Hi everybody, so I filled out my absentee ballot and already sent it in, it's the only way to fly in Oakland since our know nothing Elections Supervisor bought a bunch of Sequoia systems fraud machines despite popular outcry... anyway here's how I voted:

Partisan Offices - statewide
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Governor - Phil Angelides
Lt. Governor - John Garamendi
Secretary of State - Debra Bowen
State Controller - John Chiang
State Treasurer - Bill Lockyer
Attorney General - Jerry Brown
Insurance Commisioner - Cruz Bustamente (with waffling)
United States Senate - (blank) or Diane Feinstein (see below)
United States Representative - Barbara Lee
State Assembley - Sandre Swanson
Judges - re-elect
Statewide propositions.
Proposition 1A-NO!
Propositions 1B-1E Yes.
Proposition 83 - NO!!
Proposition 84 - Yes
Proposition 85 - FUCK NO!!!
Proposition 86 - Yes
Proposition 87 - HELL YES!
Proposition 88 - No
Proposition 89 - YES YES YES! HELL YES!!
Proposition 90 - NO!
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City of Oakland
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Measure M - yes
Measure N - YES!
Measure O - YES YES YES!

The "why's" are below the cut.

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This is a cute idea from the Angelides camp.

You can send an "invitation" to Phil's opponent to participate in more debates:

There's also a diary on dkos from the Angelides camp that's worth a read and a recommend.

For those that haven't been following our coverage on GovernorPhil, there has been only one debate set, and it's been on Arnold's terms... the moderator for the one scheduled debate is a former Republican legislator... come on now!

This is a big deal, because Arnold has never really had to debate before (the ONE recall debate he participated in was a circus and didn't count). Right now the Schwarzenegger team has managed to turn a story about how the governor is a racist, misogynist ass, into an alarmist story about website "hacking" that rivals Joe Lieberman's primary website problems for sheer ridiculousness.

-C.

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Here in California -- blue state, Kerry state, don't like Bush state -- the first post-Labor Day word from voters came out Monday in a Wall Street Journal/Zogby poll that shows Democrat Phil Angelides has closed up Arnold Schwarzenegger's lead to 3.5%.

"In the back and forth race this year, neither candidate has mustered a lead greater than the poll's margin of error," Zogby reports.

The Governator has spent all summer trying to hide from his close ties to George W. Bush with $25 milliion dollars in negative advertising and sheep-in-wolf's-clothing deals with California's Democratic legislature. What has he got for it? A whole lot of nothing.

Momentum matters. Angelides has got it.

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And then there's more Arnold.  This guy is just like so many other Republicans.  They'll tell us one thing about their views on folks in public, but get in that room with them and their real stripes show.  Remember Trent Lott's birthday kiss to Strom Thurmond?  Bush's banter with Tony Blair?  

The LA Times today opened the door to Schwarzenegger's private space and found something that is so far beyond what Calfornian's stand for, you wouldn't believe it unless you were to hear it for yourself.

Per the Times, Schwarzenegger refers to a Latina lawmaker, casually saying that "black blood" mixed with "Latino blood" equals "hot." 

The Gov's spokeswoman says the whole thing is "taken totally out of context." That's about all she could say.  So is his move to the middle after being so hot, hot, hot for George W Bush the last few years.  Taken out of context.

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On Janurary 5 of 2005, Arnold proposed privatizing California's public pension funds.  Referring to his proposal, Arnold said, "This is a national battle, like the recall was." He also said there will be "national money coming in to help us fight the battle"....

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