City of Long Beach cutting back 100+ police officers in face of budget woes

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"One year ago in September 2009, the LB City Council voted 9-0 to cut LB budgeted sworn officers for taxpayers for deployment citywide by 76 sworn positions (59 sworn + 17 recruits from an erased replenishment Academy class). That came after City Manager Pat West proposed, without dissent from Mayor Bob Foster, to cut LB's sworn police level by 88 officers; the Council's response was to cut "only" 76 officers."

"In the next two weeks, the new Council is scheduled to vote on a proposal by City Manager West, advanced without dissent by Mayor Foster, that the City Council cut 27 more sworn officer positions (four civilianized) if city employee unions agree to modify contracts City Hall negotiated with them (that the unions modified last year that City Hall wants modified again by September 15). If the unions don't agree to this, West and Foster propose that the Council cut 49 more sworn officer positions (on top of the 27 they're already proposing to cut). That would leave LB with 76 fewer officers budgeted for taxpayers for citywide deployment in FY11 than in FY10, when the Council slashed 76 officers from FY09's level."

"The Foster/West "best case" would leave LB taxpayer with roughly 100 fewer budgeted officers than last year (76 + 27 = 103) while their worst case ("Plan B") would leave LB with roughly 150 officers (103 + 49 = 152).That would leave Long Beach with a per capita budgeted officer level for citywide deployment roughly equivalent to cutting L.A.P.D's level by roughly 25% (and think closer to 30%). L.A. Mayor Villaraigosa hasn't proposed this. No L.A. Councilmember has proposed this. And LBPD Police Chief Jim McDonnell didn't propose this when he was L.A.'s Assistant Police Chief."

"In Long Beach, it's the culmination of years of evasions, including another of City Hall's famously non-binding (eventually ignored) "plans" that recommended 1,023 officers by FY2000. Taxpayers never received those officers, not in 2000 or at any time subsequent. At one point, the City Council budgeted 1,020 total officers but that included nearly 60 officers who weren't available for citywide neighborhood deployment because they're contracted to handle tasks at the Port/Airport/LBCC/LBUSD, paid by those entities and not by the Council's General Fund."

"At its maximum, LB's neighborhood/citywide police level budgeted by the Council's General Fund barely reached 960, which was thinned by City Hall's failure to provide a replenishment police academy class to replace retiring/exiting officers, then slashed by the Council in Sept. 09 by 76 budgeted sworn officer positions and now thinned further by over two dozen sworn officer positions budgeted on paper left unfilled on the street."

"That is the level from which LB city management and the Mayor have proposed that the Council cut police still further, from 27 to 76 more officers. By our rough reckoning, that would leave LB below 850 officers and headed toward 810. These were the types of police levels that LB City Hall itself acknowledged over a decade and a half ago should be increased...and that was at a time when LB was smaller and gangs were less entrenched."

comment: Long beach proposals to slash it's PO force, if they follow the extreme cutback option, would have LB having an extremely thinned PD force of 850 policing a city of 450,000, a 1-529 ratio of PO to inhabitants. In comparison Los Angeles has a 1-421 ratio of PO to inhabitants. LB is every bit as dangerous as LA, in fact it is a mini-version of LA. We are a hi-crime city with large swathes of impoverished ghettos and a large, sullen, welfare-leeching minority population.
Long beach looks like it will slash it's force like Oakland did, due to public Employee union intransigence in city negotiations. Looks like LB will become a very dangerous unlivable city.

Brown attended fundraiser at home of terrorist supporter/ Code Pink co-founder Jodie Evan

"The campaign of California Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman released a statement by retired Marine Colonel Bucky Peterson on Wednesday(Aug 25th) urging Whitman’s Democrat rival, California Attorney General Jerry Brown, to return campaign donations raised at a fundraiser last Saturday(Aug 21st)at the home of terrorist supporter and Code Pink co-founder Jodie Evans."

'The Whitman campaign issued Col. Peterson’s call to Brown on the occasion of Brown’s scheduled speech Wednesday evening at the Santa Rosa Veterans Memorial Building.'

"Jodie Evans is a longtime political ally of Brown’s who worked for his various campaigns and elective offices from the 1970s to the 1990s, culminating when Jodie Evans managed Brown’s failed 1992 campaign for the Democrat’s presidential nomination."

'In the 2000s, Jodie Evans teamed with communist revolutionary Susan ‘Medea’ Benjamin in founding Code Pink, a group that supports Islamic terrorists and works with state sponsors of terrorism against the United States. Jodie Evans and Benjamin are also leading Democratic Party activists; Jodie Evans was also a top fundraiser for President Barack Obama. Jodie Evans also has donated thousands of dollars to the reelection campaign of her fellow California Democrat, Sen. Barbara Boxer.'

Someone needs to investigate further CA Gov candidate Jerry Brown, Senator Barbara Boxer, and President Obama's political/radical/fundraiser ties to ultra radical, rabidly anti-war, America-bashing commie leftwing nutjob Jodie Evans, founder of Code Pink.

