Robert Reich's 2014 year in review

The New Robber Barons

News of Republican Party’s Demise Greatly Exaggerated

News of Republican Party’s Demise Greatly Exaggerated

Christmas 1914

Choosing Democracy: Democracy, Schools, and Teachers' Unions

Choosing Democracy: Democracy, Schools, and Teachers' Unions: Leo Casey  Over the course of the last 12 weeks, I have been thinking about  our conversations here  on democracy, schools, and teache...

DSA Welcomes Opening to Cuba

The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) celebrates the Obama administration’s move toward the normalization of diplomatic relationships between the United States and Cuba. This change in U.S. foreign policy will help bridge the divide between U.S. and Cuban residents. We believe that increased cultural exchanges will improve the quality of life of both peoples, as will easing the flow of remittances from the Cuban-American community to family members in Cuba. But normal diplomatic relations are not enough; DSA will work with others to pressure Congress to end the unproductive and unjust trade embargo that remains in effect.

DSA remains steadfast in its support of those working for full democracy and human rights in Cuba (dissidents both within and without the Communist Party). DSA believes, as Rosa Luxemburg did, that the right to dissent and to form free political associations and parties must be an integral part of a socialist society. Thus, DSA will continue to support organic Cuban dissident and reform movements that are working to democratize the country's political and economic institutions.

Moyers- (some) Democrats Bow Down to Wall Street

Black Lives Matter

The march in NYC.

The Torturers and their enablers are sick !

Trevor Timm

December 10, 2014   The Guardian

(posted by Duane Campbell)

The revelations in the Senate Committee's Torture Report make it the most disturbing scandal in recent U.S. history. The number of different crimes committed by the CIA and documented by Senator Dianne Feinstein’s committee is truly extraordinary. But, for the Obama Administration, the CIA torture scandal can't end fast enough. But torture is a war crime and the architects must be held accountable to ensure this rampant criminality never happens again.

Every one expected the Senate’s CIA torture report to be shocking. But I’m not sure anyone – except maybe the torturers and the tortured – was really prepared for the depravity and sheer lack of humanity laid out in the 580 pages released on Tuesday morning in Washington. It is, in many ways and in the starkness of all those footnotes, the most disturbing scandal in recent American history.

The amount of different crimes committed by the CIA and documented by Senator Dianne Feinstein’s committee is truly extraordinary. Not only does the report detail the systematic torture of dozens of detainees – which included sexual assault, rape and homicide – but the amount of times the CIA allegedly obstructed justice, committed perjury and made false statements is hard to even count. The breaking of laws almost catches up with the breaking of bones, minds and bodies. (By the way, the Washington Post has helpfully put together a graphic with all of former CIA and NSA director Michael Hayden’s lies to Congress – the documented ones, at least – should the Justice Department like to press perjury charges anytime soon.)  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/national/cia-interrogation-report/hayden-testimony/

But while it’s doubtful an Obama administration that still somehow stands by the CIA has the guts to uphold the law at this point, as Bloomberg’s Josh Rogin and Eli Lake reported, the report’s “real impact could be felt in courtrooms across the globe in the months and years to come”.

Sacramento, CA -- Marchers rally at Capitol for ‘Just Justice’

Marchers rally at Capitol for ‘Just Justice’

BY RICHARD CHANG AND CHRIS MACIAS

RCHANG@SACBEE.COM

12/13/2014 10:28 AM 

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People attend an NAACP-organized rally against police brutality marching from Southside Park to the Capitol on Saturday. AUTUMN PAYNE APAYNE@SACBEE.COM

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A boisterous crowd of 75 people marched from Southside Park to the state Capitol on Saturday morning, chanting “Hands up don’t shoot” and “I can’t breathe” to draw attention to the deaths of young black men at the hands of police.

The “Just Justice” protest, organized by the Sacramento chapter of the NAACP, brought out people from all walks of life – activists, pastors and students.

