Mr. Stewart A. Alexander was a candidate for Lieutenant Governor for the State of California during the 2006 California election. He is registered with the Peace and Freedom Party with over 80,000 registrants statewide and received his party’s endorsement.
Articles by Stewart A. Alexander
Today, millions of Americans are considering how they will spend their government rebate checks that will be received within the next few days and weeks. Recently, the Bush administration announced that the checks would be released earlier in hopes of giving the U.S. economy a needed jump start.
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Socialists across the nation are rejecting a U.S. Senate housing bill that offers little help to struggling homeowners facing foreclosure, while providing tens of billions for banks, financial institutions and big corporations. The bill (Foreclosure Prevention Act) passed in the Senate this past wee...
As the U.S. plunges deeper into the worse economic recession in the past 30 years, the Feds are laying out proposals and recommending tax refunds of $300 to $800 for individuals. The Feds are suggesting that this should reach the hands of those who will spend it quickly, thus helping to boost the e...
In recent days, ABC in a debate of the candidates excluded Dennis Kucinich from participating in the national television debate of the Democrats while including Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul. ABC-Disney is the same outfit that is seeking to destroy the lives and living conditions of the...
At the end of 2006, millions of U.S. voters went to the polls giving the control of Congress to the Democrats. It was a marginal victory for the Democrats and a margin of hope for millions of Americans that the Democrats would chart a different direction for Washington politics.
Since the 2006 M...
In recent days, ABC in a debate of the candidates excluded Dennis Kucinich from participating in the national television debate of the Democrats while including Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul. ABC-Disney is the same outfit that is seeking to destroy the lives and living conditions of the...
The new energy bill, approved by the U.S. Congress, will drastically increase the profits of the petroleum and ethanol producers over the next decade; the energy bill will also increase the cost of food, fuel, consumer goods and transportation. Over the next 15 years, the bill will cost working cla...
As the 2008 Election year moves into high gear, most of the Democratic and Republican presidential candidates have adopted an anti-immigrant and anti-Mexican strategy for their campaigns. The message of the candidates is outlining an agenda that will increase border enforcement and supporting legis...
President Bush is attempting to pressure Democrats in Washington to give him $196 billion to continue the Iraq War. To enforce his position, the president is threatening mass layoffs of civilian employees at the Defense Department if Congress delays his war funding.
President Bush chose to dire...
In Fresno, California, city workers were wrapping up final preparations for the big Veteran’s Day celebrations and many of those arriving early to celebrate the day were veterans from WWII, the Korean War, the Vietnam War and both Iraq Wars and Afghanistan. Many of the veterans stood along the side...
A recently released study has revealed that working class families are taking on a heavier financial burden to care for seniors and aging parents. The additional expenses most often require working class families to make additional financial sacrifices and to reduce most of the discretionary spendi...
As the opposition to the Iraq War continues to mount across America and around the world, many independent voters are now rejecting the candidates of the two corporate parties, the Democrats and Republicans, and are considering third party candidates.
The Iraq War is the greatest factor that is...
When I think of the Iraq War and Liberty Quarry there are two similarities between one and the other; they both represent a gigantic pit and Americans are being excluded from crucial decisions that will affect their lives and the lives of their children for decades.
Liberty Quarry is a planned qu...
Today Americans are faced with a broad range of complex issues not seen since the American Civil War; a war that divided America and created a clash of ideologies. Now, more than 140 years since the end of Civil War, Americans are faced with greater challenges and 11 socialist presidential candidat...
These days the presidential candidates for the Democratic Party are sounding more like replacement candidates for Bush; on the issue of ending the Iraq War. All the candidates, with the exception of Representative Dennis Kucinich and Governor Bill Richardson, are making open-ended commitments to ke...
The bipartisan effort to reform immigration stalled and died in the US Senate; it was a major set-back for the Bush administration and a victory for supporters for immigrant rights. Members of the U S Senate failed to obtain the 60 votes needed to end the debate and move the immigration bill forwar...
Having millions of dollars to spend on a public relations and marketing campaign, Granite Construction is discovering that it is difficult to sell the people of Rainbow, Temecula, Murrieta, and Fallbrook on the idea of having a 155 acre quarry in their backyard.
Liberty Quarry, which will be owne...
The first weekend of June 2007 was another deadly weekend for American troops in Iraq; America lost 14 troops in a civil war that appears to be without end. The previous month, the month of May, was one of the deadliest months for US troops since the beginning of the Iraq War in March of 2003.
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The U.S. has just entered into the fifth year of the Iraq War and the cost has escalated far beyond the original estimates of the Bush Administration and U.S. military experts. Prior to the invasion, March 19, 2003, it was anticipated that the major conflict would have been accomplished in less tha...
When California Governor Schwarzenegger froze student tuitions, prior to the November 2006 Election, it was another political strategy to garner votes to win re-election. During that year Governor Schwarzenegger rescinded an 8 percent tuition increase when the California State Legislature found the...
Since the November 2006 Mid-Term Elections gasoline prices have increased more than 85 cents a gallon and the cost has increased 30 cents since the beginning of March 2007; and consumers have become weary with the rising prices nationwide.
Within the past five months, since November 2006, the ave...
The campaigning for the 2008 election is off to an early start and the Democrats in both Houses of Congress are using the Iraq War for political leverage to boaster early public support; however Democrats are deeply divided on troop withdrawal timetables, ranging from mid 2007 to various open-ended ...
The escalating cost of the Iraq War and inflation are creating a financial strain for the working class across America and the rising cost for gasoline is the breaking point for millions of household budgets. The difficult decisions associated with rising gasoline prices are numerous, the ability t...
Peace and Freedom Party State Chair Debra Reiger has sent a letter to left activists and groups around the country suggesting that they work together with the party to develop a 2008 presidential ticket. Anyone with proposals for possible Presidential or Vice-Presidential candidates is urged to wri...
Today there is a battle that is being waged in Southwest Riverside County; an industry giant, Granite Construction, is attempting to obtain permits to quarry a 311 acre site to meet the growing need for aggregate in Southern California. The residents of several communities are committed to keeping ...
A study released last December by the non-partisan Congressional Research Service says a proposed 700 mile stretch of fence, along the 2,000 mile U.S. – Mexico border, could cost an estimated $49 billion. But what the report fails to say, U.S. –built walls on the border would cost both the U.S. and...
The U.S. Supreme Court made two important decisions on Monday, June 12, that will impact the fate of hundreds of men and women that are on death rows nationwide. Both decisions, written by Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, will give hundreds of longtime prisoners an opportunity to have their cases tried ...
The issues involving immigration have been placed on the front burner of American politics during this 2006 election year; however U.S. policy has been a major factor creating a rapid flood of immigration. Poor Whites and Blacks have been mostly affected by the massive flow of immigrants across the...
Throughout California gasoline prices are reaching record highs daily and no relief is in sight from price gauging at the pumps. In some areas of the state prices have passed the $4.00 mark and as much as $3.30 for 87 octane.
Politicians in California are having weekly press interviews in front o...
Like many Americans, more and more Californians are beginning to reject the emerging one party system in America because the Democratic Republican Party is moving in the opposite direction from the people they represent.
California leadership has failed to take a position on the big issues such as...