( Last updated November 7, 2006 ) --

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Volunteer to help Get Out The Vote!

VOLUNTEER at our Campaign Headquarters at 730 E. Carson Street, just across from the Carson City Hall!

or at the

Democratic Action Center, 2221 Rosecrans Blvd., Suite 229 in El Segundo, phone (310) 536-0093

or visit the Campaign Websites of

PHIL ANGELIDES JOHN GARAMENDI DEBRA BOWEN
JOHN CHIANG BILL LOCKYER JERRY BROWN
CRUZ BUSTAMANTE JUDY CHU DIANNE FEINSTEIN
JANE HARMAN JIM BRANDT JENNY OROPEZA
TED LIEU

and do what you can to help!

or Visit the our other endorsed candidates and Propositions websites below.

Besides our own Club headquarters, you can also volunteer at the

Democratic Action Center

The South Bay's first ever permanent Democratic Headquarters!

Get involved in Statewide and local Democratic campaigns and get information on other local Democratic Clubs.

2221 Rosecrans Blvd., Suite 229
El Segundo, CA 90245

phone: (310) 536-0093

Setting the record straight on John Kerry's joke...

Watch the documentary "HACKING DEMOCRACY"
on HBO Cable TV this weekend,
about the fight to expose the ease of manipulating Electronic Voting Machines.
It is airing at 9:00 AM and 12:00 Noon on Saturday,
6:00 AM and 9:00 AM on Sunday,
& en español at 2:10 AM on Monday morning (Sunday night)
on various HBO channels. Visit your friends if you don't have HBO!
It will be available on "HBO On Demand" starting Monday, election eve.

Better yet, record "HACKING DEMOCRACY" and watch it after helping to get out the vote!

CLUB ENDORSEMENTS

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Statewide Offices: (click on the candidates' names to visit their websites!)
Governor: PHIL ANGELIDES
Lieutenant Governor: JOHN GARAMENDI
Secretary of State: DEBRA BOWEN
Controller: JOHN CHIANG
Treasurer: BILL LOCKYER
Attorney General: JERRY BROWN
Insurance Commissioner: CRUZ M. BUSTAMANTE
Board of Equalization, District 4: JUDY CHU
United States Senator: DIANNE FEINSTEIN
United States Representative:
35th District: MAXINE WATERS
36th Distrtict: JANE HARMAN
37th District: JUANITA MILLENDER-MCDONALD
46th District: JIM BRANDT
State Senator:
28th District: JENNY OROPEZA
Member of the State Assembly:
51st District: CURREN D. PRICE
52nd District: MERVYN M. DYMALLY
53rd District: TED W. LIEU
54th District: BETTY KARNETTE
55th District: LAURA RICHARDSON
Judge of the Superior Court:
Office No. 8: DEBORAH L. SANCHEZ
Office No. 18: JOHN C. GUTIERREZ
Office No. 102: GEORGE C. MONTGOMERY
Office No. 144: JANIS LEVART BARQUIST
Water Replenishment District of Southern California:
Member, Board of Directors, Division 1: WILLARD H. MURRAY, JR.
West Basin Municipal Water District:
Member, Board of Directors, Division 1: RONALD C. (RON) SMITH
Member, Board of Directors, Division 2: GLORIA GRAY
Statewide Measures:
Prop. 1A - Transportation Funding YES
Prop. 1B - Highway Safety, Port Security YES
Prop. 1C - Housing & Emergency Shelter YES
Prop. 1D - Kindergarten-University Facilities YES
Prop. 1E - Disaster, Flood Prevention YES
Prop. 83 - Sexual Predators (Jessica's Law) YES
Prop. 84 - Water Quality, Flood Control YES
Prop. 85 - Waiting Period & Parental Notification Constitutional Amendment NO
Prop. 86 - Tax on Cigarettes Constitutional Amendment YES
Prop. 87 - Alternative Energy, Tax on Oil Producers Constitutional Amendment YES
Prop. 88 - Education Funding, Property Tax Constitutional Amendment NO
Prop. 89 - Campaign Public Financing, 0.2% Corporate Tax Increase, Campaign Contribution Limits YES
Prop. 90 - Government Acquisition, Regulation of Private Property Constitutional Amendment NO
Los Angeles City Measures:
Prop. H YES
Prop. R NO

VOTE NOVEMBER 7th!

or Vote by Mail NOW!

