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All regular monthly meetings are held on the first Thursday of each month, at the Fallbrook Public Utilities District building, in the Board Room, at 990 E. Mission Road (map), at 7:00 p.m. There will be various speakers and topics. Keep checking for details of upcoming meetings.
A DVD of Chalmers Johnson's  talk to the Club, Evil Empire, is now available from The Club.   Till then, and always, you can save shipping charges by getting copies at the Club meetings.  Order Online here.

FOOD DRIVE AT MONTHLY MEETINGS

 

The Fallbrook Food Pantry is seeing increasing numbers  of residents in need of food. The Club is collecting non-perishable food in unbreakable containers - canned foods, pasta, cereals, etc. - to help meet the need.

 

 

Important Business at the January 5 meeting: Election of 2012 Officers

President                      Connie Freese

Vice President              Jon Monday

Secretary                      Michele Bain

Treasurer                     Dale Diamond

Political Action Chair   Jesse Parks


Thursday. February 2, 2012
General Meeting CANCELLED! Jon Elliot has been rescheduled for the March meeting.

 

Due to remodeling that has run over schedule, the FPUD meeting room is not available. No alternative site could be found at the last minute, when FPUD informed us.


Liberty Quarry appeal goes to Board of Supervisors Monday, Jan. 30, Monday, Feb. 6  at Riverside Convention Center (Details)

Liberty Quarry Final Hearing – Riverside County Supervisors
                          ACTION ALERT!!
                 Liberty quarry  FINAL HEARING
                RIVERSIDE COUNTY SUPERVISORS
       Monday, January 30th  and Monday, February 6th
                           9:00 am   to   6:00 pm

                   RIVERSIDE  CONVENTION  CENTER
                     3443  ORANGE  ST     RIVERSIDE

                   WE  NEED  YOU  THERE ! PEOPLE WILL MAKE THE DIFFERENCE
                                        RESERVE A FREE SEAT ON THE BUS

  (Details)


2012 CALIFORNIA DEMOCRATS STATE CONVENTION

February 10-12 in San Diego

400+ VOLUNTEERS NEEDED! Find out more

 


General Meeting

Thursday. March 1, 7:00 p.m.

 

Speaker: Liberal Media Personality Jon Elliott 

 

Topic: What the Presidential Election Is Really About and How the Media Will Frame It

 

About Jon Elliott:

 

In October, 2004 Jon Elliott began his talk radio career with a five-week deal to host a 2-hour show on Sunday afternoons on KLSD in San Diego. KLSD had launched the previous month and was one of the country’s first Air America Radio Network affiliates. After five weeks his show was extended, first through the end of the year, and then into the next year. In September, 2005, due to strong ratings KLSD added a second 2-hour show on Saturday afternoon with Jon as the host. 

In the summer of 2006 Jon was the guest host for Janeane Garofalo & Sam Seder’s “Majority Report” on Air America, first for two weeks in July, and then for three weeks in August. In late August an Air America programming executive informed Jon that the network would not be renewing Mike Malloy’s contract and asked him to guest host “for just two weeks until we can name a permanent host.” Jon started September 1st and remained one of Air America’s five Monday-Friday network hosts for the next three years.

At Air America Jon’s show was carried on over 35 stations including New York 1600.com (where his show was the 2nd highest rated Air America Network program trailing only Rachel Maddow), Washington, Detroit, San Francisco, Denver, Seattle, Phoenix, Portland and of course, San Diego. The show was also heard on XM satellite radio. Due to the show’s late night airing in the US there was a large international online listening audience because it was the next day in most other countries. The show received regular callers and emails from listeners in countries including England, France, Sweden, Switzerland, Israel, Hong Kong, Japan, Australia, Costa Rica, Chile, Argentina and Venezuela. 

Further, due to Jon’s show airing late at night in the Eastern and Central time zones, Jon’s show was the most listened to Air America program on the network’s podcast.

During his show’s run, Jon interviewed virtually every major political figure in the Democratic Party….many of them multiple times. Presidential candidates, Senators, Congresspersons, award-winning journalists, best-selling authors, motion picture and television stars, Nobel Prize winners, industry leaders, whistleblowers, magazine publishers, ambassadors, CIA agents, economists and convicted felons.

