Post Scripts

By now most of Chico knows my opinion of President Obama. CN&R Editor Robert Speer wrote about it extensively in his From This Corner column (“Schindelbeck shoots first”) last week. To recap, I believe that Obama is the most ineffective president since Carter, an utter failure at creating jobs, a failure at balancing our budget, reducing our deficit, and a failure on foreign policy. His naivete on foreign policy is appalling, even to many Democrats.

While roughly 47 percent of you will disagree with me about Obama, the real question is this: How do my beliefs about our president shape my goals for Chico as your next council member?

As a fiscal conservative, I believe we need to pay closer attention to our budget. Everything the city does is predicated on a sound budget. We need to make sure our finance director supplies us with the adequate monthly report required by Section 908 of our City Charter. City finance needs more transparency and accountability.

Our emergency-reserve fund is almost half of what it should be, we just lost state RDA funding, we are cutting police and fire, many businesses are either closing or leaving, and we have lost manufacturing jobs.

Chico’s downtown is filling with homeless and mentally ill who genuinely need help, as well as “street life” enthusiasts and AB 109 early releases. Violent crime and burglaries have increased under Mayor Schwab, yet the current council majority thinks it is more important to craft policy banning plastic bags and making Chico a slavery-free zone, than to create solutions for our homeless population, our unemployed, and our local businesses.

Our liberal council members have not made tough budgetary decisions and are kicking the “deficit can” down the road for future generations, much like state and federal government is doing. This policy isn’t sustainable.

I am what our City Council needs; a fiscal conservative with a small-business owner’s experience and common sense. We have more important issues to discuss, and I plan on tackling them head-on.

The bottom line is this: If you think Chico is a better place today than four years ago, than you’ll likely vote for another candidate and not me. However, if you think Chico needs new leaders who will focus on the core issues that make our city a safer place to live, an ideal place for business, and a great place to raise a family, then I ask you to vote for Toby Schindelbeck this November.

Posted by Tina

Someone needed to say it with vigor and conviction…applause and kudos to Pat Cadell, former Democrat Party advisor:

Pat Cadell also has posted an article over at Breitbart, Big Journalism entitled, “Romney Must Go on Offense on Media and Middle East”. Mr Cadell writes both about the “crisis of media legitimacy” and about the dangers to our dangers this poses to our nation which he calls a “crisis of national security”:

Eli Lake, writing for Tina Brown’s left-leaning website, The Daily Beast, wrote on Friday of the “continuing collapse of the official US line”–that is, the line that Ambassador Chris Stevens was killed in a spasm of violence caused by a stupid little Mohammed video, as opposed to a well-planned terrorist operation. In other words, unanswerable questions have arisen, and the evidence that media are colluding with the Obama administration continues to mount.

Why is this distinction between the two versions of Libyan events important? It’s important because if, in fact, the US was hit by another terrorist attack on September 11, 2012, for which it was unprepared, what does that say about the Obama administration? Can anyone say that the State Department was well prepared for danger–on an obvious, neon-sign anniversary?

Could it be that after decades of complaints and example after example we have finally pressed this issue out into the open where it can be examined and, lets cheer for it…shamed?

Hat Tip: pjmedia.com

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If you listen closely, it’s obvious the audio in the clip has been adjusted. However, that’s not uncommon — and that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s MSNBC who did it. Sound technicians usually cut out the audience to ensure speakers aren’t drowned out (which you can do by simply turning the mics up and down — or you can do after the fact). However, where the controversy comes in is in the caption on the screen quoting the audience as chanting “Ryan!” Why is that controversial? Because people who attended the event say that’s not what happened, and that the MSNBC video grossly misrepresents what actually occurred.

During Thursday’s edition of TheBlaze TV’s “Pat & Stu,” one caller gives her account of the campaign rally and their stories line up with many others at the event. MSNBC lied and distorted the video, that should get them in big trouble with the FCC.

“The crowd was yelling,” caller Sherry recounts, “the crowd was screaming ‘Romney! Romney!’ and Romney, being the gentleman [he is], we can’t get in his head because he’s so stinking nice, he stopped us to add ‘Romney-Ryan.'”

“And if you watch the clip again, Ryan throws up his hand like ‘oh, you don’t have to add me to the chant,'” she adds.

by Jack Lee

Here’s a no brainer, Molly Munger’s Prop 38. Everybody hates its. Gov. Brown hates it, the Democrats hate it and the Republicans hate it. And polling shows that the voters don’t care much for it either. The Calif. Teachers Assoc. approve of it, but they also approve of Prop 30 and only can pass. They are looking for the money and which ever proposition passes, they will be the benefactors, a win-win for the teachers union.

Do we need to go into the details at this point? Well, just for the sake of being able to say you checked it over and knew enough to shy away from this one, let me give you a few facts about Prop 38:

Increases personal income tax rates on annual earnings over $7,316 using sliding scale from .4% for lowest individual earners to 2.2% for individuals earning over $2.5 million, for twelve years.

During first four years, allocates 60% of revenues to K-12 schools, 30% to repaying state debt, and 10% to early childhood programs. Thereafter, allocates 85% of revenues to K-12 schools, 15% to early childhood programs.

Provides K-12 funds on school-specific, per-pupil basis, subject to local control, audits, and public input.

Prohibits state from directing new funds.

