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We're for the Seperation of Church and Hate!!
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We're for the Seperation of Church and Hate!!
17/02 : Club Meetings
NEXT MEETING
TUES. Dec. 11th, 2007
7 PM
Mulvane Community Center
860 Gilbert Street
San Bernardino, Ca
FOR MORE INFO CALL (909) 534-1624
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26/11 : December 10th Debate Watching Party
The Foothill Regional Democratic Alliance proudly presents...
Choices, Choices, Choices...
Debate Watching Party
December 10th
(Date, Time and place to be announced as soon as more info is available. Keep checking back!!)
Remember choosing from such a fine assortment of candidates is like making a choice between carmel fudge and chocolate...so come watch the debate with us, and in unity we can figure out which we prefer...
Choices, Choices, Choices...
Debate Watching Party
December 10th
(Date, Time and place to be announced as soon as more info is available. Keep checking back!!)
Remember choosing from such a fine assortment of candidates is like making a choice between carmel fudge and chocolate...so come watch the debate with us, and in unity we can figure out which we prefer...
03/10 : A MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE FOOTHILL DEMOCRATS...
THANK YOU FROM THE FOOTHILL DEMOCRATIC CLUB
Thank you for the tough job well done above and beyond the call.
It's been a remarkable time in our foothills and San Bernardino Mountains. It's going to take a long time for things to get back to normal, and a lot of work to get it there. Neary 14,000 acres burned, and 500 homes were lost. However, during this incredible time the one natural resource that prevailed as natured burned was people.
Most notably the people of the San Bernardino Mountains, who despite differences of creed or culture, banned together to save our precious hillsides, and their homes. A quick read of www.rimoftheworld.net will show you this first hand.
Yes, it was the people themselves, not the politicians, that made the difference. Our firefighters and police worked and worked and then worked some more to make sure that they were doing everything they could do to protect and serve. Sadly, 16 term Congressman Jerry Lewis, barely graced the mountains of his own Congressional district with his presence, and it was a tour not a helping hand. President Bush never showed, snubbed us, instead only going to Republican San Diego for a whistle stop press conference. Meanwhile FEMA didn't really arrive until late in the week after a whole week of burning. Speaking of press conferences, and FEMA, we also saw the bad side of people, like FEMA and their fake press conferences regarding the fires, or the 4 fire fighting air tankers that didn't make it up in the air because of government red tape.
However, Kudos to Democrat Josie Gonzales, she finally got something right and made sure she was there every day helping out, not just her staff, but she herself, and the last I checked she was in the 5th, not Dennis Hansberger's 1st District. We can also be proud of Barbara Boxer and Diane Fienstein. Barbara Boxer had members of her staff at every fire evac site to help victims!
We also found out first hand, that Presidential John Edwards may be right; There are two Americas, and in one the economy is so bad, and people are so desperate, that if you open a food line for fire victims, you had better be prepared for the hungry for any other reason to show up, even if they are not fire victims. Hunger is hunger, no matter what the reason, and that is real truth..free of political filtering.
Yes, it was a challenging time for all from Orange County, San Bernardino and San Diego County. Rarely will I quote a Republican, but when that person is so correct, sometimes I give in. Republican Assembly member Todd Spitzer of Orange County said it best when being interviewed. Spitzer remarked; for California, "it was too little too late, and not enough," Sptizer who latter silenced himself, was frustrated by the state's refusal to take any part of the O.E.S Blue Ribbon Commission Panel on fire disasters and ennact a well funded, and well thought out plan, and that's inexcusable. "We knew this day would come, and we are not ready for it, after 2003, we had hoped for better leadership, but we didn't get it." Sometimes the real truth, not the FEMA fake news conferences prevail.
NO FREE PASSES! Governor Swartzenegger, and President Bush, along with FEMA need to learn it's not public relations we elected them for, it's public service, and to all politiicans, true public service goes beyond press conferences and telling us what we already know. We don't need to know the place is on fire, or homes are burning, we need solutiions. Let's get this job done and get an ultimate, in place diaster plan that all agencies can work in concert with.
Mark Westwooo
President
Foothill Regional
Democratic Alliance
17/02 : Club Events, News & Announcements
400,000 Killed
2.5 Million People driven out of their homes....
3 Million people totally helpless...
It's happening today....
http://www.savedarfur.org
-------------------------------------2.5 Million People driven out of their homes....
3 Million people totally helpless...
It's happening today....
http://www.savedarfur.org
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17/02 : Welcome to our Website
Welcome...We are a progessive Democratic Club in San Bernardino County that welcomes all Democrats and Democrats of faith.
Because Republicans shouldn't be the only ones who talk to our faithfull!
We are the faithful Left!
(Photo: AP / Manuel Balce Ceneta)
Democratic presidential hopefuls Sens. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., Barack Obama, D-Ill., and former Sen. John Edwards are introduced on stage during a forum on faith, values, and poverty hosted by Sojourners/Call to Renewal at George Washington University.
We are progressive Democrats who seek to build a club that is Inclusive and Diverse, and provide that good Democrats can also be people of faith, and that true people of faith welcome all people no matter who they are, or who they love, as long as they stand for peace and compassion and the Democratic platform.
We are progressive Democrats who seek to build a club that is Inclusive and Diverse, and provide that good Democrats can also be people of faith, and that true people of faith welcome all people no matter who they are, or who they love, as long as they stand for peace and compassion and the Democratic platform.
28/06 : Bush just using faith based voters
Book says Bush just using Christians
He says some of the nation's most prominent evangelical leaders were known in the office of presidential political strategist Karl Rove as the nuts.Tempting Faith author David Kuo worked for Bush from 2001 to 2003 By Jonathan Larsen"Countdown" producer MSNBC
More than five years after President Bush created the Office of Faith-Based Initiatives, the former second-in-command of that office is going public with an insider's tell-all account that portrays an office used almost exclusively to win political points with both evangelical Christians and traditionally Democratic minorities.