NAACP 'Just Justice' March & Rally Saturday, December 13th, 9am

NAACP Sacramento Presents the "JUST JUSTICE" March & Rally

Saturday, December 13, 2014

Please join other concerned Sacramento area citizens as we rally for social justice and police reform!
• Equal Protection under the law – Justice without regard to Race, Creed, Class, Gender, Sexual Orientation or Immigration Status
• End Racial Profiling
• Respect Constitutional Rights
• Economic Justice – Labor rights, raising the minimum wage

Just Justice Rally
Saturday, December 13, 2014
Sacramento, CA
9:00 a.m. Convene Southside Park (9thand Q streets)
10:00 a.m. Arrival State Capitol West Steps (555 Capitol Mall)

For more info contact Sacramento NAACP office 916.856.0155

Join the Day of Resistance. 12/13/2014

The movement for justice launched almost exclusively by black youth in Ferguson this summer has turned into a wave of indignation sweeping the country. What happened with Mike Brown and Eric Garner are not the exceptions to the rule: but examples of social control by a system based on white supremacy. That’s why we cannot stop or slow down our protests now. Instead, we must take them to the next level and do more and more to #ShutItDown. Respectability will not protect us. Silence will not protect us.  Will you click here to take action in the next week? Actions are scheduled for Saturday, Monday, and in some cities, every day! The U.S. system of racialized capitalism devalues lives of people of color, especially the poor, by allowing the government (via its police) free rein to insult, abuse, attack, rape, maim and even kill black people – all with little or no consequences. These brutalities affect us all. Not only is our collective humanity challenged by such a system, but our civil liberties are undermined. Socialists and progressives of all racial and ethnic backgrounds have a shared material interest in following the lead of black activists and demanding an end to this crisis through systemic, transformative change.

[Please Note Time & Location Change!] Progressive Alliance December Organizing Meeting

Sacramento Progressive Alliance

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Sacramento/Campus Progressive Alliance

December Organizing Meeting 

Saturday, December 13, 12pm-2pm

Old Soul Cafe @ the Weatherstone
812 21st Street, Midtown Sacramento 95811
(Please Note: We moved back our meeting time so that our members could attend the NAACP March for Justice at 9am at Southside Park)

Sen. Warren Calls on House to Strike Repeal of Dodd-Frank Provision in F...

Citicorp wrote the bill. The House passed it.
From the NY Times. 

"The fierce Democratic opposition over the Dodd-Frank rollback provision created the odd spectacle of President Obama and Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. calling Democrats to muster support for the spending bill over the opposition of Ms. Pelosi.

“I love the American political system, I really do, but the ability to sneak in substantive policy measures and make it take it or leave it, I think it’s appalling,” said Simon Johnson of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management and a former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund, who is a prominent critic of the nation’s big banks.

The push-out legislation assumed outsize importance, not only because of what it does but because the biggest Wall Street companies have fought it since it was proposed.

Who's Making Money Off The War On Drugs?

Progressive Alliance Meeting

Update.  Time change.
the Progressive Alliance meeting for Dec. 13 is changed from 10 Am to 12 noon to allow all to participate in the Sacramento March for Justice. 
Location: To be Announced. 

Economic Crisis: Capitalism is crazy

RS Seminar- Economic Crisis: Capitalism is crazy: Capitalism is crazy. NY Times documents how a company is destroyed sending jobs overseas.   California Teachers Retirement System is...

The Freedom School Project @ Sac State Presents "FRUITVALE STATION"

Campus Progressive Alliance

The Freedom School Project Presents

FRUITVALE STATION

 

“An Unstoppable Cinematic Force”

-- Rolling Stone

“Profoundly Compelling.”

-- USA Today

Free Admission!  Everyone Welcome!

5pm -- Thursday, December 11, 2014

Del Norte Hall 1004

Sacramento State University

Info: paub1221@sbcglobal.net

Bernie Sanders on Elections and Plutocracy

Free Angela - Film

Campus Progressive Alliance

The Friday Night Film Series Presents  

FREE ANGELA

“Captivating from start to finish.” -- Village Voice

“Resonates with improbable timeliness.” –- Washington Post

"92% Fresh!" -- Rotten Tomatoes

Free Admission!  Everyone Welcome!

