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April 20, 2011 – Daily Brief

By Jeff — Jeff Wilson

  • Governor Jerry Brown and our very own Cameron Smyth will appear together at a budget forum event Thursday in Santa Clarita at Hart High in Newhall. Only local law enforcement, education and other officials are invited though; this is not a public event. The LA Times says Smyth is the only Republican to agree to visit areas of the state with Brown; Smyth says he wants to hear what people have to say, even if he disagrees with the Governor’s plans. “I’m actually glad that he’s coming to a Republican district. There are a lot of governors who would just isolate themselves with people who share their views. I respect the fact that the governor is going to areas like Santa Clarita and Riverside where he may not have a natural constituency,” Smyth told the Times. SAC BEE, LA TIMES, SIGNAL
  • The local GOP group apparently didn’t get the memo that this is unfortunately not a public town hall meeting; in an email blast to followers just minutes ago, the SCV GOP advises local Republicans to “attend this meeting and tell Governor Brown to stop cow-towing to the Unions.”
  • What’s the only thing better than the Governor visiting your hometown? The President of the United States visiting nearby Los Angeles, that’s what. And guess who is going to see him? LA TIMES
  • Mother of the Year Award: Beatriz Flores, 31, of Lake Los Angeles, was arrested yesterday after Deputies discovered she had hidden heroin baggies in her 14 year old son’s pants. Flores was arrested after being pulled over near Golden Valley High School, and Deputies think she intended to sell heroin and meth-amphetamines in the SCV. She also had an 11 year old in her car. She told the Deputies she was moving the drugs just to make rent, but cops found $1500 in cash on her and what looks like several cell phones, ABC 7 Report, SIGNAL
  • The City Council could make an official decision on which communities it would like to share legislative districts with at its regular Council meeting next week. Councilmembers Ferry and Ender say the SCV should share districts with either the AV or SFV, but not Ventura County. If a decision is reached, the City Council might send a Councilmember to the redistricting commission meetings at the end of the month KHTS, SIGNAL
  • Detectives think the creep who was arrested at COC last month after trying to videotape a child in a bathroom has done it before but they’re having trouble finding other victims. Meanwhile the guy is out on bail. SIGNAL
  • The administration, board and medical staff at Henry Mayo will hold professionally-facilitated talks next week at a location away from the Hospital. This follows several months of personnel issues and criticism leveled by some at the leadership of the hospital SIGNAL
  • Lost in the news last week was an interesting maneuver on the part of House Democrats that forced Buck McKeon and other Republicans to vote no on an even more conservative budget proposal than the one Paul Ryan presented. McKeon, who is a member of the ultra-conservative Study Committee, switched his vote from yes to no on the Study Committee’s budget after Democrats cleverly voted en masse “Present.” The aim of the Dems was to get the Republicans to pass an even more dystopian budget, then hang that budget around the GOP’s necks. SWING STATE PROJECT, TALKING POINTS MEMO
  • Also, it appears that Buck McKeon is supportive of legislation that would delay or possibly even derail the implementation of the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell repeal. The legislation would require armed services Chiefs to “certify” that the military is prepared for the repeal. BLOG
  • A heavy duty concrete slab that will serve as the foundation for the new Newhall Library will be poured on Thursday. Lovers of Matthew 7:24-26 rejoice CITY BRIEFS
  • John Boston imagines other ways Tiburcio Vasquez, our famous local bandito, might have been put to death WRB
  • Finally, Amazon announces plans to let Kindle owners check out e-books from 11,000 libraries nationwide. Hopefully this will include our new library system MARKETWATCH
  • Why did the Tea Party turnout fizzle on Tax Day this year? BLOG
  • How much does gasoline cost compared to other liquids you use everyday? Way less than a gallon of Guinness I’ll tell you. GOOD MAGAZINE

Comments (25)

