&S is the largest voting machine manufacturer in the U.S. and counts almost 60% of all U.S. votes. 9. Diebold's new touch screen voting machines have no paper trail of any votes. In other words, there is no way to verify that the data coming out of the machine is the same as what was legitimately put in by voters. 10. Diebold also makes ATMs, checkout scanners, and ticket machines, all of which log each transaction and can generate a paper trail. 11. Diebold is based in Ohio. 12. Diebold employs 5 convicted felons as developers. These are the people who write the voting machine computer code. 13. Diebold's Senior Vice-President, Jeff Dean, was convicted of 23 counts of felony theft in the first degree. 14. Diebold Senior Vice-President Jeff Dean was convicted of planting back doors in his software and using a "high degree of sophistication" to evade detection over a period of 2 years. 15. None of the international election observers were allowed in the polls in Ohio. 16. California banned the use of Diebold machines because the security was so bad. 17. 30% of all U.S. votes are carried out on unverifiable touch screen voting machines with no paper trail. 18. All -- not some -- but all the voting machine errors detected and reported in Florida went in favor of Bush or Republican candidates. 19. Florida's governor, Jeb is Bush's brother. 20. Major voting anomalies in Florida - again always favoring Bush -- have been mathematically demonstrated and questioned by experts. The odds of some of these amazing voting anomalies demonstrated and questioned by experts. The odds of some of these amazing voting anomalies were the equivalent of statistical miracles. -=-=-=-=- Why would anyone dream of allowing "black box" unverifiable voting? 1. Diebold, ES&S, and others say they can't make reliable paper trails that won't jam. WHAT'S WRONG: Diebold makes ATM machines with reliable paper trails that don't jam. 2. They say they need their computer code to be a "trade secret" so you can't even check if they cheated by reading it. WHAT'S WRONG: Any computer programming student can program a computer to offer voter-choice menus, to count votes, and to add votes. Menus, adding and counting may be the simplest operations a computer can do. If the companies want fancy, user-friendly interfaces they can get copyright protection for them the way musicians get copyright protection for their music - they don't have to keep it secret. Even then, the creative part if thinking up the interface (which everyone will see), not translating those thoughts into (routine) computer code. -=-=-=- Democracy has always relied on verifiable, re-countable voting. We used to make fun of totalitarian countries with "pretend" falsifiable voting. Even if you trust today's voting machine makers and the Republican candidates they support, can you trust all future ones that might appear? Have human beings with an opportunity to gain power ever proven to be universally trustworthy?

Petitions only work if politicians look to elections, and elections only work if votes are counted openly, and recountably with paper trails – not by Republican donors with “black boxes” they promise you are counting votes right – even though ALL the mistakes in the last election were in Bush’s favor.

 

So for the Tubbs/Jones/Boxer/Lautenberg/Clinton/Kerry. Count Every Vote Act only has 116,000 citizen sponsors, although the NY Times calls it “the gold standard of election reform.”

 

  1. Go to this site to sign on as a citizen cosponsor.

 

http://www.friendsofhillar y.com/CountEveryVote

 

 

2.  Go to this site to ask your Congresspeople and Senators to sign or – or ask them more directly.

 

http://ga4.org/ campaign/counteveryvote/d7b7sn9zj83m8e

 

------------------  FURTHER INFO BELOW, BUT NO NEW TASKS TO DO ------------------------------

Among many other important facets of this legislation, the "Count Every Vote Act" will:

  • Provide voter-verified paper ballots for every vote cast on electronic machines
  • Set uniform standards for provisional ballots
  • Ensure equal access to voting machines and election personnel in every community
  • Designate Election Day as a federal holiday
  • Reduce wait times for voters at polling places
  • Make deceptive voter suppression activities a federal crime
  • Restrict the political activities of state elections officials and voting machine manufacturers

 

20 AMAZING FACTS ABOUT THE 2004 ELECTION

 

1.  80% of all votes in America are counted by only two companies: Diebold and ES&S.

2.  There is no federal agency with regulatory authority or oversight of the U.S. voting machine         industry.

3.  The vice-president of Diebold and the president of ES&S are brothers.

4.  The chairman and CEO of Diebold is a major Bush campaign organizer and donor who wrote in 2003 that he was "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year."

5.  35% of ES&S is owned by Republican Senator Chuck Hagel, who became Senator based on votes counted by ES&S machines.