This is a huge tax increase on the middle class. It does nothing to address wasteful spending anywhere in the budget, or cut redundant programs or programs that are not yielding expected results… this won’t fly. It’s just more money thrown at a big problem, hoping for better results. Polling on 38 is poor.

Submitted by Harold

Imagine an Alternative Universe. Suppose that Rep. Paul Ryan had said that Joe Biden had “sullied the religion that he and I share.” How many days of the news cycle do you suppose would be dominated by the story? How many Democrats and members of the press would declare that this kind of religious provocation/bigotry rendered Mr. Ryan unfit for high office?

However in the political universe we endure, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, said just that about Mitt Romney. Highlighting an Internet item, Reid said he agreed that Romney “sullied” the Mormon faith, and that, in Nevada , voters would “understand that he is not the face of Mormonism.”

Also Harry Reid, stated “a little birdie told me Romney paid no taxes for 10 years,” standards.

Continue reading “YOU DECIDE” »

The League of Women voters will be holding their pre-election forum on ballot propositions at the 1st Baptist Church 850 Palmetto Ave., Chico. The forum will begin at 10 a.m. and it is open to the public.

Refreshments will be served. Amply parking and easy access. It should be a fun and informative event.

CHICO AIR SHOW is also on Saturday. If you go, be sure to stop by the Butte Taxpayers Alliance, (a non-partisan organization) tent on the tarmac near the entrance gate. They will have information on local elections and some of our candidates will be on hand to talk to you.

by Jack Lee

PROPOSITION ENDORSEMENTS BY THE STATE GOP

Prop 30 – NO
Prop 31 – YES (better take a close look at this one, I say vote NO)
Prop 32 – YES
Prop 33 – YES
Prop 34 – NO
Prop 35 – YES
Prop 36 – NO
Prop 37 – NO
Prop 38 – NO
Prop 39 – NO
Prop 40 – YES

United States Senate Endorsement – Elizabeth Emken

Congressional Endorsements – District Candidate CD 1 Doug LaMalfa

Assembly District 3 – Dan Logue

by Jack Lee

Prop 31 looks benign at first glance. It mostly extends the time between budget cycles from one year to two years and it will “Prohibit the California State Legislature from “creating expenditures of more than $25 million unless offsetting revenues or spending cuts are identified.” That’s the best part, then there are details…

• Permit the Governor of California to cut the budget unilaterally during declared fiscal emergencies if the state legislature fails to act.
• Require performance reviews of all state programs.
• Require performance goals in state and local budgets.
• Require publication of all bills at least three days prior to a vote by the California State Senate or California State Assembly.
• Give counties the power to alter state statutes or regulations related to spending unless the state legislature or a state agency vetoes those changes within 60 days.

Continue reading “Proposition 31 – Two Year Budget Cycle” »

Posted by Tina

We cannot fault people like the woman in this video for what the so-called smartest folks in the room have made into law – We can seek better solutions today. But it will take courage and resolve!

Through policies of redistribution and entitlement and failing schools, broken neighborhoods, low standards and expectations, loss of social morals and values, and the notion that we don’t have to work to eat we have sentenced men and women like this to a reality of soft enslavement. It is truly criminal that we have come to this state in our nation:

America took a wrong turn when we adopted Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society, mindlessly pouring money into entitlement programs instead of education, training and temporary financial support for whole, intact families.

The solutions we fashioned destroyed the family in conditions that were already weak and made the problems worse. The Moynihan Report shows the the black community was already in trouble and warned of a terrible outcome if we failed to strengthen the family unit…but America wasn’t paying attention and there was political hay to make…and white guilt to assuage.

You can read Moynihan’s report and warnings here:

http://www.blackpast.org/?q=primary/moynihan-report-1965

The persistent rise in Negro educational achievement is probably the main trend that belies this thesis. On the other hand our study has produced some clear indications that the situation may indeed have begun to feed on itself. It may be noted, for example, that for most of the post-war period male Negro unemployment and the number of new AFDC cases rose and fell together as if connected by a chain from 1948 to 1962. The correlation between the two series of data was an astonishing .91. (This would mean that 83 percent of the rise and fall in AFDC cases can be statistically ascribed to the rise and fall in the unemployment rate.) In 1960, however, for the first time, unemployment declined, but the number of new AFDC cases rose. In 1963 this happened a second time. In 1964 a third. The possible implications of these and other data are serious enough that they, too, should be understood before program proposals are made.

However, the argument of this paper does lead to one central conclusion: Whatever the specific elements of a national effort designed to resolve this problem, those elements must be coordinated in terms of one general strategy.

What then is that problem? We feel the answer is clear enough. Three centuries of injustice have brought about deep-seated structural distortions in the life of the Negro American. At this point, the present tangle of pathology is capable of perpetuating itself without assistance from the white world. The cycle can be broken only if these distortions are set right.

In a word, a national effort towards the problems of Negro Americans must be directed towards the question of family structure. The object should be to strengthen the Negro family so as to enable it to raise and support its members as do other families. After that, how this group of Americans chooses to run its affairs, take advantage of its opportunities, or fail to do so, is none of the nation’s business.

Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (Democrat) is a favorite of mine because of this paper. He was clearly a deep thinker who was genuinely interested in uplifting our black citizens from poverty. Instead we made the problems they faced in 1965 even worse.

Thanks to Peggy…the gift that keeps on giving…for suggested the video.