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Spoondick posted:https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...a05f_story.html all that praying for rain from the valley folk paid off!
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In addition to the above, Harris opposes the death penalty, though she did defend the use of it as part of her duties as AG. Her main Democratic opposition is Representative Loretta Sanchez, who is a member of the Blue Dog Caucus and is a one-woman gaffe machine. Most notably she was meeting with some Indian-Americans and said "I was confused because I thought I was meeting the woo-woo Indians" *puts hand to mouth and makes stereotypical Native American wooping noise, offending everyone in a five-mile radius*. I don't know anything about the Republicans running. Assume the usual garbage positions.
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# ? Mar 20, 2016 05:55 |
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Really her only bad points kind of come from her job as AG; she's opposed to legalizing marijuana and she's big on plea bargaining, which she likes to tout as a key factor in her getting a bigger number of felony convictions than her predecessor. Outside of criminal law/drugs though she's basically a textbook left-leaning Democrat. So basically better than Boxer/Feinstein in every way.
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# ? Mar 20, 2016 06:03 |
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I guess my hang up with her is her foreign policy positions. Obviously she has no voting record to go off of, but her website is very vague. Maybe I'll vote for her and just hope she isn't hawkish.
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# ? Mar 20, 2016 06:20 |
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She seems to be a pretty standard left-ish Democrat, which I guess is all that can really be asked. I agree that her website is a little odd, especially in the foreign policy section which is 1) fight terrorists and 2) uhhh...oppose human trafficking? She has no reason to really be specific about anything controversial as shes running effectively unopposed.
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# ? Mar 20, 2016 06:29 |
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Any Democrat is better than Feinstein.
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# ? Mar 20, 2016 06:58 |
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enraged_camel posted:Any Democrat is better than Feinstein.
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# ? Mar 20, 2016 06:58 |
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cheese posted:Last Republican senator CA will elect for a long time. I really hope she retires at the end of this term. She'll be 85 in 2018 when her seat is up. Also I hate her.
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ComradeCosmobot posted:Better than Dianne Feinstein at any rate. That applies to lots of popular public figures. Genghis Khan, Adolf Hitler, Pol pot... The list goes on. maybe I exaggerate .. a little
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# ? Mar 20, 2016 10:31 |
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The icing on the cake is that the only person slimier than Diane Feinstein might be her husband. A match made in heaven.
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cheese posted:The icing on the cake is that the only person slimier than Diane Feinstein might be her husband. A match made in heaven. He also runs a "Poverty Alleviation Institute"
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cheese posted:The icing on the cake is that the only person slimier than Diane Feinstein might be her husband. A match made in heaven. My favorite bit is where Blum voted to jack up UC tuition, circumvented the usual investment procedures and hired his own private managers to invest the sweet tuition cash into his own real estate businesses, lost the system a ton of money when the resulting 2008 crash happened, and responded by crying that the UC's had no money so they needed to raise tuition more. Oh yeah, and then Feinstein introduced legislation to route $25 billion to the FDIC, just as they gave her husband a huge contract to sell foreclosed homes at "above market average" prices. A match made in heaven indeed.
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ComradeCosmobot posted:Better than Dianne Feinstein at any rate. This is an *incredibly* low bar, but I agree. (Why did Boxer retire instead of DiFi? Why, o cruel universe?)
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cheese posted:The icing on the cake is that the only person slimier than Diane Feinstein might be her husband. A match made in heaven. I dont think a lot of people know that he is one of the thieves that has ruined the UCs with his clintonesque money scams.
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Sydin posted:My favorite bit is where Blum voted to jack up UC tuition, circumvented the usual investment procedures and hired his own private managers to invest the sweet tuition cash into his own real estate businesses, lost the system a ton of money when the resulting 2008 crash happened, and responded by crying that the UC's had no money so they needed to raise tuition more. Do you have a specific article detailing this or is it over a series of different ones? I'd like to read it.
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# ? Mar 20, 2016 21:09 |
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Bizarro Watt posted:Do you have a specific article detailing this or is it over a series of different ones? I'd like to read it. This article gives a pretty good overview of the conflict of interest in Blum's direction of the UC's investment portfolio. This and this go into detail about his calls for pushing tuition up as high as $40k. His argument being that charging more to come to UC schools will help them compete with Ivy League schools that are stealing their talent somehow.
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I cannot loving wait until Feinstein dies.
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Bizarro Watt posted:Do you have a specific article detailing this or is it over a series of different ones? I'd like to read it. http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jul/14/business/la-fi-hiltzik-column-20100714 http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/report-uc-invests-where-its-regents-have-financial-interests-5650 http://investmentwatchblog.com/political-elite-implicated-in-for-profit-college-education-fraud/ related: (ctrl-f for "blum") http://educate-yourself.org/cn/diannefeinsteininsidetraitor25apr13.shtml Feinstein and her scammer husband should be tried for something resembling working-to-weaken-the-state-for-personal-gain /slash/ treason. Whatever that ends up being.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:This is an *incredibly* low bar, but I agree. (Why did Boxer retire instead of DiFi? Why, o cruel universe?) Because Boxer is 75 and up for re-election this year, while Feinstein's term isn't up until 2018. I'm sure (pray) she won't run for re-election, but there's no reason to expect her to not finish her term barring sudden health reasons.
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# ? Mar 21, 2016 00:07 |
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speaking of this fall's senate race, the author of prop 227 aligned himself with trump (i know, shocker!) and is running
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Goonproject: redscare posted:Because Boxer is 75 and up for re-election this year, while Feinstein's term isn't up until 2018. I'm sure (pray) she won't run for re-election, but there's no reason to expect her to not finish her term barring sudden health reasons.
