by Mike Workman [courtesy of Blog for America]

Repubs mark Valentine's Day with anti-Hillary and anti-Obama eCards
http://net.gop.com/valentine/

They show the core of their attacks for this Fall's election campaign in these!

Anti-Hillary: tax
Anti-Obama: 3 years
Anti-Hillary: raise taxes
Anti-Obama: liberal heart
Anti-Hillary: higher taxes
Anti-Obama: vote present

by Susan Rowe [courtesy of Blog for America]

Kicking-off his 2008 re-election campaign for the U.S. House of Representatives, Progressive Democratic Congressman Dennis Kucinich of Ohio delivered an impassioned speech on Friday, January 25, 2008 in his hometown of Cleveland.  Note: His courageous speech will make tears of great joy well up in your eyes.

Congratulations Congressman Kucinich!

www.integritynow.org

by Paul Eisenman [courtesy of Blog for America]

2007 Election Summary

The 2007 election campaign ended on Tuesday with mostly predictable results. The statewide turnout of about 35% is fairly typical for an off-year election in which the highest office on the ballot is a Senate seat in the State Legislature.

For Bergen Grassrooters, the biggest story was the election in District 37. After a bruising primary period in June, when BCDO Boss Joe Ferriero threatened to run a slate of candidates against them, Loretta Weinberg and her Real Bergen Democrats easily won re-election, Loretta by a 75-25 margin. Her running mates Valerie Vainieri Huttle and Gordon Johnson also won, although Gordon appears to have received a mild slap on the wrist—in the shape of fewer votes than Valerie—for his acknowledgment that he had given almost $2,000 to the perennial presidential candidate and convicted felon Lyndon LaRouche over 2005 and 2006. To their credit, Loretta and Valerie did not defend him blindly, expressing disappointment about his judgment and pointing instead to his excellent voting record in the Legislature.

[courtesy of California Progress Report]

By Frank D. Russo

By my count, the Governor had approximately 660 bills on his desk when the legislature adjourned on September 12. Since then, he has taken action on about 110 of them, leaving approximately 550 to be dealt with in the coming week.

That's a fairly high number compared with past years, especially 2006 when the Governor used the month long period of time at the end of a year's session given him under the California Constitution to stage elaborate photo opportunities to sign bills as part of a "Rose Garden" strategy during his re-election campaign.

Schwarzenegger dealt with some of the legislation before adjournment that passed in the last two weeks of the session, for instance vetoing vetoed SB 924 (Perata) which would have allowed an advisory vote on the Iraq War. He did so in the waning hours of the session just a few minutes before midnight when the deadline for his action approached. But for any bills delivered to him after September 14, the last day the legislature could have met under their Joint Rules, he has until Sunday, October 14, 2007 to act.

Since the end of the legislative session, 103 bills by both Republicans and Democrats have been signed into law, and 7 have been vetoed all of them by Democratic authors.