The Buzz

SOC912 will meet on, Fri., Sept. 20, 6:45 p.m. to 8:45 p.m., at the Norm Murray Community Center, 24932 Veterans Way, Mission Viejo. On the program will be “They Come to America II,” a documentary video about problems along this country’s southern border. Producer Dennis Michael Lynch investigates the issues by interviewing border residents and sitting down with Congressman King. He also tries to speak with Congressman Marco Rubio, which is an eye-opener. From SOC912’s announcement regarding Rubio, “You won’t believe his reaction or comments.” A $5 donation at the door will help pay for costs; free to first-time visitors and young people through age 24. http://www.meetup.com/SOC912/events/137078642/

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When Americans ask about the risk of terrorist attacks, liberals immediately call any such concerns racism. Quote of the week: “A bigot is a person who wins an argument with a liberal.” – Rush Limbaugh

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Meet candidates for the 73rd Assembly District seat. Capistrano Valley Republican Women Federated will meet for brunch on Wed., Sept. 18, 9:00 a.m., at the Marbella Country Club, 30800 Golf Club Drive, San Juan Capistrano. Four candidates will introduce themselves and speak briefly about their candidacy. Rancho Santa Margarita Councilman Jesse Petrilla is an officer in the Army National Guard and a veteran of the war in Afghanistan. Anna Bryson is on the Capistrano school board and formerly worked in a county office. Lobbyist and political consultant Paul Glaab was formerly on the Laguna Niguel City Council. Dana Point Councilman Bill Brough was chief of staff in Assemblywoman Diane Harkey’s office prior to becoming a candidate. CVRWF meets on third Wednesdays. Call (949) 496-2525 for reservations, http://cvrwf.org

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The two 73rd A.D. candidates who can either document their background as conservatives or they at least have conservative leanings are Jesse Petrilla and Bill Brough. Anna Bryson claims she is one of “California’s leading educational reformers,” which is laughable. Her claim clashes with her voting record, which this blog has published. She generally makes or seconds motions favoring the teachers union. What is she claiming to reform? Her support of the union has had detrimental consequences for CUSD students. At one point, several CUSD constituents went to a Republican Central Committee meeting and distributed Bryson’s embarrassing CUSD voting record. Bryson’s supporters in the room had a fit, as the record is her undoing as a Republican.

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Here’s an update on Trish Kelley’s Loud Party Ordinance, which she proposed during the Sept. 3 council meeting. This blog’s Sept. 1 issue aired the flaws of the concept, which include jeopardizing Constitutional protections for due process and equal protections of the law http://www.missionviejoca.org/html/buzz83.html The Sept. 3 agenda item was the second reading, and Kelley’s proposal was dangerously close to becoming a city ordinance. The only feedback from residents had been strong opposition. During the first reading, the vote was 3-2 in favor, with Kelley, Ury and Reardon voting yes, and Schlicht and Leckness opposed. At the Sept. 3 meeting, Reardon was absent because a friend’s child was ill. Had the vote gone forward with Reardon absent, it likely would have failed on a 2-2 vote. Kelley demonstrated her math prowess – being able to count to three – and proposed tabling the item at the last minute. Residents should note with great relief that Kelley did not put the item back on the agenda for the Sept. 16 council meeting. However, everyone should stay alert, as it could come back at any time. With Reardon up for reelection in November 2014 and Ury running for OC Board of Supervisors, are they having second thoughts by adding an unconstitutional ordinance to their voting records?

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Mission Viejo resident City Commissioner Steve Magdziak shook things up with his article in Community Common Sense, http://www.ccsense.com/2013/09/send-in-boy-scouts.html . He suggested the city should return a budget “surplus” to taxpayers in the form of a service everyone needs – such as applying it toward residents’ trash collection bill. Readers immediately said yes to the thought of getting their money back. Whether or not the city actually has a surplus is another question, but city hall could easily cover residents’ entire trash bill by ending a long list of wasteful expenses. The city staff has ballooned to 275 employees – in a contract city that is virtually built out. Many people on the payroll have no real jobs except for make-work projects created by city administrators Dennis Wilberg and Keith Rattay.

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For residents who have trouble deciding if they’d rather keep their money or give it to the government, here’s a sampling of Dennis and Keith’s make-work projects that cost MILLIONS of dollars in employee salaries, benefits and costs the staff refuses to talk about. Would residents rather keep their money or pay for: 1) more junk on medians – stone outhouses, garish posters, pillars with the city staff’s dead tree symbol and mosaic-covered bears. 2) Poorly attended city festivals such as “Up in the Air” in which taxpayers fund kite-flying and Frisbee throwing demonstrations. 3) “Matching grants” in which the city writes a proposal to get grant money – taken from residents by the government – so the city gets back a pittance of the fortune collected by the state, county or other fleecing agents – and the city has to match it with more tax dollars. 4) Poorly attended classes and programs offered by city hall and IN DIRECT COMPETITION with private enterprise. 5) Propping up of such ongoing fiascos as the weekly Saturday morning farmers market. 6) Frequent raises (two compensation increases within one year) to 275 city employees that far exceed raises in the private sector. Residents can actually end the spendathon in city hall by speaking up

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Warning issued on Sept. 13 in another state and posted on a national Tea Party website: Don’t become as stupid as Californians. “Undocumented people are now allowed driver’s licenses in California. Beware, America! This is coming to a town near you. Democrats are making California a haven for drug gangs and criminals coming here from other countries. California now will allow illegals to have driver’s licenses and at the same time strip Californians of the right to defend themselves and their families.” Have Californians noticed how many of their neighbors, family members and friends are either moving, thinking about moving or they have moved out of California?