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MSM: "The Three Candidates for California Governor"
Today the San Jose Mercury News has a large front page segment and full page section inside about the governor's race. The inside section is titled: "Voter's Tipsheet," and includes the section: "The Three Candidates: a Brief Backgrounder." And so it begins . . .
Who are "The Three Candidates"?
Jerry Brown (D), Meg Whitman (R-billionaire), and Steve Poizner (R-billionaire)
Please complain to the San Jose Mercury News for attempting to define and limit the pool of candidates for voters, with 2 of them executive billionaires.
I cannot find the names of any of the other candidates at all in the whole section, and there are several running in each party. See --
California Gubenatorial Election
2010 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_gubernatorial_election,_2010
Laura Wells, for example, is an excellent candidate in terms of her solutions for California's economic crisis and for issues like Prop 13. She supports a Single Payer Universal Health Care solution for California, and if given the opportunity, says that she would gladly sign SB 840 (the Single Payer bill introduced by State Senator Sheila Kuehl) into law. Wells also supports the use of clean, sustainable, local energy, Community Choice Aggregation (CCA) and localized (distributed) electricity generation, instead of nuclear power or carbon sequestration. She opposes government bailouts of large corporations and banks.
See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Wells
http://www.laurawells.org/
LauraWells for Governor Kickoff Speech
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhuJVduZLGI
Most Californians, if they ever happen to hear about Laura Wells, would strongly agree with her positions.
And that goes for a number of other people and parties who are running campaigns in complete media silence.
It's too bad the SJ Mercury is doing this, since they've done some pretty good investigative stories. But the harder people complain when stories like this come out -- pushing the billionaires in our faces while utterly ignoring all the other candidates -- the more they will worry the next time they decide to do this about what kind of backlash they will receive.
The stories and contacts are here:
Your guide to the California governor's race
By Ken McLaughlin, Steven Harmon and Denis C. Theriault
Bay Area News Group
Updated: 02/28/2010 09:41:24 AM PST
http://www.mercurynews.com/top-stories/ci_14481567?nclick_check=1
Jerry Brown, Steve Poizner, Meg Whitman: Candidates for California governor present studies in contrast
By Ken McLaughlin, Steven Harmon and Denis C. Theriault
Bay Area News Group
Updated: 02/28/2010 09:41:45 AM PST
http://www.mercurynews.com/california-governors-race-2010/ci_14481587
Contact:
Ken McLaughlin
kmclaughlin [at] mercurynews.com
Denis C. Theriault
dtheriault [at] mercurynews.com
Reach Steven Harmon at 916-441-2101 (Contra Costa Times)
The Editorial Board
Mac Tully publisher
mtully [at] mercurynews.com
Barbara Marshman editorial page editor
bmarshman [at] mercurynews.com
Ed Clendaniel commentary editor
eclendaniel [at] mercurynews.com
Rachel Wilner editorial writer
rwilner [at] mercurynews.com
Jerry Brown (D), Meg Whitman (R-billionaire), and Steve Poizner (R-billionaire)
Please complain to the San Jose Mercury News for attempting to define and limit the pool of candidates for voters, with 2 of them executive billionaires.
I cannot find the names of any of the other candidates at all in the whole section, and there are several running in each party. See --
California Gubenatorial Election
2010 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_gubernatorial_election,_2010
Laura Wells, for example, is an excellent candidate in terms of her solutions for California's economic crisis and for issues like Prop 13. She supports a Single Payer Universal Health Care solution for California, and if given the opportunity, says that she would gladly sign SB 840 (the Single Payer bill introduced by State Senator Sheila Kuehl) into law. Wells also supports the use of clean, sustainable, local energy, Community Choice Aggregation (CCA) and localized (distributed) electricity generation, instead of nuclear power or carbon sequestration. She opposes government bailouts of large corporations and banks.
See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Wells
http://www.laurawells.org/
LauraWells for Governor Kickoff Speech
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhuJVduZLGI
Most Californians, if they ever happen to hear about Laura Wells, would strongly agree with her positions.
And that goes for a number of other people and parties who are running campaigns in complete media silence.
