This is what we are up against in California
By Debra D. Bryant
**Actor Ossie Davis,** a longtime Communist Party supporter, served on the Rainbow Coalition’s National Board in 1987, as did “former” Party members **lawyer Arthur Kinoy,**
Kentucky civil rights activist **Anne Braden** and
Party supporter **Rev. Ben Chavis. **
**Longtime Communist Party supporter (now Congresswoman) Maxine Waters** also served, as did
Manhattan Borough President and Party supporter **Percy Sutton,** reportedly a “money man” during Jackson’s 1984 run for the Presidency.
It was the Maoists however, who really ran the Rainbow organization.
Rainbow Coalition’s National Board in 1987
**Longtime Communist Party supporter (now Congresswoman) Maxine Waters also served.**
**Democratic Socialists of America largely missed the boat in 1984, but were all in by 1988.**
**Longtime Democratic Socialists of America supporter Heather Booth served on the 1987 Rainbow Board, as did DSA comrades Dolores Huerta of the United Farmworkers.**
**Kurt Stand**, a DSA comrade in Washington, DC helped the Spring 1988 issue of the Rainbow Organizer.
At the time he led a spy ring, stealing military secrets for communist East Germany. He was later sentenced to 17 years in prison.
**Former CWP members are still very powerful in the New York Democratic Party and also around Southern California Congresswoman Judy Chu.**
Line of March held multiple key positions in the Rainbow. LOM activists in the Rainbow included
**Carla Wallace**, steering committee Kentucky Rainbow Coalition and
**Clarence Lusane**, a leading Washington, DC activist.
**In 1984, LOM supporter Josie Camacho was Rainbow Coalition co-chair in California’s 8th District; in 1989,**
**Larry Hobson was co-chair of the USC-Fresno Rainbow Coalition**; and
**Leni Marin** was chairman of Filipinos for Jackson.
**The League and its supporters dominated the Rainbow in California, Boston and to a slightly lesser degree in New York and Chicago. **
Altogether the League probably had at least a thousand members working inside the Rainbow.
In 2017, **Freedom Road**entered into an alliance with the **Communist Party USA** and **Democratic Socialists of America** to rebuild the Rainbow inside and outside of the Democratic Party. Freedom Road is also close to **Steve Phillips and PowerPAC+**
This unholy alliance is working on a new Rainbow Coalition. This time its called the **“New American Majority”** and its coming to a polling place near you.
**San Francisco lawyer Steve Phillips**is one the most influential, and from a Constitutional point of view, one of the most dangerous political operatives in the country today.
With access to huge wealth through his marriage to **Susan Sandler **(daughter of billionaire leftist donors **Herb and Marion Sandler)**, Steve Phillips has been able to elect stealth socialist “candidates of color” all over the country
Steve Phillips’ main vehicle for funding and electing his stable of candidates until recent times was **PowerPAC+.**
From the PowerPAC+ website:
Originally called PAC+, PowerPAC+ is a political action committee formed in 2012 to build the political power of America’s multiracial majority.
It emerged from the groundbreaking work of **Vote Hope in 2007-08.**
At that time, then-**Senator Barack Obama** was assembling his Presidential campaign and California’s primary moved from June to a more influential month, February. “We created Vote Hope, the first super-PAC aimed at supporting Barack Obama’s bid for president. Vote Hope was the largest independent effort in the nation to increase voter turnout in communities of color. It drew in $10 million, and expanded to 18 states during the primary season”.
After President Obama’s election, “we set up a DC office and worked closely with the administration’s personnel staff” to build a **Diversity Talent Bank** that the White House used to identify and hire more than 60 people including **Associate Attorney General Tony West**.
During that same period, many in our network became leaders in non-profits, philanthropy, and government such as Vote Hope fundraiser and former board member **Benjamin Jealous who became NAACP president”**.
In 2009, “we convened” the leadership of the largest civil rights groups in the country and helped execute a media campaign targeting senators who were wavering on the health care reform bill. That effort led to the creation of a coalition of labor, civil rights, and progressive groups who conducted the **One Nation Working Together 10/2/10 March on Washington.**
Since then, PowerPAC+ has consulted with the leadership of the Democratic Party, organizations and campaigns about how to best build support in the communities of color.
Thanks to our many donors, we have been able to support some of the most exciting leaders to emerge in modern politics. From **Hawaii Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard** – a two-time veteran and first **Samoan**in Congress, to **Congressman Mark Takano** – the first non-white openly gay member of Congress, to **Ohio Minority Whip Nina Turner **– who is standing up for voting rights in this important swing state – our group of social justice champions represent an exciting future for American politics
**Senator Mazie Hirono (Hawaii), Senator Kamala Harris (California), Senator Cory Booker (New Jersey), Texas Congressman Mark Veasy and California Congressman Pete Aguilar are among the many new American leaders PowerPAC+ has elected on your “behalf.”**
While open and public in many ways, PowerPAC+ is still a stealth operation. **Most PowerPAC+ people are covert Marxists**.