Walter Moore Says: You Are Buying New Trucks For Union Employees Only

Walter Moore Says: You Are Buying New Trucks For Union Employees Only


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From Walter Moore:

"Well, the Los Angeles Times reports today that U.S. District Court Judge Christina Snyder has upheld the "provision, backed by the Teamsters Union, that truck drivers moving through the harbor must be employed by a trucking company." Her reasoning, according to the paper, was as follows:

"Snyder concluded that the concession agreements were a "business necessity" that allowed harbor officials to protect its financial interests. In her ruling, she said that air pollution from trucks had jeopardized the port's future as a commercial enterprise, with lawsuits over emissions stalling growth at the harbor for seven years -- just as other ports were growing dramatically"

"With all due respect, I predict the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit will reverse this decision unless Judge Snyder reconsiders her ruling first.
Barring independent contractors serves no legitimate purpose. If the supposed problem is ensuring drivers can afford a truck, then require a minimum credit score, or require them to post a bond. Any given independent contractor's financial wherewithal may be better, worse, or exactly the same as any given corporation. To close the port to independent contractors is therefore unjustifiable."

"This provision of the "clean trucks" program has nothing to do with cleaning the air, and everything to do with rewarding the unions that fund the political campaigns of career politicians like Villaraigosa. This is special interest politics at its worst. Indeed, more fundamentally, why are you and I, through increased duties imposed on imports, buying "free" trucks for private companies at all? Assuming it makes sense to require cleaner trucks at the port than everywhere else in the city, county and state, the port should simply ban "dirty" trucks, and leave it to the companies and independent contractors in trucking to buy, rent or lease their own trucks."


COMMENT: I have mixed views on the LA Clean Trucks Program. It in effect creates a union closed shop in LA port areas where only unionized teamster EMPLOYEES of large trucking companies can move goods thru the LA Port. It goes against my ingrained free market principals, my past background as an independent contract business owner/driver, and my general stance against closed shop/public unions.
On other hand i live right next to LA Port and next to a very busy freeway thru which port trucks rumble day and night. I benefit healthwise from the ports cleaner air resulting from this ruling, as do all area residents. Also this ruling has admittedly put out of business 1000's of big rig independent contract drivers, many of them recent green card immigrants, who were driving beaten-up old rigs which belched tons of black smoke & spewed pollutants into the air, and fouled up the local streets with their beaten up old deisels.

After careful consideration i have come out against the ruling, as it does foster a closed union shop and allows for large trucking companies to be gov-subsidized. This is a big no-no for me. I ran my own independent contract delivery business for many years and always payed all my expenses of running the operation - no government ever gave me any subsidy.

Rally held for laid-off Century City janitors | abc7.com

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Rally held for laid-off Century City janitors | abc7.com

CENTURY CITY, LOS ANGELES : A march and rally in support of 16 laid-off janitors wrapped up Thursday in Century City. Police arrested more than a dozen people.

"Hundreds of protestors marched along busy Avenue of the Stars midday, stopping at the corner of Constellation, near the Century Plaza building owned by J.P. Morgan Chase. The demonstrators are upset that 16 janitors were laid off from their jobs. "They're a multi-million dollar company and they're laying off the lowest-paid people in the building," said protestor Terri Green. "The people that clean up behind them. The people that take care of their events, that clean up behind their events, and we just don't think it's fair." In a show of support, dozens of other janitors at Century Plaza walked off the job."
"The SEIU United Service Workers West, the union representing the janitors, says it wants to sit down with J.P. Morgan Chase officials and work something out. "We understand that we're not going to be able to protect all our jobs but we're asking for is sit down and negotiate a reasonable solution," said United Service Workers West Vice President David Huerta. "We're not going to protect everyone, but we should be able to protect some of the folks who are being laid off."

"Police officers kept watch over the demonstration, only moving in and making arrests after more than a dozen people formed a circle and sat in the middle of an intersection, a planned act of civil disobedience. "There were approximately 12 to 15 people in the intersection who sat down. We effected arrests of those individuals."

COMMENT: THIS IS 100% PURE BS*%*@. I WAS FIRED FROM MY JOB IN EARLY 2008. I WAS NOT PART OF A UNION SO NO ONE CAME OUT TO PROTEST ON MY BEHALF.

SINCE WHEN DO IMMIGRANT JANITORS THINK THEY CAN WALK OFF THE JOB EN MASS TO PROTEST THE FIRING OF 16 MEMBERS OF THEIR UNION. BECAUSE THE SEIU WELDS SUCH POWER IN LA?.

THESE ARE UNSKILLED IMMIGRANT JANITORS HIRED BY A CONTRACTOR, NOT JP MORGAN CHASE!

HOW ABOUT 2-3 MILLION PRIVATE SECTOR CALIFORNIA CITIZENS WHO GOT FIRED/ LAID OFF SINCE EARLY 2008. THE SEIU DID NOT COME OUT ON THEIR BEHALF.

SEIU THINKS THEY CAN SIMPLY ORGANIZE A PROTEST IN LA ON BEHALF OF LAID OFF IMMIGRANT WORKERS AND THE WORLD WILL MOVE ON THEIR BEHALF. BS!!

CHEAP IMMIGRANT LABOR IS PLENTIFUL IN LA DUE TO OUR LAX IMMIGRATION LAWS, AND THERE ARE A 100 IDLE RECENT IMMIGRANTS/ILLEGALS/LOWLY UNSKILLED ANCHORS TO TAKE THE PLACE OF EACH LAID-OFF OR FIRED JANITOR IN LA.

