The California Young Democrats lauds the President’s explicit support for same sex couples as America takes a collective step forward for a stronger, more equal, and more inclusive America.

It is in these times where we should be reminded that the foundation of equality expressed by our forefathers stands the test of time as we look towards the future of an America that is – everyday – becoming a more perfect union.

The California Young Democrats is committed to the reelection of a leader capable of recognizing the ever evolving values America holds so dear.

TODAY democrats from across the state will be meeting in each congressional district to vote on our representatives to the 2012 Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, NC.

CYD is proud to announce that 182 Young Democrats have filed to run for DNC district level delegate- 114 of whom meet the official 2012 DNC “youth” criteria.

But to send our members to Charlotte, we need YOU!

Please see the below caucus locations and names of the young democrats running!

All Caucuses have registration open between 2pm-3pm. All caucus voting begins at 3pm! If there are two locations listed for your caucus, you can vote at either location. You can vote and leave, and if you are unsure if you have registered to vote since your last move, you can absolutely register to vote and vote on site!

If you don’t know your new congressional district number, you can check your address here:
http://swdb.berkeley.edu/gis/gis2011/
or here:
http://www.sacbee.com/2011/07/29/3804492/see-your-senate-assembly-or-congress.html

The number of male and female delegates able to be elected varies from district to district. To check out how many men and women can be elected in your Congressional District on Sunday, please click here and look for your congressional district #: http://www.cadem.org/about/dncdelegate2012

Please take an hour of your day to support your peers running for delegate! Together, we can do this!

Democratically yours,
Jennifer Longley

President

California Young Democrats

Caucus Locations and YD’s running (Those identified with an * are considered “youth delegates” by the 2012 DNC rules):

CD1
Location:
Arc Pavillion
2030 Park Avenue
Chico, CA 95928
YD Candidates:
Eunice Derish
Justin Meyers*
Pedro Quintana*
Brian Ray*
Erika Romo*
Brianne Sheridan*

CD2
Location 1:
UFCW Local 5
840 E Street, Suite 8
Eureka, CA 95501
Location 2:
Carpenters Local 35
647 Lindaro Street
San Rafael, CA 94915
YD Candidates:
Nicole Gillespie*
Blake Hooper*
Jessica Jackson*
Max Perrey*

CD3
Location:
CTA Cordelia RRC
4751 Central Way
Fairfield, CA 94534
YD Candidates:
Satdip Gill*
Samuel Mahood*
Joe Romero*

CD4
Location 1:
Firefighters’ Memorial Hall
501 Main Street
Diamond Springs, CA 95619
Location 2:
Bootjack Stompers Hall
4662 Morman Bar Crossing
Mariposa, CA 95338
YD Candidates:
Brian Duke*
Jacob Priley*
Maheet Virk*

CD5
Location:
Carpenters Local 751
1706 Corby Avenue
Santa Rosa, CA 95407
YD Candidates:
 none

CD6
Location:
SEIU 1000 HQ
1808 14th St
Sacramento, CA 95811
YD Candidates:
Basim Elkarra
Donald Gibson*

CD7:
Location:
Machinists 725
2749 Sunrise Blvd.
Rancho Cordova, CA 95742
YD Candidates:
Nimi Badwalz*
Precious Barnes
Robert Longer
Cirian Villavicencio
Paula Villescaz*

CD8
Location:
CTA Hesperia RRC
9329 Mariposa Road #215
Hesperia, CA 92344
YD Candidates:
Thora Birch*

CD9
Location:
Central Labor Council AFL-CIO
115 N. Sutter Street
Stockton, CA 95202
YD Candidates:
Kulbir Bainiwal*
Rajbir Bainiwal*
Dyane Burgos*
Gustavo Medina

CD10
Location:
Plumbers/Pipefitters 442
4842 Nutcracker Lane
Modesto, CA 95356
YD Candidates:
Manmeet Grenwal
Astrid Zuniga

CD11
Location:
CTA Concord RRC
2177 Diamond Blvd.
Concord, CA 94520
YD Candidates:
Jerome Pandell*
Tanisha Sandhu*
Rae Schindler*
Ayesha Walker *

CD12
Location:
3271 18th Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
YD Candidates:
Thomas Fritsche*
Chris Gembinski*
Alberto Mendoza*
Meghan Moroney
Kia-Jacquelyn Omotalade
Leah Pimentel*
Maria Shuckahosee

