CALIFORNIA POLITICAL NEWS & VIEWS 05/21/2016

Initiative to Stop GREEDY Grocery ‘Stores From Making $700 Million Per Year on Plastic Bag Ban By Stephen Frank on May 20, 2016 08:19 pm Von’s, Ralph’s, Albertsons, Stater Bros, Raleys and the rest of the grocery store chains in California are going to invest millions in making sure the statewide plastic bag ban is not repealed.  That is a small amount to spend when the return on investment will be close to $700 million a year to the bottom […] Read More and Comment: Initiative to Stop GREEDY Grocery ‘Stores From Making $700 Million Per Year on Plastic Bag Ban Santa Maria: Society Coming Apart—Transit Riders Need “Rules of Conduct” By Stephen Frank on May 20, 2016 08:17 pm Santa Maria already has laws on the books against public disturbances, vagrancy, smoking in public places and loud music.  Instead of enforcing the laws already on the books, the city officials, city Council, passes NEW rules that outlaw what is already against the law.  The Council is working hard to show it cares, when all […] Read More and Comment: Santa Maria: Society Coming Apart—Transit Riders Need “Rules of Conduct” UC Channel islands Professor ILLEGALLY Using Students to Lobby By Stephen Frank on May 20, 2016 08:14 pm UC Channel Islands is actually in a portion of the city of Oxnard.  Oxnard is a city known for its gangs and crimes.  Sadly, the University is part of the crime problem.  Prof. Frank Barajas is using his students to lobby the legislation to stop fee and tuition increases, like any petty lobbyists.  But, he […] Read More and Comment: UC Channel islands Professor ILLEGALLY Using Students to Lobby Visalia Joins Statewide Tax Orgy By Stephen Frank on May 20, 2016 08:12 pm The June ballot will have over $50 billion in tax increases, extensions and bonds, on the local level.  The November ballot already has $350 billion in taxes, tax extension and bonds, both statewide and locally—but that total will go up by at least another $100 billion.  The city of Visalia is going to be part […] Read More and Comment: Visalia Joins Statewide Tax Orgy LAPD Fighting Politicalized Police Chief–Charles Beck Needs to GO By Stephen Frank on May 20, 2016 08:08 pm Charles Beck is the Police Chief of Los Angeles.  He took an oath of office to uphold the law.  Instead he has informed his cops NOT to obey Federal immigration laws, to protect illegal aliens.  He has no respect for the people of Los Angeles, nor their safety.  An oath of office to Beck are […] Read More and Comment: LAPD Fighting Politicalized Police Chief–Charles Beck Needs to GO SF pitches $149 million plan to replace cars with self-driving vehicles By Stephen Frank on May 20, 2016 08:05 pm Imagine 120 years ago Henry Ford going to the Federal government or the County of San Francisco with his idea for building cars.  He tells them how wonderful it is, how it will change society.  Then the taxpayers of Miami, Charlotte and Buffalo pony up the money to make it happen.  Free people do not […] Read More and Comment: SF pitches $149 million plan to replace cars with self-driving vehicles No free speech at Cal State LA? Conservative author’s lawsuit By Stephen Frank on May 20, 2016 08:02 pm Strange, the article starts with this, “Attorneys for conservative Christian groups are suing Ben Shapiro, an orthodox Jew.  But I digress.  This is a story how a college president, at Cal State-LA, abuses students, the right to free speech and uses his office to promote radical ideology—at the taxpayers expense.  Cal State LA is like […] Read More and Comment: No free speech at Cal State LA? Conservative author’s lawsuit Even LA Folks/Bernie Supporters Tired of Tax Increases. By Stephen Frank on May 20, 2016 07:59 pm When you read this article you would think a Tea Party member had written it.  You would have thought that State Senator Moorlach was expressing his concerns with the massive tax increases on tap for Los Angeles.  Nope.  It was written by a Bernie Sanders supporter: “What I find galling is that all of these […] Read More and Comment: Even LA Folks/Bernie Supporters Tired of Tax Increases. Obama’s “War on Women” Continues By Stephen Frank on May 20, 2016 07:57 pm The President has assured the financing of Planned Parenthood, while they sell body parts from babies they abort—totally illegal.  He has demanded that young girls share their bathrooms and showers with boys—regardless of the right to privacy of the girls or the danger he puts them in.  Note HIS daughters can attend a school that […] Read More and Comment: Obama’s “War on Women” Continues Business, Labor support Huntington Beach desalination facility By Stephen Frank on May 20, 2016 07:52 pm California needs water.  We have the availability of water—it is just government has decided to use needed water for fish and to flow into the ocean rather than allow people to use the water for food and jobs.  For years desalinization plants have been stopped by environmentalists because they can “warm up” the ocean—imagine Israel […] Read More and Comment: Business, Labor support Huntington Beach desalination facility   In Case You Missed It: LA Times FIRING 200 IT Workers—Outsourcing to INDIA Charlotte Observer: Girls must overcome ‘discomfort’ of seeing ‘male genitalia’ in locker rooms LAUSD administrative staff jumps 22 percent even as enrollment drops/9% Fewer Teachers Tea Party Report on Recent California Republican Party Convention Los Angeles Living? Rent a Van for $300—Park in a Neighborhood of $1 Million Homes!