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Barney Frank Eviscerated By A College Student

Posted by Katy Grimes on Wednesday, April 08, 2009 3:48:42 PM
During a speech at Harvard, Barney Frank has his entrails removed by a college student. As priceless as it is, Frank put on public display, what a pompous dolt he is, as he condescended and tried to embarrass a college student for asking policy questions. The mere fact that he couldn't answer the kid, should demonstrate to every one of his constituents that he is a has-been.
 
Real Clear Politics has the video.  HERE
 
How does a blithering idiot like Barney Frank ever get elected to anything? He can't complete a sentence or a thought, sounds like a cartoon character and has a pornographic lifestyle allowing a men's brothel to be run out of his apartment. He is physically repulsive, personally disingenuous, and an equal opportunity offendor.
 
But then, what am I talking about? California has it's share of elected morons starting with San Fran Nan - old wide eyes - Maxine Waters, Laura Richardson, Diane Watson, Henry Waxman.... eeewwww, each of these people is repugnant and elected. With what Nancy Pelosi spends on facial reconstructive surgeries, she could pay for all of the California Representatives to have complete makeovers.. but would do nothing to correct their flawed character.  
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What Exactly is "Social Justice?"

Posted by Katy Grimes on Monday, April 06, 2009 6:04:38 PM
Columnist Rebecca Hagelin hits it out of the park in her March 31st column Social Justice or Hatred? She analyzes how liberals hijack language to sell their sick causes.
 
What is (Bill) Ayers brand of "social justice" that now permeates our schools and society at large? It is a perversion of what Scripture calls for. If you read his text books and those of his compatriots, you know that he uses the term to call for overthrowing the free-market system - which affords equal opportunity for everyone - and replacing it with a system that forces the "redistribution of wealth" - and he's not afraid to use violence, hatred and class warfare to do it. He believes that America as a nation is today unjust and oppressive. He freely admits that he is a "communist street fighter". His courses, recommended books (such as Queering Elementary Education) and theories are now widely adopted at teacher's colleges around the country. Part of Ayer's success has been to first teach such messages of hatred and racism in inner-city schools. But like everything else from the spread of violent rap music, to the "gangsta clothing" styles and the attitudes that go with them, to the problems of out of wedlock sex and pregnancy, when you take advantage of disadvantaged kids and feed the problems, those ills eventually spread into the suburban communities as well. (Star Parker, the founder of CURE - the Coalition for Urban Renewal and Education www.urbanCURE.org ,is an expert on the subject of how "The legacy of American socialism is our blighted inner-cities, dysfunctional inner-city schools, and broken black families." She has also writes and speaks extensively on how such problems eventually spread throughout all of American culture.)

So, the next time you hear the phrase, "social justice", take time to question the one who is using it, and challenge them to read some of the resources I have mentioned above. Maybe their motives are pure and they are using the word "justice" in its classic, biblical sense. But chances are they have no idea that the vision of justice that has taken their hearts captive was perpetrated by a terrorist who is using their good will to spread his hatred and to bring forth a more authoritative government where the individual is held captive to a few elitists with ultimate power.

read Hagelin's entire column:
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Sac Bee Waste

Posted by Katy Grimes on Monday, April 06, 2009 4:14:17 PM
Every Monday morning, we arrive at the office to find two Sacramento Bee newspapers sitting outside the front door. We have called them every year and asked why we can't subscribe to Monday - Friday only, but they don't and won't offer that option. So we've asked that they charge us the same, but just don't deliver the darned newspaper on Saturday and Sunday. What a waste.
 
Do you realize how much money The Sacramento Bee could have saved over the years if they accomodated business subscribers who requested Monday - Friday subscriptions? Instead, they have been printing and producing millions of unread weekend papers to hundreds of thousands of offices, adding to their huge carbon footprint and countless recycle bins and birdcages.
 
The Sacramento Bee still could do this. Maybe a few reporters and photographers would still have their jobs had anyone really cared about the bottom line. If Editor Melanie Sills would stop pontificating and patronizing in her column long enough to ask meaningful and real questions of the readers, I am confident that she would find many local business owners who would share their real cost-cutting ideas - the kind that real businesses have been doing in order to survive. Waste is expensive.
 
