The departure of Susan Goldberg from the executive editor position at the Mercury News is a loss for the community. She helped chart the way through some of the most difficult days in American media history, and the times they were indeed changing. I guess Cleveland needs her much more that San Jose did. Goldberg’s exit is the third major loss to the community from the ranks of the Mercury, following the much lamented departures of Tony Ridder, CEO of the media conglomerate, and David Yarnold, who single-handedly made the editorial pages relevant again, elevating the outcry over corruption at City Hall to a much needed fever pitch. I hope we see Goldberg again soon.
With these personnel changes at our newspaper in mind, I will now turn to the new cast at City Hall. The efforts of new and aggressive San Jose City Council Member Pierluigi Oliverio to shake up the denizens there is noteworthy and impressive. His efforts to look at old problems, such as the sad state of maintenance affairs at the fantastic Rose Garden, are a good step. He is encountering the usual opposition from municipal unions and certain outside-of-City-Hall union mossbacks; yet, the effort is starting a dialogue that is important. Although his proposal to outsource the park’s maintenance was ultimately voted down, it did begin a discussion and get the Rose Garden immediately improved.
To paraphrase Lincoln: it is time to look at old problems in new ways and solve them. The success of our new mayor, Chuck Reed, is largely dependent on the ability he has to speak straight talk and restore decency, honesty, and common sense to the way the business of the city is conducted. He has help. While the insiders, lobbyists and unelected bosses are at CordeValle and La Rinconada, hacking and plotting their return, the new cast is hard at work restoring credibility with the citizens. With the ideas of Oliverio, Constant and Liccardo and the backbone of Reed and the new majority on the council, there is much to be hopeful about. It has not come too soon.
Backbone of Reed? He hasn’t shown, at least outside the walls of City Hall and the “Reed Reforms” that he has the backbone to support anything. Show me something, Chuck. Something other than being the anti-Gonzo.
It was pretty disappointing of Liccardo and Constant not to stand with the Mayor and support Oliverio’s proposal to begin the meet and confer process to outsource the Rose Garden park under a one year pilot program.
What is so dangerous about a “trial program”? We don’t have much more money to spend on parks. Why can’t we “see” if we can spend it “more wisely”?
Is Goldberg not the one who oversaw all the unfounded soccer hate? Will the new regime continue the tradition of making its news when there’s little to report otherwise? I don’t smell that much change in the air.
Pierluigi’s Rose Garden defeat, shows no matter how SJI and your usual suspect Bloggers tries to spin last night was a defeat
San Jose political reality is that even Council member can not make necessary changes to long standing political policies unless they do time consuming hard work of building city wide public, neighborhood leader, city hall senior staff, and other Council members support that he did not do.
Many on SJI are prolific talkers not doers and still do not “get it” – no matter how self righteous angry you get, solutions have to be politically realistic or it is just political grandstanding as we saw last night
His proposal will never see light of day unless he develops city wide political support that addresses parks maintenance in other districts and city employee concerns
I agree with RIP #3—I haven’t seen much yet. It’s not enough just to be “Not Ron”.
UTube of debate kept stopping and starting, which has never happened before on this computer. Am I the only one experiencing that problem?
It seems that the Mayor has a new Reed reform. Limit public comments to one minute each. At least with Gonzales the public had two minutes. I was and still am a Reed supporter but was very disappointed with this move at last night’s council meeting. I understand the Mayor was trying to get through a very long Council agenda but to curtail public comment is not the way to do it.
Hopefully The Mayor will understand that this was a bad idea and refrain from doing this again in the future.
I think what is needed in SJ’s bureaucracy is a good shakeup, to disrupt the complacency and lack of creativity in seeking new ideas and challenging the status quo.
I don’t have a dog in the fight w.r.t. unions – but I do think that workers need to be paid for a full day’s work, but also considering what the ‘market rate’ exists for that type of work. If the city can do a job more efficiently, fine with me. If not, then outsource it.
Furthermore, management/supervision must be both effective (do the right things) and efficient (doing things the right way.) If not, change the managers.
Finally, everyone needs to be accountable for their results. I don’t know whether SJ’s union contracts allow for performance evaluations, but if they have been able to resist PE’s from being used, then the time is over. PE’s should be mandatory for all city employees – management and individual contributors, with 360 degree reviews, too. And the bottom performers (10-15% each year) should be removed from the city’s payroll to prune the deadwood.
