(Last updated: August 10, 2005)
Quick Links from the South Bay area of Los Angeles County, California, U.S.A.
Return to: Gardena Valley Democratic Club (GVDC)
-- Asian Pacific American Democratic Club
-- Beach Cities Democratic Club (BCDC)
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Palos Verdes Peninsula Democratic Club (PVPDC)
-- Torrance Democratic Club (TDC)
-- West LA Democratic Club (WLADC)

To request additions or changes, please e-mail gvdc@lafn.org.

PROJECT CENSORED:

No Paper Trail Left Behind:
The Theft of the 2004 Presidential Election

Florida: 7.35 million people voted for President,
... 7.59 million Presidential votes were counted!
Cuyahoga County, Ohio: 93,000 more people voted than were registered in the county!
Much, much more .... A MUST READ!


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2005 Campaigns


September 13, 2005 Special Election

California State Assembly, 53rd District
Ted Lieu for Assembly (news +)




November 8, 2005 Special Election

California State Assembly, 53rd District (IF there is a runoff election)
Ted Lieu for Assembly (news +)

Propositions: (click on the Prop.# to see the State Democratic Party positions)

Proposition 73 .......... NO
Proposition 74 ..........
NO
Proposition 75 ..........
NO
Proposition 76 ..........
NO
Proposition 77 ..........
NO
Proposition 78 ..........
NO
Proposition 79 ..........
YES
Proposition 80 ..........
YES




The Health Care for All Californians Act, SB 921, Campaign

Lobby to get the Act passed and signed in 2005 !!!




March 8, 2005 Endorsements

--- Carson ---

Mayor: Jim Dear

City Council: Lina Razon-Philipp and Harold C. Williams

--- Gardena ---

Mayor: Terrence "Terry" Terauchi

City Council: Ronald K. Ikejiri and Dan Medina

--- Los Angeles ---

Mayor: Antonio Villaraigosa

City Council (District 15): Janice Hahn

--- Manhattan Beach ---

City Council: Mayor Jim Aldinger and Eric Mah and Nick Tell

City Treasurer: Rick Norris

--- Redondo Beach ---

Mayor: Kurt Schmalz

City Council (District 4): Lee Fink

City Attorney: Stevan Colin

School Board: Drew Gamet and Todd Loewenstein and Dale Petrulis

(These are the endorsements by the Gardena Valley Democratic Club AND by the Beach Cities Democratic Club. None of the endorsements conflicted, but the BCDC did not make any endorsements for Carson, Gardena or Los Angeles. The BCDC decided to support their local candidates who were endorsed by the Los Angeles County Democratic Party.)




2004 Campaigns

The 2004 Stolen Election

The Free Press (Columbus, Ohio)
... Election 2004 articles
... ... The United States of Ukraine?: Exit Polls Leave Little Doubt that in a Free and Fair Election John Kerry Would Have Won both the Electoral College and the Popular Vote (164KB PDF file)

Computer Experts Allege U.S. Vote Fraud (IT Management)

Audit the Vote.com

U.S. Voting Integrity Project

The Help America Recount Fund

TomPaine.com - Kerry Won. . .




President of the United States:

John Kerry for President (news +)
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(news +)
... local Kerry-Edwards Meetups
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United States Senate:
Reelect Senator Barbara Boxer (news +)
... local Boxer Meetups
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Re-elect Congresswoman Diane Watson, 33rd District (news +)
... local Watson Meetups

Re-elect Congresswoman Maxine Waters, 35th District (news +)
... local Waters Meetups

Re-elect Congresswoman Jane Harman, 36th District (news +)
... local Harman Meetups

Re-elect Congresswoman Juanita Millender-McDonald, 37th District (news +)
... local Millender-McDonald Meetups

Jim Brandt for Congress (46th CD) (news +)
... local Brandt Meetups


California State Senate:
Reelect Senator Edward Vincent, 25th District (news +)

Alan Lowenthal for Senate, 27th District (news +)
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California State Assembly
Reelect, Assemblyman Jerome Horton, 51st District (news +)

Reelect Assemblyman Mervyn Dymally, 52nd District (news +)

Mike Gordon for Assembly, 53rd District (news +)

Betty Karnette for Assembly, 54th District (news +)

Reelect Assemblywoman Jenny Oropeza, 55th District (news +)
...


