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Change will not come from above, which is not to say don't vote but
don't pin your hopes on anyone but yourself, your friends, your
community. Reach out. Talk about it.<br>
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The AVA is endorsing Robin Sunbeam.
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<div>Hello Tom,<br>
We certainly hope you'll include our Ballot
recommendations in your<br>
distribution list(s) as an antidote to the
Courtney-Antler mainstream<br>
suggestions. If anyone thinks that current lousy
state of affairs is just<br>
fine, go ahead and vote for more of the same as
suggested by them.<br>
Mark Scaramella/AVA-Boonville<br>
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WE'VE WRITTEN to the National Greens and the State
Greens to find out what<br>
happened to the Mendocino County Greens. No reply.
We know the answer<br>
anyway. There aren't any. Greens, as an organized
political entity. The<br>
Mendo Greens have always been an extension of
Northcoast Democrats,<br>
although the Green Party, at the national level,
puts up smart people who<br>
really are good on the issues. Mendo puts up
candidates who don't seem to<br>
even know what the issues are.<br>
HERE IN “PROGRESSIVE” CENTRAL? We finally get a
progressive candidate for<br>
Congress, Norman Solomon, and he can't even pull ten
percent of the vote<br>
against the corporate Democrat, Huffman.<br>
EVEN WHEN The One True Green, Richard Johnson, still
walked among us, a<br>
pygmy among midgets, at election time, Johnson
inevitably wound up with<br>
the conservative liberals who make up the Democratic
Party of Mendocino<br>
County.<br>
5TH DISTRICT SUPERVISOR Dan Hamburg is registered
Green but is a<br>
mainstream Clinton-Obama kind of dude most at home
with $45-a- plate Demo<br>
fundraisers at Coast spas. You will never, ever see
a working person — a<br>
logger, a UPS driver, a vineyard worker — with this
crew. They all either<br>
have the better government jobs or they run vague
non-profits, and they<br>
precisely replicate the secure demographic typical
of the state and<br>
national party. Which is why more than half eligible
Americans don't vote,<br>
and which is why there's no mass Fight Back since
the scattered but useful<br>
Occupy Movement.<br>
IT'S ALWAYS PUZZLED me how the above Mendo-mentioned
can delude themselves<br>
into thinking that the Democratic Party is the way
forward, or is in any<br>
essential economic policy at all different from
Republicans. How could a<br>
rational person, except maybe for their wives, work
up any enthusiasm for,<br>
say, Wes Chesbro, Mike Thompson, Jared Huffman, Mike
McGuire, and now this<br>
dentist guy from Healdsburg? I don't get it. It does
not seem<br>
intellectually or emotionally possible.<br>
OF COURSE ingratiating oneself with this caponized
crew makes sense if<br>
you're after a cush local public job, and a couple
of them can be fun when<br>
they're drunk, but politically? They're the enemies
of all hope.<br>
THE DEMOCRATS of Mendocino County have really nice
teeth, as do all their<br>
candidates. I mention it because they've selected a
Healdsburg dentist as<br>
their next Assemblyman. I love dentists! As a
profession, dentists have a<br>
very high incidence of mental illness, right up
there with harpists. Every<br>
dentist I've known has been at least ten degrees
off. They get you in the<br>
chair with all kinds of cotton and green goop in
your mouth so you can't<br>
talk back and here it comes. “I've read your paper,
Mr. Anderson, and you<br>
have the right to say whatever you want, but I think
George W. Bush did a<br>
helluva job.” That isn't an insane opinion per se,
but it's not one that<br>
would go unchallenged if you could talk back. But a
Democrat dentist like<br>
candidate Wood, doesn't have to be a Republican
because his party, in its<br>
essentials, is Republican Lite.<br>
WHERE WERE WE? Although Hamburg is a registered
Green, he's a big gun with<br>
the Democrats; he was elected to Congress as a
Democrat. And, obviously,<br>
he's a Democrat who, like the rest of them, will
tromp to the polls for<br>
Hillary, a Republican. And they'll all vote for the
Healdsburg dentist,<br>
the anointed Assemblyman for the Northcoast. (All
candidates for higher<br>
office are selected by the existing officeholders
supported by a handful<br>
of active Marin, Mendo, and SoCo Democrats — middle
of the road<br>
extremists. Their support base is heavy on doctors
and lawyers, the winery<br>
and vineyard gangs, government bureaucrats, the
panjandrums of the<br>
non-profits, and white collar unionists more or less
represented by SEIU<br>
and the effete teacher's apparatuses.)<br>
