EVENTS INFO & PARTY! SAT. May 19, 7PM Pot luck Dinner and Concert, Martha Sullivan's home, 16628 Maverick Ct., Poway 92064, Call San Diego for Democracy(Charlie Imes) at[masked]
| From: | Carol C. |
| Sent on: | Friday, May 18, 2007, 5:44 PM |
UPCOMING EVENTS:
PARTY! SAT. May 19, 7PM Pot luck Dinner and Concert,Martha Sullivan's home, 16628 Maverick Ct., Poway 92064, Call San Diego for Democracy(Charlie Imes) at[masked].
Saturday, May 19th, 7:00 pm. San Diego for Democracy Presents A Very Special House Concert featuring San Diego?s own multi-award winning singer/songwriting duo Berkley Hart. Outdoors, poolside, at Martha Sullivan?s home, 16628 Maverick Ct., Poway 92064. Pre-show pot-luck dinner at 7:00, show at 8:00 pm. Tickets: $15 with a reservation, or $20 without. For info, or to make a reservation call San Diego for Democracy(Charlie Imes) at[masked]. More info at www.sdfd.org
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Event: CITIZEN RALLY -The time is NOW to ensure that citizen outrage is registered concerning the recent appointment of officials at the San Diego County Registrar of Voters!
DATE: Tuesday, May 22, 2007
TIME: 9:00AM ***TIME: Arrive before 9 am to get a seat ? we expect standing room only (meeting starts at 9 am)
LOCATION: County Board of Supervisors Meeting - North Chambers (Room 310) or Conference Rooms (Rooms 303 or 335-A), located at the San Diego County Administration Center, 1600 Pacific Highway, San Diego, California.
Citizen Alert: Citizen Rally, sponsored by Psephos and SAE,
to Protest Recent Registrar of Voters Appointments
Please plan NOW to attend County Board of Supervisors Meeting
and Citizen Rally immediately after public comment portion of the meeting.
WHY DO WE NEED TO PROTEST?
LOOK AT THE BAGGAGE WALTER EKARD HAS BROUGHT
TO SAN DIEGO COUNTY!
In an article that appeared in the North County Times, Chief Administrative Officer Walter Ekard said he'd happily "hire somebody with baggage" to manage the registrar's office if he or she had the right experience. Seiler and Vu, who, combined, have got as much baggage as stowage on the QEII, proves that Ekard means what he says,"I'm accountable for Vu."
WHO RUNS SAN DIEGO COUNTY?
San Diego County?s Chief Administrative Officer is Walter Ekard. He is appointed by the County Board of Supervisors and therefore should be accountable to them. BUT?
WHO RUNS THE COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS?
More and more it appears as though it is Walter Ekard who is calling the shots for the county and not the Board of Supervisors. However, it is the County Board of Supervisors which is answerable to the voters of San Diego County.
WHAT HAS CAO WALTER EKARD DONE LATELY REGARDING THE POWERFUL POSITION OF REGISTRAR OF VOTERS?
? Ekard promoted San Diego Registrar of Voters Mikel Haas to Director of the county?s Community Services Group. He will now oversee the Registrar of Voters, the County Library System, and the Departments of Animal Services, Housing and Community Development, Purchasing, and Contracting.
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2007/03/24/news/sandiego/13_77_063_23_07.txt
? Ekard brought the baggage of Mischelle Townsend as "temporary Registrar of Voters."
San Diego County Temporary Registrar Mischelle Townsend was Riverside County?s Registrar of Voters when the following events occurred: Linda Soubirous, an underdog Republican candidate for the Riverside County Board of Supervisors, found herself the victim of a very strange election. On Primary Election Night, March 2, 2004, Riverside County stopped counting votes. At the same time there were no Riverside County employees in the vote counting room. But the room was not deserted, two Sequoia employees were alone in the room, Mike Frontera, a Sequoia Vice President and Eddie Campbell.
See the following article for more details: http://www.lacitybeat.com/article.php?id=1013&IssueNum=55
Three questions:
1. Why did Mischelle Townsend?s office stop counting votes?
2. Why were there no Riverside County employees in the vote counting room?
3. Why were Sequoia employees Mike Frontera and Eddie Campbell by themselves in this same counting room?
And it gets worse, just read on:
? Ekard brought the baggage attached to Michael Vu from Cuyahoga County, Ohio. Michael Vu gained the national spotlight when Cuyahoga County botched the primary election and two officials were convicted for mishandling the 2004 presidential election. See more information at www.secureelections.org
Ohio local report on Vu's resignation
http://www.newsnet5.com/politics/10943511/detail.html
North County Times article announcing Vu's hire.
