SAN DIEGO COASTAL DEMOCRATS SCHEDULE 12/3/12 - 1/27/13

SAN DIEGO COASTAL DEMOCRATS SCHEDULE 12/3/12 - 1/27/13          www.facebook.com/SanDiegoCoastalDemocrats

MONDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2012
10:00a - 11:00a - Mayoral Inauguration Event
                             The incoming City Council &
                             Mayor are sworn in.
                             Balboa Park Club

                             2144 Pan American Road West, San Diego

4:30pm-6:30pm – Community Inauguration Celebaration

                              with Mayor Filner

                              UCSD/La Jolla Playhouse

                              2910 La Jolla Village Drive, La Jolla

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2012

6:00P – 8:00P – Scott Peters Thank You

              for Volunteers & Staff

              4715 Viewridge Ave, Suite 150, San Diego

              Contact:  858 715-1369, info@scottpeters.com

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2012
 3:30p - 5:30p - Point Loma Democratic Club
                          Holiday Party
                          Club members: $5 & a potluck dish, or $10.
                          1268 Savoy St, San Diego, CA
                           Info:  Ruth Rollins 619 222-9344

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2012

2:00p – 4:00p – La Jolla Democratic Club Holiday Party

                          Home of Derek and Nancy Casady

                          8412 Sugarman Dr., La Jolla

                         RSVP to 858-457-0246 or nlcasady@yahoo.com

                         COST: $10/person OR bring a dish to pass
7:00p - 9:00p - Holiday Party for San Diego
                          County Democrats
                           Societe Brewing Company
                           8262 Clairemont Mesa Blvd
                            RSVP to info@sddemocrats.org.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2012

8:00a – 12:00p – Register NEW Citizens to Vote -
                            Homeland Security and
                            Immigration and Naturalization Building
                            1261 Third Ave., Chula Vista, CA

SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 2013
11:00a - 12:00p - Pacific Beach Club Monthly Meeting
                             1405 Diamond St, San Diego, CA

SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 2013
                          "Blue Skies Over San Diego"
                           Early celebration of the Democratic
                           Victories nationwide.
                           Save the Date!
                           (exact time & place TBD)

THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 2013 
6:30p – 8:00p - Black Mountain Democratic Club Meeting

                         Mesa Village Recreation Hall 1
                        10550 Caminito Flores, San Diego

SUNDAY, JANUARY 27, 2013

3:30P – 5:30P - Political Home For Pro-Israel, Pro-Peace Americans

                       Point Loma Democratic club                

                       3035 Talbot St, San Diego

VICTORY!

San Diego Coastal Democrats had a HUGE win today! 

We ran the table! 

Obama - WIN

Dianne Feinstein - WIN 

Scott Peters - WIN (and turnover)
Susan Davis - WIN

Bob Filner - WIN

Sheri Lightner - WIN 

John Lee Evans - WIN

Marne Foster - WIN

Bernie Rhinerson - WIN

Prop Z - WIN
Marty Block - WIN
Toni Atkins - WIN
Greg Robinson - WIN
Jacqueline Simon - WIN
Dave Roberts - WIN
Richard Leib - WIN

(Elizabeth Warren - WIN!)

Thank you for all your support!

P.S. We are cleaning up, closing our offices and enjoying our friends today, Wednesday, Nov. 7th, 2012
Join us at 953 Garnet @ 10AM and then go to The Coastal Democrats Club House, 1946 Balboa, @ 2 for a party!

Bilbray, Issa, Hunter vote to LET WOMEN DIE!

Any woman voting in San Diego's 52nd Congressional District has a serious decision to make! The Republican House has voted to reclassify rape, and give hospitals the choice not to perform emergency abortions.

See more from HR Reality Check: 

The GOP-led House of Representatives, with the blessings and encouragement of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and extremist religious groups such as the Family Research Council, passed a bill in a vote of 251 to 172 that would, among other things, allow doctors and hospitals to "exercise their conscience" by letting pregnant women facing emergency medical conditions die. 

