California Assembly

[cbut1]

Hello all I was wondering how many conservatives here have thought about running for the California Assembly?

Do you meet the qualifications? Can you build the ground support? Do you have knowledge of your areas needs?

http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/election_2008/qualifications/legislature_2008.pdf


I am coming more concerned with our States direction as well as the Nation itself but feel my best efforts would be at the local or State levels. Are there others that share this concern?

[ImNewHere]

I've never thought about it because I live in Nevada. That would be one hell of a commute to and from work every day.

[lassidor]

I've never thought about it because I live in Nevada. That would be one hell of a commute to and from work every day.

Hey we need Repubs to run here too. I'd vote for ya. Hell I'd run but I tend to be too blunt to get votes :P

[ImNewHere]

Hey we need Repubs to run here too. I'd vote for ya. Hell I'd run but I tend to be too blunt to get votes :P

You keep track of the things Mayor Goodman has said over the years? :lol:

I think as long as you've got a sense of humor, you've got a shot in politics in Vegas. I don't think I'll run though. I'm much more comfortable hiding behind the anonymity of the Interwebs.

[cbut1]

Anonymity does have its advantages. :D

[doodle5]

Yes I do!! California is taking a drastic direction!! We better get things straight soon!!!

We need to clean up and eliminate our governor with the liberal government!!

Carlene

[cbut1]

Yes I do!! California is taking a drastic direction!! We better get things straight soon!!!

We need to clean up and eliminate our governor with the liberal government!!

Carlene

With an economy larger than most nations and the bread basket of the world tied up in one state California is to vital to ignore its direction towards further liberalism and coming soon socialism.

[mysticbeauty_nbeast]

With an economy larger than most nations and the bread basket of the world tied up in one state California is to vital to ignore its direction towards further liberalism and coming soon socialism.

California has the 6th largest economy in the World....yeah...you read right...the World! Our varied markets are no longer agricultural in nature. Yes, our agricultural communities do serve the nation as the 'bread basket', maintaining a higher percent in farming then any other state in our nation; but barely reaches the top ten in it's monies value to our state. . We have a high percentage standing in tech and tech supported business. Many imports come through our harbors and ports. California is a variable melting pot of business and trade.

Our governor, while not a full lib, is not a hard ass right wing uber republican nut either. Thank God! I wish he could run for President...I'd vote for him!

He's done a great job!For what Arnie has had to deal with in his terms as governor, trying to clean up the huge over spending that our lib legislative houses continue to push; dealing with large unions like the teacher union that takes 50% of our tax dollars in spending...and still cry's for more....:rolleyes:...dealing with National security issues....illegal immigration...water rights...population growth and building...and somehow maintains a 'middle of the road" approach in governing this state, that makes both sides of the political aisle cringe!

Turning over the 47% conservative house an senate minority to a majority will be fixed with the recent passing of prop 11. Prop 11 is the redistricting initiative that passed in the state on Nov. 4th. This will make our state a purple state. It's the first time in our history that California won't be identified as blue! :clap:

As for running for assembly....I'd thought about it several times. I have 25 years in service in PTA. Knowing how government runs, regardless your political leanings..is enough to make any sane person run screaming from the building!!!! :snooty:

~Mysty

[cbut1]

California has the 6th largest economy in the World....yeah...you read right...the World! Our varied markets are no longer agricultural in nature. Yes, our agricultural communities do serve the nation as the 'bread basket', maintaining a higher percent in farming then any other state in our nation; but barely reaches the top ten in it's monies value to our state. . We have a high percentage standing in tech and tech supported business. Many imports come through our harbors and ports. California is a variable melting pot of business and trade.

Our governor, while not a full lib, is not a hard ass right wing uber republican nut either. Thank God! I wish he could run for President...I'd vote for him!

He's done a great job!For what Arnie has had to deal with in his terms as governor, trying to clean up the huge over spending that our lib legislative houses continue to push; dealing with large unions like the teacher union that takes 50% of our tax dollars in spending...and still cry's for more....:rolleyes:...dealing with National security issues....illegal immigration...water rights...population growth and building...and somehow maintains a 'middle of the road" approach in governing this state, that makes both sides of the political aisle cringe!