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2007/04/12/news/sandiego/5_02_564_11_07.txt
? Ekard has now hired Deborah Seiler--the former sales representative for Diebold Electronic Voting Systems--as San Diego?s new Registrar of Voters.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20070512-9999-7m12seiler.html
Seems that Seiler is one of those "revolving door" officials, first working for 12 years in elections for the California Secretary of State's office, then, in 1991, going through the revolving door to become Government Relations Director for Sequoia Voting Systems. Next stop was at Diebold Election Systems Inc. as a sales representative. While working for Diebold, Seiler sold 1,200 machines to Solana County, machines that were later decertified by then Secretary of State Kevin Shelly. Solano County, however, welcomed her back through the revolving door as Assistant Registrar of Voters, the position she held until Ekard hired her as SD-ROV.
Links to articles on Seiler:
http://www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2004/09/65120
http://www.votersunite.org/article.asp?id=2990
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4540
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Sunday, May 20th, 1:00 pm. The United Nations Assocation-San Diego "Sundays in the Park" bi-monthly speaker event. "From a Forgotten Land to Freedom and Peace: Burma" - a panel discussion featuring representatives from Amnesty International, Federation of Trade Unions Burma, and EarthRights International. At Casa del Prado, Room 103, in Balboa Park (Casa del Prado is across from the Railroad Museum, NE from the Prado restaurant). Info/RSVP: [address removed].
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Sunday, May 20th, 1:30 to 3:00 pm (refreshments at 1:00 pm). The documentary film "America: Freedom To Fascism" will be shown by Current Events Theater. The film discusses the growing danger of corporate control and loss of individual privacy rights. A discussion will follow the film. Free. In the Rancho San Diego Library community room,11555 Via Rancho San Diego, 92019. Info: (619)[masked] or http://www.EastCountyDemocraticClub.org.
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Sunday, May 20th, 3:15 to 5:00 pm. East County Democratic Club meeting. Topic: Strategy in Iraq; Speaker: Michael D. Lumpkin, Commander, U.S. Navy SEAL Teams. At the Rancho San Diego Library,11555 Via Rancho San Diego, 92019 Info: (619)[masked] or http://www.EastCountyDemocraticClub.org.
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Volunteers Needed:
Event: Monday, May 21, Gathering signatures for "Gore for 2008"
Time: 4:00-6:00pm shift & 7:00-8:00pm-ish
Place: East of the main entrance of the UCSD RIMAC Arena, in the walkway. We?ll be wearing Gore T-shirts and buttons
[color=crimson]Contact: Ben Cooper from "San Diegans For Gore 2008" ([address removed])
***Note: If Ben's email address is removed~~~ I am deleting the @ from it so it might Show upon on website: bendavidcooper hotmail.com. Please reinsert the @ when email Ben.
Phone: (619)[masked].***(All interested members are welcome to telephone Ben Cooper. If you reach my voicemail, feel free to leave a message of any length, including their names, phone numbers, and other contact info and I will respond within 24 hours or, usually less.)
Additional information about this event, our local group, and the national grassroots movement can be found at www.sandiego4gore.com, where Al Gore supporters can sign an online petition, join local groups, and otherwise get involved.
ACTIVITY INFO:The event begins at 5:30 PM. We will begin collecting signatures at 4 PM and resume after the event ends at 7 PM. Our meeting point is just east of the main entrance of the UCSD RIMAC Arena, in the walkway. We?ll be wearing Gore T-shirts and buttons (security is not allowing anyone to have tables or stands). We?ll be walking up and down the lines of the 4,000 attendees asking if any of them want to sign the petition. It is a non-confrontational experience with this kind of crowd. In fact, when the tickets were being distributed, many thanked us for doing what we?re doing.
We know that many of your members have a passion for what I?m saying and We invite you all to be a part of an exciting and challenging opportunity to re-elect Al Gore in 2008.
