La Jolla Democratic Club

Speaker: Kristina Wu, campaign manager for Carol Kim

Topic: Inside the Carol Kim Campaign - The Back Story!

Kristina Wu, Campaign Manager for Carol Kim

The speaker for the July meeting will be Christina Wu, campaign manager for Carol Kim in City Council District 6, which covers Clairemont, Mira Mesa and TierraSanta.

Christina was born in La Jolla and graduated from La Jolla High School. Both of her parents are business owners. Her father is an architect and an engineer.
Christina graduated from Boston University, majoring in public relations.

Her first job out of college was working as an aide to U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy. Next she worked for Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick. In 2008 she worked for then- Senator Barack Obama in New Hampshire. In 2012 she worked in the winning campaign of Joeseph P. Kennedy III in the 4th District of Massachusetts.

Her fiancee, who is planning to relocate to La Jolla later this year to work in the Carol Kim campaign, works in the Obama White House as a liaison to the Department of Transportation. Prior to this he headed the fundraising operation for the Obama campaign in the northeastern U.S.

Sunday, July 20, 2014, 2-4 p.m.
Community Room,
AMC Theaters La Jolla 12
8657 Villa La Jolla Drive, 92037

Looking ahead -
August 17 - Picnic at Villa La Jolla Park! 8436 Via Mallorca, La Jolla, CA 92037!

Register voters at the Westfield (UTC) Shopping Center.
Contact Michelle Marzullo to indicate interest. She will contact you with a date when you can sign up for one-hour shifts.
Call 202-489-5122 or michelle.mazullo@gmail.com

The Wealth Divide
Did you miss the February meeting at which Dr. Joeffry Gordon, M.D., MPH presented on the Wealth Divide? If so, you can catch up by viewing his powerpoint presentation here.

Recommended Reading:
Capital in the Twenty-First Century - Thomas Piketty

What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality, the concentration of wealth, and the prospects for economic growth lie at the heart of political economy. But satisfactory answers have been hard to find for lack of adequate data and clear guiding theories.
In Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Thomas Piketty analyzes a unique collection of data from twenty countries, ranging as far back as the eighteenth century, to uncover key economic and social patterns. His findings will transform debate and set the agenda for the next generation of thought about wealth and inequality.
Piketty shows that modern economic growth and the diffusion of knowledge have allowed us to avoid inequalities on the apocalyptic scale predicted by Karl Marx. But we have not modified the deep structures of capital and inequality as much as we thought in the optimistic decades following World War II.
The main driver of inequality--the tendency of returns on capital to exceed the rate of economic growth--today threatens to generate extreme inequalities that stir discontent and undermine democratic values. But economic trends are not acts of God. Political action has curbed dangerous inequalities in the past, Piketty says, and may do so again.

SB 27, a bill with national implications by requiring greater transparency from non- profits that spend significant amounts on California campaigns, was just signed by Governor Jerry Brown.

SB 27 will make sure billionaires and corporations can't hide behind secretive non-profits. It requires any group spending $50,000 in California elections to report exactly who gave the money. This is a key step before passage of the game-changing California DISCLOSE Act (SB 52, Leno-Hill).

This historic victory is thanks in large part to 40,000 people who signed the petition for SB 27

Please thank Governor Brown for signing SB 27 and ask him to follow up by helping pass the California DISCLOSE Act

CONTINUING THE CAMPAIGN FOR CLEAN ELECTIONS
Momentum Builds to Get Money Out of Politics
While many will say that the “Clean Elections” proposal (aka public funding of campaigns) is not as urgent as the 2014 races, it is important to know that initiatives, such as the “Clean Elections,” proposal take time to build. Your ongoing support is important. John Hartley is steadfastly leading the charge.

Clean Elections Campaign - Alert/Update
We got a great commentary printed in the Union-Tribune in support of clean elections for San
Diego on April 10, written by adjunct professor of political science at SD City College Mark
Linsky. Link to article
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Please write a letter to the editor of the Union/Tribune in support of Mark Linsky's
commentary? We need a deluge of letters to the U/T. The more letters they receive, the more they
will print. You can write a very deliberative letter or a short, off-the-cuff letter. The U/T will print
the letters they want.
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How to write a letter to the U/T
Put your thoughts together, email to: letters@utsandiego.com and refer to Mark Linsky's
commentary. Include your name, community of residence and a daytime telephone number. (The
phone number will not be published.)

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