Friday, December  5, 2014

Shorts – 6:00pm     Feature - 6:30pm

 Mariposa Hall 1001

Sacramento State University

Info: paub1221@sbcglobal.net

Police Violence is not inevitable

	Police Violence Is Not Inevitable Steve Early November 28, 2014 YES! Magazine   Four Ways a California Police Chief Connected Cops With Communities A critical look at any institution with as much power and authority invested in it as the police is probably a good thing.
	Richmond Police Chief Chris Magnus speaks at a local event in 2012. , Photo courtesy of Richmond Police Department.,
	In the wake of a Missouri grand jurys decision not to indict Darren Wilson, the police officer who shot and killed Michael Brown, it can be difficult to imagine a place where law enforcement and a racially diverse population work together productively in the United States. A decade ago, Richmond was about to record a homicide rate of 47 per year. But its happening in Richmond, California, a gritty town in the San Francisco Bay Area best known for its massive Chevron refinery and, in previous years, for its high crime rate. While the situation in Richmond isnt perfect, it is an example other cities can learn from.

End the New Jim Crow - Ferguson

Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is outraged but not surprised at the failure of the St. Louis County grand jury to indict Officer Darren Wilson for the killing of Michael Brown. The structural bias in our judicial and criminal justice system in favor of police who engage in violent action against unarmed Black and Brown people rendered the outcome unsurprising, yet still enraging. How can an unarmed person be killed by an armed police officer without there being a case for a criminal prosecution? The glaring injustice of  the grand jury verdict is why tens of thousands of individuals across the country stormed into the streets after the announcement of the grand jury verdict. DSA joins others in demanding that the Federal Department of Justice continue its investigation into the conduct of the Ferguson police department and the possible violation of Michael Brown's civil rights by Officer Wilson and the department. Read more...

antiracismdsa: Dr. Martin Luther King- Race Riots and The Other ...

antiracismdsa: Dr. Martin Luther King- Race Riots and The Other ...: " The Other America " - Speech by Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.; Grosse Pointe High School - March 14, 1968 ] Rev. Dr. Har...

Why I won't step foot in a Walmart

by Dan Bacher

The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) is asking people to not step foot in a Walmart today in solidarity with the workers of the retail giant who are now striking for better wages and working conditions.

I won't step foot in a Walmart for that reason and a multitude of other reasons including the following:

1. Walmart funds corporate "environmental" NGOs that support neo-liberal environmental policies including fake "marine protected areas" and "catch shares" programs that devastate fishing families around the world. Don't support any group, such as the Nature Conservancy, Ocean Conservancy and EDF, that receives Walton Family Foundation money! If you're an angler, why support anti-fishing groups by buying garbage at Walmart? (http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/11/29/walmarting-the-rivers-and-oceans/)

2. Walmart funds the school privatization "charter school" movement, awarding behests to organizations run and promoted by corrupt politicians like Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson and his wife Michelle Rhee.

3. Walmart drives sustainable, family-owned businesses out of communities around the world, replacing local businesses with its ugly, junk-filled mega-stores.

4. Walmart underpays and badly treats its workers, as documented in numerous reports.

This Black Friday, Workers to Challenge the Waltons

Mobilize, educate, organize

Did you hear about the first-ever sit-down strikes in Walmart stores the last two weeks, demanding $15 an hour and consistent full-time schedules? After two hours in the store at the first strike, in Los Angeles, the strikers took to the streets and 23 were arrested for their civil disobedience.

What about the arrest this past weekend of a law-abiding journalist covering peaceful protests in Ferguson? Tensions are high as the community and allies from around the country await a grand jury decision in the Mike Brown case.

The fight for justice doesn't take holidays. While you are hopefully spending this Thanksgiving with family or friends, please consider standing in solidarity with low-wage workers at the largest employer in the U.S. and those most targeted for police racial profiling in Ferguson and across the country.

Walmart workers are holding a day of action on Black Friday. Click here to find a picket line near you.

Racial justice activists plan to mobilize, tonight, in response to the grand jury decision about Darren Wilson. Click here to find out when it's happening in your community.

