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ELECTION ISSUE
THURSDAY,
NOVEMBER 2, 2004
THE
DAILY AZTEC
THE INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY
America Votes 2004
TIME FOR A CHANGE
BY JOE ZARRO
EDITOR
IN
CHIEF
BY JASON ARNOLD
S TA F F W R I T E R
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—Joe Zarro is an English and philosophy senior
and editor in chief of The Daily Aztec.
—Jason Arnold is a political science senior.
—This column does not necessarily reflect the
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lecting John Kerry does a lot more than
change the president — it changes the attitude on Capitol Hill. The White House will be
more articulate, less secretive and more cooperative with those who disagree with it.
Kerry’s victory would be a step forward
toward the political climate we deserve.
Speeches won’t focus on an “axis of evil” or
“rogue states.” Tremendous resources won’t
be squandered on an anti-terror strategy that
goes after countries instead of terrorist organizations. The financial cost of war in Iraq could
not only have fully funded world wide AIDS
programs for 14 years, it could have increased
the number of special forces, policemen, terrorism experts and cargo inspectors, making
us truly safer. John Kerry knows this, and will
focus on specialized action instead of largescale military action. Many people will vote
for George W. Bush because they think he has
a better national security plan, but it is a
regrettable misconception.
Another unfortunate misconception is that
Kerry is indecisive or hasn’t been clear on the
issues. Kerry has made some very specific
promises, such as not raising taxes on people
making less than $250,000 a year, cutting the
deficit in half within four years and offering
3.5 million children with after-school opportunities. In fact, very clear objectives are outlined on his Web site, www.johnkerry.com.
Kerry’s actions will not be unpredictable or a
surprise when he is inaugurated. And unlike
Bush, Kerry would be held responsible for
these commitments if he wants to be re-elected in 2008.
Electing a president to a second term is
granting that president a great deal of trust. A
trustworthy president would follow through
with his commitments to the American people, but as faced with re-election Bush didn’t
provide the funds he promised in the No
Child Left Behind Act. Since Vice President
Dick Cheney isn’t going to run for office in
2008, the Bush administration would not be
nearly as accountable to the voters’ will as the
Kerry administration would be.
If you look at our current leadership, not
only has Bush failed to reach across party (or
international) lines, but even when asked he
can’t admit a single mistake to the American
public. Humility is a necessary component of
being a “uniter,” and if a president can’t admit
mistakes to the public, his stubbornness and
pride clearly stand in the way of bridging disagreements.
Most people can agree things aren’t going
so well. Continuing genocide, an AIDS pandemic, a growing rich/poor gap and an energy industry that is unsustainable are just four
in a laundry list of problems this new century
will face. Bush has only promised more of the
same for the next four years. Kerry offers a
change, Kerry offers a different political
atmosphere and Kerry offers a new direction.
This century got off on the wrong foot with
George W. Bush. Today, let’s take a step forward — elect John Kerry as president.
he American people have a clear choice
today. On one side stands George W.
Bush, whose strong leadership has guided
us the past four years in our ongoing war
on terror. On the other is a man whose
leadership is unproven, and it is for this
reason this election is so important today.
Our current president is a wartime president. He did not desire this role, but he
has thrived in it. Since our country was
fatefully attacked on Sept. 11, 2001, he has
toppled two rogue nations capable, if not
willing, to aid the threat of terrorism.
One of those missions, in Afghanistan,
has been an overwhelming success — a fact
forgotten in this current presidential campaign. The ruling Taliban regime, which
allowed safe haven to Osama bin Laden,
fell quickly, since then democracy has
taken hold of the country. Bin Laden was
forced into hiding; just recently elections
were held there without the interference of
terror.
The military mission in Iraq, however,
has been a different story. Things have not
necessarily gone as planned there, but our
president remains steadfast to succeed. He
knows if we give up in Iraq, there could be
dire consequences — the jihad against
America would only grow stronger.
Much has been said of the way we
entered the Iraq conflict — that our “going
it alone” was the wrong way. We did not
go it alone, though. Bush had the insight to
realize who our true allies are. He knows
our enemies are planning still more attacks
against our country and sometimes the best
defense is an effective offense. We cannot
wait for the terrorists to come to us — we
must continue to hunt them down as well
as those aiding them to keep our homeland
safe. Bush has shown he has the resolve to
win this war. We need to root out terrorism
and kill it quickly. His opponent has
wavered in this respect.
Over the past year-and-a-half, John
Kerry has wavered so much concerning his
position on Iraq it is only recognizable to
his own campaign. He has said we need to
fight a “more compassionate” war on terror. He has promised to get France,
Germany and Russia to help shoulder the
burden, but has given no clear plan on how
he intends to do that. At the same time, he
insults our current allies, calling them the
“coalition of the coerced and bribed.”
The main issue of this election is Iraq
and the war on terror. While Bush has
made his intentions clear to do whatever it
takes to end the terrorist threat, Kerry hasn't shown what he would do. When you
vote today, weigh your options carefully
and make the right choice in re-electing
George W. Bush.
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ISSUE 38
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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2004
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Elections ‘08 undecided
While this year’s election is neck-and-neck between Bush and Kerry,
the GOP candidacy for the next presidential term is up in the air
BY STEFANIE JEDNORALSKI
CONTRIBUTOR
KRT Campus
President Bush speaks at a campaign fundraiser in New York.
The close race for this year’s
presidential election has sparked
speculation as to who the next
Republican candidate will be in
2008, following Dick Cheney’s
announcement to take a step
down from the White House.
“I think Rudy Giuliani is a
likely
candidate,”
Danica
Lambert, chairwoman of the
Aztec College Republicans, said.
“His democratic opponents may
possibly be Hillary Clinton or
John Kerry.”
Lambert, a political science
and communication senior, said
the candidate should have excellent recognition and a good
name in the political community,
as well as a history of working in
political affairs.
“There has been talk that Jeb
Bush may step up to the plate,”
she said. “But I think there are
better people out there for the
nomination.”
Political science professor
Edward Heck said if President
Bush is re-elected, he thinks
there could be a dynastic succession for 2008, with brother and
Florida Gov. Jeb Bush as a serious candidate.
“I think he would tap into the
same basis of support within the
party, the business community,”
Heck said. “He’s the kind of guy
who could not only go (to the
business community) and raise
the money, but could also do
things such as the Latino
Chamber of Commerce, for
instance, and really work on
building that base for the
Republican Party in the future.”
The war in Iraq also poses
many questions for the future of
the Republican and Democratic
parties.
Clyde Barrow, center for policy analysis director at the
University of Massachusetts
Dartmouth, said both parties
will have some similarities in
respect to American troops in the
Middle East.
“Both sides will most likely
try to get us out of Iraq by the
2008 election,” he said.
Barrow also said if the
Republican Party holds office for
another term, there will be hostility toward abortion and affirmative action.
Political science teaching
assistant Cyrus Mahdavi is in
agreement.
Mahdavi said if two liberal
Supreme Court justice positions
are replaced by conservatives,
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San Diegan fasts
until homeless
are given shelter
Larry Milligan loses 32 pounds to fight for
motel vouchers and ticketing of destitutes
BY CHRISTINA STEWART
S E N I O R S TA F F W R I T E R
San Diego resident Larry
Milligan, 58, let his stomach do
the talking to City Hall on behalf
of the city’s homeless.
Milligan, who has been reaching out to the homeless community for 15 years, began fasting Oct.
10, sitting each day outside
Downtown San Diego’s City Hall
in hopes the city will change its
policies with regards to the homeless.
After 19 days of starvation, the
32-pound-lighter Milligan ended
his fast after some of his demands
were met.
Milligan said he wanted to
change how police ticket homeless while sleeping by providing
more shelter space and offering
motel vouchers.
He said in 2004, during a 13month span, 2,641 tickets were
written in the one district around
the ballpark. Thirty-eight percent
of those became warrants.
“I began seeing the amount of
tickets and the amount of homeless going to jail,” he said. “These
people weren’t criminals. Only a
small percent of the homeless
community are part of any criminal involvement.”
Jesus Nieto, associate professor in San Diego State’s School of
Teacher Education, has tried to
create awareness by bringing the
issue to his classroom.
“One of my assignments is to
get involved and reach out to (the
homeless) in some way, such as
taking them a lunch,” Nieto said.
