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No on Prop 4: Step Outside Your Bubble
Posted October 31st, 2008 by robertThe Campaign for Teen Safety is putting up this TV ad explaining to voters the importance of voting No on Prop 4 - to step outside your bubble and see that many teenage girls will suffer abuse and other forms of mistreatment if Prop 4 passes:
California voters have twice before rejected this proposal, in both 2005 and 2006. Show the far right that Californians are not going to be fooled a third time, and vote NO on Prop 4.
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Why We Need Dan Presser on the Airport Board
Posted October 31st, 2008 by robert Our Airport is one of the most important institutions in Monterey County. It provides transportation for residents and tourists, creating jobs and sustaining our local economy. We need a qualified candidate who understands the Monterey Peninsula Airport's operations and its role in supporting local industries to oversee its operations.That qualified candidate is Dan Presser. "I am running for a seat on the Airport Board because the current Board has not lived up to its community responsibilities. It has poorly supervised the Airport Manager and its appointed Legal Counsel. It continues to accumulate excessive legal expenses while failing to generate adequate revenues and to promote the airport properly."
Prop 4 Community Forum in SalinasPosted October 29th, 2008 by robert
Proposition 4 is on the ballot this November 4, 2008. Prop. 4 would change California's State Constitution to mandate that minors to notify a parent before terminating a pregnancy. Monterey County Democrats have endorsed a NO position on this measure. Learn how parental notification laws have affected minors in other states and what California can learn from their experience. Speakers will include Monterey County Supervisor-Elect Jane Parker and Esperanza Garcia Walters, Immediate Past Chair, Planned Parenthood Federation of America Jeff Taylor has just signed up to be the Yes on 4 speaker. There will be a panel of speakers and plenty of time for questions from the audience.
MORAL VALUES, OUR NATION'S DELEMMAPosted October 20th, 2008 by Herb StarrSound moral values are essential if a society is to prosper and grow. I offer this not as some warm and fuzzy liberal thinking but rather as a simple objective reading of human history. From as far back as the Roman Empire when a state loses it’s moral compass, it soon withers and dies. Our national dilemma today is that we seem to be losing ours. When we are known less for the power of our ideas than for the idea of our power, it is not a good sign. Such is increasingly the case. Moral values are best defined as codes of acceptable conduct in a given society. They expand on the letter of the law to include the spirit of the law as well. If the letter of the law says you cannot harm your fellow man, the spirit of the law says you must also help him where possible. This responsibility applies to both individuals and their societies. Individuals’ moral codes are basically between themselves and their God. Beyond adherence to the letter of the law they are no business of the state. To the contrary, societies moral codes are the very essence of the state. Since ours is a government of the people we all have a vested interest in its morality. For purposes of this essay we will leave individuals moral codes to the preachers and concentrate on societies. If “sins” of the flesh are the evangelicals obsession, sins of social injustice and government misadventures are mine. Would that the evangelicals would join me. I won’t ask them to drop their crusade, just add social injustice to their cause.
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Mark Hood for JudgePosted October 12th, 2008 by MCDemMark Hood is endorsed by 11 out of 14 endorsing judges, and won a Monterey County Bar Association plebiscite when 60 out of 77 attorneys voted for him. Here's Mark's latest TV ad, as seen locally on CNN, ESPN and other networks, and on YouTube: More at ElectMarkHood.com.
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Our RSS feed News from Our ElectedsFarr Perfect on Conservation VotesWASHINGTON, D.C. – The League of Conservations Voters this week awarded Congressman Sam Farr (D-Carmel) a perfect 100 percent rating on its annual National Environmental Scorecard.
The scorecard is used by the group as a yardstick to rate members of Congress on environmental, public health and energy issues.
“Even as Congress continues to work on creating jobs and jumpstarting our economy, we have to keep an eye on the bigger picture,” Rep. Farr said. “Making sure we protect the environment, preserve green space and address climate change all have long-term ramifications we can’t ignore.”
The 2009 Scorecard included 13 House votes, ranging from clean energy and climate change to public lands and wildlife conservation.
“The successes of the first session of the 111th Congress, including passage of comprehensive clean energy and climate legislation in the U.S. House, clearly demonstrated a down payment on the change that voters sought in 2008,” said League of Conservations Voters President Gene Karpinski.
The full 2009 National Environmental Scorecard can be found at www.lcv.org/scorecard. Carmel Fisherman Appointed to Regional Fishery CouncilWASHINGTON, D.C. – David Crabbe, a longtime fisherman from Carmel, has been appointed to the Pacific Fishery Management Council. Elkhorn Slough Foundation Receives $3.9 Million GrantWASHINGTON, D.C. – The Elkhorn Slough Foundation has been awarded a $3,940,734 grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The coastal restoration funds were included in the Recovery Act, which was signed into law in February. |
