<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">The AVA is endorsing Robin Sunbeam.<div>Onward,<br><div apple-content-edited="true">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="font-size: 12px; ">Linda</div></div><div><div style="font-size: 12px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 12px; "><br></div></div></div></span></div></span></div></span></span></div><div><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';">Wodetzki Tom <<a href="mailto:tw@mcn.org">tw@mcn.org</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';"><b>Voting recommendations from the Anderson Valley Advertiser</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';">May 17, 2014 at 3:04:27 PM PDT<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';">TW Wodetzki <<a href="mailto:tw@mcn.org">tw@mcn.org</a>><br></span></div><br><div><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><i><span style="font-size: 15px; ">Begin forwarded message from Mark Scaramella at the Anderson Valley Advertiser </span>(<span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><a href="mailto:themaj@pacific.net">themaj@pacific.net</a>):</span></i></div><br><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><br>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><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><i>Original message from Meg Courtney <<a href="mailto:mcourtney1@mcn.org">mcourtney1@mcn.org</a>><br></i><blockquote type="cite"><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><br><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><br> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Here are my 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></blockquote><br><br></blockquote><br><br></div></div><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>