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May 27 Open Thread

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* Sarah Palin charged CSU-Stanislaus nearly $100,000. That’s double what she charged a Republican Party group in Oregon. Apparently, Palin gouges students, but gives Republicans the ol’ discount.

* Costa Mesa’s grandstanding on the immigration issues might cost them on their other pet project, the OC Fairgrounds.

* Carly Failorina is defending her failing record at HP. Well, hope she has those tap dancing shoes shined up.

* A labor backed group, California Working Families for Jerry Brown for Governor 2010 committee,  says that they will go up with ads against eMeg over the summer.

3 thoughts on “May 27 Open Thread”

  1. Her standard rates are more when the group needs more than “Drill, Baby, Drill”.

  2. The new non-profit news service Bay Citizen has a story about the madness of Prop 13, with a focus on San Francisco’s “Gold Coast” (Broadway from the Presidio to Divisadero).  Some examples:


    Mitchell’s tax bill is not the lowest on the Gold Coast. (Based on interviews with local real-estate professionals and data from the most recent sales on the street, The Bay Citizen is using a per-square-foot value of $2,500 for all of the homes discussed in this story.) That distinction belongs to Theo Schwabacher Jr., who pays $3,890 for 3050 Pacific Ave., worth about $12 million. Maryon D. Lewis, whose family gave San Francisco its Davies Symphony Hall, pays a tax bill of $4,965 at 2900 Broadway, worth about $21 million. The $19 million Kitt family home at 2801 Broadway pays $5,220. At 2950 Pacific Ave., the tax bill for the $22 million house is $5,435; Jane Newhall’s grandmother built the commanding grey-shingled house at 2950 Pacific Ave. in 1908 and her family has occupied it ever since. Each of these homeowners pays less than what the tax would be on a just-purchased $500,000 San Francisco starter home, because Prop. 13 froze property tax rates and limited increases in assessments to two percent per year as long as the home is not sold.  

    They also give an example of a $55 million house for which the current owner pays $7,722 annually in property taxes. A new buyer would pay about $500,000 annually.

  3.  An area that 70% White and 32% Latino is concerned about illegal immigrants.

    You elect filthy Neo-Conservatives to even City Council seats, its a total embarrassment.

    How come nobody is connecting the dots here?

    NAFTA and the desire for companies large and small to have cheap adult labor because child labor is ilegal…

    Somehow I wish we could ask all the illegal immigrants to just take a vacation for a few weeks and see what impact that has on the economy. The employers will not even think about raising wages and will fully expect Americans to work for near slave wages were you can barely support yourself, let alone a family.

    Idiots.

       

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