Nieto has shown his support
for Milligan by visiting him at
City Hall and has encouraged his
students to do the same.
“It was very impactful because
here’s this guy who’s putting his
life on the line,” he said.
Electrical engineering junior
Israel Alarid took his teacher’s
advice and spent about 45 minutes visiting Milligan.
“The more I talked to him and
got to know him, I realized that
he was young at heart,” Alarid
said.
While talking with Milligan,
Alarid also had a chance to meet a
friend and supporter who was
once a successful CEO, but is now
homeless.
“A lot of people feel like homeless people are uneducated, and
that’s totally a misconception,”
Alarid said. “Here I have this person telling me about her past, letting me know about the mergers
she used to be involved in and
about her company. To me, it was
mind-blowing. I couldn’t believe
it.”
Although not all of Nieto’s students visited City Hall, many
showed their support in other
ways.
Liberal
studies
senior
Meghann Voigtritter said she
called the assistant chief of police
five times leaving messages with
his secretary.
“I put myself in the shoes of a
homeless person,” Voigtritter
said. “It can happen to anyone for
a multiple number of reasons. If I
were to become homeless some
time in the future I would hope
that I would have some sort of
security and support from my
community. Homeless people are
being made criminals for sleeping
in front of business that are closed
and I don’t think that should be
allowed.”
Milligan said the coalition consisting of himself and two others
began this battle to see what only
a few people could get done.
“We went and showed the city
all these figures, and all the city
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Videotape footage, released by the Department of Defense in 2001, shows bin Laden (middle).
Bin Laden tape surfaces
The video, released just days before election, includes footage that
says security of Americans is not in the hands of either Bush or Kerry
BY ALANA N. SEIFI
The emergence of the
Osama bin Laden videotape
four days before an extraordinarily tight presidential election underlined the threat of
terrorism in the United States.
The videotape of the AlQaeda leader was the first to
surface in more than a year
and told Americans the best
way for them to avoid another
terrorist attack was to stop
threatening Muslims’ security.
“Oh, American people, I am
speaking to tell you about the
ideal way to avoid another
Manhattan, about war and its
causes and results,” bin Laden
said in the tape.
“Despite entering the fourth
year after Sept. 11, Bush is still
deceiving you and hiding the
truth from you, and therefore
the reasons are still there to
repeat what happened,” he
said.
Although there was no evidence of an election related
plot, the video highlighted the
presence of bin Laden and AlQaeda in a presidential race
where the threat of terrorism
weighs heavily.
In his statements, bin Laden
mentions President Bush and
Sen. Kerry, but said the likelihood of another terrorist
attack would not depend on
the outcome of the election.
“Your security is not in the
hands of Kerry or Bush or AlQaeda; your security is in your
own hands,” bin Laden said.
Bin Laden acknowledged
for the first time that he
ordered the Sept. 11 attacks
and said he did so because of
the injustices against the
Palestinians and Lebanese by
Israel and the United States.
“We decided to destroy
towers in America,” bin Laden
said. “God knows that it had
not occurred to our mind to
attack the towers, but after our
patience ran out and we saw
the injustice and the inflexibility of the American-Israeli
alliance toward our people in
Palestine and Lebanon, this
came to my mind.”
Bin Laden referred to the
attacks of the towers as a way
of getting revenge for when
Israel bombed towers in
Lebanon in 1982.
“As
I
watched
the
destroyed towers in Lebanon,
it occurred to me to punish the
unjust the same way — to
destroy towers in America —
so that it can taste some of
what we are tasting and to
stop killing our children and
women,” bin Laden said.
He also said Bush gave the
terrorists more time than they
needed to carry out their plot.
He mentioned how Bush was
at an elementary school at the
time of the attacks.
“It appeared to (Bush) that a
little girl’s talk about her goat
and its butting was more
important than the planes and
their butting of the skyscrapers,” bin Laden said. “That
gave us three times the
required time to carry out the
operations, thank God.”
When intelligent officials
analyzed the tape, they found
it to be authentic and recently
made. They also investigated
the unbroadcasted contents
and said they saw no direct
threat of an attack, according
to www.signonsandiego.com.
The video, first broadcast
on the Al-Jazeera television,
showed bin Laden with a long,
gray beard wearing a traditional white robe, a turban and
a golden cloak. He was behind
a table with a brown curtain in
the background.
The fugitive Al-Qaeda
leader was thought to be hiding in the mountains along the
Pakistan-Afghanistan border.
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Voters may be exposed to flawed polling results
BY LAURA VOGLTANZ
With the presidential election in the
wake, public opinion polls have been a
heated debate among voters. There have
been many discrepancies between what
polls suggest and how many results may
be flawed.
In case it’s unclear, political polling is
an attempt to estimate what large numbers of people are thinking and feeling
by polling a small sample of respondents
— usually between 1,000 and 1,500,
according to Gallup poll Editor in Chief
Frank Newport’s www.pbs.org article,
“The Science of Polling.” This small
sample is held out to be representative of
the entire adult American population.
Organizations that conduct polls
include Gallup national opinion polls
and Zogby, as well as media outlets such
as CBS News, The New York Times and
USA Today. Each of these usually claims
to be an unbiased, scientific source of
political polls, though within the past
months, some have been ridiculed for
their methods and predicted results.
A large issue that came up is the pollsters’ difficulties in reaching Americans,
mainly young people, who rely solely on
their cell phones.
According to The Hill — a newspaper
for and about the U.S. Congress — under
legislation approved by Congress in 1991
and put into effect by the Federal
Communications Commission a year
later, pollsters could be fined $500 for
calling wireless phones because each
time the owner answers, it costs him or
her money.
This means pollsters must rely on
landlines — a line of communication by
telephone cable on land — as a primary
means of polling.
The Yankee Group, a Boston communication research firm, reported about 6
percent of wireless phone users go without traditional landline service nationally. This percentage approaches 14 percent among 18- to 24-year-olds.
The inability to reach cell phone users
is contributing to the growing perception
that phone surveys are skewed and inaccurate and should become a thing of the
past.
This inaccuracy could become an
issue in future elections. Many pollsters
may begin incorporating more online
methods
into
their
surveys.
“At some point in the next 10 to 15
years, we may go to Internet political
polling,” Jim McLaughlin of McLaughlin
and Associates, said in Newport’s article.
For now, “phones are still the most
effective way to do this,” he stated in the
article.
Polling on the Internet encompasses
other problems when it comes to
whether a poll is scientific.
Political science professor Carole
Kennedy said web polls are not scientific
because they do not include a random
sample of people.
“Web polls are only available to people with a computer and usually people
who seek them out,” she said.
“Therefore, they are not scientific.”
Kennedy also said a web poll could be
an organized attempt of interest groups
to influence polls. Many of these groups
will have members go on and participate
in the poll increasing their candidates’
numbers.
“It’s a battle of perceptions,” she said.
“If you can get a poll to show your candidate’s ahead, people will perceive that
they are.”
Recently, Gallup polling on the 2004
presidential race was under attack from
liberal critics who say Gallup’s methods
produce results that are biased in favor
of President Bush, according to USA
Today. The issue is whether too many
Republicans end up being counted as
“likely voters” in Gallup’s polls.
Likely voters, according to Kennedy,
are people who voted in the last election
and are expected to vote in this election.
“The Gallup poll underrepresents
minority and young people — many of
them Democrats — and overrepresents
the Republican voter base,” she said.
“Therefore, the poll doesn’t reflect the
actual percentage of the population.”
Polling practices, such as this, can
cause frustration in the average voter
because they can’t get a sense of who is
ahead and who isn’t, Kennedy said.
The margin of error — a term that is
easily confused — contributes greatly to
the misreading of polls.
For example, if a poll indicates Bush
has 50 percent of the vote, Kerry has 45
percent of the vote and the margin of
error is 5 percent, either one of those
numbers could be off by five in either
direction.
Kerry could actually be at 50 percent
or at 40 percent and Bush could only be
ahead by 45 percent or he could lead as
much as 55 percent.
According to a www.wired.com article,
there is not much pollsters can do about
the margin of error.
“It’s an intractable problem whenever
you take a sample of 1,000 people and try
to predict how the population as a whole
will act,” as stated in the article. “You’d
have the same error rate if you flipped a
coin a thousand times, which, given the
closeness of this (presidential) election,
might give you a more accurate forecast.”
