Here are some odds and ends from the past week:
The Fox&Hounds Ballot Endorsement Grid was updated this morning to include ballot positions sent in by the California Libertarian Party and the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association. Ballot positions published by several major California newspapers have also been added.
UPDATE: We were informed yesterday evening that some positions we had listed as being taken by Lt. Governor Garamendi were in error. The Endorsement Grid has been updated to reflect the correct positions with our apologies to the Lt. Governor.
Accusations of voter fraud have dominated the news cycle as of late, with groups such as ACORN going as far as to register 7-year-old girls to vote alongside Mickey Mouse, members of the Dallas Cowboys (in Arizona) and a particular teenager who is set to vote 73 separate times.
The fact that such a story has received so much coverage as of late is indicative of the Media’s bias in favor of conservatives – this is just another blatant Rove/Cheney/Fox News/Diebold attempt to see that individuals are denied the right to vote!
In fact, we have obtained the agenda of the radical right, no doubt personally drafted by the evil forces of Donald Rumsfeld and Newt Gingrich, detailing their plans to deny true social justice in this coming election. Here are just some of their evil plans:
With twelve different measures on the California ballot for the coming election, things can get a bit confusing. In an effort to make this process easier for our readers, Fox&Hounds has put together an Endorsement Grid, listing the positions that a number of California Advocacy Groups have taken on the various ballot measures along with links to their respective websites for further information if available.
If you don’t see your group listed and you would like to be, please feel free to Contact Us with your list of positions.
A few Odds and Ends from the past week:
In June, I wrote about Los Angeles developer Ed Roski’s effort to lure an NFL team to Los Angeles, centered around a plan to build a state-of-the-art, 75,000 seat outdoor stadium in the City of Industry.
The promise of the NFL’s return to the Los Angeles market has been fleeting since the tandem departure of the Rams and Raiders in 1994 (coincidentally, due to the fact that neither team was able to secure a proper venue in the Los Angeles area at the time despite assurances to the contrary),
In 1999, Los Angeles even managed to fumble away the rights to an expansion team that had been promised to them by the NFL, due in no small part to that same inability to construct a suitable stadium – that expansion team was quickly lost to Houston, who jumped at the chance to steal away the would-be LA franchise and quickly built Reliant Stadium, one of the world’s finest sports venues, for the team that would become the Houston Texans.
In my earlier post, I wrote that “Several proposals for new football stadiums in the greater Los Angleles area have come and gone over the past twenty years, but none has appeared to be quite as refined or thought out as that put forth by Roski.”
What’s Don Perata’s answer for Republican opposition to a temporary sales tax increase – just make the tax increase permanent!
Sacramento’s budget gridlock still seemingly has no end in sight, with the budget now 60 days overdue. The compromise proposal of a temporary sales tax that Governor Schwarzenegger put forth last week has drawn criticism from both sides of the aisle, but at the very least has provided a starting point for some type of compromise between the tax-and-spend philosophy of the Democrats and the Republicans’ concern that tax increases would only further harm California’s struggling economy.
I find it unlikely, however, that ‘compromise’ is a part of Perata’s vocabulary. His attempt to force permanence upon the Governor’s proposed tax increase shows about as much maturity as Karen Bass shoving Nicole Parra into a closet across the street.
A few odds and ends from the past week:
Amid the rapid growth of online social media over the past handful of years, many small businesses have been left out of a medium that has been used very effectively by big business to target and interact with a key youth demographic. For those of you still wondering how to get started with Web 2.0, the E-Commerce Times published a guide this morning — Where There’s a Web, There’s a Way: A Business Guide to Getting Social.
It’s not the most comprehensive reference on Web 2.0 out there by any means, but the guide does a good job of explaining on how many tools can be integrated from the prospective of a small business, and it should provide a great starting point for those looking to get their feet wet with the social media phenomenon.