CALIFORNIA POLITICAL NEWS & VIEWS 05/08/2019

Will Gov’t MANDATE Cows Eat SeaWeed? Looks Like it! By Stephen Frank on May 07, 2019 08:57 pm Expect this choice for California cattle ranchers and dairy people—either feed your cows seaweed, or kill the cows.  The third choice is to take your herd and move to a State that is not in need of therapy for hysteria.  Think this could not happen?  Think plastic straws, Styrofoam cups—the new effort to close now […] Read More and Comment: Will Gov’t MANDATE Cows Eat SeaWeed? Looks Like it!   San Francisco, Oakland could be first cities in nation to ban facial recognition By Stephen Frank on May 07, 2019 08:53 pm I will admit it—I am addicted to cop shows on TV.  NCIS, Criminal Minds, Blue Bloods and the rest—if it has a cop or uses technology to solve crimes, I watch it.  California has become the mecca for criminals.  They are not arrested, they are let out of jail without bail in some places.  Criminals […] Read More and Comment: San Francisco, Oakland could be first cities in nation to ban facial recognition   Cunningham: Washington Post: Alexa has been eavesdropping on you this whole time By Stephen Frank on May 07, 2019 08:50 pm I will admit it—I have an Alexa in my living room.  We use it to play songs, tell us about the weather and get distances from home to where we are going.  It is on 24/7 and we spend a lot of time watching TV with the Alexa in same room.  While I am VERY […] Read More and Comment: Cunningham: Washington Post: Alexa has been eavesdropping on you this whole time   3 California NAACP chapters break with state and national leaders, calling for charter moratorium to be overturned By Stephen Frank on May 07, 2019 08:45 pm Some in the black community prefer quality education to the poverty of government/union controlled education. “NAACP branches in three California cities that have some of the state’s largest populations of black students are calling to end the charter school moratorium adopted by their national board in 2016. The San Diego, Riverside and San Bernardino branches […] Read More and Comment: 3 California NAACP chapters break with state and national leaders, calling for charter moratorium to be overturned   UCLA Demands Social Justice Warriors/Not Qualified Professors By Stephen Frank on May 07, 2019 08:39 pm Great schools hire great staff and professors.  Mediocre schools hire relatives, neighbors and the political correct.  UCLA, which you pay for, has decided to become a second class education institution, where fighting the government and the Rule of Laws is more important that educational qualifications and ability to teach. “The university enacted a policy in […] Read More and Comment: UCLA Demands Social Justice Warriors/Not Qualified Professors   Legal Costs Of California’s Wildfires Will Hit State Utilities’ Customers By Stephen Frank on May 07, 2019 08:35 pm The question is simple—who should pay for the legal battles of PG&E?  We know that management was not doing its job.  But, that government was partially responsible for the intensity of the forest fires but refusing to clean up the forests, the dead brush and dead trees. “In the eyes of state lawmakers PG&E has […] Read More and Comment: Legal Costs Of California’s Wildfires Will Hit State Utilities’ Customers   Stanford University CHOOSES Football Over Scholarship/Education By Stephen Frank on May 07, 2019 08:33 pm Another formerly great University has chosen mediocrity and political correctness to education and scholarship.  They decided to give a raise to the football coach and close down the Stanford University Press.  This shows their priorities—and it is not education. “Ge Wang, an associate professor of music at Stanford, is circulating online both the illustration below […] Read More and Comment: Stanford University CHOOSES Football Over Scholarship/Education   Walters: California’s vexing poverty puzzle By Stephen Frank on May 07, 2019 08:29 pm Why does California have over 16 million people, out of close to 40 million, living in poverty?  Could it be the high taxes?  Maybe it is the large number of illegal aliens?  Maybe it is the number of illegal aliens taking the jobs of honest citizens?  Could it be the regulations that cause the faster […] Read More and Comment: Walters: California’s vexing poverty puzzle   CA DMV CREATES NPP (Decline to State) Voters By Stephen Frank on May 07, 2019 08:20 pm Why is this happening? Simple. Democrats wants people on the voting rolls–they do not care what Party. Once on the rolls, they will use ballot harvesting to get the votes. Corruption? You bet. This has to be one of the biggest scams in election history.  The DMV, understanding the  psychology of people tired, in a […] Read More and Comment: CA DMV CREATES NPP (Decline to State) Voters   UNION DEMANDS Control Over Vendor Hiring in UC System By Stephen Frank on May 07, 2019 08:16 pm Hire a janitor and you have hired your boss in the UC system.  Hire someone to do landscaping and THEY control who you can hire as a vendor.  If you do not give in to the employees running the show, they will strike.  No this is not a joke.  “American Federation of State, County and […] Read More and Comment: UNION DEMANDS Control Over Vendor Hiring in UC System   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: NY Times Goes After California Vineyards—TO CLOSE THEM TO SAVE THE EARTH Trump Stops Unions From STEALING From MediCaid Patient Caregivers Water Tax season reigns in California as solutions are ignored High-speed rail report leaves question marks on money, land for maintenance facility Bray: Bernie published a book and released his taxes–Crony Capitalist, NOT a Socialist