6.  Republican Senator Chuck Hagel, a long-time friend of the Bush family, was caught lying about his        ownership of ES&S by the Senate Ethics Committee.

7.  Senator Chuck Hagel was on a short list of George W. Bush's vice-presidential candidates.

8. ES&S is the largest voting machine manufacturer

in the U.S. and counts almost 60% of all U.S. votes.

9.  Diebold's new touch screen voting machines have no paper trail of any votes. In other words, there is

no way to verify that the data coming out of the machine is the same as what was legitimately put in by

voters.

10. Diebold also makes ATMs, checkout scanners, and ticket machines, all of which log each transaction and

can generate a paper trail.

11. Diebold is based in Ohio.

12. Diebold employs 5 convicted felons as developers. These are the people who write the voting machine computer code.

13. Diebold's Senior Vice-President, Jeff Dean, was convicted of 23 counts of felony theft in the first degree.

14. Diebold Senior Vice-President Jeff Dean was convicted of planting back doors in his software and

using a "high degree of sophistication" to evade detection over a period of 2 years.

15. None of the international election observers were allowed in the polls in Ohio.

16. California banned the use of Diebold machines because the security was so bad.

17. 30% of all U.S. votes are carried out on unverifiable touch screen voting machines with no

paper trail.

18. All -- not some -- but all the voting machine errors detected and reported in Florida went in favor

of Bush or Republican candidates.

19. Florida's governor, Jeb is Bush's brother.

20. Major voting anomalies in Florida – again always favoring Bush -- have been mathematically

demonstrated and questioned by experts.  The odds of some of these amazing voting anomalies demonstrated and questioned by experts.  The odds of some of these amazing voting anomalies were the equivalent of statistical miracles.

 

-=-=-=-=-

 

Why would anyone dream of allowing “black box” unverifiable voting?

1.       Diebold, ES&S, and others say they can’t make reliable paper trails that won’t jam. 

WHAT’S WRONG:  Diebold makes ATM machines with reliable paper trails that don’t jam.

2.       They say they need their computer code to be a “trade secret” so you can’t even check if they cheated by reading it.

WHAT’S WRONG:  Any computer programming student can program a computer to offer voter-choice menus, to count votes, and to add votes.  Menus, adding and counting may be the simplest operations a computer can do.  If the companies want fancy, user-friendly interfaces they can get copyright protection for them the way musicians get copyright protection for their music – they don’t have to keep it secret.  Even then, the creative part if thinking up the interface (which everyone will see), not translating those thoughts into (routine) computer code.

 

-=-=-=-

 

Democracy has always relied on verifiable, re-countable voting.  We used to make fun of totalitarian countries with “pretend” falsifiable voting. Even if you trust today’s voting machine makers and the Republican candidates they support, can you trust all future ones that might appear?  Have human beings with an opportunity to gain power ever proven to be universally trustworthy?

