CA Lawmakers Threaten Construction Companies

Posted by Tina

In a show of pure arrogance (and tyranny) California legislators threatened any California company with retaliation should they enter bids to build the wall on the border:

Three California Democrats have a warning for contractors who sign up for President Donald Trump’s border-wall construction project between the U.S. and Mexico: Build it, and we will divest from your company. …

… Assembly Bill 946 would require the California Public Employee Retirement System and the California State Teachers Retirement System — the two largest public pension funds in the nation, with investments of $312 billion and $202 billion, respectively — to liquidate investments in any company involved with the wall’s construction within a year. It would also require the pension-fund management to report a list of those companies to the Legislature.

Hmmm…not good to burn bridges. What happens when they want to fix our failing infrastructure?

I’m sure these companies will still find good homes in state pensions in Texas and other fly over country states. The middle of the country is UUUUge!

Besides, how dumb is it to divest just when a company is bound to start making money!

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12 Responses to CA Lawmakers Threaten Construction Companies

  1. Dewster says:

    Tyranny is the tax payers paying for a useless wall. That wall is wasted spending of tax dollars and a scam for profit.

    Tina you are a Californian certainly you hvae seen the problems at the border which are tunnels that come deep into San Diego gated communities like Otay Lakes. The Border patrol puts cement n them but they just dig around back to the tunnels. They are elaborate. Funny I have my old Border patrol shirt still so do not try to school me on the Border. I lived down south for half my life.

    You seem to want to rail taxpayers at every corner for ideology and the inability to say you are not always right.

    So we must cut funding to all public services so a contractor can build the Berlin Wall in the USA. You care none about the people just someone making profits off of tax dollars it seems.

    How about conservatives pay an extra wall tax and leave the rest of us out of the fascism.

    BTW You are in Mexico if we were really being Proper.

    • Tina says:

      “Tyranny is the tax payers paying for a useless wall.”The voters

      You don’t have to like this spending or agree with those who want it.

      In this case specifically, voters across the nation elected the candidate that said he would build the wall for security and for purposes of deterring illegal entry and trafficking into our nation. Voters decided the wall would be built! That is not tyranny; it is the democratic process.

      I am aware of the tunnels. The tunnels are a different issue. I would hope that part of the design of this wall would be technology to detect underground tunneling.

      “So we must cut funding to all public services so a contractor can build the Berlin Wall…”

      The Berlin Wall was built to keep citizen in…to prevent citizens from leaving! That is tyranny!!!

      “How about conservatives pay an extra wall tax and leave the rest of us out of the fascism.”

      Sure, I’d go along with that….IF…you pay taxes for ALL of the socialist programs and leave the rest of us out of it! I assure you we will come out on top in that deal. Not only will the wall be built on time and under budget but your program budget will be bloated and rife with fraud and waste forever.

      Dewey if you are going to yell fascism, you should at least know what it is…obviously, you do not!

  2. J. Soden says:

    Taxifornia: The land of Fruits and Nuts where illegal criminals have more rights than the voters who have to pay for them.
    Immigrants are here LEGALLY. The rest are criminals as they have chosen to break the law.

    • Tina says:

      And those citizens who refuse to get the difference are complicit. Perhaps we should take Dewey’s suggestion…they should be required to foot the bill personally.

  3. J. Soden says:

    Latest company to depart Taxifornia for lessregulation, less taxes and less interference: Carl’s Jr Corporate HQ heading to Tennessee!

  4. Libby says:

    … and our President threatens lawmakers. Busy, busy, busy, we are.

    But I just get tickled to death when I and august news organizations are on the same page, politically speaking:

    http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/22/politics/donald-trump-wsj-trust/index.html

    Choice Bit:
    “The editorial also slammed Trump for refusing to back off his administration’s unsubstantiated allegations that President Barack Obama ordered the wiretapping of Trump Tower. Multiple lawmakers, including Republicans, have called on Trump to apologize to Obama for making the claim without providing any evidence.
    “He has offered no evidence for his claim, and a parade of intelligence officials, senior Republicans and Democrats have since said they have seen no such evidence,” the editorial board wrote. “Yet the President clings to his assertion like a drunk to an empty gin bottle, rolling out his press spokesman to make more dubious claims.”

    Whoa, mommy … there’s some strong language.

    • Tina says:

      There’s more going on than we know about.

