Unfortunately, I get my daily does of Fox News when I am at my gym here in Orange (should be Red) County. I was watching, "Hanity on America," and some horrible show after it and it just looked like a high school television broadcast. It was sort of like the church retreat group somehow snuck into the main office and took over the controls. It was like watching children giving political commentary. Have we had enough? There is no longer debate about the issues but these right-wingers have resorted to calling democrats/liberals ugly. If that's the only thing the current Republican party has at election time we HAVE GOT to turn out in record numbers this election. It's time for this country to STAY THE COURSE of getting these children out of office without wavering. It's time to get back to creating a progressive society and repairing the damage done in the name of Americans by this DO NOTHING CONGRESS.

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Hey all,

Just an inspirational note around election time. There is a lot of mudslinging and anti-gay rhetoric. My mother and I got in to a pretty heavy conversation about it last night. I was venting about my anger on the direction this country has taken against the LGBT movement and some of the failure to keep our momentum moving forward. She is definitely one of the strongest women I know. See below. Hang in there and VOTE Nov. 7th, damnit! :)

Here's he note. I think this goes for ALL of us:

"I do think in your lifetime, you will see full rights extended to your community--and you can be proud of your contribution--just don't let anger/frustration keep you from being able to see the steps that get you there...don't be too angry to hear the steps of progress...OK?...'nite, m"

Hang in there everyone. The times they are a changin'

G'night,

-W

Had enough of right wing scams and party-line politics? I have. I want to see the Governator go back to Hollywood and stop vetoing LGBT rights away. I want to see the Governator pay back the over 2 Billion dollars he took from education with the failed promise of paying it back. I want to see him support the backbone of California in our firefighters, policeman and health workers NOT big business and the oil industry.

Four more years of Arnold Schwarzenegger's leadership here in California is not something that the LGBT citizens or the rest of real Californians can afford.

If everyone can skip that Starbucks this week or that Friday night cocktail and give just $5 to beat this Hollywood hack we can take California back from this right wing replublican.

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When Schwarzenegger vetoed my rights to have a family (LGBT Marriage Rights) in this state I swore I would do everything I could to get him out of office. It doesn't look like it's going to an easy win so even if you can't donate PLEASE repost this and email everyone to vote this Nov 7th and send Ahnold back to LA.

Thanks,

-Wes

Phil Angelides for Governor

Hey All,

Sorry I've been MIA the last few weeks. I've been locked in a room in Pasadena editing the industrials for Hot Topic. If I have to listen to the, "Snakes on a Plane," soundtrack one more time I am going to shoot myself. HA! The films turned out great - more on that later.

What I did want to update everyone on is the sentencing of the bashers who attacked 6 men during San Diego pride. I blogged about this when the news story just broke a few months ago. Our country is spiraling out of control. There was another gay bashing in Old Town just last month. The twist was the man was a heterosexual. The attackers thought the victim was gay because he had an earing. I'll be posting more information on the most recent attacks. I've had enough of our current political climate. Have you?

The following are excerpts from my friend Rex Wockner's article reporting on the sentencing.

SAN DIEGO -- Three men connected with the baseball-bat attacks on six gay men outside the city's July 29 LGBT Pride Festival were sentenced to prison Sept. 25.

James Carroll, 24, pleaded guilty to wielding a baseball bat, attempted murder, assault by means of force likely to produce great bodily injury, and commission of a hate crime. He was jailed for 11 years.

Lyonn Tatum, 18, pleaded guilty to stabbing one of the victims, assault with a deadly weapon, assault by means of force likely to produce great bodily injury, and commission of a hate crime. He was sent to jail for eight years.

Kenneth Lincoln, 24, pleaded guilty to being an accessory after the fact by shaving Tatum's head and tattooing him to change his appearance. He was jailed for two years and eight months.

The 15-year-old boy who took part in the attacks has pleaded guilty to assault with a deadly weapon and hate-crime charges. He has not yet been sentenced. He faces up to 13 years in juvenile detention.

One victim, Oscar Foster, almost died. He had nearly every bone in his face broken and had to undergo reconstructive surgery. He only recently was released from the hospital.

On Aug. 4, more than 2,000 people rallied and marched in the gay Hillcrest district to protest the bashings.

They were joined by Mayor Jerry Sanders, Police Chief William Lansdowne, City Attorney Michael Aguirre, lesbian City Councilwoman Toni Atkins, lesbian State Sen. Christine Kehoe, gay Chula Vista Mayor Steve Padilla, State Assemblywoman Lori Saldaña, U.S. Rep. Bob Filner, and other officials and gay community leaders.

Sanders and Lansdowne received standing ovations -- Sanders for his strongly progay statements to the media following the attacks, and Lansdowne and police detectives for working 40 hours nonstop to catch the assailants.

"The attacks ... outside the Pride Festival were cowardly and despicable," Sanders told the rally. "Clearly these violent criminals wanted to push these men that were injured back into the closet and, by doing so, they wanted to push the entire LGBT community back into the closet. We won't allow that to occur."

Chief Lansdowne told the rally that the gay community has "never asked for anything more than fairness, justice and freedom of choice -- the essence of what the Constitution guarantees everybody."