 
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Sacramento CPS - What's the Rest of the Story?

Posted by Katy Grimes on Monday, April 06, 2009 12:05:01 AM
Sacramento's Child Protective Services has been exposed several times for being completely negligent in the deaths of many children. And now the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors wants 90 days to make a decision about what to do. What exactly will change in 90 days? 

Perhaps their political consultants will have time to do damage control in the meantime, and prevent them from being hurt by their lack of oversight, and lack of action when presented with the gross negligence, particularly by the head of CPS, Lynn Frank. This woman should be drawn and quartered... or at least publicly flogged for her inattention to the very singular purpose of her job. That is gross negligence.

Doesn't this sound familiar? Remember Ann Marie Gold... the head of the Sacramento County Library who allowed gross spending negligence and collusion to take place right under her nose, even after being alerted by an employee. She was not terminated and the local media stopped reporting about her and the Supervisors, who did nothing about her. The Sacramento County Grand Jury investigated Gold. While no children died, their report lays out many of other concerns with library management, including:

• Credit card abuses.

• Questionable travel expenses.

• Excessive use of consultants.

• $2.5 million in uncollected fines.

The Sacramento County grand jury also found a lack of oversight by the 14-member board that governs the fifth-largest library system in the state.

But the report's harshest findings focus on Library Director Anne Marie Gold. The report found that Gold ignored library employees who tried to warn officials of the alleged billing and kickback plot.

Gold and other administrators "failed to adequately safeguard public funds." (sacbee.com)

The Sacramento County Board of Supervisors had her sign a separation agreement, paid her $25,000 in exchange that she would not sue the board. Are you kidding? They should have sued her for gross negligence of the fiscal responsibility for the library.

And now we have Child Protective Services, exposed for the same gross negligence, by the same type of bureaucrat. How can these people show up everyday and receive information from their employees and not act on it? CPS actually performed a cover up of details with several of the child deaths. 

In today's Sacramento Bee, District Attorney Jan Scully wrote an op/ed  about the deplorable situation at CPS and made a few recommendations Jan Scully: CPS should use its tools – and then some - Sacramento ...

Sacramento County Sheriff John McGinnis is in agreement with Scully - they have to respond to the domestic violence calls and pursue the scum bags who hurt and kill children.  And yes, that is the basis of their individual jobs, but CPS does not need to make it harder by neglecting their core responsibilities. That is negligence.

Local politicians who behave as politicians when they need to respond responsibly need to be removed from office. The Sacramento County Board of Supervisors are as negligent as the worst CPS employees by not acting on the information in the  reports available to them.

And as with the library story, I am confident that the local media will cease to report any further - once the investigative award has been received, story's done... 

or not. I will be on it. As Paul Harvey always said, let's get to "the rest of the story..."  Political damage control should always take a back seat when babies are dying, public funds are being stolen and lives are being compromised.
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Welcome To Hugoland

Posted by Katy Grimes on Saturday, April 04, 2009 8:21:05 PM
On Thursday evening, I attended the Common Cause sponsored "Community Discussion on Media." Sounds harmless enough, but don't let the politically correct rhetoric fool you. 

There was no :"community discussion;" it was a contrived, carefully controlled "agendized" meeting, designed to get the outcome they wanted. 

As we walked in to the community center room, we had to decide which media ta

ble to commit to sit at: Television, Radio, Internet, Newspaper or General Media. My friend and I decided to be non-committal and chose "General Media." 


The event was moderated by Ron Cooper, the 2+ decade Executive Director of Access Media (   www.AccessSacramento.org ).

I say "moderated" because there was no free-flowing discussion. Each table had a "facilitator" assigned and the discussion was carefully limited. We were only allowed to speak when it was our turn. I watched our facilitator shut people up more than once. A discussion usually involves verbal give and take - back and forth. I've had more "community discussion" at the park with strangers. 

Fortunately, my friend is a very experienced, confident and knowledgeable fellow about free speech, the 1st amendment as well as the groups holding this event. He challenged every question they presented and opened the door for me to offer some of my directness and unabashed opinion when I am faced with a load of liberal horse sh*t.

