Denham admits he will get nothing done. No casino for North Fork Rancheria. No High Speed Rail for California. Denham says his goal is to save money and return to 2006.

Hmmmmm. 2006 .....Bush was president and Wall Street corruption and greed was at its peak. In 2006 large corporations were scamming the public and over-extended, sending jobs and American money abroad...and California had been fending off bankruptcy for about ten years with increased borrowing. In 2006, Madoff was a hero.

Denham's idea, more roads and maybe in 6 years....
Goodwin looking GREAT right now.

DO WE WANT ANOTHER LARGE CASINO?

Article from ABC30 Website:
Shannon Handy
More: Bio, Articles by Shannon Handy, News Team
FRESNO, Calif. -- Hundreds gathered in Prather Wednesday to share their opinions on a proposed Vegas-style Indian casino to be built in the Fresno County foothills.

The "Big Sandy Casino" would be located off Auberry and Millerton Roads.

On Wednesday, supporters and critics got a chance to talk about the newly released environmental impact statement. More than fifty people got up and spoke during the public meeting.

Those who support the project say it will benefit the local economy, but opponents aren't sure if valley residents can support another casino.

A standing room only crowd packed into Foothill Middle School's auditorium in Prather Wednesday night.

For nearly three hours, representatives from the Bureau of Indian Affairs listened as valley residents voiced their thoughts on the proposed construction of Big Sandy, a $250 million casino near the town of Friant.

Concerns included the project's affect on the local water supply. "I'd like to know how this is going to impact the residents in the local area with their water."

Others, like Rachelle Bedwall of Clovis question the casino's sustainability. "There's already a casino real close and so I don't think it can support two casinos."

Many in the crowd cheered whenever supporters talked about the more than 1500 jobs the 48 acre project would bring to the area.

Eddie Clement said, "It is gonna have the ability to give people career, as well as the construction industry on the build."

The Big Sandy Rancheria announced plans to build the casino in 2004. A switch in development partners initially delayed the project. But, now another claim may delay it even more.

Table Mountain, a casino located about a mile from the proposed site, argues part of the land Big Sandy wants to use is a sacred burial ground.

Big Sandy, however, says that claim is based more on competition than facts.

Loretta Tuell said, "And we believe it is a historic ancient village with many burials with many pounding rocks, with many issues you can't litigate very easily."

John Peebles said, "I think there's a real concern on Table Mountain, members and their leadership that they will have a substantial reduction in income which will affect their quality of life. It's economics."

At this point, no public meetings are scheduled in the near future. But, you have until March 28th to send in a comment about the environmental impact statement

HOMELESS ANNOUNCER FINDS EMPLOYMENT

Ted Williams, a homeless man begging for money was YouTubed discussing his former career as a radio announcer. He was doing well, but fell into drugs and alcohol. Now, stating he is 2 years clean, he wants to return to radio announcing. Today he was featured on all of the morning talk shows and he will do some TV shows tomorrow. GOOD LUCK Ted. I hope you have a lucretive future career in radio. Look, Rush Limbaugh has been on illegal drugs for years and he has kept his radio job - so can you Ted. I will watch you tomorrow on TODAY show.

RESCUERS OF 9/11 GET NO MONEY


Our Congress failed to give our national rescuers medical care and financial relief for injuries incurred during the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The Republicans said they would not pass the bill because they would not agree to pay for it by taxing foreign corporations.

While Republicans denied financial help to the rescuers of 9/11 who suffer year-after-year from any diseases from toxins encountered in days following the attacks, they did fight hard for tax cuts for multi-millionaires and billionaires. The legislation would have provided $7 billion for medical and other financial needs.The Republicans said would not tax foreign corporations - so the deaths and suffering continue.



This issue will have to wait for the new Congress in 2011.

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The top 0.1 % of top 1 % of wealthiest people in America earn 11 % of US income. The gap between rich and middle class is growing much wider. This is an economic and a moral issue. Meanwhile, under President Bush, the federal deficits soared and the tax rates went DOWN. The top 1% of income earners had their taxes cut in half...paid hundreds of thousands of dollars LESS. One quarter of the kids in the US are on food stamps. The top 10% of of American earners, earned more than the remaining 90%.

President Bush inherited a huge federal surplus. The war in Iraq will cost $300 trillion and add to the national debt. The Bush tax cuts added to the national debt by cutting taxes for wealthy, but had no way to pay back that loss of federal funds, When Bush left office in 2009, there was a $10 trillion federal deficit. That deficit has now grown to almost $14 trillion today due to the Wall Street and banking collapse and bail-outs of 2007-2009.

The banks it on huge amounts of bail-out money and do not lend because Americans are now not credit-worthy after huge numbers of Americans had credit ratings lowered with mortgage fraud and bankruptcy.