THE SEIU AND AFL-CIO HAVE OPENLY COME OUT ADVOCATING OPEN BORDERS, AMNESTY, AND UNRESTRICTED IMMIGRATION. THEY ENCOURAGE AND FOSTER AN ABUNDANT CHEAP IMMIGRANT OVERSUPPLY OF LABOR IN LA/CA WHICH ALLOWS COMPANIES TO HIRE/FIRE AT WILL, KNOWING THERE IS ABUNDANT CHEAP IMMIGRANT LABOR IN CA, WITH MORE STREAMING ACROSS OUR POROUS BORDERS EVERY DAY!!

california is a third world cesspool: L.A to give people living in cars on Venice-area streets overnight parking

california is a third world cesspool: L.A to give people living in cars on Venice-area streets overnight parking

RV sewage waste dumped onto Venice Beach street tarnishs image of SoCal tourist trap

Venice beach CA is getting somewhat wacky this late in summer. It has always been an off kilter zone of crazed lefties , moonbat movie stars ,and a plethora of local gangstas who ply the VB boardwalk on any given day. Lately though VB is getting a spate of news which may be unwelcome to its carefully cultivated(and largely fake) image as a premier LA(and worldwide) tourist attraction.

Topless protesters turn heads at Venice Beach

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Here is that specific incident which spatters VB image:

RV dumps raw sewage on Venice Beach residential street. LA city bio-hazard crew called in. This incident has highlighted a growing problem of an army of VB homeless living in their RV trailers on Venice Beach streets.

http://www.blogger.com/blog-this-done.g?blogID=4770904700405291286

'Last week, in the middle of the night, a resident on Pacific Avenue noticed an RV parked the wrong way in front of her home. She heard some noise, then noticed a passenger getting out of the RV, and removing the cap to the sewage tank. The woman jumped back into the RV and drove away intentionally allowing gallons of sewage to spill out onto the street....

The resident called 911 and the LAPD was able to track down the RV. The resident made a citizen's arrest and the woman was taken into custody. Despite numerous calls and complaints, the raw sewage remained on the street for days. Finally, residents notified KFI News and I began making calls and inquiries. Finally, after 6 days, councilman Bill Rosendahl's office requested a clean up crew to go to the area and remove the waste. I was there while the crew cleaned up the mess from Pacific Avenue...

When asked why it took a week to respond to requests for cleanup, a Rosendahl aide told me it was the first he'd heard of it. At least 7 residents confirmed a face-to-face meeting with Rosendahl last Thursday in one of his satellite offices...

On Tuesday night a resident called to tell me the city contacted her to notify her that one of the areas where RV's typically park was declared a bio-hazard and the LAPD was evacuating RV's.'

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Boxer uses deceit/outright lies about effects of offshore oil drilling on CA coastal environment

These are shots of Long beach oil island and of Huntington Beach. I regularly surf and swim in the HB water. HB has some of the finest waves in SoCal, is a SoCal surfing mecca, and also has a 30 mile stretch of white sandy beaches. It is nicknamed 'surf city'. Notice the oil platforms in these pics. There are 5 of them off HB coast. They do not affect beachgoers and surfers one bit. Schools of dolphins regularly troll for food near the beaches edge. HB admittedly is not a pristine eco-zone(it has oil extraction sites both on and offshore) but it does serve the recreational needs of several million summer visitors and the local OC residents.

Boxer attacks Fiorina's pro-oil drilling stance in Santa Barbara - latimes.com

This is a repeat post on Boxer's deceitful statement that offshore oil drilling will cost Santa Barabra 400,000 jobs. That is a masterful Hilterian/communist propaganda lie. I live in long beach and regularly engage in water sports activites in the long beach marina and even in the harbor itself. I have kayaked that harbor and paddled next to the close-in oil well islands, which are not platforms but are leveled rock piles sunk off the long beach harbor. These oil islands, as the pic shows, are disguised with palm trees and other greenery and are covered by outer building skins so they add an attractive decor to the harbor.

I have put up these pics of our beautiful Long beach/Hunt beach shoreline recreation areas to show Boxer that offshore oil wells do not degrade nor adversely affect the shoreline.

location of new RFK 578 million Hi school, los angeles

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http://cbs2.com/local/LAUSD.school.Robert.2.1873086.html

http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=mcafee&p=Robert+F.+Kennedy+Community+Schools+in+Los+Angeles%2C

http://cbs2.com/local/LAUSD.school.Robert.2.1873086.html

I have looked at location of New Robert F Kennedy school in Los Angeles, which cost a whopping 587 million. It is located at 3400 Wilshire Blvd in Korea Town, at former site of the Historic Ambassador Hotel. Goog map still shows it under construction. It lies on Wilshire blvd between Normandie and Vermont Ave, and stretches south from Wilshire to 8th street.

Koreatown along that stretch of Wilshire is a busy commercial strip of high-rises which houses mostly Chinese-korean businesses, and is the center for the far East LA expat/immigrant community. But if u go away from that busy commercial strip even a few blocks u get into the koreatown ghettos, which are mostly filled with recent latino immigrants. They in fact surround and inundate this district.

Koreatown is volatile, largely marginal, and is considered a high-crime district. Remember the LA riots in 1992 and also that 17-year old female high school student who was abducted/murdered by a transient.

From Koreatown all the way east to the edges of LA DWTN(Think Pico-Union, Westlake, drug-infested MacAarthur park)is a degenerated run-down illegal immigrant-filled district which lies almost in the shadows of LA DWTN high rises. Go north/NE to the 101 freeway and you get into more degenerated illegal-immigrant slumzones such as Rampart.

The LASUD, who's gleaming headquarters hi-rise is one mile east at 333 Beaudry street(the 1st street west of Harbor Freeway 110), built this costly boondoogle school to educate the districts huge anchor kids population, who are mostly anchor offspring of illegals or recent green card immigrants. Also put up in 2008 was the Edward R. Roybal Learning Center( site of costly environ cleanup when it was known as Belmont High), which cost 377 million. It is just a few blocks up the street from the LAUSD command center hi-rise. Roybal is in an even worse ghetto area than RFK.

