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This year it has been like whack-a-mole with our city council. First the horrible rental control ordinance – including single family homes – sponsored by Councilmembers Edi Birsan, Laura Nakamura, and Dominic Aliano. Then the council supports an extremely aggressive re-zoning plan which until just recently included many valuable retail, recreational, medical businesses along with some churches and private schools. After much public outcry, the rezoning plan has been scaled back, but still includes rezoning some local businesses to high density residential. Yes the state is mandating rezoning, but we have the available empty/unused lots. Why bulldoze any local businesses?
I do support one incumbent in this election: Carlyn Obringer. Carlyn and Laura Hoffmeister have been sensible on most issues.
in district 4 I am supporting Myles Burks rather than Edi this time, mostly due to Edi’s sponsorship of the horrible rental control ordinance. Myles opposes the ordinance, and has the smarts to develop into a good contributor on the council. The other candidate, Pablo Benavente, will follow Edi’s lead on rent control – two peas in a pod as far as I can tell.
MIKE MCDERMOTT,
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You stated, “Yes the state is mandating rezoning, but we have the available empty/unused lots.” How many empty/unused lots are there? What size are these empty/unused lots and how many housing units can be built on them? Are these empty/unused lots located within the designated rezoning area? How are these lots currently zoned?
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I agree, Myles Burks is the best choice for Concord City Council District 4 this year. It’s time that the residents of District 4 retire 12-year incumbent, Mayor Edi Birsan. Candidate Pablo Benevente should be kept as far away from the Concord City Council as possible!!! He’s praising and celebrating the fact that Concord residents are being overtaxed and gouged by the permanent 1% Measure V sales tax.
TBK, The largest undeveloped area within the zone is adjacent to the Cal State EB Campus.
CSEB supports the rezoning of some of the land. Walking distance to K-12. The full state requirement could be satisfied there, without bulldozing any existing Concord businesses. the Kmart site is also a viable option, as is the empty lot on Clayton and Bel Air.
MIKE MCDERMOTT,
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Thank you for the information regarding which lots are currently available. These might work for now, but unfortunately, in 8-years we’ll be in the same position again with the state likely requiring even more housing in East, Southeast, and parts of South Concord.
@ Mike Mcdermott~
There is going to be a handful of us, in our neighborhood, who are going to the next meeting. It looks like with the up-dated plan, they may want to claim a few family homes here, plus the housing to other backyards. My neighbors already know with the 2-story Apartment that backs up to our property, 5 Feet away from fence line, we have no privacy and the noise level of people fighting or music can be quite a pi$$er at times.
Hey Folks, if you don’t want these housing projects in your neighborhood, you better speak up.
California gets 60.7% of crude oil it refines from foreign sources.
https://tinyurl.com/4n8rv47z
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‘California Energy Commission Proposes State Takeover Of Oil Refineries’
https://tinyurl.com/2tyjasnx
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Think Bay Bridge . . . . . finished 10 years late and $650 million over budget. Yup, let state run oil refineries like they run this state and what’ll you get, big boom, lots of smoke and a large crater.
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‘Gov. Newsom’s Artificial Gas Shortage Plan: Playing Politics with Fuel’
https://tinyurl.com/y2uusfs6
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What happens when shallow thinkers are allowed to govern ? ? ?
For even higher fuel prices keep electing democrats and allow them to drive even more businesses out of California.
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‘ ‘We’re not going to invest in California’:
Chevron executive speaks out against Newsom’s gas, oil supply proposal’
https://tinyurl.com/ycx72xz3
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‘Oil And Gas Deals Accelerate
As Shell, ExxonMobil Exit California’
https://tinyurl.com/4apytj7t
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‘Gavin Newsom Chases Another Oil Company Out of California’
“Phillips 66 will close its refinery in Los Angeles in 2025”
https://tinyurl.com/mpsuxn29
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For even higher fuel prices keep electing democrats.
Beware of Politicians with “Plans” Thoose “Plans” almost always benefit them and their sycophants, not the General Public.
