Cutest Victory Ever

(www.yesonprop2.com)

Can everybody say awwwwwwwww, cute little bacon!! Free the Chickens!

Victory!!!

Consolidated district:

Candidate Votes %
Mariko Yamada
84,807  66.8%
Manuel Cosme
42,218  33.2%

and just in Yolo County:

Mariko Yamada (DEM)	42,557	71.6%
Manuel Cosme (REP)	16,840	28.4%

Just wanted to say thanks to everyone for your well wishes and prayers, and THANK YOU to everyone who worked so hard for Barack Obama all over the country. We changed the world yesterday.

And now I think I need a vacation. :o)

Wong!

ONE. MORE. DAY.

Well, it's been almost two years since we started this long, long road, but if all goes well tomorrow I pray that Mom will be in the State Assembly! The Vacaville HQ has been buzzing, 160 volunteers on Saturday, and more and more roll in every day. It is the most encouraging thing I have ever seen. Senior citizens, college students, black, white, Latino, Asian, Native American, disabled and even kids who can't vote yet are showing up at the Democratic HQs all over my county and the one next door, asking to be put to work. Calling swing states Montana and Nevada for Barack, calling neighboring cities and counties for tight state races, going out into the most rural (and snowy!) areas in Nor Cal to knock on doors and tell people why this is the most important campaign of our lifetimes.

300 calls to Lodi, Calif. 84 burritos. Hundreds of targeted homes. Today was a crash course in campaign day prep. I ended up with a nearly dead pay-as-you-go campaign cell phone, two perfect wallcharts (!!) and hands covered in green marker but I felt pretty awesome today.

I proudly voted by mail for Barack Obama in Fairfax County, Virginia, last Friday. I went through two applications, one rejection, several PDF forms and 18 emails back and forth with the elections office, but I got my vote. I got my voice. Tomorrow, PLEASE DO NOT GIVE UP. The polls mean nothing. Votes are everything. Exercise your civic responsibility and your constitutional rights.

http://www.voteforchange.com

Vote proudly tomorrow, if you haven't already, and hopefully in 24 hours we will all get to celebrate! Or take a nap.

heiwa,

Wong

World's Most Emotional Ballot

Somebody stole our No on Prop. 8 sign. But apparently the Yes on 8 people in Sacramento claim that 25,000 of their signs have been stolen over there, at a cost of about $2 each, so who knows. They caught some of the hooligans with 53 signs in the trunk of their car. Luckily, they had no affiliation with No on 8, unlike McBush's self-mutilating Texan harpy.

And so the Sign Wars continue. 7 days to go!

home on the range, and the range is racist

I've taken a brief hiatus from DC to head home to California, where I've been on the campaign trail with Mom for exactly two weeks.

From the (seemingly) Democratic and diversity-loving stronghold of northern CA, I've had an interesting time observing the intersection of fear and politics. For those of you who didn't know, my home is in Yolo County, which is a largely rural county in the Central Valley. While Sacramento, our neighbor to the east, is both the state capitol as well as the most diverse city in the nation, it turns out that it is also home to the same breed and caliber of unabashed racists as we've seen over the course of this oh-so-long campaign in other states. A few of my favorite selections below:

Tina Graham, Dickenson County, Virginia:

"I never really thought about whether or not that I was racist, or however you want to put it," said Tina Graham. She fears Obama would focus on African-Americans at the expense of poor white people like herself. "It's just the fact that I think that he will represent them, and what they want, and what they need. ... They're his people, they're his race." (NPR.org)

Gayle Quinnell, Lakewood, Minnesota:

"I don't trust Obama. I have read about him. He's an Arab." (AP, Reuters, CNN, where has this not been?)

And of course, my favorite:

Plantation Descendant "Obama Monkey" friend in Johnstown, Pennsylvania:




I must say that John McCain was admirable in immediately "repudiating" (everyone's fave word these days) these distasteful and uneducated remarks by his backwoods supporters. But, that doesn't mean that the average white voter doesn't scare the crap out of me.

So, what's going on here, you ask? What does my home state of northern California have to do with a county in western Virginia that has a total population about half the size of where I went to undergrad? Or a Minnesota township that's basically Canada?

Well, holy shock to my system, Sacramento is just as racist as Obama Monkey Man from Scarytown, PA.

The Grand Ole Party of our neighbor to the east, the capitol city of the 7th or 8th largest economy in the world, is publishing this sort of horrifically bigoted drivel on its website, Sacramentorepublicans.org.

(Sacramentorepublicans.org)



(Sacramentorepublicans.org)

ARE YOU EFFING KIDDING ME. I apologize for yelling, but seriously. Seriously?

The leader of the racism wolfpack, Craig MacGlashan (husband of Sacto County District 4 Supervisor Roberta MacGlashan, no less) initially didn't give, but later retracted his ignoramus statements, saying:

"At first, I did not realize how offensive the material was, and in the rush to move past it, I didn't take it seriously enough." (Sacramento Bee)

The offending "campaign materials" have been taken down, proper apologizing and falling over oneself to make things right, and firing of the volunteer responsible have all happened in rapid succession. But this B.S. makes the Palin mind tricks of free associating "Obama" and "terrorist" in the same sentence seem tame by comparison. If this level of gross insanity, misinformation and idiocy exists in my own backyard, Lord help us all.



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I will drink the Obama kool-aid

WHAT IF

Obama wins Iowa.
Clinton wins New Hampsz.
Edwards wins South Carolinuh.

OMGZ the primaries are as crazy as NCAA football!