tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1838486330710683342024-03-23T03:49:32.485-07:00Susan In GlendaleSusan Swifthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09741384063071874464noreply@blogger.comBlogger102125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-183848633071068334.post-67331331438026377302016-05-19T08:28:00.000-07:002016-05-25T15:12:19.857-07:00Susan's 2016 Glendale June Primary Voters' GuideMy voting guide is dedicated to my friend, Kirsten, who relies on my voting guide every election and passes it on to her family and friends.<br />
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The list of offices track the order of their appearance on the Glendale ballot.<br />
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<b>President:</b> <a href="https://www.tedcruz.org/l/senator/" target="_blank"><b>Ted Cruz </b></a></div>
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NOTE: Although Senator Cruz has <i>suspended</i> his campaign at this time, he retains his delegates and the ability to become the nominee at an open GOP convention (however unlikely). As of this writing, Donald Trump does not have the 1237 delegates required to lock up the nomination; therefore, a vote for Ted Cruz in the primary is NOT a "wasted vote" or a vote for Hillary. I think Cruz is a more conservative, more reliable choice than Trump. </div>
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43rd Assembly (Vote for up to 7): <br />
Doffie M. Lewis<br />
Mark Vafiades<br />
Marvin Owen<br />
Mary "Mell" Flynn<br />
Lenore Solis<br />
William E. Saracino<br />
Alex Keledjian<br />
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<b>US. Senator: </b> <b><a href="http://www.delbeccaroforsenate.com/" target="_blank">Thomas G. Del Beccaro</a> </b> (the conservative Republican)<br />
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<b>US Rep 28th District:</b> <b>Lenore Solis</b><br />
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<b>State Senator: </b> <b>Michael D. Antonovich </b>(the ONLY Republican in the field)<br />
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<b>State Assembly: </b> <b><a href="http://www.maccarleycampaign.com/" target="_blank">Mark MacCarley</a></b> (the REAL conservative in the race,<br />
highly qualified and a Major General -- the real deal)<br />
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<b>Judge of the Superior Court: </b>I'm relying on Craig Huey's comprehensive judicial <a href="http://www.judgevoterguide.com/" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">Voter's Guide</a>. Please help fellow voters in other California counties by passing along the link to Craig Huey's guide.<br />
Office 11: <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "palatino"; font-size: 15px;"><b>Steven Schreiner</b></span><br />
Office 42: <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "palatino"; font-size: 15px;"><b>Michael Ribons</b></span><br />
Office 60: <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "palatino"; font-size: 15px;"><b>James A. Kaddo</b></span><br />
Office 84: <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "palatino"; font-size: 15px;"><b>Aaron J. Weissman</b></span><br />
Office 120: <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "palatino"; font-size: 15px;"><b>Eric O. Ibisi</b></span><br />
Office 158: <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "palatino"; font-size: 15px;"><b>Naser “Nas” Khoury</b></span><br />
Office 165: <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "palatino"; font-size: 15px;"><b>Kathryn Ann Solorzano</b></span><br />
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<b>County District Atty: </b> I will not cast a vote. The only <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Lacey" target="_blank">candidate</a> is a Democrat.<br />
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<b>County Supervisor:</b> <b><a href="http://elancarr.com/index.php" target="_blank">Elan Carr</a> (the REAL conservative Republican)</b><br />
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<b>State Measure 50: NO. </b><br />
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<b>Although it sounds good, and makes you think it will punish bad politicians, it is actually a way for the majority Democrats in the legislature to intimidate those few Republicans fighting the good fight in Sacramento. Senator Joel Anderson <a href="http://www.eccalifornian.com/article/vote-no-proposition-50-my-turn-sen-joel-anderson" target="_blank">explains here</a>: </b><br />
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"The truth is that Prop 50 is a scam. Rather than accepting what legislative leaders want you to believe, I encourage you to look closer at the history of Prop 50 to understand how it will perpetuate the culture of corruption in the State Capitol, deny millions of Californians their voice in Sacramento, and allow capitol insiders to stifle political opposition."</div>
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<b>Glendale City Measure N: YES!!!! </b><br />
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<b><a href="http://saveglendale.com/" target="_blank">YES on Measure N</a> will eliminate the extra 7% tax that the city tacked on to the ever-rising utilities rates. </b><b>Every time residents' utility rates rise, this extra UUT "delivery fee" rises right along with it. A YES vote on Measure N will stop that sneaky extra tax. </b><b>This small cut will require the city council to look at its budget and make adjustments to control the growth of government. </b><br />
<b><br /></b><b>The UUT tax revenue pours right into the city's general fund. The City Council controls how that money is spent, not the city manager or the unions. The city unions have spent over $65K to scare residents, threatening them with decreases in services for fire and police and loss of libraries. They ignore the bloated salaries and swelling ranks of full-time government employees. </b><b>Upper management just received a 5% pay raise, so there's plenty of money to go around.</b><br />
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If you don't vote, you don't get to complain later. No excuses.Susan Swifthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09741384063071874464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-183848633071068334.post-87423730521540837572015-12-01T00:22:00.001-08:002015-12-01T00:22:52.048-08:00Voter Redistribution via HUD in 2016<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px rgb(230, 230, 230); font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
HUD’s data collection of Americans’ health, home loans, credit cards, work places, neighborhood and even children’s school records will be used to “prove” racial bias justifying government intervention, perpetually fueling government and private lawsuits even in the absence of any complaints of discrimination.</div>
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px rgb(230, 230, 230); font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://nypost.com/2015/07/18/obama-has-been-collecting-personal-data-for-a-secret-race-database/" style="-webkit-transition: color 300ms, background-color 300ms, opacity 300ms; border: 0px rgb(230, 230, 230); color: #ce2121; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 300ms, background-color 300ms, opacity 300ms; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">New York Post</a></strong><span style="background-color: transparent;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">author Paul Sperry writes that the purpose of HUD’s new Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing mega database is</span><span style="background-color: transparent;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent;"> </span></div>
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<em style="border: 0px rgb(230, 230, 230); font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“to racially balance the nation, ZIP code by ZIP code . . . . and publish ‘geospatial data’ pinpointing racial imbalances. . . . Federally funded cities deemed overly segregated will be pressured to change their zoning laws to allow construction of <strong style="border: 0px rgb(230, 230, 230); font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">more subsidized housing</strong> in affluent areas in the suburbs, and <strong style="border: 0px rgb(230, 230, 230); font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">relocate inner-city minorities</strong> to those predominantly white areas. <strong style="border: 0px rgb(230, 230, 230); font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">HUD’s maps, which use dots to show the racial distribution or density in residential areas, will be used to select affordable-housing sites.</strong>”</em> (emphasis added).</blockquote>
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HUD. <span style="border: 0px rgb(230, 230, 230); font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span>Select subsidized affordable housing sites in suburbs. Translation: Relocation.</div>
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Reading between the lines, gathering racial statistics can cover a much more nefarious political goal: the legal justification to use federal dollars to move liberal voters into conservative neighborhoods — to redistribute enough Democrat voters to permanently alter the political landscape.</div>
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Enter <a href="http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/about/principal_staff/secretary_castro" style="-webkit-transition: color 300ms, background-color 300ms, opacity 300ms; border: 0px rgb(230, 230, 230); color: #ce2121; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 300ms, background-color 300ms, opacity 300ms; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Julian Castro</a>, Secretary of HUD, “a proven leader, a champion for safe, affordable housing and strong, sustainable neighborhoods” according to none other than President Barack Obama. While serving as Mayor of San Antonio, Castro “became known as a national leader in urban development.” As HUD Secretary, Castro is a loyal Democrat operative, key to the legal redistribution of Democrat votes. Attractive, young, married with two children, this bilingual Hispanic Democrat with a B.A. from Stanford and a law degree from Harvard is the perfect choice to administer the <a href="http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/states/shared/working/r5/furtherfairhsg" style="-webkit-transition: color 300ms, background-color 300ms, opacity 300ms; border: 0px rgb(230, 230, 230); color: #ce2121; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 300ms, background-color 300ms, opacity 300ms; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Furthering Fair Housing program</a>…and perhaps to run for president once Hop-along Hillary sings ‘Happy Trails’ after her last rodeo.</div>
<span style="background-color: white; border: 0px rgb(230, 230, 230); font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Read more at <a href="http://politichicks.com/2015/07/voter-redistribution-how-obamas-hud-wins-2016-and-beyond/" target="_blank">Politichicks</a>. </span>Susan Swifthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09741384063071874464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-183848633071068334.post-48903908846232805712015-12-01T00:19:00.000-08:002015-12-01T00:19:19.708-08:00Armenian Genocide: 100 Years of Silence <span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The Armenian Genocide remains mostly ignored by history, in part eclipsed by the horrific devastation of World War I and later World War II and the Jewish Holocaust, and in part due to political aversion at ruffling the feathers of NATO “ally” Turkey, which continues to deny the Genocide and attack anyone mentioning it, including most recently courageous remarks on the genocide by </span><a href="http://www.apple.com/" style="-webkit-transition: color 300ms, background-color 300ms, opacity 300ms; background-color: white; border: 0px rgb(230, 230, 230); color: #ce2121; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 300ms, background-color 300ms, opacity 300ms; vertical-align: baseline;">Pope Francis</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">. The Mainstream Media also has been complicit in this evil silence. The New York Times refused to use the term “genocide” until </span><a href="http://www.history.com/topics/armenian-genocide" style="-webkit-transition: color 300ms, background-color 300ms, opacity 300ms; background-color: white; border: 0px rgb(230, 230, 230); color: #ce2121; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 300ms, background-color 300ms, opacity 300ms; vertical-align: baseline;">11 years ago</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">.</span><div>
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In today’s Mainstream Media, Islamic atrocities against Christians virtually do not exist. Instead, an odd-sounding group named “Boko Haram” murders and kidnaps “village girls”, or “al Shabaab” massacres Kenyan “university students”, or an acronym “IS” or “ISIS” engages in mass murder, rape and enslavement of “Yazidis”. Carefully scrubbed from most accounts is that the perpetrators are Muslims and the victims are Christians because they are Christian. Similarly, the Armenian Genocide is rarely if ever presented as the Islamic Ottoman Empire ethnically cleansing Christians from what is now Turkey, a monstrous feat successfully accomplished with absolutely no adverse consequence from the rest of the world.</div>
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Also ignored is that, as genocides go, the Ottomans were uniquely brutal. Unlike their coldly efficient Nazi successors-in-crime, the Ottomans Islamists did not only seek to exterminate a religious group, they did so with brutish sadism. They engaged in systematic mass rape of Christian girls and women. One historian <a href="http://www.history.com/topics/armenian-genocide" style="-webkit-transition: color 300ms, background-color 300ms, opacity 300ms; border: 0px rgb(230, 230, 230); color: #ce2121; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 300ms, background-color 300ms, opacity 300ms; vertical-align: baseline;">noted</a> how Christians would be marched into the desert, stripped naked, and left to suffer prolonged painful deaths, and how the Ottomans “drowned people in rivers, threw them off cliffs, crucified them and burned them alive.”</div>
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Does crucifixion and burning alive sound familiar? It should because it’s happening today in parts of the Middle East. Yet unlike the rarely publicized Armenian Genocide, Islamists now videotape and publicize their atrocities against Christians, so apparently unafraid they are of consequence or retaliation. And why should they be afraid? Who will punish them? President Obama? Are you kidding? Which has he given more attention to: a police shooting of a store robber in Missouri, or the ethnic cleansing, beheadings, mass rape, forced enslavement and persecution of Christians throughout the Middle East?</div>
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In 1922, the Ottoman Islamists marched into the Turkish coastal city of Smyrna, a city originally settled by Greeks in 700 B.C. that had grown to become the most prosperous and opulent city in the Ottoman Empire. Its “problem” was its large population of Greek and Armenian Christians. So, in 1923, the Ottoman military set fire to and destroyed the city, murdering nearly 100,000 Christians in the process. Offshore, warships from the United States, Great Britain and France <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Fire_of_Smyrna" style="-webkit-transition: color 300ms, background-color 300ms, opacity 300ms; border: 0px rgb(230, 230, 230); color: #ce2121; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 300ms, background-color 300ms, opacity 300ms; vertical-align: baseline;">watched.</a> On the ships, “military bands played loud music to drown out the screams of those who were drowning in the harbor and who were forcefully prevented from boarding Allied ships.” The Allies, fearful of upsetting their relationship with the new Turkish Government, deliberately did nothing.</div>