The topics were:

Public Afairs

Diversity

Political Coverage

Community Input

Broadband Internet Access

See where we are going with this? 

Bottom line, this "community discussion" tried to manipulate the participants into concluding that there is not enough Public or Community Input in the media, that diversity is not focused on enough, that everyone deserved to have broadband access in their homes so that the political coverage can be managed by the government. Since the FCC requested that every comunity have these meetings and the Obama administration "published a detailed agenda containing goals and proposed policies for media and telecommunications," they need to pretend that they get public approval to create community "advisory boards" for all local media. 

The room was filled with bitter, granola crunching, Prius driving, Air America, MSNBC and NPR loving misfits - they all told me so within the first 5 minutes of the meeting. The only other woman in the room with any makeup on was a well-known, local Republican activist.

The "discussion" was video recorded and will be submitted to local media and to the FCC. Big brother is watching.

Welcome to "Hugoland, Fidel land, Chairman Mao land. " We should all be very afraid for our country, and work to stop this. 

Here is the Common Cause website and information about the meeting:  http://www.commoncause.org/site/pp.asp?c=dkLNK1MQIwG&b=498015  send them your thoughts and by all means, send me your thoughts. 

Watch for The Sacramento Union news, commentary and political opinion website to be up and running again soon!
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UC Davis Showing Porn to Students!

Posted by Katy Grimes on Thursday, April 02, 2009 2:04:14 PM
How comforting is must be for the parents whose kids attend UC Davis to know that they don't have to spend money on porn - the college shows it for free!
 
(Sac Bee) If all goes as planned tonight, hundreds of students at the University of California, Davis, will watch a $10 million pornographic movie in a chemistry lecture hall, the periodic table of elements hanging above their heads.

It's been a long time since adult movies of the 1970s – "Behind the Green Door" and "Deep Throat" – roiled university campuses.

Today's college students have virtually unlimited access to pornography on their computers. Many see nothing thrilling about an X-rated movie on campus.

UC Davis administrators aren't objecting, saying the university doesn't censor student events.
 
...the larger point is to get young people accustomed to seeing adult movies as mainstream entertainment.
 
"It's not anything you should be ashamed of," he said. "Sexuality never is."
 
The administrators at UCD should all be fired and sent to prison. These are the arbiters of critical thinking?
 
 
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Sacramento Tea Party

Posted by Katy Grimes on Thursday, April 02, 2009 1:56:01 PM
Please join the movement and help us work towards holding the nation's largest tea party protest. 

Neil Cavuto will be broadcasting live! 

Sacramento's own Eric Hogue (1380 KTKZ) will be broadcasting live. 

Talk show host Mark Williams will be Master of ceremonies.

Let's send this message to politicians at all levels: 

Enough is enough!
Sacramento 

April 15, 12:00pm - 3:00pm

California State Capitol

www.sacteaparty.com
 

Sacramento Tea Party

Sponsored by:
 
Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association
American Solutions
Michelle Malkin
TCOT
The Institute for Liberty
Americans for Limited Government
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Cavuto Destroys Arrogant Congressman!

Posted by Katy Grimes on Thursday, April 02, 2009 1:39:54 PM
Neil Cavuto destroyed Congressman Alan Grayson yesterday in an interview when he questioned the Congressman about why he thinks Congress and the Treasury has carte blanche power to determine the pay scales of private industry.
 
Arrogantly, Grayson said he believes that the Constitution gives authority to Congress to set pay for employees in private industry. Grayson is a whining, arrogant windbag who complained that Cavuto was "rude" for asking such tough questions.
 
This will blow your mind.
 
 
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While We Were Freaking...

Posted by Katy Grimes on Wednesday, April 01, 2009 6:56:05 PM
While Americans are being cleverly distracted with the problematic economy, our country is under seige. While people are freaking out about being upside down in their homes, cars and declining retirement accounts, the new Obama administration is dramatically moving the country to the left - closer to hug Chavez's Venezuela and  Fidel Castro's Cuba.
 
Joining this insanity are the blue states - California and New York leading the way.
 
Putting aside the manipulated economy, where are we under seige exactly?
 
