Progressive Alliance - No on Prop. 32

Progressive Alliance endorses Barack Obama and Ami Bera.

For Barack Obama http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/28/opinion/sunday/barack-obama-for-president.html?pagewanted=all

Ami Bera   Candidate for Congress District 7.  John Garamendi.  District 3, Jose Hernandez, District 10, Jerry Mc Nerney, District 11.

Complete recommendations.  http://sacramentopa.blogspot.com/2012/10/progressive-alliance-voter.html

Vote Yes on Prop. 30.  Fund the schools and the universities.

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Prop. 30	Funding for schools and colleges	Yes
Prop.31	Budget process revisions	No
Prop. 32	Special Exemptions.  Anti union.	No
Prop. 33	Insurance changes	No
Prop. 34	Death penalty repeal	Yes
Prop. 35	Limits human trafficking	Yes
Prop. 36	Modify 3 Strikes	Yes
Prop. 37.	Labeling of  GM foods	Yes
Prop. 38	Tax initiative to fund  K-12 education	No recommendation
Prop.39	Out of state corporations to pay taxes	Yes
Prop. 40.	State Senate districts	Yes

Why Obama Now

Progressive Alliance voter recommendations

Progressive Alliance voter recommendations. Oct.28,2012.

President	Barack Obama
U.S. Senate	Dianne Feinstein
U.S. Congress	District 3	John Garamendi
	District 7	Ami Bera
	District 10	Jose Hernandez
Assembly District 8	Ken Cooley
Assembly District 9
Sacramento City Council	District 2	Rob Kerth
Sacramento City  Council	District 4	Steve Hansen
Natomas School Board	Susan Heredia
Roseville School Board	Rene Aguilera
Sacramento Smud Baord	Mike Picker
Prop. 30	Funding for schools and colleges	Yes
Prop.31	Budget process revisions	No
Prop. 32	Special Exemptions.  Anti union.	No
Prop. 33	Insurance changes	No
Prop. 34	Death penalty repeal	Yes
Prop. 35	Limits human trafficking	Yes
Prop. 36	Modify 3 Strikes	Yes
Prop. 37.	Labeling of  GM foods	Yes
Prop. 38	Tax initiative to fund  K-12 education	No recommendation
Prop.39	Out of state corporations to pay taxes	Yes
Prop. 40.	State Senate districts	Yes

Romney continues to refuse to publish his taxes. What is there?

Romney's Arrogant, Unprecedented Evasions of Disclosure Democratic Strategist

by staff, October 22, 2012 10:17 AM EST

Mitt Romney has already made some history -- no other presidential candidate in the modern era has refused to disclose more basic information about his policy proposals. As Thomas B. Edsall explains in The New York Times:

With the presidential election just two weeks away, Romney's gamble may be paying off. He has failed to specify where he would wield the budget knife, and he has defied, with a striking degree of success, the relatively quiet group of people who have called for him to honor a host of traditional disclosure and campaign practices.

It hasn't mattered. The Obama v. Romney all-poll average is now tied on RealClearPolitics and down to a tiny 0.4 point advantage for Obama on the Huffington Post politics section's Election Dashboard.

Romney's evasions of traditional disclosure have been ongoing and almost insolent.

In July, when Romney refused to release more than two years of tax returns -- in contrast to previous candidates of both parties, among them his father -- there was a huge uproar. National Journal published a list of 17 prominent Republicans, including four sitting senators, who called on him to release 10 or more years. Editorials in papers across the country denounced Romney's secrecy. The conservative columnist George Will declared that Romney "must have calculated that there are higher costs in releasing them." Will warned Romney that he was losing the argument "in a big way."

But it is Romney who appears to have won the argument. His tax returns are a dead issue, except on the left and liberal fringe.

New York Times endorses Barack Obama

Barack Obama for Re-Election

The economy is slowly recovering from the 2008 meltdown, and the country could suffer another recession if the wrong policies take hold. The United States is embroiled in unstable regions that could easily explode into full-blown disaster. An ideological assault from the right has started to undermine the vital health reform law passed in 2010. Those forces are eroding women’s access to health care, and their right to control their lives. Nearly 50 years after passage of the Civil Rights Act, all Americans’ rights are cheapened by the right wing’s determination to deny marriage benefits to a selected group of us. Astonishingly, even the very right to vote is being challenged.

That is the context for the Nov. 6 election, and as stark as it is, the choice is just as clear.

President Obama has shown a firm commitment to using government to help foster growth. He has formed sensible budget policies that are not dedicated to protecting the powerful, and has worked to save the social safety net to protect the powerless. Mr. Obama has impressive achievements despite the implacable wall of refusal erected by Congressional Republicans so intent on stopping him that they risked pushing the nation into depression, held its credit rating hostage, and hobbled economic recovery.

Mitt Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts, has gotten this far with a guile that allows him to say whatever he thinks an audience wants to hear. But he has tied himself to the ultraconservative forces that control the Republican Party and embraced their policies, including reckless budget cuts and 30-year-old, discredited trickle-down ideas. Voters may still be confused about Mr. Romney’s true identity, but they know the Republican Party, and a Romney administration would reflect its agenda. Mr. Romney’s choice of Representative Paul Ryan as his running mate says volumes about that.

The Economy

Mr. Obama prevented another Great Depression. The economy was cratering when he took office in January 2009. By that June it was growing, and it has been ever since (although at a rate that disappoints everyone), thanks in large part to interventions Mr. Obama championed, like the $840 billion stimulus bill. Republicans say it failed, but it created and preserved 2.5 million jobs and prevented unemployment from reaching 12 percent. Poverty would have been much worse without the billions spent on Medicaid, food stamps and jobless benefits.

Last year, Mr. Obama introduced a jobs plan that included spending on school renovations, repair projects for roads and bridges, aid to states, and more. It was stymied by Republicans. Contrary to Mr. Romney’s claims, Mr. Obama has done good things for small businesses — like pushing through more tax write-offs for new equipment and temporary tax cuts for hiring the unemployed.

Determination - Obama's Economic Plan

Breaking: Delphi Auto (major Romney investment) buys factories in China after firing 25K US workers

Breaking: Delphi Auto (major Romney investment) buys factories in China after firing 25K US workers

Free Screening of MARLEY this Friday Night!

Campus Progressive Alliance

The Friday Night Film Series Presents

MARLEY

“The definitive documentary on the much

beloved king of reggae.” -- Hollywood Reporter

Friday, October 26, 2012

 Hinde Auditorium

Sac State University Union

Shorts -- 6:00pm
Feature Film -- 6:30pm

Watch the Trailer Here

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Romney economic plan exports jobs

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Ed Show.  Romney exports jobs.

The Seduction of Cynicism :Robert Reich

The Seduction of Cynicism  by Robert Reich

Ami Bera for Congress

John Stewart - Romney and Bull Sh*t Mountain

The Daily Show
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Voter Recommendations

Sacramento Progressive Alliance.  Voter Recommendations.

Proposition 30	Yes	Temporary funding for education and public services.
Prop. 31	No	State budget reforms/cuts
Prop.32	No	An attack on labor unions by corporate PACs
Prop.33	No	Good driver insurance rate hike
Prop.34	Yes	Ends death penalty
Prop.35	Yes	Curbs human trafficking
Prop. 36	Yes	Revision of 3 strikes law
Prop. 37	Yes	Mandatory labeling of genetically modified foods.
Prop. 38	No recommendation	Pre-K; k-12 school funding. Tax increase.
Prop.39	Yes	Tax increase for out of state business. Closes a corporate tax loophole.
Prop.40	Yes	Approves new Senate Districts

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