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Race Card Down on the Table PDF Print E-mail
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Monday, 02 August 2010 07:10

San Francisco's KGO talk show host Rosie Allen predicted on Saturday's show that it would take 48 hours for Democrat CongresswomanMaxine Waters to play the race card over the ethics investigation Congress has launched into questionable appropriation practices for a distressed bank in which her husband was on the board of directors.

Yup.

She nailed it.

:...The politically charged decisions by veteran Democratic Reps. Charles Rangel of New York and Maxine Waters of California to force public trials by the House ethics committee are raising questions about race and whether black lawmakers face more scrutiny over allegations of ethical or criminal wrongdoing than their white colleagues.

 

The controversy over the cases and the prospect of the first simultaneous ethics trials for multiple members in more than 30 years mark the biggest challenge for the ethics committee’s and the House’s ability to police its own members since the mid-1990s, when then-Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) and other leaders from both parties found themselves hauled before the secretive panel.

 

The question of whether black lawmakers are now being singled out for scrutiny has been simmering throughout the 111th Congress, with the Office of Congressional Ethics a focal point of the concerns. At one point earlier this year, all eight lawmakers under formal investigation by the House ethics committee, including Rangel and Waters, were black Democrats. All those investigations originated with the OCE, which can make recommendations — but take no final actions — on such cases.

 

There’s a “dual standard, one for most members and one for African-Americans,” said one member of the Congressional Black Caucus, speaking on condition of anonymity. "



Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0810/40533.html#ixzz0vSfl5T8B
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Ethically Challenged! PDF Print E-mail
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Saturday, 31 July 2010 12:29

First Chollie Rangelllllll ....and now Maxine Waters. What's going on here?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100731/ap_on_go_co/us_waters_ethics

 

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Two Big Stories You Won't Hear About PDF Print E-mail
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Thursday, 29 July 2010 08:33

Except here  (thank-you Jane Jamison)

WikiLeaks gave its documents to the White House 2 weeks before publication??

So the WH can't actually be surprised by the release?
http://www.uncoverage.net/2010/07/mornin/

 

Lockerbie victims will never rest: Senate For. Rel. Committee decides to cancel hearings on BP/UK deal to release Lockerbie bomber now that there is proof Obama and Hillary Clinton knew and approved.

http://www.uncoverage.net/2010/07/lockerbie-victims-will-never-rest/

 

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Tea Party Action Alert! PDF Print E-mail
Written by Melanie Morgan   
Thursday, 29 July 2010 08:39

From Sally Zelikovsky, San Francisco Tea Party organizer!

Barbara Boxer will be having a fundraiser in St. Helena this Saturday.  We will need people there to protest from 3:30 until 4:30 p.m. 


RSVP This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it and This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .  If you leave your name and phone number they will contact you if there are any last minute changes.  I will also stay on top of things and send around any last minute changes if I can.

The event starts at 4:00, so we should meet between
3:00 and  3:30 at:
Taylor's Automatic Refresher
933 Main Street
St. Helena, CA 94574

You can park at Taylor's and we can walk to the site of the fundraiser.

Signage: Ousting Boxer, her failed policies, support of O and his unpopular initiatives...and, if this is really w/ Robert Redford, think of some of his movies and characters and go for it, for example:

"Babs Boxer and the Sundance Kid--Please, ride off into the sunset already."    

"Bad Laws Keep Falling on My Head"

"The Way We Were...Before Boxer."

"The Sting of Defeat: 11-02-20."

"Boxer and Redford: Against Ordinary People" 

"The Tea Party: Ordinary People"

"Boxer Meet America: Up Close and Personal."

"All this President's Men have failed the People"

"Carly is THE CANDIDATE!"

"Indecent Proposal=Boxer's Failed Policies"

 

You get it...

 

The fundraiser details are: 

Saturday July 31st, 4:00pm
Dick and Sue Wollack Residence
890 Fulton Lane 
St. Helena, CA
Wine County Reception with Robert Redford


P.S. My experience is that these events always run late, so if you can plan accordingly and be available a little later just in case, that would be awesome.

P.S.S. Stay connected in case of last minute changes. 

Directions from 101 South:

 
  • Take exit 460A for CA-37 toward Napa/Vallejo
   
 
  • Continue straight
   
 
  • Continue straight onto CA-37 E
   
 
  • Turn left at CA-121 S/Arnold Dr
   
 
  • Slight right at CA-121 N/Fremont Dr (signs for State Route 121/Sonoma/Napa)
  • Continue to follow CA-121 N
   
 
  • Turn left at CA-121 N/CA-29 N (signs for State Route 121/Napa/Calistoga)
  • Continue to follow CA-29 N
   
 
  • Turn left at Charter Oak Ave

Destination will be on the right

   
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RINO Express PDF Print E-mail
Written by Melanie Morgan   
Wednesday, 28 July 2010 18:04

See the picture above of my friend Andrew Breitbart? Handsome devil, isn't he? Well, a few Republicans don't think he's a swell guy like I do.

These are the kind of Republicans we need to GET RID of.

Nameless individuals like, oh, ABEL MALDONADO.

Not to name any individuals.

(via Joe Garofoli at SFgate.com)

For years -- even as we knocked down a beer with him at a recent GOP convention -- Lt. Gov. Abel Maldonado has talked about how he's a moderate Republican. You know, post-partisan and all that.

And that's why Dems are going nuts with word that Abel will be sharing the bill at a GOP fundraiser next month with Andrew Breitbart -- aka the conservative media titan whose site presented the world with the creative editing of comments made by former Ag Dept. employee Shirley Sherrod.

"So much for moderation," says CA Dem Party spokesman Tenoch Flores. "Imagined or otherwise."

Hey, we're eternally grateful to Breitbart for giving us a ride to a Tea Party event in Nevada a few months ago (check the video of THAT ride here). There -- and at the CA GOP convention last fall -- the guy gets standing ovations and a hero's welcome.

But sharing a bill with him is not exactly a come-hither to the decline-to-state voters and moderates that Maldo needs to score to take down SF Mayor Gavin Newsom in the CA Lite Gov race.

Team Maldo, what's up?

"We were going to the function. We didn't even know this guy was invited," Team Maldo spokesperson Brandon Gesicki told us. The GOP event is a "stop-by" for Maldo that night, he said.

"But if we run into (Breitbart) we'll tell him what we think of what he did to that woman (Sherrod)," Gesicki said. Nope, Maldo did not think it was cool.



Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/nov05election/author?blogid=14&auth=63#ixzz0v25cO6lD
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