Public Schools - curriculum is no longer recognizable. The "education" received 20, 30 and 40+ years ago is not what is being taught in public classrooms. Perhaps Algebra and Physics have not moved much, or Latin and Spanish language classes, but History and Philosophy have been rewritten focusing on the social aspects and sex lives of the historical figures, and not the content or importance of their actions.   
 
Classes are dumbed down so that everyone is a winner. Schools are being consolidated - sounds like a good economic move except that districts are melding schools that excel with failing schools that no one wants to attend. Brilliant. Instead of cutting middle-level management and administration, districts and administrators (Professional "Educators") cut programs. Limited or no library hours, no music classes, limited P.E.,.. Parents must do these "extracurriculors" on their own. But what about the kids with lousy parents? They are not learning, retaining, or advancing, but they are bieng passed form grade to grade.
 
 There are no longer school cooks and the kids eat Taco Bell. But now the do-gooders want to outlaw ice-cream socials. Brilliant. Recess has been made "safer" from the little boys who run around and cause trouble. No more dodge ball, or Capture the flag, smear-the-***** (oops, can't say that), monkey bars, are too dangerous, and running is unsafe.
 
So we feed the kids Taco Bell and don't let them run. Brilliant.
 
The President is taking over private businesses, that repulsive little freak Barney Frank is trying to cap all salaries, HIllary is making nice with the North Koreans, environmentalists are preventing the U.S. from drilling for oil in our own country,  California is raising taxes AGAIN and outlawing flat screen television sets, ACORN is receiving federal funding, libs are trying to outlaw religion, we can't smoke in public parks or drive black cars... do I sound like my head is about to explode?
 
Where are the Republicans? Everything the Democrats are doing is unconstitutional. But they don't care because they don't believe that the US Constitution is our rule book. They hate the Constitution.
 
Democrats are not Democrats - they are Marxists but have stolen the name "Democrat" because it sounds good and American.
 
So while we were freaking out over our dwindling retirement and college accounts or the declining value of our houses, President Obama and the unethical band of misfits who call themselves Democrats are pulling the rug right out from under all of us. We are about to be taxed until our businesses close or are taken over by a union waiting to pounce.
 
Kids grow fatter and dumber by the day. Affirmative Action has completely infiltrated the colleges in the country and now they are graduating self-absorbed, illiterate punks with degrees, who don't think they should have to wear shoes to work or put in a 40 hour week. And they have big debt courtesy of the federal government in the form of student loans. As the government grows, at least these slobs will get hired somewhere.
 
And where are the Republicans?
 
In California, they are trying to get along with their Democrat colleagues instead of standing firm on principals. Tea Party day is coming soon and will make a very loud noise in state capitols all over the country.  National TEA Party Day
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"You Have Run Out Of Our Money"

Posted by Katy Grimes on Monday, March 30, 2009 1:25:36 PM
If you missed the fantastic speech by Parliment Member Daniel Hannan as he rips Prime Minister Gordon Brown to shreads... he takes on a socialist
 
 
Daniel Hannan is a Conservative MEP for the South East of England and author of The Plan: Twelve Months to Renew Britain. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Pla...
 
I think we need to recruit Danniel Hannan to head up the Republican Party in the U.S.
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Welcome To Government Motors

Posted by Katy Grimes on Monday, March 30, 2009 1:12:45 PM
With President Obama forcing the resignation of GM Chief Executive Rick Wagoner, and then denying that the government is in the auto business, all that I can say is "Welcome to Government Motors."
 
The remarks come a day after the administration ousted GM Chief Executive Rick Wagoner and rejected the restructuring plans that GM and Chrysler had hoped would lead to another infusion of government cash.
 
The auto companies will be filing bankruptcy anyway, so now that the Obama administration has wasted billions of our money, the takeover seems obvious.
 
In addition to pushing out Mr. Wagoner, the task force said GM is in the process of replacing the majority of its directors. Kent Kresa, a longtime director, will serve as interim chairman. Mr. Wagoner will be replaced as CEO by Chief Operating Officer Frederick "Fritz" Henderson.  President Obama will no doubt be replacing the GM directors with Union hacks... a little "thank you" for putting him in the White House.
 
