Open Thread for Election Day
Various items as we go into the primary...If you need any help locating your polling place visit http://lavote.net/LOCATOR/.
Oakland Mayor Jerry Brown will cast his ballot in the 2006 California State Primary at 7:30 a.m. Tuesday at Satellite Senior Homes in Oakland.
Tenants of the Lincoln Place apartment complex, who have been threatened with eviction, led a protest outside the home of City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo Monday night.
Villaraigosa will cast his vote at 8:00 a.m. Tuesday in Hancock Park.
Los Angeles City Councilman Martin Ludlow has been sentenced to five years probation and 2,000 hours of community service for funneling money from a local union to fund his 2003 campaign. Ludlow was also ordered to pay $36,492 in restitution to the Service Employees International Union's Local 99.
Joe Scott at The Body Politic says the Democratic race for governor is going to be a squeaker.
Hat tip to LA Voice, Raku, the "voting dog of Venice" (and her mom) give analysis and picks in a few South Bay districts.
By the way, forgot to mention in my own Assembly District, the 42nd, I will of course vote for a fellow blogger (Scott Olin Schmidt) for the Republican County Committee. If you're a Republican in the 42nd, I suggest you do the same. Speaking of which, Boi from Troy gives his voter recommendations here. And in case you missed it, Mayor Sam's recommendations are here.
Don't forget to vote!
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Posted by Mayor Sam @ 6/06/2006 12:00:00 AM
18 Comments:
I can't wait for tomorrow to be over. Term limits start the primary bidding years before the election. I'm tired!
CHIANG for Controller! :o)
Bush
Four more years! Oops, meant Cheney.
Clinton four more years.
Oops, hes busy with a latin Monica,not jewish monica.
Hey Rocktard:
Here come the pain!
Let's beat Arnold in November.
Vote for Westly!
11:58 PM
Be careful what you wish for--Brown as Attorney General? The crooks are holding a candlight vigil hoping he'll win.
RECALL VILLARAIGOSA!!!!!
250,000 signatures needed on Petition!
Sign the Petition at:
watchdog.com
Lt. Governor race should be interesting. Liz Figuerora who I never heard of is using Antonio's name in her tv ads but it doesn't say he endorsed her. Does anyone know who Antonio is supporting Westley or Angelides????
Good luck with that 7:19.
Our most popular elected stayed out of it. He didn't even make the convention in April.
Doug McIntyre commented critically on Jennifer Solis' op-ed re: Samillias del Peblo, which was published in the Daily News. Looks like this piece is similar to what she posted on Mayor Sam, with minor editing. Other than disagreeing with the premise, McIntyre pointed out the current API (for 2005) is 577, not 597 as the "current" score published in the D.N. (I see that on Mayor Sam the 597 score was for 2004.) So it appears the scores are going down.
Conspiracy.
jennifer is Mike Trujillos bitch
OOPS. . . bada bing, Dougie. Go back to bashing Bush for being too "open border"
School district clears charter school of catering to Mexican students
6/6/2006
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The Los Angeles school district has cleared an East L.A. charter school of allegations of discrimination.
The district sent observers to Academia Semillas del Pueblo elementary school following an alleged assault on a KABC radio reporter last Thursday. Station officials say Sandy Wells was assaulted outside the school by a man who demanded his audio tape and then followed as he drove away.
KABC radio host Doug McIntyre has accused the school and its principal, Marcos Aguilar, of having a separatist philosophy that excludes students of non-Mexican origin from applying.
The district's chief legal counsel says the district concluded that the school is following its charter, which aims to provide children of immigrant and native families an education "founded upon their own language, cultural values and global realities."
And, the full story, too. . .
L.A. charter school denies bias charge
By OSKAR GARCIA
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES - Responding to allegations of discrimination, the school district has concluded that an elementary school catering to students of Mexican descent is following its charter, officials said Monday.
The district sent observers after Sandy Wells, a reporter working for KABC-AM, was allegedly assaulted outside the school Thursday by a man who demanded his audio tape. Station officials said Wells was also followed as he drove away. Police are investigating the incident.
