Good morning!

A few weeks ago I was retrieving something out of the trunk of my car when I heard someone shouting hello to me. I peeked over our fence and on the other side was a gentleman with a big smile on his face reaching out to hand me something.

My first thought was,”Okay, what is he going to try and sell me?” I wanted to say, “No thank you”, but then I remembered what it was like to be canvassing the neighborhood and super markets trying to get people to listen to me about Prop 2 last year, Obama, etc.

Plus, I couldn’t resist the warm smile he was sending me, so I walked toward the opening of our driveway as he walked toward me and handed me a heavy flyer. He introduced himself as Floyd, and explained that his wife, Jean Quan, was running for Mayor of Oakland, and he proceeded to tell me about their grass roots efforts, her experience, and a little about their family, who was pictured on the flyer, all smiles.

I had read a little about his wife, but got such a warm feeling from him, his stories, her goals as mayor, his commitment to his wife and her success…he even told me that they invested one hundred thousand dollars of their own money into her campaign…that I made up my mind right there that I would vote for her. I was obviously moved by our discussion. Maybe Floyd was just a great sales person and hooked me, which I seriously doubt. Or maybe he was just a sincere man walking the streets of Oakland, with a strong belief that his wife could make my city a better place to live in. My gut was telling me something, and I had faith it was the latter.

Non the less, after our friendly chat, I said goodbye, thanked Floyd for his efforts, and asked if he could leave a lawn sign on my steps so that I could display my choice for Mayor of Oakland, his wife, Jean Quan. He said that he would be happy to drop off a sign on his way back, after he finished walking our block. He smiled and waved as he walked away.

Anyway, I came outside later on that afternoon, disappointed that no sign was to be seen, until I saw one stuck in my potted plants, dropped off as promised. Jean Quan had my public support and vote.

I had even told Floyd that I would try and blog about her. But unfortunately I never did get around to it, and up until election day, it sat on my mind, and I felt bad that I dropped the ball and never did.

The good news is, Jean Quan is now Mayor of Oakland! And she is the first of quite a few things to be proud of, unknown to me until now:

• Jean Quan (61), the first Asian American woman elected to the Oakland, California City Council eight years ago,
• She was elected the first woman Mayor of this California City of more than 446,000-the 41^st largest city in the country.
• When she takes office on January 3, 2011, she will be the first Asian American woman Mayor of a major US City.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

1st ASIAN AMERICAN & WOMAN

MAYOR of OAKLAND

Known for her hard work, encyclopedia knowledge of city policy and ability to inspire hundreds of volunteers, Quan went head-to-head against former State Senate leader Pro-Tem Don Perata and eight other candidates in the November 2 mayoral election. It was a bit of a cliffhanger — one candidate outspent the other nine candidates 10:1, exceeding the voluntary campaign spending limits of $379,000, and election results were not immediately known until 9 days after Election Eve because the City was using a new voting procedure called Ranked Choice Voting (RCV). (RCV eliminated the need for a primary by giving voters the opportunity to choose first, second and third choices for their candidates. If their first choice did not make it to the top, then their second choice would be recalculated by computer until one candidate earned 50% of the vote. This integrates the traditional primary and runoff into one election.) When all the ballots were counted and the RCV algorithm was run, Quan beat front-runner Perata.

Jean Quan 50.98% (53,778)

Don Perata 49.02%. (51720)

Link to the Registrar’s RCV Election Results

“David has beaten Goliath: we have shown that old-fashioned grassroots organizing and hard, honest campaigning can overcome big money, machine politics,” said Quan. She noted that more people had voted in this election than in previous Mayoral elections, with a 27% increase according to Fair Vote’s analysis of how Ranked Choice Voting worked in Oakland, because this election was held in the general November election when there is higher turnout compared to lower primary turnouts.