As are most of the candidates they support. Steve Phillips made sure that only trusted friends would serve in the PowerPAC+ leadership. Most of his inner circle were old Stanford University comrades, or fellow California student radicals. The **“Stanford Mafia”** as they sometimes jokingly call themselves
http://www.trevorloudon.com/2018/05/the-rainbow-conspiracy-part-4-steve-phillipss-powerpac-marxist-money-machine-for-the-new-progressive-majority/
PowerPAC+’s key leaders include:
**Aimee Allison, Senior Vice President PowerPAC+. A Stanford graduate,** Amy Allison and Steve Phillips** knew each other well, even traveling to Alabama together in 1988.
In 1989, Aimee Allison, served on the Stanford Council of Presidents (Stanford’s student government leadership body), with **Chin-Chin Chen, David Brown and Ingrid Nava **(a current PowerPAC+ board member).
All were elected on the **“Slate of the Times” ticket**, which was supported by the **League of Revolutionary Struggle-aligned “Peoples Platform.”**
Allison, then an Army Reserve combat medic, and active in Stanford University’s Ujamoa, African-American center, was also interviewed in the **Unity Organizing Committee’s Unity of February 18, 1991**, regarding conscientious objection to the Gulf War.
Allison was later a director at the San Francisco Department on the Status of Women and led several sessions at the United Nations Commission on the status of women NGO conference.
**Julie Martinez went on to work on Capitol Hill as a Special Assistant to far left California Senator Alan Cranston.**
**Andy Wong is President of PowerPAC.org, **
**POWERPAC+’s sister organization. **
He also serves on the PowerPAC+ board. Wong wasn’t educated at Stanford (he studied electrical engineering in Civil Engineering at UC Berkeley and Applied Math at San Francisco State University), but he worked very closely with Steve Phillips on radical student politics.
**Andy Wong was an active member of Unity Organizing Committee’s Student Unity Network. He worked on the Unity newspaper and in May 1992,** guest-edited the paper with two current PowerPAC+ board members:
**Stacey Leyton and Ingrid Nava. **
Wong began his political career by winning a series of student government elections at San Francisco State University, UC Berkeley, UCLA and Stanford. He went on to run city and county campaigns in the San Francisco Bay Area, electing “people of color and gay community activists to
Community College Board,
BART Board,
School Board and the
Board of Supervisors.”
Since then, he has “helped flip the most red to blue Congressional races for one state (California) and continues to run PowerPAC+’s support of candidates of color around the country
**Steve Phillips, Julie Marinez Ortega, Andy Wong and Lisa Le were all key organizers of the 1987 student March on Sacramento that drew 8,000 people to the state capitol to “support expanded educational opportunities for students of color.**
PowerPAC+’s board of directors is also clearly descended from the
League of Revolutionary Struggle, its successor
Unity Organizing Committee, Stanford University and radical student politics.
**The board is a who’s who of prominent non-profit execs, legal professionals, well-connected Democratic Party activists and media strategists, and particularly minority voter registration and “Get Out The Vote” experts. Almost all are from far left backgrounds**
Notable board members have included:
**Stacey Abrams,** State Representative from Georgia,
House Minority Leader for the Georgia General Assembly.
Democratic candidate for Governor of Georgia.
**Greg Akili**, a Senior Adviser to the Black Workers Center,
Project Coordinator at Corporate Accountability International.
Previously SEIU Local 1000,
Obama for America,
California State Assembly.
Early member of Democratic Socialists of America.
**Iris Archuleta, **CEO of Emerald Consulting,
Antioch California. Formerly active at Stanford University
Keith Archuleta, Chair Antioch Economic Development Commission
**Patricia Barrera, Director of Legislative Affairs & Community Advocacy at Alameda County Medical Center. Formerly a Stanford University MEChA leader with fellow PowerPAC+ board member Gina Hernandez.**
**Maria Echaveste, **currently a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and a co-founder of the
Nueva Vista Group, a consulting firm based in Washington, D.C., that works with nonprofit organizations, associations and corporations on such issues as immigration, healthcare, telecommunications, labor and finances.
Her clients include **AOL, Time Warner and the Rockefeller Foundation. From 1998 to 2001, **
Echaveste served as Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief of Staff to President Bill Clinton.
Echaveste managed President Clinton’s domestic policy initiatives on education, civil rights and immigration.
At Stanford University in the mid-1970s, Echaveste was a leader of MECHhA and in a small group called “
Students for Equity,” an “umbrella organization for all minorities.”
This group was led by Cuba-visiting Black Student Union leader **Charles Ogletree. **
In 1991, Harvard Law Professor Ogletree would find fame as **Anita Hill’s **lawyer, leading the charge against Supreme Court nominee **Clarence Thomas. **
Ogletree also claims to have mentored both **Michelle Obama and Barack Obama** during their respective periods at Harvard.
