CALIFORNIA POLITICAL NEWS & VIEWS 10/22/2018

Marshall Tuck: Why CA needs charter schools and how to improve them By Stephen Frank on Oct 21, 2018 09:21 pm California parents should have a choice—either send their children to failed government schools, with a few quality ones, or choose a charter school that meets the needs of their children, not government or special interests.  Education is supposed to be about the child, not government.  For too long we cared more about government than children. […] Read More and Comment: Marshall Tuck: Why CA needs charter schools and how to improve them   Colman: California is reckless with money. By Stephen Frank on Oct 21, 2018 09:15 pm California has a $202 billion budget.  Yet, the November ballot has several bond measures—some stealing from the mentally ills treatment and prevention!  We have water bonds—though previous bond money has yet to be spent.  Then we have Prop. 6—which would repeal SB 1, a gas tax, where a large portion of the money is NOT […] Read More and Comment: Colman: California is reckless with money.   Court: Obama Admin Dodged State Laws To Get Illegal Minors Abortions By Stephen Frank on Oct 21, 2018 09:11 pm No one knows for sure how many laws were broken by Barack Obama.  But, he made it clear that he did not believe in the Rule of the Law, the Constitution or regulations.  In this case, he abused illegal aliens and the unborn—violating our laws to give abortions. “Buried in the middle of the court’s […] Read More and Comment: Court: Obama Admin Dodged State Laws To Get Illegal Minors Abortions   CNN Blames San Fran’s Booming Tech Sector for a Government-Created Housing Shortage By Stephen Frank on Oct 21, 2018 09:07 pm I love when the media blames someone or an industry for a problem.  Never does it blame government policies, the cause of the concerns.  In San Fran, CNN is blaming the tech industry, while not noting the votes against more housing the 10-12 years to get approval, or the refusal to approves projects like housing […] Read More and Comment: CNN Blames San Fran’s Booming Tech Sector for a Government-Created Housing Shortage   Powell: Corruption Caught in City of Sacramento By Stephen Frank on Oct 21, 2018 09:04 pm Sacramento is the headquarters of corruption in California.  Not only at the State Capitol, but in city government as well. “At a press conference yesterday outside of Sacramento City Hall, Eye on Sacramento, a local government watchdog organization, called for the initiation of a criminal investigation by the Public Integrity Section of the FBI into […] Read More and Comment: Powell: Corruption Caught in City of Sacramento   Prayer for an American Refugee By Stephen Frank on Oct 21, 2018 09:00 pm When you vote on November 6, you will be joined at the polls by tens of thousands of illegal aliens—maybe more, thanks to the Sacramento Democrats. The DMV and an Attorney General and Secretary of State that have decided to look the other way and protect the corruption of the ballot box. “Less than a […] Read More and Comment: Prayer for an American Refugee   Richard Blum, a $100 Million UC Investment, Feinstein Campaign Donations: Business As Usual at UC? By Stephen Frank on Oct 21, 2018 08:56 pm Corruption?  The poster family for this is Dianne Feinstein and her husband Richard Blum.  Under Oabma Blum got a no bid contract to sell 38 closed post offices.  As a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Feinstein had to resign—she was doing the oversite of a defense contractor—controlled by her husband.  China?  Blum is […] Read More and Comment: Richard Blum, a $100 Million UC Investment, Feinstein Campaign Donations: Business As Usual at UC?   San Fran: Now so bad, it’ll make you cry By Stephen Frank on Oct 21, 2018 08:54 pm This is San Fran, October, 2018: “Twentieth-century San Francisco, Herb Caen’s beloved Baghdad by the Bay, has ceased to exist.  It has been replaced by a city where the sidewalks around Market Street are, in places, caked in feces, urine, and vomit.  The stink as you emerge from the BART batters you like frozen sleet, shocking and […] Read More and Comment: San Fran: Now so bad, it’ll make you cry   Texas Dems ask noncitizens to register to vote, send applications with citizenship box pre-checked By Stephen Frank on Oct 21, 2018 08:52 pm Voter fraud?  The Fake News folks tell you it does not exist,, just a scare tactic of Republicans.  In Texas, the Democrat Party works hard to register illegal aliens as voters.  And, they do it openly, proudly. “The Texas Democratic Party asked non-citizens to register to vote, sending out applications to immigrants with the box […] Read More and Comment: Texas Dems ask noncitizens to register to vote, send applications with citizenship box pre-checked   Why do California babies have syphilis in numbers rivaling those of poor nations? By Stephen Frank on Oct 21, 2018 08:42 pm California is falling apart. Highest taxes, worst roads, failed government education, high cost of living, crime waves—this is a State that prefers poverty—highest in the nation, to economic freedom. Now, add syphilis to the list of why the former Golden State is falling apart.  Worse, it is babies that have the disease. “About two decades […] Read More and Comment: Why do California babies have syphilis in numbers rivaling those of poor nations?   The California Political News and Views would like tips, suggestions and advance information of local and state government action and legislation. Send the information to Steve Frank at stephenfrank@sbcglobal.net or call 805-795-1271.   In Case You Missed It: How brutal murders and fear kept a town silent. MS-13 is like no other gang Love Violence in Politics? 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