Labor Day in Oak Park

By Robert Bernstein

Last weekend was the annual Labor Day barbecue picnic in Oak Park, sponsored by the Democratic Party.

Here are all of my photos!

About 100 people were in attendance for the occasion.

Woody’s BBQ catered a delicious meal of chicken, rice, beans and salad

Featured speakers included Congress Member Salud Carbajal who is running for re-election

California State Controller Betty T. Yee who is running for re-election

Goleta Mayor Paula Perotte who is running for Goleta Mayor under the new system

James Kyriaco who is running for Goleta City Council

Gloria Soto, candidate for Santa Maria City Council

Rafael “Rafa” Gutierrez, candidate for Santa Maria City Council

Kathleen Werner, candidate for Goleta Water Board

Darcél Elliott, candidate for SB City College Trustee

Luz Reyes-Martin is running for re-election to the Goleta Union School Board. She also serves with me on the Sierra Club Santa Barbara Group Executive Committee. Here she poses with her husband and one of her children

Many of the candidates posed for a group photo

The theme of the event was honoring labor. The featured speaker was a union organizer

Former Congress Member Lois Capps was one of many other notables in attendance!

Here were Goleta City Council member Kyle Richards and Goleta Water Board member Lauren Hanson

We are not as notable, but we posed, too!

Notice my Aloha shirt that I had purchased at the Ventura Aloha Festival the day before!

Or course my friend Gary Atkins did his usual superb job of sound engineering

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  1. Aging Democrats out of touch with Progressives. Take a look at these photos. All you see are older white adults. You don’t see the youth of today. The dysfuntional Democratic Party of Santa Barbara County is out of touch and needs real change. – They are the reason we have elected Democratic leaders who put special interests groups above residents.

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