(I will be going to this event and am hoping some of you will join me. I have transportation available (Airstream Motorhome) for 5 people plus limited sleeping arrangements. All I ask is to split the gas money with those who come, oh and maybe someone who has driven an RV might want to drive.

We will be going up out of Los Angeles on Friday and return either Sunday night or Monday morning. If you interested in participating please call me ASAP (415) 786-6693. I so want to do my part to make a change I hope you do to.)



Obama Campaign
www.barackobama.com/learn/me...arack.php

Friday, September 26, 2008 at 6:50pm
Sunday, September 28, 2008 at 9:50pm
Reno, NV

Hola California Latinos for Obama,

Our campaign is so proud to continue expanding our efforts to increase the participation rate of Latinos in the electoral process during this most critical and historical election!

On Sept 26th the Obama Nos Llama! – Caravana a Nevada will gather a large group of California Latinos working specifically to register Latinos in Nevada to vote. Latinos make up 24% of Nevada's population but only 12% of the electorate. This needs to increase significantly & immediately. Let's be clear: Latinos can win this election. You, and other California Latinos, are the link to make this happen. We will be organizing Latinos statewide, by having Southern CA focus on the Las Vegas area and Northern CA focus on Reno and surrounding communities.

Sign up here: my.barackobama.com/obamanosllama

We are also happy to announce our 100 Latino Leaders Initiative: Los/Las Cien. In addition to our general sign up, the CA Latino Vote Program invites you to be one of our statewide 100 Latino Leaders for the Obama Nos Llama! Caravana. Each member will confirm 9 people who are willing to go participate on the Sept. 26th-28th caravan, our last chance to register Nevadans to vote. The 100 people who confirm 9 volunteers each will together make "Mil Voces," a monumental and proud accomplishment for all of us California Latinos for Obama.

We need you now. Please be part of our 100 Latino Leaders and pledge 9 volunteers to build our Latino Vote program. If you cannot be one of the 100, we still need your Voice. Sign up below. Travel and accommodations will be provided on a first come, first served-basis, for those committed to the weekend of September 26th-28th if you complete registration by Monday, September 22nd. We encourage and appreciate those who can afford to pay, to please make the sacrifice so that we can accommodate more Latino and Spanish speaking students who do not have the means to provide their own transportation and accommodations.

Please contact CA Latino Vote Director Alma V. Márquez at amarquez@barackobama.com to commit yourself as one of our 100 Latino Leaders: Los/Las Cien.

Let everyone hear our "Mil Voces". Start with your own voice: my.barackobama.com/obamanosllama
and then find 9 others!

If you cannot pledge to bring 10 people with you, we still welcome you to our Drive for Change. Please sign up here today my.barackobama.com/obamanosllama

.Si, se puede!

Alma Marquez

California Latino Vote Director

(And to think most of us thought our votes would count. Don't get me wrong I'm going to vote but really look at the past 8 years. I hope this time it will be different.)


by Angry Girl
Nightweed.com


Did you know...

1. 80% of all votes in America are counted by only two companies: Diebold and ES&S.

www.onlinejournal.com/evoting...des.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diebold


2. There is no federal agency with regulatory authority or oversight of the U.S. voting machine industry.

www.commondreams.org/views02/0916-04.htm
www.onlinejournal.com/evoting...des.html


3. The vice-president of Diebold and the president of ES&S are brothers.

www.americanfreepress.net/html/...y.html
www.onlinejournal.com/evoting...des.html


4. The chairman and CEO of Diebold is a major Bush campaign organizer and donor who wrote in 2003 that he was "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year."

www.cbsnews.com/stories/20...32436.shtml
www.wishtv.com/Global/story.asp


5. Republican Senator Chuck Hagel used to be chairman of ES&S. He became Senator based on votes counted by ES&S machines.

www.motherjones.com/commenta..._200.html
www.onlinejournal.com/evoting...kis.html


6. Republican Senator Chuck Hagel, long-connected with the Bush family, was recently caught lying about his ownership of ES&S by the Senate Ethics Committee.

www.blackboxvoting.com/modules.php
www.hillnews.com/news/012903/hagel.aspx
www.onlisareinsradar.com/archi...96.php


7. Senator Chuck Hagel was on a short list of George W. Bush's vice-presidential candidates.

www.businessweek.com/2000/00...9130.htm
theindependent.com/stories/...el27.html


8. ES&S is the largest voting machine manufacturer in the U.S. and counts almost 60% of all U.S. votes.

www.essvote.com/HTML/about/about.html
www.onlinejournal.com/evoting...des.html


9. Diebold's new touch screen voting machines have no paper trail of any votes. In other words, there is no way to verify that the data coming out of the machine is the same as what was legitimately put in by voters.

www.commondreams.org/views04/0225-05.htm
www.itworld.com/Tech/2987/...findex.html


10. Diebold also makes ATMs, checkout scanners, and ticket machines, all of which log each transaction and can generate a paper trail.

www.commondreams.org/views04/0225-05.htm
www.diebold.com/solutions/default.htm


11. Diebold is based in Ohio.

www.diebold.com/aboutus/at...default.htm


12. Diebold employed 5 convicted felons as consultants and developers to help write the central compiler computer code that counted 50% of the votes in 30 states.

