Well, maybe Cruz Bustamante

Written by: Anne Smith on Oct 2, 2006 1:19 PM EDT

Linked to groups: DFALA

Hi again--As democrats and progressives living in America and working for candidates, we've all had to hold our noses and vote for people we didn't like in the past. Many of us have worked on campaigns where the candidate wasn't even close to our first choice, or where we were officially choosing the lesser of two evils.

But in November, 2006, we have some of the finest people running for office I've ever seen. Phil Angelides is a brilliant, brave and honest public servant who would be the best governor of California in decades. Debra Bowen is a passionate, committed and articulate leader who will ensure the integrity of our voting systems for years to come. John Garamendi? Excellent. And there are outstanding candidates all over the state for congress, assembly and state senate. So maybe Cruz Bustamante is lame. And maybe the polls show that Angelides is behind.

But those are not good reasons to sit back and watch this election go by. We cannot count on television commercials and the press to convince the voters to vote our way, and I won't give up until I've done everything I can to show the voters what our side stands for. If you want to see change, then you have to be the change you want. On Thursday night, Susanne and I are phonebanking for our candidates. It is easy--this election we're calling democrats and reminding them to vote democratic, for incredible, wonderful democratic candidates. Please join us.

You can rsvp here:

dfalink.com/event.php?id=13610...

And when you do, please indicate which location is better for you so we have enough phones.

And if you can't come out on Thursday, I hope you'll try to help out when you can. Even if you only work GOTV weekend, that is a tremendous help. This organization exists to elect progressive candidates.

Thank you.

And next week, have some fun:

Peer-to-Peer is a very effective way to expand informed voter participation. Drinking Liberally gets the ball rolling with a social elixir. Bring anyone and everyone you know to get and share the political "know" so that we can continue mobilizing our peers to be political active on November 7th!


Drinking Liberally: The Excessive Election Extravaganza
Big Book, Sassy Comedy, and Broke Band
FREE! FREE! FREE!

Wednesday, Oct 11th

7:00pm to 11:00pm

Molly Malone's Irish Pub

575 South Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles 90036

www.mollymalonesla.com/...

FREE! FREE! FREE!

So RVSP to LA@DrinkingLiberally.org

The Show:

Book: Andy Stern, the head of the international union SEIU, will talk about his book A Country That Works. The book comes out this October. www.acountrythatworks.com... WE ARE HIS L.A. BOOK SIGNING TOUR STOP.

Comedy: Featuring Comics from Comedy Central... Paul Gilmartin, Jimmy Dore, Penelope Lombard, Chris McGuire. And from Comedy Central and Whose Line is it Anyway Greg Proops

Band: The Superbroke Brass and Tin and Strings Electric Marching Band Ensemble: myspace.com/superbroke...

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Location: Los Angeles, CA 90028