JUST THE OTHER DAY, I got a flier from Jim Wood for
Assembly. His flier<br>
was almost identical to the one I got from Mike
McGuire for State Senate.<br>
Like McGuire, Wood is depicted in action as A WARM,
WONDERFUL HUMAN BEING.<br>
He's picking up trash by a stream; he's holding an
apple as he chats with<br>
a Senior Citizen; he's grinning at a
wholesome-looking couple at a<br>
farmer's market; and he's walking a dog. By gumbo,
Jim's the man for me!<br>
NO, HE ISN'T. I always vote for the third party
candidate, never for a<br>
person who stoops to big color glossies of himself
in yuppo contexts. Or<br>
any context at all that has nothing to do with the
American reality. Which<br>
is: A clear majority of Americans are struggling,
and the reason they're<br>
struggling is because the interchangeable political
parties have been<br>
bought up by the oligarchs. The everyday citizen is
represented by exactly<br>
no one. And the Democrats of the Northcoast aim to
keep it that way.<br>
* * *<br>
THE AVA RECOMMENDS<br>
We vote on the assumption that the two-party system
has broken down, that<br>
Big Money owns both of them to the detriment of most
of us. We vote either<br>
Green or Peace and Freedom.<br>
GOVERNOR: Luis Rodriguez, Green.<br>
LT. GOV: An office that need not exist, but since it
doesn, Jena Goodman,<br>
Green.<br>
SEC. OF STATE: David Curtis who, unfortunately,
lists himself as a "dad,"<br>
indicating he's a mawk-brained, aw isn't that cute
kinda dude, the type<br>
young people would refer to as a "doosh." Or Curtis
really believes<br>
fatherhood qualifies him for state office, in which
case he's mentally<br>
disabled. Still and all, he isn't one of them.<br>
CONTROLLER: Laura Wells. Caught a clip of her once
on the news. Very<br>
smart, all-round impressive. Ms. Wells makes her way
as a financial<br>
analyst, which means she understands how money
works. Her opponents know<br>
how to take money but aren't about to manage it in
your interests.<br>
TREASURER: Ellen Brown. Another intelligent, capable
person who has<br>
written a book on banking. The only truly qualified
person in the race.<br>
ATTY GENERAL: Kamala Harris. Hey, didn't you just
tell us not to vote for<br>
Democrats or Republicans because they're basically
one party? Well, yes,<br>
but I happen to know Ms. Harris in a casual, purely
happenstance kind of<br>
way and I know for a face-to-face fact she's the
goods! Honest,<br>
articulate, very smart and unafraid to take on the
great malefactors of<br>
wealth.<br>
INSURANCE COMMISSIONER: Nathalie Hrizi. "Nat," as we
call her, actually<br>
works for a living as a school teacher. Probably no
match for the thugs of<br>
the insurance ponzis, but she's unlikely to be in
their pay as<br>
Commissioners usually are.<br>
EQUALIZATION BOARD, 2ND DISTRICT: You'll have to
write someone in here.<br>
The choice is between a career officeholding
Democrat and a wacky<br>
Republican, pardon the redundancy, called James
Theis, who says he's an<br>
"organic foods manager," meaning he wears surgical
gloves when he stacks<br>
the tofu and reads Ayn Rand on his coffee breaks.<br>
CONGRESS: Another write-in although it's tempting to
vote for Dale<br>
Mensing, a supermarket cashier but a Republican,
meaning he must have some<br>
real life work experience from which he has
obviously drawn the wrong<br>
conclusions. I can just hear him at the register:
"Psst. Did you know that<br>
Obama isn't even a citizen? Elect me and I'll tell
everyone why Building 7<br>
collapsed." Andy Caffrey of Garberville is also
running again on a Dope Is<br>
Good platform. Sorry, Andy, look what's dope done to
your hometown and the<br>
rest of the Emerald Triangle. Incumbent Huffman, who
may actually be<br>
incumbent Mike Thompson, has performed as all Demo
Party hacks perform,<br>
unfailingly taking his cues from party central. No
indication from the<br>
robotic former volleyball player that he represents
anything but more of<br>
the same.<br>
STATE SENATOR: Write someone in, although a friend
whose judgement I trust<br>
said Derek Knell, a Democrat, was the most
impressive of the candidates at<br>
the recent Ukiah forum.<br>
ASSEMBLY: Write-in. Amusing as perennial
recreational candidate Pam<br>
Elizondo (The Flower of Laytonville!) can be, she's
about as green as<br>
Colin Kaepernick.The old girl would be a hoot in
office, though.<br>
STATE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS: Write-in. Too
depressing to even joke<br>
about. The latest test scores reveal that only a
minority of children are<br>
even reading up to grade level. And these three
cretinous career<br>
"educators" think all the system needs is a little
fine-tuning.<br>
COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS: Kathy Wylie.
