Farrell Planning Bold Move for Tommorow Morning!

The following was just sent to us by the Farrell Campaign...



"Dr. Warren Farrell, Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate, Claims Democrats Have
Driven Men Out of the Party and Businesses out of the State.



Farrell to "Nail" to the Capitol Door His "Ten Theses Toward a 'Reformation'
of the Democratic Party"

CARLSBAD, Ca. Almost 500 years after Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to
the door of the castle church at Wittenburg, Dr. Warren Farrell, with a Ph.D.
(in political science) in his pocket and a "hammer" in his hand, will "nail" to
the Capitol door in Sacramento his "Call for a Reformation of the Democratic
Party." The "nailing"
will occur at 10:15 am pct. on Friday, September 5 at the Capitol's main
entrance.



Dr. Farrell is the first California Gubernatorial Candidate to be listed on
the ballot as a "Fathers' Issues Author." His Ten Theses envision a three-part
Reformation. First, a Reformation of the Democratic Party's propensity for
driving men out of the party;
second, a Reformation of the Party's propensity for driving businesses out of
the state; and third, a Reformation of the Democratic Party's focus on
pleasing constituencies by putting out fires more than by preventing the fires."



So where can I find out what the 10 theses are? As of the time of this writing, only on MANN. Click read more for details.
Dr. Warren Farrell's Ten Theses Toward a 'Reformation' of the
Democratic Party

Social Solutions that Create Financial Solutions

1. Equal Father and Mother Involvement, Especially if there is
Divorce. Worldwide research reported in Father and Child Reunion
makes clear that children of divorce do best when they have equal
time with both mom and dad. The savings are billions less for
prisons, education, special education, social services, and unwed
teenage pregnancies... When moms know that anything other than 50-50
parenting will cost a court fight, there will be less taxpayer money
spent subsidizing fights in courts and more balanced children at
home.

2. Universal prenatal care. An anxious or undernourished mom means
a child damaged for life. Nine months of prevention saves ninety
years of intervention.

3. A Men's Birth Control Pill and a Paternity Fraud Bill. A men's
pill means fewer children who are not wanted by their dad because the
dad felt tricked into fatherhood; a paternity fraud bill means fewer
men falsely named "dad." Both will reduce the child support
enforcement bureaucracy that currently, at great expense, chases down
mens who are hiding from the fatherhood into which they felt tricked.

4. Intensive Communication Training Taught from First Grade, with
Simultaneous Retraining of Parents. Both families and businesses are
destroyed by poor communication--our inability to handle criticism is
our human Achilles' heel. It is more cost-effective to prevent
divorce and business inefficiency than to repair it--to communicate
rather than litigate.

5. Schools with More Male Teachers--Men Who are as Responsive to
the Needs of our Sons as our Daughters. For most of the 20th Century
fewer women than men graduated from high school and college; now the
reverse is true. But we have thousands of programs and scholarships
exclusively for women as if they were the sex in crisis. Boys go from
mother-only homes to female-only classrooms, and then, without
positive male role models, we wonder why they join gangs. The result
is a "boys' crisis." The costs are emotional and financial: increases
in our sons committing suicides, leading to Columbines, suffering
from ADD, doing worse than girls socially, emotionally, physically
and in all subjects except math. Our neglect of the "boys' crisis"
costs California billions to "pick up the pieces" by hiring more
teachers per class, special education, and special schools. The
solution begins with confronting our double standard: when girls do
worse, we blame the schools; when boys do worse, we blame the boys.

6. Prioritize Long-term and Win-win Economic Solutions. Caring
about labor means caring about businesses that create the jobs for
labor. Which means creating incentives that attract business and
jobs, not taxes that drive them away. Work safety standards need
stronger enforcement (to counter the easier profits of neglect), but
workers' comp needs caps. The fiercest attack must be on tax
loopholes such as offshore banking that indirectly increases the
taxes of the honest taxpayer. California must increase its tax
incentives for alternative energy development, and the development of
long-term pacts with Canada that has 40% of the world's fresh water
supply.

7. Update California's Institutions to Reflect the Shift from the
"Women's Crisis" of the 20th Century to the "Men's Crisis" of the
21st Century. Today men die sooner of all 15 leading causes of death;
our sons' suicide rates are increasing even as our daughters' are
decreasing. These gaps are magnified by Commissions on the Status of
Women, and by Offices of Women's Health, even as we neglect
equivalent studies for men. In California's universities, Women's
Studies without Men's Studies create a hostile environment for men
that keep men away from the social sciences. (See The Myth of Male
Power and Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say for full
documentation.)

8. Empower our Daughters with Long-Term Female Empowerment rather
than Short-term Female Victim Power. The Women Industry from
Diversity to Domestic Violence, from Affirmative Action to Women's
Studies, from Family Court to Social Workersóis invested in the
magnification of women's status as victim. The woman who portrays
herself as a victim gets power. Thus Female Victim Power. The
dismantling of the Women Industry means billions of reduced costs,
and thousands of our daughters being self-empowered rather than
dependent on victim power.

9. Discourage the Government-as-Substitute-Husband. When the state
of California offers a mom more than the dad can provide if she does
not marry the dad, it bribes the mom to "marry" the governmentóthe
state turns itself into the Government-as-Substitute Husband. We now
know that children from poorer families living with both mom and dad
do better emotionally and educationally than children from wealthier
families without dad. (See Father and Child Reunion.) The
bureaucracies and social workers that oversee WIC, welfare, food
stamps, housing subsidies and the host of substitute dads wastes
money that could better be spent on dad involvement. Money is no
substitute for daddy.

10. Recognize How Our Neglect of Reforms 1-9, and especially our
Neglect of Fathers and Men, has had a Disproportionate Impact on
Working Class and Minority Communities. Ironically and tragically,
the problems these reforms address have had a disproportionately
negative impact on the very constituencies -- African-Americans,
Native Americans and Latinas/os, the poor, the less educated -- about
whom Democrats care deeply. Subsidized prenatal care is crucial to
poor women; the combination of Government-as-Substitute-Husband and
the disenfranchisement of fathers after divorce has destroyed poor
families, and especially African-American families. The Democratic
Party has unwittingly supported dependency as if it were afraid that
a less dependent constituency would vote Republican.

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