Accountability will drive a lot of necessary change in any organization.
This blog continues its long, sad descent into political campaign missives. Some ostensibly great people left some important local institutions, but let me tell you about this great Councilman, who I happened to have strongly supported and who happens to already write to this blog!
This is what’s inside? Tom McEnery patting Pierlluigi Oliverio on the back? THAT’S the insight you’re providing?
No wonder the hater sites are popping up.
After years of neglect, there are 7, count them, 7, City Parks Trucks in the Rose Garden with countless workers toiling today.
Call it what you want, the Rose Garden neighborhood got what it wanted. THE JOB IS GETTING DONE NOW.
Hey, what’s everyone thinking about the Evergreen vote last night? Why do you think Sam was the one pro developer vote? I have an idea, but don’t want to make any rash judgments.
How is restricting public speakers to 1 minute as happened 2-3 time before last night open government and not violation of US and CA constitution guaranteed public free speech rights?
Look for public speech lawsuit if 1 minute speech restriction continues by local law firm
JMOC – time to act as local legal hero rather than just talk – plus easy fees and publicity
San Jose can not afford another losing court lawsuit based on bad City Attorney legal advise. Mayor Reed can not afford public free speech rights political black eye
The public was restricted to 1 minute but Oliverio went on for about 15 to 20 minutes on his proposal for the Rose Garden. Even Chirco was insulted. It seems she doesn’t have very thick skin. Maybe restricting the Council person to 5 minutes each on the issues would be a more productive ideas. Has anyone ever notice that Councilman Williams seems to talk to just hear himself speak.
#14 Yes!
Sometimes getting folks moving requires little beyond raising the specter of change. In the case of the Rose Garden, the new councilman’s simple suggestion of outsourcing jobs seems to have pulled the rake right out from under some long-leaning city gardeners. Say what you like about Oliverio’s proposal (one I thought lacked the necessary analysis), but who can deny that it got the attention of parks’ employees and many other city workers.
While outsourcing is an idea deserving of a thorough look, what I would really like to see is the city reexamine some of its economic policies that are long on attributes warm and fuzzy and short on those fiscally responsible. Livable wage and comparable worth are socialist policies ill-fitted for a system where government revenues are impacted by the market forces of capitalism. The current situation is a case in point: declining revenues available for services; expanding demand for those services by residents; wage increase expectations from employees providing those services.
Notice the recurring theme here: services, employees, cost—all governed by necessity. Insert wishful thinking into any one component and the other two will be negatively impacted.
If you are one of the many who support the concept of a livable wage, then I suppose you can take comfort from the guarantee that should it someday be fiscally possible for the city to contract for the potholes on your street to be filled, that contractor will pay his employees a livable wage. Of course, since there is no money for the contract, that employee you so deeply care for will not have the opportunity to do that job—and many others.
If you are one of the many who embrace the compassion of such policies, then I suppose you will have no objection should the city someday realize that one way to maintain services and balance the budget is to contract out-of-state for its very expensive police and fire dispatching services (and save 40 – 60%). With a guarantee that the contracting firm pay a comparable, livable wage for the location of its dispatch center (think Iowa, think $12/hour), our city will be able to meet its moral mandate and dodge a budget crisis. Too bad, I guess, for all the local men and women who will be out of a job.
Here’s the choice: feel good about ourselves until the party’s over (very soon), or return to operating the city according to sound fiscal policies. You choose.
I agree with Mr. McEnery completely about Susan Goldberg. She is a class act and her departure is a real loss to our city. More than anything, it is a potential loss to the future of frank and honest reporting of open government in Silicon Valley. I serve on the Sunshine Reform Task Force with Susan and she has done so much to help create open government at City Hall in the past year and help “undo” much of the damage done by the previous administration through their climate of secrecy and distortion of public involvement. As far as City Hall outsiders, you won’t find many others who have done as much to help move City Hall into the light…
Speaking of last night’s meeting, I was there for the whooole thing. I always crack up when I hear the Council complain about how some of their meetings “get so late” and “are so long”. The Mayor went so far as to cut the public speaking time in half (so much for Sunshine!). The elected leaders should be required to take a commensurate reduction. They are their own worst enemies. It is amazing to watch some of them just dither on and on about pure nonsense. We couldn’t believe how inane some of the commentary was. For at least one of them, it seemed as if he wanted the planning department representative to tell him how to vote. It burned up an incredible amount of time – time that the public could have been involved in the discussion. (THANK YOU to those Councilmembers who were prepared and had concise and thoughtful comments!).