The Daughter of Immigrants

Quan’s personal history resonates with many residents in a city known as one of the most diverse in the country-its history as the terminus of the Transcontinental Railroad, the growth of the ship building industry during WW II and the growing trade with Pacific Rim Countries has generated a vibrant mix of ethnic culture, arts, music, foods and community.

“My family has lived Oakland for over 100 years. My parents were poor immigrants. My mother was illiterate and my dad died when I was five. My parents worked in Oakland hotels, restaurants and garment factories. I attended public schools and went to UC Berkeley on a scholarship.  As a college student I was founder of Asian American studies and helped organize tutoring programs for students West Oakland and Chinatown, and helped fight redevelopment removal of local residents there, too.

“My whole life has been about organizing for social justice, as a student, union organizer, and as a School Board and City Council member. I am proud of my work to improve local schools, to save music, arts, libraries and parks, to revitalize commercial districts and support crime and violence prevention programs,” she explained.

A Reputation for Progressive Leadership

Quan jumped into Oakland politics as a parent activist to save music and arts programs in 1989 and has been working together with concerned residents to make the city’s public institutions work for them. She served on the Oakland Unified School District board for 3 terms, leading campaigns that secured $700 million to make the schools earthquake safe, reduce classroom overcrowding, and restore arts and music to the curriculum.

For the past eight years, she has served as Council member for one the most diverse council districts in the City-District 4 which covers the well-healed hills of Montclair and Crestmont as well as the working class neighborhoods of Allendale, Brookdale, Dimond, Laurel, Maxwell Park, and Melrose. She has chaired the City’s Finance Committee for six years, steering the city through one of the worse economic recessions in its history.

As Council Member, she is known for her long-hours, high visibility and accessibility, and strong community organizing skills. More than 10,000 people receive her e-newsletter every week. As a result of the regular communication and her office’s work in the field, District 4 is the most organized of all seven council districts and consistently hosts the most National Night Out, Earth Day and Creek to Bay day events in the city-between ¼ to half of all of the events.  Her success in organizing neighbors to eliminate crime, beautify parks and medians, prepare for emergencies and otherwise build community formed the basis for her

Campaign Theme of Taking Back Oakland, Block by Block.

City-wide, Quan’s long list of accomplishments includes brokering the compromise community policing and violence prevention program (Measure Y), her leadership in seismic retrofitting and green policies such as the compostable food ware ordinance, and co-authoring and campaigning for the nation’s first Wildfire Prevention District and for a measure to keep Oakland’s 15 branch libraries open. She has set forth an ambitious program as Oakland’s next Mayor.

“We must rebuild trust between our police and the community to fight crime in Oakland. We need to bring good jobs to Oakland-we especially need to support Green jobs programs that help our youth prepare for work in new technologies. We need to support our schools-as a three term school board member-I have the experience and passion to become Oakland’s true Education Mayor. I plan to recruit 2000 baby boomers and other volunteers to mentor our most at risk youth and give them hope. We need to ensure that our government is transparent, ethical and efficient. I plan to be an accessible, hands-on mayor by showing up in every neighborhood-just as I have over the past eight years in my Council District.”

“This election — an election of so many firsts — opens the door of possibilities and hope to Oakland’s young people,” she concluded, adding,

“Come January when I take the oath as Oakland’s first woman mayor, I’ll take office in City Hall 8 blocks from where my great-grandfather took refuge in Oakland after the 1906 Earthquake, 6 blocks from where my mother-in-law and sister worked as garment workers, and 4 blocks from where my father was a hotel cook. I am grateful and humbled by the trust the voters have placed on me as their new Mayor.”

Readers: Awesome Yes? Jean Quan definitely wears the title of a “Wonderful Woman of The World”, don’t you think? I think so, and I am delighted for her and excited for what she will bring to Oakland. A huge congratulations to Quan. And big thanks to those who voted for her, ensuring her victory.

Have a great weekend!

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Good morning!

“Fair Game”, the movie about the betrayal of a CIA covert officer’s identity. That officer was Valerie Plame. Here’s a clip of the movie that opens tonight:

And instead of posting a review of the movie, I decided to post an article written by Plame’s husband Joe wilson, just to give a different viewpoint.