Read the entire disgusting story. OH, but don't forget, Obama promises that your GM warranty has never been safer or worth more now that it is backed ny the US Government...  Wow. Do I feel better. No, the US Government is not in the auto business.
 
 
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If I Was THe Mayor of Sacramento

Posted by Katy Grimes on Sunday, March 29, 2009 7:57:08 PM
Since I am never short on opinion, I receive a great deal of snarky email suggesting that I could do no better than the professional politicians who perpetually run and hold offices. Harumph. 

I beg to differ. And while I have no desire to ever lower my standards and run for a political office, I can tell you what I would do if I was the Mayor of Sacramento, in a Strong-Mayor city, of course..

1. Require Regional Transit to charge EVERY Light Rail and bus rider the same amount for tickets. That means, no subsidies for anyone - especially for welfare recipients. It is called Mass Transit - not Welfare transit. When I am Mayor, perhaps one day, decent people will be comfortable riding the bus and trains to their jobs because the low-life who currently permeate mass transportation will be stuck in their hovels instead, unable to terrorize good, working people.

2. Shut down all city food closets and "shelters" that receive government money, except for Loaves and Fishes. These shelters have popped up all over, inflicting crime on decent neighborhoods along with massive amounts of property damage. With so many vagrants refusing to seek employment and instead sucking off Sacramento's liberal "kindness," Sacramento's "homeless" population has multiplied. Instead of treating the problem, Sacramento just feeds the symptoms. Offering anything other than work to the majority of deliberately homeless, only keeps them around, encouraging them to break into houses, cars, and panhandle their way to meals.

3. Sell off every City-owned building on the K Street Mall to private owners and businesses. Since Sacramento is the biggest slumlord on the K Street Mall, it only makes sense to kick out the slumlord and get some fresh ownership on the blighted K Street corridor. No government should ever be in the real estate business.

4. Fire every manager, supervisor and honcho at The Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Agency and bring it under the wing of the City Council. SHRA is nothing more than a taxpayer-funded subsidy for liberal scum sucking shady property owners. If you buy a piece of property in a "redevelopment" area of the city, all you have to do is apply to the SHRA for "redevelopment" money to remodel your blighted building, pay lower taxes on it than anywhere else in the city, and sell it to another developer for an excessive amount of money, which they will then "remodel" and turn into Section 8 housing... while the rest of Sacramento pays outrageous property taxes to subsidize it. 

5. Replace the City Attorney with someone who is not a friend of Heather Fargo and can behave professionally, in a non-partisan manner.

6. Run my own slate of candidates for the Sac City School Board - people who are not politicians or bureaucrats, or "educators." Perhaps the board should be replaced with parents... people who actually care about the education of our children. Oh, and they must have an (R) after their names otherwise I wouldn't trust them with the finances.

7. Privatize the garbage pickup in the city.

8. Privatize all city park maintenance.

9. Terminate all city office workers and re-hire only those who are willing to work without union membership. Maybe then, the citizens of the city would get better service.

10. Enforce the "part-time" aspect of City Council members and take away their City Hall offices. Since they represent a district within the city, they should live and work in offices in their districts.

11. Cease all references to Portland by the City Manager. The 25-year era of Portland  that Ray Kerridge comes from was wrought with corruption, graft, and thievery - nothing to brag about. Yes, Portland made use of it's River, but with a little research, it's pretty easy to deduce that the cost and criminal activities surrounding the "development" was staggering. If I was an official from Portland, I think I'd leave it off my resume. 

12. Work with every city Mayor in Sacramento County to put enough pressure on the Sacramento County Supervisors that they all resign (in shame) and run a new slate of real, concerned citizens. Sacramento County is "operating" with such a huge deficit, they should all be fired for negligence. (not to mention their stellar oversight of Child Protective Services, the Airport  and the Library). It's as if only the incompetent who are unable to function in the private sector run for County Supervisor seats anymore.

Roads, crime, river, levees, there's so much more. Stay tuned. The "If I was The Mayor of Sacramento" series will continue.
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Poaching Epidemic?