Although clearly a liberal, Jon also included Republicans among his guests including Presidential Candidates Senator Bob Dole, Pat Buchanan, Congressman Duncan Hunter and the President of The Heritage Foundation. Of course, Republican callers were among his favorite calls.

Jon has highly respected skills as an interviewer drawing out the answers and subject matter most important to his listeners. One of his strengths as a broadcaster is his ability to understand his audience and know what they want to hear. He delves deeper than most.

He is also a fearless interviewer. Sitting directly across from the Reverend Jesse Jackson during an interview Jon said that he thought the Rev. Jackson was irrelevant; that his time had passed and that he wondered if the cameras weren’t running and the news photographers weren’t there, if the Rev Jackson would bother to show up at any of the events. He probed Dan Rather about his views on radio versus television. He quizzed Phil Donahue on his stand on the Iraq war and how much of his own money he put into his documentary. In 2009 Jon was the only national radio talk show host to interview Speaker Nancy Pelosi. 

Jon had many breaking stories. He was the first national radio program host to break the story that Vice President Dick Cheney had shot his hunting companion, Harry Whittington. He was also the first nationally-syndicated radio show to interview the male prostitute who brought down the Reverend Ted Haggard. After his first national interview, presidential candidate Senator Mike Gravel of Alaska thanked Jon for getting his campaign out of debt due to the strong response from listeners to Jon’s program.

Jon was the first national broadcast personality to announce live on air that he has epilepsy. He did so with guest John Meacham, the then Editor of Newsweek magazine, who had devoted almost an entire issue to epilepsy; Jon’s neurologist; and his wife Katherine. That show earned Jon and his production staff a San Diego Press Club Excellence in Journalism Award.

Jon was named to Talker’s Magazine's annual “Most Important Radio Talk Show Hosts in America” list for four consecutive years: 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010.

Jon has been written about in the New York Times and the Washington Post and talked about on Fox’s Hannity & Colmes and Sirius’ Howard Stern.

Jon was also the only talk radio personality asked to contribute to Susan Muccahy’s book “Why I’m a Democrat” (Polipoint Press 2008) which was a collection of interviews and essays of over 50 distinct voices reflecting the rich diversity of the Democratic Party. Other contributors included Tony Bennett, James Brady, Dominick Dunne, Nora Ephron, Melissa Etheridge, and Thomas Franzen. 

Jon left Air America in May 2009 to acquire a radio station in San Diego. Clear Channel-owned KLSD had been flipped to an all-sports station in November, 2007 and the market was left with four conservative and zero liberal talk radio stations. The goal was to re-launch a liberal line-up the same as KLSD’s thereby attracting the same listeners and sponsors as the station had when it was taken off the air. His company, Southpaw Media LLC, secured an agreement to lease a station, AM 1700. Jon was successful in raising seven figures, but in the fall of 2009 the stock market crashed and the recession hit in earnest. The committed investors understandably decided to wait until the economy improved. Raising money proved impossible and the transaction failed to materialize. During this time Jon briefly hosted an afternoon drive show on the station.

Television

During the night of its November, 2010 election coverage, the NBC network owned-and-operated television station in San Diego had Jon and a conservative columnist join the station’s two main anchors for four hours of live non-stop, prime-time election coverage. Since then Jon has been the station’s regular liberal political expert.

 

Film

 

Jon co-narrated the 2012 documentary film Save KLSD: Media Consolidation and Local Radio. The film chronicles the demise of San Diego’s KLSD radio and uses that as a starting point to explore how, nationwide, the medium and therefore the ability to control thought via messaging, rests in the hands of very few.  With appearances by Bill Moyers, Robert Reich, Phil Donahue, David Schuster, Cenk Uygur, Thom Hartmann, Van Jones, Randi Rhodes, Stacy Taylor, John Nichols,  politicians and media personalities and executives.

 


General Meeting
Thursday, April 5, 7:00 p.m.

Marjorie Cohn, Constitutional lawyer & professor, author, activist, and media personality. Topic TBA

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