The San Joaquin Valley Democratic Club is a local Democratic club serving Fresno County and surrounding areas. We are a club that is dedicated to social justice and basic human rights for all.  We belive that grassroots organizing, neighbor talking to neighbor, is essential to spreading the message of the Democratic party and the San Joaquin Valley Democratic club.  Our members are encouraged to be active in the community with voter registration, precinct walking, tabling and phone banking. 

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May 16-

The Republicans, and especially the Tea Party, are always screaming about voter fraud being committed by everyone else.  Well once again guess who is commiting it?  A for hire voter registration company that works with Republicans is being investigated for fraud.  They were hired for $50,000 by the Sacramento county Republican party to register voters in the Sacramento area.  One of the benificiaries of this effort was to be Republican congressman Dan Lungren.  See the video below.

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May 15-
George Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and their legal advisers Alberto Gonzales, David Addington, William Haynes, Jay Bybee and John Yoo were tried in absentia in Malaysia.  All of them were convicted of war crimes.

Read the story here

The case is being forwarded to the International Criminal Court. Hopefully the recommendations of the Malaysia court will be upheld.

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May 6-

Congratulations to all of our delegates to the Democratic National Convention, to be held later this year in Charlotte North Carolina September 3-6.  California will send 546 delegates to this years convention.

Our local districts had the following people selected as delegates:

From CD 4-
Horfa B Aguilera
Maria E Henry
Elizabeth C Wilson
Janice B Newlove

Rene Aguilera
Jacob J Priley
Harjot S Virk
Maheet S Virk

From CD 16-
Martha O Acevedo
Billie A Jelks-­‐Hood

Richard E Gipson
Will Oliver
Eric Payne

From CD 21-
Melissa Hurtado
Estella Kessler
Rose Ann Martinez

Walter E Johnson
Matt Rogers

From CD 22-
Beatrice Prieto
Gladys Ramirez

Ruben Macareno
Daljit Singh
Ryan A Wullschleger

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April 18-

The San Joaquin Valley Democratic is proud to announce it's endorsements:

Fresno City Council district 4 - Susan Good

Assembly District 23 - Richard Rojas

Congressional District 20 - John Hernandez

Congressional District 22 - Otto Lee

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April 4-

“Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go out into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism, and militarism.” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in his “A Time to Break Silence” speech at Riverside Church on April 4, 1967;

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March 25-

Really what will he try to change for the general election?  What would he be willing to put back in if he won?  You don't know what you will get with Mitt Romney except an Etch a Sketch

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March 8-
Well it looks like our local Republicans are at it again.  On a party line vote H.R. 1837 passed the House of Representitives.  A bill written by local Republican Devin Nunes and co-sponsored by Republicans Jeff Denham and Kevin McCarthy will take water in California, use a big government solution, pander to well monied special interest and ignore states rights.

Yes they did all of that with one piece of legislation.  H.R 1837 will ignore years of work done by multiple stake holders here in California.  It takes the state and it's people out of the equation and turns it into a Washington D.C. issue.

Here is the legislation

The Republicans in the San Joaquin valley just got made fools of.  They thougt they were putting up a guy who believed in small government, believed in states rights, who was against wellfare of all  types, and who did not believe in earmarks for special interest. HAHA, you got another thing coming Republicans. Oh and he did the same thing to your beloved free market with the Medicare donut hole of HR 1 in the 109th congress.

Devin Nunes calls it a balanced piece of legislation, but it tips the scales in favor of his corporate masters.

This bill is corporate welfare, big government, sets into law a special interest earmark and ignores states rights. It also sets in motion the destruction of the environment and the water here in California.  This bill ignores the business that depends on fish and it ignores the farms north of Merced county.  But that is OK because Devin Nunes' special interest, corporate welfare, big government friends are getting paid and this is really what is best for California, right?

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March 4-

It is true, the Republican party officially hates women.  Not just mildly uncomfortable with them, but hates them.  First it was Rush Limbaugh calling Sandra Fluke a slut on his radio show that got all this started, and Rush is very popular in conservative circles.  Then it was Bill O'Reilly jumping in on his show to defend Rush.  O'Reilly stated this past week on his show that contraceptives are for promiscuity and that Viagra is for a serious medical condition.

But it did not stop there, it just keeps getting better.  The California Republican Party Communications director and spokesperson, Jennifer Kerns, has started using her Twitter account to call a former congressional candidate turned pundit, a slut.  Why did she call her that?  Because she defended womens use of contraceptives on the Dylan Ratigan show.  See the story and the Tweets here.

The statement that was released by the GOP on the hiring of Ms. Kerns: "(Tom) Del Beccaro said in a statement that she "brings not only an unrelenting desire for our Party and for its goals to succeed, but also a great deal of creativity that will help us drive our message in 2012."

One has to wonder if calling women sluts is the goal of the Republican party, if it is the creative way they plan on winning anything here in California.

On a side note, Bain Capital is a major stake holder in Clear Channel. Mitt Romney is still a major player for Bain Capital. Clear Channel broadcast Rush Limbaugh and other conservative talk shows.  Will Mitt do the right thing and come out against Rush or will he quietly go about running for President and hope nobody notices that he has ill behaved  employees.

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Feb 19-

The Democratic party has a huge base of support in the Latino community, and for good reason.  45% of Latinos feel the Democratic party reaches out to them while 8% feel they are hostile to them.  Republicans on the other hand are felt to reach out 13% of the time, and are hostile to Latinos 30% of the time.

In a recent survey by Univision, comparisons were made between Latinos and the US population as a whole. Views on immigration, same sex marriage, the President and congress, and the economy were some of the topics covered and it is quite telling.

See the survey results here

Latinos are the largest group of people in California so the Democrats are well on their way to winning everything here in California again if they keep doing what they are doing.

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Feb 15-

This is why I voted for, and still support Attorney General Harris.

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