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Throughout the Middle East today, the United States, Great Britain and France still watch as Christians continue to be massacred by Islamists, fearful of upsetting relationships with Saudi Arabia, Iran and other tyrannical regimes there. The United States provides token air support against ISIS, but partly just to help the Iranian military which views ISIS as competitors to their own vision of an anti-Christian Islamic Caliphate.</div>
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Susan Swifthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09741384063071874464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-183848633071068334.post-15466210856196170542015-12-01T00:13:00.000-08:002015-12-01T00:13:02.756-08:00Planned Parenthood's Final Solution in California<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px rgb(230, 230, 230); font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
With Democrat accomplices, Planned Parenthood quietly seeks to deny life-saving emergency medical care to women in California. How and why would an organization claiming to champion “women’s health care” want to deny any woman life-saving emergency care?</div>
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Planned Parenthood is promoting AB 1177 in the California state legislature to repeal the licensing <a href="http://leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-16/bill/asm/ab_1151-1200/ab_1177_cfa_20150418_120455_asm_comm.html" style="-webkit-transition: color 300ms, background-color 300ms, opacity 300ms; border: 0px rgb(230, 230, 230); color: #ce2121; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 300ms, background-color 300ms, opacity 300ms; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">requirement</a> that “primary care clinics” have a written “transfer agreement” with a nearby hospital. Sounds so bureaucratic, boring and harmless, doesn’t it? Let’s lift the curtain to see what it really means and why it matters.</div>
<span style="background-color: white; border: 0px rgb(230, 230, 230); font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Read more at <a href="http://politichicks.com/2015/04/planned-parenthoods-final-solution-to-allow-easy-abortions-in-california/" target="_blank">Politichicks</a>. </span>Susan Swifthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09741384063071874464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-183848633071068334.post-4922484220981812972015-12-01T00:04:00.000-08:002015-12-01T00:10:15.817-08:00The Lone Wolf Conspiracy<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px rgb(230, 230, 230); font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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After a high profile shooting or bombing – D.C. Sniper, Times Square Bomber, Boston Marathon Bomber, Ft. Hood, Congresswoman Giffords’ shooter, etc – the Mainstream Media promptly launches an entirely fact-free broad brush smear campaign against their “usual suspect” – the Tea Party White Male Veteran Bitter-Clinger gun-wielding knuckle dragging Conservative (you know, those types who founded this country, fought and died to protect it and still volunteer to protect it today). But when the facts crystallize and the criminal instead turns out to be perhaps Muslim, or registered Democrat, the Media just as promptly spins and re-labels the perpetrator a “Lone Wolf” whose actions reflect no group characteristic and has no meaning beyond the discrete crime, therefore, case closed.</div>
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“Lone Wolf” suggests aberration, madness, a random quality to the target and disconnection from the deadly consequences and from reality. It is Liberal Code for a crime hardly worth publicizing or analyzing. It is like calling someone insane, a kook, or “nut job”, dismissing any larger danger or further investigation of motive. “Lone Wolf” is cynical media branding designed to mute those who might ponder motives, find parallels, deduce from evidence or draw logical connections.</div>
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Militant Islam is the current favorite application of the Lone Wolf narrative by the Mainstream Media and Left. The Ft. Hood massacre, Shoe Bomber, Underwear Bomber, Times Square Bomber, and Boston Marathon Bombers all had unmistakable Jihad motivations just like the Charlie Hebdo killers. Within hours of the Charlie Hebdo attack,<strong style="border: 0px rgb(230, 230, 230); font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Good Morning America</strong> talking heads floated the words “Lone Wolf” while the story broke, signaling the go-to knee-jerk narrative pre-launch before the facts came in. They quietly dropped the narrative as contrary facts emerged.</div>
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Because, you see, the narrative fails when the Lone Wolf is actually part of a pack. Increasingly, we are seeing evidence of such an Islamic Wolf Pack.</div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">This week we memorialize two salient civil rights events: first, the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and second, the annual March for Life in Washington D.C. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">In his 1967 Christmas Sermon on Peace, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. <a href="http://www.ecoflourish.com/Primers/education/Christmas_Sermon.html"><span style="color: #551a8b; letter-spacing: 0px;">said</span></a>:</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">[T]he next thing we are to be concerned about if we are to have peace on earth and goodwill towards men is the non-violent affirmation of the sacredness of all human life. . . . Man is a child of God, made in his image and therefore must be respected as such. . . . And when we truly believe in the sacredness of human personality, we won’t exploit people, we won’t trample over people with the iron feet of oppression, we won’t kill anybody.</span></i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">His words, spoken almost fifty years ago, still ring true today. For today, while a black man sits in the White House, the Democrat party who put him there funnels millions of public tax dollars to advance and promote the unjust killing of hundreds of thousands of pre-born black babies every single year. </span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Read <a href="http://www.politichicks.com/2015/01/dream-black-lives-matter/" target="_blank">more at Politichicks.com</a>.</span></div>
Susan Swifthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09741384063071874464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-183848633071068334.post-64760406717553884762014-12-24T12:14:00.002-08:002014-12-25T16:55:56.610-08:00Leftist Family Values Schizophrenia: Thanksgiving vs. Christmas<div style="border: 0px rgb(230, 230, 230); color: #505050; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
Every Thanksgiving, Leftists magically become champions of Family Values, of the importance of spending time at home with family rather than at work. The weeks preceding Thanksgiving see countless media stories bemoaning the sacrilege of businesses open on Thanksgiving Day. Unions organize protests at <a href="http://nhlabornews.com/2014/11/statement-by-afl-cio-pres-trumka-on-our-walmart-black-friday-protests/" style="-webkit-transition: color 300ms, background-color 300ms, opacity 300ms; border: 0px rgb(230, 230, 230); color: #ce2121; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 300ms, background-color 300ms, opacity 300ms; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">workplaces</a> open on Thanksgiving, write finger-wagging articles and bash <a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2014/11/26/thanksgiving_shopping_opening_retail_stores_on_thursday_is_terrible_for.html" style="-webkit-transition: color 300ms, background-color 300ms, opacity 300ms; border: 0px rgb(230, 230, 230); color: #ce2121; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 300ms, background-color 300ms, opacity 300ms; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">heartless</a> corporations who “can afford to give employees this holiday to spend with their families.”<br />
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But Leftists’ concern for family values mysteriously vanishes weeks later at Christmas, when they no longer care if businesses force employees to work. So why are “family values” important on Thanksgiving but not Christmas? <br />
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One prominent business operating on Christmas Day is Hollywood, which commonly uses the holiday to release important films. In the process, Hollywood profits billions of dollars from movie theaters that pay some of the <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/id/38168029/ns/business-careers/t/lowest-paying-jobs-america/#.VJhmpBsA" style="-webkit-transition: color 300ms, background-color 300ms, opacity 300ms; border: 0px rgb(230, 230, 230); color: #ce2121; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 300ms, background-color 300ms, opacity 300ms; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">lowest wages</a> in the United States. Why are Liberals outraged at Walmart for holiday work days but not at Hollywood?<br />
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<a href="http://www.politichicks.com/2014/12/leftist-family-values-schizophrenia-thanksgiving-vs-christmas/" target="_blank">Read more HERE.</a><br />
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<i>Originally published December 24, 2014 at <a href="http://www.politichicks.com/" target="_blank">Politichicks</a>, where cool conservative women blog.</i></div>
Susan Swifthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09741384063071874464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-183848633071068334.post-42542764534590035602014-12-23T16:53:00.004-08:002014-12-23T17:01:12.869-08:00Patriot Eric Garner and the Certainty of Death and Taxes<div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Eric Garner died a patriot. Yes, you read that right. Eric Garner has more in common with the colonists at the Boston Tea Party than he does with Michael Brown. Eric Garner died while being arrested by New York City police last July. His crime? Selling untaxed cigarettes. Garner’s actions were premised on the same notion that spurred the colonists to sabotage tea shipments in protest of England’s Stamp Act of 1765.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">In a City where you may not be arrested for marijuana possession or violating immigration laws, where illegal alien criminals will not be deported, you can be certain that the sacred lifeblood of Big Government – taxes – will always receive aggressive criminal enforcement, regardless if those taxes make the poor poorer or kill husbands and fathers like Eric Garner.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Just four weeks ago Mayor De Blasio proudly announced that New Yorkers would no longer be arrested for low level marijuana offenses because it would allow police to put “more time and energy into fighting more serious crime.” Apparently he meant “more time and energy into fighting” the victimless but “serious” crime of untaxed cigarettes. Bilious liberal hypocrites like Mayor De Blasio know who the real criminals are in New York City. It’s those like Garner who Just Say No to tyrannical taxation.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>Originally published on December 5, 2014 at </i><a href="http://www.politichicks.com/"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><i>Politichicks</i></span></a><i>, where the cool conservative women blog.</i></span></div>
Susan Swifthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09741384063071874464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-183848633071068334.post-22185754393483471392014-12-23T16:49:00.001-08:002014-12-23T16:57:57.073-08:00Voter Turnout: The Silver Lining in California’s Liberal Cloud<div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The low voter turnout in California’s midterm elections presents a golden opportunity for conservatives to influence state and local politics through the initiative process. Because the number of signatures required to qualify an initiative for the ballot in California is determined by the number of votes cast in the midterm elections, the recent low turnout makes it easier to qualify government-limiting, tax-cutting initiatives over the next four years. Presented correctly, these coming initiatives could invigorate discouraged conservative voters and drain bloated bureaucracies.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Local grassroots groups are already organizing strategies to bypass the Democrat Party’s far left stranglehold on California politics. For example, <a href="http://www.teapac.net/TP_PROD/news/" target="_blank">TeaPAC</a>, a grassroots tea party organization in Pasadena, California, is organizing <a href="http://www.teapac.net/TP_PROD/2014/11/08/presidents-message-the-law-of-unintended-consequences-what-really-happened-in-california-on-november-4/" target="_blank">initiative campaigns</a> in cities to cut certain local taxes and, in the process, “suck tens, even hundreds of millions of dollars out of the system.” It would also force Democrats and, indirectly, unions “to defend against dozens of efforts to repeal local taxes”, which in turn would divert their time and money from local, state and national political campaigns.</span></div>
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<i>Originally published on December 3rd, 2014 at </i><a href="http://www.politichicks.com/"><span style="color: #042eee; letter-spacing: 0px;"><i>Politichicks</i></span></a><i>, where the cool conservative women blog.</i></div>
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Susan Swifthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09741384063071874464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-183848633071068334.post-18254972609719069332014-12-23T16:23:00.003-08:002014-12-23T16:59:45.803-08:00Twisted Truth-o-Meter: PolitiFact gives bumbling defense of Liz Warren Puff Piece<div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Recently, PolitiFact targeted me when it publicly labeled “Mostly False” a social media <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=749708325049215&set=pb.100000301630391.-2207520000.1414980820.&type=3&theater"><span style="color: #551a8b; letter-spacing: 0px;">Meme I created</span></a> that mocked Senator Elizabeth Warren. My PolitiChicks <a href="http://www.politichicks.com/2014/11/politifact-circles-wagons-around-elizabeth-warren-pants-fire-smear/"><span style="color: #042eee; letter-spacing: 0px;">article</span></a> exposed PolitiFact’s dishonest smear against the Meme and me. I then sent a detailed letter to PolitiFact’s editors explaining why I was right and PolitiFact was wrong. That letter (reproduced below) provoked a condescending and huffy response from PolitiFact (read it for yourself below) doubling down on its misrepresentations and sloppy journalism, using small words in hopes little women like me might understand true journalists’ factual finesse.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">What was especially dumbfounding was PolitiFact’s response that “we would have been happy to respond to your concerns” but for the fact that “11 days” had passed since publishing the article. Spoken in Elizabeth Warren parlance, PolitiFact won’t smoke-em peace pipe with Paleface PolitiChick.</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">In Bizzaro-PolitiFact-world, fact checking my six month-old Meme is timely, but fact-checking its own 11 day-old article is not timely. Odd too is that PolitiFact emailed me about its article just five hours before publishing it, as if that were sufficient notice to respond (sorry, PolitiFact, but Wednesday afternoons I have three separate school pick-ups followed by kids’ karate lessons).</span></div>