Yes. Die. 

This is what the Republicans called the "Protect Life Act."  And no, I am not kidding.

US Congressman, Brian Bilbray, (R-52n Dist.) has a particularly bad Tea-Party Voting record against women. He voted repeatedly to disqualify Planned Parenthood for all federal  funds, even for breast cancer screenings and preventative health services, as well as birth control and abortion.  He even voted for a bill (H.R.358) dubbed by opponents as the “Let Women Die Act” that would have allowed hospitals to refuse emergency abortions for women whose lives were in immediate danger.

His opponent in the newly redrawn district, Scott Petters, has an exemplary record on Women's Issues.

“Over the last two years, the extremists in Congress, including Brian Bilbray, have conducted an all-out assault on women’s healthcare and reproductive choice, including access to contraception.” Peters said. 

“My wife and I both are extremely committed to Planned Parenthood,” said Peters, whose wife served on the local Planned Parenthood board of directors for years.  “I will always stand firmly in defense of the rights of all women to have access to affordable birth control and reproductive healthcare and will oppose any efforts to roll back these rights.”

Obama Small Business

18 Tax reductions for small businesses.
· A new small-business health care tax credit. 
· Obama created tax credits for small businesses for hiring veterans, ranging from $2,400 to $9,600 (Hire 


Heroes Act of 2011).
· He created a small business tax credit for hiring unemployed workers in 2010.
· He created a small business deduction for health care expenses for the self-employed in 2010.
· Temporary extension of bonus depreciation tax incentives to support new investment. 
· 75 percent exclusion of small-business capital gains, for stock acquired in 2009 and 2010. 
· Temporary expansion of limits on small-business expensing. 
· Five-year carryback of net operating losses, available through fall 2009. 
· Reduction of the built-in gains holding period for small businesses to seven years, from 10, in 2009 and 


2010.
· Temporary small-business estimated tax payment relief. Tax provisions in the 2010 Small Business Jobs 

Act (both The Agenda and the I.R.S. have published summaries): 
· 100 percent exclusion of small-business capital gains, for stock acquired in late 2010 and 2011. 
· A further increase to the expensing limit to $500,000 for 2011 (in 2012, the limit falls to $139,000). 
· A further extension of 50 percent bonus depreciation through 2010. 
· Tax relief and simplification for cellphone deductions. 
· An increase in the deduction for entrepreneurs' start-up expenses in 2010. 
· A five-year carry-back of general business credits in 2010. 
· Lower penalties for failing to report listed (that is, abusive) tax shelters. 
· Increasing bonus depreciation to 100 percent for 2011 (from the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance 

Reauthorization and Job Creation Act of 2010, the compromise law that keeps the Bush income tax cuts in place through this year; for 2012, bonus depreciation falls to 50 percent and then expires).

MONDAY IS DEADLINE!

Register to vote in CA by Monday, October 22nd or you don't get to vote.

You can register to vote ON-LINE here.

San Diego County Registrar of Voters
Registrar of Voters
5201 Ruffin Road, Suite I
San Diego, CA. 92123

(858) 565-5800

Hours 8:00am to 5:00pm
Monday through Friday

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History Repeats

Why Obama Now

I love KPBS and Amita Sharma ♥

From Voice of San Diego Posted: Friday, September 28, 2012 3:56 pm | Updated: 4:37 pm, Fri Sep 28, 2012.

By Scott Lewis and Dagny Salas |

On Thursday, we received a copy of an email Unified Port of San Diego board Commissioner Scott Peters said he received from U-T San Diego CEO John Lynch.

In it, Lynch threatened to use the newspaper to lead a campaign to disband the port.

But just what the email Lynch sent to Peters says has taken another turn.

Lynch claims it did not have a threat. 

From KPBS' story: by Amita Sharma

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Busy in Retirement

Busy in Retirement

Working people frequently ask retired people what they do to make their days interesting. 