Posted by Katy Grimes on Sunday, March 29, 2009 6:42:49 PM
Last year at this time, I was fighting the City parks department because domestice geese were disappearing rapidly from the ponds in Land Park. With the city ignoring the poaching taking place in city parks, I started to write about it. I started with a blog post on my  Fetching Jen: Missing Geese Update  

Then, Channel 10 caught wind of my story and did a little segment: Land Park Geese Going, Going... | News10.net | Sacramento ...

Finally, I wrote about it in my column in The Sacramento Union Poachers Take Aim at Sacramento’s ‘Sitting Ducks’

After doing battle with the City to get the penalty for hunting, chasing, killing, maiming waterfowl in City parks, they finally passed a penalty increase making it a misdemeanor to do so.

Today in The Sacramento Bee, in an op/ed piece Graham Chisholm: AB 708 would slow a poaching epidemic ...   a member of the California Audubon wrote about the very real problem of poaching in California.  The rise in extreme poaching matches that of poaching overall. Violations rose from 6,538 in 2003 to 17,840 in 2007. Officials say the trend has been particularly tough on waterfowl, with sensitive species of geese and ducks taking the hardest hit. And I doubt that the author even knows that our parks are being hunted and poached.

Read all of my posts about this very real and weird problem. I have witnessed people stealing geese, and even selling htem out of the trunks of their cars to shady grocery stores.





Someone stole my geese. A couple of months ago, my geese, "Click" & "Clack," voluntarily moved from my backyard across the street to the big city park. There were other domestic geese living in the pond, and my geese joined them.

 
and the follow up
 
these were my geese, Click and Clack
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Slain Police: Apparently I Started Something....

Posted by Katy Grimes on Friday, March 27, 2009 10:28:19 PM
I received a snarky letter back from my blog post regarding the letter sent out, penned by my friend Amy. In my post, I put Amy's letter on my blog and received the following response: 

RL writes:

Shame on Your Friend

Katy, Linda, Amy and The Media:

The email to Governor Schwarzenegger which you apparently forwarded to everyone you could think of compelled to me to put your statements about the deaths of the Oakland police officers in perspective.

Everyone who goes to work each day expects to return home in the evening. Dying while on the job is a fact of life, and there are many jobs that are far more dangerous than being a police officer. Fishers and related fishing workers are more than five times more likely to die on the job than a peace officer. Employees in the following industries are all more likely to die on the job than peace officers:

Logging workers (more than four times as likely die on the job than police officers)

Aircraft pilots and flight engineers (more than three times)

Structural iron and steel workers (more than twice as likely)

Farmers and ranchers. 

Roofers.

Electrical power power-line installers and repairers. 

Driver/sales workers and truck drivers.

Refuse and recyclable material collectors. 

The latest government statistics, including an easy to read chart, about this are attached. 

The Oakland police officers recently killed will all receive a send-off comparable to one for British royalty. And the media will give it all wall-to-wall coverage without once adding context by mentioning that the job of peace officer is reatively safe. So where was the big send off and media coverage for the fisherman who died last week? What about the logger who was killed on the job the week before that? How about the roofer who didn’t come home to his wife and kids last month. I work in the construction business and I’ll never see a funeral like the one(s) these Oakland peace officers will get. 

It is always a tragedy when anyone dies on the job. But your politicization of these deaths in Oakland is shameful. I appreciate the comments.  I merely wanted to raise awareness and recognition to the OPD.  The actual job of all law enforcement officers is to protect and keep communities safe and all people safe.  That is not the job of electricians and fishermen etc.  Going to work with a gun on your side to protect all, definately changes your job every day. People take for granted that when you dial 911 and ask for help someone actually shows up to help you.  The day you entered a crime scene as spontaneous events roll out, putting your life on the the line while bullets are fired at you and you continue to enter a scene to keep others from being harmed-then tell me again what is more dangerous being an electrician or fisherman? 
 
The point with wanting the President to acknowledge this, which the Obama's did send a speech which was the honorable thing to do.  The President's job is also to serve and protect the country.  Four officers killed in one day is a big deal, at least to me, and at least to the 10000 people who attended the funeral.  I agree heartfelt losses occur everyday; however , this is a historical day in crime and deserves national recognition. Additional programs and funds should be GIVEN BACK to fight violence-drugs and gangs, train more officers and keep our streets in California safer to "maybe" prevent additional days like this one.  
 