Obama to take Executive Action on Immigration

by Harold Meyerson.  Washington Post

Angela Navarro, an undocumented Honduran born immigrant with a deportation order, poses with her family - her husband Ermer and two U.S. born children, Angela, 8, and Arturo, 11, after moving into West Kensington Ministry Church with her family, as construction workers renovating their new housing quarters work in the background, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on November 18, 2014. (Mark Makela/Reuters)

Of the thousands of words written lately on President Obama’s impending order to exempt some undocumented immigrants from the threat of deportation, most have dealt with the politics of the issue, not the humanity behind it. What the media have largely failed to emphasize is that Obama’s order will be shaped almost entirely by the imperative of keeping parents with their children. The administration is planning to allow the undocumented parents of children born here (and who are, thus, U.S. citizens) to stay and receive work permits. Unfortunately, this will not include parents of the “dreamers” who are already protected by executive order from deportation.

What the pundits have tended to overlook, as well, is the humanity behind Obama’s apparent willingness to act without congressional approval. Every year since Obama became president, the government has deported roughly 400,000 undocumented immigrants, with little regard to whether they’ve broken any law save crossing the border without papers or overstaying their visas — or whether their kids are wondering where their parents have gone. On Tuesday, the Pew Research Center reported that in 2012, some 13 percent of schoolchildren in both Texas and California had at least one undocumented parent. That’s a lot of parents, a lot of kids.

It’s not as if Obama hasn’t waited for Congress to address the immigration conundrum. Nearly 18 months ago, a bipartisan majority of 68 senators passed an Obama-backed bill that would have significantly augmented our border security forces and provided a long and tortuous pathway to legalization for an estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants. The Republican-controlled House refused to take up the bill, however, though it likely would have passed. Speaker John Boehner and other GOP leaders declined to risk the ire of the nativists in their ranks.

So long as Republicans — many of them from heavily gerrymandered districts with few Latino voters — continue to control the House, that chamber isn’t likely to enact any serious immigration reform. It is likely, however, that the House will stay in Republican hands until at least the first election following the next decennial redistricting — that is, until 2023. Should the wave of deportations without regard to family status continue until then, the number of broken families could easily rise into the millions.

This Black Friday, Workers to Challenge the Waltons

Guess Who used Executive Action to suspend deportations ?

Executive Action

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's anticipated order that would shield millions of immigrants now living illegally in the U.S. from deportation is not without precedent.

Two of the last three Republican presidents — Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush — did the same thing in extending amnesty to family members who were not covered by the last major overhaul of immigration law in 1986.

        

There was no political explosion then comparable to the one Republicans are threatening now.

A tea party-influenced GOP is poised to erupt if and when Obama follows through on his promise. He wants to extend protection from deportation to millions of immigrant parents and spouses of U.S. citizens and permanent residents, and expand his 2-year-old program that shields immigrants brought illegally to this country as children.

What a Labor Leader Said in Response to a Social Security Lie

Note; October. 2013. 

Walmart Workers Plan Black Friday Protests

Walmart employees who are organizing as part of OUR Walmart are promising the biggest strikes ever on Black Friday, saying more employees will participate than the previous two years.

Barbara Gertz, an employee from Denver, Colorado, said organizers are expecting to see protests in 1,600 stores. While they don’t yet have a headcount of how many workers will strike or in how many cities, she said they’ve gotten calls “every day” from employees who want to join in. Protests will hit Los Angeles and a number of other major metropolitan areas. Employees at more than 2,100 Walmart stores across the country have signed an online petition asking for higher wages and better working conditions.

Fast Track to Lost Jobs: Free Trade Agreements Are Bad Deals for Working Americans | Economic Policy Institute

Fast Track to Lost Jobs: Free Trade Agreements Are Bad Deals for Working Americans | Economic Policy Institute

Confronting Climate Change

Stop Fast Track - Stop TPP

I’m sure I don’t need to convince you that transparency is important when it comes to making decisions about our economy, jobs, safety and the environment. Unfortunately, in this lame-duck session, we expect corporations to push for a policy that undercuts the public’s voice on free trade agreements through what they call “fast-track” legislation.
Tell Congress - No Fast track.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a free trade agreement that is currently being negotiated in secret between the United States and 11 other countries in the Asia-Pacific region. And legislation granting fast-track authority would enable corporate power-grabs like the TPP to be rushed through Congress, circumventing ordinary review, amendment and debate procedures.

