[Occupymendocino] Fwd: Voting recommendations from the Anderson Valley Advertiser

[Linda Jupiter]

The AVA is endorsing Robin Sunbeam.
Onward,
Linda


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> From: Wodetzki Tom <tw at mcn.org>
> Subject: Voting recommendations from the Anderson Valley Advertiser
> Date: May 17, 2014 at 3:04:27 PM PDT
> To: TW Wodetzki <tw at mcn.org>
> 
> Begin forwarded message from Mark Scaramella at the Anderson Valley Advertiser (themaj at pacific.net):
> 
> Hello Tom,
> We certainly hope you'll include our Ballot recommendations in your
> distribution list(s) as an antidote to the Courtney-Antler mainstream
> suggestions. If anyone thinks that current lousy state of affairs is just
> fine, go ahead and vote for more of the same as suggested by them.
> Mark Scaramella/AVA-Boonville
> 
> WE'VE WRITTEN to the National Greens and the State Greens to find out what
> happened to the Mendocino County Greens. No reply. We know the answer
> anyway. There aren't any. Greens, as an organized political entity. The
> Mendo Greens have always been an extension of Northcoast Democrats,
> although the Green Party, at the national level, puts up smart people who
> really are good on the issues. Mendo puts up candidates who don't seem to
> even know what the issues are.
> HERE IN “PROGRESSIVE” CENTRAL? We finally get a progressive candidate for
> Congress, Norman Solomon, and he can't even pull ten percent of the vote
> against the corporate Democrat, Huffman.
> EVEN WHEN The One True Green, Richard Johnson, still walked among us, a
> pygmy among midgets, at election time, Johnson inevitably wound up with
> the conservative liberals who make up the Democratic Party of Mendocino
> County.
> 5TH DISTRICT SUPERVISOR Dan Hamburg is registered Green but is a
> mainstream Clinton-Obama kind of dude most at home with $45-a- plate Demo
> fundraisers at Coast spas. You will never, ever see a working person — a
> logger, a UPS driver, a vineyard worker — with this crew. They all either
> have the better government jobs or they run vague non-profits, and they
> precisely replicate the secure demographic typical of the state and
> national party. Which is why more than half eligible Americans don't vote,
> and which is why there's no mass Fight Back since the scattered but useful
> Occupy Movement.
> IT'S ALWAYS PUZZLED me how the above Mendo-mentioned can delude themselves
> into thinking that the Democratic Party is the way forward, or is in any
> essential economic policy at all different from Republicans. How could a
> rational person, except maybe for their wives, work up any enthusiasm for,
> say, Wes Chesbro, Mike Thompson, Jared Huffman, Mike McGuire, and now this
> dentist guy from Healdsburg? I don't get it. It does not seem
> intellectually or emotionally possible.
> OF COURSE ingratiating oneself with this caponized crew makes sense if
> you're after a cush local public job, and a couple of them can be fun when
> they're drunk, but politically? They're the enemies of all hope.
> THE DEMOCRATS of Mendocino County have really nice teeth, as do all their
> candidates. I mention it because they've selected a Healdsburg dentist as
> their next Assemblyman. I love dentists! As a profession, dentists have a
> very high incidence of mental illness, right up there with harpists. Every
> dentist I've known has been at least ten degrees off. They get you in the
> chair with all kinds of cotton and green goop in your mouth so you can't
> talk back and here it comes. “I've read your paper, Mr. Anderson, and you
> have the right to say whatever you want, but I think George W. Bush did a
> helluva job.” That isn't an insane opinion per se, but it's not one that
> would go unchallenged if you could talk back. But a Democrat dentist like
> candidate Wood, doesn't have to be a Republican because his party, in its
> essentials, is Republican Lite.
> WHERE WERE WE? Although Hamburg is a registered Green, he's a big gun with
> the Democrats; he was elected to Congress as a Democrat. And, obviously,
> he's a Democrat who, like the rest of them, will tromp to the polls for
> Hillary, a Republican. And they'll all vote for the Healdsburg dentist,
> the anointed Assemblyman for the Northcoast. (All candidates for higher
> office are selected by the existing officeholders supported by a handful
> of active Marin, Mendo, and SoCo Democrats — middle of the road
> extremists. Their support base is heavy on doctors and lawyers, the winery
> and vineyard gangs, government bureaucrats, the panjandrums of the
> non-profits, and white collar unionists more or less represented by SEIU
> and the effete teacher's apparatuses.)
