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FLY THE FLAG!

NEWSLETTER

November 2013

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Mark Tabbartis our speaker for the November 13 general

meeting. He recognizes that science has been politicized and

that environmental issues cannot be left to the likes of Keith

Olbermann and Bill OReilly, entertainers, not educators.

Tabbart will talk about climate change and the influence of large

multi-national corporations on the environment. He is running

for the Newport Beach City Council in 2014 and is an

environmental activist and financial advisor. Tabbert wants to

bring attention to climate change, species extinction and

resource depletion, among other problems.

Mark Tabbart

Please join us for a buffet dinner

Salads, an entree, side dishes, dessert and beverage (tax and tip included).

Food supplied by The Catering Factory

Dinner is served at 6 p.m., Members $17, Non-Members $20Meeting only at 7 p.m.

Members $3, non-members $5. RSVPs are required for dinner only

Please respond by Wednesday, November 6 to [email protected] Location: San Juan Capistrano Community Center

25925 Camino Del Avian,

San Juan Capistrano

SAVE THE DATE!!

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties

than standing armies. Thomas Jefferson


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NANCY TEEL IS A BLUE-RIBBON DEMOCRAT!

Nancy Teel, SOCDC Secretary and Voter Registration Coordinator, has been selected by

Governor Jerry Brownto serve on the PRIVATE SECURITY DISCIPLINARY REVIEW COMMITTEE

(South), Department of Consumer Affairs.This is an appellate court which affirms, rescinds, or

modifies decisions regarding private security personnel who have been terminated and/orplaced on probation. There are five people on the committee, and Nancy Teel serves as one of

two PUBLIC members. This is a four-year term.

Nancy was called by Mona Pasquil, Appointments Secretary for Governor Brown, on Tuesday,

Oct. 22, saying that the Governor had approved the appointment. Congratulations, Nancy, for

all your hard work for the Democratic Party in Orange County.

Nancy Teel with SOCDC Chairman Mike Getto

Standard & Poors estimated that when you add up all the costs of the shutdown, from lost

wages and productivity to the ripple effects throughout the economy, the 16-day shutdown

took about $24 billion out of our economy.Sherrod Brown, bluestatedigital.com


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Our gal pals Valerie

Burchfield Rhodes

here with friend

Eileen Boylan and

Gayle Cavner withRep. Joaquin Castro

at the VIP Reception

before the Truman

Dinner at the

Disneyland Hotel.

Congressman Joaquin Castro

Representative Joaquin Castro(DTexas) was the keynote speaker at the Orange County

Democratic Partys Truman Dinner Oct. 19 at the Disneyland Hotel. His twin brother, San

Antonio Mayor Julian Castro, was a speaker at the 2012 Democratic Convention. Both are

graduates of Harvard Law School.

Joaquin Castro said that the difference between Democrats and Republicans is that we want to

build an infrastructure of opportunity and they want to dismantle it. They believe governmentcomes in two sizes: too big and nonexistent,he said and took a particular aim at Tea Party

activists and conservative pundits. We want to work with Republicans, he said. But were

working with a very different Republican Party. This is not the party of Abraham Lincoln. This is

not even the party of Ronald Reagan. This is the party of Glenn Beck. This is the party of Rush

Limbaugh. This is the party of Ted Cruz.Courtesy of the Orange County California

Democratic Party


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Wendy Gabriella Campaign UpdateLooking Forward and Planning for the Future

It has been an honor to run as the Democratic candidate in Assembly District 73 which includes

the communities of Aliso Viejo, Coto De Caza, Dana Point, Laguna Niguel, Mission Viejo, Rancho

Santa Margarita, San Clemente, and San Juan Capistrano.

Since announcing my candidacy this summer, I have attended numerous events and met so

many new friends. There has been an overwhelming ground swell of support in AD 73.

I regularly attend the Democratic Party of Orange County Central Committee meetings. The

Central Committee members have been very supportive and have provided helpful campaign

advice. In August, keynote speaker Congresswoman Judy Chu provided great insight with

regards to immigration reform and the focus of legislation: Keeping Families Together.

I have attended many neighborhood coffee chats and City Council meetings, listening andlearning about the interests of our communities. A major focus of the residents of AD 73 is the

protection of our environment, protection of our open spaces, and protection of our fragile

coastline. The Surfrider event in September was fabulous and underscored how we must work

together to protect our environment.

Many thanks to Ross Chun, Aliso Viejo City Council, Mike Getto, Chair of the South Orange

County Democratic Club, and Fran Sdao, Chair of the Canyon Democratic Club. I have enjoyed

meeting the members of the AD 73 democratic clubs. Your support has been incredible!

The National Womens Political Caucus has been wonderful in assisting with my campaign.

We need women to run for office and I am actively recruiting.

Thank you to Saddleback College President Tod Burnett for inviting me to attend the State of

the College Address. Our Community Colleges provide access to education for so many AD 73

residents. As a Professor and a very proud graduate of Palomar Community College, I am firmly

committed to maintaining access to education via our Community Colleges.

I am in contact with the California Democratic Party and will be seeking their endorsement.

Many thanks to Region 18 Director Phil Hanneman.

As a long-time resident of South Orange County, I am familiar with all of the communities

within the 73rd

Assembly District. I offer the voters a stark choice between typical politiciansand a consensus building candidate with the proven ability to work across partisan lines. I need

your support. Please see www.wendygabriella.com and click on the donate button. Campaigns

are tremendously expensive and I need your support. As you all know, I am a true believer.

