Gonzales have proven many times over that her judgement is not accurate. When she stated recently that DA Mike Ramos told her he had not cheated on his spouse - Gonzales says, "I believe him - until proven otherwise." Maybe Gonzales should talk to Jim Erwin...he has plenty of proof available for her.
You can take a horse to water but you can't make it drink...right!
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ALMOST FORGOTTEN WAS RUNNERS'ANNOUNCEMENT IN FEBRUARY THAT HE WOULD SEEK THE STATE BOARD OF EQUALIZATION SEAT.
Senator George Runner looks on as his wife, former Assemblywoman Sharon Runner addresses the audience. Sen. George Runner, R-Antelope Valley, officially announced that he'll be running for the state's elected tax board in 2010.
Tom Ross and Matt Rexroad, the GOP strategists of Meridian Pacific, are running his campaign.
Some of Runners backers include:
Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Bakersfield), Chief Deputy Whip Senator Sam Aanestad (R-Grass Valley) Senator Bob Dutton (R-San Bernardino) Senator Tony Strickland (R-Camarillo) Assemblyman Curt Hagman (R-Chino Hills) Assemblywoman Audra Strickland (R-Camarillo) Assemblyman Cameron Smyth (R-Santa Clarita) Former Assemblywoman Sharon Runner (R-Lancaster) California Peace Officers Association President and Sacramento County Sheriff John McGinniss
Adam Aleman Pleads in Public Corruption Case
San Bernardino, CA - Today, former San Bernardino County Assistant
Assessor Adam Aleman pleaded no contest to two felony counts of Theft,
Destruction, Alteration, Falsification of a Public Document, a violation
of Government Code 6201; one felony count of Presenting False Claim to
Public Board or Officer, a violation of Penal Code 72; and, one felony
county of Vandalism, a violation of Penal Code 594(b) (1). A no contest
plea has the same legal effect as a plea of guilty.
As part of the agreement, Aleman will testify truthfully and fully
cooperate with law enforcement in all matters relating to the District
Attorney's investigation of the San Bernardino County Assessor's Office.
If the defendant testifies truthfully and fully cooperates with law
enforcement, his two felony convictions of Government Code 6201, one
felony conviction of Penal Code 72 and his one felony conviction of
Penal Code 594 (b)(1) will be reduced to misdemeanor convictions at the
time of sentencing.
If it is determined that Aleman has not testified truthfully and/or did
not cooperate with law enforcement, his original plea of guilty to two
felony counts of GC6201, one felony county of PC72 and one felony county
of PC594(b)(1) will stand, and he will be sentenced in accordance with
his conviction of these four felony counts.
2009-2010 Property Assessment Roll
On behalf of the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors, Assistant Assessor Dennis Draeger signed the annual property assessment roll today. The assessment roll contained 823,961 parcels and is valued at $170,605,012,183. This is a net decrease in value as compared to the 2008-09 assessment roll of 6.2%.
The San Bernardino County Assessor’s office determines the assessed roll value by adding the value of land, improvements, personal property and subtracts non-reimbursable exemptions.
Mr. Draeger noted that the overall roll decrease reflects the decline in market value of real estate in San Bernardino County. Some incorporated cities saw little decline in assessed value such as the City of Big Bear (0.6%), Chino (2.1%), Montclair (2.8%), Needles (0.8%), Ontario (0.3%), 29 Palms (0.2%) and Chino Hills (2.2%). While others are suffering large declines such as Adelanto (21.1%), Hesperia (17.4) and Victorville (17.7). Only two incorporated cities saw an increase in assessed value from last year, Barstow, 1.3% and Needles 0.8%.
The San Bernardino County Assessor’s office reviewed Approximately 250,000 residential properties for decline in market value conditions (Prop 8) while preparing this assessment roll. This provision allows the Assessor to temporarily lower assessments when the market value on January 1 is lower than the factored base year value. More than $14,000,000,000 (Billion) in value was removed from the assessment roll under this provision. Mr. Draeger said that many taxpayers will see a savings of hundreds of dollars on their tax bills this year.
Taxpayers wishing to see if their values were lowered may visit the Assessor’s web site at www.sbcounty.gov/assessor and click on the Property Information Management System link. Taxpayers may also complete a Prop 8 review application FREE of charge using this web site. The Assessor’s office toll free number is 1-877-885-7654.
DECIDE FOR YOURSELF
MOVE SMACKS OF TOTALITARIANISM SAYS RUNNER!
Senator George Runner is forbidden from posting this video that shares an anti tax message. Runner is denied the privilege of posting to his web site or other sites for public viewing.
View the video above and decide for yourself. It clearly describes high taxes and the poor business climate in California.