Barack Obama participated in Ogletree’s Saturday School Program, which were designed to “expose minority students, in particular, to critical issues in the study of law.” According to Ogletree, the Obama’s have called on him for advice since that time. In September 2014, President Barack Obama nominated Maria Echaveste to become the US Ambassador to Mexico, but she withdrew her name from consideration.
**Marcelo Gaete, president of the board of Mi Familia Vota.**
He serves as Vice President of Public and Government Affairs with Entravision Communications Corporation, manages the company’s community and government relations, works with national organizations and serves as a spokesperson for the organization.
Entravision Communications Corporation is the second largest Spanish-language media company in the U.S.
**Andrew Gillum, Mayor of Tallahasse Florida.**
Currently running to secure the Democratic Party nomination in the Florida gubernatorial race.
**Hans Goff, Director of Member Engagement and Political Strategy at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. Former CEO of Voting Works, LLC.**
**Maria Gomez, serves on the National Council of La Raza, General Board of Directors.**
**Miguel Gonzalez, Spokesperson, National Education Association.**
**Gina Hernandez,*$ is Director of Arts, Stanford University. Hernandez is a former Stanford MEChA leader and was active in the League of Revolutionary Struggle’s Peoples Platform. She also served on the student desk of the Unity newspaper. In 1991, Gina Hernandez and fellow PowerPAC+ board member Stacey Leyton, were editors of Unity’s Spring student supplement.
**Stacey Leyton – San Francisco, CA Partner at Altshuler Berzon LLP.**
** Leyton served as a law clerk to Clinton-appointed Associate Justice Stephen Breyer (another Stanford alumnus) of the United States Supreme Court, Judge Stephen Reinhardt of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and Judge Susan Illston of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. **
In 2011, Leyton was named a “California Lawyer of the Year” by California Lawyer Magazine for her work in a case challenging cutbacks to the California program providing in-home care to Medicaid recipients.
She has been selected by the Northern California Super Lawyers 2013-2015 as a Benchmark Plaintiff California Local Litigation Star 2012-2015 and Benchmark Plaintiff Top 150 Women in Litigation in 2013.
**Stacey Leyton** was extremely close to the League of Revolutionary Struggle at Stanford University. She was chairperson of the LRS’ student electoral front, the Peoples Platform. She was also active in Maoist-aligned Stanford Out of South Africa, the Rainbow Agenda and was a co-founder of the
**California Alliance of Progressive Student Activists. **
In December 1990, Leyton made a trip to Cuba for a meeting of the Soviet-controlled International Union of Students and the Federation of University Students in Cuba. She was also treated to a three-hour speech by **Fidel Castro**.
In 1992, Stacey Leyton was vice president of the United States Students Association.
**Jennifer Pae, Director of FairVote California. **
Pae “continues to travel around the country with Camp Wellstone, New American Leaders Project, and APIA Vote, training hundreds of activists to run effective and strategic campaigns.” Pae was Project Director for PowerPAC+, **a founding staff member of 18MillionRising.org and Project Manager for Voter Service at the League of Women Voters of California,**
where she worked to “engage young people, women, and people of color in the political process.”
**Solomon Rivera, Deputy Chief of Staff to Los Angeles Democratic Congresswoman Karen Bass.**"
For many years Bass was an active supporter of another 1980s Maoist group Line of March. She has visited Cuba several times.
**Catalina Ruiz-Healy, Vice President, Rappaport Family Foundation.**
**Renee Saucedo, Organizer & Attorney at La Raza Centro Legal, San Francisco. Saucedo has worked as a staff attorney at La Raza Centro Legal, the SF Day Labor Program and as the Executive Director of the Northern California Coalition for Immigrant Rights. **
She helped create the San Francisco Immigrant Rights Commission and served as its first Chair for four years. Saucedo helped “spearhead almost every immigrant-related legislation or policy in the city, from housing subsidies to non-citizens in Public Housing to having San Francisco be declared an ‘INS Raid-free Zone.'” Saucedo was a panelist at the 2002 Committees of Correspondence National Conference and Convention at San Francisco State University.
**Gloria Totten**, President of Progressive Majority, a “national multi-issue organization dedicated to electing progressive champions at the state and local levels.” She also developed what is now the “most comprehensive national progressive candidate recruitment program in the country. Under Gloria’s leadership,
Progressive Majority has established permanent state offices in Arizona, California, Colorado, Minnesota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Washington and Wisconsin. She has also worked to establish the Racial Justice Campaign, a Progressive Majority program to prioritize the election of candidates of color.”
**Norman Yee,** San Francisco Board of Education President.
**Crystal Zermeno,** a former Stanford University MEChA leader. Zermeno has served in various capacities with the “let’s turn Texas blue” Texas Organizing Project, developing “campaign strategy, fundraising and, as Director of Electoral Strategy, developing and implementing TOP’s local and statewide electoral program.” Zermeno has also worked as staff on a number of different political campaigns including a successful State Assembly race in Alameda County, California and the SEIU New Mexico effort in Albuquerque and Las Cruces to elect President Obama.