CD13
Location:
SEIU UHW HQ – Oakland
560 Thomas L Berkley Way
Oakland, CA 94612
YD Candidates:
Chanee Franklin Minor
Smita Hussain*
Mario Juarez
Chinela Key-Baysinger
Amy McGonagle
Sarah Swanbeck*
Igor Tregub*
Joseph Tursi*
Ilana Wexler*

CD14
Location:
UFCW 5 – South SF
208 Miller Ave.
South SF, CA 94080
YD Candidates:
Sean Hassan
Leah LaCroix*
Kalimah Salahuddin

CD15
Location:
UFCW 5 Hayward Office
28870 Mission Blvd.
Hayward, CA 94544
YD Candidates:
Aidan Ali-Sullivan*
Rocky Fernandez
Morgan Raymone*
Dean Wallace*

CD16
Location:
UDW Homecare
Providers Union
1026 W. 18th St.
Merced, CA 95340
YD Candidates:
Will Oliver*
Eric Payne*

CD17
Location:
MACHINISTS 725
655 Vaqueros Avenue
Sunnyvale, CA 94085
YD Candidates:
Alex Hilke*
Madhu Narasimhan*
Jaskirate Singh*

CD18
Location:
Los Altos Youth Center
1 North San Antonio Rd
Los Altos, California 94022
YD Candidates:
Mathew Herrick*
Kerry Hillis
Shaian Mohammadi*
David Ortiz II*
Nicholas Taxera*
David Walter

CD19
Location:
UFCW 5 San Jose HQ
240 South Market Street
San Jose, CA 95113
YD Candidates:
Maria Garcia*
Javier Gonzalez
Baltazar Lopez*
Vince Monroy
Andres Quintero

CD20
Location:
UFCW 5 – Salinas
1145 North Main Street
Salinas, CA 93906
YD Candidates:
Devina Khanna*
Jeffrey Raines*
Tyller Williamson*

CD21
Location:
Lemoore Chamber
of Commerce
300 E St (Freight Rm)
Lemoore, CA 93245
YD Candidates:
Melissa Hurtado*
Matt Rogers

CD22
Location:
SEIU 521 – Visalia
1811 W Sunnyside Ave
Visalia, CA 93277
YD Candidates:
Ryan Wullschleger*

CD23
Location:
SEIU 521 – Bakersfield
1001 17th St
Bakersfield, CA 93301
YD Candidates:
Ernie Calderon*
Andrea Cano

CD24
Location:
IBEW 639
6363 Edna Road
San Luis Obispo, CA 93401
YD Candidates:
Erik Anciaux*
Geoffrey Bell*
Hillary Blackerby*

CD25
Location:
MACHINISTS 725
39047 10th Street East
Palmdale, CA 93550
YD Candidates:
Marla Kurtz*
Addison Peterson*

CD26
Location:
IBEW 952
3994 E Main St
Ventura, CA 93003
YD Candidates:
David Atkins

CD27
Location:
Operating Engineers
150 Corson Street
Pasadena, CA 91103
YD Candidates:
Daniel Lopez*
Natalie Quach*
Jacqueline “Jacque” Robinson

CD28
Location:
IATSE Local 80
2520 West Olive Ave, #200
Burbank, CA 91505
YD Candidates:
Farid Ben Amor*
Caitlin Gallogly*
Casey Robinson
Manijeh Sadr*
Johnathon Yoder*

CD29
Location:
IBEW 11
400 Chatsworth Drive
San Fernando, CA 91340
YD Candidates:
Ya-Mia Dawson
Elysia Eastty*

CD30
Location:
Manzanita Hall 130
CSU Northridge
18111 Nordhoff St.
Northridge, CA 91330
YD Candidates:
Calvin Abbasi*
Clint Cox
Michelle Elmer*
Tyler Halen*
Jeffrey Lemberger
Shane Robinson
Adam Seiff*
Jessica Yas*

CD31
Location:
CTA San Bernardino RRC
430 East Vanderbilt Way
San Bernardino, CA 92408
YD Candidates:
Alexandra Beltran*
Brandon Duncan*
Christal Garcia
Erick Jimenez
San Juana Laurel
Andre Overstreet*
Martha Preciado

