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Articles from
May 2010
Predictions 2010 Woodland
Saturday, May 29, 2010 ::
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Ok. Here are my predictions.
Woodland Vice-Mayor -- Bill Marble
Woodland City Councilman - Skip Davies.
note: Skip is the better choice to be Mayor but that is not how it will turn out.
Bobby Harris still has nine cats.
Woodland Sales Tax -- Yes -- 45% No -- 55%
Cass Sylvia -- 59%
Some lady gets 41% and we never hear from her again.
Davis City Council -- That guy Joe wins because they think they are voting for Jim Provenza. David Greenwald files suit that Provenza is holding incompatible offices only to discover they are not the same person. Davis then passes Measure A in November than places a parcel tax of just $200 a year on anyone that has a name ending in A to provide voter education preventing voter confusion in any future election. That passes with 68% of the vote.
4,000 people decide to write in a recall attempt against Art Pimentel. It fails. Skip Davies, Dotty Huber, Bill Marble, Jim Smith, Dave Flory, and Patricia Valenzuela admit to being the driving force behind the recall effort -- that fails.
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Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association Endorsements
Tuesday, May 25, 2010 ::
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HOWARD JARVIS TAXPAYERS ASSOCIATION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE'S CANDIDATE ENDORSEMENTS 2010:
U.S. Senate: Chuck DeVore
Governor: Meg Whitman
Lt. Governor: Sam Aanestad
Attorney General: John Eastman
Secretary of State: Damon Dunn
Treasurer: Mimi Walters
Controller: Tony Strickland
BOE Dist. 2: George Runner
BOE Dist. 3: Michelle Steel
SD 4: Doug LaMalfa
SD 14: Tom Berryhill
SD 15: Sam Blakeslee (special)
SD 16: Phil Wyman
SD 22: Edward Paul Reyes
SD 28: John S. Stammreich
SD 36: Joel Anderson
SD 37: Bill Emerson
SD 38: Mark Wyland
AD 2: Jim Neilson
AD 3: Dan Logue
AD 5: Duel Endorsement : Craig Deluz and Andy Pugno
AD 7: Doris Gentry
AD 15: Abram Wilson
AD 28: Allen Barker
AD 31: Brandon Shoemaker
AD 32: Ken Mettler
AD 33: Etta Waterfield
AD 35: Mike Stoker
AD 36: Stephen Knight
AD 37: Jeff Gorell
AD 44: Alvaro Day
AD 53: Nathan Mintz
AD 55: Chris Salabaj
AD 59: Anthony Rily
AD 68: Allan Mansoor
AD 70: Jerry Amante
AD 77: Bill Wells
OC Assessor: Claude Parrish
OC Treasurer: Shari Freidenrich
LA Co. Assessor: John Noguez
Amador Co. Assessor: Jim Rooney
Riverside Co. Assessor: Larry Ward
Nevada Co. Assessor: Sue Horne
San Diego Co. Assessor: Jeff Olson
El Dorado Co. Supervisor: Ron Briggs
Riverside Co. Supervisor: John Benoit
Ventura Co. Supervisor: Audra Strickland
Yolo Co. Supervisor: Matt Rexroad
Arcadia City Council: Peter Amundson
Chula Vista City Council: Larry Breitfelder
Fresno City Council: Doug Vagim
Rancho Santa Margarita City Council: Steve Baric
San Diego City Council: Lorie Zapf
Ventura Co. Treasurer: Judge Steven Hintz
Natomas USD: Ryan Herche
Sacramento Co. Sheriff: Scott Jones
CD 3: Dan Lungren
CD 11: David Harmer
CD 19: Jeff Denham
CD 47: Van Tran
THE HOWARD JARVIS TAXPAYERS ASSOCIATION
HAS TAKEN THESE POSITIONS ON STATE BALLOT MEASURES:
PROP. 13: Exempts earthquake retrofitting from reassessment: Support
PROP. 14: “OPEN PRIMARY”: Oppose
PROP. 15 Public funding of elections: Oppose
No position on Props. 16 and 17. These are not taxpayer issues.
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Did not know this was an issue
Wednesday, May 19, 2010 ::
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I did not know this issue had been brought up at the City Council meeting when I wrote the post below. Here is Democrat article.
Bobby Harris did not get a ballot statement in Spanish and now he is claiming that the city denied him his rights to have one. Got it.
Here is a little news -- BOBBY HARRIS DOES NOT HAVE A RIGHT TO A BALLOT STATEMENT IN ENGLISH OR SPANISH.
If Bobby wanted a ballot statement he could pay for one.
Notice how Matt Rexroad does not have one this election. Were my rights violated? No. I chose not to have one. It is optional.
Bottom line -- if you are able bodied enough to serve on the Woodland City Council I generally think that 99% of the time you are able bodied enough to compete for a job in the market place that would enable you to pay for a ballot statement OR you could raise money from you hundreds of supporters that want to see you win.
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Constitutional Right? I think not.
Tuesday, May 18, 2010 ::
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Below you will find the candidate statement for City Council candidate Bobby Harris. It is different from some of the others but it is fine.
The problem I have with it is that the taxpayers of Woodland had to pay for it. Skip Davies and Bill Marble paid filing fees to get on the ballot and to have their ballot statements printed in both English and Spanish.
Bobby did not.
I understand and agree with the Constitutional arguments behind allowing someone to have the fee waived to appear on the ballot. That should be open to anyone and if people can't afford it then they should still be allowed to run for office.