**Rebecca Wasserman, **Deputy Director of Government Relations at SEIU. Former Deputy Director of Government Affairs with the anti-Israel organization, J Street.
Zermeno worked with PowerPAC.org as their Director of Operations, conducting a statewide mapping of California to assess priority geographies for investment in electoral work with the expressed goal of “improving participation of communities of color in the electoral process.”
**Pat Diaz** is the President of the highly influential Mexican American Political Association, Los Angeles.
**Robyn Gabel **is currently a Democratic member of the Illinois House of Representatives, representing the 18th District.
**Kim Geron **is now an Associate Professor of Political Science at California State University East Bay and Vice President of the California Faculty Association. She serves on the boards of the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance and the Chinese Progressive
**Roger Green** is a Democratic New York state assemblyman, Brooklyn. Green endorsed the LRS’ Unity newspaper in 1988, alongside long serving Illinois Democratic Congress-member **Luis Gutierrez**, a one time member of the House Intelligence Committee. Both were Rainbow Coalition activists.
**DeDe McClure, of the Rainbow Coalition, is the former president of the United Community Democratic Club, San Diego. She is the former president of the San Diego Chapter of the National Women’s Political Caucus.**
**Jean McGuire**is on the Boston School Committee.
**Deborah Moy **is the Chair of the Asian/Pacific Caucus of the California Democratic Party, San Francisco. She is also a staffer of LRS Asian-American publication East Wind.
**Mike Murase** is a former League of Revolutionary Struggle member. He is the Co-founder of the Little Tokyo People’s Rights Organization in Los Angeles and the Asian American Studies Center at UCLA.
**In 1988, Mike Murase was Jackson’s** California campaign director. He is the former district director for Democratic Congresswoman **Maxine Waters.**
Murase was active in the 2014 re-election campaign of California Assem
**Sergio C. Tapia II **is currently a **judge in the Superior Court of Los Angeles County. He was appointed by Governor Jerry Brown, on December 5, 2013.**
**Diane Tomoda** is part of the Asian Pacific Partnership for Leadership and Education, Sacramento. She was a Jesse Jackson delegate at the 1988 Democratic National Convention. She worked for the late Democratic Congressman
**Robert Matsui **and former **California Governor Gray Davis.** **Tomoda** was instrumental in the passage of HR 442, the Civil Liberties Act which resulted in redress for the internment of Japanese-American citizens during WW2. She is a former leader of the Japanese American Citizens League, Sacramento Chapter.
**Alicia Ybarra **was a Stanford University MEChA activist. She was also a United States Student Association official. She is currently a board member of the Chicago based Alinskyite “community organizer” training school Midwest Academy.
**Jerry Yu **is President Korean American Coalition, Los Angeles.
Partial breakdown of Communists in California Government
Debra D Bryant
661-527-7137
Bakersfield, California
Kern County
Kentucky civil rights activist **Anne Braden** and
Party supporter **Rev. Ben Chavis. **
**Longtime Communist Party supporter (now Congresswoman) Maxine Waters** also served, as did
Manhattan Borough President and Party supporter **Percy Sutton,** reportedly a “money man” during Jackson’s 1984 run for the Presidency.
It was the Maoists however, who really ran the Rainbow organization.
Rainbow Coalition’s National Board in 1987
**Longtime Communist Party supporter (now Congresswoman) Maxine Waters also served.**
**Democratic Socialists of America largely missed the boat in 1984, but were all in by 1988.**
**Longtime Democratic Socialists of America supporter Heather Booth served on the 1987 Rainbow Board, as did DSA comrades Dolores Huerta of the United Farmworkers.**
**Kurt Stand**, a DSA comrade in Washington, DC helped the Spring 1988 issue of the Rainbow Organizer.
At the time he led a spy ring, stealing military secrets for communist East Germany. He was later sentenced to 17 years in prison.
**Former CWP members are still very powerful in the New York Democratic Party and also around Southern California Congresswoman Judy Chu.**
Line of March held multiple key positions in the Rainbow. LOM activists in the Rainbow included
**Carla Wallace**, steering committee Kentucky Rainbow Coalition and
**Clarence Lusane**, a leading Washington, DC activist.
**In 1984, LOM supporter Josie Camacho was Rainbow Coalition co-chair in California’s 8th District; in 1989,**
**Larry Hobson was co-chair of the USC-Fresno Rainbow Coalition**; and
**Leni Marin** was chairman of Filipinos for Jackson.
**The League and its supporters dominated the Rainbow in California, Boston and to a slightly lesser degree in New York and Chicago. **
Altogether the League probably had at least a thousand members working inside the Rainbow.
