Angela Alioto
Angela Alioto is a San Francisco-born politician and a member of the Democratic Party. She was on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors from 1988 to 1997. Her father was Joseph L. Alioto, the former mayor of San Francisco. Her niece, Michela Alioto-Pier, is currently on the Board of Supervisors. Alioto ran for Mayor of San Francisco three times — in 1991, 1995 and 2003. Each time, she was considered to be a progressive candidate. Since leaving the Board of Supervisors, she has been the main partner of her law office, and has won a number of cases against corporations — including Mary Kay Cosmetics. She also served as Vice Chair of the California Democratic Party. Joe Alioto Veronese
Joe Alioto Veronese comes from a long line of public servants, and has continued that tradition as a San Francisco Police Commissioner known for advocating reform and accountability. He is the grandson of former Mayor Joseph L. Alioto and the son of former Supervisor Angela Alioto. Robert M. Amparan, Esq.
A criminal defense attorney. Notable for successfully defending former JonBenet Ramsey murder suspect John Mark Karr in his legal battle with the state of California on child pornography charges. Anthony J. Brass
Anthony is an attorney currently representing defendants in both state and federal court, for offenses ranging from misdemeanor driving under the influence, to multiple defendant narcotics trafficking conspiracies resulting from federal wire tap investigations. Willie Brown
Willie Lewis Brown, Jr. is an American political figure who served over 30 years in the California State Assembly, after which he became the first African-American mayor of San Francisco. Brown is a member of the Democratic Party. Robert Cartwright, Jr.
Robert E. Cartwright, Jr. is the President of The Cartwright Law Firm, Inc. He has extensive experience in personal injury and products liability actions and successfully tried dozens of such cases over the last several decades. Rob also has considerable expertise in the areas of premises liability, toxic torts, business/contract actions, wills and trust disputes and Jones Act related suits. Todd Chretien
Todd active in dozens of organizing coalitions from defending affirmative action to global justice actions against the FTAA, and WTO to the wars in Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq. He is a frequent contributor to Counterpunch.org, the International Socialist Review, Socialist Worker newspaper. Will Durst
This five-time Emmy nominee comedian and host/co-producer of the ongoing award winning PBS series "Livelyhood" is also a regular commentator on NPR and CNN, and has appeared on every comedy show featuring a brick wall including Letterman, Comedy Central, HBO and Showtime. Donnie Fowler
Donnie Fowler has achieved a leading role in both political and high technology circles through his work in Silicon Valley, in Washington as part of the Clinton Administration, and on the ground helping Democratic campaigns in more than a dozen states over the last twenty years. Josh Gerstein
Josh has served as the Sun’s national reporter since September 2003 and was an on-air White House correspondent for ABC, covering most of the Clinton administration's activities as well as President Bush’s first year in office. Paul Henderson
Managing Attorney who supervises the trial team of the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office. He is a nationally recognized speaker who has presented numerous speeches and seminars throughout the United States. Additionally, Paul is a featured lawyer in this seasons series of Animal Cops shown on the Animal Planet Channel. Van Jones
Van Jones, 37, is the founder and National Executive Director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights (EBC). Seth Kilbourn

Geoffrey Kors
Geoffrey Kors is the Executive Director of Equality California (EQCA), California's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender lobbying organization. Leo Lacayo
Leo Lacayo is the most prominent Republican media surrogate in Northern California with hundreds of television and radio interviews to his credit. Marisa Lagos
Marisa Lagos is a general assignment reporter at the San Francisco Examiner. Her assignments range from breaking news to city politics to the state's new stem cell institute. Henry Lee
Henry K. Lee covers the East Bay police and state courts and Northern California federal criminal and civil courts for the San Francisco Chronicle, where he has worked since 1994. Christopher Lehane
Democratic strategist. Former campaign press secretary for Al Gore. Whitney Leigh
Whitney Leigh specializes in complex civil litigation and criminal defense at Gonzalez & Leigh LLP. He has represented businesses and individuals in a wide variety of civil litigation matters, including business disputes, unfair business practice claims, intellectual property disputes, class actions, SEC investigations, government fraud claims and employment disputes. Peter Leyden
Director of the New Politics Institute, a think tank and strategy center of experts from many different fields who are helping Democrats and progressives take advantage of today’s massive changes in technology, media and demographics. Previously managing editor at the original Wired magazine, special correspondent for Newsweek in Asia, and coauthor of The Long Boom and What's Next. Brett Matthews

Melanie Morgan
Melanie Morgan is chairwoman of the Russo Marsh & Rogers-run pro-war lobby Move America Forward. She is a columnist for WorldNetDaily, author of the book America Mourning, and is also a conservative radio talk personality at KSFO in San Francisco. Rick Oltman

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Tim Paulson

Sally Pipes
President and Chief Executive Officer of Pacific Research Institute, a San Francisco-based think tank founded in 1979 to champion freedom, opportunity, and personal responsibility for all individuals by advancing free-market policy solutions. Shum Preston

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Richard Rodriguez
Noted prose stylist, teacher, journalist, and educational consultant, in addition to writing, lecturing and appearing frequently on the PBS program, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. A Mexican-American writer who became famous for his 1982 book, "Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez", Michael Runzler

Gerardo Sandoval
Gerardo Sandoval is a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Served as a public defender and on San Francisco's Public Transportatin Commission. Debra J. Saunders
Author and columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle. Jeff Schechtman
Jeff, a radio show host on KVON 1440 AM, talks with newsmakers and opinion shapers, and sheds light on the issues of the day, from local top stories to national and international headlines. Erin Schrode

Harley Shaiken

Art Torres
Arthur "Art" Torres is the current Chairman of the California Democratic Party, a position he has held since 1995, and is the first Latino in the California Democratic Party to have been nominated for statewide office when he won the Democratic primary for insurance commissioner in 1994. Joan Walsh
Editor in Chief at Salon.com Josh Wolf

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