Register to Vote by October 23rd!

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Be Sure That You Are Registered to Vote!

... Well, it's too late now! ...

If you are properly registered to vote, you should have received your 192-page Official Voter Information Guide, describing the Propositions and the candidates for Statewide office, from the Secretary of State's office and you should have received your OFFICIAL SAMPLE BALLOT. If you have altered your voter registration in the last several months because perhaps you moved or changed your Party affiliations, however, or if you are a new citizen who recently registered to vote, you may NO LONGER be registered to vote!

Our Republican Secretary of State took it upon himself to create a voter registration database, in a deal with the Bush administration's Department of Justice, to compare new voter registrants' registration information with their driver's license and Social Security data. If you've left out, say, your middle initial in either signature or forgot to dot your 'i's, or if you're a woman who got married or divorced and changed your surname, then your new registration may have been thrown out! Tens of thousands of voters have been taken off the voter registration rolls.

A judge has ruled that a similar method of disenfranchising voters in the State of Washington was unconstitutional, so our Republican Secretary of State has had to stop using his voter registration database to throw voters off the rolls. But if you don't receive your Voter Information Guide or your Sample Ballot in the mail soon, then call the L.A. County Registrar-Recorder's office at 1 (562) 466-1323 and ask if you are still registered to vote!

Vote for Debra Bowen for Secretary of State, by the way, and support her campaign!


CLICK TO ENLARGE

Senator Betty Karnette with GVDC Vice President Don Dear at our July 2006 general meeting. Betty stopped by unexpectedly to thank us for our endorsement in her campaign for the 54th State Assembly District and to let us know what's going on in the State Legislature. (Photo by Richard Schwartz)

ELECTION & VOTER REGISTRATION INFORMATION:

LOS ANGELES COUNTY REGISTRAR-RECORDER
LA Vote.net
1 (562) 466-1323

CALIFORNIA SECRETARY OF STATE
Elections and Voter Information

The Republicans are targeting Phil Angelides, Debra Bowen and Jerry Brown in their races for Statewide office. So, if you can, please visit their websites (click on their names) and do what you can to contribute to their campaigns. Every little bit helps!

JUST TO SET THE RECORD STRAIGHT...

Here is John Kerry's joke about George W. Bush:

I can't over-stress the importance of a great education.
Do you know where you end up if you don't study?
If you aren't smart?
If you're intellectually lazy?
You end up getting us stuck in a war in Iraq.

(When reading the joke, which was in the middle of a string of jokes to warm up the audience, Senator Kerry lost his place and left out the "us." As a result, President Bush and his Press Secretary Tony Snow have been attacking Senator Kerry for the past few days for "disparaging our troops." Maybe George Bush and Tony Snow should spend more of their time attacking Osama bin Laden and the other people who planned 9/11! Never heard them attacking Jay Leno, who flubs a joke nearly every night.)

Here is John Kerry's original response to the White House accusations after Senator Kerry flubbed the joke:

"If anyone thinks that a veteran, someone like me who's been fighting my entire career to provide for veterans, to fight for their benefits, to help honor what their service is; if anybody thinks that a veteran would somehow criticize more than a hundred and forty thousand troops serving in Iraq, and NOT the President, and his people who put them there, they're crazy! It's just wrong. This is a classic GOP, textbook, Republican campaign tactic."

(Thanks to Randi Rhodes of "Air America Radio" for the quotes.)