The office's primary mission, providing financial support to charities that serve the poor, never got the presidential support it needed to succeed, according to the book.
Entitled Tempting Faith, the book is not scheduled for release until Oct. 16, but MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann has obtained a copy.
Tempting Faith's author is David Kuo, who served as special assistant to the president from 2001 to 2003. A self-described conservative Christian, Kuo's previous experience includes work for prominent conservatives including former Education Secretary and federal drug czar Bill Bennett and former Attorney General John Ashcroft.
Kuo, who has complained publicly in the past about the funding shortfalls, goes several steps further in his new book.
He says some of the nation's most prominent evangelical leaders were known in the office of presidential political strategist Karl Rove as the nuts. National Christian leaders received hugs and smiles in person and then were dismissed behind their backs and described as ridiculous, out of control, and just plain goofy, Kuo writes.
More seriously, Kuo alleges that then-White House political affairs director Ken Mehlman knowingly participated in a scheme to use the office, and taxpayer funds, to mount ostensibly nonpartisan events that were, in reality, designed with the intent of mobilizing religious voters in 20 targeted races.
Nineteen out of the 20 targeted races were won by Republicans, Kuo reports. The outreach was so extensive and so powerful in motivating not just conservative evangelicals, but also traditionally Democratic minorities, that Kuo attributes Bush's 2004 Ohio victory at least partially to the conferences we had launched two years before.
With the exception of one reporter from the Washington Post, Kuo says the media were oblivious to the political nature and impact of his office's events, in part because so much of the debate centered on issues of separation of church and state.In fact, the Bush administration often promoted the faith-based agenda by claiming that existing government regulations were too restrictive on religious organizations seeking to serve the public.
Substantiating that claim proved difficult, Kuo says. Finding these examples became a huge priority. If President Bush was making the world a better place for faith-based groups, we had to show it was really a bad place to begin with. But, in fact, it wasn't that bad at all.
In fact, when Bush asks Kuo how much money was being spent on compassion social programs, Kuo claims he discovered the amount was $20 million a year less than during the Clinton Administration. The money that was appropriated and disbursed, however, often served a political agenda, Kuo claims, with organizations friendly to the administration often winning grants.
More pointedly, Kuo quotes an unnamed member of the review panel charged with rating grant applications as saying she stopped looking at applications from those non-Christian groups, as did many of her colleagues.
Tempting Faith contains several other controversial claims about Kuo's office, the Bush White House and even the 1994 Republican revolution in Congress.Calls and e-mails to the White House have not been returned.
Many of those revelations and others will be the topic of discussion on Thursday night's edition of Countdown with Keith Olbermann.
More than five years after President Bush created the Office of Faith-Based Initiatives, the former second-in-command of that office is going public with an insider's tell-all account that portrays an office used almost exclusively to win political points with both evangelical Christians and traditionally Democratic minorities.
The office's primary mission, providing financial support to charities that serve the poor, never got the presidential support it needed to succeed, according to the book.
Entitled Tempting Faith, the book is not scheduled for release until Oct. 16, but MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann has obtained a copy.
Tempting Faith's author is David Kuo, who served as special assistant to the president from 2001 to 2003. A self-described conservative Christian, Kuo's previous experience includes work for prominent conservatives including former Education Secretary and federal drug czar Bill Bennett and former Attorney General John Ashcroft.
Kuo, who has complained publicly in the past about the funding shortfalls, goes several steps further in his new book.
He says some of the nation's most prominent evangelical leaders were known in the office of presidential political strategist Karl Rove as the nuts. National Christian leaders received hugs and smiles in person and then were dismissed behind their backs and described as ridiculous, out of control, and just plain goofy, Kuo writes.
More seriously, Kuo alleges that then-White House political affairs director Ken Mehlman knowingly participated in a scheme to use the office, and taxpayer funds, to mount ostensibly nonpartisan events that were, in reality, designed with the intent of mobilizing religious voters in 20 targeted races.
Nineteen out of the 20 targeted races were won by Republicans, Kuo reports. The outreach was so extensive and so powerful in motivating not just conservative evangelicals, but also traditionally Democratic minorities, that Kuo attributes Bush's 2004 Ohio victory at least partially to the conferences we had launched two years before.
With the exception of one reporter from the Washington Post, Kuo says the media were oblivious to the political nature and impact of his office's events, in part because so much of the debate centered on issues of separation of church and state.In fact, the Bush administration often promoted the faith-based agenda by claiming that existing government regulations were too restrictive on religious organizations seeking to serve the public.
Substantiating that claim proved difficult, Kuo says. Finding these examples became a huge priority. If President Bush was making the world a better place for faith-based groups, we had to show it was really a bad place to begin with. But, in fact, it wasn't that bad at all.
In fact, when Bush asks Kuo how much money was being spent on compassion social programs, Kuo claims he discovered the amount was $20 million a year less than during the Clinton Administration. The money that was appropriated and disbursed, however, often served a political agenda, Kuo claims, with organizations friendly to the administration often winning grants.
More pointedly, Kuo quotes an unnamed member of the review panel charged with rating grant applications as saying she stopped looking at applications from those non-Christian groups, as did many of her colleagues.
Tempting Faith contains several other controversial claims about Kuo's office, the Bush White House and even the 1994 Republican revolution in Congress.Calls and e-mails to the White House have not been returned.
Many of those revelations and others will be the topic of discussion on Thursday night's edition of Countdown with Keith Olbermann.
