Open Left (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
The current National House Ballot shows Democrats ahead by 2.80%. However, most of those polls focus on registered voters or even "all adults," not on likely voters. Current polling among likely voters by Rasmussen shows Republicans with a comfortable advantage. Lest you think that Rasmussen is to be dismissed, Daily Kos recently published information showing that 81% of Republicans will...
California Greening (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Everyone in the Green Party is subject to questions about why they would run races that they can not possibly win. When we do reach the level where our presence becomes a factor in a race, then the charges of being a spoiler roll out from the Democrats, especially of the yellow dog breed, as if it were a Pavlovian reaction. Let me recount a story. Sometime in late 2003 or early 2004, Jerry McNerney...
Health Access WeBlog (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Health Access California, as part of Health Care for America Now (HCAN) – the nation’s largest health care campaign – launched a new television ad today to publicly thank Representative Jerry McNerney (CA-D) for his historic ‘yes’ vote on the House of Representatives’ health care bill – the Affordable Health Care for America Act (H.R. 3962). The ad titled “About...
Merced Sun-Star.com -- Local (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
MODESTO -- San Joaquin Valley Democratic Reps. Dennis Cardoza and Jerry McNerney voted for, as Cardoza put it, "the greatest improvement to the quality of health care for all Americans since the creation of Medicare." Republican Rep. George Radanovich voted against what he called "a new entitlement program that will actually harm health care in America." The three were weighing...
California Progress Report (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
By Dan Bacher In a letter to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on October 23, Congressman Jerry McNerney (D-Pleasanton) criticized plans to build a peripheral canal and the exclusion of input from Delta residents in the current Delta/water bill package now being considered by the California legislature. The letter reiterates the Congressman’s...
Indybay newswire (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Congressman McNerney Urges Governor to Drop Canal Plan by Dan Bacher As a joint committee of the California legislature was holding a hearing on water bond and financing legislation Wednesday, Congressman Jerry McNerney (CA-11) sent a letter to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger regarding widely-contested potential changes to the state's water policy, including plans for a peripheral canal, now being considered...
On Deadline (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
On the day that US Airways Capt. Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger was reunited in the cockpit with his derring-do Hudson River copilot, The Hill reports the Republican Party sought to recruit the hero pilot to challenge a Democratic congressman in his San Francisco-area district. The 58-year-old resident of Danville is a registered Republican, and the GOP wanted him to run against second-term...
Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | 09/24/2009
The Politico's entry in the "Ron Paul Revolution" marches on category: Paul’s son Rand is running competitively in the Kentucky Senate race to succeed Republican Jim Bunning , even though the GOP establishment has lined up behind Secretary of State Trey Grayson. Peter Schiff, an economic adviser to Paul’s presidential campaign, has raised $1 million in his bid to win the Republican...
Tangled Blog (Free subscription) | 09/07/2009
Pleasanton, California is wealthy, Democrat and neighbors San Francisco. A mock funeral was held yesterday in Pleasanton, California to bury the HealthCare Bill, and the Cap and Trade (Global Warming) Bill. It was campy political theater, complete with black-clothed mourners, a line of hearses, a eulogy, and a rousing rendition of “God Bless America.” Newsbusters reports: Accompanied by...
American Power (Free subscription) | 08/23/2009
From PipeLine News, " Hundreds Turn Out For Pleasanton, CA Tea Party Protest Of Jerry McNerney ": Even temperatures approaching the century mark failed to dampen the spirit of a large and rambunctious crowd of anti-Obamacare protesters as they gathered outside the district office of Jerry McNerney [D, CA 11] this afternoon. Though Pleasanton is the focal point of McNerney's district, he is...
Courage Campaign Staff Blog (Free subscription) | 08/17/2009
Last week the annual Netroots Nation conference was held in Pittsburgh, and the Courage Campaign was there to share our knowledge of online organizing and progressive activism with bloggers from across the country. Managing Director Eden James spoke about turning red districts blue, sharing his experiences from the successful effort to elect Jerry McNerney in California's 11th Congressional district...
AutoblogGreen (Free subscription) | 08/13/2009
Filed under: EV/Plug-in , USA Last weekend, Plug In America celebrated its annual fundraiser at the Thomas Fogarty Winery in Woodside, CA. The event was the perfect excuse to showcase a wide array of electron-powered vehicles: AC Propulsion's t-Zero , the Aptera 2e , the Tango , ten Tesla Roadsters , and a few suriviving Toyota RAV4 EVs . The two-wheeled sector was represented by Zero Motorcicles...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 08/04/2009
WASHINGTON — House Republicans are trying to rebound in the 2010 election from the hit they took last year's contests by targeting 70 districts held by Democrats. Those targeted satisfy at least one of these requirements: They won less than 55 percent of the vote last year or they represent a district carried in 2008 by John McCain, the Republican presidential nominee. The targeted House Democrats...
democrats.com (Free subscription) | 07/22/2009
The crucial battle for single-payer healthcare is in the House Energy & Commerce Committee (E&C). On Monday, Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) tried to offer a single-payer amendment but chairman Henry Waxman ended the meeting early to avoid a vote. On Monday we asked our 600,000 subscribers to call E&C Democrats and here are the results you reported: Support Leaning Undecided / Won't Say BlueDogs...
Housing Works News (Free subscription) | 07/21/2009
Action Alert No. 1!: Extending Ryan White AIDS Funding The House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce will be taking on the issue of the extension of the single most important source of AIDS funding, the Ryan White Modernization Act of 2006. The bill is set to sunset at the end of September and the committee appears to be on the right track: There is talk of reauthorizing Ryan White...
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