Vote for Kamala lHarris, Vote for Adam Shiff,
IF you are better off now than you were four years ago. If your neighborhood is safer now then it was 4 years ago, and if the world is more peaceful than it was 4 years ago.
If you answered no to any of these you must not vote for them unless you want more of the same and things to get worse!. Yes, things were better under Trump. whether you like his personality or not.
Donald Trump is mentally deteriorating in real time in front of our eyes. Latest in a long line of examples: talking for five minutes about Arnold Palmer’s “endowment”. Then there’s demented obsessions about Hannibal Lecter, Alphonse Capone, working at McDonalds. His campaign is well aware of his cognitive diminution, which is why Trump won’t debate again as well as Trump cancelling interviews with neutral interviewers.
No thank you to the disgraced, lying, malignant narcissist, cognitively declining, twice impeached, four times indicted, 34 times convicted felon.
@ Concord Guy,
OK if you say so …. but you are the one who will wind up in an asylum when he wins the election.
Whatever.
Anyone who watches Trump would never come to this conclusion. It’s the running fake news narrative but we all know how that goes. Yeah Trump is in mental decline like biden wasn’t. You clowns are so desperate. Trump is sharp at a tack, it’s too bad you hate America so much. Just because you fail at following along and look at nonsensical clips doesn’t mean you know anything. In fact, unless you’re a doctor Your opinion is irrelevant. Remember COVID HOAX? Just put your little mask on and keep your mouth closed. Your booster is waiting.
CAMELA$$ is TOAST …… as of TODAY!!!!
Concord Guy Do you really think this country could survive another 4 yrs with Harris? Wake up to what is happening! Stop believing everything they are saying about Trump. He is not illiterate. He is not slow. He is not declining. He talks to anyone without a teleprompter. He’s worked 48 days straight campaigning and doing events. He has nothing to do with project 2025, that you have mentioned past wks. He has one goal for this country, to make it great again. We need a leader who can make our country safe. Safe from criminals who are not prosecuted, safe from illegals who break our laws and are not prosecuted, and a strong leader who can keep us out of conflicts with China, Russia and Iran. He had joked about McDonalds, because Harris has said she once worked at McDonalds. Maybe she did, for a day or a yr. but there is no record whatsoever of her ever working there, and she never has said where that McDonalds was located. And– the VP candidate JD Vance is the smartest sharpest guy! He answers every foreign policy and local question in detail. He graduated from Ohio State Univ. in 2 years! (That is a 4 yr school, not a community college 2 yr degree) I never heard of anyone graduating from that school in 2 yrs, and I am from Ohio and went there too. Then Suma cum laude from Yale with a law degree. When I heard him speak I realized why he was picked for the VP.. We need common sense and intelligent people, and Harris has proved she is neither, and the VP Waltz is even worse.
exactly right trump 2024
You can thank Obama for passing the Smith-Mundt Act allowing the media to use propaganda on the American people.
Somebody is paying attention. Good job loli. Once people understand what that gay kenyan noncitizen communist did to this country, we get it all back
It’s a simple choice:
Capitalism and prosperity, or Communism with tampons in the boys room.
I wasn’t going to vote this election because of the 2 clowns running plus all the other circus acts under them. It’s a pathetic pitiful show of America politics to the rest of the world what we have to offer and choose from.
But we got our ballots now and will vote but there is no box to check for none of the above so back to square 1 again.
History has it with us it don’t matter who is President, what party or what they do it never really has affected us, our way of life or money made in the market so with that in mind maybe we just won’t vote as it doesn’t really seem to matter for us anyway.
WORK925,
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In California, returning a blank ballot for the offices of President and Vice President, as well as any other office, is the closest that you can get to “None of the Above.” Otherwise, if you move to the State of Nevada, you’ll then have the “None of These Candidates” choice on your ballot.
