[repost] California's future is at stake! John Laird needs you for the CA June 22 Special Election

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Monday June 14, 2010 · 12:00 PM PDT

2010/06/14 · 12:00

Sorry to do a repost, but I published this dairy on Friday and thought some folks may not have seen it. We now have 8 days until the Special Election for California State Senate District 15.

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We need your help. As you may know, last month Governor Schwarzenegger called a special election to fill the California State Senate seat recently vacated by Republican Abel Maldonado. The date the Governor set, June 22nd--two weeks after our June 8th primary, is meant to help his fellow Republican Sam Blakeslee keep the seat in the Republican column. Blakeslee needs the help as the seat, which was designed to be Republican, now favors Democrats by party registration.

The Democrat in the race, John Laird, has spent his professional life fighting the expansion of offshore oil-drilling, both as Mayor of Santa Cruz and as a member of the State Assembly.

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Friday June 11, 2010 · 4:02 PM PDT

2010/06/11 · 16:02

I'm writing this post because we need your help. As you may know, last month Governor Schwarzenegger called a special election to fill the California State Senate seat recently vacated by Republican Abel Maldonado. The date the Governor set, June 22nd--two weeks after our June 8th primary, is meant to help his fellow Republican Sam Blakeslee keep the seat in the Republican column. Blakeslee needs the help as the seat, which was designed to be Republican, now favors Democrats by party registration.

The Democrat in the race, John Laird, has spent his professional life fighting the expansion of offshore oil-drilling, both as Mayor of Santa Cruz and as a member of the State Assembly. As an Assemblymember, John Laird was also the chair of the Assembly Budget Committee, and helped to pass one of California's first on-time budgets in years.

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Tuesday September 09, 2008 · 3:19 PM PDT

2008/09/09 · 15:19

Right now the voters have a crush on a pretty faced empty pantsuit (Palin) and this has caused McCain’s numbers to go way up. This despite high unemployment, bank failures, the mortgage crisis, the energy crisis, a trillion dollar war (that we were told would pay for itself), another war in Afghanistan (that we’re losing) against the actual 9/11 attackers, a ballooning national debt, the fact that Palin lied in nearly every point from her speech to the RNC (the ebay jet, firing the chef, opposing the bridge to nowhere, opposing earmarks, etc)—McCain is in the lead.

By contrast the Democratic party has a highly intelligent, charismatic candidate who’s an amazing public speaker, understands the economy, and has shown true wisdom in his foreign policy proposals (this has been born out by the fact that Bush has adopted many of Obama’s proposals to great success of late—though before doing so of course both McCain and Bush ridiculed the proposals).

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[repost] California's future is at stake! John Laird needs you for the CA June 22 Special Election

California's future is at stake! John Laird needs you for the CA June 22 Special Election

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