CALIFORNIA POLITICAL NEWS & VIEWS 02/12/2016

LAUSD TOTAL FAILURE: 46% of Seniors NOT on Track to Graduate By Stephen Frank on Feb 11, 2016 07:42 pm In four months, the seniors in the Los Angeles Unified School District will participate in their graduation ceremony. Actually, only half the seniors—a full 46% are not on track to graduate, so the District has about 14 weeks to make kids they failed for 12.5 years ready in three months. Imagine how qualified they are […] Read More and Comment: LAUSD TOTAL FAILURE: 46% of Seniors NOT on Track to Graduate New Pier 80 Homeless Shelter Lacks Flush Toilets, Showers By Stephen Frank on Feb 11, 2016 07:40 pm Never claim the Left and Totalitarian cities are competent or filled with common sense. San Fran has a homeless problem. The city allowed a homeless shelter to open—without toilets or showers. Literally the homeless need to “do their business” on the streets—and the city approved the opening of this facility. Looks like the government of […] Read More and Comment: New Pier 80 Homeless Shelter Lacks Flush Toilets, Showers Beyoncé’s Super Bowl activism was misguided By Stephen Frank on Feb 11, 2016 07:38 pm Bigots took center stage at the Super Bowl Half time show. Songs promoting hatred of the police were sung—thought the NFL was not told about this until the day before. A major star, worth tens of millions of dollars used her song to promote organizations that want to destroy our nation, with violence if needed. […] Read More and Comment: Beyoncé’s Super Bowl activism was misguided West Covina Eliminates Benefits for City Council Members By Stephen Frank on Feb 11, 2016 07:36 pm Seldom do we have conservatives run for office, talk about cutting the size of government—then follow through with the effort once elected. My good friend Mike Spence was elected, over the strong objections of the unions, by just a few votes. As a young student at UCLA, in 1982, he walked precincts in Santa Monica […] Read More and Comment: West Covina Eliminates Benefits for City Council Members Housing Squeeze in CA for Middle Class/Poor—115 Units—18,000 Applicants (Not a typo) By Stephen Frank on Feb 11, 2016 07:34 pm California has a housing crisis. The Left has made it so expensive or so limited, that people are living in homes with multiple families. In San Leandro, where it is a miracle when a housing unit is built, 115 opened up and 18,000 applicants lined up. Yet the chances of lots of homes being built […] Read More and Comment: Housing Squeeze in CA for Middle Class/Poor—115 Units—18,000 Applicants (Not a typo) California Lobbies to Keep Wait for Gun Buys By Stephen Frank on Feb 11, 2016 07:32 pm A Federal court has ruled that waiting ten days to buy a gun is too long. Yet Guv Brown is appealing, he wants victims of rapists, stalkers and other criminals to wait, hoping they get their gun prior to becoming victims again. When seconds matter, Jerry Brown wants you to wait ten days before you […] Read More and Comment: California Lobbies to Keep Wait for Gun Buys LAUSD Demands Students Stay in Failed Schools—Refusing to Approve Quality Education By Stephen Frank on Feb 11, 2016 07:30 pm The Los Angeles School Board runs one of the worst government school systems in the nation—low graduation rate, high drop out rate. How bad is it? The legislature had to pass a bill to give approximately 50,000 students, since 2007 a diploma—though they all FAILED the mandated tests. The district is running a deficit of […] Read More and Comment: LAUSD Demands Students Stay in Failed Schools—Refusing to Approve Quality Education More Truthiness From CalSTRS’s CEO By Stephen Frank on Feb 11, 2016 07:27 pm The presidential campaigns of Cruz, Carson, Sanders and Trump have shown that the American public is tired of public officials that lie and cheat. The public wants honesty, yet the CEO of CalSTRS is as truthful as Barack Obama. “These are not inconsequential distortions. Because CalSTRS’s unfunded liabilities accrue expensive interest, every $1 of additional […] Read More and Comment: More Truthiness From CalSTRS’s CEO Taxpayers Foot Bill for Union Work By Stephen Frank on Feb 11, 2016 07:26 pm Unions own government. They use money stolen from workers forced to pay extortion to keep their jobs—then the money is used to elect candidates that support the extortion and violation of the basic rights of workers. For years unions have used government as their bagman—having government steal the money from the workers BEFORE they get […] Read More and Comment: Taxpayers Foot Bill for Union Work Sacramento Metro Fire captain triples $99,000 salary to $316,000 with OT, other pay By Stephen Frank on Feb 11, 2016 07:24 pm It is great to work for government, especially if you are in charge of scheduling of work and overtime. In Sacramento a Fire Captain was able to make a $99,000 salary turn in a yearly wage of $316,000. All he had to do is make sure he signed in for every fire event possible, stick […] Read More and Comment: Sacramento Metro Fire captain triples $99,000 salary to $316,000 with OT, other pay   In Case You Missed It: San Diego Tells Staff Not to Mention Founding Fathers—Compares Them to the “N” word CalSTRS gets new power to set state, school rates–able to take $$ from classrooms! Commentary: Why do many big donors prefer charter schools? (Hint: It’s not because they hate unions) Guv Brown/Pres. Obama Policies Create END of California Middle Class CSU leaders say possible faculty strike won’t close campuses