Beware of Politicians with “Plans” Their “Plan” always entails separating me from my money with dubious results. A Real Leader lets those that can do; do their best. Of course a Real Leader can tweak the efforts of the private sector to do better. We have a Govenor with “Plans”, and a Presidential Candidate too. Those two want to seperate me from my money(Taxes) and my freedoms (1-10 especially) but I say to them, NO. Join me! & “Just Say No!”
No incumbent should be reelected, locally or nationally. Take a look around you. Are you happy with your roads? Fuel prices? Grocery prices? I am sure your PG&E bill is completely acceptable.
The people who are running our local, state, and federal government have become too complacent. They enact laws and restrictions without the slightest regard to how it affects the common citizen. They are so out of touch with us “normal” citizens, that they have run this state and country into the ground. California specifically is an embarrassment to the rest of the country. We pass unrealistic laws designed to drive companies out of the state. Businesses no longer want to be here and can’t wait to leave. How long before our politicians drive us into bankruptcy?
The only way to change things it to send a clear message to those in power. Voting incumbent only reinforces their delusions that all is well.
‘Furious moms of women killed by migrants say Americans ‘aren’t safe’ under Kamala Harris’
https://tinyurl.com/289fthpp
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‘Illegal migrant from Venezuela is arrested for murder of UGA nursing student Laken Riley: Was released from CBP custody because of overcrowding’…
“He was released into the United States by Customs and Border Patrol because the worsening migrant crisis means they have insufficient facilities to hold all border crossers that they intercept.”
https://tinyurl.com/4v5camuk
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‘Bill Clinton says Laken Riley’s murder would NOT have happened if migrant suspect had been ‘vetted properly’ ‘…
“The El-Salvador born migrant entered the country in February 2023 after allegedly murdering another woman in his home country.”
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“Furious mothers of women allegedly killed by undocumented migrants have given emotional testimony at a congressional hearing and slammed the Biden Administration over America’s open border.
Patty Morin, 64, was among those who shared heartbreaking testimony on Tuesday, where she gave a chilling account of her daughter Rachel’s brutal rape and murder at the age of 37 on a hiking trail in Maryland last year.”
https://tinyurl.com/289fthpp
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‘Terrifying twist as Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua is linked to the rape and murder of 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray’
https://tinyurl.com/332pn5zz
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Tren de Aragua
‘Evil’ super gang seizes four apartment complexes in major Texas city in new terrifying show of strength’
https://tinyurl.com/35xa9awe
Federalist #51. Excerpt.
In the compound republic of America, the power surrendered by the people is first divided between two distinct governments, and then the portion allotted to each subdivided among distinct and separate departments. Hence a double security arises to the rights of the people. The different governments will control each other, at the same time that each will be controlled by itself. . . . It is of great importance in a republic not only to guard the society against the oppression of its rulers, but to guard one part of the society against the injustice of the other part. Different interests necessarily exist in different classes of citizens. If a majority be united by a common interest, the rights of the minority will be insecure
Could America survive four more years of democrat president?
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‘Mexican cartels give members ‘permission’ to shoot US Border Patrol agents as Biden-Harris crisis spirals’
https://tinyurl.com/mtvpb2ta
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‘Terrifying map reveals how bloodthirsty Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua has infiltrated America’
https://tinyurl.com/2tvz9en3
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Want Four more years of Open Border ? ? ?
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If Illegals Voted Republican
https://comicallyincorrect.com/illegals-voted-republican/
2012
‘JERUSALEM – Two reports today about Iran’s nuclear program and the possibility of an Israeli military strike have analysts in Israel accusing the Obama administration leaking information to pressure Israel not to bomb Iran and for Iran to reach a compromise in upcoming nuclear talks.’
https://tinyurl.com/yjt7bsj8
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2024
‘US investigates leaked documents alleging Israel plans to attack Iran’
https://tinyurl.com/3wn3t82t
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obama gave an interview back in 2021 or so in which he said 90 percent of people from his administration were now working in biden harris administration. What a coincidence, Israeli battle plans mysteriously leak out from two democrat administrations.
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Seeing a trend yet ? ? ?
