Impeach Bush signs .... IN BAKERSFIELD!!

[ronnykmarshall]

This so cool! My mom told me on her way home from work there were a bunch of people on the corner of 24th and Oak Street protesting Bush.

Right on Bakersfield!! People ARE waking up!

[ShaneGR]

1. Which Bakersfield? There are several.

State?

[ronnykmarshall]

2. California

It's as right wing as you can get.

[jamesinca]

43. Bakersfield!!!

Oh my god. Bill Thomas is from there. No offense, but Bakersfield is where lizards go to die. Bill Thomas will return to, and die there some day like the lizard he is.

To put this in perspective, the mississippi running over its banks and flooding the midwest several years ago for miles around was nothing. Hurricane Andrew, the market crash of '29, The San Francisco earthqauke back in the early 1900's, the sinking of the Titanic, Nagasaki and Hiroshima were nothing compared to this. Bakersfield may be the ominous sign that the repugs hate to see. It may signal the start of the repug Waterloo.

[Snellius]

3. Bakersfield: an RV in every garage & a gunrack in every pickup

That takes nerve. This is Bill Thomas's home base. Even in the 70s it was open season on "longhairs" and "hippies" in Bakersfield.

[diamond14]

4. bush* public display of his bloated human head trophies is

again fueling deeply religious people to step up again against shrub's pre-emptive war and polical-assassinations-by-the-military policies...

we know bush* is WRONG...deep down inside, this whole bush* crap smells real bad...

[LWolf]

5. In Bakersfield???

Wow. This is not exactly the same as a * protest in San Francisco. Can I hope I'll read about it in my local paper? I'm a couple hours south. If it makes your local paper, post a link!

Around these parts, a small group of people have to be very courageous and able to defend themselves to make such a statement.

[ronnykmarshall]

10. I worked that same corner

In 1984 I was working for Mondale and we used that same spot for visabililty. The woman that owns the high rise condo complex near there sent her gardener to try and get us to leave. I told him "if she wants us to leave, tell her to call the police or bring her ass down here herself." This was my start into the political world and I haven't looked back.

Rock on, Bakersfield Liberals!! You :kick: ass!

Mom said she didn't see anything in the Bakersfield Californian today, but that paper is a Bush * rag. Believe it or not, some loco .... I mean locals call it the "liberal" Californian. Shows how far the majority of Bkfld has it's head up it's ass.

[whoYaCallinAlib]

6. Yea Bakersfield!

You rock.

[brook]

7. That's a huge surprise!

I'm sure Bill Thomas and his KeystoneKop antics and the disgusting orgy of displaying *the dead* around the clock may have influenced this awakening. The hubris of this misAdministration will be it's downfall.

[Clete]

8. I got a email today

about having an impeach Bush protest in SLO. It was decided against because there would be too many in the opposition to be effective. Do you have your ear closer to the ground on this one than me? I don't know what difference it would make if there was an opposition. What do you think, brook? Email me if you would rather not answer here.

[ronnykmarshall]

9. SLO is more liberal

I lived in SLO in the 1972 as a kid there we're many a McGovern sticker on cars.

When Cal Poly is in session, I bet you'd find lot's of help.

[ronnykmarshall]

12. Bill Thomas is a prick.

Same with the rest of the local officals. I had a friend who was a photographer that worked for some asshole Repug that was running for Cal Assembly in the 1980's. She was a lesbian and I went over to her house to hang out and that asshole was there. He wouldn't even say hello to me. Chicken shit. I wanted to throw my drink in his face. My friend's girlfriend and I went into the other room and he had to calm me down. I am SO glad to hear that things like this are happening. My liberal parents are thrilled too.

[Clete]

15. Our local club is looking for a candidate to replace

Mr. Thomas. Many of us on the coast have been gerrymandered into his district. Do you guys in Bakersfield have anyone in mind? Even if it is the last candidate who ran, he didn't get much exposure. We really should back up anyone who runs against Thomas in the next election. A grass roots effort is needed. God knows we need another Democratic seat in the H of R as well.

[berry]

41. I'm not in CA, but I think that's a great idea!

I was appalled to discover that there are House districts where GOP incumbents run unopposed. If money is a problem, I wonder if the campaign could be modeled after Dean's--with MeetUps and lots of email (send this on to 5 friends sort of thing) and website stuff to start (with, eg, lists of sickening quotes, voting record, and maybe testamonials from famous local folks who like the Dem candidate, etc), and then tons of grassroots work. And link it to anti-Bush campaigning.