Public Speech #13:
I don’t know how many folks came to speak at the meeting you mention. But having attended many meetings in the past, I know that oftentimes folks will get up and waste evreybody else’s time dithering along with their remarks, which are virtually identical to the last half dozen speakers’ remarks.
They want their 2 minutes of fame (cut to one minute Tuesday, I hear), but really add nothing substantive to the discussion. They just get off hearing themselves speak. So, if there’s a huge turnout, if someone gets up and is going to say the same thing as the last dozen folks, he/she should just say: “I agree with what others have said re (fill in the blank), instead of droning on interminably just to hear themselves speak.
But, the same should be true of the councilmembers, some of whom are nearly incoherent on many occasions.
Reasonable restrictions on time keep the meetings moving…sometimes. Unreasonable restrictions are to be abhorred.
Think Iowa? Think Mexico City, El Salvador, etc.
So Dave “You are Safe” Cortese, let’s walk the talk and show how compassionate a city we are and hire our sizable illegal immigrant population for city work.
What’s that?
SJ’s hiring of illegal immigrants would undercut the union bosses that name the tune that you and the rest of CH dance to?
“Compassionate” liberal politicians like Cortese proclaim “you are safe” to mobs of illegals, support open borders, are owned by big labor, bemoan bigbox hiring practices, whilst turning a blind eye to the plight of the *citizen* poor who’s prospects of getting ahead are directly affected by the unmitigated flood of illegals pouring into this country, and to top it all off – screw taxpayers into the ground to pay for Dave’s need to feel “compassionate”.
Nuke the whole stinking union owned CH bureaucray and turn city mgmt over to Santa Clara – and convert CH into an Indian casino while we’re at it.
Susan Goldberg totally ignored downtown San Jose. She focused on Sunshine b.s., not the real issues regarding downtown. Her news content was a disgrace! She should’ve focused on downtown and writing a complete report on downtown progress over the last 25 years because us, readers, are still in the dark regarding the downtown progress and welfare. We don’t know what’s up with downtown, and if the taxpayers are getting their money’s worth. Is the downtown a failure after all these city’s investments (3 billion dollars worth), or it’s successful? We don’t know because Susan failed to report or investigate on downtown’s progress. It was sloppy reporting on her part whenever she touched the downtown issues. Here how she reports. Forinstance, “Grand Prix is taking place in downtown.” also, another example, “Hotspots- An event is happening at the Fourth St. bowl.” The few good report she reported was “Condo highrise booms in downtown.” Those were the exceptions, but you can’t tell if downtown is flourishing or not because she never gave us a clue. Good riddance, she gone to Cleveland where she belongs. She was a disaster! Now, we hope we’ll have good readings with this new editor. If not, it’s a bust!
Honesty is more then a word, and given the performance of Hon Lien at the recent District 4 forum, the honesty of all who have endorsed Lien is in question.
Watch for yourself how Lien performed at the forum on Monday:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeNHERJUuD8
Kansen Chu has a firm grasp of the issues, he has years of community experience and he is an honest and hardworking man. And as the video of the forum shows, Chu will enter city hall with an understanding of how redevelopment works and how it will effect District 4.
One of the biggest issues facing district 4 is redevelopment issues, especially along N. 1st street, and Ms. Lien has no clue what redevelopment is or how the funding works.
Further, when asked about coyote valley and the triggers in place, Lien’s answer was about the current zoning, not about the triggers. It was apparent that Lien had no clue about the issue in Coyote Valley, and that should be a huge concern to all residents in San Jose.
Lien also had no clue about her own finances, telling the Berryessa Sun that her lien was around $6,500 (it is $7,200), and then stating that she owed far less then $1 million in her bankruptcy. Lien owes $1,083,262.55. She also told the Sun that she didn’t know how much she owed, but she was sure it wasn’t near $1 million. Her bankruptcy filings show that she will have no assests left over to pay any unsecured debt, and all of the debt she owes is unsecured.
If Ms, Lien can’t get her own finances straight, how is she capable dealing with the complex issues that face our city council each day?