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Susan Swifthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09741384063071874464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-183848633071068334.post-13709212467824801692014-11-08T09:51:00.000-08:002014-11-08T10:09:55.853-08:00PolitiFact Circles Wagons Around Elizabeth Warren with a Pants-On-Fire Smear<span style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">In my latest article <a href="http://www.politichicks.tv/2014/11/politifact-circles-wagons-around-elizabeth-warren-pants-fire-smear/" target="_blank">published at PolitiChicks</a>, I reveal how and why </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">PolitiFact targets me - instead of major leftwing media sites - for repeating an embarrassing fact about the Cherokee Princess, Elizabeth "Paleface" Warren:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">"Days before the Democrat Party’s anticipated electoral scalping, PolitiFact has published a shameless rehab </span><a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2014/oct/29/facebook-posts/critics-say-elizabeth-warren-lives-54-million-mans/" style="-webkit-transition: color 300ms, background-color 300ms, opacity 300ms; border: 0px rgb(230, 230, 230); color: #ce2121; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 300ms, background-color 300ms, opacity 300ms; vertical-align: baseline;">articl</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">e on Senator Elizabeth Warren. That article attacks a FaceBook </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=749708325049215&set=pb.100000301630391.-2207520000.1414980820.&type=3&theater" style="-webkit-transition: color 300ms, background-color 300ms, opacity 300ms; border: 0px rgb(230, 230, 230); color: #ce2121; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 300ms, background-color 300ms, opacity 300ms; vertical-align: baseline;">meme I published</a> <span style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">over six months ago that mocks the DNC’s chief Cherokee who “lives in a $5.4M mansion, claimed ‘Native American’ status to score a Harvard gig paying $350,000 to teach one class, and now lectures us that ‘the system is rigged to benefit the rich.’ “ Of those 5 or so facts, PolitiFact cherry picks the first one and, violating its own written policy, proclaims the entire Meme “mostly false” based solely on a flawed analysis of that one cherry picked fact.</span><br />
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While the top of the ticket is a foregone conclusion here in the People's Republik of Kalifornia, you must vote if only to retain your right to complain later. No excuses.<br />
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Very few people will bother to vote for the judges because many do not know much about them. Below I list who I think will do a good job wearing a black robe.<br />
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This year's voting guide list is dedicated to my friend, Melissa B. who called to tell me that she relies on my voting guide every election cycle. I wouldn't have done it but for her encouragement.<br />
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Governor: Neel Kashkari<br />
Lt Gov: Ron Nehring<br />
Sec of State: Pete Peterson<br />
Controller: Ashley Swearengin<br />
Treasurer: Greg Conlin<br />
Atty General: Ronald Gold<br />
Ins. Commis: Ted Gaines<br />
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Eqaulization: G. Rick Marshall<br />
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U.S. Representative 28th District: Steve Stokes<br />
Member State Assembly 43rd District: Todd Royal <br />
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<b>Judicial --- Supreme Court Justices.</b> These are "YES" or "NO" Votes.<br />
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NO - Goodwin Lu<br />
NO - Marianio-Florentino Cuellar<br />
NO - Kathryn Mickle Werdegar<br />
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<b>Judicial --- Court of Appeal Justice</b><br />
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YES - Frances Rothschild<br />
YES - Jeffrey W. Johnson<br />
YES - Brian M. Hoffstadt<br />
NO -- Lee Anne Edmon<br />
NO -- Audrey B. Collins<br />
YES - Nora M. Manella<br />
YES - Paul A. Turner<br />
YES - Kenneth R. Yegan<br />
YES - Dennis M. Perluss<br />
YES - Laurence D. Rubin<br />
NO -- Madeleine I. Flier<br />
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<b>Judicial - Judge of the Superior Court</b><br />
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Office No. 61: Dayan Mathai<br />
Office No. 87: Tom Griego<br />
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School Superintendent: Marshall Tuck<br />
County Assessor: John Morris<br />
County Sheriff: Jim McDonnell<br />
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STATE MEASURES (I voted "NO" on every one).<br />
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No. 1: NO<br />
No. 2: NO<br />
No. 45: NO<br />
No. 46: NO<br />
No. 47: NO<br />
No. 48: NO<br />
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County Measure P: NO<br />
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Below is <a href="http://www.teapac.net/TP_PROD/" target="_blank">TEAPac's</a> recommendations. TEAPac is a grassroots conservative organization I trust. If you don't live in Glendale, this will provide you with information about your particular local races:<br />
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</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-width: 1pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 153pt;" valign="top" width="153"><div style="font-family: Times-New-Roman; padding: 0px;">
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<tr id="yui_3_16_0_1_1414702261872_13655"><td colspan="1" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1414702261872_13654" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-width: 1pt; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 3.2in;" valign="top" width="230"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1414702261872_13653" style="font-family: Times-New-Roman; padding: 0px;">
<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1414702261872_13652" style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">District 23</span></div>
</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 153pt;" valign="top" width="153"><div style="font-family: Times-New-Roman; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">Kevin McCarthy</span></div>
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<tr id="yui_3_16_0_1_1414702261872_13657"><td colspan="1" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1414702261872_13656" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-width: 1pt; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 3.2in;" valign="top" width="230"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1414702261872_13659" style="font-family: Times-New-Roman; padding: 0px;">
<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1414702261872_13658" style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">District 25</span></div>
</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 153pt;" valign="top" width="153"><div style="font-family: Times-New-Roman; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">Steve Knight</span></div>
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<tr id="yui_3_16_0_1_1414702261872_13663"><td colspan="1" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1414702261872_13662" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-width: 1pt; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 3.2in;" valign="top" width="230"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1414702261872_13661" style="font-family: Times-New-Roman; padding: 0px;">
<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1414702261872_13660" style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">District 26</span></div>
</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 153pt;" valign="top" width="153"><div style="font-family: Times-New-Roman; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">Jeff Gorell</span></div>
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<tr id="yui_3_16_0_1_1414702261872_13667"><td colspan="1" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1414702261872_13666" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-width: 1pt; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 3.2in;" valign="top" width="230"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1414702261872_13665" style="font-family: Times-New-Roman; padding: 0px;">
<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1414702261872_13664" style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">District 27</span></div>
</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 153pt;" valign="top" width="153"><div style="font-family: Times-New-Roman; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">Jack Orswell</span></div>
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<tr id="yui_3_16_0_1_1414702261872_13671"><td colspan="1" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1414702261872_13670" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-width: 1pt; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 3.2in;" valign="top" width="230"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1414702261872_13669" style="font-family: Times-New-Roman; padding: 0px;">
<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1414702261872_13668" style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">District 28</span></div>
</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 153pt;" valign="top" width="153"><div style="font-family: Times-New-Roman; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">Steve Stokes</span></div>
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<tr id="yui_3_16_0_1_1414702261872_13675"><td colspan="1" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1414702261872_13674" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-width: 1pt; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 3.2in;" valign="top" width="230"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1414702261872_13673" style="font-family: Times-New-Roman; padding: 0px;">
<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1414702261872_13672" style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">District 29</span></div>
</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 153pt;" valign="top" width="153"><div style="font-family: Times-New-Roman; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">William Leader</span></div>
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<tr id="yui_3_16_0_1_1414702261872_13678"><td colspan="1" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1414702261872_13677" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-width: 1pt; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 3.2in;" valign="top" width="230"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1414702261872_13676" style="font-family: Times-New-Roman; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">District 30<br />District 31 </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">Mark S. Reed<br />Dr. Paul Chabot</span></div>
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<tr id="yui_3_16_0_1_1414702261872_13680"><td colspan="1" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1414702261872_13679" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-width: 1pt; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 3.2in;" valign="top" width="230"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1414702261872_13681" style="font-family: Times-New-Roman; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">District 32</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">Arturo Enrique Alas</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">District 33</span></div>
</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 153pt;" valign="top" width="153"><div style="font-family: Times-New-Roman; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">Elan Carr</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">District 34</span></div>
</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 153pt;" valign="top" width="153"><div style="font-family: Times-New-Roman; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">No Recommendation</span></div>
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<tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-width: 1pt; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 3.2in;" valign="top" width="230"><div style="font-family: Times-New-Roman; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">District 35</span></div>
</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 153pt;" valign="top" width="153"><div style="font-family: Times-New-Roman; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">No Recommendation</span></div>
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<tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-width: 1pt; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 3.2in;" valign="top" width="230"><div style="font-family: Times-New-Roman; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">District 37</span></div>
</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 153pt;" valign="top" width="153"><div style="font-family: Times-New-Roman; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">R. Adam King</span></div>
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<tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-width: 1pt; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 3.2in;" valign="top" width="230"><div style="font-family: Times-New-Roman; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">District 38</span></div>
</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 153pt;" valign="top" width="153"><div style="font-family: Times-New-Roman; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">Benjamin Campos</span></div>
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<tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-width: 1pt; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 3.2in;" valign="top" width="230"><div style="font-family: Times-New-Roman; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">District 39</span></div>
</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 153pt;" valign="top" width="153"><div style="font-family: Times-New-Roman; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">Ed Royce</span></div>
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<tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-width: 1pt; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 3.2in;" valign="top" width="230"><div style="font-family: Times-New-Roman; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">District 40</span></div>
</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 153pt;" valign="top" width="153"><div style="font-family: Times-New-Roman; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">No Recommendation</span></div>
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<tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-width: 1pt; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 3.2in;" valign="top" width="230"><div style="font-family: Times-New-Roman; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">District 43</span></div>
</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 153pt;" valign="top" width="153"><div style="font-family: Times-New-Roman; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">John Wood, Jr.</span></div>