The TPP will create rules and obligations that govern an estimated 40 percent of the world’s economy, yet few Americans are aware of its impact or even its existence. Unfortunately, the last 20 years of corporate-driven free trade policy have created a downward spiral in which jobs have been shipped overseas and worker, environmental and consumer protections have been eroded.
The TPP has the potential to:

• Lock in the future privatization of public services;
• Create corporate courts that offer foreign investors due process for profits; and
• Undermine local, state and the federal government’s ability to regulate consumer goods or financial markets in the public interest.

No wonder members of Congress aligned with big business are trying to rush this through. If Americans knew the potential damage, they would certainly object. 

What ever happened to solidarity ?

by Duane Campbell

On November 11, 2014, the California Nurses Association ( AFL-CIO) goes on strike while SEIU ( CTW) sends its members into work across the picket lines. The ILWU prepares for a possible West Coast strike that could close the ports. What will other unions do?

I recognize the arguments about strategic plans and contract obligations for an advance notice for a strike.

But, when unions members are encouraged to cross picket lines – what do you have? While critics write essays about the internal conflicts in national union offices and new directions, if union members are not organized and led to not cross picket lines then all the rest is B.S.

In campaigns we call for international solidarity with workers across the globe ( a worthy goal) but many union leaders do not encourage solidarity with the worker down the street.

When national union leaders act as if union solidarity is of little importance, not much more than office politics, then it is no wonder that unions can’t win a contract nor an election in Tennessee. These unions are not  demonstrating  that solidarity works and workers in non union plants and non union states learn from their example.

Bruce Springsteen Dave Grohl and Zac Brown sing Fortunate Son at Concert...

Conservatives are livid about this performance at the Veterans' Day Celebration.
Conservatives did not ask veterans what they thought. 

Firefox: Choose Independent

Stop Fast Track on the Trade Agreement

SEIU Local 1000 - 1325 S St. Sacramento, CA 95811

STOP FAST TRACK ON THE TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP!

There IS something you can do about it.

Doors open at 5:30pm *Light Refreshments*
Event starts at 6:00pm

Join Citizens Trade Campaign, Communications Workers of America, Food & Water Watch and others to learn about what CAN BE DONE to stop the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).


Speakers include:

Robert Longer, CWA Local 9421
Xiomara Castro, Citizens Trade Campaign
Tia Lebherz, Food & Water Watch
Nancy Price, TPP-Free Zones

The Trans-Pacific Partnership, frequently referred to as “TPP”, is a trade agreement initiated in 2005 and begin negotiated between the U.S. and 11 other countries. The negotiations have mostly been secret, are a threat to labor rights, the environment, could weaken or limit food safety standards, as well as consumer-right-to-know regulations and threaten internet freedom.

Learn how "Fast Track" authority will erase Congressional authority and oversight for this massive trade agreement.

Let's make our voices heard and stop the sneak attack on democracy!

Sponsored by: CWA Local 9421 (Communications Workers of America); CWA District 9; Citizens Trade Campaign; The Sierra Club, Mother Lode Chapter, Sierra Club; Global Exchange; SEIU Local 1000 Environmental Committee; Food & Water Watch; Sacramento Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO

Nurses at Kaiser Begin Strike on Tues.

Registered nurses from California to Maine will hold strikes, picketing, and other actions Wednesday, November 12 in 16 U.S. states and the District of Columbia – with possible support actions globally – as National Nurses United, the largest U.S. organization of nurses steps up the demand for tougher Ebola safety precautions in the nation’s hospitals.

One centerpiece of the actions will be a two-day strike by 18,000 RNs and nurse practitioners at 86 Kaiser Permanente hospitals and clinics who have been protesting the erosion of patient care standards in Kaiser facilities for months, and see Kaiser’s failure to adopt the optimal safeguards for Ebola as symbolic of its overall dismissal of nurses’ concerns about patient care.

