Carly the Clunker
Last Updated (Wednesday, 03 February 2010 22:05)Written by AdministratorThursday, 07 January 2010 15:09
The California Republican Party has a used clunker that it wants to sell you.
If you were a corporation looking for a CEO would you hire one that:
As a voter, should you support someone:
Who didn't even bother to VOTE in nealy 75% of the elections since 2000, including all gubernatorial elections and presidential primaries? Here's what she says about herself:
:
If you were a corporation looking for a CEO would you hire one that:
- Has been cited as one of the "The 20 Worst American CEOs of all time"?
- That took an $80 Billion company (Hewlett Packard) and, before being dumped as CEO, drove its stock value DOWN SIXTY percent. (By comparison, during the same period its competitor, Dell, saw its stock value go UP EIGHT percent.) ?
- That fired 28,000 American workers, but also pushed for expansion of the H1B visa program to bring foreign high tech workers into the U.S.?
- That had her company surreptitiously avoid the trade boycott of Iran ?
As a voter, should you support someone:
Who didn't even bother to VOTE in nealy 75% of the elections since 2000, including all gubernatorial elections and presidential primaries? Here's what she says about herself:
:
"I'm a lifelong registered Republican but I haven't always voted, and I will provide no excuse for it. You know, people die for the right to vote. And there are many, many Californians and Americans who exercise that civic duty on a regular basis. I didn't."
Alternative analysis:
"During her reign at Hewlett-Packard, according to public records, her corporation spent $4.7 million to lobby Congress and donated more than $390,000 to political candidates through its political action committee. Fiorina and her husband, Frank, a former AT&T executive, have made more than $100,000 in political donations personally since 2000."
"That suggests not that Fiorina "felt disconnected" from what was going on in Washington, but rather that she understood all too well that in politics, money talks. Why bother to vote when you can get what you need with greenbacks?"
Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 11/05/2009
"During her reign at Hewlett-Packard, according to public records, her corporation spent $4.7 million to lobby Congress and donated more than $390,000 to political candidates through its political action committee. Fiorina and her husband, Frank, a former AT&T executive, have made more than $100,000 in political donations personally since 2000."
"That suggests not that Fiorina "felt disconnected" from what was going on in Washington, but rather that she understood all too well that in politics, money talks. Why bother to vote when you can get what you need with greenbacks?"
Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 11/05/2009
Learn more about Carly "the Clunker" Failorina at http://carlyfailorina.com
Barbara Boxer - California's Senator
Last Updated (Wednesday, 31 December 1969 11:00)Written by AdministratorThursday, 07 January 2010 20:20
Barbara Boxer - California's SenatorConsider these facts about the Best Senator in Washington DC
- Authored the bipartisan Invest in the U.S.A. Act, to encourage companies to bring overseas profits back to the United States
- Called for ending the tax break that companies receive for moving plants overseas.
- Wrote the first-ever law to authorize federal funding for afterschool programs.
- Wrote the law that provides businesses with an enhanced tax credit for donating computer equipment to schools, and she is a strong supporter of the tax deduction to help pay for the costs of a college education.
- Authored one of the first bills in the Senate to combat HMO abuses and to enact a Patients’ Bill of Rights - so that medical decisions are made by doctors and patients, not HMO bureaucrats. She has written a bill to provide a tax deduction to help pay for the cost of health insurance premiums, and she believes that all Americans should have access to the same health insurance program that members of Congress have.
- Supports allowing Americans to purchase lower-cost prescription drugs from Canada. And, she has been a strong advocate for increasing medical research funding to find cures for diseases.
- Chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee
- Wrote the law to ensure that drinking water standards are set to protect children and other vulnerable populations and fought the Bush Administration’s attempt to allow more arsenic in drinking water since 2005.
- Won passage of legislation to protect as wilderness more than one million acres of pristine land in California.
