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West Wing President Actor Martin Sheen's views on Dean Florez & Food Safety

Written by: Curtis W on May 7, 2009 9:58 PM EDT

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Eureka—I have found it,—and “it” is Senator Dean Florez!

I am supporting Senator Dean Florez for Lt. Governor in 2010 and established the new group, CA DFA For Dean Florez, Lt Governor 2010, for three specific reasons:

1. DEAN is that rare politician that is repeatedly elected to the Legislature with the support of citizens in his district that are in the opposing political party. That means to me that Senator Florez does the work the people of his Senate District wants and needs accomplished, regardless of partisan politics, which I strongly respect him for. 


2. DEAN has repeated demonstrated his ability to identify problems in Government and immediately takes action to fix “that which is broken.” He takes on these problems “head-on” even when not popular with his own party while others seem to not even be aware there is problem, much less try to make it right. 


3. DEAN plans to change the role of the Lt. Governor to an office with a primary focus of looking out for taxpayers, improving government operations and taking on the hard issues that matter or negatively impact the "little guy" to make life better for all Californians. An example of his progressive involvement can also be checked out at CALIFORNIASAFEFOOD.COM.

FURTHER, Having worked in public service for over thirty years I can say from “the inside of Government” that having someone in the Lt. Governor office like Senator Florez to make sure our tax dollars are well spent and programs do what they are designed to do, timely, accurately, and efficiently—will be a great benefit to all.

I am proud to support my friend, Senator Florez, and hope that my fellow DFA members in California will give Dean a look and I believe you will choose to support him, too.

Curtis Walker 
Grass Valley, CA

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- Dean is first!

By Susan Rowe on May 8, 2009 7:10 PM EDT

Piggish Capitalism

By David Sirota
Creators Syndicate, 5/8/09

Even if you don't dig on swine, it has become impossible to avoid them. If you're not pummeled by television reports about Wall Street oinkers, you're bombarded by talk-radio rants about congressional pork and newspaper dispatches about swine flu.

The bacon-flavored themes probably aren't purposefully repetitive, but that's OK because these seemingly unrelated story lines share a common bond: They are each part of what might be called piggish capitalism -- an economic theory that mixes subsidization, consolidation and deregulation and that now endangers us all.

To read the whole newspaper column, go to this link:
http://www.denverpost.com/headlines/ci_12320750

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