It is a political issue when there are funds being pulled from law enforcement and given to AIG officials instead. These types of "bail outs" have consequences because other agencies lack support that need funds that go towards saving lives and keeping people safe. My priorities are in the right place.   California has lost 1,176 officers, more than any other state (that's through 1999, and statistically since 1999, year after year California is leading States in officer deaths).  
 
It's not just the officers that are losing their lives, it's the people! That's why there needs to be support in law enforcement-financial, manpower, programs, training, gang units...When statistics reflect increases in murders to civilians and police, don't you think more attention needs to be made to California and the increasing violent counties?
http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/ucr.htm
 
 
Chicago ranked the top Murder capital of the Nation! Who was their prior Senator?
http://www.njlawman.com/2002_line_of_duty_deaths.htm
http://www.politicalforum.com/united-states/57053-chicago-murder-capital-united-states.html
 
 
Since January 2009, 6 of 28 officers killed to March 21st are from California (21.4%)
http://www.njlawman.com/2002_line_of_duty_deaths.htm
Recent FBI data though 2008:
http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/ucr.htm
 
Additionally, older statistics list California as the highest Officer deaths through 1999.  
 
Don't know that I like California being on the top 10 list for 1900 though 1999 as shown below:http://home1.gte.net/vzn05sxc/lawfacts.htm
 
Officers Killed by Department (1900 – 1999)
Departments with the most officer deaths.

1. New York City, New York, P.D.---- 526
2. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, P.D.---- 229
3. Detroit, Michigan, P.D.---- 207
4. Highway Patrol, California---- 191
5. Los Angeles, California, P.D.---- 190)
6. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms, U.S.---- 182
7. St. Louis, Missouri, P.D.---- 136
8. Kansas City, Missouri, P.D.---- 112
9. Metropolitan, Washington D.C., P.D.---- 104
10. State Police, New York---- 102


Officers Killed by State (1900 – 1999)
States with the most officer deaths.

1. California---- 1,176
2. New York---- 1,025
3. Texas---- 803
4. Illinois---- 797
5. Pennsylvania---- 593
6. Ohio---- 587
7. Florida---- 528
8. Missouri---- 485
9. Michigan---- 452
10. Georgia---- 393

 
California has lost 1,176 officers, more than any other state. 
 
Good answer Amy
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Democrat Lawmakers Hire Family & Friends

Posted by Katy Grimes on Friday, March 27, 2009 1:38:21 PM
While most of us employed in the private sector are taking large paycuts, losing jobs and benefits, Democrats continue to employ friends and family in state-paid jobs. Doing what? No one is really sure, but "consulting" seems to be the buzz word.
 
LA Times: Unemployment in California may be at its highest since 1983, but there are jobs with the state Legislature for the well-connected.

Yolie Flores Aguilar, a longtime friend and political ally of some powerful California Democrats, last year supplemented her income as vice president of the Los Angeles school board with more than $32,000 as a consultant assigned to a state Senate committee that, during her tenure, did not meet or release any reports.

State Sen. Rod Wright (D-Inglewood) was paid at least $27,900 by the state Senate last year for miscellaneous tasks as he was campaigning for his current job. And Californians pay Marisela Villar, daughter of L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, $68,000 annually as a field representative for Democrats.

Lawmakers have broad powers to hire whomever they wish, and those they employ need not go through the Civil Service exam process that requires applicants to compete for jobs on merit. Some are paid as consultants, with vague responsibilities or assignments. Others have titles that bear little relationship to what they actually do.

At least a dozen political allies, relatives and friends of legislators, including political candidates in need of a salaried landing or launch pad between elections, were on the legislative roster last year at a cost of $754,000.

"It looks like nepotism," said Tracy Westen, chief executive of the Center for Governmental Studies in Los Angeles. "It's the kind of thing the public doesn't like: people using their power and influence to provide cushy jobs to friends and family."
read the entire LA Times story http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-nepotism27-2009mar27,0,4934927,full.story
 
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