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<tr id="yui_3_16_0_1_1414702261872_13627"><td colspan="1" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1414702261872_13626" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-width: 1pt; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 3.2in;" valign="top" width="230"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1414702261872_13625" style="font-family: Times-New-Roman; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">District 44</span></div>
</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 153pt;" valign="top" width="153"><div style="font-family: Times-New-Roman; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">No Recommendation</span></div>
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<tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-width: 1pt; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 3.2in;" valign="top" width="230"><div style="font-family: Times-New-Roman; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">District 47</span></div>
</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 153pt;" valign="top" width="153"><div style="font-family: Times-New-Roman; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">Andy Whallon</span></div>
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<tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-width: 1pt; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 3.2in;" valign="top" width="230"><div style="font-family: Times-New-Roman; padding: 0px;">
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</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 153pt;" valign="top" width="153"><div style="font-family: Times-New-Roman; padding: 0px;">
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<tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-width: 1pt; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 3.2in;" valign="top" width="230"><div style="font-family: Times-New-Roman; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;"><b>Statewide Candidates</b></span></div>
</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 153pt;" valign="top" width="153"><div style="font-family: Times-New-Roman; padding: 0px;">
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<tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-width: 1pt; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 3.2in;" valign="top" width="230"><div style="font-family: Times-New-Roman; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">Governor</span></div>
</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 153pt;" valign="top" width="153"><div style="font-family: Times-New-Roman; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">Neel Kashkari</span></div>
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<tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-width: 1pt; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 3.2in;" valign="top" width="230"><div style="font-family: Times-New-Roman; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">Lieutenant Governor</span></div>
</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 153pt;" valign="top" width="153"><div style="font-family: Times-New-Roman; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">Ron Nehring</span></div>
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<tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-width: 1pt; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 3.2in;" valign="top" width="230"><div style="font-family: Times-New-Roman; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">Secretary of State</span></div>
</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 153pt;" valign="top" width="153"><div style="font-family: Times-New-Roman; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">Pete Peterson</span></div>
</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-width: 1pt; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 3.2in;" valign="top" width="230"><div style="font-family: Times-New-Roman; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">Controller</span></div>
</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 153pt;" valign="top" width="153"><div style="font-family: Times-New-Roman; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">Ashley Swearengin</span></div>
</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-width: 1pt; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 3.2in;" valign="top" width="230"><div style="font-family: Times-New-Roman; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">Treasurer</span></div>
</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 153pt;" valign="top" width="153"><div style="font-family: Times-New-Roman; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">Greg Conlon</span></div>
</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-width: 1pt; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 3.2in;" valign="top" width="230"><div style="font-family: Times-New-Roman; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">Attorney General</span></div>
</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 153pt;" valign="top" width="153"><div style="font-family: Times-New-Roman; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">Ronald Gold</span></div>
</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-width: 1pt; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 3.2in;" valign="top" width="230"><div style="font-family: Times-New-Roman; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">Insurance Commissioner</span></div>
</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 153pt;" valign="top" width="153"><div style="font-family: Times-New-Roman; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">Ted Gaines</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">State Board of Equalization, District 3</span></div>
</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 153pt;" valign="top" width="153"><div style="font-family: Times-New-Roman; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">G. Rick Marshall</span></div>
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</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 153pt;" valign="top" width="153"><div style="font-family: Times-New-Roman; padding: 0px;">
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<tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-width: 1pt; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 3.2in;" valign="top" width="230"><div style="font-family: Times-New-Roman; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;"><b>State Senate Candidates</b></span></div>
</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 153pt;" valign="top" width="153"><div style="font-family: Times-New-Roman; padding: 0px;">
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<tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-width: 1pt; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 3.2in;" valign="top" width="230"><div style="font-family: Times-New-Roman; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">District 18</span></div>
</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 153pt;" valign="top" width="153"><div style="font-family: Times-New-Roman; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">Ricardo Antonio Benitez</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">District 20</span></div>
</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 153pt;" valign="top" width="153"><div style="font-family: Times-New-Roman; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">Matthew Munson</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">District 22</span></div>
</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 153pt;" valign="top" width="153"><div style="font-family: Times-New-Roman; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">Marc Rodriquez</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">District 24</span></div>
</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 153pt;" valign="top" width="153"><div style="font-family: Times-New-Roman; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">No Recommendation</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">District 26</span></div>
</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 153pt;" valign="top" width="153"><div style="font-family: Times-New-Roman; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">No Recommendation</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">District 30</span></div>
</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 153pt;" valign="top" width="153"><div style="font-family: Times-New-Roman; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">No Recommendation</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">District 32</span></div>
</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 153pt;" valign="top" width="153"><div style="font-family: Times-New-Roman; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">Mario A. Guerra</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">District 34</span></div>
</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 153pt;" valign="top" width="153"><div style="font-family: Times-New-Roman; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">Janet Nguyen</span></div>
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<br /></div>
</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 153pt;" valign="top" width="153"><div style="font-family: Times-New-Roman; padding: 0px;">
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</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-width: 1pt; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 3.2in;" valign="top" width="230"><div style="font-family: Times-New-Roman; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;"><b>State Assembly Candidates</b></span></div>
</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 153pt;" valign="top" width="153"><div style="font-family: Times-New-Roman; padding: 0px;">
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<tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-width: 1pt; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 3.2in;" valign="top" width="230"><div style="font-family: Times-New-Roman; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">AD 36</span></div>
</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 153pt;" valign="top" width="153"><div style="font-family: Times-New-Roman; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">Tom Lackey</span></div>
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<tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-width: 1pt; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 3.2in;" valign="top" width="230"><div style="font-family: Times-New-Roman; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">AD 38</span></div>
</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 153pt;" valign="top" width="153"><div style="font-family: Times-New-Roman; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">Scott Wilk</span></div>
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<tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-width: 1pt; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 3.2in;" valign="top" width="230"><div style="font-family: Times-New-Roman; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">AD 39</span></div>
</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 153pt;" valign="top" width="153"><div style="font-family: Times-New-Roman; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">No Recommendation</span></div>
</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-width: 1pt; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 3.2in;" valign="top" width="230"><div style="font-family: Times-New-Roman; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">AD 41</span></div>
</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 153pt;" valign="top" width="153"><div style="font-family: Times-New-Roman; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">Nathaniel Tsai</span></div>
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<tr id="yui_3_16_0_1_1414702261872_13632"><td colspan="1" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1414702261872_13631" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-width: 1pt; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 3.2in;" valign="top" width="230"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1414702261872_13630" style="font-family: Times-New-Roman; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">AD 43</span></div>
</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 153pt;" valign="top" width="153"><div style="font-family: Times-New-Roman; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">Todd Royal</span></div>
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<tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-width: 1pt; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 3.2in;" valign="top" width="230"><div style="font-family: Times-New-Roman; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">AD 44</span></div>
</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 153pt;" valign="top" width="153"><div style="font-family: Times-New-Roman; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">Rob McCoy</span></div>
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<tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-width: 1pt; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 3.2in;" valign="top" width="230"><div style="font-family: Times-New-Roman; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">AD 45</span></div>
</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 153pt;" valign="top" width="153"><div style="font-family: Times-New-Roman; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">Susan Shelley</span></div>
</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-width: 1pt; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 3.2in;" valign="top" width="230"><div style="font-family: Times-New-Roman; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">AD 46</span></div>
</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 153pt;" valign="top" width="153"><div style="font-family: Times-New-Roman; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">Zachary Taylor</span></div>
</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-width: 1pt; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 3.2in;" valign="top" width="230"><div style="font-family: Times-New-Roman; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">AD 48</span></div>
</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 153pt;" valign="top" width="153"><div style="font-family: Times-New-Roman; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">Joe Gardner</span></div>
</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-width: 1pt; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 3.2in;" valign="top" width="230"><div style="font-family: Times-New-Roman; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">AD 49</span></div>
</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 153pt;" valign="top" width="153"><div style="font-family: Times-New-Roman; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">Esthela Torres Siegrist</span></div>
</td></tr>
<tr id="yui_3_16_0_1_1414702261872_13690"><td colspan="1" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1414702261872_13689" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-width: 1pt; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 3.2in;" valign="top" width="230"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1414702261872_13688" style="font-family: Times-New-Roman; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">AD 50</span></div>
</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 153pt;" valign="top" width="153"><div style="font-family: Times-New-Roman; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">Bradly S. Torgan</span></div>