Are two democrat administrations on side of iran in their quest to fund terrorism and get nukes.
Today, on an airport tarmac in front of the steps of his campaign airplane, a reporter tells Trump that Kamala Harris thinks that he (Trump) is exhausted and that is why he is cancelling events. Trump’s response: “What event did I cancel?” In the past two weeks Trump has canceled interviews with 60 Minutes, NBC, CNBC and an NRA event in Georgia. His brain is cooked. He’s losing it.
You forgot to add: “disgraced, lying, malignant narcissist, cognitively declining, twice impeached, four times indicted, 34 times convicted felon”.
Maybe add “bad dancer” to your litany of left-wing “It doesn’t matter and nobody cares” list of Trump deficiencies.
All I know is that if it was Biden that cancelled these events, and made speeches that makes no or very little sense, the same people who will vote for Trump and worship the ground he walks on, would be calling for him to be removed, as they did, funny how inconsistent they are!
No way Hanne… Republicans didn’t call for Biden to be removed.
It was the Democrats that called for Biden to be removed!
Most Republicans wanted Joe to stay in the race because he was sure to lose.
Even though Kamala and the rest of the Dems kept telling everyone Joe was just dandy, sharp as a tack (I can hardly keep up with him!” said Kamala).
We all knew that was a fat lie.
Joe got 14 million votes then Kamala and her flying monkeys decided to disenfranchise all of them by kicking Joe off the ballot.
Talk about inconsistent…. and a threat to Democracy!
Perhaps not Republican politician, but I heard right wing talk show host, Glenn Beck comes to mind, asking who is running the country, why is no one invoking the 25th amendment. Why are so many of Trump former cabinet members so vocal about how they feel he is a threat to our democracy. These are not left wing crazies, Milley, John Bolton, several others. They worked with him and got to know him, I have to think they have a good reason for crossing party lines.
So Hanne, WHO IS RUNNING THE COUNTRY????
Joe? No way. Too demented. Too late for the 25th amendment.
Kamala? No way. Too busy trying to lose an election.
That about covers the choices, unless you want to add Barry O, George S, Valerie J. et al.
John Bolton is not a crazy? Lol ok hanne whatever you say. Tulsi Gabbard and RFK Jr. Is what MAGA is. Those were democrats. You get Dick Chaney and John Bolton. We win you lose. All those years of listening to your AM transistor radio and telling us screw our freedoms got you nowhere. We want clean food and no war. Trump speech’s make complete sense to people with functioning cognitive abilities. You’re either lying, don’t listen to them or just repeating the narrative. Or possibly cognitively impaired. Not my place but your nonsense is done here. Obviously
But they still wont let you note,ever notice they treat foreigners like felons?
oops vote……
Worship the ground he walks on? Not even close, Hanne. Trumps supporter’s enthusiasm is a sign of how utterly and dismally bad things are here in the country now, under the so called leadership of Joe Biden.
HANNE JEPPESEN,
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President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump aren’t the same person, and former President Trump hasn’t experienced the cognative decline that President Biden has, so how is it that you believe you can compare the two of them when interviews and events are canceled? How many interviews and campaign events is it that President Biden is currently doing?
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Towards the end of presidential political campaigns it’s commonplace and practice for campaigns to change and cancel scheduled interviews and events, as the campaigns are chasing internal polling data and making decisions based on that data, as to where to spend candidate time and campaign money. In 2016, candidate Donald Trump’s campaign canceled a scheduled rally in Minnesota in the last day of the campaign to do a rally in Michigan instead, it’s a common practice for last minute changes to be made. If you want to believe the media and their “talking point” of these events being canceled due to “exhaustion,” just remember it’s only a “media report,” and “media reports” don’t mean what’s being said is true, factual, or has any value. We’ve learned that enough from the media reporting on candidate and President Donald Trump.
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If you think former President Donald Trump “made speeches that makes no or very little sense,” then you aren’t listening very well, perhaps you don’t understand and can’t comprehend his speaking style and cadence? Really, “no or very little sense?” That sounds like quite the exaggeration!