Strikes will also affect some 600 RNs at two other California hospitals, Sutter Tracy and Watsonville General Hospital, and 400 RNs at Providence Hospital in Washington D.C.

The two-day California strikes begin Tuesday morning. The Providence walkout is Wednesday.

Actions are planned in California, Florida, the District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Tennessee, and Texas.

In addition to the strikes, nurses will be picketing a number of hospitals (in California, for example, picketing is planned at University of California, Dignity Health and Sutter hospitals) as well as rallies at federal offices and other settings.

On Military Service

Reflections on Military Service

Weeden Nichols

I have been asked to comment on the problem of military service.  I say “problem,” as such service is problematic in many ways.  I do not believe anyone can speak or write objectively on this topic.  We all see through the lens of our own lives and times.

I should start out by saying that I was not quite two years old when the US entered World War II.  My memory goes back to 18 months of age (August 1941), and I learned to read at the age of three.  My worldview was formed in a time and a culture that did not question military service or participation in war.  I decided, while a small child during WWII, to be a soldier.  I was influenced, no doubt, by the fact that those who served were esteemed highly.  In some peculiar way, I know I was influenced by the death of the cousin I loved best, during the Battle of the Bulge.  (He was a hero, truly, but received only a plain posthumous Bronze Star – not even a “V” for Valor.  I received the same level of Bronze Star in Vietnam for merely doing my job.)  As I small child, I was not equipped to discern the distinction between the esteemed citizen soldier and the professional soldier who was tolerated as a necessity.  I did complete a full career in the US military, retiring from the Army over thirty-six years ago after serving in both the Air Force and the Army.

I remember vividly the World War II propaganda, particularly the propaganda in cartoon form, in which Germans, Italians, and Japanese were anthropomorphically represented as weasels, wolves, and the like.  I also remember seeing from my tricycle seat the truckloads of German POW's being taken from their camps to work on our roads.  They were mostly nice-looking young men, somewhat sad in demeanor, who waved back as they passed.

Bernie Sanders

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka Press Conference Post Election 2014

Bay Area Victories for Living Wage

by Seth Sandronsky,

On Tuesday San Francisco voters approved by a 77 to 23 percent margin Proposition J, which will increase the city’s minimum wage from the current $10.74 per hour to $12.25 per hour by May 1, 2015. The city’s minimum wage would climb to $13 per hour by July 2016; to $14 per hour by July 2017 and $15 per hour by July 2018.

“Prop. J will provide a much needed raise to $15 per hour for 140,000 of the lowest paid workers in our city,” Gordon Mar, executive director of Jobs with Justice, San Francisco, told Capital & Main. “Prop. J will also raise the bar nationally for minimum wage policies.”

The “Fight for $15” to gain a higher minimum wage for workers began in Seattle, Washington. Voters there, with Socialist Alternative city council member Kshama Sawant spearheading a grassroots movement, approved phased-in hikes to the minimum wage, eventually reaching $15 per hour, this year. That momentum in no small way encouraged people in U.S. cities such as San Francisco and Oakland to vote for increasing the pay of low-wage service workers to $15 per hour in this year’s midterm elections.

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Democrats control California government. 

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Progressive Alliance Voter Endorsements

These are our Tier 2 Endorsements. Fall 2014.

U.S. House District 4	Ami Bera
State Senate District 6	Roger Dickinson or Richard Pan
State  Assembly District 7	Kevin Mc Carty
Assembly District 8	Ken Cooley
Superintendent of Public Instruction	Tom Torlakson
Ballot Propositions
Proposition 1	No. It funds the tunnels.
Proposition 2	No position
Proposition 45  Health Insurance	Yes
Proposition 46	No position
Proposition 47 : Criminal Sentencing	Yes
Proposition 48  Indian Gaming	Yes
Local Races
Sacramento Measure L – Strong Mayor	No
Sacramento City Unified.  Area 7	Jonathan Tran or Linda Tuttle
Sacramento CUSD  District 6	Maria Haro-Sullivan
Los Rios College Board  District 2	Robert Jones
Los Rios College Board   District 6	Deborah Ortiz
Roseville City Council	Rene Aguilera
Galt High School Board	Joe Guerrero