G Richard Yamagata PhD CEO/President VME Inc. http://www.vme.net/ G Richard Yamagata is a member of the Davis Community Network Board of Directors, Secretary of the Board of Directors for the Davis Democrat Club, President of the board of Virtual Market Enterprises, Inc, Vice President of the Board of the Business Link of Woodland and Davis, and communications liason of the Independent Order of Oddfellows Chapter 169. ========================== The Virtual Markets ============================= Visit The Woodland Opera House at: http://www.vme.net/opera/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Davis Virtual Market - http://virtual-markets.net/vme/ Fresno - http://vme.net/fvm/ Rochester, NY - http://vme.net/rvm/ Sacramento - http://virtual-markets.com/svm/ Vacaville - http://vme.net/vvm/ Woodland - http://vme.net/wvm/ "Pet, Vets, You, and Dr.Sue - http://vme.net/dvm/DrSue/ The thoughts expressed are my own and do not reflect the policies or opinions of DVM, FVM, GVM, RVM, WVM, VVM, VME Inc, DDC, DCN, BLWD, or IOOF. From jac07 at dcn.org Mon Mar 28 20:35:26 2005 From: jac07 at dcn.org (john c.chendo) Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 23:35:26 -0500 (EST) Subject: [Davis Democrats] This is an interesting website Message-ID: <20050329043526.D1EAC37E8C@outbound.capwiz.com> I just took action on this issue and thought you might find it interesting too. protect the filibuster to stop court-packing by bush-cheney. Click on this URL to take action now http://capwiz.com/afj/issues/ If your email program does not recognize the URL as a link, copy the entire URL and paste it into your Web browser. ------------------------------------- Powered by Capitol Advantage, LLC http://www.capitoladvantage.com "Connect and Be Counted" ------------------------------------- From rjgruska at pacbell.net Thu Mar 31 12:17:40 2005 From: rjgruska at pacbell.net (Rhonda Anthony Gruska) Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 12:17:40 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Davis Democrats] Fwd: Dems Meeting Location Message-ID: <20050331201740.23094.qmail@web81104.mail.yahoo.com> Lyle Smith wrote:Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 07:40:43 -0800 (PST) From: Lyle Smith Subject: Dems Meeting Location To: Tony and Rhonda Gruska Tony: I have the clubhouse reserved for the Davis Democratic Club meeting next Tuesday. Date: Tuesday, 5 April Time: 7 - 8 PM Loction: Cranbrook Apartment Clubhouse Address: 955 Cranbrook Court (One block south of J & Covell) Keep hope alive! 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The next week is critical, as the committee works out the details of what will be included in this bill. We need to do everything we can ? right now ? to remind Congress that this budget should reflect the needs of all Americans, not just the wealthy few. It is crucial to let Senators Feinstein and Boxer, and your local congressperson, know that they must fight on our behalf against the proposed budget. What we are hearing from Washington, D.C. is that Congress is not hearing from constituents about these issues. WE CAN HELP MAKE THAT CHANGE ON MARCH 8-10th!!!! If you call on March 8, use the toll free #: 1-800-247-2971. On March 9 or 10, use the following #s: IF YOU CAN MAKE JUST ONE CALL: Senator Feinstein: (202) 224-3841 IF YOU CAN MAKE TWO CALLS: Senator Boxer: (202) 224-3553 IF YOU CAN MAKE THREE CALLS: Your Representative: to look him/her up go to http://www.house.gov/ and enter your zip code. Please spread the words to your members, clients, colleagues, families and friends. 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From jac07 at dcn.org Sat Mar 26 16:31:47 2005 From: jac07 at dcn.org (John Chendo) Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 16:31:47 -0800 Subject: [Davis Democrats] Should CA reject McPherson for Secretary of State In-Reply-To: <20050326095338.879CF2000B97@mx.dcn.davis.ca.us> Message-ID: ---------- From: The Pen Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 02:46:03 -0800 To: jac07 at dcn.org Subject: [SPAM?] Should CA reject McPherson for Secretary of State Special URGENT California ONLY Action Alert!! TELL THEM TO VOTE NO ON BRUCE MCPHERSON FOR SECRETARY OF STATE Please immediately email the five Democrats on the 8-member Assembly Rules Committee. Urge them to vote NO on McPherson for CA Secretary of State. The vote is Tuesday. Monday is a holiday. You can USE THIS FORM to send them ALL your message with one click, right from this email! McPherson wants to bring in a 70-million plus Arnold fundraiser and a Diebold law firm rep to reorganize California's elections. Shades of Florida, 2000. Ohio, 2004. Bad news. Fight back. McPherson's transition team includes Adan Ortega, Jr. "an employee" of a firm (GCG Rose Kindel) that represents Diebold Election Systems. It also includes Steve Merskamer, a Sacramento attorney whose firm represents Citizens to Save California, a 70-million Arnold fundraiser to put Schwartznegger's initiatives on the ballot, including that which will redistrict California to benefit the GOP. Please immediately use this instant email form to send your personal message to the five Democrats on the 8-member Assembly Rules Committee. Urge them to vote NO on McPherson for CA Secretary of State. The vote is Tuesday. Monday is a holiday. SEND