In my opinion this Constitutional principle does not apply to getting a ballot statement paid for by the taxpayers. The general fund of the City of Woodland had to pay to have this statement published. This was the decision by the City Attorney that I disagree with. What I find really interesting is that either Bobby decided not to print it in Spanish or in some strange twist of legal reasoning the Constitution only required the taxpayers to pay for a ballot statement in English.
We need to start reducing expenditures by government. When I see able people of body and mind need to hit the general fund for something I consider optional it just tells me that we will do nothing but grow government bigger and bigger.
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Saturday - Measure V
Monday, May 17, 2010 ::
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On Saturday I got the same Yes on Measure V piece that was hand delivered earlier. I know Art is out working on it very hard -- but I voted No.
It is interesting to note that the photographer got the shot of the woman reading on the front lawn and in the background are all the people meeting for the photo shoot inside the library. You can clearly see Mrs. Talkington and I number of other people standing there on the steps.
Love some of these people but I am still voting no.
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NRA makes big move in US Senate Race
Monday, May 17, 2010 ::
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For gun owners the orange cards are important. Stand in front of polling places and watch people take them inside. This is why I think Carly wins the GOP nomination.
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Dear 4H Parents
Wednesday, May 12, 2010 ::
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Ok. I am getting a number of e-mails from 4-H Parents. Thought I would go ahead and post my response to some of their e-mails.
Parent:
I am in favor of making reductions in the Co-Op Extension. A program that justifies its existence by pointing out that they write books on camp counseling and that they send out master gardener newsletters — in my opinion, needs to be trimmed. Unfortunately, if Co-Op Extension is telling people that if their budget is reduced, they will make the choice to cut 4-H, then that will be their choice.
This program’s members consider themselves to be tenured faculty that are able to allocate public tax dollars in any way that they choose.
If they make the calculation that they will threaten a cut to 4-H programs in order to create political support to save something like writing camp counseling books, then they are sorely mistaken.
I am curious why I got a number of e-mails from parents of 4-H students.
In the end, I don’t see how 4-H gets cut. At this moment I am prepared to eliminate the entire Yolo County subsidy for the Co-Op extension and send it all to a 4-H program that is run by the county — or better yet to a private entity.
Please feel free to forward this to anyone you like. I am going to cut and paste it to the other e-mails I received just after yours.
Matt
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Matt Rexroad
711 College Street
Woodland, CA 95695
(530) 662-5184 home office
(800) 540-0436 fax
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Marble in the Mail
Sunday, May 09, 2010 ::
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Dr. Bill Marble was smart. Jenn and I are both absentee voters and he had a piece in our mailbox on Saturday.
Here is one side of the 8.5x11 postcard.
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Mail at the Rexroads
Sunday, May 09, 2010 ::
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I don't think this piece was mailed. It was dropped at my door on Saturday. It is well done but I am voting No.
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Morale Issue?
Thursday, May 06, 2010 ::
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Here were some of the e-mails I have gotten since the board meeting yesterday with the identifying information removed.
I do think it is a morale issue. Some of these people I do not know.
At this point I am done with this issue. I lost, that is the way it goes. However, we do have a morale issue.
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Quite a few people throughout the county offices were listening to the Board meeting today. Most of us don’t understand how they think they can keep their current level of assistants along with their extensive benefits and it’s not a morale issue. It may not be to them but it is to the rest of us. If someone in your office would produce a graph of departments and amount of employees from approximately 1997 rather than 2007 it would be quite startling. Using 2007 is in no way accurate.
Most of us in my office have not said anything to date because we understand the budget issues and we do not want our comments to reflect badly on our office or the XXXXX. At this point we feel that we will have to express ourselves . Their comments are almost an insult to our intelligence.
Thank you for letting me voice my opinion and please let me know if there will be a meeting with the board where they will show department growth over the last 10 years.
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Thank you for trying. You did speak on behalf of many.
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You do fight the good fight!
I don’t agree with you on where the money you save should go but you raised an issue that needed to be addressed.
Thank you,
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Mr. Rexroad-
I watched the meeting via the intranet and wanted to thank you for being a lone voice in the wilderness for the county employees. While I am aware that I do not know all the ins and outs of a Board member’s job it is telling that no one else was willing to even consider downsizing the size of their staff. Perhaps the other members are correct and they could not perform their duties with any reduction in staff, but it does present an “entitlement” image to the other county employees.
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Supervisor Rexroad,
You are 1000% correct that there is a huge morale issue regarding the fact that your department has not considered eliminating the Assistant Deputy position. I applaud you for bringing this issue up and only wish you had more support.
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Congratulations Matt on addressing a budget question that has been bothering a large number of my staff. Will the Board address their own staffing which many have seen grow significantly over the time many have been here? Surprised some Supervisors have not heard the grumbling.
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You are right on Matt! I appreciate your leadership.
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…it is a morale issue countywide. Thank you, Matt.
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A Yolo County Book
Tuesday, May 04, 2010 ::
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I like Maceo Montoya. He is a cool guy.
He is the artist that did the mural near Fourth and Main.
When I got an e-mail about his new book coming out I ordered right away. It sat for a short time on my shelf but then I got caught one night with my primary book upstairs with my sleeping family. Not wanting to wake them I picked up The Scoundrel and the Optimist. Since then I have not read any other book. It has taken me much longer to read than it should due to a time crunch -- but it is a great book.
You can check out his website for the book here.
This book is easy to read. It has good use of language and some funny characters.
If you take the time to read please consider the following cast for the movie --
Filastro (fat, drunk, lazy) -- Art Pimentel
Edmund -- Bill Marble
Tres Pasos -- Neal Peart
Mom - Dotty Huber
Tomato -- Skip Davies
Jorge El Gato - yet to be determined but maybe The Realist
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