CALIFORNIA POLITICAL NEWS & VIEWS 11/05/2015

Illegal Aliens Upset: Can’t Get “Assistance” Because They Are Here Illegally By Stephen Frank on Nov 04, 2015 08:21 pm   The wildfires of late summer in Northern California destroyed homes, farms, forests and crops. It destroyed lives of hard working, honest Californians. Many assistance programs to restore their lives are from FEMA, plus State and Federal programs. Now we find illegal aliens complaining that since they have broken the law and here illegally, our […] Read More and Comment: Illegal Aliens Upset: Can’t Get “Assistance” Because They Are Here Illegally California Reaffirms First Amendment Right to Record Police in Public By Stephen Frank on Nov 04, 2015 08:19 pm In the past week both the Director of the FBI and the head of the DEA expressed concern that police are unwilling to prevent crimes, to questions people on the street or to stop fights. If they do, they noted folks with camera’s take video of the incident—but of course, just what they want to […] Read More and Comment: California Reaffirms First Amendment Right to Record Police in Public Two SEIU Unions File Competing $15 Minimum Wage Ballot Measures By Stephen Frank on Nov 04, 2015 08:17 pm When you can’t create good paying jobs, you raise the wages of low paid jobs. You also kill off opportunity for the young, unskilled and inexperienced. If you use extortion to stop building and manufacturing, you have to expect investors will go to other States—which is why the biggest supporter of the laws and regulations […] Read More and Comment: Two SEIU Unions File Competing $15 Minimum Wage Ballot Measures CA A.G Harris Wants Non-Profit Donors “Outed”—So Left Can Bully/Harass Them By Stephen Frank on Nov 04, 2015 08:15 pm Kamala Harris is using her office at the Attorney General of California to stop decent people from donating to conservative causes. When donors to Prop. 8 (stopping same-sex marriage) were outed, they were harassed, bullied, lost jobs, publicly humiliated. That is what Harris wants for those that donate to organizations that are Constitution supporters and […] Read More and Comment: CA A.G Harris Wants Non-Profit Donors “Outed”—So Left Can Bully/Harass Them California Roads: Need $59 Billion Just to Make Them Bad By Stephen Frank on Nov 04, 2015 08:12 pm I drive the 5, 99, 101, 580 and 680 freeways, a lot. Our roads from San Diego to the Oregon border are in terrible shape. Yet last year the very confused Guv Brown took $350 million meant for the roads to build horse and walking trails along with bike lanes (which cause accidents, gridlock and […] Read More and Comment: California Roads: Need $59 Billion Just to Make Them Bad What Recovery? Layoffs Planned: Kraft Plants in San Leandro and Fullerton to Close By Stephen Frank on Nov 04, 2015 08:10 pm The good news is that the “service sector” is growing jobs the fastest. The bad news is that the service sector jobs are low wage and minimum wage fast food, hotel/motel and car wash jobs. That is why the emphasis on the minimum wage—to make it appear wages are higher—but to do that, they have […] Read More and Comment: What Recovery? Layoffs Planned: Kraft Plants in San Leandro and Fullerton to Close Ten out of Ten Worst Cities in Nation IN California! Congrats By Stephen Frank on Nov 04, 2015 08:08 pm California has the highest taxes and worst regulations in the nation. We have the highest cost of housing, for purchase and rental, in the nation. Congrats to California for having the most expensive office space in the nation, to go along with one of the worst road systems and failed government schools. So, this should […] Read More and Comment: Ten out of Ten Worst Cities in Nation IN California! Congrats Delaying kindergarten may bring mental health benefits for kids By Stephen Frank on Nov 04, 2015 08:06 pm Our confused Guv Brown is pushing for money to put three year olds into “transitional” kindergarten. A friend of mine, that loves football and IS a teacher, calls this “red shirted kindergarteners. In fact, it is child care, a way for unions to get more members and folks to pay them bribes. This is not […] Read More and Comment: Delaying kindergarten may bring mental health benefits for kids Prop. A’s passage unlocks stream of cash for affordable housing By Stephen Frank on Nov 04, 2015 08:04 pm The crony capitalists have won in San Fran. If you thought this was a socialist city, one that hates people making a profit, you are wrong. “In a contentious time for big real estate projects, the bond’s passage also provides some political cover for market-rate developers, who shoveled five- and six-figure contributions into Prop. A. […] Read More and Comment: Prop. A’s passage unlocks stream of cash for affordable housing Ring: CalPERS “Myths vs. Facts” Propaganda Will Not Change Reality By Stephen Frank on Nov 04, 2015 07:55 pm CalPERS lies. It is an agency that has mislead the public about its return on investments for years. How bad is that? At that point, using Federal accounting criteria the system has an unfunded liability of over $700 billion—yet, using their own scheme, it is “only about $171 billion. Still, they are mandating a 50% […] Read More and Comment: Ring: CalPERS “Myths vs. Facts” Propaganda Will Not Change Reality   In Case You Missed It: Leftists Propose to Exchange Police for Chaos, Riots and Bigotry Racism DEFENDED in #blacklivesmatter Movement—L.A. Church Used for Bigoted Hatred San Fran to Go Carless: Street by Street Closures Homeless Initiative will Drain LA’s Rainy Day Fund California Doctor Heads Up Well-Funded Marijuana Legalization Initiative