> JUST THE OTHER DAY, I got a flier from Jim Wood for Assembly. His flier
> was almost identical to the one I got from Mike McGuire for State Senate.
> Like McGuire, Wood is depicted in action as A WARM, WONDERFUL HUMAN BEING.
> He's picking up trash by a stream; he's holding an apple as he chats with
> a Senior Citizen; he's grinning at a wholesome-looking couple at a
> farmer's market; and he's walking a dog. By gumbo, Jim's the man for me!
> NO, HE ISN'T. I always vote for the third party candidate, never for a
> person who stoops to big color glossies of himself in yuppo contexts. Or
> any context at all that has nothing to do with the American reality. Which
> is: A clear majority of Americans are struggling, and the reason they're
> struggling is because the interchangeable political parties have been
> bought up by the oligarchs. The everyday citizen is represented by exactly
> no one. And the Democrats of the Northcoast aim to keep it that way.
> * * *
> THE AVA RECOMMENDS
> We vote on the assumption that the two-party system has broken down, that
> Big Money owns both of them to the detriment of most of us. We vote either
> Green or Peace and Freedom.
> GOVERNOR: Luis Rodriguez, Green.
> LT. GOV: An office that need not exist, but since it doesn, Jena Goodman,
> Green.
> SEC. OF STATE: David Curtis who, unfortunately, lists himself as a "dad,"
> indicating he's a mawk-brained, aw isn't that cute kinda dude, the type
> young people would refer to as a "doosh." Or Curtis really believes
> fatherhood qualifies him for state office, in which case he's mentally
> disabled. Still and all, he isn't one of them.
> CONTROLLER: Laura Wells. Caught a clip of her once on the news. Very
> smart, all-round impressive. Ms. Wells makes her way as a financial
> analyst, which means she understands how money works. Her opponents know
> how to take money but aren't about to manage it in your interests.
> TREASURER: Ellen Brown. Another intelligent, capable person who has
> written a book on banking. The only truly qualified person in the race.
> ATTY GENERAL: Kamala Harris. Hey, didn't you just tell us not to vote for
> Democrats or Republicans because they're basically one party? Well, yes,
> but I happen to know Ms. Harris in a casual, purely happenstance kind of
> way and I know for a face-to-face fact she's the goods! Honest,
> articulate, very smart and unafraid to take on the great malefactors of
> wealth.
> INSURANCE COMMISSIONER: Nathalie Hrizi. "Nat," as we call her, actually
> works for a living as a school teacher. Probably no match for the thugs of
> the insurance ponzis, but she's unlikely to be in their pay as
> Commissioners usually are.
> EQUALIZATION BOARD, 2ND DISTRICT: You'll have to write someone in here.
> The choice is between a career officeholding Democrat and a wacky
> Republican, pardon the redundancy, called James Theis, who says he's an
> "organic foods manager," meaning he wears surgical gloves when he stacks
> the tofu and reads Ayn Rand on his coffee breaks.
> CONGRESS: Another write-in although it's tempting to vote for Dale
> Mensing, a supermarket cashier but a Republican, meaning he must have some
> real life work experience from which he has obviously drawn the wrong
> conclusions. I can just hear him at the register: "Psst. Did you know that
> Obama isn't even a citizen? Elect me and I'll tell everyone why Building 7
> collapsed." Andy Caffrey of Garberville is also running again on a Dope Is
> Good platform. Sorry, Andy, look what's dope done to your hometown and the
> rest of the Emerald Triangle. Incumbent Huffman, who may actually be
> incumbent Mike Thompson, has performed as all Demo Party hacks perform,
> unfailingly taking his cues from party central. No indication from the
> robotic former volleyball player that he represents anything but more of
> the same.
> STATE SENATOR: Write someone in, although a friend whose judgement I trust
> said Derek Knell, a Democrat, was the most impressive of the candidates at
> the recent Ukiah forum.
