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The latest posts about Tommy and our related issues, including original material from Tommy and cited news content.

My Earth Day Message to Our District 6 Neighbors

April 22, 2021

On this Earth Day I want to congratulate President Biden on his just-announced commitment to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 50 percent by 2030. While this is great news and a tangible goal, not to mention a welcome […]

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Announcing My Candidacy for San Diego City Council District 6

March 23, 2021

As more of our neighbors are vaccinated and the immediate threat of COVID-19 begins to recede, the challenges that faced our neighborhoods prior to 2020 are still there, and in […]

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CBS 8 Speaks with Tommy on Combating Anti-Asian Intimidation

March 18, 2021

CBS 8 reporter LaMonica Peters talked with Tommy about the increase in intimidation and violence against our elderly Asian neighbors, friends, and loved ones, part of a larger increase in intimidation and […]

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My Letter to the City Regarding Intimidation of AAPI Neighbors

March 8, 2021

As I wrote last month, I’m disgusted at the alarming trend of hatred and intimidation directed against our AAPI neighbors since the beginning of the pandemic, and especially the spike in violence since […]

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The Corrosive Cancer of Hate Against Our AAPI Neighbors

February 16, 2021

As San Diegans, we cherish our diverse, multicultural city and heritage, and we put a premium on safe, welcoming neighborhoods and communities. But like you, I’ve grown increasingly concerned, and incensed, […]

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Statement On Today’s Coup Attempt and Mob Violence at the U.S. Capitol

January 6, 2021

Today is one of the most disgraceful days in the history of our republic, and it is all happening before our eyes in real time. Can anyone look upon what […]

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The Constitutional Crisis We All Saw Coming

January 2, 2021

Since last year’s impeachment proceedings, the Trump administration and its ever-present array of constitutional crises has devolved into a cult so firmly entrenched among the cravenly ambitious, the grotesquely foolish, […]

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Environmental Democrats and Sierra Club Join Forces for Border Wall Report

December 27, 2020

By Tommy Hough and Rick Guerrero San Diego County Democrats for Environmental Action hosted our first Environmental Report on the impacts of the Border Wall this past June, when our […]

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Four Decades Since the Murder of John Lennon

December 8, 2020

 Born in 1940 and murdered barely two months after his 40th birthday in 1980, ​John Lennon has now been gone as long as he was with us. Forty years ago, […]

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Trump Administration Jettisons Environmental Review to Cut Mature Forests in California

September 12, 2020

By Mia Taylor with Tommy Hough As California finds itself amid another devastating wildfire season, there’s perhaps no more timely or critical environmental topic than the logging of our National […]

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