Articles Posted in 2009

  • Gonzalez and Leigh to Host Endorsement Party, Fundraiser for Adriel Hampton

    Gonzalez and Leigh to Host Endorsement Party,
    Fundraiser for Adriel Hampton

    Hampton, an investigator and former San Francisco Examiner political editor, has fought to bring progressive issues to the top of the agenda in the CA-10 race – to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the US drug war, and promote open government, labor rights and equality at home.

  • Joe Lynn Honored

    Joe Lynn Honored

    The celebratory luncheon, held at Taqueria Reina’s, the site of a once thriving weekly political salon, was organized on short notice attracting as many as 50 friends and colleagues eager to pay their respects and provide Lynn with love and support as he enters hospice care.

  • Why Are The Drug
    and Health Insurance Companies Smiling?

    What did President Obama give in return for this $80 billion? Reportedly, Obama agreed not to bargain down prices for Medicare purchases and promised that the U.S. would not buy less expensive drugs from Canada. What will that cost us? Well 13 European nations successfully regulate the price of drugs, reducing the average cost of name-brand prescription medicines by 35 percent to 55 percent.

  • The Obstacles to Real Health Care Reform:
    Private Insurers and Big PhRMA

    Obama’s Central Asia agenda matches his domestic arrogance against the rights and welfare of millions of Americans. Denying them real health care reform is one of many ways he defiles the public interest in deference to the corporate ones he serves.

  • Friends, Colleagues to Celebrate Life of Joe Lynn

    Friends, Colleagues to Celebrate Life of Joe Lynn

    Former Ethics Commissioner Joe Lynn. August 19, 2009 Please join us for an afternoon celebrating the life of former kick-ass Ethics Commission staffer and then kick-ass Commissioner Joe Lynn. As you may know, Joe is…

  • FCJ Interview with CA-10 Candidate Anthony Woods

    FCJ Interview with CA-10 Candidate Anthony Woods

    Openly gay, Woods was discharged from the US military in December 2008 after he challenged the Pentagon’s ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ policy, an ignominious slap in the face to a man who put his life on the line in service of his country.

  • Herrera Concludes Supervisor Daly Domiciled in District He Represents

    This is currently a hot topic

    Herrera Concludes Supervisor Daly Domiciled
    in District He Represents

    Daly has maintained that he continues to reside at the couple’s condominium on Stevenson Street in San Francisco, where he has lived since Nov. 2001. His wife and two children recently relocated to Fairfield.