CALIFORNIA POLITICAL NEWS & VIEWS 01/10/2018

Schwarzenegger—Tax Increaser—Joins Forces With Chad Mayes—Tax Increaser

By Stephen Frank on Jan 09, 2018 08:08 pm
Former Guv Schwarzenegger have a lot in common.  Both had girlfriends while married.  Both believe in big government.  Arnold started the effort for the $200 billion High Speed Rail and Mayes VOTED to finance it by passing a 72 cent a gallon gas tax increase.  Arnold refused to help the GOP as Guv, Mayes helped […]

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Eber: District Elections –A symptom of California’s problems

By Stephen Frank on Jan 09, 2018 08:03 pm
Have you notice that in a matter of months your city council or school board, operating in the interest of the while community decided to go to election by district, meaning it pits one area of the city against the others, create alliances for a couple of districts to steal from the rest of the […]

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Judge Steven Bailey: As Attorney General, My Commitment will be Protecting California Families

By Stephen Frank on Jan 09, 2018 08:01 pm
At this point in the 2018 campaign, there is only one Constitutional conservative in the race for Attorney General, which is former Judge Steven Bailey of El Dorado County.  Thanks to the Democrats having a serious race between the appointed AG, Beccera and Insurance Commissioner Jones, it is possible that a GOP’er could be on […]

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Is It Finally Time To Allow California Legislative Staff To Unionize?

By Stephen Frank on Jan 09, 2018 07:53 pm
The Socialist/Democrat Party wants everyone to pay bribes to unions—cops, teachers, construction and agriculture workers, day care workers and those that work for government.  Yet, there has been one exception—those that work in the Capitol for the people promoting extortion and blackmail, do not want those that work for THEM to belong to a union.  […]

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McNamee: Marijuana – Washington Policy Makers Have It Wrong Again

By Stephen Frank on Jan 09, 2018 07:52 pm
Like it or not, California is going to be the most mellow place on Earth.  The good news is that government is going to make a mint from the sale of marijuana and marijuana products.  The bad news is that some will not be able to handle this new “right”. “Solution: Re-classify marijuana as a […]

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CalPERS Launches Illegal, Corrupt, Unjustified and Beneficiary-Damaging Private Equity “Strategic Partner” Search Obviously Designed to Favor BlackRock

By Stephen Frank on Jan 09, 2018 07:49 pm
If you are looking for a corrupt government agency, you can spit in any direction and hit one.  Among the largest corrupt agencies in California is CalPERS—they openly and blatantly violate State laws and the ethics that private finance firms must abide by. “As we describe in detail below, CalPERS is flagrantly violating both the […]

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Ballooning pension costs affecting recent education financial gains

By Stephen Frank on Jan 09, 2018 07:47 pm
San Diego schools had to fire 300 teachers and staff—just to pay CalSTRS.  Most school districts have cut back programs, teachers and technology—just to keep the doors open for CalSTRS—even while the pension fund is DOUBLING the mandated contributions over a five year period—with the money coming from the classroom and childrens education. “But those […]

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Don’t Look Now, But Minority Unemployment Is At Record Lows Under Trump

By Stephen Frank on Jan 09, 2018 07:45 pm
Bill Clinton may have been the first black President.  Obama was the first real black President.  Trump is as white as can be and Hillary called him a bigot and harmful to minorities.  Trump told American blacks, “vote for me, what do you have to lose?”  Well, we now know what minorities had to lose […]

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Red Robin will offset minimum wage hikes by canning thousands of busboys

By Stephen Frank on Jan 09, 2018 07:43 pm
Thanks to the old and confused Guv Brown and his Socialist/Democrat buddies in Sacramento and other States, several thousand young people will be fired from their jobs.  While President Trump and the Republicans are working to create the climate for new jobs—and has done very well is this—Democrats want to help those at the lower […]

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5 things a Californian should know now about rent control

By Stephen Frank on Jan 09, 2018 07:41 pm
Rent control is government control of your profits and property.  In the textbooks this is called Socialism—you take the risk and government decides how you may use your property and how much you can make.  This is how Russia works—private ownership—but government control. “Next week state lawmakers will hear a proposal from Assemblyman Richard Bloom, […]

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