In 2017, **Freedom Road**entered into an alliance with the **Communist Party USA** and **Democratic Socialists of America** to rebuild the Rainbow inside and outside of the Democratic Party. Freedom Road is also close to **Steve Phillips and PowerPAC+**
This unholy alliance is working on a new Rainbow Coalition. This time its called the **“New American Majority”** and its coming to a polling place near you.
**San Francisco lawyer Steve Phillips**is one the most influential, and from a Constitutional point of view, one of the most dangerous political operatives in the country today.
With access to huge wealth through his marriage to **Susan Sandler **(daughter of billionaire leftist donors **Herb and Marion Sandler)**, Steve Phillips has been able to elect stealth socialist “candidates of color” all over the country
Steve Phillips’ main vehicle for funding and electing his stable of candidates until recent times was **PowerPAC+.**
From the PowerPAC+ website:
Originally called PAC+, PowerPAC+ is a political action committee formed in 2012 to build the political power of America’s multiracial majority.
It emerged from the groundbreaking work of **Vote Hope in 2007-08.**
At that time, then-**Senator Barack Obama** was assembling his Presidential campaign and California’s primary moved from June to a more influential month, February. “We created Vote Hope, the first super-PAC aimed at supporting Barack Obama’s bid for president. Vote Hope was the largest independent effort in the nation to increase voter turnout in communities of color. It drew in $10 million, and expanded to 18 states during the primary season”.
After President Obama’s election, “we set up a DC office and worked closely with the administration’s personnel staff” to build a **Diversity Talent Bank** that the White House used to identify and hire more than 60 people including **Associate Attorney General Tony West**.
During that same period, many in our network became leaders in non-profits, philanthropy, and government such as Vote Hope fundraiser and former board member **Benjamin Jealous who became NAACP president”**.
In 2009, “we convened” the leadership of the largest civil rights groups in the country and helped execute a media campaign targeting senators who were wavering on the health care reform bill. That effort led to the creation of a coalition of labor, civil rights, and progressive groups who conducted the **One Nation Working Together 10/2/10 March on Washington.**
Since then, PowerPAC+ has consulted with the leadership of the Democratic Party, organizations and campaigns about how to best build support in the communities of color.
Thanks to our many donors, we have been able to support some of the most exciting leaders to emerge in modern politics. From **Hawaii Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard** – a two-time veteran and first **Samoan**in Congress, to **Congressman Mark Takano** – the first non-white openly gay member of Congress, to **Ohio Minority Whip Nina Turner **– who is standing up for voting rights in this important swing state – our group of social justice champions represent an exciting future for American politics
**Senator Mazie Hirono (Hawaii), Senator Kamala Harris (California), Senator Cory Booker (New Jersey), Texas Congressman Mark Veasy and California Congressman Pete Aguilar are among the many new American leaders PowerPAC+ has elected on your “behalf.”**
While open and public in many ways, PowerPAC+ is still a stealth operation. **Most PowerPAC+ people are covert Marxists**.
As are most of the candidates they support. Steve Phillips made sure that only trusted friends would serve in the PowerPAC+ leadership. Most of his inner circle were old Stanford University comrades, or fellow California student radicals. The **“Stanford Mafia”** as they sometimes jokingly call themselves
http://www.trevorloudon.com/2018/05/the-rainbow-conspiracy-part-4-steve-phillipss-powerpac-marxist-money-machine-for-the-new-progressive-majority/
PowerPAC+’s key leaders include:
**Aimee Allison, Senior Vice President PowerPAC+. A Stanford graduate,** Amy Allison and Steve Phillips** knew each other well, even traveling to Alabama together in 1988.
In 1989, Aimee Allison, served on the Stanford Council of Presidents (Stanford’s student government leadership body), with **Chin-Chin Chen, David Brown and Ingrid Nava **(a current PowerPAC+ board member).
All were elected on the **“Slate of the Times” ticket**, which was supported by the **League of Revolutionary Struggle-aligned “Peoples Platform.”**
Allison, then an Army Reserve combat medic, and active in Stanford University’s Ujamoa, African-American center, was also interviewed in the **Unity Organizing Committee’s Unity of February 18, 1991**, regarding conscientious objection to the Gulf War.
Allison was later a director at the San Francisco Department on the Status of Women and led several sessions at the United Nations Commission on the status of women NGO conference.
**Julie Martinez went on to work on Capitol Hill as a Special Assistant to far left California Senator Alan Cranston.**
**Andy Wong is President of PowerPAC.org, **
**POWERPAC+’s sister organization. **
He also serves on the PowerPAC+ board. Wong wasn’t educated at Stanford (he studied electrical engineering in Civil Engineering at UC Berkeley and Applied Math at San Francisco State University), but he worked very closely with Steve Phillips on radical student politics.
