Congressman
Pete Stark's Town Hall Meeting Saturday, August 15,
2009
As you know, there is a concerted
effort on the part of right-wing conservatives to disrupt predominantly
Democratic elected town hall meetings. Our very own Congressman Stark has
been "selected" for distruption for his upcoming town hall meetings.
Below is a list of his meetings
on Saturday.
Saturday August 15th
NO
- Proposition 1D Protects Children's
Services Funding. Helps Balance State Budget.
NO
- Proposition 1E Mental Health
Services Funding. Temporary Reallocation. Helps Balance State Budget.
YES
- Proposition 1F Elected Officials'
Salaries. Prevents Pay Increases During Budget Deficit Years.
California
Democratic Party OFFICIAL
Recommendations - May 19, 2009
May 19, 2009 Special Election
Propositions
Neutral - Proposition
1A State Budget. Changes California Budget
Process. Limits State Spending. Increases "Rainy Day" Budget Stabilization
Fund. Increases size of state "rainy day" fund
from 5% to 12.5% of the General Fund. A portion of the annual deposits
into that fund would be dedicated to savings for future economic downturns,
and the remainder would be available to fund education, infrastructure,
and debt repayment, or for use in a declared emergency. Requires additional
revenue above historic trends to be deposited into state "rainy day" fund,
limiting spending.
Support - Proposition
1B Education Funding. Payment Plan. Requires supplemental payments to local
school districts and community colleges to address recent budget cuts.
Annual payments begin in 2011–12. Payments are funded from the state's
Budget Stabilization Fund until the total amount has been paid. Payments
to local school districts will be allocated in proportion to average daily
attendance and may be used for classroom instruction, textbooks and other
local educational programs.
Support - Proposition
1C Lottery Modernization Act. Allows the state lottery to be modernized
to improve its performance with increased payouts, improved marketing,
and effective management. Requires the state to maintain ownership of the
lottery and authorizes additional accountability measures. Protects funding
levels for schools currently provided by lottery revenues. Increased lottery
revenues will be used to address current budget deficit and reduce the
need for additional tax increases and cuts to state programs.
Neutral - Proposition
1D Protects Children's Services Funding.
Helps Balance State Budget. Provides more than $600 million to protect
children's programs in difficult economic times. Redirects existing tobacco
tax money to protect health and human services for children, including
services for at-risk families, services for children with disabilities,
and services for foster children. Temporarily allows the redirection of
existing money to fund health and human service programs for children 5
years old and under. Ensures counties retain funding for local priorities.
Helps balance state budget.
Neutral - Proposition
1E Mental Health Services Funding. Temporary
Reallocation. Helps Balance State Budget. Amends Mental Health Services Act (Proposition
63 of 2004) to transfer funds, for a two-year period, from mental health
programs under that Act to pay for mental health services for children
and young adults provided through the Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis,
and Treatment Program. Provides more than $225 million in flexible funding
for mental health programs. Helps balance state budget during this difficult
economic time.
Support - Proposition
1F Elected Officials' Salaries. Prevents
Pay Increases During Budget Deficit Years. Encourages balanced state budgets by preventing
elected Members of the Legislature and statewide constitutional officers,
including the Governor, from receiving pay raises in years when the state
is running a deficit. Directs the Director of Finance to determine whether
a given year is a deficit year. Prevents the Citizens Compensation Commission
from increasing elected officials' salaries in years when the state Special
Fund for Economic Uncertainties is in the negative by an amount equal to
or greater than one percent of the General Fund.
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Adopted by the Democratic State Central
Committee of California
AKA "California Democratic Party"
At its Annual State Convention
Sacramento Convention Center
April 26, 2009
Civil Rights
Victory and Civil Rights Lost by Bob Swanson
Castro Valley Democratic Club Webmaster
November 9, 2008
I felt an extraordinary exhilaration in
the milestone victory of civil rights with the election of our first African
American President Barack Obama.
Then my exhilaration
was diminished with the knowledge that on the same ballot the civil rights
of a minority were trampled on by what I hoped to be an enlightened electorate.
Haven't we learned
that freedom, the liberty to live the way we wish is the ideal of this
nation under god?
Somewhere between
5 to 10% of our state have been stripped of their inalienable right to
life liberty and the pursuit of happiness by being denied their right to
marry whom they love. This is a terrible sin.
Who will be next
in the state to lose their civil rights?
It is time for
good people to speak up once again.
Dr. Martin Luther
King went to the mountain top and he saw the other side. What he saw was
a world not tainted by convoluted thoughts of discrimination but a world
of genuine equality.
Captured in stone
in the New England Holocaust Memorial are the words of Lutheran Pastor
and concentration camp survivor Martin Niemoeller:
“They came first for the Communists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't
a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't
a Jew.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't
a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn't speak up because I was a
Protestant.
Then they came for me,
and by that time no one was left to speak
up.”
We must do better than this.
MSNBC's
Keith Olbermann on Prop 8, Marriage and more!
Representative Dennis Kucinich brought a privileged
resolution that listed 35 articles of impeachment against President Bush.
He read much of the resolution during the period normally reserved for
special order speeches.
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