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You stated “…the same people who will vote for Trump and worship the ground he walks on,…” Would that be similar to you still worshiping the ground that President John F. Kennedy and Senator Robert F. Kennedy Sr. walked on 60+ years and 56+ years after their deaths?
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Funny, how inconsistent you are!!!
Concord Guy just isn’t capable of telling the truth.
this is your career…who is losing it?
Women literally watch the entire country collapsing Border flooding our nation with millions of criminals Dollar losing value every single day And go, “you know what matters to me this election? Killing my own baby!”
There aren’t “millions of criminals” crossing the border. That is a Trump exaggeration. Actually, it is an outright lie (nothing new for Trump).
Reminder to Trump fanboys and fangirls: Trump killed the bipartisan border bill because its implementation would take away a campaign issue for him.
More lies from Concord Guy!
Trump is not a current president, congressman, or senator. That bill failed because it was an evil bill. It was not a border protection bill, but it was a bill to encourage illegal immigration and grant protections to the criminals already in this country. But democrats have a long history of misnaming bills to make them sound the exact opposite of what they actually do.
Awwwa. Would you like some cries with that? What’s a matta for you ahh? Millions on millions of illegal criminals in this country. Hundreds of thousands in the bay area alone. Get a grip bucko, quit your lying. Only makes your party look worse. Like we don’t know how commies lie all day 🤣🤣🤣
@concord Guy
Amazing……..every single thing you wrote is a lie.
The moment any foreigner crosses the US border without legal authorization, that person becomes a criminal, in the USA illegally.
An “illegal alien” is a criminal…. yes, there are millions.
CONCORD GUY,
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This was a horrible bill and should never have come close to passing!!! Former President Donald Trump NEVER killed the “bipartisan border bill,” as it was DEAD ON ARRIVAL in the House of Representatives! The House wasn’t included in the Senate-White House negotiations. Don’t you ever wonder why the only discussion about the “bipartisan border bill” only has to do with some Senators first saying they supported the bill and then changing their minds, but there’s never any discussion about support for the bill in the House of Representatives? This bill was never going to pass the House, if it was brought up for a vote, and Speaker Mike Johnson had announced this bill was DEAD ON ARRIVAL in the House of Representatives. This was no different than Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announcing the 2023 House “border security bill” was DEAD ON ARRIVAL in the Senate and President Biden threatening to VETO the bill, if sent to his desk. Using your logic, Leader Schumer and President Biden “killed the House border security bill” because they didn’t want the problems at the border solved. You are either knowingly spreading falsehoods about the events surrounding this bill or you’re unaware of how our government works, because a bill has to pass both Houses of Congress, not just the Senate, and be signed by the President to become law. This bill was never even close to becoming law!!!
How many votes did Trump cast in the Senate or House when this travesty came up for vote???
0 is the answer Concord They.
How many votes did Senate Dems cast AGAINST this pos??? 5!!!
Even the King of the Senate, Chuckie Schumer (D) voted against it!
No, it was all Trump’s fault. LOL.
I genuinely don’t even recognize this country anymore
Often it feels like one day I woke up in bizzaro world. Or I died and went to hell. Everything has been turned on its head. The most disgusting and vile people are worshipped. Exceptionalism is no longer a virtue but a dirty word. The culture of the locales I grew up in has been replaced with apathetic nihilistic hedonism. Quality is gone from services and products. Everyone is measurably dumber than even 15 years ago. Architecture is cookie cutter and boring or downright oppressive. loyalty is laughed at instead of rewarded. I could go on and on… 20 years ago I wouldn’t have believed you for a second if you told me things were going to go in this direction.
I imagine it feels even worse for the people who are 10 to 20 years older than me. Everyone is sacrificing tomorrow just so they can feel good about themselves today
giggles went to Africa ? ? ?
