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

[John Fremont]

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.

On 5/17/2014 4:01 PM, Linda Jupiter wrote:
> The AVA is endorsing Robin Sunbeam.
> Onward,
> Linda
>
>
> Begin forwarded message:
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>> *From: *Wodetzki Tom <tw at mcn.org <mailto: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 <mailto:tw at mcn.org>>
>>
>> /Begin forwarded message from Mark Scaramella at the Anderson Valley 
>> Advertiser (themaj at pacific.net <mailto: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.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> /Original message from Meg Courtney <mcourtney1 at mcn.org 
>> <mailto: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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