{"id":13960,"date":"2010-06-07T09:46:04","date_gmt":"2010-06-07T16:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=13960"},"modified":"2010-06-07T10:09:03","modified_gmt":"2010-06-07T17:09:03","slug":"green-partys-laura-wells-on-californias-primary-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2010\/06\/07\/green-partys-laura-wells-on-californias-primary-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Party&#8217;s Laura Wells on California&#8217;s Primary Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-060710\/2010_06_07_uprising.MP3\">Listen to the entire program<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=45% src=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/static\/weblogs\/capitolalertlatest\/IMG_0863.jpg\" alt=\"laura wells\" \/>Voters will head to the polls in California tomorrow for the primary elections, to choose their party&#8217;s nominations for a number of seats including state Governor and Senate Representatives, as well as a number of ballot initiatives. While the Democratic Party&#8217;s Jerry Brown is running unchallenged, a stiff fight has shaped up for the Republican gubernatorial nomination. Spending unprecedented amounts of money in the primary, former eBay CEO and billionairess Meg Whitman leads multi-millionaire Steve Poizer by a healthy margin in the polls, but only after having spent over $71 million, most of it from her own pockets. The more than $100 million spent by the two Republican candidates may hurt the party&#8217;s chances in the November race. Here in Southern California, Democratic incumbent House representative Jane Harman is up for reelection and faces a stiff challenge from progressive activist Marcy Winograd. A poll in mid-May revealed that Winograd trailed only 4 percentage points behind Harman and stands a good chance of winning the nomination. A number of important initiatives are also on tomorrow&#8217;s ballot: Propositions 14 and 15 affect the state&#8217;s electoral system in terms of voting and campaign finance respectively. Propositions 16 and 17 are a test of corporate influence over the ballot process &#8211; both measures have been sponsored by private corporations. The vast majority of Prop 16&#8217;s funding has come from P G &#038; E (Pacific Gas and Electric), while Mercury Insurance has funded the Yes on 17 campaign almost single-handedly. <\/p>\n<p>I had the chance recently to discuss the June 8th election with Laura Wells, an experienced non-profit manager with a background in finance and politics. Wells is running for the Green Party&#8217;s nomination for California Governor. We discussed her political platform, the governor&#8217;s race, tomorrow&#8217;s ballot initiatives, and her party&#8217;s politics. Wells is competing against local activist Deacon Alexander for the Green gubernatorial nomination. We invited Alexander to participate in today&#8217;s discussion but he declined the offer. <\/p>\n<p>Find out more about the Green Party candidates at: <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.laurawells.org\">www.laurawells.org<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deaconforgov.com\">www.deaconforgov.com<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voters will head to the polls in California tomorrow for the primary elections, to choose their party&#8217;s nominations for a number of seats including state Governor and Senate Representatives, as well as a number of ballot initiatives. While the Democratic Party&#8217;s Jerry Brown is running unchallenged, a stiff fight has shaped up for the Republican [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}