Turning over the 47% conservative house an senate minority to a majority will be fixed with the recent passing of prop 11. Prop 11 is the redistricting initiative that passed in the state on Nov. 4th. This will make our state a purple state. It's the first time in our history that California won't be identified as blue! :clap:

As for running for assembly....I'd thought about it several times. I have 25 years in service in PTA. Knowing how government runs, regardless your political leanings..is enough to make any sane person run screaming from the building!!!! :snooty:

~Mysty


Informed you are, run perhaps should you. (My poor attempt at a Yoda-Ism)

In my neck of the woods the water issue is perhaps the hottest ticket in town. Our farmers are having to fallow some land just so they can produce something as opposed to losing everything. That lovely crystal clear blue water flows right on past us to the L.A. basin and they keep taking more of it leaving less for the farmland. One of the really frustrating things that happens for the farmers is when it does finally rain or snow and the reservoirs are opened up to keep the flood levels down. They don't let those farmers have any of it.

[Panhead0422]

Hey we need Repubs to run here too. I'd vote for ya. Hell I'd run but I tend to be too blunt to get votes :P
I am not from Kalifornia.....errrr...California, but, I understand what you mean about being blunt. My problem is with subtlety, but my grades are catching up with the bricks in my class.

[cbut1]

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[lassidor]

dealing with National security issues....illegal immigration...water rights...~Mysty

Three things:
Why doesn't he deploy the Californian National Guard to patrol the border thereby controlling illegal immigration and it's disasterous effects on the economy?

Why doesn't he allow offshore drilling and keep the oil royalties to bolster the economy?

Stop taking all of Nevada's water; we need it. You guys have all the water in the world an inch off your western border. Why don't you use it?

[mysticbeauty_nbeast]

Three things:
Why doesn't he deploy the Californian National Guard to patrol the border thereby controlling illegal immigration and it's disasterous effects on the economy?

Why doesn't he allow offshore drilling and keep the oil royalties to bolster the economy?

Stop taking all of Nevada's water; we need it. You guys have all the water in the world an inch off your western border. Why don't you use it?

Three really good questions. I'll try my best to answer them with the information as I understand it.

1: California has deployed the National Guard to the boarder. In fact, there were two national guards who were sued for doing their job. I believe the boarder guards only got a bolster for six months before the national guard was temporarily pulled back. It's my understanding that currently small deployed units from all over California are on constant patrol with our boarder guards. Boarder guards get a state salary that is supplemented by federal funding to their state. President Bush was asked to 'up' the federal spending on boarder guards/national guards by all those states that boarder with Mexico. We all know how that played out. :rolleyes:

2: Drilling. Ahhhh...what can I say other then environmentalist have a hard grip around the throat of our state government. Don't get me wrong, California is a beautiful state. We have among the highest environmental laws in the nation. What the envro's don't understand is that we now have the tech to safely pull oil and other resources out of the ground, and safely use it for energy. I never know with enviro's...they change their mind about every day on what is the best way to solve our states energy problem. The oil dereks that are working are in area's not so populated. Bakersfield being just one of those area's. It's ugly...the boil on the butt of California so to speak. Taft...is another area that is a blight. Both produce oil in staggering amounts though. Santa Barbara oil dereks have come on line. Well, at least some of them have. They are a test product to see just how safely they can produce the oil we need. If successful, (a ten year project as it stands now) California will indeed have a new source of energy, trade able resource and income with a solid foothold on the energy market once more. :D

3:Water rights/laws. Good God what a mess that is!! Our Sierra and Foothill communities feel the same brunt and blow that some of Nevada's communities feel when it comes to old and antiquated water rights laws. For example: Using old sloughs to run water out of the Sierra's is just plain wasteful imo. Those communities with sloughs are unable to use that water at all, conservation being their primary way of living. Where does that water go? Not to our farmlands or livestock I can assure you. No, our slough water runs all the way to Southern California to run their sewer plants! :rolleyes:

Water rights change ever quarter. The water that comes every year with our snow pack is bought by the highest bidder for it prior to the season snow pack fall! So lets say Santa Monica is the high bidder for a quarter in any given year...then they get their water that hasn't even fallen yet, regardless if our snow pack makes its quota or not! Which means, the water then gets taken from other communities to ensure delivery of said bought product., (in this case, water) This is where Nevada has followed in very bad footsteps. It too now buys and sells water like any other commodity. California buys your water....which is laughable...you are all in a desert for the most part....to fill in the gaps of our own lowered quota snow pack.

