CALIFORNIA POLITICAL NEWS & VIEWS 12/07/2019

Another California Republican defection: Former party leader bails on the GOP By Stephen Frank on Dec 06, 2019 08:26 pm In late October the Board of Directors of the California Republican Assembly took up the question of endorsements for partisan office, from Assembly to State Senate and Congress.  A variety of names were proposed—all passed unanimously, except for one which was separated from the main motion. A motion for the California Republican Party to endorse […] Read More and Comment: Another California Republican defection: Former party leader bails on the GOP   Thought San Francisco’s Quality of Life Couldn’t Get Worse? Think Again By Stephen Frank on Dec 06, 2019 08:23 pm San Fran is literally a toilet.  Human feces everywhere.  The new DA does not want those pissing in the street arrested.  Feces and piss equal a toilet.  That is what the elected leadership of San Fran thinks of the community.  Then you have the homeless problem—where the only success is in the hiring of high […] Read More and Comment: Thought San Francisco’s Quality of Life Couldn’t Get Worse? Think Again   California cuts electric-car rebates, drops luxury models By Stephen Frank on Dec 06, 2019 08:20 pm Should somebody making a million dollars a year, wanting to buy a car receive a subsidy?  If so, shouldn’t someone making $45,000 a year also receive a subsidy for buying a car.  In the first case the car bought is going to harm the environment in the making of the vehicle—an electric car.  In the […] Read More and Comment: California cuts electric-car rebates, drops luxury models   Can we go back to the pre-fossil fuel era? By Stephen Frank on Dec 06, 2019 08:18 pm Oil is cheap clean and safe.  So is coal and nuclear power.  But socialists trying to tank the economy have made it clear, they wish to limit energy, create poverty and joblessness, so they can have government take care of you. “Turning to the oil industry after 1900 we found that nothing powers economies the […] Read More and Comment: Can we go back to the pre-fossil fuel era?   Sharp Nationwide Enrollment Drop in Teacher Prep Programs Cause for Alarm By Stephen Frank on Dec 06, 2019 08:14 pm Here are three reason smart, aggressive, freedom loving young people do not want to become teachers:  In most cases if you want to be a teacher you have to pay a bribe to a union—then have your money used to promote candidate and causes that raise taxes, force others to pay bribes, kill babies and […] Read More and Comment: Sharp Nationwide Enrollment Drop in Teacher Prep Programs Cause for Alarm   More Evidence Emerges That Federal Government Is Funding Worthless College Degrees By Stephen Frank on Dec 06, 2019 08:12 pm This is what you need to know about how your Federal tax dollars are being spent: “According to The Wall Street Journal, 15% of programs graduate students who carry more federal student loan debt than their annual income. Interestingly, graduate programs—which are generally perceived to be good investments—are some of the worst offenders. Students who […] Read More and Comment: More Evidence Emerges That Federal Government Is Funding Worthless College Degrees   Educrats Trying to SCAM $54 BILLION in New Bonds for Failed Schools—NOT a Joke By Stephen Frank on Dec 06, 2019 08:09 pm Either those in the Secretary of State office and Attorney Generals office are mathematically illiterate—or they are scam artists.  They claim a bond measure is for $15 billion, knowing that is a lie.  Including interest that bond costs $27 billion.  If they told the truth most would vote NO –we can afford the education failures […] Read More and Comment: Educrats Trying to SCAM $54 BILLION in New Bonds for Failed Schools—NOT a Joke   CalSTRS Fund Goes Green With Muni-Bond Debut By Stephen Frank on Dec 06, 2019 08:06 pm CalSTRS is over $200 billion in unfunded pension liabilities.  The goal is to invest in maximum return equities and investments—not to make a social or politically statements.  Instead they prefer to lower returns but feel good about themselves. “The public pension, the second-biggest in the nation, is selling $281 million in tax-exempt municipal green bonds […] Read More and Comment: CalSTRS Fund Goes Green With Muni-Bond Debut   UC Davis professor under fire for opposing required ‘diversity statements’ By Stephen Frank on Dec 06, 2019 08:03 pm At UC Davis the first requirement for a math professor is not qualifications, but political correctness.  Unless you actively promote bigotry and discrimination you are not allowed to be on campus as anything other than a visitor. “A mathematics professor at the University of California, Davis, has faced significant pushback for criticizing university-mandated “diversity statements,” […] Read More and Comment: UC Davis professor under fire for opposing required ‘diversity statements’   AB 5: Hospitals and Patients to be Harmed By Stephen Frank on Dec 06, 2019 08:01 pm AB 5 is a new law meant to force workers to pay bribes to unions.  By doing so journalists are forced out of the State, 80,000 truckers could lose their trucks and freedom, ride share drivers will be forced to spend limited dollars on union dues.  Now we find that hospital are losers—hence patients will […] Read More and Comment: AB 5: Hospitals and Patients to be Harmed   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: Chad Mayes Makes the Obvious Official: “I am Not a Republican” Finally Honest THE BRITISH LABOUR PARTY MAY BE COMING TO AMERICA The future of sex ed has arrived. Is America ready? Why is California suing to stop water flowing to its own people? Editorial: California can’t account for billions of education dollars