Anti-Semite CA Republican Senatorial Candidate Tom Campbell, With his Palestinian Islamic Jihadists Friends & Campaign Donors:

Anti-Semite CA Republican Senatorial Candidate Tom Campbell, With his Palestinian Islamic Jihadists Friends & Campaign Donors:
By Marc Chamot

In the Republican showdown to unseat Democratic left-winger Barbara Boxer, the battle between Republicans Carly Fiorina versus front runner Tom Campbell, there’s a powder keg full of scandals that is just about to explode.

New revelations are showing that Tom Campbell had Palestinian Jihadists groups donate into his California political campaigns about nine years ago.

For years, the American, the anti-Semite, and anti-Israel mainstreams press, have kept these facts hidden from the general public. The LA Times just came forward with this story, and other sources are investigating it, it’s pretty shocking indeed, and especially if you’re Jewish American.

Unbelievable folks, at this time and age; we’ve got an American political moron, disguised as a Republican, who supports anti-Israel Jihadists actions. This is not only very shameful, it's an absolute disgarceful for this politician to still belong in American politics.

From Other sources, The Los Angeles Times reports today that "U.S.-Israel relations have taken an unexpectedly central role" in the California Senate race's Republican primary. Specifically, U.S. Rep. Tom Campbell's support for Israel is being questioned.

Sources are also saying, “Tom Campbell has a record that is decidedly anti-Israel and has some very questionable associations,” Wilson said. “The voters of California will decide if he is sympathetic to terrorists.”

The most notable donor is Sami Al-Arian, who received Campbell’s support when the University of South Florida fired him for expressing unpopular views. Al-Arian pleaded guilty in 2006 to conspiring to help a terrorist group.

Campbell has said he was unaware of Al-Arian’s misdeeds at the time of his contact with him, and would not have written a letter in support of him had he known. Critics note that there was widespread media coverage in South Florida of Al-Arian’s links with the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

“Should Campbell have known that? That’s a valid question,” Wilson said, “but the fact of the matter is that there’s a definite pattern here with Tom Campbell, in terms of the people he has taken money from and in terms of the people supporting him.”

The other donors Wilson noted are Abdurahman Alamoudi, who pleaded guilty in 2004 to illegal financial dealing with Libya and other charges, Muthanna Al-Hanooti, who was arrested in 2008 for spying for Saddam Hussein and other charges, and Nihad Awad, who failed to condemn Hamas four weeks after the group claimed responsibility for a deadly bus bombing.”

That's due in large part to the support Campbell gave, and received back, from Sami Al-Arian, a former University of South Florida professor and admitted Palestinian Islamic Jihad supporter.
Campbell wrote a letter of protest when the university moved to fire Al-Arian.

As a congressman, Campbell worked closely with Al-Arian fighting the use of classified evidence in immigration court, which happened to Al-Arian's brother-in-law. Al-Arian later reciprocated, sending $1,300 in campaign contributions to Campbell's 2000 Senate bid.

According to the Times story:
Campbell said he did not know about Al-Arian's illegal activities at the time and said that if he had he would not have written the letter. "None of that had come out," he said.

Actually, significant documents had. During deportation proceedings on Al-Arian's brother-in-law in August 2000, the issue which first attracted Campbell's attention, immigration officials released this 1991 video and this 1995 letter. The video is from a Cleveland fundraiser which clearly was intended to serve Al-Arian's charity, the Islamic Committee for Palestine (ICP), and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

Watch the video closely and at 1:40 into it you'll see Al-Arian taking his seat as Imam Fawaz Damra describes the charity as "the active arm of the Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine," adding that "We preferred to call it the 'Islamic Committee for Palestine' for security reasons. The video shows Al-Arian had no reaction to Damra's description.

Later in that same program, Damra raises money for the Palestinian Islamic Jihad saying checks can be written to Al-Arian's ICP.

In the 1995 letter, Al-Arian writes that the Islamic movement in Palestine is represented by "Hamas and the Jihad" and notes "serious attempts" at merging the two terrorist groups. He invokes a recent double suicide bombing in Israel and urges his acquaintance "to try to extend true support of the jihad effort in Palestine so that operations such as these can continue."