It's too bad the SJ Mercury is doing this, since they've done some pretty good investigative stories. But the harder people complain when stories like this come out -- pushing the billionaires in our faces while utterly ignoring all the other candidates -- the more they will worry the next time they decide to do this about what kind of backlash they will receive.
The stories and contacts are here:
Your guide to the California governor's race
By Ken McLaughlin, Steven Harmon and Denis C. Theriault
Bay Area News Group
Updated: 02/28/2010 09:41:24 AM PST
http://www.mercurynews.com/top-stories/ci_14481567?nclick_check=1
Jerry Brown, Steve Poizner, Meg Whitman: Candidates for California governor present studies in contrast
By Ken McLaughlin, Steven Harmon and Denis C. Theriault
Bay Area News Group
Updated: 02/28/2010 09:41:45 AM PST
http://www.mercurynews.com/california-governors-race-2010/ci_14481587
Contact:
Ken McLaughlin
kmclaughlin [at] mercurynews.com
Denis C. Theriault
dtheriault [at] mercurynews.com
Reach Steven Harmon at 916-441-2101 (Contra Costa Times)
The Editorial Board
Mac Tully publisher
mtully [at] mercurynews.com
Barbara Marshman editorial page editor
bmarshman [at] mercurynews.com
Ed Clendaniel commentary editor
eclendaniel [at] mercurynews.com
Rachel Wilner editorial writer
rwilner [at] mercurynews.com
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It's ironic that as I click the link to read about those who are running against me for Governor, I see an ad above your article saying "Go Green!"
Wouldn't this, of all years, be a good year to cover the candidates running for the Green Party nomination for Governor? Keep in mind that Green stands not only for the green of the forest, but the green of money.
My focus is to keep the good of Prop 13, keeping people, especially seniors on fixed incomes, in their home - that's why people voted for Prop 13 in 1978 - and fix the bad, the 2/3 majority required to increase taxes, which has proved to be a safeguard only for the richest of the rich. Also, I propose that we institute a State Bank for California, so that we can invest in our infrastructure and future generations, and not hit the wall with the Wall Street bankers!
I am looking forward to speaking with you.
Laura Wells
Candidate for the Green Party nomination for Governor
http://www.laurawells.org
Dear Editors,
I am writing in reference to your article about the California race for governor. We get it. We really do. Those of us who have run for state-wide office on third party tickets understand that you do not wish to give us equal ink as candidates you believe can win. Naturally, your bias is one of the reasons we run. So alternative views can enter the dialogue. So the democracy can evolve. But we also run because we believe we could do the job if we won. And, make no mistake, when we choose to run, we want to win.
Please believe me: I was not surprised, offended, outraged, or any of the other adjectives you may encounter from those of us that thought you made a mistake by not including a mention of Laura Wells, the Green Party candidate for governor. I was just sorely disappointed and, as always, confused by the title "newspaper" that you use for your publication. As a candidate for State-wide controller in 2002, Laura Wells received hundreds of thousands of votes. She is a declared candidate for the office of governor yet you did not mention her.
Yet your article did not say: "There are other candidates for governor beside the ones we are listing we just don't cover them because they cannot win." Then the fact that you were making an editorial decision would at least be disclosed in your newspaper.
How about writing: "While we do cover meetings of people that call themselves the "Tea Party" movement, we are choosing to consider them newsworthy although we think their followers are far less than the hundreds of thousands who have voted for Laura Wells, the Green Party candidate for Governor. They are not running for public office, but we will cover them and not her because, as you know, dear reader, she cannot win."?
How about one sentence in the article on the Gubernatorial race: "In her 2002 run for state-wide office, Laura Wells received more votes than about half the Senators in Washington today; but we have chosen not to cover her because, as everyone is aware, she cannot win."?
And, of course, the outcome those of us that support Laura can only dream of would be you writing: "While challenged by lack of funds and far less publicity than her major party rivals, Laura Wells is trying to win the California governor's race on the Green Party ticket. While she knows she is a long shot, she brings ideas to the campaign that show she has seriously considered how to solve the State's problems." Is that news? I don't know, but it's the truth and I always believed those two things should be pretty close to each other.
Sincerely,
David Sheidlower
2002 Green Party Candidate for Insurance Commissioner