''They have followed the charter that they wrote originally,'' said Kevin Reed, chief legal counsel for the district. ''What we care about is that the curriculum is inclusive and not exclusive.''
The school in east Los Angeles is one of about 100 charters in the district, Reed said. The school has until January to apply for renewal, and the district anticipates it will, Reed said.
The alleged assault has brought attention to the small school as immigration tensions rise across the country.
KABC-AM radio host Doug McIntyre has been one particularly vociferous critic. McIntyre has accused Academia Semillas del Pueblo school and its principal, Marcos Aguilar, of having a separatist philosophy that excludes students of non-Mexican origin from applying.
Repeated calls to Aguilar on Monday seeking comment were not returned.
A school statement last week said it did not ''discriminate against any student on the basis of ethnicity, national origin, gender, gender identity or disability.''
Meanwhile Monday, a handful of parents protested at McIntyre's studio, saying the school had received bomb threats because of the show. McIntyre said he had also received death threats due to his criticisms.
The school aimed to provide children of immigrant and native families an education ''founded upon their own language, cultural values and global realities,'' according to the charter application.
''The indigenous heart of our vision is a repossession of an identity denied from our children in standard schools,'' the application reads.
Students are taught in English, Spanish, Mandarin and Nahuatl, an Aztec language. The school teaches both traditional math curriculum and a separate Aztec math system.
Rocky and Martin: two half breed peas in a pod. I love it.
Go Westly!!!
In California, the State that is known as the 5th largest economy of the World, the real battle is no longer between "Democrats" and "Republicans" – it basically boils down to the "Prison Guards" and "non-prison-guards." During the past quarter of century, California Prison Guards have fielded their allies both as "Democrats" and "Republicans." Now, for the first time in its 25-year-old history, the $8-billion-dollar Empire of prison guards is being challenged by an outsider they both hate and fear, Jerry Brown. By aiming for the powerful A.G. position, he is going for the jugular of the empire, the most powerful political machinery of the state.
It is interesting to see how the politically-savvy prison guards who quietly created and funded advocacy organizations such as Crime-Victims-United, brought you the three-strike-laws, quadrupled state prison population, and tripled their own earnings as a result, are going to respond to the Brown's unprecedented challenge.
It must be noted that under George W. Bush, the political machinery of the prison guards experienced rapid growth and empowerment. During their most recent growth years, prison guards were able to consolidate their symbiotic alliances with other components of the state criminal justice system; i.e., local law enforcement agencies, district attorneys, and increasingly with the state's judiciary. After all, long before ascending to their powerful political positions, CCPOA knew that without harsh pro-punishment and pro-prison allies positioned strategically in all of the above three components of the criminal justice system, their juicy overtime earnings will not be guaranteed. It was not difficult to understand that without a steady in-flow of warm bodies into their factory, punished and convicted for longest times possible, growth would not be realized.
It seems that Brown is going to overcome the first CCPOA+LAPD’s obstacle in his path to the powerful A.G. position. However, as Brown approaches the second obstacle of CCPOA+LAPD Alliance around November 7, 2006, there are several unknown factors.
The big question further down the line is what if a determination is made that Brown cannot be stopped through "electoral" obstacles, regardless of the amount of money the guards and their allies through at his opponent. Has the Emprise prepared a "non-electoral" obstacle -a plan “B” - to stop Brown from getting to the A.G. position and trash their 25-year-old party?
That, time may tell.
http://www.igs.berkeley.edu/library/htCaliforniaPrisonUnion.htm
http://www.cjcj.org/cpp/growth_CCPOA.php
The prison guards have endorsed Brown. There goes your theory.
Three strikes = safer communities.
You want to lower the cost of prisons overnight. Deport the approximate 28% of illegal aliens who populate our prisons. Contract with the prisons in the countries they come from. I'm sure no other country pays as much as we do to house criminals. It would save Calif. $$ and contribute to the third world economy.
I want to live in an America without goddammed criminals, I don't care where they're from.
Prison Guards need to be professional and paid well. Why else would someone work in a shitty prison-- pay em.
Leave Mike alone. Jen should be so lucky.
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