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02-15-2011, 07:25 PM
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You da man AG!!!
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02-16-2011, 04:56 AM
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Don't watch this!
http://www.calchannel.com/channel/viewVideo/2033 It'll just piss you off. It's a video recording of the California legislature doing absolutely nothing for you. In the face of the disasters that loom, this particular session was primarily gobbled up by one legislator honoring a friend of his that worked all his life in the public service. don't get me wrong; I'm sure the guy deserved to be noticed. We all do. But with all that they should be doing, right now, and right here, is not the best placement for this. The session was largely a tribute to his friend, and then that tribute used as the basis for adjournment. They haven't a clue as to why we don't believe in them, and what they do anymore. They don't get what they are supposed to be doing up there. It becomes more of a "club" or something....sheesh!
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02-20-2011, 12:05 PM
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Socialists unite to battle cuts or redevelopment funds
Socialists unite to battle cuts or redevelopment funds during budget slashing hearings. They had a permit for 50 or so, but ended up having 300 overall. They want your money to subsidize their housing. Bussed in they were..
    
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02-20-2011, 01:59 PM
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Redevelopment money is basically welfare for developers, and we're talking billions. Gov. Brown wants to dissolve all the Redevelopment Agencies throughout Calif, (just about every town has one) and divert those funds to social services such as to the poor, medical etc. This is a big deal, because much of the redevelopment money in the coffers of each city has already been earmarked for different developments. Many are half way started. Some city planners and developers think that if the money has already been earmarked, that the State can't take it back, but that may not be the case. At this point no one knows what Brown's intentions are, because it hasn't been spelled out completely.
Basically, redevelopment money is a slush fund for developers to ask for in return for building X amount of affordable housing. But it became that that so called "affordable housing" was not in anyway affordable. Some two/three bedroom condos at the height of the market were selling for over $4 hundred thousand. We are talking millions of your tax dollars going to builders, who in turn were using illegal aliens to build those homes. Oh, how our government funneled our tax dollars to that underground economy!!! But when the money got short, things became very apparent. The original purpose of Redevelopment money was to address blight, or aging neighborhoods and to fix up those neighborhoods. It was not meant for new construction, except to help with affordable housing. That was the hurdle builders needed to address to get at the funds. But the builders found ways around that and the city councils went along with them.
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03-12-2011, 10:09 PM
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Two permits; same agenda
Both on the 15th, which is going to be a big day for committee hearings Quote:
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