Riverside County Democratic Party

Endorsed Candidates

November 5, 2013

Desert Hot Springs Mayor

Adam Sanchez

Desert Recreation District – Division 1

Silvia Paz

Desert Water Agency

Michael Paduano

Pat Oygar

Mission Springs Water District

Mary Jane Sanchez-Fulton

Palm Springs City Council

Ginny Foat

Judy Evans Deertrack

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Joseph McKee for Desert Hot Springs City Council

 

September Meeting with Dr. Raul Ruiz

DWD’s September luncheon will be this Sunday, September 15, at Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage. Dr. Raul Ruiz, our U.S. Congressional representative, along with Dr. Jeffrey Kaufman, will present information about Medicare.

DWD is offering its members an opportunity to learn more about Medicare and its future. Sign up today, and bring guests! You can still pay on PayPal to guarantee a seat (at www.democraticwomenofthedesert.org). Walk-ins are welcomed and accepted. We look forward to seeing you there.

John Chiang in Valley

California Controller John Chiang, who is running for State Treasurer next year, will be at Democratic Headquarters in Cathedral City 4-6 p.m. on Sun., September 22. It’s a fundraiser for his campaign, and a minimum $50 donation is suggested.  For more information, call the HQ at 760/328-9425.

Obamacare Truth: It’s Working

The Republicans are going “all out” to stop the new healthcare law...$400 million has been spent on anti-Obamacare ads. Republicans in the House of Representatives voted 40 times to dismantle the law. Now, they are threatening to shut down the government unless President Obama defunds Obamacare. This is what the opponents of Obamacare are doing.

What they don’t want you to know is that 105 million Americans have already received the following preventive care:   Free Annual Check-ups          Free Contraception

Free Mammograms                 Free Blood Pressure Screening

Free Cancer Screening            Free Diabetes Screening

Free Vaccinations

What they don’t you to know is: Obamacare is about helping people, both uninsured and under-insured, obtain better healthcare coverage; to keep us well by providing preventive care; to help us when we're sick by lowering costs for  doctors, hospitals, prescriptions, and to provide more protection for consumers (for example, the law outlaws lifetime limits on healthcare).

When people find out about these benefits, they're happy about it.  In fact, a recent poll by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that a clear majority of Americans (57 percent) disapprove of Republican proposals to cut off funding for Obamacare.

The other side will spend millions to maintain the status quo. Supporters of Obamacare are fighting for change and to ensure people get the care and security they deserve.

Watch this video, and help spread the truth about the Affordable Care Act:
http://my.barackobama.com/September-Truth-Team-Video

http://action.democraticgovernors.org/page/s/tell-republicans-to-sto-government-shutdown-over-obamacare

http://my.democrats.org/Team-Obamacare

In Danger: Our Right to Vote

For the last several years, some states have tried to enact discriminatory election laws that could suppress the vote of countless Americans. However, because of the Voting Rights Act, the Department of Justice had the power to review those unfair laws and stop them in their tracks.

A recent Supreme Court decision guts a key piece of the Voting Rights Act, taking the power of pre-approval away from the federal government. Already two states, Texas and North Carolina, have passed and are implementing Voter ID laws that will make it difficult to register and vote, and disenfranchise many American citizens, including students, the elderly, minorities, and low-income voters. All of those groups tend to vote Democratic.

To help stop these efforts, please add your name to the petition, urging Attorney General Eric Holder to challenge unfair voting laws and protect our right to vote. The link is: http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/tell-doj-to-block-discrimina.

Kudos for Progressive Senators

Since the signing of the Social Security Act in 1935 by President Roosevelt, it has become the nation’s most valuable and highly successful anti-poverty program, a promise of security for many hardworking Americans. Unfortunately, we have some elected leaders, both Republicans and Democrats, who want cuts in Social Security.

Senator Mark Begich (D-Alaska) and other progressives, like Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), have proposed the Strengthening Social Security Act of 2013, which would boost Social Security for most Americans by approximately $800 per year, extend the life of the Social Security Trust Fund, and close the loophole that keeps millionaires and billionaires from paying the same Social Security tax rate as the rest of us. They are proposing the expansion of Social Security and not cuts.

Support this act by signing the petition at:

http://www.progressivesunited.org/action/expand-social-security-benefits

Republicans Doing It Again

To have obtained the position of Secretary of State would indicate that she is more than an “empty dress.” Why do Republicans attack women in general and strong, intelligent, qualified, and accomplished women specifically?

Polls have Secretary of State Grimes ahead in the polls by a few points. Instead of addressing the issues that his state faces as well as the nation, Senator McConnell attacks his opponent. Is this what Republicans do when they are running scared?

We need to stand with Ms. Grimes, and demands Senator McConnell condemn his campaign spokesman's sexist remarks. Please join me in signing this petition:

http://action.alisonforkentucky.com/signup_page/mccaskill

Volunteers Needed!

Volunteers are needed for voter registration. Area Democrats and DWD are getting ready to kick off our voter registration drive and we NEED OUR MEMEBERS’ HELP. Through voter registration in 2012, we were able to register enough democrats to defeat Mary Bono Mack for the U.S. Congressional seat. Republicans are going all out to register as many people as possible for the 2013 election. Their goal is to defeat Congressman Raul Ruiz, and we can’t let that happen.

Please get involved by becoming active participants in the political process through voter registration. We need to completely turn and keep the Coachella Valley “blue,” and we can only accomplish that with your help.  As Democrats, let’s show the Republicans and local residents what we can do! Sue Caspari has volunteered to lead the voter registration drive. Interested members please contact:  Sue Caspari at suecaspari@gmail.com. Bi-lingual volunteers are greatly needed.

Ø FYI – For Your Information

Ø Rajendra Pachauri, head of the United Nations' group of climate scientists, said on Monday that humanity can no longer be content kicking the can down the road when it comes to climate change. “We have five minutes before midnight,” he emphasized: click on for more

Ø Liz Cheney recently compared herself to Winston Churchill standing up to Hitler, and suggested members of both parties in Congress are hiding information about Obamacare from the public. She also said that President Obama is incompetent because he didn't bomb Syria years ago, but would not vote for bombing Syria if she were in Congress now.

Ø Starting on October 1, 22 million uninsured Americans will be able to start getting affordable health insurance under Obamacare.

Ø Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz has no intent of cutting back the hours of its workers in anticipation of the implementation of the Affordable Care Act. His company has decided to continue doing the right thing—to provide health insurance to all their employees who work 20 or more hours per week.

Josephine Kennedy, President

Democratic Women of the Desert