90% of the kids in these costly state-of-the-art schools will be anchor kids of working class/impoverished Hispanic immigrants(including illegals) at cost of 15,000-20,000 per kid if you factor in cost of the buildings.

I will not delve too much into the byzantine bond/taxpayer funding for the schools, or for all the other 100+ new/refurbished primary schools which have been or are in process of being built all over LA City/County, most of them in impoverished or declining districts heavily populated/re-populated by recent immigrants. All i will say is the voters of LA/CA passed these bond measures early to mid decade before the great CA economic collapse from 2008 to present.

Boxer attacks Fiorina's pro-oil drilling stance in Santa Barbara - latimes.com

Boxer attacks Fiorina's pro-oil drilling stance in Santa Barbara - latimes.com

I have put up these pics of our beautiful Long beach/Hunt beach shoreline recreation areas to show boxer that offshore oil wells do not degrade nor adversely affect the shoreline. Top left pic shows Hunt Beach oil platform. Top right shows LB oil island.

Boxer goes demagogic on SB offshore oil drilling issue. She says that 400,000 SB jobs will be lost or adversely impacted. That is using the Hitler big lie.
No SB jobs will be lost, and MORE oil drilling will add 300,000-500,000 high-paying energy-related jobs to CA's desperate economy. SB coastal tourism industRy is likely being adversely affected by CA's economic collapse, as is the coastal tourism of all seaside areas from Monterrey to San Diego.

Oil drilling has no impact on local tourism. long beach and HUNTINGTON BEACH, CLOSE TO WHERE I LIVE, HAVE 11 OFFSHORE OIL WELLS AND LOCAL BEACHGOERS ARE NOT AFFECTED ONE BIT. OUR BEACHES GET MAX CROWDS ON SUMMER WEEKENDS. LONG BEACH SHORELINE HAS 3 OIL WELLS VERY CLOSE TO THE SHORE BUT THEY HAVE NO IMPACT AS THEY ARE DRESSED UP AND COVERED BY DECORATIVE COVERINGS AND EVEN PLANTS TO HIDE THE OIL DRILL APPARATUS. LB IS A WATER SPORTS MECCA AND PLENTY OF SAILBOATS, JET SKIERS, KITE SURFERS, KAYAKERS REGULARLY PLY THE WATERS WITHOUT THE OIL WELL PLATFORMS IMPINGING ON THEIR FUN.

WE HAVE HAD OIL WELL PLATFORMS FOR 50-60 YEARS AND NOT ONE SPILL TO REPORT. FURTHERMORE, SOCAL HAS 10 POWER PLANTS/WASTE WATER PLANT SITES RIGHT AT WATERS EDGE. THEY ARE NEEDED TO POWER OUR LOCAL ECONOMY AND PROVIDE FOR SANITATION/WASTE MANAGEMENT. WE ALSO HAVE 3-4 OIL REFINERYS IN LONG BEACH/LA PORT REGION/SOUTH BAY. WHY DOES LONG BEACH PORT AREA HAVE TO HAVE THESE POWER ENERGY FACILITIES WHILE SANTA BARBARA CAN KEEP THEIR COASTAL SHORES FREE OF ENERGY GENERATION SITES.

WHY DOSEN'T BOXER COME DOWN TO LONG BEACH OR HUNT BEACH AND MAKE HER PLEA TO BAN OFSHORE OIL DRILLING HERE IN LONG BEACH, AND STAND IN FRONT OF ONE OF OUR BEAUTIFUL OIL DRILLING PLATFORMS.

BOXER IS A COMPLETE HYPOCRITE, LIKE THE NOT-IN-MY BACK YARD NIMBYS IN SANTA BARBARA WHO WANT THEIR CHEAP GAS BUT ARE NOT WILLING TO SUPPORT MORE OFFSHORE DRILLING EITHER IN SB OR IN ANWAR. WAIT TIL IRAN GETS ATTACKED NEXT SPRING AND OIL SHOOTS UP TO $$150/200 A BARREL AND GAS GOES TO $4.00/GALLON. I GUARANTEE YOU THAT CALIFORNIANS WILL BE SCREAMING FOR MORE OIL DRILLING.

Some links on Bell City ongoing civic corruption - a microcosm of CA public employee pension racket

A compilation of links on Bell City ongoing civic corruption

Bell gave employees more than $1.5 million in loans

http://www.latimes.com/news/la-bell-loans-m,0,2287711.story?track=rss

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/08/bell-robert-rizzo-compensation-million.html

http://t.co/ejkdChZ

http://bit.ly/dlk3Jb

http://bit.ly/9mg99d

I have viewed Bell scandals at some length, and i am convinced that Bell is a microcosm of the gigantic criminal syndicate racket called the CA state pension plan. What happened with bell has happened all over CA, as we have state/county/city public employee unions basically Bankrupting CA thru running/piling up outrageous pensions.

The entire state/municipal gov racket is designed to insure that CA gov employees
are financially well provided for life, even after they retire at mid age, say 50. No matter if economy tanks or revenue dries up, the state will protect and pay its employees handsomely, even if they have to bleed taxpayers to death. This is called a racket.
It is in fact a criminal racketeering syndicate, the worlds largest. A conspiracy by CA public employees to reward themselves by looting the CA taxpayers out of every dime and nickle.
No matter if CA is reeling from an economic calamity/near-depression and 20% REAL UE. No matter that state revenues have declined by 20-30% since 2008. The state workers must be protected by all means even if they must beg the Fed for a handout, which President Obama provided by injecting 26 billion into CA coffers to save public employee jobs and pensions.

