Am I overreacting to a coincidence?

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Thursday October 09, 2008 · 7:47 AM PDT

2008/10/09 · 07:47

This is a story in today's local paper, the Chico Enterprise Record.

The story is about some shots being fired and the police responding.

The part that bugs me is the photo that accompanies the story.

Several cops with 5 'perps' standing in a line. Only really, 4 of those 5 were actually only being 'detained' while one was eventually arrested.

And all 5 were distinctly non-white.

I don't believe I've ever seen a photo in the paper of people the police were 'detaining'.

Yet today, less than a month before this historic election, there it is.

The Chico ER has a known right wing bend to it.

Do you think this photo is a coincidence? Am I overreacting?

About 8 days too late (updated)

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Thursday June 15, 2006 · 7:08 AM PDT

2006/06/15 · 07:08

Yesterday, June 14th, I found in my mailbox a flyer called "Chico Democrats Voting Guide"

It listed all the canidates endorsed by the Democrats for the June 6th election.

I'm really curious to know why I got this over a week after the election was over. Are the Democrats really that disorganized? Is my mail delivery person a Republican? Or was it all just a fluke?

My first thought when I saw it was that I wasn't going to give the Democrats any money if they were going to waste it by sending out late voting guides.

***UPDATE*** I searched the card and found no small print saying anything like "paid for by XXXX" but I googled the return address and found it was for the local Democratic Club. I emailed them and asked them if my getting it late was a solitary incident.

Wally Herger's Town Hall meeting on Social Security

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Friday April 08, 2005 · 2:12 AM PDT

2005/04/08 · 02:12

Our local republican congressman, Wally Herger, was in town recently for a 'town hall meeting' about social security. I was unable to attend but it sounds like I didn't miss much.

A letter to the editor to our local paper describes the meeting like this:

Herger talk an insult

Wally Herger must really think his constituents are an ignorant lot. At the March 31 meeting, he spent more than 40 minutes on information anyone interested in the subject would already know, but worse, his cohort from Social Security put up the very simplistic slides about the problems and then read them to us. Please!

After an hour, when we finally got to questions, either Herger or his buddy would aggressively refute any comments put forward, even though he claimed to be coming here to listen to us ... a shameful waste of time, and truly patronizing. We as an audience were well informed and deserved better than that.

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