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The Democrat April 2007 TThhee NNeeww DDeemmooccrraatt A Publication of the Peninsula Democratic Coalition (PDC) July 2012 Presidential Election News – Mark Your Dashboard and Technology Calendar Development Volunteers PDC Annual Picnic Plans Sought Are you or do you want to be an activist to re-elect President Obama? The campaign has developed a new online Underway “virtual” field office to help us plug into the campaign’s Mark the date in your calendar—the PDC annual picnic grassroots efforts. The site is will be held on Saturday, August 18, this year. The location, https://www.barackobama.com/dashboard. If you already have as usually, will be Shoup Park in Los Altos. But the time will an account on www.barackobama.com, you can use that login be 4 to 7 p.m. this year, earlier than usual. to log in to Dashboard; otherwise, you can create a new It’s not too early to start thinking about what YOU’d like account. Dashboard is the core of the campaign’s organizing to do to help make this event a success: strategy. Through Dashboard you can call voters, track your • Donate some special item, service, or a gift certificate progress and connect with your neighborhood team. to a local business for the silent auction Dashboard was in part developed by the Obama Technology • Offer PDC some time in your vacation home, as a the Center in San Francisco. Eitan Fenson and I are in discussion silent auction item with them about how Silicon Valley technical talent can support • Help plan active games to keep the kiddies happy in and contribute to their efforts. If you are a back end software the playground area developer interested in volunteering some time to this effort , • Invite your friends to become PDC members, so they contact us at [email protected] or [email protected] . can come with you! One last note: I loved the First Lady’s email on Father’s If you’d like to help in any of these ways, let us know as Day. If you missed this video, check it out: soon as you can. Call 650-941-2120 and talk with Andrea, http://youtu.be/Tz28tO2IIeM. or leave a message. By Amy Pearl Save the Date: September 8 Put Your Professor Larry Diamond, an expert on post-conflict democracy building and democratic development, will be our Money Where featured speaker at the PDC’s September 8 luncheon. We can expect Dr. Diamond will share with us fascinating Your Voice Is insights on the prospects and challenges of democracy Every month we dutifully pay our phone bills. But do you building in the tumultuous Middle East—and perhaps ever wish all that money could be going to support causes you elsewhere around the globe. really care about? Do you ever think about how your present Dr. Diamond is the Director of the Center for Democracy, phone service may be supporting the very things you oppose? Development, and the Rule of Law; a Senior Fellow at the Would you like to get out of the clutches of AT&T, which is a Hoover Institution and at the Freeman Spogli Institute for major supporter of Tea Party conservatives and Republicans? International Studies; and professor by courtesy of political I felt that way about my phone service, but then I found out science and sociology at Stanford University. about CREDO Mobile—the progressive phone company. I Save the date! September 8, at Michael’s at Shoreline switched to CREDO for my cell phone service, and now have Restaurant. the pleasure of knowing that my monthly payments go to a company that has raised over $70 million for progressive CALIFORNIA PRESIDENTIAL & nonprofit organizations such as GreenPeace, Planned STATE GENERAL ELECTION Parenthood, the ACLU, and Democracy Now. Tuesday , November 6, 2012 - POLL HOURS: 7am-8pm In 2010, CREDO was a leading force in defeating Proposition 23, Big Oil’s attempt to overturn California’s Deadline to register for the General Election strong climate protections. CREDO organized local is October 22. (continued on page 7) The New Democrat 2 July 2012 situation. We associate Republicans with Vision B and Democrats with Martin’s Vision A. In recent years the Republicans have been doing a great job of articulating their views. They attack the Democrats as “big spenders” for attempting some progress toward their EDITORIAL realization of Vision A. The Democrats are not responding. They are not pushing a vision for the future. The last time we heard a strong national voice for an alternative view of the future was Lyndon There are two visions for the future of this country. They can Johnson’s War on Poverty! The Democrats fail completely to be characterized generally as follows: point out that they are not the “big spenders.” There is a conflict in spending priorities – the Democrats Vision A meekly push for domestic programs while the Republicans This vision follows the philosophy of the founding fathers spend on war and defense with no vocal opposition from the and that which has governed the country for much of its Democrats. In recent years the budget increases under Bush history. In this model the role of the government is to look after were significantly larger than those under Obama. Yet those who need help. Concern and empathy are important Republicans bash Obama as spending without control and there qualities. is no vehement response. In this vision public education – high quality public education Education is the key: education that produces an electorate – is a necessity. Quality public education serves to create an ready to question authority and to understand the issues. There informed and alert electorate; quality public education provides is an abundance of information available today. Between the social contacts and understanding. television – news and advertisements – and the web it is In this vision the government exists to protect the country possible to find authoritative opinion on both sides of any issue. against threats from within and without. The public should be That is true for global warming, evolution, weapons of mass protected against unscrupulous businesses, snake oil sales, and destruction, Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and the Great fraud. Pumpkin. The government of this vision is expensive. It is supported If citizens are to participate effectively in democracy they by a tax system in which everyone is expected to pay a fair need the ability to form critical opinions. It is obvious to share; the rich, who have benefited most from the opportunities speculate that an informed and properly skeptical electorate presented, pay a higher proportion of their income than do the might have kept us out of the war in Iraq as well as the Viet poor who have yet to gain the financial windfalls. Nam war. There is no thought of complete income equality; some Full disclosure for political advertising is a good idea – but it people will be richer than others; but there is a hope of will not solve the problem. Every voter in California should eliminating poverty and of having the very rich pay their share have known that the opposition to the cigarette tax initiative of the cost of government. The goal is for a narrower gap was funded by big tobacco; that information did not sufficiently between the top and bottom of the economic ladder. Again, a blunt the effect of their advertising. large part of the interest is grounded in the desire for Rules and regulations are not going to stop the enormous democracy: citizens in abject poverty cannot participate fully in spending on behalf of candidates and causes. That spending will the democratic process. slow if, and only if, it no longer bends the will of the voter to the whim of the advertiser. Vision B It may be too bad if our schools do not produce high scores In the alternative vision, capitalism is the major consideration. on the standardized tests; however it is a disaster if the schools Those who have become rich see no need for quality public do not create a citizenry able to think critically and education – they can send their children to expensive schools independently. anywhere in the country – or in the world. They see little need Martin Gorfinkel for a highly educated work force – they can run their corporations with employees educated in other countries. Ours is a land of opportunity – but people, generally speaking, have the responsibility for generating their own opportunities. Hard work will bring success without the need for significant government assistance. This vision sees extreme wealth as a good thing; it generates jobs; it shows the value of working hard; it provides incentive to others so they will also work hard. Politics When one candidate articulates a vision – or a plan or a philosophy – the opposition has three options: (1) ignore it; (2) argue with it and denigrate it; or (3) counter with ideas that offer an alternative. Herein lies the problem in our current The New Democrat 3 July 2012 who came with their two young children. Between 1861 and Ask Mitt’s Cousin… 1885 he married five more wives. In all, he fathered at least 17 children. Two daughters, Dora and Bertha, by his first wife By Karen Fox became two of Helaman Pratt’s wives. His oldest daughter Dora gave birth to Anna Amelia Pratt, who married Gaskell Q. The birther frenzy over President Obama’s ancestry Romney. The Wilcken family name was given to their son and stories about his distant relatives has me wondering: George Wilcken Romney, Mitt’s father. What can you tell me about Mitt Romney’s ancestry? Charles Henry Wilcken’s widowed mother, sisters, nieces, and brother August—my great-grandfather—eventually came to A.
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