Meet-up to communicate with Dem leaders in California

[Helga Scow Stern]

This looks promising. I will try to go to the meeting in SB and see what Nunez says. He is one of those who has been more supportive of Shelley.

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Here's an opportunity for you to ask questions of our State's Democratic leaders:



Jon mentioned a statewide conference call at this Wednesday's Progressive Coalition Meetup. California for Democracy has arranged for the new Speaker of the CA State Assembly, Fabian Nunez, to address all DFA meet-ups statewide on a conference call March 2nd. The Speaker will talk about the Governor and ways the grassroots can fight the Bush/Schwarzenegger agenda in their own backyards. Fabian has been coordinating specific anti-Arnold legislation and actions for the grassroots to take with folks like documentarian Robert Greenwald and Arianna Huffington. In Santa Barbara, we'll also be hearing live from Hannah-Beth Jackson about her new statewide organization, and we'll connect these ideas for activism with our local progressive groups.



So far there are 23 Meetups in California participating in the conference call, including:



Santa Barbara Progressive Coalition
San Luis Obispo
DFA-LA
Fresno
Oakland DFA
Palm Springs / Coachella
San Francisco 4 Democracy
Santa Cruz
San Mateo County
LA / South Bay
DFA Temecula
Walnut Creek
Silicon Valley
Valley for Democracy
Sacramento
Thousand Oaks
San Jose



The Speaker will answer 3 or 4 pre-selected questions from Meetups across the State. If you have a question, please submit it to me ([e-mail] ) by Tuesday at 9pm, and I'll submit all the questions from our Meetup to the hosts of the conference call.



Thank you,

Susan

[yurbud]

1. my questions for dem leaders

How will you protect the integrity of the vote now that Kevin Shelley is gone? And please tell me you will do more than democrats did on a national level in 2004.

Will you explain to voters how Arnold is tied to the very same energy companies that blackmailed us out of billions of dollars? If not, why not?

Will you explain to voters how closely Arnold is tied to Bush and Karl Rove? If not, why not?

How will you diminish the influence of corporate money that seems to be silencing the party at the national and state level in the face of a historic assault on democracy by the republicans?

Will you ask Arnold why low taxes on the wealthy are more important than good K-12 education and affordable college education?

Why do democrats hold back in their criticism of republicans? Does some nitwit consultant give all of you the same bad advice, is it your donors, or individual cowardice?

[EFerrari]

2. Who can commit to making the meet up? I HATE meetings

and will commit to going.

Come on, folks. We really really need your help.

If you can't go, can you get someone to go? Can you make a call to the person who always goes.

Ideas?

I've live my whole life in this state. Unless we want to beg Mexico to take us back, we're in for a world of hurt if we don't act now.

Someone tell me I'm wrong :)

[Helga Scow Stern]

3. Check this out:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x336599

[Peace Patriot]

4. YUP, that March 17 hearing is very, very, very important! That's...

...where Connie McCormack is going to make her move--now that she got rid of Shelley--to overturn his rule of a Voter Verified Audit Trail by the 2006 election.

This is the whole rotten potato. This is why she did it (destroyed Shelley).

There's still something we're not seeing. This whole thing smells to high heaven. We need to know what's going on--how Perata, Romero and other Dems can be doing this stuff; how McCormack could possibly advocate paperless voting. It's Dem Party suicide!

[yurbud]

5. I read that she is appointed by the county supervisors?

Is that right or is she elected?

If appointed, is there an impeachment process?