Despite a limping prose<br>
style, a capable person and clearly the pick of this
particular litter.<br>
5TH DISTRICT SUPERVISOR: Dan Hamburg is running
unopposed, which again<br>
demonstrates that, well, Hamburg should not only be
opposed, the pious<br>
crackpot shouldn't be in the job in the first place.
Write in Mark<br>
Scaramella.<br>
ASSESSOR-CLERK-RECORDER: Robin Sunbeam, simply
because she's willing to<br>
challenge mortgage fraud. Nothing against incumbent
Ranochak who's been<br>
good at the job, but given the times go for the
insurgent at every<br>
opportunity.<br>
AUDITOR-CONTROLLER: Write-in. Incumbent Weer is same
old, same old, and a<br>
minor contributor to THE ENTROPY! .<br>
DISTRICT ATTORNEY: David Eyster is running unopposed
because Mendocino<br>
County's lawyers, as a group, are a club-like gang
of electoral wimps.<br>
It's hard to believe that not one of them would run
against Clay Brennan<br>
for the Superior Court sinecure, but none did. Of
course there's no real<br>
reason to challenge Eyster who's done a good job,
but one would think the<br>
DEAD DOG faction unhappy with the DA's pot
prosecution policy, a faction<br>
that includes a bunch of cops and at least one
lawyer, would run their<br>
lawyer buddy against Eyster. Woof-woof, Dead Dogs!
Yer really a buncha<br>
poodles. Eyster for DA.<br>
TREASURER-TAX COLLECTOR: Shari Schapmire is running
unopposed. And why<br>
not. She's doing fine. Go ahead for the incumbent.<br>
PROP 41: Vet's Housing. Of course. Yes. (The state
has floated so many<br>
bonds over the last 50 years and, like Mendocino
County is so thoroughly<br>
broke via pension obligations, what's one more mound
of debt? It's all<br>
going to come crumbling down, probably sooner than
later, especially now<br>
that our government is simply printing money to keep
the ever larger<br>
balloon in the air. When that baby pops the only
people likely to be<br>
unaffected are those people with chickens and a cow
in their backyards.)<br>
PROP 42: Public records, open meetings etc. No. Net
effect would be to<br>
encourage government non-compliance. Public Records
Act is fine as it is.<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">These are Steve Antler's
suggestions. I would not vote this way for<br>
Accessor but agree with the rest. As I told you
I've met Jim Wood maybe<br>
4<br>
times that he has been in Fort Bragg. Mike
McGuire I've met once, and<br>
they are both good guys. Betty Yee I met the
other evening at a Democrat<br>
deal and she is smart and Progressive with a
capital P.<br>
Huffman is doing a great job, and he is another
one who has been totally<br>
available.<br>
Meg<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">Dear friends, Fill out
your ballots and mail them in NOW! One reason<br>
the country is such a mess is that the
Republicans (who deny climate<br>
change, voted down the raise in the minimum
wage and have stalled every<br>
useful program) know how to agitate their base
and get them to vote.<br>
Progressive thinking people need to vote if we
are ever going to move<br>
this country aheadSteve Antler<br>
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suggestions:<br>
State Senate: Mike McGuire<br>
State Assembly: Jim Wood<br>
State Superintendent of schools: Tom
Torlakson-<br>
County School superintendent: Paul
Joens-Poulton<br>
Assessor-County Clerk: Robin Sunbeam<br>
Supervisor: Dan Hamburg<br>
Obviously: Jerry Brown-governor<br>
Gavin Newsom--Lt. Governor<br>
?? Alex Padilla- Secretary of State ??<br>
Betty Yee--Controller<br>
John Chang--Treasurer<br>
Kamala Harris--atty general<br>
David Jones--Insurance Commissioner<br>
Fiona Ma-Board of Equalization<br>
Congress: Jared Huffman<br>
Yes on propositions 41 & 42</blockquote>
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