Mayor Eric Garcetti is back from The White House

I've just left the White House and wanted to let you know right away that President Obama has just named Los Angeles as one of his five Promise Zones. Part of his signature Building Ladders of Opportunity initiative, the Promise Zone designation will mean tens of millions of dollars in federal aid for some of the neighborhoods in LA that need it most. This program isn't the usual kind of top-down, Washington-mandated federal initiative. We have the power to chart our own course. Let us know what LA communities need-- because we've won the Promise Zone we have the power to tell Washington what works for us. So make sure to click here and share your ideas. Congratulations, LA! --Eric P.S. Your input could make a big difference for our city. Click here.  Office of Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti http://www.lamayor.org/

Office of Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti 200 N Spring St, 300, Los Angeles, CA 90012, United States

I will vote for Obama in 2012

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OBAMA/BIDEN 2012!
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 So much is at stake with this election. While we have concentrated on President Obama’s re-election we haven’t discussed the possibilities regarding a MORE CONSERVATIVE SUPREME COURT with a Romney Presidency. 

 If Romney were to win, we’d want to look at both the policy front as well as the judicial appointments possibilities. Here are some of the consequences of a MORE CONSERVATIVE SUPREME COURT:

 • Could uphold onerous restrictions on a woman’s right to choose and otherwise limit her reproductive freedom – even overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade.
• Would not overturn Citizens United.
• Could be open to pre-New Deal interpretations of the Commerce Clause, which would dramatically restrict Congress’ ability to confront national problems.
• Might permit corporations to attempt to influence judicial decisions that could impact their bottom line.
• Likely to dramatically restrict efforts by Congress to remedy past discrimination in voting and elsewhere.
• Likely threaten diversity in higher education.
• Could not only stand in the way of full equality for the LGBT community but might also limit (or eliminate) the privacy rights of adults.
• Could turn back the clock on protections for people in police custody, and make it easier to establish a surveillance state.
• Could sanction the death penalty to be used on children and for
Could sanction the death penalty to be used on children and for a wider array of crimes, as well as on the mentally disabled.
• Would likely be much more deferential to presidential action in national security matters.
• Could weaken the separation of church and state and entangle religion and politics.”

Sources:
http://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/markets/2012/expert-faq-romneys-election-supreme-court/
http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/30/politics/court-romney-list/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/30/politics/court-obama-list/index.html
 

OBAMA/BIDEN 2012!

The lesser of two evils!

Haywood Galbreath, Sherita Herring, and James Bolden
Photo Credit: Lisa Bolden

By Haywood Galbreath

For all of you out there! Who have criticized the president of United States Obama! Said he has not done enough to help the people and the economy! Says that he is not an American and wants to destroy the American way! Says he is evil!

There’s another individual running for the presidency of the United States his name is Mitt Romney! Mitt Romney belongs to the party that basically has destroyed this nation! By all indications Mitt Romney does not truly care about the working class people and will try his best to put him and his friends at an even greater financial position off the backs of the middle class than they already are at! You can say this man and the party that he belongs to is evil!

Therefore if you’re saying that Obama is evil! And we know that by all indications that the Republican Party and Mitt Romney are evil!

Yet Obama has tried the help the American people! You would be wise! The go with the lesser of those two evils! Obama! Unless you just really ready to have pure evil run America! –HG--

2012 Presidential Medal of Freedom Ceremony

Ronnie Pineda meets Medal of Freedom recipient Dolores Huerta at May Day Rally.









President Obama presents exceptional individuals with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.