Again, all of this information was publicly released and reported in 2000. Yet, a Campbell spokesman told Tucker Carlson's new web paper that the candidate wouldn't have supported Al-Arian "if he knew then what he knows now."

If he didn't know it then, it wasn't because the information wasn't available. Campbell either never sought it out or simply ignored it. Read more at: http://www.investigativeproject.org/blog/#1818

GOP Still Oblivious into Scott Brown’s Elections Significance; they didn’t Make him, Independents Did:

GOP Still Oblivious into Scott Brown’s Elections Significance; they didn’t Make him, Independents Did:
By Marc Chamot

GOP to Scott Brown: "We campaigned for you. We donated to your campaign. And you turned on us like every other RINO," said one writer, using the initials for "Republican-In-Name-Only."

I get a big kick from my fellow conservative bloggers and mainly from Republican Medias. Even though I have a tremendous Net relationship with many of them, I sometimes wonder if they ever read my postings.

Republicans, the GOP Right, still fail to understand the very power and significances of Independents. Independents are made up of angry and disillusioned voters from both parties.

Republicans don’t understand Scott Brown’s current situation, they think that Scott Brown is of their own mold. They forget that Republicans are a minority in Massachusetts, it wasn’t the GOP right that elected Scott Brown into the U.S. Senate, and this was done by cross sections of Democrats and Republican Independents.

Sure, now the “RINO” labels are coming out the woodworks on Scott Brown, but he never was yours in the first place. If you have read my blog postings, Scott Brown is more indebted to Independents than to Leftie Democrats or right-wing Republicans.

Many Republicans still don’t understand that Independents aren’t Left-Wingers or Right-Wingers; they are a little right of center. Did you all really think that Massachusetts would elect a Right-Wing Republican?

This is the change I’ve been talking about on my blogs, the new types of Washington politicians for the future. Had you all read my Red Dog Republicans postings, you would have understood.

By failing to understand these changes, the GOP is doomed to fail. I personally support anything that will help the unemployed and hurting Americans, like the aka. Joe Public. I am among those statistics, I along with my fellow Independents despised government bailouts for the banks, Wall Street and its players, I demanded help for the common folks like us, and Scott Brown is delivering.

The far left, the left and the far right, have to understand, that Washington politics as usual is over. This is the new America, the Independents run the show. You all had your chances for decades, and it became a national disaster for all of us.

It’s either for folks like Scott Brown’s in the new GOP, and or keep VOTING for the Obama’s, Pelosi and the Reid’s far Left in American politics instead, it’s your CHOICE, really.

Jobs bill vote earns enmity for new GOP senator
month after being crowned the darling of national conservatives, Republican Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts is being branded "Benedict Brown" for siding with Democrats in favor of a jobs bill endorsed by the Obama administration.The bill faces a final Senate vote today.

Like the four other GOP senators who joined him, the man who won the late Democrat Edward Kennedy's seat says it's about jobs, not party politics. And that may be good politics, too.

The four other GOP senators who broke ranks - Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins of Maine, George Voinovich of Ohio and Christopher "Kit" Bond of Missouri - also were criticized Tuesday.
But Brown was the big target on conservative Web sites, talk shows and the Facebook page his campaign has promoted as an example of his new-media savvy.

"We campaigned for you. We donated to your campaign. And you turned on us like every other RINO," said one writer, using the initials for "Republican-In-Name-Only."

The conservative-tilting Drudge Report colored a photo of Brown on its home page in scarlet. The new senator responded by calling into a Boston radio station.

"I've taken three votes," Brown said. "And to say I've sold out any particular party or interest group, I think, is certainly unfair." The senator said that by the time he seeks re-election in two years, he will have taken thousands of votes.

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky wasn't particularly perturbed about Brown's vote, saying his election last month has "made a huge, positive difference for us and for the whole legislative agenda."

Political observers said each of the five Republican senators had solid reasons locally for voting as they did, to cut off a potential Republican filibuster on the bill.

The measure featured four provisions that enjoyed sweeping bipartisan support, including a measure exempting businesses hiring the unemployed from Social Security payroll taxes through December, and giving them a $1,000 credit if new workers stay on the job a full year.

