There was drama in Kisumu after the government treated residents to free alcohol in what the kisumu east district commissioner Mobeya Mogaka described as a rapid result initiative program against illicit liquor. The government, in a bid to curb Changaa drinking, bought two cylinders of keg lager for residents during a Baraza to sensitize people on the dangers of illicit brews.
Letters to the editor: Stop stealing election yard signs
It has now been twice in three weeks that yard signs, representing the candidates that I support in the upcoming election, have been stolen or damaged.
youtube.com Many people are enthusiastic about Ron Paul and his compaign… Candidate Ron Paul’s devotees a mixed bag By DAVID LIGHTMAN McClatchy Newspapers Candidate Ron Paul’s devotees a mixed bag www.sanluisobispo.com WASHINGTON –If Ron Paul’s supporters got together for a family portrait, it would be one of those pictures in which no one seems to resemble anyone else. “You have old-school Republicans, the conservatives who backed Barry Goldwater (in 1964). You have the anti-war crowd who are principled non-interventionists,” said Jim Forsythe, a former Air Force major who’s organized meet-and-greet sessions in New Hampshire for the Texas congressman and Republican presidential candidate. You also have businessmen tired of government regulation, college students who like his views on holistic medicine and middle-aged folks who don’t see Social Security helping them in a few years. There are people who supported Democrat Howard Dean four years ago and others who backed conservative Republican Pat Buchanan in the 1990s. What brings them together is a common belief that government is too big, obtrusive and unresponsive. “It’s a desire to get government out of my life. That’s it,” said Rick Grote, a pharmacist in Hampton, Iowa. That bond has made Paul one of the more striking phenomena of the 2008 campaign. He’s slowly climbed to poll respectability in the early voting states of Iowa and New Hampshire, and his fundraising now rivals better-known foes such as Arizona Sen …
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Democratic Central Committee to meet Nov. 4
CLEARLAKE OAKS, Calif. – The Lake County Democratic Central Committee will meet on Thursday, Nov. 4. The monthly meeting will take place beginning at 7 p.m. at the Clearlake Oaks United Methodist Church Community Hall, 12487 The Plaza.
Our economy is dangerously close to deflation (depression) with no job growth. Stimulus spending is the only thing holding the system up and the repubs want to stop it.
We all know that a depression will cause another transfer of wealth to the most wealthy people as ordinary people loose their assets.
But what advantage is here for the ordinary man on the street republican?
Is he just the dupe of the real powers which control their party?