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<tr id="yui_3_16_0_1_1414702261872_13687"><td colspan="1" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1414702261872_13686" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-width: 1pt; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 3.2in;" valign="top" width="230"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1414702261872_13685" style="font-family: Times-New-Roman; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">AD 51</span></div>
</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 153pt;" valign="top" width="153"><div style="font-family: Times-New-Roman; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">Stephen C. Smith</span></div>
</td></tr>
<tr id="yui_3_16_0_1_1414702261872_13684"><td colspan="1" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1414702261872_13683" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-width: 1pt; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 3.2in;" valign="top" width="230"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1414702261872_13682" style="font-family: Times-New-Roman; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">AD 52</span></div>
</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 153pt;" valign="top" width="153"><div style="font-family: Times-New-Roman; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">Dorothy Pineda</span></div>
</td></tr>
<tr id="yui_3_16_0_1_1414702261872_13693"><td colspan="1" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1414702261872_13692" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-width: 1pt; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 3.2in;" valign="top" width="230"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1414702261872_13691" style="font-family: Times-New-Roman; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">AD 53</span></div>
</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 153pt;" valign="top" width="153"><div style="font-family: Times-New-Roman; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">No Recommendation</span></div>
</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-width: 1pt; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 3.2in;" valign="top" width="230"><div style="font-family: Times-New-Roman; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">AD 54</span></div>
</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 153pt;" valign="top" width="153"><div style="font-family: Times-New-Roman; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">Glen Ratcliff</span></div>
</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-width: 1pt; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 3.2in;" valign="top" width="230"><div style="font-family: Times-New-Roman; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">AD 55</span></div>
</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-style: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 153pt;" valign="top" width="153"><div style="font-family: Times-New-Roman; padding: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">Ling-Ling Chang</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">AD 57</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">Rita Topalian</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">AD 58 </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">No Recommendation</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">AD 59</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">No Recommendation</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">AD 62</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">Ted J. Grose</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">AD 63</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">Adam J. Miller</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">AD 64</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">No Recommendation</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">AD 66</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">David Hadley</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">AD 70</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">John C. Goya</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">Superintendent of Public Instruction</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">Marshall Tuck</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">County Assessor</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">John Morris</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">Sheriff</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">Paul Tanaka (NP) or</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">Jim McDonnell (NP)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">LA County Supervisor, District 3</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">No Recommendation</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">County Measure </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">NO</span></div>
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<br />Susan Swifthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09741384063071874464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-183848633071068334.post-1202472564572794432014-10-22T10:37:00.001-07:002014-12-23T16:56:17.818-08:00World War E: Obama’s Political Strategy of Appeasement<div class="yiv7800533369" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1413998597349_10422" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
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<span class="yiv7800533369" style="letter-spacing: 0px;">With potential World War E looming over the Ebola outbreak, Obama has adopted a Neville Chamberlin appeasement approach. <a class="yiv7800533369" href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/10/18/weekly-address-what-you-need-know-about-ebola" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; color: #196ad4; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank"><span class="yiv7800533369" style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Obama</span></a> now declares Ebola under control and that the <a class="yiv7800533369" href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/10/18/weekly-address-what-you-need-know-about-ebola" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; color: #196ad4; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank"><span class="yiv7800533369" style="letter-spacing: 0px;">U.S. will lead the global response</span></a> in Africa. Peace in our time. Simultaneously, however, WHO has sounded the alarm and <a class="yiv7800533369" href="http://www.nola.com/health/index.ssf/2014/10/who_botched_ebola_west_africa.html" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; color: #196ad4; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank"><span class="yiv7800533369" style="letter-spacing: 0px;">admits </span></a>it has already botched the global Ebola response. The biggest danger of appeasement, of Obama’s political dithering over the Ebola outbreak, is with the math, and I’m not talking Common Core. </span>We may witness a global Ebola death toll rivaling <a class="yiv7800533369" href="http://www.nationalww2museum.org/learn/education/for-students/ww2-history/ww2-by-the-numbers/world-wide-deaths.html" rel="nofollow" style="color: #196ad4; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank"><span class="yiv7800533369" style="letter-spacing: 0px;">total deaths in WWII</span></a>.<span class="yiv7800533369" style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div>
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<span class="yiv7800533369" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1413998597349_10398" style="letter-spacing: 0px;">According to the CDC, the number of infected victims in this Ebola epidemic <a class="yiv7800533369" href="http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/outbreaks/2014-west-africa/qa-mmwr-estimating-future-cases.html" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; color: #196ad4; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank"><span class="yiv7800533369" style="letter-spacing: 0px;">doubles</span></a> every 2-3 weeks. One great worry is the virus spreading to <a class="yiv7800533369" href="http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2014/10/who-says-east-asia-at-risk-ebola-20141010123924783609.html" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; color: #196ad4; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank"><span class="yiv7800533369" style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Southeast Asia</span></a>. But in apparent appeasement to potentially angry foreign governments, the CDC and President Obama tell us that air travel bans will not work because they hinder the ability to track disease carriers who would otherwise sneak across borders. Air travel bans might work in the U.S. with its highly sophisticated healthcare system, but how can we expect poor, primitive public health systems to “track” Ebola carriers internationally? In the U.S. over 800 people are being <a class="yiv7800533369" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2797403/frontier-airlines-notifies-800-passengers-plane-carried-amber-vinson-ohio-health-officials-monitor-12-people-contact-her.html" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; color: #196ad4; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank"><span class="yiv7800533369" style="letter-spacing: 0px;">tracked</span></a> from a single passenger flight taken by the second infected nurse in Dallas. How can third world nations to do such comprehensive tracking when there are dozens, hundreds or thousands of patients? It’s all in the numbers, and they don’t look good.</span></div>
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<span class="yiv7800533369" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1413998597349_10412" style="letter-spacing: 0px;">The doctor who helped originally identify the Ebola virus <a class="yiv7800533369" href="http://www.economist.com/blogs/banyan/2014/10/ebolas-threat-india" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; color: #196ad4; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank"><span class="yiv7800533369" style="letter-spacing: 0px;">is "especially worried" about its spread</span></a> to the 1.2 billion inhabitants of India, describing it as “a particularly dreadful scenario” because of the primitive state of public health in India where, for example, “doctors and nurses often don’t wear protective gloves.” WHO expects Ebola infections to rise to 10,000 cases per week in West Africa. What happens when Ebola travels to a poor nation like India with 300 times the population of Liberia? Could that 10,000 weekly number in West Africa be multiplied by 10, 50, 100 or more in densely populated India? Crunching the numbers is terrifying.</span></div>
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<span class="yiv7800533369" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1413998597349_10400" style="letter-spacing: 0px;">As WHO says, “<a class="yiv7800533369" href="http://www.dw.de/who-ebola-spread-in-western-pacific-would-have-huge-consequences/a-17996987" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; color: #196ad4; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank"><span class="yiv7800533369" style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Ebola does not respect borders</span></a>.” Neither does Obama for <a class="yiv7800533369" href="http://dailysignal.com/2014/03/04/federal-government-refuses-enforce-immigration-law-southwest-border/" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; color: #196ad4; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank"><span class="yiv7800533369" style="letter-spacing: 0px;">political reasons</span></a>. It has been <a class="yiv7800533369" href="http://finance.yahoo.com/news/obama-risking-u-ebola-outbreak-091500185.html" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; color: #196ad4; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank"><span class="yiv7800533369" style="letter-spacing: 0px;">suggested</span></a> that Obama won’t force travel restrictions out of Ebola hot zone countries because he fears it would endanger his <a class="yiv7800533369" href="http://finance.yahoo.com/news/obama-risking-u-ebola-outbreak-091500185.html" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; color: #196ad4; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank"><span class="yiv7800533369" style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Africa political legacy</span></a>. Appeasement. Obama won't protect our borders from Ebola carriers because he fears alienating critical voting blocs. Appeasement. After his political manipulations led to disaster in Benghazi, Obama dismissed American deaths as mere “bumps in the road”. Will thousands or more Ebola deaths in India, Asia and other parts of the third world be so many more bumps in Obama’s road to political legacy?</span></div>
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<span class="yiv7800533369" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1413998597349_10403" style="letter-spacing: 0px;">With just two weeks until critical midterm elections, Obama seems to approach Ebola less as a medical crisis and more as a political crisis. If Ebola’s worst damage occurs outside the U.S., will Obama depict himself as another FDR who successfully led America through a global Ebola crisis, to spin a “World War E” scenario in the most favorable political light possible? Is that what’s behind Obama’s appointment of Ebola Czar Ron Klain, the veteran Democrat political hack with absolutely no medical training? Obama’s political appeasement strategy throws Americans under the bus, and perhaps the world along with us.</span></div>
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<span class="yiv7800533369" style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><i>Originally <a href="http://www.politichicks.tv/2014/10/world-war-e-obamas-political-strategy-appeasement/" target="_blank">published at PolitiChicks.com</a> October 21, 2014.</i></span></div>
Susan Swifthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09741384063071874464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-183848633071068334.post-9595690312129356712014-10-22T10:32:00.000-07:002014-12-23T16:54:59.336-08:00Ebola Invasion Across Our Borders: The 5,000 Pound Elephant in the Immigration Reform Room<div class="yiv0882260490" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
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<span class="yiv0882260490" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1413998597349_6554" style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Within the past year alone, Americans witnessed as President Obama lured tens of thousands of desperate Central American families to send their children into the U.S. and then promptly spread them throughout all 50 states with NO medical or criminal screening. Enterovirus is the suspected result and a foreshadowing of things to come. Who needs a Typhoid Mary when we have Typhoid Barack recklessly depositing potential disease carriers in every corner of our country? Worse, just think what would happen if Ebola spread from Africa to Central America, for example, an outbreak of Ebola in Mexico City. A mass migration to America for health reasons would dwarf these numbers.</span></div>
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<span class="yiv0882260490" style="letter-spacing: 0px;">In the face of Ebola, President’s Obama’s political duplicity on the issue of immigration will lead to the deaths of Americans. As the President himself has <a class="yiv0882260490" href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2013/02/04/preventing-violence-president-obama-asks-americans-stand-and-say-time-its-different" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="background-color: transparent; color: #196ad4; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank"><span class="yiv0882260490" style="letter-spacing: 0px;">said</span></a>, “if there’s even one thing we can do, if there's just one life we can save, we've got an obligation to try.” To save American lives, we must close the border now and secure it with military troops with orders to kill any who attempt to cross. Fortuitously, Homeland Security already has a massive stockpile of ammunition for such purpose. </span></div>