I look forward to hearing from you about how to best represent our local interests in

Sacramento.
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CALENDAR

Monday, Oct. 28, 7 p.m.: Central Committee meeting, atPlumbers/Pipefitters Hall, 1916 W.

Chapman Ave. in Orange.

Wednesday, Oct. 30, 45 p.m.: Koch Bros. Boycott, handouts at Stater Bros. in El Toro; call

LWV Democratic Club President Sue Dearing, 855-6965 to volunteerMonday, Nov. 4, 6:30 p.m.:Democratic Club of Laguna Woods Village, different day and

location. Clubhouse 1, Main Lounge

Monday, Nov. 11, 6:308:00 p.m.,National Womens Political Caucus OC, The Daily Grill, 2636

Dupont Drive, Newport Beach

Wednesday, Nov. 13, 6 p.m.:South Orange County Democratic Club, general meeting, San Juan

Capistrano Community Center, 25925 Camino del Avion, SJC

Monday, Nov. 18, 78 p.m., Canyon Democrats Club, 24932 Veterans Way, Mission Viejo

Saturday, Nov. 23, 10 a.m.; Council of Clubs, DPOC Headquarters, 200 N. Main St., Santa Ana

Monday, Nov. 25, 7 p.m.; DPOC General Meeting, Carpenters Hall, 1918 W. Chapman Ave.,

Orange

THE TEA PARTYS GIFT TO THE DEMOCRATS

Courtesy of David Harris Gershon, the Troubadour in the Daily Kos--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

DID YOU KNOW?

If you have health insurance and you like it, you can keep itand youre already getting benefits

because of Obamacare:

1. Free preventive care, including check - ups and vaccinations2. Money back if your insurance company doesnt spend at least 80% of your

premium on care

3. No more lifetime limits on how much your insurance company will pay for4. Children and young adults can stay on their family plans until they turn 26


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San Onofre: Nuclear Waste Dump for the Rest of this Century?By Professor Roger Johnson, San Clemente

(To read the complete article, visithttp://sanclemente.patch.com/groups/rogero-johnsons-blog/p/san-

onofre-nuclear-waste-dump-for-the-rest-of-this-century 1d2ff538)

It is the same old story: The public takes the risk, the public pays the cost, and Edison reaps theprofits. Edison is now pursuing the same strategy they have always used to sell nuclear power:

repeat over and over that safety is their number one concern, and then proceed to take great

risks at public expense. Edison has always treated nuclear danger as a public relations image

issue. With its huge public relations staff and budget, it has bought every Chamber of

Commerce in Orange County. Edison has already billed every customer every month for

decades for the decommissioning, yet they want the public to pay even more now that the

costs have gone up. Even Unit 1 is still not fully decommissioned, and now it looks like it will

take most of the rest of this century to decommission the failed units 2 and 3. Edison believes

that it can use slick ads to influence public perceptions about the huge costs and dangersassociated with decommissioning. Mitsubishi is more professional. It has politely declined and

says the battle will be fought in courts, not in newspaper ads.

The timing was no accident. Edison is required to do emergency warning test alerts, and their

public relations offensive was partly designed to deflect attention from the real message of the

sirens: San Onofre remains extremely dangerous in spite of the fact that it no longer produces

electricity. You can shut down the defective steam generators, but you cannot shut down

Uranium. The nuclear fuel has all been moved outside the containment domes, and most of it

now resides in pools where it will require constant cooling for more than a decade before it can

be sealed in concrete casks. The nuclear industry likes to call this dangerous radioactive fuel

spent fuel as if to suggest that it is used up. The term spent fuel means only that it is more

profitable to put in new uranium fuel rods and put the old fuel rods in storage until they can be

carted away or until their radioactivity decays to a safe level.

How long will they remain in storage at San Onofre? The answer is alarming: INDEFINITELY. For

decades, the nuclear industry went ahead and generated more and more radioactive waste

because the plan was to entomb it 2200 feet underground in Yucca Mountain, Nevada. But

then the scientists discovered that even this was not safe, and the people of Nevada (led by

Senator Harry Reid) understandably decided they wanted nothing to do with radioactive waste.The plan was abandoned, and now there is no plan other than to store high level toxic

radioactive waste right where it was generated. (That means here.)
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STATISTICS FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Operation Enduring Freedom

Afghanistan from Oct. 7, 2001 through Oct. 1, 2012:

Deaths of U.S. Soldiers = 2,120Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation New Dawn March 19, 2003, Oct. 1, 2012

Deaths of U.S. Soldiers = 4,474

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Costs of Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

U.S. Military Battlefield Casualties = 116,201

U.S. Civilian Contractor Battlefield Casualties = 78,130

Costs in U.S. Dollars

$1,425 Trillion

(Costs from the Peace and Justice Resource Center, Culver City, CA)

The Affordable Care Act

ObamaCare is the unofficial name for The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act which was

signed into law on March 23, 2010. Obamacare's health care reform does a number of

important things including setting up a Health Insurance Marketplace where Americans can

purchase Federally regulated and subsidized health insurance.

(For an easy guide to the ACA, visithttp://obamacarefacts.com/insurance-exchange/health-

insurance-exchange-guide.php).

For information about Covered California, our states insurance exchange , go to

https://www.coveredca.com/. The Covered California mission is to increase the number of

Californians with health insurance, improve the quality of health care for all of us, reduce health

care coverage costs and make sure California's diverse population has fair and equal access to

quality health care.If your income is limited, you may be eligible for free coverage through

Medical.

For comments on political issues, current campaigns, media coverage or any other hot-button

issues, email the editor [email protected] call Lois Rothschild at 714-267-4203.

Thanks.
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