What we have is the State of CA and it's state public workers ganging up against it's citizens to protect their racketeering enterprise, which is to buffer PEU's and their public pensions from economic calamities, and continue to inflate PEU pensions to the point of bankrupting the state.

All the recent news about CA going after Bell is just a politically motivated ploy just before Nov. midterms elections to gain points for Dem attorney Gen/Gov candidate Jerry Brown and states dominant Dem political classes, who are using Bell scandals and CA going after Bell to deceive the public that CA Gov really cares About public corruption. That is a lie. CA public employees only take care of their own and could care less about the public. They are only interested in power and insulating themselves from any budget cutbacks of their lavish ill-gotten financial gains. CA public employees are among the highest- paid in USA with 100% state paid health benefits and pensions. CA PEUs' have in fact become the 21st century version of a feudal ruling class.

How Big Labor moved toward a pro-illegal- alien agenda

This is shortened repost of an article by Numbers USA, and i wish to give them full credit for this post:

Reid immigration flip followed labor's flip on immigration - Washington Times

How the U.S. labor movement adopted a pro-illegal alien/pro-illegal immigration stance, against the best interests of U.S. workers. Looks as if it is simply a matter of politics: they cannot win unless they get the Hispanic vote, and getting hispanic votes means supporting appeasement of illegals, and open borders illegal immigration.

"By 1993, unions were already beginning to target politicians who labor believed to be “anti-immigrant.” Union writer Randy Shaw writes that in 1999 the SEIU held its convention in Los Angeles where UNITE HERE President John Wilhelm and SEIU Executive Vice President Eliseo Medina worked to change the AFL-CIO immigration policy at the time, proposing immigration amnesty...

"According to 2007 Congressional testimony by Center for Immigration Studies board member Cornell economist Vernon Briggs:

" At its 1993 Convention, the AFL-CIO drastically reversed itself from it past course. It passed a resolution that praised the role that immigrants have played in building the nation. It proceeded to demonize unidentified critics of immigration reform especially critics of illegal immigration (which by this time was a national issue again despite IRCA). It then called upon local unions to develop programs to address the special needs of immigrant members and potential members. Clearly, a new immigration position was emerging within the leadership of the AFL-CIO."

Union leaders previously known before the early ‘90’s for standing against illegal immigration figured their sinking membership numbers could be improved if amnesty was given to illegal immigrants who could be easily organized

"prior to the late 1980s, the labor movement either directly instigated or strongly supported every legislative initiative enacted by Congress to restrict immigration and to enforce its policy provisions."

"In February 2000 the Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor—Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) announced it was changing its historic position. It would now support expanded immigration, lenient enforcement of immigration laws and the legislative agenda of immigrant advocacy groups. Subsequently, AFL-CIO officials publicly explained that the organization was now “championing immigrant rights as a strategic move to make immigrants more enthusiastic about joining unions.”

By 1999, organized labor officially changed their immigration policy:

'At the October 1999 AFL-CIO convention, the pro-immigrant element made its move from the convention floor. Unions representing janitors, garment workers, hotel workers and restaurant workers argued that the labor movement needed to abandon its past and embrace immigrant causes if it is to survive. They sought to end the use of employer sanctions and they sought to enact another mass amnesty for those who had entered illegally since the last general amnesty in 1986.'

'To avoid a public confrontation, the issue was deferred until the AFL-CIO Executive Council could take up the issue in February 2000. It did so and following that meeting it announced that it would seek to have the employer sanctions provision of IRCA repealed and that it would fight for another general amnesty for most of the millions of illegal immigrants in the country at the time. At the leadership level, at least, organized labor chose to become a supporter of the immigrant agenda even if that agenda imperiled the economic well-being of vast numbers of the American work force.'

Deadly crash stirs off-road racing debate - latimes.com

Deadly crash stirs off-road racing debate - latimes.com

This tragedy deep in the SoCal high desert east of Apple Valley/Victorville(Lucerne is the location) has the environmental wackos all astir over off-road desert racing. I used to be an environmentalist and in the past would have denounced this. But now i have come to accept that certain segments of Californians need to be engaged with Mechanical stuff like motorized road racing, and have outdoor recreational places to indulge their passions.
CA has already restricted large portions of scenic desert,such as the Mohave Reserve, as off-limits to off-road recreation. There are large parts of the deep desert which are not environmentally sensitive areas. CA has large regions of desert devoid of much scenic value. Ever drive from LA along rte 40 to AZ. Or rte 15 to Las Vegas. There are 100's of square miles of open empty idle CA desert which are barren straggley sagebrush & dirt: flat, featureless, and baking hot.

This is ideal terrain for off-roaders, and i don't have a problem with that. I say allow the off-road crowd to indulge in their recreation in largely empty barren desert terrain. It is a good release of testosterone for a segment of our restless population. Sure we had a tragic off-road racing Accident with 8 fatalities, but Greater LA Region Alone has 1000+ traffic fatalities each year from road accidents, but we don't ban driving right!