ELZABETH EDWARDS FAREWELL TO A NINJA WARRIOR



Elizabeth Edwards ended a exciting life story on December 7th. At the young age of 61, her body could take no more. As a young woman, Elizabeth took the hard road of college and then law school. She had her own legal practice. She was clearly a role model and a pioneer for the education of women. Her daughter also became an attorney. Her oldest son died. In her late forties, she decided to have two more children - perhaps this was a stimulus to her eventually developing her fatal breast cancer.

Elizabeth was a ninja. She could swing the sword and dodge an attack. Her beauty in her youth is undeniable and she carried her beauty and grace into her final years.

Unfortunately, with all of her accomplishments, she will be most remembered for her battle at home between her, her husband John and his sexual partner who John paid with our hard-earned public money. Yes, John was really a "John" paying for sex.

Confronted with her cancer Elizabeth came out swinging. She was fierce and she focused on the goal - beat the cancer and live for her family. She was not a victim. She learned to live with the diagnosis and the numerous negative comments she received from well-wishers and the media. Elizabeth was certain she was winning. She felt all were really on her side . She never expected her biggest opponent was lurking in the shadows, next to her on a daily basis and feeding her lies. In fact, she bravely committed to continuing in the wife role to have John elected as President of the United States. She told all of us he was honest and the best man for the job. Little did she know the truth. And it was all about to play out on televison - no where to hide. No dignity left. Humiliation as a wife, mother and work partner. She was supposed to know John thoroughly…she was his wife. Sneaking, surreptitiously John crept and her soul and spirit were exposed and vulnerable...sharing the house, the food, the bed and usurping her energy - energy she needed to fight the cancer.

When the possibility of an affair arose, Elizabeth acted, backed by her soul mate’s reassurance, to deny the possibility of such betrayal. She assured us John was honest and honorable. The sexual partner wanted some recognition, so she and John met in hotels to enjoy their baby. I’m sure she was taking secret pictures to ensure she had the evidence, if needed to entitle her to a significant future income.

When Elizabeth spoke with Oprah on TV, Elizabeth tried to separate herself from the problem, she was the mom and wife. She resented this other woman trying to come in and claim her life. Elizabeth said she worked hard for her life and this new woman would not be allowed to just come in and “takeover.” However, the demon spirit had let this other woman in. The woman could not have come in unless someone close to Elizabeth betrayed her in her time of greatest need. John opened the door and began a series of lies that created a web that sucked the life from Elizabeth.

Down, but not dead, Elizabeth rose. Injured and breathless, she stood weakly on her feet…she was on her own and her kids would be her only supporters. Oprah confronted John in the hallway of his house and questioned him about the affair. John had the look of hate and disgust as he tried to answer Oprah’s questions with his trained political grace. His eyes became squinty as he looked at Oprah, casting a negative ray towards the talk-show hostess. Oprah acted as if she did not notice, but if he could have, John would have given her a left to the head. He was still playing the southern gentleman role. Meanwhile, Elizabeth struggled to grab onto any shreds of dignity she could find. Not yet finished, the other woman moves into a house near Elizabeth and John’s home on an island in South Carolina. Demons all and carrying an innocent baby…or a future mini demon. Only time will tell.

By now Elizabeth is gasping for air, crawling, begging for family support. "Tell this woman not to move next door on our island" - John is paying. Then the sex tapes. The other woman was gathering evidence against John and she, a professional photographer, had been taking videos of John having sex. These tapes were found by John’s campaign manager, who became involved in the cover-up. The campaign manager was dependent on John for income, so he told John he would claim to be the father of the baby and let the women hide at his house during the pregnancy. His wife agreed to the scheme. They decided to keep the tapes just in case John tried to abandon them in the end. Of course, John, as the demon, did just that and the existence of the tapes became public. John’s sexual partner claimed the tapes were stolen from the house; the campaign manager claimed the tapes were thrown in the trash and retrieved by his wife during a clean-up outside of her room.

Elizabeth’s story is not very unusual if you watch Jerry Springer or the Maury Povitch Show. It was unusual in that we saw every bit play out in public, because of the election coverage, and the parties were wealthy, educated, people in high level jobs…running for U.S. President. How bizarre.

It was not a surprise that Elizabeth died, but an honor to her strength and will to live so long and fight for every inch of respect she could gather.

As a woman, we understand her story and we pray for her soul. She is now with her son.
John and his girlfriend are probably off partying. For them too the ordeal is ending and, like Camilla Parker Bowles, after the death of Diana, the two of them can now devise a cover story and continue in a fake shroud of respect and normalcy.

God Bless You Elizabeth. We women will not forget. Surely, we will see this as a movie forever.

