My relaxing and totally apolitical weekend -- AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Saturday, up at 5:30

Morning Session at Operation Gratitude.  Working the tape line sealing packages.  Cutting-edge 3m taping machines.  Cheap Chinese tape.  You do the math.  Wound up running back and forth around the gummed up machine with armloads of packages.  Flesh against Steel! Man against Machine! Manly Men Doing Manly Things with other manly man in Manly Ways! Did I mention we did 6,000 packages in the previous thread?

Lunch and then off to work a street corner GOTV operation with a giant Merlin Froyd banner and a smile. Four hours in the bright California sun.

Dinner, then GOTV phone banking at Burbank GOP HQ 'til 8:30.

Sunday, up at 5:30

Off to stand outside St. Charles Borromeo church handing out pro-life endorsement flyers for candidates 'til 2 p.m.

Then off on a whirlwind tour of my end of the San Fernando Valley replacing trashed or stolen campaign signs.

Dinner, then GOTV phone banking 'til 8:30.

And if my ass is dragging, I can't imagine how tired  Merlin Froyd must be.  He's visited over 15,000 homes in his district personally canvassing for votes, plus dealing with the press, plus dealing with the GOP leadership... he's a little guy, but he's a tough little guy, smart and honest, and California could do way worse.  Lord knows, we have before...

Join me, Saturday, 11/30, Laurel Canyon and Ventura Boulevard in Studio City

To support Merlin Froyd for Congress and the American Wave in California.   Bring signs and flags or I have spares.  Parking behind the Rite Aid. 2-6pm, weather permitting.

You can't miss me.

Merlin Froyd on the Economy

Merlin Froyd, Howard Berman on Term Limits, Gerrymandering

Merlin Froyd on Redistricting California

Merlin Froyd on the LA Stimulus "Jobs"

Merlin Froyd: Going Green Through Greenbacks!

Merlin Froyd on Prop 23 and the California Carbon Initiative

Merlin Froyd, Sherman Oaks Debate Opening Statement

Howard Berman (D., CA-28) Bails on L.A. Candidates' Forum

...in spite of previous commitment to appear.

Berman's office cited Berman's need to remain in D.C. on 'legislative requirements.'  In light of the laughably superficial series of bills being scheduled while the Dem leadership puts off votes on taxation, DISCLOSE, union voting and other pressing issues, we can only assume that Berman understands that those post offices won't simply name themselves. There are also rumors that Berman's Foreign Affairs committee has booked Colbert for an encore engagement...

"where's Howard?"

It remains to be seen whether Berman's busy legislative schedule will keep him from his scheduled October 20th debate with opponent Merlin Froyd as well....

Merlin Froyd on Vodkapundit!

Excellent Interview with an Excellent Candidate!

Friday Night Support Signs -- Studio City!

Merlin Froyd for the 28th Congressional District!

Donations Gratefully Accepted!

Merlin Froyd (R-CAND, CA-28) On the Economy and Taxes...

He wants you to control your own money.  So control some of it his direction...

Merlin Froyd on Immigration (R-CAND, CA-28)

Howard Berman (D-28th District, CA) insults Voter's Intelligence.

Howard Berman, the 28-year Congressman who heads the House Foreign Affairs Committee, deigned to return to his district for a meeting with the Sherman Oaks Homeowner's Association.

He stood there in the corner schmoozing while the Association board talked about the squatter problem in Sherman Oaks: so many houses have been foreclosed south of Ventura Boulevard that a large squatter community has sprung up, moving into and in many cases even running businesses out of the foreclosed homes.

Sherman Oaks is one of the more upscale communities at this end of the San Fernando Valley, and south of Ventura is its more upscale end.  To have a squatter situation like that, with the accompanying increases in crime and squalor, in such a neighborhood is a telling indictment of this Administration's handling of the current economic meltdown.

Yet when Berman took the podium to speak, he seemed never to have heard a word they said.  After applauding his own vote on Obamacare, to tepid applause, he praised his own vote for the stimulus bill... the one that has done nothing to help the people of Sherman Oaks.  He repeated Obama's debunked claim of 2.8 million jobs created, while boasting of all the jobs the bill was bringing to his district through the government programs it funded... while ignoring the fact those jobs were going to exisiting state and city empoloyees who didn't live in his district.

He didn't seem to be able to pick up on the connection between the trouble people were having getting loans and the Administration's demand that the lenders start keeping larger cash reserves against what Geithner has called "a future government intervention."

He knew nothing about the judicially imposed economic and ecological disaster in the Central Valley, where hundreds of miles of farms have been destroyed by having their water turned off, and didn't seem to see why having no farms might not be a good thing for California.  He suggested that he'd heard the water had been turned on again, which is not correct, in fact, further cuts are imminent.

He thought Ahmedinijad getting the Bomb might be a bad thing, but didn't know what to do about it.

He supported the Ground Zero mosque.

He did agree to debate his GOP opponent, Merlin Froyd, which is a change from a week ago when his didn't know he had an opponent.  Berman has done virtually no campaigning in the District he has come to view as his private fief.

He supported repealing the Bush tax cuts for the upper income brackets, ignoring the fact that the people listening to him were IN the upper income brackets.

There was no sense of urgency in the man, and damned little, in my opinion, of any real interest in the concerns of his constituents.  He had nothing to say to squatters but was all over carbon credits, loves 'em.

Now for someone who treats the interests of the people with genuine passion, consider his opponent, Merlin Froyd...

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Merlin Froyd for Congress!

Running against Howard Berman...