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I think I have to vote against Marc Berman for his pro-littering stance. I think I've averaged one mailer from him per day for the past two weeks. Today I got three. And I thought Ro Khanna's mailer-happy campaign was bad.
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ComradeCosmobot posted:I think I have to vote against Marc Berman for his pro-littering stance. I think I've averaged one mailer from him per day for the past two weeks. Today I got three. i just mailed in my ballot and voted honda again also it felt good to vote against noted Dylann Storm Liu, Peter Kuo, again, because gently caress that guy and his base of rich racist rear end in a top hat chinese voters
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:i just mailed in my ballot and voted honda again I want Honda to win (for obvious reasons; last thing we need is to replace an HPC member with someone who has openly denounced HPC budget proposals as too partisan to be deserving of support) but I think it'll be Khanna's to lose come November (what with the ethics scandals and Honda's age and poor financing). 
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May 27, 2016 23:53
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ComradeCosmobot posted:I want Honda to win (for obvious reasons; last thing we need is to replace an HPC member with someone who has openly denounced HPC budget proposals as too partisan to be deserving of support) but I think it'll be Khanna's to lose come November (what with the ethics scandals and Honda's age and poor financing). It's especially rich because Khanna sent emails saying MIKE HONDA GET CORPS CASH
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May 28, 2016 01:14
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May 28, 2016 16:41
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Is there a major difference between Harris and Sanchez for the senate seat?
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Now that we're done arguing about trains, it's time to argue about housing again. AB 2501 (housing density bonus) has passed the Assembly with an overwhelming majority (50-11); goes to Senate now. Summary from Streetsblog:quote:A.B. 2501: This bill, co-authored by Assemblymember Tom Daly (D-Anaheim), would streamline and strengthen the state’s density bonus law. It actually would do quite a bit, according to Bloom’s office, including: And Jerry is proposing a major change to -- gasp! -- make it easier for developers to build housing. The horror! quote:Gov. Jerry Brown has proposed sweeping statewide legislation that would allow new market-rate projects with onsite affordable housing to be approved "as of right," in potentially California's most significant housing policy change in years. This doesn't fix the issues with overly restrictive zoning in cities, but it's still a huge step forward. Cicero fucked around with this message at 18:06 on May 28, 2016 |
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May 28, 2016 17:59
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cbservo posted:Is there a major difference between Harris and Sanchez for the senate seat? Harris is closer to Boxer, Sanchez is a member of the Blue Dogs and is closer to Feinstein. Sanchez also tends to make tone-deaf, racist comments. Otherwise they're both Democrats so not the sort of major differences you get between a Dem and a Republican.
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May 28, 2016 18:21
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Litany Unheard posted:Harris is closer to Boxer, Sanchez is a member of the Blue Dogs and is closer to Feinstein. Sanchez also tends to make tone-deaf, racist comments. That's what I thought. Harris was getting my vote anyway, I thought I remembered Sanchez being one of the few blue dogs to survive the purge but wasn't sure.
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May 28, 2016 18:35
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cbservo posted:That's what I thought. Harris was getting my vote anyway, I thought I remembered Sanchez being one of the few blue dogs to survive the purge but wasn't sure. Sanchez's district is majority Latino and votes D+20 or something, of course she'd have survived It'd be cool if Bao Nguyen, the young mayor of Garden Grove, succeeded her
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One other thing is that Harris is a law & order former prosecutor. I think she's open to reform programs but I don't know about that. I feel being a prosecutor gives you a distorted view into the judicial and penal systems. That said I prefer a more liberal senator. And I don't know much about Sanchez.
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Harris has a history of mismanagement and extravagant spending, the SF crime lab was a total mess while she was DA and nothing was done until her successor took over and it became a bigger deal, a lot of cases were tossed out. She also seems to like spending for luxury hotels for herself while her staff is forced into cheaper hotels, which isn't good optics. She isn't terrible, but is probably a future campaign finance investigation target a term or two down the line. I'll still reluctantly vote for her because Sanchez is far too centrist/right leaning.
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Sanchez was on Forum recently: http://ww2.kqed.org/forum/2016/05/19/congresswoman-loretta-sanchez-draws-on-capitol-hill-experience-in-race-for-u-s-senate/ She used the words "socially liberal, fiscally conservative" to describe herself at one point.
