Mid Term Election

Manny Otiko   |   OW Contributor
Oct 28 2010

Lacks political experience

With California currently facing a budget crisis, businesses fleeing the state and record unemployment, you would wonder why anyone would want the California governor’s job. But this is a job that former eBay CEO Meg Whitman has decided to take on.

Whitman joined the Internet company, when it had $4.7 million in revenue and 30 employees.

Ten years later eBay was generating more than $8 billion in revenue and had 15,000 employees.

Manny Otiko   |   OW Contributor
Oct 28 2010

Is know-how enough?

With California currently facing major political and economic problems, now might be the time for an experience hand at the helm. At least that is what Jerry Brown believes.

Attorney General Jerry Brown is the Democratic candidate for California governor, and he is not new to the job. A life-long public servant, (or career politician depending on which way you see it), Brown served as governor for two terms in the 1970s. He has also run for president several times and served as mayor of Oakland.

Oct 28 2010

OW Endorsements

United States Senator:
Barbara Boxer
 
UNITED STATES HOUSE of REPRESENTATIVE
 
33rd Congressional District:
Karen Bass 
 
55th Congressional District:
Laura Richardson 
 
35th Congressional District:
Maxine Waters
 
State Senator 26th District:
Curren D. Price Jr.
 

Oct 21 2010

Tea Party, hot button issues, Obama all in the mix

On November 2, California voters will go to the polls to determine, if the nation has shifted from the “yes, we can” rhetoric of the Obama campaign to the “no you cannot” bombast of the Tea Party, according to political analysts.

This election is particularly poignant for African Americans, because it will determine the nation’s direction on job creation and significant health care reform, these analysts say. Blacks have higher unemployment rates and less access to health care than many other groups.

Oct 14 2010

Predicts Democrats will do better than expected

James Clyburn, house majority whip, assured a crowded room of supporters that Democrats are in great shape and will retain a majority and possibly gain a few seats in congress after the midterm elections. The top-ranking house Democrat was in California campaigning and trying to energize supporters to get out to vote.

Across Black America

Here’s a look at African American people and issues making headlines throughout the country.
 

Alabama
Freeman A. Hrabowski, president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, will address the annual African American Business Council luncheon on June 28. Hrabowski, who is chairman of President Barack Obama’s Advisory Commission on Education Excellence for African Americans, has a national reputation for his work studying the performance of minority students in math and science. Hrabowski, named one of the 10 best college presidents in the country by Time magazine, was a child leader in the Civil Rights Movement in Birmingham in the 1960s.
 

Arkansas
The Liberty Counsel filed a motion and a brief in United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas seeking to intervene on behalf of a Concepts of Life crisis pregnancy center to defend against a suit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Reproductive Rights. The groups seek to impose a permanent injunction before the Human Heartbeat Protection Act goes into effect July 18. Liberty Counsel also filed a brief opposing the ACLU’s request for an injunction. The “Heartbeat” bill states that when a woman seeks an abortion at or after the 12th week, doctors must test for a fetal heartbeat before an abortion is performed and inform the pregnant mother that the child in her womb has a heartbeat. If a heartbeat is detected, a woman cannot have an abortion, except in cases of rape, incest, and if a mother’s life is in danger. “As we promised when the legislation was introduced, Liberty Counsel will defend this law without reservation for the people of Arkansas, born and pre-born,” said Matt Staver, founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel. “No right is more foundational than the right to life. Without life, all other rights are irrelevant,” concluded Staver.