Nevada
San Francisco political organizer to send volunteers to Nevada
A Bay Area political organizer hopes to raise hundreds of thousands to send more than 400 people to Nevada to knock on doors and rally supporters for Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris.
Manny Yekutiel said that with 40 days left until election day, he hopes to garner enough support for Harris and vice presidential nominee Tim Waltz.
“Donald Trump could be our next president. He could win this election, and I don’t want to wake up on November 6 and think, what could I have done,” Yekutiel said. ‘I am firing on all cylinders.”
He added that in order to do so, he is raising $340,000 to send volunteers starting October 11.
In the four weekends leading up to November 5, Yekutiel will send close to 100 volunteers every weekend.
‘We have to do something. We have forty days until this election is over, and this is something very concrete that we can do,” he said.
Key swing states, like Nevada, have been determined by razor-thin margins in recent presidential elections, so this could all depend on who has the better ground operations.
According to an opinion issued by the Federal Elections Commission earlier this year, candidates and outside groups are allowed to work closely, though not fully coordinated, on voter turnout.
It’s something local Republicans admit the Democratic party has been more successful at.
“I think on the national level, I’m concerned about that advantage. On the other hand, I think President Trump is doing a pretty good job, and I think he’s going to pull it out in the end,” said John Dennis, the San Francisco GOP chair.
Dennis said the SF GOP is focused on local races, citing a shift in his more than 15 years with the county Republican party.
“In my time, we have more candidates on the ballot in San Francisco county for offices than I’ve ever seen,” he said.
Neild Park-McClintick of Silicon Valley Rising said the issue is not necessarily who to vote for but getting more people to vote.
“We have to bring more voters from our diverse communities to make sure that who’s in office, and the issues that are selected by voters too. The propositions that pass match what our community looks like,” Park-McClintick said.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom won’t admit it, but a move by President Donald Trump is especially helpful to drivers in California — and Nevada.
Gasoline prices are pressuring consumers around the country. On Friday, the average U.S. price was $4.55 a gallon. In California, that would be a bargain. The average there was $6.16 a gallon. Nevada’s average was $5.23 a gallon, the result of around 88 percent of the state’s gasoline coming from California.
It might be getting worse — regardless of what happens in Iran.
In recent months, two major California refineries have shut down. That represented a 17 percent reduction in California’s refining capacity. Their closures weren’t caused by the Iran war, but by Gov. Newsom and California’s relentless attacks on fossil fuels.
To make up for the fuel it won’t extract or refine in-state, California depends on imports from foreign countries.
“We are importing 30 percent of our crude oil from the Middle East,” Mike Ariza, a former control board supervisor at the Valero Benicia Refinery, said in an interview. He has been warning the public about California’s potential fuel shortage. “There are not very many ships left on the way that have fuel,” he said last month.
Last week, KCRA-TV in Sacramento reported that “about 2 million barrels of oil are in the process of being unloaded in Long Beach off of the last California-bound tanker that got through the Strait of Hormuz.”
At a California legislative hearing Tuesday, Siva Gunda, the vice chairman of the California Energy Commission, said the state has enough gasoline to accommodate demand for the next six weeks. That’s not a very long time, especially given that it takes weeks or months for oil to travel from the Middle East to California. And that process won’t begin until the Strait of Hormuz reopens.
There is a region, however, with abundant oil available for sale and safe passage — the southeastern United States. Unfortunately, the Jones Act, an antiquated 1920 law, mandates that only U.S.-flagged ships may move cargo between U.S. ports. But only 55 of the more than 7,000 oil tankers worldwide comply with this requirement.
This is where Mr. Trump rode to the rescue. Late last month, the White House announced Mr. Trump would suspend the Jones Act for another 90 days. In March, he originally waived it for 60 days. This will make it easier for California and Nevada to obtain domestic product.
If only Mr. Trump could also suspend the destructive energy policies imposed by Gov. Newsom and California Democrats.
LAS VEGAS (KSNV) — An adoptable pet is in the spotlight for “Furever Home Friday,” with Amy from the Nevada SPCA featured in a segment highlighting an animal available for adoption today.
The Nevada SPCA encouraged viewers looking to add a pet to their family to consider adopting.
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