Linda Sutton - LA Progressive

Arnold’s Bathtub

There is NO WAY Pat Brown would allow the type of cuts Arnold is trying to force onto Californians.

WOLF! WOLF! WOLF!!! Cries the State Legislature

At the April meeting of Progressive Democrats of Los Angeles, we considered the initiatives on the upcoming May 19 ballot. We urge you to READ them as well as the analysis pieces. These were put onto the ballot at the end of the budget session in February when Republican Abel Maldonado, Santa Maria, cut a [...]

Changing California’s Initiative Process

By Linda Sutton

he Initiative Reform Task Force met during the Democratic Party’s November E-Board meeting in Anaheim to propose changes in California’s initiative process. Chief among them is the immediate creation of a statewide “watch network” to analyze proposed initiatives as soon as they appear — BEFORE they are released for signatures. Click here for the November [...]

Ballot Recommendations – Progressive Democrats of Los Angeles

By Linda Sutton

Here are the ballot recommendations from the Progressive Democrats of Los Angeles for 2008 Click here for the March 8, 2011 ballot recommendations Click here for November 2010 Recommendations YES — PROP 1A — “Safe, Reliable High Speed Passenger Train Bond” BOND State bond issue to build high-speed train linking Southern California, Sacramento , San [...]

Progressive Democrats of LA Votes NO on Schwarzenegger’s PROP 11 Redistricting

By Linda Sutton

by Linda Sutton – Progressive Democrats of Los Angeles voted overwhelmingly to OPPOSE the Proposition 11 redistricting initiative on the November ballot. Their endorsement committee voted UNANIMOUSLY to recommend opposing it, because the complex measure will result in Republicans taking control of the redistricting agenda. This constitutional amendment would apply only to the state offices [...]

TRUTH NOW on Proposition 11…the Fake Redistricting Reform Brought to You by Gov. Schwartzenegger and His Wrong-Wing Republican Gang

By Linda Sutton

Want to live in a Red State? Want to have gridlock on redistricting in addition to the budget? Want to have the Republicans put in charge of “protecting” our coastline? This is the reality of the so-called “Voters First” proposition being put on the ballot this year by Arnold and his Republican fat cat cronies. [...]

An Inconvenient Impeachment

By Linda Sutton

There he goes again, Congressman Dennis Kucinich, reading into the Congressional record just 35 of the reasons why this Congress should be impeaching this sitting president and his VP. With diminutive stature but steely resolve, Kucinich forcefully takes his place alongside the earlier patriots who stood up to executive abuse, the “high crimes and misdemeanors,” [...]

Ethically Challenged??? So-Called “Independent Expenditures” for Blumenfield, With Love from Dad & Howard Berman, Current Employer

By Linda Sutton

Linda Sutton Ignored by the mainstream media this Wednesday, the Fair Political Practices Commission complaint filed against “Valley Democrats for Change” by attorney, Nicole Kuklok-Waldman, is heating up the race in the 40th Assembly District. It entered cyberspace Thursday through the subscription-only website, Capital Morning Report. What it appears to be, said an employee at [...]

“Body of War” Premieres in Los Angeles with PDA Benefit

By Linda Sutton

One hundred and ten Progressive Democrats of America members and their guests filled the center section of the Nuart Theater in Los Angeles for the premiere of Phil Donahue and Ellen Spiro’s new film, “Body of War.” It was a sold-out house and a very special evening for everyone lucky enough to have gotten their [...]

‘Tis the Season of “Membership Stacking for Endorsements:” Stonewall Next in the Headlights

By Linda Sutton

Most Californians are sure that their election is over. All the media coverage is blaring babble from the most recent presidential debate in distant states as well as other inane minutia that denigrates the process. Yet, if you look closely, really closely, you may find evidence that there is yet another election coming up here [...]