CALIFORNIA POLITICAL NEWS & VIEWS 01/22/2020

HEARD ON THE TOM/TOMS By Stephen Frank on Jan 21, 2020 08:50 pm HEARD ON THE TOM/TOMS Stephen Frank, California Political News and Views, 1/22/20       “A people that wants to remain ignorant and free … wants what never has been and never will be” ~ Thomas Jefferson.” BIG STORY: When is a Republican not a Republican?  The Orange County Republican Party has repealed their endorsement of Assemblyman […] Read More and Comment: HEARD ON THE TOM/TOMS   How More Conservative Cities Are Benefiting From California’s Demise By Stephen Frank on Jan 21, 2020 08:44 pm Once again, California has become a world leader.  By raising taxes, by using government schools as indoctrination centers, taking away zoning and permitting rights from cities and giving them to the State, killing off the oil industry, having half the nations homeless—San Fran is now officially the toilet bowl of the west—THIS FORMER Golden State […] Read More and Comment: How More Conservative Cities Are Benefiting From California’s Demise   How global companies drive the home insurance crisis in California wildfire zones By Stephen Frank on Jan 21, 2020 08:40 pm The next crisis to face California, after the locust of the Democrats, the darkness of the Progressives  and the loss of livestock due to Sacramento policies creating massive forest fires, is the home insurance crisis—the lack of fire insurance and/or affordable fire insurance. “Pimentel and her husband, who live in a rural area 30 miles […] Read More and Comment: How global companies drive the home insurance crisis in California wildfire zones   Sinaloa Cartel Drug Lord Extradited to California By Stephen Frank on Jan 21, 2020 08:37 pm Good news—another drug kingpin is going to be put on trial.  It took the efforts of President Trump to get this done. “Sanchez-Villalobos had built two major drug tunnels from Tijuana to the Otay Mesa Industrial Park in San Diego County and had run them at the behest of cartel leader Joaquin “Chapo” Guzman in […] Read More and Comment: Sinaloa Cartel Drug Lord Extradited to California   13-acre church project in Rimforest could move forward – 16 years after first pitched By Stephen Frank on Jan 21, 2020 08:35 pm Why are folks fleeing California?  This is one example.  It took a church 16 years—NOT a typo—to get permission to build a new facility.  Folks that started the project have moved on to other causes, left the State, died—maybe became Atheists because prayers did not work.  This is a church—the same  red tape, abusive regulations […] Read More and Comment: 13-acre church project in Rimforest could move forward – 16 years after first pitched   Elias: Rent control again: Is this vote needed? By Stephen Frank on Jan 21, 2020 08:31 pm All of us oppose AIDS.  Many have donated to organizations promoting education, prevention and helping those living with AIDS.  None of us think that helping such a group would actually be supporting a socialist organization wanting Rent Control.   In 2019 Sacramento passed an onerous, property stealing rent control law.  To socialists that is not enough. […] Read More and Comment: Elias: Rent control again: Is this vote needed?   Proposition 47 Criminal Justice Reform Projected to Save State Over $122 Million By Stephen Frank on Jan 21, 2020 08:29 pm Disreali said there are three types of lies, “lies, damned lies and statistics.”  This story is about a one sided economic study—showing the lack of spending on crime being a “savings”.  What it does not account for is the economic cost of 31,000 car break ins in San Fran, in just one year.  It does […] Read More and Comment: Proposition 47 Criminal Justice Reform Projected to Save State Over $122 Million   The House Democrat Taking On Silicon Valley By Stephen Frank on Jan 21, 2020 08:26 pm A Rhode Island Democrats is working hard to kill off the California technology industry.  But this is not a California problem, it is a global problem.  Silicon Valley is the global home of innovation, advancement in living standards and brings an economic prosperity to a State, which without the Valley would be in a severe […] Read More and Comment: The House Democrat Taking On Silicon Valley   Why the University of California is fighting for DACA By Stephen Frank on Jan 21, 2020 08:24 pm Over the next five years the UC system is going to raise tuition EVERY year.  Only a small number of qualified California students are allowed to enroll in the UC system.  A larger percentage, each year, of foreign students are enrolled, at full cost, to the UC system, making fewer seats available for California students.  […] Read More and Comment: Why the University of California is fighting for DACA   Sacramento/Environmental Cabal Concerted Attack on Oil and Low Cost Energy By Stephen Frank on Jan 21, 2020 08:21 pm Guv Newsom—close down the California oil industry and raise the cost of energy in the State for families and businesses.  He is working to close down the Kern County oil industry.  Environmentalists have sued to close down the Central Coast oil industry.  AG Becerra is suing the Federal government, to close down the oil industry […] Read More and Comment: Sacramento/Environmental Cabal Concerted Attack on Oil and Low Cost Energy   HEARD ON THE TOM/TOMS By Stephen Frank on Jan 21, 2020 04:00 am “A people that wants to remain ignorant and free … wants what never has been and never will be” ~ Thomas Jefferson.” BIG STORY: Kevin Faulconer opens Committee to run for Governor in 2022. Thanks to Politico, we now know the main issue the Mayor of San Diego is going to use in his run […] Read More and Comment: HEARD ON THE TOM/TOMS   200,00 Voters: On/Off/On Voter Rolls—NO NOTICE By Stephen Frank on Jan 21, 2020 03:22 am It has been years since California had an honest elections.  While our elections appear to be more honest than those in Cuba, that is only an appearance.  We know illegal aliens are voting.  We know the DMV has registered illegal aliens—and at the same time, tens of thousands of Republicans have had their registration changed […] Read More and Comment: 200,00 Voters: On/Off/On Voter Rolls—NO NOTICE   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: Low-income CA drivers could pay less for traffic citations ADA Protected Industry Threatened By AB 5–Harms Disabled “It’s The ‘Bill Clinton’ Of Cities”: Traveling Bankers Stunned By San Fran’s Squalor Irvine and Newport Join Fight Against New Housing Mandates Next stop for free college: Cal State University?