CALIFORNIA POLITICAL NEWS & VIEWS 05/14/2019

California May Go Dark This Summer, and Most Aren’t Ready–Brownouts/Blackouts By Stephen Frank on May 13, 2019 08:56 pm If you like ‘Cuba and Venezuela you will like California this summer.  If you want to pray about having electricity to keep your refrigerator working this summer, California is like you.  Want to do welfare work in a Third World country?  No need to go to Latin America or Africa—California is the place to go. […] Read More and Comment: California May Go Dark This Summer, and Most Aren’t Ready–Brownouts/Blackouts   Orange County home sales post worst first quarter of sales since the Great Recession. By Stephen Frank on May 13, 2019 08:51 pm While the Governor has been touting the higher tax revenues (without noting in part that is because of higher taxes and people selling their homes to flee the State) and the success of the Silicon Valley—without noting the Sacramento policies killing agriculture in the State, homes sales have gone down statewide.  Orange County is a […] Read More and Comment: Orange County home sales post worst first quarter of sales since the Great Recession.   Oakland Unified offers critical view of charter schools to state task force By Stephen Frank on May 13, 2019 08:45 pm Like any other government entity, the Oakland School District tells about the problems of charter schools—then forgets to tell it was the school district that caused the problems. “Against the backdrop of greater scrutiny of charter school operations across California, officials at the Oakland Unified School District have drawn up a sweepingly critical portrait of […] Read More and Comment: Oakland Unified offers critical view of charter schools to state task force   California’s Rent Control Advocates Are About To Get What They Want, Good and Hard By Stephen Frank on May 13, 2019 08:41 pm Watch out for what you ask, you might get it—even if you did not think of the consequences.  Rent control creates higher prices and more homelessness—which is really the goal of the Democrats and Progressives.  If it weren’t their goal, they why do they promote policies to create homeless and make living in California more […] Read More and Comment: California’s Rent Control Advocates Are About To Get What They Want, Good and Hard   Maxine Waters Paid Daughter $50K from Campaign Funds for Accrued Debt By Stephen Frank on May 13, 2019 08:38 pm This is how the anti-Trump leadership operate in politics.  It pays off its relatives, while screaming about the successful children of the President.  Maxine’s daughters can’t get a job, so Cong. Waters finances her.  The Trump kids actually work, do deals and make money the old fashioned way—they earn it on the open market. “Rep. […] Read More and Comment: Maxine Waters Paid Daughter $50K from Campaign Funds for Accrued Debt   Storage is essential for California to achieve 100% green energy without blackouts By Stephen Frank on May 13, 2019 08:32 pm Guess what?  This summer, thanks to the policies of the Sacramento Democrats we will have blackouts and brownouts throughout the State.  As we end the use of nuclear and coal power—as we make the cost of energy created by oil and stop the use of hydroelectric dams as a source of energy, costs go up […] Read More and Comment: Storage is essential for California to achieve 100% green energy without blackouts   Court Rules Unions Can Trespass on Private Property—Like in Totalitarian Nations By Stephen Frank on May 13, 2019 08:28 pm The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, in a three judge panel, has just ruled that private property does not exist.  They ruled that unions, can trespass any time they want to harass workers and managers of private companies.  I can not wait for this to hit the Supreme Court. “Cedar Point, which raises strawberry plants, […] Read More and Comment: Court Rules Unions Can Trespass on Private Property—Like in Totalitarian Nations   Conservative Latino Elected Leaders in Santa Ana Earn a Recall They Can Be Proud Of By Stephen Frank on May 13, 2019 08:25 pm First it was election box corruption and fraud—including the use of the DMV to get people to register as Decline to State, just to get them on the voting rolls.  Then use the vote by mail only law to get ballots in the hands of those that do not want to vote—finally use absentee ballot […] Read More and Comment: Conservative Latino Elected Leaders in Santa Ana Earn a Recall They Can Be Proud Of   Walters: LA Unified: A gang that can’t shoot straight By Stephen Frank on May 13, 2019 08:21 pm LAUSD is bankrupt.  It signed a union contract it can not pay.  It is demanding a bond from the people of L.A. and that will lose.  The District will be taken over by the State.  This is a District that 8n 2017 gave 52% of its diploma’s to students with a “D” average—functionally illiterate.  If […] Read More and Comment: Walters: LA Unified: A gang that can’t shoot straight   School-based legal clinic addresses needs of Los Angeles immigrant families By Stephen Frank on May 13, 2019 08:15 pm I bet you thought that government schools were for reading, writing and arithmetic.  LAUSD is bankrupt, it is forced to go to the public for a $500 million bond—which will fail.  When it fails, they still have to pay for the union contract they signed—and they did not have a dime to do that!  What […] Read More and Comment: School-based legal clinic addresses needs of Los Angeles immigrant families   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: HEARD ON THE TOM/TOMS 2021 Citizens Redistricting Commission Opens Applications in ONE MONTH Too many empty homes in San Jose? There could be a penalty tax for that The Golden State Insiders’ Club Walters: Excluding hydropower makes no sense