Thanks so much for your help, Ben Cooper,Roy Gayhart,San Diegans for Gore in 2008
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Thursday, May 24th, 7:00 pm. Peter Irons will discuss and sign his new book, "God on Trial: Dispatches from America's Religious Battlefields." This event is cosponsored by the ACLU of San Diego and Imperial Counties. Dr. Irons will be available to sign books from 6-7 pm, and at the reception following his talk. At the BookWorks in Flower Hill. http://www.book-works.com/Events_authors/event_irons.htm
PARTY! SAT. May 19, 7PM Pot luck Dinner and Concert,Martha Sullivan's home, 16628 Maverick Ct., Poway 92064, Call San Diego for Democracy(Charlie Imes) at[masked].
Saturday, May 19th, 7:00 pm. San Diego for Democracy Presents A Very Special House Concert featuring San Diego?s own multi-award winning singer/songwriting duo Berkley Hart. Outdoors, poolside, at Martha Sullivan?s home, 16628 Maverick Ct., Poway 92064. Pre-show pot-luck dinner at 7:00, show at 8:00 pm. Tickets: $15 with a reservation, or $20 without. For info, or to make a reservation call San Diego for Democracy(Charlie Imes) at[masked]. More info at www.sdfd.org
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Event: CITIZEN RALLY -The time is NOW to ensure that citizen outrage is registered concerning the recent appointment of officials at the San Diego County Registrar of Voters!
DATE: Tuesday, May 22, 2007
TIME: 9:00AM ***TIME: Arrive before 9 am to get a seat ? we expect standing room only (meeting starts at 9 am)
LOCATION: County Board of Supervisors Meeting - North Chambers (Room 310) or Conference Rooms (Rooms 303 or 335-A), located at the San Diego County Administration Center, 1600 Pacific Highway, San Diego, California.
Citizen Alert: Citizen Rally, sponsored by Psephos and SAE,
to Protest Recent Registrar of Voters Appointments
Please plan NOW to attend County Board of Supervisors Meeting
and Citizen Rally immediately after public comment portion of the meeting.
WHY DO WE NEED TO PROTEST?
LOOK AT THE BAGGAGE WALTER EKARD HAS BROUGHT
TO SAN DIEGO COUNTY!
In an article that appeared in the North County Times, Chief Administrative Officer Walter Ekard said he'd happily "hire somebody with baggage" to manage the registrar's office if he or she had the right experience. Seiler and Vu, who, combined, have got as much baggage as stowage on the QEII, proves that Ekard means what he says,"I'm accountable for Vu."
WHO RUNS SAN DIEGO COUNTY?
San Diego County?s Chief Administrative Officer is Walter Ekard. He is appointed by the County Board of Supervisors and therefore should be accountable to them. BUT?
WHO RUNS THE COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS?
More and more it appears as though it is Walter Ekard who is calling the shots for the county and not the Board of Supervisors. However, it is the County Board of Supervisors which is answerable to the voters of San Diego County.
WHAT HAS CAO WALTER EKARD DONE LATELY REGARDING THE POWERFUL POSITION OF REGISTRAR OF VOTERS?
? Ekard promoted San Diego Registrar of Voters Mikel Haas to Director of the county?s Community Services Group. He will now oversee the Registrar of Voters, the County Library System, and the Departments of Animal Services, Housing and Community Development, Purchasing, and Contracting.
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2007/03/24/news/sandiego/13_77_063_23_07.txt
? Ekard brought the baggage of Mischelle Townsend as "temporary Registrar of Voters."
San Diego County Temporary Registrar Mischelle Townsend was Riverside County?s Registrar of Voters when the following events occurred: Linda Soubirous, an underdog Republican candidate for the Riverside County Board of Supervisors, found herself the victim of a very strange election. On Primary Election Night, March 2, 2004, Riverside County stopped counting votes. At the same time there were no Riverside County employees in the vote counting room. But the room was not deserted, two Sequoia employees were alone in the room, Mike Frontera, a Sequoia Vice President and Eddie Campbell.
See the following article for more details: http://www.lacitybeat.com/article.php?id=1013&IssueNum=55
Three questions:
1. Why did Mischelle Townsend?s office stop counting votes?
2. Why were there no Riverside County employees in the vote counting room?
3. Why were Sequoia employees Mike Frontera and Eddie Campbell by themselves in this same counting room?
And it gets worse, just read on:
? Ekard brought the baggage attached to Michael Vu from Cuyahoga County, Ohio. Michael Vu gained the national spotlight when Cuyahoga County botched the primary election and two officials were convicted for mishandling the 2004 presidential election. See more information at www.secureelections.org
Ohio local report on Vu's resignation
http://www.newsnet5.com/politics/10943511/detail.html
North County Times article announcing Vu's hire.