Some polls are privately funded by
the political party itself and should,
therefore, be looked at closely as bias
could easily be formed. Others, such as
Gallup, ensure samples are random representations of the entire population to
which they are intended to generalize.
“Our analysts carefully review each
and every sample against U.S. Census
statistics on such demographic variables
as age, gender, race, education and
region,” Newport said in a www.washingtonpost.com article.
Any poll — scientific or non-scientific,
with a large or small margin of error —
conducted by phone or Internet, should
be read carefully, Kennedy said.
In this election, the media has been
focusing on national polls, but they
won’t decide this election, she said.
Battleground states is what the election
will be based on.
“Either way, be sure to take polls with
a big grain of salt,” she said.
CITY
BY KAREN BRANCH-BRIOSO
K RT C A M P U S
Kirby Yau / Photo Editor
In celebration of the Day of the Dead (El Dia de los Muertos), teaching associates
put together a re-creation of a gravesite to honor the lives of the deceased.
ELECTIONS: If two liberal Supreme Court justices
are replaced, Roe v. Wade decision may be at risk
there is the definite possibility of overturning the 1973 Roe vs. Wade decision,
which made abortions legal.
“The people Bush has been considering
are very young conservative,” he said,
“and Roe vs. Wade was neck-and-neck.”
Stem-cell research has become a sensitive subject for Republicans as well. Bush
is rallying for heavy restrictions, while
Kerry is in favor. A clear decision must be
made in the near future, or this will be a
hot topic once again in the 2008 election.
As for the debate with gay marriage,
Lambert said if Giuliani was elected the
following term, he may support civil
unions.
“I think fiscally and economically
speaking, civil unions, with the benefits of
marriage, is a good thing” Lambert said.
“But there is a lot of division in the party
on this matter.”
Mahdavi said Bush doesn’t support
civil unions or gay marriage, and his
right-wing advisors will press to keep
with the status quo if he is re-elected.
“It is just so hard to tell what will happen in four years,” said Mahdavi. “Look
at how we were as a nation in ’97, and
then 9-11 happened.”
ACTIVIST: Local resident extends a shelter for
two months after negotiating with the city officials
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did after we did all this was drag their
feet,” he said.
Milligan asked the council where in San
Diego a homeless person can sleep without
running the risk of receiving an illegal
lodging ticket or being arrested, given the
shelters are full.
“Nobody has given me an answer yet,”
he said.
Although many of his questions remain
unanswered, Milligan said he is pleased
with the outcome thus far and predicts success in the near future.
“Now they’ve extended a shelter for
two months,” he said. “One step within
reaching a negotiation and we had a
proposition if there was a private com-
plaint against a homeless person who’s
sleeping on public property and not bothering anyone, then a police cruiser will
come up and call on his radio to see if there
is either a motel voucher available or if
there are any shelter beds.”
Only if the homeless person refuses will
the police officer ask him or her to leave, he
said.
Milligan said he ended his fast with certain individuals approaching him and giving their word they would be approaching
this in another way.
Jesus Nieto’s students weren’t the only
ones who learned a life lesson.
“I’m going to miss the communication
out there for the rest of my life,” Milligan
said. “It’s like a classroom — you’re talking
to all sorts of different people.”
BIN LADEN: Sen. Kerry says nothing will deter
him from capturing or killing Osama bin Laden
After the videotape surfaced, both
candidates made television appearances
to respond.
“Americans will not be intimidated or
influenced by an enemy of our country,”
Bush said. “I’m sure Senator Kerry
agrees with this. I also want to say to the
American people that we are at war with
these terrorists, and I am confident that
we will prevail.”
Kerry said, “We are absolutely united
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in our determination to hunt down and
destroy Osama bin Laden and the terrorists. They are barbarians, and I will stop
at absolutely nothing to hunt down, capture or kill the terrorists wherever they
are, whatever it takes — period.”
He also blamed Bush for not going
after bin Laden in the Tora Bora mountains of Afghanistan in 2001.
The Bush administration has left the
threat level unchanged, but said the
video could be a signal for an attack.
RIVIERA BEACH, Fla. — At a rally in
this predominantly black neighborhood
of Palm Beach County recently, Winnie
Simpkins rebuffed efforts by a John Kerry
campaign worker to recruit her as a volunteer.
It’s not for lack of inspiration.
Simpkins, 57, has been volunteering since
March for telephone banks and canvassing on Kerry’s behalf.
“I’m exhausted,” she said, explaining
there aren’t enough hours left in the day
to give more. “I’m a volunteer for Kerry
because we have to get Bush out of here.
What happened in 2000 brought me out
here.”
The Florida recount that brought the
presidential election results to a 36-day
standstill in 2000 has provoked unprecedented levels of just about everything for
the 2004 vote: Registered voters, now at
10.3 million. Hundreds of voter-education events. Thousands of lawyers at the
polls. Dozens of visits by presidential
candidates and their surrogates. And for
black voters like Simpkins, whose ballots
were far more likely to be discarded in
the last election, unprecedented levels of
anxiety that their votes may not count.
A recent South Florida Sun-Sentinel and
Florida Times-Union poll revealed the
level of distrust. Twenty-four percent of
black voters trust the electronic voting
machines that will be used by most
Floridians, compared to 62 percent of
white voters and 61 percent of Hispanic
voters.
The distrust has demonstrated itself in
high levels of early and absentee voting.
Before the polls opened today here, election officials estimate more than 2 million
Floridians will have already cast ballots.
Artic Wilcox, 25, of West Palm Beach,
cast his vote by absentee: “It’s just something about those machines. I wanted to
make sure it counts.”
Andrew Harris, 47, of Jacksonville,
and his daughter, Andrea, 18, voted for
Kerry last Wednesday. Four years ago,
Jacksonville citizens were faced with a
confusing “butterfly ballot” spread
across two pages similar to Palm Beach
County’s, and 26,909 ballots were rejected — 42 percent from majority-black
precincts.
“I got very angry about that,” said
Harris, who said it prompted him to vote
early. “I wanted to make sure my vote
really counted, so if I had any problems
voting, I’d still have time to straighten it
out before Election Day.”
Much has been done in Florida to win
over the trust of its citizens — and of the
nation — in the past four years. Gone are
punch cards, replaced by electronic and
optical-scan machines. Some people are
hopeful that the efforts will make things
different this year:
“I just hope we get off the Jay Leno
show,” said Dave Sauber, 45, of
Loxahatchee, as he waited in line in Palm
Beach County to cast an early ballot for
Bush.
Miami-Dade has held hundreds of
voter outreach events this year. Even as
voters were casting early ballots during
the day last week, election workers like
Giorgio Papzoglou logged in nighttime
hours to give voters extra opportunities
to practice their votes.
Papzoglou, 22, had worked 68 hours
overtime in the past two weeks, including at the Halloween-themed House of
Terror amusement park with an iVotronic
machine at his side. While salsa blared
from the radio station broadcasting live
in the next booth and patrons screamed
from the stomach-churning rides around
him, Papzoglou answered questions of
would-be voters.
At a candidate forum last week in
Boca Raton, RoseAnn Voils and two other
election workers set up the county’s version of electronic voting machines to give
voters a similar chance. Elderly voters
crowded around the machines to practice
casting ballots.
“We go out anywhere there are meetings, to schools, to fund-raisers, to festivals,” Voils said. “We’re out seven days a
week.”
In the city of Kissimmee near Orlando,
Edward Green has confidence in this
year’s election. The supporter of
President George W. Bush has seen election preparations from the inside. He
served as an Osceola County poll worker
in 2000 and is doing the same this year.
The difference is several hours more
training.
“They have sensitivity training so we
take care of handicapped voters, and this
year, every precinct has bilingual ballots
and workers — and some of them have
two and three bilingual workers,” Green
said.
In neighboring Osceola and Orange
counties, those changes were the result of
a consent decree hammered out with the
Justice Department as part of five votingrights lawsuits filed after the 2000 electoral troubles. Miami-Dade County
assented to a consent decree to ensure
better access to the polls for HaitianAmericans.
But in Palm Beach County, home to a
growing community of HaitianAmericans, ballots are still available only
in English and Spanish. So Louis Isaac,
38, of Loxahatchee, is stepping in to fill
some of the voter education void. He is a
real estate agent with a late-night Creolelanguage radio show that usually focuses
on educating fellow Haitian-Americans
about the real-estate market.