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NOW OUR TWIN IMBECILE LEFTIST SENATORS FEINSTEIN AND BOXER ARE CALLING FOR INVESTIGATIONS INTO THIS TRAGEDY. THIS IS JUST A POLITICAL DIVERSIONARY STUNT. THEY KNOW AS MUCH ABOUT DESERT OFF-ROAD RACING AS A DESERT TURTLE. I SUSPECT IN THE CASE OF BOXER THERE IS A HIDDEN AGENDA-TO ELIMINATE DESERT RACING ALTOGETHER. SHE HAS ALREADY CONTACTED SOME ENVIROMENTAL GREEN FANATICS WITHIN THE BUREAU OF INTERIOR WHO ARE COMMITTED TO ELIMINATING OFF-ROAD RACING ON ALL FEDERAL LANDS.

blade runner scenario for LA revisited and updated

Blade runner scenario for LA(continued)

I just watched Blade Runner for umpteeth time. It depicts a futuristic LA , somewhat Far East influenced. The film's artists got much right, but they factored out the impact of the latino invasion of LA. The film needed to add depictions of futuristic space taco wagons, latino bars, latino billboards, and streets filled by Latino vendors selling churros, pollos, balloons, flowers, mangos ect. The future of LA say 10 years from now, actually a reality today, is a completely Latinoized city, a city in which Spanish is spoken at street level but the mid-top level Gov bureacracy, PD and politicians are still doing business in English.
As it stands now 70-80% of the cities laboring force is Hispanic. That includes janitors, warehouse workers, shop workers, hotel workers, rest workers, landscape maint, nannies,low-level delivery drivers, ect. This huge proletariat population is easily demagouged by the LA politicians and swayed into voting the far left Democrat agenda.

My original blade runner depiction of LA,

There will be cutbacks/reduction in services, crime will spike, LA RE continues to fall, economy collapses, unemployment increases, good chance of an inner city race riot. LA is raising fees on everything to make up for it's budget shortfall, and cops will be aggressively ticketing drivers- more Red light cameras to steal $'s from citizens.
LA will be a bad place to reside in next several years unless U are a ghetto punk, welfare sucking illegal, gangbanger, run a business operating in the black market such as salvage yard, a still employed municipal employee able to escape the budget axe, run a mom and pop donut shop or liquor store employing only relatives,or live within the 1 mile-wide coastal ribben fronting Santa Monica Bay.

Also flourishing in bad times will be llegal- alien imported crime syndicate operations such as human and illegal drug smuggling, warehouse looting, pot growing, meth, money laundering, car theft rings, insurance fraud, phony doc mills, all run out of some abandoned gutted REO property in some LA ghetto dump such as Bell, Cudahy, Maywood, South Gate, Vernon, Hawthorne, Lynwood,Inglewood, Compton, La Puente, Pacoima, San Fernando, Sun Valley, Florence, willowbrook, watts, harbor gateway, boyle hts, lincoln hts,Pomona, pico union
(short list of some of LA's worst ghetto stews).

U will also escape the bad times if U are part of the 2% LA uberweathy in some exclusive cocooned westside enclave such as Pacific Palisades or Brentwood. Don't believe the posters and cam shots of pristine Malibu beaches and hollywood hills art deco palaces- they are less than 1% of the reality of LA which is mostly a begrimed traffic- choked illegal alien- infested trashed out graffitied ghetto-polis.

Why LA has not had a riot despite the dismal state of the economy?

Tons of stumulus aid are being funneled into LA ghettos, courtesy of OBAMA( the former community organizer). Biggest benficiaries are African- Americans, latino youths, and other minority 'at risk teens', and young adults ages 16-24. There have been set up tons of temp summer/ make work /jobs corps programs set up in south LA region including long beach. Add to that unlimited stimulus $ poured into bolstering medi-cal, urban renewal, CallWorks, WIA, ect. They have quelled unrest in the ghetto so far, and groups such as Acorn( or whatever they morphed into) will see that the LA Poor are well provided.

'Progressive' CA politicians, far left unions , and the Hispanic vote. Why CA Dem politicians love illegals flooding into CA

If U wonder why the CA and the Feds allow continued dumping of illegals into SoCal and LA and nothing is done about it, the answer is entirely political.

The Liberal factions which run CA deliberately want as many illegals and their anchor spawn jammed into CA for one reason: POWER. They want and need the votes of the Hispanics and it matters little to them if much of SCal/LA have become vast illegal-alien spawned ghettos infested with illegal-alien spawned gangs and graffiti..

The leftist ,radical 'progressive' state employee public sector unions and their congressional puppets have caused the bankruptcy of Ca., They only stay in power because they have allowed the massive infiltration of illegals into Ca in order to court the hispanic vote, which allows the Sacto/San Francisco-based leftist progressives & state public sector unions in power to stay in power, dominate CA politics and maintain their inflated pensions, which are a prime reason that CA is reeling and bankrupt.

At election time as if on cue watch Boxer, Pelosi Feinstein, and other northern CA-based 'progressive' politicians make their twice a year forays into LA to slavishly lick the boots of the hispanic voters.

Amnesty is nothing but a bone to throw at the Hispanic voters to get them to vote democrat and keep the northern CA-based liberal Dems in power so they can keep on plundering CA taxpayers in order to pay the inflated union pensions and welfare handouts to the vast impoverished LA plebians, mosty illegals and their spawn.

Rants on my hometown of long beach, a mini version of the ghettoized 'PC ed ' cesspool of LA

On Long beach affordable housing plans

Yeah we really need more affordable housing in long beach. LB already has 1000's of section 8 apt dumps and foreclosed trashed out properties so adding more affordable low income housing would make little difference. After all LB is largely a marginalized community of welfare suckling illegals, gang bangers, section 8'ers, and all other assorted welfare leeching marginals, and the city has virtually no decent paying middle class supporting jobs so the only thing LB can do is pump affordable housing to add even more marginal folks to the already third world ghettoish cesspool which LB has largely descended into.