It would also renew highway programs through December and deposit $20 billion in the highway trust fund.

Nielsen: Making Money on the Net a Tough Sell; 79% say they would stop Using Websites that Charges:

Nielsen: Making Money on the Net a Tough Sell; 79% say they would stop Using Websites that Charges:
By Marc Chamot

A new study conducted by Nielsen say less than 30% of Net users are willing to pay for Internet news contents. It’s very bad news for newspapers, other news mediums, news media bloggers like me, and for those who want to charge for written contents.

79 percent said they would no longer use a Web site that began charging for access, "presuming they can find the same information at no cost," the report said. That sentiment was highest - 85 percent - in North America.

Less than 30 percent said they would consider paying for social networks, podcasts, news-talk radio, consumer-generated video and blogs. Some were willing to pay for traditional news Medias like the New York Times and other news outlets, who have said they will start charging for online access to news stories.

But Nielsen said only 34 percent of newspaper readers and 39 percent of magazine readers would consider paying for online content, and that percentage drops to 31 percent for users of online-only news sites.”

I’m caught between a rock and a hard place. I want to make money off my blogs, but I also enjoy writing and politics. Regardless, after three years blogging, I’ve found its really tough making money on the Net, unless you’re selling desirable products people want and need. Unfortunately for me, I agree with majorities’ analysis, Internet information should be “free” for all.

The sad thing about all this, too many fine bloggers have given up and gone. I miss them, and because of this, I’ve taken my blogs into different levels.

My blogs are not only for information sakes; it’s also for political activism. I’m one of those that see myself as a political activist, like your neighborhood “community organizer,” just like president you know who? Ahem, ahem.

If my opinions make a big difference to my readers, then I'm pretty happy about it, and I'll keep on churning out more stuff of interest and keep going, just like the Energizer Bunny!

But I also know, when I find something else that will occupy my time, more financially benefitting to me, I’ll be gone from the Internet, just as fast as I arrived.

Survey: Paying for online content a tough sellWith big media companies grappling with ways to increase online revenues, a new survey released Tuesday showed 85 percent of Internet users believed that online content that is currently free should remain free.

Yet the extensive survey by the Nielsen Co. research firm found online consumers may be more willing to pay for certain categories, such as movies, games, TV shows and music, and less likely to pay for news, blogs and user-created videos.

While there were no clear-cut categories of content that will successfully sell online, there was a "definite maybe," Nic Covey, Nielsen's director of cross platform insights, wrote in a blog post about the report, "Changing Models: A Global Perspective on Paying for Content Online.

"When asked to focus on specific types of content, survey participants are more willing to at least consider paying for particular categories, especially if they have done so before," Covey wrote.

Previous studies have shown a long-standing online culture preferring free content still runs deep. For example, a Forrester Research report in November found that 80 percent of U.S. consumers would not bother to access online newspaper or magazine sites if they were no longer free.

But the Nielsen report was broader in scope, surveying 27,000 consumers in 52 countries in North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East about various forms of content.

In four categories - theatrical movies, music, games and professionally produced videos - 50 percent or more said they would consider paying or have already paid for online content.

In the middle were magazines, newspapers and Internet-only news sites. But 78 percent said they should be able to access newspaper, magazine, radio or television service free online if they have already paid for a subscription.

The struggling newspaper industry has examined micro-payment systems - charging for individual stories and other content. But the Nielsen report said 52 percent globally, and only 42 percent in North America, would prefer a micro-payment plan over subscription access to the entire Web site.

The survey also showed that only 34 percent of consumers believed the long-standing argument by publishers and entertainment companies that they can't produce the same high-quality work if they are undermined by free online content. Another 30 percent did not believe quality would decline and 36 percent had no firm opinion.

The report concludes that consumer acceptance of paid online content remains "a work in progress."

"At this point, no one can say for sure how deeply embedded the free-information ideology is among consumers," the report said. "So it is unclear how, even if they accept the inevitability of having to pay for online content, consumers will deal with a flood of new charges."