JMO,
Agreed… some of the Council Members (read the tenured ones) seldom add anything substantive to the discussion. Instead, all we here is blather.
Fairness dictates that, should citizens choosing to speak be limited to one paltry moment, Council Members should be limited in some fashion as well.
Mayor Reed needs to examine his one minute policy closely and quickly lest he lose the confidence and support of those who voted for him.
Tom,
I was pleased that Mayor Reed championed Councilman Oliverio’s outsourcing proposal for maintenance of the Rose Garden.
Too bad that all of the other Council Members wussed out – I think they’re terrified of political retribution from the union leaders and “mossbacks.”
JMOC,
Very disappointed by your response. You completely missed the point – It wasn’t about number of speakers, what they said, wasting others time with redundant speech
The issue is about constitutional rights of people
US Constitution – 1st amendment – prohibits infringe the freedom of speech, and placing the burden upon the state to demonstrate when (if) a limitation of this freedom is necessary. the right of individuals, groups, to lobby or to petition the Government .
California Constitution Article 1 Declaration of Rights
SEC. 3. (a) The people have the right to instruct their representatives,
and 1 minute public speech limitation will be held by courts to be unreasonable restriction on public speech
Guess some other lawyer will get credit for upholding San Jose residents and public speech rights not JMOC
How about it Dale, does Chuck understand constitutional rights of people?
#22 – Dale, great analysis. You’ve characterized the next four years of care taker management of the City of San Jose.
Wonder Woman #12: Weren’t you a great supporter of Sam’s on this blog before he was elected? What happened?
#25 Wonder Woman: I don’t know why Sam Liccardo voted as he did—against the Evergreen plan (where he was in the super-majority) but for allowing piecemeal residential development there (where he stood alone)—, but this morning’s (May 17) Mercury News editorial applauds him for his vote as the only council member who “gets it” on this issue.
Now I don’t always agree with the Mercury News, and I don’t know if I agree with Liccardo’s vote (I’m not sufficiently informed about the situation in Evergreen to hazard an opinion), but I do know firsthand that Liccardo is a man of great integrity and exceptional intellect, so the Merc’s characterization is probably closer to the truth than the speculative innuendo against Liccardo on this blog.
Dave Cortese’s bad dealfor San Jose motion was a win for out of town developers – Berg/IDS property (Atherton), KB Homes (Los Angeles) and Summerhill Homes (Palo Alto) and their Council labor allies who want home building jobs in Evergreen
Local developers balance profits and San Jose’s best interests since they live here while out of town developers just want more profits
City Council gave out of town developers control of Evergreen development for no money since without new jobs, no new homes
Small infill property owners and labor will lobby Council for new home profits and jobs
to make a deal to convert out of town developer’s jobs lands to homes making San Jose’s budget crisis and traffic horrible
#28
…and their Council labor allies who want home building jobs in Evergreen
Please, in your infinite widom, tell us who on the Council voted in favor of the developers.
Are you saying Liccardo is in the pockets of labor?
This is rich.
Mexican official calls on U.S. to control cross-border arms smuggling
A top Mexican anti-drug official said the United States must do more to stop weapons from being smuggled into the hands of drug traffickers who are using them to kill Mexican soldiers and police.
Mexican authorities are facing gunfire from increasingly well-armed traffickers and officials say the vast majority of the weapons are smuggled from the United States.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/world/4808393.html
But the war on terror is being fought oversears, right?
Hezbollah builds a Western base
“U.S. officials fear that poorly patrolled borders and rampant corruption in the Tri-border region could make it easy for Hezbollah terrorists to infiltrate the southern U.S. border. From the largely lawless region, it is easy for potential terrorists, without detection, to book passage to the United States through Brazil and then Mexico simply by posing as tourists.”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17874369/
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/03/07/eveningnews/main1380141.shtml
Anyone that continues to think that securing our borders is injurious to our “North American family” is certifiable.
Dave “You are safe” Cortese, you need to update your tagline.
