Contra Costa Democratic Party

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The controversy surrounding voting machines continues to grow. Stephen Weir, the Clerk-Recorder and Registrar of Voters for Contra Costa County, came and spoke to the Central Committee on Thursday night. The Contra Costa Times published an article about the ties between voting machine companies and county election officials. Read it here.

The GOP refusal to pass a budget continues to impact Californians. Read how foster children like Monique Straws may be unable to attend college due to Republican intransigence. Read her story here.

The Master Plan for higher education was designed to make sure that every high school graduate had the opportunity to gain a college degree. Now, due to prison spending and other expenditures, that dream is becoming more distant. Here’s the rest of the story.

including Chevron and BP. The Chronicle has the full story here.

The Concord City Council has set a deadline of Thursday, August 23 at 5 PM for applying for the seat that is open due to the death of Michael Chavez. Details about the selection process and application here.

A new site has been launched, www.fairelectionreform.com, that helps Californians fight against the GOP scheme to marginalize our impact on the Presidential election. If the Republicans were to succeed, California would end up with fewer net electoral votes than Colorado.

He sure was smarter back in the Nineties.

[ August 22, 2007; 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm. ] Emerge will be having an info session at 6:30 PM, August 22, at 712 El Cerrito Plaza.

“Emerge is a political leadership training program for Democratic women in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Our mission is to identify, educate and inspire Democratic women who want to pursue elective office at the local and state level in California. […]

The Concord City Council will be selecting the replacement for the late Michael Chavez. Read the story here.