Add to this mess the growth in area's that have no business being developed due to limited resource...and you've got one hell of a mess! The solution is fairly simply though. Keep the water in each state...and only sell the water excess after snow pack quota's have been reached for that state.

this way, each state would be better able to limit or accelerate their growth dependent on resource...not spend it and trade it like a commodity!

Hope that gave you some answers to your questions. I know government can do much better with what each state has then what they are doing with it. Lobbyist are killing many states with entitlements, expensive programs and money schemes that hurt the average Joe..all the while bolstering their own pockets....making wealthy the very few.

Who knows...maybe I'll run ?

~Mysty

[cbut1]

Mysty

I would support you in doing so, as much as I could.

After learning a bit more from you I could join the ranks, you are very well informed.

[mysticbeauty_nbeast]

Mysty

I would support you in doing so, as much as I could.

After learning a bit more from you I could join the ranks, you are very well informed.

:redface: I thank you for the kind words. Only two things stand in my way. One, I am a little white woman. I don't suit anyone's quota's for filling a job in that capacity. Two, I am more an Independent conservative. More, middle of the road regardless which way or which party claims or stamps their name on something...as long as it is the best answer or solution to a problem, I'm in. Makes for interesting debate....but makes for huge issue's in a new political career. lol

Oh, and like everyone out there...I've got my skeletons. Nothing to apologize for mind you; but enough that it makes me human, well in my opinion anyway :D. I've never been divorced, don't really drink, don't do drugs, not wealthy by any means, disabled with chronic nerve pain, and way to mouthy and opinionated for my own good. lol

Do you really think they would have me? I don't think so. lol Although the thought of taking to task Mrs. Feinstien or Babs Boxer is enough to make me think twice about it....lol

~Mysty

[cbut1]

The goal is to improve the political equasion in California and thus far your understanding of some of the main issues is hands and shoulders above what many of our California representatives show.


As far as the mouthy woman combination; remember this is California. :D

[lassidor]

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[mysticbeauty_nbeast]

Let me bring up one huge issue in California that no one likes to talk about...the Teacher's Union....and No Child Left Behind.

My eldest daughter is mere weeks away from completing her credential to teach; along with her B.S, it will have taken a full 6 years for her to complete the entire program. We've stood behind her the whole way. She will make a great teacher! The kids love her! :D

My issue is this. Californian's are currently spending 50.7% of all tax dollars on Education. Yet, our numbers and scoring are just slightly above Arkansas! How can that be?

Teachers Union has a strangle hold on California's economics..it's unwitting lap dog is PTA; a non profit org that jumps to lock step with whatever the Union puts out. Teachers Pensions are met once teachers are tenured...which is 10 years in almost all the districts. You can even work in several districts and still meet your tenured pension. Unlike the private sector where your time is for that specific job...it doesn't accumulate as you move from job to job. (How nice would that be? ) Their medical benefits are fit for a King, and follow them into semi and full retirement. I know of no other job in California that offers these types of benefits in Public Service jobs.

The actual pay a new teacher gets is nothing to write home about. It is the number used most in political commercials that request even more of our tax dollars to raise teacher salaries. What the public doesn't hear is just how much of a raise those teacher have already given themselves. Making upwards of 55 to 65 thousand a year, our teacher are some of the most well paid in the Nation. More so then Fire Fighters or our Police/Sheriff forces are. How can that be? Even nurses and med staff don't have a pay package and benefits like our California teachers do! And they save lives for a living! :rolleyes:

Are teachers important? Yes...they are. As important as Fire Fighters, Police and Med staff are. Should they be making head and shoulders above their counterparts due to a rabid Union? No...imo, they should not.