Is this censorship as Runner has called it? Runner states that the Democratic controlled Rules Committee has two standards for senators and assembly members when it comes to corresponding with our constituents," Runner said in a press release. "One standard denies First Amendment rights to GOP elected officials and effectively censors the voice of one party; the other standard grants Democrats the American right to unabashed freedom of speech."
The Senate and Assembly rules declared Runner's video "too political," "looks like a campaign ad," and "creates a mood against taxes" and therefore cannot be sent out on state e-mails or posted on state Web sites.
"This reminds me of China, the old USSR, and the current Islamic regime in Iran," Runner said in a press release. "This should not happen in theUnited States with its First Amendment guarantee in the Constitution."
Senator George Runner has arranged a deal with state corrections officials to stop an influx of parolees into his district almost a year before voters approved "Jessica's Law." Constituents are questioning what appears to be an improper deal. The 2006 ballot measure he wrote was sponsored by his wife, former Assemblywoman Sharon Runner and other local politicians to restrict where paroled sex offenders could live.
Runner explained a "special arrangement" with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. After agreeing with this request from Runner the prison and parole agency said it would limit assignments of released offenders into the Antelope Valley to those who had "historical ties" to the area.
California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation spokesperson says that the deal violated the law and terminated the special arrangement this spring.
State law mandates only that parolees be returned to the county of their last legal residence. In Los Angeles County, for instance, an inmate from South Central Los Angeles could be paroled to Lancaster.
Terri McDonald, the CDCR's chief deputy secretary for adult operations stated,"When we took a look at it, we said we can't treat offenders in this county any different than offenders in any other county."
"Jessica's Law," mandates that sex offenders be barred from living within 2,000 feet of schools or parks, has turned the vast majority of the state's big-city urban landscapes into areas unsuitable for the measure's targeted population. One result of the initiative has been a huge increase in the number of sex offender parolees who say they are now homeless, spurring a key state oversight agency to call for a "rethinking" of the measure's housing restrictions.
Runner, R-Lancaster, said his January 2006 deal had nothing to do with the possibility of sex offenders flooding into his home turf as a result of the ballot measure approved by 70 percent of California voters in November 2006. The wider open spaces and lower-cost housing in the Antelope Valley, which he represents, made it a potential relocation center for sex offenders looking to escape tightly packed urban locales for legal places to live.
Runner says, "I only wanted changes in the parole division's operating procedures." "The Antelope Valley was being disproportionately affected by run-of-the-mill parolees who moved there when they got out of prison."
"There was not a connection between the issue of 'Jessica's Law' and this particular issue of parolees in the Antelope Valley," Runner said in an interview.
He went on to explain that the location of a major, maximum-security prison in the Antelope Valley combined with the area's relatively cheap housing made it "easier to dump (parolees) in Lancaster."
Runner explains that rather than getting special treatment from the state he requested only "normal treatment" for the communities he represents.
Runner says, "I don't think anybody should have disproportional numbers in their communities." "I think my job as a legislator is to make sure my constituents are being treated fairly by the state of California."
Parolees in Lancaster,make up 0.9 percent of the population. That is three times the 0.3 percent rate for all of Los Angeles County, according to corrections department statistics. Palmdale, the larger city in the valley has a rate of 0.57 percent, nearly double the county's figure.
The parolee population in the Antelope Valley has climbed 17 percent, to a current total of 2,306, according to corrections department figures.
Corrections department figures show that the number of paroled sex offenders in the area has not seen a dramatic increase. There are only six more paroled sex offenders living in the Antelope Valley now than there were three years ago. The increase from 144 to 150 represents an expansion of 4.2 percent.
A high desert residen, Air Force Airman 1st Class Jacob I. Ramsey, 20, Hesperia; dies of gunshot wound. Ramsey was killed in a noncombat-related incident in Afghanistan.
Ramsey's father and two brothers went to a tattoo parlor near their home in Hesperia,soon after Jacob lost his life.
Each man had the same words inked on his upper right shoulder: Jacob Israel Ramsey, 7-12-88, 10-Apr-09, Kabul, Afghanistan.
"The only reason why I have it is because he's not with us anymore," said his brother. "I look in the mirror and I see it, my brother. . . ," his younger brother, 16-year-old Joseph, said of the tattoo.
Ramsey was assigned to the 712th Air Support Operations Squadron at Ft. Hood, Texas.
Air Force Airman 1st Class Jacob Ramsey, 20, died April 10 of noncombat-related injuries in Kabul, Afghanistan, according to the Department of Defense.
Ramsey's father, William, said in an interview that his son, who had been deployed less than a month, died from a gunshot wound to the head.The incident is still under investigation.
"It could have been an accident; it could have been him cleaning his gun; it could have been some guy goofing off," said William Ramsey, a 26-year officer with the Los Angeles Police Department.
However his son died, he said, "There's nothing that can be done about that. It's a final thing."
Jacob Ramsey, graduated from Hesperia High School.