CD32
Location:
Teamsters Joint Council 42
818 S Oak Park Rd # 250
Covina, CA 91724
YD Candidates:
Sherman McLaurin
Michael Mergil*

CD33
Location:
James Gray Gallery
Bergamot Station Art Center
2525 Michigan Ave, D4
Santa Monica, CA 90404
YD Candidates:
Dante Atkins*
Richmond Briscoe
Max Kanin*
Wesley King*
Alfredo LaMont
Andrew Larkin*
Samuel Liu*
Caleb Marker*

CD34
Location:
SEIU 721
1545 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90017
YD Candidates:
Alexander DeOcampo
Qwanchaize Edwards*
Mark Gonlzalez*
Hector Huezo*
Sergio Juarez
Natalie Rogers
Mark Vargas
Hanna Yoon

CD35
Location:
Carpenters Local 944
3250 Shelby Street
Ontario, CA 91764
YD Candidates:
Danielle Farve*
Jocelyn Sida*
Amos Young Jr.*

CD36
Location:
CTA Palm Desert RRC
75084 Gerald Ford Drive
Palm Desert, CA 92211
YD Candidates:
 none

CD37
Location:
UPDATED LOCATION
West Los Angeles College
Fine Arts Auditorium
(Room FA 100)
9000 Overland Avenue
Culver City, CA 90230
YD Candidates:
Lena Benson*
Chris Brown
Lindsay Carlson
Joseph Casillas*
Trestan Fairweather*
Todd Hawkins*
Bertrand Perdomo-Ucles*
Brett Roberts*

CD38
Location:
CWA District 9
12215 Telegraph Road # 210
Santa Fe Springs, CA 90670
YD Candidates:
Jewel Iheanacho
Amy Powell

CD39
Location:
UFCW 324
8530 Stanton Ave.
Buena Park, CA 90620
YD Candidates:
Brandy Carter
Karen Chang
Clark Lee
Andrew Rodriguez*
Pankaj Sharma

CD40
Location:
IBEW 11
6023 South Garfield Ave
City of Commerce, CA 90040
YD Candidates:
 none

CD41
Location:
IBEW Local 440
1405 Spruce St, Suite G
Riverside, CA 92507
YD Candidates:
Sammie Luna Farias
Dewayne Owens
Tisa Rodriguez

CD42
Location:
Marion V Ashley
Community Center
25625 Briggs Rd.
Menifee, CA 92585
YD Candidates:
 none

CD43
Location:
CTA South Bay
United Teachers
3551 Voyager St., #105
Torrance, CA 90503
YD Candidates:
Brent Page*
Odest Riley Jr.
LaShawnda Silverburg*

CD44
Location:
Teamsters Local 572
450 E. Carson Plaza Dr #A
Carson, CA 90746
YD Candidates:
Micah Ali
Skyy Fisher*
Andres Ramos*
Ricardo Reyes
Rex Richardson*
TyRon Turner

CD45
Location:
Catalina Ballroom
Hilton Irvine
18800 MacArthur Blvd.
Irvine, CA 92612
YD Candidates:
Minea Gracia
Mani King
Nolan Lynch*
Christina Razo Perez*

CD46
Location:
SEIU Local 50 HQ
Workers United
Conference Center
527 S. Harbor Blvd.
Anaheim, CA 92805
YD Candidates:
Priscilla Luviano*

CD47
Location:
Teamsters Local 848
3888 Cherry Avenue
Long Beach, CA 90807
YD Candidates:
Christopher Duvali
James Johnson
Uduak Ntuk
Lyle Trainer*

CD48
Location:
MACHINISTS 725
5402 Bolsa Avenue
Huntington Beach, CA 92649
YD Candidates:
Glenn Millan*
Mona Razi*

CD49
Location:
Oceanside Library Cmnty Rm
330 North Coast Hwy
Oceanside, CA 92054
YD Candidates:
Kyle Krahel*

CD50
Location:
CWA Union Hall
1525 Simpson Way
Escondido, CA 92029
YD Candidates:
Armando Telles

CD51
Location 1:
Machinist Union Hall
590 Park Way
Chula Vista, CA 91910
Location 2:
Brawley American
Citizen’s Club
890 B Street
Brawley, CA 92227
YD Candidates:
 none