YOUR PERSONAL MESSAGE NOW TO ALL YOUR ASSEMBLY MEMBERS (1) Constituent Info: Email: Mr. Mrs. Ms. Miss Dr. First Name: Last Name: Address: Apt/Ste: City: State: AK AL AR AS AZ CA CO CT DC DE FL GA GU HI ID IA IL IN KS KY LA MA MD ME MI MN MO MS MT NC ND NE NH NJ NM NV NY OH OK OR PA PR RI SC SD TN TX UT VT VA VI WA WI WV WY Zip: Phone: (2) Next add your own personal message opposing McPherson: (3) Submit the email addresses of friends to invite to speak out: (4) Now send your messages CALL AND FAX TOO! Assembly member Cindy Montanez 916-319-2039 and/or 818-838-3939 (both voice) 916-319-2139 (fax) Assembly member Joe Baca 916-319-2062 and/or 909-388-1413 (both voice) 916-319-2162 (fax) Assembly member Mervyn M. Dymally 916-319-2052 and/or 310-223-1201 (both voice) Assembly member Betty Karnette 916-319-2054 and 562-997-0794 (both voice) 916-319-2154 (fax) Assembly member Joe Coto 916-319-2023 and/or 408-277-1220 (both voice) 916-319-2123 (fax) Powered by/? 2005 The People's Email Network Patent pending, All rights reserved From jac07 at dcn.org Wed Mar 30 09:12:19 2005 From: jac07 at dcn.org (John Chendo) Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 09:12:19 -0800 Subject: [Davis Democrats] FW: URGENT - Taking On Tom DeLay In-Reply-To: <16334249.1112201148849.JavaMail.SchedTaskAcct@CTSG-WEB01> Message-ID: ---------- From: "Ellen Miller, Campaign for America's Future" Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 11:45:47 -0500 (EST) To: jac07 at dcn.org Subject: URGENT - Taking On Tom DeLay America's Future | www.ourfuture.org Dear John, See the new TV ad created to expose Tom DeLay's dirty deeds to millions of Americans and knock him from his House leadership post. Help us nail "the Hammer!" GO! ? The Campaign for America's Future is set to launch the biggest television ad campaign in our history against the most corrupt -- and one of the most powerful -- politicians in Washington, Tom "the Hammer" DeLay. All Americans -- particularly DeLay's own constituents -- must be made aware of his flagrant and repeated corruption, so that we can work together to knock DeLay from his House leadership post. Help us air a new TV ad to call out DeLay's corruption for hundreds of thousands of his own constituents and upwards of one million Americans. Help us nail "the Hammer!" https://secure.ctsg.com/ourfuture/donate_delay_tv.asp The corruption of today's Congress has reached unparalleled heights, and as with fish, the rot starts at the head. Tom DeLay leads the Republican majority in Congress, and epitomizes the blatant corruption, abuses of power and partisanship all too common among the extreme right wing. Tom DeLay thinks he can wash his hands of corruption. But, no matter how hard he tries, he can't remove the dirt -- because it's a part of him. Here are just a few examples of DeLay's appalling corruption -- which need to be called out and ended once and for all! Taking campaign contributions from a polluting energy company in exchange for what company officials believed would be "a seat at the table" during Energy Bill negotiations. Taking a luxury vacation to Europe bankrolled by an Indian gambling casino, and then killing legislation -- opposed by the casino -- that would have cracked down on online gambling. Strong-arming a Republican member of Congress to side with big drug companies and HMOs during the 2004 Medicare bill. (The Republican colleague originally accused DeLay of outright bribery.) MORE ? Help us expose even more of Tom DeLay's dirty deeds to the American people, so that we can push the Congress to finally wash its hands of Tom DeLay! https://secure.ctsg.com/ourfuture/donate_delay_tv.asp Our plan is to air this ad for a week straight for upwards of 400,000 households -- households full of DeLay's Texas constituents and DC colleagues -- the people with the power to remove him from his House leadership post. For the first $20,000 contributed, the Campaign for America's Future will match every dollar 4-to-1 to expose DeLay's corruption for even more people. With this match, every $10 you contribute will put this ad in front of 160 households for a full week! Please contribute today. https://secure.ctsg.com/ourfuture/donate_delay_tv.asp Tom DeLay once shouted at a government employee who tried to stop him from smoking on government property, "I am the federal government." His arrogance and repeated corruption show a man who believes he's above the law, and who has lost respect for our democracy's checks on absolute power. Let's remind the American public and Tom DeLay both that, in fact, WE are the federal government, and that we won't tolerate corruption in our Congress -- especially among its leaders. Let's show Tom DeLay that although he can't wash his hands of his own corruption, we stand ready to press the Congress to wash its hands of him. https://secure.ctsg.com/ourfuture/donate_delay_tv.asp Thank you again for your support! Sincerely, Ellen S. Miller, Deputy Director Campaign for America's Future P.S. Help us spread the word about Tom DeLay's corruption. Please forward this email to friends and post information about Tom DeLay on your favorite blog! You received this message because jac07 at dcn.org is a member of the mailing list originating from manager at action.ourfuture.org . 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