LOS ANGELES

AT LENGTH-It’s not even a prediction that Donald Trump will lose California on Nov. 3. Even though the California GOP is fooling around with phony ballot drop boxes. 

EASTSIDER-While everyone is focused on the November election, DONE seems to be actively conspiring to deliberately violate the CA Public Records Act, even as they unilaterally change NC Bylaws.

PLANNING WATCH-Three former city officials have offered a proposal to stop rampant City Hall corruption in Los Angeles.

OTHER WORDS-Although the United States hails itself as a bastion of representative democracy, voting regulations suppress the vote even in a normal year — and even more so during the pandemic. 

RANTZ & RAVEZ--Are you tired of watching and listening to the constant bombardment of political TV and Radio commercials urging you to vote Yes on this and No on that for the November 3, 2020 National Election?

DECISION 2020 — Racial tension amid the backdrop of a pandemic that has affected disproportionate numbers of Black and Brown people could significantly impact the outcome of the 2020 presidential election.

HOUSING POLITICS-“Today,” tweeted California Yimby staffer Louis Mirante on September 28, 2020, “the Gov signed 3 Ca YIMBY-sponsored bills. That’s more than any other housing organization successfully sponsored this year.” 

FUNDAMENTALIST DANGER-Imagine that there was a woman who had agreed to submit to her husband, who in turn had submitted to the head of a sect, who had in fact matched them, both part of a sect where there was no dividing line between personal and private life, because everything — everything — was done as a crusade for God, and if you weren’t one of the pure, you were going straight to hell. 

VIEW FROM HERE--The de-evolution of integrity and honor in the American Republic continues uninterrupted during the hearings on Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett. 

GELFAND’S WORLD--You might say that the following is a bit of venting on my part.

LEANING RIGHT--If you want to vote for Joe Biden or Donald Trump, then vote for your guy.

GUEST WORDS-“The intellectuals cast a veil over the dictatorial character of bourgeois democracy not least by presenting democracy as the absolute opposite of fascism, not as just another natural phase of it where the bourgeois dictatorship is revealed in a more open form.”

– Bertolt Brecht