**Andy Wong was an active member of Unity Organizing Committee’s Student Unity Network. He worked on the Unity newspaper and in May 1992,** guest-edited the paper with two current PowerPAC+ board members:
**Stacey Leyton and Ingrid Nava. **
Wong began his political career by winning a series of student government elections at San Francisco State University, UC Berkeley, UCLA and Stanford. He went on to run city and county campaigns in the San Francisco Bay Area, electing “people of color and gay community activists to
Community College Board,
BART Board,
School Board and the
Board of Supervisors.”
Since then, he has “helped flip the most red to blue Congressional races for one state (California) and continues to run PowerPAC+’s support of candidates of color around the country
**Steve Phillips, Julie Marinez Ortega, Andy Wong and Lisa Le were all key organizers of the 1987 student March on Sacramento that drew 8,000 people to the state capitol to “support expanded educational opportunities for students of color.**
PowerPAC+’s board of directors is also clearly descended from the
League of Revolutionary Struggle, its successor
Unity Organizing Committee, Stanford University and radical student politics.
**The board is a who’s who of prominent non-profit execs, legal professionals, well-connected Democratic Party activists and media strategists, and particularly minority voter registration and “Get Out The Vote” experts. Almost all are from far left backgrounds**
Notable board members have included:
**Stacey Abrams,** State Representative from Georgia,
House Minority Leader for the Georgia General Assembly.
Democratic candidate for Governor of Georgia.
**Greg Akili**, a Senior Adviser to the Black Workers Center,
Project Coordinator at Corporate Accountability International.
Previously SEIU Local 1000,
Obama for America,
California State Assembly.
Early member of Democratic Socialists of America.
**Iris Archuleta, **CEO of Emerald Consulting,
Antioch California. Formerly active at Stanford University
Keith Archuleta, Chair Antioch Economic Development Commission
**Patricia Barrera, Director of Legislative Affairs & Community Advocacy at Alameda County Medical Center. Formerly a Stanford University MEChA leader with fellow PowerPAC+ board member Gina Hernandez.**
**Maria Echaveste, **currently a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and a co-founder of the
Nueva Vista Group, a consulting firm based in Washington, D.C., that works with nonprofit organizations, associations and corporations on such issues as immigration, healthcare, telecommunications, labor and finances.
Her clients include **AOL, Time Warner and the Rockefeller Foundation. From 1998 to 2001, **
Echaveste served as Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief of Staff to President Bill Clinton.
Echaveste managed President Clinton’s domestic policy initiatives on education, civil rights and immigration.
At Stanford University in the mid-1970s, Echaveste was a leader of MECHhA and in a small group called “
Students for Equity,” an “umbrella organization for all minorities.”
This group was led by Cuba-visiting Black Student Union leader **Charles Ogletree. **
In 1991, Harvard Law Professor Ogletree would find fame as **Anita Hill’s **lawyer, leading the charge against Supreme Court nominee **Clarence Thomas. **
Ogletree also claims to have mentored both **Michelle Obama and Barack Obama** during their respective periods at Harvard.
Barack Obama participated in Ogletree’s Saturday School Program, which were designed to “expose minority students, in particular, to critical issues in the study of law.” According to Ogletree, the Obama’s have called on him for advice since that time. In September 2014, President Barack Obama nominated Maria Echaveste to become the US Ambassador to Mexico, but she withdrew her name from consideration.
**Marcelo Gaete, president of the board of Mi Familia Vota.**
He serves as Vice President of Public and Government Affairs with Entravision Communications Corporation, manages the company’s community and government relations, works with national organizations and serves as a spokesperson for the organization.
Entravision Communications Corporation is the second largest Spanish-language media company in the U.S.
**Andrew Gillum, Mayor of Tallahasse Florida.**
Currently running to secure the Democratic Party nomination in the Florida gubernatorial race.
**Hans Goff, Director of Member Engagement and Political Strategy at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. Former CEO of Voting Works, LLC.**
**Maria Gomez, serves on the National Council of La Raza, General Board of Directors.**
**Miguel Gonzalez, Spokesperson, National Education Association.**
**Gina Hernandez,*$ is Director of Arts, Stanford University. Hernandez is a former Stanford MEChA leader and was active in the League of Revolutionary Struggle’s Peoples Platform. She also served on the student desk of the Unity newspaper. In 1991, Gina Hernandez and fellow PowerPAC+ board member Stacey Leyton, were editors of Unity’s Spring student supplement.
**Stacey Leyton – San Francisco, CA Partner at Altshuler Berzon LLP.**
** Leyton served as a law clerk to Clinton-appointed Associate Justice Stephen Breyer (another Stanford alumnus) of the United States Supreme Court, Judge Stephen Reinhardt of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and Judge Susan Illston of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. **
In 2011, Leyton was named a “California Lawyer of the Year” by California Lawyer Magazine for her work in a case challenging cutbacks to the California program providing in-home care to Medicaid recipients.
