Thursday, October 28, 2010

Elections 2010: Early voting ends Friday 29 Oct 2010 --- General Election Day Tuesday 2 Nov 2010

As Benjamin Franklin exited the Constitutional Convention he was asked by a lady, “Well Doctor what have we got, a monarchy or a republic.” Franklin answered unequivocally; “A republic---if you can keep it.”

Whether or not we have kept it is debatable. Everyone is too busy calling it a “democracy.” Most have no clue what the difference is.

Be that as it may, the only way we serve our republic is to participate in it. Ours is a participatory form of governance. It is your duty to participate.



I cannot too strongly encourage you to vote---progressive. We can’t be tethered to what is. We must consider the best for the collective’s future.

Vote progressive.


From Texas Red: a cratered landscape of prisons, deplorable apartheid public education, lack of healthcare and politicians and majority population intent on keeping it that way…

Hasta Siempre,

More:

Bexar County Candidates at a glance
http://mysapolitics.com/election.php/2010/01/06/current-election-candidates-list-2010

Bexarly legal
In the race for DA, it may be Reed’s record that’s the real voter issue
Whether she was threatening to arrest and prosecute non-profit employees working to implement a Texas Legislature-approved needle-exchange program that advocates say would have saved lives in San Antonio, or picking up unregistered (illegal) airline tickets for a cheap vacation, or intervening when her son’s friend tried to carry a firearm through San Antonio International Airport, the rules of the game seem to have melted around the veteran prosecutor these past years. But probably the most interesting thing about Reed is her incredibly cautious nature when it comes to anything that doesn’t conclude with a locking cell door. It’s a point LaHood zeroes in on.
http://www.sacurrent.com/news/story.asp?id=71660

Elections 2010/Public Policy: Short of revolution---it’s all we’ve got.
http://www.examiner.com/bexar-county-elections-2010-in-san-antonio/elections-2010-public-policy-short-of-revolution-it-s-all-we-ve-got

Sharron Angle and Christine O'Donnell agree: No separation of church and state
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/plum-line/2010/10/sharron_angle_and_christine_od.html

the brutally corrupt banking oligarchs are at it again raking it in coming and going…….
Untangling The Complex Foreclosure Mess
"It was all about expedience. It was all about speed," Morgenson says. "It's just a really sad commentary on the way the business was approached ... but this is exactly what the banks did when they were making the mortgages, so why are we surprised on the other end of it, that they're doing it again?"
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130835119


Bexar County Elections Department
http://www.co.bexar.tx.us/elections/Links/links.html

Bexar County Democratic Party
http://www.bexardemocrats.org/

Bexar County Republican Party
http://www.bexargop.org/calendar.php


League of Women Voters of Texas
http://www.lwvtexas.org/

Texas Red: a cratered landscape of prisons, deplorable apartheid public education, lack of healthcare and politicians and majority population intent on keeping it that way
http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-18764-San-Antonio-Public-Policy-Examiner~y2009m10d4-Texas-Red-a-cratered-landscape-of-prisons-deplorable-public-education-lack-of-healthcare-and-poli

a former GOPer national committee official behind the ads? Need I say more? Please….
After uproar, Univision pulls ad discouraging Latinos from voting
A group called Latinos for Reform, led by Robert de Posada, a former Republican National Committee official, is behind the ads.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/latino-leaders-slam-ad-telling-latinos-not-to-vote

10.5.2010
Latinos and the 2010 Elections: Strong Support for Democrats; Weak Voter Motivation
http://pewhispanic.org/

BREAKING: Univision Will Not Air GOP Group’s Ad Telling Latinos Not To Vote
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/10/19/latinos-for-reform-swift-boat/

Hispanic Americans By the Numbers
From the U.S. Census Bureau
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/hhmcensus1.html

Hispanics in the U.S.
http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/hispanic/files/Internet_Hispanic_in_US_2006.pdf

Spanish to overtake English in the United States
http://www.expatica.com/es/news/local_news/spanish-to-overtake-english-in-the-united-states-19079.html

NAACP backs report that ties racist groups to tea party
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/20/AR2010102004020.html?wpisrc=nl_pmpolitics

Elections 2010: a systemic pattern of disenfranchisement, racism and bigotry “American as cherry pie”
http://www.examiner.com/bexar-county-elections-2010-in-san-antonio/a-systemic-pattern-of-disenfranchisement-racism-and-bigotry-american-as-cherry-pie

The Center for Public Integrity
http://www.publicintegrity.org/

Think Progress
http://thinkprogress.org/


Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer--and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class
http://www.amazon.com/Winner-Take-All-Politics-Washington-Richer-Turned/dp/1416588698

Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity
www.amazon.com/Good-Capitalism-Economics-Growth-Prosperity/dp/0300158327/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1285203922&sr=1-1

13 Bankers
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307379051

Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future
http://www.amazon.com/Aftershock-Next-Economy-Americas-Future/dp/0307592812/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1285922323&sr=1-1

Bill Moyers on Plutonomy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSoglDcRbAg


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