- Authored and fought for a bill to increase security in our transportation system and at our ports as well as to provide assistance to local first responders following the September 11 attacks. Wrote the law allowing airline pilots with special training to carry guns in the cockpit, the law requiring that air marshals are on board all high-risk flights, and the law that ensures California’s entire rail system is eligible for security grants to protect against possible terrorist attacks
- Authored the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), which became law in 1994 as part of the comprehensive federal Crime Bill.
- Strong advocate of the COPS program to put more police on the streets and directing stimulus funding to the COPS program.
- Serves on the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, where she is a member of the following Subcommittees: Consumer Protection, Product Safety and Insurance; Aviation Operations and Security; Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries and Coast Guard; Science and Space; and Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine Infrastructure, Safety and Security.
- Foreign Relations Committee, Boxer chairs the Subcommittee on International Operations and Organizations, Human Rights, Democracy and Global Women’s Issues.
In 2004, she received more than 6.9 million votes - the highest vote total for any Senate candidate in U.S. history.
SLO County DCC Health Care Resolution
Last Updated (Thursday, 13 August 2009 19:29)Thursday, 13 August 2009 18:54
August 12, 2009SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY DEMOCRATIC PARTY CENTRAL COMMITTEE
RESOLUTION PLEDGING SUPPORT OF CANDIDATES & LEGISLATORS
WHO STRONGLY SUPPORT A SINGLE-PAYER
OR
ROBUST PUBLIC HEALTH CARE OPTION
Whereas, private insurance corporations have created a dysfunctional system that is profitable for themselves while placing an enormously excessive burden on our economy, and,
Whereas, this dysfunctional system leaves 50 million Americans uninsured and even more Americans under-insured and at risk of personal bankruptcy should they suffer a significant health problem, and
Whereas, single-payer systems such as Medicare, Medicaid, and the Veterans Administration have delivered high quality healthcare at the lowest cost, and,
Whereas, individual states should be able to adopt comprehensive single-payer systems within any federal framework,
It is hereby resolved that,
The Democratic Party of San Luis Obispo County hereby pledges its support only to those Democratic candidates and legislators who will strongly support with their legislative votes either a national single-payer healthcare system or a robust public option healthcare system that allows individual states to enact a statewide comprehensive single-payer plans.
The Corresponding Secretary shall issue copies of this Resolution to the Speaker of the State Assembly, the Senate Pro Tem, the California members of the House of Representatives, both California U.S. Senators, the California Democratic Party’s Resolutions Committee Chair, and to such media outlets as are convenient and appropriate.
On Motion of ____John Barta_______, Seconded by __Ron Sampson___, the above resolution was adopted by a unanimous voice vote of the San Luis Obispo County Democratic Party Central Committee.
Whereas, this dysfunctional system leaves 50 million Americans uninsured and even more Americans under-insured and at risk of personal bankruptcy should they suffer a significant health problem, and
Whereas, single-payer systems such as Medicare, Medicaid, and the Veterans Administration have delivered high quality healthcare at the lowest cost, and,
Whereas, individual states should be able to adopt comprehensive single-payer systems within any federal framework,
It is hereby resolved that,
The Democratic Party of San Luis Obispo County hereby pledges its support only to those Democratic candidates and legislators who will strongly support with their legislative votes either a national single-payer healthcare system or a robust public option healthcare system that allows individual states to enact a statewide comprehensive single-payer plans.
The Corresponding Secretary shall issue copies of this Resolution to the Speaker of the State Assembly, the Senate Pro Tem, the California members of the House of Representatives, both California U.S. Senators, the California Democratic Party’s Resolutions Committee Chair, and to such media outlets as are convenient and appropriate.
On Motion of ____John Barta_______, Seconded by __Ron Sampson___, the above resolution was adopted by a unanimous voice vote of the San Luis Obispo County Democratic Party Central Committee.
Dated: August 12, 2009 Attest:
____________________________ __________________________
Mark Buchman, Chair Presiding Stew Jenkins, Recording Secretary
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