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Democratic Club |
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| Nov. 06 Propositions |
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| No on 85 |
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We meet the second
Thursday of each month. |
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| Yes on 87 |
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Join the PBDC! Annual dues are just $25.00 for an individual, $40.00 for
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$10.00
for senior citizens, and $5.00 for students and junior members (age
14-17). |
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Dues are payable upon
joining the Club and will be due on each subsequent January. |
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Checks payable to PBDC
and mailed to PO Box 90310, San Diego, CA 92169 |
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EMAIL |
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| Link to Nominees |
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| Newsletters |
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Lorena Gonzalez with State
Senator Christine Kehoe |
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Congressman Bob Filner
with City Attorney Mike Aguirre |
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Assemblywoman Lori Saldana |
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Councilwoman Donna Frye |
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| April 2006 |
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| August 2006 |
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| April 2007 |
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The Pacific Beach
Democratic Club works to elect Democrats to local, state and national
office. Why? Because the party that has successfully
advocated environmental, consumer, health insurance, tax reforms and civil
rights advances of the past 60 years is the Democratic Party. |
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By and large,
Republicans are too reliant on big business to rein them in when
necessary. The GOP is still the party
of the big corporations, those who deny global warming, those who want
business to be able to make its profit even if it means despoiling our
environment, hurting consumers, and protecting the rich. Democrats are more
helpful to working, middle-class Americans. |
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Who
wants to repeal the estate tax and make permanent the big tax breaks to
multi-millionaires? Bush and the GOP!
These tax breaks resulted, in part, in concerting the budget surplus
which President Clinton created through prudent management of federal
spending into the largest budget deficit in history. Our government now owes
hundreds of billions of dollars to foreign governments, like Japan and
China. The Democrats have become the
party of fiscal discipline, the GOP the party of borrow and spend. |
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Which
party is looking out for the “regular guy?”
Check out the campaign contributions on opensecrets.org to see which
party big business prefers. (Hint – big oil companies gave 87% of their
millions in campaign contributions to Republicans, and got repaid with
support for oil drilling off our coast and in the Alaska National Wildlife
Refuge as well as hefty tax breaks. |
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For example, Brian
Bilbray, the new congressman in the 50th district, received some $140,00 in
direct contributions from oil companies (and still more in indirect
contributions given through his party’s leadership), then he voted for
offshore oil drilling (June 29, 2006, HR 4671) in violation of the wants of
his coastal district. In fact, the
vote on the oil drilling by the San Diego members of Congress broke along
party lines – Democrats Susan Davis and Bob Filner voted NO, while
Republicans Bilbray, Duncan Hunter and Darrell Issa all voted yes. |
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Why did Bush try to
privatize Social Security? Because the stock brokers and and insurance agents
(campaign contributors) were chomping at the bit to start selling hidden-fee
investments to the millions of gullible people would have to learn about
annual operating expenses and asset allocation. |
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Our Endorsed Candidates 2006 |
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Phil Angelides for Governor |
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John Garamendi for Lt. Governor |
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Debra Bowen for Secretary of State |
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John Chiang for Controller |
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Cruz Bustamante for Insurance Commissioner |
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Bill Lockyer for Treasurer |
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Dianne Feinstein for Senate |
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Susan Davis for Congress |
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Francine Busby for Congress |
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Bob Filner for Congress |
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Lori Saldana for Assembly |
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Our state ballot proposition recommendations for
November 2006: |
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NO on Prop 85 –
Requires unemancipated minors to notify parents and wait before getting an
abortion or get a court waiver. Provides for fines on physicians. |
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YES on Prop 87 -
Funds research into alternative energy funded by a tax on oil companies which
cannot be passed on to the consumers. |
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YES on Prop. 89 -
Helps free candidates from special interest campaign contributions by funding
campaigns through a corporate tax increase of 0.2 per cent. |
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NO on Prop 90 -
Pretends to be about limiting eminent domain, but goes overboard by allowing
anyone to demand payments whenever any government affects then with regs on
environmental, consumer, labor or land use restrictions. |
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Who We’ve Supported |
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John Kerry for President 2004 |
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Barbara Boxer for US Senate |
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Christine Kehoe for State Senate |
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Lori Saldana for Assembly |
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Donna Frye for Mayor |
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Lorena Gonzales for City Council, District 2 |
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How You Can Help |
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1.
Join the Pacific Beach Democratic Club. |
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2. Come to one of our monthly meetings. |
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3. Help out in a campaign sometime. Money, walkers,
phoners and letter to editor writers are always welcome. |
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Being a Democrat
doesn’t mean that we think all Democratic candidates are perfect. But as a
practical matter, in any race either the Republican or Democrat is going to
win. When we check out the candidates,
we find that there’s a big difference between the candidates. It’s rarely
“tweedle dee and tweedle dum.” |
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The Republicans don’t
like voters to know how they’re “giving away the store” to their campaign
contributors, so their ploy is to change the subject - they pick a “wedge
issue” like crime, gay rights, guns, or immigration to fan the flames of
voters. Anger, fear, hate – these are the three pillars of Republican
campaigns. |
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The Democratic party remains the inclusive party of
hope, of education, opportunity and progress. |
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So your vote does count (well, except sometimes in
Florida and Ohio). |
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