Item 6a Tonight (ongoing)
SV City Council.
Appointing when there is a vacancy on City Council.
Is the right to vote for our elected officials sacred?
T.O. recently said yes, I agree. What will our City Council say?
Doug Crosse

Special elections cost a lot of taxpayer money, looks like Crosse wants to soak the taxpayer in order to advance his far right tea party agenda! Support the Council and the taxpayer and oppose Crosse and the tea party!

Rush Limbaugh is now claiming that Obama and the National Weather system are part of a vast conspiracy to have tracked the hurricane over Tampa to wreck the Convention. Also last night New Jersey Governor Chris Christie gave such a high energy speech, in which he said "I" or "Me" over forty times, that he had to take a break to eat 3 Big Macs in order to finish his high energy speech.

Tony Strickland must like bears, his fellow republicans turned on him like dogs however.

SACRAMENTO — After a bill that bans using dogs to hunt bears passed the Assembly last week, it had to return to the state Senate for final approval. Tea Party-aligned Assemblyman Tim Donnelly, R-Twin Peaks, saw it as an opportunity to rally opponents one final time.

In a "Fellow Patriot" email blast on Sunday, he told his supporters to "rally the troops and gear up for war starting tomorrow morning at 8 a.m. We want to blow up their phones all day long."

The targets of Donnelly's call to arms were the two Republican senators who had voted for the measure when it first passed the Senate — Tony Strickland of Moorpark and Bill Emmerson of Riverside.

Donnelly suggested that messages to Strickland and Emmerson should be blunt. Opponents should let those senators know, he wrote, "that if they support it again, you will make it your life's work to make sure they don't get elected to anything."

A number of the bill's opponents took the message to heart, and then some.

On Monday afternoon, Strickland was the only Republican to join with 21 Democrats to vote in favor of the bill, which was then sent to the desk of Gov. Jerry Brown.

By Monday night, Strickland's cellphone was loaded with a couple dozen hostile text messages, including one that suggested the GOP senator had engaged in a vulgar act with the bill's Democratic author and another that filled the phone's screen with a single-line message repeated over and over. "You sellout piece of (excrement)," it read.

All the messages were anonymous.