Posts Tagged ‘recall’

VECTOR CONTROL

January 16, 2008

Tues | Jan 8 Oh, what a simpler pursuit politics must have seemed for Arnold Schwarzenegger when all it required was gathering together a few star-struck rubes and intimating your opponents were either homosexual, transgendered or didn’t smoke cigars. Back then, 2003, the thing he told us he could do best was handle money. The [...]

WHY DELONG DELAY AT DA PRESS-TELEGRAM?

November 29, 2007

THIS JUST IN (the Press-Telegram, that is): “Critics of Councilman Gary DeLong have launched a Web site that implies a recall vote could be in the making.”
Another one?
No, the same one (www.solongdelong.com) that The District revealed in its Writing Shotgun column last Saturday and that LBreport.com followed with quotes from DeLong (and journalistically responsible props to The [...]

SO LONG, DELONG: NEW WEBSITE ADVOCATES RECALLING 3RD DISTRICT COUNCILMAN

November 24, 2007

To music and lyrics played in a dead-on impersonation of the Beach Boys, a brand new website — www.solongdelong.com — is advocating the recall of Long Beach Third District City Councilmember Gary DeLong.
“Gary, Gary What Went Wrong?” asks the song in its high harmonic opening vocals, backed by the twang and rumble of classic 1960s [...]

THE UNDEAD INITIATIVE

October 23, 2007

Zombie assault on the Electoral College
Halloween is hard upon us, so perhaps it’s only fitting that something once believed dead is reported to have risen from the grave.  Unfortunately, the zombie in question is nothing so fragrant as a rotting corpse– it’s the ballot initiative to split California’s electoral college votes.

 

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