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. Kathleen Antrim
Author, journalist, columnist for SF & Wash DC Examiner Newspapers, contributor to NewsMax and political commentator on national radio and television. Medea Benjamin
Medea Benjamin is a well-known U.S. political activist. The Los Angeles Times has described her as "one of the high profile leaders of the peace movement," and in 1999, San Francisco Magazine included her on their "power list" of the "60 Players Who Rule the Bay Area." 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. J. Bradford DeLong
J. Bradford DeLong is a professor of economics at the University of California at Berkeley, chair of its political economy major, a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, and was in the Clinton administration a deputy assistant secretary of the U.S. Treasury. Mike DeNunzio
Elected three times as Chairman of the San Francisco Republican party, Mike is highly regarded in Northern California for his articulate defense of President Bush, Governor Schwarzenegger and the Republican agenda in the most hostile and liberal media market in the nation. Tim Dickinson
Tim Dickinson was an editor at Mother Jones from 1998 to 2005. Now a contributing editor for Rolling Stone magazine, where he writes about politics, Dickinson is also the author of the Rolling Stone's National Affairs Daily blog. 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. Coralin Feierback

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. Raed Jarrar
Raed Jarrar is a half-Iraqi, half-Palestinian blogger, activist and architect. He was in Iraq during and after the 2003 invasion, and he took a part in a number of humanitarian and political projects there including two first-hand experiences in establishing and leading volunteer motivated grassroots organizations and NGOs based in Iraq. Antonia Juhasz
Antonia Juhasz is a policy-analyst, author and activist living in San Francisco. She is also author of The Bush Agenda: Invading the World, One Economy at a Time. Juhasz is an expert on all aspects of international trade and finance policy with a Masters Degree in Public Policy from Georgetown University, experience as a Legislative Assistant to two United States Members of Congress, and over ten years of work in the field. She is a passionate writer and speaker who conveys complex information in a manner that is both accessible and motivational to others. Rich Karlgaard
Rich Karlgaard is the publisher of Forbes, the nation’s highest-circulation business publication, and editor of Forbes ASAP, a magazine covering the major developments, trends and implications of the Information Age. Ian King

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. Peter Laufer
Award winning journalist, broadcaster and documentary filmmaker. While a globe-trotting correspondent for NBC News, he also reported, wrote, and produced several documentaries and special event broadcasts for the network that dealt in detail with crucial social issues, including HIV/AIDS, Vietnam veterans, hunger in America, illiteracy, immigration and drug trade. Christopher Lehane
Democratic strategist. Former campaign press secretary for Al Gore. Ted Lewis
Activist, election observer, expert on Mexico election. Ted Lewis directs the human rights programs of Global Exchange and is a long time democracy and antiwar activist. 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. 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. Mary Anne Ostrom

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Mitchell Plitnick
Analyst for Israeli and Middle East Affairs. Director of Administration and Policy for Jewish Voice for Peace, and is also a columnist for Tikkun Magazine. Shum Preston

Bill Rafferty
National TV Personality, Comedian, Host, Baby Boomer spokesperson. Technology spokesperson for the over 55 crowd. 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", Dr. Anne Roesler

Steven Rosenfeld
Senior producer of RadioNation. Expert on US Politics, specifically problems and solutions with disenfranchisement, elections and election fraud 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. Harley Shaiken

Norman Solomon
Norman Solomon is a nationally syndicated columnist on media and politics. He has been writing the weekly "Media Beat" column since 1992. 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 Leigh Wolf

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