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State Empoyee Wage Cuts
Posted Jul 24, 2008 1:20pm
by User from Belmont, CA
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Michael Ditto's Blog - March 2007
Have some footage of a candidate visit that you would like to share? Great! It's easy.
1. Log in to your YouTube account (or create one of you don't have one)
2. Click "Upload Video"
3. When asked to provide tags, be sure to include "CaliforniaATMWatch" as a tag (All one word, not case-sensitive). That will trigger ATMWATCH.ORG to pick up the video in the left-hand column.
That's it!
A few pointers:
1. Keep your videos short and sweet. More people will view your video if it's punchy and to-the-point.
2. If you need help using YouTube or editing videos in general, visit the YouTube help site.
3. Keep your videos free of objectionable content. Also avoid copyrighted material--anything Viacom or the RIAA wouldn't like, as YouTube will be likely to pull the video if it contains such things.
4. Have fun! Politics can be deadly serious sometimes, but we all know that the best YouTube clips are the funny ones. Have a clip of Hillary performing a pratfall for comedic effect? Great, as long as it happened in California!
1. Log in to your YouTube account (or create one of you don't have one)
2. Click "Upload Video"
3. When asked to provide tags, be sure to include "CaliforniaATMWatch" as a tag (All one word, not case-sensitive). That will trigger ATMWATCH.ORG to pick up the video in the left-hand column.
That's it!
A few pointers:
1. Keep your videos short and sweet. More people will view your video if it's punchy and to-the-point.
2. If you need help using YouTube or editing videos in general, visit the YouTube help site.
3. Keep your videos free of objectionable content. Also avoid copyrighted material--anything Viacom or the RIAA wouldn't like, as YouTube will be likely to pull the video if it contains such things.
4. Have fun! Politics can be deadly serious sometimes, but we all know that the best YouTube clips are the funny ones. Have a clip of Hillary performing a pratfall for comedic effect? Great, as long as it happened in California!
Moving the primary to Feb.5 will be a good thing for California. Other states in the West have also made the move to earlier primaries, including Nevada, and many others are following suit. This can only be a good thing for the West's number one issue: water.
Water is the common element among the issues of global warming, population/growth management, immigration, farming, terrorism, and the environment. Where to get it, how to allocate it, where to store it, and how to keep it clean are uniquely Western problems. With the exception of a few mountain oases, from Denver to LA we live in a desert. With no vast aquifers, natural lakes, or the Mississippi River, we depend on massive government projects to keep us hydrated.
So here are my five questions of the day:
What are the candidates' ideas for making sure we have plenty of water for the future? How do they intend to protect the resources we have? What do they see as the government's role in regulating water use and conservation? What do they have planned to ensure our water supply is protected from sabotage? What is their plan for reforming the complex and often conflicting water laws in Western states and resolving the age-old issues around interstate allocation?
Water is the common element among the issues of global warming, population/growth management, immigration, farming, terrorism, and the environment. Where to get it, how to allocate it, where to store it, and how to keep it clean are uniquely Western problems. With the exception of a few mountain oases, from Denver to LA we live in a desert. With no vast aquifers, natural lakes, or the Mississippi River, we depend on massive government projects to keep us hydrated.
So here are my five questions of the day:
What are the candidates' ideas for making sure we have plenty of water for the future? How do they intend to protect the resources we have? What do they see as the government's role in regulating water use and conservation? What do they have planned to ensure our water supply is protected from sabotage? What is their plan for reforming the complex and often conflicting water laws in Western states and resolving the age-old issues around interstate allocation?
Have you heard one of the candidates is coming? Great! Post it here on ATM Watch so that others can document the event to make sure the candidate is addressing our issues.
It's easy! Here's how:
1. Search for the event to make sure it isn't already listed.
2. Go to the Plan an Event page at Courage Campaign.
3. Choose the "ATM Watch: Candidate Visit" event type and click Continue to Step 2.
4. Post the details. Be specific with the address and time.
5. Come back to ATM Watch and see the event listed in the right column.
It's a snap. Give it a try!
It's easy! Here's how:
1. Search for the event to make sure it isn't already listed.
2. Go to the Plan an Event page at Courage Campaign.
3. Choose the "ATM Watch: Candidate Visit" event type and click Continue to Step 2.
4. Post the details. Be specific with the address and time.
5. Come back to ATM Watch and see the event listed in the right column.
It's a snap. Give it a try!
Soon, I'll post some instructions on how to post your own blogs, how to upload videos to our YouTube group, and other fun stuff.
But to get us started for now, post your ideas for things we can do to put some head under the behinds of our electoral hopefuls to start addressing our issues.
I think the Dems have been taking California's votes for granted for too long, and if they aren't here, talking to voters about what's important to us, Californians might either not be inspired to go vote at all, or might switch their votes in critical congressional and state legislature elections.
And then there's after the election--what will they do to get California its share of the Federal pie? Californians pay more in taxes than they get in Federal money by a huge margin, even when you subtract foreign aid. Of course we want the levees fixed in New Orleans, but we also want them fixed in Sacramento.
So post your ideas here, and don't forget to invite your friends and family to submit their questions to the candidates.
But to get us started for now, post your ideas for things we can do to put some head under the behinds of our electoral hopefuls to start addressing our issues.
I think the Dems have been taking California's votes for granted for too long, and if they aren't here, talking to voters about what's important to us, Californians might either not be inspired to go vote at all, or might switch their votes in critical congressional and state legislature elections.
And then there's after the election--what will they do to get California its share of the Federal pie? Californians pay more in taxes than they get in Federal money by a huge margin, even when you subtract foreign aid. Of course we want the levees fixed in New Orleans, but we also want them fixed in Sacramento.
So post your ideas here, and don't forget to invite your friends and family to submit their questions to the candidates.
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