Archive for 'Election 2008'
OPARC 2008 Colonies Crossroads Champions Cup Golf Tournament a Great Success
Red Hill Country Club has hosted the OPARC charity golf tournament for four years, and will return on September 28, 2009 for a fifth year
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This years tournament was a great success with the performance of OPARC clients the highlight of the evening. Proceeds from the tournament help fund the Speech Pathology Program for OPARC clients. [...]
Posted: September 17th, 2008 under City RC, County SB.
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Rancho Cucamonga City Council Incumbent Campaigns Financed by Developers
Rancho Cucamonga City Council members filled California Form 460 Campaign statements for the first 6 months of 2008.Â
Once again, almost exclusively the area developers and representatives of fire and police unions finance our campaigns.  Total contributions for the first 6 months of this year to council members top $284,000.00. Leading the list of contributors is [...]
Posted: September 4th, 2008 under City Council, Election 2008.
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John McCain has chosen Alaska Governor Sarah Palin to be his running mate
This is a very clever move on the part of the McCAin ticket. Sarah Palin is the mother of five children, Pro Life has Executive Experience as Governor of Alaska. She has been pro oil development with a successful campaign to build out the natural gas and oil production from Alaska.
Her fifth son was born [...]
Posted: August 29th, 2008 under At Large, US Federal Elections.
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Photos of the Cucamonga, Ontario and Catalina Island from circa 1890
These photos were found in a small town library in Marblehead, Massachusetts in a donated album. The photos were taken in 1889 by visitors to Southern California from Marblehead. These must have wealthy tourists just to have the camera and the photo finishing to produce them. Pacific Electric rail construction is referenced in the photo [...]
Posted: August 15th, 2008 under At Large, City RC.
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Catherine Shea named to Simmons College dean’s list
Catherine Shea of Alta Lorna was named to the 2008 spring semester dean’s list at Simmons College in Boston. She is a senior at Simmons, and is a biochemistry major.
To qualify for dean’s list status, undergraduate students must obtain a grade point average of 3.5 or higher, based on 12 or more credit hours of [...]
Posted: August 8th, 2008 under At Large, City RC, School System.
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Mayor Kurth is Raising His Online Profile, Is this a Precursor to a run for The Assembly Seat?
Mayor Don Kurth of Rancho Cucamonga has published a new website DonKurth.com.
The websites stated purpose looks to be a vehicle improved communication and be more responsive to the citizens of Rancho Cucamonga. The new website will also raise the mayors profile is a bid for the 63rd assembly seat. If mayor Kurth is to run [...]
Posted: July 11th, 2008 under City Council, City Hall, City RC, State Elections.
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Rancho Cucamonga Featured on PBS Program Thursday Evening The News Hour with Jim Lehrer
Jeffrey Kaye reports on how one California community, Rancho Cucamonga, is feeling the impact of problems in the national economy.
If you missed the program last night on the plight of the economy in Rancho Cucamonga click on the image to play a streaming video of the program.
Rancho locals featured in the program are; JOHN [...]
Posted: June 27th, 2008 under At Large, City RC.
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Mark Leggo contributed $5,000 to Mayor Kurth Campaign in 2007
Campaign contributions and expenditures for political campaigns are public record, reported regularly in California on Form 460. The financial reporting requirement for political campaigns is detailed on the California Form 460 found here:
Reports state the preceding six months activity.
Mayor Don Kurth June 2007
Mayor Don Kurth (1)June 2007
Mayor Don Kurth December 2007
Mayor Don Kurth (1)December 2007
Diane [...]
Posted: June 23rd, 2008 under City Council, City RC.
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McCain Addresses the Price of Oil and Gasoline Head On
Will anyone listen to straight talk if it’s not what they want to hear? McCain addresses the price of oil and gasoline head on.
McCain has taken the brave but dangerous path of telling us what we need to know. Oil may well be $200.00 a barrel, with gasoline at $7.00 a gallon, if we do [...]
Posted: June 18th, 2008 under Election 2008, US Federal Elections.
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Gasoline Prices will Continue to Rise Despite the Politicians Claims
The State and Local Government are taking $0.70 from the $4.43 you pay at the pump. Add another $0.18 for the Federal government and that $0.88 a gallon.
The democrats rail against the big oil companies who produce, refine and deliver product to the gas pump. Democrats propose windfall profit taxes on these companies. To what [...]
Posted: June 13th, 2008 under Election 2008, Federal US govt, State Elections.
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