I enjoy giving this example of what my wife and I do. The other day, Kate and I went into town and visited a shop. When we came out, there was a cop writing out a parking ticket. 

We went up to him and I said, 'Come on, man, how about giving a senior citizen a break?' He ignored us and continued writing the ticket. I called him an "asshole." He glared at me and started writing another ticket for having worn-out tires. So Kate called him a "shithead." He finished the second ticket and put it on the windshield with the first.

This went on for about 20 minutes.  The more we abused him, the more tickets he wrote. 

Just then our bus arrived, and we got on it and went home.

We always look for cars with "ROMNEY/RYAN 2012" stickers.

We try to have a little fun each day now that we're retired. It's important at our age.

2012 Voter Guide: Coastal Democrats

Moving SAN DIEGO

FORWARD

Endorsed Candidates:
President: Barack Obama
US Senate: Dianne Feinstein
US Congress: Scott Peters, 52nd Congressional District
San Diego Mayor: Bob Filner

CA State Senate, Dist. 39: Marty Block
CA Sate Assembly, Dist. 77: R.J. Hernandez
CA Sate Assembly, Dist. 78: Toni Atkins

Superior Court Judge, Office 25: DO NOT VOTE FOR Jim Miller (suggest - Robert Amador)

San Diego County Boart of Education, Dist. 1: Gregg Robinson
San Diego Community College Board, Dist. B: Bernie Rhinerson
San Diego Unified School Board, Dist. A: John Lee Evans
San Diego Unified School Board, Dist. E: Marne Foster
San Diego County Board of Supervisors, Dist. 3: Dave Roberts
San Diego City Council, Dist. 1: Sherri Lightner

PROPOSITIONS

• 30: YES
• 31: NO
• 32: NO
• 33: NO
• 34: YES
• 35: YES
• 36: YES
• 37: YES
• 38: NO
• 40: YES
• Z: YES
  
  Note: This list is specifically for San Diego Coastal Democrats, for more information about San Diego County click here.

Rmoney Phoreal

Republished without permission from DailyKos.com

The Real Romney: The Most Horrifying 2:08 in the Clandestine Video

America owes thanks to a courageous act, probably involving civil disobedience, done, probably by someone on the catering staff, during a high roller fund raiser for Mitt Romney at the home of a Florida gazillionaire, Mark Leder, last May. Because of this brave act, all Americans at last have what only millionaires could afford before: an honest and candid view of the real Mitt Romney. Until now, Governor Romney was Multiple Choice Mitt, here, there and everywhere on this, that and every issue. He was the candidate who either wouldn't take a position or took them all at one time or another, at least in public, at least until now.

Thanks to the disclosure of the unauthorized video recording of Romney published yesterday by Mother Jones we now have about an hour of Romney with his filthy rich friends in a "quiet room". This is the closest most of us have ever come to catching glimpses of the real Romney.

It doesn't surprise me that most of the attention lavished on the newly released video focuses on Romney's candid observation that "47%" of voters don't care for him and that he returns the sentiment in spades. But Romney talked at length on many subjects. The 2 minutes and 8 seconds that told me the most about Mitt Romney the person was his reminiscence of a business trip he took long ago. Take a look and then come out into the tall grass to see a transcript and to talk about what a horrible person this anecdote makes Romney out to be.

“95% of life is set up for you if you were born in this country. And, I remember going to ah, uh, sorry just to bore you with stories.

“When I was back in my private equity days, we went to China to buy a factory there. It employed about 20,000 people. And they were almost all young women between the ages of about 18 and 22 or 23. They were saving for potentially becoming married.

“And they work in these huge factories, they made various uh, small appliances. And uh, as we were walking through this facility, seeing them work, the number of hours they worked per day, the pitance they earned, living in dormitories with uh, with little bathrooms at the end of maybe 10, 10 room, rooms. And the rooms they have 12 girls per room.