LB used to be called 'Iowa by the Sea'. We can now call it 'Ghetto by the Sea' or 'Oakland south.'

LB sold out to 'progressive' unions
My view of the LB political establishment is that most of them are left wing union-bribed hacks who have PC stamped on their foreheads and go around sprouting 'we are the world' and 'cumbaya'. Ditto for most LA and CA politicians. Union bribed, brought and sold, and sucking up/down to minority empowerment politics. The only thing they have in common is their absolute inbecility in practical business matters. LB, LA, and CA are examples of what far left socialist/progressive/union thug/ illegal-alien catering politics do to a city and state: turn it into a BK third world polyglot laughing stock of USA and entire world.

Here is the key to how the Dems maintain power in CA:

Greater LA basin region,including Long beach, is now predominantly minority, and the Dem 'progressives' based in northern CA know exactly how to play the fiddle with these minorities. They simply keep on giving massive doses of welfare handouts and portray themselves as the party of compassion for the downtrodden. The local LB far left union -bribed politicians are nothing but puppets on a string guided by their leftist union masters/Dem party operatives based up in Sacto, San Francisco, and Washington. The concept is simple: throw a few crumbs at the minorities/illegals/Hispanic voting block to keep them in line.

why Dems need the welfare spigot to keep flowing to their Democrat voting constituents

LA county, which includes LB, has 3 million souls collecting welfare, and a huge impoverished population at or near poverty level. 90% of these welfare recipients are minority, most of them recent immigrants both legal and illegal, and you can add to that an equally huge impoverished anchor baby population . They know the hand that feeds them and will keep voting democrat like brain dead zombies as long as the welfare spigot keeps on coming from the bankrupt CA treasury. No problem getting the minority votes for the Dems.

The northern-based CA Dems see LA region and much of SoCal as one vast dumbed down minority-populated backwater to be kept in line with welfare handouts

Rejection of California state worker furloughs is upheld

Rejection of California state worker furloughs is upheld


CA public unions think they are are impervious from layoffs, furloughs., and pay cuts. CA superior and district appeals court judges are in pockets of CA public unions. No surprise AS CA is run by and controlled by PEUs. They only maintain power because they are allied with the SoCal/LA Latino-labor coalition. The CA PEU's and their puppet CA state politicians allow illegals to overrun the state and steal 10 billion in benefits because they depend on Hispanic votes to keep power. That is why the LA County AFL-CIO sponsored & paid for 11 buses to go to AZ to support pro-illegal alien protesters. CA public unions are greedy, feel entitled, and run CA like a fiefdom, bleeding CA dry of tax $ and refusing to adjust their hrs, pay and benefits even by a little during the worst economic downturn since the great depression..

The CA State Public Employee Unions are a gigantic racketeering syndicate.

The racketeering syndicate known as the CA PEU's tentacles reaches into the Obama adm and congress. They are comparable to the Mexican cartel's reach and influence into the Mex gov both at state and fed level. One enforcement/revenue/ collection arm of the CA PEU's is the state CA Superior Court System, a fascist/ruthless set of roadside bandits who's traffic division is ruthlessly stealing and robbing law-abiding citizen drivers via traffic citation fees. At same time PD's and CA politicians allow 1/4 million illegals/ recent immigrants to drive with suspended or no drivers license/registration, no insurance, and allow illegals a free pass to roam all over SoCal without the power to detain and ask for immgration status and papers.


Here is just one example, reposted from another source, of the CA racketeering system which allows CA public employees to defraud the pension system and loot CA taxpayers.

"The LA Times has reported that Rizzo, the city manager of Bell, CA, was getting total compensation of 1.5 million per year, including 28 weeks of paid vacation and sick leave. His pension will be the highest in the state, approximately $600,000 per year! That is, if he manages to stay out of prison. We taxpayers do not owe lavish salaries and pensions to anybody. Their so-called "contracts" are not valid because the government employees who signed these "contracts" were planning to be beneficiaries themselves. Therefore they had an incentive to write the "contracts" in their favor, rather than in a way that was fair to the taxpayer. Furthermore, it appears some of these "contracts" were decided during the boom years when taxpayers had jobs, loads of equity in their homes (or so they thought), and foreclosures were almost unheard of. Times have changed. It's time to nullify the pension "contracts". And also reduce salaries of government employees by 50 per cent."

Woman files $500,000 sex claim against Rialto police - latimes.com

Woman files $500,000 sex claim against Rialto police - latimes.com

'Rialto police officers had group sex with employees of the Spearmint Rhino Gentlemen's Club at the police narcotics office and the police union headquarters, according to a claim filed against the Inland Empire city....'

'Nancy Holtgreve, a server at the club, says that more than two officers engaged in sexual conduct with strip club employees, and that one officer used the department's narcotics office for sexual liaisons during the last two years. Her relationship with one officer soured when she got pregnant, she alleges, and the officer began threatening her....The claim filed Monday alleges that the behavior "fostered and perpetuated a culture of unwanted sexual harassment of females by male police officers."

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Rialto is a degenerated slumzone located next to the impoverished hellhole of San Bernadino City. The entire zone, bounded by the 15, 10, 210, and 215 freeways and surrounding areas just outside this zone, has become a degenerated 3rd world degraded sinkhole in San Berdoo County. The cities/districts within this zone-South Fontana, Rialto, San Berdoo city, Colton- collectively constitute a dismal quad composed of ramshankle huts, foreclosed properties, and illegal alien packed tenements/homes. last decade saw a massive migration into the IE of folks fleeing out of LA seeking cheaper properties as LA home prices went thru the roof during 2004-2007 Re runup. They obtained cheap homes in SB and Riverside Counties, using low cost liar loans, and when RE prices went south after 2007 the entire bubble collapsed , and entire region became a bombed out district of depressed property values filled with unruly minorites and immigrant illegals, as well as sullen underemployed native Californians who still called IE their home.