George Bush’s Deception Points

Having read that people began lining up in front of bookstores before former President Bush’s memoir, Decision Points, was due to be released, I hurried off to purchase mine early on November 9, arriving about fifteen minutes after opening time. I have the distinction of being the first person to purchase Bush’s book in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

I have a special interest in understanding how the former president sees his decision to invade Iraq and his use of intelligence to justify the invasion. I have also been curious about what he might have to say about the betrayal of a CIA covert officer’s identity, my wife’s, by, among others, two senior members of his staff, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby and Karl Rove. I had seen his interview with NBC’s Matt Lauer in which he volunteered that Scooter Libby was a “loyal” American who had been somehow caught up in the Valerie Plame affair. I was thunderstruck by his description of a man convicted of four counts of lying to federal officials, perjury, and obstruction of justice, the chief of staff to the Vice President who knowingly offered up Valerie Plame’s name to a New York Times reporter, and who was so obsessed with destroying my reputation that he kept a three-ring binder on me and an annotated copy of my book. My expectations for truthful revelation in Bush’s book, after his comment, were naturally low. I have not been disappointed. In fact, Deception Points might have been a more appropriate title.

The former president deals with the Plame affair briskly, fairly early in the book, in the context of what he describes as the last and most “emotional personnel decision” of his presidency: what to do about Scooter Libby. He refers to the “agonizing decision” of whether to “let Scooter go to jail,” to pardon, or to commute his sentence. En route to the denouement of poor Bush’s “agonizing,” the reader is first subjected to a recitation of the right wing talking points designed to discredit us, including the debunked canard that “Wilson had been sent to Niger … on the recommendation of his wife.” What I didn’t find in the book is Bush’s explanation of the misuse of the intelligence in making the case for war with Iraq. Instead of dealing with the inconvenient facts Bush simply refers again to the bogus British intelligence on uranium yellowcake, ignoring that his CIA had warned him at least three times that our own intelligence services did not believe the claim. Secretary of State Colin Powell omitted the assertion in his UN speech, but Bush still hides behind that shredded fig leaf.

Bush calls the controversy that followed the publication in the New York Times of my op-ed “What I Didn’t Find in Africa” a “massive distraction.” But nowhere does he acknowledge that the “distraction” was self-invented. After all, there are really only two germane points:

1) Joe Wilson wrote an opinion piece which asked about the president’s statement in the State of the Union on efforts to procure uranium yellowcake, “Did the Bush administration manipulate intelligence about Saddam Hussein’s weapons programs to justify an invasion of Iraq?”

2) Within two days of the article’s publication the president’s spokesman told both the New York Times and the Washington Post that the statement should not have been in the State of the Union. Everything else surrounding this “massive distraction” was created by Bush and his minions: the leak of Valerie’s name and identity, the subsequent investigation, which, despite Bush’s entreaties to his staff that they cooperate with the special prosecutors took over two years, and of course the concerted disinformation and character assassination campaign waged against us by Bush’s minions. Bush cannot even bring himself to acknowledge that Valerie was what is now universally known: a covert CIA operations officer. Bush’s characterization is a pathetic euphemism: “Then it came out that Wilson’s wife’s position was classified.”

In the end, after resolving not to reward anyone who went outside the official channels, Bush bowed to Cheney’s insistence that a pardon be reviewed for Libby, and asked “two trusted lawyers” to review the case. Not even they could find justification to pardon. When Bush told Cheney of his decision not to pardon, Cheney responded: “I can’t believe you are going to leave a soldier on the battlefield.” The president was perplexed that perhaps his friendship with Cheney would not survive. A couple of paragraphs later, the reader is informed this concern was unwarranted — the agony and the ecstasy, one supposes.

