CALIFORNIA POLITICAL NEWS & VIEWS 02/15/2020

New Voter Registration Law—Just Passed/Just Implemented–AFTER Election Started By Stephen Frank on Feb 14, 2020 08:36 pm Democrats are really desperate to change our laws and stuff the ballot boxes.  About twenty days before the election—and ten days after people started voting, they once again change the registration laws. Honest elections in California?  We are no better than Cuba or Venezuela—image changing the rules AFTER voting started!  Corruption, yet the people of […] Read More and Comment: New Voter Registration Law—Just Passed/Just Implemented–AFTER Election Started   Sen. Marsha Blackburn Proposes Ban on Funding to States that Give Drivers’ Licenses to Illegal Immigrants By Stephen Frank on Feb 14, 2020 08:32 pm While this bill will not pass, it is good to see honest, serious legislation in Washington.  From California to New York, State governments, 13 so far, are violating Federal law.  You would think that would cause the Department of Justice to take action.  So far it has not.  You would think that the legislation would […] Read More and Comment: Sen. Marsha Blackburn Proposes Ban on Funding to States that Give Drivers’ Licenses to Illegal Immigrants   California Focus: What proper utility maintenance could have prevented By Stephen Frank on Feb 14, 2020 08:29 pm The State of California forces utility companies to spend an extra $800 million a year buying high price “alternative” fuels.  Instead of using the money to keep rates day and to prevent fires in our forests, government prefers to force us to live with fires as their priority. “Now, with PG&E in bankruptcy court and […] Read More and Comment: California Focus: What proper utility maintenance could have prevented   What Would ‘Housing as a Human Right’ Look Like in California? By Stephen Frank on Feb 14, 2020 08:26 pm What is a human right?  To me it is the opportunity to succeed or fail without government putting its thumb on the scales.  A human right is something that is universal without the taking from one to give to another, without permission or earning it.  A human right is not being lazy, but taking responsibility.  […] Read More and Comment: What Would ‘Housing as a Human Right’ Look Like in California?   This Valentine’s Day, UCLA promotes ‘Sex Squad’ performance By Stephen Frank on Feb 14, 2020 08:24 pm UCLA is a great campus.  It prepares students to bully others, be intolerant, hate white males and to discriminate against those they disagree with.  For Valentines Day the school wanted to make sure the students were ready for sex.  No, not a typo, the campus leaders wanted the students ready for sex last night and […] Read More and Comment: This Valentine’s Day, UCLA promotes ‘Sex Squad’ performance   Aggressors spit on College Republicans’ Betsy Ross flag, trash their display By Stephen Frank on Feb 14, 2020 08:21 pm Did you think that a California college allowed free speech, civil debate and tolerates differences of opinion?  If you did, you are living in a California of 1970.  That was when spirited debates about the Viet Nam war were held everywhere on campus.  Today, just wearing a MAGA hat create a riot, bullying and those […] Read More and Comment: Aggressors spit on College Republicans’ Betsy Ross flag, trash their display   Berkeley opens SECOND center for ‘undocumented’ students and ‘allies,’ citing ‘anti-immigrant political climate’ By Stephen Frank on Feb 14, 2020 08:10 pm Tuition going up.  Taxes going up?  Law being broken?  Sounds like UC Berkeley.  It has now opened its second center for illegal aliens.  Here they get advice on breaking the law, how to get attorneys, social services and stealing a seat at UC from honest students.  This is the Berkeley Way. “Liliana Iglesias, director of […] Read More and Comment: Berkeley opens SECOND center for ‘undocumented’ students and ‘allies,’ citing ‘anti-immigrant political climate’   Calculating the Californication By Stephen Frank on Feb 14, 2020 08:05 pm Idaho, Texas, Tennessee and many other responsible well run States have recognized they have a real problem.  The biggest selling bumper sticker in Texas says, Don’t Californicate Texas”.  Other State flooded with refugees from California have found out that our people accept higher taxes, bad government and totalitarian precepts of governments. “Beset by high housing […] Read More and Comment: Calculating the Californication   Walters: Decline in California Housing Starts in 2019 Is a Wake-Up Call for Sacramento By Stephen Frank on Feb 14, 2020 08:00 pm Is the decline in the number of housing starts a canary in the tunnel?  Is the increase in the number of warnings to the State of massive layoffs a canary in the tunnel?  Can we count the failure of government education, productive people leaving the State, or the 231 sales tax and bond measures on […] Read More and Comment: Walters: Decline in California Housing Starts in 2019 Is a Wake-Up Call for Sacramento   Scam of the Century Adds $1 Billion to Cost for Train to NoWhere By Stephen Frank on Feb 14, 2020 07:57 pm The proposal was a train from Los Angeles to San Francisco and to Sacramento—for under $40 billion.  Now we have a train from Bakersfield to Merced for about $80 billion—with the price going up each month. “Lawmakers in the state have been putting pressure on the Authority to shift billions of dollars from the Central […] Read More and Comment: Scam of the Century Adds $1 Billion to Cost for Train to NoWhere   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 McClatchy, (The Bee’s) files for bankruptcy protection As Big Tech Moves In, Culver City Considers Raising Taxes Zero Fatalities Task Force Report: Change the Way Speed Limits Are Set Curb Oakland Mayor Schaaf’s insatiable tax appetite