Republicans Run Off with Loot

The first repercussions from the November General election are starting to surface

All Democrats support tax cuts for middle class Americans. But Democrats do not support welfare for the multi millionaires and billionaires in the form of tax cuts and relief from estate taxes for the super rich.
Immediately after the election the Republicans ran back to Washington, DC and proclaimed Americans have shown, via votes, that they want multimillionaires and billionaires to have an unlimited extension of tax cuts - and no discussion available because more Republicans are coming in 2011. To hold the President hostage, the Republicans said if the super wealthy did not get tax cuts, all people earning less than one million dollars will have their taxes raised too and those workers who were unemployed because of the economic crash caused by bankers, Wall Street and industrial executives, will no get unemployment compensation. While workers lost their jobs and benefits, most of those tycoons who caused the financial crash walked off with big federal payouts, often recouping 100% of their pay, benefits and bonuses with our dollars.

Now the Republicans are holding the middle class and our Democratic representatives hostage. President Obama has promised to end the tax breaks for the extremely wealthy, but the Republicans promise to ‘stick it” to the average American if he does. President Obama and all recognized economists see the economy improving, so the President does not want to stop middle class growth and spending by taking more family income via taxes. Democrats agree the middle class needs tax cuts and a growing economy with job creation. We have a $14 trillion national debt and the Republicans are forcing our government to increase the national debt by potentially $700 billion dollars and more - that means borrowing more money from China or the middle east - and less control of our government. Meanwhile, the mega wealthy who are getting these tax breaks are spending their money in China, Hong Cong, Taiwan, Pakistan and other foreign countries. Yes, and some of that money funnels back to corrupt officials, Al Qaeda and the Taliban and eventually is used against us in the U.S. in various ways including the illegal drug industry, and against our soldiers. Many U.S. soldiers are killed by weapons bought through the American money chain. The wealthy sell guns to all foreign combatants and the weapons kill our middle-class soldiers.

The Republican behavior is anti-American and reprehensible and we will have to deal with these issues over the next two years. President Obama has chosen not punish the American middle class - so he gave the mega wealthy their demanded tax cuts in exchange for a middle class tax cut extension and an 18 month continuation of unemployment benefits.

We will be debating the tax code and the national debt into 2012, but we must not allow a repeat recession, so the deal to continue to help the middle class must go through now because there will be more Republicans in Congress in January.

President Obama was given a Hobson’s choice. He chose to help the middle class and help the economy. The wealthy billionaires will ride the backs of you and me like drunken cowboys and we can only watch them run off with our money. But, the Central Valley voted to continue this Republican activity for the next two years, so I assume they are happy for the Republican tax cut victory.

Never has the gap between rich and poor been wider. It is the best of times (for the rich), it is the worst of times - eventually we taxpayers must pay in taxes for this booty to the wealthy.

Sunday, October 24, 2010


LORAINE GOODWIN Congress Candidate With Education, Experience, Training and Skills

I know the Modesto Bee is confused about Goodwin's multiple degrees and her titles. Yes, she has a Medical Doctorate and a Juris Doctorate. Goodwin does women's health, preventive medicine, and mental health care. With her law degree, she does legal arbitration and mediation (which does not involve costly bar listing - and she does not need it since she is a doctor) Her arbitration/mediation includes family disputes, auto accidents, contract disputes, landlord/tenant disputes, patient/doctor complaints, hospital/patient disputes, insurance disputes, etc.
But this election is not about Goodwin's title and which title is best for Goodwin. This election is to decide can the valley get health care for our women, kids/babies. seniors, and baby-boomers. Denham wants to repeal the health care bill.
Goodwin will fix the bill and ensure our families have health care. Goodwin will also get mental health care for veterans, kids and others into the valley.
Using her law degree, Goodwin has also helped valley seniors and others successfully get their homes off foreclosure lists. Goodwin has gotten $450,000 for 2010/11 for area farmers who provide fruits and vegetables to the Madera schools. Goodwin has saved the State millions by advocating for early release for terminal inmates, "Goodwin's Law".


GOODWIN"S PLATFORM
1) Jobs, jobs, jobs
2) Financial Reform: Get that credit and cash moving in the valley. Stop mortgage fraud (Denham has done nothing) Stop rising credit card fraud (Denham nada) Loans for business expansion and entrepreneurs and get cities to buy-in. (Denham zip)
3) Education: use our funds better and stop holding up educational funds in Sacramento - as legislators like Denham try to fix state debt.
4) Health care Goodwin will fix the health care reform bill, so it works for our families, moms, kids/babies, seniors, and Baby-Boomers. Denham will get rid of health care bill and go back to old ways where the money is running out quickly - like the budget Denham just voted to pass, this will not work.
Goodwin celebrates Ovarian Cancer and Breast Caner Awareness month - all women deserve early diagnosis and treatment - GoodWIN will vote for YOU
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