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Won't somebody think of the poor, homeless doctors? vvv I wanted to give someone else the honor of posting that one vvv ComradeCosmobot fucked around with this message at 17:28 on Mar 23, 2016 |
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# ? Mar 23, 2016 17:47 |
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I want to read more about that "Monsterous Trust Rally" and the KKK's Ford Big Aryan Foot taking place in the 1923s.
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# ? Mar 23, 2016 19:59 |
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Death by gentrification. http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/21/death-by-gentrification-the-killing-that-shamed-san-francisco
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# ? Mar 23, 2016 20:22 |
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I'm just not getting how driving your monstrous truck over a horse and crushing it proves the superiority of the white race.
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# ? Mar 23, 2016 20:22 |
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Ron Jeremy posted:Death by gentrification. quote:The dog had Nieto cornered on the bench while its inattentive owner was 40 feet away – in his deposition for the case, under oath, his exact words were that he was distracted by a female “jogger’s butt”. “I can imagine that somebody would – could assume the dog was being aggressive at that point,” Snow said. The dog did not come when he called, but kept barking. Nieto, Snow says, then pulled back his jacket and took his Taser out, briefly pointing at the distant dog-owner before he pointed it at the dog baying at his feet. The two men yelled at each other, and Snow apparently used a racial slur, but would not later give the precise word. As he left the park, he texted a friend about the incident. His text, according to his testimony, said, “in another state like Florida, I would have been justified in shooting Mr Nieto that night” – a reference to that state’s infamous “stand your ground” law, which removes the obligation to retreat before using force in self-defence. In other words, he apparently wished he could have done what George Zimmerman did to Trayvon Martin: execute him without consequences.
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# ? Mar 23, 2016 20:32 |
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I was going to say something about how low San Francisco has fallen but then I remembered how Harvey milk was assassinated in my lifetime.
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# ? Mar 23, 2016 21:16 |
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SF cops have been periodically shooting innocent people for my entire life. It's still tragic and horrifying and wrong, but the one thing it isn't, is new. And while the proximate cause of the police encounter with Nieto was racist white people, the ultimate cause was that cops are still trained and encouraged to escalate situations and respond with excessive force. That's not in any way an excuse for Nieto's murderers, mind you. But countless less-lethal situations happen every day in which the police initiate violence and escalate situations instead of being de-escalators and peace officers. Shootings like NIeto's get press: shootings where the target suspect was actually wielding a dangerous weapon, but could have been talked down instead of killed, are probably far more common, but go largely unexamined. It's simply far more difficult and requires far more skill, to learn how to get someone who might kill you to calm down and surrender. Doing so may well put police at marginally more risk. I happen to feel that assumption of that risk is a necessary burden for police officers to undertake, in exchange for the tremendous privilege and power they are granted in their jobs. But if cops were trained not to start shooting just because someone displays a weapon, we'd probably trade the lives of a small number of cops for the lives of hundreds of people experiencing crises, as a free side-bonus on top of also not regularly murdering innocent people who only briefly appeared (or "appeared") to be threatening.
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Ideally, yeah, it's the cops' jobs to get shot first. In practice, I think no one should ever call the police unless they're willing to accept someone being killed as a result, and people who accept that risk for trivial bullshit, do a bad thing.
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# ? Mar 24, 2016 02:51 |
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Voter Information Guide for June is now out: http://www.voterguide.sos.ca.gov/en/pdf/quote:Through my national and international research and political activism, I identified “mind control slavery” by satellite energy technology weapons and social engineering programs that have been in continual development for the past 50 years and facilitated their “declassification”. As a result, I came under heavy sanctions that are ongoing. I request you, the voter, to rise above all untrue accusations that assail my good character and heart. See my evidence and review my service. Senator Bernie Sanders’ presidency is crucial for bringing this into reality http://vig.cdn.sos.ca.gov/2016/primary/en/pdf/candidate-statements.pdf Massie Munroe: The only candidate to stand up to big satellite.
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# ? Mar 25, 2016 16:58 |
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Ling Ling Shi has got my vote. "Fight for God's Heart and America's Freedom"
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ChickenRiceNPeas posted:Voter Information Guide for June is now out: http://www.voterguide.sos.ca.gov/en/pdf/ Do in have to ask her stance on vaccinations?
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# ? Mar 25, 2016 18:39 |
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Ron Jeremy posted:Do in have to ask her stance on vaccinations? Surprisingly she doesn't say. Her statement reads like a strange mix of neo-conservatism and Peace and Freedom style liberalism.
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ChickenRiceNPeas posted:Surprisingly she doesn't say. Is she from Humboldt or parts nearby? I got that kind of impression from the place.
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Grand Prize Winner posted:Is she from Humboldt or parts nearby? I got that kind of impression from the place. Her ad says Glendale.
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http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac-minimum-wage-deal-20160326-story.htmlquote:Lawmakers and labor unions have struck a tentative deal to raise the statewide minimum wage to $10.50 an hour next year and then gradually to $15, averting a costly political campaign this fall and possibly putting California at the forefront of a national movement. Looks like that ballot initiative really spooked the state business establishment.
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# ? Mar 27, 2016 06:51 |
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Given inflation, how much would $15/hour in 2022 dollars, when the new minimum wage law gets tied to inflation would it be in today's dollars? $13.50 or so?
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fermun posted:Given inflation, how much would $15/hour in 2022 dollars, when the new minimum wage law gets tied to inflation would it be in today's dollars? $13.50 or so? Roughly that, yeah.
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