“Now, I’m talking about getting people to vote,” said Isaac, a Kerry supporter. “It’s a problem, because some people
don’t read English. I know someone who
couldn’t vote the other day because there
was no one to help her in her language.
But early voting helps. She’s supposed to
go back with her (English-speaking)
daughter when she gets out of school.”
Isaac attended the same rally as
Winnie Simpkins in Riviera Beach.
Featured guest was the man who came
up on the short end of the 2000 recount:
former Vice President Al Gore. Just as
candidates Bush and Kerry and all their
surrogates have done since the first day
of early voting Oct. 18, Gore’s plea was to
vote now.
Gore’s message was aimed at black
voters in Riviera Beach, the community
that he suggested had been slighted by
election officials when it came to setting
up early-voting sites.
“A six-mile drive is not going to stop
you from voting early,” thundered Gore
from the podium, reminding the crowd
of 250 to translate negative feelings about
the 2000 election into positive action at
the polls.
Roger Robbe, 64, a St. Louis native and
Bush supporter who has lived in Boca
Raton since 1997, said the lessons of the
Florida Recount may indeed turn out to
be a positive in 2004.
“As messy as it was, maybe it was a
good thing to get people to do their civic
duty,” Robbe said.
Yet Johnnie Stallinger of Jacksonville
fears the 2000 recount is motivating some
in not-so-positive ways. The Head Start
teacher and Christian lay minister is casting a ballot for Bush because she supports his stands against abortion and
same-sex marriage and has been shouted
at because of it.
“Because of 2000, people feel they’re
so free now to be aggressive,” Stallinger
said as she left an early-voting site.
“There was a time when we were celebrating voting — and now people are
voting because they’re hostile.”
Simpkins said hostility had nothing to
do with her decision to call up the Kerry
campaign in March.
“I wasn’t mad about it,” she said of the
2000 recount. Her only participation in
the 2000 voting process was casting a ballot. This year, she donated money. And
knocked on doors. And talked up early
voting on phone banks.
“I just said, if my volunteer work
could change the outcome, I had to do it.”
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Ron Roberts presents the best
mayoral choice for San Diego
S
an Diego’s mayoral race
has a candidate for everybody. With the addition of
Donna Frye, Democrats now
have a person to counterbalance the outlook of the 2004
election. Initially, the race was
scheduled to be a contest
between challenger Ron
Roberts and the current
Mayor Dick Murphy. With
both of these men being
Republicans, the race promised to be a contest of conservative ideals.
Murphy seeks to maintain
his title by campaigning on
his record during his last four
years in office. Murphy has
addressed the biggest issue —
the budget deficit — by agreeing to pay off the pension
fund debt. Under his leadership, the city has increased its
payments to the pension fund
in order to pay off the debt
faster.
According to his Web site,
www.murphy4mayor.com,
Murphy plans to increase
public safety by improving
San Diego’s fire protection. In
response to the 2003 wildfires,
Murphy’s new budget
includes $10 million for new
fire equipment. With additional spending, he plans on
getting new fire trucks, a fire
rescue helicopter and of
course, more firefighters.
Needless to say, San Diego
firefighters, as well as The San
Diego Union Tribune, back
Murphy.
In order to improve San
Diego’s library facilities,
Murphy pledges to spend
$300 million during the next
10 years on library construction and improvement,
according to
www.murphy4mayor.com. City
Councilwoman Donna Frye, is
running for mayor based
upon what she calls her “comprehensive solution” to the
city’s problems, according to
The Gay and Lesbian Times. If
elected, Frye plans to assume
responsibility in handling San
Diego’s pension crisis.
In opposition to Mayor
Murphy’s approach to the
pension deficit, Frye intends
to work with people in order
to maintain the pension situation. She feels communication
will eventually remedy San
Diego’s ailments. In addition,
Frye supports the clean
syringe and exchange program and the ID program for
medical marijuana patients,
according to The Gay and
Lesbian Times. Frye is a
“Friend of Pride;” she has the
support of the gay and lesbian community. She has also
received an award for her
support for civil rights of lesbian and gay citizens.
Ron Roberts, the current
county supervisor, plans to
make the city run more efficiently if elected. His No. 1
priority is addressing the
financial status of the pension
fund. He blames the mayor
and the city council for the
city’s financial burden.
Roberts insists they have not
been paying what is necessary
in order to lower the overall
balance.
Roberts admits, however,
that gaining control of the
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deficit is impossible. In a San
Diego Union Tribune article,
Roberts asserts that if the pension fund were fully funded,
it would lead to a “financial
disaster and a cash-flow problem that would bring on
bankruptcy.”
As a result of the 2003
wildfires, Roberts insists on
the need for a regional firefighting plan for San Diego
County. According to Roberts,
this would include “detection,
prediction and response” to
any fire in the area. Similar to
Mayor Murphy’s plan,
Roberts would add another
firefighting helicopter to San
Diego’s fleet.
If Ron Roberts is elected,
he would eliminate what he
feels is unnecessary spending.
For example, the public
libraries would not receive
the $300 million Murphy has
proposed. In order to become
fiscally sound, Roberts said
adamantly: “You have to
defer non-\essential capital
budgets.”
San Diego’s budget is
being lost in a dice game of
irresponsibility. Each year has
been another roll of the dice
in which Dick Murphy and
the city council gambled the
city’s finances. Since the ‘90s,
city officials have voted to
pay less into the pension system than what was needed.
According to,
www.murphy4mayor.com, San
Diego is the most efficiently
run city in California and also
has one of the highest credit
ratings in the country. This is
just false.
Reports such as these are
the reason why San Diego is
under investigation by the FBI
and the Securities and
Exchange Commission. City
officials claim the finances are
under control, but they definitely are not. The financial
uncertainty of San Diego
makes the budget and the
pension the most important
issues in the 2004 election.
Donna Frye offers no
answers to the budget deficit.
She repeatedly criticizes Dick
Murphy’s solutions and
claims she will bring people
together to form a “comprehensive solution.”
Ron Roberts has a plan. He
will first order a complete
audit of the city’s finances
and eliminate wasteful spending. He would also improve
San Diego’s fire fighting
departments. Instead of
pledging millions of dollars,
Roberts plans to spend strategically on updated fire fighting equipment. Roberts
acknowledges fixing San
Diego’s money trouble is no
easy task, but, if he is elected
mayor, it will be the first stage
toward gaining financial
responsibility.
Boxer will continue to
fight for the rights of the
downtrodden
Bill Jones is a viable
alternative to Boxer for
U.S. Senate
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alifornia is a liberal state; there is little
doubt John Kerry won’t carry its 55 electoral votes on Election Day. Nevertheless, that
liberal label is not as far left as many
Democrats would have us believe.
Californians are largely moderates. Sen.
Dianne Feinstein has recognized this, grasping
the stewardship she was given and having
reached out across the aisle to seek Republican
support on issues of mutual agreement such
as increasing penalties for identity theft,
increasing foreign assistance spending and
many other bipartisan issues. The nonpartisan
National Journal reviewed Sen. Barbara
Boxer’s 12-year voting career and deemed her
the sixth most liberal senator, just behind Ted
Kennedy (D-Mass.); Feinstein was ranked a
more moderate 30th.
Sen. Boxer has consistently disregarded the
legitimate concerns of partial-birth abortions
by voting against its ban and has consistently
sought to undermine the defense levels of this
country by voting against the 2000 and 2001
defense appropriations bills Feinstein,
Kennedy and Kerry supported. She voted
against the resolution authorizing both Iraq
wars and against the $87 billion supplemental
last year, attempted to cut more than $36.5 billion from intelligence funding in 1994 and
voted against the 2003 Omnibus
Appropriations Bill that provided nearly $25
billion for homeland security, according to
www.senate.gov.
Bill Jones, however, understands our first
priorities must be homeland security and
national defense. Former New York City
Mayor Rudy Giuliani endorses Bill Jones as a
candidate who “understands security, protection and homeland defense” and “will support the intelligence establishment of this
country.”
As an assemblyman from 1983-95 and
California secretary of state from 1995 to 2001,
Jones sponsored California’s three-strikes law,
fought for a return to “fair and competitive
elections” with the re-apportionment of 1992,
“established a Voter Fraud Task Force” and
launched reforms to “streamline office operations, cut costs and reduce paperwork” in
California’s state office, according to
www.jonesforcalifornia.com.