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“Kamala, with her Jamaican and Indian roots, needed a tangible connection to Africa to win over African-American voters and convince them that she was one of them.” …
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Zambia,
“President Hakainde Hichilema welcomed her as “a daughter of our own country, someone who spent time here in her early years.”
Kamala responded by launching into a story about having visited “Zambia, Mr. President, as a young girl when my grandfather worked here” as “an advisor to Zambia’s first president, Kenneth Kaunda” to “serve as a director of relief measures and refugees.”
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The vice president then began singing the praises of Kaunda, a brutal socialist dictator allied with the Soviet Union, who had banned opposing political parties and ran as the only candidate for president until he was finally ousted, and praised Zambia’s “democracy”. Kaunda, whom Kamala fondly recalled meeting with JFK and MLK “to discuss peaceful forms of protest” had demanded nuclear weapons from LBJ. Hichilema, who had narrowly survived being arrested by a previous regime, had nothing to say about Kamala’s fond memories of Zambian democracy.”
https://tinyurl.com/mumrtpsr
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Much more in article, draw your own conclusions . . . .
Will kamala harris and the democrats accept the results of the election? I’m beginning to wonder how many will say it was stolen by russia and Elon Musk. What will BLM do? What will the street gatherings look like?
The Dems have already said that they will not accept the results.
They will use Jack Smith’s recently unsealed evidence dossier as the next excuse to impeach. Raskin will be the one to champion this the loudest.
But the silver lining of this is Concord Guy can change his mantra to “thrice impeached…”.
I will actually be adding “criminally insane”…
@guy…. And your “expertise” in diagnosing someone as “criminally insane “ is based on what training, education, medical license and speciality?
Or are you just a whiny karen who loves to thrown insults around like a petulant toddler?
That’s a rhetorical question, by the way. We all know about your kind. And using your logic, that applies to all democrats.
@concord Guy
Of course you will.
Another example of this democrat run state.
In 2011 state legislature passed AB-109, their answer to prison overcrowding lawsuit. Bill made it possible for state to return convicted felons to county they were sentenced in. First ones on busses back to counties were handicapped and those with expensive to treat medical conditions. In short democrats unwilling to do their job, shoved state’s overcrowding problem down onto all 58 California counties. They made it not their problem.
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Liberals don’t seem to be able to grasp, there are people in this world who do not belong on our streets.
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“A California man convicted of brutally raping and killing a 13-year-old girl in 1979 was granted an early release from prison, despite desperate pleas from the girl’s family. Donald Jones, of Hayward, will be freed from prison after an Alameda County Superior Court Judge granted a motion to release him on Tuesday.
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The 69-year-old is battling a slew of terminal conditions – including liver cirrhosis and kidney failure – and his prognosis helped expedite his release from the San Quentin Rehabilitation Center.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13992165/hayward-kimberly-white-murder-california-jail-killer-release.html
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Another example of shifting cost of treatment onto counties.
What is baffling is after legislature puts convicted felons back on our streets to prey on society, they get reelected.
“…all effective propaganda must be limited to
a very few points and must harp on these in slogans until the last member
of the public understands what you want him to understand by your slogan”
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“All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself
to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach”
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Keeping those quotes in mind would appear efforts of democrat politicians and media wing of the party have, influenced a few to point of a being triggering a frenetic melt down.
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This too good not to share,
‘Jaw-dropping moment raging Kamala Harris voter hurls vile abuse at woman over her Trump yard sign’ https://tinyurl.com/4yb5xd9t
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Wonder what politics discussion over Thanksgiving dinner would be like . . . . .
Poor Cam Allah looks like she hasnt slept for days but spent lots of time in bed and gained about 10 years of haggared.
Where’s the joy?
Did you see the look she gave Anderson Cooper when he asked her a real question?
It was a combination of “How dare you ask ME a substantive question?” and “Oh no, what do I do now?” followed by “I will be screeching at you Anderson as soon as we are off stage”.
She has that “No metal Hangers” vibe.
“How dare you duck when I throw things at you” is probably something Mr. Emhoff has grown accustomed to.