Now back to the topic of police romping with strippers in 3rd world Rialto. This relates to the larger topic of strip clubs proliferating all over SoCal, usually in depressed, rundown, de-zoned or semi-industrialized areas. Rule is- the more beraggled and run down a city is the more strip clubs u see. Here's a short list of extremely degenerated rundown LA-region cities which have strip clubs in abundance:

City of Industry-La Puente
City of Commerce
Inglewood
San Berdardino City
Wilmington/harbor gateway
Central Anaheim
Hawthorne

A city's degeneration into a 3rd world illegal alien inundated sanctuary district will result in proliferation of strip clubs , even in shopping malls. Communities which act as sanctuary cities for illegals also are sanctuary/tenderloin zones for other semi-legal/shady/ marginal activities such as gaming dens, mall strip clubs, bikini bars, private gents clubs, massage parlors, marijuana smoke shops, ect. All these flourish in areas de-zoned & marginalized. LA region has lots of these deregulated tenderloin districts, a result of the massive influxes of illegals into the regions unincorporated areas, where government intrusion is non-existent, allowing illegals and shady club operations to flourish/fly under the Gov radar.


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Senate approves 26 billion in aid to save jobs for Obamas -supporting Teachers/public unions

Senate approves jobs bill to stop teacher layoffs

" Congress is moving rapidly just weeks before the start of the school year to speed billions of dollars in emergency education aid to states in hopes of reversing the layoffs of tens of thousands of teachers. Some $10 billion in aid to school districts is set to flow after a 61-39 Senate vote Thursday—to be followed quickly by a House vote next week—in hopes that it will come in time for many school districts to reconsider teacher layoffs."

"Thursday's vote was a hard-earned but partial victory for Democrats and President Barack Obama. Advocates said it could save the jobs of up to 300,000 teachers, police and other public workers. The measure would provide another $16 billion to help states fund their Medicaid budgets—and therefore free money for other budget priorities such as avoiding tax increases and preserving the jobs of state employees. About three-fifths of state governments have already factored in the federal help when drawing up budgets for the ongoing fiscal year."

"The vote caps months of effort by governors of both parties, public employee unions and others seeking to extend programs enacted in last year's economic stimulus law. That measure provided budget relief to states and local school districts hurt by slumping tax revenues as the U.S. economy has struggled to emerge from recession. Advocates said the measure would stop the layoffs of perhaps 300,000 teachers, firefighters, police officers and other public employees"

"Republicans blasted the measure as a rerun of last year's economic stimulus bill, which has earned poor reviews among many voters as unemployment hovers near 10 percent nationwide. And they called it a giveaway to public employee unions, a key Democratic constituency, just three months before the midterm elections."

THIS IS 100% TOTAL BS!! CONGRESS PASSES A 26 BILLION AID PACKAGE TO SAVE JOBS OF PUBLIC EMPLOYEE UNIONS, MAINLY TEACHER JOBS, WHILE 20-25 MILLION U.S. PRIVATE SECTOR WORKERS REMAIN UNEMPLOYED. CA HAS A 13% 'OFFICIAL' UE RATE, WITH 2.5 TO 3 MILLION CALIFORNIANS UNEMPLOYED(95% OF THEM IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR). BUT THE STATE PUBLIC EMPLOYEE UNION TEACHERS, ALL OF THEM LEFTIST DEMOCRATS & OBAMA SUPPORTERS, WILL GET RELIEF FROM LAYOFFS FROM OUR FED GOVERNMENT. YEAH, SAVE THE TEACHER UNION JOBS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE DEMOCRATIC CONSTITUENCY,BUT SCREW OVER THE PRIVATE SECTOR AND SMALL BUSINESSES WITH CRUSHING TAX INCREASES.

A short overview of LA's few scenic areas, and the effects of massive illegal invasion upon them

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CA is indeed has beautiful scenery but they are way out of LA. For me personally the scenery starts north of lancaster , past Santa Clarita or past Ventura . Or to be more precise you leave the official la ghetto basin region when you le...ave Sylmar northbound on the 5 freeway , or leave Victorville northeast on the 15, or leave Oxnard NW on the 101. Within LA itself there are isolated pockets of scenery here and there. Even in the ghettos i have found isolated tiny pockets of scenery.

There is this nice lake hidden underneath the overpasses at junction of 5, 60 and 101 freeway, called Hollenbeck lake. It is located deep in the extremely ghettoized district of Boyle Hts just east of LA DWTN. Very few know about it and few go there because it is deep in LA barrio ghettoland. and difficult to get to.
LA History & Science Musuem could be a scenic area if it was not surrounded by LA S Central ghetto.
Santa Monica bluffs could be a nice spot if the SM homeless did not spoil it. Academy Park near dodger stadium is a scenic and cool spot but overrun by illegals. MacArthur park was once a nice lake eons ago but has long since been overrun and ruined my massive illegal/gang influxes into Westlake district.

Echo park lake would be a sparking oasis near LA DWTN if it was not surrounded by ,or close to, the illegal-alien infested slums of Echo Park district, Westlake, rampart, Alvarado st., and the generally decrepit slummified strip running north/ and south along Glendale blvd off the 110/ hollywood freeway.

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