Additionally, as environmental concerns
weigh heavily in our state, Jones has promoted alternative fuels to achieve energy independence and — although a Republican —
has broken from his party to oppose offshore
oil drilling. Boxer, however, has been unable
after 22 years in the Senate to provide adequate leadership and bipartisan support to
end offshore oil drilling.
Jones has been endorsed by Govs.
Schwarzenegger, Deukmejian and Wilson; 12
California congressmen, 12 California state
senators, 29 California state assemblymen and
many city and county officials. Today, voters
can either choose the incumbent who is more
of “a symbolic representative for liberal causes,” according to an article in www.sfgate.com,
or a proven California leader not beholden to
extremist feminist causes who fully grasps the
inherent dangers of a weak national defense.
Susan Davis is best
suited to continue to
improve San Diego
R
Keliher sounds horn as
he goes after Hunter
O
usting a 12-term incumbent is hardly
a walk in the park, but District 52
candidate Brian Keliher is determined to
get Duncan Hunter out of political office.
Keliher, representing the Democratic
Party, has vowed to San Diegans he will
make sure our tax money is used efficiently and allocated properly — something a great deal of congressmen fail to
do.
Growing up in the big, blue-collar city
of Detroit, Mich., Keliher experienced the
average middle-class life. He grew up
watching working-class families in his
neighborhood struggle and work hard at
their nine-to-five jobs for dreams of sending their children to college. It is because
of the environment he grew up in that
Keliher will aid the hard working citizens
of District 52.
A 19-year resident of San Diego
County, Keliher runs a successful practice
as an entertainment and publishing law
attorney — a job requiring great skill to
manage successful high-stake negotiations. Though he has never held public
office, Keliher has done a great deal for
the San Diego community. He offers his
free time to the San Diego Volunteer
Lawyers program and the Legal Aid
Society of San Diego, in which he provides pro bono legal services to children
deprived of necessary special education
services. Keliher has also been an adjunct
instructor at Southwestern College for
seven years and will be teaching at
Grossmont College in the spring.
Keliher’s foremost priority includes
properly arming U.S. soldiers in Iraq,
which Hunter has failed to achieve as
chairman of the Armed Services
Committee. According to Newsweek, the
military is 1,800 armored Humvees short
of the self-stated requirement for the war
in Iraq. Furthermore, upon arrival to Iraq,
troops were given Vietnam-era flak jackets, offering no protecting against new
weaponry. According to Hunter’s Web
site, www.house.gov/hunter, he is responsible for overseeing all aspects of national
security policy, including the annual $340
billion defense budget. However, according to Keliher’s Web site, www.briankforcongress.org, to properly armor the troops
in Iraq with modern protective vests only
costs $97 million — a mere sliver of the
defense budget. The last thing a mother
wants to hear is her son’s death could
have been easily avoided if only he had
been provided the correct armor.
Furthermore, Keliher is an advocate
for education, especially for the advancement of high school graduates affording
present-time high college costs.
According to his Web site, Keliher supports Sen. John Kerry’s College
Opportunity Tax Credit program.
Appropriate financial aid awards for students are gradually becoming a myth.
Financial burdens are automatic for middle-class and lower-class parents looking
to send their children to college. But
times have changed, and parents are now
realizing they should have saved for
increasing college costs. If Bush is reelected, $270 million will be cut from the
Federal Pell Grant program. Luckily,
there’s always the opportunity to dig a
massive hole of debt, leap into it and still
get out alive.
Hunter is the primary example of a
congressman who is repeatedly re-elected
to the point where he resembles a fly
stuck on a hanging sticky flytrap. He’s
been stuck in the same position so long
his job requirements no longer include
representing the people of his district, but
rather getting as much funding as he can
to finance his next campaign. Unlike
Hunter, Keliher cares about the people
and he will do everything in his power to
fight for what is right. When casting your
ballot today, vote for Brian Keliher.
Libertarian candidate
Benoit can improve
California fiscal crisis
Fiscal skills of Darian
Hunzeker will help
turn San Diego around
Voting locations:
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Garage-Kirchner residence
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5201 Ruffin Road, Suite I
San Diego, CA 92123
6704 Claremore Ave.
San Diego, CA 92120
epresentative Susan A. Davis is a
graduate of University of California
at Berkeley and holds a master’s degree
in social work from the University of
North Carolina. Prior to her election to
congress, Ms. Davis served on the San
Diego City School Board for nearly a
decade, and in five of those years served
as its vice president or president. She
then became the executive director of the
Aaron Price Fellows Program, an organization whose goal is to enrich the lives
of San Diego high school students by
teaching them about local government
and business, cultural institutions, career
opportunities and ethnic and racial
diversity according to www.aaronpricefellows.homestead.com. In 1994, Ms. Davis
was elected to the California State
Assembly and served three terms until
her election to Congress in 2000 for district 53.
In Congress, Davis has served on the
House Armed Services Committee,
Education and Workforce Committee
and Veterans’ Affairs Committee. She
views herself as having earned a reputation as a bipartisan consensus builder.
Davis strongly supports increased
spending on: education — specifically
school infrastructure and funding of Pell
grants and Stafford loans — child care
programs, housing assistance for lowincome families and military pay for
active duty personnel. She does not support increased spending on research and
development of new weapons, nor on a
national missile defense system.
Davis supports a woman’s right to
choose, same-sex civil unions, use of
medicinal marijuana, stem-cell research,
affirmative action in public college
admissions and an increased federal
minimum wage. She supports strong
gun regulation and tough sentencing —
including use of the death penalty on
criminals.
Davis supports strengthening and
enforcing the Clean Water Act and the
Clean Air Act as well as regulations concerning vehicle emissions. She also supports the United States re-entering the
Kyoto treaty to limit global warming.
According to www.vote-smart.org,
Davis’ congressional voting record indicates she voted against President Bush’s
Iraq War Resolution, which has needlessly cost taxpayers billions of dollars.
Davis voted against the so-called Patriot
Act that has undermined our
Constitutional rights. She voted against
Bush’s Energy Bill that has circumvented
pre-existing environmental laws and
against Bush’s tax cut, which primarily
benefits individuals whose annual
income exceeds $1,000,000.
According to www.vote-smart.org,
Davis vows to “continue to work with
colleagues on both sides of the aisle to
improve our education system by reducing class sizes and providing incentives
to train, hire and retain highly qualified
teachers. Improve our health care system
by passing a real patients’ bill of rights;
strengthen corporate accountability laws
and protect employee pensions; support
our military families; and restore fiscal
solvency to Social Security and
Medicare.” Davis believes “we can
accomplish these goals and maintain a
balanced budget by cutting wasteful
government spending on unproven costly programs and not expanding or
extending irresponsible tax cuts that
only benefit the wealthiest Americans.”
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support Sen. Barbara Boxer because she
protects a woman’s right to choose, helps
children, fights for criminals who have
been discriminated against and is against
the unjust war in Iraq. In short, she fights
for those with a marginalized voice. There
are numerous differences between Boxer
and her opponent, Bill Jones, especially in
Boxer’s focus on issues pertaining to children and discrimination.
After Boxer took office, she advocated
and won federal funding for many afterschool programs, including an amendment
to the No Child Left Behind Act, the BoxerEnsign amendment which allocated $11.25
billion over the next six years for afterschool programs. Bill Jones has voted
against funding for after-school programs,
as well as money for class reduction in
1992, according to Boxer’s Web site,
www.boxer2004.org. After-school programs
are essential in making a child safer
between the hours of 3 and 5 p.m., when
most parents are still at work. A lack of
these programs can leave a child feeling
lost and confused. A child looking for
answers in this situation may turn to gangs
or other destructive activities without the
programs Boxer has fought for.
According to www.jonesforcalifornia.com,
Boxer voted against the prosecution of children ages 13-17 as adults, especially in
cases concerning gun-related crimes. Jones
was for this legislation. Children between
the ages of 13-17 are still developing; their
culture, family, teachers, mentors and
friends influence them heavily. Taking
them out of their familiar settings and putting them into an even more violent culture
can traumatize teens. It is a sad fact prisons
do not rehabilitate people; because of this,
teens may receive more harm than good by
being tried as adults.
Boxer also fights against discrimination
in death penalty cases. Boxer has fought to
allow the “use of statistics to challenge a
death-penalty sentence as racially discriminatory,” as noted on
www.jonesforcalifornia.com. As reiterated by
political science professor Michael A.