She has been selected by the Northern California Super Lawyers 2013-2015 as a Benchmark Plaintiff California Local Litigation Star 2012-2015 and Benchmark Plaintiff Top 150 Women in Litigation in 2013.
**Stacey Leyton** was extremely close to the League of Revolutionary Struggle at Stanford University. She was chairperson of the LRS’ student electoral front, the Peoples Platform. She was also active in Maoist-aligned Stanford Out of South Africa, the Rainbow Agenda and was a co-founder of the
**California Alliance of Progressive Student Activists. **
In December 1990, Leyton made a trip to Cuba for a meeting of the Soviet-controlled International Union of Students and the Federation of University Students in Cuba. She was also treated to a three-hour speech by **Fidel Castro**.
In 1992, Stacey Leyton was vice president of the United States Students Association.
**Jennifer Pae, Director of FairVote California. **
Pae “continues to travel around the country with Camp Wellstone, New American Leaders Project, and APIA Vote, training hundreds of activists to run effective and strategic campaigns.” Pae was Project Director for PowerPAC+, **a founding staff member of 18MillionRising.org and Project Manager for Voter Service at the League of Women Voters of California,**
where she worked to “engage young people, women, and people of color in the political process.”
**Solomon Rivera, Deputy Chief of Staff to Los Angeles Democratic Congresswoman Karen Bass.**"
For many years Bass was an active supporter of another 1980s Maoist group Line of March. She has visited Cuba several times.
**Catalina Ruiz-Healy, Vice President, Rappaport Family Foundation.**
**Renee Saucedo, Organizer & Attorney at La Raza Centro Legal, San Francisco. Saucedo has worked as a staff attorney at La Raza Centro Legal, the SF Day Labor Program and as the Executive Director of the Northern California Coalition for Immigrant Rights. **
She helped create the San Francisco Immigrant Rights Commission and served as its first Chair for four years. Saucedo helped “spearhead almost every immigrant-related legislation or policy in the city, from housing subsidies to non-citizens in Public Housing to having San Francisco be declared an ‘INS Raid-free Zone.'” Saucedo was a panelist at the 2002 Committees of Correspondence National Conference and Convention at San Francisco State University.
**Gloria Totten**, President of Progressive Majority, a “national multi-issue organization dedicated to electing progressive champions at the state and local levels.” She also developed what is now the “most comprehensive national progressive candidate recruitment program in the country. Under Gloria’s leadership,
Progressive Majority has established permanent state offices in Arizona, California, Colorado, Minnesota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Washington and Wisconsin. She has also worked to establish the Racial Justice Campaign, a Progressive Majority program to prioritize the election of candidates of color.”
**Norman Yee,** San Francisco Board of Education President.
**Crystal Zermeno,** a former Stanford University MEChA leader. Zermeno has served in various capacities with the “let’s turn Texas blue” Texas Organizing Project, developing “campaign strategy, fundraising and, as Director of Electoral Strategy, developing and implementing TOP’s local and statewide electoral program.” Zermeno has also worked as staff on a number of different political campaigns including a successful State Assembly race in Alameda County, California and the SEIU New Mexico effort in Albuquerque and Las Cruces to elect President Obama.
**Rebecca Wasserman, **Deputy Director of Government Relations at SEIU. Former Deputy Director of Government Affairs with the anti-Israel organization, J Street.
Zermeno worked with PowerPAC.org as their Director of Operations, conducting a statewide mapping of California to assess priority geographies for investment in electoral work with the expressed goal of “improving participation of communities of color in the electoral process.”
**Pat Diaz** is the President of the highly influential Mexican American Political Association, Los Angeles.
**Robyn Gabel **is currently a Democratic member of the Illinois House of Representatives, representing the 18th District.
**Kim Geron **is now an Associate Professor of Political Science at California State University East Bay and Vice President of the California Faculty Association. She serves on the boards of the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance and the Chinese Progressive
**Roger Green** is a Democratic New York state assemblyman, Brooklyn. Green endorsed the LRS’ Unity newspaper in 1988, alongside long serving Illinois Democratic Congress-member **Luis Gutierrez**, a one time member of the House Intelligence Committee. Both were Rainbow Coalition activists.
**DeDe McClure, of the Rainbow Coalition, is the former president of the United Community Democratic Club, San Diego. She is the former president of the San Diego Chapter of the National Women’s Political Caucus.**
**Jean McGuire**is on the Boston School Committee.
**Deborah Moy **is the Chair of the Asian/Pacific Caucus of the California Democratic Party, San Francisco. She is also a staffer of LRS Asian-American publication East Wind.
**Mike Murase** is a former League of Revolutionary Struggle member. He is the Co-founder of the Little Tokyo People’s Rights Organization in Los Angeles and the Asian American Studies Center at UCLA.