“Three bunk beds on top of each other. You've seen, you've seen them? (Oh...yeah, yeah!) And, and, and around this factory was a fence, a huge fence with barbed wire and guard towers. And, and, we said gosh! I can't believe that you, you know, keep these girls in! They said, no, no, no. This is to keep other people from coming in.

“Because people want so badly to come work in this factory that we have to keep them out. Or they will just come in here and start working and, and try and get compensated. So we, this is to keep people out. And they said, actually Chinese New Year as the girls go home, sometimes they decide they've saved enough money and they don't come back to the factory.

“And he said, so, on the weekend after Chinese New Year there will be a line of people hundreds long, outside the factory, hoping that some girls haven't come back. And they can come to the factory. And, and so as we were experiencing this for the first time, going to see a factory like this in China some years ago.

“The Bain Partner I was with turned to me and said, you know, 95% of life is settled if you are born in America. This is uh, this is an amazing land and what we have is unique and fortunately it is so special we are sharing it with the world.

Mitt Romney looked around the World for something to buy to make his investors more wealthy. What caught his eye was a chance to make money off of gadgets manufactured by young women living in a barbed wire compound, in cramped barracks with one bathroom for 120 women. The way Romney tells the story, it's obvious that he perceived and understood the terrible exploitation of these women with perfect accuracy. He just didn't really care. He had no impulse to protect, but rather considered how he might profit from the exploitation of these women. Why does Romney tell this well practiced old story? So he can pat himself on the back for being American.

This 2:08 of the larger video of Romney portrays with horrifying clarity the complete lack of empathy for the suffering of others in the character of Mitt Romney. It isn't exactly a revelation, as Romney has long been mocked as robotic, including, brilliantly in our own Hunter's Chronicles of Mitt. Still, it is strong confirmation that human compassion and empathy toward mankind are qualities that do not abide in Mitt Romney. He might treat his friends and family and business cronies (that's really just one group, isn't it) terrific, but the rest of us can go hang in Mitt's World.

There was a second thing in the 2:08. It was the total credulousness of Romney when he swallowed, hook, line and sinker, the yarn that his Chinese minders fed him about the barbed wire being to keep people out, not in. They were, after all, trying to sell him the place. But the way Romney tells it, he totally bought it. I'll bet Romney's Chinese minders who peddled that stuff to him still laugh about it when they have drinks. There are many character traits that I value in a U.S. President in the conduct of foreign affairs. Being a credulous dupe is not among them.

H/t also to other worthy coverage of the Romney in China story by Laura Clawson and Daily Kos Labor.

Rmoney speaks truth to power in 'Bulworth' moment

In a rare and insightful moment of candor, the Republican Presidential Candidate was recorded speaking the truth about his views of Americans. The video was shot on May 17 at the Boca Raton, Fla., home of Marc Leder, a financier, who held a $50,000-a-person fund-raiser for him.

According to the Republican, Obama's voters rely upon public assistance and feel entitled to government housing, welfare, and food stamps. He called them all parasites who take no personal responsibility nor care for their own lives. The remarks smack of an elitist code of racism and class prejudice, as revealed by later recorded comments. Among other things, the governor admits pandering to independent voters in the center using the cynical emotional manipulations of politics. 

In humble rebuttal to the Republicans' dismissive remarks, local Coastal Democrat, Michael Russell, offered his opinions.

"There are 1% of Americans who will vote for the Republicans no matter what. They are a group of Americans who pay almost no taxes and are dependent upon government. These ne’er-do-wells who abuse the public tax-code and don’t pay taxes, will probably support Rmoney because they believe they are victims, and believe the government has a responsibility to care for them. They think they are the elite, entitled to their unearned wealth, entitled to their war profits, entitled to corporate welfare, entitled to their privileged position. They refuse to take responsibility for their own lives and we can't help them do it."  

