an Francisco, Berkeley, Oakland, Santa Monica, Beverly Hills, CA (PRWEB) February 21, 2012
S US Senate candidate David Levitt has begun his first campaign trip, funded by new supporters on the heels of his February 14th campaign launch.
Levitt is campaigning as a Democrat in California’s new ‘top two’ Senate primary this June, where under the new rules he and 20 year incumbent Democrat Dianne Feinstein may become the only Senate candidates on the November ballot.
“We’re delighted with the response. We’re getting plenty of ballot signatures from California voters, and donations between 5 and 250 dollars from all over the country,” says campaign manager Sheila Harden.
“The contributions and enthusiasm aren’t just from California,” adds Levitt, a media scientist and software engineer who is helping lead a movement of citizen candidates who refuse corporate money. “People in places like North Carolina and New York recognize that Senator Feinstein’s disastrous financial, Middle East, civil liberties and failed drug war policies don’t just affect California. They want the nation’s largest state to represent their interests, not our past budget-busting policies and war machine.”
Law and media columnist Glenn Greenwald of Salon echoed the relief felt by some of those supporters in a widely forwarded Tweet the morning of the Levitt campaign announcement:
“The wretched, war-loving, surveillance-enabling, drug-warrior incumbent Dianne Feinstein gets a progressive challenger”
The Levitt campaign launched on Tuesday, February 14th. Highlights of the week’s campaign tour include:
on Wednesday the 15th Levitt attended the “Which Way Forward?” Public Forum held by The San Francisco 99% Coalition at the city’s Unitarian Universalist Church, with about 350 attending. During the discussion period Levitt outlined the citizen candidate movement and his own Senate candidacy. Audience applause was followed by signatures on Levitt for Senate ballot nomination forms, signed by voters from San Francisco and several neighboring counties.
on Friday at UC Berkeley, Levitt attended the opening of the Whistleblowers Conference where Pentagon Papers’ Daniel Ellsberg, Colonel Ann Wright and other whistleblowers honored WikiLeaks and its accused source Bradley Manning, who has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. Levitt believes strongly in protecting whistleblowers such as WikiLeaks and other journalists who expose corruption — especially when, as even Defense Secretary Gates has confessed, the harm they are accused of causing is “overblown”.
on Saturday morning, Dr. Levitt and citizen candidates joined Coffee Party Radio / Politics Done Right host Egberto Willies on a special episode “Can We the People ‘Be Our Own Government’?” The guests were:
Jonathan Greenberg, Executive Director of BeYourGovernment.org
Jeanne van den Hurk, candidate for U.S. House in South Carolina
David Levitt, candidate for the U.S. Senate in California
Eric Reyes, candidate for U.S. House in Illinois
David Esrati, candidate for U.S. House in Ohio
also on Saturday morning, in Oakland, Levitt and other candidates spoke at “Occupy our Elections” attended by a local Occupy audience at the Grand Lake Theater. As in the San Francisco and other events, Dr. Levitt credited the Occupy movement with enlightening voters about the capture of our political class by corporate monied interests, inspiring “get the money out” consciousness, and making the citizen-fueled campaigns and candidates possible as never before.
on Sunday in Beverly Hills, Levitt met with Bruce Margolin, Director of the Los Angeles chapter of NORML, the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws. Levitt strongly opposes marijuana prohibition and the incarceration of millions of Americans in the failed drug war.
also in Beverly Hills, Levitt met with Occupy Our Schools and founder Tara Margolin, signing a candidate pledge not to reduce funding for public education, public classrooms, or teachers’ pay. Levitt is committed to building America’s future and keeping it competitive by investing in education, infrastructure and technology.
On Saturday evening in Santa Monica, Levitt attended an event at the home of teacher, activist and former Congressional candidate Marcy Winograd, who hosted the Canadian Green Party’s Camille Labchuk. Labchuk explained how her team pulled off a historic electoral win for Elizabeth May, the first Green MP to serve in Canada’s parliament.
US Presidential candidate Rocky Anderson, running in 2012 in the newly formed Justice Party, was the second invited speaker at Winograd’s event. Anderson outlined the opportunity and duty we have to challenge and replace Republican and Democratic leaders captive to corporate interests, who have until now thwarted policies in the public interest on health care, financial regulation, military spending and climate change. Anderson received overwhelming support from the audience.
Though Winograd is no longer a Democrat and hers was officially a Green Party event, Anderson from the Justice Party and Democrat Levitt met supporters and recruited new ones from the enthusiastic crowd.
Says Levitt, “This election will be different. We’re not going to let political parties divide us, distract us, stop us or slow us down.”
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