Friday, November 1, just four days before the end of balloting, will be a Zoom meeting., We will NOT be at Perry’s.
This Friday, November 1st at 12:00 p.m. sharp, we will join UC Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies by Zoom for "California and the 2024 Election." This panel includes Berkeley IGS Poll Director and Sac Seminarian Mark DiCamillo featuring the last statewide poll election-related data, conducted in partnership with the LA Times, followed by a discussion with a panel of experts on the results, the mood of the electorate, likely turnout, the race for the Presidency, national control of the House and Senate, and key statewide initiatives.
Join us - Noon/12:00 - 1:30pm by Zoom -- Open the link below for your free ticket, a full program description, the panelists and their bios. Register for this Virtual Zoom by pressing the red “Select Ticket” button found on the right side of the announcement. You will need to select the "Virtual RSVP" box for your free ticket(s).
If you have Any problems, go directly to the Virtual Zoom at 12:00/noon on Friday, Nov. 1st:
Join the webinar on Nov. 1st at 12:00 noon: https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/93178757135
Should you wish to view the IGS site and the event flyer -- paste in the link below into your browser to open it.
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UPCOMING SEMINARS:
Friday, November 8 will be the “big roundtable” to analyze the results of November 5th presidential, congressional and city elections. This is your big chance to show your chops as a pundit, whether amateur or professional. If seminarians miss this roundtable, they shall forever after remain silent on the events of that big day.
Annie Gaus, senior news editor of the on-line newspaper, The San Francisco Standard, is our speaker on Friday, November 15. Ms Gaus leads The Standard’s business and politics coverage. Before joining The Standard, she was a technology, business and finance reporter who started as a video journalist at Discovery Communications. During the pandemic, she launched an independent newsletter called Public Comment focusing on Covid’s impact on San Francisco.
Janelle Kellman, a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Lieutenant Governor of California will be Sac Sem’s guest on Friday, December 6. A member of Sausalito’s City Council, Janelle, previously Sausalito’s mayor, holds an undergraduate degree in History from Yale, a master’s in environmental management from Oxford, and graduated from Stanford Law. She has also launched her own technology startup and served as a trusted advisor to technology entrepreneurs. She will be introduced by Seminarian and current Sausalito mayor Ian Sobieski.
Mark your calendar. Sac Sem’s annual Holiday/Christmas/Hanukkah Lunch will be on Friday, December 20.
John W. Busterud will be our speaker on Friday, January 17. John will discuss his time as the Regional Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency during the Trump administration. He was appointed to the Trump administration in 2020. He’s a retired Senior Director and Managing Counsel, Environment and Real Estate, Law Department, Pacific Gas and Electric Company. Mr. Busterud is a retired U.S. Army Colonel with multiple Combined, Joint and Interagency assignments, including active-duty deployments in support of Operations Iraqi Freedom, Enduring Freedom and Combined Forces Command Korea.
Veteran Seminarians will recall that John's father, John A. Busterud, was the last Republican to represent the Haight Ashbury in the California Assembly, served as President of the Commonwealth Club of California and was President of the Committee to Save The Marin Headlands. In 1971, President Nixon appointed John A. Busterud to be the first Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Environmental Quality, and he subsequently served as the Chairman of the President's Council on Environmental Quality under President Ford.
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2025 Sac Sem Dues: It’s not too early to mail in your $200.00 check payable to Sacramento Seminar, Inc. for your annual dues for 2025. Please mail the check to Dennis Wheatley, 72 Heritage Drive, San Rafael, CA 94901. If members have questions, Dennis’ e-mail address is dennis@triticum.com Yes, the correct amount is $200.
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OTHER THOUGTHS: “If this election (2020) were overturned by mere allegations form the losing side, our democracy would be on a death spiral. We’d never see the whole nation accept an election again.” Mitch McConnell
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