The president appears in this book to live in Htrae, the Bizarro world of DC Comics where society is ruled by the code that “Us do opposite of all Earthly things! Us hate beauty! Us love ugliness! Is big crime to make anything perfect on Bizarro World!” To that might be added: Us hate truth.

-CEO, JC Wilson International Ventures, Posted: November 9, 2010 05:35 PM

Readers: This was a hot topic when it was first in the news. And no doubt this movie will get the chatter going again. Thoughts? Blog me.

Zen Lill: Love the Elke story. Too cute. Give her a big hug from me. As far as the “twins”…a peek is all most will ever get. A good look is reserved for you know who. :)

Janice: Thanks. Me too. But the big thanks goes to everyone who wrote in. He certainly has a fan club.

Evelyn: How are you? Haven’t heard you make some “noise” lately. :) What’s up girl?

Anonymous: Maddie knows what needs to be done. Now, if just the men would cooperate. Be safe and have faith.

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Good morning!

Keith Olbermann Returns From Suspension (VIDEO)

Keith Olbermann returned to “Countdown” from his two-day suspension with a bang on Tuesday, sidling into the view of the cameras in front of his empty seat and saying, “this was not a publicity stunt. Of course, if I had known all of this would happen, I would have done this years ago!”

Later, at the end of the show, Olbermann talked for just over six minutes about his suspension.

He said he was “stunned and grateful” to viewers, and that he owed them three apologies. The first was “for having subjected you to all this unnecessary drama.”

The second was his failure to know about the rule regarding political donations at NBC — although, he said, such a rule was not in his contract, and “any rule like that in any company is probably not legal.”

His third apology was to the electoral opponent of one of the people he donated to, Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona, for including him in a “Worst Person In The World” segment the day after he made the donations. Olbermann said he had not known that the man, Jesse Kelly, was running against Giffords, but that he should not have been included in the segment.

Readers: Lots happening on the blog. I’ll comment tomorrow. Carry on…

Lastly, greed over a great story is surfacing from my “loyal”(?) readers. With all this back and forth about who owns what, that appears on my blog, let me reiterate that all material posted on my blog becomes the sole property of my blog. If you want to reserve any proprietary rights don’t post it to my blog. I will prominently display this caveat on my blog from now on to remind those who may have forgotten this notice.

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Good morning!

First, I want to step back a few days and respond to some of you.

Girlz: Liang, nice to hear from you. It has been quite a while since you have commented here. How about telling me and my readers what you have been up to.

Zen Lill: Hey…Looking forward to it.

Howard: I didn’t notice that was a pattern here. It seems that quite a few were able to comment this time. I don’t think the subject matter matters as much as how many readers are trying to get in and comment on a particular topic at the same time, and how much my blog is being watched and trying to be blocked at that same time.

Robert: If this is our regular reader Robert, I was hoping you could tell us. You always have some enlightening answers and comments, but rarely ask questions. :)

Jessica: Thanks for enlightening me on the subject. It still amazes me that log cabin Republicans even exist. Who would side with the Republicans knowing that the Republicans are anti-gay? It is so illogical for gays to side with a party that opposes who you are and doesn’t support legislation that is important to gays, including equal rights.

And now after you present to your brother everything that Obama has done for gays, (thank you, I was not aware.) he still opposes him because he is black. How stupid is that? It just shows you how deep racism is amongst whites, even gay whites, that they will let their own racists beliefs prevent them from attaining equal status, and living their lives as fully as they can. A perfect example of cutting off your nose to spite your face. I feel the same in regards to Democrats who decided not to show up at the polls.  How stupid to default to a party that screwed up this country in the first place.

Not to mention the stupidity of the same same stupid Republicans who voted in the same same Republicans this past election, like the previous 8 years, before Obama wasn’t bad enough.

I see racism as a sign of weakness. Only someone weak would think they are better because of the color of their skin. Only someone weak would allow insane racist beliefs to rule their thoughts, knowing that their chosen thoughts are the demise of our country; our world. A strong person would see the ridiculousness of it all, and not chose these insane thoughts over logic.

