El Dorado County Democratic Party

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WELCOME to the El Dorado County Democratic Party. We strongly believe that an informed voting public is the best way to ensure our democracy. Our site is designed to help you find information about the issues which are important to you and your family, our candidates, and our meetings. We are organized into a County Central Committee with four associated clubs. Come to one of our meetings and say hello! We welcome your participation, involvement and your comments.
The El Dorado County Democrats are accepting entries for this year’s high school essay contest. Click HERE for more information.	"I think he has bitten off more than we can chew" Roberta Shakoori Sacramento Referring to Bush's move on Social Security "The jury is still out." George W. Bush When asked about the “controversy over teaching evolution” "Other than telling us how to live, think, marry, pray, vote, invest, educate our children and, now, die, I think the Republicans have done a fine job of getting government out of our personal lives." Graig Carter, Northeast Portland. Todays political conservatives are our cultural luddites. Unknown "A little patience and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their government to its true principles. It is true that in the meantime we are suffering deeply in spirit, and incurring the horrors of a war and long oppressions of enormous public debt... If the game runs sometimes against us at home we must have patience till luck turns, and then we shall have an opportunity of winning back the principles we have lost, for this is a game where principles are at stake." Thomas Jefferson, 1798, after passage of the Sedition Act Clean Money Day Screening “The Big Buy: Tom DeLay’s Stolen Congress” Placerville, CA (June 26) – United Democrats of El Dorado County and the CA Clean Money Campaign will screen the new, feature-length film “The Big Buy: Tom DeLay’s Stolen Congress” on Clean Money Day, Tuesday, June 27 at 6:30 P.M. at the Cozmic Café, 594 Main Street in downtown Placerville. The film will be introduced by Rob Haswell, candidate for State Assembly. In his bid for the 4th Assembly District’s open seat, Haswell has made political reform that includes clean money elections and nonpartisan redistricting his top priority. A discussion after the film will be led by retired, five-term Congressman Jerome Waldie, who served in Congress during the Watergate era. Congressman Waldie was a member of the House Judiciary Committee that recommended impeachment of Richard Nixon. Light refreshments will be offered. Suggested donation is $5. For more information call (530) 391-8864. DUMP DOOLITTLE EFFORT IS UNDER WAY! Here are some of the new items on Dump Doolittle: Doolittle's reaction to Bush's appointment of Ms. Miers to the Supreme Court. Doolittle's vote on the "leave-no-oil-executive-behind" bill. On-going coverage of the Abramoff and DeLay investigations. Cartoons! Tom Tomorrow & Rex Rabin. Links-a-plenty! Click here to go to Dump Doolittle. BUSINESS LEADERS FOR SENSIBLE PRIORITIES Star Wars Is Back. Heaven Help Us Taxpayers. Background on the Star Wars: The Bush Administration plans to deploy a national missile defense system in California and Alaska by September 2004. America's taxpayers already have sunk $130 billion into this program, with nothing to show for it. This year's Administration's budget request for Star Wars is another $10.2 billion. Thomas Christie, director of the Pentagon's testing office, has admitted to Congress that there is no way to determine whether the system will work. "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of it laborers, the genius of its scientists and the hopes of its children" — President Dwight D. Eisenhower, April 16, 1953 www.sensiblepriorities.org David Brock, a former Republican activist, has started a new and very important web site called Media Matters for America www.mediamatters.org It has been well documented that the far right has assumed a stronger and more strident voice in the media than middle and left. Some of these commentators, such as Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh, have little regard for the truth and spin and twist facts at best. MMA will document and correct conservative misinformation in each news cycle. Media Matters for America will monitor cable and broadcast news channels, print media and talk radio, as well as marginal, right-wing websites that often serve as original sources of misinformation for well-known conservative and mainstream media outlets. Bookmark this site and go to it often for the real skinny.
DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES Congressional District 4 Lt. Colonel Charles D. Brown Visit Charlie Brown's Website by clicking here. State Assembly here. Board of Supervisors District 5-Norma Santiago Visit Norma Santiago's Website by clicking here. Congratulations to Charlie Brown and Rob Haswell on winning their respective primary elections. Thanks to all the other Democratic candidates who ran in the primary. Congratulations to Norma Santiago on winning the Board of Supervisors seat in District 5. Norma's was reelected by an overwhelming 78.44% of the vote. A DEMOCRACY CAN DIE OF TOO MANY LIES May 17, 2005 \| I can't imagine better company on this beautiful Sunday morning in St. Louis. You're church for me today, and there's no congregation in the country where I would be more likely to find more kindred souls than are gathered here.