**In 1988, Mike Murase was Jackson’s** California campaign director. He is the former district director for Democratic Congresswoman **Maxine Waters.**
Murase was active in the 2014 re-election campaign of California Assem
**Sergio C. Tapia II **is currently a **judge in the Superior Court of Los Angeles County. He was appointed by Governor Jerry Brown, on December 5, 2013.**
**Diane Tomoda** is part of the Asian Pacific Partnership for Leadership and Education, Sacramento. She was a Jesse Jackson delegate at the 1988 Democratic National Convention. She worked for the late Democratic Congressman
**Robert Matsui **and former **California Governor Gray Davis.** **Tomoda** was instrumental in the passage of HR 442, the Civil Liberties Act which resulted in redress for the internment of Japanese-American citizens during WW2. She is a former leader of the Japanese American Citizens League, Sacramento Chapter.
**Alicia Ybarra **was a Stanford University MEChA activist. She was also a United States Student Association official. She is currently a board member of the Chicago based Alinskyite “community organizer” training school Midwest Academy.
**Jerry Yu **is President Korean American Coalition, Los Angeles.
Partial breakdown of Communists in California Government
Debra D Bryant
661-527-7137
Bakersfield, California
Kern County
Thank you for visiting the "California Issues" page which is the gateway to the biggest issues California is facing.
The BIGGEST problem that California faces is it's own out-of-control lopsided, liberal, leftist, lunkhead "tax and spend" legislature. As a result of out-of-control taxing and regulations California has the dubious honor of having the highest income and sales taxes, worst education program, highest fuel tax, worst roads and bridges, etc. As a result, businesses and families are fleeing California for a more Golden State. (I hear 'Texas' a lot!)
Below are just some of the many problems California faces:
Immigration
Education
Taxes
Over-regulation
CARB
Global Warming
Common Core
Drought
High-Speed Rail
Unfunded Pension Liabilities
Cap and Trade
Carbon Credits
Four California cities have filed for bankruptcy:
1. Vallejo (Filed, now discharged)
2. Mammoth (Filed, status unknown)
3. San Bernardino (Filed, Pending)
4. San Jose (Filed, Pending)
San Bernardino was the largest city to file for bankruptcy until San Jose did. Then Detroit, MI took the honor.
All of them have been dominated by Democrat leadership and tax and spend policies.
If California continues headlong down this road like a runaway gravy train, then all our future will look like Detroit, the poster child of Democrat tax and spend socialist policies.
The BIGGEST problem that California faces is it's own out-of-control lopsided, liberal, leftist, lunkhead "tax and spend" legislature. As a result of out-of-control taxing and regulations California has the dubious honor of having the highest income and sales taxes, worst education program, highest fuel tax, worst roads and bridges, etc. As a result, businesses and families are fleeing California for a more Golden State. (I hear 'Texas' a lot!)
Below are just some of the many problems California faces:
Immigration
Education
Taxes
Over-regulation
CARB
Global Warming
Common Core
Drought
High-Speed Rail
Unfunded Pension Liabilities
Cap and Trade
Carbon Credits
Four California cities have filed for bankruptcy:
1. Vallejo (Filed, now discharged)
2. Mammoth (Filed, status unknown)
3. San Bernardino (Filed, Pending)
4. San Jose (Filed, Pending)
San Bernardino was the largest city to file for bankruptcy until San Jose did. Then Detroit, MI took the honor.
All of them have been dominated by Democrat leadership and tax and spend policies.
If California continues headlong down this road like a runaway gravy train, then all our future will look like Detroit, the poster child of Democrat tax and spend socialist policies.
I don't presume to be the sharpest tool in the shed. I stand on the shoulders of many people greater than myself by attempting to bring together the best sources of reliable information, giving credit where credit is due. I try my best to research and connect the dots to get to the truth of the matter. Don't just take my word for it. Do your own homework to know the subject, and understand what you know, so you can speak knowledgeably with others. Keep your mind open to new ideas and information and then analyze it using the good common sense that God gave you to arrive at an informed conclusion. Question BOLDLY. Respect other people, their opinions, and their property. Vote for the Constitution does not necessarily endorse any comment or post herein and is intended only for information and research purposes only. I am not an attorney or certified financial advisor and nothing on this website shall be construed or relied upon as providing legal or tax advice.
Fair Use Notice Act Disclaimer: This website may contain copyrighted material of which use may not be authorized by the copyright owners. Under section 107 through 118 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education, and research. If you wish to use this material that goes beyond fair use, you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. Fair use notwithstanding, I will comply with any copyright owner who wants their material removed, modified, or wants me to link to their website, or wants us to add their photo.
Fair Use Notice Act Disclaimer: This website may contain copyrighted material of which use may not be authorized by the copyright owners. Under section 107 through 118 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education, and research. If you wish to use this material that goes beyond fair use, you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. Fair use notwithstanding, I will comply with any copyright owner who wants their material removed, modified, or wants me to link to their website, or wants us to add their photo.
Copyright © 2019-2024 Vote for the Constitution. All rights reserved.
|
Proudly powered by Weebly
|