He is at least the third alumnus of the school to die in the armed services since the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan began.
A fourth former student, William J. Wiscowiche, who died in Iraq's Anbar province, attended Hesperia High before transferring to Victor Valley High School in Victorville.
In addition to his father and siblings Joseph and Bethany, Ramsey is survived by his mother, Sandra; a brother, Isaac; and a sister, Genesis.
Questions continue regarding the birth place of President Barack Obama. Now you can compare a genuine 'long-form' Hawaiian birth certificate with Obama's online form.
An actual Hawaiian birth certificate from 1963 (the same era as Obama's birth), which while redacted includes detailed information documenting a birth, including the name of the birth hospital and the attending physician. Beneath it is the short-form "Certification of Live Birth" offered by President Obama as proof of his Hawaiian birth. It is possible to have been born outside of Hawaii and still obtain the latter form, but not the former.
Unsettled citizens continue to ask the question, 'Where was Obama's birth place?'
What do you think...
Music producer/killer Phil Spector was photographed by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation in June 2009. Unlike his prior booking photo sessions, Spector was not allowed to wear a wig, per state prison regulations. Spector was sentenced to 19 years in prison following his conviction for murdering actress Lana Clarkson, who he shot to death in his Los Angeles home in February 2003.
"Welcome to California’s site dedicated to transparency," says Governor Schwarzenegger on the new web site that recognizes the importance of making data available to its citizens. Governor Schwarzenegger also believes these data should be easily accessible and easy to view. Visit: www.reportingtransparency.ca.gov
To ensure a higher level of transparency than required by law, in 2009, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger issued a memorandum to all Governor's Staff, all Agency Secretaries and all Department Directors directing them to make publicly available on the Governor's web site the Statement of Economic Interests, Form 700, and the Travel Expense claims for the Governor's Office Senior Staff and Deputies, Agency Secretaries, Agency Undersecretaries and Department Directors. This site will increase the transparency of Governor Schwarzenegger's administration by making information regarding Statement of Economic Interests, Form 700 and Travel Expense Claim Forms readily available to the public.
In June 2009, Governor Schwarzenegger required the posting of External and Internal Audits. For the first time, these audits are available for review in a single place. This transparency site also includes a link to the original external agency which conducted the audit.
California state employees' average base pay in 2008 was $63,815, according to an analysis of state wage data that excluded the university systems. The median, the point at which half earn more and half earn less, was $66,006.
Federal statistics show that the average wage among all Californians last year was $48,090 and the median was $36,441.
Businesses are shedding workers, cutting pay and shutting down while California workers enjoy a shroud of protection. The unemployment rate in the state from January through March of this year went from 10.1 percent to 11.2 percent. Government in the state has continued to grow and grow it did by 1,362 full-time jobs during that same period while Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger issued 20,000 layoff warnings and ordered a virtual hiring freeze.
Are state workers too pampered? For years, working holidays for the state earned what amounted to double time-and-a-half: Overtime pay for working the day, plus another day off with pay. Schwarzenegger and the Legislature changed those workplace rules and others during the last budget crisis. Although the new policies are in line with federal standards, the unions are fighting to keep the old ones.
Retiree benefits continue to soar as state workers have $48 billion coming to them in the future, money that the state doesn't have. The government has been making minimum payments, when it should be setting aside extra.And the state's retirement plan uses a a formula based on pay and service time – not the value of, say, stock investments – to set payments. Some folks say that the deal is an example of how state worker unions have power – too much.
The California Correctional Peace Officers Association, for example, spent about $4 million on state political campaigns last year, according to state records. Service Employees International Union Local 1000, representing about 95,000 state workers, paid out $3.4 million.
If the economy gets worse – and it might – what do you think the boss will do? What CAN the boss do? Implement new taxes - or - excuse me fees?
Tax um now - tax um later - cause I'm the tax-a-nator!
Four firefighters -- U.S. Forest Service Capt. Mark Loutzenhiser and three members of his crew, Jason McKay, Jess McClean and Daniel Hoover-Najera -- died after the Esperanza fire overran their engine. A fifth crew member, Pablo Cerda, died 5 days later at Arrowhead Medical Center. Raymond Lee Oyler, a former Beaumont auto mechanic, has been charged with setting the fire.
Raymond Lee Oyler was given the death sentence today for the arson murder of five U.S. Forest Service firefighters who perished after a wildfire overran them during the October 2006 Esperanza Fire in the San Jacinto Mountains.
The jury that convicted Oyler, 38, of Beaumont, recommended a death sentence for the former auto mechanic.
Riverside County Superior Court Judge W. Charles Morgan, who presided over Oyler's 10-week trial, decided to impose capital punishment over life in prison without parole, the only other sentencing option
Accomplished taxpayer advocate and prominent attorney Jon Coupal, as President of the HJTA, heads up an organization that plays a critical role here in the