But doesn’t disease act the same way? Living and feeding off the host, until that which supports it dies and the disease itself dies, because it no longer can prey on that which kept it alive. A disease, like racists, are only about self-aggrandizement…are only about living in the moment…what is best for me and mine, with little care about others and the future.

When, and not if, the Republicans mess up our country again, and they will. Will those that once again voted them in, or decided to “not bother”, finally learn, or will they continue to cut off their noses time and time again?

Uma: Consider yourself considered. :)

Iris: They are the same same as they have always been: Racists. Racism is nothing new. But it seems to me, as your father has admitted, when otws take their rightful place, beneath whites, whites are okay with otws. But if they become equal to, and God forbid, succeed whites, well them oh  no, that is not acceptable. They have forgotten their place. That is the reason why whites are screaming, “I want my country back!”. Your father had no reason to “complain” when he was living his cushy life, and otws were in their place. But now it is a different story. I am sure many families such as yours are being enlightened to the true feelings that are emerging because our president is a black man.

Bob: Thanks for that – Haha! Loved it.

Well I thought I was going to have a topic to write about today, but no. And I have more to say, but it is late so I’m going to end it here. The forum is open…Blog me.

It’s a beautiful day, enjoy it! xoxo

Lastly, greed over a great story is surfacing from my “loyal”(?) readers. With all this back and forth about who owns what, that appears on my blog, let me reiterate that all material posted on my blog becomes the sole property of my blog. If you want to reserve any proprietary rights don’t post it to my blog. I will prominently display this caveat on my blog from now on to remind those who may have forgotten this notice.

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michelle

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I am digging Rachel Maddow. But then I always have. What I so appreciate about her is that she articulates herself so well that even the stupidest person will get what she is saying. When you listen to her commentary, you are not left guessing what she meant, asking such questions…”Does she mean this…?” or “What is she saying?”

You know exactly what Maddow means. Because when she speaks she is not cryptic, she is completely clear. She hits you hard over the head with facts that pulls her point together, and drives it home. I love listening to her…love her logic…and love her levity. My kind of girl. :)

Readers: What’s up? Blog me.

Tina: I wanted to say, “Yes, I do remember.” Unfortunately it seems many forgot.

Lois: Like I said, that’s the upside and the downside.

Burt: Yeah and my mother “hated” making phone calls but she still did for the greater good. (And hate is a strong word that my mother used lightly just because she loves connecting with people and rarely did during the process.)

So….if I understand you clearly, you didn’t vote…you gave up your voice, gave up your support for the Dems because you want more civility in the election process?  Are you happy with the turnout?  I want you to meet “The Republicans”…they have now taken control of the House. And guess what? “Civility” is not part of their nature.

Don’t be surprised if you end up hating the results and hating yourself for not exercising your right to vote, for not using your voice. Did you see the video above? Did you read the comments from Jeffrey and Clark?Because when it comes to the Republicans, the Democratic voice will not be heard. So sorry your excuse not to vote is lame.

That’s my big bitch with Dems not showing up. Instead of supporting the president that they voted in, instead of supporting the administration that they voted in, they sat back home on their butts, and dug their feet into their carpet, because they got upset over this or that, and said, “Eh.! Why bother?” I guess we’ll find out why bothering would’ve been important. Like I said, it will be interesting the next two years.

Although, I have to admit, I still have HOPE that there is a silver lining here somewhere.

Hi Zen Lill! :)

Doug: Humor is good. Thanks for lightening it up.

Peter: Good point about “compassion”.  Hafa Adai.

I’m out of here. Have a great day…

Lastly, greed over a great story is surfacing from my “loyal”(?) readers. With all this back and forth about who owns what, that appears on my blog, let me reiterate that all material posted on my blog becomes the sole property of my blog. If you want to reserve any proprietary rights don’t post it to my blog. I will prominently display this caveat on my blog from now on to remind those who may have forgotten this notice.

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michelle

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