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Writers Guild of America

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Web Guide: U.S. Labor Unions (University of California at Berkeley)

( NEW means new to this page. Bold denotes local or local concerns.)
( RW = right-wing / conservative )

Many of these organizations are concerned with many issues, please SEARCH this page for them if they are not where you expect them to be...

Campaign Finance Reform / Voting
Americans for Reform
Annenberg Public Policy Center (University of Pennsylvania)
... FactCheck.org (campaign commercials)
... Issue Ads (2001-2002)
Audit the Vote.com
Black Box Voting .com
... book- Black Box Voting: Ballot Tampering in the 21st Century by Bev Harris (click on links in right-hand column)
BlackBoxVoting.org (Consumer Protection for Elections) (investigative reporter Bev Harris's original website; not affiliated with the .COM website above)
California Clean Money Campaign
California Voter Foundation
... California Online Voter Guide
... ... Archived Voter Guides
... Kim Alexander's Weblog (voting technology & elections)
... Digital Sunlight archive
Center for Public Integrity
... book- The Buying of the President 2004
... 50 States Project California page
... The Cheating of America (tax evasion by the rich)
Center for Responsive Politics
... Opensecrets.org--Money in politics data
... ... Opensecrets California
... ... FECWatch.org
Citizens for Legitimate Government (Bush Election Coup 2000)
Common Cause
... Washington Watchdog
... California Common Cause
... ... Following the Money
Democracy Matters
EFF Calls For Open Source Voting Software (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
ELECTION FRAUD 2004! - Another Stolen Election? (Better World Links) (Germany)
Electionline.org (Election Reform Information Project)
... ElectionLine Today
Election Protection-You Have the Right to Vote!
... California Voters' Bill of Rights
FairVote -- Center for Voting and Democracy
Follow Your Money (Newsflash
President Bush won November's election by 2.5% yet exit polls showed Kerry leading by 3%.  Which was correct? )lists top donors to Republican & Democratic Parties)

The Help America Recount Fund
How To Rig An Election In The United States (What Really Happened)
Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
... Voting Rights Project
USCountVotes.org - Investigating the Accuracy of Elections (Newsflash: President Bush won November's election by 2.5% yet exit polls showed Kerry leading by 3%.  Which was correct? "Exit Polls Leave Little Doubt in a Free and Fair Election John Kerry Would Have Won...")
... National Election Data Archive Project
... Response to Edison/Mitofsky's explanation of exit poll discrepancies PDF (original Edison/Mitofsky Report PDF)
... 2004 Election Polls Links
U.S. Voting Integrity Project
MoveOn.org
National Institute on Money in State Politics
National Voting Rights Institute
Open Debates (trying to establish a "Citizens' Debate Commission" to replace the RNC's & DNC's "Commission on Presidential Debates")
Project Vote Smart
Public Campaign
Stop the Florida-tion of the 2004 election-PETITION (Greg Palast & Martin Luther King III)
The 2004 Election & Voting Irregularities in Ohio (The Free Press, Columbus, OH)
VerifiedVoting.org
VotersUnite!
... Voting News
... 2004 Election Problems
Voting Security (on Lynn Landes' EcoTalk.org)
... The Secretive World Of Voting Machines (privatizing the vote -- sabotaging the system -- around the world)
Voting Systems Institute
... Voting System Performance Rating
...

