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September 20, 2011 – Daily Brief

By Jeff — Jeff Wilson

  • American Jobs Act, President Obama’s unlikely-to-pass jobs bill, could provide some stop-gap funding to local schools according to the SIGNAL
  • Interesting article on a facility in Castaic that trains animals for movie and tv roles. Gidget, the famous Taco Bell chihuahua, is an alumnus of Studio Animal Services SIGNAL
  • Grocery workers and the management of Ralphs, Vons and Albertsons have reached a tentative deal that will avoid a strike. Local UFCW members will vote on the agreement at the Embassy Suites in Valencia SCVNEWS, SIGNAL
  • UCLA economists say that California’s economy won’t roll into another recession, but that doesn’t mean the news is good either. Economic performance in California in 2012 is likely to be just “Meh” with unemployment remaining at 12% throughout 2012. The report notes inland areas will continue to suffer more than coastal areas of the state LA TIMES
  • Latest McKeon scare tactic: Buck McKeon tells Fox News viewers that if defense cuts are made by the super committee (Rather than just cuts to earned benefits like SS or Medicare) the draft will possibly be reinstated. WAPO
  • Speaking of McKeon, now that Don’t Ask Don’t Tell is officially history, service members are coming out of the closet. NY TIMES
  • Lori Rivas takes a look at David Barton, an amateur historian with influence on the right. Interesting note: Barton is head of WallBuilders, which also employs Rick Green, the former Texas legislator who has conducted Constitutional learning derbies in the SCV and headlined a Mayors Prayer Breakfast here a few years ago SIGNAL
  • Slow news day: don’t blame me, blame my sources. It’s such a slow news day, the Signal is celebrating the retirement of a teacher (Congrats!) and publishing news/ads for University of Phoenix
  • Ask Scott Wilk questions: Scott Wilk, candidate for 38th Assembly District, has agreed to answer SCVTalk reader questions. So here’s how it works. Post questions for Scott in the comments. I’ll read and select the best ones and forward them to Scott. Then we’ll post the answers here on SCVTalk in a day or two.

Comments

24 · as published
  1. AlpinerSeptember 20, 2011 at 7:37 am
    Scott Wilk is going to answer questions from this site. Jeff you have reached a major milestone in readership, well deserved congrats….
  2. IHeartSCVSeptember 20, 2011 at 9:30 am
    For Scott Wilk: You’re a political insider–is that what voters want or need right now?
  3. IHeartSCVSeptember 20, 2011 at 9:37 am
    Also: Given your history as a lobbyist, how do you respond to the criticism that unelected lobbyists hold too much power in California politics?
  4. Phil EllisSeptember 20, 2011 at 10:16 am
    That is just a natural (and was an expected) result of term limits.
  5. Jules VincentSeptember 20, 2011 at 10:55 am
    I don’t remember askin’ you a Goddamn thing!
  6. AlpinerSeptember 20, 2011 at 11:34 am
    Was this really called for?
  7. Phil EllisSeptember 20, 2011 at 12:34 pm
    Alpiner, some people are just flat out rude – just ignore them.
  8. Mia WallaceSeptember 20, 2011 at 2:22 pm
    Let’s see, Jules, Vincent, the comment… Know your pop culture references, folks. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110912/
  9. PetzSeptember 20, 2011 at 10:46 am
    Why is Scott running for COC trustee if his eye is on the assembly seat-won’t this cause a special election and additional expense when he wins. Does his wife plan to run for elected office? Will he move to impeach Brown and Newsom for not defending Proposition 8 in the federal courts?
  10. Santa ClaritanSeptember 20, 2011 at 11:28 am
    Why is bigotry OK when endorsed by the majority? By this logic, the Japanese internment, laws banning inter-racial marriage, and slavery were all morally defensible actions of our government. My question for candidate Wilk: Do you have the courage to stand-up to your base when they are morally wrong?
  11. AlpinerSeptember 20, 2011 at 11:33 am
    Slippery slope. You comparisons have been proven to not hold historical water.
  12. SCV LoverSeptember 20, 2011 at 11:48 am
    Not surprised to hear that coming from a bigot like yourself Alpiner. Why do you hate gays?
  13. CCSeptember 21, 2011 at 7:42 am
    Comparisons to what? Other acts of bigotry? History HAS shown that those acts of bigotry are shameful.
  14. PackfanSeptember 20, 2011 at 11:50 am
    It appears that Petz is completely obsessed with homosexuality to the point of irrationallity. My God will forgive Petz his hatred. Will his?
  15. AlpinerSeptember 20, 2011 at 1:53 pm
    So now you have redefined “hatred”, interesting…
  16. PackfanSeptember 20, 2011 at 2:32 pm
    What do you call having an overwhelming desire and wish to deny rights to a group of citizens based on nothing which interferes with anyone elses freedoms? Attempting to influence others to join in your vendetta takes it to the next level of hate. Petz did post signs and continually pushed his anti-gay views, didn’t he? Please parse that, I know you will. Why is he the only poster to mention Prop 8 repeatedly? Wait for the video of the testimony to expose the lies tossed about by these types. This is no redefinition.
  17. PetzSeptember 21, 2011 at 3:53 am
    Petz is obsessed with Constitutional governance and the protection of the civil society. Obama, Brown and Newsom are tyrannts of the worst sort.
  18. PackfanSeptember 21, 2011 at 6:08 am
    Constitutional governance includes ALL the ammendments lest America be left in the 1700s. You don’t get a constitutional ala carte. T Rex was a tyrant. Please define your obvious misuse of tyranny to make a point.
  19. PetzSeptember 21, 2011 at 7:34 am
    These individuals blatantly violate their oath of office and refuse to enforce the law.
  20. CCSeptember 21, 2011 at 7:43 am
    That isn’t a specific reason Petz. You can do better.
  21. NateSeptember 20, 2011 at 2:48 pm
    “Will he move to impeach Brown and Newsom for not defending Proposition 8 in the federal courts?” Speaking of a waste of time and money…
  22. AdamSeptember 20, 2011 at 10:02 pm
    The COC board doesn’t run special elections. The remaining board members interviews potential replacements and then appoints a replacement. This is how Scott first got on the COC board before he ran for and was elected to the seat in the following election. As far as why he is running, would you quit your current job before you got hired somewhere else? Not the being on the board is a regular job, but still just because he is running for assembly does not mean he will win it (even though he will). So it makes sense to run this year for his current seat, then next year for assembly.
  23. mikecSeptember 20, 2011 at 2:43 pm
    For Mr. Wilk: If one trains leaves New York City travelling at 85 miles an hour and another train leaves Reno at the same time, but travelling 75 miles an hour etc…..:-)
  24. Need for Involved CitizenrySeptember 20, 2011 at 2:44 pm
    For Scott Wilk: I presume you will run under the “No new taxes pledge”. California’s budget is about $4 billion out of balance (depending on what revenues really do). Since you are opposed to raising taxes, identify where the $4 billion in spending cuts will come from? How will you address dramatic cuts to the Community College, Cal State and UC funding over the past year? Where would any restored money come from? I just received a mailing from the Howard Jarvis taxpayer group that appears to want state spending to only increase based upon inflation and population growth. While the application of that principle sounds good on the surface, how do bond measures that seem to be approved by the voters every election then get paid for? What percentage of the current budget is related to paying for those bond measures?
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