CALIFORNIA POLITICAL NEWS & VIEWS 03/11/2015

Steve Glazer for State Senate—SD07—Moderate (Socialist) Editorial by Stephen Frank By Stephen Frank on Mar 10, 2015 08:09 pm Everything that is wrong with politics in California can be found in the Special Election for State Senate in the 7th District for the March 17th election. In reality, just one Party is on the ballot (the GOP’er endorsed a Democrat), unions, special interests and the VERY, VERY rich are spending heavily for their favorite […] Read More and Comment: Steve Glazer for State Senate—SD07—Moderate (Socialist) Editorial by Stephen Frank Greens See Smoldering Disaster in Wildfire Plan for Oakland–Afraid Trees and Homes Would be Saved By Stephen Frank on Mar 10, 2015 08:08 pm The greens prefer to have large forest fires, with hundreds of acres burned, homes burned to the ground and infrastructure destroyed   How? By opposing the clear cutting of trees, the cleaning up of dead brush and old trees. Yes, fires will still occur, but they will be much smaller and less destructive. “It involves “clear-cutting […] Read More and Comment: Greens See Smoldering Disaster in Wildfire Plan for Oakland–Afraid Trees and Homes Would be Saved $142,448.33: What You Need to Earn to Buy ‘Median’ Home in Bay Area ($89,000 in LA) By Stephen Frank on Mar 10, 2015 08:07 pm How expensive is the Bay Area? To buy a median priced house in San Fran, you need an income of $142,448. In Los Angeles you need an income of $89,665, in Dallas it is $48.787 and St. Louis is $33,323. Any wonder Californians are fleeing to Texas—better quality of life, lower costs housing, and no […] Read More and Comment: $142,448.33: What You Need to Earn to Buy ‘Median’ Home in Bay Area ($89,000 in LA) Despite deficit fears, LAUSD budget to end year in black; next year–($160 Million deficit) By Stephen Frank on Mar 10, 2015 08:06 pm The unions that run the Los Angeles Unified School district want an 8% pay increase, the district is willing to pay 5%. No matter—next year, when the 8% goes into effect, the district will have a deficit of at least $160 million. A few days ago the District gave layoff notices to 609 teachers and […] Read More and Comment: Despite deficit fears, LAUSD budget to end year in black; next year–($160 Million deficit) Tesla slashes China workforce by a third–trouble at Nevada battery plant By Stephen Frank on Mar 10, 2015 08:05 pm TESLA put California and Nevada in a bidding war for jobs and prestige—Nevada lost—they got to spend hundreds of millions on a failing firm, by not getting to lose the money, California won. Ina recent article in the Flashreport, Katie Grimes wrote, “Drilling down a little more, the construction manager, C.M. Yates has gone home. […] Read More and Comment: Tesla slashes China workforce by a third–trouble at Nevada battery plant Feds Have Social Security Numbers for 6.5 Million 112 Year Olds on File–Total Incompetence By Stephen Frank on Mar 10, 2015 08:04 pm The same government that gave 400,000 illegal aliens free health care for a year, under ObamaCare, is also able to say that we have 6.5 MILLION people (not a typo) who are 112 years old—or older. Some on Social Security were born during the Civil War! Trust government records? ““In September 2013, a New York […] Read More and Comment: Feds Have Social Security Numbers for 6.5 Million 112 Year Olds on File–Total Incompetence Turning San Diego’s Electrical Grid Into 100% Renewable Energy–Disater to Economy By Stephen Frank on Mar 10, 2015 08:03 pm Great news for the people of San Diego. Thanks to a new policy to create 100% “renewable” energy sources for all energy needs, the cost of power increases by two to three times the current cost. Obviously the purpose of this policy is not to save the earth, but to chase families and jobs from […] Read More and Comment: Turning San Diego’s Electrical Grid Into 100% Renewable Energy–Disater to Economy Unions Kill Health Care for Tens of Thousands of Poor—Get Sued for Interference By Stephen Frank on Mar 10, 2015 08:02 pm Yesterday Prime Healthcare announced they were ending the deal to buy six hospitals that serve the poor in the Bay Area. The unions did not think they could cut a deal with Prime, ending with their control of the hospitals, so they got the weak, politically minded, Attorney General (an Obama wannabee) Kamela Harris to […] Read More and Comment: Unions Kill Health Care for Tens of Thousands of Poor—Get Sued for Interference Sand: Union run and controlled Charter School Fails—Miserably By Stephen Frank on Mar 10, 2015 08:01 pm Unions run most government schools in California—and they are mostly mediocre to failures. But, maybe that is because the unions have to pretend to allow an elected school board run them. In New York, in 2005, the unions opened two charter schools—running them directly. How do they fare? “The K-8 school’s test results have been […] Read More and Comment: Sand: Union run and controlled Charter School Fails—Miserably Ultimate Feminism: Women Become Pimps By Stephen Frank on Mar 10, 2015 08:00 pm Hillary Clinton has said many times that women can do anything, including being President. She is right though she never mentioned women can also be pimps, sex traffickers and abusers of children. “She said her pimp preyed on girls who needed money for food, clothes or drugs. She regrets her role in turning the girls […] Read More and Comment: Ultimate Feminism: Women Become Pimps   In Case You Missed It: Eric Holder: Loves Illegal Hates—Except for Those Escaping Castro—Remember Elian Gonzalez San Diego Moving Closer to Using Recycled Water Brown plan may cut state retiree health payment–political Kabuki? Open Corruption/Lies by Government Agency to Steal From Public Children on Medi-Cal—Cards but NO New Doctors—by Design