Senator and Rocker, John Mellencamp, I presume? It's all we need, just Another Left-Wing Comedian & Liberal Loony, like Al Franken in the U.S. Senate:

Senator and Rocker, John Mellencamp, I presume? It's all we need, just Another Left-Wing Comedian & Liberal Loony, like Al Franken in the U.S. Senate:
By Marc Chamot

Desperation; liberals resorting to name recognitions for political office. It just proves how badly things are going for them, politically.

This ain’t happening in ours and his lifetime. Speculations are speculations, this libo-rocker John Mellencamp and his minions, are seriously thinking to have him throw his hat into the Evan Bayh senatorial sweepstakes.

Haven’t they figured it out yet, as to what’s going on?

The political climates for left-wingers are pretty much DOA in America and especially for those that are "crazier than shithouse rats" like Mr. Mellencamp. Anyhow, Evan Bayh comes from a traditional Republican “red” district, as in Evan Bay’s conservative “Blue Dogs” district, and this John Mellencamp is nuttier than a squirrel LIBERAL, he wouldn’t fit into the mold of the voters in Bayh’s district.

Well how can he? We’re all Americans, whether we are Democrats or Republicans. When John Mellencamp asked the John McCain people not to use one of his songs during the presidential campaigns, this was one of the MOST polarizing thing anybody can do.

I thought that it was the most idiotic and asinine thing he did. Mellencamp showed that he was a divider rather than a uniter. And now he thinks he can run for office? After insulting half of the nation’s voting groups?

Does all this make any sense to you? It sure does to me. It’s just so hysterically funny that’s all.

Speculation Swirls Around Potential Senate Bid by Rocker John Mellencamp:

Speculation is swirling that liberal rocker John Mellencamp may run for the Indiana Senate seat being vacated by Democrat Evan Bayh.

John Mellencamp, the iconic rocker made famous by his songs about growing up in a small town, may be ready to move to the big city.

Speculation is swirling that the liberal Mellencamp may put down his guitar and run for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Evan Bayh.

The Indiana Democrat announced Monday that he will not seek election to a third term in November, sending party leaders scrambling for a viable replacement and boosting Republican hopes of winning the seat. Indiana is generally considered a Republican state, though it went for Barack Obama in 2008.

Support for a Mellencamp bid is gathering momentum; a "Draft John Mellencamp For Senate" Facebook page has emerged with more than 200 members.

Mellencamp is no stranger to politics or to Washington. He asked John McCain to stop using his music during the 2008 presidential campaign. He performed at President Obama's inauguration and has played at the White House, most recently last week at a celebration in honor of the civil rights movement.

He initially backed John Edwards in the 2008 Democratic primaries, then shifted his support to Obama after the former North Carolina senator bowed out.

Mellencamp has generated a lot of goodwill among potential voters with his participation in Farm Aid concerts. Among his hits are "Small Town,""Jack and Diane," "Hurts So Good," and "Our Country."

There's no rush for Mellencamp to announce his intentions. A May primary was scrapped after cafe owner Tamyra d'lppolito, the only Democrat seeking to run for the Senate seat, missed out on qualifying for the primary ballot by Tuesday's deadline.

The Democratic state central committee now has until June 30 to pick someone to replace Bayh on the ballot.

U.S. Reps. Baron Hill and Brad Ellsworth are among the other names being floated. But so far, Mellencamp's name is drawing the most attention.

Mellencamp's publicist did not immediately return a message seeking comment.

81% of Americans Have Had Enough with the U.S. Congress & Incumbents in Serious Trouble for 2010, New Polls Say:

81% of Americans Have Had Enough with the U.S. Congress & Incumbents in Serious Trouble for 2010, New Polls Say:
By Marc Chamot

More bad news for Washington politicians and incumbents in U.S. Congress, it looks like the beginning of a possible 2010 complete housecleaning, and a complete wipeout, on any re-election chances for most incumbents.

“Just 8 percent of Americans want the members of Congress re-elected, according to CBS News-New York Times poll taken nine months before roughly one-third of the Senate and the entire House face voters.”

Polls are saying Americans are FED-UP with Special Interests, and they are killing American politicians’ chances for any future hold in office.

“81 percent of respondents are saying that lawmakers shouldn’t receive another term. 80 percent to 13 percent, Americans saying members of Congress are more interested in serving special interests than the people they represent.”