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2007/04/12/news/sandiego/5_02_564_11_07.txt
? Ekard has now hired Deborah Seiler--the former sales representative for Diebold Electronic Voting Systems--as San Diego?s new Registrar of Voters.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20070512-9999-7m12seiler.html
Seems that Seiler is one of those "revolving door" officials, first working for 12 years in elections for the California Secretary of State's office, then, in 1991, going through the revolving door to become Government Relations Director for Sequoia Voting Systems. Next stop was at Diebold Election Systems Inc. as a sales representative. While working for Diebold, Seiler sold 1,200 machines to Solana County, machines that were later decertified by then Secretary of State Kevin Shelly. Solano County, however, welcomed her back through the revolving door as Assistant Registrar of Voters, the position she held until Ekard hired her as SD-ROV.
Links to articles on Seiler:
http://www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2004/09/65120
http://www.votersunite.org/article.asp?id=2990
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4540
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Sunday, May 20th, 1:00 pm. The United Nations Assocation-San Diego "Sundays in the Park" bi-monthly speaker event. "From a Forgotten Land to Freedom and Peace: Burma" - a panel discussion featuring representatives from Amnesty International, Federation of Trade Unions Burma, and EarthRights International. At Casa del Prado, Room 103, in Balboa Park (Casa del Prado is across from the Railroad Museum, NE from the Prado restaurant). Info/RSVP: [address removed].
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Sunday, May 20th, 1:30 to 3:00 pm (refreshments at 1:00 pm). The documentary film "America: Freedom To Fascism" will be shown by Current Events Theater. The film discusses the growing danger of corporate control and loss of individual privacy rights. A discussion will follow the film. Free. In the Rancho San Diego Library community room,11555 Via Rancho San Diego, 92019. Info: (619)[masked] or http://www.EastCountyDemocraticClub.org.
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Sunday, May 20th, 3:15 to 5:00 pm. East County Democratic Club meeting. Topic: Strategy in Iraq; Speaker: Michael D. Lumpkin, Commander, U.S. Navy SEAL Teams. At the Rancho San Diego Library,11555 Via Rancho San Diego, 92019 Info: (619)[masked] or http://www.EastCountyDemocraticClub.org.
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Volunteers Needed:
Event: Monday, May 21, Gathering signatures for "Gore for 2008"
Time: 4:00-6:00pm shift & 7:00-8:00pm-ish
Place: East of the main entrance of the UCSD RIMAC Arena, in the walkway. We?ll be wearing Gore T-shirts and buttons
[color=crimson]Contact: Ben Cooper from "San Diegans For Gore 2008" ([address removed])
***Note: If Ben's email address is removed~~~ I am deleting the @ from it so it might Show upon on website: bendavidcooper hotmail.com. Please reinsert the @ when email Ben.
Phone: (619)[masked].***(All interested members are welcome to telephone Ben Cooper. If you reach my voicemail, feel free to leave a message of any length, including their names, phone numbers, and other contact info and I will respond within 24 hours or, usually less.)
Additional information about this event, our local group, and the national grassroots movement can be found at www.sandiego4gore.com, where Al Gore supporters can sign an online petition, join local groups, and otherwise get involved.
ACTIVITY INFO:The event begins at 5:30 PM. We will begin collecting signatures at 4 PM and resume after the event ends at 7 PM. Our meeting point is just east of the main entrance of the UCSD RIMAC Arena, in the walkway. We?ll be wearing Gore T-shirts and buttons (security is not allowing anyone to have tables or stands). We?ll be walking up and down the lines of the 4,000 attendees asking if any of them want to sign the petition. It is a non-confrontational experience with this kind of crowd. In fact, when the tickets were being distributed, many thanked us for doing what we?re doing.
We know that many of your members have a passion for what I?m saying and We invite you all to be a part of an exciting and challenging opportunity to re-elect Al Gore in 2008.
Thanks so much for your help, Ben Cooper,Roy Gayhart,San Diegans for Gore in 2008
**************************************************************************
Thursday, May 24th, 7:00 pm. Peter Irons will discuss and sign his new book, "God on Trial: Dispatches from America's Religious Battlefields." This event is cosponsored by the ACLU of San Diego and Imperial Counties. Dr. Irons will be available to sign books from 6-7 pm, and at the reception following his talk. At the BookWorks in Flower Hill. http://www.book-works.com/Events_authors/event_irons.htm
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