> ASSEMBLY: Write-in. Amusing as perennial recreational candidate Pam
> Elizondo (The Flower of Laytonville!) can be, she's about as green as
> Colin Kaepernick.The old girl would be a hoot in office, though.
> STATE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS: Write-in. Too depressing to even joke
> about. The latest test scores reveal that only a minority of children are
> even reading up to grade level. And these three cretinous career
> "educators" think all the system needs is a little fine-tuning.
> COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS: Kathy Wylie. Despite a limping prose
> style, a capable person and clearly the pick of this particular litter.
> 5TH DISTRICT SUPERVISOR: Dan Hamburg is running unopposed, which again
> demonstrates that, well, Hamburg should not only be opposed, the pious
> crackpot shouldn't be in the job in the first place. Write in Mark
> Scaramella.
> ASSESSOR-CLERK-RECORDER: Robin Sunbeam, simply because she's willing to
> challenge mortgage fraud. Nothing against incumbent Ranochak who's been
> good at the job, but given the times go for the insurgent at every
> opportunity.
> AUDITOR-CONTROLLER: Write-in. Incumbent Weer is same old, same old, and a
> minor contributor to THE ENTROPY! .
> DISTRICT ATTORNEY: David Eyster is running unopposed because Mendocino
> County's lawyers, as a group, are a club-like gang of electoral wimps.
> It's hard to believe that not one of them would run against Clay Brennan
> for the Superior Court sinecure, but none did. Of course there's no real
> reason to challenge Eyster who's done a good job, but one would think the
> DEAD DOG faction unhappy with the DA's pot prosecution policy, a faction
> that includes a bunch of cops and at least one lawyer, would run their
> lawyer buddy against Eyster. Woof-woof, Dead Dogs! Yer really a buncha
> poodles. Eyster for DA.
> TREASURER-TAX COLLECTOR: Shari Schapmire is running unopposed. And why
> not. She's doing fine. Go ahead for the incumbent.
> PROP 41: Vet's Housing. Of course. Yes. (The state has floated so many
> bonds over the last 50 years and, like Mendocino County is so thoroughly
> broke via pension obligations, what's one more mound of debt? It's all
> going to come crumbling down, probably sooner than later, especially now
> that our government is simply printing money to keep the ever larger
> balloon in the air. When that baby pops the only people likely to be
> unaffected are those people with chickens and a cow in their backyards.)
> PROP 42: Public records, open meetings etc. No. Net effect would be to
> encourage government non-compliance. Public Records Act is fine as it is.
> 
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> Original message from Meg Courtney <mcourtney1 at mcn.org>
>>> These are Steve Antler's suggestions. I would not vote this way for
>>> Accessor but agree with the rest. As I told you I've met Jim Wood maybe
>>> 4
>>> times that he has been in Fort Bragg.  Mike McGuire I've met once, and
>>> they are both good guys. Betty Yee I met the other evening at a Democrat
>>> deal and she is smart and Progressive with a capital P.
>>> Huffman is doing a great job, and he is another one who has been totally
>>> available.
>>> Meg
>>> 
>>>> Dear friends,   Fill out your ballots and mail them in NOW!  One reason
>>>> the country is such a mess is that the Republicans (who deny climate
>>>> change, voted down the raise in the minimum wage and have stalled every
>>>> useful program) know how to agitate their base and get them to vote.
>>>> Progressive thinking people need to vote if we are ever going to move
>>>> this country aheadSteve Antler
>>>> 
>>>>    	Here are my suggestions:
>>>> State Senate: Mike McGuire
>>>> State Assembly: Jim Wood
>>>> State Superintendent of schools: Tom Torlakson-
>>>> County School superintendent: Paul Joens-Poulton
>>>> Assessor-County Clerk: Robin Sunbeam
>>>> Supervisor: Dan Hamburg
>>>> Obviously: Jerry Brown-governor
>>>> Gavin Newsom--Lt. Governor
>>>> ?? Alex Padilla- Secretary of State ??
>>>> Betty Yee--Controller
>>>> John Chang--Treasurer
>>>> Kamala Harris--atty general
>>>> David Jones--Insurance Commissioner
>>>> Fiona Ma-Board of Equalization
>>>> Congress: Jared Huffman
>>>> Yes on propositions 41 & 42
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