There is no question that we, bloggers, and the Internet have become the new American Revolution in American politics.

While more and more, of the mainstreams Medias are being left far behind, as none credible news sources for people, the new sources of news and information are the Internet and its legions of bloggers.

Never before in American history have Americans been more informed on issues than they are now, the Internet is spreading the truths quicker than wildfires, and with these new polling results, they are showing Washington politicians, are in way deeper trouble than they think.

Even though polls are showing some tolerances on President Obama, just hoping and waiting, for all of those ever promised hope and changes he talked about, but Americans have had ENOUGH with the U.S. Congress.

Didn’t I tell you folks, that we, the bloggers, are making the big differences in American politics? Whether you’re a leftie, center or righties, it’s the future in American politics and politicians’ have better listen. Because, it’s what the MAJORITY of Americans want and need, not the minority special interests groups. What I’ve been saying all along.

Keep up the fight my good friends! We're finally winning it!

Few Americans Want Members of Congress Re-Elected, Poll Finds
Feb. 12 (Bloomberg) -- Just 8 percent of Americans want the members of Congress re-elected, according to CBS News-New York Times poll taken nine months before roughly one-third of the Senate and the entire House face voters.

The Feb. 5-10 survey found 81 percent of respondents saying the lawmakers shouldn’t receive another term.

By 80 percent to 13 percent, Americans said members of Congress are more interested in serving special interests than the people they represent.

Also, 75 percent disapproved of the job Congress is doing, the highest level since 74 percent said they disapproved in October 2008. Congress’s job approval rating was 15 percent in the current survey; it was 12 percent in October 2008.

The new poll of 1,084 adults had a margin of error of plus- or-minus 3 percentage points.
Half of those surveyed said they wanted to abolish the filibuster in the U.S. Senate, the procedural move by which bills can be stalled unless 60 lawmakers vote to shut off debate, while 44 percent disagreed.

The job President Barack Obama is doing was approved of by 46 percent; disapproving were 45 percent. In a December CBS-New York Times poll, his approval rating was 50 percent, while 39 percent disapproved.

In the new poll, 60 percent of respondents said Obama understood people like themselves, compared with 42 percent for congressional Democrats and 35 percent for congressional Republicans.

Still, 52 percent said they disapproved of the way Obama is handling the economy, while 42 percent approved. And 55 percent said they disapproved of his handling of the health-care issue, while 35 percent approved.

Gov. Bill Richardson: Illegal Aliens’ Scofflaws Okay in New Mexico; 66% of cited drivers have no licenses, 98% are illegal aliens:

Gov. Bill Richardson: Illegal Aliens’ Scofflaws Okay in New Mexico; 66% of cited drivers have no licenses, no insurance and no registrations for the vehicles & 98% are illegal aliens:
By Marc Chamot

When it comes to illegal aliens, this governor refuses to enforce its laws.

Former presidential wannabe, Governor Bill Richardson, during the Democratic debates for the U.S. Presidency, was very proud of his state granting driver’s licenses to illegal aliens.

“Apparently 66% of cited and stopped drivers in New Mexico have no licenses, no insurance and no registration for the vehicle and 98% are illegal aliens.”

New Mexico, one of the few states in the nation that allow illegal aliens to drive, unfortunately, the law in granting driver’s licenses isn’t working. It’s causing the state more mayhem. Illegal aliens are refusing to abide by the laws; they are still driving unlicensed, because of lax state laws that lets them get away with the crime.

This is that same corrupt governor, who sold his office for contributions, and folks, this guy wanted to become an American president!

On Examiner.com, check out these shocking crime statistics being perpetrated by criminal illegal aliens around this country.

Those crime statistics come directly from the FBI and DHS: Compiled from Federal Bureau of Investigation and Department of Homeland Security reports:

95% of warrants for murder in Los Angeles are for illegal aliens. 83% of warrants for murder in Phoenix are for illegal aliens. 86% of warrants for murder in Albuquerque are for illegal aliens. 75% of those on the most wanted list in Los Angeles, Phoenix and Albuquerque are illegal aliens.