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Leperflesh posted:One other thing is that Harris is a law & order former prosecutor. I think she's open to reform programs but I don't know about that. I feel being a prosecutor gives you a distorted view into the judicial and penal systems. That said I prefer a more liberal senator. And I don't know much about Sanchez. She opposes the death penalty, if that helps. But yeah, at the end of the day she'll be "tough on crime." Tars Tarkas posted:Harris has a history of mismanagement and extravagant spending, the SF crime lab was a total mess while she was DA and nothing was done until her successor took over and it became a bigger deal, a lot of cases were tossed out. She also seems to like spending for luxury hotels for herself while her staff is forced into cheaper hotels, which isn't good optics. She isn't terrible, but is probably a future campaign finance investigation target a term or two down the line. I'll still reluctantly vote for her because Sanchez is far too centrist/right leaning. Do you have any more details/sources about the financial stuff? As far as the DA mismanagement, it looks like they didn't bother to file any Brady declarations for a while despite knowing they needed to, which is unsettling. Those are important disclosures.
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Kobayashi posted:Sanchez was on Forum recently: http://ww2.kqed.org/forum/2016/05/19/congresswoman-loretta-sanchez-draws-on-capitol-hill-experience-in-race-for-u-s-senate/ So, like Jerry Brown?
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Triglav posted:So, like Jerry Brown? No, like an OC-area Democrat.
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Kobayashi posted:No, like an OC-area Democrat. A Klansman?
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Cicero posted:Now that we're done arguing about trains, it's time to argue about housing again. AB 2501 (housing density bonus) has passed the Assembly with an overwhelming majority (50-11); goes to Senate now. Summary from Streetsblog: You mean like almost the entire United States (and many other countries too I'm sure)? I actually called on the telephone like an animal and asked my reps to support it.
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ComradeCosmobot posted:I think I have to vote against Marc Berman for his pro-littering stance. I think I've averaged one mailer from him per day for the past two weeks. Today I got three. Flier update: As if to make up for the long weekend, I got four Marc Berman fliers today.
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ComradeCosmobot posted:I think I have to vote against Marc Berman for his pro-littering stance. I think I've averaged one mailer from him per day for the past two weeks. Today I got three. speaking of which, my mom said that she saw at least 10 khanna fliers in various neighbors' garbage walking down the street today
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I think it's funny that the pointless libertarian party primary is made extra pointless by the fact that their nominee's already been selected. No chance at all for McAfeementum.
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Shear Modulus posted:I think it's funny that the pointless libertarian party primary is made extra pointless by the fact that their nominee's already been selected. No chance at all for McAfeementum. sounds like a hell of an inefficiency on the california lolbertarian party's part
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:sounds like a hell of an inefficiency on the california lolbertarian party's part Actually it's very efficient: you get to throw your vote away twice!
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http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-ucla-shooting-20160601-snap-story.html 2 dead in a shooting at UCLA; campus on lockdown.
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stone cold posted:http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-ucla-shooting-20160601-snap-story.html I miss college but gently caress finals
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Dude, finals were some of the best times. It was a good combination of great parties and great chill time. Plus, other people were stressed so you could give them a quick hot beef injection to relieve the pressure. It was a loving magical time of year.
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Shbobdb posted:Dude, finals were some of the best times. It was a good combination of great parties and great chill time. Plus, other people were stressed so you could give them a quick hot beef injection to relieve the pressure. Were/are you a dropout who would hang out on campuses to take advantage of young stressed females?
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Nah, graduated Magna cum laude from a big ten school then went on to get a Phd in microbiology. The trick is to treat people with respect and not use terms like "females"
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Shbobdb posted:Nah, graduated Magna cum laude from a big ten school then went on to get a Phd in microbiology.
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Shbobdb posted:Nah, graduated Magna cum laude from a big ten school then went on to get a Phd in microbiology. The amount of dudes I know who refer to women as females and the amount of dudes I know who get laid regularly could make a perfect circle on a venn diagram.