Next time you are pandering to a mob of illegal immigrants, how about going with “You are safe – until the day comes when terrorists cross the Mexican border and drop a big one on a major US city, perhaps on the 10th largest US city”.
http://www.mercurynews.com/opinion/ci_5915901?nclick_check=1
Labor as been making Council political support deals for construction jobs in Evergreen and Coyote Valley Only Sam realized what was happening and voted against Dave’s deal motion which will come up again as Evergreen piecemeal development without developer millions and make
#23- Well said. When you consider how much time, and access to the Mayor, and Council city staff has, 1-2 minutes is not enough time to really educate them on topics you may be much more educated on than they are. City staff slants things the way they want the Council to see them, and that puts voters at a great disadvantage on every issue brought to Council. I think that disadvantage really needs to be seriously addressed.
I must also agree with JMO in that, too many speakers repeat the same remarks over and over. I understand and support their right to make their comments, but clearly the Council starts shutting their ears after the first three like comments on the same issue. Unfortunately, Mayor Reed does not allow constituents to have one representative for the entire group. I think he should reconsider that decision as many people are fearful of public speaking, and in many cases that is why they drown on and on.
Having said that, I don’t understand why these Council Members are so unprepared when they come to the meetings. Don’t they read their packets, memos, and have their own staff do research on these issues? I find myself pulling my hair out listening to them speak on and on about things that are not even pertinent to the topic, or seems to reflect how uneducated on the topic they are! I thought that was why they had Council Committees and study sessions. Aren’t these held so that that they can properly educate themselves on the issues before voting on them?
Best Line Ever on SJI
Livable wage and comparable worth are socialist policies ill-fitted for a system where government revenues are impacted by the market forces of capitalism.
Thanks FFF
A PRESIDER, NOT A DECIDER
I can tell that posters here still do not understand Mayor Reed. For the wildly disturbed, this is not an attack on his character.
In understanding a politician, it is important to look at how his past shapes his present. Reed is an example, perhaps an extreme example, of what I call “commission-trained.”
If you examine his background, you will see that he never ran for either school board where he lives. He never ran for the water district or the open space authority. But, boy oh boy, has he served on commissions.
As a person who has served on three city commissions myself, I can testify that the psychology of these commissions is to gently coerce unity of vocabulary, goals, and outcomes. That is, the best commissioner is not someone who has original ideas and leadership skills…people like that are usually marginalized. Perish the thought of a well-drafted minority report. Successful commissioner-types are those who can sail with the winds of the procedures and policies offered by city staff.
I’m not saying that all outcomes of the planning commission, for example, are dictated by the planning department, but the procedures, values, and alternatives that are discussed and debated are usually staff-originated and frequently dependent on higher-ups in city hall or the county building.
So, what does this tell us about Reed?
First, that his only real public policy-making role was on the city council of the 10th largest city in the nation. Pretty impressive when you think about it, to jump from citizen to policy-maker of this city. It leaves him bereft of the kinds of give-and-take experiences common to elected boards, but he is loaded with experience in commission-land, a different realm teaching specialized habits.
Second, if you examine his six years as city council member, you will find a really remarkable absence of large-scale reforms or proposals. Within his district, he took very little notice of bridges, crossing guards, botched software on lightrails that criss-crossed his district, lack of parks, potholes, tree-trimming, etc.
The one and only exception was his embrace of someone’s vision for North First Street, ie, the creation of a new downtown north of the real downtown. I hope that is not unfair, because in this context I am not attempting to deconstruct him, only to explain him.
So what you have in Reed is a presider (literally), not a decider (to paraphrase our president’s claim for himself). There is nothing wrong with being a presider, but most people who imagine that he has a list of major initiatives will be disappointed.
Let’s face it, even the 34 Reed Reforms were not a program, however boldly they were put forth—- they were a minimum level of expectations that we should have for every elected official. That we do not have uniformly that kind of elected official makes the Reed Reforms helpful, but they are not a vision for what we would like to see in 2015 when he leaves office.
#24 I am a supporter of Sam’s, I’m just wondering why he voted as he did. If anyone knows, I’d like to be enlightened.
Chuck Reed announcing the next item on the city council agenda.
” Now we will hear from the Minute Men in our community. Ladies and gentle men you have One minute to express your reasons for asking to speak before us! Not nice!
This thought occurred to me this beautiful morning while drinking my first cup of Mexican cafe de la hoya.
I’m going to give Frustrated Fin Fan, Novice, Asian voter, etc my undivided time this morning.
Having done that, I felt as thought I was reading the “Testesarone Chronicals”.
Which brings me to the thought of my Sunday morning.
Last night I was shopping for groceries. I was in the vegetable dept. I heard a child crying. As I picked up a head of lettuce, it struck me.