24.9% of all inmates in California detention centers are Mexican nationals here illegally 40.1% of all inmates in Arizona detention centers are Mexican nationals here illegally 48.2% of all inmates in New Mexico detention centers are Mexican nationals here illegally 29% (630,000) convicted illegal alien felons fill our state and federal prisons at a cost of $1.6 billion annually 53% plus of all investigated burglaries reported in California, New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona and Texas are perpetrated by illegal aliens.

50% plus of all gang members in Los Angeles are illegal aliens from south of the border. 71% plus of all apprehended cars stolen in 2005 in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada and California were stolen by Illegal aliens or "transport coyotes."

47% of cited/stopped drivers in California have no license, no insurance and no registration for the vehicle. Of that 47%, 92% are illegal aliens. 63% of cited/stopped drivers in Arizona have no license, no insurance and no registration for the vehicle. Of that 63%, 97% are illegal aliens 66% of cited/stopped drivers in New Mexico have no license, no insurance and no registration for the vehicle. Of that 66% 98% are illegal aliens.

380,000 plus "anchor babies" were born in the US to illegal alien parents in just one year, making 380,000 babies automatically US citizens. 97.2% of all costs incurred from those births were paid by the American taxpayers. 66% plus of all births in California are to illegal alien Mexicans on Medi-Cal whose births were paid for by taxpayers

And Obama and Democrats want to give these people amnesty? Are they really disturbed? My goodness! May God have mercy with our nation.

Need a Job? Check Out the Governments’ "Jobs Now" Program; Federal Cash for Hiring!

Need a Job? Check Out the Governments’ "Jobs Now" Program; Federal Cash for Hiring!
By Marc Chamot

About a year ago, President Obama helped create a jobs program called "Jobs Now." States were given a big pot of money to help put the unemployed back to work, in the public, private, and the none-profit sectors.

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom is one of the few American politicians that are actively promoting the program. I personally think it’s a very good program that Obama and congress created, but there are some drawbacks, applicants are required to have a child under 18 years old to qualify for these jobs, and these jobs only last one year.

I have looked into it, and I’m leaning for it, because I’m unemployed too, and I suggest my buddies in the Net world, those who are out of a job, to take a look into the Jobs Now programs in you area.

Even though I don’t agree for taxpayers to be financing things, like American corporations, banks, Wall Street and so forth, but financing jobs for unemployed Americans is a good thing, and I’m all for it. I’d like for our government to address China, and that is where we’ve got a bigger problem about jobs. China is definitely becoming a real menace for the United States.

This program reimburses up to 100 percent of the employee’s wages, very few people, especially employers are unaware of this program, and some are unwilling to participate.

Some non-profits have taken advantage of the program and have hired people from $11.00 to $33.65 per hour jobs in San Francisco.

This money came about last February, when congress passed The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. 5 billion dollars in temporary emergency funds were provided to state welfare agencies for the unemployed and needy families. State and local municipalities, were given the initiative to design their own programs.

In San Francisco alone over 1,500 jobs were filled, mostly public works stuff, like street cleaning and other stuff.

Here is the story IN THE San Francisco Chronicle:

California jobs
It's not known how many jobs have been created under the program nationwide. Even though it was one of the few parts of the stimulus act that specifically created jobs, for technical reasons it doesn't fall under the regular recovery act reporting requirements, Lower-Basch says.
She estimates that 20,000 jobs have been created nationwide, including nearly 15,000 in California.

Of the $5 billion pot, which is being divvied up based on each state's welfare load, California can draw up to $1.8 billion. But it expects to draw only about $850 million, including $200 million for subsidized employment, before time runs out on Sept. 30, says Lizelda Lopez, a spokeswoman for the California Department of Social Services. If the deadline is extended, it could spend more of that money.

1,500 jobs in S.F.
Fifty of the state's 58 counties "are offering or in the process of offering" a subsidized employment program, Lopez says. She says that Los Angeles wants to place up to 10,000 people by May.

San Francisco's Jobs Now program has placed just over 1,500 and seeks to place at least 2,100 total. It has about 3,000 people on a waiting list and 400 to 500 jobs waiting to get filled, says Trent Rhorer, executive director of San Francisco's Human Services Agency.