McCall, there have been studies to show
blacks who commit crimes against whites
have a greater chance of getting a deathpenalty sentence than white people who
commit crimes against blacks. When a person’s life is on the line in a biased system,
innocent people can be killed if this type of
evidence isn’t used.
Barbara Boxer has fought for the rights
of children and against unjust issues, such
as the death penalty and a lack of opportunities for America’s youth. She will continue to make progress for children’s rights.
The United States needs more senators
such as Boxer in the government. Voters
can be role models for the rest of the nation
by voting for Barbara Boxer.
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raditionally, third-party candidates
have not gotten much attention in
races for Congress and the presidency.
However, in this year’s election,
Libertarian Michael Benoit is up for the
seat in District 52 of the House of
Representatives and is worthy of the
office.
Fiscal discipline is one of the main
tenets of libertarian ideology, and
Benoit’s beliefs are definitely in line
with these. On his campaign Web site,
www.michaelbenoit.org, Benoit lays out
his plans of greatly slashing tax revenues that are taken in. “The federal
government can run on 20 percent of
what it now takes from the hardworking people of this country.” He also
wants to eliminate the progressive tax
system in favor of a flat tax system, as
“We should never sanction any form of
taxation that is designed to transfer
wealth, and enslave one group for the
benefit of another.” Though his rhetoric
is somewhat extreme, initiating a flat
tax would be feasible if the federal government could run on 20 percent of the
revenue it requires currently.
Benoit also offers solid criticisms of
the Social Security system, even if he
offers no solution to it. He explains how
the initial benefits later turned into a
flawed system, as “we were told that
the money would go into a trust fund
and be paid back to us out of the same.
Well, to be Constitutional, the taxes had
to be collected for the general fund as
any other tax and Congress always
appropriates from current revenue to
pay current Social Security benefits.
There never was any trust fund. The
program is nothing more than a wealth
transfer.”
Social Security desperately needs to
be altered. If the system remains as is, it
is doomed to collapse due to escalating
costs. Privatization is a good option but
is currently very costly. Benoit’s commentary is commendable though and it
would be interesting to see what he
would do with an opportunity to fix the
flawed program.
Unfortunately, candidates from the
Green and Libertarian parties are rarely
taken seriously — see Ralph Nader in
2000 and 2004. What is more unfortunate is these candidates are often the
ones with truly innovative ideas the
country sorely needs. Michael Benoit
can be counted among these solid thirdparty candidates. His ideas may appear
extreme, but he is a very intelligent man
with a very good thought process. On
Nov. 2, if you vote for the congressional
seat in District 52, remember the name
Michael Benoit.
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arin Hunzeker, a Republican born in
Newport Beach, Calif. faces a tough
race for the House of Representatives
against incumbent Susan Davis. Many
Republicans face tough odds when trying to win a seat in Congress in one of
the most liberal states in the country.
Hunzeker, however, has chosen a
good time to run for office. With the state
of California’s economy and its poor
credit rating, Hunzeker’s fiscal skills will
be very useful if elected. On his campaign Web site,
www.hunzekerforcongress.com, Hunzeker
goes into detail about his views on the
economy and what the state of California
can do to improve the situation. A proponent of the free market, Hunzeker
describes the need for government to
embrace globalization and remove the
barriers to capitalism. According to
Hunzeker, “Today’s economy is about
globalization.”
In an excerpt from Hunzeker’s campaign Web site, he describes the reality of
a global economy and the inevitability of
globalization: “We cannot legislate
decreasing productivity to get jobs back
… Trade wars due to protectionism
would be far more dangerous than the
employment arbitrage created by
expanding trade.” Hunzeker shows a
realistic, if unpopular view, of globalization and its effect on the economy now
and in the future. It is merely a natural
progression of economic forces, and
fighting it will only hurt the United
States in the long run. Rather, Hunzeker
believes we should “use education to
maintain the technological advantage
that will keep the United States as a driving force in the world economy and provide jobs.” Protectionism has never
worked in the past, and it will be similarly ineffective in the future.
Hunzeker said, “Burdensome regulations on business are an unseen tax and
should be removed.” Hunzeker favors
lowering restrictions on all businesses,
not merely corporations. HUnzeker has
said, “Regulations fall hardest on small
business; they help big business maintain
the monopolies that they currently have.
It is big business that benefits from the
exclusion of small business due to regulatory barriers to entry.” Hunzeker
understands the problems facing a recovering economy and is willing to do what
it takes to create an environment conducive to business growth.
In a state historically controlled by the
left, conservatives have found it tough to
make headway in California. In difficult
times, citizens need to look at other
options for leadership. If the status quo is
failing its citizens, a change is vital to the
success of a nation. Darin Hunzeker is
the man for this change. An educated
man who understands the nuances of the
economy and how the world will do
business in the future, he is a fine choice
to represent District 53 in the House of
Representatives.
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Re-starting the fire
Despite hardware hardships, The Matches set
its fans alight with a new name and sound
Shawn Harris is in a predicament. He can’t seem to find any
microphone stands that will
cooperate with him.
“I tend to take the stand all
over the stage when I perform,”
Harris said. “And the other
night, it kept sliding down and I
would have to bring it back up.
Then at this other show, I just
took it and it hit the ceiling.”
Because of these incidents,
Harris has decided to abandon
crappy venue mic stands and
use his own bright red one.
It’s little touches like these
that make his band, The
Matches, so unique. Harris
understands the importance of
working the crowd and nothing
short of abusing equipment will
get in the way of getting the
crowd off.
Besides Harris, The Matches
is composed of Matt Whalen
(drums), Justin San Souci (bass)
and Jon Devoto, (guitar and
vocals). The band, currently on
tour with Yellowcard, just finished a month-long tour with
Lucky Boys Confusion.
“We’ve been on the road for
two years,” Harris said. “We are
really stunted individuals.”
“We have no idea what is
going on,” interjected San Souci,
as he worked on hemming his
pants for the night’s show.
The band, which formed back
when the boys were freshmen in
high school, may be one of the
hardest-working groups in the
business. It released its CD, E.
Von Dahl Killed the Locals, a year
before it signed with the record
label Epitaph and went on a
cross-country promotion tour.
This summer marked its first
appearance on the Van’s Warped
Tour, and it has even traveled to
Japan to tour with Zebrahead.
It also just finished filming its
first video for its track “Chain
Me Free,” which will air on the
FUSE network.
“We were jumping through
guitar cabinets,” Harris said.
“I’m still exhausted from it.”
The band has also been busy
keeping up its Web site message
boards and iMusicast, which it
developed after noticing the lack
of underage music clubs for
kids. Since the begining, The
Matches have been darlings of
the Bay Area punk scene, much
like its predecessors, Rancid and
Green Day.
“Those were the first two
bands that really got me into
punk rock,” Harris said.
Harris also said Billie Joe
Armstrong of Green Day was
one of his biggest influences.
“Billie Joe lives right up the
street from Matt,” he said. “We
used to go to his house and stick
CDs in his mailbox.”
“We had a friend in high
school that would baby sit for
him. So we would make little
demos in our garage and make a
ton of copies and give them to
her. When she baby sat she
would put them in all of his CD
changers in his house and stuff.
She basically saturated his
house with our CD.”
So did all this hard work
yield a call from their role
model?
“Not at the time,” Harris
responded, “but when we were
talking to Epitaph, Billie Joe’s
label Adeline was like ‘What’s
up with this band The Matches?’
and Billie Joe was like I’ve heard
of them from somewhere. We
have a friend at Lookout
Records who was like, ‘Yeah,
they told me they used to send
you CDs and Billie Joe was like,
‘Oh, why didn’t I listen to it?’”
Although the band has been
popular in Oakland for years it
wasn’t until the band changed
its name from The Locals to The
Matches that things really started to take off.
“The Matches is just a better
name,” said Harris. “That’s the
short story. There’s this band
called E. Von Dahl and the
Locals in Chicago, and their
lawyer contacted us and said we
couldn’t use the name. We were
bummed at first because we
were like ‘It’s such a good name
— oh wait, no it’s not!’”
Harris also said The Matches’
album title was inspired by the
name situation. “The CD’s title
is in reference to that whole
drama,” he said.
For now, the band is just
excited to be signed.
