Jan 3 to Jan 9, 2018 Your Gay Desert Daily Guide Since 1994

THE LAST WORD by Greg Pettis
Well the New Year has arrived. The Desert
is fresh and crisp and as 2017 ended so 2018
began, Tweets.
Well the rest of us can think, easily, of a hundred
things the President of the United States
could do on the first day of the new year, the
Tweeter-in-Chief spent the day attacking the
governments of Pakistan and Iran, the former
head of the FBI, former President Obama,
and a former aide to Hillary Clinton. My oh
my, his index fingers must be tired and in
need of a massage.
He says he wants to do a bipartisan infrastructure
bill but I have yet to see him try to
even speak nice of a Democrat. Even Sen. Joe
Manchin of West Virginia, probably the most
likely Dem to support an initiative of the
President, has come under attack on social
media from Mr. Trump. Is there any question
left in ANYONE’S mind that is man is not
suited to be President and is probably in some
stage of mental deterioration?
to Southern CA as it relates to the ports and
good movement. He will be missed.
Locally, we should see financial reports on
various candidates for US House, CA Assembly
and Senate, and by the end of the month
candidates for city Council races throughout
the valley and County Supervisor. Look for
House candidate Dan Ball (R) and State Senate
candidate Joy Silver (D) to surprise folks.
It looks like there may also be a new candidate
for Governor! So far focus has been on
Gavin Newsom, John Chiang, Antonio Villaraigosa
and Delaine Eastin. Now it appears
that Congresswoman Jackie Speier may be
jumping in. She has $1.5 million in the bank
from her House campaign Committee that
could be transferred over so she can start the
campaign running. StatenDems are meeting
in San Diego Feb 23-25. Should be an interesting
convention.
Are you voting in 2018? Have you begun to
focus on that election? The primary is only 6
months away! I’d be interested to know who
have chose or are leaning to and why. Send
your comments to me at
Orin Hatch, Republican Senator from Utah
has announced his retirement after 20 +
years. I won’t miss him much, but he has been
fairly good on education and some HIV votes.
More troubling, to me, was the announcement
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that Congressman Bill Schuster (R-PA) 2017 showed a tremendous amount of orga-
is stepping down. He has served 18 years and nization and discipline in the opposition to
has been Chairman of the House Transportation
President Trump. We must continue to do
and Infrastructure Committee. I’ve had the same and even louder. The ineptitude
the privilege of working with the Congressman
and moral depravity is beyond the pale and
and his office on Transportation issues. certainly does nothing for our country.
He is smart, thorough in his analysis of the
issue and willing to work across the aisle on That’s all for this week. Keep RESISTING!!!
T&I concerns. He has been especially helpful
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