Friday, July 9, 2010

Barbara Boxer Shook My Hand!

Wednesday night I had the privilege of meeting Senator Barbara Boxer. What a thrill! About 100 people crowded into a house in Palo Alto to hear one of the many campaign speeches she had given that day on her “Jobs for California Tour”. The place was crawling with Fox News, CBS, and numerous other cameramen/women and sycophants. I munched on gorgeous strawberries and filmed a testimonial which probably won't be used, but was fun to do.  Once we were all seated, she was introduced, and the crowd ripped into thunderous applause and jumped to their feet. Wow, is she petite! I almost couldn't see her until she was standing right in front of me, shaking my hand.

She outlined three job initiatives:
  1. Clean Technology. She wants CA to be the hub of the clean-energy economy. 
  2. Transportation.   She got stimulus money to fund several highway transportation projects, such as the construction on Doyle Drive in the Presidio near Golden Gate Bridge. And she was instrumental in persuading President Obama to set aside $2.25 billion of the Federal Stimulus Package for CA's High Speed Rail Project.
  3. Her pledge to End tax breaks for companies that ship jobs overseas. 
She also talked about her efforts to block the Bush Administration's proposal to abolish the 40 hour work week and to rob workers of overtime pay; her fight to increase the minimum wage; and her continued support of the Economic Recovery Act and Unemployment Extensions.

Then she ripped into Carly Fiorina, her Republican opponent, who was recently endorsed by Sarah Palin.  She listed several reasons why Carly Fiorina shouldn't be a CA Senator:
  1. Fiorina layed off 30,000 American workers and shipped thousands of jobs to China while her salary tripled as CEO of Hewlett Packard.  
  2. Fiorina was fired in 2005 by the fed-up HP Board of Directors. They gave her a $21 million “go-away” package. HP's stock rose sharply the day after she left.
  3. Fiorina wants to repeal Roe vs Wade 
  4. Fiorina wants to repeal Health Reform
  5. Fiorina opposes the Economic Recovery Act and any form of Unemployment Extensions.
  6. Fiorina wants CA off-shore drilling NOW!
I'm obviously a Boxer fan, and, as a supporter, am considered a “Boxer for Boxer”. I'm happy to lead cheers for our hard working CA Senator. Go Barbara! CA needs you!

Boy that was a fun night!





Posted by Unknown at 11:54 PM

2 comments:

  1. Carin ChungJuly 13, 2010 at 9:35 AM

    Thanks Paula, I really needed to hear about this. I've supported Barbara Boxer for many years and she really makes a big difference in our world and community.

    My next effort is to get all the lazy people to register to vote & keep voting, starting with the Fall election. You would be very very surprised how many urban, educated, self-described "informed" people DON'T vote. They claim their vote doesn't amount to much, but they are completely wrong. Can I say Prop 13, still hasn't been overturned yet, though measures have been proposed repeatedly.

    Also, I want to help support Boxer like you do, how did you sign up for that? And I want to support Jerry Brown as well.

    Carin

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  2. UnknownJuly 13, 2010 at 10:25 AM

    If you want to volunteer for Boxer, go to the website below:
    http://action.barbaraboxer.com/page/s/volunteer

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