Santa Clara County's program has placed about 760 in full- and part-time jobs. Contra Costa's program has placed about 200 people, Alameda County's 50. San Mateo and Solano counties are just starting their programs.

Many counties wanted to get final guidance from the federal and state government before beginning their programs to make sure they would get reimbursed. That guidance didn't come until fall.

San Francisco was willing to take a risk and started in May.
To qualify for a job in San Francisco's program, you must live in the city, although the job could be elsewhere. You must have at least one child younger than 18 in your home and have a right to work in this country.

You also must be in CalWORKS (the state's welfare program) or your household income for the past month must be less than 200 percent of the federal poverty limit for your family size. A family of three could earn up to $3,052 per month. A family of five could earn up to $4,298.
A person on unemployment with no other sources of family income could often qualify. Once in the program, there is no limit on how much can be paid.

S.F.'s earnings range
In San Francisco's program, wages range from $9.79 to more than $50 an hour. "If the (annual) salary is over $75,000, we take a second internal look to make sure it reflects labor market standards," Rohrer says.

The average wage in the program is $20.83 per hour in private-sector jobs, $14.04 in nonprofit positions, and $12.21 in government jobs.

The program pays 100 percent of wages, but the employer must pay the usual payroll taxes such as Social Security and Medicare. The new workers cannot displace existing workers.
Other California counties have the same general rules, although some will work only with CalWORKS recipients and the reimbursement formula for employers might be slightly different.

Employers' experience
Internet Archive, which is creating a digital library of books, hired the most people through the San Francisco program. "We are three years ahead in our business plan because we have these people," Miller says.

He's happy with the quality of workers, who range from scanners to engineers. "It's like hiring First World workers at Third World wages," he says. The new workers "have energized our existing workforce," Miller adds. "These are motivated people who are hungry for a job."

San Francisco Soup Co. has hired 10 people through the program, including a restaurant and catering manager. "The program gave us the confidence and flexibility to hire earlier than we had expected and to grow our business, especially in the catering area," says co-owner Steve Sarver. He plans to keep all of the employees on at his own expense if the funding dries up after September.

Other for-profit employers that have made significant hires through the program include Twice Verified, a marketing company that provides debt-settlement leads that has hired 13 people at wages up to $57.69 per hour; and Bayview Painting of Burlingame, which has hired 11 union painters and laborers at up to $52.74 per hour. Neither company returned calls.

Not everyone has had success hiring qualified workers. Gumas Advertising requested an interactive designer, but "I didn't get a whole lot of candidates. We had one interview, but the applicant's skill set was not suitable to the level we needed," agency President John Gumas says.
Good people go quickly

Kate Stewart, human resources manager at the American Conservatory Theater, found that "good people go fairly fast." ACT wants to hire an usher and receptionist, but "the difficulty has been us moving fast enough to get over there and grab people."
Why aren't more employers taking advantage of this?

Some are reluctant to hire people they might have to lay off after Sept. 30. Some mistakenly think they will have to take an applicant they don't want. They won't, says Denise Boland, a CalWORKS administrator in Santa Clara County.

Boland says her program is targeting employers who will be able to keep employees after Sept. 30. "Our goal is that 70 percent will transition to permanent jobs," she says.

Counties participating in program
Most Bay Area counties are just ramping up their federally funded subsidized employment programs.

Here are program names, number of people hired to date, and contact information for selected counties:
-- Alameda: AC Hire. Number hired: about 50. (510) 670-5514.
-- Contra Costa: Subsidized Employment Training. Number hired: nearly 200. (925) 313-1640.
-- Marin: Marin Works Now. Number hired: about 40. www.marinemployment.org or (415) 473-3340.
-- San Francisco: Jobs Now. Number hired: about 1,500. www.jobsnowsf.org or (877) 562-1669.
-- San Mateo: SMC Works. Number hired: none, just starting. (650) 877-5627.
-- Santa Clara: SCC Works. Number hired: at least 760 in full- and part-time jobs. For private employers and prospective employees not on CalWORKS: (408) 979-6371. Nonprofit employers: (408) 793-1214.
-- Solano: Program begins early February. Taking calls from employers only at (707) 553-5173.
Source: Chronicle research