Fresno County Dems News and Election Information June 21, 2022

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Newsletter: June 21, 2022
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After the Primary Election (#After-Primary)

Uncontested Races a Missed Opportunity (#Uncontested-Races)

Clean Shared Mobility Network (#Mobility-Network)

It’s Time for an Economic Bill of Rights (#Economic-Bill)

Every Level of Government Needs to Invest in Non-Carbon Power (#Non-Carbon)

Politics 101 Returns (#Politics-101)

Problems with Measure C (#Measure-C)

National Leaders Being Blamed for Global Problems (#Global-Problems)

Watch January 6 Committee Hearings at Democratic Party HQ (#Insurrection-Hearings)

Precinct Captains (#Precinct-Captain)

Fellowship Program (#Fellowship-Program)

Democratic Party Website and HQ (#Dem-HQ)

We have completed the year’s first election down and are now staring at the general election later this year as the goal line. For state positions, the Democrats came in strong during the primary, setting the stage for a vital domination in November.

Looking at other state governments legislating for secession and denying Joe Biden’s election win show the damage the Republican Party can do these days when they get a foot in the door.

Lanhee Chen (R) got the most votes in the state controller race and will go head to head with Malia Cohen (D) in the general election. The Democratic vote was split four ways in the primary and the Republicans fielded only one candidate, so November’s contest will have less of a Republican advantage.

Congressional District 13 will come down to a contest between John Duarte (R) and Adam Gray (D), as local Phil Arballo (D) fell short of finishing in the top two. In Congressional District 22, incumbent David Valadao (R) looks shaky after receiving far fewer votes than Rudy Salas (D), however, Valadao suffered from a strong Republican challenge by Insurrection supporters in the primary; in November, the district will likely be more competitive.

It seems impossible in a country as loudly opinionated and self-confident as the United States, but every election cycle there are several positions with only a single name on the ballot. When there is only one candidate, it is impossible to say the position is elected democratically.

When you filled out your most recent ballot, you saw some of those one-person races. Every one of those could potentially benefit from a new knowledgeable and effective person throwing their hat into the ring. The key is finding and supporting candidates for every single race, not simply ones that seem glamorous or Democratic shoo-ins.

So think back to those unopposed officials getting to slide into an “elected” job even if they only receive a single vote. Then think of who you know who might be able to do better.
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Fresno’s Clean Shared Mobility Network is meeting on June 21. The meeting will address how the bike share program will work in our city. Community input is encouraged and will be documented.

June 21, 5:30 p.m.

July 19, 5:30 p.m.

Aug. 16, 5:30 p.m.

Join the Zoom meeting:

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Meeting ID: 874 8496 0971

Passcode: csmn

Back when the country was struggling to remake itself out of the Great Depression, FDR pushed for the nation to adopt a second Bill of Rights. That new slate of laws would not just place limits on governmental power but also dictate the duties our government has to its people.

However, the push for expanded rights faltered and today we still live in a country where our governments are allowed to say that ensuring access to housing, full education, Internet connectivity and union representation are not their responsibility and are up to the free market to solve.

We have amendments to protect us from the government but do not have the amendments to make our government protect us.

The growing inequality in our nation shows we cannot rely on the old system any more. The rights the labor movements of the past fought and bled for have slowly been slipping away, leaving us with worker exploitation, insufficient housing stock and low ownership rates. Even stopping the decline is not enough, as the effects of climate change are universally making the land in which we live less suitable to live a good life.


We are in the middle of a climate crisis feedback loop. Withstanding the increasing heat and weather volatility, there are many new potential uses for much more electric power to keep us cool or desalinate water at the same time we absolutely cannot survive increasing our carbon fuel generators.

Heat waves and rain fluctuations are hitting every part of the planet. Here in California we have certainly seen from past performance that we cannot rely on PG&E and other traditional energy companies to take the kind of urgent proactive action we need.

This production focus needs to occur simultaneously with a rush to take fossil fuel powered vehicles and machines out of circulation and replace them with electric motors.