The person that made it possible for me to simply go to the market and buy this produce for 99 cents, not to mention the confidance that this was going to be a clean and healthy product, was a person that according to our laws and attitudes in this country is illigal.
We now have teams of enforcement folks that are going about picking up and deporting folks that have children, US born children.
There I was with a head of lettuce in one hand and a crying child in the basket next to me.
Who makes the rules for us? Why are these rules made for us.
The “WALL” is it being built to keep illigals in or out? 10 million hard working people are a force, illigal or not.
Are we in Iraq illigally? Are we there to pick tomatoes, lettuce, work in the resturants, clean up after the folks there? Hardly!
Are we illigally in Iraq? How much pain has been inflicted on the children of that country.
I feel the guilt of where this occupation has gone in Iraq. I try to draw the parralel between legally iligal or just illigally illigal.
Are the Mexican that come to work invited or not being the scape goats for ourdeeds in other countries.
Thru generations the children are the “Carriers of the Pain”.
The harvest season is apon us. We all know what millions of Mexicans will be harvesting. Who will harvest what we have sowed in Iraq?
A head of lettuce and a crying child, now that is powerful!!
The Village Black Smith
Great ” One Minute” quote Gil – just add Irreverent =
One ( Irreverent ) Minute – shows lack of respect, disrespectful, or satirical
“ Now we will hear from the Minute Men in our community. Ladies and gentle men you have One ( Irreverent ) Minute to express your reasons for asking to speak before us ” since we have already made the decision and want to go home
Tom L # 9 wants city workers to be paid for a full days work. I agree, but I want a full days work. We’re not getting a full days work out of a whole bunch of them.
Sorry #23, but you have it wrong. Reasonable limits on the length of speech @ public meetings will be upheld. No-one needs to hear a bunch of blithering idiots saying the same thing the last speaker just said…ad nauseam. All that person needs to say is “me too”, not bore everyone with their incoherent , ill organized, and merely repetetive take on the subject. If you have something new to say, by all means, say it. if you are merely parroting someone else, just say, “me too” and let the meeting move on. It’s not constitutional…it’s mere courtesy.
I’ll be happy to have someone else lose that case, #23.
That said, we also don’t need to hear ill=prepared and unfocused councilmebers drone on interminably, either.
Does everyone have the right to speak her/his mind? Unquestionably. Should everyone be given the opportunity to drone on and repeat what others have already said at every council meeting? Probably not. A simple, “I agree with speaker # ___” will do.
The few times I find myself on channel 26, I can’t stick with it once Mr. Williams starts blathering to himself. Let’s hope that when the next batch gets termed out we’ve got a decent collection of people making the decisions.
99 cent lettuce?
Try googling ‘illegal immigrants tuberculosis’.
“Why should our hospitals have to eat the cost of disease brought in by undocumented workers? I found out that his bill totaled $200,000. This excludes professional fees, meaning everything that would have been billed separately by the many physicians treating him over 10 weeks (including what I’d have charged for surgery). We all worked for him free.
How many other diseases are being brought in by how many other undocumented and unexamined workers? Somehow, here, a social worker was able to track down the friends and relatives who came to the U.S. with this patient. They all tested positive for TB, and were all working behind the scenes in local restaurants.”
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110008362
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43275
Drug resistant TB or cheap lettuce? hmm…
I’ve never had a drug resistant form of tuberculosis before but it’d have to be something fierce to beat out the pain and suffering experienced when you have a BLT without any lettuce!
“LA (IL)LITERACY: HALF THE COUNTY CAN’T READ THIS
Long Beach Press Telegram: 53% of working age not literate enough to use bus schedule, complete job application.
by Rachel Uranga – Staff writer
Wednesday, September 08, 2004 – Continued
immigration and a stubborn high school dropout rate have stymied efforts to improve literacy in Los Angeles County, where more than half the working-age population can’t read a simple form, a report released Wednesday found.”
You know our dearest Governator likes to tout that California sets the national trends. Can’t you just feel the gleeful anticipation the rest of the country is feeling as they wait for the Los Angeles-ization of their communities?
Wave after wave, millions upon millions of the illiterate and illegal bringing new and exotic diseases with them from whence they came – what a recipe for a bright future that the oligarchs in Mexico and the US have prepared for us.