No Child Left Behind....what a farce. From first hand accounts from my daughter, all No Child Does is handcuff the teacher into pushing idea' after idea on a time line...with no care if the children in the class are actually learning concepts or not. How in the hell does that help anyone? And the money for No Child...where is that going? Sure not into the class rooms...that I can assure you! It's being piled up into the pension fund.

Add in ELA students....English as a second language; which our state has a top five standing in...and you've got a recipe for disaster. If you take out all scores for ELA students, our scores are in the top ten of the Nation....again...what does that say to you? Says California has had a crime perpetrated upon it by those very people who profess to 'want to help' our children 'learn'. Riiiggghhttt....sure ya do. As long as all those lovely little tax dollars keep coming in...no wonder it takes teachers a few months to learn the kids names in high school...all they see are dollar signs!

The Union must be dealt with, and our entire Educational system re-worked. Putting PTA to work back on the side of students and parents is paramount. They are a great org that has been bullied and bushwhacked into a corner...by the teachers union. Ensuring any public service job is well paid and our people compensated fairly...not just one favored group....is the way any state should treat it's public servants.

So...what say you all? What would be the first step in re-organizing the California school system...so our kids can actually be prepared to attend college...and enter the work environment?

*Calling today to pull paper work packet on an Assembly seat....

~Mysty

[cbut1]

Bravo Mysty :hug:

I find that one of the best ways to break up a monopoly is to be on the inside. I am speaking with reference to the PTA being strangled by the CTA. My wife and I homeschool our children and have until this year we put our oldest (and very well grounded 12 yr old) into public school, 2 others we are keeping at home still. As such I am building the opportunity to be included into the PTA locally, once inside I will allow my charm and wit with my take charge personality take over. It is through this avenue that I will build my support for the California Assembly (not from the PTA or CTA) but by working very publically against their standard modus operendi.

My wife says I will be following the Sarah Palin model of entering Politics. :lol:

[mysticbeauty_nbeast]

Bravo Mysty :hug:

I find that one of the best ways to break up a monopoly is to be on the inside. I am speaking with reference to the PTA being strangled by the CTA. My wife and I homeschool our children and have until this year we put our oldest (and very well grounded 12 yr old) into public school, 2 others we are keeping at home still. As such I am building the opportunity to be included into the PTA locally, once inside I will allow my charm and wit with my take charge personality take over. It is through this avenue that I will build my support for the California Assembly (not from the PTA or CTA) but by working very publically against their standard modus operendi.

My wife says I will be following the Sarah Palin model of entering Politics. :lol:

The PTA is a great org. I know, I served over 25 years within it's ranks. :) It too needs revamping, new parent involvement...as the same parents seem to be the only ones stepping up each year to be involved. The whole changing of hats ceremony that takes place state wide each year. Same people, different job..year after year. It's not right.....

It makes for a real mess when it comes times to change or make changes for the better. Many in the California PTA district (officers) have been in those seats for literally years..changing job titles only...same bad idea's...which makes change near impossible. Many of the district officer are elderly...65 and up in years. State PTA is caulk full of 60+ year old members. They come from a different generation...and the CTA has taken advantage of it.

My last year was 2008. I was invited to join State PTA from my district seat. I declined due to the travel and expense it takes to hold a seat. That, and I was absolutely sick and tired of the merry go round politics that envelop PTA. Liberal Dems near run that org...making it difficult for anyone who does't share the liberal ideology to survive within it's ranks.

As for public school...it is a good experiance. We also home schooled our two eldest through high school. Until that point, they had attended public school. Both are/were A+ students, and finished their course work in 3 years instead of four. Both went on to college..and graduated with degree's. Your childs experiance is directly related to how much time you spend at the school and how involved you are within that school.

Joining PTA or other parent org is a great way to ensure not only your child is getting a stellar experiance...but the peace of mind that you did your job as a parent...and not treating public school as state paid day care.