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As someone who supported the redistricting committee years ago to un-gridlock the legislature and make the state more competitive, I find Assembly District 4's layout to be weird as hell. All three candidates seem to be from the Sacramento/Davis area, yet the district goes as far west as into Sonoma County and ripping about half a suburban community from the rest of it's wine country neighbors to be represented by these people from the Sacramento valley. Anecdote and all, but was this effort at all successful in being fair? "Fair" not necessarily being the same thing as competitive, because layouts like this probably create competitive districts but reach so awkwardly across the geography to do it that they don't look fair in the slightest.
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Litany Unheard posted:Do you have any more details/sources about the financial stuff? As far as the DA mismanagement, it looks like they didn't bother to file any Brady declarations for a while despite knowing they needed to, which is unsettling. Those are important disclosures. Here is a typical report from December where the hotel stuff was revealed, this was just after new of hercampaign burning through most of her money and a staff shakeup - https://www.nationaljournal.com/s/125536/posh-hotels-pricey-airfare-meet-senate-candidate-driving-some-democrats-crazy quote:A review of the Harris campaign’s Federal Election Commission reports reveals it was far from a one-time splurge: In June, the campaign spent $1,500 to house Harris for a night at Houston’s posh Houstonian Hotel. In July, it was another night at the St. Regis, this time for $1,600. In Chicago, it was the Waldorf Astoria. In Boston, the Four Seasons. And on four occasions this year, Harris’ campaign paid for rooms at the pricey W Hotel in Los Angeles. quote:Harris broke the voluntary $211,000 spending cap after promising to honor it for the district attorney's race. Her original decision to abide by the limit was published in the city's official Voter Information Pamphlet, which the Department of Elections distributes to the city's more than 400,000 registered voters. None of this is career ruining, but it's a pattern of mismanagement that may result in something bad down the line. Still, she's probably the best candidate.
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Tars Tarkas posted:None of this is career ruining, but it's a pattern of mismanagement that may result in something bad down the line. Still, she's probably the best candidate. Yeah, it's kind of unfortunate but even considering money mismanagement + warped criminal justice views from DA'ing, she's the best candidate by far. The other viable options include: Loretta Sanchez (D), an Islamophobic shithead who has pretty terrible foreign policy views but is otherwise more less a rank and file liberal Dem. Tom Del Beccaro (R), who wants to implement a flat tax and kick all those dirty illegals out. Duf Sundheim (R), gently caress common core, gently caress HSR, gently caress yeah the second amendment, also the military needs more money because 
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Craptacular! posted:As someone who supported the redistricting committee years ago to un-gridlock the legislature and make the state more competitive, I find Assembly District 4's layout to be weird as hell. All three candidates seem to be from the Sacramento/Davis area, yet the district goes as far west as into Sonoma County and ripping about half a suburban community from the rest of it's wine country neighbors to be represented by these people from the Sacramento valley. Eh. The only weird thing about AD4 is how it just extends and sucks up Rohnert Park which doesn't make sense nor fair at all (I grew up Santa Rosa so it's definitely weird to me). Sounds like just a population-grabbing thing there. It really should just stop around 29 and stop by Clearlake. Most of the general area outside that is almost same-y lowish population farmland and there is pretty strong similar economic/interest aggregation for the rest of it which makes sense. I think in general it' been successful but of course some things will slip through the cracks.
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Sydin posted:Loretta Sanchez (D), an Islamophobic shithead who has pretty terrible foreign policy views but is otherwise more less a rank and file liberal Dem. That's troubling. Is there more out there on that subject, besides this event? (I admit, I haven't looked very hard.)
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CPColin posted:That's troubling. Is there more out there on that subject, besides this event? (I admit, I haven't looked very hard.) Not specifically against Muslims no, but she does seem to be unable to avoid making really boneheaded racist comments. There's the whole "I thought I was meeting woo-woo Indians, not Indians from India" thing, as well as "The Vietnamese are trying to take my seat" comment. So she's either a racist or a moron.
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Craptacular! posted:Anecdote and all, but was this effort at all successful in being fair? Not really.
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Sydin posted:Not specifically against Muslims no, but she does seem to be unable to avoid making really boneheaded racist comments. There's the whole "I thought I was meeting woo-woo Indians, not Indians from India" thing, as well as "The Vietnamese are trying to take my seat" comment. Better or worse than Massie Munroe, who believes that there are secret MK-ULTRA stem programs that are trying to control our minds via satellite, and describes this openly?
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