CD52
Location:
Machinist Union Hall
5150 Kearny Mesa Rd
San Diego, CA 92111
YD Candidates:
Aaron Kaufman*
Ian Leonard-Nickel*
Joseph Ramelli*

CD53
Location:
Sheet Metal Workers Intl
4594 Mission Gorge Place
San Diego, CA 92120
YD Candidates:
Mercedes Alcoser*
Tijuan Cason-Davis*
Timothy Chandler*
Matthew Corrales*
Jennifer Mullen
Evan Parent*

By: F. Finley McRae, Special to BlackAmericaWeb.com

A so-called “Increase Diversity Bake Sale,” scheduled for Tuesday by the UC Berkeley College Republicans, ignited a firestorm of protests this weekend and has spurred efforts to strip the group’s university funding.

Critics, including a large number of student government leaders, contend that the sale, to dramatize the club’s opposition to funding higher education for undocumented youth, has decidedly racist overtones. A legislative initiative to provide such funding, AB 185, was passed this summer by the California Assembly and is currently being weighed by Gov. Jerry Brown.

At the sale, in front of Sproul Hall, the center of activity on the northern California campus, cookies and other baked goods will be sold at much lower prices to African-Americans, Asians, Latinos, Native Americans and women. The club says the pricing scale will drive home its notion that the legislation discriminates against whites, especially white males.

White males will be charged $2.00 for each sweet, Asians $1.75, Latinos $1.00, African-Americans 75 cents and Native Americans only a quarter. Shawn Lewis, the College Republicans’ president, claims the event is “satirical” in nature.

Vishalli Looma, president of the Associated Students of the University of California, which met late Sunday in an emergency session to consider action against the club, said campus leaders are not amused.

“Members of the BCR have expressed that the differential pricing structure was intended to be satirical, but I do not see how this is compatible with what AB 185 stands for,” she told the Daily Californian, the university’s undergraduate newspaper.

The student government’s constitution, Looma said, states that “the Senate shall not fund any activity or group which discriminates against any student by race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, physical disability, political activity or belief in recruitment and acceptance for membership.”

Lewis, who did not respond to BlackAmericaWeb.com’s e-mail request for comment, had alleged on Friday that the criticisms leveled against the club are unfair. “People just keep screaming that (the club’s sale) is a bunch of white kids and that Berkeley students have (only) one voice.”

Alfredo Mireles, Jr., a Berkeley student pepresentative on the UC Board of Regents, said, “It is disappointing that these politically engaged Berkeley students decided to deal with this issue in an immature and offensive way that will make some students feel unwelcome on their own campus.”

The estimated cost of the legislation will be $13 million, according to Los Angeles Assemblyman Gilberto Cedillo (D-45), who authored it. California’s 2011 budget is $88 billion.

Although AB 185 has sat on Brown’s desk for several weeks, most political analysts, journalists and commentators have predicted that he will sign it.

Eric Bauman, vice-chair of the California Democratic Party, told BlackAmericaWeb.com that “this extremism demonstrated by the Berkeley College Republicans is typical of what we’ve come to expect from Republicans in California and all across the country.”

Instead of drawing positive publicity and eager members, “this does nothing but alienate Republicans from everybody else, and that’s why they represent only 30 to 34 percent of the voters in California,” said Bauman, who also chairs the Los Angeles County Democratic Party.

Jennifer Longley, president of Young Democrats of California, agreed with Bauman.

“At the end of the day, the Berkeley Republican Club is doing some of the same crazy things to garner media attention as did the San Francisco State College Republicans when I was a student there,” she said.

“This is nothing new; it is what is. At San Francisco State, the College Republicans held a Guantanamo Bake Sale, so I’ve seen this kind of thing before. It’s a cheap shot, a stunt to yet again demonize any section of society with whom they do not politically agree,” she said.

On the same note, Longley continued, “its disappointing, but not surprising. Welcome to the California Republican Party. Despite the rapid growth in California’s diverse populations, the Republican Party is showing that it has no intention of embracing that diversity.”

Tomer Ovadia, the Daily Californian’s editor-in chief and the president of its editorial board, declined to comment.

“The only opinion our newspaper conveys to the public on issues such as this one,” he said, “comes through our editorials.”

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