      Independent Sentinel:

      I’ve never seen a case so misrepresented and leaks so damaging to a process that was meant to be conducted in secret.” —U.S. official

      There was a warrant issued for a server at Trump Tower, actually we learned late last evening that there were two warrants, one a specific FISA warrant and the other a general FISA warrant. One warrant dealt with a server that handled Trump marketing. Nothing illicit was found.

      Politico:

      Members of the Donald Trump transition team, possibly including Trump himself, were under surveillance during the Obama administration following November’s election, House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes told reporters Wednesday.

      Nunes said the surveillance appears to have been legal, incidental collection and that it does not appear to have been related to concerns over collusion with Russia.

      Nunes is going to the White House later Wednesday to brief the Trump administration on what he has learned, which he said came from “sources.”

      12 days ago, Raw Story:

      n a letter to members of the Senate intelligence committee, Carter Page—a former foreign policy adviser to Donald Trump—wrote to Congress claiming, without evidence, that his phone was tapped last year, the Guardian reports.

      The letter, addressed to Richard Burr (R-NC) and Mark Warner (D-VA), chairman and vice-chairman of the Senate intelligence committee, references news reports that indicate the FBI may have conducted surveillance during an investigation of ties between Russia and Trump campaign officials. Page appears to suggest such surveillance would bolster the president’s currently unsubstantiated claim that Barack Obama wiretapped Trump Tower in October 2016. Trump has thus far provided no evidence to back that up, instead demanding a Congressional investigation into his dubious accusation.

      “Having spoken in favor of some of Mr Trump’s policies on other Fox News Group programs during the 2016 campaign as a campaign surrogate and given the peaceful relationship I have had with Russian citizens since my years in the US Navy, it may be understandable why I would be an associated political target if such sick activities had indeed been committed as alleged in the previously cited media reports,” Page wrote.

      “For your information, I have frequently dined in Trump Grill, had lunch in Trump Café, had coffee meetings in the Starbucks at Trump Tower, attended events and spent many hours in campaign headquarters on the fifth floor last year,” he continued. “As a sister skyscraper in Manhattan, my office at the IBM Building (590 Madison Avenue) is literally connected to the Trump Tower building by an atrium.”

      “If prior media reports may be believed that surveillance was indeed undertaken against me and other Trump supporters, it should be essentially deemed as a proven fact that the American people’s concerns that Trump Tower was under surveillance last year is entirely correct,” he added.

      You have no interest in facts, discovering the truth, or the law.

      • Libby says:

        “Carter Page—a former foreign policy adviser to Donald Trump—wrote to Congress claiming, without evidence, ….”

        Tina … this is your “evidence”? And Nunes is running second only to Spicy in the Prevaricator Stakes.

        • Tina says:

          Well, well, well, another whistle blower. This guy is attempting to do it the legal way…and he’s run into a lot of brick walls in both parties:

          Freedom Watch notifies congress of a “Deep State” intelligence community whistle blower, Dennis Montgomery, with hundreds of millions of documents showing CIA and FBI and Intelligence Committees were spying on, and conducting surveillance on, American citizens for political purposes.

          Mr. Montgomery is trying to use a legal “whistle-blower” process and not follow the same approach as Edward Snowden.

          Drain the swamp down to the last slimy crawler.

  5. Libby says:

    “The middle of the country is UUUUge!”

    Yes, Tina, but nobody lives there, so there is little opportunity to make big money. On top of which, the Texan embrace of reckless right-wing fiscal policy has rendered Dallas bankrupt with other cities on the brink. So they are not going to be spending big on infrastructure, are they?

    This whole wall thing is just tooooooooo Gulag, and we are not having it.

  6. Tina says:

    The mayor of Dallas is a Democrat. Dallas is no different than other large cities run by Democrats…they are broke and still stubbornly clinging to the same failed fiscal policies that caused their problems.

    In terms of fiscal health, Texas is average (coming in at 16th) among the states for 2016. California is well below average, coming in at 44th among the states.

    I’d say the significant thing about the middle of the country is that nobody progressive, wasteful, and tyrannical lives there.

    That you would use a word like “Gulag” to describe the building of a security wall is ridiculous:

    According to de-classified archive data released by the successor agency to the KGB after Perestroika, a total of 1,053,829 people died in the GULAG from 1934 to 1953, not counting those who died in labor colonies. The total population of the camps varied from 510,307 (in 1934) to 1,727,970 (in 1953).

    But then, you are often ridiculous.

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