Sonoma County supervisor contests will determine balance of power

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May 27th,2016
Sonoma County supervisor contests will determine balance of power
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My view is that it's a contradiction to call yourself "Progressive" and support Lynda Hopkins. So little is known about her, she has so little experience to suggest her positions, and support of her...

I find your claim that you are not "union bashing" disingenuous . Your own words belie your intent.

First of all unions are not as you call them "special interests". We are Public Interest.
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Wow. It always amazes me when those who hurl accusations at others about 'attacks and unfair campaigning' let loose with a hailstrom of lies and propaganda. I'm not surpised to find Ken Churchill...

Somehow this thread zinged off into County retirement. Here is the link to the County retirement financials and actuarials. Good luck as lots of information. I get $400 per month retirement from...

I replied to your questions a few pages back. I said I was proud to work for SEIU and the working class. And I told you the average pension for our rank and file workers.

I'm very proud and...

Wow! I must say Tom Lynch, that is quite impressive; knowing every single person in Sonoma County (over 500,000 people) to make a claim like that. Even though I am quite flattered you think I am Lisa...

I’m really getting sick and tired of Lynda Hopkins accusing people of running a “dirty campaign” and accusing people, like myself, of spreading “rumors” about her.

What really is a “clean...

YES , while I do indeed rent a home in the third district- a great many of the working people in SEIU 1021 live in the fifth district. It's everyone's right to participate and have a say in local...

Wow. Now I know why they call you Manure Man! That is the biggest load of compost I have heard in a while. You know NOTHING about unions and you, Mike Martini and Efren Carillo seem to be the...

Update on Ernie's Assessment of the Hopkins Campaign: Firstly, it's getting weird out there. Would like to be a fly on the wall when Hopkins learned that her campaign manager/consultant/handler Bob...

I don't understand Hopkins saying that pesticides shouldn't drift. If she is an organic farmer why would she not be opposed to pesticide use? Am I missing something?

Hello, I am a resident of the Ft. Ross area, and have watched as this lovely land has been taken over by moneyed interests with the wine industry, and their "event centers"! I agree with this post...

What a heartbreaking story -- a true testament to the fact over the past couple decades, being poor in America had been criminalized. As we slip deeper and deeper into the sea of corporate fascism,...

Oh please......if Santa Rosa's courthouse square is the heart of the empire, we are all in trouble......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DwvnCpHRlE&feature=youtu.be

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I made this video because I love Santa Rosa, my home of 22 years. I love the beauty of our natural world,...

Ernie ~

As the inimitable Mark Twain once said, "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." Your statement fell almost entirely into the second category.

Let me address...

34415Remember the song, 'Tie a yellow ribbon-round-the-old-tree'?
So they are poised to begin cutting the Redwoods at Old Courthouse Square in Santa Rosa.

Although I'm far more concerned with the...

How to fight "Big Money Greed and Insanity" with "Little Money Compassion for nature"? Our voices are whispers in a blinding storm. We are living in times of extreme homicidal madness, and this...

went to meeting and stayed till after midnight. quite sickened by this whole thing. they've likely begun cutting wednesday, the trees will be felled within days, completed by feb. 1. nothing left to...

On last night's KOWS-FM radio program "A Better World IS Possible" the Winegrowers' expensive propaganda was refuted by a wine industry member, a food farmer, an activist in Wine and Water Watch...

Huge homes were allowed to be built on a legally protected and highly visible ridge line at Fountaingrove after which the City only said "oops." After they collected all the fees of course. Many...

Trump is a pathetic, right-wing, capitalist, racist, misogynist, fascist pig.

Dear Tommy,
I support your right to defend the wine industry and derive pleasure from it. I do not mind a good argument. However, I do not appreciate your name-calling and debasing a difficult...

Based on what?? Hope it's not "she's experienced'. More than anything we need fresh, uncompromised representatives that are TRUE LOCALS. These days previous high position experience only means...

And now back to substance after the messenger shooting detour....

PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE LYING HISTORY LESSON
or.. "Insanity is repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results". ...

You're right, Ed. There is not one Repug who would be better than Hillary.

There is, however, one Democrat who would be: Bernie Sanders.

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"How about we treat every young man who wants to buy a gun like every woman who wants to get an abortion — mandatory 48-hr waiting period, parental permission,...

I was summoned to Chile--where I lived when the fascists took over-- to testify in the torture and execution of one of my friends, Frank Teruggi. One of the things that I most remember is stories of...

Here's an update on the original Whole Foods violation of Free Speech rights:

Activist to Appear in Court for Handing out Leaflets in Front of Whole Foods Market

Store Manager Arrested activist...

Ernie,

As someone who 'hasn't followed' the Palm Drive situation, you seem to believe you know a lot about the finances. Is this because you have studied them and have a background in hospital...

There hasn't been a lot of posting here on this topic, perhaps because in many ways it's a re-run of Andy Lopez and it's already been said. But I'll say something more,if only to stop it running...

gee, ms. ravitch...how very interesting that you WAITED to see how the elections turned out before coming to a decision on this ....you are rapidly becoming almost as distasteful as passalaqua...

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Here is a short letter that you can print and include with your property tax payment. The power to run the county comes from the fact that WE pay taxes. We should express that we don't want our...

I do not know the "RIGHT ANSWER" I do not think there is one, I think the right questions are more important.

WHY is there a MILITARIZATION going on with our police services and what can we do...

Well said!

https://www.facebook.com/SebastopolTomorrow/posts/449838098393074

Kathleen Shaffer has been telling voters as she walks door to door that she opposed CVS/Chase, but had no choice to approve it. In...

I've also been very happy with Bank of the West over the past 10 years or so. BUT, they are not a local bank, in fact they are not even an American Bank, but rather a subsidiary of a French...

Wow. To read the entire post, it would sound like the leaders of the organizations have summoned a Gestapo to beat down and terrorize people. I truly don't believe that is the case. Can you...

I WOULD OF HAVE TAKEN HER AS WELL IF I WAS ABLE. I ALSO BELIEVE ANIMAL BABIES & HUMAN BABIES ARE EQUAL TOO. UNFORTUNATELY, THIS WAS NOT MY DOG AND I WAS TRYING TO ASSIST THEM IN FINDING HER A...

You probably know this, I don't mean to demean your commentary, yet, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, brave soul with sense; Gandhi, brave soul with sense; Martin Luther King, brave soul with sense; Ida B....

Edie,

Undocumented workers can't get insurance or registration because they can't get Driver's Licenses. Used to be, they could. Now, they can't. It's really that simple.

The rest of what you...

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I agree with Conrad that each of us is fallible, deserving of tolerance and empathy, and has the capacity for redemption. If Ron Basso has experienced an epiphany in the years since I left his...