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Democratic Party County Central Committee County
of Alameda; Assembly District 20 Voter
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California
Democratic Party OFFICIAL
Recommendations - June 5, 2012
Propositions Yes
on Proposition 28 – Legislative Term LimitsReduces the total
amount of time a person may serve in the state legislature from 14 years
to 12 years. Allows a person to serve a total of 12 years either in the
Assembly, the Senate, or a combination of both. Applies only to legislators
first elected after the measure is passed. Legislators elected before the
measure is passed will continue to be subject to existing term limits.
Yes
on Proposition 29 – Cigarette Tax for Cancer ResearchImposes
additional five cent tax on each cigarette distributed ($1.00 per pack),
and an equivalent tax increase on other tobacco products, to fund cancer
research and other specified purposes. Requires tax revenues be deposited
into a special fund to finance research and research facilities focused
on detecting, preventing, treating, and curing cancer, heart disease, emphysema,
and other tobacco-related diseases, and to finance prevention programs.
The
event honored
Congresswoman Barbara Lee
and Fortney "Pete" Stark.
This event highlighted their significant contributions in our community,
and how they courageously stood up to challenges, injustice and social
barriers to pursue equality and freedom for all.
May
15, 2010, 11:00
A M - 1:00PM Where:
Castro Valley Library 3600 Norbridge, Castro Valley 94546
Introductory
remarks by Mr. John Bass, followed by comments from Alberto Torrico for
Attorney General, Rev. Byron Williams, Mrs. Carolyn Moskovitz and
Bobbie Seal.
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.”
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