I'd love to see this tried in several "safe" districts--esp. DeLay's and Thomas's--oh why think small? I want every GOPer to be undermined. And I think it CAN be done. GOOD LUCK!!

[BeHereNow]

11. Merle Haggard Country!

I would bet the new Merle Haggard song has
quite a bit to do with this change of heart!
Merle is King along with Buck Owens in Bakersfield!

there was a thread about the new Merle song yesterday,
and I am here to tell you, Merle is the ONLY voice that
can bring the flag wavers to consciousness about WHO
and WHAT is running this country.

I think His new song is the most patriotic thing anyone
has done for this country in a long time, BECAUSE...
NO ONE can reach the freepers like the HAGG-
When the Hagg speaks, they LISTEN.
He is more important in their lives than you can imagine.
They grew up on his music and has their utmost respect
and they are the ones we have to get into action alongside us.
Merle, the uniter!!!

BHN

[JJ]

14. What new Haggard song?

Seriously, do you know the title? The only country radio station around here is Clear Channel, and I haven't heard the song.

[BeHereNow]

21. Can't find the thread, dammit!

There was a thread about it yesterday.
It is about the media's complicity in the dis-information
and the fact that yound American's are dying because of it!
If that wont turn freeper heads, NOTHING will!
I will keep looking for you-
His official web site-
http://www.merlehaggard.com

I have a friend who knows him, I will call her and
see what I can find out.
The thread said that they were mailing it all over the country
to the country DJs, and that it was going to be PLASTERED
over the airwaves.
CAN"T WAIT!!!!!
MUST HAVE COPY NOW!

I LOVE THE HAGG!
BHN

[BeHereNow]

27. FOUND IT!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=33172&mesg_id=33172&page=2
And the song is called "That's the News", not "In" the news.

BHN

[BeHereNow]

22. "In the News" by Merle Haggard

that's the name of the song!
Can't WAIT to hear it!!!!
BHN
He has a new record coming out!!!
OH, I bet he has a LOT to say...
BHN

[ronnykmarshall]

36. Merle rocks

My Aunt dated Merle's best friend (Bobby Cox) back when they were very young. One time Merle and Bobby ran away from home and my Papa (grandfather) was PISSED and read mom and Aunt Pat the riot act trying locate Merle and Bobby.

Aunt Pat was going out with Bobby and Papa was trying to find those boys.

Aunt Pat: Daddy, we don't know where they went.

Papa (my grandfather): YesbygodyoudoandIknowit! --- All on word!

Ah yes! Little did I know that my Mom's childhood stories would come in handy.

One time in 1982, Bonnie Owens Haggard (ex wife of Buck Owens and Merle Haggard) came into a retail store I was working at and I told her that story. She just cracked up and said ... "Merle should use that in his book".

We weren't the bunch of country bumpkins people thought we were.

[mitchtv]

46. that's Buck Owens country

.

[Cocoa]

13. Isn't Bakersfield Freeper HQ?

I mean literally, isn't that where RimJob and the actual FR servers reside?

[Snellius]

16. Bakersfield -- Gateway to Fresno

Freepers come out of Fresno.

[Le Taz Hot]

23. So does Le Taz Hot

be VERY VERY careful. B-)

[Clete]

17. I though Rimjob was in Fresno.

Not a big difference. Both are communities in the middle of the agricultural San Joaquin Valley. Most of the whites are rednecks and the rest of the population are Mexican American.

[mitchtv]

19. this is wonderful,a big change from the

RW signs on the cotton trailers along I 5. next thing you will see "bush lied" signs in Coachella Valley

[Le Taz Hot]

25. Clete

I'd like to inform you that there are THOUSANDS and THOUSANDS of ACTIVE liberals here in Fresno AND in Bakersfield and in Stockton and Modesto and Madera and Merced and all up and down this valley. I'm getting fucking SICK AND TIRED of you guys (fucking Bay Area, L.A. and San Diego assholes) having nothing but derision for the Valley. We grow your goddamned food so when you want to put THE WHOLE ENTIRE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY down with your class-structured snobbishness, please don't do it with a mouthful of salad.

:bounce: :mad:

[Clete]

26. Honey,

I know there are a minority of liberals there and in other conservative hot spots in our fair state including where I live. That doesn't change things. I have spent ten years of my life traveling up and down Hwy 5 and Hwy 99 and it is predominantly conservative, flat and agricultural. You can't photoshop reality.