Civil & Human Rights / Democracy
Alliance for Democracy
... AFD San Diego/Los Angeles
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
... USA PATRIOT Act
... Echelonwatch
Americans United for Separation of Church & State
Amnesty International
Arab American Institute
ArnoldWatch.org (about Gov. Schwarzenegger)
Asia Pacific Center for Justice and Peace
Bill of Rights Defense Committee
... Somerville (MA) Bill of Rights Defense Committee
Brookings Institution
California People of Faith Working Against the Death Penalty
Center for American Progress
... American Progress Action Fund
... ... Rapid Response
... ... President Bush: Flip-Flopper-In-Chief
Center for Constitutional Rights
... Corporate Accountability
... Government Misconduct
... People v. Ashcroft.org
... Racial, Social & Economic Justice
Center for Governmental Studies
... ConnectLA
... California Governance -- Redistricting
Center for Investigative Reporting
... Muckraker
Center for Public Integrity
... The Buying of the President 2004
... International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
Change the Congress!
Citizen Works
Citizens' Commission on Civil Rights
Citizens for True Democracy
Civil Liberties Defense Coalition
Civil Liberties Watch (Elaine Cassel)
Civilrights.org
... Campaign Against CAFTA & FTAA
Coalition for Civil Liberties (Pasadena and surrounding cities)
Coast to Coast Community Campaigns
... Iraq (Kelly Hayes-Raitt trip)
Community Rights Counsel
Congressional Accountability Project
Council for Secular Humanism
Council on American Islamic Relations
Death Penalty Focus (against the death penalty)
Democracy Rising
Digital Democracy (Bear Flag Group)
Frederick Douglass Society
Free Burma Coalition
Grassroots America Defends the Bill of Rights (October 2003 national conference)
Human Rights Campaign (lesbian, gay rights)
Independent Progressive Politics Network (IPPN)
Institute for Global Communications
...IGC Progressive Directory
Institute for Public Accuracy
... News Releases
... Analysis of Bush speech
Interesting-People Archives (click on "thread" in the center column or "Search" at the bottom of the page)
Japanese American Citizens League (JACL)
Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies
Judicial Watch
... Judicial Watch West
JusticeVision - Democracy University
Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Center
Mexican American Legal Defense & Education Fund (MALDEF)
Muslim Public Affairs Council
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
... The Crisis Magazine
... NAACP - Los Angeles Chapter
National Coalition On Black Civic Participation
National Council of La Raza
National Korean American Service and Education Consortium (NAKASEC)
National Urban League, Inc.
... "To Be Equal" column
... Los Angeles Urban League (LAUL)
Neighbors for Peace and Justice
People For the American Way
... What's Happening on Capital Hill
... Recall the Right: PowerVote 2000
The Petition Site.com
... Boycott Republicans.com
Political Science Quarterly (PSQ) (American Academy of Political & Social Science)
Progressive Los Angeles Network
... Resources - Links
Progressive Majority
... The Progressive Majority Speaks (MP3s)
Progressive Policy Institute (Democratic Leadership Council)
Project On Government Oversight
Quixote Center for Faith-based Social Justice
RTK Campaign Finance Links
South Asian Network
... SAN Actions / Alerts
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
... SCLC Magazine
... SCLC of Greater Los Angeles
Southern Poverty Law Center
... Intelligence Report magazine
... Hatewatch
SpeakOut, California (Institute for the Renewal of the California Dream) (join to oppose Gov. Schwarzenegger's agenda of eliminating benefits for our schoolchildren, our elderly and our disabled and attempting to privatize the pensions of our police officers, fire fighters, nurses, teachers and all public workers as well as trying to take over our legislature by mid-decade redistricting)
TalkLeft - The Politics of Crime (liberal coverage of crime-related political and injustice news)
Turn Your Back on Bush.org (original 2002 Turn Your Back on Bush.com website)
Urban Institute
...

Consumers
ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now)
American Institute of Philanthropy (Charity Watch)
Better Business Bureau
... Better Business Bureau of the Southland (Los Angeles, CA)
... Give.org -- BBB Wise Giving Alliance (information on Charities)
California Contractors State Licencing Board
Castle Coalition - Citizens Fighting Eminent Domain Abuse
Consumer Federation of California
Consumer Gateway (U.S. Gov't)
... Project kNOw Fraud
Consumers Union
... Action Center Media Guide
... Issues & Legislation Alerts
... Stop the FCC
Foundation for Taxpayer & Consumer Rights (FTCR)
... Ratepayer Revolt (Electricity Crisis)
... The Oaks Project (now defunct)
NEW Frauder - All about Investment Fraud and Securities Fraud (Good links to news you might otherwise miss. Turns Right Wing and counterproductive when they go off-topic, like "Dems Filibustering Again.")
National Association of Consumer Bankuptcy Attorneys (many documents in PDF format refuting credit industry claims)
... Legislative Update
... Get Sick, Go Broke
Organic Consumers Association
Public Citizen (founded by Ralph Nader)
... Campaign Finance Reform & Ethics
... Critical Mass Energy Project & Environment
... Public Citizen's Congress Watch
... Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch
Public Interest Research Groups (State PIRGs Working Together)
... U.S. PIRG - National Advocacy
... CALPIRG
Recalls.gov (lists current recalls)
Santa Monicans for Renters' Rights
Stop the Overlay!
NEW Seniors Against Investment Fraud (State of California Department of Corporations) (resources such as "Check Out You