I wish you all the luck. Need any idea's...don't hesitate to ask. I was the 3rd. District Financial officer for years. ;) I've served in almost every capacity there is in PTA...so if you need help...just whistle! lol

~Mysty

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[cbut1]

Ok folks our State Reps have sold us out yet again I think it is time for us to do some soul searching and decide 2 things.

1. Leave California
OR
2. Fight back by replacing those who keep selling us out

I choose to fight back and will be taking steps to either search for a solid Conservative leader for my district or if need be step up to the plate myself. If you feel this way also look at the OP and find athe links to filing with the State your intent to run.

[mysticbeauty_nbeast]

3 going on 4 months outside our budget...and the media is focusing on 'one' republican vote is needed to pass the crap legislation that this new budget is? Is the media retarded? :rolleyes:

Republicans don't want to affix their signature to yet another railroading of the California populace vis a vie huge tax expenditures for programs that benifit only small portions of the populace....extreme raises in lobbied programs that make fat cats fatter...and bowing to a CTA union that is ready to take the largest portion of tax payer dollars they can with the threat of 'the childrens education'. :rolleyes: Come on...wake up and smell the burnt toast already!!!

The oddest part about all this...is not one media outlet has gone through the a public vetting process for the proposed budget to see what is really in there....they are staying away from it like Super man does with kryptonite!! :rolleyes:

I do believe this will be a death blow to the majority party...the dems....that has had a strangle hold upon Californians for decades. Between the redistricting prop that went though...and now this budget crises...it will be the final straw the breaks loose the death grasp these idiots have had upon us.

The absolute hypocrisy of this admin...raising gas tax by another 12 cents...for a total of 48 cents going to the state in just revenue generations tax....5 cents raise in country and city taxes for revenue generation...and doubling dmv fee's...which if memory serves is what got Arnie into this job in the first darn place...and campaigned on this specific point...yet here it is in the damn budget proposal.....aaaarrrggghhhh...it's enough to make ya pull your hair out!!!

Greenies need to be taken out back and locked in the woodshed! We can't take anymore of their Utopian perfect world crap anymore..it's literally bankrupting the state! We have literally hundreds of millions of barrels in natural gas and fossil fuels on our lands...yet we can't touch them...cause the Greenies are afraid we won't ever develop green fuels. :rolleyes: We could literally wipe out our debt and have future monies to spend on green fuels techs for years to come...but no...that makes to much sense.....gads...:sick:

A total revamp of our state government needs to happen...and fast! Mass exodus...oh you bet. Business', people, manufacturing....anyone who needs to make a living will leave...you can count on it. ;)

~Mysty

[Lady Liberty]

Hello all I was wondering how many conservatives here have thought about running for the California Assembly?

Do you meet the qualifications? Can you build the ground support? Do you have knowledge of your areas needs?

http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/election_2008/qualifications/legislature_2008.pdf


I am coming more concerned with our States direction as well as the Nation itself but feel my best efforts would be at the local or State levels. Are there others that share this concern?

I'm not interested in taking it on myself.... but I am taking on learning about who is out there, coming up in the ranks, and doing what I can to support conservative candidates.

In California it can be a real job just having conservative conversations with people..... ironically, even liberals I know are shaking their heads at the apparent bumbling of this new president's first month.... though they mostly say 'give the guy a chance'. I feel a tide turning. Thank God. California is a real mess.

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[Lady Liberty]

So... California has a new budget.
No $0.12 cent per gallon of fuel tax increase, but our car license fees are doubling, a 1% sales tax increase, and increases in our state income taxes. Arnold said they were all 'temporary'.... sigh. yeah, right.

The (R) that crossed over is the senator in the next district, Abel Maldonado. He got the (D)'s to drop the fuel tax increase IN RETURN FOR putting an initiative on the ballot that could make all primaries non-partisan.

Non-partisan primaries could be a really good thing. Independents like me could vote for any candidate, not just some of them.

Interesting, but it still sucks in California big time.. my car license is doubled. Ouch. I wonder if our Controller got that $1mil he asked for to get new office furniture?

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