Wanna make some trouble in SF and help election reform in CA?

[EFerrari]

Cross posted from the Elections Forum:

Hey,

Two friends of mine just started doing a progressive talk show here in SF on AAR. They're asking for guest and segment ideas.

I'm going to email the producer, Paul Wells, with some background info: 1) Voting machine controversy is hot in CA and 2) The Chronicle has yet to resolve their coverage of Shelley v. Diebold -- namely, for months they had screaming headlines about what a crook he was and now, haven't reported that he's come up so clean that it's too embarrassing to the Chronicle to have to admit it.

I want the Chronicle to have to admit it. :evilgrin:


If any of you could request coverage of the machine problem, the Shelley story or the Chronicle's coverage of it, it would be really helpful!

The show is "Keeping it Real with Will Durst and Willie Brown", 7-10 am PT M-F, 10-12 Sat (best segments of the week) 960 The Quake.




Email form: http://www.quakeradio.com/pages/dynamic.html?feed=119934&article=364659

Thank you!

Beth

[EFerrari]

1. Durst's 06 Predictions: Posted by permission of the author.

06 PREDICTIONS

It is the beginning of the new year, and typically the
time for we average ink stained wretches to trot out
the tried but true ye olde predictions piece. The
wretches that don�t resort to trotting out the trite
but true ye olde resolutions piece that is. Being the
average traditionalist wretch with great respect for
heritage that I am, (especially lacking any other
fertile ideas whatsoever,) I am proud to honor this
revered journalistic practice. Hence, I got your
predictions for the new year right here. Resolutions
will show up the next time I get stuck for other fresh
and bright ideas. In other words, soon. Happy 2006
everybody.
IN THE YEAR 2006:
� I predict George W Bush will continue to cut
programs to the poor and the old so that rich people
can have more money. I also predict that through a
series of tragic financial reversals, the 43rd
President will die both poor and old. Because that�s
the way god would want it.
� I predict Tom Delay will lose his Houston
Congressional race to Conservative Democrat Nick
Lampson who lost his seat in 04 due to DeLay�s
redistricting scheme, because that�s also the way god
would want it.
� I predict this administration will break more laws,
then conduct investigations into who told the press
about the broke laws instead of investigating crimes
being broken. Like blaming Toto for the Wizard of Oz�s
incompetence.
� I predict Paris Hilton will hold a press conference
to which no one will show up and she will wither away
like autumn leaves crushed by the tires of an 18
wheeler blown away in a brisk breeze.
� I predict Dick Cheney�s face will freeze like that.
� I predict technology will become so user friendly,
geeks will go back to being nerds.
� I predict air travel will become less user friendly
to the point that certain discount seats require
pedaling.
� I predict the San Francisco Giants will win the
World Series, but in lieu of going to Disneyland
afterwards, Barry Bonds, the MVP, will instead be
whisked straight away to a retirement village for a
series of recuperative salt baths.
� I predict Bill Gates will develop a donor recipient
software program that makes himself obsolete.
� I predict that Iraq will have so many elections this
year, voter turnout will drop to levels normally seen
in North Dakota during force five blizzards.
� I predict Tom Cruise will lose another debate on the
Today Show, this time to Katie Couric�s assistant make
up artist.
� I predict that during a stump speech in upstate New
York, Gubernatorial candidate Donald Trump�s hair will
be wind whipped into the shape of a sail whisking him
airborne into a mall parking lot in suburban Vermont.
� I predict that lobbyist Jack Abramoff�s squealings
will bring down so many members of Congress, the 2007
Freshman Congressional House class will be known as
The Abramoff Babies.
� I predict governor Arnold Schwarzeneger will move so
far to the left in his attempt to mend fences with
California voters that Fidel Castro will denounce him
as a Socialist tool.
� I predict that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld
will engage in a bout of such verbal gobbeldy gook he
will confuse himself and finally be forced to give a
straight answer.
Political Comic Will Durst wants to buy Donald
Rumsfeld�s verbal gymnastics workout plan.

Don�t forget the Will & Willie Show. Monday through
Friday. 7- 10am. KQKE. 960 AM. The QUAKE. San
Francisco. Or quakeradio.com.

And live at the Point Arena Theater with Deb & Mike,
Sunday the 8th at 8pm in yes, Point Arena. I don�t
know either. North somewhere.

will durst
wing commander

[petgoat]

2. Durst is appearing Thursday January 12 at the Grand Lake

Theater in Oakland in a benefit for World Can't Wait, a national organization
arranging mass rallies in the following weeks to demand "Bush Step Down, and
Take Your Program With You!"

The performers list will feature the following:

>> Medea Benjamin has worked twenty years for human rights, social
justice, and peace. A Senatorial candidate in 2000, founder of the
anti-war group Code Pink, and author of eight books, she was ejected in
2004 from the national conventions of two political parties.

>> Marc Bamuthi Joseph has three times been the San Francisco Grand Slam
champion, and won the National Poetry Slam in 1999. Bamuthi has appeared
on the HBO "Def Poetry" series and on the Broadway stage, and has written
three plays.

>> Sunsara Taylor, an initiator of WorldCantWait and writer, has appeared
on Fox News and CNN as a commentator on world events.

>> Mark Leno is a California State Assemblyman for San Francisco. His
recent call to action against the Bush regime appeared in the San
Francisco Bay Guardian.

>> devorah major has been Poet Laureate of San Francisco. Her book of
poems, "street smarts," was awarded a PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Award.
Ms. Major has published two novels, and last year edited an anthology of
poetry, "The Other Side of the Postcard."

>> Will Durst, a five-time Emmy-nominated political satirist, has appeared
on Letterman, Comedy Central, HBO and Showtime. He has described his
audience as "sick, twisted, paranoid toads who read--my kind of people,"
and once caused Bill Clinton to spit water out his nose laughing.


_

[FrannyD]

3. That sounds good

Do you have a link to that event? Can I get tics at the box office?

[petgoat]

4. You can get tics at the door.

I-580 and Grand Avenue.

You know the Grand Lake Theater?

[FrannyD]

5. Oh yeah,

I live in San Leandro

[EFerrari]

6. Thanks! Go, Duers. You will live to tell.

:)

[xxqqqzme]

7. Tell them about AB 583

Clean Money and Fair Elections Act - will be voted on on Tuesday, Jan 10 - call your state assembly memer and say 'vote yes on AB 583.