Wednesday, September 7, 2016

CALIFORNIA POLITICAL NEWS & VIEWS 09/07/2016

Why GOP Registration is Down: Sacramento GOP’ers Give Votes to INCREASE Car Battery Tax

By Stephen Frank on Sep 06, 2016 08:44 pm
The Republican Party GOP members of the Assembly and Senate continue to give the Democrats the needed votes to create a 2/3 majority in order to raise taxes.  In this case a new $2 a car battery tax—another effort to nickel and dime Californians out of the State.  Which Republicans voted for this new tax? […]

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California Families Pay 37% MORE Than National Average for Energy

By Stephen Frank on Sep 06, 2016 08:29 pm
These are the numbers you need to know as to why California is squeezing out the middle class from the State: Residents pay 37% more for energy Commercial properties pay 40.5% more for energy Industrial sites pay 80% more for energy. AB 32 has taken it toll on California jobs and costs. How much longer […]

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PolitiFact California: Will Proposition 60 Expose Adult Film Workers To Lawsuits?

By Stephen Frank on Sep 06, 2016 08:25 pm
California is a flaky State.  We have bad schools, $1.5 trillion debt, a pension system over a trillion dollars with unfunded liabilities, a water crisis, agriculture down 8% last year, the highest energy, water, taxes and health care costs in the nation—and only the rich can live in this State.  While we have real problems […]

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LA could get unit to counter extremism behind bars

By Stephen Frank on Sep 06, 2016 08:22 pm
Los Angeles County jail has been a training center for radicalism, extremists and gangs.  Want to learn a trade, like breaking into safe’s, how to make and sell drugs—LA County jails provide intense training programs.  Now they think they will stop this by creating program to determine who the radicals are.  Here is a simple […]

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Law Enforcement Staffing in California

By Stephen Frank on Sep 06, 2016 08:15 pm
Want to increase crime?  Put 50,000 convicts from State prisons back on the streets early.  Then make felonies into misdemeanors.  Finally, pass Prop. 57, so people with a 100 year prison sentence can be out in eight years—oh, and make the death penalty a joke.  At the same time make sure cops know if they […]

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Feds Join California’s Fight to Save Salton Sea

By Stephen Frank on Sep 06, 2016 08:12 pm
This is big news—while California agriculture LOST 8% of its revenues in 2015, millions of trees in State and national forests died, fish got water people needed, Obama, Boxer and Brown are cooperating—after decades of confusion, to “save” the Salton Sea. “     “In partnership with California, we are going to reverse the deterioration of the Salton […]

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Teachers Unions Double Down on Charter Vilification

By Stephen Frank on Sep 06, 2016 08:07 pm
The newest tests score show that charter schools do better than regular school run by politicians and unions.  In Colorado almost no teacher in a charter school pays due to a union—the same in California.  If the parents had their way, all children would be in quality charter schools.  At the same time unions are […]

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As pensions eat budgets, what can a county do?

By Stephen Frank on Sep 06, 2016 08:03 pm
Did you know that close to 20% of the budgets for San Fran and the City of Los Angeles goes to pension contributions.  Most cities pay at least 10%, some pay over 30%.  The money comes from having fewer cops on the streets, more potholes on the roads, and fewer hours for the libraries. “Public […]

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LA Teachers Union Starts Media Campaign to Take Over LAUSD/Bankrupt It

By Stephen Frank on Sep 06, 2016 08:00 pm
As you travel through the Los Angeles area you will be told in radio and TV ads, newspaper ads and billboards that without high priced unions LAUSD could not survive— if you call a 54% graduation rate survival.  UTLA has promised chaos if their demands are not met—18 months of chaos.  If the demands are […]

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Looking for clues in party registration and primary turnout

By Stephen Frank on Sep 06, 2016 07:58 pm
Now the polls mean something.  Yesterday CNN confirmed what Reuters, Rasmussen and the Times/USC polls showed—Trump is ahead.  The Real Clear Politics average of polls show that Hillary is ahead by 2.1%–last week it was 4%.  For the first time in several swing States Trump is either ahead of tied—and the other swing States it […]

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