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Overheard: Radulovich, Hall, Plotting Candidacies?
Hall, you’ll recall, was forced to drop out of the 2007 race for mayor and, subsequently, the 2008 race for District 7 supervisor when a “politically motivated†anonymous complaint filed with the San Francisco Ethics Commission triggered a yearlong investigation into alleged campaign finance violations by Hall in connection with his 2004 re-election campaign for supervisor. Hall believes the anonymous complaint was penned by Attorney Jim Sutton on behalf of Mayor Gavin Newsom and Supervisor Sean Elsbernd to eliminate Hall as a threat to Newsom and Elsbernd’s respective re-election campaigns.
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Preparing for Peak Oil:
How Our Lives Will Change ForeverBy William Chadwick September 29, 2009 “We are a society that is addicted to oil, and we don’t want to hear that it is going to run out.” – James Howard Kunstler What do the…
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Police State Raids Against Immigrants
Along with Muslims, Latinos are its prime targets, often using militarized unconstitutional tactics against vulnerable, defenseless people. Post-9/11, the Bush administration initiated them, and they continue under Obama.
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Alioto-Veronese Exploring District 2 Candidacy
Mayor Gavin Newsom appointed Veronese to the San Francisco Police Commission in 2004. Despite political pressure from Newsom, Veronese cast the deciding vote to elect Theresa Sparks as commission president, the first transgendered person to head a big city commission in the U.S.
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Mirkarimi Warns NCPA
of PG&E Monopoly-Protecting Ballot InitiativeThe ballot initiative, deceptively dubbed “The Taxpayers Right to Vote Act,†would, if passed by voters, amend the California constitution to require the assent of two-thirds of voters to “expand electric delivery service to a new territory or new customers, or to implement a plan to become an aggregate electricity provider,†according to the measure’s statement of purpose.
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Glenn Beck’s Demagoguery, Right Wing Extremism,
and RacismFox News racist Glenn Beck By Stephen Lendman September 16, 2009 At a time of 24-hour news and a proliferation of television and radio talk shows featuring hatemongers and demagogues like Rush Limbaugh, Bill O’Reilly,…
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UnitedHealth Lobbyist Announces Pelosi Fundraiser
As She Begins Backing Off Public OptionAccording to CNN, Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid “said they would support any provision that increases competition and accessibility for health insurance – whether or not it is the public option favored by most Democrats.” This announcement came just hours before Steve Elmendorf, a registered UnitedHealth lobbyist and the head of UnitedHealth’s lobbying firm Elmendorf Strategies, blasted this email invitation throughout Washington, D.C. I just happened to get my hands on a copy of the invitation from a source.
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