GOTV - Speaker Perez joins Manuel Perez in CA80AD

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Sunday October 31, 2010 · 7:08 PM PDT

2010/10/31 · 19:08

Walked precincts Saturday as a volunteer for Manuel Perez's reelection campaign, dropping door hangers for 370 voters in Coachella. Actually sometimes we jogged, it was a lot of households. Perez's doorhanger is excellent: polling place sticker, Democratic slate sticker, you can read VOTE PEREZ from across the street. Lots of Perez signs in the neighborhood, because this district saw a strong ground game in '08, too. Up and down the ticket, this campaign has coattails.

Speaker John Perez, Assembly Members Steve Bradford, Jerry Hill, Mike Feuer, Bob Blumenfield and Isadore Hall dropped in to phonebank and rally with Manuel on their way across California on their GOTV tour. At the rally yesterday, Manuel spoke up for Brown, Boxer, Pougnet, and the Democratic priorities of education, jobs, healthcare:

(*Updated to correctly ID the Assembly Democrats in the Speaker's GOTV tour.)

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Thursday October 14, 2010 · 5:08 PM PDT

2010/10/14 · 17:08

The Riverside/San Bernardino County area, aka Inland Empire (whose Empire, I always want to know)recently beat Detroit for the dubious honor of being No. 1 in unemployment nationwide. The Democratic challenger for the 65th Assembly District, Carl Wood, is running on job creation and tax fairness (ie, make corporations pay their fair share). The incumbent Republican has no record whatsoever on jobs, and recently gave struggling homeowners the back of his hand on foreclosure relief.

The only hope for turning this District around is voter turnout. A bit of local press on Wood's odds in the extended diary. Carl's Act Blue page is here.

Crossposted from Calitics

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Saturday October 02, 2010 · 11:07 PM PDT

2010/10/02 · 23:07

CSEA members and my fellow union staffer Dale and I walked precincts in Coachella this morning for Manuel Perez, Assemblyman for the 80th AD. As always with this campaign, we were in good company:

Isadore Hall, Assemblyman for the 52nd District, brought five volunteers with him for precinct walking and carne asada. More from Isadore Hall, CA52AD, on the flip. Crossposted at Calitics.

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Saturday August 14, 2010 · 1:56 PM PDT

2010/08/14 · 13:56

(8.15.10 Disclosure: My union, CSEA, endorsed Wood, and I volunteer on his campaign.)
Carl Wood is the Democratic candidate for the CA 65th Assembly District, the most depressed area in the nation after Detroit. Carl is a lifelong labor guy with deep roots in the community. As Public Utilities Commissioner, Carl Wood helped guide the state through the disastrous energy crisis, protecting the interests of workers and working class utility consumers.

Wood is unapologetically liberal and direct, in a very pleasant way. Here he is at the California Democratic Convention last April 2010:

Crossposted from Calitics

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Tuesday April 27, 2010 · 10:03 AM PDT

2010/04/27 · 10:03

Meet Carl Wood, Democratic challenger to the GOP's Paul Cook in the California 65th Assembly District. Carl is a lifelong advocate for labor and civil rights, a true blue progressive. Last election, Carl narrowed the spread on this race from 23% to 7% with only a skeletal campaign. He's well known in Riverside County for his work as a Public Utilities Commissioner under Gray Davis, battling the forces of Enron.

This time, the 65th is a priority for local Democratic clubs and labor unions. So far Carl has the endorsement of the California Labor Federation, CNA, CTA, CSEA, CWA, LIUNA, SEIU California State Council, SEIU RN 121, Teamsters Council 42, Utility Workers Union of America (UWUA), and United Auto Workers (UAW). **Correction: Previously listed UDW among endorsers, which was incorrect.**

This is a purple, not red district, and the incumbent's staff is already making panicky mistakes. See over the flip. Crossposted at Calitics

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Tuesday February 23, 2010 · 10:05 PM PST

2010/02/23 · 22:05

Many have hopes of the public option making the cut in reconciliation. But we all know the real solution is single payer, and there is just no reason to pretend it isn't. Let's give our side some leverage on Thursday.

The many organizations with Healthcare NOW!, including my own (full disclosure: I work for California School Employees Association, which is part of the AFL-CIO) are keeping the flame alive. Here's the email today from PDA:

Working the Inside/Outside Strategy on Healthcare Reform
February 23, 2010
Take Action: Feb. 25--PDA National Call-in Day for Medicare for All--call Congress

On Thursday, Feb. 25, single-payer healthcare advocates will participate in Healthcare NOW!'s Sidewalk Summit for Medicare for All!, which includes a lobby visit to Congressional members on the Hill. Nearby residents are encouraged to attend.

