Reply #16: I agree! This may well be the most important race in the country! [View All]

[Peace Patriot]

As California goes, so goes the nation. And, people, things are not good in California, not good at all. This state has been targeted for Diebold Rule. It's just as clear as it can be that the fascists intend to turn this state "red" against the will of the people. And the only thing that stands between us and that horrible fate is Debra Bowen.

Bowen is handicapped by what may be the worst Democratic candidate for governor we've ever seen, Phil Angelides. Another washout "centrist" Democrat whose web site is a bunch of nothing platitudes. I think he'd be an okay governor, of the Gray Davis type. He's not a bad guy at all. It's just that he completely lacks imagination, clarity of vision and fire in his belly. He is an excellent example of the worst of Democratic Party "centrism" statewide and nationwide. And he's losing, big time, and may carry the whole Democratic ticket with him.

My only hope is that California voters have a penchant for putting opposite party candidates in the second positions in state government--Lt. Governor, A.G. and Secretary of State. It's happened quite often. Voters may vote for Schwarz and turn right around and vote straight Democratic on the rest of the ticket.

And Bowen's race is so goddamned important! Bushite corporate control of our election system--their electronic voting machines run on TRADE SECRET, PROPRIETARY programming code--is the elephant in the room. It WAS the fascist coup. The date was Oct. 29, 2002, the day that George Bush signed the "Help America Vote Act," by which $3.9 billion dollars was poured into our election system, through the fingers of local election officials, right into the pockets of electronic voting corporations with very close ties to the Bush Junta and to far rightwing causes. They fast-tracked these untested, crapass, insecure, and extremely insider hackable voting systems all over the country. The two worst ones--Diebold and ES&S--"counted" 80% of the nation's votes in 2004, under a veil of corporate secrecy.

McPherson is a Diebold shill. He is undoing all of Kevin Shelley's reforms, and has thrown open the doors to every manner of Bushite vote stealing--from secretly programmed machines, to strategic machine "breakdowns," to lack of oversight of corrupt county officials, to fraudulent, illegal machine "certifications," to the use of worthless "provisional" ballots to suppress Democratic votes. He has removed all the checks and balances from the Sec of State's office, and has surrounded himself with Bushites and Diebold advocates as advisers.

Bowen is a lifelong advocate of open government, and will reign these S.O.B's in, and bring TRANSPARENCY back into our election system. She will be a leader in the country on the all-important matter of election reform. She's got a lot of very corrupt county election officials to ride herd on, who have made deals with Diebold, ES&S and other bad actors, and entrenched interests of all kinds, including within the Democratic Party leadership in the state legislature (who colluded with the Bushites in "swift-boating" Kevin Shelley out of the Sec of State's office, or hid under their desks). But, bottom line, she will give election reformers and the public a fair hearing; she will have good public interest advisers; and everything she does will be aboveboard. She is also a passionate advocate of these things--of good government, of transparency, of election integrity. She is no "centrist" on these matters. She is a reformer--and a brilliant defender of clean government and transparent, verifiable elections.

We MUST save California from Bushite-controlled elections!

PLEASE SUPPORT DEBRA BOWEN! SEND MONEY! SPREAD THE WORD!

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Why am I bothering to call for votes and support of Debra Bowen, if our election system is already rigged (and I DO think it is)? 1) I think turnout can overwhelm the machines, in some cases; 2) If we don't vote, then we can't analyze the results for fraud, in on-going efforts to reform the system; 3) The huge Absentee Ballot protest in California--indicating high consciousness of the problem among ordinary voters, which will mean more votes for Bowen and good momentum for reform; 4) Bowen isn't going to go away--if she loses unfairly, she will fight back, and will stay with the election reform movement until we win.