CALIFORNIA POLITICAL NEWS & VIEWS 09/03/2016

Eber: Port of Oakland struggles as Ports of America abandons terminal By Stephen Frank on Sep 02, 2016 08:20 pm The Governor just signed a bill that stops the Port of Oakland from expanding its coal terminal, so hundreds of well paying jobs will not exists—and at the same time help increase the cost of energy—harming the middle class and the poor.  The rich, that Jerry loves, do not mind paying a few hundred dollars […] Read More and Comment: Eber: Port of Oakland struggles as Ports of America abandons terminal California Business Community Should Not Enable High Cost Government By Stephen Frank on Sep 02, 2016 08:17 pm Why do Democrats win in California—in part because businesses donate to Democrat candidates?  They claim to be “moderates”—the only thing moderate about them is that they are willing to talk to business leaders—before voting against jobs and California businesses. Here is the dirty little secret of the moderate Democrat.  Businesses will give large donations to […] Read More and Comment: California Business Community Should Not Enable High Cost Government Rams ripping off taxpayers with free LAPD security? By Stephen Frank on Sep 02, 2016 08:14 pm How do billionaires make money?  By using other peoples money.  The new Los Angeles Rams know how to get it done.  Why pay for security, when the LAPD will finance it for you.  Need to get ticket holders paying $100 a seat or more to the game—let the taxpayer subsidized the train and bus rides.  […] Read More and Comment: Rams ripping off taxpayers with free LAPD security? Union Chaos/Contract Demands Pushing LAUSD Into Bankruptcy By Stephen Frank on Sep 02, 2016 08:09 pm The LAUSD teachers union has made it clear—the students and district will have eighteen months of chaos and harassment which will continue until the Board of Trustees agree to a new union contract, giving the union all it wants—though to do so will assure the District is bankrupt—which by the way, it is today but […] Read More and Comment: Union Chaos/Contract Demands Pushing LAUSD Into Bankruptcy Brown Water Policies Causes 8% DROP in Agriculture Production in 2015 By Stephen Frank on Sep 02, 2016 08:06 pm Thanks to the confused governor, in 2015 water meant for people and farming went to fish and to flow out to the ocean.  We expected a loss of jobs and revenues.  Now we know the extent of the revenue loss due to the confusion of Brown—her thought he represented fish not people. “The production value […] Read More and Comment: Brown Water Policies Causes 8% DROP in Agriculture Production in 2015 How a sales tax hike will be sold to Fresno voters By Stephen Frank on Sep 02, 2016 08:04 pm To government officials, special interest and unions, there is only one way to pass a tax increase or a bond—scare the pants off the public.  Make sure they understand the world will end if bureaucrats do not get money to spread around to create power and control. “It’s a recycling of the fake desperation used […] Read More and Comment: How a sales tax hike will be sold to Fresno voters Voters Say No in Tulare Hospital Scam By Stephen Frank on Sep 02, 2016 08:02 pm The people of Tulare are farmers or part of the agriculture industry.  That means they understand the value of a dollar and know a scam artist when they see one.  In this County it looks like the local hospital is trying to imitate Hillary Clinton and Bernie Madoff, lying about finances.  Happily, the voters said […] Read More and Comment: Voters Say No in Tulare Hospital Scam Legislature Wraps Up Session, Sends Hundreds of Bills to Governor By Stephen Frank on Sep 02, 2016 08:00 pm Over the next couple of weeks Jerry Brown will have to analyze hundreds of bills passed by the in the last 72 hours of the session—including dozens that had NO hearings or public discussion.  This is called gut and amend—you take a bill that went through the process, get it in the floor, then take […] Read More and Comment: Legislature Wraps Up Session, Sends Hundreds of Bills to Governor Fight For $15 Meets Reality: D.C. Restaurants Lost 1,400 Jobs During First Half of 2016 By Stephen Frank on Sep 02, 2016 07:57 pm Washington D.C.—and Seattle are examples of the effects of the $15 wage.  In both places, restaurant work went down while in surrounding areas, jobs and revenues went up, without the $15 wage.  What happens if you do this to a whole State?  My guess is a major loss of jobs for humans and a great […] Read More and Comment: Fight For $15 Meets Reality: D.C. Restaurants Lost 1,400 Jobs During First Half of 2016 Guv Brown Could KILL High Speed Rail by Signing Bill to Steal From Bond By Stephen Frank on Sep 02, 2016 07:54 pm     Guv Brown Could KILL High Speed Rail by Signing Bill to Steal From Bond   When the people of California passed Prop. 1A, they expected and were told, that the bond money will go to a high speed rail system from San Fran and Sacramento to Los Angeles.  Never going to happen.  In […] Read More and Comment: Guv Brown Could KILL High Speed Rail by Signing Bill to Steal From Bond   In Case You Missed It: Taxpayers Foot 70% Of California’s Health Care Tab, Study Finds Real Unemployment 9.7% Why California’s new farmworker overtime bill may not mean bigger paychecks LAUSD Preparing for ANOTHER Low Graduation Rate in 2017—Phony Credit Recovery Efforts Already Started How San Fran’s Most Diverse, High-Achieving School Became Mostly White