www.wired.com/news/evote/...1640,00.html
portland.indymedia.org/en/200...9.shtml


13. Jeff Dean was Senior Vice-President of Global Election Systems when it was bought by Diebold. Even though he had been convicted of 23 counts of felony theft in the first degree, Jeff Dean was retained as a consultant by Diebold and was largely responsible for programming the optical scanning software now used in most of the United States.

www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stor.../S00191.htm
www.chuckherrin.com/Hackthev...Q.htm#how
www.blackboxvoting.org/bbv_chapter-8.pdf


14. Diebold consultant Jeff Dean was convicted of planting back doors in his software and using a "high degree of sophistication" to evade detection over a period of 2 years.

www.chuckherrin.com/Hackthev...Q.htm#how
www.blackboxvoting.org/bbv_chapter-8.pdf


15. None of the international election observers were allowed in the polls in Ohio.

www.globalexchange.org/update...38.html
www.enquirer.com/editions/...lexoh.html


16. California banned the use of Diebold machines because the security was so bad. Despite Diebold's claims that the audit logs could not be hacked, a chimpanzee was able to do it! (See the movie here: www.bbvdocs.org/videos/baxterVPR.mov.)

wired.com/news/evote/0,...,63298,00.html
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4874190


17. 30% of all U.S. votes are carried out on unverifiable touch screen voting machines with no paper trail.

www.cbsnews.com/stories/20...32436.shtml


18. All -- not some -- but all the voting machine errors detected and reported in Florida went in favor of Bush or Republican candidates.

www.wired.com/news/evote/...5757,00.html
www.yuricareport.com/Electio...sOut.htm
www.rise4news.net/extravotes.html
www.ilcaonline.org/modules.php
www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stor.../S00227.htm


19. The governor of the state of Florida, Jeb Bush, is the President's brother.

www.tallahassee.com/mld/tall...28725.htm
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...29.html


20. Serious voting anomalies in Florida -- again always favoring Bush -- have been mathematically demonstrated and experts are recommending further investigation.

www.yuricareport.com/Electio...sOut.htm
www.computerworld.com/governm...,00.html
www.americanfreepress.net/html/...s.html
www.commondreams.org/headlin...6-30.htm
www.consortiumnews.com/2004/110904.html
uscountvotes.org/

And boy are the Republicans "Poo'd off" ha!

I woke up this lovely email from our co-chair T Wayne Pickering" which says:

"Greetings everyone.

It seems the doodoo has hit the proverbial fan. Following our front page coverage in the SF Chronicle, we have been buried in media queries. This morning you can find us in USA Today, The Times (of London) and The New York Times (National section, front page, above the fold). It seems our grassroots effort to pay tribute to the President has struck a chord far beyond our shores. Enjoy the read at

www.nytimes.com/2008/06/25...rename.html

And don't forget to stop by tonight for drinks at the Pilsner Inn (on Church, near Market) from 6-9pm. Commissioner Peaches Christ will be there at 7. If you have not already signed, or have friends who need to sign, bring them over tonight!

God Bless America. God Bless San Francisco.

TWP"

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An Honor That Bush Is Unlikely to Embrace

By JESSE McKINLEY
Published: June 25, 2008

SAN FRANCISCO — Reagan has his highways. Lincoln has his memorial. Washington has the capital (and a state, too). But President Bush may soon be the sole president to have a memorial named after him that you can contribute to from the bathroom.

From the Department of Damned-With-Faint-Praise, a group going by the regal-sounding name of the Presidential Memorial Commission of San Francisco is planning to ask voters here to change the name of a prize-winning water treatment plant on the shoreline to the George W. Bush Sewage Plant.

The plan, naturally hatched in a bar, would place a vote on the November ballot to provide “an appropriate honor for a truly unique president.”

Supporters say that they have plenty of signatures to qualify the initiative and that the renaming would fit in a long and proud American tradition of poking political figures in the eye.

“Most politicians tend to be narcissistic and egomaniacs,” said Brian McConnell, an organizer who regularly suits up as Uncle Sam to solicit signatures. “So it is important for satirists to help define their history rather than letting them define their own history.”

Not surprisingly, those Republicans in a city that voted 83 percent Democratic in 2004 are not thrilled with the idea. Howard Epstein, chairman of the ever-outnumbered San Francisco Republican Party, called the initiative “an abuse of process.”

“You got a bunch of guys drunk who came up with an idea,” Mr. Epstein said, “and want to put on the ballot as a big joke without regard to the city’s governance or cost.”

The renaming would take effect on Jan. 20, when the new president is sworn in. And regardless of the measure’s outcome, supporters plan to commemorate the inaugural with a synchronized flush of hundreds of thousands of San Francisco toilets, an action that would send a flood of water toward the plant, now called the Oceanside Water Pollution Control Plant.

“It’s a way of doing something physical that’s mentally freeing,” said Stacey Reineccius, 45, a software consultant and entrepreneur who supports the plan. “It’s a weird thing, but it’s true.”