Mr. Russell continued, "Our job as Democrats is not to worry about those aristocrats. We will never convince them they should take personal responsibility for their mistakes and care for the lives of their countrymen. Our job is to stop government from taking care of these freeloaders: cut military spending, stop bailing out the banks, close the tax loop-holes, and make them pay their fair share. This is a question about the fundamental direction of the country: Do you believe in a corporate-government-centered society that goes into debt to provide more and more benefits for the rich? Or do you believe instead in a just society where a unified people have the opportunity to pursue their dreams?” 

Prop 37

Genetic Roulette
Watch this NOW! Only available online for a limited time! 

When you watch this Documentary: Genetic Roulette, please don't try to watch it all at once. If you feel symptoms of fear, panic, or depression, this is normal. Pause, eat some organic food. Rest. And return to the video when the symptoms pass. Video by Jeff Smith

There are only 9 Genetically Engineered FOOD crops:

1. Soy
2. Corn (not Pop-corn)
3. Cottonseed (for Oil)
4. Canola (for Oil)
5. Sugar Beets (for Sugar)
6. Papaya (Hawaiian and Chinese)
7. Zucchini
8. Yellow Crookneck Squash 
9. Alfalfa (for Hay) 

But their derivatives are found in 70% of the foods at the Grocery Store.
Buy foods that say Organic or Non-GMO!
http://www.nonGMOshoppingguide.com
http://www.nongmoproject.org/

Stay away from Aspartame when possible, it may or may not be harmful, but it is definitely unnecessary as a sweet.

Watch out for your milk, especially for kids. Don't buy milk that uses Bovine Growth Hormone, if you can afford it, buy only organic labels.

Listen to the Solution

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In this Program:

• Grant Writing Specialists - Penny Goforth
• East County Magazine - Director, Leon Thomson
• Ilan Lael Foundation - Marianne Gerdes 
• San Diego Brain Tumor Foundation - Connie Reeves Campbell

This has been a San Diego Speaks production of "San Diego Solutions". This is a demonstration project for a new one-hour, weekly talk-show about Non-Profit Businesses in San Diego and the solutions created by social-entrepreneurs to deal with local issues.

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Listen to Filner at La Jolla Dem Club

Movie Mondays: Zeitgeist Addendum

Join SDCD at the Clubhouse for a rewind of the movie Zeitgeist Addendum.
1946 Balboa Ave. San Diego, 92109
Blow your mind

Next Week: KLSD 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fztitCjIjDw

Costal Democrats Weekly Schedule: July 30 - Aug 5th

THURSDAY, AUGUST 2nd, 2012
4PM Community Projects and Event Planning
5PM Discover PB, Town Council, Business Commuity @ California Kabab

FRIDAY, AUGUTS 3rd, 2012
6PM Friday Night Philosophy: the Environment

SATURDAY, AUGUST 4th, 2012
10AM Go Team
11AM Economic Justice Workshop (With Carolin Shadle)
1:00PM Phone Bank

SUNDAY, AUGUST 5TH, 2012
11AM PB
12PM Phone Bank

http://coastaldemocrats.blogspot.com/p/coastal-democrats-events.html

Friday Night Philosophy: Environment

• • Friday
  • 6:00pm until 7:00pm

• San Diego Coastal Democratic Clubhouse, 1946 Balboa, Pacific Beach, CA 92109

• What is the environment? Do people have the right to use the environment? Do they have the right to buy the environment? What about corporations? Come talk about what makes the environment such an emotional political issue. Are Humans Part of the environment? Emotion VS. Science. Compassion for animals: the Omnivores' Dilemma .