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<i>Originally <a href="http://www.politichicks.tv/2014/10/ebola-invasion-across-borders-5000-lb-elephant-immigration-reform-room/" target="_blank">published at Politichicks.com</a> on October 18, 2014.</i></div>
Susan Swifthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09741384063071874464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-183848633071068334.post-65694904221299208952013-09-25T10:44:00.002-07:002013-09-25T10:44:41.670-07:00First They Came for the Doctors.... (It's 1939 All Over Again)<div>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">In light of ObamaCare and the IRS' most recent <a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/news/irs-rides-1884-dead-horse-law-defense-tax-211608311--sector.html" target="_blank">legal attack </a>on tax preparers, those private citizens who help the rest of us working slobs legally avoid paying more than our "fair" share of taxes, I dedicate my twist on Pastor Martin Niemoller's 1939 poem:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: red;">and I did not speak out--because I was not a tax preparer. </span></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">First they came for the </span><i style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Jews</i><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span><br style="text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">and I did not speak out--because I was not a </span><i style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Jew</i><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">. </span><br style="text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Then they came for the </span><i style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">communists</i><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span><br style="text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">and I did not speak out--because I was not a </span><i style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">communist</i><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">. </span><br style="text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Then they came for the </span><i style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">trade unionists</i><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span><br style="text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">and I did not speak out--because I was not a </span><i style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">trade unionist</i><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">. </span><br style="text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Then they came for </span><i style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">me</i><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">--</span><br style="text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">and there was </span><i style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">no one left</i><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"> to speak out for </span><i style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">me</i><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">.</span></div>
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Susan Swifthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09741384063071874464noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-183848633071068334.post-66884598759135002792012-12-20T15:55:00.000-08:002014-12-25T16:59:26.421-08:00The Twelve Days of Christmas: Meaning behind Politically Correct code of Catholic Faith<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">Back in 16th century, Catholics were persecuted to the point of death just for practicing their religion. T</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;">he traditional carol "The Twelve Days of Christmas" originated as a secret, politically correct</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"> </span><a href="http://www.catholic.net/index.php?id=3465&option=dedestaca" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;" target="_blank">teaching mnemonic</a><span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"> that could be sung publicly to remind Catholics of the doctrinal elements of their Faith.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;">12 Lords A-leaping = Twelve basic tenets of Catholic Faith outlined in the <a href="http://www.catholic.org/prayers/prayer.php?p=220" target="_blank">Apostles' Creed</a>;</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;">11 Pipers Piping = the eleven faithful Apostles remaining after Judas the Betrayer left;</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">5 Golden Rings = the first Five Books of Old Testament, the Pentateuch, also known as the Torah, <a href="http://www.catholic.org/clife/advent/advent.php?id=2" target="_blank">telling</a> of man's fall from grace;</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">2 Turtle Doves = the dual <a href="http://www.catholic.net/index.php?id=3465&option=dedestaca" target="_blank">natures</a> of Jesus -- His Divinity and His Humanity, or alternatively the two parts comprising the <a href="http://www.catholic.net/index.php?id=3465&option=dedestaca" target="_blank">Bible</a>, the Old and New Testaments; </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">and A Partridge in a Pear Tree = <a href="http://www.catholic.net/index.php?id=3465&option=dedestaca" target="_blank">Jesus</a> Himself on the tree, the symbol of the <a href="http://www.catholic.net/index.php?id=3465&option=dedestaca" target="_blank">Cross</a>. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">Sources: <a href="http://www.catholic.net/index.php?id=3465&option=dedestaca" target="_blank">here</a>, <a href="http://www.catholicculture.org/culture/liturgicalyear/activities/view.cfm?id=540" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="http://www.catholic.org/clife/advent/advent.php?id=2" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></span></div>
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Got this via email from my favorite liberal. Don't know the original author, but it made me laugh out loud!<br />
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<span style="color: #001fe2; font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">1.. You make over $250,000 and you still can't afford to buy a house.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #001fe2; font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">2. The fastest part of your commute is going down your driveway.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #001fe2; font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">5. When someone asks you how far something is, you tell them how long it will take to get there rather than how many miles away it is.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #001fe2; font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">6. The 4 seasons are: Fire, Flood, Mud, and Drought.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #603181; font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">2. You can get into a four-hour argument about how to get from Columbus Circle to Battery Park, but can't find Wisconsin on a map.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #603181; font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">4. You believe that being able to swear at people in their own language makes you multi-lingual.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #603181; font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">5. You've worn out a car horn. (Ed. Note if you have a car).</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f0062; font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">3. You have more than one recipe for casserole.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f0062; font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">4. Sexy lingerie is anything flannel with less than eight buttons.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ff4040; font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">4. Everyone has 2 first names: Billy Bob, Jimmy Bob, Mary </span></span><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Ellen</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></span><span style="color: #ff4040; font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">, Betty Jean, Mary Beth, etc.</span></span></div>
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Susan Swifthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09741384063071874464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-183848633071068334.post-4981676107366531962012-10-11T14:45:00.000-07:002012-10-11T14:45:47.303-07:00Susan's Voter's Guide Nov. 2012 -- CALIF CANDIDATESHere's who I'm voting for this November. The list is short and sweet and conservative, like me:<br />
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President and Vice President: Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan<br />
United States Senator: Elizabeth Emken<br />
U.S. Representative: Phil Jennerjahn<br />
State Senator: Gilbert V. Gonzales<br />
Member State Assembly: Greg Krikorian<br />
County District Attorney: Alan Jackson<br />
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Susan Swifthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09741384063071874464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-183848633071068334.post-67303507023179070712012-10-11T14:11:00.000-07:002012-10-13T09:44:40.031-07:00UPDATED Susan's Voters Guide Nov. 2012 - CALIF State PropositionsAs a resident of Jerry Brown's Democrat utopia, here's how I'm voting on the plethora of state ballot propositions -- Follow along carefully. It can get confusing this year:<br />
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<strong>Prop 30 = NO NO NO NO! </strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: black;">Prop 31</span> = NO NO NO NO!</strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: black;">Prop 32</span> = YES YES YES YES</strong><br />
<strong>Prop 33 = YES</strong><br />
<strong>Prop 34 = NO</strong><br />
<strong>Prop 35 = YES</strong><br />
<strong>Prop 36 = YES</strong><br />
<strong>Prop 37 = NO NO NO NO NO!</strong><br />
<strong>Prop 38</strong><strong> = NO. ABSOLUTELY NO!</strong><br />
<strong>Prop 39 = NO</strong><br />
<strong>Prop 40 = YES</strong><br />
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A = NO -- keep County Assessor an elected position, not appointed.<br />
B = YES -- burdens porn producers with more regulations, and that's a good thing.<br />
J = NO -- extends earlier <a href="http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/Los_Angeles_County_Sales_Tax_for_Transportation,_Measure_J_(November_2012)" target="_blank">tax hike</a> FOR 30 YEARS to build trains, bridges, fix potholes and paint rainbows.<br />
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<b>NO on Prop 30 - </b>temporarily jacks up personal income AND state sales taxes to fund more government<b>. </b><br />
<em>Why NO? First, it's yet another tax hike on people who already pay one of the highest rates in the country. California's high tax rates are already driving millions out of the state. Second, I doubt the tax will truly be "temporary." This one goes through 2019, but by then we'll hear how we have to make it permanent because we (the government) have come to rely on the money. Third, it's a bureaucratic shell game using your money. Although Jerry Brown and the Dems tell us the money will "fund education," the fine print in the bill makes it clear that the money goes into the State's "General Fund." And as the Legislative Analyst clearly explains</em><br />
<em>"[f]uture actions of the Legislature and the Governor would determine the use of these funds." So in the end the money will actually go into the governmental black hole of debt already created by the insolvent teachers' pension fund. And they call this "helping to balance the state budget." That's why the teachers' union supports it -- so they can retire in style. Why should I pay higher taxes for the teachers' pensions when the teachers don't pay for their own pensions and I cannot afford to even save for my own?</em><br />
<i><br /></i><b>NO on Prop 31 -</b> creates a two year fiscal state budget cycle; gives control of property and state sales tax revenues to local governments, and prevents future tax hikes without public knowledge.
<em>Why NO? Initially this one fooled me and I was planning on voting "yes" because it sounds like local control of local taxation; however, those at the legislative sausage factory know better. Quoting from Stanley Kurtz at </em><a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/315838/californias-awful-prop-31-your-future-stanley-kurtz" target="_blank"><em>National Review</em></a><em>: </em><br />
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"How does Prop. 31 work? It allows local governments to join together to form “Strategic Action Plans.” Supposedly, this pooling of local municipal services into a kind of de facto collective regional super-government would be voluntary. In fact, Prop. 31 deploys powerful incentives to effectively force the creation of these regional super-governments. To begin with, municipalities that join regional collectives–and only those municipalities–can effectively waive onerous state laws and regulations by creating their own more lax versions of those rules. Next, Prop. 31 channels a portion of state sales tax revenue to municipalities that join regional governing collectives–and only those municipalities. Finally, Prop. 31 authorizes local governments participating in the regional collectives to pool their property-tax receipts."</div>
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<b>YES on Prop 32 - </b>stops unions, corporations and government contractors from using employees' payroll deductions (a.k.a. "dues") for political purpose. Please note the deceptive title: "Political Contributions by Payroll Deduction. Contributions to Candidates." </div>
<i>Why YES? </i><i>This law bans the use of payroll deductions to finance union spending for political purposes against an individual member's will. </i><i> Prop 32 will cripple the Democrat money laundering scheme by restricting how unions like SAG and the teachers' union spend their members' money. Each year employees can VOLUNTARY authorize their union to use such dues towards political goals. Prop 32 only restricts the unions, not the individuals' rights to contribute to a political activity, and that's a very good thing. Puts individuals back in control of their money and restricts the corporate palm greasing in Sacramento.</i><br />
<i><br /></i><strong>YES on Prop 33 - </strong>allows insurance companies more flexibility in setting prices for driving insurance, allowing discounts for continuous coverage to follow the driver. <em>WHY YES? The state already requires you to carry drivers' insurance. If an insurance company wants to compete for your business by matching your current insurance rate discount for prior continuous coverage, why should a law stop that discount? Right now, the current law does just that, hurting individuals seeking lower rates by taking away their discount if they switch, thereby destroying true free market competition. Prop 33 will permit drivers to take their good driver discounts with them when they choose to transfer to another insurance company. Military personnel are protected from losing their discount due to service lapses.</em><br />
