Tea Party's Racism Deeper Than One Black Woman's Confession
By Earl Ofari HutchinsonFox News, and the gaggle of rightside bloggers, and assorted tea party activists were delirous when they dug up an old tape of Shirley Sherrod. The Agriculture Department’s director of rural development in Georgia was supposedly getting caught with her racism hanging down.
The tape was of a speech Sherrod made at a local NAACP banquet on March 27. Her alleged racist sin was that she admitted that she did less to help a needy white farmer than she could—it happened twenty years earlier.
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Prop 8 is Going Down...One Way or Another
By Brian LeubitzOn Tuesday, the Field Poll released their latest study on California opinions regarding marriage equality (PDF). It's good news on the whole, with a slight majority favoring marriage equality. But there are some caveats:
The poll's results - 51 percent in favor, 42 percent opposed, 7 percent undecided - show big differences among age groups, geography and party affiliation.
The results were close to those the Field Poll found in May 2008, six months before voters banned gay marriage by approving Proposition 8, 52 to 48 percent.
The current survey also found that support for same-sex marriage drops below a majority when voters are given another option - civil unions.(SacBee)
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Earth To California Voters: We Have Created A Train Wreck!
By Hannah Beth JacksonSpeak Out California
The latest poll shows that Arnold Schwarzenegger now holds the embarassing distinction of having the same 22% favorability rate as Gray Davis had when Davis became the first Governor in modern-day California to be recalled by an angry electorate.
Of course the public is angry again and for good reason: we're at a 12.3% unemployment rate; we have one of the highest foreclosure rates in the country; the Republicans in the legislature continue to demand that we cut the taxes of fat-cat corporations and the well-heeled oil industry and yet demand more from hard-working Californians, while providing us with less.
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