My husband’s political opponent on his race for School Board (School Board!), a solid Republican until a few days ago, has now turned coats and joined the Democratic party. Of course, he realizes that in a city with a strong Democratic majority, his relationship with the Republican party is unlikely to win him any votes. So, in the name of political expediency, he switches parties.
That, in itself, amuses me. It’s an act of desperation that I predicted would happen. It’s a pity, because even though I know the man is only running to give another School Board member a hold over the Board, he seemed like a nice guy. He may not realize just how unethical his behavior is – just like he didn’t seem to realize that telling me how attractive he finds women to be, was inappropriate if not outright sexist.
But for some reason I am bothered by the fact that his campaign manager has allowed him (encouraged him?) to perform such an obvious trick. Forget how laughable and counterproductive it’s likely to be for his candidate (a turncoat Republican surely sounds worse than a registered Republican), just how unethical is this? Of course, one expects campaign managers to be somewhat unethical, but to that extent? I’m frankly disgusted. OK, maybe not too disgusted, as I expected it, but sad that this is playing out just like I thought.
My next thought is that they’re going to start playing dirty, a negative campaign. We’ll see – but mark my words. They have nothing going for them (as the candidate has no interest in the school system) so mudslinging makes sense. Of course, that’s what won Ellen the election š
Author: marga (Page 117 of 158)
If you are in the Bay Area, I hope you will come. I’m organizing this.
The San Leandro Community Action Network & Zocalo Coffee House invite you to
A RECEPTION & BOOK SIGNING
in honor of
BRIAN COPELAND
and his new book
Not a Genuine Black Man:
Or, How I Claimed My Piece of Ground in the LilyWhite Suburbs
The reception will take place on
Thursday, August 17th 7 PM at
Zocalo Coffeehouse, 645 Bancroft Ave. San Leandro
Copies available for purchase at the event.
” Based on the longestrunning oneman show in San Francisco history now coming to OffBroadway a hilarious, poignant, and disarming memoir of growing up black in an allwhite suburb
In 1972, when Brian Copeland was eight, his family moved from Oakland to San Leandro, California, hoping for a better life. At the time, San Leandro was 99.4 percent white, known nationwide as a racist enclave. This reputation was confirmed almost immediately: Brian got his first look at the inside of a cop car, for being a black kid walking to the park with a baseball bat.
Brian grew up to be a successful comedian and radio talk show host, but racism reemerged as an issue only in reverse when he received an anonymous letter:
I wonder if ultimately there is a solution to the Iraqi problem other than partitioning the country. Indeed, this is a very difficult thing to do – and we have the example of Pakistan and India to show us that not only its human toll is enormous during partition, but that it doesn’t solve the problems after partition. Whether the partition would work better as a federation is difficult to predict.
One of my favorite gadgets – indeed probably my favorite gadget, is my Rocket ebook. It’s the perfect way to read a long document (and just try to read a sentence on human rights issues, they are hundreds of pages long), to carry several documents with you, without the necessity of printing them out. I hate wasting trees.
Alas, I don’t think they make rocket books anymore. Indeed, I don’t think they make any e-book eader anymore which is a real shame. I don’t know if this is because there isn’t a market for ebooks – people just prefer paper – or because people rather use their palms. Or perhaps they were just too expensive.
But I think the problem might have been marketing. They marketed these books as products to read books, not documents. If they’d done the later, they would have been able to reach the business audience. It’s really a great way of reading a long document.
What I like about it is that it’s backlit, it charges quickly, and the battery lasts an enormous amount of time – 20 hours, I think. The font is also quite clear and easy to read. It’s a bit heavy, I prefer using it lying down or holding it on a surface, otherwise I need both hands to hold it. But all in all I love it.
I’m off to read a long document now.
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