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Julie Bornstein |
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CA 45
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Julie has a long history of public service that ranges from her election to the California Assembly where she was a Democratic Caucus Chair, a trustee of the Desert College Board, as Chief Deputy State Controller and Chief of Staff under the California State Controller, as Director of the California Department of Housing and Community Development and has led the Campaign for Affordable Housing. She also worked on obtaining affordable housing though extensive service on many commissions boards.
Julie has practiced law and taught in Los Angeles county and in the Palm Springs area. She has also worked with The Desert AIDS project, and has led the Jewish Federation Women's Division, Temple Isaiah, as well as been very active on various community and Democratic organizations. Julie shares DAPAC's values and will fight to support women's right to choose, an end to the Iraq war, publicly funded universal health care, gay rights, and strong environmental protection. She had been endorsed by many labor unions as well as California Sens. Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein.
The incumbent, Mary Bono Mack, voted for the recent FISA Amendment Act of 2008 and has consistently voted in support of Bush administration policies in the past. An examination of her voting record indicates she has voted to drill in ANWR, limit interstate access to abortion, supported military tribunals, and has opposed Iraq troop withdrawal.
The district begins about 50 miles east of Los Angeles in Riverside County, runs to the California state border to the east, and includes the Palm Springs area. The area has been hard hit by the mortgage/foreclosure meltdown and the unemployment rate in Riverside County has increased to 7.4%. Bono carried the district with 60% of the vote in '06; however, the district supported Feinstein with 51% to 45% and Boxer with 50% to 47% in their last elections. The district Democratic organizations are working hard to increase voter participation and now have more registered Democrats than Republicans on the books as well as plans for a grassroot push for increased voter turnout.
Voters traditionally blame the president and the president's party for any recession. After the recession of 1992 began, Bill Clinton gained 26 percentage points in the four months before the election and he won the election. This year voters will vote Democratic, especially in places like this district in California. We must have a superior candidate like Julie running an aggressive effective campaign. Our job at DAPAC is to make certain that happens. We have prepared for it for seven years, been involved in this particular district for four years and now it is time to elect a REAL Democrat to help lead this country. |
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