(Read the rest here) JUDGE NOT King Solomon, hearing the case of Harlot v. Harlot , in which two women laid claim to the same baby, proposed cleaving the child in half. This, in turn, ferreted out the real mother, who gave up the baby rather than see it die. "And all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had rendered," says the Bible, "and they stood in awe of the king, because they perceived that the wisdom of God was in him, to render justice.". (Read the rest here) STARTING TO SENSE A PATTERN HERE? This morning comes word that James E. West, the Republican Mayor of Spokane, Washington, is leaving two youth group boards amidst allegations that he molested two boys and "recently offer[ed] a City Hall internship to someone he met in a gay online chat room" Interestingly, James E. West has long been an opponent of gay rights, including while he was State Senate majority leader. (Read the rest here) RIGHT HOOK May 5, 2005 \| With the Senate back in session next week and the moment of reckoning upon the Republicans' so-called nuclear option to wipe out the judicial filibuster, the rhetoric from the far right has gone radioactive. (Read the rest here) JON CAROLL The following is the first communique from a group calling itself Unitarian Jihad. It was sent to me at The Chronicle via an anonymous spam remailer. I have no idea whether other news organizations have received this communique, and, if so, why they have not chosen to print it. Perhaps they fear starting a panic. I feel strongly that the truth, no matter how alarming, trivial or disgusting, must always be told. I am pleased to report that the words below are at least not disgusting:. (Read the rest here) WHERE ARE ALL THE GOOD CHRISTIANS? I know they're out there. I forget, often, too often, just how many there are but I know they exist in much larger numbers than you might be led to believe by current spiritually embarrassing headlines and I know they are just as, if not more, passionate and healthy and deeply felt in their beliefs than the overpublicized sects of angry and frothing "true believers" screeching into the megaphone of the culture, the ones yanking BushCo's chain and pounding their Bibles and hiding their warped porn fetishes and forcing their way into our lives and laws and bedrooms right now. (Read the rest here) THE JUDGES MADE THEM DO IT It was appalling when the House majority leader threatened political retribution against judges who did not toe his extremist political line. But when a second important Republican stands up and excuses murderous violence against judges as an understandable reaction to their decisions, then it is time to get really scared.(Read the rest here) POLITICS IN ACTION By SENATOR J. DANFORTH St. Louis — BY a series of recent initiatives, Republicans have transformed our party into the political arm of conservative Christians. The elements of this transformation have included advocacy of a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, opposition to stem cell research involving both frozen embryos and human cells in petri dishes, and the extraordinary effort to keep Terri Schiavo hooked up to a feeding tube. (Read the rest here) A PARTY INVERTED By SENATOR BILL BRADLEY FIVE months after the presidential election Democrats are still pointing fingers at one another and trying to figure out why Republicans won. Was the problem the party's position on social issues or taxes or defense or what? Were there tactical errors made in the conduct of the campaign? Were the right advisers heard? Was the candidate flawed? (Read the rest here) BLOGGED DOWN Q: Should I call you Jim Guckert or Jeff Gannon? My Amex card still comes in the name of James Guckert, but I want to be called Jeff Gannon. That is who I am. (Read the rest here) Another site for up to the minute news and information of people and matters of direct interest to Democrats is www.democrats.com. Here you can read dozens of the latest articles from a wide variety of publications of specific interest to (and, yes a bias towards) Democrats. On the site you can tailor a newsletter to be emailed to yourself either daily or weekly, which will really get your blood boiling. Remember to take your pressure medication before accessing this site. WE'RE NOT IN WATERGATE ANYMORE By FRANK RICH - July 10, 2005 WHEN John Dean published his book "Worse Than Watergate" in the spring of 2004, it seemed rank hyperbole: an election-year screed and yet another attempt by a Nixon alumnus to downgrade Watergate crimes by unearthing worse "gates" thereafter. But it's hard to be dismissive now that my colleague Judy Miller has been taken away in shackles for refusing to name the source for a story she never wrote. No reporter went to jail during Watergate. No news organization buckled like Time. No one instigated a war on phony premises. This is worse than Watergate.(Read the rest here) IRAQ--CREDIBILITY, RESPONSIBILITY, ACCOUNTABILITY By SENATOR BARBARA BOXER - July 6, 2005 Last week, President Bush had a chance to regain credibility when it comes to Iraq. In my opinion, he did not. He mentioned 9/11 five times in 30 minutes, despite the fact that there is absolutely no connection between Iraq and that tragic day. (Read the rest here)

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Senator Diane Feinstein (D)

Senator Barbara Boxer (D)

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Congressman John Doolittle (R)

Dave Cox (R)

Assemblyman Tim Leslie (R)

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