“We were on tour (when we
got signed), so to celebrate we
went to a crappy pizza joint and
got a box of wine. Our lawyers
were with us and the Epitaph
people and the whole thing took
like 20 minutes.”
Getting signed has made
many fans happy, which many
message board topics can attest
to.
“I love it when people give
their opinion,” Harris said.
“People on our message boards
are like, ‘It’s all about the
music, don’t worry about how
they look or their videos or
what they might say.’ I never
felt like that. Growing up with
MTV and being barraged with
Rolling Stone, I always put a
band completely together with
their whole image and everything.
“I’m very artistic. I love the
whole aspect of it. Basically,
we’re ready to attack pop culture on all fronts.”
to. But if you are not a fan, do not
look to this CD to change your
mind. None of the songs are in
any way distinguishable from
R.E.M. songs of years past. They
are only worse than the old ones.
R.E.M. possibly needs some
new subject matter, because what
they are working with is rather
lifeless. The lack of variation resonates deeply within these songs.
The lyrics even suggest the revisitation of other songs. You see,
there’s this feeling I’ve heard this
one before in the song “The Worst
Joke Ever.” Yes, they are referring
to a joke — not a song — but who
wants to hear a song about a crappy joke? Isn’t the bad joke
enough?
“Leaving New York” is the
only piece with a slightly different
sound to it. It has some nice eerie
keyboard, which mixes with the
vocals to create an extremely mellow rock-out. Sadly, even this
song drifts off to boring mode
when you listen to it for a second
time. Also, when you move on to
the other tracks, they are not too
different than this one.
Most other reviews say the
same thing: Fans want to enjoy
this album but end up finding it
easy to forget. Some critics say the
lyrics are enjoyable, but when
paired with the music, everything
becomes stale.
A note of caution is needed
when listening to this collection.
Be careful it does not provoke
what its name suggests: rapid eye
movement.
cyber-punk of 2002’s Baby’s Got a
Temper single. There are a host of
new collaborators though, ranging from actress Juliette Lewis to
brother-in-law Liam Gallagher.
The album is slightly difficult
to pin down. I can’t really
explain the reason why the opening “Spitfire” makes me think of
smelly people dancing in fairgrounds sniffing solvents, while
the following “Girls” (featuring
excellent-terrible electro noise
act Ping-Pong Bitches) provokes
more of the same imagery. It’s
hard
to
classify
Always
Outnumbered without sounding
painfully mundane. Basically,
Howlett’s latest effort combines
a load of beats with nasty guitars, synths, vocals, Arabic
strings and more, which isn’t too
far away from what he’s done in
the past.
“Hot Ride,” which cribs Jim
Webb, is the best of the collaborations with Lewis. It’s an excellent slice of skuzzy-disco. There
are quite a few samples here,
from the blatant presence of
Shocking Blue’s “Love Buzz”
underpinning “Phoenix” to the
impressive subversion of the
bass line for “Thriller” on “The
Way It Is.” Surprisingly, I found
the penultimate “Shoot Down”
(basically an Oasis collaboration
with Noel Gallagher contributing on bass) dwarfed the rest of
the album on my first listen. The
other Liam involved on this
record
spits
impressively,
“There’s no fun! Sorry face!” In
fact, it’s possibly the best tune
the Gallaghers have been
involved with in the last five
years.
This is a transitional record,
and there are no boundaries broken. Yet Howlett has done
enough to ensure The Prodigy
doesn’t sound hopelessly outmoded — there are a few excellent songs here that justify the
album’s release. It’ll be interesting to see how Keith and Maxim
help take these songs live;
maybe it’ll lead to an album that
sounds as vibrant as Experience.
Either way, your uncle with the
massive sound-system can still
probably dance better than you,
and look younger while he’s
doing it.
Courtesy phot
os
BY MAGGIE GRAINGER
The Matches’ E. Von Dahl Killed
The Locals is in stores now.
ALBUM REVIEWS
R.E.M.
Around the Sun
Kinda like: U2, a flatter sounding
version of Reveal
If you know the gist of R.E.M.
songs, you already know what
its new album Around the Sun
sounds like. For die-hard R.E.M.
fans, this could be a great album
full of the band’s usual melancholy tunes — there is plenty of
depressing material to feel sad
Kinda like: Liam Howlett, the early
1990s (with some success)
The Prodigy
Always Outnumbered,
Never Outgunned
It’s been a while since we
heard a full length disc from The
Prodigy. If we’re not counting
1999’s Dirtchamber Sessions, it’s
been the best part of seven years
since their mega-selling Fat of the
Land opus. Always Outnumbered
is Liam Howlett’s attempt to
return to the beat-based
approach of earlier albums like
1992’s Experience and 1995’s
Music For The Jilted Generation in
a contemporary setting. For this,
The Prodigy is primarily composed of Liam Howlett. Sessions
involving co-members Keith
Flint and Maxim Reality were
scrapped last year in an attempt
to break from the formulaic
—Chaley Zachmeier
—Thomas Lee
10 T
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FLASHBACK
Galaxie 500
On Fire
Kinda like: Damon and Naomi,
Low, Luna
1989’s On Fire often turns
up in the background of
“most melancholy, saddest,
most depressing” album lists
(after Leonard Cohen, Thom
Yorke and several customary,
albeit brilliant dead guys).
Galaxie 500 seem to be
acquiring a little more press
at the moment, perhaps
because of the recent reformation of many of its late
1980s indie contemporaries
(Pixies, American Music
Club, etc.). Or maybe due to
its recently released Don’t Let
Our Youth Go To Waste DVD
package. It’s only fair,
because it remains (alongside
Red House Painters) a band
with a penchant for fantastic,
TEMPO
ALBUM REVIEW
sobering songs with fantastic,
soporific pop structures.
Galaxie 500 formed in
Boston after New Zealander
Dean Wareham (vocals),
Naomi Yang (bass) and
Damon Krukowski (drums)
met at Harvard University.
On Fire followed its 1988
debut Today. This album
exudes something from start
to finish. There’s a sense of
uniformity in the songs —
I’ve used the adjectives above
already so I won’t insult your
intelligence. When Wareham
sings “Thinking of blue thunder, singing to myself,” on
opening
track
“Blue
Thunder,” it’s like a really
beautiful overcast Sunday
when I’ve woken up late, but
it’s just stopped raining and
there’s still a chance of doing
something of consequence.
Or even like my last day in a
country. By the time his
bandmates
join in on the
“I’ll drive so
far
away”
refrain, it’s
perfect. The
whole album
is like this —
if On Fire
was a film it
would
be
D o n n i e
Darko. These
are just really
great songs
for people
who drink
too
much
coffee, and
maybe the
rest of you, too.
“Tell Me” has some fantastic whirring guitar accompanying Wareham asking why
Jesus can’t see he’s “’going
‘round the bend.” Yang’s bass
lines are incredible, like being
suffocated in a sweetsmelling blanket. “Strange”
makes like Green-era R.E.M.
with a broken nose. It’s about
waiting to buy junk food at a
grocery store.
There are quite a few simple,
everyday
subjects
touched on during this
album. “When Will You
Come Home” is fairly selfexplanatory (“staring at the
wall”). The way Galaxie 500
intersperses them with the
occasional cutting-sly line
works superbly. Maybe I like
this album because it makes
my life feel like a movie
when I’ve got it on my
Walkman. Or maybe it’s time
to lie down. By the eighth
track Wareham’s talking
about smashing the limbs of
a plastic bird given to him by
a friend/lover. This seems
ridiculously tasteless and
sordid to me, but I’ll forgive
him because this album is so
good.
For anyone keen on bands
like Low, Modest Mouse or
Granddaddy, this is a band
worth checking out. For
American Idol fans, these are
simply great songs you
might want to hear — especially after the second pack of
cupcakes.
—Thomas Lee
Tom McCrae
Just Like Blood
Kinda Like: Aqualung, Thom Yorke,
Damian Rice, Neil Finn
It’s quite surreal to be reviewing
Just like Blood as a new release in 2004.
Tom McCrae’s second album emerged
more than a year ago in our shared
country of origin (he’s from
Chelmsford, England). Both this and
his eponymous debut received wellspread credit with comparisons to
Nick Drake and (latently) Jeff Buckley.
Frankly, when listening to his stuff,
I’ve found these baffling. The press
quote on the front of this U.S. edition
(divorcées favorite Q) referencing OK
Computer seems closer to the mark,
though McCrae has a more polished
sound.