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Tuesday January 26, 2010 · 9:25 AM PST

2010/01/26 · 09:25

California's Senate Appropriations Cmte passed Mark Leno's SB 810 out of committee, and the Senate will vote on it next week. Leno says that the timing is coincidental and not a response to the Brown debacle, but it works for me. SB 810 would create a single-payer, universal health care system in California.

You'll be shocked to learn that Republicans are framing this as Democrats Out of Touch, and it's possible that SB810's supporters will get wobbly. Two things need to happen:

Call the California Senators Calderon, Correa, and Wright and let them know that saving the state billions in waste and fraud is still politically viable - contact info on the flip.

Push back on the corporate narrative - talking points and media links on the flip.

Attack attack attack. If you're not a constituent, call them anyway. Let them know that California can show the rest of the country that Democrats understand we want universal healthcare.

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Sunday August 23, 2009 · 10:03 PM PDT

2009/08/23 · 22:03

According to Miguel Figueroa, the Executive Director of the Calexico New River Committee (the sponsors of AB 1079), "Despite decades of resolutions, studies and promises, our city has not received the sustained leadership and support from California that we need to solve this problem. We commend Assemblyman Perez for making New River clean-up a priority in his first term in office..."

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Tuesday January 20, 2009 · 12:15 AM PST

2009/01/20 · 00:15

I've watched Pete Seeger sing in the new administration at least fifteen times in the past twenty four hours, I'm just so happy to see him, happy for him. I wish that another wise old man were up there, too. I wish they had Soyinka up there on the screen somewhere.

I've valued Wole Soyinka's perspective and voice on politics since I first heard his work spoken on stage in 1986. When the political activist is a Nobel laureate for literature, the writing produced is pretty damn illuminating. I want to know what the former political prisoner who has been tortured thinks Obama will do as President of the current United States of America.

So for kicks, I've complied what I could google of Soyinka on Obama. The best source comes from theBBC, The Inauguration of Barack Obama - Open Letters to a new President (audio file). (Scroll down for Soyinka's link.)

(Updated to replace "gray eminence" with wise old man. Turns out, that phrase doesn't mean what I thought it did.)
More below.

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Thursday September 25, 2008 · 1:00 PM PDT

2008/09/25 · 13:00

Republican Gary Jeandron's gone negative on Manuel Perez again, airing a radio/TV ad that accuses Manuel of being for higher taxes, higher fees, we can't afford Manuel Perez - primal scream, clutch the pearls, etc. The usual GOP disingenuous hysteria.

The Perez campaign has responded:

Now, it's not that Perez thinks that the Grover Norquist pledge is a good thing, he just notes that Jeandron is running on the usual GOP gimmick, while failing to meet the gimmick's standards.

UPDATE - I had this diary all wrong before, I referred to the wrong attack ad. Now it makes sense.

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Monday September 22, 2008 · 3:26 PM PDT

2008/09/22 · 15:26

All of the Republicans running in the Coachella Valley bill themselves as moderates, Gary Jeandron and Mary Mack are two prime examples. Yet here's Jeandron's latest literature being dropped at the Catholic churches in Brawley. Note the absence of any mention of jobs, affordable healthcare, schools, or water:

Reaching back into the culture warrior bag of tricks. Such a moderate! 30 years in Palm Springs, and this is how Jeandron treats the gay community. And hey, way to protect our kids - denying the most vulnerable young women any chance at professional healthcare in a crisis. Compassionate conservatism, again.

For Perez, the problems in our state are jobs, schools, healthcare, and sustainability. That's what our families need, not a California version of the Ministry of Virtue and Vice. Please help Perez teach Jeandron what values we share here in the 21st century: Manuel Perez' Act Blue page.

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Friday September 19, 2008 · 11:41 AM PDT

2008/09/19 · 11:41

Gary Jeandron breaks his own pledge opposing new taxes — even before Election Day.

We’re used to politicians breaking campaign promises after they are elected to office. George Bush has done it. Governor Schwarzenegger has done it. But it is a rare sight to see politicians break a campaign promise BEFORE they are elected... And that’s exactly what Gary Jeandron has done.

Gary Jeandron has been on the campaign trail saying he opposes new taxes and even asking Manuel Perez to sign a “no new tax pledge.”

But Jeandron violated his own pledge, at least twice since he signed it. First, he supported increasing property taxes last year as a school board member. And now, he supports raising the local sales tax by a 1/2 cent.

More, including Manuel's latest TV spot, over the flip.

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