Were elected through back channels, small party conventions. In 1968, 73 of democratic delegates through the convention had been elected this way. Less than 25 were elected in the way we normally do it. President Lyndon Johnson took himself out of the race. He was not up for reelection in 1968. This initiated a freefall in the Democratic Party between a number of candidates. One of which who was very popular was unfortunately dead by august of 1968. That was robert kennedy. He was a peace candidate. He had been a unifying candidate for many people in the party. He was assassinated in june of 1968. That is one thing lying behind the convention in august of 1968. The kennedy delegates who had been elected, pledged to kennedy. Hubert humphrey, Lyndon Johnsons Vice President had become the nominee by august. There was another peace candidate, mccarthy who had delegates like kennedy who showed up in chicago in august. It is something of a freeforall where the delegates are concerned. It is
Time ever, in a use of force case in San Francisco, a former Police Officer faces homicide charges, for a Deadly Police shooting more than three years ago. Good evening. Joe was in the city with the decision that the das office is calling his stork. Reporter they made the announcement this morning that a former Police Officer now faces criminal charges for shooting a man in the line of duty. As far as we are aware, this is the first ever time that the San Francisco District Attorneys Office has filed homicide charges against a Law Enforcement officer for a homicide while on duty. Reporter the officer, chris samayoa. He was in the front passenger seat of a patrol car, body camera video shows and firing through the window, shattering the glass, and fatally wounding he was immediately fired, now, three years later the da is charging the officer with several crimes, including voluntary manslaughter, involuntary manslaughter, assault by the executive officer, and negligent discharge of a fi
The two candidates have to say on the final day of campaigning. At the marathon is now a sprint. The president and joe biden. You could say they are pecking two days into one with a number of rallies. The president is on day two of a seven state tents top tour of battleground states. Five today and another five events today. The president kicked it off in fayetteville, North Carolina this morning in front of a packed house. In 2016 by 20 hillary clinton. A 2020, trails biden six Percentage Points in that state. Next stop is wisconsin, and back to michigan. Trump talked about a number of topics from bolstering military to the Russian Investigation at brought it all home with the economy. A vote for me and the Republican Party is a vote for the american dream. And in conclusion, over the next four years, we will make america into the manufacturing superpower of the world. And we will end our reliance on china, which has already started. Lacto biden started this morning in ohio for an out
Police, fire, road maintenance, parking enforcement. The measure would be the first expansion in decades and also tax revenues from third party proposition players the help card rooms operate. I was the ideal cut. Mayor sam liccardo is against measure h because of potential social impact. Child neglect, domestic violence, social sciences seems to be directly linked to gambling activity and gambling addiction. City could increase taxes on casinos without expanding the number of tables. A spokesman said the casino supports the measure quote we believe nobody enjoys seeing taxes go up. That said we needed extra table for a long time. San jose police have close oversight of casinos and if san jose does not expand gamblers will simply go somewhere else. Im wondering, 2020 such a weird year, pandemic, city budget cuts, all that stuff how has that played into putting this measure on the ballot . Make a good. Because it has been a tough budget year in san jose. The city in fact cutting 120 mil
Were hoping for inperson voting at our accessible vote locations. Well be open here at this site and all of our 100 sites on saturday, sunday, monday and election day. Reporter tim is registrar of voters for Alameda County where theyre seeing a historic surge in early voters. Just days ahead of the election this location also makes sense. It is an icon for this area, so we know that people will know that this is a spot that they can get to drop off their ballots, to vote in person safely and like i said also vote in their cars and for curbside voting. Over at the courthouse on Federal Street outdoor voting was setup and people dropped off ballots. I was like, okay, i can just do it right now instead of waiting until tuesday morning. Inperson voting is available at the warriors practice facility, too. Across the bay warriors coach steve kerr came out and dropped off his ballot outside the chase center which is a ballot drop off location. Were in there grinding every day trying to be a g