CALIFORNIA POLITICAL NEWS & VIEWS 03/15/2016

Guv Brown: I Demand We Put 40,000 Prisoners Back on Our Streets—Who Needs Safety? By Stephen Frank on Mar 14, 2016 08:37 pm To our very confused governor, Jerry Brown, you can be too rich, you can not be too thin and you can never have enough criminals on the streets or enough victims of his policies. Per the FBI, in 2015 property crimes in California were up 116%and in Los Angeles murders are up 27%. Brown, and […] Read More and Comment: Guv Brown: I Demand We Put 40,000 Prisoners Back on Our Streets—Who Needs Safety? Rich/Liberal/Radicals Stop Affordable Housing in San Fran—NOT Tech By Stephen Frank on Mar 14, 2016 08:33 pm San Fran is run by the radical wing of the Socialist Party of America, in this town that is called “The Democrat Party”. While wanting affordable housing in your neighborhood, while working to pass State laws forcing small communities to become slums through the construction of affordable housing, they use their money and power to […] Read More and Comment: Rich/Liberal/Radicals Stop Affordable Housing in San Fran—NOT Tech Competition For Ballot Signatures Heats Up By Stephen Frank on Mar 14, 2016 08:30 pm If you sign a petition to get a measure on the November, 2016 ballot, someone just made $4 dollars for your signature!! Like taco shell filling, there are lots of jobs for folks who want to stand in front of the grocery or retail store and ask people to sign a petition. Note, that these […] Read More and Comment: Competition For Ballot Signatures Heats Up Assemblyman Harper Announces Bill to Give Voters a Voice on Transportation Tax Increases By Stephen Frank on Mar 14, 2016 08:27 pm A couple of weeks ago the Legislature voted to raise taxes on your health insurance by $1.7 billion a year. This, even though the State has $10 billion MORE in revenues this year. Even though the State is putting $2 billion EXTRA into the rainy day fund. Even though $170 million of the taxes collected […] Read More and Comment: Assemblyman Harper Announces Bill to Give Voters a Voice on Transportation Tax Increases Assessing the Governor’s Zero-Textbook-Cost Proposal By Stephen Frank on Mar 14, 2016 08:23 pm The Governor has come up with a great idea, a way to provide students with textbooks at NO cost, at the community college level. Indeed, if he wanted to could save 2/3 or more on textbooks for K-12. All he has to do is mandate that all textbooks are “online”. In this way when a […] Read More and Comment: Assessing the Governor’s Zero-Textbook-Cost Proposal San Fran ENDS Traffic Congestion as Cause to Stop Development By Stephen Frank on Mar 14, 2016 08:20 pm This comes as a shocker—thanks to a State law passed on 2013, San Fran will no longer use traffic congestion as a reason to stop a construction project. Though the rules for this legislation will not be finalized till next your (FOUR YEARS after passage), the City is taking it seriously. “That means that a […] Read More and Comment: San Fran ENDS Traffic Congestion as Cause to Stop Development Senator Moorlach Introduces Bill To Give Voters Access to State’s Balance Sheet By Stephen Frank on Mar 14, 2016 08:17 pm On the November ballot there will be a twelve year, $108 BILLION tax extension. There will also be tens of billions in new bonds, for water, parks, “education” and other “emergency” needs. If you were spending that type of money, would you not like to know how much you have in your bank account, what […] Read More and Comment: Senator Moorlach Introduces Bill To Give Voters Access to State’s Balance Sheet Facts Mean Nothing to Marin County Pension Board—Will Cost Taxpayers By Stephen Frank on Mar 14, 2016 08:15 pm According to State Senator John Moorlach, CalPERS return on investment in 2014-15 was 2.4%–not the 7.5% they claimed they would receive. Now the folks running the pension program in Marin County are hoping no one really checks the facts. Even with the number Marin claims is accurate, it is still 33% LESS than advertised. Were […] Read More and Comment: Facts Mean Nothing to Marin County Pension Board—Will Cost Taxpayers California Worst Roads, Highest Taxes and Housing Costs—Add College Campuses Hotbeds of Anti-Semitic Activity. By Stephen Frank on Mar 14, 2016 08:11 pm Read the charts in this article. You will see UCLA, Cal, UC Santa Cruz, San Diego State, and numerous other California campuses on are the list of shame—campuses that are used to harass Jewish students. Through all this our confused Guv Brown has been silent, UC President Janet Napolitano, a follower of the Obama anti-Israel/Jewish […] Read More and Comment: California Worst Roads, Highest Taxes and Housing Costs—Add College Campuses Hotbeds of Anti-Semitic Activity. Prop.47—No Tax Savings—Cost of Crime/Fear Not Counted by Guv Brown By Stephen Frank on Mar 14, 2016 07:59 pm We were told by the ACLU and the confused Guv Brown, pass Prop.47 and the taxpayers will save money. They were right, almost. Less money on prisons—because criminal are not being arrested and the Guv has released tens of thousands. We have saved money on prosecutions, since DA’s know there is no room for criminals […] Read More and Comment: Prop.47—No Tax Savings—Cost of Crime/Fear Not Counted by Guv Brown   In Case You Missed It: LAUSD Joins Junk Science Parade: To Pay 67% MORE for Chickens More Media Silliness: Fresno is Taco Capitol of California? Poverty, Crime, Lack of Jobs—But TACO’s are Story? LA County Touts $120B Mass Transit Plan–Time to Move to Texas Left is Happy—River Otters Back in Bay Area—Do Not Care That Middle Class is Squeezed Out EPA Spends $295,507 to Track Energy and Water Use of Office Workers