The album starts as I’d expect. “A
Day Like Today” meanders with some
nice Hawaiian influence. The following “You Only Disappear” is a rather
ornate, string-laden, understated
power ballad. Fair enough and certainly better than Savage Garden,
though that’s the territory it almost
occupies. “Ghost of a Shark” however,
is a blinding tune. Beautiful slide guitar and a slightly fragmented FM
ambience combine with ponderous
lyrics that don’t make me want to stab
things with a compass. It recalls Neil
Finn, (anyone else think Crowded
House was actually really excellent in a
Simon and Garfunkel kind of way?)
and proves to be a high point.
“Stronger than Dirt” occupies the
middle ground between Damian Rice
and late 1990s Radiohead.
“Overthrown” continues in an
expectedly pleasant fashion. Its backdrop made me think of Coldplay
while its “confess to me now” mantra
recalled Brit-pop angst troupe
Mansun. “Moving to Hawaii” is the
second killer tune here. It’s another
slumbering, mellow affair that makes
like Neil Finn with added paranoia.
There are some very tasteful deep
house-type beats in the backdrop and
it seems to be about drowning in a
perfect sunset. Its “as the air slips
through our lungs, we’ll sing songs”
refrain is something. “Karaoke Soul”
is all moderate fire and brimstone,
while “Human Remains” closed the
UK edition with some nice, melodic
poignancy. It’s not quite U2, which is
no bad thing. Of the two Americanedition
bonus
tracks,
2001’s
“Streetlight” is beautiful and simplistic. It’s the typical “depressed guy trying not to be depressed by reconciling
his thoughts about a girl stuff,” but
the melody is great. UK jazz-pop unitshifter Jamie Cullum recorded it too.
I’ll refer to this as a sanity-preservation album. It doesn’t incite or
excite me like The Beauty Shop or
Squarepusher, but it might well prevent a few suicides and make me put
the kettle on. Respect due.
—Thomas Lee
SPORTS
THE DAILY AZTEC
11
WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL
Same ol’, same ol’: Aztecs suffer another sweep
Injuries to key players and prior setbacks spell disaster for SDSU in its weekend road trip against CSU and Wyoming
BY TIM MIGUEL
Having two key players
missing from the lineup on a
struggling team is not the antidote to cure a rough season.
With many setbacks and disappointments this season, this
one may have been the straw
that broke the camel’s back for
the San Diego State women’s
volleyball team.
Friday night, SDSU was
defeated 3-0 by No. 9 Colorado
State Fort Collins, Colo. The
following night, SDSU was
shut out again 3-0, this time by
Wyoming in Laramie, Wyo.
“We were disappointed in
the way we played, we weren’t
strong mentally,” junior outside hitter Ashley Bowker said.
“It wasn’t so much the other
teams beating us as much as
we were just beating ourselves.
We had been making progress
this whole season, and then we
diverted back to old habits.”
Derrick Tuskan / Staff Photographer
Junior Ashley Bowker & Co. have
had a forgettable season in 2004.
For both matches, the can do more. I make mistakes
Aztecs had to battle without out there, and I want to help
senior outside hitter Kara my teammates correct their
Moriarty or freshman defen- errors as well.”
sive specialist Aime Cordeiro.
The previous night, both
Cordeiro could not even girls tallied seven kills, and
make the trip after injuring her Bowker also recorded a hitting
knee in the previous match for percentage of .263.
SDSU (3-20,
O n c e
3 - 7 ) .
again, the
Moriarty
major difwent down
ference in
with
a
the match
sprained
was
the
ankle at the
o v e r a l l
outset
of
team hitting
game
one
percenta g a i n s t
a g e s .
Colorado
Wy o m i n g
State.
(13-10, 6-5)
—ASHLEY BOWKER, OUTSIDE HITTER
“It
was
hit .393 as a
unfortunate
team, while
losing Kara — she’s our cap- SDSU could only muster a .231
tain and our leader,” Bowker hitting percentage. The night
said. “It definitely made it hard before was much worse for the
without Kara and Aime, but Aztecs, as Colorado State (19-2,
we made it harder on ourselves 10-1) hit for .306 and held
than it had to be. Kara was SDSU to a hitting percentage of
supporting us on the sidelines, -.029. The Rams also outbut it was really difficult for us blocked the Aztecs 13-2.
to come together.”
SDSU returns to Peterson
The bright spot of the week- Gym this weekend, where it
end for the Aztecs was the play will square off against No. 17
of Bowker and junior outside Utah
Friday
and
BYU
hitter Melissa Stapley. On Saturday. Saturday will be senSaturday night, Stapley earned ior night and the final home
her first double-double — the match of the season for the
first for any Aztec this season Aztecs.
— and racked up 13 kills and
SDSU will have to get back
10 digs. Bowker also had a per- on track after the setback last
sonal-best eight blocks for the weekend against the formidamatch. SDSU as a team out- ble opponents who await them
blocked the Cowgirls with nine this weekend.
team blocks to Wyoming’s 5.5.
“I’m looking forward to it
“It always feels good to do personally — I always thrive
well, but you want everyone off a challenge,” Bowker said.
on the team to have the same “Utah is doing well right now;
kind of game,” Bowker said. we need to just leave it all on
“It still feels good to know that the court and not hold anyI contributed, but I know that I thing back.”
“It wasn’t so much the other
teams beating us as much
as we were just beating ourselves.”
Derrick Tuskan / Staff Photographer
Sophomore outside hitter Melissa Stapley and the Aztecs couldn’t get
much of anything going last weekend and were swept in both contests.
MEN’S SOCCER
SDSU rebounds after tough loss
Following a double-overtime defeat to Spartans, Aztecs get 2-1 victory
BY HECTOR TRUJILLO
After suffering a heartbreaking double-overtime loss to San
Jose State Friday, the San Diego
State men’s soccer team
bounced back to defeat the
Hornets of Sacramento State 2-1
Sunday.
The Aztecs (3-11-2, 3-5-1) fell
behind after only two minutes
of play, thanks to a goal by
Hornet Ryan Rhodes. Rhodes
took a shot from just inside the
box, sending the ball past Aztec
freshman goalkeeper Tally Hall.
After it fell behind, SDSU
took over creating several scoring chances and dominating
ball possession for the rest of
the game.
“We found ourselves doing
what we needed to regain the
momentum and not allowing
their early score to rattle us,”
head coach Lev Kirshner said.
The Aztecs tied the game just
five minutes after falling
behind to a pair of kick passes
from senior forward Frank
Kelly Calligan / Staff Photographer Caruso and sophomore midJunior forward Trey Meek dribbles downfield before scoring one of fielder Andrew DiCicco that
SDSU’s two goals in a 2-1 victory against Sacramento State Sunday. found the foot of junior forward
Trey Meek. It was Meek’s sec- play, when the Hornets’ frustraond goal of the season, the first tions mounted, and they started
coming against UNLV.
to commit several hard fouls.
“We knew that we had to
SDSU would score once
more in the 17th minute of play keep our calm and keep focused
,thanks to a precise pass from on the game,” Kirshner said.
Meek to junior forward Heath “We have played well these last
Creager. Creager sent the ball three games and deserve some
better outtoward Caruso,
c o m e s
who tapped it
because of
into the far post
our hard
for his second
play.”
goal of 2004.
During
Sacramento
the threeState (5-10-1, 4g a m e
6) was unable
homesto overcome the
tand, the
deficit. SDSU’s
A z t e c s
defense
saw
p l a y e d
itself faced with
—LEV KIRSHNER, HEAD COACH
three excelfew problems
lent matchhandling
the
es that saw them also play the
Hornet attack.
No. 2 team in the nation — New
The Aztecs held a 21-9 shot Mexico — to a 1-1 tie.
advantage over Sacramento
SDSU now goes on the road
State, most of these happening to play the second-best team in
in the second half. What was the conference: University of
also impressive about the Aztec Denver.
s’victory was the fact they held
“This team can play with
their emotions in check, despite anybody as long as we play our
several bad calls from the offi- game and stay focused for the
cials.
entire game,” Kirshner said.
The referee lost control of the “We must continue to push ourmatch in the last 10 minutes of selves.”
“This team can play with
anybody as long as we play
our game and stay focused
for the entire game. We
must continue to push ourselves.”
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