  1. CCApril 20, 2011 at 7:23 am
    OMG, is it true? Are Republicans and Democrats working together in a respectible manner? …oh wait, I just read the rest of the brief.
  2. PetzApril 20, 2011 at 7:34 am
    Petz is madder than hell that Jerry Brown comes to our city and holds a private meeting on a closed campus. This is not democracy…it is not transparent, and it is straight out of Alinsky. Smyth has been taken to the cleaners.
  3. MikeApril 20, 2011 at 7:48 am
    What Jeff didn’t tell you is that it’s open to all Hart alumni as well. You can find Jeff and I seated next to Dee Dee Myers and Zach Morris, and somewhere behind Jason Smisko. Nick Zigler is technically Team AOC or whatever, so he’s with the rest of y’all: on the outside, looking in.
  4. Timothy Myers SR.April 20, 2011 at 7:52 am
    Petz: I think the meeting is closed because it is actually to discuss why most of the Hart High School athletic teams blow so hard now. Hart Indians, bow down and grovel in the shadow of the Valencia Vikings!
  5. yourwebguruApril 20, 2011 at 8:06 am
    Petz, you’re always so angry! I know, there are so many things to be concerned about. The Tea Party is losing steam, but don’t worry, Trump is out there reviving the cause. Have you seen his poll numbers lately?
  6. NateApril 20, 2011 at 10:08 pm
    Nate is madder than hell that Paul Ryan is trying to ration care and kill his grandparents!
  7. PetzApril 20, 2011 at 7:58 am
    Petz wants to know why Brown as a constitutional officer of the state should not be impeached for not defending Prop. 8 in the federal court both as AG and now as governor. Let Brown and Smyth tour that Newhall Redevelopment Zone-let’s find out how much the tax base has been increased-let’s talk ROI of these funds. Let him tour Newhall Hardare and have lunch at The Way Station. The Tea Party will descend on Hart High like locust and Petz is taking Uncle Sam to the cleaners—to be cleaned.
  8. spineflower2April 20, 2011 at 8:17 am
    Today I see “Brown” and get red… -faced, over this “8 week vacation” kind of sellout crap he gave to prison guards, the union of which put him in office. He almost had the public going, arguing for an election to consider new taxes, but I can’t believe his “we’ve cut to the bone” crap anymore when I see this Bell-like contract, and the voters will roll their eyes and say “cut more!” The good news, is that he won’t get one ‘Pub vote in the legislature to pass it, and this will blow up in the media shortly… just wait until J&K get a hold of it. Shameful.
  9. BertaApril 20, 2011 at 9:42 am
    Jeff I realize it is John Boston’s continuous error but you also keep repeating it. Local famous outlaw Tiburcio Vásquez was a “bandit” in English and a “bandido” (with a d) in Spanish. Bandito is the Italian version and in this case is incorrect. Mr. Boston please take note.
  10. JeffApril 20, 2011 at 10:01 am
    Next you’re going to tell me Zoro is fictional Why can’t you leave my infatuation with our local ladies’ man bandido alone?
  11. BertaApril 20, 2011 at 11:02 am
    Jeff there were many clever “Zorro’s” (foxes) during the early days of California fighting the various Native tribes, Spanish, Nueva Españoles, Californios, Mexicans, and American oppressors so I would never dissuade your admiration as I share it. I simply wanted you to know the correct spelling for bandido… To share a bit of history: Spain (España) maintained a number of missions and presidios in Nueva España (New Spain) since 1519 and Spain’s rule lasted through 1821, 302 years. The Mexican era began in 1821 and lasted through 1846, a scant 25 years by comparison. Another interesting fact, the Mexican Congress passed the ‘General Law of Expulsion’ in 1827. This law declared all persons born in Spain to be “illegal immigrants” and ordered them to leave the new country of Mexico. The United States era began in 1846.
  12. JeffApril 20, 2011 at 11:05 am
    Studying the New World was one of my favorite topics in college. Tell me, as a Latina, does Junipero Serra represent a benevolent force to you, or was he just another conquistador oppressing the natives? If there’s one moment in time I could visit, aside from seeing Jesus, it’d be when Cortez met with the Aztecs.
  13. BertaApril 20, 2011 at 12:26 pm
