In This Newsletter:

ADEM In Person Voting 
Saturday 1-21-23 - 10 am to 2 pm Dem HQ

Stop The Hate Town Hall #2

New Year: Chaotic Republicans
and Democratic Priorities

Fresno Democrats Want Your Priorities

Honoring Woman of Action Carol Goldsmith

Classified Documents: Clutter or Crime?

California Alliance for Retired Americans

Workshop on Local Hiring Agreements

California’s Water Storage:
Floods, Fields, and Forecasts

In Memoriam: Jay Hubbell

Precinct Captains

Fellowship Program

Democratic Party Website and HQ

New Year: Chaotic Republicans
and Democratic Priorities

It took the House Republicans 15 tries to elect the speaker who was clearly their choice from the first ballot. Then they immediately voted to tear down the IRS and abolish income tax. This is a preview of the sure to be exhausting next two years.

However, even with the House of Representatives effectively paralyzed by a majority who has no investment in legislating, Democratic politicians are still at work in the Senate and the departments of the Executive branch. Biden is coming to California this week to talk with experts on the central coast about the damage from the rainstorms.

While the Republican party will be obsessed with Hunter Biden’s by now nearly mythological laptop in an even less relevant echo of the anti-Hillary benghazi and email server hearings, Democrats are still at work. Biden managed to pass the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and actually achieve bipartisan support. It gave $284 billion for transportation needs, which includes repairing bridges and roadways, public transit and airports, electric vehicles and low emission public transportation; $65 billion for broadband internet; $73 billion for power infrastructure; and $55 billion for clean drinking water. Democrats also passed gun control legislation, boosted domestic semiconductor production, funded climate change mitigation, capped drug costs for medicare recipients, increased corporate taxes, strengthened the IRS to target powerful tax cheats, and reformed the 1887 Electoral Count Act to close many of the theoretical loopholes that Trump’s supporters hoped to exploit to override the national election.

The Republican party, who’s last president demanded they remove support for Ukraine from the 2016 party platform and was later impeached for blackmailing President Zelensky by threatening to withhold military aid. In contrast, the Democratic administration has managed to coordinate an international response to Russia’s invasion while aiding the defense with extraordinarily deft use of intelligence work and material support.

Fresno Democrats Want Your Priorities

We at the Fresno County Democratic Party are reaching out to our local Dem Voters to invite you to participate in a quick survey that will help communicate the issues that are most present and pressing to you and your community. Please follow the link below  Thank you for your participation.

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Honoring Woman of Action Carole Goldsmith

Democratic Women in Action will be holding their 6th annual celebration honoring Dr. Carole Goldsmith on January 21, 2023 at 6:00 pm, at Pardini's Restaurant on 2257 W Shaw Ave in Fresno, CA. 

You can buy tickets or sponsorship at:
https://secure.actblue.com/donate/dwia-woa2023

Tickets $75

All tickets include a one year membership in DWIA. All funds raised through this event support Democratic Women In Action.

For more information please contact:

Gail Gaston at 559-681-3140

Use the ActBlue page to send payment or mail checks to
DWIA:
c/o Theresa Barretta
221 W Herndon Ave Sp 22
Fresno CA 93650

Classified Documents, Clutter or Crime?

Conservatives love to say that “all politicians are the same.” This equivocation is in fact just an attempt to camouflage the unique awfulness of their chosen representatives. 

You remember when Donald Trump’s home was raided after he refused to return classified documents that the Federal government realized he had taken when he left the presidency. Donald Trump fought against all requests and efforts to retrieve the boxes of material until the FBI was forced to storm the Mar-a-Lago compound and forcibly recover them.

Contrast that behavior with Biden’s own lawyers coming forward out of the blue to notify the government that they had found some classified documents while reviewing his Vice Presidential collection. President Biden then immediately requested that they perform an extra search of his private home where a few more classified documents were found. This is a clear difference between a mistake and a deception.

When Colin Powell kept a private Secretary of State email server, it was fine. When Hillary Clinton did the same, it was a disaster. When Joe Biden voluntarily returns some items no one knew were missing, it is the same as when Donald Trump refuses to give up government property until the cops bust down his door. This is the conservative mindset.

California’s Water Storage:
Floods, Fields, and Forecasts

When California’s European settlers began building dams the primary goal was preventing floods and harnessing water power. Now, our state’s increasingly unreliable rain patterns have left our network of reservoirs trying to balance flood control with stockpiling water reserves. 

Law written without allowance for discretion can produce bad incomes. Such was the case for the half-century old law dictating how much reserve capacity river reservoirs must hold by each calendar date. Truely, it is important that we are not surprised by late storms dumping flood waters onto already full reservoirs, but our weather forecasts are much better now than when the old law was written. Fortunately, the new law will allow more storage, as water managers can use advanced warning to drain down lakes in the days before the storm hits, instead of sitting on unused capacity just in case.

Precinct Captains

Want to help us win in 2022? Be a precinct captain. Become a part of our team. To join us, e-mail [email protected].

Fellowship Program!

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].

Democratic Party Website and HQ

Your Democratic Headquarters is closed during the month of December. The Democratic Party is always in need of volunteers, click or scan the QR code with your phone and sign up to help!

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

https://fresnocountydemocrats.org/

The Democratic Party HQ (1033 U St.) is Closed during December but open the rest of the year 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. Monday–Friday. Call 559-495-0606 or e-mail [email protected] for information or to volunteer.

Support your local Democratic Party by donation via  ActBlue or mail a check to Fresno County Democratic Party, P.O. Box 5795, Fresno, CA 93755.

Our newsletter is prepared by Francis Horan.

Democratic Party Headquarters: 1033 U Street, Fresno, CA 93721

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