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<strong>NO on Prop 34</strong><em> - </em>repeals the death penalty and replaces it with life imprisonment. Applies retroactively converting all current death sentences to life without the possibility of parole.<br />
<em>WHY NO? It's part of the ACLU's leftist political agenda to undermine public safety laws by claiming that the death penalty costs too much to enforce. Yet, for years it has been the ACLU filing endless death row appeals, increasing the cost to the state to enforce the death penalty. Now, ironically, the ACLU advances Prop 34 to win all those death rows appeal by legislative fiat, and charging the taxpayers $100 MILLION dollars in grants ($25 million over the next four years) to make the change!! Don't let the ACLU's Prop 34 give a reprieve to Polly Klaas' killer, Richard "Night Stalker" Ramirez, vicious child rapists and murderous gang members. Prop 34 is cruel and unusual punishment to the families of the victims.</em><br />
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<strong>YES on Prop 35 - </strong>increases prison time and fines for human trafficking.<br />
<em>WHY YES? Increase the penalties to discourage the crime and to keep those who commit them off the streets for longer. Duh. Unless you're Maxine Doogan, an "erotic service provider" concerned about giving money to your son, you should support this one.</em><br />
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<strong>YES on Prop 36</strong> - revises California's "Three Strikes" law to allow certain third strikers to apply for resentencing.<br />
<em>WHY YES? I'm on the fence with this because "Three Strikes" is working and I am loathe to fix what ain't broke; however, that said, I'll trust Los Angeles District Attorney Steve Cooley (R) and Los Angeles Chief of Police Charlie Beck, both of whom have endorsed this proposition as a means of restoring the true intent of the Three Strikes law while saving the state money and resources. Read argument to Vote NO <a href="http://www.savethreestrikes.com/index2.php" target="_blank">here</a> and the argument to Vote Yes <a href="http://www.yeson36.org/" target="_blank">here</a>.</em><br />
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<strong>NO on Prop 37</strong> - requires brand new, specific labeling unique to California on all food sold in California and changes how manufacturers can market foods.<br />
<em>WHY NO? More bureaucratic red tape to burden actual producers while spurring crippling lawsuits. Prop 37 is a litigator's dream -- it creates brand new state regulations which will <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2012/08/14/californias-prop-37-a-feast-for-lawyers/2/" target="_blank">hurt the little food growers</a> by forcing them to use more costly operations or switch to higher priced ingredients, creating a hidden food tax for all of us. From <a href="http://www.noprop37.com/facts/" target="_blank">opponents</a>: "Prop 37 was written by a trial lawyer to benefit trial lawyers. Its primary sponsor is a trial lawyer whose firm and organization have made more than $3 million suing under the terms of another proposition he helped write." </em><br />
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<strong>NO on Prop 38 - </strong>another tax on personal income rates ostensibly to fund education.<br />
<em>WHY NO? Prop 38 is being marketed as a smart alternative to Prop 30. Proponents claim Prop 38 will do a better job at funding education than Prop 30. But Californians cannot afford any more new taxes no matter the wrapping. Prop 38 confiscates $120 BILLION in taxes from individuals and small businesses making as little as $30,000 a year until 2024! And one third of the taxes raised wouldn't even go to schools, but to back filling the state's debt, just like Prop 30. Prop 38 has no requirements to improve school performance by getting rid of bad teachers because it's just all about the money, not how kids learn. We are already paying one of the highest state income tax rates now and have been for decades. Prop 38 will just take more money away from parents trying to make ends meet so bureaucrats can keep on spending.</em><br />
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<strong>NO on Prop 39 - </strong>forces state businesses to use new calculations to recompute their tax liability and denies multi-state businesses the right to shop friendly tax rates in other states.<br />
<em>WHY NO? This new tax hike on businesses will drive employers out of California. Prop 39 raises taxes on California businesses to the tune of $1 BILLION dollars, creating a new bureaucracy to <a href="http://www.sacbee.com/2012/10/13/4908139/proposition-39-seeks-to-tax-out.html" target="_blank">fund "green energies"</a> -- can anyone say "Solyndra"? And Prop 39 won't stop contractors from giving kick back campaign donations to those politicians who award them their contracts. So if you're a business with operations in several states, leave California now because if you stay you have to pay our rate and pay off our legislators.</em><br />
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<strong>YES on Prop 40 - </strong>approves the new State Senate districts drawn by citizen volunteers.<br />
<em>WHY YES?</em> <em>Looks like there is no opposition to this one.</em> <em>Without a YES vote, the state senate boundary lines will be redrawn by unaccountable officials picked by the California Supreme Court and would cost us more money for the duplicate paperwork necessary. Last cycle we created this citizen's redistricting board to redrawn these lines. Time to try their recommendations.</em>Susan Swifthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09741384063071874464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-183848633071068334.post-65375644844637022942012-10-06T15:42:00.001-07:002012-10-06T15:42:51.524-07:00Top Ten Suggestion to Help the Dems<br />
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Thanks to Mr. <b>Scott Mc Afee</b> for submitting this humorous post following the first Romney/Obama debate:</div>
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Ok, so we all know the Dems took a shellacking at the first presidential debate. Well, it's not too late for them to take back the elections and here are some suggestions to help them make it happen.</div>
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<li style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;">Invite Big Bird to join Obama on the campaign trail. As a bonus, have Ernie and Bert come out of the closet and explain to the kids that if Romney is elected the wedding is off.</li>
<li style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;">Have Ellen DeGeneres channel the dead guy whose head Mitt supposedly shaved in high school. She can explain why years of therapy still have not helped relieve the hair cutting trauma.</li>
<li style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;">Employ Steven Spielberg to CGI newly discovered footage of Mitt Romney's dog reliving the terror on top of the family station wagon. Rosy O'Donnell can dub the dog's wailing voice.</li>
<li style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;">Replace Joe Biden with vagina activist Sandra Fluke. Change the narrative from the economy to Lady Parts and condoms.</li>
<li style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;">Reach out even further to the Muslim extremist community by appointing Mahfouz Ahmadinejad as head of homeland security or NASA.</li>
<li style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;">Keep the DNC's resources focused on the remaining 7 states of the 57 states that Obama is visiting.</li>
<li style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;">Ask Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to survey the DNC as to the inclusion of "Allah" in the party platform. This will eliminate the "nay" vote completely, uniting the party.</li>
<li style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;">Reemphasize Romney's vacation jet ski rental as an obvious “rich man's extravagance” while ignoring Michelle Obama's multiple trips to Europe with her entourage.</li>
<li style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;">To rally the base at the next campaign stop, ask Reverend Jeremiah Wright to belt out James Brown's “Living in America” only substitute “G.D. America” instead.</li>
<li style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;">If the polls look really bad after the next debate, run Bill Clinton instead with promises that Monica Lewinsky will reprise her role in the new administration as his Chief of Staff.</li>
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Susan Swifthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09741384063071874464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-183848633071068334.post-29459877569765987142012-09-13T00:35:00.000-07:002012-09-13T00:35:02.123-07:00Media Echo Chamber applies Sharia to U.S. Freedom of Speech<br />
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The mainstream American media is floating the recent U.S. Embassy <a href="http://egypt.usembassy.gov/pr091112.html" target="_blank">apology</a> as a new world standard for universal free speech rights. The 9/11 U.S. embassy apology condemned “the continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims – as we condemn efforts to offend believers of all religions” and “firmly reject[ed] the universal right of free speech to hurt the religious beliefs of others.” <br />
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Undaunted by the cluster-fuffle of the statement's late <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/09/12/us/politics/libya-statements.html" target="_blank">disavowal</a> by the White House, the <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2010/08/02/Shame-of-a-Nation--Make-Believe-Media-Ignores-Wikileaks----White-House-Dialogue" target="_blank">Make-Believe Media</a> advanced the new legal standard and began the witch hunt to blame someone – anyone – other than the Muslims who killed Americans in Libya or the predictable result of Obama’s failed foreign policy apology tour. <br />
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<a href="http://www.mediaite.com/tv/christiane-amanpour-implies-%E2%80%98extremists-in-this-country%E2%80%99-inspired-murderous-riots-in-n-africa/" target="_blank">Media outlets</a> including MSNBC’s <a href="http://www.mediaite.com/tv/morning-joe-panelist-says-terry-jones-an-accessory-to-libya-killings/" target="_blank">Morning Joe</a>, Christiane Amanpour on ABC, and her husband James Rubin on CNN, suggested that such "<a href="http://www.mediaite.com/tv/christiane-amanpour-implies-%E2%80%98extremists-in-this-country%E2%80%99-inspired-murderous-riots-in-n-africa/" target="_blank">abuse" of free speech may be equivalent to falsely "yelling fire in a theater"</a> and could excuse the Muslims’ murderous rage as an understandable form of righteous indignation. They focused on the <a href="http://www.mediaite.com/tv/christiane-amanpour-implies-%E2%80%98extremists-in-this-country%E2%80%99-inspired-murderous-riots-in-n-africa/" target="_blank">filmmaker’s intention</a> to incite violence. This is akin to blaming the American female journalist for the Muslim gang rape. <br />
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To CNN’s <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/omid-safi/" target="_blank">Islamic supremacist</a> and <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/12195" target="_blank">apologist</a> <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/omid-safi/" target="_blank">Omid Safi</a>, professor of religious studies at University of North Carolina, offensive words are analogous to <a href="http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/09/12/reaction-to-anti-islam-film-fuels-debate-on-free-speech-versus-hate-speech/" target="_blank">dropping bombs and military occupation</a>. CNN’s national security analyst Peter Bergen says making a comment about free speech is okay, but actually speaking effectively so as to provoke a reaction, whether it be thoughtful, emotional, religious or political or otherwise, is “<a href="http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/09/12/reaction-to-anti-islam-film-fuels-debate-on-free-speech-versus-hate-speech/comment-page-1/" target="_blank">irresponsible</a>.” Such broad definitions of hurtful speech would classify Rush Limbaugh as a weaponized conservative universal free speech abuser deserving of legal censure or physical attack for hurting liberals’ feelings daily. <br />
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By entertaining such bias and by fueling the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/12/nakoula-basseley-nakoula-anti-islam-film_n_1879195.html" target="_blank">political witch hunt</a> to pin American deaths on an unknown Israeli filmmaker, or a small town <a href="http://www.mediaite.com/tv/morning-joe-panelist-says-terry-jones-an-accessory-to-libya-killings/" target="_blank">Christian preacher</a>, the Make-Believe Media is aiding and abetting Muslim extremists’ attack against the U.S. Constitution. They are massaging and <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/316550/us-embassy-favors-religious-feelings-over-free-speech-attacked-anyway-nina-shea" target="_blank">redefining</a> the First Amendment to fit a new universal world order to suppress any speech that could be offensive to the hearer, most particularly Islamic hearers. And justice comes not in court-based rulings but by unilateral forcible attacks against convenient targets of Islamic passion. This is quite simply a back-door introduction of Sharia law to limit American free speech. Susan Swifthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09741384063071874464noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-183848633071068334.post-64452574667434561792012-09-10T22:49:00.000-07:002012-09-10T22:49:05.960-07:0010 THINGS THE DNC CONVENTION TAUGHT ME (that I never knew about myself until now)<br />
1. Because I am a Christian, I want <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2012/09/05/Fla-DNC-Boss-Christians-Want-Jews-Slaughtered" target="_blank">Jews slaughtered</a>. <br />
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2. Because I am registered Republican, I am a <a href="http://www.jammiewf.com/2012/dean-of-kansas-dnc-delegation-hey-those-voter-id-laws-sure-remind-me-of-hitler/" target="_blank">racist</a> and a <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/09/04/OUCH-CA-Dem-Chair-Leaves-DNC-For-Pre-scheduled-Root-Canal-After-Comparing-Paul-Ryan-To-Nazi-Propagandist" target="_blank">Nazi</a>. <br />
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3. Because I am a conservative woman, I am <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/09/05/Third-Nazi-reference-From-Democrat" target="_blank">like Eva Braun</a> and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KzHO5uYTQM" target="_blank">want pregnant women to die</a>. <br />
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4. Because I oppose Obamacare, I want <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0912/80711_Page2.html" target="_blank">all women to die</a>, not just the pregnant ones. <br />
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5. Because I am a conservative who embraces school choice over teachers’ unions, I want to <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8FU9NMiw-k&feature=related" target="_blank">keep poor kids stupid</a>. <br />
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6. Because I am Catholic, I want to <a href="http://www.frontiersla.com/Blog/FrontierBlog/blogentry.aspx?BlogEntryID=10435398" target="_blank">hurt poor families</a>. <br />
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7. Because I am a white woman who voted for a white guy, I am a <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/photos/convention-goer-stands-convention-floor-first-day-democratic-photo-230750114.html" target="_blank">racist</a>.<br />
