Taking a Stand for Public Education

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Saturday November 21, 2009 · 2:18 PM PST

2009/11/21 · 14:18

As you may or may not know, the UC Board of Regents, an unelected body that governs the UC system without any oversight by the people of California, voted on Thursday to increase student fees by 32% (15% for spring quarter and an additional 15% next year). In protest to the fee increase and a variety of other serious problems facing the UC community and public education in California as a whole, students have occupied school buildings throughout the state.

Below the fold is a press release from UC Santa Cruz students currently occupying Kerr Hall and Kresge Town Hall.

jlwolff

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Monday November 10, 2008 · 7:18 PM PST

2008/11/10 · 19:18

With cabinet speculation as an in thing now that Obama has been elected, I’d like to give my two cents in favor of a Secretary of Defense who will likely receive no support from this community despite her experience and positions.

She has served on the Armed Services Committee in the House for a decade, currently holding the position of Chairwomen of the Subcommittee on Special Forces and the Subcommittee on Future Security and Defense Capabilities, has seats on the Subcommittee on Air and Land Forces and the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, and a position on the Task Force on Nonproliferation she's used to be one of the strongest voices in Congress on the nonproliferation of nuclear weapons. She is

regularly a member of the American delegation to the annual Wehrkunde Conference on security policy in Munich. She has addressed the Fletcher Conference on National Security, the Army Two-Star Conference for Commanders and has been a participant in the Army War College’s Strategic Crisis Exercise.

She has introduced and supported numerous resolutions in favor of redeploying our troops out of Iraq. Finally, Republicans like her.

What then could stand between her and the support of this community? Her name...

Ellen Tauscher.

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Thursday July 24, 2008 · 7:02 PM PDT

2008/07/24 · 19:02

Sorry about the long delay. In my last diary I made the argument that rather than just announcing his choice Vice Presidential candidate, Obama should also announce the three most influential cabinet members: the Secretaries of State and Defense and the Attorney General. I then went on to explain why former Senator Bill Bradley would be the best choice for Vice President.

In this post I will expand on the benefits of announcing the cabinet members and present my choice for Attorney General...

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Sunday June 15, 2008 · 5:30 PM PDT

2008/06/15 · 17:30

Conventional wisdom tells us that the race for the White House will soon be Obama/_____ versus McCain/_____ and we will make our decisions based on those four names. The Obama campaign has strayed from conventional wisdom quite a few times this primary with great success and I believe this is another time for him to do so.

Why only announce your Vice Presidential candidate prior to the election when you could announce Cabinet members as well? In addition to the free press this will get the Obama campaign simply by breaking precedent and having multiple people on the campaign trail, shoring up support, talking to the press, and pulling in donations, this would challenge McCain to announce his cabinet early as well which is especially important with his Cheney comments.

In this concept, over the next week I will give my suggestions for Attorney General, Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense, and Vice President. Each fills a part of the ticket bringing expertise, knowledge, and passion to the group. Today I'll go with Vice President.

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Tuesday January 29, 2008 · 6:05 PM PST

2008/01/29 · 18:05

I've been reading Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail'72 and I came across one section in particular that struck me as interesting. Thompson is talking with Frank Mankiewicz, campaign manager for the McGovern campaign, about delegate counts and asks

...if something goes wrong...If you can't carry it on the first ballot and the convention turns up deadlocked...then, if Kennedy jumps in, McGovern might consider [being Kennedy's Vice President]

Prior to reading this it had not occurred to me that someone who did not run for President could jump in at the convention, but now that I have this information, I know that a vote for Edwards could be a vote for Gore.

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Wednesday February 07, 2007 · 10:17 PM PST

2007/02/07 · 22:17

A week ago, Craig Thompson of the East Bay Express wrote the article Tauscher's a Tough Target. In this article he examined the opposition to Ellen Tauscher, especially in the blogosphere. Thompson's main focus seems to be telling us that Tauscher's a good fit for California's 10th Congressional District and we should stop wasting our time.

He begins by trying to discredit Working For Us PAC as disorganized and unprofessional. After this, Thompson claims that opposition is weak inside CA-10. It was this section that caught my eye. He says

Yet the Netroots are hardly deep in Tauscher's district. Moulitsas cites the California political Web site Calitics as his guide for the local pulse, but its contributors could find only a few local politicos who don't care for Tauscher — one of them a high school student. The most prominent resident they found was Gabriel Baty, vice chair of the El Cerrito Democratic Club and a member of the Contra Costa County Democratic central committee.

This section stood out to me because I am that high school student.

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Friday December 22, 2006 · 11:32 PM PST

2006/12/22 · 23:32

I’ve been fighting over whether or not to post another blog. I got so much support from my first blog I hardly knew what to do and I don’t in anyway want to lose that support by saying nice things about the person I had gotten so much encouragement for lambasting earlier. That said, I feel an obligation that if I am going to write at all, I need to write as honestly as I can.

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Taking a Stand for Public Education

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Forget dream ticket, how about dream team?

A vote for Edwards could be a vote for Gore

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My Second Take on Tauscher