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Scouts help homeless keep warm
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paign as “grassroots,” working from the bottom up. His campaign, he said, is built on volunteer support and going door-todoor and making phone calls — something that Tetalman believes Issa will be doing the exact opposite of. “I think he will be running a more top-down campaign where he spends a lot of money on advertising,” he said. Tetalman believes his approach can be more successful, he said, but that it really depends on the people. “I can’t do it by myself. So, it depends on the response that I get. So far, the response has been good.” Fundraising efforts have been fueled by house parties and phone calls.Tetalman has been endorsed by the national office of Citizens for Global
RANCHO SANTA FE — The Cub Scouts of Pack 766 put aside the glitz and glitter of the season and put together “warm kits,” and first aid kits for the homeless at its Dec. 12 meeting. “Our theme was to make the packs for ourselves to keep in our cars and one to give away to homeless,” said cub leader Marcia McDonough. Inside the first aid packs were hand sanitizer, band aids, first aid tape, sterilizing wipes and antibiotic cream. Inside the warm kits were socks, caps, dental floss, toothpaste, a toothbrush and ear plugs. “I would try to help them visualize if you were cold and on the street at night, what do you think these items like caps and socks can do,” she said. She said some of the boys wondered about the ear plugs, but once they learned it is noisy on the streets, which makes it hard to sleep, they understood their value. She said the first aid kids could be used for small injuries or as immediate treatment before a person is taken to a hospital. “The idea was to give to someone that was in need,” she said. The kits will be given out by the scouts on Jan. 2 at Ocean Beach. One of the kits will be kept in their cars in case of emergency. The meeting was held at Rancho Santa Fe Fire Station 1, where Capt. Mark Richards’ crew taught the scouts how to use the first aid kids and some basic safety tips about what to do in a fire, such as looking for exits and the like. “Half of the meeting was doing things for others and the other half teaching how to do for ourselves,” she said. “It was about our own personal safety — what kinds of decisions you make in a flash.” She said the motto of the
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Candidate takes grassroots approach to do it; I have the inclination, 49th District Democratic and I think the country needs a candidate Jerry Tetalman change in direction.” The author of “One World described the challenges of starting a campaign, saying it Democracy,” Tetalman said his was like flying an airplane and expertise is in international building the airplane while politics, and is where his passion is, when asked why you’re flying it. he was running at such a What makes this high level without any campaign much more previous political expechallenging is that this rience. is Tetalman’s first “People have recentry into politics, and ommended I run for the his opponent in the school board or running election is incumbent JERRY for state assembly; I Darrell Issa, R-Vista, TETALMAN know it’s kind of a big who has been the congressional representative of the leap, but that’s where I want to 49th District for the last 10 run,” he said. Despite a massive gap in years. “I’ve been a political campaign funds (finance activist for a long time and I records show Issa reaching a think I’m in a position to run,” total of $894,794 to Tetalman’s Tetalman said, adding that he $4,995),Tetalman said the camhad helped on the campaigns paign is going well. “Darrell Issa is the richest of Francine Busby and others as a volunteer. “I have the time man in Congress,” Tetalman
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said. “You’re competing against somebody that has basically, an unlimited amount of money, or the ability to raise a large amount of money.” Tetalman decided to run because he thought it was time for a change. He also thinks that Issa hasn’t been challenged hard enough in the past and now that the district has been redrawn,it is a little less conservative and will give a democrat a chance of winning. “I don’t think (Issa) represents the will of the people, where people are at in terms of their political views. So, I think it’s time for a change and I think the people feel that as well; that they’re very frustrated. Congress is at its lowest level in terms of approval, and I think he’s part of that problem.” He described his cam-