Friday Night Philosophy: Alternate Currency

• • 
    Friday, July 27, 2012
  • 6:00pm until 7:30pm

• San Diego Coastal Club House, 1946 Balboa Ave, PB 92109

• Jeeni Criscenzo del Rio will explain how money created in our current system results in scarcity. We will learn how a complimentary, interest /debt-free currency, that we create simply by trading our goods and services can build abundance. She will explain how it works and why you will want to participate in this exciting answer to our dismal economic situation. Criscenzo is part of a team introducing a mutual credit system to San Diego - CommonCredits. http://www.commoncredits.org

Monday Night Movies: Koch Brothers Exposed

• • 
    Friday, July 27, 2012
  • 6:00pm

• San Diego Coastal Democrat Clubhouse, 1946 Balboa Ave., Pacific Beach, San Diego, CA 92109

• Join the Costal Democrats Monday for a movie. 6PM This week "Koch Brothers Exposed" http://www.kochbrothersexposed.com/ Koch Brothers Exposed is a hard-hitting investigation of the 1% at its very worst. This full-length documentary film on Charles and David Koch—two of the world’s richest and most powerful men—is the latest from acclaimed director Robert Greenwald (Wal-Mart: the High Cost of Low Price, Outfoxed, Rethink Afghanistan). The billionaire brothers bankroll a vast network of organizations that work to undermine the interests of the 99% on issues ranging from Social Security to the environment to civil rights. This film uncovers the Kochs’ corruption—and points the way to how Americans can reclaim their democracy.

Friday Night Philosophy: Taking Back the Media

• • 
    Friday, July 13, 2012
  • What time?

• 1946 Balboa Ave, San Diego, CA 92109

• Taking back the Media Talk Friday 7/13 @6pm The Right-Wing has dominated the Media to a point that Our message simply doesn't get out there. How can our club members reverse this? In spite of the right-wing media dominance we can learn from them and apply new techniques for getting our message out. At the San Diego Coastal Campaign Headquarters (1946 Balboa Ave, Pacific Beach 92109) The presenters are: Mike Thaller: San Diego County Democratic Party – Director of Media Relations John Mattes - The Investigative guy Mike Thaller is a former Television and Film Director specializing in commercials and educational Films. His political resume includes: Treasurer, Much Better Choices, Independent Expenditure PAC California Democratic Party - Executive Board Member California Democratic Party - Vice Chair (South) Progressive Caucus San Diego County Democratic Party – Executive Board Member San Diego County Democratic Party – Director of Communications and Media Relations San Diego County Democratic Party – Precinct Leader (Go Team) Eastlake-Bonita Democratic Club – Past President John Mattes is an attorney and investigative reporter. His political resume includes: Fox Television News – Investigative Reporter Investigative Counsel - US Senate for Senator John Kerry

• Should we use the same techniques as our opponents (propaganda, corporate media) to fight fire with fire?

Friday Night Philosophy: Political Vision

• • 
    Friday, July 20, 2012
  • 6:00pm until 7:30pm

• San Diego Coastal Democratic Club House, 1946 Balboa Ave., San Diego, CA 92109

• What is the Democratic Vision for America? What are the objectives and goals of the party? Why don't we have any common ground? Listen to the spectacle of our media, we remain unable to read. http://www.cbc.ca/q/blog/2012/07/04/redesigning-the-american-dream/

Please share this invitation with your club members, GO Team, and friends.

This Friday, July 20, 6-7:30pm, at the San Diego Coastal HQ, we will host the fifth in a series of “Friday Seminars.”

The last four Friday Seminar topics:

What is the relationship between philosophy, policy and morality?
What are the core values of the Democrat Party?
Is the Democratic Party the solution or the problem?
How do we take back the media?

This Friday’s Seminar:
Is there a need for a New Vision for the Democratic Party?
What can we learn from the Green Party?

Listen to what Gar Alperovitz said about the “Next Great Revolution.” Towards the end he talks about the emerging need for a new vision.

http://www.democracynow.org/2012/7/16/gar_alperovitzs_green_party_keynote_we

Also, as the camera scans the audience in the room, check out the demographics of the Green Party. How does this compare with those who attended your last Democratic Club meeting?

Hope to see you on Friday, 6pm, at the San Diego Coastal HQ, as we discuss the need for a new vision for the Old Democratic Party.

Bring your favorite beverage and a snack to share.