Right now that is all I am going to say. When you are through calling me names, let's talk it over. We are both on the same side. I like your posts and find them very informative. I notice that you haven't attacked anyone else on this post who said the same things I did. If you can't stand me, there is the ignore button.

[Le Taz Hot]

28. Done

And by the way, Yosemite, Kings Canyon and Sequoia are also in the Valley. Don't bother to respond, though, I won't be able to see it.

[Clete]

29. Actually for those who can see this

Yosemite, Kings Canyon and Sequoia are in the Sierra Mountains above the Valley.

[mitchtv]

31. Clete where in Calif are you?

and why the SA avatar? I am in coachella Valley new from Sonoma Valley(where great wines begin)

[Clete]

32. On the coast near Pismo Beach.

Although I live back in the rural county area. My mother was Chilean and I spent part of my childhood in Chile so I have fond memories of the other America. The other part of my childhood was spent in San Bernardino, so I was sort of close to the Coachella Valley. :-)

[mitchtv]

33. me encanta Chile

estuve alli' en febrero '02 la ultima vez y, toda sud america he viajaddo mucho por alli . Y hablando de vino, lo mejor

[Clete]

34. Es un pais muy lindo.

Hace muchos anos que he vivido en Chile. Mi Castellano se falta mucho.
I do miss it very much and know I will never see it again unless some miracle occurs.

[mitchtv]

39. nonsense. you will go

if you want. Be sure and visit Punta Arenas, magellanes. I dreamt of visiting chile for years, tho I had visited the rest of SA. I am in my mid 50's and have been there twice in the last 4 years. Point being , it may take a while , but the wine is worth it , and so are the 6cent avocados. the seafood and the gorgeous men.

[ronnykmarshall]

37. Yeah Pismo!

Great place and great resturants!

[ronnykmarshall]

30. I grew up in Bakersfield

Lived in San Francisco and now in Los Angeles, so I hope that wasn't directed at me.

And yes I know what damn good veggies come from my home town! Good eats!

[Ouabache]

42. bump it up

:kick:

[kathee]

18. Its what I hope for every day

here in Texas..when this sort of thing happens HERE, I KNOW things are looking up for the country!

WAKE UP TEXAS, we're harboring a criminal!

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

20. I hope they were standing under one of the many "Focus on Family"

billboards when they did it :evilgrin:

[Le Taz Hot]

24. Bakersfield????

That is so great! Getting a group of people together IN THE LION'S DEN of very conservative Bakersfield takes a helluva lot of courage and something that snob-asses from other more populace parts of the state might take note of and quit deriding Central California -- something I'm getting rather militant about.

[catzies]

35. This liberal on the coast loves the San Joaquin Valley!

I'm halfway between L.A. and Santa Barbara (Ventura County) and we're agricultural enough to be called "Bakersfield by the sea." My Congressman & Assemblyman are Repukes of the worst kind, and this is "Reagan Country" as his library is 20 minutes away. :puke:

I just really hope all of us diverse Californians can come together to stop the coup-in-progress by Repugs who overturn elections they can't steal.

I used to laugh derisively at those poor people in Texas and Florida and elsewhere and all their electoral woes, and now we're in for a mother of a fight.

I'm happy that other California communities are dedicated, liberal and pissed off. We've got a lot of work to do and we can do it better together.

[ronnykmarshall]

38. Kick ass Ventura County!

[Ouabache]

40. To Hell with a Recall , IMPEACH BU$H !!

That ought to be on some of the signs out there, I hope.

[jamesinca]

44. I am from Central CA

I still let people know that the FreeRepublic P.O. Box is listed as Fresno. Just so they know what I am up against. It is hard to get along here with these people sometimes. Can you blame them though, for not likeing the central valleys politics, look what it has produced for politicians. That Pompo freak out of Modesto, Thomas from Bakersfield, Nunez from Fresno. I wrote Nunez before the war and he called me a French German non-patriotic person. Screw him too.

I agree with you though. It would be easy to live in the Bay Area with my political ideas.

I see that you have a Dean thing on your post, do you make the meetups here in Fresno, or the Visalia/Porterville one?

[paper chase guy]

45. my father used to be a tv station manager there...

for channel 23 up until last year or so. He used to love trying to inject subtle dissension from the norm (not too obvious, of course) into his editorials to try and shake things up a little, and then stand back and watch the letters of outrage that came in :)