Two pieces of mail are hitting mail boxes in the 4th Supervisor’s District from the Orange County Labor Federation on June 1st. The first is a general mailer pointing out Shawn Nelson’s TEA Party credentials. My guess is it isn’t going to Republican households.
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Van Tran-Nobody, Including Reporters, Knows His Name
by Chris Prevatt • • 1 Comment
So we have these Tax Day/Tea Party protessts in Santa Ana yesterday. We have GOP speakers from all across the county lining up to speak at these protests. Then we add to the mix a reporter for a relatively new online publication OCLNN.com covering the event. In his story, posted on Thursday afternoon he wrote the following…
HOPE: Election Day One Year Ago
by Chris Prevatt • • 1 Comment
On Election Day one year ago on November 4, 2008, Barack Obama was elected the 44th President of the United States of America. What seemed to be a long shot bid of a freshman Senator from Illinois launched in February 2007,…
Um, That Stimulus Thing IS Working!
by Chris Prevatt • • Comments Off
From CNN/Money we have this story about the GDP report out just in time to scare the crap out of the Teabaggers and GOP naysayers for Halloween. Economy finally back in gear Government says GDP grew 3.5% in third quarter,…
Tea Party Crowd Size in DC Exaggerated
by Dan Chmielewski • • 2 Comments
I really don’t understand the anger behind the Tea Party Protests; about 98percent of Americans who make less than $250,000 a year got a tax cut and people are somehow upset about this? If they are anger about the swelling…
Is Sarah Palin Coming to Your Neighborhood? (Orange County, Here She Comes!)
by Michael D. Fox • • Comments Off
If I’m correct that Sarah Palin resigned as Alaska governor in order to lead a right wing movement that is ostensibly independent of the major political parties, then the next question is: where will she establish her new home and…
Democrats Should Be Joining the Tea Parties
by Michael D. Fox • • 10 Comments
Democrats are responding to the growing nationwide phenomena of anti-tax “tea parties†protests by mocking them and by pointing out that they are prompted and run by right-wing organizations. Neither response is a winning political strategy. It is pure political stupidity…
