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Thursday August 7, 2008

Headquarters for Change opening party

Start: 17:30

End: 19:00

Local Democrats Open Big Campaign Headquarters

Santa Barbara County Democratic Party will open its 2008 campaign headquarters on Thursday, August 7th, 5:30 p.m., at 430 Chapala Street, downtown Santa Barbara (between Gutierrez St. and Haley St.)

"The Headquarters for Change" will be a home for the coordinated campaign to take back the White House and elect local Democrats.

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Next Meeting, Democratic Central Committee

Dem. Party meeting: Thu., 06Nov.2008, Buellton
7:00 pm in Buellton (Pea Soup Andersen's...

ENDORSEMENTS by Dem Central Committe, Nov. 2008 election

(with website links to campaigns and local videos)

USA President
* Barack Obama (local video)
23rd Congressional District
* Lois Capps (local video)
24th Congressional District
* Marta Jorgensen
19th State Senate District
* Hannah-Beth Jackson (local video 1, 2, 3, 4)
33rd State Assembly District
* Robert Cuthbert
35th State Assembly District
* Pedro Nava (local video 1, 2)
3rd Supervisorial District
* Doreen Farr (local video 1, 2)
Goleta City Council
* Margaret Connell (local video)
* Ed Easton (local video)
Carpinteria City Council
* Kathleen Reddington
Lompoc City Council
* Cecilia Martner (local video 1, 2)
* Darrell Tullis
Santa Barbara School Board
* Annette Cordero
* Susan Deacon (local video)
Goleta Water Board
* Lauren Hansen (local video)
* Bill Rosen (local video)

Local Ballot Measures

Measure A: YES (Countywide transportation sales tax continuance) (LOCAL VIDEO)
Measure G: YES (Santa Barbara City utility tax continuance)
Measures H & I: YES to both (Santa Barbara schools 4-yr. parcel tax)

State Ballot Propositions

Prop 1: YES (high-speed train bond)
Prop 2: YES (treatment of farm animals)
Prop 3: YES (children's hospital bond)
Prop 4: NO (parental notification mandated for reproductive choice) (LOCAL VIDEO)
Prop 5: YES (non-violent offenders rehabilitation)
Prop 6: NO (mandatory spending for more incarceration)
Prop 7: YES (renewable energy statute with teeth)
Prop 8: NO (limit existing legal right to marriage by changing State Constitution) (LOCAL VIDEO)
Prop 9: NO (change parole criteria by altering State Constitution)
Prop 10: NEUTRAL (pay people to buy usually-foreign electric cars)
Prop 11: NO (new Commission for legislature redistricting)
Prop 12: YES (home and farm loans for Veterans)