Archive for September, 2007
Political Book Reading at Books, Inc.
I thought I’d pass along a hot tip of an event at Books Inc. in Alameda.Robert Draper, reporter and author, will be presenting his book Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush. on Tuesday, October 2, 2007 7:30 PM.This sounds like an interesting …
Our first Alameda Meetup for John Edwards
Last night we had our first meetup to support the candidacy of John Edwards for President. It was, I felt, a good succes!I had some requests for links to some of the videos we showed there and information I had provided. I thought I would put it up o…
The scam, the heist, the robbery, the fraud…
Update: Apparently this initiative is dead! Hooray!Last week, I was invited last-minute to a meeting between two or three dozen politically active citizens and Art Torres (chair of the California Democratic Party) and Howard Dean (chair of the Democra…
Don Perata is Abusing His Power
Check out this article from BeyondChron.org: Perata and Migden Join To Stop Leno Bills.Apparently the Don, working with State Senator Carole Midgen, is holding up nearly all of Assemblymember Mark Leno’s bills — many of them no-brainers — in order …
Experimentally blogging on national topics
Since I didn’t get written up in the Alameda sun’s article on local bloggers, I figured it’s time for me to start blogging nationally. OK, not quite the reason, but I figured I would point out a couple of articles I’ve written on the popular national …
Alameda Meetup for John Edwards
I’m pleased to announce Alameda’s first-ever meetup for the candidacy of John Edwards for President in 2008, later this month. All three of you readers of this blog are welcome to attend!You’ve probably gotten wind of the fact by now that I’m a big su…
Labor Day with the Unions
Yesterday I attended a big Labor Day picnic sponsored by the Alameda Labor Council. In other words, Labor Day with Labor.After years of having “celebrated” Labor Day by doing nothing in particular – usually taking the day off, perhaps going to a BBQ, …