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8. Because I am a white woman, I secretly yearn to sleep with and vote for a black man <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/photos/convention-goer-stands-convention-floor-first-day-democratic-photo-230750114.html" target="_blank">because he’s black</a>. And I can’t control myself.<br />
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9. Because I oppose raising taxes on the 51% of <a href="http://blog.heritage.org/2012/02/19/chart-of-the-week-nearly-half-of-all-americans-dont-pay-income-taxes/" target="_blank">Americans who pay taxes</a>, I am <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8FU9NMiw-k&feature=related" target="_blank">unpatriotic</a>.<br />
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10. Because I invest my retirement savings in the market, I am part of the greedy corporate capitalist cabal. The government should <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07fTsF5BiSM" target="_blank">outlaw corporate profits</a>. <br />
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In stark contrast to the GOP Convention that attacked the President’s failed policies and leadership, the DNC Convention focused on attacking People Who Don’t Think Like Them. The Democrats didn’t just attack the opinions of their fellow Americans – their neighbors, co-workers, friends - the DNC Convention vilified and dehumanized them. The Democrats publicly and proudly labeled roughly one-half of the American population as extremists, Nazis, killers and haters.<br />
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Susan Swifthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09741384063071874464noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-183848633071068334.post-32849227115792899272012-09-10T22:21:00.000-07:002012-09-10T22:23:04.341-07:00The DNC's ExtremismLast week's Democrat National Convention proved beyond doubt that the Democrat Party is now one great big radical <a href="http://michellemalkin.com/2012/09/07/circus-of-the-vagina-gogues-vs-archbishop-timothy-cardinal-dolan/" target="_blank">Vagina Sorority</a> whose 2012 dream ticket would be none other than the War on Women Dynamic Duo, Bill Clinton & Ted Kennedy .<br />
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The highlights of the DNC Platform include: <br />
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<a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/09/05/Democrats-change-platform-God-Israel" target="_blank">Boo</a> God and Screw the <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/09/05/Democrats-change-platform-God-Israel" target="_blank">Jews</a>. <br />
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A <a href="http://catholicnewsherald.com/42-news/rokstories/2316-first-dnc-pro-life-prayer-vigil-draws-peaceful-supporters-vocal-opponents-to-uptown-charlotte" target="_blank">fetus</a> is not a baby until it’s born. <br />
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Abortion is a medical necessity to preserve <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eqxq9NkCxEI&feature=relmfu" target="_blank">future</a> fertility. <br />
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And despite a growing $16 trillion dollar national debt, and the fact that Planned Parenthood has enough federal money to stage free <a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/sluts-and-condoms-for-obama/article/2507187" target="_blank">birth control give-aways</a> outside the convention, the DNC’s most important economic issue is making other people pay for Sandra Fluke’s extremist sisters’ access to contraception. <br />
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Yes, as one DNC delegate’s campaign button confirms, <a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/sluts-and-condoms-for-obama/article/2507187" target="_blank">sluts</a> do indeed vote. And they <a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/sluts-and-condoms-for-obama/article/2507187" target="_blank">vote Democrat</a>.Susan Swifthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09741384063071874464noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-183848633071068334.post-57547065732789272562012-09-08T10:33:00.001-07:002012-09-08T10:33:29.696-07:00My Response to Michelle Obama's Email FundraiserMichelle just dropped me a "personal" note (desperate massive emailing) after last night's DNC flop, so I thought I would respond with my thoughts to her missive. My thoughts are highlighted and italicized:<br />
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"Susan, [<strong><em>we are on intimate speaking terms because she uses my money daily and needs more</em></strong>] thank you for an amazing week. [<strong><em>Well, Michelle, can I tell you how offended I am that you address me without my formal title of "Mrs."? If I were meeting you or speaking to you in person, out of respect for the office of the President, I would address you as "Mrs. Obama" or "First Lady". Since you feel entitled to spend my tax dollars so freely on dog walkers, jet vacations and overseas summer camp trips for Malia and Sasha, I guess you think we're on a first name basis. WRONG. I am an American taxpayer, and therefore, YOUR BOSS. Act like it.]</em></strong><br />
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Barack and I felt your energy up there. <strong><em>[That threat of lightning, perhaps?]</em></strong><br />
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But we can't let that energy fade <strong><em>[to coin a phrase Michelle, "Yes, We Can!"]</em></strong> -- because in just 60 days, voters will decide who gets to serve in the White House for the next four years. <strong><em>[Which voters, the legal ones or the illegal ones, or just the ignorant uniformed?]</em></strong> So every single one of us has got to pull together to finish strong.<br />
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I know you feel the urgency: <strong><em>[yeah, I cannot wait to fire your husband from his job November 6th]</em></strong> Already this week, supporters like you have made more than 500,000 grassroots donations to build this campaign. So if you're fired up, let's keep it going -- let's see how many people we can get to show their support by the end of the day. <strong><em>[Your hubby's internal polling and fundraising numbers are pretty dismal, aren't they?]</em></strong><br />
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Can you chip in $5 or more to stand with Barack today? <strong><em>[I would rather sell my children to the Red Chinese]</em></strong><br />
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Barack's got something that the other side doesn't: more than 3 million grassroots supporters like you -- and together we're going to win this election the right way. <strong><em>[The old-fashioned way, the Chicago way, with New Black Panther intimidation, union bosses and lots of dead people voting in North Carolina, Ohio, Illinois to name but a few].</em></strong><br />
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The donation you give today will make a big impact in the final stage of this race. <strong><em>[That's why I'm sending it to R&R</em></strong>]. And on November 7th, you can wake knowing that you did everything you could to help us deliver on the full promise of the next four years. <strong><em>[God help America!]</em></strong><br />
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Make this our biggest week yet, and give $5 or more right now to win this election in the final two months...." <strong><em>[Over my Taxed Enough Already teacup, Michelle.]</em></strong> <br />
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Michelle <strong><em>['finally proud of my country']</em></strong> Obama"<br />
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.Susan Swifthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09741384063071874464noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-183848633071068334.post-89819727230577552802012-06-08T22:19:00.000-07:002012-06-08T22:20:33.153-07:00Chilling Effects of Obamacare's HHS Mandate on Religious FreedomLet’s set aside the lofty constitutional considerations of the HHS mandate for a moment to consider its practical application. Here are just a few facts about the mandate taken from the <a href="http://www.becketfund.org/faq/" target="_blank">Becket Fund</a>: <br />
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The government mandate is unprecedented in federal law, and broader than any state contraception mandate to date. Never has federal law required private health plans to cover sterilization or contraception.</blockquote>
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The … “religious employer” exemption from the mandate … is extremely narrow and will, in practice, cover very few religious employers. Many religious organizations—including hospitals, charitable service organizations, and schools—cannot meet this definition. They would be forced to choose between covering drugs and services contrary to their religious beliefs or cease to offer health plans to their employees and incur substantial fines.</blockquote>
Either pay for abortions under a health care plan or cancel health care and still pay hefty fines. So, a Baptist private school that currently offers health insurance to teachers must continue to pay the insurance fee mandated to cover abortions, sterilizations and other objectionables or cancel its insurance group coverage and pay a fine for doing so. Either way the school must pay unless it closes its doors to all non-Baptists. <br />
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As the Becket Fund explains, <br />
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Not even Jesus’ ministry would qualify for this exemption, because He fed, healed, served, and taught non-Christians. . . . Under the government’s mandate, religious organizations can follow their beliefs as long as they only serve their own members. But when they start to do the good work of serving the community, the government can restrict them. </blockquote>
Do you see what the Obamacare HHS mandate is doing? The HHS mandate demands religious bigotry and faith-based isolationism as a precondition to serving the greater good of public health. <br />
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In essence, to comply with the HHS mandate, churches, synagogues, and mosques must mind their own business within their own walls among their own members and out of society. Catholic hospital could only hire Catholic staff and only cure ailing Catholics. Baptists might only employ Baptists to feed only hungry Baptists. Jews would only hire Jewish teachers to educate only Jewish children. <br />
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To preserve the religious exemption against crushing governmental fines, it is hardly a stretch to imagine that every sort of religious institution would require proof of religious identification shown at every Catholic charity, every Protestant hospital, every Islamic madrassa, and at every Jewish soup kitchen. <br />
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Just imagine. Any ministry activity outside one’s own particular religious group may void the exemption. Give a man a handout and you may have to pay for a woman’s abortion. Evangelize a newcomer and your church must now fund sterilization and morning-after pills. Imagine a Catholic I.D. card required to enter school. Show your Star of David for medical treatment. <br />
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This HHS penalty will freeze private charitable outreach and service, stigmatizing religious orders and driving religious evangelization and ministries underground or out of business. The mandate could create an underground religious black market, encouraging people to lie about or hide their true faith or their activities. <br />
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Or worse: the Obamacare HHS mandate could cause people to believe that religious charity is illegal since the government is taking care of people anyway and there are fines against practicing faith in public. “Besides,” they’ll say, "with Obamacare, there is no need to take care of others, to care for our brothers. After all, I gave at the office through Obamacare.” <br />
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If we do not stand up and unite against this mandate as a nation, if the HHS mandate is left unopposed and intact, it will quietly force each person to accept small increases in insurance premiums passed on through employers who have no choice. What will you do when you have to pay that little bit more? Government incrementalism and public complacency accomplish what no violent revolution ever could. <br />
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Today, in America, our own government is threatening churches and religious people with socialized healthcare that demands payment without exception for procedures and drugs that many of us consider immoral and against our religious beliefs. This is not the first time a government has persecuted peoples of faith. <br />
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Less than 100 years ago, the ideology of Marxism-Leninism made atheism the official doctrine of the Soviet Union. In 1918 Lenin issued a decree on the separation of church and state, which stripped churches of protective exemptions from government actions. The decree unionized teachers as state workers and banned the teaching of religious doctrines in public and private schools. Sound familiar? Marxism-Leninism advocated the control, suppression, and the elimination of religion in Russia through harassment, ridicule, propaganda, the outright seizure of property, imprisonment, torture and wide scale murder. <br />
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Thanks to the new film <em><a href="http://www.forgreaterglory.com/" target="_blank">For Greater Glory</a></em>, many Americans are just now learning about the 90,000 Mexican Catholics who were savagely hunted, harassed, tortured and murdered by Mexico’s communist regime in the 1920’s. <br />
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Most of us know that Adolf Hitler ordered the grotesque annihilation of over 6 million Jews and those who protected them simply for being Jewish. Like Russian counterparts Marx, Lenin and Stalin, and like Mexico’s Plutarco Calles, Hitler was also a socialist, the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party.<br />
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Even more recently, in our lifetime, following the communist revolution of 1959, the government of Cuba restricted religious freedoms, persecuting many Catholics at universities and jobs. In three years, eighty percent of the professional Catholic priests and Protestant ministers left Cuba for the United States.<br />
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What made the difference between countries like Russia and Cuba and those of Mexico and Europe? The Cubans fled. The Russians cowered. The Cristeros and the WWII Allies organized and resisted the government oppression. That resistance has made all the difference. <br />
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It is not enough to rally today and then do nothing tomorrow. Each of us must make our own personal choice now to flee and cower, to accept this mandated control of religious liberty, to pay the fine, or to stand up with courage and with faith to oppose this governmental oppression of religious freedom. Now is the moment to protect our faith and protect our freedom. For if we do not protect religious freedom today, history teaches that we may be called to fight for it in the future. <br />
<br />Susan Swifthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09741384063071874464noreply@blogger.com0