Today is Election Day. Your vote matters! From San Diego, Orange County, Palm Springs and Los Angeles in the south, to San Francisco, San Jose, Sacramento and Oakland in the north candidates are in tight races across the state. It is up to you to vote and elect pro-equality candidates who will fight for the…
Election Day is when we hold our elected officials accountable for their policies. The days after are when we hold pundits accountable for their analysis and predictions. I think it’s only fair to take another look at last week’s column (https://lgbtweekly.jeffjungblut.com/2014/10/30/election-preview/) and see how I did. “The most competitive race is for superintendent of public…
An easy choice for a topic this time: the primary elections. If it has somehow slipped your mind, mark it on your calendar! As the LGBT community becomes stronger, we must exercise this new power to protect our personal safety and to demonstrate a serious commitment to the political, spiritual and maternal rights we value….
(CNN) — E.W. Jackson, Virginia’s new Republican nominee for lieutenant governor, said he has nothing to apologize for regarding his startling past comments about abortion, race and homosexuality. “I say the things that I say because I’m a Christian, not because I hate anybody, but because I have religious values that matter to me,” Jackson…
BY NICOLE MURRAY RAMIREZ The Voice and Viewpoint homophobic attack on 4th District City Council candidate Dwayne Crenshaw is an attack on all of us … period. I call upon all elected officials, civic leaders and communities to take a stand. Speak up as the silence of so many is even more harmful. There are…
I find it interesting that so many in the San Diego political community seem to not understand the basic tenet: elections have consequences. After the trouncing that the conservatives in this town took on Election Day, be it ballot measures or elected candidates, I would think that there would be some self reflection. I have…
Bob Filner maintains an advantage over Carl DeMaio in the mayoral race according to a SurveyUSA poll conducted for KGTV-TV released today. With 3 weeks to go before Election Day the poll shows Filner at 47 percent and DeMaio at 40 percent. Compared to an identical SurveyUSA poll 3 weeks ago, Filner is down 3…
One of the newer data points available to punditocracy is New York Times columnist Nate Silver’s Return on Investment Index. By looking at polls, population and electoral votes (among other things), Silver determines the likelihood that one voter in a given state would decide a razor-thin election, and thus where campaigns might wisely spend their…
(CNN) – President Obama will make modern history Monday when he announces the creation of a monument to honor the late labor and civil rights activist Cesar Chavez. The Cesar E. Chavez National Monument will become the 398th park in the National Park Service system, and the first since the 1700s to honor a Latino,…
politically aware BY JOEL TRAMBLEY When I moved from Atlanta to San Francisco, I missed my first chance to vote. I was able to register when I got my California driver’s license, but when election day came around, I didn’t know where my precinct was and I was a medical intern, working from 6:30 a.m….