    Jeff as an American of Hispanic (Hispania was the Roman name for the Iberian Peninsula) ancestry (I am truly not Latina as my ancestors did not speak Latin, they were Celts), I believe Father Junípero Serra was a brilliant scholar and religious cleric who as so many even currently do believes their version of “God” is the only possible true version. Even those faithful who are/were well intentioned deny others their God given gift of free will to decide their own spiritual beliefs. They alter the entire culture of those whose souls they purport to “save”. The Native American tribes had their own religious beliefs, which in many ways were godlier than those of the Spanish or any other Europeans. The natives revered nature, the land and its creatures, and had strict societal rules of conduct within their tribes. Part of their cultural downfall was in their willingness to trust and share with the newcomers. A lesson I believe applicable even today for all of us. Some of the padres and conquistadors were decent and others were corrupt and evil. I believe the padres did teach the natives many good things but also enslaved a noble people who had a right to their own land and their culture. I do not view Padre Serra as either hero or villain but rather a man of his times.
  14. JeffApril 20, 2011 at 1:05 pm
    Rock on Berta! You answered this the same way I would have. Am I reading you right to say you are of Spanish & Celtic heritage?
  15. MikeApril 20, 2011 at 1:30 pm
    Just like Martin Sheen #winning
  16. BertaApril 20, 2011 at 3:00 pm
    Jeff my father and all of my paternal Spanish ancestors are from the north of Spain, specifically the province of Asturias. Asturias is very different from the rest of Spain, very green like Ireland, separated from the rest of the Iberian Peninsula by high rugged mountains, and never invaded or conquered by the Moors. The Astures, or Asturianos as they are currently called, are/were predominately Celts with bagpipes (gaita) and all! Of course, we believe our ancestors set out from the Iberian mainland on boats and settled in what are now Wales, Ireland, and Scotland bringing our music and culture with them. Just look at a map and you will see why we think that. There is an area in France called Brittany which still has many Celts also.
  17. spineflower2April 20, 2011 at 2:32 pm
    Aye, yae yae yae, I am the Frito Bandido… no, that doesn’t work, BANDITO!!!
  18. MikeApril 20, 2011 at 2:57 pm
    Maybe Mr. Boston was using bandito and the diminutive of bando. As in, a small faction. I can see the movie now: “Tiburcio Vásquez: Faction of One”.
  19. BertaApril 20, 2011 at 3:07 pm
    Mike I think it more likely John Boston was using Spanglish taking bandit and adding ito, which works for italiano but not español. On the other hand, maybe he watched too many Frito-Lay commercials with the Frito bandito, advertising spelled to rhyme with frito (fried).
  20. MikeApril 20, 2011 at 3:10 pm
    No, I know what he was doing. I was just kidding.
  21. NateApril 20, 2011 at 10:11 pm
    Who cares it is John Boston.
  22. JeffApril 20, 2011 at 3:04 pm
    Berta- Very cool. I used to work for a guy who was from that region; his last name was Quint-something, “five hills” is what he told me it meant. My ancestry is Bavarian & English. Southern German, good Catholic stock. My great grandfather came in to Ellis Island in 1893 as a 17 year old boy, all alone.
  23. BertaApril 20, 2011 at 3:45 pm
    Jeff, in Spanish hills are cerros, colinas, lomas, five is cinco, fifth is quinto, so it can be any one of those. How nice of you to share your heritage! On my mother’s side, I have English also as well as some French. I am still researching my maternal side, which is a bit more difficult as my mother was orphaned at six years old. My mother came from Mexico to the USA as a teenager to live with an older sister in San Francisco. My dad left Spain all alone at 13 years of age to escape the Spanish Civil War. I am very cognizant of the hardships they endured and am very grateful to them both for their sacrifices and courage. You should be equally proud of your great grandfather. I do find it interesting that all of my ancestors were from different countries, which were mortal enemies and always fighting each other, but yet my parents came to America, met and fell in love and had progeny, lucky for me huh! Bavaria is one of the most beautiful areas of Europe. If you have not taken a trip, you may want to consider going. You will not be disappointed. And the pastries…
  24. NateApril 20, 2011 at 10:13 pm
    Word on the paseos is Kindle will work the new library system.
  25. spineflower2April 21, 2011 at 7:53 am
    Yes, but will LSSI track you in the manner we now know all iPhones and iPads are capable of doing?

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