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From the Fresno Bee:
EDITORIAL: Passion is productive, Nunes’ rhetoric is not
Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Visalia, has been a passionate advocate of conservative causes, and his votes reflect the majority of his constituents in the 21st District. But as the Democratic-controlled Congress has been successful in pushing its agenda, the rhetoric from Nunes has become increasingly more strident.
In recent days, Nunes said the passage of the health-care bill will cause the “total destruction of the country,” compared President Barack Obama with Iraq’s Saddam Hussein and Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe and defended protesters who launched epithets at Democrats who supported the reform bill.
As an elected leader, Nunes should be setting an example of how to vigorously debate an issue he doesn’t agree with. That’s how our democracy is … Read the details.
From the Fresno Bee, published Wednesday, March 24:
It could change any time, but right now Fresno County has more registered Democrats than Republicans.
In numbers that the Fresno County Elections Office updated Tuesday, March 23, there are 159,380 registered Democrats, and 159,263 registered Republicans.
For Fresno County Democrats, the turnaround is remarkable.
It was in October 2000 that Republicans overtook Democrats in Fresno County for the first time in memory, wiping out a Democratic registration edge that was 55,000 voters in the mid-1990s.
The Republican domination in Fresno County peaked in 2004. That year, GOP registrations were ahead of Democratic registrations by more than 23,500 voters.
“After a decade of Republican domination, and even though the lead is small, it’s quite an accomplishment to have finally taken the lead in voter registrations in Fresno County,’ said James Williams, Campaign Services Chair for the Fresno … Read the details.
The Fresno County Democratic Central Committee was once again a proud sponsor of Peace Fresno’s ‘Peace and Justice Festival,’ held Sunday, March 21, at the Fresno Fairgrounds. More than a thousand people attended the Festival, and many of those attending either stopped by our FCDCC booth or met one of our members as they circulated.
A number of voters registered as Democrats during the Festival, stopping by our booth to declare their support for Democratic principals in these challenging times.
Many thanks to Karen Bernal, Jason Carns, Jay Hubbell, Chuck Krugman, Camille Russell, Steve Smith, James Williams, Robert Williams, and all of the others who helped make our day at the Peace and Justice Festival a success. Here’s how the day looked:
If the viewscreen above is not visible, the slideshow can be viewed at http://bit.ly/9PyRON.
From MSNBC.com:
President Barack Obama capped a yearlong political drama Tuesday, signing into law a landmark health care reform bill that had been seen as impossible just two months ago.
The president said the law “will set into motion what a generation of Americans have fought for.”
He said he was confident the Senate would make fixes to the legislation “swiftly.”
Obama paid tribute to what he called the “historic leadership and uncommon courage” of the members of Congress who pushed ahead with the measure amid the often heated debate. He also hailed the new law, saying it helps lift a “decades-long drag” on the economy.
For details, read the full story on MSNBC.com at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35999823/ns/politics-health_care_reform/
From Rep. Louise Slaughter comes this, a most succinct summary of what the healthcare reform bill passed Sunday is designed to do:
10 million of the most struggling Americans will be covered by Medicaid
We will provide subsidies to help working class Americans afford their insurance
Americans with preexisting conditions will immediately have access to insurance through a high risk pool
Insurers will be required to spend at least 85% of premiums on care
Reform will reduce the federal deficit by $1.3 trillion over the next twenty years
There will be tax credits this year to help small businesses give their employees health insurance
Health care reform will end denial of coverage because of preexisting conditions, first for children and later for all adults
We will prohibit lifetime caps on benefits
Insurance companies will be unable to drop you from your coverage because you get sick
Medicare will see multiple improvements:
We will … Read the details.
From our friends at Whitehouse.gov:
After a historic vote in the House to send healthcare reform to the President, he speaks to all Americans on the change they will finally see as they are given back control over their own health care.
If the viewscreen above is not visible, President Obama’s remarks can be viewed at http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/03/22/what-change-looks.
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The Fresno County Democratic Central Committee invites you to visit our booth this weekend at the Peace and Justice Festival, Peace Fresno’s ninth annual Rally in the Valley, scheduled 12:30-5 p.m. Sunday, March 21, in the Junior Exhibit Building at the Fresno Fairgrounds, 1121 South Chance Avenue in Fresno. Admission and parking are both free, and the Fresno County Democratic Central Committee is among the event’s sponsors.
FCDCC member and Peace Fresno President Camille Russell describes the Peace and Justice Festival thusly:
The Peace and Justice Festival will be the largest convergence of peace activists in the Central Valley on the day that marks seven years of U.S. war on Iraq. We will join people all over the U.S. in calling for an end to war, and we will celebrate the richness of our local peace and justice community.
The festival will feature speakers –Kathy Kelly of Voices … Read the details.
From our friends at the California Democratic Party:
Teachers, firefighters and nurses have launched a petition drive to put a majority vote budget on the ballot in November. Their measure changes the vote requirement to pass a budget from two-thirds to a simple majority and penalizes legislators for failing to do their most important job – passing a fair budget on time.
Year after year Republicans hold the budget hostage and are able to make extraneous demands that weaken our environmental protection laws and undermine worker protections, and they even managed to foist a Louisiana-style “Top-Two” primary on the voters of California – all in exchange for passing a budget which they are already required to do by law.
Getting this initiative to quality for the ballot will be an uphill climb for our partners unless our party’s grassroots activists engage, organize … Read the details.
At its regular meeting in March, the Fresno County Democratic Central Committee voted to take positions on the five propositions on the ballot in the June 8 election.
Proposition 13: The FCDCC expressed a neutral position.
Proposition 14: The FCDCC recommends that voters choose “no.”
Proposition 15: The FCDCC recommends that voters choose “yes.”
Proposition 16: The FCDCC recommends that voters choose “no.”
Proposition 17: The FCDCC recommends that voters choose “no.”
From the Brown for Governor campaign comes the following announcement:
Today, I am formally announcing my candidacy for the office of Governor of California, to deal head-on with the challenges facing this state I love. I have lived in California all my life, and I believe the obstacles in our path are substantial, but not insurmountable. If we have a Governor who will truly commit to dealing personally with the tough choices facing our state, and who will get in the trenches side by side with legislators, we can get California working again.
This campaign will not be easy. I will face an opponent with nearly unlimited personal resources to pour into television ads and attacks. I am counting on your support, and your hard work over the next nine months. I believe I have the experience, the understanding of State Government, and commitment required to move California forward. I look … Read the details.
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