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Show '" - - -- ----- .... 1! You have a right to know who the . people are that are serving in government govern-ment offices. Political power can have a tremendous influence on the value of your earning power, the place where you live, and the types of schools your children attend. You hold the power to elect people to government offices, and candidates must ask you to vote for them. So important is the information about candidates that you receive from a free press, that Chief Justice Arthur J. Vanderbuilt of the U.S. Supreme Court said in 1951: "Honest elections, un-bought un-bought by money, jobs; or promises, and an intelligent, educated, and vigilant-leetoratere -as' essential to the survival of a representative republican government as are peace within the country and security from enemies abroad." The first settlement at San Francisco, called Yerba Buena ("good herb") was established in 1776. |