Since California has the lowest rate of home ownership in the country, there needs to be a special focus on incentivizing or forcing rental property owners to install electric vehicle chargers. Doing so would also help push electrification benefits to the working class, who have often felt left out in favor of those who can afford Teslas.
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For the third summer in a row, “Politics 101” will occur every Wednesday in July. The dates are July 6, 13, 20 and 27 from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. via Zoom.

Discussion topics include voting, elections, elected representatives, how to run for office and the Fresno region political power structure. There will be special guest speakers.

Meeting ID- 811 6440 1959
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The Fresno County Democratic Party and other community-based organizations are calling on policy officials to delay offering up their version of the Measure C renewal to public vote. While the source of funding is necessary, as it stands the spending plan does not reflect the needs or desires of the many communities that make up our county.

The primary reason for this missing reflection is an insufficient level of community engagement to determine the real needs of our living communities.

The current proposed spending plan gives too much attention to expanding large-scale thoroughfares to new pricey housing developments at the edges of our cities with not enough being given to ensuring complete streets, street maintenance and public transit.

Fresno County has spent decades leaving its historic communities to decay while benefiting big developers buying up farmland at the fringe and their customers on the market to buy big new single-family homes.


President Biden and Congressional Democrats have had a lot of anger directed their way from people feeling the effects of rising prices. In this, they share the hot seat with nearly every other sitting leader across the world because the problems we are facing now are global problems. This is bigger than any one government, as you can see from the nearly identical news headlines across the globe.

It is clear that many of the economic problems besetting us are beyond any one country’s ability to fix precisely because we can see those problems arising simultaneously in many nations. The swing forward and back of demand and production contracting and expanding in abrupt cycles responding to Covid surges and imperialist invitations have sent the global economy lurching.

However, although the root causes of Russian militarism and waves of viral mutations might be beyond the ability of our public servants to erase, there is much they can do to protect those who are most vulnerable to the resulting pain.

We need to enforce transmission-safe spaces so people feel safe interacting with the economy, provide tax-funded medical care for those who fall victim to disease and ensure protected medical leave when a bout of illness means people cannot work for weeks or face months of long-Covid reducing them to a crawl.

We need to provide assistance to those at the bottom who have no choice but to continue running their engines under crushing fuel prices, and we must work to electrify our economy to provide new choices so this does not happen again.
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Join us at the Democratic Party HQ (1033 U St.), to enjoy coffee and doughnuts as we watch more live broadcasts of the January 6 Committee hearings. Join like-minded friends as we hear the “whole story” about what happened on January 6, 2021.
The next committee hearing will be held on June 23 starting at 10 a.m.

Register to attend at

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The committee hasn’t announced a formal schedule for the rest of the hearings, but there could be as many as eight in total through June, and possibly a final hearing in September—right before the November midterm election.
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Want to help us win in 2022? Be a precinct captain! Become a part of our team! To join us, e-mail [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]?subject=Re%3A%20Precinct%20Captains) .
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We are helping to create the next generation of Democrats in the Central Valley. Are you a student interested in getting involved and learning more about the political world? You would be ideal for our fellowship program! For more information, e-mail [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]?subject=Re%3B%20Fellowship%20Program) .

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Visit Your Democratic Headquarters! Our office is open, and we can’t wait to see you again! Help us register people to vote or change to vote by mail. Pass out candidate or issue literature and pick up candidate swag! Sign up to help us around the office!

News and events will alway arise faster than this newsletter can come out. That is why the Fresno County Democratic Party website is the best place to get regular updates on upcoming events in the area, as well as information on ways to get involved. There is also information on scheduled meetings of the many Democratic clubs in Fresno County, so you can find one that most suits you and your interests

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The Democratic Party HQ (1033 U St ([link removed]) .) is open 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. Monday–Friday. Call 559-495-0606 (tel:559-495-0606) or e-mail [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]?subject=Re%3A%20Newsletter-6-21-22) for information or to volunteer.

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Our newsletter is prepared by Francis Horan.

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